Evening Star Newspaper, June 14, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Mostly cloudy, with occasional show- ers today and probably tomorrow; not much change in temperature; moder- ate southerly winds. Highest, 81, at 2 p.m. vesterday; lowest, 62, at 4 a.m. yesterday. Full report on page 5. No. 1,055—No. 29,629. econd class matter Entered ntered as L post_oflice, Washington, CANTON CASUALTY LIST 15 HUNDREDS; ~ CONSULATES FIRED Fleeing Yunnanese Troops Are Pursued by Thousands of Invading Forces. BRITISH AND JAPANESE OFFICES ARE WRECKED Buildings Belonging to Other For- eigners Are Looted by Chi- nese at Kiu-Kiang. inted Press ON. China, June 13 ing yesterday's victory, thous Cantonese troops are pouring across the river in pursuit of the fleeing Yunnanese. Several hundred casu- altics resulted from yesterday's fight- FIRED. and Japanese Offices Are Wrecked by Rioters. LONDON, June 13 (#).—A Shanghal dispatch to the Daily Express says that the British and Japanese con- sulates at Kiu-Kiang were wrecked British “Radio dream of vision.” long the fantastic seience, became an aceom- t vesterday afternoon, with of the Navy Wilbur and other high Government nessing the feat. With the 2id of a remarkable appa- ratus invented by the Washington scientist, C. Francis Jenkins, the Sec- retary of the Navy, Dr. George M. Burgess, director of the Bureau of Standards; Admiral D. W. Taylor, Capt. Paul Foley of the Naval Re- search Laboratory and others actu- ally “saw” by radio an object set in motion several miles distant in front of @ “radio eye” installed at the a1 Radio Station, NOF, at Bellevue, D. ¢ It was heralded as the first time in history that man has literally seen {faraway objects in motion through | the uncanny agency of wireless. As Secretary Wilbur watched the image of a revolving propeller, se- lected as the “subject” to be broad- cast, as it cavorted on a small screen in the Jenkins laboratory, at 1519 Connecticut avenue, he remarked: “I suppose we'll be sitting at our 6,000 POLICE HUNT officials wit- | Swdany WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, JU “Radio Vision” Shown First Time In History by Capital Inventor C. Francis Jenkins’ New Wireless Appa- ratus Depicts Moving Objects Miles Away—U. 8. Officials See Test. jdesks during the mnext | watching the battle in 1 | “That’s perfectly possibl ry,” the inventor replied ser demonstration was of a strict] ature and, in the how.” “It is merely a scientific test that proves we have attained our goal” Mr. Jenkins told his visitors. “By making numerous improvements in our sending and receiving machines we expect to be able shortly to stage |a ‘radio vision show,’ with the talent | performing at the broadcasting sta- | tion and the audience watching the | performance at the receiving studio | miles distant. What the offici ternoon was the imaze of a small s revolving in a beam of ashed across Lsensitive cell Station NOF. used in the t The not clear-cut, was easily distinguish able. Director Burgess of the Bureau of Standards, in_congratulating the in- ventor, said: “You've certainly got it, all right, if my eves aren't deceiving Column aw yesterday Swimmer Saves Drowning Man, words of enkins, did not pretend to be a light | 'LOCATE AMUNDSEN FIRST,” MAGMILLAN INSTRUCTS PARTY Explorer Says First Object of Trip Is to Find Polar Flyers. MANY SEEKING PLACES AS MEMBERS OF CREW Peary Will Follow Route of His I Last Dash for Pole, } He Announces. | By the Associated Press. | BOSTON, June 13.—Comdr. Donald B. fillan declared that “find Amundsen first” will be the slogan of his coming Arctic expedition when he imparted his final instructions to his lcrew at the Ingram Club in the Charlestown navy yard tonight. The explorer showed his crew 8,000 feet of film depicting his last dash into the Arctic and pointed out to them that the coming expedition will follow the old route. He said he had selected Dr. Leo David-off of the Peter | Bent Brigham Hospital staff as medi |cal officer and- Rufus Sewell of Wis- |casset as steward on the Peary to i RESPECT THE FLAG 1925.—108 PAGES. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 and service will start immediately. FIVE CENTS. BY OBSERVING TODAY’S STAR =/ oS e * | THE LAW TWONEW BEACHES BY NEXT SUMMER 1S SHERRILL'S AN Will Ask Congress for Funds to Equip Resorts at Its Coming Session. TWO POOLS WITHIN CITY PART OF DIRECTOR’S PLAN Appropriation of $200,000 All That Is Needed to Provide Facili- ties, He Believes. While the movement is being pushed to have reoponed for use this Summer the Tidal Basin bathing beach and provision of another at Jones Point on the Potomac River, consideration is being given by Lieut. Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, director of public buildings and public parks of the National Capital, to the matter of presenting to Congress at the com- ing sessfon a proposal for the erection of two bathing beaches and two pools, S0 that the Tidal Basin may be given up for all time as a place for bathers An appropriation of approximatels $200,000, Col. Sherrill b ves, will be But Loses Medal H. L. McMullan, crack swimmer Jday. { Asked if he had found it difficult to get a crew for the Peary, Comdr. MacMillan replied that his real trouble | was keeping aspiring Arctic_explorers away. and set on fire during serious rioting. The British consulate was saved from looters who plundered other buildings belonging to foreign companies. The premises of the Japanese ship- ping company, Nisshin Kisen Kaisha, and the buildings of Butterfield and Swire, shipping agents, were burned. Students and workmen created havoc before Chinese troops arrived and finally drove them off The Japanese landed a naval party, which aided in restoring order. Kiu-Kiang is situated on the River angtze, about 142 miles from Han- kow. It has a population of §0,000. CITY IS ARMED CAMP. 9 |sufficient to provide adequate bath {ing facilities for the white population {at the Virginia end of the Key Bridge and for the colored population Jones Point. In addition, this fund {also would be sufficlent for transform- ling the Sixteenth street reservolr into la large bathing pool for the white | people and the provision of another {pool in the vicinity of Howard Uni | versity for the colored people. The money for the beaches on the Magazine Story on Jackson’s | poiomac and Anacostia sivers wouid ;. |be needed for the purpose of neces Wife Called Attack on g=ry) Scenstraction (6 Sproyinaifor Democrats. | who yesterday won a silver medal 5 151 a swimming race at Wardman Chicago Starts Clean-Up| S "ok 'in’ e “wiien "he When Two Members of Force Die in Fight. PART ONE—44 PAG! General News—Local, National Forelgn. Maryland and Virginia News—Pages 14, 22 and 23. Schools and Colleges—Page D. A. R. Activities—Page 25 District National Guard—Page 36 Radio News and Programs—Page 38. Boy Scouts—Page 39. Y. W. C. A—Page 42. and All Anxious to Go. “Only today,” he said, “a, bey of 16 arrived from Maine, after walking INSTUDENTS DEAT 1 murmmT' fuu!’ Harvard students beg- AdmISS|Dn That She A'ded fhine trom “washing disnes % ac. | Husband in Fight Leads to Murder Charge. also won_ saving the life of a downing fellow club member, Horace W. Dunigan, well known marathon runner. The medal winner, wearing his silver badge, and two friends, Karl Knight and Farnham Miller, wer preparing to canoe on the Potomac about 6:30 last evening when they saw Dunigan seized with cramps while trying to swim out to a div- ing float in the river from the canoe club float nearer shore. Jumping in fully clothed, the three men |chlorinating the water. Under pres |ent conditions the water could not be | chlorinated it is a running stream |{and the current woul carry the chlorine as fast as it was distributed. | By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 13.—Chicago gang- {land and Chicago policemen met today |and as a result two policemen were |shot to death, another probably | fatally wounded, one gangster was ing as machinists. Even the women seem anxious to go. Several volunteered to act nurses aboard the Peary.” “omdr. MacMillan also declared that i both of his ships have been equipped | PART TWO—16 PAG litorials and Editorial F | shington and Other S 2 | 2 »f Well Known Folk—Page 10. | Around the City—Page 10. ews of the Clubs—Page 11. By the Associated P IREVEPORT, La., June 13.—Mrs. By the 4 The cociated Press. Boyoneted Troops Patrol Streets of | Shangha SHANGHAI, June 13 (#).—Shang-| hai tonight had settled into the con- ditions of an armed camp. Bayoneted troops patrolled the principal thoroughfares. Foreign| marine contingents were on guard at | the boundaries of the foreign settle- | ments and the approaches to the| waterworks and power stations. The| appearance of Chang Hstéh Liang, son of the Manchurian war lord, Chang Tso-Lin, at the boundaries of the settlement with 2,000 troops, for the declared purpose of keeping order, added to the military aspect of the situation. The American company of the Shanghai volunteer corps was stand- ing by the Navy Y. M. C. A. Conferences between the Peking envoys of the central government and the authorities of the foreign set- tlement continued today, but still without results. Some defense forces were with- drawn from the city today because of improved conditions. MISSIONARIES SAFE. Situation Givi Cause for Concern, However. NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 13 (#).— A cablegram saying that the “situa- tion gives great cause for concern; all safe at present,” was received today by the committee on forelgn missions of the Southern Presbyterian Church from Rev. C. N. Caldwell at Shanghal. The cablegram added that ail missios aries have left Chingkiang and are now in Shanghai. Southern Methodist missionaries in China are safe, and so far officlals at missionary headquarters here have no message to indicate any threat of dan- ger to their force of more than 200 missionaries, it was said by Dr. W. W. | Pinson and Miss Mabel K. Howell | secretaries of Oriental missions of the Methodi: Episcopal Church South. DEFEAT SETTLES ISSUE. Capture of Canton Follows Long- Drawn Wrangle. SAN FRANCISCO, June 13 (P).— The long-drawn wrangle between Yunnanese troops, brought into Kwangtung province by the party of the late Dr. Sun Yat Sen, when there was a threat of Peking government supporters ousting it from control of the southern province, and _the Kwangtung army lcuders, has been settled at least ter rarily, so far as the city of ton is concerned, the Yunnanese having suffered a heavy defeat. On Thursday night the Kwang- tungites, who had been holding Honan Island, across the river from the city, succeeded in crossing the stream and on iday the foreign residents from their settlement on Shameen Island saw the torlous army driving the | defeated Yurnanese from the town,| committing the dispatches state, | many excesses. The defeat of the| Yunnanese 1S attributed to the de- | fection of Kwangtsi troops, with | whom they were allied in their fight agalinst angtung. New strikes of employes of foreign | firms are reported from Swatow, in northern Kwangtung, Foochow, in Fukien and Tsinan, in the northern| province of Shantung. Strikes Are Spreading. Strikes also are spreading at Shang- hai, where, following the Kkilling of eight Chinese rioters at Hankow, re- doubled efforts were made to induce the employes in forelgn cotton mills and other foreign controlled indus. trial plants to stop work. In the for- eign settlements, however, the situa- tion has so improved that the foreign defense forces have been reduced. The Chinese city of Shanghai, ad joining the foreign settlements, h been taken over by troops sent from Nanking by Marshal Chanz Tso-Lin, the Manchurian leader, who thus has extended his sphere of in-| fluence to the great Yangtze port. Students are also attempting to promote a strike of servants and other workers employed by British and Jap- anese residents of Peking. It -is said the Peking government contemplates issuing a proclamation instructing the provisional governors to afford protection to all foreignssmy killed and his two companions cap- tured in ome of the most desperate and ‘spectacular pistol battles in the city’s history. Tonight 6,000 Chicago policemen were scouring the city in what Chief of Police Morgan A. Collins described as a relentless and merciless drive on gangland and scores of suspects had been taken into custody. The police and the gangsters met on the southwest side and the pistol bat- itle followed a 60-mile-an-hour auto- mobile chase which ended when the gangsters’ car was wrecked and they tumbled from their machine with blazing guns. = Gets Three Gangsters. The hero of the battle was William Sweeney, a young policeman, who escaped the fusillade of bullets that wounded or killed his three comrades, and then single handed killed one of the zangsters and caught the two others after wounding them. True to the gangland code, the captured gunmen remained stolidly silent through hours of questioning, but tonight the police were satisfied {that the battle was the aftermath of ja trip by the gangsters to avenge the | death of Angelo Genna, gang leader, slain a_ few weeks ago. Michael | Genna, his brother, was the gangster {shot and killed today. Half an hour before Genna and his |men began their savage battle with |the detective squad, six gunmen tried |to assassinate an unidentified motor- |ist several miles from' the scene of |the fight. They emptied sawed-off | shotguns and pistols at the car but {missed the occupant. The police be- lleve that Genna and his companions | were in that ambuscade and belleved |that they had been detected by the | police and decided to shoot it out. ¥ Pole Ends Flight. The police auto met the gangsters’ machine racing over a southwest side boulevard and gave chase. The race ended after a two-mile run at break- neck speed when the gangsters' car |crashed into a corner light pole. The | three gangsters leaped from their car as the police car drew up a few feet away and the four detectives tumbled out. A shotgun volley met them. | Patrolman Harold Olson, driver of the | police car was dropped in his tracks, and a moment later Patrolman Charles Walsh also fell fatally ‘wounded. The two policemen left advanced with blazing pistols - until Sergt. Michael Conway collapsed, shot struck out after the drowning man. Reaching him first, McMul- lan succeeded in bringing him in after much effort. The silver medal lost. Dunigan had been under about three minutes, but was resuscitated without difficulty. WILLIS CHARGES He Says, to Boost Price of Foreign Bonds. Special Dispatch to The Star. VALLEY FORG Pa., Many of the speakers touring the country advocating cancellation of foreign obligations are being paid by international bankers in raise the value of foreign bonds, purchased when they were selling at rock bottom prices. This was a charge hurled at Inter- nationalists here this afternoon by Frank B. Willis, United States Sen- ator from Ohio, and a member of the foreign relations committee of the Senate. He spoke before 2,000 men and women, who attended the flag celebration of the Artisans’ Order of Mutual Protection on the historic revolutionary battlefield here. ‘Would Boost Prices. “I am not opposed to big bankers— so long as they are American,” the Ohio Senator said. “These bankers purchased bonds of foreign govern- ments and cities when they were at low prices and worth very little. Now, if they can cause the United States to cancel the debts of the foreign powers, it will mean that the other June 13— bonds. They will go up to 10, 20, 50 or 75 perhaps, when they were pur- chased at 5. The bankers can well afford to pay the speakers to urge debt cancellation. They will get all the money back if they suc- ceed.” PLOT OF BANKERS Alien Debt Propaganda Plan, | order to | nations will be more able to pay thes through the chest and probably fatally wounded. Then the gangsters took to their heels. Patrolman Sweeney, who was |uninjured started in pursult of Michael Genna. Genna turned as the policeman advanced and aimed his shotgun directly at the officer, but | the hammer clicked harmlessly. ‘Then |Genna_threw the gun away and ran, | the policeman in pursuit and firing at |every step. As Genna started into | the basement of a building a block {away, Sweeney shot him dead. The former governor of the Mid- western commonwealth, who has been | a strong opponent of the United States entering the League of Na- tions, declared that he would “never vote to cancel one cent of the for- eign debts.” America Did Part. “I'm tired of all this ‘bollywog’ and of the statements of alleged statesmen who say that America hasn't done her part. Stand with me on the bat- | tlefields of Europe and see the long | with electric refrigerators. “I suppose,” he said, “‘most people | wonder why' an Arctic ship needs | refrigerators, but we will have warm | weather until after we get north of | Labrador and all of our fresh sup- | plies would rot before we were a few {days out If we did not have them.” also pointed out that in an ene: poon its oil supply. horsepower engine, { could easi the fuel | plained 1 WILL Equipped with the schooner y ram a whale or seal it supplies ran low, he ex AWARD DIPLOM | MacMillan to Fly Exercises. | PORTLAND, Me., June 13 (®).— | Within three hours of the time Lieut- Comdr. Donald B. MacMillan takes his departure from Boston on the steamer | Peary next Wednesday noon for Wis- |casset he will be presenting diplomas |to the high school graduating class lin Wiscasset if his present plans are | carried out. | He will leave the Peary harbor near Boston Light will speed across to the |Sauantum aviation field. from which {he will be taken to Wiscasset in one o three amphiblan p I nished by the | his_Arctic expedition The Peary will arrive early Thurs- day morning at Wiscasset, where she will join the schooner Bowdoin, and the two craft will be placed in readi ness for the officlal departure at 2 j o'clock stern standard time, next y-afternoon for Etah, Green. down the and in a 90-YEAR-OLD PRISONER IS FREED AT FOLSOM Confederate Veteran Going Back to Kentucky to Spend Last Days in Peace. By the Associated Press. SACRAMENTO, Calif., June 13. Willlam Simpson, 90-year-old Confed- erate veteran and the oldest prisoner in California, has been granted his freedom at last. Liberty and a comfortable home tor the rest of his days in the Kentucky Confederate home, at Pewee Valley, came today at Folsom prison in the form of an immediate parole from the State board of prison directors. Arrangements for his transportation to Kentucky already have been made and probably Monday he will leave the prison behind and start on the journey. Part of the funds necessary to cover the expenses of the trip was subscribed by women—Daughters of | the Confederacy and others, who had heard of the old prisoner’s plight— and the balance will be made up by the Bowdoin could literally | to Wiscasset for| nes fur- | Department for | Leaving Genna, the patrolman sped in pursuit of the other two gunmen who had boarded a street car. Sweeney clambered aboard and knocked one of the gangsters down and overpowered the other after a " (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) rows of crosses—they mark the spot where 100,000 of the finest men on earth are buried. They say we haven't done our part financially. During the war the American people gave forty billion dollars. The Go (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) |V oice of Miner, Trapped in Cave Since Thursday,'Cheering to Rescue Workers members of the prison board. FOUND DEAD, GEMS GONE. Actress Discovered Bent Over Gas Stove Under Blanket. NEW YORK, June 13 (#).—Police tonight were investigating the death of Mrs. Gertrude Tolvert, 32, a vaude- ville actress, who was found bent over |a gas stove, her head and the stove By the Associated Press. GRASSVILLE, Calif., June 13.— The voice of Robert Hill, a miner, emtombed by a cave-in in the Bal- tice mine of the Alta combination mine, near here, since Thursday, cheered today the miners who are attempting to rescue him. Robert Bedford, in charge of the rescue | work, reported he had talked to Hill. | It is estimated the cave-in had covered about 60 feet of the tunnel in which Hill was trapped when he and the other miners were leaving the workings Thursday. Hill had stopped to pick up tools. The tunnel is only large enough to permit three men to work in it at a time, and this is being done continuously in relays. Hill's wife and twe children haxe remained in l the mine company’s office since he ‘was entombed. “Bill” Daley, one of the rescue party, estimates that the debris between the rescuers and the im- ?rlloned man is not more than 10 eet. Daley also conversed with Hill today, it later developed. Hill's first_ words in reply to a question by Daley as to how he was getting along were: “I'm all right, but I'm cold and hungry.” Daley immediately ordered the imprisoned man to retreat back in the tunnel to the far end, which is drilled through solid rock. This precaution was taken in order that Hill might not be caught under any subsequent cave-in. The conversation with Hill was carried on through the air pipe, ‘which passes through the debris. covered with a blanket and the gas jets turned on. Jewelry $900 is said to be missing and one of her eyes was blackened. Her husband, a Wall Street oper- ator and taxicab owner, told police he left her in excellent spirits this morning. An_autopsy will be per- formed, the police said. TORNADO RAZES VILLAGE. Western Storm Wreaks Havoc Near Rochester, Minn. ROCHESTER, Minn., June 13 (#).— Most of the residential section of Hay- field and the entire business section of that village were wiped out by a tornado which struck there this after- noon. No one was seriously injured, although many were cut or bruised by fying glass and timbers, valued at | | George W. Gill, 20 years old, was ar- {rested here today on charges of mur- |der in connection with the death of Robert Read, 25, Centenary College student, whose body was recovered | Friday morning from Old River, near la swimming resort. Mrs. Gill's hus- |band, a senior law student at Loyola | University, New Orleans, has con- fessed that he killed Read in a fight in Old River Wednesday night. Gill is held on a murder charge. An hour after Mrs. Gill was arrested she was released under $5000 bond, |fixed by Judge J. H. Stephens of the | District Court, who sai ‘Granting |of bonds in murder cases is permis- sible unless the presumption of guilt fon that charge is great.” | No application for bond has been jmade for Mr. Gill. | Mrs. Gill accepted her arrest calmly. She was taken to jail, but did not oc- {cupy a cell, remaining in the jail of- { fice until arrangements were made for | her bond. | Mrs. Gill's arrest followed her ad- Imission to authorities that she as- isisted her husband in the fight with {Read, who, she declared, bit her on {the arm when she came to her hus- band’s rescue at the moment he was {about to be overcome by Read. Gill |claims he stunned Read by striking |his head against the side of a boat and left him in water waist deep. Mrs. Gill has admitted that she tele- honed Read on the afternoon of June 10, arranging with him to meet her at the river near the scene of the homi- clde. Gill has made conflicting statements on this point. He has said that Read called his wife and asked her for the appointment. Both have admitted, however, that they planned to meet {Read at the place and that Gill in- tended to “beat him up” because he had been annoying Mrs. Gill. |SEES OWN GRADUATION MASQUERADING AS GIRL Haverford Student, Who Stumbled Once, Keeps Resolve to Avoid Public Platforms. By the Associated Press. HAVERFORD, Pa., June 13.—Four years ago, while graduating from the Montgomery School in Wynnewood, Pa., Charles C. gellers stumbled as he mounted the platform to receive his diploma. Today, graduating from Haverford College, he disguised him- self as a girl and sat unrecognized in the audience as he was awarded his diploma “in absentia” and eulogized as a conspicuously brilliant student and the winner of three coveted prizes. His masquerade today was said to have been due to a resolve made fol- lowing his four-year-old mishap “never to walk upon a public platform again.” A class poem sritten by Sellers was read by another student. He expects to enter Harvard next Fall for a spe- cial course in hlstory MILLER IN BELGIUM. Head of Fidac Is Guest of Vet- erans at Luncheon. BRUSSELS, June 13 (P).—Col. Thomas W. Miller, formerly alien property custodian, who recently came to Europe to take up his duties as president of the Federation of Inter- allled War Veterans, was received here today by representatives of the Belgian veterans_who tendered him a Iuncheon. Later Col. Miller placed a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. MEETS 4,000-FOOT BERG. Liner Paris Finds One in Steamer Lane 350 Feet High. PARIS, June 13 (P).—Icebergs are reported in the Atlantic steamship lanes. Passengers on the steamer Paris, which docked at Havre today, say that on June 8 the liner encount. ered in latitude 42.10 north and longi- tude 50.48 west a great iceberg which was more than 4,000 feet long, 1,600 feet wide and about 350 feet high. | Amusements—Theaters and the photo- arent-Teacher Activities—Page 11. | Serial, “Loutre”—Page 12 | Reviews of a g Current New: ent: e 14. | Girl Scouts—Page PART THREE—12 PAGES. playvs Music in Washington—Page Motors and Motoring—Pages and § Veterans of the Great War—Page 9. Army and Navy News—Page 10. Civilian Army News—Page 10. Fraterpal News—Page 11. Spanish War Veterans—Page 13. You and Uncle Sam—Page 12. PART FOUR— PAGES. Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—8 PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and Fea- tures. The Rambler—Page 3. PART SIX—12 Classified Advertising. Financial News—Pages 11 and 12. GRAPHIC SECTION—8 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. COMIC SECTION—1 PAGES. Mr. Straphanger: Reg'lar Fellers; Mr. and Mrs.; Mutt and Jeff. GAMBLING RAIDERS IN COUNTY FOILED Sheriff Fink’s Swoop Down on Prince Georges Place Proves in Vain. PAGES. Sheriff John Fink of Prince Georges County, Md., and a raiding party, rushed into a_suspected ““Casino” last night to find it as qulet and sedate as the Fort Lincoln Cemetery just across the road. Tables for craps, sweat, roulette and other games of chance were set up ready for customers. The ice water barrel was chock full of ice for pros- pective thirsty ones. But the silver doilars didn't jingle, the bones were cold and the croupier’s wall: “The red wins, gentlemen,” was conspicuous by its silence. The plans of Sheriff Fink, who with State’s Attorney Alan Bowie, has def- initely declared war against gaming houses in Prince Georges County, went wrong again. Shortly before 10 o'clock, Constable Reese and three other keen-eved watchers sneaked through the woods and posted them- selves as sentries. They saw cars coming in at the rate of approximately five every 10 minutes to the house off the Bladensburg road across the Dis- trict: line. They rushed back to re- port. The sheriff and his deputies whizzed down for the rald. And they found a deserted casino. The guard was on at the gate. There were evidenices of a_hasty departure, (Continued on Page 2, Column 17.) i o AVIATOR MISSES DEATH AS PLANE DIVES IN RIVER Lieut. White, Flying From Wash- ington to New York, Still Un- conscious in Hospital. BRISTOL, Pa., June 13 (#).—Lieut. Frank E. White, flying an Army air- plane from Washington to New York, narrowly escaped death today when his plane nose-dived into the Dela- ware River. -Lieut. White, strapped in his seat and unconsclous, was res- cued by four members of the Anchor Yacht Club, nearby, who went to his aid in a speedboat. ‘White was still unconscious tonight at the Harriman Hospital, where he was sald to be suffering from a deep gash In the head, a fractured leg recently published Saturday Evening Post article on Rachel, wife | | of Andrew Jackson, was characterized | for buflding a rap extremity | closing it at one end mit the water inside to 1 reputation and character of one of |with the tide and yet would keep the a ! current vesterday by Senator McKellar, Dem- | ocrat, Tennessee, as a ‘“cruel, in- human and untrue attack upon the | the best women who ever lived, devout Christian and noble woman.” In a prepared statement the Senator referred to “advertising propaganda apparently for the purpose of bolster ing up the waning fortunes of thi Republican party,” and said he was | inclined to view the article as a care- fully prepared political attack on the Democratic party. The statement added another brand to the fire of indignation that has been sweeping the home State of Jackson | because of references in the article to | Mrs. Jaskson's social and educational | attributes. The same author, Senator McKellar said in his statement, previously had | attacked Thomas Jefferson, and ap peared to be engaged in an attempt | to “hold up to public scorn, ridicul and contempt” two of the great figure: in_the history of Democracy. Describing Rachel Donelson as “a beautiful young girl,”" who was not the only wife of a President to have an unfortunate first marriage, Senator McKellar detailed the events which led up to the application which her first husband, a Capt. Robards, made | to the Virginia Legislature for a di.| vorce. He asserted that erroneous | information reached Nashville that a divorce had been granted, and that Jackson went to Natchez, Miss., where | Mrs. Robards was visiting at the time. A marriage before a Catholic priest quickly followed. Tells of Romance. | “They had been living together | about two yvears,” the Senator stated, | “when they learned for the first time | that a divorce had not been granted | * * * but that it had been recently | granted by the Supreme Court of the | District of Kentucky. | | “The whole trouble was caused by misinformation, a mistake which ver naturally occurred in those davs through difficulty of communication l:et\\'een sparsely settled communi- ies A written statement left by John Overton, first chief justice of Tennes- see, sald to be in a position to know as establishing that the relations be. tween Gen. Jackson and Mrs. Robard prior to their' marriage “were in the highest sense honorable. Admitting that Mrs. Jackson's | grammar and spelling, especially in | early life, were faulty, the Senator declared that “if all President’s wives, | or even others in the upper walks | of soclety today, were adjudged by | grammar and spelling, a number of them would fall short.” AIR “BATTLE” IS STAGED AT NIGHT IN NEW YORK | Theatrical District ‘?Saved"—Nine* Planes in Maneuvers to Ad- | vertise Aerial Meet. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 13.—New York’s theater district was “saved” early tonight from an “attacking” airplane squadron of five planes when four “de- fense™ alrplanes routed the “enemy’ all the facts, was used by the Senator | “ Would Build Breakwater. Col. Sherrill has a plan, however, arge breaks the upper and the beach and This would per e and fall work at la of out. With such a tion the chiorinating machinery could distrib the chlorine across the opening and the waters could be puri- fied as they entered. A similar plant would be provided for the proposed each at Jones Point The chances of getting provision for such beaches would be much better if nothing was done this Summer, in Col. Sherrill’s opinion. He believes it would be better to swelter along this Summer without any bathing facili and go to Congress with case next Fall. However posed to comply with the local officials and District citizens and will not stand in the wa believe that it would be better to open the beaches this Summer, provided, of ourse, they get assurances from the powers in Congzre that s gainst the wishes of that body do_so. It would take only about four months to provide the necessary equipment for the two beaches such as Col. Sherrill has in mind. The matter of transforming the Sixteenth street reservoir into a bathing pool would not be costly. The water lines already are run in and all that would be nece: would be to place in the present basin a concrete slab to give the proper slope. It would not be necessary to do any waterproofing to prevent seepage, as that was pro vided for when the reservoir was built. construc- it Blanton Wires Madden. Representative Thomas L. Blanton of Texas, who has been a leader in the movement to reopen the Tidal Basin Beach, vesterday sent a tele- gram to Representative Martin B. Madden at Chicago requesting his ap. proval of the proposition. His wire follows ¥ “Until present respite Washington has been gasping under unprecedented | heat. causing several deaths and nu | merous prostrations.. Unheeding d gers, stri en people have sought r | lief swimming in the river and other Nprop pools Six persons were were drowned here last Saturday Citizens’ council, including its two colored members, heartilv favor open- ing Tidal | maintaining adequate col beach near Washington eceing to furnish all fund through Nine members of the D g tive committee accessible approve. Col. Sherrill is willing, provided you give consent, as Senator Warren doesn’t disapprove. 1 hope you won't refuse. Means much to thousands of Government employes financially. un- able to go elsewhere.” BODY OF BANK RUNNER FOUND IN DOCTOR’S HOME Disappeared on $1,500 Collection Tour—Crammed in Cupboard ‘When Discovered. By Cable to The Star and New York World PARIS, June 13.—The body of bank messenger was found today. crammed Into the cupboard in the home of a prominent Marseille phy The man disappeared three sary private subscriptions sician. in the first aerial sham battle ever!months ago, on a day when he was held over the city. Times Square was crowded with ‘“civihans.” Pa- trons of hotels and various roof gar- dens were furnished fleld glasses and viewed the aviation exhibition as they sat at their dinner tables. Some airplanes carried *‘war respondents,” others carried moving picture photographers, while the re- sults were radiocast from one of the planes. .The exhibition was held by the 27th Division Air Service of the New York National Guard to adver- tise its air meet, which opens next Saturday. The fourteen airplanes appeared over Times Square shortly after 6 o'clock. For a while they circled in formation, and at a signal separated into battle units, coming together at 120 miles an hour and jockeying for and possible internal injuries. Two other planes which accompanied ‘White made safe landings on Burling- ton Islang. the upper position. The defending planes gained it and attacked. Smoke screens, bombs and search- lights were used to add to the illusion. cor- | {sent out to collect sums amounting to $1,500. | The crime twas discovered through a | visit paid by detectives to Dr. Bougrat in conmection with a bad check the doctor is alleged to have given. A strange chemical odor,attracted - the detectives, and caused them to search the house. Bougrat, who is a Knight of the Legion of Honor, knew the victim during the war and they were sup- posed to ba great friends. (Copyright, 1826.) Italian Trains Wrecked. MILAN, Italy, June 13 (#).—One man was killed and 30 persons were injured in a rallway collision near here tonight on the line running from Milan to Magenta, a distance of about {15 miles. Four cars were completely wrecked.