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WALTER AND HIS FRAMED DIPLOMA AT AMERICA ball writers to have been the most THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION AND HIS WIFE IN GERMANY. days ago, where the American champion was- greeted by thousands as he stepped from the train. LOGAL EDUGATORS | S0 BONDS IVOLVED N SUT Foreclosure Filed Against C.. M. & St. Paul Railroad, in Receivers’ Hands. Br the Associated Press CHICAGO, June 19.—Acting as| trustee on behalf of bondholders of the | Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Rail road, whos represent ap. proximately §: the Guar anty T st Co. of ew York has| filed in Federal Dis ct Court here a | foreclosure suit a, the road, al: leging failure to pay p and in- t on bonds valued at about $50,-| 00 maturin; une 1. he St. Paul line passed into the | hands of receive few months ago | under a plan for financial reorgani- | zation. | Sale of Road Possible. Sale of the road may be necessary to satisfy the holders of the mortgage hon: according to Roger Sherman, attorney for the trustee, who added that the trust company is acting to | protect bondholders independent of | any proposed or future pians for re orzani ©. Tie sald that following the foreclosure the propos plan or some other plan of reo tion of the railr I's financ tructure might be arra ad. e petition for holdings $200.000,000, 00 al foreclosure, filed | vesterday, asks an accounting of | all the road’s properties, appointment | S i to look after the inter- | olders, an injunction re- | receivers from dis: fes zoverned by the osent inz of prope ad’s mo bonds, and subpoenas » the receiv and ot inte il parties to answer the petition. Defendants in Action. The defendants named include the railroad company. the receivers—H Byram, kdward J. Brundage and ik W. Potter—and the Brinkley Coal Co., which filed the original re ceivership petition. The receivers have 20 days in which to reply to the suit. LAWN FETE TO AID SCHOOL | Holy Comforter Parish Plans Week of Entertainment. i srprise features are to mark each | g of the annual lawn fete for of Holy Cc orter School, open Monday evening and | throughout the week on the | ifteenth and E continue school grounds at Capitol streets al invitations | have been s&it to t friends of the | school in all sections of the ty and | Jarge crowds are expected | ev. Clarence E. Wheeler, pastor of | Holy Comforter Church, is in charge | of the arrangements, aided by a com mittee of the parish under Cornelius Ford, president of the Holy branch, and Mrs. Agnes McCann, head of the ladies’ sodality. All the usual features of ‘lawn festivals will | be found, in addition to many new ones. | Name | Will Lead Church Kindergarten. |§ Miss Christine Petersan, deaconess, | conducted the final meeting of the | kindergarten of the Massachusetts Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church Today. Miss Petersan leaves June 29 for Denmar | probably | the Science of | fa | tion aluable player of the 1924 season. LISTED FORN.E. A 63d Annual Meeting of Or- ganization to Convene in Indianapolis June 28. A large delegation of District edu- cators and school teachers will go to Indianapolis next week to attend the | sixty-third annual meeting of the Na tional Education Association, which convenes June 28 for a six-day ses The convention, according to A. officials in Washington, will be the most important in_the history of the organization The District Education Association which is affiliated with the national organization, will send its quota of accredited delegates and alternates, headed by Selden 3. By, gupervising principal of the fifth division. Mr. Ely is pregident of the District asso ciation. | Supt. Ballou to Make Address. Washington's representatives are | expected to take a prominent part in | the proceedings. supt. of Schools F nk W. Ballou i cheduled to open the initial session of the general - sembly with a speech on *'Progress in Education.” A break st in honor of Dr. Ballou also has been arranged by the department of elementary school principals H. Newlon, president of the will be the to: master. Among other District tives who will speak at variou sions of the general assembly organizations affiliated with the N A" are Federal Commissioner of Edu- cation John J. Tigert; Joy Klmer Mor- gan, editor of the Journal of the ¢ ciation: J. W. Crabtree, secretary of the organization: Adelaide S. Baylor; chief of the home economic c of the Federal Board tional Education; Daniel J. Tobin, tional treasurer of the Americ Federation of Labor; E. W. Barnhart, chief of the commercial education service of the Federal Board for Voca- tional Education; C. C. Certain, editor of Red Cross publications; Mrs. Kath- erine M. Cook, chief of the division of rural education of the United States Bureau of Education; Miss Maude E. Aiton, principal of the Americaniza- chool; Emeline Whitcomb, spe- cialist in home economics of the Fed- eral Bureau of Education; Agnes Winn, director of the division of class room 'service of the E. A., and Arthur Newton Pack, secretary of the American Nature Association. Home for Retired Teachers in View. Erection in or near Washington of the proposed home for retired teach- ers will be one of the principal sub- jects considered at the convention. Plans for financing and managing the project will be outlined in a report to be submitted at one of the sessions of the general assembl $50,000 Suit Is Appealed. George Cushing, editor and pub- lisher of Cushing’s Survey, has noted n appeal from a decision of Justice flord of the District Supreme ng his suit for $50,000 | damages against the McGraw-Hill Company, Inc., publisher of the Coal Age. The court held that the com- pany is a nonresident corporation sion the N | Ka not having an office in Washington, and could not be sued in the local court, a LEAGUE PARK. Johnson was declared by base Therefore, thousands of Washintgor. fans gathered at the park yesterday to see President Coolidge hand Walter the “sheopsk National Photo Photograph taken in Berlin a few Copyright by P. & A. Photos ! l | THE MACMILLAN SHIP LEAVES BOSTO! The Peary, carrying mem- bers of the MacMillan-National Geographic Society expedition, starts on the first leg of the trip to the Far North, leaving Boston for Wiscas- set, Me. Mins Gertrude Ederle, champion American swimmer, who sailed for England yesterday, where she will attemnpt to swim the English Chan- nel, a distance of 20 miles. Copsricht by P. & A. Photos. By United News Pictures. Miss Elizabeth Cromwell, prominent in New York society, who fell over- board from the S. S. Rotterdam, en route from New York. The body w*s' not recovered, according to wheless dispatches. Copsright by Underwood & Underwood. PART OF ELEBORATE CEREMONIES WHEN MACMILLAN LEFT BOSTON. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Robinson shaking hands with MacMillan after the latter had delivered an address and been presented AU opataneny flowers. The first leg of the polar j ourney ends at Wiscasset, Me. Copsright by P. & A. Photoe MAYBE THEY CAN MAKE IT RAIN SOME MORE. William Haight and Dewey W. Davis of Huntington Park, Galif., are conducting rain-making experiments which are already claimed to have brought about changes in the baromoter varying from three to ten points in a half hour. electrical current from a 125-foot derrick. DELEGATES TO NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION CALL UPON THE PRESIDENT. Phe editors were tendered a luncheon by the Washington newspapers and the Chamber of Commerce yesterday, then they visited the White House and spent the remainder of the day sight- seeing around the Capital. The Alexandria, Va., Chamber of Commerce acted as host during the afternoon. NOTED OLD PEAR TREE FELLED; HELD AMONG WORLD’S LARGEST | HOARDS OF COINS HIDDEN| 2,200 YEARS ARE BARED| | University of Michigan Discovery | in Egypt Belongs to Period of Roman Empire. By the Assoclated Press. CATRO, Egypt, June 2 (delayed). Two hoards of coins were found the University of Michigan expedi tion, excavating on the site of ancient <aranis, in the Payoum. Both hoards belong to the period of the Roman empire. One was in an earthen jar, which contained 1,185 well preserved, small coins of the sort known as minimi They date about the end of the fourth century, and a large number bear the names of Theodosius and Arcadius. The second hoard was found in| the sand under a hole in the floor. It comprises 816 coins In exceptional- ly fine condition. These are dated in the second and third_centuries, from Marcus Aurelius to Maximinus. The total number of coins found by the expedition this season is reported by James L. Starkey, who has charge of the digging, as 3,000. A large proportion of them will be added to the numismatic collection of the University of Michigan. MANAGER IS SUED. Apartment House Proprietor Over- drew Account, Complainants Say. Suit for an’ accounting of the man- agement of the Sixteenth Street Man- sions, at Sixteenth and R streets northwest, has been filed in the District Supreme (ourt by Frank C. Wolte of Allentown, Pa., and the Marlborough Hotel Co., against Fay E. Lucas and his wife, Edna Lucas. Through Attorney W. Gwynn Gardi- ner, the plaintiffs say Lucas and his wife were employed March 1 last at a salary of $500 per month for their services in managing the apartment house. It is alleged the defendants have overdrawn the bank account of the mansions by $7,000, and have made unauthorized expenditures. It is also claimed they have not kept prop- er records of the rents paid by some of the tenants and of furniture pur- chased for the apartment. 2 Stood at Rear of 929 K for More Than Century, Ac- cording to Neighborhood Lore—Becomes Men- ace by Decay—Removal Brings Protests. A pear tree, believed by forestry ex- perts to have been one of the largest and oldest of its race in_ the world, was sawed down yesterday in the rear of K street as a precaution against its impending fall. For more than 100 years the tree has been historic in that section of Washington. Generation after gener- ation of children have Stolen fruit from its generous branches, grew old and died. But the tree grew on, defy- | ing stubbornly all the laws of death as they applied to pear trees. Stood as Solitary Sentinel. Houses were built around it. Tt finally stood a towering, solitary sen- tinel in a grassless yard less than 20 feet square, overlooking the low shingled roofs far below its topmost branches. It was a green oasis in a desert of roofs. Lightning struck it and almost split the upper part of its trunk. A wisteria vine, planted in the next yard, overran the low wooden fence and twined itself around the wounded trunk, binding it together as if with a great, knotted cable. It continued to produce crops of pears. ildren for blocks around knew of it, although it was entirely concealed from the street. Hundreds have known the thrills of tumbling chases over wooden fences with pockets and shirt fronts filled with overripe fruit. But the tree has grown continually more dangerous. Finally William Blundon, owner of the house at 929 K street, listened regretfully to the complaints of some neighbors and or- dered the tree cut down. The wrecking crew appeared this morning. When other neighbors, especially residents in the Marl: borough apartment house next door, saw ropes and tackles being attached to the branches a realization came to them of the significance of the act. They had watched the thousands of birds which flocked into the branches on Summer evenings. The sight from | their windows, of the little boys and | girls scrambling over the fence roused memories of their own childhood. Several telephone calls were receiv- ed at the headquarters of the Ameri- can Tree Association, 1214 Sixteenth street, according to P. S. Risdale, managing editor of Nature Magazine, urging that something be done to save the tree. Among those appeal- ing was Franklin K. Adams, coun- selor of the Pan-American Union, who lives in the Marlborough. Felling Was Inevitable. The_association got in touch with Mr. Blundon's office, but investiga- tlon showed that the tree was of such age and in such a decrepit condition that it was only a question of a short time before the tree would have to come down, even if the present opera- tion could be delaved. The assocta- tion was informed that contemplated bullaing operations also would cause the tree to: come down in the near future. The felling' of the great tree was at- tended with considerable difficulty. It had to be sawed off in sections, from the top down, and each plece lowered with ropes, due to the very limited |space and the necessity of proceeding carefully to avold damage to neigh- boring_roofs. Mr. Blundon said that he regretted the necessity of cutting down the tree, which was an expensive under- taking, and had ordered it only after he was convinced that the complaints of neighbors on its weakened condi- tion were justified. Tells of Age. Mrs. John H. Brooks of 1217 Eight- eenth street said that she had come to her present home in 1866. Her late husband purchased the house, she said, from a man who had lived there | the Salvation {Fresh Air Camp National Photo FRESH AIR CAMP FUND, SALVATION ARMY PLEA Organization Solicits $300 Dona- tion Each From 12 Individuals or Associations. An appeal for 12 individuals or or- ganizations to subscribe $300 each to Army ~fund for its at Patuxent, Md., was sent out today by Brig. William H. Barrett, commander of the army in_the District. “Every $300 will enable us to erect a_cottage and increase the number of children to be cared for at the camp,” he said. “We need 12 of these cottages immediately. If generous Washington people or organizations subscribe toward the cottages, we probably can complete them June 28 when the camp opens for the Sum- mer.” Brig. Barrett in the past week has been flooded with applications for ad- mittance to the camp. He says more children apply than can be cared for. To_run the camp this Summer, $10,950 is needed, Brig. Barrett says, He declared it might be necessary to curtail some of the plans for the camp if the money is not ralsed. Since the appeal -started several days ago more than $1,000 has been subscribed. Contributions should be sent to Salvation Army headquarters, 607 E street northwest. continuously for 40 years before that. This man told her, Mrs. Brooks said, that the tree was of considerable age when he came there. “Even last year,” said Mrs. Brooks, 0 many pears fell from it into my yard that T had to hire some little boys to pick them up in baskets. “It used to be very pleasant to watch the birds in its branches. They used to flock there in great numbers, singing all the evening long. A _former resident in the neighbor- hood said today that he often had scrambled over the back fences into the little yard on the hunt for his own children, whom he often found shin- nying the trunk after pears. It was a wonderful and historic tree,” said this man. “It is a tragedy to see it go. But there is nothing that cap be done ahout it. Mr. Blun- don dogbtless is justified.” VIGINA APLE CROP HOPES DI To Be But Half as Large as Last Year—Peaches Hard Hit. Special Dispatch to The Star. WINCHESTER, V! —The commercial apple crop of Virginia jthis vear is not expected to exceed much over 1,000,000 barrels, about one-half the crop of la and one. third of a full crop, according to the first forecast of the season, issued to- y from the office here of William P. Massey, secretary of the tate Horticultural Society, ceiving reports from growers all the State. The peach crop, it wi ed, is very short, probably around 15 {per cent of last vear's crop. ““Considerable damage is being re ported from hail in many sections says the report, “and the June drop is heavier than usual in a great many orchards. “The general apple crop of the United States is below the 10-year average, and the prospective crop is less than at this time last year. “Middle Western and Mississippi | e all lighter than last ! . New York State will produce last year. Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Maryland report less than last year. “With the general short crop in prospect at the present time, and the probability that it will be still fur- ther reduced as the season advances, all growers are looking forward to ex- cellent prices for the fruit at pick ing time. Apple buyers and exporters already are showing much interest in the Virgi crop, and indications point to a satisfactory marketing sea- son.” ARMY MUSIC SCHOOL GIVES 26 DIPLOMAS The Army Music School awarded diplomas to 28 students at commence- ment exercises conducted at .10:30 o'clock this morning at the Washing- ton Barracks. Five were given diplomas in the band leaders’ course. An address to the graduates was made by Brig. Gen. Lutz Wahl, who also presented the diplomas. Col. Thomas A. Roberts made a short ad- dress and an invocation was offered by Chaplain Julian E. Yates. A mu- sical program was furnished by the Army Band, led by W. J. Stannard. The school. is conducted v_Capt. R. G. Sherman, commandant; Willlam C. White, principal: John S. Martin, as- sistant principal, and William J. Cain, executive officer. The five who completed the band leaders’ course are Staff Sergt. John A. Grable,, Sergt. Horace E. Nichols, Corp. Wifllam B. Rice, Technical Sergt. Kenneth B. Watts and Pvt. John B. Veronneau. The 21 graduate bandsmen are Pvts. Louis_Barthowiak, Frank S. Benyou sky, Norman F. Busby, Chester C. Canfield, Louis Daniele, John C. Den- nis, Nicholas de Tulllo, George S. Di- santis, Harold T. Doyle, James J. Grose, George Huntington, Oscar L. Johnson, Walter Lewickj, Harry L. Loyd, John McNab, Warren L. Orn- dorff, Lloyd W. Remley, Charies A. Schana, Max W. Schmelzel, Theodore A. Schultz and Miles Znamenacek. The men use a million volt Wide World Photo ITALY 0 OPEN DEBT PARLEY ON JUNE 25 {Envoy Arranges for Discus- | sions With U. S. Officials. } Has Full Powers. Ambassador de Martino of Ttaly v terday made formal arrangements apening negotiations for funding the Italian debt to this Government June alling at the State Department and the Treasury Department, the Ambas sador conferred with Secretary Kel logg and Secretary Mellon, who chairman of the American Debt-fund ing Commission, and next Thursday was set for the first formal confer ence on the question sador de Martino had talked . Mellon once before, but the conference produced nothing tangible The Ambassador said then he would ask his government for additional data. and it was expected he would advise the Treasury soon of receipt of that data. Instead, he called today to say that he had been given plenipo- | tentiary powers to proceed with fund- | ing discussions. Data All at Hand. The Treasury's war loan are ready with all of the informa which Mr. Mellon and Undersec Winston, secretary of the commission, will require for their conversations with the Ambassador. They must now await a_presentation of facts from the Italian representative. In the meantime no attempts will be m: 4 at the Treasury to formulate a pro- gram for the discussions. While some believe there would bé no haste on Italy’s part to r through with the negotiations | opinion was expressed at the Tre |that Ttaly’s purposes were “apparent: ly quite sincere” and responsible oft ficials insisted that no more than the |usual delays would characterize the proceedings. The Treasury had slight knowle: last night of the terms to be sought by Italy. It was known after the first visit of the Ambassador to thé Treasury that a proposal of a 10 year-delay in the beginning of actual payments on either principal or in- terest was likely. and events today both here and in Rome tended to bear out this probability, but the Treasury declined to comment on the acceptability of that program 6 1sury ige BUS GROUP ORGANIZED: R. L. MAY IS TREASURER Local Man Chosen by New Asso- ciation Representing Invest- ment of $296,000,000. By the Assoclated Press OHICAGO, June 19.—The National Motor Bus Association was organized to represent $296,000,000 worth capital at the close of a two-da ference of bus operators here day. Officers elected include: President, R. W. Sanborn, Cleveland, and treasurer R. L. May, Washington, D. C. Representatives of the American Automobile Association said that the association had fostered the formation of the bus association, and imdicated that the former would welcome aflia- tion of the latter as a branch.