Evening Star Newspaper, June 22, 1925, Page 2

2 * BOOSTERS EXPOSE GROOKED GAMBLING Finding of Loaded Dice Bares Plan of Gang to Mulct Business Men. Exposure of systemmatic and well planned efforts of a gang of local professional gamblers, habitues and employes of the famous, or rather in- famous, places across the Maryland line to mulct gatherings of men by unfair gambling practices was mi yesterday in the course of “booster™ cruise of the Merchani Manufacturers’ Association aboard the steamer Southlund. The news of the discovery of the gambling rapidly spread through the ship, and came like a bombshell out of an otherwise serene and joyful atmosphere. It was a distinct shock to those in charge of the cruise, the ®uests and scores of othe But it had the effect of putting a complete damper on_ the enjoyment, as the plans for the itinerary were upset and the entertainment wiped out. “Master Mind" Bored. From the time of the first inkling of the practice until its open exposure and on through the investigation con- ducted at sea as the Southland failed to make her scheduled ports of call, the ramifications began to reach out like the tentacles of giant octopu “They reached and pointed to most un suspected | s, and disclosed svstem of the working of a * mind."” The professionals came for trouble, for after they had been closeted with questioners for a time and hearing the murmurings of the men on the out side, one of them is said to have asked an interrogator if the men rushed in 10 start trouble would it be legal for him to shoot. An immediate search of the room itself disclosed new .38- caliber automatic pistol, with a full magazine, carefully concealed within reach of the men. It was confiscated. The trouble started shortly after the vessel left Norfolk yesterday morning when “loaded” dice were covered. | From then on boat in an| uproar, with o s trying to hold | angry persons in chec It broke up the program for the remainder of the trip. The ship cruised ound in the went out the capes, \\'hr\rp‘ the President’s yacht Mayflower was anchored, to check her gyrosco compass, and copies of The Sunday Star which had been sent to Old Point Comfort were transferred to the presi- dential vacht in one of that vessel's small boats. Then the vessel headed for Yorktown, and when entering the river her orders were changed and she headed for the bay, when some one remembered that Gov. Trinkle of Vir- ginia was scheduled to leave there at 3:30 o'clock. She again was headed up the York River, nd a stop made at Yorktown only long enough for the Governor to step hore. They were scheduled to remain there for three | hours to permit the party to go in| bathing. Out to sea again and back to Old Point Comfort to dock. When directly off Old Point Comfort the orders were cl] 1 to put about and head up the b and loaf along the trip. There was big entertainment | and meeting scheduled for last night, at which Commissioner Rudolph and Representative Zihlman were to speak. Gamblers Are Frisked. But the crowd was in no mood to listen to entertainment or anything else at this time. Their problem was 1o get full information from the quartet of gamblers and recover the money. It was found in places least thought of by the ordinary investiga- tors, but expert “friskers” found it in sealed packages of cigarettes, in coat Jinings, about the person, behind beds, in shoes, under sheets. Up to the gun the gamblers frisking was be gun the gamblers had almost held| their ground. The ““master mind” of the zangsters | was believed to be ahoard. He was discovered trying to make himself popular, and get in the good graces of the business men and quite succeeded One man told the “mind” that he owed him $50, although the gambler had not been in a game with him. The gambler tried to pal him out of it by a pat on the back. But the business man wouldn't be palled. See- ing he could not be pacified, the | gambler paid. | Two of the men, the belleved “‘master mind” and his roommate, had almost talked suspicion away from themselves in the afternoon, but some one had an idea and his room was rushed. There more loaded dice were found and carefully concealed behind the bed was a considerable some of money. The crowd then was in an ugly mood. The roommate of the “master mind” had no ticket. His presence aboard could not be ex- plained. For safety he was confined in the hold One Confesses. As for the three W young men. one | day | Trans JAMES COOK BERNARD GRANT, Who chose natural death rather than an operation to save his life for sacrifice on the gallows in August. O LUKE BS LI PERMITEXPECTED Capital Traction Project Likely to Be Approved by Utilities Board. Chances for official approval of the application of the Capital Traction Company for permission to operate a “de luxe” 25.cent-fare bus line between Chevy Chase Circle and the Capitol are very favorable, it was learned to- at the District Building, on_the eve of the announcement by the Pub- lic Utilities Commission of its decision in the matter. Contrarily, the Washington Rapid t Company’s application appears to have very little chance of receiv- ing the 0. K. of the commission. The decision of the commission is expected to be made public following its meeting tomorrow afternoon. View of the Commissioners. It is known that the Commissioners unalterably are opposed to granting permits for bus lines which will com- pete with existing street railway lines, such as, it is said, the transit com- pany’s proposed 10-cent bus line would do_on Connecticut avenue. The attitude of the utilities com- ission will not meet with the favor f the Federation of Citizens' Asso- ions, whose brief opposing the Cap- Traction application now is be- fore the commission for considera- tion. The brief was filed Saturday night by Willlam McK. Clayton. The brief declared the grant of the railway company's application would be “opposed to public policy in that one of the great duties imposed by upon this regulatory body he commission to compel the public service companies to operate conomically at all times, to save and conserve the people’s money devoted to the upkeep and operation of their properties, not to extravagantly waste it in an experiment seeking to encourage snobbish pride and un- American caste on public transporta- tion lines regulated by the State.” Competition Not Involved. In the case of the railway company’s proposal no competition is invoived, it 1s pointed out by high District au- thorities. Their attitude is that if the company wishes to operate a parlor car bus line on a 25-cent fare and the public is willing to pay that fare the commission can see no objection to the plan, as commuters not desiring to pay the high fare may use the street cars. It is considered likely the commis- sion also will approve the “loop” bus line, operating into outlying sections of Chevy Chase for the purpose of conveying passengers to the circle for transfer to street cars or busses. When the commission takes the rival petitions under formal consideration tomorrow afternoon it will have be- fore it not only the protest of the federation against the traction com- pany’s application, but additional pro- tests of prominent residents of streets over which the busses would operate. One of the protestants is Secretary of State Kellogg. ital DROWNS of them frankly employe of a pi known gambling admitted he was an oprietor of a well rouse in Maryland. | He shipped as 2 potato peeler at §1 | a day. He didn't intend to perform | that duty when he came aboard. he | admitted. He was under instructions | to make the vovage and he did. That | he didn't work for the dollar was | evident. { The other two suspects said they | heard there was a bunch of good fel- | lows came aboard such cruises and | they came to have a good time. The steward identified one of the two others as one he had also employed | “to watch the ice cream. He watched the cream and got a lot of it, judging from the amount found on | him The third of this group was un. known to any one, although he said he was emploved. He came aboard the forward part of the vessel just before she left. A considerable sum in cash and checks was uncovered during the hours of investigation vesterday after- noon and last night. and the officers of the vessel were kept on constant watch to prevent any trouble. The men were taken before the groups and stripped. It was then that most of the money was found concealed about their bodies. Fifth Is Found. After the first three were caught, with another under suspicion, the fifth could not be found. Then every man on the ship was sent to his room for the purpose of identification and a thorough checking up. Within a few seconds the fifth man was found. Early in the day this man had suc. ceeded in throwing suspicion from himself by convincing them that he had lost money consistently. But when he and his room were searched rolls of bills were found in the room and a considerable amount in the toes of his shoes. They were lined up before various groups and a number of the men identified them as persons who had operated on several other gatherings wlkh? the past few months at near- by resorts. They denied this, of course, but the identifications from various persons were quite convinc- ing. Shen came the problem as to what to do with them. Plans were made to put them off at' Yorktown and Old Point Comfort, but these were aban- doned and they were brought to WHILE TAKING A SWIM U. S. Army Private, Rescued From Potomac, Pronounced Dead When Body Reaches Hospital. Pvt. James D. Cook, U. S. Army, attached to the Washington Barracks, was drowned in the river yesterday off the Army War College, while swim- ming. Soon after he went down, a passing launch was stopped by a com- rade and persons aboard aided in re- covering the man. His body was placed on the heach and the launch immediately left. However, Policeman Orville Staples, at Hains Point, saw the accident, com- mandeered a launch and went to the other side. Observing signs of life he placed the man in a boat and took him to Hains Point where he was placed in an automobile and taken to Emergency Hospital, where he was pronounced _dead. Coroner Nevitt gave a certificate of accidental drown- ing. Bland Adams, a civil employe of the barracks, who was swimming with Cook, was unable to effect a rescue alone. This is the twelfth drowning in the vicinity of this city this Sum- mer. times trouble simmered almost to the boiling point, but cooler heads pre- vailed. Offers to Back Booster. Little was known of the “master mind.” He was said to be a book- maker, with no other known means of support. The men seized on every effort to be identified and vouched for. One gave the name of a well known bondsman who was on the ship. The bondsman admitted he knew him. Then it developed that the young man then was under bond. With this information presented to him, he admitted he had been ar- rested and taken to headquarters, but denied that he had been “mugged” and fingerprinted. The reputed master mind gave every evidence that he had talked himself out of such situations before. While a_group was discussing the matter, he edged around the side lines and was overheard to say to one of the boosters: “Say. friend, 1 ‘Washington under confinement, but released upon arrival. For many hours there was a tense situation aboard the ship and many am in ill repute aboard this ship. It you want to gamble a little, T will back you fer 50 per cent of the pro- ceeds,* THE EVENING ICAPITAL REALTORS SECOND AT DETROT Washington Special Is Few Miles Behind New York in Annual Race. BY a Staff Correspundent. DETROIT, June 22.—With a special train decorated to look like a newly opened subdivision, 68 Washington realtors arrived at Detroft this morn- ing after their 700-mile trip from Washington to attend the eighteenth annual convention of the National As- soclation of Real Estate Boards here. Amid the cheers of the Detroit rea tors the local delegation arrived sec- ond in the annual cross-country race from 530 various cities throughout the country to the convention city. New York pulled in ahead of the speclal ‘Washington train by a few miles. Under the leadership of Tom Jarrell, president of the local board; Willlam K. Hartung, the convention chairman, and John A. Petty, the board's secre. tary, not a single village or Hamlet along the 700-mile route failed to ob- serve that the realtors from the Na- tional Capital were passing through. Realtors Refrain Sung. From the time the party left Wash- ington until it pulled into the station at Detroit the following refrain was ung at almost every mile post: scll ‘em countrs mansions for the Sum- e When 118 hoL, Wo sell ‘em citv dwellings for the Winter When it's not, And sometimes in the Springtime And Sometimes 1n the Fall Felwel e it plots of ground With nothing on at all The special train consisted of seven Pullman cars with a diner, club car, Jounge car and stateroom car. The entire train was a miniature replica of the Twentieth Century Limited. As the convention proper does not begin until tomorrow the entire 88 local realtors were unanimous in vot- ing to join the rest of the in<oming crowd on a trip to Windsor, Canada. This afternoon it is expected that more than 3,000 realtors will visit the Canadian city, it is understood, to see the various realty and other develop- ments in that city. Washingtonians to Speak. Tomorrow the real business of the convention begins, and before it ends more than 125 speakers will have had something to say on various phases of the real estate business. Tonight there will be an informal dinner for the officers of the various boards and a reception for the wives of the officers. The entire town is decorated with flags and the emblem of the realtors. Two local realtors are scheduled to make addresses tomorrow. John A. Petty, executive secretary of the Washington Real Estate Board. and R. L. McKeever. Mr. McKeever will speak on brokerage and Mr. Petty will speak on association members. There are many topics of local in- terest in connection with housing problems, bullding flnancing and license laws to be discussed during the convention and which the local men are to attend. FOREIGN QUARTER HASTILY FORTIFIED IN CANTON CRISIS (Continued from First Page.) cided to carry on the regular quarter- ly settlement over a two-day period until Wednesday, June 24, while the share brokers association adjourns sine die. When attempts were made today by striking Chinese to intimidate the crews of three steamers of the Java. China, Japan Line, captains of the vessels slipped their craft from the moorings and moved to Stone Cutters Island, where they obtained clearance papers and steamed out of the harbor. BOYCOTT IS INCREASING. Cantonese Urge Ban Be Extended to American Goods. LONDON, June 22 (#).—The boycott of foreign goods in China is rapidly increasing and is spreading to various centers of the country, according to information received in official circles here. Canton agitators are urging that the boycott already applied against Brit. ish and Japanese goods be extended to American products, it was reported. This Canton group also has proposed a general 24-hour strike as an indica- tion of sympathy with the anti-for- eign movement. Describing the situation in Hong- kong, where an anti-foreign strike is in progress, Reuter's correspondent today telegraphs: “The fourth day of the Chinese strike finds Hongkong witnessing ' 2 condition of affairs unparalleled in its history. Through secret organizations financed from Canton, the Chinese in British and foreign employ in the col- ony here have been intimidated in a manner which is dislocating shipping, commercial and domestic life. “The strikers generally admit that they have no grievances against their emplovers, but have been terrorized by agitators styling themselves the ‘dare-to-die corps.” “The result is that a senseless, frantic stampede toward Canton is oc. curring. On the other hand, the Hong Kong authorities are fully prepared to meet every emergency and are as- suring the essential services. ' “Canton reports that a community kitchen has been established there for the Europeans who are doing their own cooking. Marines operate the water works, and unarmed volunteers patrol Shameen (the foreign section of Canton). “The Kwangtong Students’ Associa- tion has issued a statement urging a boycott and strike, adding: ‘We must join the soldlers and fight the foreigners." " SHIP AVOIDS HONG KONG. MANILA, June 22 (#).—Owing to the marine strike of Chinese workers at Hong Kong, China, the steamship President McKinley will not call at that city. Instead, when the Presi- dent McKinley sails tomorrow the craft will go direct to Shanghai. FRENCH ARE ANGERED. PARIS, June 18 (#).—Minister of the Interior Schrameck today gave instructions that all of the young Chinese involved in yesterday's affair at the Chinese legation here should be arrested and prosecuted with the utmost vigor. He sald the French government intended to extirpate all Communist activities, no matter from what quarter they come. “At the moment our government is engaged in a bitter fight against French Communists,” he said. “It is no time for foreigners enjoying France's hospitality to abuse it -by intrigue, propaganda and strong-arm work." About 100 Chinese youths invaded the legation here yesterday and forced the Chinese minister to sign various documents, among them one express- ing sympathy with the anti-foreign movement in China. The leader of the group was ar- rested last night and police now are rounding up all suspected membery.of the party, = STAR, WASHING' Geologists Start For Alaskan Tract Never Explored An unexplored tract of country, estimated to equal the size of Massachusetts, in which no white man is believed to have traveled, is to be entered shortly by a geo- logical and topographic party of the Geological Survey. The party, which was sent the Arctic Circle in Alaska to search for oil in the navel petroleum reserve No. 4, has reached Kotzebue, a small Alaskan town just north of the Arctic Cir- cle, which has a white population of one tradi a missionary, a school teacher and half a score of others. After leaving Kotzebue the party will enter the unsurveyed region and will be out of communication until September. 13000 EXPECTED ATN.E. A MEETING Department Repfesenting Educational Life to Assem- ble Here Februaljy 21. into northern The annual meeting of the depart ment of superintendence of the Na- tional Education Association, rpresents the educational life of Amer- fca. will be held in Washington from February 21 to 25, It was announced today by Superintendent of Schools Frank W. Ballou, who is president of the department. The convention will bring to Wash ington 13,000 or more schodl superin- tendents and educators. The National Capital was selected as the convention city ‘through the efforts of the Wash- ington Convention Bureau, which was organized to make this city the con- vention city of the country. Atlanta and Detroit had made strong bids for the conclave. The fact that Dr. Bal lou is president of the department also had a great influence on the executive committee In selecting Washington Organizations Affiliating. There are 14 organizations afiliated with the department of superintend ence, covering virtually every phase of educational endeavor in the coun- try. of Education, the Department of Deans of Women. the Department of Elementary School Principals, the De. partment of Rural Education, the De. partment of Vocational Education, the City Teacher Tralning Section, the ducational Research Association, the Natlonal Assoclation of High S Inspectors ational Asso of Secondary 0ol _Principal: National Council of Primary Educ tion, the Council of Kindergarten Su pervisors, the National Council State Superintendents, the National Society for the Study of Education and the National Society of College Teachers. All the meetings of the convention will be held in the New Washington Auditorium. where C. E. La Vigne, executive director of the convention bureau, has his headquarters. Ar rangements are now being made by offictals of the National Education As- sociation for a large exhibit that will completely fill the 28,000 square feet of the exhibit hall of the Auditorium Long Line of Exhibits. The program when it is drawn up will call for meeting in practically every hall and hotel in the city, as well as inspection trips through the various public schools and colleges of the National Capital. In Cincinnati last vear the exhibit halls were lined with two-thirds of & mile of exhibits. Besides the various discussions there will be a large entertainment pro gram. The committee in charge of the convention includes Dr. Ballou, A. D. Shankland. executive secretary of the department of superintendence H. K. Allen. business manager of the National Education Assoclation, in charge of the convention exhibits, and C. E. La Vigne. director of the Wash ington Convention Bureau. FOREST FIRE.SWéEPING PENNSYLVANIA TIMBER Disastrous Blaze in Elk County Has Destroyed 10,000,000 Feet of Cut Logs. ¥ the Associated Prese WARREN, Pa, June 22.—A for- est fire described by officers of the Federal Forestry office as the most destructive that has visited this sec- tion this Summer had swept over a mile-and-a-half of Woodland in Bear Creek district of Elk County today, and was spreading to adjacent tracts of green timberland. The fire was centered in the opera- tions of the Pennsylvania Lumber Company, and had destroyed four of the company’s lumber campt and about 10,000,000 feet of cut logs. Three hundred employes of the lumber company, under direction of Forest Ranger Raymond Conarro, were fighting the fire, but were re- ported to be making little progress. AMERICA EXTENDS RADIO STATIONS IN THE PACIFIC Direct Communication to Tahiti Established by Opening of New Stations. Br the Assoclated Prees. An important development in Ameri- can radio communication in the Pa- cific was announced today at the Navy Department in the establishment of regular communication from San Fran- cisco and Pearl Harbor through Samoa with the French possessions in the So- clety Islands. Heretofore the traffic has been re- layed through the British station at Apia, Samoa. The new channel is by way of the Navy radio station at Tu- tuila, in the Samoan Islands, and from there to the French radio station at Papette, Tahtti. In opening the new service Secre- tary Wilbur exchanging greetings with the Governor of Tahiti. TOWNE, FREE, REWEDS. Marries Mrs. W. A. Vilas Three Days After Divorce. NEW YORK, June 22 (#).—Three days after his divorce from his first wife, John D. C. Towne of Chicago had married Mrs. Ward A. Vilas, widow of Ward A. Vilas of Chicago. The_ceremony was performed by Rev. Dr. Paul Flanders in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church yester- day. Miss Dorothy Vilas, 15, daugh- which | They are the National Council | of | { FORMER Cfl?TOONIST MONDAY, J DEKAY LOSESLONG FGHT FOR SAFETY Brought Back to U. S. to Face 12-Year-Oid Charge of Bank Looting. By the Ascociated Preas. PROVIDENCE, R. I.. June John Wesley de Kay, financier, gun runner and playwright, was back here today to answer a Federal indictment for bank looting after eluding justice tor 12 years. He was brought from London ves: terday by a Department of Justice agent. In 1913 Indictments were re- turned against him and four others for misapplying $200,000 of the de. funct Atlantic National Bank here Two of the four have since served penitentlary sentences. After fleeing de Kay was first heard from as a defendant in o suit In Lon don in 1914, through which a firm of jewelers tried to recover $15,000 for gems bought on credit. His secretary. | A Miss Elliott, testified that most of his money had been spent entertain ing Mme. Bernhardt, who was then| playing in de Kay's “Judas. In the same year the French gov ernment unsuccessfully sought his ex tradition on a charge of the Belgian government that he had obtained 315, 000 francs under false pretenses when he sold to Belgium rifles bought in Spain and pald for by Mexico. Published Pacifist Book. After he took refuge in Switzer land, the United States falled in 192 1o extradite him on the bank failure charge. At Lausanne he countered with sensational charges against Sam- uel Untermyer and Wil H. Hays in the Mesopotamian oll fields contro- versy and argued that one reason for the extradition proceedings was his publication of & pacifist book dur- ing the war. Scotland Yard nabbed him when he returned to London early last year, He fought for a vear to prevent extra. dition to the United States. An autoblography by de Kay credits him with having published “a string of newspapers near Chicago.” A. daughter, Elizabeth de Kay, 19 vears old, returned with him from London. ' Another daughter Jeanne, vanished strangely from Hull House, Chicago, n 1919 CALLAN PUT AT HEAD OF 3D CORPS AREA Will Command This District Until August 1, When Gen. Mac- Arthur Takes Charge. Brig. Gen. Robert E. Callan, com- manding the post of Fort Munroe, Va., wkill have command of the 3d Corps Area, with station at Baltimore, from next Thursday, when Maj. Gen. Sam- uel D. Sturgis relinquishes that com- mand on leave of absence until the latter's statutory retirement for age August 1. On that date Maj. Gen. Douglas MacArthur will assume of- ficlal command of the corps area. Gen. MacArthur is now in command of the 4th Corps Area, with station at Atlanta, Ga., and will remain on that duty untll his transfer to the com- mand of the 3d Corps Area takes effect. While Gen. Sturgis is away on leave of absence Gen. Callan will be the! senior ranking officer in the 3d Corps Area. and as such will be in charge of all the operations connected with the observance of the national defense muster, July 4, and also of the clvillan training camps at Camp Meade, Port Fustis and other posts in the 34 Corps Area. That area embraces the Dis- trict of Columbia, Pennsyivania, Mary- land and Virginia. It is expected that Gen. Callan will retain virtual com- mand of Fort Monroe during the short | time he will be in command of the | 3d Corps Ar SAYS MASS AS PRIEST Rev. Joshua W. Brady, Once Comic Strip Producer. Ordained in St. Paul. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 22.—The Rev. Joshua Wilson Brady, a convert, and formerly a comic cartoonist, has cele- brated his first mass. Many friends, who knew him when he drew the “Cross Wires" comic serfes for the New York Evening Telegram and the Evening World, were in the congregation at the Paul- ist Church yesterday. Ordained 'in St. Paul, Minn., last week, he returned to say his first mass where he was received into the Roman Catholic Church 15 years ago. He will be stationed in St. Paul. Ar a cartoonist he contributed to Life, Puck and Judge, and syndicated hase ball comics. Father Brady's brother, the Re Charles H. Brady, rector_of Barnabas Episcopal Church, Denver, and his stepfather, the Rev. Dr. ‘Rob- ert W. Rhanes, is rector of an Epl copal church in Kansas City. - MEXICO TO ORDER PROBE OF AMERICANS’ RAILROAD Claims Manager Left Country Without Arranging for Settle- ment of Labor Dispute. By the Assocated Press. MEXICO CITY, June 22.—The min- istry of communications plans to cite the American-owned Jalapa-Teocelo Railway (in the state of Vera Cruz) to the attorney general for investiga- tion of possible responsibility incurred by the company through its recent stoppage of traffic. It is claimed that Willlam Boone, who managed the railway as well as the Jalapa Light and Power Co., Mexico without naming a representa- tive for settlement of the labor con- fiict with which the light and power company was confronted. The Vera Cruz government seized the plant and appointed a trustee for all the inter- ests of the company, including the raflway, which has since been idle: Special dispatches from Vera Cruz report that the Orizaba revenue au- thorities will attach the British-owned and American-managed Orizaba Light Co. for failure to pay taxes. OIL PRODUCTION HIGH. ‘Rumanian Wells Output Gon- tinues Near Record. ter of the bride, and two vouthful[ sons of the bridegroom were present. Under the terms of the divorce grant- granted Towne's first wife, Mrs. Jane Holabird Towne, Towne must pay her $1,300 a month alimony, turn over insurance policies of $135,000, and bequeath her $200,000. These were the terms of the Chicago di- vorce settlement last Thursdays BUCHAREST, Rumania, June 22 (). —Rumania’s production of crude oil continues around the record high level 1,250,000 barrels monthly. During e present month the price has ad- vanced from 24,000 to 30,000 lei per ten-ton carload. The refiners report they are unable to fill all ‘gasoline demands for exporty, | sented | POLICE OPEN DRIVE ! ting off firecrackers. 29 Ly UNE ‘THE MIKADO’ POSTPONED UNTIL EVENING OF JULY 7 Presentation of Opera Delayed as Favor to Community Center 1925. Department. The affiliated community opera group, “The Washingtonians.” has DOstponed its presentation of ‘“The Mikado,” scheduled for the Central High Community Center tonight, un- til the evening of July 7. Although everything is in readiness in every department and the complete cast present, the director, Rollin Bond, in the spirit of co-operation with the community center department, con to this change. All tickets held for tonight and tomorrow night's performances will be honored on July 7 and due notice given thereof. 50 CADETS BEGIN TWOWEEK CANP High School Group at Simms Prepare for Inten- sive Drills. Fifty Washington high school cadets began a two week encampment today at Camp Simms in Congress Heights. | prepared for a preliminary taste of genuine military life. The first day at the camp was marked by preparations for the in tensive military training which will | start tomorrow morning and continue | to July 6. All of the cadets had re- | ported at noon and after lunch they began the work of preparing their “bunks” in the barracks and putting the camp in an ordinary condition. Ninety cadets and more have at tended the camp in previous vears, but the citizens’ military training camp this yvear made deep inroads on the cadet attendance. As the ca det corps is co-operating with the citizens' military training camps, a large number of the hovs over 17 years of age enlisted for the army encampment. Purpose Outlined. The purpose of the cadet encamp. ment is to give the cadets an oppor- tunity to increase their knowledge of military science and tactics and to prepare themselves successfully to hold the higher grades in the cadet corps and at the same time have a beneficial and pleasant outing. The schedule of instruction includes daily physical exercise under the super- vislon of a medical officer. short per. fods of drill with rifle and saber tactical walks and terrain exercises war game solutfons. swimming under the direction of competent instructors, vocal lessons in giving commands daily musical lessons for members of | the band. practical instruction in ceremonies, interfor guard duty and outpost duty, lectures on courtesy, discipline. manly principles, leader. ship, citizenship and its obligations | and duties of cadet officers. observa tion and its value In civilian and military life, topography and map reading, personal hygiene and map reading . Col. Craige in Charge. The camp is in direct charge of Lieut. Col. Wallace M. Craigle, U. S.| A., professor of military sclence and tactics in the Washington high schools. Assisting him are Majs. John G. Donovan and Alexander W. Maish: Capt. Willlam Judkins, Band Leader Frederick Hess and Master Sergt. Carl Trometre. Dr. Paul Taylor is the camp physician. J. R. Gibson is serv ing his third term as commissary chieftain. The rifle instructor is .J W Crockett. Col. Craigie has extended an invita tion to the parents of the cadets to| visit them in camp in the evenings. FOR SANE FOURTH; FIREWORKS BANNED (Continued from First Page.) plosive caps gave information lead- ing to the arrest Edward W. Opdvke, 15 vears old. of 520 Thirteenth street northeast., was also arrested, and charged with set- He was paroled in custody of his parents to appear in Juvenile Court. The general order to police captains tomorrow will be followed by notice in the bulletin of the police depart- ment, giving a digest of the regula- tions concerning a safe and sane Fourth of July in the District of Columbia. Law Is Comprehensive. Under these regulations “no fire- cracker. squib or other fireworks nor noise-making explosives of any kind shall be sold and delivered, discharged or set off within the City of Washing- ton or the fire limits of the District of Columbia, or in the more densely popu- lated portlons of sald District: Provid- ed, however, on occasions of public celebration and exhibition fireworks may be discharged or set off on special permits issued by the Commissioners defining_the time, place, storage and such other conditions to be observed in reference thereto as they may deem necessary to the public safety. There are numerous other police regulations bearing either directly or indirectly upon the matter of a safe and sane Fourth of July in Washing- ton, but the above parts are sald to cover the principal provisions. 1In brief, about the only kind of fire- works to be permitted inside the Dis- trict of Columbia will be sparklers and such flares as red fire, etc. Border Cases Puzzling. \ The knotty problem of what to do about fireworks merchants who spring up like mushrooms each July around tke border of the District of Colum- bia still remains somewhat of a prob- lem to law-enforcement officials of the District, as they have no authority beyond the line. Already numerous stores beyond the border have begun to stock up with pyrotechnics. and flamboyant signs in red letters were being tacked up in front of some places yesterday to em- fireworks are on sale. It will do District of Columbia cele- brants no good, however, to bring any of these fireworks into the city, as it is against the law to explode them here. Police will be on the lookout for all violators, officials said. 118 last | dangerous weapon; MRS. THAW HURT BY FALL Mother of Harry K. '.N;nw Confined to Hospital. PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 22 () — Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw, aged 80, mother of Harry K. Thaw, was pain- fully injured yesterday when she fell on the steps of the Third Presbyterian Church, where she attended services. She was taken to the Homeopathic Hospital, where X-ray photographs were taken to determine the extent of her injuries to her hip. Others will be taken tomorrow. Mrs. Thaw walks with a cane and it is said she tripped over it as she was descending the steps. Mrs. Thaw may be confined to %&howlw. for several weeks, it was Slain Wife of Dentist MRS. THOMAS YOUNG, Widow of Patrick Grogan, multi millionaire of California. Mrs. Young was forced to drink whisky until dazed, choked and then killed by in- haling roiuulmun gas, according to the confession, later repudiated, of her husband, Dr. Thomas W. Young, Los Angeles dentist. Her body was thrown into a cement cistern and covered with mortar. AUTO DRIVER HELD FOR CAUSING DEATH: Isaiah West Indicted on Charge of Manslaughter After Accident on Bridge. Isalah West, colored, was indicted today by the grand jury for man slaughter in connection with the death of Samuel Hart, also colored, May Hart was driving a dirt cart Anacostia bridge when, it is alleged, West drove an automobile into the rear of the cart throwing Hart from his seat on the wagon and inflicting injuries resulting in death on the Stanley Johnson and Frank Hughes | were exonerated by the grand of charges of making books races. Other cases dropped by the grand jury were Charles Pinkney non-support: Madeline Sanker, bigamy Gerald Ibbs, carnal knowledge, Arthur C. Dietz, assault to rob. Others indicted and the against them are: Nathan Campbell robbery and grand larceny, Harrison Hunter, Daniel Riley, housebreaking and larceny; Francis A. Bagby, Luther M. Roulas. violation national motor vehicle theft act: James Riddick, as sault with dangerous weapon: George Stonestreet, assault with dangerous jurors on the weapon: Ravmond L. Kidwell, Charles | Harrison, grand larceny: Andrew J Fagan, jov riding: Rosier Dulan: Sampsell, non-support minor children; Willlam Childs, Willlam J. Rusk, James Harper, non-support, wife and minor children; John C. Brown, assault dna Pinket. grand larceny: James H. Gross, Wesley Jackson, housebreaking and larceny. RAYNER DENOUNCES HEADLEY’S DEMOTION ““Cruel, Unnecessary and Unfair, Board of Trade Official Char- acterizes Action. Characterizing the demotion of In- | spector Albert Headley as “cruel, un- necessary, unfair and an attempt to wreck his future in the Police De- partment,” W. Pearce Rayner, chair- man of the special trafic committee | of the Washington Board of Trade, in an open letter to Commissioner Fen- ning urges that the action be recon- | | sidered. In a vigorous attack on alleged cliques among the high officials of the police department Mr. Ravner says that he believes that the demo- tion of Headley must have been ordered by the Commissioner after he had been “grossly misled as to the facts in the case.” “In the deliberate humilfation of In- spector Headley,” said Mr. Rayner, “the writer can read only the tem: porary success of what may be a clever scheme to further the interests of those taking advantage of the absence of the best cuperintendent of police Washington ever had to per: petrate themselves and their friends in power even to the extent of ‘break ing’ a faithful officer to raise a friend 1y officer to his rank and put him in a favorable position for rapid advance. ment should their own aspirations fail “If demotions are necessary ‘for the good of the service,’ and that is the method to be followed, I urge that vou consider the advisability of de moting to the rank they would have earned on their true record of per formance the high police officials now temporarily recommending action in regard to brother officers. who. in a short perfod—in one case two days- were raised from privates through many grades by reason of spectal in fluence and political pull exerted within or without the department.” MACMILLAN VESSEL MAKING GOOD TIME Will Reach Bay of Fundy by Nightfall—To Join Peary on Thursday. Br the Associated Press. MONHAGEN ISLAND. Me. June 22.—The schooner Bowdoin. which left here yesterday with Commander Donald B. MacMillan and other mem- bers of his Arctic expedition, was well up the coast of Maine today With fair weather, friends of the ex- plorer here believed she would be off the Bay of Fundy by nightfall. The Bowdoin is due to reach Syd- ney, N. 8., on Thursday, her first stop after leaving this island. There she will be joined by the steamer Peary, which went ahead after receiving fresh water at Booth Bay harbor, without stopping here. Fuel will be taken on at Sydney, after which the two_vessels will proceed to Battle Harbor, Labrador, always a port of call for the explorer before he pro- ceeds to Etah, Greenland. Noted Engineer Di;sA ATLANTA, June 22—Henry L. Collier, 73, ploneer Atlanta and wide- ly known civil engineer, died in a local hospital yesterday. Appointed by President Cieveland, he served commissioner of Government surveys for California through that and the following administration as chief of construction of the city of Atlanta and chief engineer of the Georgia Pacific Railroad, and | charges | personal | FENNING'S ROVERS TOSTAY N DISTRIT Dry Squad Will Not Makg Raids Into States—159 Are Arrested. If Commissioner Fenning's “roy ry sleuths origin intended to do some of its rov euthing in alleged “wet” outside the District limits, as first re | ported, it has apparently adopted th policy for the present of confining it efforts 1o Washington and leaving Prohibition Chief Harry Lucke his men the far outposts of Maryla and Virginia In executing this rumored change of policy Capt. Guy Burlingame's score of dry policemen who sted with Federal prohibition has reors “vice shment which nmiss ¥ nounced the outset crusade some days back While (' sioner Fenning endeavoring closely guard modus operandi of his personally co ceived war on bootlegdom. never definitely confirmed reporis t | lingame's men were plannin vade Luckett's territory alds on stills he indic had in mind after the sour Offered Co-operation. After the new Commissioner his “rovers” had through the Chief Luckett Chief E. (. Yellowly sioner Fenning by Guested an appointm “They came to offer their co-operation authorities Mr. Fenning Rumors current at Building, however, are t | Federal prohibition chie Commissioner that their { operating with success {and Virginia and a | they would do evervtt power to see that the ply" were cut off, the that the Federal offic local police migh iccess by opera with which Chief Luckett refused matter in any deny that he h police going ou their dry campa Seize Whisky and Car. Membe: of afternoon succeeded ir cases of alleged making two arrests | ceed in Divisional tiory ree e. according! to the loc stated in sured tory, today. except £ the District whisky d not otch the deliver | S T agent ade time came for { costia the two cases hac er’'s car, having been transferred it from another car The $255 been transferred by the person ng it to another indfvidual | members of the squ nable 1 | regain possession of | Alexander B. Massey, 32 years old, | of 1432 New York avenne ed on charges of sale transporting ile Fisher. 214 C street | charged with possession | porting. The automobile and car and liquor turned o the Internal Revenue Bureau | Following a lead d in cone nection with the ase of the twn | cases of all imported Scotch Kky. the rum squad went to 620 venth street southwest. accom panied by police the fourth pre. | cinet. and made Barred Doors Intervene. Barred doors port of the police ress of the raiders, and sald 10 |have enabled persons in the housa to dump intoxicants in the sewer and kill the odor with coal oil { Police report seizing enough | as artes possession Phi the hacker and according impeded e proge ale and of glycerin leged into ts for analysis say they found a quantity and mixing paraphernalia in the house. Harry W. Galer was arrestel lon two charges of seliing and one off illegal possession. it being charged that an agent of the squad purchases two quarts of whisky at $12 a qu before the raid staged 159 Arrested. John Bligh, 1019 Seventh street. wag arrested on two charges of selling and one of possession. Seizure of thres cases of beer was reported Approximately 20 gallons of whisky were seized in connection with a dozen additional arrests made vesterdav bw the rum squad and precinct police, Members of precinct squads wera called upon to assist the rum squad in making the raids. Only small quantitf, of whisky were seized from the individual alleged violators of thg Volstead law. Arrests for liquor violations durin: the 48 hours ended at 8 o'clock morning were as follows: selling | possession, 4%: transporting, 7 Thera were five persons arrested for driving automobiles while under the influencs of liquor and 86 for intoxication. One person wus arrested for drinking I public. TURKEY SIGNS PACT. B Treaty Agreement With Greece I3 Consummated. ATH June 22 (). The Greeld | Rovernment’ has recelved advices front Turkey of the signing of a Grecos | Turkish agreement for carrying nug | the terms of the treaty of Lausanne. This treaty, resulting from the secs ond Lausanne conference in 1323, settled financial, economic and terr torial questions involved in past wa Turkey's relations with other cou tries, returned eastern Thrace from Greece to Turkey, and provided for the settlement of minority rights in Greece and Turkey.) ST. JOSEPH’S TO BE SOLD. Orphan Asylum May Give Way to Commercial Hotel. The sale of St Orphan_ Asylum, 924 H street, ta Harry Wardman is about to be come pleted, it was learned at the Ward- man_offices today. While the deal has not been completed, it s said, t negotlations are practically on closing point. Although there are reports that & large commercial hotel is to ba erected on the site, it was sail uf Mr. Wardman's office that it has not vet been definitely determined what is to be done with the property, which is one of the landmarks of the city. Joseph's Mala City Gets War Trophy. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEWPORT NEWS, June 22, -Ths War Department has selected the World War trophy to be allocated to this citv—a big gun of 210.millimeter caliber. This city has complied with tha conditions imposed by the Government, and this “souvenir” of the A. E. F. i3 expected soon to be shipped and placed at some prominent point in Newnarp News, S