Evening Star Newspaper, July 1, 1925, Page 2

2 % NATION'S TEACHERS @ INDORSE D.C. PLAN « Speakers at Federation Con .-vention Warn of Prejudioe in Intelligence Tests. pr | an tia hn wi Tr in an tis BY JAMES E. Staff Correspondent CHICAC 1 CHINN, of The Star 1. tion of the depaviment educational ré search in the District publ and the extension of the int tests throughout the en svstem. ns proposed in t Supt. Frank W. Ballou. we - by the American Feder < in pinth annual eonye federation_is ful unlese the Washing ueation appolnts a corns of speclal- | qualified teac) n rdmin iger the tests comy mote bz m | Han good will resu Florense Rood, president of tt warned the District deles: + close check en the the tests in the National ¢ effort to prevent poteniial di tion in the cation of Xumerous cases were cite | pUDils were done a Zrave injustice by it téachers unfamiliar with the Seits |Bi o accentuated g pocial differences hetwe « Needs Trained Teachers. Tuly The tha ¥ fe ‘o br ) i Miss Ruth Iy poted child 1t s romprehensi education:l tment _in v the obe of havinz tional re<e: fn Washinaton #d. she explained fesis to he give dren during jact them of the teach € of practice so th fer by transter sfother, an i discover st they can be encours most of the capacities. Recognized psvchology Mi Hardy emphasized. (urnish fhe desir- Able measuring rod of a child’s men- fality because they have heen stand- ardized by il remarking. | Under the tradi method i classifying pupiie. she declaced. | B feachers’ estimates are found 1o he, untrustworthy m ieathera rating the have rated anywhere from “Teachers are humu take direction from their and prejudices whic tmes to the advan often to the disadvan ¢hild.”. she said. has proven the teacher to dizcover the when it is really there engaged in the work blassification for move and can cite the foliow % .“1. A student w ered te making conspicuousiy poor pro pess. Investigation revenled the that she had skipped four grades in | the elementary school simply beciuse she had delightful manners and was | rv well-behaved. Al in the last eniering had been estimated low grade b elementary vols: he tested nt 13 I Q. cintelligent quotient) ani onr racords showed that four metbers of Bis family had been honor students in the same =chool. He admitted that he had heen a mischievans niiizance for the past v “3 Another dullness solely pearance and tai Adminisies dized I8 Wi | |ihi s on e par fsh' 4 unifortnity © pupils will not suf. from one schovl to ble the teacher to nts ean do a0 of ed to make thalof on the naw el teste an Lint 2 n " . same pape 53 to 96 lihie end emations come- e, but more | g e the | o “Expertmentation | g tnability of the |0 incelligance { oo 1 Lave heen work pa hei H of f 1ass got the esiimate of | on his ungainly ap r clothes: he w as | the s=on of a workingman ' in gominantly middle-class school. vet | bis 1. Q. was 135, the record af ahont | 3 child in every 125 b Prejudice Fatal. * “Buch instances show tha: what is warked ix not intelligenca alone: géizht is given to personal appea Ance, social status. behavior and the Bke." The tests give an accuraic measure of menta] ability detached from those things in which personal prejudices are likely to operate and re therefore much fairer to the ila.” § Aside trom ihe intellizence tests the donvention devoted a portion of its t:slnn today to consideration of the chers’ problems of the National pital, as presented by Miss Selma orchardt. a teacher at Business High chool, and oné of the 46 of the or- fanization as well xs its lezislative @hafrman. She discusaed the nead of more equitible adjustment of the A definite | teachers’ pension < leave for teach. | d of annual sl and an automatic sabbatical vear the te; As a result the fed tion voted to support the Wi o teachers secure the Jagislation for these benefita There is a tely proposition for leave of Washington teachers laave, leave for urgent for a sabbatical vear,” M t8ld_the convention ‘The subsiltution provision particularly unfortunate one. February, 1925 only a nominal amounting approximateiy tn of the teachers’ pay was dedu each day'e leave. In Fehr ever. the Board of Education, on tha | racommendation of Sunt. Ballou, more than doubled the penalty placed upon the teachers for illness.” The tencher, | in many instances. was mate to pay her <ub more than her duily piy, The Teachers’ Council protesied. £nd the hoard, after hearing their arguments, reduced the rate o that the teacher in most instances. suffered the loss of only three-fourths of their pay.|on Yow. however, the superintendent, in | rhe recommendations of the officers of | the schools, is to ask the board to again raise the rate. “Sick Leave” Urged. “The need. therefore, is apperent | tor some form of equitable substan. | tal legislation to provide for a lim. |+ ited number of dayva of sick with fll pay, additional leave with part pay, and for abbatical vear.” T'pon Miss rehardt’s motion, the convention also voted to urge Con. ! of zress 10 pass the measure calling upon | sal the District Commissioners and the | Gos Roard of Bducation to name the first | an school building erected afie enactment in honor of Samuel Gom pers, late president of the American Faderation of Tahor. i Miss Borchardi was nominated today 1a succeed hérselt as one of the vi presidents of the federation Electio of nfficers tomorrow will close the convention ORGANIZATION IS URGED. lav ton £h tn Jol bo he n an in wa. $3. #lo! to ha hina- | squisite | ¢ {an no suat 1z dri aheence for | con Yarit <um i “ed for | ary. how « 1 wii an he of a ga Ca | B#: Go Labor Union Head Appeals to Teach- ers’ Convention. CHICAGO, July 1 (#).—An appeal for further organization of labor, espe- cally among teachérs and other edu- cators, was made by George W. Per. kins, vice president of the union labor department of the American Faderation of Lahor. in an address hefore the American Federation of Teachers' conventlon vesterday. He defined lahorers As “all who give serv- | qu ice.” it. “Brain work ‘and men of meains contribute more. to the progréss of | for alvilization than physical lahor.” he |of <ald. “‘Teachere are doinz nore for nanstructive advancement than any nther elage of workers. If you were paid the wages von are worth, would peesive $10,000 a year rather nu run get in "thi R 1ng upon the pleasures of hea come trafie With deliberats precicion | his work | his watch. UNDERHEAVYBOND ing breakneck Turnage today held George King and the grand jury. King and Casson were violate the national prohibition {eantured early {vlain that he hold= no sympathy with speed tnaton | \what he called a prima facie case of taw and | trom anoth { United States heen | arrested another member ing squadron. | men weve in an automobile which was driven car 1 { accupled the ceding that driven by King had a load ite{car at 100 miles an hour. i car. he sald. was driven by Raymond the o poliea ears scattered along |prévéntdd day morning, shois were | police cars, Langdon tastified, and the |6n iron or stéel rods used in making fire was nesses varied in their account of thé | than the $1,200 or $1,800- most of -you |the commission said present Atmlesaness, characterize the declarea Dr. H. ; of the Teachers' Union of New York, " he naded. Dr long the lines for which they havé | were ses rticular talent and in which they ' inz eollapsed Auring a school fflfl‘l‘ THE EVE AFFICOFFENDERSGET BARRAGE olor, Age. Sex and World of Details Demanded on Spot Noae. and Director Eldridge Smiles in Trinumph. H sean very police ecinel was suppliad with the new d volumifious traifie accident ques- onnaive. guaranteed fo reduce the pless 1r of 10 A statd of 1linz _eculp:bili hether or not. | wofle Diracror riige laaned back his chair todav, smiled and dared mator he risk of o into now at that ¥ “What's your ealor, nationality A8 Uh-huh. hur answer one ques tion At You're ladv. 1 take it? iving long? My, m: T didnt vou were that Anyhody ? i Beéer knov injure ow. let's ab what's ident: well. it's not pedesirian, straet hicyel, trolley pole " veh mator evels marke:. vallrond train ather fixed ohject collision with nh autome next. v A colllsio who w ard someboa ne loading £ opolo of hie rel 1 e Conr only fared ihe shove e alen ran against a | ) poroini - ely 130 soul- | fom which (here wad was of ho tes 1o heaten before nal [ ho neaqueices ondsiae Extent of the Damage. " it damage? fende:. Tou've got vou consider bhadiy a total lo: Yep i Do ‘nundred and A damak ing evary onality questions, cdncetvable phase | from the color of | is nresent siaté of =6 he was carelos nolghbarly cender. nol safe ¢ s that fander mpinz. pedastrlan-nudging and il nastimee on (i sirdéis of our ir city soon may become o 1o "air AfouEh What caused tha accidant? mean wae it dué (4 improper driving axceeding :ha sneed limlt. cutiing in passing on earve ot over hill, pass ne on wrong side. losi cantrol. in aitantive deiver. skidding, driving on wrong aide of toad. hacking, view oheirietdd by parked cor, failure to gnal. a phusicallt derdctive, wrong rizht of wax. nding straet nassing safsry zone ar et None of Ul kel the s One may Imaginé how Diréctor Eld- | irg ize rubhed his hands with saticfac m when he received word tha' the | im had become enmeshed in | es o’ his questionnaire. Wa the wnforttnate offende: e of hie name herve, but let us enact in presumptive form the de 1s of his arreet The Bump and e Results, Picture mewk rking of through L right. column. teluctantly the « half a dosén ar. to the heéadinz involved in accide “I conld ask yon nhind questions he motorist driving his car nnder this beading, bat 11 lat tou hastily down the sireet, [down easy this time. baing a< i's vour e dayv's game and mus | firet oifense, hy chacking the “good living in so | condition’ bignk, at least until 1 test and only subron |vour brakes in a moment ously aware that traffic ahead has! “Sorry 1 can't ask vou 1o a dead stop. * * A rasp |about pedestrian accldenis. Let's see brakes hitti »n all fours, a clash [about the condition of the roadway. bumpérs and finally a spell of |No surface defects, no repairs under ninous silence. way, no obstructions unlighted. roac Hurrying to thé scené may be noted [level end straight, between intersec alert member of Inspector Brown's|tions, surfaca not’ wet, muddy. snosy fores, hix Jeft hana delving [or icv. buf dry: weather not clondy, a bulging pocket for a question. | foggy or rainy snow:. but clear: light + hlank and heavv-duty pencil conditions goond, viz., daviight. he hagan | Test of Rrakes Nest. Michr passdd avér rossinz auastions ditton of autiful a city. 19 questions while crowds gathered neertingly “Time.” ow I'm gonna test vour bhrakes, consulting | Rack up and then come forward 120 milss an hour. That's it. Now July 1. fyoure 0. K. on that score. 1 gues Loration betwébn | ywell 1 think that's abont all now, x Oh. ves. I forgot the drawing. Sort of Cype of vehicle involved. private | pysy on my sketchifig, Hut ordérs is Ssenfer - ear. Driver of striking |orders. Here's the curb, that'il e the r—180's see. now. What's vour|carner: heré's vour car and tharé's tha me? Married or aingle? Wheére [other fellow Yon're about five fe You live? White? What'® ydur from the eurb. | guese. Thers, that's tionality, American? How old are | not bad, I8 it u? What's your sex? LAt m Dizzily the befuddled motorist look permit. How long havé vou ed at the rough ehart. drivin ear? Xo. not this| “pPut an X there somew! any ¢ Be specific. About |where my body was found under the < months” M-onrm-m." rrage of inférnal questions. and tell Abruptly he turned to | Mr. Elaridge | suectmbsd fghting, the bumped car. e muttéred. he mumbiea, 35 am.” W edn 3 op. bate streer )y 7 Ninth see &1 ' the driv FUGHTIVE DRIVERS COUPLE ACCUSED OFBLAGKMALPLOT Turnage Sounds Warnin_q:Man. Trapped, Attempts to Swallow Check in Transaction. Against Shooting and Speeding in Streets. Caught hy détectives in an allagéd S s | blackmall attémpt vestérday after. this proposition of mén rid-| 565 an 5. Morris Beard, local artist, through the streets of Washinz-|at thé latter's studio, 3471 Féurteenth n at a speed of §5 miles an hour. | Street hl_],mn‘_« Frederick Hehréns, v years old, of 2210 E street, ooting and driving automebiles at|; .’ (ily” 15" swallow a check for &péed hae got to stop.” | 900 given him by Beard. only to nited States Commissioner N. C.|be choked into disgorzing it by the officers. Behrens and his 22.vear-old wife, y. were arrested and chargéd with blackmail. Mrs. Behrens, who accom- paniéd her husband to the Beard studio, tried to eacapé while Detec- tives Waldron and Sweeney weré scuffling with Behrens. The couple were photographed &t police head- ‘uarters today and Behrens was re- turned to his cell at the first preeinct, | while the wife, with her 6.vear-old daughter Pearl. was lodged at the house of detention. Bond was fixed at $10,000 each. Child Createa a Scheme. The alleged Blackmail scheme re | volved around a court dacres giving | Beard custody of the child. who i tha daughter of Mrs. Behrens' divorced hushand. Douglas Seeléy. Reard ra cently fell hafr to $30.000, and it ix charged thai Behréns and his wite | plotted to get $5.000 of this maney | by thréatk based on the artist's care | of_the child. | Behrens 18 &ald to have viaitéd tha Beard studio two dava ago. allégedly 1o complate the extortion schema, but left whén Béard Advissd him to have | his wité along when he turned over the monéy supposed to have been de- manded. In the meantimes Béard ar- ranged with the dstactives to trap the couple in the aet of completing the transaction. Dotéctives Waldron and Sweenév were waiting at the top of a flight of stalrs when tha check and $100 in {cash were alleged to have been turn- | ea over to Behranal by the artist, after AT *. La | the latter purposely had engaged the D A ariimgaraes Ay | couple In a discussion of the cireum testified that the two |Stances under which the money was | being paid. The officers nearly fell “Mocking | down the stairs in their rush to res- of a bootleg convoy chased about | Cué the check a Behrens, discovéring morning. [ the trick. is nlléged to have torn and crumpled the check and stuffed it in ot found In the car | pi mo King and Casson. but “mpa guin of Waldron's hand at waes that the car pré- gaprens' ‘throat soon made the pris- er “cough up.” it ia stated. Warnint all offenders against the & hn Casson, members of an alléged otlegger convoy, for the action of to law d also held on a charge of impedine d interfering with a Federal offir the discharge of his duty. B s fixed in the case of hoth men n 000, an amount which Commis- ner Turnage said he was disposed fix because of the shooting =aid to ve occurreéd when the men were vesterday morning Turnage made Id on A charge of conspiracy ‘ommissioner it v offender against the law who ves an automoblle at exceasive through the streets of Wash and that this. combined with piracy ta violata thé prohibition the firing 6f aeveral xhota er car in the alleged hoot convoy, caused him to fix bond at Says Officer Hit Him. 'asson appeared in the office of the commisaioner t6day th hoth eyes blacked, hix 1ips cut d a general appearnnce of having manhandled. He testified that had been struck with the buit and A gun in thé hands of Officer Heide, membar of Capt. Guv Burlin- me's liquor sauad. King, who was with_Casson. 18 already out heavy bond on another charge. Prohibition Agent T. E. Hartman. ostensibly a& the 5 vesterda war by textimony siquor corn whigky. Capt Burlingame d he chased the liquor cur down 0d Hopa road at 85 milex an hour d estimated the speed of thé oiher The lavor FREIGHT RAISE DELAYED. avers a man known to the police, 1 C. C. Buspends Operation of Rate Shots Exchanged. Ineréase t6 October 29. ansed one of | Rallroads in Eastarn territory were today by the Interstate 0d Hope road In the dawn véster- [Commiercé Commission trém making firdd at the |immediately éffective rate incréasék As the lauor car Wit- | bolts, nails, rivets and wire. ‘Uha railroads proposed tarifis to be- the éstimate come effective today and the commis. |sion suspended them until October 29 {to_ await Investigation. Tilustrating the Increases involved, rates trom Buffalo to Cleveland on the par- futility and waste |ticular typés of rods were $2.90 per ublic school avstem, |ton and would havé hecome $5.60: the . Linville, prnllumlnrennl rate of $4.41 from Buffdle to !Reranton would have become $8.27, |and to Milldale, Conn.. the present returnéd by police. mber of shbis fired, pming from 3 to 15. his report before thé convantion. “The present course of study {« Antl. |rate of $5.50 would Have been in-| ated, and children aunivarsally hats créased (6 $7.39. Linville outlined meihoda of re. | N ‘. among them the ssinblishment | * 15 @irls Die in School Crash. experimentul =chosls tsing the | ative methode of teaching. Undsr RBUCHAREET. July 1 UP.—Fifteen methnd ehildran are instructed | scisolgirls wera killed and a numbar rely injured when a build- ve an interest, at Olenitsa, Rumania. OF QUESTIONS FOR EACH SLIP| and | Type | so it | damaged | vehicles | at! '8 16 show G__STAR, WASHINGTON, T RFF ATTACK FALS WITH HEAVY L0 Violent * Onslaughts Against Outposts Beaten Off by French Troops. old tha Associated Press Julv 1o -Violen: Riffian at h outposts have been great enemy « communique today. Riffian forces composed largely af vegulars e helghts of the apper Leben group of 43l Dosts At all oosi<. AnG with threats of pinishment if the offensive failed. RIVERA IS PLEASED. Spanish Front Quist, on Réturn. MADRID. July (). Satistaction over the situation in Morocco was ex- présséd by (ien. Primo de Rivera. head of the Spanigh military diréc- tory. in a talk with newspaper mén {on lits raturn from the front. The sit fuation in tha antire Spanish zone fs lone of tranquillity, he sald. | Gan, Primo de Rivera expecta (o ré turh {6 Morocco within 10 or 12 davs. after signing the agreement for Frango-8panish collaboration against the rebel tribosmen. which is now In the procsse of hagotiation hare. RIFFIAN LOSSES 1,000, General Says L4000 Woundsd in Oftenaive, 1 (# . Moroccan i patches report that Abd-6LKrim. tha Morotcan 16ader, is still Attacking the 1. directing his afforts toward A& A praliminiry (o an wdvance . A special dispatch o the Tamps says linat. although the aitacic has spread along a 50-mile front. it Is really con centrated against three points. The | correspondent estimates that Ahd-el Krim's losses in the offensive are 1,000 killed and 4.000 wounded. Prince Aagé. nephew of the King of Denmark. i€ cited in (he orders of the Foreign 1egion. in which he fs A cap tain. for bravere. he Having velun teerod for dangerona iaske Abd-el-Krim’s PARIS. July Communication Interruptéd. 1 UM.—Advices fron the Frénch hat tle front in Morocco are 10 tha éffany |that communleation hetween Frerch positions of Tizza | Alcha is interrupted. The tribésmen |Are sald 16 he preasing strongly "n’:!lnfiv théce séctare | ——— |FOWLER TO SEEK DATA ON ALLEGEDLY DIRTY MEAT STORES HERE (Continued trom i st_Page.) public markéta and to a large extent | in Individual markets tn Washington. !In some Instances inclosef dlaplay {cases have been Installed, but few are | refrigerated e most modarn public markets have adopied the refrigerated diaplay counter for {résh meats. The department Believés that the use of wuch equipment affords A neckasary | safeguard to public health. i Dr. Fowler's auestions, states apacifically where thé atoras ars Jocated in this Diatrict ‘that are insani- T4Fv In the extrame™™ and “Pleasé state spacifically thé lacation of the stores ! ‘whare apparenily the floore behind | the counters were used to hide refise | and Allth and had nat baen claansa tor | | months. | as follows: Locations Not Given. “The most insanitary storas nbssrved were located in busindan districts Other storés in which insanitary con ditions wére notad. were scattéred throughout the poorer résidential sac tions and wers operated principally by foreigners.” ‘The question ‘‘Please state &pe cifically the location of the store: where apparently the floors behind the counters weére used to hide refuse and filth and had not heen cleaned for montha” brought this anawar: “8uch stores were obsérved mostly in one downtown congested district.” Becretary Dunlap said no instances whers chopping blocks “‘were used as a support to disembowel chickens and for cutting meats without any attempt at cleaning” were observed in Wash- ington. “and the records in support of the statement do hot refer to Wash- Ington.” Further, the sscrétary said, “instances of attempte fo influsnce health officiala in making reports did not come to the atiantion of the de- partment’s investigators while work- |ing In Washington.” No Diseased Meat Found. The question of Dr. Fowler. based 6n A xtatement in the preliminary re. wers anawarad respectively i Acted from tubsrculin tests slaughtéred sutside the city limitx and the meat returnéd and sold for con. Aumption.” was anatered in the latter As follows: ““The records in support of this statemént do neét refer to Washington. 1n answer ta Dr. Fowler's quastion. “Please staié apecific -instances in which thére wak ‘no control over ecommunicable chronic diseases in meat cuttera and clerks,' " Becretary Dunlap said: “Inquiry a8 {0 whether health cer- tificates for clerka weré required was answeréd in all cases in the nega- tive."” Data Gathéred for Years. For sevaral years, Mr. Dunlap's let- tér sald. the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. in_conneéction with ita re- senrch work in the marketing of agti- cultural products, has been gathering data relative to the ratall marketing of meats. “This work.” hé said. “has Vincluded all phases of the retailing of meats, such as mathods of distribu tion. trade practices, cokts, sanitation, consumer preferénces and other in fluences affecting contumptive da. mand. Conaideration wam given 16 methods of handling from a_sanitary standpoint because of the influence kanitation upon the consumptive de. mand for meats and the effact of such démand npon thé live stock industry As 4 whole. It wak found from a study 6t mors than 1400 meat stores, the lstter continuéd. that although considerabl® progress has besn made in racent years, there aré atill many outstand- ing examples of undesirable practices which should be corrected to the benefit of the in@ustry and the con- suming public. “It was recognixed particularly with respect to sanitary conditions that while the large majority of meat dealers usé £00d, sanitary méthod! yet thers Aré conditions that need more Attention than health.author- itiea have béen able to give, because of limited authority, inadequate per- | sonnel or lack ot public support nee- easary for such purpose. hile the insanitary practices referred to were. insanitary practices reférréd to wers sufficiéntly Aumerous to justify their heing mentionsd as practices which ould be praventad whansver possi- In cloking Nis Iattar, Becretary Dun- 10p aald: ‘T waft 16 assuré you that this dspartmént has Approached this subject tn & wholly impartial manner acdered to take the | dis | Kl ARAISH. Spanish Mordeeo, July | the | and Ain! “Please | port that “Animalt known to have re. | weré | ! D. Y., WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1925 NEW ASSISTANT POLICE CHIEF SWORN 1 | | L H ] R E T Edwin B. Hesse, ieft, former chlel by Ma). Danl The ceremonly was performed at’ Ma). POLICE DEPARTMENT VETERAN PROMOTED E. B. Hesse, 39 Years in Service, Is Made Assistant Supérintendent. Police Départmani the pa and chisf clerk sinca July & 1807, to @ay hécama an assiatant supérintend ent of police. a measure of the las Congrass making provision for him to Acsume the new rank in order to give him a police rating and make him #ligible for redrement hacause of faith- | tul and eMicient service. The oath was administered by Maj. {lica, at his home, 1 bein, t_home | tor Charlas A tendent of polict Sullivan's family mony. Maj. Richard S8ylvester chief clerk of the department he was elevatad to the highest position in the départinent, and it is hinted that police history in this respect may ba repeated at some future time. Inspector Hesse, it {8 stated, has no such aspiratione, however, but will continue hit duties a& property clerk {of the department. recarded as one of the most important and troublesome |Ms|llnns in the departmeént. The ques {tion of the nadw. inspector heing re | quirtd to wear a uniform has nat heen | detérmined V' street. the chief ck I(-Fvo, Inspec- svans, acling superin- and members of Maji. witnessed the cere 'BALTIMORE MAN ENDS " OWN LIFE WITH GUN Carl Feldman Shoots Self While in Washington Hotel Room. No Cause Known. Carl Feldman, son of David Feld- man. president of the firm of Feldman & Weinman, shirt manufacturers, of Baltimore, shot and killed himself at :30 o'clock this morning in a third. floor room at the Harris Hotel, North Capitol and Massachusetts avenue. When informed of the death the father said he knéw of no reason that his son should have taken hig life. He was A single man and had been living with the family at their home in Baltimore, And came t6 Wash- ington apparently on a businese trip. Létters which were found in the suit worn hy the voung man indicated that he wa& Carl Feldman. And busi ness cards found on his person car riad the firm's name. He al%o had Y. M. H. A. membership card with him After | the body it wa mergue to Await father Had a person heen walking throukh the hallway outside the room in which the man tosk hit life. another | lite might have been suddenly ended. ‘Thé bullat which Feldman fired into hik mouth shattéred his spinal col umn, tore A hole through the wall and dropped to the floor bf the hali- way aftér striking the wall of the room opposite. The gun clutched in thé deéad man's hand was a .38. On the dresser in thé room. under the youth’s straw hat, was a handiul of shells. The name régistered on the hotel Books was D. Brénnér of Washington. But insidé the man’'s hat was the name Fields and the letter F wax in- seribed on hit belt buckle, while busi- ness cards bore the name of Feldman. On the bed beside the dead hody My & handsome watch and chain, evi- dently of considerable value. Coroner Nevitt had viewed taken 16 the District the arri of the notified tha hoteél clérk. After Law- rénce O'DAy. headquarters detective, viewad tha body. police wers left on guard untll Coronér Nevitt made an investigation. SHOT MISSE’S GOVERNOR. Shatters Windahield Utah Executive's Car. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 1 ®).—A bullet from a small-caliber rifie shattéred the windshield of the Bullet of of Utah a8 he was being last night from thé Capitol. Neither the governor nor his chauffeur was hurt. The govérnor expressed the be. let that it was a “stray” from the gun of some youth. The police have started an investigation. with the su rpose of collecting data that would afford a basis for con- structive suggestions for improve- ment. The department desires 16 as- slst the large number of prograssive dealérs who are striving for greater efficiency, better methods and better service in their business. The depart. ment desires to help eorréct unsatie. tactory conditions whersver théy ma: axist and we shall be #1Ad (6 co.oper- Ate with you in 6very possible way to continue the impravement -of con Aitions surroundingk the handling of meats in Washintgon.” ullivan, eenter, superinten ! automobils ot Gov. George H. Dern| rivén home | f clerk of Police Depa t of polie Sullivan’s reside | | Daniel Sullivan, superintendent of po- | served as| betorc | | | | Edward L. Doheny declares contract | made to protect United States in crisis, with Pacific war threatening. REBUILDING; OF CITY ON NEW SCALE BEGINS IN SANTA BARBARA (Continuel Page) owner of a o | 8anta Ynez River. “We were at breakfast when first shake occurred,” he said table seemed lifted from the nearly turning a somersault ilver mine on the the Oour floor, and scrambling the breakfast on the floor. | “The floor seemed tilied at an angle ‘ot 35 degrees, and then swung like a | pendulum back in the opposite direc- tion. We rushed. or rather staggered, from the house, And ®ome of my com- | panions were thrown to their hands "nnd knees by the impact of the shock. | “As I looked out across the range of | mountains they swayed perceptibly. A great dust cloud was thrown up by the agitation, accompanied by a deep, rumbling roar, almost sickening In its intensity.” SHIPM 'S HALTED. Storage Facilities Lacking in Santa Barbara. | LOS ANGELES, Calif.. July 1 (#). | A request that shipments of non- | perishables deatined for Santa Bar bara be withheld for the present was made public today by officials of the State raflroad commission. 1t was ex plained that handling and &torage facilities ware lacking in the earth- quake-torn town. ENGINEE { | ON WAY. San Francisco Experts Stricken Town. SAN FRANQISCO. July 1 (#).—Re- | sponding to Santa Barbara's request for superior structural engineers to act in an advisory capacity in laying plans for the réconstruction of the devastat- ed aréa of the city, threé engineers of outstanding prominence left San Fran- ciaco last night. | C. E. Grunsky, président of the i American Bociety of Civil Engineer: i Prof. Charles B. Wing, head of the civil engineering department at Stan- { ford University, and Prof. C. D. Marz, head of the structural engineering de- partment at Sannford and formerly Leave for ‘The shot was heard by a maid, who president of the Ameérican Society of Civil Engineers, constitutéd the party | dispatched by the San Krancisco / Chamber of Commerce, | A plea for help from the people of {Ban Francisco to réstore the Mission | 8anta Barbara. partly destroyved by | Monday’s earthquake, was made to | Mayor Rolph today by the fathér su- perior of the mistion. Mayor Rolph answered that heip from an Francisco citizens was as. sured. BOAT TO SOUND CHANNEL. | SAN DIBGO, Calif., July 1 (#).— Orders to_sound the ocean bottom from San Diégo 16 Ban Francisco, with articular reference to the Santa rbara channeél, to determine what effect the Santa Barbara earthquake had on the sea floor were issued ves. térday to Capt. L. M. Stewart of the naval transport Vega. The Vega left yesterday and made préliminary soundings on the way to San Pedro, undeér instructions of Réar Admiral Ashley H. Robertson of the Eleventh Naval District. Going through the te Barbara Channal, the Véga is to maké many soundings. It is pos- sible that if the Vega findx unusual conditione tha Baklé 58, equipped for radi6 and Accurate soundings, will he fsént from San Diegd to continue the work in thé channél. Thé tide gAuke At thé United States quarantine atation haré showéd no un- usual fluctuations Aduring the earth- quake period Monday. n, Acting superinte recuperating from a long liness. at right. |CHICAGO AIR MAIL TO START TONIGHT New Will Load First Sack at Ncw‘g;‘f"' York for New Fast Service. By the Assnciated Pross NEW YORK. July 1.—Two squad ronk of alrplanes will take off in op posite dirdctions tonight ovér a trail blazed hy the high-powered ssarch lizhts to in inauzurate ovéernight air mall between New York and Chicago. The event, coming on the first an- niversary of the inavzuration of through iranscontinental air mail service, will be witnessed at hoth ends by officials and merchznts. - For 10 cents an gunce mail will be carried between the two largest cities of the country in § hours and 15 minutes, in time for the first morning delivery on the next day in each city. Three atandard De Haviland planes, { | earrying 360 pounds of mail, | scheduled (0 hop off wesihound Hadley Field. New Brunswick, N. J., {at 9:30 p.m. standard time. Trucks will earry the mail from New York | to the field. Postmaster General New will swing the first sack of mail into a plane. Dawes at Chicago Start. At about the same time three planes are to take the air easthound from Maywood Field. near Chicago. with similar ceremones 10 which Viee Presi- dent Dawes has hean invited One hundréd and fifty electric hea cone will light the mile airway hetwaen the twe fields. There are 32 | landing fields on the r The larg | 88t séarchlights 0 candle power, will light up the country for miles. Intermitient flashes designate | émerzency landing fields. Weather conditions will e transmitted to the pilote by other flashes of light. Stops for fuel will bs made at Belle- fonte, Pa.. and Clevéland, Pilots will be changed also at Cleveland on all planes. Chicago mail is due at Hadley Field at & am. siandard time: while New York mail will reach Maywood at 5:45. ‘Twenty planes. all driven by 400-horsepower Libérty motors, will be used in the sérvice. They are ca- pable of fiving 100 miles an hour. HAIf of the first letcer mail 1o be carried 8 addressed to philatelists are from V. FRENCH SEEK PLAN TO PAY DEBT; ITALY SUSPENDS PARLEY (Continued from First Page.) the migsion with more complets in structions from the home government as well as 160 supply necessarv infor- | mation a& to sconomie eonditione, | 7In the ennferances thus far no rater. énce has been made to funding tarme, the conversations in all of the meet inks having been officially described an being confinad to outlining Italy's caracity to pav. Mr. Alberti went At length into that subject vestdrday presenting masses of documentary thik time. The American confer also want facts and figures on Italy's fiscal proapects in the future, when the amortization of the debt will take place. Undersecretary Winston, eommission secretary, stressed this phase in announcing the postpone- ment of the negotiations. He reiter- ated that the Treasury had no re to insist on terms that would prove disastrous to Italy. but belisved every angle of Ttaly's condition and the oui- look should be studied hefore specific provisions of an agreement wera | drawn up. Unless that is the course purcued, it was said, the possibility {of an impasse was great, and repre Kéntatives of both governments wera | keeking to avoid such a situation. | The Washingion Government sti |18 patiently awaiting =ome official | word of plans by the French Govern- ment to initinte war debt funding | negotiations. Today's dispatchas from Paris are |looked upon with interest and ho | but %0 many gestures in the sama di- |rectlon have heen made before by | French officials that those jn author- ity here préfer to withhold comment the debt | been done. BONDS OVERSUBSCRIBED. France Backing Financial Policy, Be- rengér Says. PARIS, Juné 30 (#).—During dis- cussioh of thé French budget in the Benate mda{ Seénator Henr{ Bérenger, chairman of the Bénaté finance com- mittee, quoted figurés to show that public confidénce in the codntry's financial situation is réturning, as evidenced by subscriptions to bonds for the national defense. For the second fortnight in May 587,000,000 francs more in bonds wérs presenidd for repayment than wére subscribed. but during the frst fort. night fn June repayments excesdsd subscriptions by only 255,000,000 francs. Senator Berénger anticipated that the différence wauld bé in favor of hond supseriptions during the see. ond half of June. | has heen | | | i | | I i | | | routine mattars 1 i | Ink out objec | evidence about conditions in Italy at | | {coversd that | Not far distant. at Nashua | from COOLIDGE ELATED BY FATHER'S GAIN Strain Removed When Party Returns to White Court From Plymouth. RY . SUMMER COTT. Mass, RUSSELL YOUNG, CAPITAL. SWAMP July 1.—White Court etstahlished ag the Summer White House with the return of Prast dent and Mrs. Coolldge from the old Coolidge home. a1 Pivmouth, Vi, President Coolidge sarly toda Ehowed no H1 effcets from his 192-mile automobile vide from Plymouth vesterduy. The trip. which was not without ite thrille and inieresi. was made in eight hours and ffieen min- utex, and when the President and his wife reaponded fo the greeiing of wel come exiended their friends and neighbora, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stearns, who were awaiting them at the entrance fo WhIte Court. they ®aid they had thoroughly enjoved the ride. The President was up and ahout a1 his usual hour this morning. Tele phone messages ware recaived by him hefore he retired JAst nizht and tr morning conveying the information that his father ‘continued 1o improve and that thers was absolutely no o casion for further worry by Strain 1s Removed. There was that President different when he boarde no mistakin Coolidge ppearance the fact presented a Wiy from the <pecial frain Ins Sund. the Aving trip to his father's hedside. His mind has besr relievad by the remarkabis recovery of his aged parent from the hurried operation Sundey Routine bhusiness has accumulated during the Executive's briel absence and the President let it be known this morning that he intends to be bu during the greater part of today and tomorrow. or until hix desk is en tirely clear of Government matters Hix secretary cailed at White Cour Iast night and informed the latier of all that had heen iranspiring during the President’s absence. and left large batch of papers for the Presi ‘s atténtion. The sscretary was White Court immediatelv after breakfast toda and dumpad a cAr pondingly fat bundié of papers on the Prasidant’s desk far tha latier tackle. This husiness, the sécrstary intimatéd, is for the most part merely and can be dispnesa of quickly The Président i1oday laid aside hic work for more than an hour 1o faik with Gov. Fuller of Massachusetis This was his only angagement for day. Just hefors hreskfast Mr. Coolidze walked about the Zrounds. geing ar far as the rocks on the shore in front of White Court. He stood alone there for a few moments looking out 10 sea Mrs. Coolidge, attired in white with a silk shawl of peech shade. and without a hat hurried over (o the Stearns’ home. a thousand vards away. immediately after breakfast and Jater she and Mre. Stearns walked about the grounds. devoting most of their attention to the fowar garden. Theyv were accompanied all the while by Rob Koy, the white collie. Enthusiastic Over Trip. President Coolidge was enthusiasiic over the motor trip from Plymouth The ride was throuzh eountry with which he was zenerally familiar. He and Mrs. Coolidze kept busy peint- af interast along tha way Th hic vears of residence in New England. Calvin Coolidge had often esed fn an automobile over b= smooth hizhwavs, but it ix doubtful it any ether ride held ‘such zenuine intérest for him as that of vesterday The route from Plymouth 1 Swampscott was mors or Jese cireui- tous. &0 ag tn meet the read condi- tions. The fact that the President was to make this journev had not heen heralded in advance to any ex- tent and the distinguished coupla would pass mila after mile without being recognized. Naturally enough. many persons alonz the way looked puzzied at the long cavalcade of dust- coversd automobile, speeding along New Englanders are just as curious s anybody else. The little presi- ential emblem on the side of the | President’s car, however, meant little or nothing to them, and therefore | thousands of persons who looked at the President's car and at the man and woman sitting in the back =eat had no knowledge of the identity of the distinguished passengers There were some, however, who dis- the President and Mrs. Coolidge were passing. Some had heard of their coming and wers wait ing at advantageous points 1o get a £00d look and 1o wave. This new ' been splendidly spread ahout N. H.. and the whoels town was out the fact that the President and the Firer Lady were pasxing did not cause a ripple The town was all wrapped up in base ball game and the straets ware practically deserted. Party Pays Bridge Toll. When the President's car reachad another &nd of the Charleston Rridge across the Connecticut River fi was abruptly halted by a tall. lanky, atern-faced woman. who announced in A cold tone, ““Toll, pleas: Whila Dick Jervis, chief of the Whita Houss secret service, who was riding in the front seat of the President’s machine, was séarching in his pockets for the required 15 cénts, the Ama zon-like tolikeeper's gaze took in the couple in the rear seat, but she did not know who they were. Each of the 11 cars of the party was stoppad for the toll. When the first news paper car was handing out its 15 cents some one askéd the tollkeeper If the “short fellow in the firsi car paid.” why not?’ was the answer. was the President and Mra. Coolidge.” “That little fel low with tha red hair?” she remarked sx she turned (o the next 13 cents. Giisum, N. H., is a little town of 500 souls and practically unknown throughout the rest of thé country. Bbut it {8 today thrilled with a new $uide. 1t is probably the happieat and proudest village in America For the first tima in fts history a President and his party éntered the little roadside inn and had a hurried anack of lunch. and théen hoppéd In the waiting cark and motored on ' {’he President and Mrs. Coolidge had untll someéthing definite has actually ioast: AnB e befors Atarting the journey the Green Mountain country yesterday, the President and M Coolidge went to the little hillside cemetery about & quarter of a mile from the Coolidge home, to pay A final visit to young Calvin's grave hefore leaving. Théy iers alone. Mra. Coolidge was seen to lean over the grave and reArrange sevéral floral pieces. The couple then stood in silence for a moment or two and ieft. There were no smiles upon their facéa as they bowed to the people of Plymouth when they started the journey. Just Fights Off Aid, Leaps to Death. NEW YORK. July 1| (®),—Fighting off several persone who trisd 1o hold him, Harry Hazzon. 1. today fumped trom the Willlamebure Bridze to the Fast Rivar, 115 fest below. He died soon after being taken to & hospitel