Evening Star Newspaper, July 4, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Showers and probably thunderstorms tonight and early tomorrow morning, foiloved by falr; not much change in temperature. Highest, 86, at 6 p.m. yes- terday; lowest, 67, at 5:30 Full report on page 7. a.m. today. New York Stock Market Closed Today No. 29,64¢ post_office, Entered as second cluss matter Washington, D. C. = NATS FALL BEFORE EHMKE N OPENER OFDUALBIL 74 Gregg and Russel Prove In- effective Before Onslaught of Fohimen. NATS SLUGGING STREAK STOPPED BY FOLH STAR 20,000 Crowd Into Fenway Park for Double Holiday Attraction. BY JOHN B. KELLER. FENWAY PARK, Boston, July 4 —The Nationals dropped the first game of today's double-header to the Red Sox. The score was 7 to 4. Vean Gregg, veteran left-hander, was sent to the box to start the first game. , It was the third start of the season for him. Opposing Gregg was Howard Ehmke, ace of the. Hose hurling corps. Sam Rice’s single in the third, scor- ing McNeely, who had walked, gave the Nationals their first run and put 8. Harris, who had singled, on third. Goslin popped out to end the inning. The Nationals’' lead was erased in the Red Sox half when two singles, a walk and-a long fly gave the Fohl- men a run. Another -single by Vache scored Flagstead and Pro- thro. Todt flied to McNeely to end the inning. The Nationals came back in the fourth and wrested the lead from the Fohlmen with a three-run rally. Teibold batted for Gregg in this frame and Russell went to the box. Russell, however, was ineffective and the Red Sox added three in their half, putting them two runs to the good. A single by Prothro, former National, scored two of the Red Sox runs in this frame. Marberry replaced Russell in the box in the sixth. The attendance was 20,000 FIRST INNING. TINGTON—McNeely singled to Harris drove into a double Prothro to Rogell to Todt. Rice Rogell threw out Goslin. No WA left play walked. runs. BOSTON—Flagstead rolled to Peck. Prothro went out the same way. Boone_singled to right. Vache fan- ned. No runs. 3 SECOND INNING. WASHINGTON—J. Harris walked. Bluege forced J. Harris, Prothro to Rogell. Peck hit into a_double play, Lee to Rogell to Todt. No runs, BOSTON—Todt lifted to Rice. Ro- gell walked. Lee forced Rogell, J. Harris to Peck. Lee was caught off first and thrown out, Gregg to J. Har- ris to S. Harris. No runs. THIRD INNING. WASHINGTON — Severeid _fanned. Gregg took a third strike. McNeely walked. S. Harris singled to left, McNeely stopping at second. Rice lined a single to right, scoring Me- Neely and putting S. Harris on third. Goslin flied to Flagstead in deep cen- ter. One run. BOSTON—BIluege tossed out Picin- fch. Ehmke singled through the box. Flagstead knocked a long single to left, sending Ehmke to third. Prothro walked, filling the bases. to MeNeely, Ehmke scoring and Flag- stead taking third after the catch. Prothro stole second. Vache singled to center, scoring Flagstead and Pro- thro. Todt flied to McNeely. ru FOURTH INNING. WASHINGTON—J. Harris walked. Bluege singled to center, J. Harris stopping at second. Peck fouled to Vache. Severeid walked, bases. After Gregg fouled one, Lel- bold replaced him at the bat. Ehmke fumbled Leibold’s hot smash, J ris scoring and the filled. Ehmke was charged with Lee went back in left field for Neely's pop. S. Harris singled t right, scoring Bluege and and sending Leibold to third flied to IFlagstead. Three runs. BOSTON—Russell now pitching for Washington. Rogell scratched a hit off Russell's giove. Lee sacrificed, Russel] to J. Harris. Picinich walked. Enmke fanned. Flagstead walked, flling the bases. Prothro singled to enter, scoring Rogell and Picinich and sending Flagstead to third. Boone singled to center, scoring Flagstead, Prothro stopping _at second. threw out Vache. Three runs. FIFTH INNING WASHINGTON—Goslin singled to right. J. Harris singled to deep short, Goslin stopping at second. Bluege hit into a_double play, Prothro Rogell to Todt No runs. BOSTON—S. Harris lost Todt's high Ay in the sun it fell for two bases. Russell threw out Rogell; Todt holding second. Todt took third as Lee went out, Harris to Russell, who covered first. Picinich Ehmke forced Picinich, Peck Harris. No runs XTH INNING. WASHINGTON — Severeid to center. Tate, batting for flied to Vache in short left. flied to Flagstead. S No runs. BOSTON — Marberry now pitching for Washington. Peck made a good stop and threw out Flagstead. Pro- thro singled off Marberry’s glove. Boone fanned. Vache popped to S. ' Harris. No runs. SEVENTH INNING. WASHINGTON — Rice popped to Prothro back of third. Rogell threw out Goslin. Prothro threw out J. Har- ris. No run: BOSTON —Todt walked. Rogell fouled to Bluege. Lee hit into a dou- ble play, S. Harris to Peck to J. Har- ris. No runms. : EIGHTH INNING. WASHINGTON — Bluege flied to Vache. Lee threw out Peck. Severeid walked. Marberry popped to Rogell. No runs. BOSTON—Picinich_walked. Ehmke fouled to Severeld. Flagstead singled to right, sending Picinich to third. Prothro singled off S. Harris' glove, scoring Plicnich, Flagstead stopping at second. As Boone fanned Flagstead tried a double steal and was safe at third when Bluege dropped Severeid's throw. Prothro made second on the N e Rice i 3 to S. singled Russell, McNeely Harris fanned. Boone flied | Three | filling the | Severeid | Peck | to | Peck lined to Vache. | walked. | AB. McNeely, cf. . S. Harris, 2b. Rice, rf. | Goslin, If. . J. Harris, 1b. Bluege. 3b. Peckinpaugh, ss. | Severeid, c.. 4 5 4 5 2 5 Marberry, p. Leibold . Tate. ... [ T b WASHINGTON, | BOX SCORE—FIRST GAME | WASHINGTON R. A. 0 1 o o cocce~ommCeom CCCCoOmemmrREKE CeCmeuRmEe~un?® COmIimmS = Totals ..... 35 Tate batted for Russell in the sixi Flagstead, cf...... Prothro, 3b. Boone, rf.... ache, If.. Todt, 1b. Rogell, 2b. Lee, ss. Picinich, c... Ehmke, p. Totals...... 31 SCORE BY 1 ‘Washington Boston. ... AT END-OF BEV hit—Todt. Two-bas Stolen baseProthro. Sacrifi Left on bases— 8. FIRST | At New York— 1 4 5 6 !PHILA.. o 0o 00 |NEW YORK... 0 0 0o Batteries—Groves an Perkins; Pen: 3 o o SECOND At Phila.— 3 4 i BOSTON PHILA. o SECOND 1 2 3 4 At Brooklyn— NEW YORK... O BROOKLYN... O Batteries—Scott and Gowdy; Vanc MORNING GAMES Fusl ol and Dixon, Hargra: NATIONAL. nes { Gonzales, Hartnett. At Philadelphia— Roston ... 010 | Philadelphin. 0 0 7 Ryan, Genewich, K. S Carlxon. Couch and Wi At Brooklyn— New York. 0 8 1 Brookiy' [0 0 2 3 Dewn, zingor, Snyder: Hubbell and | | IN FREIGHTS PASS LOCKS Business on St. Marys River in | Minnesota First Six Months | of Year Shown. By the Associated Press. | SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich., July | 4.—Three million more tons of freight passed through the locks in the St. Mary's River this year up to July 1 | than during the corresponding period | of 1924, the statistics report issued to- | day revealed. Total treight to July 1, | this year, was 25755948 tons, while that for the same period of 1924 was | 22,560,275 tons. A decrease of 25,000 is noted for the month of June, 1925, compared with a vear ago, due pri- | marily to the slump in grain and hard coal shipments. Iron ore was one of ! the items that showed a considerable gain for June this vear over June, | 1924, the gain being approximately 200,000 tons. Favor Mrs. La Follette. | MADISON, Wis,, July 4 (fi).—AI committee of Wisconsin clubwomen | | today sent out letters to woman lead. | ers throughout the State soliciting | signatures for a_petition urging Mrs. | | Robert M. La Follette to become a candidate to fill the uhexpired term | of her late husband. The letter de- "nles that she has refused to run. Will Transfer Prisoners. | LEAVENWORTH, Kans. July 4 (P).—Warden Willlam 1. Biddie of the Federal Penitentiary here announced today that, due to crowded prison con- ditions, arrangements have been made through the Depactment of Justice at Washington to send 600 prisoners to the State Penal Institution at Hunts- ville, Tex., and to 14 prison farms in that’ State. BT s— | play. It was an error for Bluege. Marberry tossed out Vache. One run. NTH INNING. WASHINGTON—McNeely bheat out a bunt to Prothro. S. Harrls flled to Flagstead. Rice doubled dowm the right-field line, McNeely stopping at third. Ehmke threw out Goslin, both runners holding their bases. J. Har- ris walked, filling the bases. Bluege grounded to Prothro, forcing Rice :At‘ third. Ne runs, ) | Leibold batted for Gregg in the fourt ~lcoccocomcococh N 10 h inning. th inning. w - —~AZ RO RS N3)=¢¢h=~> ccocceoch - K(=Q =1 2 0o 0.1 L4 SUMMARY ENTH INNING. . 13 b mke. . 3 Innings allin and Connolly. OR LEAGUE GAMES | OTHER MAJ AMERICAN GAME 7 8 9 10 11 12—R. 9 050 0 0 0o 0 00 O nock and Bengough. NATIONAL GAME 5 6 E. I Batterles—Graham and Gibson; Betts and Wilson. GAME 5 6 1 E. e and Deberry. PROBE GRAIN FIRM'S STATUS IN FAILURE Wall Street Reports Crash of Dean, Onativia Is Biggest in History. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 4.—The status of the $26,000,000 Grain Marketing Co., a leasing merger of five large Middle Western grain companies, sponsored by the American Farm Bureau for co-operative marketing of farmers’ wheat, is being discussed as a result of the $36,000,000 faflure of Dean, Onativia & Co., stock and grain brok- ers of New York, Chicago and Wash- ington. Gray Silver, president of the Grain Marketing Co., sald in Chicago there ‘was no connection between the failure and his company. A $4,000,000 pay- ment to the merging companies, due July 28, he said, would be fulfilled. Unscrambling Unnecessary. Says a prepared statement regard- ing the fallure by Willlam F. Unger, counsel for the brokers: “It is said that it will be necessary to unscramble the Grain Marketing Co. and fts sub- sidiarfes." The marketing company was organ- ized July 28, 1924, under the Illinois co-operative marketing act through a combination of the Rosenbaum Grain Corporation and four other grain con- cerns. Emanuel F. Rosenbaum, pres- ident o fthe Rosenbaum Corpora- tion of Chicago, s a partner in Dean, Onativia & Co. Unger said Dean, Onativia & Co. was plunged into bankruptcy when thres | Chicago banks demanded additional collateral on loans to the brokerage concern, which was carrying 45,000 shares of Rosenbaum Corporation stock at $60 a share. This stock had been turned over to the brokerage firm in exchange for the Rosenbaum part- nership. Mr. Unger said that he understood that under the Illinois law 51 per cent | of the stock in the marketing company should have been sold by July 1. But sales to farmers were disappointing. | The Chicago banks decided that the | Rosenbaum stock was worth only $5 a | share. George E. Marcy, head of the Ar- " (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) | JARDINE IS WELCOMED AT RODEOQ IN MANDAN « Dakota Cowboys Have Bucking Broncho for Secretary of Agriculture to Ride. By the Assaciated Press MANDAN, XN. Dak., July 4.—More than 200 cowboys, bedecked in vari- colored shirts,- high-heeled boots and five-gallon hdts, were on hand today when Willlam M. Jardine, Secretary of Agriculture, arrived to dellver an address at the Mandan round-up and subsequently ride a bucking broncho. Confettl streamed over the streets during the final day of the round-up as the Secretary rested or conferred with farmers and business men early in the day, prior to his address. The broncho the Secretary will at- tempt_to ride as the climax to the three-day rodeo had not been selected this morning. ‘| escaped unharmed through windows | WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION B 2 REVELERS BURIED AS BUILDING FALLS; NINE KNOWN DEAD Eighteen, Badly Mangled, Taken From Ruins of Bos- ton Dance Hall. D. SATURDAY, VICTIMS’ SCREAMS LEAD RESCUERS IN SEARCH Seven Die Trapped in Fire at Sara- nac Lake—Another Re- ported Dying. By the Associated Press. ! BOSTON, July 4.—Nine persons were | known to have been killed and proba- | bly a great many more lost their lives | when a wall of the Pickwick Club. well known all-night Chinatown resort, collapsed during a “night before the Fourth” dancing party early today. Eighteen persons were taken to hos- pitals after they had been removed |from the wreckage. Some of them were not expected to live. Police and firemen believed many more bodies would be found in the debris, although {hope was held out that some of the | vietims would be alive. Voices, mostly women’s, that were heard calling from beneath the wreckage during the early hours became silent later. More than | 2 hundred persons were in the club at the time and many others had been | {turned away just before the crash. | Many, however, were believed to have ! in the walls that did not fall. Esti-| mates of the number buried beneath | the wreckage varied from 30 to more ithan 100. Bodies Still in Ruins. 1 i Not all of the dead bodies had been | removed from the debris early this| afternoon, and after three had been {taken out it was decided to abandon | | this work until hazards that made the | work precarious had been removed. Plans were made to tear down part of the remaining walls so they would not _topple on the rescue workers. After lying pinned beneath pleces of metal roofing and heavy joists for nearly nine hours, Mrs. Edith Jordan of Somerville, a suburb, was rescued by the firemen about noon. She had talked to them and had been given water through a rubber tube. She had scarcely reached the hospital, how- ever, and asked to see her husband, who had escaped from the buflding, when the crash occurred, when she dled. She was the ninth person person known to have been killed. The other two bodies recovered were those of an unidentified girl and an unidentified man. | Firemen had concentrated their ef- forts of saving Mrs. Jordan. She was the only person known to be alive in | the wreckage. Relatives Frantic. i Frantic relatives of persons who were away from home last night crowded about the police lines, many | of them striving vainly to push| through the guards and assist in the| rescue work. The dancers caught in the collapse | were on the second floor of the five- story building that once was the Drey- fus Hotel, well known meeting place | of the sporting and theatrical frater-| [nity. On the second floor of an ad-| joining building today, at luncheon time, an orchestra blared forth jazz music, while others danced alongside the scene of the disaster. \ The bottom of the basement was | found to be sticky clay and one man | who was brought out was found lying | on his back almost half burled in the mud Workmen in Danger. Work of rescue proceeded slowly. | Only one wall, which stood next to a lot where excavation s in progress, fell, but others were expected to totter at any moment. Heavy beams and rafters of the roof dangled over the workmen's heads as they dug through the debris in search of victims. Screams of those caught beneath | the brick and wood could be heard | by firemen and doctors as they pried | their way through the wreckage. | From a hole, about 20 feet deep, in the basement of the building could be heard the cries of women's voices. One man was taken out alive only after physicians had amputated two of his fingers in order to free him | from his trap. He laughed and smoked a cigarette while they oper- ated. The cries of a woman sent | firemen to three other men, but they were unable to find the one who di- rected them. Another woman was heard screaming, but before she could be rescued firemen sald it would be necessary to remove the body of another woman, believed to | be dead. | | The wall of the building crashed 7 | “{Continued on Page 2, Column 5. GREAT EARTH SHOCK | 1S RECORDED HERE { e | Georgetown Seismograph Shows Quake Rivaling Tokio Temblor. By the Associated Press. | Examination of the seismograph at Georgetown University today dis- | | closed the record of an earthquake of | great intensity during the early morning hours, centering at a con- siderable distance from Washington. | Father Tondorf, in charge of the in-! strument, declared the disturbance | must have approximated in- intensity | |the. quake which laid waste Tokio in August, 1923, . WOMAN MAY RUN CHICAGO Enters Mayoralty llco—‘l’romhu: to Stop Graft. CHICAGO, July 4 UP.—Mrs. Jo-| hana Gregg. a member of the Board | of Education, has announced her candidacy for the Republican nomina- tion for mayor of Chicago in the 1927 primaries. Mrs. Gregg said that if elected she would expose graft and corruption, reduce taxes, solve the local trans portation problem to the benefit of | car riders and to keep graft and poli- | tics out of the wze department. JULY 4, 1925— ¢ Foening Star. WENTY-FOUR PAGES. July 4, 1925. President Unmoved by Fight Over White House Renovation Thinks Present Plan, Keeping Colonial| Features of Interior, Is Best Devised, Despite Architects’ Views. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Staff Correspondent of The S SUMMER CAPITAL, SWAMP- SCOTT. Mass., July 4.—President Coolidge was represented today by one of his assoclates as belng of the opinion that there is no occason for any individual or group to become alarmed over what is being done in the way of renovating the interior of the White House. In this connection, it was explained that President Coolldge is of the class | that looks upon the White House it- self as one of the real American monuments and feels that it should be maintained along typleally American lines so far as possible and practica- ble. He has given more than ordi- nary interest to the plans for im- proving the interfor of the famous old mansion now under way under the personal supervision of Lieut. Col. C. ©O. Sherrill and they have his entire approval. So far as the general scheme for treating the Interior, especlally the principal rooms on the first floor, is | concerned, there will be no radical departure from the -present appear- ance of these rooms. It was stated that there is absolutely no occasion for any lively controversy as a result | of the publicity given to the opposi- | tion of members of the American | Institute of Architects to any de- parture from the general scheme of the late Charles F. McKim, who di- DENY SCOPS GASE REMDVALISLEGAL Counsel for State Say De- fense Proposal Is Ludicrous. By the Associated Press. DAYTON, Tenn. July 4.—Three local attorneys assoclated in the prosecution of the Scopes evolution case declared in a statement today that the State of Tennessee is sover- eign and not subject to control of the Federal Government in regard to fts local affairs and the enforcement of its criminal laws. This. declaration came on the heels of the announced plan of defense counsel to see removal of the trial of the' young school teacher from States courts to United States courts by means of a Federal injunction which would procure an earlier decision on the questioned constitutionality of the Tennessee statute forbidding the teaching of evolution in public schools. Local counsel for the prosecution ridiculed the latest move of defense counsel and characteried it as “an effort to make @ sensational display of the trial of a simple case.” : Dayton Is Perplexed. Residents of Dayton, where the trial {of John T. Scopes is scheduléd to be- gin July 10, perplexed yesterday by the announcement in Chicago by Clar- ence Darrow, of Scopes counsel, that the defense would seek to remove the proceedings to Federal Court, were confident today that the test of the evolution law, long planned for— would be held in this little town. Their uncertainty was much allayed by law- yers here for both parties to the suit, who declared that the possibility of Federal interference was slight. The arrival here today of Dr. John R. Neal, senior defense counsel, who is expected to file application for the injunction with Federal judge, is awaited with keen interest as defin- ite announcement of his plans will go far toward removing existing un- certainty. Dr. Neal in Knoxville last night, declined to discuss Mr. Dar- row's statement regarding the injun tion move. He told reporters that Mr. Darrow's statements were not official and that he (Neal) was not responsible for them. Mr. Scopes, who returned to Day- ton late yesterday after his visit to his Kentucky home, indicated that night that he knew little of the proposed injunction proceedings and was not (Continued on_Page 2. Column 8.) Radio Programs—Page 19. | rected the restoration of the White | House in 1902 for President Roose- | velt. While no formal protest has been recelved by the President from the American Institute of Architects, it | was made Rnown at the executive | office here today that a more or less informal communication signed by E. . Kemper, secretary of the institute, has been recefved in which the inter. est of the institute in the White House was made known, as well as its desire that the present work be carried out along the lines establish- ed by Mr. McKim. . Although the executive office would not say definitely whether this com munication has been answered, it was stated with authority by one of the President’s associates, who has had much to do with the preparations for the renovation work, that the Amer- ican Institute of Architects’ only con- cern is regarding the blue room, and that, strangely enough, the plans pro- ! vide absolutely no change in the gen eral treatment of this famous White House room. - The institute is repre- | sented on the commission of experts | appointed to consider the plans for renovation and for the furniture and furnishings of the White House, and the fact that there is to be no change in the interfor scheme of the blue { room should have been known to the | | members of the institute. {_T vhich is the one really ! “(Continued on Page 7, Column 6.) U.5. ABANDONS “WAITING” POLICY Starts Move to Open Debt Negotiations With Smaller War Debtors. By the Associated Press. With the French cabinet expected to decide today to send a debt com- mission to Washington, thus complet ing_the group of larger debtors who have opened funding negotiations, this Government has taken the initiative to induce the smaller powers to take similar action. The French council of ministers vesterday approved the plan for a mission and -passed it along to the full cabinet for formal assent today, {with the expectation that the mis- | sion’s personnel and the date for its | departure may be considered. Abandoning its policy of waiting, the American Government has dis- patched a Treasury Department com- munication to Jugoslavia in a direct effort to open debt negotiations and suggesting a specific plan of settle. ment. Detalls of the plan were not disclosed here, but the communica- tion polnts to the British debt settle ment as a model for the smaller pow- ers which would be satisfactory to this country. Should Hasten Settlement. | Dispatch of the note is expected {not only to hasten the start of the { Jugoslaviah negotiations, but the set- | tlement plan it offers is believed to | provide another short cut toward {agreement. _Although there Is no in- | dication here what form the reply | from Belgrade will take, it is assu 1 {that it will offer a counter proposi- | tion, and this would facilitate agree- "manl on a compromise. Conversations have been held re- recently concerning the Jugoslavian debt, and while their nature has not | been disclosed, it is thought by some officials that the Belgrade government will accept the American proposal with only minor changes. The most forceful of previous com- munications sent out from Washing- ton to European debtor countries was directed "to the Rumanian govern- ment, and was dispatched before the present negotiations with Italy .were |even talked of, before France had imade any preliminary move beyond the informal conversations between | Secretary Mellon and M. Jusserand, | the then French ambassador, and also before Belgium had been brought into the debt settlément negotiations plc- ture in ungm. | | nd 45 who volunteered | service, indications obtained in Wa ! |Ington were that the War Depar ! ment's program to test the Nation s “From Press to Home Within the Hour™ The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 91,561 TWO CENTS. PATRIOTS RALLY 10 NATION'S CALL FOR DEFENSE TEST Youth of Capital Quietly Reg- ister as U. S. Celebrates Its Natal Day. | AMERICANISM KEYNOTE UP) Means Associated Pre | Communities Holding Lengthy Programs as Army Heads Gather Manpower Data Washington is celebrating today the 49th anniversary the signing of the Declaration of Independence with a renewed pledge to defend and pre serve Am as it w {founded by hers in While progran under throughout the city, the eves of the fonal Capital were |turned on the outcome of the second {test of national defense plans. and Washington's manhood began e sponding early to the one-day call t arms, Theoretically all America mustering for war at daybre and, although no es te of the number of betuwe ages of 18 rican democracy the fore pmmunity began < today. s made n the w men defensive machinery would the top with room to spare. Washington led the Nation in he ing the general staff make good prediction that volunteer force nearly a million and a half men cou be raised overnight. Early mornins Pledges Support to Pacts for| Saianid Tt e : Mutual Security in Speech Nation-Wide Stocktaking. at Cambridge. g0 Similar scenes are being enacted in | practically every community in icountry, even towns and villages some of them scarcely larger than | crossroads settlements, joining in the {one-day muster determine the SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., July 4.—A |strength of America’s available quiet observance of the Fourth of!fense. It is a Nation-wide stock July and his 53d birthday was|taking process from which the War lanned today by President Coolidge. | Department expects to obtain some A 4 { vastly important data with which to A trip on the Mayflawer with Mrs. |, 000 1101i0na) defense processes. By the Associated Press. Cooltdge and a few Intimate friends was his program. While respecting the national aspect of the day, Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge also were filled with other memorfes. It was just a year ago that their younger son, Calvin, Jr., became sick; an ill- ness to which he succumbed a few days later. Several invitations to attend local celebrations, including observances of the Fourth and Natfonal Defense Test day, were in the hands of the Exec utive, but he and Mrs. Coolidge pre- ferred to be quiet. In anticipation of the trip on the Mayflower all craft in the hazbor at Marblehead, Mass., where the yacht is anchored, were dressed for the oc- casion. It was the first trip to sea attempted by the President, his cruises while in Washington being confined to the Potomac River. Fourth Noisily Observed. Nuimerous messages of felicitation on his birthday were in the hands of the Executive today, while the Sum- mer White House kitchen also was filled with birthday cake and other similar gifts of neighbors. The observance of the Fourth was very apparent in the vicinity df White Court. All of the varfed assortments of fireworks were set off at intervals in the general neighborhood of the Summer White House, the explosions continuing through most of the night. Morning found both Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge well rested from their trip to Cambridge vesterday, where he led in the celebration observing the 150th anniversary of George Washington's assuming command of the Continental Army. In a speech commemorating the activities of the first President and general, Mr. Coolldge took occasion to refer briefly to Furopean affairs, urg- enter into security pacts for mutual protection. Such pacts would receive the moral support, at least, of this Nation, the President pledged. PLEDGES AID TO EUROPE. President Says U. S. Support Will Be Back of Security Pacts. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 4 (). — Near. the spot where George Wash- ington took command of the Conti- nental Army President Coolidge called on the nations of Europe yes- terday to enter into mutual covenants ing that the nations of the Old World | i The first indication of what 3 { test may show when the final figure {have been tabulated may be taken | from the response to the 121st Engi {neer Regiment's appeal for vol | teers. The regiment needed so! | thing short of 300 men to bring | complement up to war strength and { thus put it on a war footing for the j one-day test. | Before 10 o'clock this morning the i muster of the headquarters and serv lice company, commanded by Capt | Sidney Morgan, had atracted enough recruits to bring the ster of that company alone up to 559 men. The | war strength of the company being {only 170 men, the others were turned !over to the regiment and resulted in | its being recruited more than 100 men over its war complement The 29th Company of Military Police was experiencin similar response at the National Armory A | total of 76 men had been recruited for | the day long before noon and it was | taken for granted that before the day ! ended the company would pass its i quired quota. These were the only { two instances available early, but they | may give some inkling of how the | call is_being accepted i Expect Army officials, however, frankly do | not expect the response this time t jequal that of September, when 1. ;SDU.DUU men errolled the first na | tional defense test. They were confi ’dem. however, that even should the |total fall far ‘short of these figures {enough data will be obtained to insure sound and practical development of the next stage of the general staff’s | planning. " No glamour or display marked the Imuster. It was carried out just | quietly as an ordinary recruiting ex pedition. Civilian volunteers simply | went to the various enroliment places, while officers of the organized reserve | gathered at the Washington Audito. rium. At the latter place, Maj. Gen Drum dellvered an address, but else | where recruiting officers were the only {officials present | In the meantime, the National Capi {tal went ahead with its usual varied | Fourth of July program. Nearly every community in Washington had some sort of a celebration to take the place ve e 0id um und danger, that now seems to have ed completely as | part of Independence day. Only occa !sionally did the bang of a firecracker | disturb the peace of the prepared pro. | grams, and tonight there will be am maller Total for their mutual security, pledging the moral support of the Americas |Ple displays of fireworks, given by the government if they do so i various communities and surrounded “While our own country should re. | LY adequate protective measures frain from making political commit. | ? ments where it does not have politi- | Americant al interests,” he declared, ‘“such | covenants would always have the moral support of our go m Is Keynote. The keynote of speelhes was true Americanism and preservation of the ideals of democracy as enunciated by 2 ‘lhe founders in 1776. Maj. Gen. Amos | A. Fries, chief of the chemical warfare service, in an address betore the Asso. {ciation’ of Oldest Inhabitants, at | Western Presbyterian Church, ap- | pealed for a renewed pronouncement | of confident in the American form of | government and a determined stand | against the radical forces from Burope AS TRUCK CRASHES 5. | Takoma Park opened its 4th of Seventeen, Including Guards and | ' | July program at 8 o’clock this morning A 2 with public flag raising exercises Other Prisoners Injured in Accident. ! Patriotic addresses, athletic contests, parades and similar exhibitions are Lo X\-unllnue almost without interruption until 8 o'clock tonight, when a display Petworth has a ambitious pro- jof fireworks begi By the Associated Press similar and equally i AUGUSTA, Ga.. July 4—Four con., sram for the day victs—three whites and one negro— ! R Chrons- Plaasod. Bolling Field will be the center of were killed 22 miles from here yester- | day when a truck in which they were riding overturned on the McDuffie!attraction for many persons beginning jroad. Seventeen other persons, in fat 2 o'clock this afiernoon, when an |cluding driver, guards and other pris-|air circus of exceptional interest is ioners, were injured. ! to be staged by the Army Air Service ‘The wreck resulted when the truck, This circus will demonstrate some of carrying Richmond County convicts, | the achievements of the Air Service became unmanageable on a steep hill. | during the past year and will give the Two of the injured are expected to|crowds an Opportunity to observe air die. planes operating under war-time con- ditions. FIREWORKS KILL TWO. ‘Washington's Independence day Icelebnulun will come to a close this evening with the most pretentious program of the day in the Central CHICAGO, July 4 (®).—Two were High School Stadium. During this pro- dead and a boy and two men suffered [Eram 410 men and women will take from Injuries in pre.Fourth celebra. |the oaths that make them American tions as fireworks, despite police ban, | citizens. The first number will be a figured in_Chicago's Independence |concert by the United States Army day observance. (Continued on Page 3, Column 8)