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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Unsettled today, proba showers and thunderst row fair, not much ch ature. Temper: 4 p.m.; lowest, Full report on page Forecast.) bly occasional orms. Tomor: nge in temper- ighest, 89, at No. 1,058—No. 29,650. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. 3070 75 VICTIVS INBUILDING WRECK. SOUGHT IN RUINS Twelve Bodies of Revelers Taken From Scene of Boston Disaster. DANCE HALL COLLAPSED, BURYING MERRYMAKERS Workers With Steam Shovels Dig Through Night Under Battery of Lights. By the Associated Pre BOSTON, July 4 A se unknown number of dead. c shed be- neath the ruins of the old Hotel Drevfus, a fivestory building occu pied by the Pickwick Club, was being pressed tonight. The building col lapsed early this morning, carrying with it members of a party of Fourth of July merry-makers, estimated to number 125. Some escaped, but many were known to have been carried down in the wreck. Throughout the day scores of fire- men, aided by police officers and wrecking crews, and working with a big steam shovel and automobile trucks, bored their way into the tan- gled ruin. At night they their work under a huge battery of searchlights. It was not expected that the full list of dead known before Sunday night. rch for an Six bodies, five men and one wom- | an, were taken from the wreckage at 11715 tonight, bringing the total of known dead to 12, 11 of which have been extricated from the ruins. The bodies were huddled together in a “pocket” in the wreckage near where | the front door of the building had xtood. Three women and two men also taken from the ruins dead, or a short time later. Seventeen persons were taken to Boston hospitals. Four were said to be dangerously hurt. The dead remioved from the wreck- age were: Miss Loretta Keegan, 36 years old, of Cambridge John J. Scales, dance club. Mr ith Jordan of Somerville, a | bride of a few months, who died from | sho W. H. Marr, 30, machinist of the U. S. Coast Guard cutter Mohava. Pauline B. Luca. | a taken out at mid- | a singer in the | = BIBTSNLS would be | | 19 Fatalities—New York jand played with firecrackers. WASHINGTON Shocked by By Cable to The Star and New York World ROME, Ti Vatican and stole sacred jewelry the sacred ring belonging to St.| Peter's statute in the Basilica. Despite and low dignitaries of the church, no | '8 clue has been found to aid in tracing | the thieves. ! | Though the stolen jewels were only | | # small part of the immense treasure | st {in the Vatican strong boxes, the|ti Pope’s household is plunged in gloom, | for it is the first time burglars have ! i invaded the headquarters of the | church. Invading urmies have levied | heavy tribute on the treasury, but it |, has. never been before entered others than its official custodians. The treasury is housed in the sac- ristry in the Vatican, locked in mas ve cupboards. One of the many sac ONEDEAD, 13 HURT ISATHS TOLL HERE; { Columbus, Ohio, Leads With Has 12, Chicago 4. Independence day in Washington and ‘vicinity left a saddened trail of death and injury in its wake. A survey of the casualties by the police last night showed one fatality and eight injuries attributed to automo- bile mishaps and seven more injuries to children who disobeyed the man- date of a “safe and sane Fourth A col- ored woman also was burned by sim- ilar explosives. Charles H. Clements, 34 years old, 17 ewton street, was the sole vic- tim who paid the price of a “glorious Fourth” with his life. He was killed in an automobile accident on the Southern Maryland road about Searchers admitted that they did hot | know how many persons they might | find in the wreckage. Persons who | aped being borne down to death or | fous injury in the sudden collapse estimated the number carried down the building from 30 to as high b The Pickwick Club, resort in the Chinatown district on Beach street near Washington, oc- cupied the second story of the former | hotel building. A Fourth of July pro- gram was in progress when, shortly after 3 o'clock, without warning, the roof and all five stories went plunging downward In a twisted ruin. One side- wall, next to which an excavation for 4 new buding was being made, | buckled in thggeniddle and fell in on | a part of the ruin. The front sagged | forward and leaned at a crazy angle. 1 popular night Escaped Through Windows. | In a wild rush for fled out of rear windo: a fire escaps Other way down a flight of standing wall. Still hurled clear in the fall only slight injury The cracking of snapping timbers safety many | s and down | found their | airs close to a others were and suffered | 10 milgs below the District line. Crowded Off Road. With his brother Joseph and three friends, Clements was en route to La Plata to celebrate the holiday when the machine in which they were riding was crowded off the road by a car headed toward Washington. The automobile crashed into a small concrete bridge and overturned. Pass- ing motorists removed the victims from the wreckage and Gilbert Stark, 1034 Thirtieth street, rushed them to Casualty Hospital in his machine. Charles Clements was dead. a fracture of his skull snuffing out his life almost Instantly. Joseph, who was driving, suffered scalp wounds. The three others, save for shocks, were unhurt, and declined hospital treatment. SIx of the eight other injuries due to automobile accidents all occurred | to members of two families who were headed for Detroit to visit relative: The machine containing all sl skidded on the Frederick highway be- tween Rockville and Galthersburg, struck a culvert and overturned. It s virtually demolished hose injured were Mrs. Alma Rohr- kemper, 33 years old, fractured jaw; and rafters before the crash failed to alarm the dancers. The noise was | drowned in part by the dance orches. tra. Survivors said that they thought the crackling was the sound of fire- crackers being exploded outside. The work slowed down through the | renoon as they cut free Mrs. Jordon, | known living person in the | After she had been rescued and| ad died the menacing front wall was pulled down and overhanging portions of the building were removed. Then zangs of workers, a steam shovel and crane, great steel les and motor | trucks were pressed into service and | the work of tearing the ruin to pieces from the top was begun The workers toiled for hours before they reached the edge of the second | story, where the victims lay pinned, | nd then continued the task of mov- ing the hundreds of tons of now and again uncovering where it lay caught betwes waxed dance floor and the me; | The pe e tonight ordered 1 the four-story brick buildin n ington street, running back Beach street to put on the Pickwick Club property It was feared that the| rear wall, from which bricks had been | dropping, might have been danger-| ously weakened when wreckers pulled | away the remaining floors and walls of the night club still standing. The Gordon Olympia Theater building | also was ordered closed and will not | be reopened until adjudged safe, the | police said | Probe Is Planned. A grand jury investigation will be| started Monday, District Attorney | O’'Brien of Suffolk County announced. Relatives and friends stood for hours in the crowds held back by the police | lines, watching the rescue work. | The collapse did queer things. The | corner of the dance floor in which | the orchestra sat remained fast and | the piano and bass drums were visi- ble from the street. A vase of flow- ers atop a desk hearby was undis- | turbed, as was a bottle of whisky that was left on a window sill in the cor- ner A statement from Building Com- missioner John H. Mahoney and John M. Casey, chief of the licensing division of the city, issued tonight, placed the blame for the collapse on overcrowded conditions in the night | resort. ‘Considering the fact that no offic with authority to prevent TO was present,” the statement e that the | intage of the | and readily ac- | "he building | s the | werk was not completed. he r|u|>; occupants apparently overcrowded | the premises beyond the strength of the-flgors, ! Bechtold, | Bechtold, 20 years old, who was cut | Abraham_Bartmick. | MACMILLAN UNDER WAY. {ment from Lieut. Comdr. R. E. Byrd, her three children, Harry, 9, cuts on the chin; Loretta, 10, cuts on the head, and Mary, 6, a broken arm; Mrs. Fred years old, cuts on the head, and her daughter., Margaret on the arm. "All live at 138 R street northeast. They were taken to Provi- dence Hospital in passing machines. ank Eck, 32 vears old, Greater Capitol Heights, Md., was injured about the head, when an automobile he was driving ran down an embank ment on the Marlboro pike near the District. He was taken to Casualty Hospital for treatment. Fireworks Burn Seven. The children injured by fireworks were Miss Julius Lombard, 15 Chapin_ street, burned on hands ar face; Russell Glasgow, 15 years old, Hyattsville, Md., burned on the hands; Emmett Solan, 16, 16 Seventh street northeast, burned on the finger: 18, 1149 Bladen burg road, powder burns on the right eye, and Howard Brack, 17, 727 K street, burned on the cheek and han Brack’s burns are regarded as serio d may result in the loss of his e Roland Hargett, 1506 Military road, was burned on the face when a mis. chievous boy threw a firecracker at him. He was taken to Walter Reed Hospital for treatment. The colored woman who was burned by fireworks is Blanche Baugh, 31 vears old, 63 Myrtle street northeast. She was treated at Emergency Hospital for burns over the right eye. Police Arrest 14. Fourteen arrests were made in arious sections of the city vesterday by the police for shooting fire- crackers. Police admit that consider- able numbers were shooting fire- crackers, but fled before arrest. Those arrested for shooting fire- ers were Krank Jones, colore olumn = Sl ntinued on Page 4, e Ships Due to Have Started for Hopedal Yesterday. The Peary and Bowdoin, Mac- Millan's Arctic ships, were due to leave Battle Harbor, Labrador, ves- terday for Hopedal, on the north- eastern coast of Labrador, across from the southern tip of Greenland. Dispatches to the Navy Depar commanding the naval detachment, said that at Hopedal the naval men would fit out with Eskimo boots and clothes for flving. Since leaving the United States the Peary and Bowdoin have steamed 90 per cent of the time in fog and broke into St. Peter’s treasury in the [F00m pieces 2 s 2 > | Jects worth probably $1,000,000, including | thought were mot worth ta in addition to St. Vatican Treasury Is Robbed Of $1,000,000 in Rare Jewels Priceless Ring and Several Crosses Stolen| During Night—Pope and Cardinal Sacrilege. stans, entering early this morning July 4.—Burglars last night |to clean the rooms, found the first littered with' burglars’ tools, of rope and small sacred ob- that the robbers apparently king. Val, archpriest Cardinal Merry del 0{ the Basilica and supreme custo- frenzied search by the police and high |dian, was summoned by the pacris- He verified the loss of the sacred ng belonging to the bronze statue of Peter as well as many other jewels rich decked the statue on festal oc ons. They had heen out of the rong box on Monday for the last me. Cardinal digni De . despite hi bly upset . and his voice trem d later in the day when he said: “Yes. the sacred ring 1s gone sacrilege t0o terrible pan el on The list of precious jewelry missing, Peter's ring, in. (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) POLIGENAN FOUND DYING OF BULLET i C. J. Tompkins’ Shooting Mysterious Despite Sui- | cide Evidence. i i Clyde J. Tompkins, a policeman at- tached to the Traffic Bureau, found fatally shot and under my - fying circumstances in the doorway | of the Liberty National teenth and I streets, shortly after 11} o'clock last might. Despite some in- dications of a suicide, headquarters detectives are investigating some un usual facts in connection with the ase. 0 one saw Tompkins shoot himself, nor are the police certain any one heard the shot, He was simply seen| to walk into the doorway to escape the fury of last night's storm, ap- parently carefree and happy. Less than half an hour later his body was fourd crumpled in the archway, his service pistol lylng beside him. Robert Scroggins, a watchman at the bank, was attracted first to Tompkins when he ran into the door- way. The storm was just breaking and after satisfying himself that the fugitive was simply seeking shelter, the watchman returned to the rear of the bank and began playing soli- taire. A few minutes later he heard a crash he thought to be the crack- ing of lightning. Finds Body on Floor. | When the storm had subsided| Scroggins again went to the door t look out and found the body of Tomp- kins lying on the floor, a gaping wound in both sides of his head. Sev- eral other persons apparently noticed | the body about the same time and three different calls for the police were sent in almost simultaneously, alling detectives from headquarters besides uniformed men from the first and third precinct stations. An ambulance was summoned from ergency Hospital by Park Officer amuel Millhauser and when Tomp- kins was taken into the accident room | surgeons declared nothing could be | done to save his life. A bullet from | a heavy caliber revolver had plerced nis_brain. entering at the left side and tearing it way out through a gaping wound on the right side. Ap- parently the shot had been fired from close quarters. Identified By Badge. At that time no one knew the iden- tity of Tompkins. He carried no pa- pers nor apparent marks of indenti- fication, and the only money in his | clothes” amounted to less than 20 cents. Before he could be ques- tioned the man died of his wound. Physicians picked up a coat that had been torn from him and found pinned beneath a lapel a policeman's badge, bearing the numbers 13606. Investi- gation then disclosed Tompkins’ identity. His usual post of duty was Seventh and G streets and he had handled traffic at that point until late yester- y afternoon. A brother. L. O. mpkins, also attached to the Traf- > Bureau and with whom he lived at 624 T street northeast, said he had left Clyde shortly after 5 o'clock in the afternoon. At that time he was in the best of spirits and the brother could recall no reason, either of a physical, mental or sentimental na- ture, that might have prompted a suicide. Bullet Fired From Own Gun. The pistol from which the fatal shot was fired belongeg to Tompkins and one exploded shell was found in the ' chamber. Several _unexploded | bullets remained intact. If the bullet was fired by Tompkins, he dropped the weapon as he fell, for it lay; several feet from his body and the handle had been broken where it struck the stone walk of the doorway. The dead officer’s brother and mother went to the hospital early this morning and identified the body. Mrs. Tpmpkins fainted when she entered the hospital and learned for the first time that her son had died. She re- quired careful treatment for some time before the physicians would per- mit her to return home. No disposi- tion will be made of the body until a coroner’s inquest has been convened. No One Heard Shot. The police are at a loss to under- stand why Tompkins should have fled from the storm and then delib- erately taken his own life, without any known reason and without leav- ing a message of any kind behind. A woman and two men, the latter guests at the Franklin Square Hotel, noticed the body as they passed, but, like Scroggins, could shed no light on the tragedy. None had heard the fatal shot. Headquarters Detectives Scrivener and Kelley and Precinet Detective J. E. Kane were assigned to the case. All lean toward the theory of suicide but a complete investigation is to be made to clear up the mystifying cir- Bank, Fif-| rain, and the Peary has passed a pumber of cebergs, . cumstances that still surround the casey s it s s He Tt is | to discuss. 1| by | myself placed some of the je the statue before Peter s feast.” { from !the Nation's Capital, nor the fervent| | Around the City—Page 16. WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION SUNDAY MORNING, NATION'S TEACHERS ASK MODEL SCHOOL STEM N GAPITAL Emphasis Given General De- mand for Change at As- sociation Meeting. CONFIDENCE IN BALLOU IN PROFESSION EVIDENT | Restrictions on Superintendent Are | | Recognized as Defeating Improvement. MES E. CHI (Staff Correspondent of The Star.) | | 1NDIANAPOL . July 4.—1t| | educators were legislators Washington | {would have a truly modern public school system. At least that is the impression one gets from the com ments of hundreds of educators and | teachers of the Nation attending the sixty-third annual meeting of the National Education Association. | There's probably not one delegate {at the Indianapolis convention, which |closed today, who is not in favor of |seeing the District’s school system |stand as a monument to public educa- tion in America, typifying the best in organization. Al apparently seem to recognize the natfonal im portance of the Washington schools JULY |ONCE OVERLOOKED BY SMAR 1925. —EIGHTY-FOUR “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morr 60 cents per ning to Washington homes at month. Telephone Main 5000 and service will start immediately. (#) Means Associated Press. * FIVE CENTS. T SET, COOLIDGE NOW SHUNS ITS BIDS*PINGH[H AGAIN H"S and are anxious that Congress put jat the disposal of Supt. Frank \\'.i )/ |otithe isnoaal ot ogusC AT N LetAlone W legislation necessary to carry out his! constructive educational policies. Familiar With Situation. i These educators, who came here | every section of the United ! ates and its island possessions, seem | familiar with the present school situa- | tion in Washington. Distance has not diminished their interest in the pecul- iar problems involving the schools of | hope that they may soon become an | educational blue print for schoolhouse | designers, administrators and teachers | throughout the country. Those who know Supt. Ballou—and there are few educators here who do not, for his name appears to be syn- onymous with education—have the ut- most confidence in his ability to make the Washington school system a model for the country if the present complicated method of school admin- | istration is revo}ullonlzedA All agree | that Dr. Ballou h1s made rapid prog- ress toward this goal during his ad- ministration, but fear that little more | can be done until the plan of organiz- | ing, operating and maintaining the school system of Washington con- forms to fundamental principles of efficiest administration. Post Most Difficult. Superintendents of schools in other cities regard the Washington super-| intendency as the most difficult in the country because of the present method of operation and control of | he school system. Several frankl admitted, not for publication, how-| ever, that they would not consider | the position, despite its honor and prestige, for two or even three times | the salary paid Dr. Ballou. | The educators pointed out that in | most citles the Board of Education is elected by the people, and the superin- | tendent is allowed practically to run | i i i | the schools. In other words, the super- intendent is made the administrative | head and he is held responsible. If he goes away he is promptly removed. But the superintendent in Washington is"so fettered with overhead organiza- tions that he is virtually impotent, as they see it. Restrictions Numerous. ! These educators also hold the opin- fon that if Washington got good build- ings, highly trained teachers and everything else in satisfactory shape, the system would not remain that way | long because the superintendent really has no power to carry out a program. E. U. Graff, superintendent of schools of Indianapolis, who took an active part in the convention, was most Vig- orous in his denunciation of the sy tem of operation and control of the District’s public schools. With such an “unweildly” method, he said it was indeed remarkable that the schools of the Nation's Capital have progressed ; very far. ““Washington's schools have a na- (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—21 PAGES. General News—Local, National Foreign. Current News Events—Page 19. ! | PART TWO0—16 PAGES. i Editorials and Editorial Features. Washington and Other Society. Tales of Well Known Folk—Page 7. Y. W. C. A, News—Page 12. News of the Clubs—Page 13. Spanish War Veterans—Page 13. Veterans of the Great War—Page 14. and PART THREE—I2 PAGES. Amusements—Theaters and the Photo- play. Music in Washington—Page 4. _ Motors and Motoring—Pages 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. % Army and Navy News—Page 10. Reviews of the Newest Books—Page 10. Fraternal News—Page 11 District Natlonal Guard—Page 11. Civilian Army News—Page 11. Sertal, “Shackles of Service"—Page 12. PART FOUR—4 PAGES. Pink Sports. Section. PART FIVE—8 PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and Fea- tures. The Rambler—Page 3. PART SIX—S8 PAGES. Classified Advertising. Financial News—Pages 7 GRAPHIC SECTION—8 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. and 8, COMIC SECTION—4 PAGES. Betty; Reg'lar Fellers; Mr. and Mrs. Muttgind. Jefle 2 {and scott, He Is Now Flooded With Invitations From North Shore Society. Special Dispatch to The Star. SWAMPSCOTT, Mas: Father Tondorf's seism. Georgetown is recording tremors at a point about 600 miles northeast of Washington you may put them down to the President's formal official snubbing of exclusive orth Shore social set. Mr. Coolidge has shaken the social foundations of this rockbound and hidebound coast by his public refusal to participate in the activities of the Summer season. He has declined courteously to be “taken up” by one of the most aristocratic and exclusive cliques in the East, He has set tongues wagging from Newport to Bar Harbor, Many a so- clety woman is muttering to herself. COOLIDGE SPENDS BIRTHDAY QUIETLY Dines With Five Guests on Yacht—Is Deeply Touched by Gift From Small Boy. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Staff Correspondent of The Star. SUMMER WHITE HOUSE, SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., July 4.—Cal- vin Coolldge, who was born in a small room in the rear of his father's crossroads store at Plymouth Notch, Vt., 58 vears ago today, observed the anniversary of that event in that quiet simple fashion in which he spends most of his days. There was no pomp or fuss. The President’s birthday dinner was eaten aboard the vacht Mayflower as it lay at anchor off Marblehead. About the table, besides Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge, where Frank W. Stearns, Secretary and Mrs. Sanders, Capt. Adolphus Andrews, commander of the May- flower, and Mrs. Andrews. This probably was the one real feature of the President’s birthday celebration. An_ unusually large number of birthday greetings were received by Mr. Coolidge. Some of these were from imposing sources. Most of them were from admirers of the President who had never met him and many of whom never will. It was plain that the President was deeply grateful for these honest tributes of good will and affection. They added greatly to the happiness of his day. Some’ were from world rulers, others were from men and women of high position and rank, vet the great bulk came from the masses. During the morning the President went to the executive office in Lynn for the first time since coming to this section for his vacation and after a half hour's work he returned to White Court. Boy's Gift Appreciated. That President Coolidge is genu- ihely human was again evinced to- day when he completely put aside the role of Chief Magistrate and con- tributed to the happiness of 13-year- old James Walker, a Swampscott boy, whose birthday it was also. James had carried a birthday cake and a pound box of chocolate peppermints to the President as a birthday pres- ent. The President was deeply im- pressed and when the lad informed him that today was also his birth- day the President put out his hand and gave him ap affectionate ‘clasp. He went into the house and returned with a mouth organ which he pre- sented to James. Mrs. Coolidge jolned her husband in asking James to call often at White.Court. Although the White Court house- hold had no firecrackers there was much evidence throughout the day that Independence day was being celebrated in an appropriate manner iat Little Point on which White Court stands. The various estates close by ‘White Court have an abundance of children and they commenced bang- ing away at an early hour. There was one large bunch of flow- ers in a vase close to the President's plate when he sat down to breakfast this_morning. _These, it is under- Steel, textile and grain mill re not impervious to the slight. naires | Coolidge will their hops. Instead of a dinner jacket John is | wearing overalls at Plymouth. Where | he might be dancing at least at the Essex Country Club, he is | chores. At the time the jazz bands blare forth for dinner dances the | President’s son is playing checkers | with the neighbors of his grandfath. er at the “top of the notch. | Palm Beach and Miami had Presi | dent Harding for his Winter vaca- | tions. The Long Isiand set had the { Prince of Wales. Chicago's gold coast has Vice President Dawes available for swanky dinners and gountry club parties. The North (Continued on Page 8, Column 6 DAWES CONFIDENT - HEWILL WINFIGHT |Vice President Will All Summer for Senate Rules Revision. not be available for BY FREDERIC WILI M WILE, Staff Correspondent of The Star. CHICAGO, July Dawes, four months after launching his fight on the Senate rules, is se- renely confident that he is waging a winning battle. Like John Paul Jones, Dawes has “only hegun to fight.” He is going to fight all of this Summer, all of next Winter—in the Senate itself—and all of next year, right up to the congressional elections of 1926. It victory has not perched upon his some more. He intends fighting, if necessary, as long as he is Vice Presi- dent. He conceives that he has no other job, under the Constitution, than to expedite legislation in the body over which he has been called to preside. | To that task he has dedicated every ounce of energy and determination in his iron make-up. Chicago His Summer Capital. Chicago is the vice presidential Sum- mer capital, as Swampscott is the seat of the Summer White House. His old banking offices here in this throbbing metropolis of the Middle West are Gen. Dawes' working quar- ters. He has, of course, cut loose from all business activities, but the labors that have descended upon him since he started out to tame the Sen- ate have converted the Vice President into one of the busiest men In North America. Hundreds of letters pile in on him. Invitations to speak inun- date him. Dawes could put in the entire Summer and Autumn preaching his gospel of Senate reform. it he wanted to, before State bar associa- tions, chambers of commerce, univer- sities, colleges, civic clubs and other organizations, to which his onslaught against senaforial tradition and pre- rogative have made a stirring appeal. Speaks in Denver July 23. The Vice President’s next speaking date is before the Denver Chamber of Commerce on July 23. Next day he goes to Cheyenne, W and thence into the Northwest and to the Pacific Coast for engagements, not yet fixed as to dates, M citles like Seattle, Port- land, San Francisco and Los Angeles. At the end of August Dawes will swing east through the Mississippi Valley and ram home the doctrine of majority rule before audiences in Nebraska, Towa and Missouri. It is uncertain whether the Vice President will carry his torch into Kansas, the home State of Senator Charles C. Curtis, Repub- lican, chairman of the Senate commit- tee on rules—the citadel at which the general is tilting. Both Kansas Sena- tors are committed to majority rule. Senator Capper is openly for the Dawes plan. Senator Curtis long has been on record in favor of rules to as- sure majority power, although he fs not specifically supporting the Vice President’s present crusade. Gen. Dawes will invade the Democratic South a second time with a speech at Atlanta on October 15. Hot resentment is aroused in vice presidential quarters by the suggestion " (Continued on Page G- Caluglhdi. - (Continued.qp_Page 3, Column 61 Sub- | | debs are dismayed that voung John | doing | Battle | 4.—Vice President | banners by that time Dawes will fight | | Flays Secretary for His “Re- fusal to Carry Out Du- ties of Office.” | By the Associated Pre: | PORTLAXND, Oreg., July 4. tary of the Treasury Mellon fused to carry out the duties of his| yoffice in the enforcement of the pro- | hibition law,” Gov. Pinchot of Penn- sylvania declared in an address before the convention of the United Societies | | of Christian Endeavor tonight. “The bootleggers are bold,” Gov. Pinchot said, “because they know that | the Government of the United States has never yet determined to put an| end to thelr criminal traffic. They | know, you know and I know that the | Treasury Department could have set | its foot down at any time and re- moved this scandal from the good | name of the United States. i “Secretary Mellon has for four| vears had the power and the money, and by driving politics out of the enforcement service he could at any time have kad the men. He has re- fused to carry out the duties of his office, and far too many of the good people of the United States have open- | Iy or tacitly supported him in that re- fusal, because they figured that Mel-| lon was good for.business. | “Secretary Mellon, for the better part of a generation a whisky distiller | and whisky distributor, and only within the last few weeks divested of | his interest in millions of dollars | worth of whisky, was chosen to en-| force this law and accepted the re.| sponsibility for enforcing this law. | The result, and the natural result. is | known to évery man and woman who | cares to think. Declares Situation Scandal. “I hope most earnestly that the ap-; pointment of Gen. Andrews as head | of the law enforcement service of the | Treasury Department means that this abominable situation, this scandal | which by the shameful failure of the | Government itself has outgrown every | measure, is about to be taken in hand | honestly, vigorously and with the in-| tention of getting results. When that | happens the day of the bootlegger will | rapidly draw to its close. The responsibility for “open defi- ance of law" also rests partly on “the citizens who have tolerated it when they could have stopped it, for in such matters the people have all the| power,” Gov. Pinchot said. “The criminal elements of our popu- | lation,” according to the governor, | “‘are banded together from one end of this country to the other to pour poison into the mouths of our people, to instill disrespect of the law in the souls of our people, and te—hold up the hands of every anarchist, bolshe- | vist or other enemy of our institu-| tions. No such widespread defiance of the will of the people has ever been known in America, and no such flood of poverty, crime,’ disease and death | has ever before flowed from such de-| fiance.” 1 Warns of Power Monopoly. Gov. Pinchot also discussed the! glant power problem, saying “we are at the beginning of a new electrical civilization which will be as different from that of steam as the age of steam was from the ages which went before it.” | He warned that giant power ,would mean a monopoly, of which there must be “effective public control.” The governor in opening his speech attacked ‘“those people who believe rightly and whose personal lives are blameless,” but who refuse to fight for their beliefs. “A huge part of the blame for the evils which exist in our body politic rests squarely on the church-going people,” who. in Roose- velt's phrase, “mean well feebly,” the governor said. TWO ARE STABBED. Cutting Affrays Land Woman and Man in Hospital. One man and a woman are in se- rious condition as the result of two cutting affrays last night. James Holt, 58 Pierce street, colored, is be- ing held at No. 2 precinct for as saulting his wife, who is in Sibley Hospital in a serious condition due to a number of knife wounds. | The police are also on the lookout for a man who stabbed William Cammeck, colored, at 2323 G street northwest. Cammeck is at Emer- gency Hospital In a serious condi- tion, ARMY SPRINGS UP AS NATION UNITES - INDEFENSE TEST Full War Strength Exceeded by Rush of Volunteers for One-Day Service. MILLIONS PARTICIPATE IN PATRIOTIC PROGRAMS { Registration Less Than Last Year's, But Hurried Plans Are Believed to Have Been Cause. the Nation defl- erday that arise over Washington and nitely demonstrated y« 1 should a sudden emergenc night enough volunteers would leap to {arms to recruit Americ: established {military forces to full war-time | strength between dusk and dawn. Although reports to the War De- |partment from the nine Army corps {areas indicate that one-day volunteer ‘l‘nllx(menlfi-‘ prob would fail to ‘(-quhl the totals of last September, the | second national defense test muster rly shown a general patriotic response throughout the country. | In Washington 7,654 civilian volun- teers signed the roster and theoreti- {cally became soldiers for the day. { This was more than enough to bring |the regular, reserve and National Guard battalions stationed within the district of Washington up to their war basis, and in other cities similar conditions prevailed. iverywhere the national defense test became the outstanding feature of Fourth of July programs. Al- though the National Capital went ahead with its usual Independence day celebrations and athletic contests, | in each instance the programs shared interest with the muster being taken all over the country Plans Were Hurried. Assoclated Press dispatches from headquarters of each of the nine Army corps areas show that millions of patriotic Americans actually par- ticipated in dual Independence and Defense day celebrations, but officers of the General Staff here steadfastly held to their first decision to count | only those volunteers who had gone {to the official recruiting places and actually signed thefr names as avail- able. War Department officials and Army leaders are not suprised that enrollments yesterday fell short of those of the first national defense test, which were slightly in excess of 1,200,000. It was pointed out that there was little time to prepare for yesterday's muster and that it was called at a time when thousands of | persons were on vacations. The officials in charge of the mus- ter are quite satisfied with the resuit, and although they cannot as yet esti- mate its actual military value, they believe it will show the tional Guard and skeleton reserve regiments everywhere far better prepared to ob- tain their war-time quotas in less time than previous to the first de- fense muster. At ihat time danger- {ous lack of recruiting machinery was disclosed, despite the larger number of enrollments obtained. { District Exceeds Needs. Washington needed a total of 11,000 men to put the mil units within its jurisdiction on a war basis. This figure included, of course, all men, in- cluding those already in the service. Brig. Gen. Samuel Rockenbach, com- mander of this district, reported re- sponses to the muster of yesterday, as follow Regular Army, 1,283; National officers and men, Guard, officers and men, 607; Organized Reserve, com- posed of officers only, 1§124; eivilian one-day volunteers, 7,653, making a total of 11,688, or 688 more than enough to fill peace-time gaps. Most of the regular troops ordinarily sta- tioned here are away at training camps, or these figures would be much larger, it was said. 25,000 Spectators. 1t is estimated about 25,000 persons participated as spectators in the three | main Fourth of July events, in which the Army, Navy and Marine Corps assisted here. They were divided as follows: 9,500 at Bolling Field, 5,000 at Takoma Park and 10,000 at Central High School Stadium. At least as many more are believed to have at- tended the various other celebrations. In New York the number of persons attending patriotic celebrations totaled more than half a million, and Chicago tripled those figures. Although Assoctated Press dis- patches from Atlanta, headquarters of the 4th Corps Area, said that a million persons had attended cele- brations in that area during the day, no figures as to the actual number of | enrollments of volunteers were ob- tainable. With figures for this area | missing, totals reported by the eight areas were: Regular Army, 81,089, with 92,581 last September; National Guard, 110,149, compared with 167, 633; Organized Reserves, 56,636, com- pared with 59,168; one-day volunteer enrollments, 628,090, compared with a figure in excess of one million. compared Program Given by Radio. At the time of the first test it was estimated that more than 16,000,000 citizens participated as spectators or otherwise in all ceremonies incident to the test, according to the Associated Pres: In today’'s muster patriotic ex- ercises were combined with local Fourth of July celebrations and the instructions sent to corps area com- manders directed that they give spe- cial attention to these assemblies. While the War Department was tab- ulating reports from the nine areas last night, Acting Secretary Davis, Gen. Pershing and Maj. Gen. Hines, chief of staff, gathered in a room in the department which was connected by telephone with New York and Chi- cago and the rest of the world by about 30 major radio stations over the country. In his dual capacity as presiding officer of the Senate and as a briga- dier general in the Organized Re. serves, Vice President Dawes was at the Chicago end of the line with Maj. Gen. Hale, commanding the 6th Corps Area, and in New York, President W, 8. Gifford of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., which conducted the phone .and radio mobilization, headed the group of speakers at the 2d Corps Area headquarters. Secretary Davis took George Wash- L {Continued on Page 3, Column 2. i |