Evening Star Newspaper, July 12, 1925, Page 2

2 BIDDERS WITHDRAW OFFERS FOR SHIPS Ford Proposal Only One Filed Since Rejection of Best of Others by Board. Br iated Press. the original bidders 200 Shipping Board vessels re- cently offered for scrapping have withdrawn their offers since the recommendation for an award made by President Palmer of the Fleet Cor- poration was rejected by the board, Among these i{s the Boston Iron & Metal Co. of Baltimore, whos bid was the highest, and was ap- proved by Mr. Palmer. New bids have been asked, and the only one received so far, in addition » ‘those from the first bidders, is Henry Ford. Mr. Ford said he ed a bid when the ships were ffered for sale, but it was not opened on June 30. ard officials said it never 1. The new bids will be the A number of for m; firs amc t Shi rea the July 16 rman O'Connor h Commissioners Hay nd wre away from Wash- ington, turn as soon as possible to take part in the consideration of the bids ations were that he would write President Coolidge, giv- »f the sftuation re- sale, but he would not tent on this feature ¥ Ford formally for the vessels with ibed by Chairman O “way over” that of the Boston & Metal Co. of Baltimore, previous bid submitted While not revealing details of the unsealed Ford bid before turning it over to President Palmer, Chairman O’Connor said it provided for resale nes and other ship equipment junk. ‘The provision of the Boston Iron & Metal Co. bid for re- sale of equipment for second-hand use was not regarded as desirable by the « an and some other board members BALTIMORE HEAD SILENT. red tele- entered the Iron the best Refuses to Comment on Of His Bid. Bpecial Dispatch to The §: BALTIMORE, Md., [ dent o Iron and Metal Company, ref comment at all on the rejection of. his bld of $1,370,000 fer the 200 vessels by Board ive nothing to s Rejection 7, he re, this unfair now know bids were, nit or deny nother bid. were opened nnounced be scrapped and on if the company was o offer of when s an advan exactly and he that he would scrap i bidder for the PLAN T0 RESTORE HSTORCAL FORT 200 Montana Society, and Railroad Intend to Re-create Fort Union. By the Associated Press HEL] A, Mont.,, July 12.—Fort Union, recorded by the Montana State Historical S be established above the mouth of the Yellc tone River and one of the best known in the > stored to por in the it plan North L Railroad mater Preside way, Secretary Montana Hi: intere in ors its pa = West, Montana Budd of the rafl Hilger of the ety and other ited the spot late located old block and other indications Hilger believes will, with of ve fled de. slctures in the society’s reproduction own s of land, which includes the site fort, has offered to donate t can be ac 1 States Gov to co-operate. will be the To Hold Mass Meeting. A mass mee! which will be at tended the of Montana and North Dakota and by pioneers of both Sta has been arranged for July 18 at the site of the fort. It is expected at this meeting to perfect plans for the reconstruction and main tenance he fort and to quire the 40 acr Jand In Montana and North which are needed for the fulfillinent of the plan. The fort, which was actually a for. ed trading post, was established in Kenneth McKenzie for “ur Co., of whic The site is a short dis. tance the mouth of the Yel lowstone River on the north bank of the Missouri River. The boundary line between Montana and Dakota runs through the 10 whic is s tif 18 American a memb he was re ht for the project The or 1 fort was destroved by fire in 1531, but was rebuilt immedi ately and extended. In 1868 it was pulled down on order of the command ing officer at Fort Bulford, 5 miles south. tract REVOLT IS CONFIRMED. Ecuador Coup Officially Announced by Legation. SANTIAGO, Chile, July 11 (P).— The Ecuadoran legation issued a cir. cular tonight confirming the throw, without bloodshed, of the doran government headed by Presi- dent Cordova. It says that a govern- ing junta bas been organized com vosed of three civillans and three military men. A dispatch from Guayaqull states that President Cordova and the mem- bers of his cabinet were made prison ers in their homes after the military coup Thursday night Road Would Circle City. With New York City approaching the saturation point in motor traffic within the next five years, D. Everett Waid, president of the American In- stitute of Architects, has proposed a 30-mile elevated automobile highway, skirting the entire shore of Manhattan Island. Such an unobstructed road- way, free from crossings and with ap- proach ramps at every 10 blocks, would have tremendous capacity for pleasure cars traveling safely at 30- mile speed, says the Popular Science ) Monthly. an offer | Connor as | as the first fort to | is to be r(-‘ | r of nine | the | North | First picture to arrive#rom Dayt: | coats. PLASTERERS' UNION T0 CONTINUE FlGHT Business Representatives to Back Body to Limit in Trades War. i i By the Associated Press. . July ines of the Operative Plasterers’ and Ce- ment Finishers' International Associ tion in national conference here today went on record that they would sup- t their organization tg the limit in | sdictional fight with the brick- 11.—More than | representatives | conference was called by Ed ward J. McGivern of Boston, interna { tional president of the plasterers. Mc the Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers’ International | UnioA is trying to absorb his union e conflict between the two bodi centers on the claims of the bricklay- McGivern said, to the right to set | els and her ornamental trim- made composition that is s of when building op- | olving, it is said, $500,000, | 000 by six leading contractors in the | | East were threatened with a tie-up be- of the disputes. McGivern told nantres: Evolution Sidelights By the Assoclated Press. DAYTON, Tenn., July 11.—The radio broadcasting set, unready for the beginning of the Scopes trial Fri- day, was installed in the courtroom and will carry reports out to the world when the much-published | Tribune operates the radio 1 WGN phones now stand like n the courtroom. One is | desk and mear the wit- | The second and third are defense and prosecution ago of the U and unofficial a ¥ of the courtroom will be scat- tered abroad through the air. | Amplitler connections will report the proceedings to the crowd on the lawn, to he schoolhouse where Scopes it biology, to the drug store re it started” and to a newspaper | crubroom. | | Judge troiled into the ile operators s on the ar- He was by speak- Raulst o putting ngement of the ked to test the equ: ling from the “bench The judge wa | mot agreeable and n the test by “bawling out eral ! groups of news workers, | who, disposed in easy attitudes, were l(alv\'l!‘y: on their reportorial labors. In simulated harsh tones the judge upbraided the reporters for working { through a court holiday and threaten- ed to lock the courthouse. | Removing his feet from defense | counsel table, one representative of | the press arose and entered objection to this declaration. Judge Raulston wrrying on the farce, confirmed his enters an exception.” | *“You have that privilege,” was the | response as the judge in the Tennessee lution casc,” smiling broadly, re- red from the bench. Some people go to the seashore for | their vacations, others hurry off to { the mountains, while many others immer are coming to Dayton to | look and listen in on the proceedings | of the Tennessee evolution trial. | A Zenesville, Ohio, druggist, tour- | ing with his family, reached the scene of the Scopes case today announcing { that hy was making his visit to Day. ton the regular vacation rest and | recreation period. Others have ar-| rived from distant States on a similar mission. | | | Corns Off by X-Rays. | Science is coming to the relief of the {man with corns. It is now claimed |that with a single treatment with X-rays, a large corn can be removed in one piece with no vestige remain- ing, and leaving a_smooth, healthy | skin, says the Popular Sclence | Monthly. | Judg;,’ Is a j;dge, Even Minus Bench, Speeder Is Taught A judge is a judge, whether he be seated pompously on the bench, be- decked in powdered wig and flow- ing robes, or whether he be com- placently lolling back at a table on the courtroom floor trying to keep cool. The authority is what counts, and today -Charles T. O'Connell, 509 6th street northeast, knows it. He was haled into court yesterday for holding a debate with a police official as to his rate of speed. In the courtroom O’Connell was stop- ped by a man sitting casually down in front of the desk, who started interrogating him. “How did it happen? How fast were you go- ing? What did you sayeto the offi- ? What were you—-"" “'Say, listen. I don’t want to talk to you. I want to see the judge and I'm going to tell him—" O'Connell broke in abruptly, but he | tomorrow was interrupted himself. “Who do you think I am, the jan- itor? Five dollars fine!" It was Judgs Macdonalds THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON Tenn., showing the courtroom, where John T. Seo) ing evolution. It can be seen that many of the “listeners in” accepted Judge Raulston’s \BATTLE ON SCIENCE GRIPS s Is being tried for teach. vitation to “shed” thelr SCOPES CASE AS FIRST TEST ‘ontinued from First Page.) sense of responsibility and their own judgment as to what is harmful and what {s objectionable from a Bible standpoint? “The people of Tennessee have a right to protect the Bible as they un- derstand it. They are not compelled to consider the interpretations placed upon it by people of other States, whether Christlans or scientists or both.” After a day in which attorneys, as Dr. Neal described them were “‘law- vers, with a possibility of being ora- tors’ Monday,” the array of repre- sentatives of Scopes’ legal interests picnicked with newspaper men in the afternoon, joining a boat ride down the Tennessee River in which the Chattanooga News was host Members of prosecution counsel motored to & mountain resort near Dayton in the late afternoon Bryan to Preach. Bryan has two the first Mr. engagements to teach a Bible ises of the South. conduct a in which all Dayton ning, speaking from the yard of the cla; ice, are i bandstand thouse. mbers fully of the jury observed Judge to avoid evidently Raulston’s assemblies or services where any dis- [ n of the case might take place. Ten of the twelve who will declde the case live in the country, far re moved from Dayton, and the at home. The two town rey tives were following their dail suits as if they were not to become famous Monday Darrow, in a statement late today, accused the State's legal representa- tives in the prosecution of the case of making an effort to “run away from the facts” in their fight to pre- vent the introduction of expert testi- mony on science and religion. He charged that this “effort” is “doubtless on account of their inabil- ity to get any scientific man in the Citizens | controversy is resumed Monday. The |world to deny the facts that prove the correctness of evolution.” Darrow Attacks Bryan. The Chicago lawyer, associated with lawyers who are defending the young biclogy teacher, directed his attack particularly against Willlam Jennings Bryan, assisting the State in the pros- ecution, who has held that evolution and Christianity are irreconcilable. Millions of the ablest men in the world, including a large proportion of students of religion, are both Chris- tians and_ evolutionists,” Darrow as serted. “And among these are the ablest scientists of the world.” The visiting counsel for Scopes fur- ther declared that the fact that any theory or scientific view may be con- trary to any religious idea furnishes no right for a State to prohibit it. “If this were true,” he sald, “then most of astronomy and geolbgy would fall under the ban.” Darrow's statement follows “There are two things necessary to crime under the Tennessee statute: One, teaching the theory of creation contrary to the divine account as re- corded in Genesis; two, teaching that man was evolved from the lower form of animal life. These are purely ques- tions of fact. “With one or two exceptions, every juror in this case has stated he knows little or nothing about evolution. The same thing could be said about almost any jury that would be assembled in any State in the Union. As there are some thousand different religions and some five hundred sects of Christians, naturally there is some difference of opinion as to divine account as taught in the Bible. “More than one account is given of the creation of man in the Bible and these do not agree. Men have debated a long time as to the mean- ing of much in the Bible and espe- clally of the account of creation and yet a Tennessee jury that has given no attention to evolution is supposed to know, first, what evolution is, and. second, what the Bible teaches with reference to the creation of man, and, third, whether these theories and the account in the Bible are in conflict. “And Mr. Bryan says they should decide all this without evidence. It is obvious that no jury can accom- plish any such thing. “The effort to Em the defense from offering evidence in this case is a plain effort to run away from the facts and is doubtless on account of thelr inability to get any sclentific man in the world to deny the facts that prove the correctness of evo- lution. “This is further shown by the fact that Mr. Bryan delivered a public talk here and said the facts of religion and evolution will at last be brought to light. This Tennessee jury is ex- pected by the State without any evi- dence to find that no man can be a Christian and evolutionist and _this spite the fact that millions of the blest men in the world, including a large proportion ligion, are both Christians and evo lutlonists. And among these are the ablest scientists of the world. Statements Ambiguaus. “Mr. Bryan's statement about the rights of Tennessee to protect its religlon {s ambiguous if he means that any State has the right to pass a law which prohibits the teaching of a theory that is contrary to any religion and he s fiying in the face of every State constitutlon the fact hat any theory of any scientific view may be contrary to any religlous idea furnished no right for a State to prohibit it. If this were true, then most of astronomy and geology would fall under the ban. “The constitution of Tennessee con- tains one of the strongest guarantees of religlous liberty among all the constitutions of the Union, and no law that would undertake to establish religion or measure conduct would have any validity {n this State or any other State without first getting rid of the constitution “Whether the scientists come from Tennessee or outside to tell the mean- ing of evolution, cannot matter. Science is the same everywhere. The constitution does not permit the legislature to put a Chinese wall around the State of Tennessee, as Mr. Bryan seems to think should be done. ““We have no doubts that some scientists will be called from Ten- nessee, as the statute is so recent that there are some sclentists left there It is not even sure that the statute would work as Mr. Brvan believes, as all the jurors testified they had never heard of evolution until the law was passed.’ WOULD BAR TENNESSEANS. NEW YORK, July 11 (#).—Dr. Henry H. Rusby, dean of the College of Pharmacy of Columbia University, in his annual report to President Nicholas Murray Butler today, advo- cated that Columbia and other Ameri- can universities refuse to recognize any educational credentlals issued by such State as Tennessee where laws are passed restricting teaching of certain subjects in the schools. “It would be an evil policy,"” Dean Rusby sald, “for schools engaged in preparing men for professional work in which the slightest deviation from sclentific accuracy may result fatally, to recognize as valild a preparatory training of which the fundamental principle is that recognition of facts s non-essential, or that truth may be set aside to secure a reward offered for such treachery, or to escape a penalty inflicted for refusal in it.” Almost a National Record We are pleased to report a remarkable further drop in the death rate from consumption in the District of Columbia during the fiscal year which ended June 30, 1925. The rate among whites dropped from: 62 deaths per 100,000 in the previous year to the noteworthy low rate of Z 50.6 deaths —in the year just ended. per 100,000 This is almost a national record, and is exceeded only by some white cities that are new, climate. have no slums and enjoy ‘an exceptional The general death rate from consumption in the District of Columbia dropped: from 103 deaths per 100,000 in the previous year to 96 deaths per 100,000 in the year just ended. The number of deaths from consumption among colored people slightly increased to 283 during the past year, but this is less than half of what it was 20 years ago. These results, while very gratifying, show that still more Washington people should follow our health teachings as published other health literature. y us through newspapers and In preventing tuberculosis our teachings also lead to healthier bodies and to an increase resistance against disease germs in general. Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis Telephone Main 982 1022 11th Street N.W. ‘Who have paid for the above bulletin (legal notice) of students of re- | {another modern device which SWASH OLD MARKS Better Equipment, Added to Faster Tracks, Provides New Racing Class. Better tires, faster tracks, modern spark plugs, the super-charger and a score of other little things combined with faster engines to make the auto- mobile speed kings of today 100 per cent speedler than their predecessors of 15 years back. For of the group which finished the 260-mile speedway classic yesterday, only two or three are really veterans in a game which takes ita toll early—with death hold- ing the stop watch. This is the reason yesterday's race was won hy De Paolo at the phe- nomenally fast rate of 123.33 milles an hour. Pete stepped on the old wagon on the last four laps, after he had word from his pit that he had to catch McDonogh, before the pitmen knew of the mistake in the clocking machine. Speeds Compared. Fifteen years ago, had De Paolo borne down on his accelerator as he did over the last four and a half miles in his chase to catch McDonogh, he might have sped his Deusenberg up to 85 or 90 miles an hour. That would have been considered phenomenal. Yesterday he went the last four lape at a speed of between 31 and 32 seconds each—somewhere between 126 and 130 miles an hour. He made up twe-thirds of a lap on McDonogh, but couldn’t quite cut down the gap between his yellow streak and the flying juggernaut of crimson where McDonogh set the pace. Officlals of the Amerfcan Automo- bile Association are autherity for the statement, also, that the new board tracks, constructed with a wooden skirt at the base of the slope, save lives when & car skids. Soft mud and dust are the factors that make a car turn over. Seldom does the car leave its four wheels even when a rear tire blows. But when a front shoe goes, or the car leaves the hard track to go down into the soft earth below, then the trouble comes. When They Skidded. There were three skids yesterday on the boards. In eath of them, the car stayed on its wheels and returned to the race. When Ralph de Palma, driving that hard-luck car of Ralph Hepburn, No. 17, skidded down off the boards and hit the dirt, the car turned end over efd. The manufacture of tires nowadays has progressed to such a point that many times a race can be woh, even in such heat as yesterday, without a tire change. Neither De Paolo nor McDanogh changed a shoe during their 223 eircuits of the track. In the old days they were always pulling up at the pits for new tires. The super- charger, which forces raw gas into the cylinders under great pressure, is con tributes to speed. It was borrowed from the airplane. DOHENY IS CHARGED 850,000 BY COURT Costs Added to Difference “ Between Value of 0il Used and Work Done. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, July 11.—The Fed- eral Court here today presented the Doheny ol interests with a bill for ap- proximately $850,000 as the net result of the Government's suecessfully con- ducted suit to cancel oil leases in the Elk Hills, California, naval ofl re- serve held by the Pan-American Pe- troleum Co. The oil company countered with no- tice served on Federal Judge Paul J. McCormick, who wrote today's dect- sion and the recent one declaring the leases void, that an appeal would be taken to the Circuit Court of Appeals. The $850,000 bill against the Do- heny interests includes a demand for $358,031, value of oil pumped from the naval reserve and the money the defendants spent in developing those properties and building storage facilities for the Navy at Pearl Harbor, Hawail. The other $500,000 is the estimated court costs of the- suit, which the Pan- American Petroleum Co. was or- dered to pay. In detall, the court judgment held that the Government should pay the Doheny interests $10,417,443, expend- ed by the latter developing the Elk Hills properties, and in construction work in Hawail. Over against this was set a charge against the oll company of approxi- mately $10,800,000, the estimated value of the oll taken from Elk Hills by the Doheny pumps. The differ- ence, $358,031, was debited against the Pan-American, together with the court costs. s THEUNIS COMING TO U. S. WITH BELGIAN DEBT BODY Commission, Which Includes Fran- qui and Cattier, to Leave for Washington July 29. By the Associated Pross. BRUSSELS, July 11.—The cabinet council today designated former Pre. mier Theunis, Emil Franqui, banker, and Feliclan Cattier, financler and statesman, as members of the Belgian commission to Washington for the discussfon - of plans for funding the Belgian debt. The commission will probably leave for Washington July 29. File Tax keturns And Avoid Penalty, Assessor Warns ‘With July nearly half over, Dis- trict Assessor Willlam P. Rich- ards again last night reminded owners of automoblles and. other taxable personal property to make thelr returns before August 1 and thereby avoid the penalty of 20 per cent that is added to all state- ments filed after July 31. Mr. Richards is making more than usual effort this year to save taxpayers from tmlng a penalty by inducing them to flle their re- turns within- the specified time, the month of July. Notices are being displayed in motion picture theaters and this week there will be brief talks on the radio. The tax is not due until Novem- ber of this year and May, 1926. All that is uired at this time is the filing of a return showing taxable persomal property. As- lmosc assessors are on duty at the District Building every day to aspist citigens in filling out the the difference between the. D. C, JULY 12, 1925—PART 1. Official Time of Race Drivers The official time of the nine mile race at Laurel yesterday, announced last night, follows: Car No. 12 14 . Driver Peter De Paclo Robert McDonogh Harry Hartz Fred Comer Frank Elliott Jimmy Hilt Tommy Milton Ralph Hepburn Phil Shafer TRAFFIC JAM IS WORST IN YEARS ON ROADS FROM RACING PARK Drivers Fume and Drivers Fuss aidefl'vera Rave and Drivers Cuss and Drivers Raise a Lot of Dust, and Get Home After. Dark‘ Sunk deep in the mud of the in-p closure at the Laurel Speedway as night fell last night were two lone motor cars—sole survivors of the thousands of machines parked in the inclosure around which 16 speed demons thundered thefr diminutive Jjuggernauts of steel yesterday. Sole survivors of the jam inside the in. closure, but eutside the inclosure on [the narrow half mile of road that led from the track to the Baltimore. Washington pike were a brace of more unfortunates, thrust off the road in the middle of the worst trafic jam about Washington since Novem- ber, 1921, when President Harding was held up for more than twe hours on the old Aqueduct Bridge while on his way to Arlington. If Peter de Paolo or MeDonogh or any of the other dare-devils who fin- ished the race yesterday had prog- ressed as slowly as the 5,000 automo- biles which tried to get away from the track in a bunch at 530 vester- day afternoon toward Washington, they would have taken & month to g0 the 230 miles they traveled in something just over twe hours yes- terday. For by a watch, and an ac- curate watch, too, it required just one hour and a half to travel the 400 yards from the fence surround- ing the track to the Baltimore and Ohio Rallroad crossing, less than a half mile away. All Dash for Opening. They fumed and fussed, they raved and cussed, these thousands of driv- ers who sat in their cars, hot, sticky and uncomfortable, without the be- nign thought of a cooling breeze, breathing the fumes from thousands of exhausts as they walted—not pa- tiently—for Maryland's traffic cops to get the jam untangled. Instead of sticking to the three well traveled paths across an old cornfleld on which the speedway was built, they ran any old way across, all reaching a common crossing point at about the same time, to make them utterly un- able to go ahead. The old adage which has it that hasfe must be made slowly never fitted a situation bet- {ter. Of course, the Maryland traffic lofficers tried their hest to get the | jam_straightened out, doing herofy work to avoid bent fenders and |'bruised temperaments. Yet these mo- torists converged upon them from all points of the compass, all trying to cross a narrow pathway over the raflroad tracks barely wide enough for two cars. The shrill scream of thousands of ‘motor horns blended with the cries of hawkers for ice cream companies, newsboys and the general din of a| Skid Caused Spill {Of De Palma’s Car, Turning It Over| Veteran Driver Slightly Hurt When Racer Began to Slide. “Just a skid,” Ralph De Palma said caused the spill he took yesterday when he was thrown from his car. Almost in unison those in the grand-| stand jumped to their feet and scores | of women screamed as De Palma spun through the air and slid down the | 48-degree slope and his car turned over several times. Another great cheer went up when the driver got up and l“tlked oft the track. Instantly three ambulances started for the scene and a number of sur- geons and mechanics. However, the racer assured them he was not hurt, although blood was streaming down his face and he walked with a limp. He walked to the official stand, where another ambulance was stationed. He got in it unassisted and was taken to the field emergency hospital for examination. An examination showed he was suffering only from slight abrasion on the face. “I don't know what caused it," he told a reporter for The Star. “The car just started to skid. It's one of those things that just happen: After this examination, he was anx- ious to get back to the pits to assure his assoclates he was not hurt, and left ynassisted. De Palma was riding on the top of the bowl, and was just beginning to turn at the south end, when the wheels went into a skid. He was thrown clear of the car, and it dash- ed down the slope, spun around three times and stopped. NATIONAL PARK ‘DEVILS’ DRIVEN OUT BY INDIANS Piutes Long Convinced That Zion Reservation Was Abode of Wicked Spirits. By he Associated Press. ZION NATIONAL PARK, Utah, July 11.—The “devils” were chased out of Zion National Park by three Piute Indian braves at the recent 1925 season opening celebration of this new national playground. It is Indlan legend that Zion Canyon is “‘the abode of the dead, of spirits and terrible gods” and heretofore few Indians ventured into it during the day, and none would ever stay at night. . This Indian superstition proved a blessing to early settle: and during Indian raids they always found Zion Canyon a safe refuge. The. Indian name for Zion Canyon is ‘“‘Makuntu- weap." Tom Parachont, Plute medicine man, was asked by ovtnlh? day visitors for the exact details of Indlam, legend about the canyon; g* “Chief Many Horses, he can tell,” the medicine man replied. Questioned as to where Chief' Manyu Horses could be found ‘he said, “Him dead many years.” This is the first year Zion Park has | been prepared to entertain tourist travel on a large scale. [———— | grandstand only drivers who finished in the 250~ Make of Car. Duesenberg * Miller 2 ¢ Miller Miller - Miller Junior Eight Miller * - Miller Duesenberg Time. 2:01:37 2:01:59:28 2:04:13:09 21064636 2:08:13:83 2:20:47:98 - 2:2116:45 No Time No Time limited space where theusands of hu- man beings—all more or less uncom- fortable from the heat—gathered. Proteésts Futile. Not willingly did they wait, nor did they like the heat or the exhaust from running engines. They pro- tested and fumed, all to no avail. Yet what was agony to most of them was grist to the mill of the ice cream makers, for they brought forth a sticky ice cream creation stuck on a stick and sold them by the thousands. Ice cream went llke hot cakes in Midwinter and cold water, toted in a pall by an old colored man, went for § cents a glass to persons whose fastidiousness wouldn't let them touch a common drinking glass in their own homes. It all started at 5:30, when- it was suyre that Mc Donough had won the race. They broke in a mass for their machines, all with the one thought—home to a bath and dinner, At 9 o'clock last night they were still getting into Washington. for the jam at the Baltimore and Ohio Rail road tracks wasn't the only hold-up. There were others, scattered all the way down the pike into Hyattsvil and beyond to the District line. A Riverdale a tire blew and a line of 200 cars was held up for 15 minutes Again in Hyattsville they stopped, and again just this side of Bladensburg. At the Distriet line they stopped | again, only n;&'cauer once they were inside the Disthct, with long lines of | race fans reaching down all the high- vé leading from northeastern Mary- land. _Trains Held Up Line. The race fans got themselves in a fine jam yesterday. Yet their im-| petuosity could well have been averted | had the speedway sponsors had time | to construct & tunnel under the rafl- | road tracks, for as much time was taken up waiting for trains to pass as was consumed in getting cars over the track. And then after they were past this “rough spot” came the half mile of bumpy dirty road to the main pike That wasn't 50 good, either, but there were no lengthy stops on it. Inside the inclosure, inside the wire fence that kept the thousands away from the pits and the danger of the track, the problem was simpler. Here again they converged on a common runway, but the traffic was handled better and more expeditiously. And when they got out, through the tun- nel running under the track even while Fred Comer and Reginald John son were still hitting the boards at more than 100 miles an hour, they had two roads to travel into Laurel hefore leveling out for the run back to ‘Washington or Baltimore. 0Odd Scene Puzzles Spectators at Pits At New Speedway Mechanics Pick Myriad| ‘Splinters From Drivers On Wood Track. It looked as if they wers Kissing Peter de Paolo. Gathered about him | at_the end as he stopped his little yellow speedster at the pit for the first time in the 250-mile grind, those three mechanics were surely kissing | him. So thought the thousands In the 100 feet way. Yet why should they kiss de Paola, for he had finished second, it then seemed He hadn't won the race. They went home mystifled that a losing driver should be Kissed by a trio of hard- bofled mechanics and pitmen Yet it wasn't a mystery to the vet- erans of the board track. They weren't kissing the flying lad with the Ttallan name. They were pulling splinters out of his face. A similar rite was enacted at every pit along the line. The usual thing when a race ‘of any duration on a board track is completed—to pick splinters. out of the anatomy of the drivers. For a racing car, buzzing along at 130 miles | an hour, kicks up all kinds of debris, nicking loose splinters off the edges of the boards, creating a suction that car behind gets it all, and de Paolo lapped enough of them to get a ‘man’s share of the splinirs. der their whité overalls the race drivers wear heavy leather jerkins to keep the splinters out. gloves on their hands—many of them —although de Paolo doesn't, claiming he wants to grip the wheel with his bare hands. get the splinters. out of their bodies for days after a fast race. It's all part of a hard game. Phone Calls Recorded. To keep a record of the number of calls made on a telephone and so check up the telephone- bill at the end of the month, a Brooklyn, N. Y inventor has devised a meter that registers the calls automatically. It is attached to the neck of any desk phone and registers when the receiver is put back on the hook after each call, . says the Popular Science Monthly. Men Deep.in Earth Did Not Feel Quake In Santa Barbara By the Associated Press. | sult They wear | Sometimes they. .don't | TBAUTOSPULLED. FROM NUDAT RA Three Bridges Built by D. C. Engineers to Aid Parking of 4,000 Machines. Three bridges bailt and 178 cars pulled bodily out of the maorassés and mud-puddles which dotted the iu closure of the Laurel bow! were the accomplishments of a detachment ‘of 150 men from the 121st Regiment of Engineers, District National Guard who had the task of taking care of the approximately 4,000 automobiles which parkgd in this area during the race yesterday. The detail, under command of Maj Joe R. McKey and Capt. Sidney Mor gan, reached the track yesterday morning at 9:45 o'clock, after having left Washington in thelr own trans portation. They immediately set to work getting the field in shape for the thousands of cars w, h were to follow, taking over this work from Lieut. Lord of the Baltimore recruit ing station, who since 6 o'clock had been caring for the early arrivals with a detall of regulars from Baltimore One of the first jobs whick fronted the engineers was to make the fleid passable for the cars, some parts of it being under wat covered with deep, sticky mud. here was ne ‘Way out of it but to build bridges, so bridges they built—three t They held up well under the cont ous load of hea traffic whi into the field from early T which began an exit i the close of the r: fortunate—178 of them, to be exact- got stuck hub deep or more in the sticky mud, and these the engineers aided by attaching chains and pulling In some cases the mud held so tightl that horses were brought to the scene and enlisted in the tug-of-war. The medical detachment of the en gineers had set up a fleld ho 1 and first aid station near the t Kk, A when Ralph De Palma had his acc dent he was given what little fi aid he cared to receive at the e neers’ camp. After the race, the engineers. who had arranged the parking in blocks of 10 and kept roadways open betweer these blocks, emptied the field fa than the jammed roadways could h dle the cars for the efficient manner in whic handled a difficult and trying task OLD BOARD DEFEATED IN POSTAL ELECTION National Alliance of Employes Has Spirited Proceedings—New Headquarters Here. R. A. Wilhoit of St. Louis was elect- ed president of the National Alliance of Postal Employes at the concluding session of their convention in the Cleveland School itorium last night, in an eiection which swep of office all of the previous admin istration. The secretar: hip went to B. M. Jackson of this city. This is taken to indicate establishment of national headquarters here at an early date Memphis was chosen as the conven- tion city for 1927 Jostah I. Jones of Chicago, former secretary, offered his' resignation to take effect immediately, following drastic action of the convention, due is tardiness in reporting. It was accepted. John D v, 8 chief clerk at large, was praised for his work in connection with the alli ance and recommended for promotion to chief clerkship. Other officers elected were: J. B Taylor, Houston, Tex., vice president: R. E. L. Hutton, New Orleans, treas- urer; Irving Butler, Memphis. audi- tor, and James H. Nelson, Kansas City, editor of the Postal Alliance VICTIM LEFT ON ROAD BY HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER Roy Jenkins, 15153 D street north east, was in a serious condition last night at Casualty Hospital as a re of an automebile accident near T. B., Md. He was brought into Washington by Kirby Kepler, 1314 Sixteenth etreet, and Policeman Hogan of the 2d precinct, who found him lying in the road unconscious when they were driving past At the hospital later, the police that he had been side swiped by another machine, which threw him off the road and overturned his car. He said that the other car drove on without stopping and he was too dazed to get its number. He is suffering from broken ribs and in ternal injuries. Jenkins told Oxygen Tent for Patients. To supply pure exygen to pneumonia patients, enabling them to breathe freely and thus aiding recovery, two New York doctors, Alvin L. Barach of the Presbyterian Hospital and C. A draws everything up In its wake, The |1« Binger of the Rockefeller Institute, recently invented a portable oxygen tent that is suspended over the pa tient's bed by an iron framework, says the Popular Science Monthly. Oxygen is-fed to the patient from a tank through rubber tubing. June Circulation Daily.... 95,023 Sunday . 102,1 11 District of Columbis, Yy W RRO! Advertising Man- et S OTHE EVERING snd SUNDAY STAR A Salemniy wear ihat the accual pumbe of conies of the papers named. sold and dis tributed during the month of Jume, AD 1855 “was ‘as Tollows DAILY v g D, Sp3eaTer 1 2 S338XRBA2A88% 293g28ses0s 242358 SBUEREBESTRNa) ORI 53t s [N Less” ad;ustmente et _ciroulation.. . 2.470.604 ROl A o patd eircuiaion. 54088 verare mumber of chpies for LA e ek rile ; SANTA BARBARA, Calif,, July . 11.—Scientific theories were some- ‘what upset today by the discovery that men working on the face of * the big Montecito water tunnel, 2,000 feet horizontally In the depths of {he . mountains, east. of this city, and at a perpendicular depth of nearly 3,000 feet below the summit of the range, did not fedl the big earthquake at all. Some of the scientists in their explanation of the shock have said 1t was. due to a deep-down displace- ment in the earth’s crust, but the About one-fou: of the office staff in the Soviet go ment department in Rugpia are women. rfit_ hat the tunnel workers did . mot " s in the quake. seems to * centradict this theory. * z Daily average pet circulation. ., .. 7 14 Less adjustments.. Total Sunday net circulatien. .. Average et paid Sunday cirew ton - s Average pum! ice. etc... Average Sunday net circulation.... o 152 m:mm.‘ Aw