Evening Star Newspaper, July 16, 1925, Page 2

- o - e S THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €, THURSDAY. JULY B FIRSTD.C. SCHOOL | CENSUS 70 BEGIN Sixteen Enumerators, Wear- ing Badges, Will List Chil-, dren 3 to 18. Sixteen enumerators will task of taki Washington's first school census Monday, it was an- | nounced today by Miss Fay L. Bent. | ley, director of the department of school attendance and work permits. Preparations for taking the census will be completed at a series of con- ferences tcmorrow and Saturday b tween Miss Bentley and the enum A houseto-house canvass will be of the entire District to secure the information required under the compulsory education law. All chil- tween es of 3 and 18 will has been 1 each enu r one. Miss e census to be fin: er 21, providing o-operation on in making the available to the District nformation ire for covering the Dis: 1 of securir the in- he system of entering ince office records have | by Miss Bentley Mapping out ans for taking the | initial school census has been a tre- | mendo ies point out, ar has accomplish ed it intment May 18 The P nt, she said, has given & rati To Wear Badges. Each of 6 epumerators will be | provided w badge and other cre dentials sig by Miss I and | the major and superintendent of po- | lice. As many persons are expected tion while the census is in progress, Miss Bentley suggested today that parents e the isite informa- tion for census enumerators at their he and thereby facilitate the taki erators will ensus the e ask e enum- t place of birth of eve child between th of 3 and 18 yea the date ¢ 1 the school last attended, the gra completed and the names of the par- ents and their occupations The information zathered will re- veal accurate number of c dre: of school age in the District, and therefore will serv L basis_for enforc the scho attendance law as well basis for providing fu- ture sch 10use accommodations. Miss Bentl believes that there are more than 80,000 children in the Dis- trict of Law Requires Information. Every parent, Miss Bentley empha-| required by to give in to the enum There | alty i ive the| lesired data falsification of infor- mation. Miss ver, antici. pates no tr b s that the civic pride of the Dis trict will aid in putting over the | glgantic taking census. iliarizing the pub- v education to clergy- hing- h the cc Miss Bentley men of all den ton to make sunce ments from e pulpits | Sunday. She has been assured of | their co-operation ! Right Rev. C. F. Thomas, rector of | St. Patrick’s Church. has written to every Catholic parish in the District | urging the priests to announce the begin of the school census. A | simil ressage has been broad to churches other denomination: through th n Federation of Churches Mgr, Thomas' letter follows | “Unde vision of the com- | pulsory 1 law, passed by the| Sixty-ninth Congzress, an en fon of ail children and 18 vears re ween the ages of 3 ding within the Dis- trict of C is to n July 20. | “By the au ind commission of his grace archbishop, I am | asking you to ce from’ the al- | tar on July 19 that this census work | will begin on July 20 and ask your | congregation to assist every way possible those who nay approach | them for this enumeration and advise 10 give as acc inswers as ble to the ques posed to | FENCING MATCH HELD : AT LIONS CLUB MEETING| Leon Shore. United States Olympic Star, and Col. Erickson Eng in Bout. A fencing match between Leon SHote, Olympic fenein r. of this| city, and Col. Hjalmar Erickson of the | Army War Co furnished a unique | form of entertainment for members | he I it their regular ayflower Ho- | was won by > points, of Plans were unced at the lunch- | eon_for ar ng of t Iub at the Y. M. C. A. Boys' Camp, on the} Rhodes Riv Md., August 5. The| onting is to last all day. and members | of the club w e their families and friends Members ing committee w. chairman Culley, Dr. | George T Waters, Dr. | G. B. Tril Yost, S. | Franklin H. Hille- | geist, N Potter, George L. Haines A wis, Caleb W.| O’Comnor, . P. Schick, Angus | MacDonald 1 W. De Gast. | D ing each week | for the ch some orphan asy- | lum or mission he one for this | week will be d tomorrow for the | hildren of the Central Union Mission. | They will be taken for a ride in busses | furnished by the Black and White Taxi Co., through W. J. Brown, presi dant of the company and a_member { of the Lions Club. Vergne W. Potter will be in charge of entertainment features Destroyers Back From Cruise. NEW YORK (®).—Six de- | stroyers of the Division, the Flusser, Conver ley, Wor- ! den, Dale and T arrived here to day, after a vear's cruise in BEuro. pean, ports ¥ will remain here for. two weeks, later going to the Philadelphia Navy Yard for overhaul.| ing and refitting 20,000 Join Belgian Strike. BRUSSELS. July 15.—Twenty thou- | gand metal workers in the Liege dis- | trict tod sinad the general strike | of metallurgical workers, making the tal number of strikers 6 The strike was ¢ ed by an attempt to decrease wages 5 per cent More Farmers Own Homes. A much larger proportion of farm an town homes are owned by the oc- cupants, according to the last census The actual flgures Families in villages and towns 1 100,000 pop- | ulation, 41.31 per cent; families in -ities of 100,000 population or over, 28.77 per cent, and white farmers own» ing their farms, 63 per cente | SEVERAL ARE SURE |tion in a barber chair on Eleventh | arrived | of the cake the communicants usually | gittin’ on th’ Shepherd jury, at |ments t’ unveil, PHILIP KNOX KNAPP. ALLEGED MURDERER FOR THRILL WAS HERE st inued from Pennsylvania avenue la t night. At 10:30, or thereabouts, Stover said to- day, a man came up and tried to buy a little liquor I'm all right Stover heard this man say, and told him the same name. That's one angle of the c e. There is still another coincidental link con- nectinz up with the Copley Courts ink. Copley Courts is near Seven- teenth and I’ streets. Now, out of all corners in Washington, it was on a corner only a few blocks to the south t Seventeenth and I, streets, that Edward A. Hurley of 226 Seaton street another hacker, picked this man up shortly after Tuesday midnight. He took this man, with another. man and =irls, downtown to a Chinese res taurant, which proved to be closing, and then took the quartet to a lunch room on Thirteenth street just above Pennsylvania avenue. There Hurley left them seated at a table Add to these reports that of an Army officer, who wishes to remain anonymous, who backs up Edwar tement to quite an extent and the h-lights in the chase for the thrill murderer in Washington “I am not convinced vet man is in Washington,” Grant summed up his conclusions arly this afternoon. “It's a bare possibility. Not a probability.” C. A. Linthicum, newspaper man, so one of those who believes he the fugitive. Mr. Linthicum iced o man answering his deserip- that our Inspector street “There will be much futile work as the result of these reports, I imagine. Inspector Grant said, “but it will be| worth it, if we get on the trail of this man through some long chance tak ing."” SEEN IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Alleged Thrill Slayer Believed Flee- ing South. COLUMBLA C.. July 16 (®.— Philip Knox Knapp, alleged slayer of + New York taxi driver, may be in South Carolina. C. Stimson, a_traveling man, who | in Columbia last night, said | today he had given a lift in his auto- mobile yesterday to a_man who fitted the descriptions of Knapp and smbled photographs of the alleged ayer that were printed in a local paper. The man was piceked up at Wins ton-Salem, N. C., and accompanied Mr. | Stimson to Gaffney, in this Stz | was dressed, Mr. Stimson Army clothing, but wore a who | and carried a civilian c on arm. He told Mr. Stimson that he had ‘come from Philadelphia, where he had been recovering in a hospital | from an airplane accident, and dis: played a scar on his head as proof of the fact he had been in a crash. [ Pax Cakes Still Given. Tn England the custom of giving the “pax” or peace cakes on Easter | Sunday is still in effect in the parishes of King’s Chapel and Sillack, Here- fordshire, Bngland. Plain cakes are given in church, the idea being that those who have quarreled should | break” the peace cake together, thus ending their disputes. In partaking “Peace and good will. Abe Martin Says: | Tell Binkley's nephew writes | him that he wuz successful in Chicago, an ']l now try fer West Point. Flask engravers an’ padlock makers hain’t th’ only ones that are cleanin’ up on account o’ th’ liquor law, as th’ Elmer Swill curtain roller factory is runnin’ day an’ night. Th’ Apple Grove Debatin’ So- ciety met Saturday night an’ re-| solved that ther’ wuz more quar- relin’ o'er religion than ever’- thing else put t'gether. One good thing about th' rum war ther’” won’t be no monu- “Oh, we used t’ be great friends, but he’s got a car of his own now,” we heard a feller say t'day. Ther’s lots o’ worse handicaps than bein’ poor, or ugly, or maimed, an havin’ an offensive personality is'th’ worst o’ th’ lot. Ther seems t' be somethin’ about bein’ a dutiful wife that ruins ’em for ever'thing else. (Copyright, John F. Dille Co,) DAVIS NOT WORRIED Trip to. Swampscott Before Departure for Europe Is About Other Affairs. Secretary of Labor Davis will leave Washington late today for Swamp- scott to see President Coolldge prior to safling Saturday on the, liner Homeric from New York for Iurope. Mr. Davis' European trip will take him through the textile, steel and pottery industrial plants of several countries, where he will study labor conditions and the methods used abroad in set- tling labor disputes. Before leaving for White Court the Labor Secretary received a detailed report from Hugh L. Kerwin, the Labor Department’s director of con ciliation, and Hywel Davies, expert on coal, on the anthracite situation and the progress of negotiations in Atlantic City for a new working con- tract. The Secretary said his visit to the President was not brought about by the threatened coal tie-up. Even though the conciliation bu- reau is keeping a close watch on the progress of the negotiations at At- lantic City, officlals. are inclined to view the situation entirely satis factory, with little indication at pre: ent of a strike possibility. The nego- tiations now are in the preliminary stages, where minor details of mine pay and procedure are being di cussed. The conferences have not wched the stage where the two major issues at stake—a wage increase and the check-off, by which miners’ union dues are taken from their pay er velopes—are under discussion When the min issues have been smoothed out, according to the view of the Washington observers, Pres- ident John Lewis of the United Mine Workers of Americs President dent S. D. Warriner of the operators zanization will meet to talk over the major i s which up until that time will have been kept in the back. ground. The issues now being cussed have been left up to the y tical mining men in each organi rac- ion to work out, but when the major issues come up the two heads will meet At present Labor Deparmtent offi- cials view the possibility of a hard coal strike as an improbahlity, tak- ing the view that the joint confer- ences scheduled for next month will find a solution of the wage and check- off problems after some negotiation The present scale in the anthracite flelds expires August 31, after a tenure of two yean FRANKLIN-BOUILLON WANTS WIDE POWER Will Not Accept Debt Mission to TU. S. Unless Given Ample Authority, He Says. By the Associated Press. ARIS, July 16.—Henri Franklin- Bouillon, former minister of missions abroad, will tell Premier Painleve within a week or 10 days whether he accepts the invitation to head th debt mission to the United States. His answer will depend upon the specific powers conferred upon the envoys by the French government M. Franklin-Bouillon today suid he | must be in agreement with the char- acter of the instructions if he is to | present the French point of view con- | vincingly Wants Real Authority. M. Franklin-Bouillon’s delay in ac: ceptance is due, according to his friends, to his unwillingness simply to be a messenger. He insists he must have real authority to negotiate, and before going to Washington must know fully what agreement the French cabinet is willing to make. The position of the French govern ment may be greatly modified after the proposals of the American Debt Funding Commission are known. Con- sequently the instructions to the French delegation probably will give considerable latitude for negotiation Members of the cabinet nov: are con- sidering details of these instructions. and M. Franklin-Bouillon is withhold. ing his decision until he learns what the instructions will be. Finance Minister Caillaux decided not to go to Washington himself, be- cause the cabinet thinks the negotia- tions can be conducted better by dele- gates than by principals. Also he be- lieves the French financial situation makes it injudicious for him to be ab- sent from Paris for an indefinite timé. M. Franlklin-Bouillon speaks English perfectly and is said to know the United States, which he has visited several times, as well as any French statesman. An adequate staff of tech niclans from the ministry of finance will be attached to the French mis sion. Leon Massen, head of the Credit Lyonnais, who has been mentioned as one of those considered by the cabinet as a possible head of the mission, will leave for the United States tomorrow to attend the Institute of Politics, com mencing at Williamstown, Mas July 23. Beloved Bovine Becomes Beef by Being Beguiled “Winifred” Lured to Ab- batoir by Colored Man Wheo Stole Her. Little Winifred, beloved cow owned by Charles Leatley, at Forty-eighth street and Central avenue northeast, met with foul play today, police dis- covered, when a search for her ended at the Benning abaftoir. ‘While the members of the little semi-rural establishment of Mr. Leat- ley were mourning the loss of their gentle bovine companion today, Mr. Leatley reported Winifred's disap- pearance to Desk Sergt. Stone at the eleventh precinct. Stone sent Policeman G. R. Shoe- maker to Mr. Leatley’s residence to obtain a report on the disappearance. Shoemaker had powers of deduction He quickly connected the proximity of the abattoir with the place of Wini- fred’s erstwhile happy existence. So he visited the abattoir. There he learned that a colored man had led a soft-eyed cow to the slaugh- terhouse at 4 a.m. today and sold her flesh and blood, hide and horn for 2 cents a pound to Ely Ford, the buyer there. Shoemaker saw Winifred before he Jeft the abattolr, but her hie was in one section ready for tanning and much of the rest of Her was ready for steak and pot roast. Consequently, police are looking for the colored man. Mr. Leatley has not informed the police of his intended action in the matter. But the little chickens and other comrades of the late cow are downcast at the Leatley establishment today, for Winifred has met with foul play, |“MOTHER” JONES Including Presidents, Tells of Labor. Her Book Is Drama of 40 ' Years’ Effort to Aid Workers. From a background of two genera- tions of work devoted to the welfare of the laboring man, 40 years of inti- mate association with the labor move- ment, and with the leaders of the Na- tion since €leveland, “‘Mother” Jones, now 94 vears of age, has written a book dealing with her experiences as an actor in the drama of the labor movement in the United States. Mother” Jones, beloved of every leader in labor circles, a close friend of many Presidents and an adviser and confidant of cabinet officers, is in Washington at the home of a lifelong friend, Mrs. Terence V. Powderly, at 3700 Fifth street. She has been at the Powderly home since last February working on the epic of the labor strug- gle, dealing particularly in her revela tions with the history of mining unions in the United States. The book \is now in the hands of her publishers. Iliness Not Serious. For several days she has been but her illness is not serious, and she is expected to be out of bed within a few days. FEven at her advanced age “Mothe Jones is active physically, and her mind retains all the vigor of “stormy petrel” in mining disputes 20 and mgore years ago. Although denounced as a radical in some quarters, ‘“‘Mother” Jones, by the force of her personality and her unswerving loyalty to. the principles which she held were right, prevented many disorders in the unruly mining ears of her life. Imprisoned scores of times for petty offenses, the spear head of organization among mine workers in a dozen States, “Mother” Jones has had a spectacular career in her long life of work for the wel- fare of the laboring man and his family. Most of her life for the last 30 years has been spent in mining communities, where she consistently fought for the betterment of the miner and his family. Aided Coal Miners. She spent several vears in West Vir ginia, traveling in “bloody” Logan and Kanawha Counties, organizing min- ers and addressing hundreds of min ers’ meetings as a representative of the United Mine Workers of America. Her efforts in West Virginia resulted in a State law giving the miners a pay ch semi-monthly, better living conditions, better hours and a gene: PETAINTO CONFER ON RIFF WARFARE | Abd-el-Krim Will Accept No ~ Armistice in Morocco, Report Says. By the Associated Press. PARIS, July 16.—The importance of pending French plans for large-scale operations in Morocco to crush Abd- el.Krim’'s Riffian invasion of French zone indicated lwhen it was announced Marshal Pe tain will leave at once for Morocco to confer with Marshal Lyautey, |dent French ~governor of Morocco | They will determine French campaign against the Rifflan leader. Marshal Petain_ will Jleave for Tou | 1ouse tonight and fiy | Rabat, French Morocco. Le Journal's Fez correspondent says | Abd-el-Krim is reported to have de- {clared to unofficial French emissaries that he would accept no armistice in the present Morocean warfare. was | l OVERTURES DENIED. | Franco-Spanish Conference Says Lib- eral Terms Were Not Offered. MADRID, July 16 (®)—It is offi {cially denied that the Franco-Spanish Moroccan conference in session here has offered generous peace terms to AbdelKrim, the Rifflan leader now warring with French and Spanish in Morocco. Abd-el-Krim insists on greater concessions than the French or Spanish will make. It also is de- nied that the conference is consider- ing a new partition of Morocco, but the question of the autonomy of cer- tain regions of Morocco has been discussed. Recent reports from Paris said it was understood there that Abd-el Krim would be offered peace terms which were regarded by the French as liberal. It also was reported that he would be offered autonomy of the | Riff under a Spanish protectorate but |that French authorities expected him | to refuse the offer. FRENCH BOMB ENEMY. . | FEZ, French Morocco, July 16 (#).— | A communique announces that the French aviators today effectively bombed assemblages of Abd-el-Krim's Riffians in the Teroual district around Ain Aicha and near Bab Morou. (These are important points in the Fez vprotections and were attacked unsuccessfully by the Rifflans vester- day.) ST. ETTENNE, France, July 16 (#). ntoine Durafour, French minister of public works, addressing a political that France soon would conclude peace with Abd-el-Krim, leader of the Riffian invaders of the French zone in Morocco. BUYS \;VALL STREET SEAT. San Franciscan Pays $121,000 for Place of Kohloss. NEW YORK, July 16 (#).—Walter Duisenburg of San Francisco paid 1$121,000 today for the New York Stock Exchange seat of Robert A. Kohloss, jr., of Springfield, Mass., who recently was expelled from the exchange. The transaction was $1,000 under the re- cent record high price. The membership of Albert L. Brown was bought by Willlam J. Ehrich of New York for $120,000 and that of James A. Garland was transferred to Nelson S. Bartlett of Boston for a nominal consideration. Police Chiefs Elect Head. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, July 16 P).—The International Assoclation of Pdlice Chiets decided today to hold their next annual convention in Chi- cago. S. J. Dickson, chief of police laz ‘Toronto, Canada, was elected pres- ident for the ensuing yeary i, | the days when she was known as the | { communities in which she spent many | the | today | resi- | details of the| from there to| meeting here, expressed the firm hope , 16, 1925. , MINERS’ FRIEND, IS PUBLISHING HER EXPERIENCES ABfltfl B[]M_ |SSUES‘ Beloved of Low and High, MOTHER"” JONES. fmprovement in the standard of liv ing among miners in the little organ. ized State. During her spectacular areer in West Virginia ‘“‘Mother Jones was called to Washington many times to testify before commlittees in Congress. One of her most dramatic acts in West Virginia was the I of a | great delegation of miner: ate capital at Charleston, where she ad dressed them from the ste the Statehouse. But her work not confined to West Virgini alone 1 ways working with the inter “her boys™” at heart, “Mother was Jones has been in Pennsylvania among the anthracite workers and in every State | in the Far West where « mined. Her travels have taken her ite in the Union. Respected by Officials. into every “ Respected by Presidents and officers | of the cabinet, “Moth Jones has served clally as an adviser to high Government officials on questions of doubt in their minds regarding pol- Her icles with respect to mining part in the big national | of 1902 and 1922 was more as an 2 viser than as an active participant in the controversies, but all through both disputes she was called by | both_ sides for advice. “Mother” Jones has known person- ally every President from Cleveland | to Coolidge and has been intimately | acquainted with many cabinet of | Her acquaintance with | Labor Davis is one of | ed with y during when strik standing, and she has confer { himn many times, particul the troublous days of 1922, 700,000 coal miners went out on SPANISH ROYALIST ~ PARTY IS FORMED Political Group Is First Since Directorate Killed System. By the Associated Press. BARCELONA, Spain, Jul i new political party has been organized under the name of “The National Regionalist party.” The leaders, mem- bers of the monarchic and autonomist federations, are aiming to bring about a reunion between the policy of the military directorate and regionalist aspirations. The new party is expected to work independently of the patriotic union sponsored by Gen. Primo de | Rivera, head of the military direc- torate. —A Since the advent of the military directorate Spain virtually has been deprived of political parties. The great Liberal party has disappeared; the Con- sarvatives are split, anfl all the minor parties, the Socialists, Syndicalists and Republicans, have been inactive for some time. Gen. Prime de Rivera organized the patriotic union in order, as hLe explained it, to develop leaders cap- able of taking over the reins of gov- ernment when the directorate dbeided to withdraw. SHERWOOD CLUB OFFERS “ROBIN HOOD” EPISODES Friendship * House Raise Funds Ball Team. Players to for Several episodes from “Robin Hood" will be presented by the Sherwood Club of the Friendship House tonight {at 8 o'clock, to raise funds to purchas equipment for its base ball club. The Friendship House is located at 326 Virginia avenue southeast. The production will be staged 'un- der the direction of Miss Margarita Moreno and Mannix Walker. They hope that it will serve the dual pur- pose of raising sufficient funds to equip the club's ball team and arouse the interest of the Friendship House's clientele in dramatics. Those ‘in the cast are: Patrick Ge- gan, who will play the title role; Mil- lard Edelin, John Schutze, Alex Hato Arthur John, Stephen Hatos, Melvin Simonds and Harry McGuire. John Crovo will open the play with a reci tation of an old English ballad. T;il 100" Years 0ld. The Santa Fe trail will be 100 years old in August. The Council Oak at Council Grove, Kans., has taken on 100 rings since the day in 1825 that the white men and Indians met there to barter for a nmew trade route to Spanish New Mexico. The Santa Fe trail was the outgrowth. A centenary program is being arranged at Council Grove. \Witnesses Placed Under $1,000 Bond In U. . Theft Case Justice Bafley in Criminal Divi- sion 2 required Ralph Miller and Max Cohn, both of Baltimore, to furnish bonds of $1,008 each to ap- pear in court Monday to testify for the Government in a robbery case. The men had been sum- moned as witnesses for the prose- cution for July 14, but, failed to ap- pear and the case had to be post- poned until Monday. Justice Bailey recently fined a local doctor $50 and four colored witnesses $25 each for failing to appear as witnesses for the Gov- ernment in a joy-riding case. No action is expected against Miller i | I that the Langley airplane was “muti- lated” by the Smithsonian Institytion |and furthermore . questioned the ac OLITICS EMBITTER FIGHT OVER AIRSHIP. National Museum’s Claim to World Cruise Flagship Op- ‘posed by Chicago. Tllinois politics and the recent | Smithsonian-Orville Wright _contro- | versy over the Langley airplane are two factors which are understood to be standing in the way of final dis position by the War Department of the world cruiser Chicago, flagship of the globe flight, which has been sitting | in a hangar at Dayton, Ohio, since last | November. | The city of Chicago. is not leaving | a stone unturned in its efforts to ge V’ the world’s most’ famous airplane in the Field museum, although the Arr Air Service had recommended shortly after the completion of the worl 1 flight that the plane be housed in the National Museum here. The museum too, had requested the plane in a let ter to the War Departmwnt on April 10, but has heard nothing since. Politics in Controversy. It was said at the department today that no action on the matter has been taken or would be taken today. From one source it was learned that polit- ical pressure has played no small part and that the Secretaty of War has been content to let the matter stand unsettled and wait until the storm of enthusiasm “blows over. | From another source it was said | that the War Department is watching the final outcome of the row stirred up by Orville Wright when he charged curacy of the label on the machine. | Wright, who had announced his in- | tention of giving the original plane built and flown by him and his brother to Great Britain, said if this were done, he could be sure it would | not be removed and experimented with. At the Smithsonian Institution there could be no reason found for this| reported attitude by the War Depart ment, and it was explained that the transcontinental non-stop T-2 and the New York-to-Nome-to-Washington De Havilland both were intrusted to its| care for posteri Army Wants Plane Here. The feeling in the Army Air Serv ice is unanimous that the plane should be brought to Washington and that its sister, the w Orleans, sho kept in the McCook Field Museum at Dayton for experts to study through the vears to come. If the Chicago were given to the city of that name, New Orleans, which hds put up : game fight for the oth ip, would | be entitled to it also. Further, it was | declared, both planes have no munici- | pal value, but are of intense national interest | The Air Service with congressional | appropriation bought the Douglas | crujser for $25,000 and painted the | word “Chicago” on the cowling. The | plane, therefore, it was declared, be- | longs to the American people and not | the city of Chicago. CAMP GOOD WILL HAS 147 CHILDREN Second Party Adds 106, Repre- senting Southwest and Georgetown. | | | Out of the crowded and overheated city into the woodsy shade and quiet of Camp Good Will, over a hundred children and a number of mothers with their babes were taken day as guests of the committee of the Associated Charities. | Just 106, to be exact, and these, with | the 31 guests of the first party per: mitted to remain because of their | special need, brings the total registra tion of this camp up to 147 The overflow was taken by several vester ummer outings be | s s AT Y irer Pt MISS LILLIAN HARR ON, i Argentine_swimmer, who reached a point 5 miles from Dover today, attempt to swim the English C starting from the French side. PROPELLER HOLDS MACMILLAN BACK Party on Bowdoin Making Third Attempt to Mend Broken Part. Members of MacMillan A peller trouble eir largest sh the Bowdoi are now making their third attempt to put on a spare received toda the C iphic Society. The messages state doin is st even the si has failed to peller out of the water pontoons have been placed unde stern and all heavy cargo mov forward, but the propeller is foot and a half under water. mosquitos are he dquarters w Brunswick, said making our third attempt propeller. The evil fam to the of his atten from the wre having tides with a propeller above water Bowdoin, includ engines our the stern ol wl Bowdoin thermc heit and bergs, th 2, and gales of wind are a trifie and even looked forward to with pleasure. Our only encour -ement is that the height of the tides is increasin which means that ultimatel the job will be done. A second led by amateur rac at St Petersburs was re- pedale ceived at 3:30 p.m “Bowdoin south of circle, after ssing at low tide thi nz. Locknut on broken pro- wire removed with shaft a foot t under water, too deep to heavy necessary runition, carried f 400-pound cans of gasoline transshipped to small boat, while six hogshead pon- toons are used under Bowdoin to lift it farther onto sh Our activity is impeded by small tidal movement the worst plague of mosquitoe Hopedale has seen in many years. private _machines volunteered by George M. Yeatman, president, and | Eskimos Watch Game. Richard E. Harris, secretary, of the | “To maintain morale and keep men Southwest Washington Ci ' Asso- | fit the game of playground ball wa ciation. A bicycle policeman detailed by Col. Sherrill met the cavalcade at the Sixteenth street entrance to Rock | fternoon. Several Labra- section came down to >skimos peeped see the HUGHES TOURGE RAIL RATE RAISE Wilt Offer Unprecedented Plan for Pooling Among Weak Roads. By the A NEW cedanted | creases, inv | railroads, wil | Hugnes merce Cor i n in 8in at Chicugo, Septe | NO CLljé TO LOCATION OF MISSING GIRL LEFT Mis: Search in South Car Relatives of Georgia the: | f M 12 | places in Ge e G P them © | interasindly ot s sud mo oz ing AR g0 3 looked suspiciously at our base ball| tions were enacted at the Curtis|color to the setting of the sport School " Georastown, whers " the | io,to the setting of the sport.i QUAKE INSURANCE UP. mothers and children from that sec- | men hove neen in owimming. it | Ao i ton were assembled and examined. | water at 52 degrees. This proved an|Pacific Coast Rates to Be I The inspections were made there by |interesting spectacle to Eskimos, who | : the following doctors and nurses: D | live in beats, but eannot.swim.; Di-| Than Double e Murpiy, Miss Bula B, Jason: | versions of crew include hunting andi \Ew YORK, July 16 (@ Dr.J- 4. Murphy, Miss Bula B. FIVIT, [ nifi climbing to get widespréad Views | ror —earthquake e erine Armstrong. Nearly all of those | o, LAbrador's rock and water land-| pacific coast ! nviced passedthe tosts nd oue ‘s | Scape and icedotted sea with miles | e boy brought along his chum, who had | % ertainon mect coen: contetmine | A not been invited, begging to bave “my | young, but none reached as yet. Many | Ioreasing rates th o friend” included in the vacation e el a b ra | surance cover o e e I e vacation. o |Erampus whales are sighted between | 5 5ar" cont 1o 80 : ccctions of The iy, the Southwes |lere and Cape Harrigan. Seals were ) * e (0L U Sind Fate : and Georgetown. In'the former sec-| %, Sommon Sight. fbree of our ment.s the explosion « t tion they began to gather early in the | St amid a cloud of 1 board of fire ur : ered day in front of the Greenleaf School, | Tten trioath tined pitenforke. |increases. W embie . where their preliminary inspections | ;) 2 ity oS -| ence manag ¢ s gener were made by the following doctors | L1ID& Possible being done to enable us i, rate i nnraee Dy GO H. Do Jdoctors |10 foin Peary as soon as possible. Di- | JoCo8nz o : John R Dull, Dr. J. S. Arnold, Miss | yrSions on shore are advisable to| .\ Bertha M. Obr, Miss Marjorle Wood- | soonaiion. all w0, 1ain work of | “rmhe co 1s, he sa zell, Miss Elizabeth Dillon and Mrs. | S¥Pedition. All we e A Grace Heinecks. e o e ¢ 1 A e omererowded. | DEACON ADMITS TALK | TWhen the examinations were fin.| jEoane o a ished four big Army trucks, which o g ¢ had been engaged by Mrs. Julia A Bannigan, chairman of the welfare committee of the Southwest Wash ington Citizens’ Association, through Lieut. Col. Henry Gibbons of the bar- racks, drove up and the children with their luggage were loaded in, Privately Conveyed. This party was taken to the camp by private automobiles of the follow. ing volunteers of the Georgetown dis trict: Mrs. H. K. Hewitt, Mrs. Robert Hinckley, Mrs. John H. Hanna, Mrs. E. A, Stuart, Mrs. H. B. Polkinhorn, Mrs. Richard H. Bagby, Mrs. Lau- rence Du Bose and Miss Sarah Cha- pin. Rev. John S. Moses, rector of St. John's Church; Miss Ruth Leary and Miss Marie J. Bradshaw were active in helping these little folks and the mothers off on their vacation. Ed ward Shippen and Lawrence Reeves, former Boy Scouts, assisted with the luggage. Another party of 102 children and mothers was taken on Tuesday from the northeast section of the city te Camp Pleasant, at Blue Plains. the 32 other guests of that camp per- mitted to remain because of special need, this made the total registration there 134, or a total for both camps of 281 for the next two-week period. The damage done by the heavy storm of Monday night, when several tents were blown down at Camp Pleasant and the electric light wires were broken, had been repaired, so that the party found a royal welcome. The children of this party were ex- amined by the following doctors: Dr. Charles A. Tignor, Dr. Albert Ridge- ley, Dr. J. Hayden Johnson, Dr. H. W. Freeman and Dr. J. F. Dyer. Vol- unteer help was given by Mrs. Sadie Murphy and Mrs. George W. Cabi- ness. The party was' conveyed to Camp Pleasant in trucks loaned -by LED TO SLANDER SUIT “Church Gossip” Fostered Charges | Which Resulted in Action for Redress. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 16.—Small-town gossip, “‘church talk” and the age-old custom of men to support their re- ligious beliefs when attacked through others figured in today’s hearing of the $50,000 slander suit in which Al-| bert R. Leland is seeking redress from E. L. Hartig, deacon in an Oak Park church, Hartig, who was a member of a committee that investigated Leland’s charges against Dr. Carl Case, rector of the church, and Mrs. Leland, was again on the stand. William R. Moss, Leland’s attorney, sought to show that his client’s as Withepeition with his stenographer was a friendly acquaintanceship and not a liaison, as Hartig's side had tried to prove. His questions brought up the small town gossip subject and Hartig admitted his own suspicions had been aroused because Leland and the girl were “‘so close together” when the latter visited her church to address a young people’s society. Hartig's testimony revealed that the charge he had made about Leland’s parentage of a child arose when a young woman in Leland’s employ mar- ried, became a widow and then a mother a short time later. “There was a rumor that the child was Leland’s,” explained Hartig. He admitted that had not been proved. Hartig insisted that when Dr. Case was named in the Leland divorce the and Cohn until after the case i | Wise Bros. and George M. Oyster and |effeet upon the church was what led by, the Rotary, Club busy T him to take part in the investigation, structures to dar U. S. CLARIFIES CALL FOR CHINESE PARLEY IN NOTE TO FRANCE (Continued_fror power treaty. It is |latter conterence w | tomatically, in consequence ¢ cently completed ratificatic « I by the nin we raise no Frewch n whatewer rding that c er (Paris dispatches yester said French official circles tl this i Dot a_ propitious time for seeking revision of fore torial priv ges in China.) The official comment United States yesterdayv w the assumption that Pre idge and etary were proposing somet form of a conference to conside tions not provided for in the nine power treaty The French still think that before there conference exceeding the subject matter of that treaty t nese must show they can r government that can keep order. Static Mystery Fading. A, G. Simpson of the United States Forest Service at Stabler, Wash., be lieves that the presence of static as a radio hindrance may be put to good use in locating areas of low humidity He maimsins extremely dry atmos pheric conditionz are indicated by an excess of static, and with increasing humidity static decreages and fades out in the course of continued &