Evening Star Newspaper, July 18, 1925, Page 2

] * L RUKR EVACUATION THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1925 FIRST PHOTOGRAPH OF AMUNDSEN ON RETURN FROM POLAR FLIGHT SOPERWILL STUDY NOW N FULL SWING French Withdrawing Forces Today—*Sanctions Cities” to Be Held. 6 Asxoc BERLIN of the The evacuation » be under way i rning. The 3 h were departing from Recklin hausen. Tomor they will Monday rwcuated. The ** ldorf, Duisburg evacuated carly 7 Ruhr a oW lea Hat on be will See Full July 15 () acuation It is now taken French circles that the n of Duesseldortf, Duis leted 1 and that the evacuated cor August 16, the date reement of 1424, S ful ons. vacua under been is no doubt here of urring patch vesterday said fum agreement the “sanctions n completed.) BLANTON LAUNCHES WAR ON SHERRILL’'S U. S. POLICE POWERS | (Cont ernment War buildings, in this treatment of World nployed on the park gu of publi centrated authority official, who, he says, ‘too many irons in the fire.” Througho Representative Blanton repeatedly urges that hearings be held at which he and warnin for ¢ pu flicted upon an employe who may be pected of furnished infor- ation that is the basis of the Blan- docu Re has may that qQuestion witnesses, he will stand nt or loss of job in not having e Blanton prefaces his atement that he is spending nine months of congressional recess “in making a per of sonal study existing conditions in our N s Capital,” so that he “will be prepared to make recommendations when the Distric committee meets and be able to t with full knowl- edge and intelligence in helping to &olve its problems, Sees Czarist Control. He great plete Colt dic: declares he has ative conclusiv has ever be in than_Col enth of the He says thi: at Col. Sherrill “arrogantly and pompously presides as the sole and exclusive dictator, lawmaker, law- enforcer tract-letter, concession- grar loye-hirer, employe-dis- charger disburser, judge, jury and execution, from whose iron decree | ther of escape.” | Repre Blanton to his e of that nore com- Sherrill “of District of evidence in evide n one-se Lone; is no wa e has found | which he helped to write, de create a traffic director and for the entire District, with its boundaries, a lit- | clause crept in on the last page | which Col. Sherrill is authorized 1 empowered to make and enforce | regulatic »r the control of ve- le and traffic, and limiting the speed provide co-extensi ! by a all CANCER GERM FIND Head of Society Formed to War on Sarcoma Starts for London. By the Associated Prees. NEW YORK, July | warnings against hopc cure 18 an ~While of imme continue to be made by New York authorities, never- | | diate | theless Dr. George A. Soper, managing | | for cancer director of the American Soclety for the Control of Cancer, is going to Lon don to Investigate the cancer virus by two Britizh experts. | Dr. Soper’s chiet. Dr. Francis Carter { Wood, acting president of the society, | compires the Gye-Barnard discoveric | in England with the Einstein theory of | relativity | "It will take 10 years at | prove or disprove the conely of he British scientists,” said Dr. Wood, | “Just as it will take years o prove or dizj rove the Elnstein theory. We have ucd nothing here to show that the ritish experiments on the Rous chick- en tumor have any relation®to cancer Peyton Rous n huzean beings.” e Rockefeller least o to About 15 vears ago Dr. doing research work in Institute in New York, di tumors in chickens were due to small Jrganisms n cau ch ur the 1 >ning the public ortance to scientists not the Dr to at work f Soper Much Yet to Be Done. “It is a long way from seeing, S arnard saw, ultra-microscopic parti believed to be capable of causing sarcoma In fowls, to the eradication f cancer in man The mo: significant fact estab. d experimentally by the British rarchers is that a micro-organism combination with a distinctive liquid extract of a tumor is necessary and sufficient for the production of that type of tumor in other animals “I am going to Burope because the clety is eager to obtain first-hand knowledge of every useful fact that be turned to account in the pre vention and cure for this scourge. Dr. Soper is leaving today on the Veendam Following the suggestion of the Ldndon Lancet that new meth ods developed in the recent British cancer research might cause other diseases to yleld their secrets, comes from London a forecast of the results of an inquiry into smallpox conducted by the Medical Research Council. The London Dally Mail says the report elucidates the role of minute microbes Dr. Wil whose theory as to the result of can- cer has apparently been proved by the British development, says the latest discoveries should result in greater control of the disease. He does not believe an early cure is fore- shadowed. sion has been given to the Welfare Service, the receipts to be spent on public_tennis courts and other play- ground facilities. While a big busi- ness is done in the Government tour- ist house, amounting last month to over $4,000, Representative Blanton says there is/no businesslike check or record of these sales and receipts. He protests that the park police should not be compelled to give hourly police protection throughout the night for the goods, wares and merchandise of the Welfare Service Hits Taxi Concesslon. Col. Sherrill is also charged by Rep- resentative Blanton with having “for the past three years, without charge therefor, granted to the New Taxi Service Company, operating the red top cabs, the exclusive right to main- tain cab stands at the Washington Monument and Hains Point.” Then he goes on to explain that while “‘the Nation inherently own the streets and have the right of easement public place, vet at herently into every dodge through them to an outside post, and a private com pany sells this franchise which be- longs only to the people.’ Pointing to other excluslve monop olies sold by hotels for particular taxi cab companies to occupy the streets adjacent to those hotels, Representa- unl they thereof on roads, highways and bridges within the public grounds of | the District | He that the “voteless,} voiceless. helpless 450,000 people here’ | w eight separate, distinct,! lice each respon- | liffe nd controled Hlati The House | ree; the Senate Office | the police for the Capi. | irounds; ‘police for | Park: police for the| grounds a- | White House of 61 park | an police | | | fthir T systems ent head re grounds police, force Hits Interference. Point training objective regard Il right Army West to \ducive sentative Bl things mili in his point missions of wl he enum ch Col. She flicer, public | National | big ap- | public airs on Also the $600 ver the first of uthor sburser renovating ),000 T f t n | and dred yed park al hu emp| charges t¥ Col. Sher- act which had | which Gov have received $1,70( concessions at the unds and gave the ex free tis for five who *“thus golf course shouses, the g down to the body of Govern down to Hains golf course colored _golf | »rth of the | , with the exclusive golf clothes, bags, | paraphernalia, ice cream, cigarettes, tobac rmits for playing on stor oils and gasoline and isive privilege of operating Al without any competi- | | gt | an stomac 3,000 clt lea the excl five bus: tion Get Police Protection. Not only that, but he quotes a spe- der’ which requires park police these three golf houses hour- Iy volice protection throughout the | night,” when the property therein is | all the personal property of the man who gets these valuable concessions for five vears without paying the Government one dollar.” Representative Blanton makes a imilar explanation of conditions at the tourist camp, where the £onces- cial « “'to give ’ ! tive Blanton said: “I am disgusted with these exclu I promise you that there is going to be a man's fight in the next Congress to break it up. Taxi fares are higher in Washington than in any other omparable city in the United States, and these growing monopolies cause it. The people are entitled to have fair competition.” Scores Guards’ Pay. Col. Sherrill is also charged by presentatives Blanton with issulng ‘tending to Prussianize” the ] hundred guards of public buildings here in Washington. In one of these, he emphasizes, by the appointment of 59 of these guards as special policemen “at $85 per month you required them to do dangerous Jolice duty worth about double their salary.” He calls attention that these men do not get one day off in in lleu of Sunday, which ever: ment employe except yours Charges Raises Unfair. How Col. Sherrill promoted 361 of his employes and raised their salaries for June, in order to consume an un- expended appropriation, is charged by Representative Blanton, who carrying §100 in- cases, ive, but providing that the pay status of each employe promoted would revert back on July to that of May 31. He calls atten- tion that of the 361 promotions only were $85-a-month guards, or those ceiving as low as $1,020 per yea “I have closely watched the pro- seedings of Government officials for ' wrote Representative Blanton, I didn't even dream that anv official would exercise such arbitrary preferment affecting such a great number of employes. I promise you series of I3 ind | now that there is going to be a fight in Congress against future issuance of vetroactive orders eating up unexpend. ed balances of appropriations just be- fore the fiscal year ends observation of | red that | am B. Coley of New York, | quotes a | | 1onge |ctal tran The six explorers, haggard and unshaven, photographed a few minutes after their arrival at Kings Bay, Spitzbergen. Left to right: Omdahl, Dietrich. AWARDED §10,000 IN SLANDER SUIT Leland Gets Verdict in Dam- age Action Against Church Trustee. By the Associated Pre CHICAGO, July 18 $10,000 were awarded by night to Albert R. Leland, wk for $50,000 in a slander suit ag: L. Hartig, trustee of the Oak I Church, to which Leland formerly be: of last -Damages a jury Leland chargec ferred to him as illegitimate child, a rubber in a tur- kish bath, guilty of fraud in a finan- saction and a medical prac- titioner, withouwt a license The suit was an aftermath of a di vorce action brought by Leland, in which the Rev. Carl D. Cace, pastor of the church, wa. used of misconduct by Leland’s wife, Charlotte. She tes that Hartig had re- the father of an tified for her husband in the divorce | suit.® Dr. Case intervened to clear his me and was given a vote of confi- dence by his parishoners. The divorce, denied by the lower court, was granted by the Appellate Court and appealed thoroughfares of the District, and in-| theland not that in the new traffic | Terminal Station the general public|quring an investigation of the divorce is forced to ride in Black and White | 4fuir by a church committee of which taxis, to get in and out of the depot, | Hartig was & member. ive monopolies and | ver- ! | | | official, | were | slander action. | from by Dr. Case to the Supreme Court, general public of Washington and this | where it is pending. Leland to Fight On. The statements attributed to Hartig denied. by him were made Leland filed winst another church the committee. of the divorce suit in the trial of the Leland testified th Dr. Case’s wife had told him the min- ister had “confesed all” to her, but Mrs. Case on the stand later said she had meant her husband had told her hing and denied the charges. Informed of the verdict, Leland de- clared he was “not through fighting.” ‘I have been crucified, and/my fam- also, by the interests which a ing to save the Rev. Carl D. Case, id. Hartig's attorneys as a_church official Hartig was priv leged to investigate reports concern- ing the minister, and argued that Le land’s reputation was not injured by Hartig’s statements, but by the scandal in connection with his divorce case. —— PERSI; PLANS MONOPOLY ON TEA AND SUGAR Proposed State Control of Staples Arouses Feeling Among Bagdad Merchants. Correspondence of the Associated Press. BAGDAD, June 20.—Decision of the Persian government to put through a bill to empower it to take over the import and sale of tea and sugar in Persia as a state monopoly has aroused considerable feeling in com- mercial circles here. The serfousness of the matter from the local point of view may be gauged from the fact that, except for cotton plece goods, a very large proportin of the considerable rd-export trade this country to Persia consists of tea and sugar. The buying ar rangements in Europe and India have until now remained in the hands of Bagdad middlemen, Persian merchants not as a rule buying further afield than this’ city. Presumably, the Persian government intends to make its own arrangements in Europe, and to cut out the Bagdad middleman a similar suit also on charges revived The contended that ;Bandits, Bootleggefs, Bums, Main Finds| Of Evangelist Seeking a Samaritan By the Associated Press NEWARK, July Butz, draftsman and itinerant evangelist, who walked from Newark to Cincinnati and return to determine what a penniless Christian wayfarer might expect from his fellowman, has announced is findings and asserted that man's Inhumanity to man had not changed much from the days of the good Samaritan On his trip, which was con- cluded last night, he said he was given a lift by one of every 30 automobiles accosted. He was held up once in every 118 miles, but one-third of the holdup men gave up their own funds to him when_they learned his mission. Clergymen, church officials, busi- ness and professional men and so- clal agencles refused assistance 20 18 —Harry W. times tc the one time that such help was accorded and he was offered six drinks of whisky to one of coffee. His itinernary included Phila- delphia, Wilmington, Baltimore, Washington, Cumberland, Pitts- burgh, Wheeling and Dayton, re- turning by way of Chillicothe and Washington Court House, Ohio; Parkersburg, W. Va.; Cumberland, Baltimore and Philadelphia. Twelve different bootleggers of- fered him employment and he met 437 working men who said they were driven to tramping for lack of work. Five times, as an experiment, he said. he lay down by the road as if injured. In all 232 automobiles passed him without stopping, an average of nearly 50 before a car slowed down to offer assistance, son, Ellsworth, Amundsen, Feucht and Riiser-Larsen. (Copyright 1925, by North American Newspaper Alllance.) \VAST MASHER ARMY HERE LACKS Reporter, Trailing Pretty Washington's streets are full of amateur mashers, but as for big, bad men who boldly grab innocent women by the arm and drag them into cur- tained limousines or such as that, they are conspicuously absent. In other words, a respectable wom- an may walk alone at night on any of the Capital’s downtown thoroughfares without fear of being insulted, touch- ed on the arm, annoyed with persistent ttentions of strange men or kidnaped, providing she doesn’t carry a chip on her shoulder and does mind her own | business. At least this is the conclusion drawn by a reporter for The Star, who spent two hours last night trailing one of Lieut. Mina Van Winkle’s most comely policewomen in her nightly rounds of the theater dlstrict. The reporter frankly was expecting to see daring acts committed last night. He was prepared to hear shrill screams of frightened women echo- ing adown the narrow canyon of F street, to see leering faces of brutal men lurking in dark hallways, to glimpse high-powered motor cars mak- ink off with their bobbed-haired prey. Flirts’ Methods Genteel. But he had to be satisfied, after long waiting, with tabbing half a doz- en so-called flirts on foot and four in automobiles. Only one of the men went so far as to venture a remark to the policewoman, and he made a harmless little query as to whether she were out for a walk. One young man, more persistently interested than | the others. followed the policewoman for five blocks, but suddenly terminat- ed his innocent little chase when a “wise guy” tapped him on the arm ‘andn whispered, “She's a policewom- an, | 1l set for the excitement, the re- porter began his rounds at Four- teenth and F streets at 8 o'clock. Keeping a respectful distance behind the policewoman, he followed her as she strolled nonchalantly along F street, pausing now and then to look in the shop windows. She was dress- ed conservatively, but attractively, in a small green hat, tan silk dress and white shoes, and swung a purse care- lessly on her arm. At Thirteenth street there stood a young man. He was evidently “look- ing ‘em over.” As our police lady meandered past he straightened his tie and started after her. For half a block he kept close behind, slowing up as she did and continuing his pursuit when she walked on. Be- tween Thirteenth and Twelfth streets he doubled his speed and passed her, sneaking a curious glance at her face as he went by. Look Is Reassuring. Apparently reassured, he went ahead to the corner of Twelfth street and stopped ever so casually to await her {approach, meantime occupying him- !self by reading the street sign on the {lamp-post as though he never before ! had seen one. “Aha,” mused the eager reporter. | “Something is going to happen.” | But nothing did. The policewoman kept looking right ahead as she came abreast of her pursuer, and her in- different manner seemed to flabber- gast the young man so much that he didn't have the courage to speak, if he intended to do so. He did not let this setback long deter him, however. He went through exactly the same process again, and then again, and a fourth time, never mustering up suffi- cient nerve to venture a word. Came Ninth street and the “villain" istill pursued her. By this time, albeit, |he was more determined than ever {to make a catch, it was noted. The reporter believed he sensed this man's feelings. Here was a young woman alone on the downtown streets with undoubtedly no particular objective in mind. Her very attitude bespoke that. It was most singular. What- ever had been the young man's orig- inal intentions, his paramount im- pulse now was to find out just what |this young woman was doing down- Itown alone. Curiosity had taken pos- !session of him. She wouldn't be flirt- ed with, she didn’t seem to be going any place in particular and she ap- peared to be absolutely unafraid and composed. He was going to find out what it was all about. Stranger Is Samaritan. He started forward with renewed determination effervescing at every stride. He had almost caught up with her, was taking his hat off in his most polite manner and was on the jverge of blurting out “I beg pardon” when he felt a tap on the arm. He looked round quickly and saw a stranger at his elbow. The reporter | sional Capacity, Tabs Ten Sheiks Who U Instead of Clubs. | D a middle-aged man with | setting ambled by in time to hear the stranger say: “‘Better lay off, brother. She's a policewoman!” ! And to hear the startled, curious one exclaim; NERVE PRESCRIBED BY CAVE MAN Policewoman, in Profes- se Eyes osh old man." Well, that was that. Onward pushed, the policewoman toward Seventh street, and thence south toward the Avenue. A number of men, old and young, looked at her intently, but got not a smile and made no further advances. Between E and whiskers got interested to the point of giving chase. He passed her and halted to let her go by. As she walked past he lifted his hat as though to speak, but, no response, turned the ges ture into o casual head-scratching motion. Autoist Gets Under Way. About the s The devil she is! Thank me time a young man in an expensive touring car parked at the curb started his motor and cruised along beside the lone woman. The street was virtually deserted. He tooted his horn once or twice, but the woman was oblivious of the fact The touring car continued on to C street, turned the corner and pulled up at the curb between Seventh and Elghth streets. As the girl approached, looking in the store windows with intense in- terest, the driver sounded his signal again’ without success. Then he moved his car ahead and rounded the corner of Eighth street just in time to cause the policewoman to halt to let him pass. He smiled and nodded his head at her, the while tooting his horn, but received no sign of recoglition. He gave it up as a bad job At the corner of Ninth street and Pennsylvania avenue stood a group of typical corner loafers. They all commented among themselves about the woman as she turned up Ninth street and the biggest one of the group, with a wink to his companion, started after her. He hurried ahead and stopped at the next corner to lean lazily against an iron post. As the stroller came opposite him he lifted his hat slightly and smilingly inquired: “Out for a walk She did not appear to hear him and walked on. The heavy one re- mained leaning against the post for a while, then shook his head and returned to his friends. Man Narrowly Escapes. “1 would have taken him in if he had spoken again,” the policewoman confided later. “I believe in giving men the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he was talking to some one else. But if, after my rebuff, he had come for- ward again and repeated his question, I would have felt it my duty to arrest him. That would have constituted annoyance in every sense of the word, and women should not be made to suf- fer annoyance of that kind on Wash- ington’s streets.” As F street was reached again a shower fell, and the policewoman was forced to take shelter in a store en- trance. No man molested her there. The rain over, she retraced F street again. By this time the automobile flirts were out in full force, tooting at strange girls alone, but not going any further than that if the girls paid no attention. Tooting is no crime, it was pointed out. Three drivers tooted at the policewoman between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, but she con- tinued on, unmindful. Thinks Strolling Safe. “I contend that the woman who, for one reason or another, wishes to stroll F street or Ninth street or the Avenue alone at night may do so in absolute safety, If she doesn't encourage the attentions of strange men,” the police- woman declared after her rounds. ““The mere fact that men may look at her closely and may manifest their interest in her to the extent of follow- ing her, and perhaps attempting to speak, does not amount to an insult. The woman should feel gratified that she is attractive enough to interest men. Pity those who fail to attract men! Of course, if a man persists in his attentions when he knows they are not wanted, it is high time he was kailed into court and fined. He is a public nuisance. “I believe there areé very few men in Washington who will_deliberately force their attentions on strange women. “All in all, I think Washington 1s as safe for women as any other city in the country. Italo-Jugoslav Treaties Delayed. ROME, July 18 (#).—The signing of 32 new treatles between Italy and Jugoslavia, scheduled for today, has ‘been postponed because the Jugoslay minister has not yet received authori- zation from his government to sign. The treativs were concluded at a re- cent conference at Vienna. They @ealt largely with the local commercial U. S-GERMAN POLE FLIGHT IS OPPOSED Wilbur Unwilling to Attempt Joint Flight—Navy Not Ready, He Says. | B the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, inadvisable at the present time for the United States to join with Ger- many in a dirigible expedition to the North Pole next Spring, Secretary of Navy Curtis D. Wilbur said here yes- terday when informed such a project had been suggested by Dr. Hugo Eck- ner, the German Zeppelin expert The plan, as outlined to Mr. Wil bur, proposed that each country fly its own atrship, the two keeping in constant touch with and supplement- ing each other. “The opinion of Dr. Eckner, who brought our own naval dirigible Los | Angeles from Germany to the United States, is entitled to great respect,” |'Secretary Wiibur sald, “and there is | no doubt that the use of two dirigi- bles instead of one for such a project would be very desirable. Awaits MacMillan Data. “However, at the present time the United States Navy has no intention of making any commitments toward a dirigible polar flight. We will first await the report of the present Mac Millan _expedition on Arctic condi- tions before considering such project.” “While inflated with lifting power of the Navy's dirigibles | is lessened, and consequently the amount of gasoline carried is ‘ess and the range of action is corresponding- ly decreased,” the Secretary said. An- other complication, he pointed ou was that the accumulation of sno and ice on the ships would materially increase their weight. “We would not be willing to risk a polar expedition with a lighter-than- | alr machine until some of the prob- | lems presented have been satisfac- torily solved,” he stated. CONFESSES MURDER ON MARYLAND FARM Prisoner at Salisbury, 22, Held for Death of James Carey, Left on Railroad. July 18.—It is helium By the Associated Press. SALISBURY, Md., July 18.—James Wilmington detectives and Sheriff ‘Wilmer Purnell of Worcester County to the murder and robbery of James Carey, aged well-to-do farmer, whose | body” was found lying along the rail- road tracks east of Willards yesterday afternoon. FOUR MEN ARE CONVICTED IN SALISBURY RUM CASE Jury Disagrees on Charge Against Former Police Chief and Acquits 12 of Defendants. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, July 19.—Four of the 17 defendants in the Salisbury Beach rum-running case, on trial in Federal District Court, were convicted by a Jjury which reported today after near- iy 19 hours’ deliberation. The jury dis. agreed in the case of one defendant and reported verdicts of not gulilty in the cases of 12 others. The defendants, who “include one woman, were indicted for violation of the tariff act of 1922. Those convicted were Herman L. Rich, Newburyport; Carl Voss, Newburyport; John Serib- ner, Portsmouth, N. H., and Herbert E. True, former policeman of Salis- bury. All four were released on their original bail. The jury reported a disagreement in the case of Harold F. Congdon, selectman and former police chief of Salisbury, and he also was admitted to bail on his fornier bonds, Those ac- quitted included Mrs. Sarah Congdon, wife of the former police chief. CARDINAL BEGIN WORSE. QUEBEC, July 18 (#).—A turn for the worse was noted today in the condition of Cardinal Begin, aged Catholic primate of Canada, who has been partly paralyzed since he sus- tained a_stroke last Sunday. The { Pre {‘-f the Republic, G. Baker, 22 yvears old, has confessed to | morning bulletin_issued by his physi- clans said the cardinal's condition was “not so satisfactory” and indicated renewed fears for his recavery. The ¢ardinal is 88 years LEGION OPENS WAR ON3U. 5. AGENCIES ————— Will Push Fight for Merger of Federal Personnel Bodies. 2 MILES AN HOUR SPEED LIMIT SEEN Traffic Director Eldridge Con- sidering Regulations for Outlying Boulevards. Determined to wage a finish fight on the three government agencies | which it holds to be unnecessary to| the conduct of personnel affairs in the Government service, the veterans'| joint committee of the department of | the District of Columbia and the| American Legion have joined hands | with the National Federation of Fed-| eral Employes to consolldate the Bu-| reau of Efficiency, the Personnel Clas sification Board and the United States Employes' Compensation Commission with the Civil Serwice Commission Claiming that the latter organizay tion should have complete supervision'| over personnel and efficiency ratings trom the time an employe s the service until his discharge or retire ment, the legjon is planning to carry the fight into the annual convention at Omaha in October, and to bring Lefore Congress when that body venes next December. A meeting the joint committee will be held w in two weeks at the I ing to concentr: veterans' organizations posed consolidation ar welght of the se ganizations behind movement. See Sav | 1 con on line up interested 1 the ng in Many. Leaders in the campaign to for the consolidation believe su amalgamation will resulf in actual money saving to the Governmient personnel administration and 1 efficient handling of personnel ters. From the viewpoint of the w: veteran the administration of the var jous veterans' preference acts will be facilitated and the veteran will re cefve his just dues under the proposed consolidation Complete authority should be giver the Civil Service Commission under the program mapped out and by joint committee to rate employes for effi clency, classification and to follow their Government service up to the | date of discharge, even through the rocesses of discharge from injury and the compensation to be paid them for injury received in line of dut The joint committee is headed by Wil Mam H. Carroll. department « mander of the Veterans “oreign Wars and a member of the Americar Legion The fight will be carried i Legion convention at Omaha by lan Wood, legal adviser to t committee and elected as a to the national ntion on form in support of the veterans' p erence acts. Mr. Wood holds the opin jon that the executive order issued by dent Coolidge on June 4, transfer of jurisdiction over Fed eral employes from the bureau and division chiefs to the Personnel Classi fication Board, contravenes the vet erans’ preference acts. Mr. Wood takes the view ther is or is not e benefits of the veterans' prefe ent acts, and that the longevity pro- | of the executive order of June 4 indirectly keep veterans out of the | benefits accruing to them as a result of the various ac The campaign >_the Ha elegate a plat that titled will be begun when | Congress convenes, and will be carried into the various committees which have to do with veteran matters The National Federation of Federal Employes, at a meeting earlier in the year, passed resolutio; consolidation of the various pe organizations and reco the Government appoint manager. g e REV. W. L. VAN HORN CLAIMED BY DEATH Pastor of Wisconsin Avenue Bap- tist Church Dies After Short Illness. of miles an hour A speed 1 for the outlying streets on which cro stown required to stop is bei Traffic Director Eidridge aides Although cross-town traffic being required to stop b or enterin 15 cor Connecticut general hour | vehic continue adhere limit until reached & le to paint | THREE TRY TO SAVE SCOTT FROM ROPE: BROTHER IS MISSING He said e d 1 the 1 the Scott Chicago brother: Maurer Build entere wed ther and heated 10's & continued them from the store and in a striking po ott bent forward veral reports rang out crumpled Russell, the br was standing with his nds to his sides and could not ha ight have fired fror the gun fir Ba coat pocket or with t discover the mistake ir betwe ¥ Scotts until newspaper troubled h ned h telograr m i sking ; sses, 1 cott's to tel store or anior ot see the shc g, the att No Sign of Brother. Robe t, who p: which would save received by the If the cond time telegram message 15 the ed the I A reprieve tions fc plete. governof sheriff, tion. yver d prepara with ered to p the execu the telegram Rev. Willlam L. Van Horn, 76 years | old, pastor of Wisconsin Avenue Bap tist Church, dled at the home of his friend, J. W. Rogers, Cherrydale, Va resterday after a short illness. He had been pastor of the church for the last two and a half years. Rev. Mr. Van Horn was a veteran | of the Union Army, and had long be an active member of the Grand Army | being a member of the A. R. post of Fargo, N. D. He| was also a thirty-third degree Mason. | He was a member of the John R. Sin-| gleton Lodge of Friendship, D. C., and past patron of Unity Chapter, O. E. 8. Rev. Mr. Van Horn was at one time | an employe of the State Department here. | | Prior to accepting the pastorate of | the local church he vears pastor of the First Baptist Church of Fargo, N. Dak., and dur ing the early part of his career was | pastor of several churches in West Virginia_and_Ohio. Rev. Mr. Van Horn was of Pennsylvani: four daughters was for many | a native He is survived by Miss Lillian E. Van “orn and Mrs. E. C. Flemming of Fargo, Mrs. D. O. Lofthouse of B mark, N. Dak., and Mrs. O. R. Butler of Dover, N. H., and two sons, Frank E. Van Horn of Fargo and Lieut. C. W. Van Horn of the United States Navy. Funeral services will be conducted at the Wisconsin Avenue Baptist Church tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment will be Fargo, Dak MARRIES ROYALTY. Charles H. Huberich Marries Prin- cess Nina Mdivani Secretly. LONDON, July 19 (®).—The Daily Sketch says Charles Henry Huberich of New York was secretly married in the registrar's office at Oxford to Princess Nina Mdivani, daughter of Gen. Prince Zacharias Mdivani, aide to the late Czar Nicholas. The engagement of Mr. Huberich and Princess Nina was announced in London in April. He is an interna tional lawyer of prominence, maintain. ing offices in Berlin and The Hague, as well as New York. He is 48 years old and a graduate of Yale, '89. He also attended the universities of Ber- lin and Heidelberg. He was formerly professor of law at the University of Texas, Leland Stanford and the University of Wisconsin. Princess Nina is 22. ARMY TRUCK HITS CAR. Following a collision hetween a United States Army truck and a Washington Railway and Electric street car on the Union Station Plaza today, James A. Murray, colored, 1311 Corcoran street, was arrested by | police of the sixth precinct on a charge of operating a vehicle while intoxicated. After the collision with the car the truck swerved and knocked down ‘an electric light pole. An additional charge of collision also was placed against the driver. Neither the truck nor the street car was seriously EX-ALDERMAN SLAIN. 7.2) NEW erick Sn was she ch taneously in wi of the city ve robberies did the ba getting the pi 1t in every instance they escs Smith, who was emple salesman by Meier & Oelhaf Ir Works, vhen three arme: unr held his employers v 1 was i several hours later A pay staged 21y separate: In n dits succeed city man iHeg S one 1 almo in attempte W were nen the He di a hospital DRASTIC U. S. ACTION COOLIDGE’S PLAN TO AVERT COAL CRISIS (Continued from First Page.) n dking stopped 1, bared several mome down President stood for revery. looking moving stream below. He t members of his party to joi the rail and, much to the surprise of many, he announced that this spot wonld make a good setting f group photograph Talks the er slowly his ts in en cal Little Girls. to Mrs aid accor |the Presid was made and Gillett of tary Sanders, Maj Adolphus Andrew and Col. S. A tary aide | increased and thr terday occ Bridge. As | stepped toward bim and asked if she jcould sive him son 1y my child,’ the President ied Whereupon _ Paul with pret blonde hair, in pig talls. presented newly baked cake decorated with two | small American flags. On the ot side of the bridge the President ceived a bunch of sweet peas from Elizabeth Wentworth, 7 years old who was so nervous in his presence that she nearly lost the flow ers in the bouquet. said aft ward that the President had asked her name and where she lived and if she knew all about the Battle of Lexington and it was because of aull this that she became S0 nervous. The Pr ay have had a great da it was a far greater one for these two little girls. The fact that the President had Senator Butler at his side through out yesterday's activities and that he has done the same thing twice be- fore since coming here, did not pass without comment. It has led nuny observers to feel satisfied that the senatorial campaign of 1926 has be- gun, that the President in his own peculiar own way, has started it nt up with the Mayflower par reached > review. of ¢ wher ar the President's old thing. “Uer Te re