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2 * THE EVENL NG. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1925. PERSONNEL PICKED - FORHAWAN FLIGRT Comdr. John Rodgers Chosen as Leader on Proposed Non-Stop Hop. By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, July 24.—When three huge seaplanes wing their way into the air on the Pacific coast for the Navy's proposed non-stop flight to Hawali late in August or early in September they will be guided by some of the most experienced flylng saflors in the world Comdr. John Rodgers, who has been designated as flight unit commander and will pilot one of the two PN-9 ships, is a pioneer in naval aviation Lieut. Comdr. J. H. Strong, who will pilot the Boeing plane has de voted his activities in the main to aviation since the World W: Lteut. Ralph E. Davison, to be navigating officer aboard the Boeing plane, Is regarded as a leading au- thority on aerial navigation and especially the aerology of the Polar regions. Served With Battle Fleet. Since his entrance in the Naval Academy in 1912 most of his service has been related to aviation in the torpedo and bombing squadrons of the battle fleet and at the Norfolk ,A HERO AND HIS RESCUED CHUM pool of stagnant water, into which he h ton Webb. Shenandoah Tows “ and Pensocola Fields. He was born in 1895. Lieut. A. P. Snody, who will pilot the second PN-9 plane, entered the Navy during the war and received his permanent commission December 6. 1921. He was born in 1894. Lieut. Arthur Gavin, one of the second pilots of the PN-9 ships, also entered the Navy from civilian life during the war and received his per- manent commission September 6, 1921. Lieut. Rico Botta, born in 1888 in Australia, s a noted aviation engi- neering specialist. He will be engi- neer on the Boeing plane, which has been designated PB-1. He entered the Navy during the war. Lieut. Andrew Crinkley will be the first alternate pilot. He has had much experience with the larger sea- planes. Lieut. C. H. Schildhauer, second alternate PN-9 pilot, was one of the pllots who stayed in the air 28 hours and 30 minutes in a PN-9 plane, which was being tested at Philadelphia in preparation for the trans-Pacific flight. Instructions to Ships. Tnstructions to commanders of sur- face vessels, which will guard the route of the flight, reveal the care to be taken for the protection of the aviators. The eleven ships, stationed at inter- vals of approximately 200 miles, will be known as plane guardships and will take their positions at midnight August 27. The orders issued sald: “Stations must be maintained with all possible accuracy. “All plane guardships shall for one hour prior to the expected passing of the planes, and one hour afterward, make a dense smoke by day and point search lights in the direction of the planes at night, making the call let ters of the station frequently. “In case of searchlight failure, a rocket shall be fired at 10-minute in- tervals. “Each guardship shall, after the last plane passes, follow the planes on the base course at high speed for 2 hours and then continue on the base course at moderate speed until fur- ther orders.” Ships Carry Fuel. When a plane is known to have been forced down, the nearest plane guardships will proceed to locate it. Alrplanes still in the air will be in formed by radio of the change in po- sitions of these ships. The other planes will normally continue the fiight, informing the nearest plane guard vessels by radio of the location of the plane forced down Each plane guard vessel will carry 230 gallons of aviation gasoline and 5 gallons of aviation oil and be pre- pared to refuel any plane. Ships carrying aircraft will main- tain them ready for searching oper- ations and use them as deemed neces sary. Planes forced down will hoist radio kites and fire Very's pistols to ald visibility. Arrangements will be made with merchant vessels along the route to | maintain _a sharp lookout for the | planes. These ships also will be re-| quested to report any planes passing and to render any assistance needed. WITTNER CUT “GOD” AND “SWEARS” FROM OATH IN TREASURY Continued from First Page.) ter showing disrespect for the Bible, will fall flat on technical errors, nev- theless he has assured the National Capital of a greater sensation. Corporation Counsel Stephens, rath- er than allow a debate in the court, seeks to let Congress settle the ques- tion in consideration of the next ap- propriation bill, either striking out the Summers amendment or replac- ing it after a thorough debate. This is considered practically to sure a trial of the evolution issue in the House of Representatives without the restraining requirements of court procedure and may make Washington the center of world interest next Win- ter, even more than Dayton, Tenn., has been for the past few weeks. In the membership of the House are included both modernists and funda- mentalists, with a few who profess no religious faith, so that a long and heated debate is promised. Blanton's Statement. epresentative Thomas L. Blanton of Texas, who was present when the Summers’ amendment was offered and who assented to it, last night issued the following written statement: “Just a few minutes before the amendment in question was offered by Dr. Summers of Washington, I made a point of order that no quorum was present. The roll was called and 233 members responded to their names. Of course, the usual number wandered out, but there was left quite a num- ber of the active men of the House. “The Record quotes me as saying | that I would not make the point of order against it. This was because the amendment was so framed that it was a limitation, impervious to a point of order. “To members who are active on the floor, it is well known that for several years Dr. Summers has strongly con- demned the action of several teach- ers in the Washington schools be- cause of their stand on the three sub- jects mentioned in his amendment. “Dr. Summers is a prominent and popular member of the House, and it is my firm belief that if the propo- sition had been forced to a vote on that afternoon his amendment would have carried by a large majority. “You ask for my opinion. I never Hits Scored by Left to right: Blair 0’Connor, eight Battleships ears old,"who was pulled from a had fallen yesterday, by his chum, Bur- Dirigible” Target For Anti-Aircraft Guns Off Norfolk Kept Secret—Big “Sleeve” Fire'd' On at 5,000-Ft. Range Is Put Under Lock and Key at Ordnance Depot. By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va., July 24.—A 50-foot targgt sleeve, with an undisclosed number of holes in it, was held under lock for confidential inspection at the naval base here today—and with it the answer to what may happen when l)al_ll?shlp meets dirigible. Yesterday the target, resembling a minlature dirigible, trailed at the end of a 2,000-foot wire from the dirigible Shenandoah while the anti-aircraft guns of the battleship Texas blazed away at it. When the tests were com- pleted the Shenandoah returned from | off the Virginia Capes, dropped t| target at the naval base, and it was quickly retrieved to be rushed off in an automobile to the ordnance depot, where it was locked up. Just how successful the tests were has not been disclosed, ing regarded at this stage as confl- dential, but a hasty examination of the target after it was dropped was said to have disclosed a dozen or more holes. The target is understood to have been towed at an aititude to the results be- glive a range of about 5,000 feet. By demonstrating the defensive power of battleships against attack from dirigibles, the results of the tests are expected to shed further light on the question of the relative value of aircraft and surface ships. The firing was observed from aboard the Texas by Assistant Secretary Robin- son and several high naval officials. The Shenandoah was ready for fur- ther maneuvers at sea today after riding last night at the mooring mast of the Patoka, anchored just inside the capes AUSTRALIAN CITIES FETE U. 5. FLEET Melbourne and Sydney Open Arms to Officers and Sailors on Visit. By the Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO, July 24.—The United States fleet in Australia_rode on waves of friendship today. While the war dogs were berthed off shore at Melbourne and Sydney officials of the government at the two cities vied with each other in extending a warm welcome to officers and men of the fleet. Cables received here said Admiral Robert E. Coontz at Melbourne was greatly delighted “with the generous and kindly welcome” of Australia, but added that he was not surprised. Today the fleet forces lined up for a dress parade through the gaily deco- rated streets of Melbourne. The parade is programmed as a brilliant spectacle, Last night the visiting officers and men were received everywhere in the homes of citizens, while the Returned Soldiers’ League joined in the recep- tion at an entertainment for 500 men of the fleet. The enthusiastic atmosphere created by the reception caused the governor general of Australia to cable the Bri- tish Ambassador at Washington ask- ing him-to convey greetings to Presi- dent Coolidge and the people of Ame! ica and express the most cordial friendship and good will for the visit of the fleet. COOLIDGE LAUDS WELCOME. Sees Cordiality Emphasized by Greet- ing to Fleet. SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., July 24.—In recognition of the enthusiastic greet- ing accorded the American fleet upon its arrival In Australian waters by the government and people of that country, the President has issued the following public statement: “The welcome accorded the Ameri- can fleet upon its arrival in Australian waters by the government and people of the commonwealth of Australia has been most gratifying. It is my hope that the visit of the American fleet in the far Pacific may assist in em- phasizing the cordfal relations which now exist between the United States and the other nations of the world.” MUST RETURN OLD EGGS. Dry Agent Ordered to Give Up Food 20 Months Old. Eggs, butter and other eatables, in addition to 49 bottles of liquor, seized by prohibition agents November 28, 1923, were ordered returned yesterday by Justice Bailey of the District Su- preme Court on the application of Marvin A. Lusby. The liquor and eatables were taken when police and revenue men raided Lusby’s place, at 421 Eighth street southeast. Elmer E. Irey, chief of the intelligence unit of the prohibition enforcement unit, had declined to surrender the things selz- | ed, even though the charge of violat- ing the prohibition law against Lusby had been nolle prosse tax money of the people of the United States, teaching ‘disrespect for the Holy Bible,’” and 1 was for Dr. Sum- mers’ amendment on May 8, 1924, am for it now and I will be for it when- ever it forms another issue before the House.’! Wittner Brief Studied. Corporation Counsel Stephens spent totday studying the Wittner brief, seeking additional errors upon which he may base his motion for dismissal on the preliminary injunction hearing before Justice Siddons next Tuesday, There is no conflict between Chris- tianity and sclence, Dr. Charles E. Munroe, dean emeritus of the school of graduate studies of George Wash- ington University and chairman of the committee on_explosives investi- gations of the National Research Council, declared yesterday at the luncheon meeting of students of the Woodward School, held in the audi- torium of the Y. M. C. A. Mothers of the seventh grade stu- dents of the Woodward School were straddle the fence, and will give it. I am against any teacher in any Gov- ernment school maintained by : the guests at the luncheon. Next Tues- day mothers of eighth grade students will be guests at a luncheon meeting. 5] ORDER ENFORCING | OF SAFETY ZONES City Heads Change Rules to Ban Violation of White Lines Though Space Is Vacant. Motorists will be prohibited from driving through safety zones that are marked by painted white lines even when such zones are unoccupied by pedestrians under an amendment to the traffic code adopted by the District Commissioners today. Under the former regulations vehl- cles could pass through these safety zones provided there were no pedes- trians standing in them. Trafc Di- rector Eldridge said, however, that it was deemed necessary to require drivers to go around these areas at all times In order to impress drivers with the fact that they are reserved for pedestrians. Another new regulation requires that when a new driver i8 out for in- struction the licensed driver must oc- cupy the front seat beside him and no other person shall be In the car at the time. The regulations permit a person to drive without a while learning, but the former phrase- ology was not clear enough, in the opinion of Mr. Eidridge, He said cases have come to light recently in which the licensed driver was in the rear seat, where he could not assist in controlling the car if necessary. Owners Responsible. The regulation dealing with over- loading of trucks was amended to make the owner of the truck respon sible for violations rather than the driver. Another new clause in the code gives Mr. Eldridge discretionary pow ers to erect “no parking’ signs at the shipping entrances of commercial concerns where the parking of vehicles interferes with the movement of the trucks, of business establish- ments. A new section provides that no motor vehicle shall be operated at any time when in the opinion of the traffiic director it 18 not in a safe mechanical condition. There are already specific regulations governing brakes, but this regulation would cover all other parts of the automobile. Parking on Sidewalk Barred. Another new section provides that no vehicle shall be parked so that any part of it is on the sidewalk. The following are included in a list of changes in parking restrictions add- ed_to the regulations today: No_ parking at any time on Thir- teenth street between Clifton street and Florida avenue. This was or- dered because of the steep grade in that square. Fourteenth street from H street to Monroe street, parking limited to one hour between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. Seventeenth street from Pennsyl- vania avenue to K street, no parking from 8 a.m. to 9:15 a.m., and one-hour parking from 9:15 to 6 p.m. Connecticut avenue from the south end of the Connecticut Avenue Bridge to Rodman street, no parking on the west side in the morning rush hour and no parking on the east side in the afternoon rush hour. Irving street between Thirteenth street and Sixteenth street, no parking on the south side at any time. Other Parking Changes. _Florida avenue, no parking on either side at any time for distance of 150 feet east and west of Seventh street. Seventh street between T street and Florida avenue, parking on both sides limited to 15 minutes at all times. T street between Florida avenue and Seventh street, parking limited on both sides 15 minutes at all times. U street from Sixth to Fourteenth street, one hour parking, both sides, at_all times. Eighteenth street from Q street to Calvert street, no parking on the west side in the morning hour and no parking on the east side in the evening rush hour. Robinson street between L and M. streets is made one way for south- bound traffic. The regulation prohibiting the left hand turn into Mount Vernon place by vehicles going north on Seventh street is extended to.provide for no left hand turn at that intersection in any direction, | ¢ license | STATE LABOR BODY WILL BACK MINERS Pennsylvania Federation Pledges Support to Hard Coal Workers. By the Associated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.. July 24— James H. Maurer, president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor, ar- rived today to pledge support of the 500,000 members of his organization to the anthracite miners in the scale negotiations with the mine owners. Mr. Maurer formally extended promise of such co-operation at morn- ing conference held with the miners’ subcommittee in advance of the joint acale discussion. “The State Federation of Labor of Pennsylvania,” Mr. Maurer sald, “Is backing the anthracite men to the limit. If, unfortunately, the meetings with the mine owners’ resulted in dis- agreement and were followed by sus- pension, the miners can count on the full moral and material support of their brother workers throughout the State if and as 1t becomes necessary.” Mr. Maurer said his arrival at this time did not indicate, however, that the scale situation has necessarily be come acute. He sald he intended to remain here probably as long as ne- gotlations lasted. PROSPERITY ON RISE, MONTANA TENDS TO CONSERVATISM (Continued from First Page.) vatism firmer still. Yet, if the pendu- lum should swing violently in the op- posite direction, the foundations would undoubtedly be shaken, and some- thing resembling radicalism might again raise its head. Most Montanans believe they can keep the pendulum moving in the present direction largely because of what the recent past has taught them During the years 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923 and 1924, for {nstance, there were 649 bank failures in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho and Wyoming. About one-quarter of these, or 1§35, were in Montana. North and South 'Dakota had the lion's share, with 391 faflures between them. It i< now conceded by authorities that at least half of these Northwestern banks were compelled to close be- cause of a combination of bad bank- ing and bad farming. Mistakes were made that are not going to be made again. Of the 757 banks in the United States that closed in 1924, 490, or 65 per cent, had capital of $25,000 or less. Only 77 banks that closed, or about 10 per cent of the total number, had capital of $100,000 or more. The point in these figures is that the really first-class banks of the Northwest withstood the storm like sturdy oaks The net result is that the banking situation today, through weeding out of the weak sisters, is sounder and stronger than ever. Unsparing tribute is paid to Federal financing agencies like the War Finance Corporation, the Intermediate Credit Bank and the Agricultural Credit Corporation for their generous and well conceived aid in restoring the economic equilibrium In Montana special gratitude is ex- tended to Eugene Meyer, jr., the managing director of the War Finance Corporation, whose understanding of the West's problems Is acclaimed on all hands. Bankers Are Optimistic. Tt was my good fortune to attend and address the Montana Bankers' Assoclation annual convention this month. Conservatice optimism was the keyncte of the meeting. In the speeches of Trevor O. Hammond of Helena, president of the association, and of all his confereres there was the ring of confidence that the period of stress is definitely over, and that nothing in the discernible future can undermine the solid basis on which agriculture and business in Montana now rest. Ever and always such expectatlons are founded on the keen desire for a minimum of interference by Congress or by the State Legislature. Only a few weeks ago the banks of Montana were threatened with a deposit guar anty law, whereby they were to be assessed for a fund to indemnify the depositors of bankrupt institutions. President Hammond stigmatized that project as a type of the legislative meddling that is designed to injure business in general and banking in particular. That it may be spared from attacks of this sort is the prayer not only of the Montana banking com munity, but of the State at large. They are very genuinely tired of the political medicine men's prescriptions Diversification Has Helped. Montana is a splendid example of the “diversification” program now in wide swing throughout the West. Once upon a time the State produced little but wheat, cattle and copper. Today its soil is bearing a great va- riety of things and nourishing new industries. Wheat and copper are still the great staples, but Montana now has a big and growing oil indus- try, budding sugar and canning in- dustries, an expanding wool trade, a revived live stock industry, a. most promising dairying trade, billions of feet of uncut timber, water resources of 2,000,000 horse-power awaiting de- velopment, and tens of thousands of square miles of arable land beckoning the settler along several thousand miles of great railroad lines travers- ing the commonwealth in every di- rection. Montana, like the rest of the open spaces, is hungry for popu- lation. It is, therefore, not overly enthusiastic about restricted immigra- tion. It has only a round half mil- lion inhabitants now. But being as blg as New England, New York, and part of Pennsylvania combined, it could accommodate five million with- out danger of congestion. Some day Montana hopes to have such a popu- lation, and it is easy to believe that there is ample opportunity within her borders to support and enrich it. G. 0. P. Prospects Good. Although Montana voted for Cool- idge, it has two Democratic United States Senators and a Democratic governor. The State is normally Re- publican. A visitor is told that both Senators Walsh and Wheeler and Gov. Erickson were elected mainly because of the inferiority of their Re- publican opponents, and that some day, when better G. O. P. candidates are in the fleld, Montana will return to its regular Republican allegiance. For a good many yvears it has been the political fashion to assail big business . in Montana, as typified mainly by the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. More than one statesman has ridden into power on the anti- Anaconda platform. Today public men and the people at large seem to recognize the folly of harrassing in- terests that are vital to the State's economic existence. The Anaconda Co., in its mines at Butte and at its smelters and refineries at Great Falls and elsewhere, employs 16,000 men. Tt pays out $25,000,000 annually in wages. One-sixth of all the taxes paid into the State treasury every year comes from. the Anaconda. In a very real way, Montana's prosperity is wrapped up with the welfare of the great corporation organized by . It , they glad tidings that Corneils B eley. Spresident ot the WINNING FIREMEN WILL BE HONORED Fenning to Present Cup Given by The Star for Fastest Getaway. Plans were being made today for awarding the cup offered by The Star for the fire company which made the fastest getaway from a station on sounding of an alarm. The tests, conducted during the past few days, resulted in a victory yesterday for No. 23 Engine Company, located on G street near Twenty-third street, which made a record of 715 seconds, lowering a record of 10 seconds, pre- viously claimed by a Baltimore fire company. The cup probably will be awarded at exercises at the engine company's quarters next Wednesday at 10 o'clock, although the exact time i¢ to be announced later. Commissioner Fenning, under whose jurisdiction comes the Fire Department, will ac cept the cup from The Star for the Fire Department and turn it over to the company, which will keep it for one year. Next Summer other tests will be made to decide who will have the cup for another year. Plan Wider Tests. As soon as the announcement of No. 23 Engine Company's victory was | made in The Star yesterday after-| noon Commissioner Fenning left the District Buflding and motcred to the company’s quarters on G strget and there personally congratulated Capt. B. W. Weaver, commanding the com- pany, and the men under him. The record, which set a new mark for the whole country to shoot at, was considered a good {ndication of the efficiency which marks the whole Dis- trict Fire Department, and the tests were praised by officials generally as being heipful in keeping up morale and_discipline. Officials of the Fire Department were discussing today the advisabil ity of changing the tests somewhat for next year and making them in- clude more of the activities of the department than the simple getting away from a station house on a fire alarm. It was suggested that the tests next year will include going to a fire plug at a designated dis- tance, getting the hose attached and raising a certain water pressure. It was also pointed out that tests for efficiency might be especially ar- ranged for the truck and rescue squad companies and others for the fire boat, and certain standards of efficiency designated upon which awards of merit could be based. MACCABEES BACK VOTE FOR DISTRIT Suffrage Resolution Support- ed Unanimousty—Delegates Leaving City Today. Led by the supreme officers of theit organization, 10,000 Maccabees, who have participated this week in the quadrennial convention of the frater- nal body, Were leaving Washington today for their homes all over the United States and Canada. By automo- bile and by train they left the Capi- tal, in small groups and indlvidually, as they came to gather in Washing- ton last Monday for the convention which concluded yesterday. Supreme Commander A. W. Frye,| the other supreme officers and many visiting Maccabees. left early today for Chatham, Pa., where they will spent the late’ afternoon and evening in- specting the International Maccabee Home. The next convention will. be held in July, 1930, in the new $2,000.- 000 home of ‘the order in Detroit. As the closnig business of the Su preme Review the high council of the Maccabees, the organization passed a resolution announcing its stand in favor of suffrage for the District of Columbia. The resolution was intro- duced last Tuesday. but was then re- ferred to the resolutions committee after some discussion. Yesterday it came out of committee to the floor of the convention and was passed with- out a dissenting vote. The convention also passed resolutions thanking the Commissioners, the people of Wash- ington and the local newspapers for the treatment accorded here. A party at the Earle Theater ended- the for- mal convention schedule. Tt e e e T Anaconda Co.. conveyed to his State this week. He sald that the volume of business in copper and copper | products during the first six months of 1924 exceeds that of any ltke period in the history of the industry While copper production in Montana is upon a somewhat curtailed basis, | zinc production is at its peak and, upon the whole, the mining opera- tion compares favorably with that of any former period. This year something approaching an output of 300,000,000 pounds will be produced. The Anaconda Co. s do- ing the largest business in its career. When Montanans hear these things, learn that the wheat crop will prob- ably be worth $75,000,000, and that the Shelby oil flelds are gushing as never before, they feel justified in a: serting that they are “sitting prett: Unless every external sign is decep- tive, that rosy outlook is entirely rea- sonable. Incidentally, Montanans think their State has vast undiscover- ed possibilities as an oil fleld. In Montana, as in all the other Northwestern States I have crossed, Coolidge sentiment is strong. It is con- ceded even by leading Democrats. The President has convinced this section of the country, with his economy and tax, reduction program, that his feet are on the ground, and that he is pursuing generally that policy of con- servatism in both national and inter- national affairs that is bound to have a favorable influence upon conditions throughout the United States. Mon- tana contains a heavy leavening of Scandinavians. Hundreds of them journeyed to the Twin Citles to hear Mr. Coolidge speak at the Norse centennial in June. They came home ardently pro-Coolidge, and are spread- MOSTLY CAT, BUT SOCME RABBIT In the midst of all the evolution talk, nature produced this freak. Jt Tooks like a cat, but by cov the fore-quarters the likeness of its hind legs and tail to those of a n be seen. Moreover, it hops like a rabbit. MABBT AND KITEN BRODKHART GANS OVBINED N ONE N SERATE RECDUNT Creature Has Head and Body ‘ Leads Steck by 300 Votes in of Cat, With Hind Legs and | Race for Contested lowa Tail of Bunny. | Seat. | on A creature with the head and for substantial gain for Senator :)o“}y ‘r:r a C;“I l!;ut the hind :n' X -;l’:"tr,r'mkh rt in the recount of ballots ail of a rabbit is playing abo el tro st year's Iow: ectio s farmyard of Dr. K. B. Jones, super- | i ety ‘I”_“‘:_, f‘l'““l e intendent of the District Home for |"“& ey pone P ens | Foc the Feeble Minded, near Laurel, Md.|0n the basis of unofficial tabulation It now is about seven wecks old,| The unofficial figures wiped out a one of a litter of three kittens born | Previous gain made by Daniel F. Steck, to a gray housecat in the barn of [the Democratic opponent of Mr. John Welsh, a neighboring farmer. | Brookhart, and gave the Senator & All the litter had the same char- |lead of 300 vot acterlstics. ' One died soon after birth| Madison Township, Buchanan Coun- and one was retained by Mr. e sl i " who presented the other to Dr. Jones. | ¥, and Jefferso; “""h‘_l’v Bremer T e erentave purea whem. 1te | County, furnished the Brookhart gain Tmeows when | today, errors in the original tellers’ back is scratched and frightened or hungry like an ordinary Kkitten, but it betrays traces of a wilder ancestry even aside from its count being given as an explanation. 125 Arrow Ballots Found. It is a female and the nature of its own first litter of Kittens is awalt with interest. Although the mother has been de-| nounced as a wandering, wanton | hussy by narrow-minded leaders nf" the best feline society, \VISITS WIFE'S OFFICE AND DRINKS POISON upon the Kittens. | Former Navy Man Attempts Sui re a v lanations, loca i 7 ng:;;g“;;v.mo e cide in Veterans' Bureau. st is that the creature may Y MTxiwra';l;(‘.tAlire‘\fl’smn to a rabbit-like Will Live. ancestry millions of vears ago. such | o s occurs when huma . back over the whole ape family to the | floor of the Veterans' Bureau by a monkeys. | subterfuge today, Charles C. Sum- X New S | mers, 28, a Government clerk, walked May Be New Species. lover to the desk of his wife, Mrs The second, which will become|Lyra T. Summers, a clerk in the apparent only when the kitten herself | finance unit of the Veterans' Bureau, becomes a mother, is she MY eD-|und faking a bottle of polson out of e aaiaplos in ‘thefrecent his- (WS Mocket dranicixlmost, an, ounics tory, a sudden mutation in the cat Domestic troubles, which recently resulted in the estrangement of the couple, are reported as the reason for the attempted suicide. :mmers summoned assist- family, the characteristics of which Wwill be inheritable, thus creating a new species at one jump The kitten now appears much less like a rabbit than during the first two weeks of its life, Dr. Jones says. two clerks brought Sum- it grows older it Is dropping rabbit | other room, where he was mannerisms and becoming more like given emergency treatment by Dr. an ordinary cat, although it never |E. Jc n of the Veterans" Bureau can change its ears, its tail or its|staff. He was later taken to Emerg- hind legs. But it mow is able to|ency Hospital, where his condition walk slowly like a cat, although when | was reported not serious. it runs it always reverts back to nm‘! ummers lives at 2115 Pennsyl- rabbit hop. | vania avenue. He is understood to It is exceptionally active. It loves|pe 5 clerk at the Internal Revenue to be petted and displays about the|gureau. During the war he was in intelligence of an ordinary seven-|ihe Navy, and Mrs. Summers was a week-old Kkitten, although it is more timid of strangers. veomanette. |RESCUED FROM RIVER AFTER CRAMP SEIZURE STUDENT PLEADS GUILTY. He Defended Arrested as Aide in Manslaughter. | SHREVEPORT, La., July 24 (®.—| George W. Gill, Loyola law student, | today pleaded guilty to manslaughter in connection with the death of Rob- ert Read, Centenary College student, who dled several weeks ago during a fight with Gill. Gill told officers that Read had in- sulted Mrs. Gill, with whom he had been keeping company before she and Gill were married, and that the two young college men met at a pleasure Tesort and fought out their differ- ences. They toppled out of thelr boats on the lake and struggled in waist-deep water until Read went down. Mrs. Gill was arrested on charges of having alded her husband. She as released on bond Beaver Babies Bring Life to Zoo Pond, With Old Beasts Busy at Dam Building Wife An attempt to swim across the river near Fletcher's, one mile below Chain Bridge, came near resulting in the drowning yvesterday afternoon of Robert L. Rauner, 25 years old, cox- swain aboard the U. S. S. Hopkins. He was about the middle of the river when he was seized with a cramp and rendered helpless. Policeman Humphries of the harbor precinct, accompanied by William Bayliss, engineer, was aboard a police launch within sound of his voice. With the ald of a searchlight, Humphries located Rauner and rescued him after he had gone bengath the surface twice. Rauner was taken ashore, where he was given first aid by a ing the gospel. (Copyright. 19285.) DRUE:‘.S SENT BY MAIL. Narcotic Syndicate Supplying 500 Believed Uncovered in N. Y. NEW YORK, July 24 (P).—A mail order narcotic syndicate operating mainly in the Southern States is be- lieved by police to have been disclosed with the arrest of John T. Gilbert early today. The police say he had $5,000 worth of heroin and morphine and a mailing list of 500 names, mainly of persons living in North and South Carolina, Tennesses, Texas and Nebraska. Raiders who gained access to his room in a Sixth avenue hotel said Gilbert had an elaborate chart, indicating that were malled special delivery, 5 struction. She is fatter and clum- sier than her mate and as a re- sult is funnier to watch. She will tuck a huge chunk of mud under her chin, to be used as plastering for the dam, and then waddle on her hind legs toward the logs. Invariably she falls four or five times before she reaches her objective, drops the mud, then picks it up and puts it under her chin again. She seems never to The beaver family at the Zoo has three mew babies, the seeond addition to the family during 15 years at the park. As a result they are staging for the Washington public one of the most interesting shows in animal life. They are building a new dam to provide a home pond for their offspring when they get a little “older. Mr. and Mrs. Beaver have been tire. Her husband occasionally rather sedate, settled citizens for | takes a brief rest, but she works the past few vears. They seemed | on. to have lost ambition and to be contented to let well enough alone. But with the arrival of the young- sters all this changed overnight. They became living examples of the proverbial “busy as beavers.” During the day they doze. But about 4:30 each afternoon they start work and continue far into the night. Mrs. Beaver does her full share of the heavy, laborious work connected with dam con- Mr. and Mrs. Beaver are excel- lent parents, according to Dr. Wil- liam M. Mann, superintendent of the Zoo. They are also skilltul engineers and masons. Besides building the dam for the young- sters they have ‘dug tunnels under the soil of their pen until it is a maze of subterranean passage- ways. These passages always start under water and emerge in another pool. | Speaking characteristics. It becomes fr | With recount in Black Hawk more easily and is more res i | County practically completed, about | a kitten. When it runs it hops like a Frow have ‘been found rabbit. It's ears are those of a baby ringing the total of such bal- bunny, small and sticking straight in to about The Brool the alr. While it has the facial char people consider the disclosure acteristics of a cat there is L th 1t three-fourths of all the ar- difference which has been noted by s were counted for Steck as every one who has observed it closely. significant in support of The face is sharper than that of a T That hiioet® GEiiheie cat and there is a wildness in the 1 been so counted in the re- eyes not common in a domestic | yrns t gave Brookhart the seat in animal | the Senate and that few had been dis- carded as defective. They are protest- W Tawny Hed ing all arrow ballots, but say that In its fur it seems to have struck [should the same ratio of arrow bal- a middle ground between that of a|lots prevail in Pottawattimie, Linn and cat and a rabbit. It is tawny red in{other counties, where such ballots color, reverting back to its maternal |were cast, as has been found in Black grandmotner, also owned by Mr |Hawk, and should it be disclosed that Welsh. | three-fourths of them have already It is apparently healthy. playful |been counted for Steck, and seems to have a fair chance of |the Senate inv survival. , Dr. Jones is nursing it care- [count all arrow ballots for Steck would fully, hoping to bring it to maturity. not give him a majority over Brook- It is fed on milk, which it laps up | hart. eagerly in the same fashion as a kigten. BELT LINE PLANS 10 BE EXAMINED Committee to Investigate Potential Effect on Arling- ton County. Examination of the plans, purpose. and proposed route of the Washing- ton and Loughborough Belt Line Rail road from Litt alls on the Potom: to Cameron Yards, near Alexandria Va., is to be made by a special com mittee of the greater Arlington County committee, according to Dr. F. L. Kirkpatrick, who is ch latter body. 4 ed this spec study the w natter as to its fect, if any, on the proposed develop ment of Arlington ( ance with the region The committee composed of J. Cloyd Byars, Arlington, chairman; A. Handy, Barcroft; Maj. E. W. R g, Ballston; Charles . Kinchel Sast Falls Church. and J. C. M 1 of Cherrydale. This committee appointed at a meeting of the greater Arlington Coun committee held Wednesday night, and is instructed tc make a study and prompt report sn that the body may determine wh action it would want to take on the propositic Will Hurry Investigation. Dr. Kirkpatrick said that practical all of the members tee would attend a d the City Club in co; development of the Lee that he would seek to get together at that to take prompt with the railroad matter been assigned them. The first intimation he had of the proposal to bufld a rafiroad line through this section came from the article in last Sunday’s Star, said Dr Kirkpatrick, and he imme action to have the mat said that he Greater to discuss the matte: lfeved that the whole proposition should be investigated thorou determine what effect it w on the regional develop: section. If it should be ued, that the would e this section accordance regional plans, the ti a protest is right now. to make Importance Emphasized. “The whole matfer is a very portant one to us, he said | believe that prompt steps should taken to find out just how it will affect the development of this se While I-have already appointed a special committee to proposition, I expect to see most of them tonight at a meeting at the City Club in connection with the Lee high- way develpoment, and I am going to {urge on them again at t the importance of determining every de- tail of the proposed railroad line and ask them to make a report to the full committee, to be held on Tues- 100! o the day or Wednesday of next week.” The committee has not yet held a meeting on the proposition, said Mr. Byars, its chairman. The com mittee, he added, had been instructed {to investigate the proposition and de termine its purposes and location. for himself and not the committee, he said he was rather - clined to favor the building of such a road with attendant terminal faclli ties, belleving that it would help the community. He said, however, that he had not examined it thoroughly to determine its effect on the develop ment of the section in accordance with the regional plan He said that an approval of the proposition by the Virginia Public Service Commission would give the road the usual rights of eminent do- main and it could condemn lands for its right of way, and those property owners who did not like the price of fered by the road would have it sub- mitted to a condemnation jury and it could be fought out in the courts WOMAN LOSES LIFE IN OIL STOVE BLAZE Her Clothing Ignited When Cooker Upsets, She Dies in Hospital. | An overturned oil stove was sponsible for a fire that occurred the residence of Fannie Johnson ored, 2316 H street, this morni shortly after daybreak. Her clot ignited and she was fatally b before the flames could be extingt ed. Two companies of firemen ext guished the fire before the house a contents had been badly damaged. The burned woman was taken mer gency Hospital, where she died about 8 o'clock. A lighted match used to determine the quantity of gasoline in the tank of the automobile of George ¥. Mc Nulty, 467 L street southwest, at In- diana avenue and Third street early this morning resulted in igniting the fumes and starting a fire that did $15 damage. Slight damage resulted from a fire that occurred in the dental laboratory re to of Davidson & Weinberg, 1230 H street, early last night. The fire re- sulted from a gas jet left lighted in WILL APPEAL RULING ON ATHLETIC FIELDS District Heads Study Zoning Law as Applied to School Play- grounds. Engineer Commissioner Bell was un- decided today as to what course the Commissioners should pursue in uc- quiring an athletic field for Western High School since the District Su preme Court yesterday dismissed the condemnation proceedings for the acquisition of land between Thirty- elghth and Thirty-ninth, S and Reser- voir streets on the ground that an athletic field there would be in con- flict with the zoning law. Corporation Counsel Stephens sald the District could appeal from the decision in the condemnation proceed- ing. but that he would confer with the Commissioners before deciding the next step. Col. Bell explained today that the site which the District sought to ac quire by condemnation was decided upon by the District Commissioners after consultation with the other members of the Zoning Commission and with Col. C. O. Sherrill as repre sentative of the Park Commission Commissioner Bell said he will studv the provisions of the zoning law be: fore taking any further action. 99-Year-0ld Shriner Dies. BERKELEY, Calif., July 24 (#.— ‘William D. Brown, 99-year-old Cali- fornia pioneer, and said to be the old- est Shriner, is dead here. He was barn in Charlottesville, Va.