Evening Star Newspaper, August 2, 1925, Page 2

P IS PRESENTED * TOFRE COMPANY Evening Star Trophy " for Fastest Getaway Given to Engine No. 23. SEES BOULEVARDS SPEED UP TRAFFIC Eldridge Declares Designa- tion. of 29 Streets Will Ease Traffic llis. Hailed as the exemplars of unex- { celled efliciency, Engine Company 28, winner of the recent speed test to de- | termine which fire company in Wash- ington could get out of its quarters | fustest on an alarm of fire, was last night presented The Evening Star cup in token of their record-breaking vie- tory More than 200 men and women gathered ut the company’s station, on white Wlens have|G street between Twenty-first and been painted at the intersections along [ Tienty-second, to witness the cere- five or six of haulevards for | mony, and they cheered Commissioner more than @ week ané painters will| Frederick A. Fenning when he told continue as rapidly bssible to bt. B. W. Weaver, commander of paint the warning on all of the streets | the championship company, that his on the boulevard list {men had “undoubtedly established a 2 | record which will be hard to excel.” 1aridgo Issues Warning. For more than an hour after the tned formal ceremonies with which the cap where the signs have Deen|us turned over to Engine 23, Capt. 4 motorists must besin At fnce | Weaver and his men stood in & receiv- e g inters Tave |ing line while officials of the District e e e rlvers | £overnment and the Fire Department, 1 time to mark, drivers; oo . ent business men and members A mar ment ed improvement in the move after drivers have be comé acc ed to the boulevard stop system was predicted last night Traffic Director Eldridge Twentynine main arterfes in ail the were officially ard highways by the | ternoon. | icles must which me stop before cro stop’” thasa last night have been ail to stop, | Moller, engine: in the estimated . night 1t uld take more than a week to com e the painting of the stop si at itersection along all of the roulevards. It was decided by the Commission- erday that a 10-day advertise. not nec @ before making rd highway effective, which means that the rule is in effect as soon as the sign has been painted on street Director statement peed the boul ecome the D system bhe fixe tion take the lamp po higher speed it ends. Speed 22 Miles for Present. Until those s s are erected, Mr. Fldridge said, the speed limit will re- main the same for boulevards as on 11l other streets. The traffic director has s ed that a special speed limit f bot until theré is full compliance with the stop signs raffic office zn Eldridge emphasized the in last night that the s not been changed on 1s. After motorists have Jughly familiar a special speed limit will certain sections of the ts and when that ac signs will be erected on s indicating where the ne begins and where st nated by Mr. Eldridge as boulevard highways follows: Massachusetts avenue, from Wis- consin avenue to Ninth street north- and from Sixth northwest to th street northe: ineluding all sides of Stanton Squa Wisconsin avenue, Mas wvenue to the District line. Connecticut _avenue, S Chase Circ Vermont avenue, K street to Florida avenue. Sherman avenue, Florida avenue to road New Hampshire avenue, Park road to Grant Circle. Georgia avenue, N avenue to the District line. Alaska avenue, Sixteenth street to Georgia avenue. Rhode Island “avenue, from Con- icut avenue northwest to South Dakota avenue northeast. South Dakota avenue, from Rhode Island avenue to Bladensburg road. Bladensburg road. from Fifteenth and H northedst to the District line. Maryland avenue, from and H northeast to First street north- east Pennsylvania from Second nuc. Alabama avenue, from Pennsylvania avenue southeast to the District line. vania avenue northwest, ond street to M street. ie, from Twenty-sec. ond street to Connecticut avenue and from Sherman avenue to Vermont avenue New York a Seventh street. Good Hope road, from Nichols ave- nue to Navlor road. Naylor road, from Good Hope road to_the District lin M street northwest, from vania avenue to Key Bridge. Q street northwest, from Twenty- second street to Wisconsin avenue. Sixth street, from D street north- to Rhode Island avenue, th street northwest, from G to Vermont avenue. Sixteenth street, from H street to Alaska avenue. Eighteenth street, from Pennsylva- nia avenue to Columbia road. Calvert street, from Columbia road to_Connecticut avenue. Twenty-second street northwest, from Virginia avenue to Massachu. avenue chusetts street to Pa Hampshire avenue southeast, street to Alabama ave- venue, from Sixth to Pennsyl- to Massachusetts ave- t Vernon place, from Seventh h street Sees Traffic Expedited. “I am confident the boulevard stop system ot _only_will expedite the ement of tr c, but that it will ¥ reduce accidents,” Mr. Eld clared. > streets s Boulevards were chosen after a careful study of the natural flow of traffic in order to create direct lanes through the city. In the case of Sixteenth street the stop slgns wiil only be painted on the pavement at intersections north of Newton street From Newton street south to H the automatic signal lights will be installed in the near future. _The object of naming one block of New York avenue a boulevard, be- tween Sixth and Seventh streets northwest, was to induce through trafm sachusetts avenue to go north on Xth street and thence K{fl‘otu:h York avenue to Mt. ernon place. The only question now remaining be settled is whether the street cars also should stop before crossing a boulevard, and this problem will be disposed ¢ ter the hearing to be granted the railway companies by the Utilities Commission on Tuesday, August 11. to e BILLBOARD FOUNDER DIES Publisher of Circus Journal Suc- cumbs in Florida. SARASOTA. Fla., August 1 (#).— . Donaldson of New York and Cincinnati, founder and publisher of the Billboard, died here today. Mr. Donaldson having been in fail- ne health for some time. came here DAN 4 year ugo, at the sugges- his iriends Charles and John He founded the Billboard His body witi Tie sent to burial. Ringlin, 31 years Cinein ti for Bandit Pair Makes Mad Leap. CHICAGO, August 1 (®#).—A man and woman, identified as the robbers who held up members of wealthy South Side families recently, jumped from a third-story apartment window today when police trapped them. Both were seriously injured and were rushad to the House of - Correction esplial. 3 with the | evards will not be authorized | | tution of the National Capital,” Col. he complete list of streets desig. | ook said, “The Star was not willing | taith in our own department was not Fifteenth | of the community passed along, shak- ing each by the hand and congratulat- ing them. Expects to Repeat. In addition to Commissioner Fen- ning and Col. C. Fred Cook, the lat- representing The Star, Chief En- eer George S. Watson, Battalion Chief Thomas O'Connor, who had charge of the test, and every ranking officer of the Fire Department were present. Capt. Weaver frankly told his superiors that he has every confi- denge that his men will repeat their performance next vear and eventually retain the trophy permanently. ery member of the company ap- peared in dress uniform. The men were lined up in single file beside the big truck, with which they won the test by speeding out of their house in | exactly 71-5 seconds, almost three full seconds better than the best time lh:il‘ could be made by Baltimore's crack company, which had claimed the na- tional speed contest by getting away on an alarm in 10 seconds. Cook explained how some ago the attention of The Star ttracted to an Associated Press dispatch which related that Baitimore had produced America's fastest fire company by lowering Detroit's pre- vious national record. “As an instl- that such a statement should go un- challenged; that it should not at least pass without seelng what Washing- ton' could do. Believe in Local Firemen. en seconds did look like a mighty space of time for a fire com- | : to get away, actually be on its journey, to an alarm of fire, but, hav- always maintained an abiding faith in the Fire Department of the District of Columbia, The Star offered this cup as a trophy to the National Capital's fastest company. That our unfounded has been more than shown by Engine Company 23." Col. Cook thereupon delivered the cup to Commissioner Fenning, as the District Commissioner in charge of the Fire and Police Departments. Under the rules of the test the cup iS to re- main the property of the winning com- pany for one year until it is finally captured by one company three times, when it becomes its permanent prop- erty. Turning to Capt. Weaver, who stood at the front of his men, Com- ioner Fenning said: ‘On this occasion we express appre- clation and congratulations. The Fire Department, the District government and all the citizens of the District ap- preclate the generous action of The Evening Star Newspaper Company in | presenting this beautiful cup. It is an evidence of sincere interest in civic affairs and I belleve it is particu- larly appropriate that such interest be own in the Fire Department. “The men who are engaged in the varfous lines of municipal activity render faithful service, but it is to the firemen that people turn in time of emergency, in time of distress, and be it said to the credit of our Fire Denartment that every call made upon that department is answered with alacrity, with intelligence and with great efficiency. So it is that \s we express our appreciation to the donor of the cup, we also express our most hearty congratulations to} the company that won in the fair competition recently held in this city. In winning that competition by making a_get away in less than 8 seconds, Engine Company No. 23 has undoubtedly established a record which will be hard to excel. “Col. Cook, as a member of the Board of Commissioners of the Dis- trict of Columbia, T accept this cup with grateful appreciation; and to vou, Capt. Weaver and the men of your company and the officers and men who may be assigned to this company the coming year, I deliver this cup, here to be kept for the pre- scribed period as a reminder to the men of this engine company of the success of their efforts, and as an in- dication to all citizens who come-into this engine house that these men have earned what I am now most happy to tender them, namely the very sincere congratulations of the community.” Driver Is Congratulated. Capt. Weaver accepted the cup in the name of the company, expressing his deep appreciation for both himself and his men for the words of praise and the trophy. “We are very, very proud of this minute,” he said, “and I can assure you every one of us shall do our best to repeat mext year and keep this trophy right here until it be- comes ours permanently.” Private Paul P. Ballinger, who drove the apparatus on the day it won the contest, was particularly congratu- lated for his work. It was by a strange coincidence that Engine 23 was the last company visited by the judges. At that time three companies were tied for first place, 2nd it seemed cer- tain a ‘“run-off” between the three would be necessary. Then Ballinger shot his company out in the record time and ended the contest then and there. N At 7 o'clock tomorrow evening the Merchants and Manufacturers Asso- clation cup will- be presented to truck 6, Park road near Fourteenth street, winner of the test for fire trucks. Again Commissioner Fenning will officiate, and Gen. Anton Stephan will deliver the cup to the company as vice president of the Merchants and Manufacturers _Association. Al of- ficers of the Fire Department will {attend. Finger Broken in Crash Myres of 1733 M street, secretary to Represern ive Morgan Sanders of Texas, was hurt about the body and sustained a broken finger when a street car hit his automobile in the rear and pushed it 50 feet at the Peace Monument yesterday afternoon. He was taken to Casualty Hospital for treatment. The automobile was badly damaged. Myres hurt his finger when he got it jammed between the steer- ing wheel spoke and gasoline and spark hand throttle. Upper: Commissioner Fenning pre- senting the cup to Capt. B. W. Wea- ver, commanding the victorious engine company. Col. C. Fred Cook, who pre- sented the cup for The Star, is shown at _the extreme left. Center, left to right: George 8. Wat- son, chief engineer of the Fire De- partment; The Evening Star troj and Commissioner Frederick A. - ning, witc received the cup from The ;;}::r and made the presentation ad- 5. Lower, left to right: Thomas 0'Con- nor, battalion chief, and Capt. Weaver. 10000 GRANTED TALIAN AMNESTY Royal Decree Empties Pris- ons of Virtually All But Slayers. By the Associated Pr ROME, August 1.-~An amnesty de- cree of far-reaching proportions, free- ing all political offenders, except mur- derers, and releasing from the jails prisoners of all kinds, has been grant- ed as an act of royal clemency and as a contribution to national pacification on the occasion of the completion of the quarter century relgn of King Victor Emmanuel. It is estimated that between 10,000 and 12,000 per. sons will be affected. Under the decree those guilty of political crimes will be freed, except when the motives were purely per. sonal and when murder, even unin- tentional, was committed. Thus, those accused of implication in the Matteotti murder are excluded. The decree also releases criminal offenders in many minor categories except when death resulted from the crimes. Those released will include men and women serving one year or less. Sees Serenity Helped. In a statement to the king before the decree was f{ssued Minister of Justice Rocco said “Your government believes that the new provision of roval clemency can at this moment contribute to hring- Ing serenity among all classes of the Italian people.” The minister assert- ed that it seemed opportune to in- clude in the amnesty all offenses and transgressions which were not grave. Such clemency would restore a large number of persons to dafly work without notable danger to the social order and with advantages to national economy. The present amnesty decree is the third of the Fascist regime, the first having been issued immediately after the march on Rome and the second in October, 1923. The first embodied widespread clemency for all political offenders except those against ‘na- tional sentiments.” Thus it did not affect the Socialists and Communists. The present decree has no such restrictions. The Fascist press is enthusiastic over the decree, describing it as a | supreme step toward soclal pacifica- tion and the initiation of a new polit- ical era. On the other hand, the op- posing press hopes it will be the last measure of its kind as, in the opinfon of these newspapers, clemency en- courages, rather than discourages, political and social illegality. CONFERENGE TO TAKE UP WORLD PROBLEM Fellowship for Christian Social Order Will Meet in Olivet, Mich., for First Time. By the Associated Prese OLIVET, Mich.,- August 1—Lit erary men, college professors, minis- ters and business men whose varied interests are joined in the group dis- cussion of current economie, political, raclal and international ~problems were arriving today preparatory to the opening of the first conference of the fellowship for a Christian social order to be held in this country. The announcement that Miss Ce- lestine Goddard, representing the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of Cincinnati, would attend the confer- ence caused something of a stir. It is anticipated Miss Goddard intends to attack the ‘“golden rule” experi- ment of Arthur Nash, owner of a Cincinnati clothing factory, toward which the amalgamated workers have previously directed thelr attack. Other people scheduled to take part in the discussions, which will con-| tinue throughout August, are: William P. Hapgood, president of the Columbia Conserve Co. of In- dianapolls, where responsibilities and profits are shared alike with the workers; Charles Clayton Morrison, editor of the Christlan Century; Kirby Page, clergyman and writer, and Leo Wolman, advocate of the new school of soclal research. The general aim of the conference 1s to discuss present-day problems and to arrive at definite conclusions rela- tive to the establishment of a better Christian soclal order. KENTUCKY HAS PRIMARY. Most of Candidates for Offices Are Unopposed. LOUISVILLE, Ky., August 1 (P).— Kentucky held a_quiet election pri- mary today in which candidates for the 1926 session of the general as- sembly and county and city ofiicers were nominated. In 33 districts the successful candidate for the Demo- cratic nomination went into the gen- eral election unopposed, as did 14 Re- publicans. Devoid of any outstanding issues, the primary was featured by the un- usually high number of candidates for minor offices, making the work of counting the ballots very slaw,. GERMAN REFUGEES INGREASE HOURLY Hundreds Are Pouring Over Polish Border Daily in Acute Distress. By the Associated Press. SCHNEIDEMUHL, Germany, Au- gust 1.—All day and far into the night, trucks, moving vans and trains have poured into this city carrying German refugees from the former German districts of Poland, whence they have been expelled because they voted in favor of Germany in the Upper Stlesian plebiscite of 1821. The number of refugees in the con- centration camp here keeps changing 0 rapidly that it is impossible to ob- tain exact figures. Many remaln only a short time, while making pur- chases or leuses of land they intend to farm, others are awaiting replies to inquiries for employment: still others, without friends or relations, wait despondently for something to turn up. An average of 600 refugees a day has arrived here during the last week. It has been possible to transfer about 200 a day into the interior. The former Albatross airplane works here has been converted into barracks where the most primitive conditions prevail. Two or three families are huddled together in one apartment, separated from the next only by a curtain, the refugees sleep- ing on straw sacks on the floor. The most serious problem of the refugee camp is the care of small children who keep everybody awake at night. The government's attempt to establish a special nursery has proved futile because the mothers re. fuse to part from their infants. Reports from Poland announce that 1,500 more German refugees are on their way in two trains. The camp Is now so crowded that one public school and a seminary have been pressed irito service as barracks. The Prussian government, to care for the refugees who cannot be ab- sorbed otherwise, plans to bulld about 2,000 apartments in Posen, Pomerania and East Prussia, of which about half will be for farm laborers and the rest for artisans and other manual work- ers. Thus far, farmhands and ma- sons have been’ the easiest to absorb. WOODWARD SCHOOL ENDS SESSION WITH EXERCISES Y. M. C. A. Institution Concludes Summer Course—Prizes Given for Proficiency. The Summer session of the Wood- ward School, conducted by the Young Men's Christian Association, closed Friday with exercises in the assembly hall. ~ Prizes for highest scholastic standing in the respective grades were awarded to the following boys: Fourth grade, Stuart Postle, dictionary; fifth grade, David Leverone, dictionary; sixth grade, Edwin Murdock, dic- tionary; seventh grade, Murray Bern- hardt, dictionary. In the eighth grade Thomas Niles and Sam Guill were each awarded a fountain pen, as they were tied for first place. Headmaster D. A. Dollarhide presided. An athletic meet was held in the boys' gymnasium, with the entire stu- dent body participating. In the standing broad jump, 85-pound class, George Hunt took first prize; Oliver Keeter, second, and Robert Lake, third. Standing broad jump, unlim- ited—Donald Holmes, first place; Ed- ward Anderson, second, and_Zelner Albritton, third. Potato race—Edward Hoobs, first prize; Arthur Slater, sec- ond, and Louls Lozupone, third. Three-legged race—Wilbur Jenkins and James Rhoden first place; George Hunt and Roderick Bacon, second, and Edwin Murdock and Curtis Me- Kay, third. Oneap race, 85-pound class—Wilbur Sexton, first; Robert Lake, second; Bradford Lynch and Vincent Tilton, tied for third. Two- lap race, unlimited class—Lawrence Sparshott, first;; Donald Holmes, sec- ondw, and Zeiner Albritton, third. First swimring buttons, awarded to boys who learn to swim one length of the pool, were awarded to Frank Devereux, James Starkey, ‘Willam Moss, Louis Lozupone and Geoirge Biegs; second swimming but- tons, awarded to boys who learn to swim three lengths of the pool free |style, one length on the back and who do one perfect dive, were awarded to Marvin Gibson and Robert Lake; a third swimming button, award- ed to boys who learn to swim 12 lengths of the pool free style, three lengths on the back, who do two dives, teaching another boy to swim and carry a 10-pound welght the length of the pool, was awarded to John Wignall. curate description of the man. D. C, AUGUST GLUB OWNER HELD IN'WOMAN'S DEATH Accused of Killing of Woman in West Orange, N. J., Petters’ Paradise. By the Aseociated Press WEST ORANGE, N. J., August 1.—Formally charged today with the killing of Mrs. Frederick Wickham, mother of four grown daughters, whose battered body was found yes. terday in Petters' Paradise, Charles Capawanna, 29 yvears old, propreitor of Night Supper Club, was held with- out bail for a hearing on August 11. Three men and a woman, who sald |they saw him lead Mrs. Wickham | from the club to his car, a few hours before her body was found, were held |in default of $1,000 bail as material witnesses. Mrs. Wickham, who was 45 vears old, was said to have been a frequent visitor at the club. A woman's hair net was found in Capawanna's car, police asserted. Capawanna has twice been arrested for assault and battery and once for disorderly conduct. Capawanna admitted having had the woman in his car, but asserted that he let her out a few blocks from her home. Her skull was fractured in six places and her face was covered with bruises when her body was found beneath two cedar fence palings in a ditch. METHODISTS PROTEST DANCE-TIME HYMNS Men’s Council, Speaking for 190,- 000 Members, Objects to Or- chestra Leader’s Plan. By the Associated Press. ROUNDLAKE, N. Y., August 1.— Radio broadcasting of hymns in dance music time was opposed by the Men's Council of the Methodist Episcopal Church, meeting in conference here |today. = A resolution unanimously adopted requested a New York City radio station to change its program set for tomorrow night. The resolu- tion declared that to broadcast the hymns in dance time as planned would be “regarded as an insult to the Christian people, not only of New York State, but of the entire nation.” The resolution was said to volce the protest of 190,000 Methodists, in- cluding 800 ministers, in the ‘Buffalo area. NEW YORK, August 1 (#).=-Hymns in dance music time will be broad- casted tomorrow night from station WMCA by Ernie Golden's Orchestra. Golden recently at a religious forum suggested playing hymns in dance time to fill the churches. As the re- sult of requests that he try out his plan, “Onward, Christian Soldiers’ and other hymns will be played to-! morrow in the lively tempo of the modern ballroom. Pocket FPicked of $233. A pickpocket tcok $255 in bills of large denomination from the pociet of George W. Orne of 1327 Vailey place southeast last night while he was getting on a street car at Nichols avenue and Talbert street southeast. Orne reported to police at the eleven precinct that a tall white man, tower- ing at least 6 feet, brushed against him during the period when his money is believed to have left his per- son, but was unable to give an @ 1925—PART 1 Indecent Music Ban Here Gives France) Laugh Like Dayton| By Cable 1o The Star aud New York World PARIS, August 1.—The attack in ‘ashington on “indecent music” has made a hit in Paris. Coming after the Dayton affair, which all Paris now refers to as the “monkey ville business,” the new movement gives Paris an opportunity to exag- gerate the prevalence of blue laws in the United States, to the tune of much laughter here The idea, which strikes the Parisi- ans with the most humorous force is that advanced by Mrs. Van Winkle, that the orlental lure of juzz_mukes husbands forget their Wives and children The Paris Midi harks back into Ristory and savs that husbands in the time of Lulli, whese music could not lure them from their hom were just as frivolous as now. “Any music excites only those who do not need to be excited,” says the Midi. ASSERT .. GAN D SO0 Scientist Says German Meth- ods Make Support of 574,000,000 Possble. By the Associated Press. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., August 1.—The United States can support a population of 350,000,000 and by ap- plying German methods a population of $574,000,000, it was asserted at the Institute of Politics today by Prof. R. J. McFall of the Agricultural Economics Department, Massachusetts Agricultural College. ' He declared that contrary to the Malthusian doc- trine the world would be able to feed itself indefinitely. “The present tendencies of the growth of population lead us to sup- pose that man's increase will not over- take the still abundant opportunities] to expand the food supply. We m accordingly anticipate plenty of op- portunity for the human race to enter a new and better phase of economic existence. Sees Larder Secondagy. “The larder holds a subordinate place in determining the concentra- tion, increase and even decline of population in ecivillzed communities, though it may be the cause of a rise and fall in numbers tn primitive com- munities.” LYNN YEAGLE DEAD: ISDROWNEDINLAKE Former Washington News- paper Man Suffers Stroke and Falls From Small Boat. J. Lynn Yeagle, former Washing- ton newspaper man, was drowned yes- terday in Alcyon Park Lake, at Pitt- man Grove, N. J., following a stroke while boating, according to word re- ceived here last night from Phila- delphia. Two hours after Mr. Yeagle had hired a row boat, his body was found at the lower end of the lake. Accord- ing to the Philadelphia dispatch, the Prof. McFall also predicted that the density of populations in industrial communities would be dissipated be- fore ‘“inexorable force of natural Ia Prof. Edward M. East of Harvard University said that eventually the food supply would be the most im- portant population factor. the supply to a huge piece of cheese at which the rats were nibbling. “It has been predicted that in 30 years no one but the very rich and the very poor will be able to live in New York City,” he asserted. “The middle class will have been squeezed out by the upper and nether mill- stones of population pressure.” Debate Is Spirited. A spirited debate occurred at the round table on limitation of arma- ments regarding Great Britain's use of her army and navy. Opposing speakers asserted and denied that ter- ritorial aggrandizement was its pur- pose. Sir Frederick Maurice of Lon- don, chief of operations of the Brit- ish general staff in the World War, declared that “since the French Rev- olution Great Britain has never en- tered any war with the object of aggrandizement.” After a prominent member of the conference, whose name and statement were withheld from publication, had spoken in op- position, Sir Frederick remarked: “We must agree to disagree.” Sir Frederick sald that the Suez canal was no longer considered vital to his coun- try because men and materials could be sent to India around the Cape of Good Hope. “We learned in the war that the Mediterranean could be made a very dangerous place, because the islands there can shelter a multitude of sub- marines. Thus we learned to use the Cape route to India. Suez is impor- tant to’ us, but not vital. The fall of Constantinople and the rise of Saloniki as world centers were coroner believes that Mr. Yeagle suf- fered a stroke as he rowed around the lake and fell into the water from the skiff. His wife and three of his chil- dren, who had motored to Atlantic City, were unaware of the tragedy last night. During the Summer Mr. Yeagle and his family had been occupying a cot- tage at Pittman Grove. He was in charge of the rotogravure section of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, hav- ing taken this position after leaving Washington about two years ago. Helped Found Local Paper. Mr. Yeagle's newspaper career be- gan in Chicago soon after he gradu- ated from Oberlin College. Later he came to Washington and was one of the founders and part owner of the Washington Herald. In 1913 he sev- ered his connection with the Herald and went to the Washington Post and became fts city editor in February, 1917. About four yvears afterwards he was made Sunday editor of this paper, resigning to undertake pub-| licity work. While engaged in this work he Joined the staff of the Philadelphia Public Ledger. A native of Ohio, Mr. Yeagle was 54 years old. He was a Mason and an Episcopalian. His body will be taken to Clyde, Ohio, and buried there Wed- nesday. Besides his widow, he leaves four children, Jean, 20, a graduate of Cen- tral High School; Frances, 12; Charles, 6, ind a married daughter in Ken- tucky. CAPS BECOME RAGE. German Fashion Experts Fear Hats Will Disappear. BERLIN, August 1 (#).—So many caps have made their appearance on the market that fashion experts are ‘|much worried lest the cap replace the hat entirely. Never before have so many been worn here as in 1925. Manufacturers are taking advantage of this craze to placeon the market all sizes, shapes and colors of caps, and by skilful propaganda suggest the ne- cessity of wearing different kinds of caps for different occasions. [ The chief reason assigned for the development of the cap fashion is the popularity of athletics with Germans since abandonment of military drills, Many people who never attended a regatta dav in their lives pose o8 athletic fans by wearing sport. ling cap Chemieal Bervice Shift; Maj. Maurice B. Willett, Chemical Warfare Service, at New York City, has been ordered to this city for duty in the office of the Chief of Chemical ‘Warfare Service, War Department. Second Lieut. Charles A. Jones, jr., Chemical Warfare Service, at the ar. senal, Edgewood, Md., has been de- tailed to duty at the University of at Madison, forecast by speakers at Prof. Arnold J. Toynbee's table on the Mediter- ranean area. Railway Is Problem. “Greece's economic prosperity de- pends,” Dr. Toynbee said, “on wheth- er she can develop Saloniki as a port for southern Europe. Therefore the rallway to Saloniki is a serious prob- lem and threatens to bring Greece into conflict with Jugoslavia. Con- stantinople is a dying city.” Prof. Bernadotte E. Schmitt of the University of Chicago agreed with Prof. Toynbee’s description of Con- stantinople and added that Saloniki was developing into a tremendously energetic commercial community. A. Polyzoides of New York, editor of a Greek dally, foretold Saloniki’s great future, and said that Constantinople was admittedly “‘dead” as a center of commerce. In this he was supported by Ismail Kemal Bey, first secretary of the Turkish legation at Washing- i tsm ptory of the human race. | false records on_stones exca: He likened | ADVENTISES START EVOLUTON FEHT | Pastor Answers Questions Darrow Put to Bryan in Dayton. The Seventh Day Adventist denom- Ination yesterday inaugurated a na- tion'wide cumpaign for fundamental- at its headquarters in Takoma Park with a sermon by Rev. Charles A. Longacre in which he replied to the questions put to Willlam Jen- nings Bryan by Clarence Darrow at the Dayton trial Mr. Longacre approached the preb- 3 lem from the viewpoint of a Bible scholar. ~ He was at Dayton during the trial The Adventist drive against “evolu- tion,” he said, will be on the grounds that, since it can be made a philosophy of lite, its followers constitute a relig- jous sect and that any effort they make to force its teaching into the public schools is an attempt to make the “evolutionist religion” that of the state. The denomination would be just as much opposed, he said, to hav- ing the Bible taught in public schools. He dwelt particularly on the efforts of Mr. Darrow to mix up the witness on dates in anclent history. Fixes Flood Date. “The flood,” sald Mr. Longacre, *‘oc- i curred approximately 4,500 vears ugo, land at that time all life, except that | in the sea and that gathered by oah in the Ark was destroyed. Now Mr. Darrow tried to make Mr. Bryan ad mit that the Egyptian and Babylonian civilizations couid be traced back more than 4,500 years, and hence antedated the flood. The arguments he used will not hold up. There is abeolutely no authentic record of human clvili- zatlon which extends back to the date of the flood as it is statedw the Bible. New discoveries every day are bearing this out and confounded the alleged sclentists. In fact, for 1,000 years after the flood there is no certain his The oldest from the and h data we have Is obtained works of Ptolemy in Egypt goes back only 3,500 vears. fentists have been misled by ted in the Near East. The facts are that the various lines of kings of the three great anclent empires, Egypt, Baby- lonie. and Assyria, all wanted to claim the credit of having the oldest empire. So they ordered thelr historians to change dates shamelessly. There has recently been dug up an Egyptian tablet, the original data on which was covered over with plaster and new data carved over it. When this plaster was chipped away we found the name of the sculptor and a copy of his orders to change the dates. It is on such flimsy evidence that the alleged acx;nuau try to dispute the word of od. Church Aids Study. “The Adventist Church does all it can to aid excavations in the Near East and we certainly keep in close touch with them. More and more, they furnish evidence bearing out the literal words of the Bible. Cities mentioned in the Scripture, which the sclentists told us never existed, have been uncovered. “Religion always has been ahead of sclence. The opinions of sclentific school after sclentific school have be- come a mockery, but the word of God stands. Religion always has held that the earth was round and that it re- volved around the sun. There is not a word in the Bible which disputes this. But religion never held that the earth was flat, that it was held up on the back of an elephant who him- self stood on the back of a turtle, and that when the elephant shook him- self there was an earthquake. That was a conclusion of science which re- ligion had to fight. “The prophet Amos speaks of the spheres in the Heavens. Amos lived a long time before the scientific as- tronomers began to arrive at some such conclusion. The book of Job, probably the first written of the Biblical books, speaks of ‘God sitting on the circle of the earth’ and ‘He rolleth the earth to the sun.’ That was centuries before scientists began to proclaim that the earth was spin- ning about. Answers “Sun” Query. r. Darrow tried to make Mr. Bryan ridiculous by questions as to whether he belieyed Josuah made the sun stand still and sald that the globe would have been made a molten mass almost instantly. Unless all belfef {s thrown aside, we must admit that God created the earth. The man who invented the automoblle can make it stand still. Who would deny that God can do likewise with machinery which he created. “As to the fish which swallowed Jonah, the fact remains that there are whales today with mouths large enough to swallow & man. But there is a better argument than that. The so-called Christian evolutionists pre- tend to admit the divinity of Christ. Now Christ used the Jonah story i- his preaching. If it was not trus Christ lied. If Christ lied he was not divine. To deny that the whale swal- lowed Jonah is to deny Him. “Christ also mentions the flood. To deny the truth of that is to deny Him. The Christian evolutionista must give up evolution or give up Christianity. “I would object to having my chii dren taught adventism in the schools I certainly object to having them ton, who explained that Constantinople had been left without a hinterland by the changes wrought through the war. He questioned Mr. Polyzoides' statement that Turkey was declining, and said: “It takes time to put our house in order. Asia Minor is a rich country and a new era is beginning in Turkey. The spirit of Metternich, Bis- marck and Beaconsfleld is responsible for the Near East's present troubles.” Sees Italy in Danger. Italy, with increasing population and limited territory, faces a serious problem in continuing her existence, Count Antonlo Cippico, Fascist mem- ber of the Chamber of Deputles, said tonight. His country had gained no new land from the war, he said, and the peace of Lausanne had set the seal on the failure of Italy's policy in the Mediterranean. “After the allied victory Italy, with her scanty colonies and her popula- tion that increases 5,000,000 every 10 years, failed to obtain one square inch of territory,” he asserted. ‘“The re- sult of this singular lack of vision on the part of her allies is growing ever more serious for this country. She lacks raw materials, which she has to import, and her growing industries, faced with foreign competition, can- not find their nataral outlets in extra European markets.” Ready to Supply Labor. Italy is ready to supply labor to un- derpopulated countries, but means must be taken to insure the retention of their nationality by her emigrants, Count Cippico said. If other countries closed their doors to Italy’'s labor and industrial products a serious situa- tion"would arise. ““The peace of Lausanne set the seal on the faflure of Ttaly’s policv in the Mediterranean,” the Italian senator contnued. “The Young Turks of Ke- mal have installed theirown anti- for- eign nationalism on the nq\ of the Bosphorus and in Anatolla} England rules supreme in the Mediterraneaq, having strengthened her position in the Suez Canal by her mandste for Palestine and by promoting Cxprus to colonfal status. France, armed as is no taught this other religion, or philos ophy of living.” The campaign will be conducted by the distribution of thousands of pamphlets throughout the, country and by lectures by Adventists leaders. SPEAKS FOR 12 HOURS. Silesian Seeks Public Speaking Championship of Europe. BERLIN, August 1 (#).—Franz Ho- raz, from upper Silesia, aspires to be European champion in public speak ing. Coming to the German capitol for the identical event he recently mounted a soap box in the Lustgarten, began speaking at 9 a.m. and ended at 9 p.m., pausing only occasionally for two minutes to sip lemonade or near beer. Above his head hung a placard reading “I am contesting for the European championship in speak- ing. I challenge the orators of Ger- many. If no one accepts, I win the title. Contests will follow in Warsaw, Paris and Rome.’ During his Berlin performances this modern Demosthenes has recited Schiller, Goethe and other German poets by the hour, declaring he fs anxious to revive the ancient, but lost, art of oratory. In Paris he intends to recite Moliere, and in Rome the &n- tire Divine Comedy, each in the orig- inal language. o ———————ee——— other power, for the legitimate protec- tion of her frontier on the Rhine, seizes the pretext of her vital need to or- ganize and subdue to her own ends the little entente. “This permanent lack of equilib- rium which the results of the great war tend to perpetuate, just as the holy aldance at the close of the Na- poleonic wars attempted to crystal lize in favor of the victorious powers the political and economic lfe of all Europe, cannot, {n my opinion, be lasting. With all her strength, Italy hopes that it may find a peaceful solution.” F