Evening Star Newspaper, August 15, 1925, Page 2

. LARGER TREE FUND DECLARED NEEDED Lanham Says Amount Avail- able Will Not Allow for Proper Care. Fmphasizing the necessity for & larger propriation for trees and parking. Clifford Lanham. superin tendent of that work, fold the Com- missioners in his annual report today rhat money spent in planting new trees when the department is without suf- ficlent funds 1o care tor them. is prac- tically wasied Under present conditions. he said his department is confronted with the alternative of planting new trees at « sacrifice to the existing ones. or &iv ing proper attention to the existing trees and not attempting to plant more “*The heauty of Washington primari in its elaborate sysiem shade trees,” the superintendent ported. It immediately strangers on their first visit to the eity. Tt would seem. therefore, tha when the first cost of selting out tree is known to be so insignificant when compared with their increased value s few vears later that an adequale appropriation would be provided, not only to keep up with the rapid growth of the city, but to enable this office 16 maintain the trees thar already axist. Trees on the streels are grow ing under the most adverse condition and require constant care. It has heen the policy of this office tn try 16 please residents of the city in all of thelr requests, but 1 fear many il have to he disappointed unless larger appropriations are placed at our disposal $100,000 1s Wanted. fhe current appropriation for all rres work is $75.000, and the city heads have indicated a willingness 10 make an effort 10 have this increased sub. stantially next vear It has been sug- gested thar the total for this purpose Zhould he raised 10 $100.000. Mr. Lanham reported thal At the close of the fscal vear Washington had 104,559 shade trees. net increase during the veur of 575. He told the Commissioners that sys. tematic trimming of old trees was not possible during the vear, but that con- siderable attention was given to in dividual requests for trimming objec- tlonahle or dangerous limbe The superintendent reported that his department was more active than \sual last vear in spraving frees as a protection against insects PET CAT GOES MAD; ATTACKS 7 PERSONS Rites Four-Year-Old Owner and Terrorizes Neighborhood—Vie- tims Fear Hydrophobia fies of re- Supposedly affiicted with rabies. a young maltese cat went on a wild rampage vesterdav afiernoon in south- west Washington and bit seven per- sons, including a policeman, befors its trenzied career was ended bv a bui- lat from the policeman’'s gun The uproar started when the pet auddenly resented the fondling of 4- vear-old Harold Best of 711 H strest southwest. turning on tha boy in » furious attack with clawa and testh. hen Mrs. Mary L. Best mother, ran 10 the scene and at- {smpted to subdue the animal she aiso was attacked and birten. Cries of those bitten and of excited neighbors attracted crowds of passers- hy. but the assemblage soon broke up in confusion when the feline anarling and Snapping. xet upon ona after another in the vicinity. Among others injured by the fangs of the inturiated pet were Mrs. Mary Misselton. 63 vears od, of 715 H street xouthwest; Catherine Rutherford, 7 years old, 727 H street southwest: Mrs. W. F. Lyons. 52 vearg old, of 421 impresses | This was al the lad's | 3 Notoriety Craving l.eads Bov Vandals I'o Mar Graveyard . PETER in the newspaper aiven for the des: rution of the by two brothers, 14 gnd 12 years old, one of whom admitted ths van. dalism here late yesterda) The elder boy not onlv confessed 1o tpping over “8 gravestones. bul he also admitted setting fire 0 & | country schoolhouse last ¥all. and ! 1o a number of pettyv thefts commir . ted over a perfod of & vear, officers said MAY NAME WIDOW OF LADD T0 SENATE Gov. Sorlie Believed Plan- ning Ruse to Avoid Calling Special Election. ren Preas Minn.. August headline was the 15 story reason | | | | Govr. a Sorlis of North Dakota Non-P Leaguar. 2lthough clecred @s 8 Republican. may appoint | the of Senator ladd to All the seai of Senator Ladd unril the regular alection North Da Xota. according 10 word recsived here CGiov. Sorlfe. in answer to inquirfes | trom the Capital. has written a letter admirting he is serfously considering | the appointment of Mrs. Ladd He said U will not say E. |a tisan widow next in have definitely de. ]‘ cided to appoint Mrs. ladd. hut it seems to ma that she is hetter equip- | ped than any one 1o fill our the Sen-| ator's term in his spirit and 1 be-| leve the Senate would accept her ap pointment without question Appointive Right Doubted. “The assertion that he believes the Senate would accepr the appointment | of Mra. Ladd is the milk in the cocoa- ' nuL. Thare is merious question as 1o the right of the governor to appoint | to Al an unexpired term. made vacant | by death or resignation The FillP’ | has never given him the right to { make such appointments since the | | adoption of the constitutional amend- ment providing for the direct election | of Senators, and it iz beld in soms quarters that Gov. Sorlie is compelled. | under the circumstances. to call a| =pecial eléction to fill the vacancy now existing or. barring that. the State must lack a Senator until ths next| regular election is held | Senator Ladd's term of office | pires March 3. 1927. He would have come up for re-elsction in November 1926, nad he lived 1t is well understood here that Gov. | desires 10 make an appoint- | rather than to call a special | election. 1f he appoinis Mrs. Ladd it will be with the hope that ths | members of the Senate will not ques tion his right to henor the widow of | | thetr late colleague | | Wae Born in Annapolis. Mrs. Ladd is the mother of sight | {ehildran and in her sixties. She is a | {native of Annapolis. Md. Her maiden | | name was Miss Rizpah Sprogle. She| | has not been active in politics, but was her husband’s close companion. Should she be named Senator and seated. Mrs. Ladd will be the first | woman actually to serve in the upper |nouse. Mre. Rebecca L. Felton of Georgia, was appointed 1o the Senate in 1823 after the death of Senator | Tom Watson. but by the tima the | Senate had convened » successor had | been elected. and Mrs. Felton was | permitted to qualify onlv by courtesy. | | She never cast a vote and did not lactually serve as Senator. i Sorlie ment | | | [EXHIBITS AT CLOSING OF MAGRUDER SCHOOL | [ 1 | tion described as HE_ EVEN WORLD 15 WARNED OF OVERCROWDING Health Work Is Futile. Says| Harvard Professor, With- out Birth Control. R the Associutad Press WILLIAMSTOW N 15.—The ier pla Mass. August vorld is becoming & health to live in. but the law of Malthus e inexorable. Prof. FEdward M. Easi of Harvard University sald (U the I[nstitute of Politics toduy hix round table conferance on agri cultute and population increase. He warned the “greater population snthusiasts thet eradication of dis- ease alone could net prolong life if mankind insistad on Alling the earth | with peopla beyond the proper limit. Dr. Fast gave the averags expects- tion of lita In the white race countries as slightly over 50 vears, probably an nprovement of 15 years over 1.000 years #go. Tha average lenath of life 18 highest in Australia, the Unitad States it ix nearly &1, in Italy 44 and in India ftaly pre Aented « striking lesson 1o the great =i population ewthusiasts Stationary Population. After a period of talling ates public health work must come « stanostill unless through birth restricton # stationarv population s established sufciently below the sub- sistence limit (o give the normal man @ reasonable chance for a lite with some degree of comfort.”* he said. Sir Freaerick Maurice of London ok up the Furopean Security pact at his round table on the lmitation of armaments. He sald that the out look for itm success was hopeful. Ita favorahle features were thai Great Britain hao made iin becoming oper ative conditional upon Germany's joining the League of Nations and upon i« general execution 1esting with the league: that President Cool idge had Indorsed its general prin ciples and that the pact had not yet heen made conditional upon arma mani limitation Jugoslavin was cited as an exampie of Balkan progress bv Hamilton Fish Armstrong, sditor of Forelgn Af taira” at Prof. Bdward F. Gay's vound table on “the ecenomic recovery of Europe Agriculture was making progress through modarn scientific methods the co-operative movement, rallway development and favorable govern- ment economic polices. The vecent for- mation of a coalition cabinei by the Serb followers of Premier Pashitch and Croats under Stephen Radich was “the most auspicious avent in inter nal politics since the foundation of the state.’ W. B. Poland of Beigrade told of the reconstruction of raliwavs in Jugosiavia since the war and of plans for the development of highwavs both 1o meet demand for a new out let tor rhe sxportable surplus of the interior birih Dictator Needed of dictatorial methods is now necessary for Mexico 1o bring about law and order, Dr. Guillerme A. Sherill, secretary-general of the In ter-American High Commission. said at the Institute, at Dr. Leo £ Rowe's round table conference on inter-Ameri can relations. He read a communica- “very important” from J. N. Pulg Casaurane. secretary of public instruction at Mexico City outlining & program of policy. “The last revolution Mexico perverted to a considerable extent the moral sense of the country.’ he sald. “Ban- dits openly have prospered and have heen rewarded or bribed (o stop their | mobs have held swayv and agrarian and labor movemenis have taken. a dangerous direction. Te bring order out of chaos it is nece: sarv 1o use dictatorial methods with- our forgetting that the purpose of any dictatorship at present would be only 10 pave the way for demoeracy. ‘Calles must rise above the per- 20nal interests of some of his follow - ers and guarantee the reign of law “The American Government must be patient and must exercise great ca activities, in | Inj From Philadelph 1 the air At 200 miles George T. Cuddiby | axecutive officer of the naval air sta tion here. yesterday evening compleied a seaplane flighi from Philadelphia to Washington in 40 minutes - The plana flown wae the 1928 Navy Curtias racer which won the Pulitzar vace Al Ri. Louis and esiablished @ threekilometer speed record of 268 miles an hour. 11 was fitted with twin pontoons at the naval air eraft factory ar Philadelphia and wis flown here 10 be used as a prac tice «hip for principals and alternates in the Schosider seaplane trophy rece 1o be held in Raltimore ‘the latier pari of Ociaber Becauke a forced landing xround would have meant Lieut, Cuddihy followed course from Philadelphis him down the Dalaware Havre de Grace. then POLICEMAN IS HURLED 30 FEET IN AUTO CRASH | Marvland Man | Shoi through an hour. Lisut on the disasies water ~hich took River 1o Ralfi Aged 84, and 3- | Year-01d Child Also Victima | Traffic Accidents. | Frank Price. 84 vears oid. of Avil ton. Garratt County. Md.. was hurled from his automobile and severely in jured near Hvattsville vesterday s fier noon when a wheel came off the car while he was driving rapidlv alon the road The injured man Casualty Hospital hy this city and treared infuries ta hia hody Ho wals larer taken Hospital Policeman O. 1. Blackwell of the sleventh precinct was thrown 30 feet through the air vesterdav when the patrol wagon in which he was riding collided with ‘a strear car Fifty seventh and Dix streets northeast The rebound of the impact threw the wagon 25 feet from the tracks. police | reported. Blackwell escaped. despite | hi headlong plunge. with only a ‘lplllnlfl arm and bruises He was treated ar Casualty Hospiral by Dr Marbury. Three.vearold Harey Washington colored. was knocked down by a taxi- cab last night while crossing the street in tront of his home. at 1031 Fourth [ street. He was slightly infured and | was treated ar Siblev Hospital. Ru dolph H. Millar. 1925 Second stieet. was tha driver of tha cah SEES DOUBLE ALIMONY T0 ONE WIFE T0O MUCH Leo Rapeer Asks Reliaf From One or Other of Two Court Orders Totaling $175. One alimony pavment i€ bad enough, of was taken (o M ney of for shock and face and arms 10 Emergency | Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, Col. John W. Oehm Navy’s Fastest Seaplane Flies Here ia in Forty Minutes more. over the Patuxtent River to | the Wicomico and across s narrow strip of 1and 10 the Potomac and up to Washingion. The distance 1otaled wiore than 180 miles Lieut. Cuddihy | atitude’ of abour out the trip, b he reporied 1 milez per hou was “set down was immediately plane hangar Substitution maintained a “sufe 4.000 feet fhrough even a1 thar height knew | waz making When the plane in the water here it havled into the sea of pontoons f fnz wheels has resulted in more than 20 miles an hour Jul nevertheleas at the present he sleek tiny blue craft with s 450 horsepower motor is the fastest sea- plane in the world. ©v will be entered !in the Schnelder cup race against Ifily and Gireai Britain providing the Army is unable 1o send in it Pulit 7er racer no il 1and loss of speed e, 0 heing DISTRICT MILITIA REACHES VIRGIAIA ’Engineers and Military Police Get Ready to Start Two- Week Training. WILLIAM 4 | | WHEATLEY. VIRGINIA BEACH. Va. August 13 Ready for their haptism of fire on the Aield of mimic hattle and prepared | to fit themselves 1o defend their country and fts ideals. Washington's lcitizen seldiers. who have cast aside civilian garb temporarily for the | sombar khaki of the Army. stepped | briskiy off the troop iranspori South- [1and today. completing the firat lex of their journey to Virginia Beach iVa. These soldisrs comprise 1ha 12151 Regiment of Engineers and 29th | Military “Police Company of the 29th | National Guard Division. They are [commanded by Col John W. Osh- | mann. who in civil life is building inspecior for the District of Columbia BY The st Training an Evidencs. ‘The result of the strenuous armory ning of the pa vear showed up to advantage. ax the 1r00ps were trans ferred with a rapldity that would do justice to anv regular organization from the transport 1o the waiting spe cial rrains of the Norfolk and South ern Railroad which were 10 ecarry them directly into the camp at the 11fle 1ange at Virginia Beach. Tha | officars and non-commissioned officers for the most part, have hean trained and rried under the ferrific shallfire of & world confiiel and are imparting | meet v n, Lient. Col. Harvey W. Gladman and Capt. Clay Anderson, | tographed last night hefore they left for Virginia Beach. in command of the District National Guard. TREASURY DROPS SIXTY-FOUR CLERKS Twenty-Two Other Names on List for Force Cut August 31. Rbxrv-four currancy divisy ment, ment pay e roll 1 amploves of on. T oday, loans and veasury Depart Aroppad from the Govern as s net result of the reduction program which has been pending since the last Ascal vear and ing June 30, The 4 were dismissed the Personnel €' ury atier Board hzd apy aration from the zervice. before it the Treasury containing $7 nam. had had prov e v the Treas their The revised list today sep board trom tor separation from the service. One of these number down t inal list 1o the by complished v o 86, ned. bringing the The dismisas! of | 4. whoee names had besn on the ov submitied several weeks ago Personnel Classification Board the Treasury Department in line with the new pro was ac cedure set up by the board, which pro vides that al in force. portunity it 8! for other classification hall name: | disminsal wera ieft hoard. have final O.K dismissals on account of reduction The procedure gave full op. appeal by the empioves. for | the ! of = on the list pending by allowing these persons the oppOrtuNity 10 appeal, their ea have hoard rion. August There e sver who 3 ses cof before tha time sei 1 20 other in loans and currency, ratained. had been on a previous list of Department nsiderad by for separa persons. how to he dis MITCHELL PARTY HOPE. Colonel Iz Mantioned as Wisconsin Democratic Candidate. MILWAUKFE (). —Members State central by the chairman. 10 select today candidats for 1o succesd Rohert SE. W o commi United M. John Calahan Democratic | fs.. August 15 the Democratic ttee were called 10 0 Staies Senator La Follette. Refusal of Judge Martin L. Husck | candidate for | election. zovernor take at ths la the nomination caused the mamhers of the State cen | tral commiitee | tlon about Mitcheli the o ce name of Col. ntar atten W. L. thelr THE WEATHER District of Columbia Virginia—Fair tonight and temorrow; little change in temperature: moderate sification | Maryland and | PARK AMUSEMENTS l i LOANED FOR PICNIC Children’s Outing at Marshalt Hall to Have Many Thritls. | -All the , amusement feaaiyres af Marshall Hall will become “personak Property” of the: hoys.and zirls of ‘Washington's children’s institutions who will be the guests at the resort Monday of The Evening Star and the Mount Vernon an: Marshall Hall' Steamboat Co. Royce Noakes. owne; of the concessions &t the park; today announced that each child on the! outing would . receive tickets while journeying .down the riv entitling |him -to ries on the thrilling and hair-raising vehicles. The - Horton | {Company of Phi elphin, which owns {the big figure 8, also came forward with Invitations, and Fred Mertens, sr. and his son, Fred Mertens. | jowners of Marshall Hall. donated the | merry-go-round, which they own The dav's outing. the third 10 be: given by The Star and the Marshall Hall Co. tn four yea has been so arrunged. that these amusement da- | vices will ‘hold the attention of the {chlldren while the biggest job of the | day—preparing lunch—is under way. ! The boys and girls will rida on the | fgure “3." the airplane, the whip. the “kissing ~bug.” ‘'scooter.” the boat like awings and the merry go-round Aduring this period Lunebeon 1o Be Fea l An outstanding featurs of the lunch Wil be the “dessert” of “Velver Kind" | ice cream and Corby's chocolate and | | cocoanut cake. a big resh slice of | !which will accompany every brick of | | the cream. Prior fo this they will be | | Biven sandwiches - prepared by the | | chef of The Evening Star Lunch | Room in The Star Buflding the night | betore, truit and sofr drinks. The soft | drinks will b cold; that is assured. he cause tha Amarican JTee Company ix | sending along hundrads of pounds of |iea for that pyrpose. | The Royal Blue Line manager, K. W. Nilas: | Line, represented by iis manag | S. Ballou. end the Washington Rotars | Club todav confirmed plans for the | part thev are to play in the outing. | Mr. Niles bas donated one of the hig | | Roval Blue Line busses. the onlv ons | {avallable, 10 convey onm of the insti [ tutions 10 and from the wharf, and | Mr. Baliou, bv special srrangement | with The Star. has assigned five of | his Red Stac Line busses to all cor- | !ners of the District Monday morning {for the children. The Washington i Rallway and Plectric Co. alse bas| made 1he necessarv acrangements for | bringing_out five special cars 10 ba routed thraugh the city direct io the wha | Arms> Band to Play. | capr. w.-a annard. netionelty | known as lsader of the United Staies| Army Band, today sald a picked or- | ganization of 25 pisces will he on rthe | boat at 9:30 o'elock. one-half hour be- | | fore sailing time, “whooping it up ! | with the livaliest music ha can secure Saveral of the bandsmen ara bringing !along their children for the outing. | Dick Tennyson. director of boys' | activities of the Plavground. Depart men:, and designated chairman of a | committee of plavground teachers as- | signed by Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes.l the supervisor, to see that the children are kept “on the run” has drawn up plans for six races to be run in the short space of time between ‘the! closing of luncheon and the departure | of the boat. He also has sélecred the following prizes 1o ba given to win- | nevs of first place: Beaded hraceler | with a jewelled clasp: triple strand! {of pearl beads and small silver com- | | paet with chain and Anzer ring —for | {the girls and “Tv Cobh’ model base | {ball hat: American Leagus hase ball | and A. ). Reach felder's glove for the | I bova. | | Mr. Tennyson wil j the following from the department | Miss Maude Parker. director of girls' {activities: Miss Nina White, secretary |10 Mrs. Rhodes: Mrs. Caroline Alex {ander. director of the Plaza Play grounds: Misa Thelma Smlth. director of Virginla avenue plavgrounds and mosi of | | i re. | | through is | 1 be assisted hv | | Loughborough Belt Line and Terr the Red Star | ! frown | Loughborough | ood passenger CTZENS DENAND BAN ON BELT LI Somerset, Md., Residents See Irreparable Damage to Suburban Towns. Pointing oui that irceparable dar 23e would he done by the construction of the proposed Washington Loughborough helt line, a formal pet! tion signed by ‘the mayor, J. Willlam Stohfman: town council and &0 pron erty owners of Somersei. Md asking that the rallroad company petition be not granted, has heen filed with the Pabfic Services Commission of Marylana f We. respectfully urge the ttioners. “that the privileges sough by the Washington and Leughborouzh Beit Line aod Terminal Co. be n granted for the reasons that the regio affected is strictly residential. witk #mall excepiions; that as 1o fthese ex sav pe | centions_adequate service is given b Ithe existipg tacilities; that the develor ment involves serious and irrepara injury to the vested rights of the dents of thix area: that the devels ment will seriously affect and dama the development of that ares in Ma Jand. which is contlguous to ths Dic trict of Columhbia. and whose cor sistent development is now dertaken on a large scale. and tha financial intérests involved—namely small holding by the Washington beinz un Co. at the junction of River road an the Baltimore and Ohio railroad—ate insignificant in comparison with snormous property damage which would be wrought by the introduction bt an extensive industrial developmen into a strierly residential aren Case Fully St Forth The case of the Somerse! ia completaly sat out before rhe com missfon in the following lenzuage The mavor and counctl of Town of Somerset. Montgomery.Coun ty, Md.. and the nundersizned taxpa 2nd eitizens of the same. herein against the iswuance of & order permitting and approving the exercise by the Washingion anc Loughborough Belt Line and Termi nal Co. of fis alleged franchises rights and privilezes: and in suppo of such protest it calls ihe attentio of your commission to the followin tacts * Somerser i& An incorpogatec extending from Wisconsin avenue the River Rogd sast of the hranc line of the Baltimore and Ohio R road. The southwest corner of the i adjacent 1o the development entire western houndary of the town and much of the southe: of the town, are contiguous 1o torv which will be used in the posed deyeiopment. 1t is aven possi that the proponents of this develr ment contemplate the extension of th development within the town limits *The Town of Somerset is strietly residential development. The (own has now. and 16ng has had in force. an ordinance prohibiting the conduct of an’v business within the town. Nearly 211 The residents of the town own their own homes and have recentlv beer heavy expense in the improvement o their strests and in the laving of ne water mains #nd sewers. Tha ragion is one of grear natural beauty. witl transportation facili ties. and f= rapidly growing. The sur rounding area. -which -inclu the towns of (hevy Uhase. Friendshin Drummond. Bradley Hills. Leland and Edgemoor. is quite - extemsively de veloped as rasidential communiti and it is inevitable that the develop ment of an extensive commercial cen ter at Loughborough and the huilding of an sdditienal railroad will serious and ireparable injury petitionars and to all other home own esidenta The prorest presen and the | ars in the sume region Denies Company Ctaim ‘Contrary to the statement in the petition filed on behalf of the Washington and Loughborough Belt Line and Terminal Co.. virtually part of the region 1o he traversed hy | the proposed raflroad is of an indv |trial character... At Loughboroug | there are a few oll storage tanks an i= but orders trom iwo juriedictions (o Pay alimony to the same wife are 100 jearned in the feld, that they mav much. according to the complaint of [ ha prepared SEOIEEE st Tration Louis William Rapeer. head of the ghould cause arise ? | Research University. who asks the i District Supreme Court 1o vacate its Will Live in nts. U'nde: the blistering rave of 4 South. order requiring him te ‘pay $100 lern sun. they shouldered rtheir heavy:! 10th mireat southwest, and Policeman | Bishop Ross Addresses Darrow of No. 4 precinet i The peliceman was attacked when of he rushed 1o the rescue in response to an emergency call turned in by spe tators. He was bitteh on the Jeg De-| 4p axhibition of industrial work. a fore he could take aim and fire a SNOL| uaith play and folk dances marked into the animal's brain | northeast and easr winds West Virginia—Fair tonight and to morrow: slightly warmar tomorrow Record for 23 Hours. Thermometer—4 p.m.. 8% 5 pm, 79: 12 midnight. 72: 4 a A6 5 am. 72: noen, $2. Graduates 10 % vounger citizenry the leseons in supporting complaints of Ameri- can interests in Mexico. In’ maony cases there has been no denfal of justice Lo American interests. ana appeals to the American Governmen: have often had the purpose of oh- taining special privileges through s | show of force. This will not do if Miss Elizabeth Mahon. director of Bloomingdale playground Boh" Le Gendre, nationally known athlate and & graduate of Georgetown Univeraity | sarved by the existing Baltimore anc also will be present. He is inspecfor | Ohio Rallroad branch. At Bethesd {of the Summer playgrounds and this|and ai Chavv Chase Lake there are | will be his first trip. The other in- |{amall coa! varde and vards connecie | structors have madé one or two trips | with the bullding supply indusu Summer Session—108 Diplomas Awarded. small quarry. These are amph | m | the closing exercises Tuesdav of tha | monthly to Mrs. Frances . Rapeer ot 2 9.36 Wirat aid treatment was rendered those bittan, and it is probable that all will be given the Pasteur treatment later as a_precaution against hvdro- phebia. Health Department officials ook charge of the cat and turned its brailn over 1o the Bureau of Animal Industry, Dapartmant of Agriculture for examination SOLUTION OF WOMAN'S DEATH MYSTERY NEAR Police Man in Connection With Finding of Charrad Body in Haystack. Arrast By the Associated Press DES MOINES. Tows With one man undar arrest. anthori ties foday expressed the belief they were nesr a solution of the mva tery surrounding the finding of a wom an'a charred hody in the ashes of havstack near Carlisle several dave ago. Positiva identification of the hody has not heen made The man. whose name is heing with held. was arrested near a nere, where Jeanette Miller. who has haen reported missing since the body wasy discovered. was last seen A bellboy last nizht said that on the night of July 2. tha evening the atraw atack burned. he saw Mise Miller, in company with another man. drive away in & light sedan. Residents around the locality of the havstack 1ave been almost nnanimous in saving that 2 similar car was seen Lo scurry from the road near the havstack s it flamed up. WARRANT DEFECTIVE. Flaw In Paper Results in Return of Rum Raid Evidence, the late Thomas H. Callan. United States commissioner. in verifying a search warrant with ihe seal of Commissioner. now Judge, George H. Macdonald. instead of his own seal. resulted today in the return of a quantity of liquor to Louis Rinaldi, togethar with a 35 marked Bl which was used by reavenue ngents in seeking svidence of sale of intoxicants. A rald was made Lk August on the strength of the search warrant new found te he defective and five gallons of corn whisky, a hot ile of Scotch and the marked hill were seized. With Rinaldi were arrested Fmil Gianella and Agostine Restifo. . Engine Kills Quarryman. apecial Dispatch 10 The Stac MARTINEBURS W. Va. August —Unable to hear the approach of a Angus 15 A mistake by shifting engine. Morgan E. Price. 60 | vears old, quarryman, was killed while standing on the track at a eurve south of here today. A widow and a lorze tamlly survive, 2 . I Magruder Summer School. The cere- that | small hotel | | monies were held jn the assembly hall of the summer achool The commencement address was de- | livered by Bishop I. N. Rose of the | African Methodist Church. Speeches | also were made by Principal G. 8mith Wormley of the Randall Junior High School, who zwarded 106 certificates of prometion fo the pupils. and Mml | Martha L. Ross. daughter of Bishop | | Ro | ‘The closing axercisex also inct {the reading of literary selection! | solos by Miss S. Molson. vocalist; Mrs Ellsworth Honest violinist, and| Misses Gladys Davis and Mattie John on, pianists. Miss Anna S. Pavne of the Summer achool des her direction ere Misses Mari B. Wade, Nellie E. Dyson, Edna Wavman. Mrs. Sadie £ Crump and Walker I.. Savoy MRS. LURA M. ELLIOTT, DIES IN CAPITAL HOME Wife of Consulting Enginsar. Resi- dent of City Since 1906. Buried | in Fort Lincoln Cemetery. s was principal Teachers un Lura M. Elliott. 88 years old. wite of Charles G. Ellfott. Tocal consulting engineer, died at her home, 5803 Fifth street. Wednesday. | Mrs. Elliott, the daughter of leon- ard 1. Bullock and Julia A. Bullock, | was born in Tonica, TIl.. In 1856. Her | parents wera among the earliest se tlers of northern Illinois. She grad ated from the Illinois Staee Univer- sity and married Mr. Elliott in 1879. Mrs. Eliott was a meémber of the Baptist urch and also of the Women's Christian _ Temperance Union. She came to Washington in 1805 and has lived here ever since. She i« survived by her husband, a son. H. R. Elliott of Montrose, Colo.: a daughter, Mrs. Marlan E. More house, and a grandson. Elliott 5i. Elliott. both of this city. Funeral services were held veste day at 2 p.m. at the Takoma Park Baptist Church and interment was at Fort Lincoln Cemetery. Rev. W. H. | La Rue officiated. 'WORLD FLYERS HONORED. | Medals Awarded by Congress Are Presented Smith and Nelson. SAN DIEGO. Calif.. August 15 (). | _Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lieut. | Erik Nelson, U. 8. A. aviators. who ! carried the Stars and Stripes on the | | firat flight around the world. wers presented with distinguished service medals, awarded them by specfal act of Congress for their historical | achievemant, at a ceremonial at Rock- | well Field yesterdav. | ‘The presentation ceremonies 100k place on almost the identical spor where Smith and Nelson ook off on|est increases in prices over the pre- |Coast Colony, the fArst lap of their vgvage. the United States Government is 10 develop a policy of friendship towatd Mexico and fulfill its higher mission 2% a trustes of Pan-American faith.’ Dr. Willlam E. Rappard of Geneva. a member of the Permanent dates Commission of 1he Leagua of Nations, assertad in a lecture Iasr night that two of its provistons for outlawing war had been 50 weak- ened by various interpretations that no responsible statesman would ven- ture to stake his reputation and the security of his country on the poten- | tial protection of the league in case of PROTEST MOVE AGAINST ALL-NIGHT PARKING Motor Trads Body Se Solution in Bullding of More Garages in City. international disturbance.” Anticipeting an attempt o drive all-night parkers off city strests. tha Washinglon Automotive Trade Asso ciation has fled with tha director of trafic a letter protesting against any such regulation. The automobile dealers axpress the view thar the number of garages in the Distriei is insufMcient to take care of all the automobiles, and that much of the all-night parking is due fo fnadequare or inconvenient garaging facilities This problem. according to the let ter, will solve ftself with the gradual | construction of more garages. In the meantime, in the opinion of the dealers. other problems connected with the control of trafic in the Dis. trict are more scute. “The letter, signed by Paul B. Lum. president of the dealers’ association. states, in part: ‘he reason that all of our cars are not housed at night is, of course, that adequste or convenient garaging facilities are not available. It stands to reason that owners would prefer to have their cara housed if it were practible. Also, it is obvious that as the garaging facilities in our rapidl growing city catch up with the.army |of cars this problem of night housing of cars will disappear. ‘We have many difficult lems requiring solution that useless (o spend time and thought on one that is not acute and one that will probably take care of jtself if let alone. Commodity Prices Soar. The general level of wholesale prices tor July reached the highest mark since Fabruary, 1921. The Labor Sta tistics Bureau of the TaBor Depart ment today reported the price on 404 commodities rose from 157.4 in .Juna to 159.9 in July. or a gain of 1.6 per cent. | Farm commodities showed the greal ceding month. Man- | Problam’s | prob- | it _seems | The wife secured 8 divorce in Vir ginia in Juw 1924, and the Arlington County (‘o ordered the hisband 1o pay $75 per month. FHa is also under order of the District Supreme Court 1o pay $100 a month 10 the wife ‘Through Attorneyv W. A. Coombe. Rapeer save that the Virginia court took jurisdiction of all the parties, in cluding the children, and that its order meets all his obligation. The District court, he save, nevar had jurisdiction of the children and shouwld vacate ite { order tor altmony. Two Bound Over in Auto Theft. Specisl Dispatch 10 The Star MOUNT RAINIER. August 15 Charged with the Jarceny of an auto mobile belonging to G. A. Falkne salesman. Washington. D. C.. at Am. mendale July 25 last, Stanley Bishop, 21 vears old, Brookiyn. N. Y.. and Thomas Trainer of the same city were |1ast night held for the action of the | gran | furv, which-converes the first Moncay in October in [Tpper Mariboro. 'Youths® Rc;st Léada | To Arrest as Car Owner Is Sought I'he tresh green lawn that surrownds Occoquan’'s warden's home smiled cool invitation 10 five road-weary vouths in a smald automobile vesterdav as hey wera en route to Richmona This looks like a nice place 1o cool off . apined one of the quintet. Tha motion was passed and carried unan imously and the young pilgrims from Philadeiphia and New Jerasv brought the machine 10 a stop and stretched themselves out on the fawn. This was & tactical error Unwittingly, these boys had put themselves inside the bounds of the District workhouse grounds and they should have been the last persons fo do such 8 thing. For the registration card they carried with the machine di4 not tally with the motor number -—one of them had a pistol—and none of them had police-satisfying creden- tials, Therefore. one of the guards, after discovering and detaining them. noti- fled Detectives Nally, Mansfield and Walsh of headquart , with the sult that the boys were brought to this city last night. Two—William Miller and .John L. Bartenhaven, both 19 —wers from Bayonne, N..J.. and the other three—James Lloyd, 19: | G. 8mith and Francis Maloney—were from Philadeiphia, they sald. The New Jersey boys said they met the others i In Phiigdelphia and, since =il were en. {route {0 Richmond, offered the latte | & dife Police are querving home iowns |88 1o the boys’ identities and the status lof the machine. | | | . = Public improvements in the Gold Britlsh Wast Africa, will cost $21,500,000, re- | Joseph | fleld packs and moved from the trans port and headed for their ramp, | where. this afternoon. will arise the | tented city that for 1wo wesks wild) be their home while they are learning | |the lessons of combat engineers—ihe engineers who must alwavs remain |at the front with the fighting troops. | building bridges and trenches | Many of them. vet in (heir teens. re- | ceived their firat taste of military life | lon a transport. and to the easy roll | of tha vessel in & moderately rough | | sea the veterans of the recent war vecited tales of weeks of transatlantio | travel ahoard the scores of rransports that rushed them overse | - Troops Enjoy Frofic. | Out for tray or frolic. last night |they had their frolic. and if the amount | of energy expended by them. until the | tearly morning is an indication of the force that a challenging nation would have 10 meet, the country is safe from prolonged harm. Maj. Alien’s medical detachment was the first to burst forth with an indoor foot ball game. Pillows supplante8 the regulation pis- | skin, but a few hours of this and no | casuaities, except to some perfectly | good pillows, made it seem tame Then started what might be termed | |a studv in evolution, as some of the lenergeric lads scorned the conven-| tional stairs and insisted on gofng 10| the upper decks up the vessel's sides. | !in the manner that Neptune hoards the ahips 1o initiate into the ordér of shellbacks those who have never be-| fore crossed the FEquator. Buf the |venerable and heloved “Top” Moore, | | veteran of several wars and more than | |8 secore of camps. soon put a stop to| [that. i Oficers Are Serenaded. Not to be outdone, and unable (0 make much headway in sleeping. sev- eral of the bandsmen. in their uncon ventional sleeping togs. Turned out, and with saxophone, cornet and trom- bone. there being no more noisy in- struments avallable, insisted on sere- nading their colonel and Tieui. Col. ;:m man by “Qh, Come All Ye Faith- ul.” The first of the “faithful” io arise was the colonel. who came fosth in the just as unconventional uniform. shorn of his eaglés of authority, and banished them (o a more secluded apot on the vessal.. There was little. sieep for any ome. but this was theliro trolicking - night, and they .roak ful {charge. 3 3 ‘Fhe engineers are going inib ¢amp this year with ihe largest contingent of citizen troops that have taken the fleld from the District since betore the war. Many of the companies turned out more than t most enthus astic of ihe officers expected. support- ing the contention of the officers that a camp at Virginia Besch instead, of Fort Humphries would do more to bufld up the morale of the organiza- tion than any one other thing Miss Edith Ingram, who put out her shingle as a practicing Jawver in lon- don only two vears ago, is now so0 busy that she has 1o keep two offices i going. Barometer—4 29.91 § a.m 12 midni 30.05: noon p.m. ght, 29 p.m.. .97 29.99 0.08. tam., Highest temperature, 88, occurred 4 p.m. vesterda Lowest temperature 5 a.m. today. Temperature same date Highest, §0: lo v 86. ocenrrad at lasi vear o Condition of the Water. mper water Temperaiure. At 8 a.m. ture and condition toda 20 of the y: Great Fall conditiom clear Tide Tables. (Furnikhed b: " United Stacas Const and Geodetic Survev.) Todsy—I.ow 11:53 p.m 1 high tide bigh tide. ow b tide and and 1141 " am am 12:28 ide. p.m 549 am. and 6:15 p.m. The Sun and Moon. Poday—Sun rose 5:21 a.m.: 704 p.rp Tomorrow sets 7:02 p.m. Moon rises | Sun 7am vise sun sets 522 a.m.: sun seis 4:30 p.m. Automobiles lamps to be lighted one. half hour afté rsunse ot Weather in Various C!fio!. ;\l;uar;'h{ By At Al o Gty Bismarck Boston .. oo CEaTh s Chicazo Cincinnati Cleveland nvar troit 1 Pago alveston F-. ena. uron. ndiaavolie 5502680303600 o 0 D 5885508 ESaZE238S: S-ppoLy couio 3559 P 29 8 Rew " ¥oRe ow Yor okla. City Omahs ... . Philadeiphia hoenix . ittsburgh ortland Me. ortland_ Or. Ri .I[h.! o City "Autonio §n Diego. . 8. Francisco. t. Louls gs Paul. 121339055 S5 25 23 e om2oD0>: >t D —ioo: ttle okane ASH.D.C S £883338833 3 3094 .04 348 a8RsaE: 3! 3 1 2 0 2 3 AR SR B RS D PSP RSB WA SRS Bmem 1T oo mos w8003 3 00 M FE S PR R S TR 2 4+ 8 (8 a.m.. Gresnwich Stations T orta (Fayal). Azores Hamilton, Bermug San Juan. Perto va olon. Canal Zon S s eey Yamo] 2331322132 22RNS2283323 pe BRI 222322323322 2 332033335 R4 2 “time. today.) mosrature. Westher T " clou art cloudy art- clondy loudy art cl art clon E art cloudy lear North Caroline Man Regards Kill- ings as in Line of His Day's Work. i Frad Jones, six times a fugitive| trom & prison tarm in Nort# Caro lina and recantly recaptured in Cin- cinnati. reached this city this morn- ing In ocustodv of J. R. Barhan. State officer in North Carolina. 20d was | givem temporary quarters at No. 8| police station Barhan stopped here 10 gai Robert Q. Webb, alias John Evereit Wamb- | vod, arrested .hers Monday morning | for theft of a hag bélonging fo| | Thomas L. Leahy, 91 Fremcis avenue. Plttafietd, Mass., on & railroad train lromlnl from Memphis. Tenn Questioned about the man wha. had | madé six escapes. Barhan said on the | occasion of one escape a buller fiom | an officer's pistol passed through Jones’ hat and grazed his skull “I've shot six escaped prisoners in my tme,” Barhan remarked. “Any of them die’” he was asked | “SIx" was his response. seemingly | taking it for granied that such things are expecied in connection with sscaping convicts. Ha sald four of the men he killed were colored and { two white. | HELD IN CONSPIRACY. | ! { Woman Under Bail in Government Check Forgery GCase. | Mise Alice Bell Mehan of 922 I.| sirest and Clarendon. Va.. is under bail of, 32,000 for appearance ‘ar a hearing -~ August 20, before ‘ United States Commissioner . Turnage . on charges of conspiring in forgery of a Government check for $975.10. * Miss Mahan, according to the United | States Secret Service, which made the case, assisted a man in getting casb- ed at a National bank in. this city the Government check. which betons- €d t6 ahother pérson. Further details | of the case were withheld. Named 'to West Point. Franklin F. Wing, jri son of ol F. F, Wing, Dental Corps,.at Walter | Reed, hax been appointed by the Presi- |dent a cadet at large at the United States Military Academy, subject to qualification at the entrance examina- tion next March. Others appointed cadets at Jarge are: Thomas R. Han- nah, son of Lieut. Col. James G.-Han- nah; 2nd- Infantry, at Fort Wayne, Mieh.; Calvin -J. Boal, jr. Paimyia, N.J,;: Willlam E, Kneass, jr., son of Capt: W. E. Kneass, Field Artillery, at Monterey, Calif., and Louis H. Kil- bourne, Oklahoma City, Okla. timore and Ohio Railroad. {with the children. | These ars adequate for local purposs SHOT 6 ESCAPING MEN: ALL DIED, OFFICER SAYS| the Ba There no existing demand for ~dditiona cilitlen, and those offered by the Ba timore and Ohio Railrogd are ample for any probable future develapmen and are capable of extension if the need shall arise. There is beinz started & much needed plan to unify and co-ordinate the development of that area in Ma land which is contiguous to the D trict of Columbia. This involves recognition of the fact that the region is residential in character. and tha its harmonious devetopment is fmpo/ tant. The fact that the District of O lumbia does not tolerate development such es are proposed in the petitior of the Washington and Loughborough Belt Line and Terminal Co. is se forth {n that petition. Wa submit tha it is not just nor equitable 106 permic Washington interests to impose on a important residential area in Macy 1and those types of development whirh aro 8o objectionable that they are bidden in the Districi of Columbia permit this s to convert & growl suburban i1 esidential development in treight vard for the convenience of Washington.’ D. C. WOMAN ELECTED. Mrs. Minnie E. Keyes Is Secretary of East Star TORONTO, August 15 () —Inaial lation of officers was the final business of the eighteenth triennial assemblt of the General Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star. which closed here last night. The installa tion was under the direction of the retiring most worthy grand mairon Mrs. Cora Reynolds Franz of Jack sonville, Fla. The next assemblv wil be held in Denver, Colo. The principal officers for 1925 1928 are: Most worthy grand matron. Mr= Clara Heinrich of Newport, Ky.. moal worthy grand patron, J. BErnes Teare. Cleveland, Ohio.. and right worthy grand secretary, Mrs. Minnie E. Kéyves, Washington, D. C. BRITISH STR.IKE T0 END. 200.000 Textile Workers Agree to Arbitration Plan. LONDON, August 15 (#). ment was reached yesterday, through government medtation. in the taxtile dispute_which hss been in_ progrese since «bout three weeks ago, When the mill obwnars announced a wage reduc. tion of 8 per cent. Under the agreement signed ai. the ministry strikers will resume work ! acale of wages pendinz the negotia tion of ‘& new wige agreement Bused on the finding of « court of investi tion. which §s 10 Le appoinied. About 200,000 iextile workers Yorkshire are affected. nd are adequately served by n A-sertie which. was labor. - the the ‘otd in