Evening Star Newspaper, August 16, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair today and probably tomorrow; not murh change in temperature. Temperatures—Highest, 54, at 5 p.m. vesterday; lowest, 66, at G a.m. yester. day Full report on page 5 = 0. 90.699. Entered as second class matter 1,065—No. 1692, Sost omee Wernington o he WASHINGTON, D. Big Navy Dirigible Expected to Visit PRESIDENT 10 i DEBTSETTLENENTS, (% Admi William A. Moffett, chief of the Bureau of Aeronautic: vy Department, today said it Mellon and Smoot to Ask Coolidge to Act at Meet- ing Tomorrow. was not only possible, but prob- ble that one of the dirigibles, the Los Angeles or the Shemandoah, would come to Hawail in October. The admiral made this statement after inspecting the mooring mast the Navy has erected at Sisal, Oahu Island. BELGIAN PARLEY BLOCK E[;[]N[]MIB RHURN wakes svee wecessanr|- (1 EIROPE IS SEEN Chief Executive Sees Need For and | Danger of Leniency in Final Terms. d International Chamber of Commerce Says. BY. J. Staft Co RUSSELL YOUN PLYMOUTH, Vt., August the most important conference sident Coolid, has held since | BY the Associated Press. leaving Washington is scheduled for | The economic restoration of Monday, when Secretary Mellon and |pean countries that participated in the Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, mem- [World War exhibits ‘“encouraging the American Debt Commis- |Progress,” said a report made public will call at the old Coolid homestead here to talk debt matte Secretary Mellon and Senator Smoot will, with other thin the President to decide the principle {Ver. upon ch the American Govern-|and ment act with all the various |Perience is developing,” the report debtor tions, including {held, “the upward trend should con- Belgium and Ttaly tinue.” While on this visit to his old home, | Regarding pessimism existing in the President had hoped to spend a |SOme quarters, the committee recalled few davs with his father undisturbed |that despite gloomy predictions by by public questions. But he will he {eminent authorities five years ago, called upon the visiting commis- | Progress has been “very encouraging o the decision which |and tangible.” Political pressure, e ;u-hu]ulmmmum;. the rport ussfr(sd, > e » |would now appear to be more inte terms and lower interest {74 0 "0 10 Gennitely obetructive. refunding the Belgan debt|” The hudget position of practical iven to Great Britain all European countries has improve Coolidge has laid down la number being regarded as satisfac that all the debtor nations |tory, the report said, with taxes re- their indebtedness, in-|duced in some of them. neipal and interest. He is| Inflation Ended. sed to remitting-any interest, but | Surveying the fleld thé committee has said t leniency must be shown {found: to the sta 15.—One of Euro- hers of [ sion e |3 ational Chamber of Com- . whose committee on economic ation has just completed a sur- Given a continued will for peace the sound leadership which ex- will France, sioners make the commissione as to better tes in than was Presiden the policy must pay cluding ' Restoration Shows Progress, | vesterday by the American section of | ANDERSON HIDING IN MUNCE, POLICE SCOURING CITY, SAY Chapman’s Avenger, Accused in Double Killing, Elades Two Raids. VICTIM CERTAIN DEATH IMPENDED FOR MONTHS Life Made Nightmare of Terror by | i Threatening Letters of Ban- dit's Pals. Br the Associated Press. MUNCIE, Ind., August 15.—Forty members of the local police force, armed with riot guns, left the local police station tonight for an undi vulged destination, which, newspaper men said, might result in the cap- ture of George (Dutch) Anderson, ac- cused of the fatal shooting of Ben Hance, of near here, and his wife, on a road near here vesterday. Chief of Police Randolph's only comment was, We have a hot tip.” Most of the day and night force were ordered to report-at the police | station at 9:30, the officers leaving | shortly afterward in motor cars. ! Twenty minutes after leaving head- quarters the officials returned. Chief | Randolph stated that his men raided two apartments in a notorious part | |of the city, on tips that Anderson | | had been seen in them. No tract of | | him was found, however. i All Officers on Duty. All of the officers were ordered_to | remain at headquarters the rest of | the night, Chief Randolph declaring he has definite information that | Anderson s in Muncie. Squads of | ;ofl’\cprfl continued combing that part | of the city known as the underworld { after the riot squads had left. | Officers today tightened a circum. | | legislation WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION C., SUNDAY MORNIN( X, Swnday Star, and service wi | AN’ PooR i FATHER'S || DOWN IN \ AUGUST 16, 1925.—ONE THAT JAILS GIRL ’ Special Dispatch to The Star PHILADELPHIA, Pa., August 15.— | The impossibility of even the best obeying all the laws under modern is discussed by President Henry A. Fuller of Luzerne in a novel opinion he has Judge | County, | written in the case of a girl arrested JUDGE FLAYS “MAJESTIC LAW” Modern Legislation’s Impulse Is to Criminalize Acts Condemned Neither by God Nor Conscience, He Says, Freeing Mistress of Animal. FOR UNTIED DOG | dominant impulse apparently is to criminalize acts condemned nelther by | God nor conscience, has declared that the owner of a dog six months old, regardless of race, color, sex or pre vious condition of servitude, must pro- tect ownership by paving $1 for a li- cense, subject to criminal prosecution for failure to do so. EIGHT DANCE AWAY SLUNBER IN TEST Ninth Marathoner Takes to Bed for Six Hours in G. W. U. Research. “It's 3 ing—" To o'clock in the morn-n-n-n-n the unemotional squeaks of a HUNDRED PAGES. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 ill start immediately. FIVE CENTS. 8 Children Asleep Saved From Flames By Daring Firemen By the Associated Press. BATTLE CREEK, MICH. Au- gust 15—Eight sleeping chiidren, imprisoned by locked doors, were carried through flames and smoke in a daring and spectacular rescue from La Belle Resort Hotel at Gull Lake, 14 miles west of Battle Creek, which was totally destroyed by fire late today with an esti- mated loss of $85,000 James Milne, 76, and blind, of Grand Raplds, was rescued by means of a hastily improvised wire cable. C. W. Dunkley of Chicago, sporting editor of the Associated Press, central division, and A. L. Spaulding, orchestra leader of the resort dance pavilion, fought their way through fire up a- burning stairway, bound the cgble around Milne’s body and lowered him to the ground below. The children had been locked in rooms by their parents and were sleeping when the fire broke out. After breaking down doors, fire- men carried all of them to safety. TEN ARE RESCUED Passengers on Yacht Ram- med at Regatta Leap Into River at Highway Bridge. The lives of 10 passengers aboard the rapidly-sinking pleasure yacht Voyager, which had been rammed y afternoon, were saved by calm action of Thomas Allen, neer officer, who kept the running until the craft could be grounded, and by the alertness of Ensign Kenneth A. Coler, in command of 4 speed boat from the Coast Guard iCutter Apache, who rushed to the icene and rescued the floundering per- sons from the water after the craft had disappeared. The vacht, owned by Albert F. Mitchell of 1620 R street, was en route engt engines FROM SINKNG BOAT CHILD DELINQUENTS - ON INCREASE HERE INPASTTWO YEARS Capital Leads Nation’s Cities in Number of Young Offenders. INVESTIGATION BY STAR BARES STARTLING FACTS | | |Special Study Is Made of Cor- rective Effect of Play- grounds. Washington's reputation for having the highest percentage of delinquent children appears to be secure, if rec. ords of the Juvenile Court are a | criterion, This doubtful honor was awarded the Nation's Capital several years ago by the United States Children's Bu- reau, and since that time, despite in creased playground facilities and other measures calculated to combat de |linquency, the number of childrer being brought into the court each vear has not appreciably declined, ac cording to Chief Probation Officer Jo- seph W. Sanford. As a matter of fact delinquency has | shown a slight increase during the | past two years, following a drop noted iin 1923, During the fiscal year 192 ap proximately 1,000 children were brought before Judge Kathryn Sellers !ot the Juvenile Court for various of. {fenses. The previous period was | marked by 1,073 arrests. The 1923 fig ure was 984. During the vear 1920 iwhen the Children’s Bureau surve | was instituted, 1,125 was the total This figure rose to 1,206 in 1921, and stood at 1,123 in 1922. These data show an annual averag. {of 1,085 children brought into court | during the past six years, an average countries whose financial con- | Currency inflation ended and reor- ¢ dition justify such treatment. In sanization of independent banks of|Stantial net around Charles ne- | other words, he is willing to make the e, non-political, effected throughArm” Wolfe, Muncle man, arrested terms according to the ability of the [finance control, in Austria, Poland,| !N connection with the slaying. by nation affected to pay |Germany, Hungary, Latvia and the|oMering evidence to refute an alibi. 10 the regatta held by the Corinthian}gecrease since the 1920 aurvey of only Boat Club and was coasting to 4n an-| 49 ¢ should be taken into considera- chorage near the Highway Bridge|jon, however, that the population has when a launch, headed west on the|poeaceq® ot T T T river, crashed into the Voyager raspin box, but profoundly noisy music eight of the nine sleep-dodging |marathoners bent on a winkless fast {of 60 consecutive hours were dancing by the State police, fined and ordered committed to jail for owning a shep- herd dog without having a $1 dog license. “But we find no statutory pro- nouncement that the possession of an untied dog, whatever its age may be, is ground for being muicted in money . . . Hance, dving, sald Wolfe and Ander. Want Definite Plan. |son shot down him and his wife. Irasmuch as the ers have no more favo 10 Gre E 10 th authority to ag to ¢ terms than those given in in refunding its debt country, President will agree to lower in- terest rates and longer maturity for Selgium tion will rec favorable conditions Py dent Coolidge ie represented as not ‘weing inclined to hastily reach such a_conclusion, because he knows that ce and Italy will demand similar terms, and this will mean a tremendous 10ss to American taxpay ers. His general attitude is that all the debtor must agree upoh funding term: Fall and that they must pay according to their abilit without ~ any cellation of the amounts loaned by this Government during the World War and post-war known that there will be some ress to lowering the = dent, it is said, will proceed most care- after he has been con- that the terms agreed to by American commissioners repre- sent the best that the debtor nations can give. PARLEY AT IMPASSE. Is, However, by No Means Pessimistie. Of By the Associated Pres While the American debt commissions have impasse, officials of this have by that the nd Belgian reached an vernment present negotiations can be carried to a successful conclusior The conference which Secretar:; Mellon and Senator Smoot are to have with P Coolidge at Plymouth, V., ton is expected to clarify the situz to some extent at least and to make it possible for the nego- tiations to be ied forward after Although the next move in the ex- changes with the President, there are indications that Belgium will have to modify terjally if such an reasonably be expec approval of the is to be Just those proposals are re mained yesterday as close a secret as ever, but des this the day brought forth its u of rumors con- cerning the negotiations, the one of which was that Belgium had demanded as a condition 0 any agree- ment_the compl ellation of the $1 0,000 in Ic Ivanced to it by this’ country the actual war period :ement as can have the Congres: ed Ame: to can wha e car n during Members of the American commis- | government {3 the introduction this | sport was present- flatly t no such pro- d been sdvanced at_any time during the negotiatio Their con- clusion was that this rumor probably predicated upon an old expres- sion of the Belgian viev classes of the debt—war w should be treated se MAN FATALLY INJURED IN FALL DOWN SHAFT Operator at and post- arately. Elevator Carolina Apartment Dies After Plunge. Police Probe Dropping to the bottom of an eleva- tor shaft in the Carolina apartment, Case. at 706 Eleventh street, Rajah Burns, | colored, 37, the elevator operator in the building, was fatally injured last night. Headquarters Detective Ver- million and*Policeman Harrington of the first precinet, the death Burns was taken to Emergency, where he died about four hours after the accident. The fact that he was the regular operator of the elevator and was the only one in charge last night. combined with the circumstance that the machine was at the top when he stepped into the shaft believing the car to be on the ground floor prompted the police investigation. An iron bar was also found at the bottom of the shaft. that the two | are investigating | | Free Cit i Currenc; of-Dantzlg. returned to par in Great ebt commission- | Britain, Sweden, Switzerland and the | \Wolfe, apprehended a few hours after | Netherlands ! Currency “appea |stabilized definitely to have been in Austria, Hun- ecretary Mellon and | gary, Poland and Germany, resting in | four miles from where the shooting | Senator Smoot Want to learn whether | the last-named “upon what is practi- | occurred, identified Wolfe as one of | lcally a gold basts.” ; Financial recuperation in Austria If s0, they will proceed with | “has not sufficed to cure all its eco- | murder. nezotiations and will tell the Bel-| nomie ills” and its problems are com- | Chine was replenished at Yorktown, jan commission that the administra- | plicated by one-third of its population | they said. The éccupant of the auto- mmend to Congress more | being in its capital, Vienna, and be. | mobile fitted the description of An- cause it is a “topheavy” country. | Belgium'’s foreign trade situation is la bright spot, with its devastated re- gions practicall treasury situation alone | “difficuities remaining to come."” | Satisfactory trade in Czechoslovakia | for 1924 has followed a 1923 convales- cence. Taxes there are ‘‘still higher | than appears warrantable and the | zovernment is at present concerned | with the problem of transferring the incidence from excise to direct taxa tion.” Despite | France, 1 presenting be over- production increases “the industrial situation is finance, which are still potential | sources of economic disorder.” Cur- rency “remains to be stabilized; the service of the national debt is too heavy for a healthy economic lifc; the budget is not yet finally and concl | sively balanced.” The permanent so- {lution of France’s financial problems “may bring about a period of tempo- | rary embarassment to industry and | trade” there, as happened in other | countries. |, In German | the reich may | order.” | Great Britain's the publi now be finances of id to be in fiscal poll criti- no means abandoned hope |cized on the ground that it burdened | |industry with a load of direct taxa- | tion, which one of the principal sources of the country’s four-year trade depression, accomplished good, | enabling it to operate several success. | ful conversfon loans at advantageous {rates of interest. All securities bear- ling a fixed rate of interest have im- | proved in value. The return to par of exchange has thus far made it more difficult for British manufacturers to {compete with others in the export | markets, principally because prices s proposals ma-|and wages have not yet been adjusted | !to the new monetary conditions. | "Hungary, where general improv ment under the League of Natio plan is noted, holds promise of rapid {return to normaley through its natural | wealth and ‘“successful management | of its program of reform.” | Trade and industry in Italy have principal | profited greatly by the sound economie ! policies of the government. Further i extension of the country’s great water- power resources will do much to aid | national economy, chiefly through de- | creasing the need for foreign coal. The most significant fiscal effort of the vear of a real Income tax and abolition | of_additiona) forms of direct taxation in"1921. | “poland’s fiscal affairs, still at an | evolutionary age, will make possible eventually & taxation system properly | adapted to its need, if currency sta- I bility is maintained. ! Rumania is endeavoring to stabilize | the leu but with debt service and na tional defence taking 25 per cent of | the 1925 budget receipts, this will be difficult. | £ A VISP O { |KEMAL PASHA CONSOLES | EX-WIFE WITH £5,000 Turkish Leader Divorced Brought Him Dowry of $685,000. | By the Associated Pre CONSTANTINOPLE, Turkey, Au- gust 15.—Mustapha Kemal Pasha, President of the Turkish Republic, | who has divorced his young and beau- | tiful wife, Latife Hanoum, leader of the feminist movement in the Near | Easfy is reported to have told his as- sociates that he does not contemplate another marriage. He has allowed his divorced wife £5,000 compensation for the repudiation of their marriage. (The Turkish pound at par is worth $489. The dowry Lataife brought Kemal was said at the time of her marriage to be about $685,000.) v Wife in | i the tragedy, said he had been in Mun-| |cle all afternoon yesterday. Three | | residents of Yorktown, a small town {the two men in a coupe they saw in| | a few minutes before the | The fuel supply. of the ma-| Yorktown | derson, they said. His opinion, which will be included | in the permanent law reports of Penn- | sylvania, follows: “This is the kind of | case that disgusts one with the maj- | esty of the law. A poor youns glrl, | owner of a shepherd dog and ignorant of the law, had neglected to take out| a dog license, thereby depriving the | Commonywealth of $1, whereupon the Commonywealth’s constabulary pounced upon her and brought the malefactor before a magistrate, who, with punc- tilious sense of duty, imposed a fine If the slayer was Anderson, wreak- {ing vengeance on one who had; ¢ reconstructed and its | “turned up” his pal and accomplice, |15 days. The constable, hawever, who | supplying evidence to bring about his | conviction and condemnation to death, | he had completely disappeared today. | | Vietim Long in Dread. Hance knew he was a marked man | from the time he went to Hartford, | to testify against Chapman,| acquaintances say, and for several| months he has lived in constant dread | of death. Accomplices and friends of | the debonair bandit leader added to | Hance's terror by sending him covert | | is the portion of the betrayer. | With the exception of the stories of the Yorktown folk there was | nothing new today to add to last| night's_details of the murder. | Developments strongly indicate that there was but one gunman and | that he fired five times, one bullet striking Mrs. Hence in the skull, killing her instantly, and two wound- ing her husband in the abdomen. | Two of the bullets were found in the Hance automobile. Charles Cromer, who was a witness to the shooting, {found five empty pistol shells. | Hance, after gasping that Ander- son and Wolfe were his assailants, refused to tell more. ! Hance lived on a farm at Eaton, | 10 miles from Muncie, and it was this | isolated spot that Chapman picked | to hide him from the scores of Fed- eral officers and private operatives who trailed him. With Chapman was Anderson and another man. They paid Hance well for their board and room and in Chapman the farmer found much to admire. To friends he said he did not like to testify against (Continued on Page 4, Column 1) TODAY’S STAR. PART ONE—36 Pages. General News—Local, National Foreign. Maryland and Virginia News—Pages | 18, 19 and 2 | Around the C | | and y—Page 22, Serial, “The Wrath to Come"—Page 26. Radio News and Programs—Page 27. Veterans of the Great War—Page 28. Financial News—Pages 20, 32, 33 and 34. PART TWO0—20 Pages. | Bditorials and Editorial Features. | Washington and Other Society. Tales of Well Known Folk—Page 14. Club Notes—Page 15. Y. W. C. A—Page 1 Book Notes—Page 15. Army and Navy News—Page 16. Naval Reserve News—Page 16. District National Guard—Page 17. PART THREE—12 Pages. Amusements—Theaters and the Photo- plays. Music in Washington—Page 4. Motors and Motoring—Pages 5, §, 7, 3 and 9. Civilian Army News—Page 10, Fraternal News—Page 11. i PART FOUR—1 Pages. Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—S8 Pages. IMaglzlne Section—Fiction and Fea- tures. The Rambler—Page 3. PART SIX—8 Pages. | | Classified Advertising. GRAPHIC SECTION—8 Pages. | World Events in Pictures. COMIC SECTION—4 Pages. Betty: Reg’lar Fellers; Mr. and Mrs. Mutt and’ Jeff, MACNILLAN FINDS and therefore the Presi-| controlled largely by factors of public | threats and reminding him that death | of $10 with costs, $3, and, in default of payment, committed her to jail for held the commitment, instead of put- ting her in durance vile wisely and hu- manely brought her before the court. The accusation and the condemnation are thus set forth in the commitment, that the defendant had an ‘untied dog’ in her possession; not specifying age “Saplent modern legislation, whose or imprisoned in body. “On our advice this poor girl has now taken out a license, but mean- while she has been degraded, morti- fled and terrified beyond measure. 50,000,000 Crimes Daily. “Human behaviour under modern legislation is now hedged in by so many restrictions that it has become impossible for even the best-inten- tioned people to go through the day without committing one or more crimes. “In the United States we may fair- Iy assume that 50,000,000 crimes are being daily committed, and if these were all prosecuted for punishment as, of course, they should be under any enlightened theory of enforcement, one half of our Federal population would be confined in jail and the other half engaged in getting them there. “Thus the law is fast developing into a self-devouring monster. The defendant is discharged.” | { | BASE ON IS0 lowa Radio Amateur Gets Report of Navy Flyers’ Success. Navy flyers with the MacMillan Arctic expedition have established an intermediate base between Ltah and Cape Hubbard at the head of Flagler Fiord, on Ellesmere Island, according to adyices reaching the National Geo- graphic Soclety last night. The message came through Arthur A. Collins, amateur radlo operator at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who succeeded at noon yesterday not only in recelving a code mesage containing news of the new intermediate base, but also in establishing direct volce communica- tion with the expedition. Flagler Fiord, where the Navy planes have succeeded in establishing a base, the National Geographic Society says, is approximately 100 miles northwest.of Etah by airline, a third of the distance to Cape Hub- bard on the edge of the uncharted polar ocean. The scenery is magnifi- cent. The cliffs rise almost straight from the water ‘or 2,000 feet, but strong winds rushfng down from the glaciers of Ellesmere Island often make landings difficult.” Short Wave Used. Collins succeeded yesterday at noon in picking up the voice of John L. Relnartz, chief operator abgard the Bowdoin, on a l6-meter wave length, the first time this feat has been re- ported from an amateur at this low wave length and at this distance. The voices of the Bowdoln personnel sing- ing the anthem “America” were also heard very clearly, the message states. Following the volce test a code mes- sage stated that Lieut. Schur and Avi- ation Pilot Bennet had succeeded in making a successful landing in Flag- ler Fiord on Ellesmere Island. In the NA1 and NA-3 the Navy fiyers drop- ped down into this narrow stretch of water late Friday and established a depot of provisions at the head of the fiord. This base will be used as a midway stop on the “shuttle” service between Etah and Cape Hubbard. Returning to Etah, a second attempt was made to bring on supplies and gasoline at midnight, but the flyers ‘were forced to return without landing because of the drift ice. Only two are now available for this as the NA-3 has been under- golng repairs on the deck of the Peary since its near-disaster Thursday. Additional _details of the’ heroic fight made by the members of the | expedition to save the NA-2 from sinking, when the buffeting of the heavy waves opened the seams in its hull ‘day before yesterday, are con- tained Iin the message. GROCER WOUNDED “During the heavy breeze,” Comdr. (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) A BY NEGRO BANDIT Sam Stolar, Shot Down in| Scuffle, May Die—Thief Escapes. Sam Stolar, grocer, 46 years old, 1000 S street, was shot in the neck in a scuffle with a negro in a hold-up last night in his store, and early this morning was lingering between life and death at Emergency Hospital. Stolar had been counting his money at the cash register, when he looked up suddenly and saw a rrevolver pointed at him. Instead of holding up his hands and giving up his money, the grocer grabbed for the gun, according to his story told headquarters detectives, and while trying to wrest it from his assailant was shot in the neck. The negro fled, and was seen, evewitnesses said, to run down Tenth street and across into French street. Stolar’s wife, Minne, and his daugh- ter, Hannah, who were in the room behind the storerushed out at the sound of the shot and found the grocer lying on the floor back of the counter in a pool of blood. Girl Sees Man Flee. “I saw the man going out the front door but did not get & good look at him,” the daughter said. He was about medfum build and light colored. The wife and daughter rushed to Dr. Albert Ridgley, colored, 950 S street, who administered emergency treatment. Stolar was removed to Emergency Hospital in a short time and was operated upon about mid- night. Dr. Ridgley said he failed to| find the bullet, and did not know what | direction it had taken after entering | the neck. At the hospital Stolar declared his assailant had gotten no money. He had about §75 on his person and there was about $20 in the cash register. Earlier in the evening another grocer, Louis R. Marshal, 1106 T street, who had been standing outside his store, looked back in the show window. In the store he saw dimly the form of a man at the cash register. Yelling and rushing into the store, ac- cording to police reports, Marshal frightened the man, and in an en- counter was able to take away his gun and cap, but the negro made his escape. Honelt— Charwoman Rewarded. PARIS, August 15 (P).—-Armando | Cartayo, a Cuban, this morning lost a pocketbook containing $25,000 in Paris. This afternoon Juliette Simo- net found the purse intact and re- stored it to the owner, who rewarded | her with 50,000 francs (about $2,500). Juliette, who was a poor charwoman this morning, tonight went off into the gountry with her riches to buy a #mall house for a new home. % away their second night without so much as,a nod in a secluded room at George Washington University early this morning. The ninth, Dr. Willlam Middleton, of Falls Church, Va., having com- pleted his forty-second hour without sleep exactly at midnight, took to his bed for & blissful six hours, as 2 part of the test sclentists are making to de- termine just what effect lack of sleep has- on persons of different sexes, different ages and varied intellectual trainings. s Ages From 17 to 33. The nine men and women engaged in the test range in age from 17 to 33; four are girls, all under 23, and the others men: some are candidates for the degree of doctor of philosophy, while others have completed average educations and are now taking their places in the business world. Half are ardent coffee drinkers, the others total abstainers. Dr. Fred A. Moss, head of the p: chology department of George Wash- ington University, himself one of the nine and in direct charge of the sleep clinic, discussed the test freely for the first time last night. He pointed out that not only are the observers seek- ing to obtain accurate information as to the mental and physical effect of sleeplessness, but that they are trying to settle moot questions of long standing, too. Many Questions Studied. “We are having those who are ac- customed to caffeine drink plenty of coffee and Coca-Cola, while the others are made to abstain completel he said. “By this we hope we shall ob- tain some accurate information as to the effect caffeine may have upon sleep. Then, too, we are trying to learn whether younger persons need more rest than older ones, or vice versa. The problem of sleep upon mental capacities Is being considered also.” - In the case of Dr. Middleton, the doctors in charge are anxious to as- certain whether a person is benefited more by just a few hours' sleep during & prolonged fast or by continuing the fast uninterrupted. After the pre- scribed six hours, Dr. Middleton will again join his teammates and con- tinue out the test with them until 6 o'clock this evening, when all will go tp bed for 12 full hours. Possibly none of these taking the test show the effects of it so much as Dr. Moss himself. golng without his usual amount rest, but he has been constantly tak- ing notes and putting his charges to severe mental tests at stated hours. In addition, he has been making cer- tain statistics of a medical nature dur- ing the early morning hours. Little Difference Noted. Aside from some looking eves, none of the nine in the test shows any noticeable effects. When a reporter for The Star called last night, Dr. and Mrs. W. C. Can- trell were entertaining the group with folk dances. Told to compare the ap- pearance of Dr. Cantrell, who had en- Jjoyed his usual amount of sleep the night before, the reporter noticed lit- (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) On| The survey conducted under aus- the port side just abaft the beam.|,jceq of the Children's Bureau in 1920 The vacht began to sink and Allenfgiaciosed that of five large cities ex- worked over the engines while water amined Washington had the largest was pouring in on him. All efforts| i e were bent on getting the boat to shore, [ 1U0ta Of Wayward bovs and gitis in and just as the top deck disappeared | Felation to total number of children, the hull struck bottom. | with a percentage of 3.8. Boston waa Mr. Mitchell and his wife jumped |next, with 2.4 per cent, New Orleans betore the boat grounded and the|followed with 1.9 per cent, Seattle had other members of the party were| 1.4 per cent and Buffalo 1.2. forced to take to the water a moment; The report at that time declared or two later. l(hal “in general, those having the Ensign Coler Saves Ten. | poorest play facilities also had the The speed boat from the Apache | greatest amount of delinquenc: This_statement, supported by Mrs. picked up the passengers, and Mrs. | s iie Root Hhodes, Stpervisor of pla: Mitchell declared the quick action of | grounds, {s in line with a bulle Ensigin Coler saved her husband {romm | recently issued by the Childr possible drowning. As the result of [ potitY MEIEG SR e S rer an airplane accident during the war | 730 S ROl Ll OO TG L s Mr. Mitchell is unable to remain in| . ted as saying that 88 of vvery 10 water any length of time, due to se-| JULeE 88 BAVINR RO R O RO nile vere cramping of his left leg, Mrs. |, 2 L5 q Mitchell said. | Court in Omaha live one-half mile or y from playgrounds. Omaha’ The members of the party, L i VE! e tion o IMYLUATIen) and EG-anA'mies: [ JUYSOIS dctinuenty At for 37 Mitchell, were: Mr. and Mrs. H. Abell, | W33 3.1 per cent. = McLean, Va.; Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. | R® - : in addi- | delinquenc: Dr. Moss has not only had to stand the strain of of mighty sleepy- Lawren Mount Vernon place, Mrs. Thomas Allen, 1663 U street southeast, and Mr. and Mrs. M. M Bryarly of 163 Adams street. Mr Allen, who has just recovered from a long illness, was taken aboard the Apache in a hysterical condition, but at a late hour last night she was re- ported to be resting quietly. The launch which rammed the Voyager bore and was piloted by John M. Liesh, 1604 T street southeast. He stated after the accident that he did not see struck it, and in an effort to avoid a collision he jerked the steering wheel so violently that blocks were n loose and he was helpless to divert Liesh stated, is owned by Hubert De Bruyn of Long Island Cit Y., and has been left in his care. According to papers found on the boat, the last assignment for 638-S was in August, 1920, to L. N. Cooper of Norfolk. Liesh said the boat was brought to Washington about three years ago by De Bruyn. Divers Salvage Jewelry. The Vovager measured 40 feet by 91. It originally was valued at $12, 500. Before Mr. Mitchell purchased it about a year ago, it was called the Vivian. The new name had not been registered. Shortly after the accident Lieut. Comdr. C. H. Jones, captain of the Apache, ordered two expert divers to the wrecked boat to recover personal property which had gone down. After diving for more than an hour they recovered property valued at more than a thousand dollars, includ- ing jewelry, a pocketbook with nearly $100 in it; articles of clothing, the ship's papers and instruments and equipment. Mr. Mitchell will have the Voyager thian Yaacht Club. Undertow Drowns Two Soldiers. SAN FRANCISCO, August 15 (®). Henry R. Johnson o Calif., soldiers at the Presidio here, were drowned today at the ocean beach here. Six others caught in the | undertow were rescued. the designation 638-S | the Voyager until his boat had almost | the course of the launch. The launch, | raised today and towed to the Corin- Buffalo, N. Y., | and Fred McLaughlin of Sacremento, | ed by Prof. Sullenzer were more | playgrounds, enforcement of poolroom | laws, censorship moving picture fewer boys in street trades. more Bo | Scouts and better enforcement « school laws. In a spirit of public service, Star has just completed an exte survey of Washington's juvenile pr lems with a view to ascertaining th causes for the c alarming de quency rate. The investigation brought to light a number of facts of a more or less startling nature regarding the rela tion of playgrounds to child delin- quency in Washington, in addition to a number of widely varying opin ions on the causes and remedies for delinquency in the Capital Each of the major “discoveries will be treated in detail in a series of articles to follow. The general subject | will be “Playgrounds linquency. The facts cited in these article: will be authoritative, having been ob tained from official records of the Juvenile Court, Playground Depart ment or other bureau. or havin been secured by a representative of The Star during the survey of play ground and court conditions The opinions will be those of of ficials best qualified to speak on the subject at hand Out of the mass of facts and opin ions obtalned The sStar hopes that some way will be found to ameliorate Washington's delinquency situation, to the end that this city's fame as a metropolis of bad boys and | girls may be dimmed. | urg The 1 ive | b | n | { of and the series Child De | | — 1 'YOUTH OF 20 TO DIE FOR SLAYING OF GIRL | Jury Takes Less Than 1 1-2 Hours to Decide Case in Which Hanging Is Decreed. { | | By the Associated Press | CHICAGO, August 15.—Raymond Ex-Governor Challenges Successor To Join Him in Hunt for Convicts By the Associated Press. PORTLAND, Oreg., August 15.— Oswald West, former governor of Ohio, today issued a challenge to Gov. Walter M. Pierce and Warden Dalrymple of the State penitentiary for the three to enter Drift Creek Canyon, where possemen believe :hne escaped convicts are in hid- ng. West's challenge was a sequel to a statement recently published in which he crlt!cl.ud the warden in connection with the escape of the prisoners Wednesday night when two guards and another escaping convict were killed. Gov. Plerce de- fended the warden against West's attack. West's challenge was as follow: “Around the rim of the canyon are several score men and boys of the guard ordered to keep the mur- derers surrounded. They may shortly be ordered to enter the can- yon. Some of them likely will be shot. “Now here is my proposal to the rnor. T asked him and Dalrymple to meet me at Pratum schoolhouse tomorrow or Monday morning at 6 o'clock. “Each will arm himgelf with a rifie or revolver as he sees fit. I shall station myself in the center, with the governor and Dalrymple. I will proceed ahead of them 50 yards. We will scour this canyon thoroughly, or least for three days if we do not find the convicts soon- er. Eeach man will take a blanket and some supplies.” | Costello, not yet 21 years old, tonight ! was found guilty of the murder |month azo of 13.vearold Madeline { White, the jury fixing his punishment | at death on the gallows, The jury deliberated hour and a half 3 The body of the girl, who had been attacked, was found one morning early last month stuffed under the porch of a South Side residence. | " Costello was with the girl the night | previous and a handkerchlef stuffed | In her mouth as a gag was identified {as belonging to him. When arrested | he declared a man of the name of | Mulholland had killed the girl. | Much of the trial hinged about the polka dot handkerchief. The State | | produced haif a dozen witnesses to | identify the plece of cloth as Cos- | tello’s, while Costello himself, as well | as his parents and other defense wit- | nesses, denfed that he had owned it. The defense contended that some one other than Costello killed the girl after he had left her. less than an J