Evening Star Newspaper, August 22, 1925, Page 2

ENGINEERS READY T0PLAY WAR GAME D. C. Command Shows Bene- fits of Week’s Training at Virginia Beach. BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY. Staft Correspondent of The Star VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., —Old age vied with the vouth of a new-born army in the camp of the 121st Regiment of Engineers and 29th Military Police Company of the Na tional Guard of the Disirict of Co lumbia, fhe one to show itx strength =til] held, while the young showed that a week of hard field trai fitted it 1o take up the responsibility of an swering the Nation's call 1o arms jus as soon as their omrades Veteran and ni nrermingled. playing the games the Army nses te keep its forces fit for 4 B troops were up early vile the aun was just ciearing the tops of rhe trees, went through their musels.lim- bering stunts, finishing long hefore Washingtonians began the ‘trip i xtore and office. One zroup was pla ing leapfrog, and another was racing and imaging in foot ball fashion & race herc and & jumping contest there filled the parade ground like a multi-ringed circus. August 22 fray sive Snappy Drill. Fifteen minutes of rest was follow a4 hy a snappy close order drill. which showed the excellent resilis of a week of field training. Thenjeame the he zinning of @ well sarned rest, for Sarurday inspection and heliday for Uncle Sam’s troops when the dove of peace is hoveri the Nation and inspection means clennup dav a1 their tenis in order for a rest the Sabhath morraw After battalion inspection by Joe R. McKey mmzndinz 1=t Battalion Julian Oliff commanding Battalion. the afternoon over to a base ball game the troops are planning 10 take advantage of week end to see the sights in the «icinity and it is expected that before night the camp will be well cleared of all the guardsmen except those un. fortunate enough have to remain in camp for the necessary guard duty. Following # thorough sanitary in: spection of the camp by Maj. George 1. Allen, commanding the hospital de tachment and Lieut. Col. Harry Gladman. executive officer. the lat ter reported that the reservation was in a most satisfactory condition. de spite the fact thai the troops were handicapped in having followed an other orzanization into camp War Game Next Week. Col. John W. Oehmann participated In a council today with Capt. Clay Anderson and Lieut. H. H. Pohl. Reg ular Army instructors here. during which the three went over plans for the war zame and tactical exercises which the troops will be engaged In next week. As these are combat en gineers, they must in addition to knowing field engineering problems. participate in actual field fighting. The 121st Engineers were hosts last night at a military ball given at the Casino which was largely attended by the populace from the Virginia Beach resort and a large contingent of peo- ple from Norfolk. Col. John W. Oeh- mann, commanding the regiment, was the guest of honor. and when he ar- rived the bugler sounded attention The dancers stood fast in their places as the colonel proceeded fo the center of the floor. escorted by Lieut. Col Harry E. Gladman. master of monies. Maj. Walter W. Burns, com manding the 260th Coast Artillery of the District’ Guard, which now is in training at Fort Monroe. Va., came to the dance with a large contingent of his command, who traveled in motor trucks Maj. Gen. Anton manding the Guard, is planning to go to Fort Monroe next week to inspeet the artillery unit of his command PLAN GREAT SLASH IN HAYNES’ FORCES: TOTAL MAY BE 1.000 (Contin on RE o the and_ Ms the 2nd given Many of to Stephan, d_from First he of cases so that properly presented to District Attorney Until the new regime is in working trim, Harry M. Luckett. chief of gen eral prohibition agents for the fourth they the may office ration of | who this | t | SURGEO! THE EVENING STAR 'S AX REVEALS ILLS: ! | OF CAPITOL. GROUNDS’ TREES Major Operation Begun on Cameron Elm. One of | Most Famous on Hill—Many Others Placed Under Experts” Treatment. 'rees in the Capitol in historical and tion. this Summer ating table while probe their insides io ren: ages of organic diseases their patients of another so0 of life. Among those upor erations are being eron elm, located southeast of the (ree is raported by a speclal act the preseni sysiem Capitol grounde T stood the crounds, rich exendary assecia- are on the oper- sicilled the rav und assure century or which mejor op made is (he Cam on a4 mound just House wing. Thi 10 huve heen suved of Congress when of walks In tha & bein luid out way of one of the valks as It stood on the hlue nrin Senator Simon Cameron of Pennsyl vanla. »fterward Secretawy of War in Lincoln's cabiner. happened to be 14k ing a walk throush grounds jus as the workmen were whetting their axes 10 attack the venerable Amer an eim. He prevailed the work. whil Senate. Due occasion, it walk he’ built speech was one upon dela 1o the on that that the tham he huiried his xpeech was direcied avound the tree. Th of the most celabrated ever made by Senalor (‘ameron. In the course of it he said “The man who plants a have civilization in his soul. The man brings flowers here and plants them near these beautiful buildings musi have plenty of poeiry in hin The man or woman without postry is not Bt 1o live here or anywhere efse to tree musi Action Is Legendary. The record speach itseifl is The action by 1 legendary . since it is noi men in the incomplete reporis for matter of Congress The Cameron elm is from 110 10 115 vears old. It was apparently in per fect health. but the tree <urgeons de d this Summer 2 spor on the which indlcated that at some time there had been an incision into the trunk. This aroused their sus picions, and the Interior was probed with an auger. Conditions were found which certainly tree in the next few years. Some in tection had been carried into the wood 1l the time of this old incision. Ax a result a considerable area was rot ten, so much, in fact. that when the infected area has been chopped away four men can squeeze into the cavity withont discomfort. The hidden decay had been soinz on for the past 25 years. Ai one time about 35 vears ago. the tree had had # setback in growth, it was found by counting the annual rings. Work of filling the hewed-out cavity with con crete will start soon. Another legendary tree is to & attention from the surgeons. it 1= in fairly good condition he Washington elm. across rha | from the Senate wing. under the Father of His Conntry to have rested The surzery is celve Ithough This {s hich ix reporied being carvied on under a special appropriation of $5,000 from the lasi Congress to pre. serve the trees in the Capitol grounds, All will be inspected carefully for signs of decay. which often can be | found in its inchhient stages only with expert diagnosi: Like Operation on Huma The method of much of this surgery |can be compared to fitting a human cere- | {erete of diyision, including the District of Co- | lumbia, Maryland. Delaware, West Virginia and part of the State of Vir &inia, will continue o direct his gen- eral agents. Weller Backed Budnitz. Credft for the appointment of M Budnitz, who has been Staie director in Maryland for four vears, is claimed by Senator Waller of Maryland in 2 statement now public dictated by him and left at his office here when the Senator left the Capital some time agn Outlining the record of Mr and declaring that he had posed for the new appointment by the Anti-Saloon League. by Roy A Haynes, Senator du Pont of Delaware and William P. Jackson. Republican national committee man. Senator ler, in his statement. written in the third person, said: “~Senator Weller has consistently and unremittingly urged the appointment of Mr. Budnitz o Gen. Andrews and other responsi ble nficials, and there can be no doubt that the selection of Mr. Budnitz as administrator for the Maryland. Dela ware and District of Columbia district i€ due 1o the unceasing efforts of Sen ator Weller. Budnitz, been op. Andrews to Lecture. The administrative machine which Mr. Budnitz and the other 23 admin- Istrators lemg of their districts will be more or less elastic. it was intimated by Gen. Andrews In outlining the policy ves. terday. It is known that the original plans call for a first assistant to be di- rectly in charge of permissive use of aléohol. a second assistant in charge of enforcement work, a chemist and counsel. Agents under the first as sistant will be trained pharmacists and chemists, and under the second assist ant, trained criminal investigators and detectives. Gen. Andrews left Washington last night for Chautauqus, N. Y.. to deliver an address tonight on “Law Enforce- ment.” He ix expected (o return to the Capital Tuesday 2 15 Houses Burned When Birds Cause Wire Short-Circuit Br the Associated Press PONTOIZ, France. August 22, Two birds perched on an electric light wire vesterday caused a short circuit which set fire to 15 houses in the town of Arrouville, near here. The people were perplexed over the cause of the fire, and an investigation was started. After eonsiderable search, enough of the almost incinerated birds was found to solve the mystery. The damage i= estimat: eral hundred francs. at sev. | tico, Va. | court-martial at | here. being with part of a new spine. all the diseased area ax a dentist tooth. Then with a special First is removed, just takes out the decay in a the cavity is painted paint. ‘Then the con just damp enough to mold in the hand, is filled in In lavers o f-inch blocks, each heing xeparated by u sheet of thick tar paper. This meth od is followed so that when the tree i bends or swavs the fillinz will not be | of $30.600 tormake & park out of the | closed hat cracked com- | but the blocks will slide over each other The concrete hecomes almost & part the wood itself. It absorbs its share of the moisture brought up from the roots and discharges this into the COURT-MARTIAL TRYING OFFICER IN AUTO CRASH Marine Major Faces Charges Growing Out of Collision Here April 30. As an outgrowth of his arrest April charges of driving while in colliding and leaving the accident without making identity. Maj. Henry M . 8. M. € on duty at Quan is being tried by a general the Marine Barracks has heen in session 30 toxicated. of hisx on scene known Butler The court | several daya. Maj. Butler was arrested by Traffic Policeman Clarence Brandt after he was alleged to have collided with an automobile driven by Andrew Cornas colored, and to have caused William M. Fithian to drive his machine into | the path of a street car Wel- | 1 | | | will set up to meet the prob- | The collision occurred ai Fifteenth and U streets. Maj. Butler is al- leged to have continued north on New Hampshire avenue before being halt- led by Fithian and Kenneth M. Burns secretary Gov. Ritehie of land, who went in pursuit. At the time of his arres ler demanded # jury trial released on $1.000 hond. not vet been held Maj. Joseph A. Rossell is the judge dvocate or prosecuting attorney, and Maj. Butler is being defended by At- torney William E. Leahy. Officers of the court are: Col. Thomas Holcomb, Col. James J. Meade, Maj. Charles A Sanderson, Maj. Harold B. Pratt and Maj. Sydney S. Lee The court opened Thursday and expected to complete itn work Tue day ALFONSO. INCOG, TELLS WORKMAN OF TROUBLES Polite Stranger in Paris Recounts Old House Story to Street- Car Vis-a-vis. » Mary- Maj and was His trial has By the Associated Press PARIS, August 22—Recently, says the Cri de Paris, & tall man, elegantly dressed. swung himself upon the platform of a street car in Bordeaux and ook out a cigarette. His lighter failed to work, whersupon a fellow- passenger politely gave him a light from his own ecigarette. Then the two men entered into conversation on the perennial topic, the high cost of living. P “I 'suppose you are a fac- turer?”’ said the workman. “No, I have no business.” replied the other. “I have an old house, which descends from father io son. “Things are going well? workman. “Why, they might go better,” re- plied his vis-a-vis. The tall man. says the Cri de Paris. was Alfonso XIII, King of Spain. ma asked the Sir George Goldie Dies. LONDON. August (#). Right Hon. Sir George Taubman Goldie, founder of Nigeria and former presi- dent of the National Defense Associa. tion, is dead. He was 79 vears old. surgeons | would have killed the | Rut- | ! | | atmosphere. Then the tree is holted | together with steel hoite covered with | salvanized piping. The tree surgeon must be as carcful as the dentist to| keep moisture out of the cavity upon | | which he is working or he simply will {have laid the germs for more decay. | | The tree surgeon s success often de |pends on measurements as fine as | sixteenth of an inch, especially when | | dealing with the cambrum layer of | b the weblike structure just in | mide the main hark layer, upon which {the life of the tres depends. It is| through thic layer that the sap is, wrried from the roots to the leaves When this layer is cut all around the tree dies. Pioneers, dssiving to kil off foresis. often girdled the irees deliherately in order 1o kill them Trees Fed Regularly. In addition the surgical work | all rthe Capliol grounds trees are he- ing fed systematically. the oldest ra- ceiving the first ireatment Feed - ing” consisia of cultivating the soll 2 all the area d by the branches, on the theory that the roots spread out al least that far. | Then the culiivated soll is treated to {manure, bone meal or special mix- | | tures, and is riven plenty of | | moisture Some of the larger irees have been | Known to drin® out of the ground as | much as 10 barrels of water in a day, ! and, after digesting the chemical food | ! materials, which the liguid has been | mixed n the soil. discharze it tnto | the atmosphere through ex. | The tree, accordinz to the seons. has practically all butes of an animal except nerve sysiem It eats and breathes tainly, and may have some an 11-1ike nervous reactions. Neariy all the irees planted about the Capitol in recent veurs have inti- mate associations wirh some member of the House or Senate. Latelv it ha become the custom for some member o stand sponsor for a tree ui its planting. There oue big English | elm near the Senate office building. | for instance. which will always be as- soclated with Elihu Reot. When he was In the Senate he psused sver: | dav on his walk 10 his office and ex- amined it cover its tres the atiri- the mator sur- Collection The collection even apari from its associations. On | (e 57 acres which composs the ‘apitol srounds there are 825 irees comprising 2 varieti and more than 35000 shrubs. The irees in clude some exceptionally fine speci- | mens of hollles, horse chestnuts. magnolias and Oriental planes. Per hape the most interesting of the col lection is the Christ thorn. a native | | of southern Europe, which is one of | | the several species from the hranches of which the crown of thorns was reputed to have heen woven. As a matier of faci. it is not a thorn tree Latall The hox & mystery. suspensa type large, i=olated hedge plants. er than ne other Valuable. Is of great value bshes They are somewhat are of the and tend to bushes ruther They grow much fast the hedge box. There are simHar specimens in this | part of the country and nobody knows just how they came to the | grounds. ! The trees probably thrive better | than those anvwhers alse in the city due 10 the constani care given them. The grounds are so underlald with | tunnels connecting the buildings thai | the roots do not have as much chance | |to <pread as thev should and the | soil dries out quickly. | The father of the collection was | John €. Calhoun. who in 1853 secured | after a hard fight an appropriation | of buxus | form | than | Capitol grounds Many of the orig inal trees were cut down during the | Civil War and probably all would | have been lost if Senator C‘ameron | had not taken up the fight where Calhoun dropped it. i [ELMAN PAYS $50,000 | { FOR 1717 STRAD!VARIUS? | Violinist Declares Instrument Will | i | Be Finest in America—Be- i | Rr the Associated Press, PARIS, August 22, Mischa Eiman, the violinist, has bought a Stradivi | rlus. which he savs will be tne finest in the United States and is equaled only by & few in BEurope. It him $50,000, and he saye that knows Its history from the time was manufactured In the vear 1717.] Elman said it belonged 1o the col i lection of Mme. Recamier, & cale. | brated French leader of mocieiy who was exiled from Paris by Napoleon. In 1804 she Is said to have sold it to Marshal Count Molitor who Afs- tinguished himself in the Napoleonic | | wars. It remained in the marshal's| family untll it passed to the dealer who sold it to Elman. It is Eiman | third Stradivarius. The violinist plans 1o sall for New York on the steamer Leviathan Tues- av. longed to Napoleonic Exile. cost he | it} DISTRICT WOMAN HURT "IN TRAIN WRECK IN OHIO i | Mrs. C. N. Duvall and 12 Others { Slightly Hurt When Pennsy Train Leaves Tracks. { By the AMociated Preas. | ST. PARIS. Ohio. August 22.—Thirt- | een persons received slight injuries in | the derailment of Pennsylvania pas senger train N. 100, Columhus to | Chicago. two miles west of here, early today. The train was traveling at a | high speed when it struck a broken | rail, throwing off the track four sleep- ers. a day coach, two baggage ca land the engine. | |, Among the injured were Mrs. A. Lewis Motley, Danville, Va., bruised | and shocked, and Mrs. Carrie Niebling Duvall, Washington. Railroad officfals said the track was cleared in two hours, and that all th, injured were able to continue on their | {way in the rellef train sent from Co- | lumbus. | ARMY BOXIN'G DEFENDED. | Officers Resist Attack by Methodist i Board of Temperance. | Special Diapateh to The Star. BALTIMORE, August 22, -Resides being the most popular sport in the | | Army, boxinz is the best method for ! building up & man physically and glv- ing him personal reliance and cour- age, 3d Army Corps headquarters athietic oficers declare. They were commenting on an attack launched aganst Army boxing by the Metho- | dist Board of Temperance, Prohibition {and Public Morals, in Washington. | Col. J. P. O'Neill, chief athletic of- ficer of the 3d Corps Area. and Capt. | Charles Mabbutt. boxing ceach of the area. both vigerously denied that Army bouts were professional. ‘Ad- ne are crurted to defray ex- penses, it was WASHINGT( MORE PLAY SPACE URGENTLY NEEDED Supervised Grounds. Open Year Round. Held Vital for Safety’s Sake. Regardless of whether or not play crounds are a cure for jnvenile de linqueney, all child welfare xuthorities in the Nationa! Capital asree on one | point—Washingcon 1= urgently in need of greaily increased facilities for supervised piay nd hasis of operation Although the value of playgrounds as & palliative for child delinquency may continue to be a disputed ques. tion, there seems 10 he no doubt as to their efficacy in reducing traffic acci- denis involving children forced play on the ciiy's dangerous thorough fares. to say nothing of their worth in ralsing the standard of child health Here are some of the recommenda in the way of playground im provements summed up for The Star by Mrs. Susie Rhodes, super? Visor of Distriet plavzrounds 1. There should he a plavground within walkinz distance oi every child | in the city. "The little children under | six vears old will not go more than | on @ vearro tions The cause is a mystery to 50 elaborate that the children prefer t. This condition, whatever the rease stick to more homely types of play. IS THIS A CASE OF “TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING”? l The costly Willow Tree Alley Playground, in Southwest Washington, is overrun with weeds, instead of children. fficials. Probation Officer Sanford wonders if it isn't bec nse the facilities for travel one-half mile play Older children farther than felds. In children must and do go much fariher than pont white and colored and W 1o a A Few Antidotes For August Shivers ground of course, go their VESSEL, IS BELIEF will Slayer of Hances Thought to Be Fleeing in Gulf on Missing Schooner. much that athletic \Washington the Rarnes e for plaving Philadelphia--Jim fuses to iake money golf on Sunday Woonsocket, S. Dak gas. IU's only this ta a plaverennd swimming there are hut two for children in the one in Georgeiown. and children. the Howard straeis This Summer Is Beat. Laat Summer and this Suramer dur- ing the vacation period. with 25 muni cipal plavzrounds and 40 scheol grounds in operation, the children of Washingion sre better taken care of than ever before: vet there are sec tions where there is supervised pla > “There should he appropriation in Washington the plavarounds 12 months vear, with super vision 3. There should be an appropriation that all the school grounds open during the Summer vacation could be kep! open dally after school during the school term and on holidays 4. In the opening of new subdivi sions one-tenth of the ground, ex clusive of streets, should be sei aside for playground purposes 5. Every playground should be pro ded with either a wading pool or a swimming pool 6. Every playground should have a field house large enough to provide for indoor recreation in extremely hot or cold weather. The following additional s1ounds, each of large si needed: Northwest and two colored white and one colored; southeast three white and two colored, and southwesi. one white. Restrictions Drive Children Out. At present there is but plavground in the entire section of the eitv. It i« the Hooyer, on the far outskirts of Delaware avenue and Second street southwest The southwest is well supplied with colored grounds in fact. apparently 100 well supplied. if the use being | made of certain of them is an indica tion. A visit 10 the elaborate Willow Tree Alley ground near midday dis. | while scores of colored children were having the time of their young fives playing in the streeis skirting the Willow Tree block, scar- cely half a dozen children were muk ing use of the play facilities provided for them by the Municipal Govern-| ment ai great cost. Several colored men were lounging in the shade. how ever. The grounds were zrown up with high weeds. as though but few children were in the habit of plaving there. of which Siop hera 17 cents a northeast one for at 5th gallon. w York Benny Leonard duces his mother to let him down his boxing gloves from wall and_dust them New York —Clarence Philadelphia returns from with a Scotchman to teach three daughters to play golf New York Her veiver hathing <uit. designed by an humbie New York seamstress, set a stvle that hecame the ruge at Deauville, save Zella Russell, actress Parjs—Mischa Elman has bought A Stradivariue 209 vears old for $50.000. Buenos Aires—Prince of W seex ona of his bulls syctioned Swampscott, Mass.—Nine-two- vear-old Green Mountain ‘“boy Writes President Coolldge he wanis vote for him again Boston -Six shell-shocked war veterans are terrorized on stesm boat outing as big guns of harbor fort engage in targel practice. Washington—It ought to he good fishing in Yellowstone Park: mil lions of eggs and fry have just been planted thers by Uncle Sam ‘SAYS PEACE LIES IN JOINING LEAGUE Genevan Pleads for U. S. to Enter Body of Nations as Institute Closes. in 1ake the Geist of abroad his By tha Associated Press PE! ACOLA Augu Some- | where out in the Gulf of Mexico today moving southeastward, safled a small schooner-yacht, which authoritfes at Gulfport, Mixa. and newspaper men here believe carried George “Duich Anderson. mail robher and alleged killer of Ben Hance and his wife. The lda Q the little vessel on which the pal of Gerald Chapman is believed 1o have escaped from the United States. was stolen Tuesday night from its moorings at Gulfport I sighted vesterday by the steam merchant ship Detroit-Wayne 0 or more miles out in the gulf. In reporting iis observation of the sall boat by radio, the Detroit Wavne operator described the schooner in terms which exactly ft the missing craft., Chief Byrd of the Gulfport police and Pilot B. B. Barber of the Pensa cola Naval Alr Statlon seaplane, which made an unsuccessful search for the stolen boat, expressed the belief that Anderson and his gang made away with the Tda Q.. which is the prop. erty of Dr. W. R. Gaston of ew Orleans. Rum runners at first were suspect ed of the theft. hut they, it was later decided. would have taken a eraft equipped with motors. The Gulfport chief axpressed the be ief that the erew of the 55.foot sail ing vesse! wers without provisions A round of the grocers here disclosed that no order for ship's stores had been filled recently Only two vessels of the type of the missing Ida Q. are known on the coust The other is tied up at Gulf. port docks. of the to play e, are sorely section. six white northeasi. three one white southwest By tha Associated Press WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.. August '2—A plea to the United States to as- aure world peace by joining the Leagne of Nations was the closing event of the fifth annual session of the Institute of Politlcs. Dr. William E. Rappard of Geneva EDWARD GRANT DIES: STRICKEN SUDDENLY Public Buildings and Parks Em- iast lecture last night. He described Russia a8 openly hostile to the lsague and now ‘the scourge of Europe and the world. and Germany as plaving a game of hide and seek with the league. Dividing the present member na- Grant. 59 vears old. an in-|tions of the league into groups of spector of the guard for the office of | those desiring “'securitv first, peace the director of Public Bulldings and|first or justice firat.” Dr. Rappard “1 asked a Willow Tree alley who had been arrested on a petty | charge why he didn't stay off the streets and play.on the Willow Tree playground,” Probation Officer San ford of the Juvenile Court remarked in this connection. ‘He replied that| FEdward they wouldn't let the bovs plav the | way they wanted (o there. Perhaps hoy ploye Had Long Been in Gov- ernment Service. the play directors should let down a |Public Parks of the National Capital, | said that Italy and Japan could not be | Grant was appointed Inspector Br 2 S1aff Correspondent X SWAMPSCOTT, Mass:, August 22— President Coolidge is going 1o wait until he gets back to Washington be. fore he appoints a successor: to.the late Mrs. Helen M. Gardener, as & member of the United States Civil Service Commission. 2 “This ‘was - the impression gained from an authoritative source here (o- day. Al the same time il was stated | that the President has received any number of names 6f both men and | women to consider in selecting a suc- cessor to Mrs. Gardener. but it is the opinion of those around the President that he has not vet reached a de- little on their restrictions, rather than became il while on his way to his|assigned to any group, the latter be- drive youngsters (o the streets or cor- office in the Navy Ruilding early ner lots. day, and died soon after being r ed | Jtaly because ‘‘neither security nor % > S to the dispensary in the building by | justice can he held to characterize the FOUR IN RACE TO GET Chief Fire Marshal Robert A. Des-|jdeas of her present government." g Compares Fascism. MRS. GARDENER’S POST [in 10 Nothing could be further removed, | Formerly he was an employe of the he said. from the Wilsonian Damo- =t | Bureau of Fngraving and Printing | cratic liberalism from which the President Likely to Delay Choice | several years. Before. he served as | an enlisted man in the United States premier Mus: Y Until Return to Capital—Field | Aimy. being ratired with the rank of | | - Cih the Moot our groups Ttaly | first sergeant. - “ . | has in common robust belief in force Narrows Dewn. | " He enlisted in the Army in 1886. [ 2nd 'n corresponding dfatrust of ob served several enlistments in"the.Phil- | ¢tract ideas and principles: with. the ippines, and was a member of the | gecond, a sincere desire for peace and £Chins Raller, Bxvedition a preference for political rather than L s Iptiwhs. &y mambes BT Miaiall: tatho ta 10 tiatarsetional far e T emorelgn Wars, Re {fairs. and with the third perhaps the e e masted Men's Association and | eqai. except that her will to expand bpheeiitly . | * * * has made her evolve a novel He lived at 614 Eighth street north- | - ] . | east. and is survived by his widow, "’.'.5:.‘:“},..‘?",‘,'3-’3‘"3 0:;:::;‘::',,,,,0,. IS Aty Cimut ;Pd. were ontent to observe and re- PRI | flect in silence.” They were quite GIVES BIRTH TO 24TH. | wiling to cooperate In a league of friendly nations. As to Germany, T France and her continental allies had Woman, 38, Has Had Baby a Year | at first denied her entry into the Bitee. BEELWaL 14 ‘&:‘e::‘\::h::l;pn now Insistently dem YUMA, Ariz., August 22 OP).—Mrs, | ‘“Bolshevist Russia." the speaker con- e Ruiz Sanchez. wife of Jose Sanches | tinued, “has heen conaistently hostile 1t 1s known. however, that the of Yuma, has given birth to her |10 the league and impertinent. From President wants to appoint a woman | twenty-fourth child in 24 vears of ;\'hfl"'" point of view one considers to this oMce. He has said so him- married life. She i= 38 years nld and | her domestic policy of violent and elf and there is every reason to|her husband 51. | cruel tyranny..and her foreign policy feel certain that he will do this when | The twenty-fourth child, born five 6f oven or hidder revolutionary inter- the time comes. Although the Presi- | days ago. is a healthy girl. The |ference in the aftairs of other coun- dent is undersiood to stlll have an | mother is pursuing her usual house. | {ries. [ fall to see how one can es. open mind as to the individual he | hold duties. Only 7 of the 24 fape the conclusion that bolshevism will eventually select, it ls known | children are living. All of the ¢hil- ) < 5 m‘" ""'l'd the scourge of Russia that he has narrowed down the long [ dren were born in consecutive years, S yonis. . list of names to less than four. there being no twins. U. 8. Is Needed. st — Coming to the United States Rappard sald: “With America, the great ideal of a peaceful and just world can be be realized: to avert war Dr. Tennis R:;cquet and Bathing Suit Replace Veil Among Turkish Women and instead of encouraging’ justice by her sjlence. to promote and establish Justice by her living word." . Dr. Leroy 8. Rowe, director gen. eral of the Pan-American Unfon In Washington, drew _an . implication {from remarks hy Jeremiah W. Jenks 1of New York, an authority on Latin- | American and Far Eastern affairs, that popular elections in Latin-Amer- icAn countries involved a responsi- bility for the United States. He said that was an exceedingly dangerous doctrin £ Mr. .lenks rejoined that he had not meant such implication and ‘that he | was absolutely in accord with the principle suggested by Dr. Rowe. other times this would have brought contumely upon them, and possibly dire punishment. Progressiveness among Turkish women is being applauded. The wearing of a hat, instead of the one-time oblizatory veil, was start- ed by a Turkish girl. Hadije Ssima Ekrem. who recently has heen lecturing In the United States on Turkish questions. She discovered on her return to Turkey that men were being permitied to wear hatx instead of the fez turban and kal- pak. and therefore determined: to continue wearing her American hat. A year ago refusal by a woman to wear a veil might have resulted in action by the police. Turkish women, like their sisters of the other nations, know the value of attractiveness. Thersfore it 1s probable that a great many . of them will not he likely 1o fol- . low. Miss Fkrem's example, as [the press repbrta, the veil i= too hecoming to be |denial, and admits recelving & viait lightly discarded. mw‘im i By the Amsociated Preas. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 22. The Turkish woman no longer is the hothouse creature she still i« pic- tured to he in western Imagination. Gradually, but Surely. she ix dis- carding her veil and showing her face in public: she ix becoming an ardent sportswoman. especially In tennis and swimming, and also she is taking up the hat and other habiliments of her western sister. All this is due to the sanction of the new Angora government, head- ed by Mustapha Kemal Pasha, and to a great broadening in public opinion. Recently there was a swimming race for girls before a mixed gathering of apectators. Under the Sultan's government the appearance of Turkish women in public sports was absolutely taboo. Not alone did the women compete in the race with the greatest of zest. but -afterward . photograph of the winners, still attired In their Pathing suits, was published. In Japan Hears Soviet Is Irked. TOKIO, August 22 () —Press re- | ports have it that Soviet Ambassador | Kopp protested yesterday to Foreign Minister Shidehara against construc- tion of the Taonan-Tsitsihar Railwa A member of | 10- | cause of her reticence and silence, and | league wax born than the fasclsm of | instead of blocking the road to peace, | The Aforeign_office has nat.epnArméd-| and the EX-NOBILITY HELD -INBLACKMAIL CASE | Millionaire Collal | Traps Alleged Plotters at Dinner Party. Associated Pross FREEHOLD, N. J. August Three women. one claimed to be & member of the former sian nobility, held in ball each today on charges of conspi racy and attempted blackmall against Max Phillips. millionaire official of the Van Heusen Collar C¢ The arrests were made after county of whom were detectives had secreted themselves in| Phillipe’ home at Eatontown last night at his request and had listened to the women's conversation by means of a dictuphone. The prisoners gava their names as Beairice Johnson. Florence. Italy Hattle Hager of New York. and Anita Rerg, who claimed she was the Countess Daly Bourky of Petrograd Man Also Held. A man giving his name as Berg, and claiming 1o be the countess’ husband was held in $5.000 ball for carrving oncealed weapons. He was arresied after he had attempied (o ald the women in ascaping, police said Mr. Phillips. who met Miss John ston some time ago. recently reported to Prosecutor Quinn of Monmouth County that he feared a blackmailing attempt. On the prosacuior’s sugges tion, Mr. Phillips invited Miss« John ston and her friend. the countess, to a dinner party at his home. George Anderson. Mr. Phillips’ secretary, also | attended the dinner. Detectives and a stenographer hidden in the cellar with & dictaphone ook down the dinner conversation The evidence obtained. it was said had chiefly (0 do with & proposed yachting trip scheduled for tomorrow ! Detectives Leave Hiding. | At midnight the detectives entered the dining room and made the arresis | Tha women were permitied to go o] | thelr hotel in Seabright 1o change their clothes. It was here that Berg who sald he was a private detective. | was arresied as he sought to bar the | door 10 the ofcers Miss Hager was arrested City ax an accomplice. Her lice sald. was that of a maid Prosecutor Quinn asserted that the gang had been sought for some time |for preving on wealthy residents of | the New Jersey coast. Miss Hager and the countess. he said. confessed | their share in the alleged conspiracy | Mi. Phillips was divorced vears ago. PUGILIST-EVANGELIST 'O OPEN MEETINGS HERE ‘Joe P«rcanto_. Who l'o-uzht in 810 Ring Battles, Will Preach at Gospel Mission. in lersey role, po- After engaging In 810 battles in the {prize ring and later becoming a hoot legger, Joe Percente, well known pugilist of former years. who fought “Kid" Sullivan in Washington 19 vears ago. has returned to this city as an evangelist, and will deliver the |first_of a serles of sermons al the |Gospel Misston. 214 John |place, tonight at 8 o'clock. A greal believer in “fate,” Joe has taken that word of such consequence for the text jof his first sermon 1o be delivered |here. It is his first trip here ‘since | Aghting Sullivan. | Joe was for several years American champion among the old hareknuckle fighters in the featherwelght class and as he grew older and gained in weight held his own in the lightweight class. He fought the semi-final to the Roh Fitzsimmons-Jim Hall bout. and also boxed Joe Gans. Battling Nelson, Ped dler Palmer, Jack Cardiff, Stanley Keichel and many others of promi nence in the squared circle. Joe save he became converted while in Evanaton, Tll., two years ago, when after serving time for hootlegging he decided that following the “straight !and narrow path” is the only thing [that pays in the long run Mr. Percefite will deliver alr address at and Peénnsylvanla avenue tomorrow afternoon, and will speak in the Gospel again tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. an |POLICE ENTER SEARCH By the Associated Pres MIAMI, Fla.. August Miami volice- and county authorities ware working with private investigators last night In an effort tn solve the mysterious disappearance of Mrs. Elizabeth B. Bowen. who disappeared | from the Poinsettia Hotel, August 14. | Mrs. ‘Bowen is said to to Miami from Winthrop, Mass., and is reputed to he wealthy. In her per- sonal effects at the hotel yesterday was found a note stating, in the event of accident or death notify -21 Madison avenuve, New York.” Tele grams 1o this' address were not anaswered, police stated yesterday. ! Mrs. Bowen had been active in |churéh work since her arrival here, investigation. into _her dis’ nelther does it enter | appearance was instigated by church | friends. No reason was advanced for ‘her mysterioug absenc Maker | £10.000 | seven | Marshall | FOR WEALTHY WOMAN | have come | VIRGINGANS JOIN FIGHT ON BELT LINE | Arlington County Citizens Add Protest—See Menace to Al City’s Suburbs. “Hands across Potomae.” This slogan apparently has n adopted by the many civic organiza tlons of Marviand and rginia con tiguous (o the District of Columbia, who, deeply interested in the full de velopment of (he greater and reglonal esent efforts now by the Washingion Loughborongh Belt Line Rallway Co. encircle the National Cap {ital through the heart of actua nd potential residential development | sections here already many millions of dollars have heen Invesied hy home | owners | Manv Virginia civic organizations | are preparing to pase reselntions con { demning the proposed | menace to future develapment Arlington County. Several meeting { will be held in the immedlate fuiure | Though these resolutions have | no official force in Maryland. the \ ginla communities are planninz forward their resolutions to the M land Public ervice Commission show their sentiment | the general fight against the proposed road in the face of the Virginia orpora tlon Commission’s gram of to the helt line 1o operate within j confines of that State | The Leeway Cliizens’ Association | ot Arlington County hax just passed a | resolution hitterly condemninz the ! project, stating among other things This proposed railroad and trial development P he of anv advantage Washington and the | lumbia—which benefir extrar | doubtful—would be at the exper our county and people and of the | ples of Marvland. bv fastening upon them sald railroad and indusirial en terprises, with all their ohjectionahis accompaniment - enterprises which persistently and properiv have been refused entrance into the District of | Columbia and the absence of which {is responsible for the heauty and charm of our National Capital The resolution. in full. reads Whereas, there has been organized Incorporated a compans com { panies for the construction and opera the o route as = « ®0 far as it might henafit 1o of to or Distriet { tion of a trefght bert-Tine railread from about the Potomac railroad or near Alexandria. \a ing through a pari of the eastern por tlon of Fairfax County and throngh the western part of Arlington County {to and across the Potomac River a { short distance ahove the Chain Rridge {and thence through Mon:gomery and Prince Georges counties. Md.. skirting { the boundary lines of the District of Columbia, to the Washin { more and Annapolis Electric R {known "as the Washington borough Rallway, and i Will Bring in Undesirables | “Whereas it is the expressad pose of sald company companies assoclated with it 1o promote. develop {and encourage the developmant of | manufacturing and other indusrrial enterprises along the <ald railway. which enterprises will. aa { experience has shown. bring into the territory where such snterprises are | established a floating and {alien class of people as thereof: and Whereas iha freight trafe i would pass sald road. as estimated by the of the project. 'would approximate 120,000 cars per month: and Whereas the smoke and dust and | noise accasioned by such trafic. and | the inconvenience (o public trave and the interference with the e { velopment #nd free use of the road {and sirest systems of county., 1o gether with the practically assired { floating and alien character of the in crease of population attendant upor | the establishment and operstion of said railroad and industrial enterprises, in {certain to greatly decrease ihe de- sirability of our county as a residen tial section and depreciate and vent astablishment of proparts 1 ues: and Whereas such s development our eounty is wholly and ahsolntely variance with and opposed 10 the pis {of regional development now heing | worked out by the District of Coltm- bia in conjunction with sur S the State of Maryland for ths exten sion of the park system of the District into our county and Into said countiss of Maryland: and i Would Mar Boulevard “Whereas, said proposed ruilroad and industrial enterprises are vitally |at variance with the policy fostered 11D 10 the present time hy ihe people | and civic organizations of o of making the county = | residential suburb of aur Nationa { Capital €ity, and =alsn a1 varia | with the great project naw under wa fora 200-foo1 Lea boulavard from the | great Memorinl Rridge over the Po- {tomac. through enr county and State {10 the Valley of the Shenandoah: and “Whereas, this proposed railrnad and industrial development. so far an it might be of any advantage or it 10 Washington and the District »( Columbla—which benefit is ex- {tremely doubtful—would be ai the expense of our county and people land of the said counties and peoples of Maryland, by fastening upon them sald railtoad and indusirial enter- prises. with all their aforementioned objectionablé accompaniments—en enterprises which have persisiently nd properly, been refused entrance into the District of Columbia, and the absence of which is responsibla for | the' beauty and charm of our Na tlonal Capiral: Now, therefore, Re it resolved. That Leeway Citizens Association, of Ar {lington County. Va.. hereby protasts |against the construction and opera- i'tion of said railroad and industrial enterprises, and recommends that all the clvic associations and the eivie { federation of our county protest ard ‘otherwise use their influence against the establishment of such railroad and enterprises.” 'he resolution Thomas, and extend pur, lines of Jarzely amploves which promotars aver belt-line ol Plan. heautiful is signed by secretary. E. ¢ open ! Four-and-a-half street | ESIX HELD IN ROUND-UP OF COUNTERFEIT GANG $500,000 in $20 Gold Certificates Believed Circulated in Middle West by Band. Ry the Associated Preas CHICAGO. August Federal | Secret Service operatives here. en- | operating with others in Detroit and | elsewhere, have started a round-up nf counterfeiters who are believed 1o | have flooded the Middle West with | bogus §20 gold certificates of a face value probably reaching $500,000 Four men, ® was announced, are in custody in Detroit, while Chicago operatives have arrested one in Rock- ford, 11, and another in Kenosha, Wi, Capt. Thomas I. Porter, chief of the Government agents here, has is |sued a warning against the spread [ of the hogus notes. | The counterfeits hear a portrait of | Gaorze Washington and carry the face .plate No. 0856 which appears in small print fust ahove the name of Frank White on the right hand side-of the-portrait of Washington,