Evening Star Newspaper, August 24, 1925, Page 2

2 D. C. GUARDSMAN - DENIED HIS LEAVE P. M. General Raps Subordi nate Official for Withholding Training Privilege. BY WILLIAM J. WHEA Staft Correspondent of The Star. VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., August 24 —Refusal of a subordinate offic of the P Office Department at Wash- ington to allow one of his employves leave for the purpose of attending this ining camp of the 121st Regiment of Engineers brought to the officer a direct reprimand from _Postmaster General Harry S. New. The Postm ter General in a letter tv Capt. Thom- as F. Lane, Company F. said the sub- ordinate had exceeded his authority and had been reprimanded Private Herndon Pringle of ¥ Com pany reported in camp today as a re. sult of the correspondence and the of ficers of the camp consider this anoth er victory in their fight to compel off} clals the various departments to recognize the authority of the Na tlonal Guard require its members | to attend a training camp. Pringle Makes Statement. informed his commanding | he could not get leave tof whereupon he was reatened with a court:martial by Capt. Lane, who informed him that} he was carried on the company's rolls | bsent without leave. At the same | we. Capt. Lane reported the matter A personal letter to the Postmaster | General. In the meantime. Capt. Lane received a letter from Pringle saving | that the former would receive a letter f explanation from the man’s imme superfor, but this never came. the reprimand probably was re ceived from the Postmaster General hefore the subordinate had time to explain to Capt. Lane he matter concerning Mr. Pringle’s leave of absence was never brought 1o my attention until receipt of vour letter foday.” wrote the Postmaster General. “~Upon inquiry | am inform ed that a subordinate of the depart ient_exceeded his authorlty by refus x Mr. Pringle leave without con sulting Anv of the officers whose duty nd prerogative it Is to pass on such matiers The leave Pringle, and the subordinate ho exceeded his authority in this case has been reprimanded for it." Officers Ready to Demand Rights. Officers of the regiment are pre pared make determined fights | pon return in the event that any of | heir men lose their positions. partic ularly those in the:Government serv for taking military leave for this camp duty. S 1 large corpo- ions have written supporting the guard and ordering leave for their men. and the officers are of the opin fon that the Government officials should e every preparation for re Jeasing men for training camp without prejudice to their records or positions of Pringle officer that ttend camp. i granted My officer has bheen “War” Begins Tomorrow. re being made today regimental officers for the which begins tomorrow. While are in the fleld building intrenchments and roads as a part of their training. field orders are being pre pared which will send the entire or- ganization right out to the ¢ st line tomorrow to prevent the landing of a hostile force reported héading in from the sea preparatory to making a land ing and a march inland. The brunt of preventing the landing has been placed on the shoulders of the 12 Engineers. The orders from Col. John W. Oehmann. regimen: commander, will be given tonight the battalion commanders, Majs. Joe R. McKey and Julian OIiff, who in turn will issue the necessary orders to the company commanders early to- morrow morning. Reserve officers in camp also are required to submit so lution problems. The first contact with a camp boot lezger was made last night when a £uspect, known to the troopers as Pau Revere because he comes into camp astride of a white horse, with large capacity saddle bag equipment, | was apnrehended. His capture indi cated the alertness which the troops are displaving in their attempts to prevent the occurrence of an inei- | dent that might reflect in any way on the good record of the troops from the District of Columbia. The pres- ence the suspect was reported to regimential headquarters, and Maj. George J. Allen of the medical depart ment escorted him to headquarte: where he was detained until the ar ival of the Princess Anne County police authorities. Search netted them nothing more than several empty flasks. The local authorities said they knew the man 1t dismissed him for lack of evidence, hut they set a trap for him should b make further ef forts to deal with the troops "he troops here are much concerned the efforts of Prohibition Com Haynes and his field opera tives stamp e a bootleg gency and are determined to show falsity of the accusation. war The bridzes demolishing to missioner to as Officers to Witness Gun Pra Maj. Gen. Anton Stej ington, commanding th Guard Division here working Oehmann wnd Maj. Lo | bhan of Wa >§th National the staff of which is| out war games; Col.| commanding the Engineers, | « . Brinton, U Al instructor the National | Guard, left today for Fort Monroe, | Va., where they will witness the firing of ‘the 1finch guns by the 260th| Coast Artillery National Guard, of the | District, under training there. | engineers vesterday afternoon | their parade of the en yment scores of visitors | ame the reservation stirred citizen soldlers to put on an ex- cellent review. There were a cor siderable number of Washington in camp and manv of them were guests of the various commands their noon meals PEPCO EMPLbYE KILLED TOUCHING LIVE WIRE Floyd S. Pearl Electrocuted While Working on Pole—Falls 12 held and the visitors at Feet to Pavement. Floyd §. Pearl, 24 years old. 1419 street, an emplove of the Potomac Electric Power Co., was electrocuted Iy today while working on a pole at Fourteenth and B streets south- west, when his bare hand accidentall came into contact with a charged wire. The electric charge passed through his body, knocking him to the pave- ment 12 feet below. Pearl was making repairs to an electric light when the accident occurred Leon T. McCoy, Arlington, Va., took Pearl to Emergency Hospital, where physicians pronounced him dead. Coroner Nevitt will conduct an in- suest at the District of Columbia waorgue this afternoon Deny Assassination Attempt. that an attempt had made on the life of King Alfonso of Spain was made today by the Spanish embassy, which declared in a Statement that reports still were be. ing circulated to that effect. despite a denial of their authenticity by the Spanish Zovernment. heavily | Denial heen » {the closing of the | the ert { of musical art next | the {parts of the United States. THE EVENING Dead in Canada ™, . % 5 \ MsrRIS € £ LING ARTHUR BAILLY-BLANCHARD. AILLY-BLANCHARD, ENVOY, FOUND DEAD Body of Minister to Haiti Dis- | covered in Room of Mon- treal Hotel. MONTREAL, Bailly-Blanchard, ister to Halti since dead In his bedroom at Royal Hotel early today. Mr. Bailly-Blanchard Montreal August 19, but here had been unknown to the Ame fcan consulate. He registered as fro Rochester, N. Y., although his hom was in New Orleans, La. Washington, D. C night watchman August 24.—Arthu United States Mi 14, was four the Mou arrived his presenc hore Jabels. A body. The corone resulted in ural causes. discovered inquest this mornin verdict of dsath by Had Varied Career. Arthur Bailly-Blanchard had a va ed career law instructor. busine: man, newspaper, man, soldier diplomatist He was born in New 1855, and was educated After serving in the law of the University of Le tered business in his native city. Lat he assistant editor of two Ne Orleans newspapers, served in the en ploy of the Mexican Central Raflwa and soldiered with the Le Gardeu Battalion and in the Louisiana N: tonal Guard In 1885 he went to France as priva secretary to the American associated with settlement ench spoilation claims, and he posts successively in Ru: and Haitl when he was secrets an embassy at Paris, whe had previously been d'affaires. Mr. Bailly-Blanchard transferred 1o the embassy at and this transfer was sald to ha been the real reason for the resign: tion at that time of Robert Bac then Ambassador to France Short after his arrival at Tokio Mr. Baill Blanchard became charg daffair and represented the United States the ese capital during cult period of the exchanges regars ing the California anti-alien legisl tion. He assumed his post as Minist to Haiti July 31, 1914, Met Hard Problems. In Haiti Mr. Orleans in the departme: slana he e was the F diplomatic Bailly-Blanchard situations, the first of these out of the financial policy of of Treasury notes an National Bank the Republic of Haiti In 1820 Mr. Baflly-Blanchard subject of an attack by dent Dartiguenave of Haiti, who tol newspaper correspondents that “Ha of $8.000,000 has been under the oppression of the financi part minister and h This attack w Americ adviser. N the President’s opposition to what he ! of 70 the termed violation on the part of United States of the treaty bhetwee Haiti and the United States. Sta Department spokesmen subsequent denied the president’s charges, a serting that the minister had not di played undue zeal in the civil ad ministration of the island’s govel ment Bailly-Blanchard Washington cently doing some the Latin-American State Department had been special division Having work of th com pleted that work, he had applied for 30 days leave of absence and it is be- | lieved by Canada officlals he had gone 1o spend it there. When Washington, however, he apparently in excellent healih was to have returned here for structions. wa ar in CITY HEADS STAND SPONSOR FOR HUGE best important part in the program 1t is not the idea of the originatos of the plan that there should be mighty gesture toward advanceme Washington should into the state of semi-coma marked public activity in music in the past. A permanent ganization und the May festival made an nual event in the life of the Nutio Should the festival next May pro singular it gives promi of becoming, there is litle doubt th: its repetition the following seasa would attract music lovers to Wasl ington by the thousands from a then sink « Iy the Washington musical festiv would become as famous as the great | singing fetes that were held in capitals of Europe before the Worl War. The festival here. it s expected, i five days and during ville, Kv will occupy that time hundreds have been heard. of artists Centenarian His Own Doctor. Correapondence of the Associnted Press SOLEURE, Switzerland, July | Jacob Guenziger, a watchmaker, di recently at the age of 100. In culosis, and doctors case as incurable. Guenziger, however, took up a pe sonal study of his case and read tho; oughly & large number of books. From these he outlined a sp clal diet and mode of living for him- work at his self and continued to trade until a few years ago. His baggage the | nat and law Minister. charge | wa Toklo, the ditfi was | called upon the meet several difficult | arising the Haitian government, which compelied him to file protests against an issue was Presi. for several months re-| Washington golfers. he talent of the whole country an Spring and that | that has concerted it is hoped, will be effected Eventual- the h | vouth he became aficted with tube: diagnosed his | medical 1.5, WORKERS ASK §1500ASLOWWAGE Reform of Retirement and Classification Acts Is to Be Demanded. Congress fix $1.500 as the minimum annual salary for Federal emploves and liberalize the retirement act. and that there should be better administration of the classi- fication act will be placed before the | annual convention of the National Federation of Federal Employes in Boston, the week of Septemby In announcing that calls to the con- vention have gone Federal workers throughout the country, na- tional headquarters of the organiza- tion here said a resolution “will be| presented urging that Congress fix $1.500 as the minimum annual salary of all Federal employes to bring Gov- | ernment salaries to a point where they will be more comparable to those pald in private Industry. Proponents of this measure point to the great number of technical experts who are cor tly resigning from the public { servife to seek far more remunerative { positions with commercial concerns as an argument in favor of increasing Government pay to prevent the large percentage turn-over in Federal personnel. Administration of Act Hit. The most important come before the Hoston cording to Natlonal President Luthe S. Steward, is insistence by Govern- ment employes on a proper adminis tration of the fication act. “Experience with the present ad- ministration of the act’ President Steward declared, “has clearly demon. strated that every abuse fn its appli- | catlon can be attributed to shocking maladministration. Salary schedules | er. | carrled in it for the District of Colum. | Proposals that question to| meeting. ac ir n nd nt | | | | | in e bia must, in all fairness, be adjusted and fair and adequate chedules for the field services be adopted by Congress. A survey of | the field services is a prerequisite to field classification, and as the present | | agency has made no survey the | field services and is 1 disy ed 1o make one, we must see to it that the | | administration of the act is placed in | m ne ry must upward g | competent hands. Amendments Demanded. “Liberalizing amendments tc the re. ri- | ‘e | tirement law are absolutely essential Due to the decision of the cabinet | that extensfons shall not a greater number of employes ar ing retired from the service i lannuity inadequate to keep body | soul together. A shorter work day oy | PAY for overtime, better compensation w|laws—all of these need the attention | of_the delegates to this convention.” | | _ The convention will open September %17 in Faneuil Hall, the “cradle of lib | erty Among the speakers will be @ 1Gov. Alvin T. Fuller of Massachu setts and Mayor James M. Curley of | Boston. Headquarters for the conven [ tion will be at the Hotel Brunswick | where the sessions will be held after the opening meeting. National Presi- | dent Steward will preside. Members of the executive council of the fed-| eration are: John Fitzgerald, Brook- | lvn, N : Gertrude M. MeNally ashington. D. C.; M. J. Hines, Leav. enworth, Kans son Kinsell, | Philadelphia. Pa.; W Scully, St Louis, Mo.. L. J. Tierney, St. Paul Minn.: Lee K. Whitney. Milwaukee. | Wis.: John P. Green. Boston, Mass. | J. P. Thompson Francisco, Calif |and James P. McKeon, Washington o8 D:C. et < |CAPT. FRASER HALE AND AIDE KILLED in te] id of re ] T ve n Iy ¥ d WHEN PLANE FALLS (Continued from First Page.) School and in his ‘teens became in-| tensely interested in golf. While in| the high school he held the Western | interscholastic golf championship | v three years and was the | Western junior champion for two | years. Afier a year at the University | nd of | 1d | of Tilinols, he entered business in iti} Chic In 1914 he was a semi finalist In the Western golf cham al | pionship at \d Rapids, during of | which he made a mew course record| He was regarded always as a | leading golfer, and about a vear and en { a half ago, while on duty in Georgia te | he flew from Atlanta to Fort Leaven- | ¥ | worth, Kan., and won the golf cham-| s-| pionship of the Army. He was a| ®- | member of the Chevy Chase Club here 1- |and also a member of the Chevy n- | Chase team. Me participated in many | tournaments here and had a large| cquaintance and following among | in Enlisting in the Nlinois National | Guard in June. 1916, he was appointed | a second lieutenant in the Field Ar | tillery of the Officers’ Reserve Corps the following veur and was called to active duty. He went overseas in October, 1917, and iransferred to the Alr Service. e took a course at the observers’ school at Tours, | France, and also was groduated from lihe aerial gunnery sehool abroad. | After graduation, he wus assigned Lo the Sth French Army and later be- came chief observer of the 99th Aero | Squadron. during which period he | spent about 40 hours in flight over the enemy lines. Following this duty he was made chief insiructor of In- fantry and aviation liaison and then was assigned as liaison officer of the headquarters ith Army Corps. He was returned to the United States November 4. 1918, being selected f. his knowledge and ability to act instructor at the Aerial Observation | School at Fort Sill, Okla Shortly after the close of the war he | took pilot’s training and was rated as airplane pilot, October 16, 1919. Since the war he had been a student at the Field Officers’ School at Langley Field. Va., and from 1922 to last year he was professor of military science and tactics at the Georgia School of rechnology, Atlanta, G On White House Staff Shortly after his assignment to Rolling Field, where he had been on | duty #bout # vear, he was made an {aviation uide at the White House. He {werved at all official functions at the | Executive Mansion and played a con- | splcuous part in the inauguration of President Coolidge in caring for ar- rangements at the White House. Capt. Hale was unmarried and re- sided in a cottage at Bolling Fleld Pvt. Norris was born In Whites- . 21 years ago. He enlisted Service of the Army at Va., October 31, 1924, and | later was assigned to the ! 18th Headquarters Squadron here. He {was rated as a mechanic, and his | commanding officer, Lieut. L. V. Beaw, |5r.. pronounced him as an efficient | - |and popular man. His absence !rumi ed|yoll call this morning was noted by is | the unusual silence that p T- | the otherwise noisy formation. Capt. Hale is the third Bolling Field | | pilot to be killed from an airplane | crash since 1921, In that vear Lieut. Stanley Ames fell to his death on the field. and two months ago Lieut. Frank White crashed in the Dela- | ware River, near Bristol, Pa. suc- cumbing two days Yater to injuries received. in he - | 1o as nd e e a nt k o n- ve at on h a1l al Id the evailed at | r- r- e- A ithe Merrimac | day STAR, WASHINGTON, D. WEEK END NP EATHTOLL IS5 Motor Accidents Lead List With Seven Killed—Three Victims of Planes. By CHICAGO, persons were injured in week end automobile haps. Seven* the Associated Preas wenty five killed and many others throughout the ry accidents ranging from collisions fiying utomobilists were killed five persons were drowned, five suc cumbed to violence, while five other: were fatally hurt in train, storm, wire and Jaunch accidents The automobile toll fa nine Middle Western Ohio leads with 26, with other States as follows 1 14; Mis: ri, & and Oklahoma, 4 each, 3 August 24 cou o mis the week es in alities in nots, 1%; Texas [ nd Minne inday automobile accidents in Chi- cago accounted for three deaths death each occurred in Kansas City, Topelo. Duquotn, 1ii, and Columbus Three Fyers Killed. Kans Ga Capt. Fraser Hale of the Army Alr Service and his mechanic, Pvt. E. C Norris, were killed at White Sulphur Springs. W. Va., when the engine of the airplane explode Joe TLachat tetle, 20. of Grand Rapids, Mich.. fell 200 feet to his death while doing stunts with a flying circus at Cold water, Kans. Three were drowned in River, near St. Louis when a canoe overturned; one drown ing occurred at Greely, Col, while .ake Michigan claimed Jane Sullivan T-vear-old granddaughter of the | Roger Sullivan, Illinols political leader near Benton Harbor, Mich. Three deaths by violence were re corded in Chicago; a patrolman died s Angeles from wounds received pistol fight with bank robbers, in a wing an attack at Pitt railroad Gray's burgh, Pa. fireman was killed at Lake, Ill., when two freight collided; two persons met death in Texas, and a man fell under a train in Chicago. FRENCH LOSE 2,000 MEN IN FIGHTING TRIBESMEN Druses Still Bombarding Garrison ! | {and a voung woman died mysteriously |Prope follo A and Beirut Hospitals Filled With Wounded, Is Report. the Associated LONDON, to the Daily By u August Mail from Damascus, dated turday, furnishes the latest report on the' French losses in the recent fighting with the Druse tribesmen. The dispatch savs these are estimated at more than 2,000, in- cluding French officers and also 11 guns, 30 machine guns and several irplanes. It is added that the Beirut hospitals are filled with wound: Guerrilla warfare continues, the Druses reported still to he bom barding the French garrison at Suida using captured guns which are manned by captured officers of the Syrian L on, who are being forced A dispatch are | to serve with the Druses. The correspondent savs the opinion prevails in Damascus that a Druse rald near the city would cause a gen eral upheaval. Five thousand French reinforcements have arrived at Beirut and 7.000 more are expected this week. Balm for Returning Vacationists Dietramshell, Bavaria. denburg, 8. gets up at and walks four miles forests. Vienna.—Former Prince Joachim of Prussia i& leading a band here while his cousin, the exkaiser is sawing wood at Doorn. Leningrad through Great quantities of | jewels have been found in the house the Czar's tailor used (o live in. Mussolini becomes 250 children all at onc Prince of Wales at the races with god- ome. father to Bllenos. Aires batties senoritas violets. Manchester, Mass.—A fugltive ban- dit is disguising himself as a flapper. Ashburnham, Mass.—The town has no police; all three are suspended with | transactions in taxable things would |The death toll the chiet when he is caught in a raid on gamblers. Hoboken, N. J.—Fireman attracted by shrieks of “oh, Lord!” find parrot velling near his prostrate mistre: Philadelphia.—Lyman Ford makes a balf-mile parachute jump from a plane, lands safely on top of a motor truck, Is knocked off and breaks leg in 10-foot drop. Pompton Lakes, N. J.—Holy Rollers object to mixed bathing by other campers New York.—Hope Hampton, vouth- | ful star of the films. ix 1o be a mother- | duced much less indaw. Yvonne Brutaleur, daughter of her husband, is to marry. U. S. Attorney Named for Idaho. SWAMPSCOTT, Mass.. August 24 (#).—Hoyt Ray was appointed to- day United States attorney for the district of Idaho. Damascus and | Motor, struts and wheels all that | yesterday at White Sulphur srfl-;g~, {shown at left), and his mechanic 1 BY RETURNS Treasury Officials Say G¢ [ By Present High Rat Evasion of Le (Note—This is the first of a se- ries of three articles analyzing the experience of the Treasury Depart- ment in examining income taz re- | turns in the last four uears and the inferences that way be draicn therefrom as to future tar revision | These articles are based on talks | with the highest officials of the | Government.) BY DAVID LAWRENCE. | Honest returns are |tenths of the taxpavers, rtion Is even greater. but avoid ance of income taxes by legitimate |and legal means 1s practiced by an |incalculable number of persons. | And by avoidance one does not mean evasion, but simply a recogni |tion of the weaknesses in the existing {law and a taking advantage of them. This is the outstanding fact about the experfence of the Treasury De-| {partment with the income tax returns of more than 7,000.000 persons, an experience which todav can be re duced to general prineiples and traced through every vear's returns The Government's desire naturally is that tax rates and methods shall be productive. Anything that interferes with productivity is the Government's concern. For example, one of Amer-| Jica’s wealthiest men says frankly t he has made more money under the | high surtaxes of the Treasury than he would e done under low surtax rates Rather than invest his money |in securities the income on which was {taxable he turned sympathetically {toward some enterprises, which in or- | {at times he would have regarded | as risky If not unwise. | made by e- | indeed the | Enterprises Prospered. The enterprises could for 10 years reach the point where | the earnings would have to be dis | tributed, and everybody has known | that tax rates would come down by the end of that perfod. Even if they did not come down, the income could he segregated in the form of stock dividends and held for future sale. The particular enterprises in ques tion prospered and the profits will be held Intact for some time to come. The sums involved are very large. Now the Government will get very little share out of the transaction | mentioned. Yet, had{the surtax rate been very low. the individual with large funds would never have placed his investment in the doubtful en- terprises. but would have made in vestments immediately taxable be cause the taxes payable would have Dbeen regarded by him as relatively | insignificant compared with the risks that he would take in the doubtful | enterprises. While this particular episode turn- ed out favorably for the man with capital, the Government lost a heavy tax. In other words. looking at taxa tion strictly from the Government viewpoint, the individual must be tempted to put his money in things that vield & tax to the Government. And in dozens of different ways the experlence of taxpayers is more or | {less like the example mentioned. The | taxpayer figures out schemes where- | | by his tax rate will be low and shapes | | his course accordingly. Would he | |not do the same under any tax rate? | He would naturally pay as little tax as possible. But the volume of his | not possibly | be Targer. ! Principle Is Age-Old. | | It is the ageold principle of when | il tax becomes burdensome it will be | | avolded or evaded. When it is neg- |1ible it is pald without much thought being given to the subject of avoid- | ance. “The safer way is selected as | the best way In a large sense this is what the Treasury now feels has been demon- strated so conclusively by the returns ’lhat it is no longer a theory but a | fact. High surtax rates have taxes than | rates. The imcreases in revenue to | | the Government have not been too | | great, as the scale of rates has been | | lowered, but the principle of greater |murn has been completely vindi- | cated. Under the circumstances, therefore, the question now is how low can sur tax rates really be made and yet give | pro- reduced MONDAY, AUGUST | competes ver | pand along sound and re 9 4, 1925. T kil nain of the airplane that Capt. Frases Hale, Earl N FOR FOUR YEARS overnment Loses Heavily e That Makes Legal vy Attractive. i the Government relatively more than on existing What will be advocated hefore Congrese may be a compromise in order to hold po litical lines intact, but leaving politics entirely out of the maiter and analyz ng the returns simply from f productivity, it has been found that A maximum surtax of from 10 to 12 per cent would yield more revenue than any tax above that sum. Now it may ke expedient for the Treasury 0 recommend that rate, but it can be said without fear of contradiction that uch a rate absolutely safe and sound. What America can stand is a 12 per cent rate and vield a surplus Would Aid Business. The theory back of this is. volume. In one respect, for instance, the result is immediately obtainable. That is the tax-exempt security. At present well with a taxable in vestment. Under a 12 per cent surtax the taxable investments would be more attractive to the invesior. Rut the effect on the business world, it is confidently believed, would be striking Business “today does many artifical irregular and unnatural things be. cause of the tax law. The 12 per cent surtax is considered low enough to r move those restraints and permit nusiness to function normally and ex- asonably cal culable lines. So principle number one is that a maximum surtax of 12 per cent can be justified by returns of the last four years, money ates. basis BERLIN TO RECEIVE FRENCH NOTE TODAY Security Question Discussed as Be-, Bible there tween Foreign Minister Briand and British Official. the Associated Press PARIS, August By 24— The “renc] note to ihe latest Germaun. rejotume: on the security question. It was sald this morning, will be delivered to the Berlin government at 5 o'clock this afternoon and will be made public Fri- day morning. The note, delivery of which has been several times del d. is virtually the same as elahorated at the meeting he- tween _l- reign Minister Briand and the British foreign secretary, Austen Chamberlin y French official circles say there are no grounds for reports published in Germany of “important changes made at the eleventh hour Publication of the note on Friday is regarded here as glving Germany ample time either to k that the matter be referred to the League of Nations council, opening at Geneva next month, or, as expected, to request a special inter- national conference on the matter. It fillumlm'mmul the French govern- ment is prepared’ to agree to either of these requests. STORM TOLL RAISED TO 2. Result Disaster. Boy Dies as of Texas August 24 (#). of the storm which swept Kamah and Seabrook Saturday night was raised to two Sunday when Leonard Parker, 3. son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Parker, died in a local hos- pital. Mrs. M. J. Parker, 58, was the other victim. With the exception of the two fatali- ties, none of the persons injured was in & serious condition Sunday, and all seemed to be improving rapidly. A complete check shows 10 Injured, though there were scores who recejved minor cuts and bruises which did not necessitate medical ttention. The Bay Shore is littered with the debris of wrecked camps and shacks, HOUSTON, Tex., Army Officer Killed. COLUMBUS, Ga.. August 24 (&% _ Capt. B. P. Hoey. 32, whose home ad. dress was given as Spokane. Wash., was killed yesterday in an automobile accident at Camp Benning, where the Army officer was stationed. | 2 PER CENT SURTAX JUSTIFIED | assistant {ley, who married Mr. |and | i | i | | i | the other great i | | | | Kindly | Chicago | paper ASLOVER OF TRUTH, LAWSON IS PRAISED Smplicity Marks Rites for| Editor and Publisher—No- tables Attend. By the Associated Press CHICAGGO, August 24 Utter sim. plicity marked the funeral services and burial today of Victor Fremont Lawson, for 50 years publisher of the Chicago Daily News and world fig ure in journalism. Notables of the Nation, city and of the newspaper world attended the funeral in the New England Congre tional Church, of which Mr. Lawson member nearly half a century in keeping with wish, left the final rite to be attended by his few surviving relatives and close friends. Speaking from an altar nearly hid den in the profusion of floral offer ings, the Rev Dr Ozore Stearns Davis, president of the Chicago Theo. logical Seminary, paid a last tribute to his friend of 16 years, “Victor F, Lawson, the lover and defender of truth”” and “a Christian gentleman was but Uses Lawson Bible. Reading of scriptual passages hea vily underlined in his Bible by Mr. Law son, the ninety-third Psalm, praver and the singing of three hym mer the Beautiful” “Lead Light and “The Homeland much’ admired by the publisher, com pleted the ceremon: here was no pomp. respecting Mr Lawson's wish, and do display aside from the many wreaths and sprays of flowers. One sheaf was from Presi dent and Mrs. Coolidge, old friends of Mr. Lawson. A pre-eminent example of a patriotic citizen,” President Coolldge called him in a statement tssued last Thursday, the day after the noted journalist's death Charles G. Dawes, the Vice Presi dent, attended the funeral with his brother, Willam R. Dawes, president of the Chicago Association of (om | merce Mavor William E. Dever and the members of the Chicago city council officially headed a great outpouring Chicago citizens here Union ere delegations from the Leading Newspaper Men. totary Club, Publishers’ Club, Theological Seminary, Chi cago Board of '] de, American News Vublishers’ Assocation and a number of boys representing the Daily ews route carriers and street sell ers attended Melville E. Stone Associated Press, and, with Mr. Law son, co-founder of the organization and for 12 years his partner in_pro prietorship of the Dail News Adolph S. Ochs, publisher New York Times; Frank B. ) presi dent of the Associated Press: George Rogers of the Cleveland Plain-Dealer and all of the Mr cotem poraries in Chlcago tended the funeral Many others representing the fession in which the dead publisher made his influence powerfully felt for nearly 50 years were in the assem age which paid its final tribute. They included Hopewell l.. Rogers to Mr. Lawson: Wa Al Strong. business manager of the Daily News, and Charles H. Dennis he News' managing editor Relatives Present. The small circle of relatives left to mourn Mr. Lawson's passing had but break. William Harrison Brad Lawson's sister sister became Mrs. was forced by iliness to remaln at home in Ridgefield. Conn The group of relatives was headed by Iver Norman Lawson. the publisher’s brother, and included Mrs. Iver son, Iver, jr. their daughter, Mrs Clark M. Cavanee of Chi and Misses Marion Kari Bradiey and Mary Linda Bradley, daughters of William ison Bradley. journaliet’s body was laid to rest celand Cemetery alongside that of Mrs. Lawson. who preceded him in death 11 vears ago. In tribute to the memory of man who devoted much of his to the creation and furtherance of the great co-operative endeavor at news exchange, the Associated Press. all wires of the organization were silent for three minutes at the hour the funeral service for Mr. Lawson was begun Tribute in Sermon. Tribute to Mr. Lawson over and defender of the trutk as a Christian gentleman, was paid n the funeral sermon delivered by Rev. Dr. Ozora Stearns Davis, presi dent of the Chicago Theological Sem inary. “Victor F. Lawson was the and defender of truth.” sald Dr. Davis. This is probably the most illuminating single fact in all his career. IL sheds clear light on all that he dreamed and did. In his re heavy marks of ap proval set against all expressions ¢ loyalty to truth. especially the sin gle affirmation, ‘but above all things truth beareth away the victory.' “Out of this central love for truth and unswerving loyalty to it grew his devotlon to his work, his comrades and his God. To hear Mr. Lawson speak in those sacred moments when he revealed his deepest selfl wis (o understand with what intensity of conviction he gave himself to the de velopment of the Daily News enterprises th sorbed him so completely, and which our present human prudence would affirm that he gave himself with the sacrifice which may have shortened his earthly vears “His was the simple religion of faith and loyalty to truth; of trust in Christ and service to men in His Spirit.© He was a Christian gentle- man. “The final accent of Victor Fremont Lawson's lifa is thrilling with the music of triumph mingled with the chastened notes of humanity’s still sad music. He knew the sorrows as well as the jovs, as the victories; and into & song in the grimage because he believed in God in truth, in honor. To live like this is to vindicate the highest worth of our common humanity and one's birthright from God.” DISABLED SH'IP IN PORT The counsellor of the th wes Lawson's Journ one whose own Vietor Lawson, the life he and lover he made them house of his pil- WITH PASSENGERS SAFE | Steamer Rosalind of Red Cross Has Bow Crumpled in Collision With Oil Tanker. NEW YORK, August 24 (£).—With her bow crumpled and buckled, tne steamship Rosalind, of the Red Cross line, which was in collision Saturdayv night with the Texas oil tanker Har vester off Point Judith, returned t- port today with its 116 passengers Officers of the ship declined to discuss | the accident The Harvester, which hadly damaged on the side where the Rosa lind’s bow struck her, put into Staple- ton, Staten Island. after the collision. The Rosalind was bound from New York to St. Johns, N. F., and the Har- vester had just left Providence. R. I for Port Arthur, Tex., when the cident occurred. ’ was Law- ( Rev. | the defeats ax well | 1o claim | CHARGES WOMAN TRAILED PHILLIPS, | Official Says Accused in Plot Admitted Shadowing Collar Mas. | By the Assoctated Press ASBURY PARK, N Mrs. Mary Dulaney, field secretary {of the Public Welfare Society Long Branch, today asserted | Mrs. Beatrice Johnston. ane of th | women arrested on Saturday for ting against Max Phillips, wealth | collar manufacturer, had [been shac willips sinee July 14 i that date, Mrs. Dukiney | Mrs. Johnston appeared in her and admitted that she had operators | #hadowing 4 man in Eastontown, whe lon subsequent visits, she revealed as | Phillips. During these visits Phillipe | divorce and the alleged mmnner | which it was obtained was discuss Mr%. Dulaney said zlso that a cop | of the decree which Phillips’ wife of | talned against him was mailed 1c { her by Mrs. Johnston from New York |and that a brief letter accommpanying it was written on stationery of a iunn vice crusade. Called Self Lecturer. Dulaney said th Mrs. J J. Rugust #. that ng On her Little | Mrs | Tuced | herself as from the {annual meeting July, on the Two weeks appearing at | refused 1o act as a detective she told there was behind ‘ thing. | | y e State st es as nating r the rmission fc before Mrs. her office came n ents Tohnston she safid an return med When Mrs a fortune th ARMY OF GUARDS HIRED rotects Self on New Jersey Estate. A he mer Max Ass YORK | NEW sult Ph by plots m: tempts otk collar guard Watchdogs give war approaches | while det are out on on Phillips of the {his con {The h months {York Publie bles first develope end when the were | The charges against the |and the man vary from conspiracy carrying concealed | women | Friaay lemploy had compl, he Ph plots. we: lips-Jones P atter s he ion three women en det in } listened to his convers |tion with them by means tele- | phonic device. He says won {tried to lure him aboard a vacht and take a trip to New Eng with the {intention of having hi ested for violation of the One of he women posed ntess and {the other her ht maid | Changes Publicity Plo Frank H. Berg idetective ney near the estate, ment that the whole licity melodrama | “I cannot_ see, however publicity will assist his | ness,” Berg said. It cert ialter the standing Phillips | through newspaper divorce case. in which | as saving t e wou a good polo pony than absurd to think th enough to engage ir cies would pick Mr viol lon of the Man lips was divorc | | denied patd Jr.. head of his ow who w with arrested is a pub- ach he was q | ips ed seven years his bein; he w r. He said employed for a purpose by n hostile to Phillips Phillips played field vesterday | was worried by t ssence of foes wouldn't dare come spaces by a bar polo on Asked e possib he. his pr whether sald Th \ these o | | Woman Eludes Guards. feet and sufficient Phillips a0, sure ahe. v the house A heavily ¢ | normanly 1 | the { approach R im.\ said { ner vut | largest hands | She was most unsi and scarlet veil. She around. It was were with me or I shot on the spc | Mrs. Mar | York Spiritualist |into the plots, Phillips s {10 give the impression tha |a Spiritualist and attended He sald a_woman had lured Mrs, Campbell’s home. While there the police arrested her {moned him to appear as a w against her. He has failed to a in court on two occassions. hands e 1s vesterda man and Sk ha and reet saw wore ami might have bee and st a witness Couple, Facing Execution, Over- come by Anguish and Tears. BUDAPEST. Hunzary, August 24 (P).—With five minutes to say good~ bye before their death, allowed by the court, Mitzi Lederer and her husband Gustav, a former lieutenant, chokink with anguish and blinded by tears were unable to say a single word. They had been convicted of the mur- | der und dismemberment of the owner | of a sausage factory, Franz Kudelka, | who was visiting the couple in & sub- | urb of Budapest The two embraced in a final meet- ing while the presiding judge held a watch | “You have five minutes,” he eaid. “Four—three—two—one, and now no more time to bid each other good: bye.” | “The man and wife were parted-and immediately executed. | WAR DEAD REMEMBERED. | French Fathers and Mothers of War Dead to Have Medals. PARIS, August 24 (#)—FEvery French motheg and father of war de: wear a new con designed by 1 | has been asked a | memorative mea Federation of Faihers and Mothers of Those Who Died for F The medal is of silver and bronze, hea ing the head of a soldier, with a blac band of mourning and two stripes of red, for blood. and on the head & crown of thorns .and laurel to sym- bolize martyrdom and glory. the UNABLE TO SAY GOOD-BYE '