Evening Star Newspaper, August 29, 1925, Page 2

'HE EVENING | EIGHT PARIS POLICE HURT N RED CLASH ‘140 Communists Arrested But Only Few Are Held After Demonstration. 1 | | | By the Associated Press, PARIS, August 20 Eight Paris ipolicemen injured and about a dozen Communists in cells were the net re. sults today of an experiment in mobi lization made hy the Communists of the capital last night. The Commu nist plan of action called for assem hlinz in four public squares and marching o the Opera, as a protest mgainst the methods used by the Polish and Bulgarian zovernments in figaling with members of their party. The full program of the demonstra tion published yesterday in the Communist ergan. L'Humanite: con. sequently the authorities en abled to nip it in the bud | Between 300 and 400 manifestants grrived in the vieinity of the Opera 10 the inconvenience of the opera Foers assembling for “Aida.” A series of sharp skirmishes with the police ensued and 140 were arrested, the majority, however, heinz released After a few hours. Thirty of those taken were foreigners. The Communist deputv, Barbeoot plaved a prominent part in leading the agitators, the police say, and one »f those arrested was a son the Tommunist deputy, Clamamus. was were of SWEDEN'S RUM-RUNNING PROBLEMS DECREASING Activities of Coast Guard Reduce Trouble Caused by Illicit Liquor Selling. Porrespondence of the Associated Press GOTHENBURG, Sweden. August & ~-Sweden’'s rum-running problems are rapidly decreasing, says Count Posse, | head of the coast guard service. In previous vears there nsually were a Aozen vessels in rum row on the wes! coast. while now there are never mors than two or three that need watching. The decrease has hean praportional an the east coast Count Posse points out that in 1923 the authorities confiscated 130,000 | liters of illezally imported liquors, | while last year the amount fell off to 40,000 liters. The indicatione for this year, he said, are that these figures will be cut in. half. This particular work nof the eeast | guard service is expected to become sasier when the Helsingfors conven tion, signed recently by the Swedish government 2o0es into effect The convention. which increases the terri- | torial limit to 12 miles, has heen signed by 12 states. CENTRAL AND DUNBAR ' ACTIVITIES WILL END| Pools and Tennis Courts, - sively Used During Summer, Will Be Closed. Exten The end of Augzust will mark the closing of the rommunity center activ- | ities at Central and Dunbar ~High | Schools for the Summer, according to an announcement made yesterday by | Mrs. Cecil Norton Brov. director of the department. Mrs. Brov said this season has been a most successful ane for the swimmers. more than 11,000 persons having used the two paols durinz the months of July and Au gust. This is & record for Summer swimminz at the high school pools. The swimminz pool at Central will be closed after tonight and the final tennis games will be plaved on the Central courts tomorrow afternoon Tt is estimated that between eight and nine hundred plavers have nsed those courts in the last two months. After a swimminz demonstration Wednesday night the Dunbar pool Will be closed for the season. One of the results of usinz this pool has been tha organization of a women's swim ming club, which will continue its ac thvities through the Winter months i Accused of Stealing $350 Banjo. George with the theft $330, was held on hond await the action of the following a hearing in . Police Court vesterday before Judze Aukam. Ac- rording to Detectives Cox, King and Murphy, who arrested the dasfendant in Baltimore. Franklin picked up the highest priced banjo in Droop’= mu sical store and made off with it Franklin, colorad of a banjo charzed valued at of £500 to grand jury i | i i BALL POOL RAID NETS 2 ARRESTS (Continued fram First Page.) though he had to make zood the prize from tims to time. Y Reull said Lowry was noi in any wa¥ connected with the pool apera- tions. but was merely a personal friend | who happened to he with him at the me of arrest Inspector Grant has had the partic- Mar scors sheet under investigation sfnce the outset of the campaign | dgainet pool sellers He obtained | Agure showing the operation to he | fingnced ax follows: Income through le of tickets. $4,800.60: prizes dis ihuted. §2.350: commissions, $480.12 leaving $1.960 profit each week from sich group distributed. oui of which pripting costs and incidentals would ave 16 be paid. Since the opening of police warfare against base ball pools which four ished for a time in the District, two of 4the most minent pools have s&ppeared from operation. A few main, according to the police, but latéctives have been unahle to obtain dzta on which to base an investiga- t Tlmm..h an azent for one of the her pools was arrested with a large number of pool tickets in his posses 2fon some time ago, the present arrest fa the first one in which police have talen into custody a man said to | imit heing the operator of the pool | imself *The pools have heen operated by | Alstributing 8000 rtickets, or more. | Jobse tickets are long sheets. some- | Hat like rafiroad tickets of the long | colimnar variety. on which the names | of thé 16 teams of the major leagues | arq printed. Opnosite the team name | g § space for the runs made by each | 2t during each day of the week. | Then six teams are punched. The tickets are sold for 60 cents apiece. The highest prize is $500, and tne chances againdt winning It are 8,000 to 1. A new departure in the prosecution of these cases is hinted in the method whereby the warrant issued. Instead of coming under the poolselling | saction of the code, the lottery sec- | tion was msed in this case. The Iottery section i tightly drawn and aAllows possession of tickets for a lottery or peol to he inferential or | prima facie indication of intention to the pection. which must be re- by the accused. | United States Government | disapproving | come | he allowed France to eirculate #s hay. !ing his tentative appi {send any |can Government wants. | the face of that information therefore | Correspondence of the Associated Pr ing | {of its passengers. RUSE FAILS, FRANCE NOW AWARE U. S. WILL STAND PAT ON TERMS London Tactics May Cost Paris More Than Expected. Whole Nation, Regardless of Party, Firmly ‘ Behind President in Debt Program. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., August 29 France now knows, without sending a commission to find out. that the| declines to accept th eagreement between Win- | ston Churchill and Joseph Cafllanx as basis for negotiations hetwaen Amer- | don a few days ago, it now is insisted | | here. will not help the French cause | |and may hurt it. 'The whole dificulty is that the American Dabt Funding 'ommission is absclutely convinced | the French can pay, and that Parls | i simply bargaining i With ‘the firm expression hy edi- TAR. WASHINGTO COOLIDGE IS SEEN WITH CLEAR FIELD Hints of 1928 Race Are Seen in President’s Moves in Summer. By Consolidated Press. SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., August 29. torfal writers evervwhere the French 5 | government can no longer Pression gdivided opinion. ica_ and France. The virtually unanimous of editorial opinion from coast to coast of the British-French idea of an American settlement of the French war debt has. if anvthing. | strengthened the determination of the President to go ahead with the pro- gram outlined te him by the Amer. ican Debt Funding Commission. to the effect that the principal must he paid in full and that interest charges can not he less than 3 per cent for a cer- tain numbey of vear: Without regard to party, the edi- | 1ls have been coming in, showing at the American public is not con Struing the debt problem as a partisgn matter. and that the Caillaux maneu hope ‘for a | Whatever chance | there was of such a division. it is thought, has been lost by the last | Caillaux proposal. From new en an undivided front will probably he pre sented and this will have the effect of pearmitting the American vern- | ment to be aven more insistent on an | | acceptance of ita terma. | The aiternative of non-payment is | one that the French have had in mind | for some time and is one of the main reasons why they are discussing any | sort of payment on their war debt "I'hNO Was a time not many meonths ago when the French still considered their debt to America not as & sacred | | obligation. but as a “political debt.” | ver has left a bad taste almost every- Y ") i where. The British themseives have | L0\8 Meant that the French, wt‘-:l:l TaET BILIAN | recognizing the need of paying s belief that Mr. ll‘hun$\lmaa‘l')? naver | (RN for” diplomatic reasons. id not | expected to agree finally to the terms | fo¢! (hey would be really obliged to This mood has changed. now the French have made concrete proposals. | What has brought about the change? | ‘The use of the credit pow of Amer : 'he French nasd money and they cannot get all they need from | Britain or anvwhere slse, but in the United States. The pressure for a settlement Is steadily growing. M. Caillaux may Aind the political conse. | quences of a settlement too risky for | himself or the cabinet and thers may have to he a change in personnal in | the French governmeni hefore it is! realized how vital the question of | settling on the American terms has really become. If the French find it/ a dangerous issue politically, Ameri can officials feel the hlame is largely to be placed on Psris where for some time the public has baen led 1o believe cancellation or material reduction was possible. tor val When the President getr back 1o Washington he will confer with Sec. retary Mellon and members of the Debt Funding Commission ahout what #hall be told France in advance of | her mission arrival is felt that it would be far better for France not to mission than to have her delegaies arrive here helieving that Any such terme as the Churehill Caillanx agresment can he considered for a moment., The Krench government told again has heen and again what the Ameri. The making of the Churchill-Caillaux agreement in is simply a plece of strategy based on & conviction that American opinion will not stand criticism of playing the role of hard-hearted creditor and will relent. The maneuver made in Lon - | IAPANESE ARMY ASKING INCREASE | | will aceardingly he saen to faver brief | 15.000.000 Yen More Than “'uier ars ta ne hrought tn the sur. | 3 4 face in expactation of long sus- | This Year Requested in Budget for Next. opyright MINING SLACKENS i GENERALLY—MANY MEN ALREADY OUT (Continued from First Page.) largest of the three union principali ties, say advices from Wilkes Barre Shamokin, Pa.. the seat of District 9. reports, on tha other hand, that mules there are to be left under ground until there are stronger indi- | cations that the suspension will not be comparatively short. | 10,000 to Protect Mine ! Operators and miners have agreed | after 24 hours’ deadlock on terms of | emplovment for the 10,000 mainte. | nance men, who will remain in vhe‘ mines o prevent Acoding, cave-ins| and deterioration. The maintenance men- pumpmen watchmen, electricians and the like— | will he emploved on the hasis estab- lished in former suspension periods. | They will be secured against replace. meni by monthly men on company | pay rolls, and will receive any pay in- creases that may he subsequently ne- gotiated, retroactive from Septem- | ber 1 A statement of future policy issued | by the mine owners aroused consid- srable opposition among the miner: W. W. Inglis, chairman. in reporting for the operators’ scale committee to a meeting of the industry on the con duct of the recent futile scale negotia tions. made the following recommen. | dation ! ‘In view of the present situation ' your committes strongly recommends that the operators maintain a firm | atand for arbitration of the present differences. to prevent a recurrence of interruptions such as the one about to atart. Wants Permanent Settlement. “1t believes that any settiement sftected should he of a permanent nature, providing for a readjustment of the wage scale from time 1o time to allow prices for our produet that will snable it to move freely in competi- tion with other fuels. Miners’ sentiment judged Mr. Inglis’ | proposal to call for “a contract in Derpetuity, and for a sliding scale of wages.” Either was held anathema. pension in parts of Distriet 1. the ' " TOKIO, August war partment forwarded the de. partment of financa the army budget estimate for the next fiscal vear, total 215.000.000 ven. which represents an increase of approximately 13.000 00 ven over the amount in this vear's hidzet The estimate did not take into ac Munt some mew enterprises which | recently were approved by the war | depariment for next vear, the ap proval having come fan late 20 into the budger. The increased amount is to he dis tributed generally as follows For increased pay of officars of the lower ranks, 3.450.000 ven For the improvement of sducational equipment. 400,000 yen For the improvement of the army sanitary system. 200,000 ven. For repair work on barracks, 500,000 ven Financial aid for resarvists’ organi zations. 500,000 yen Fxpenditures ~ for enforcement new army rezulations, 1.500.000 yen Repairs and new water works and drainage sysiems, 4.750,000 19.—The de has to of TWO GO ON RETIRED LIST. Col. A. N. Stark and First Lieut. J. P, Dietrich Both Disabled. Col. Alexander N. Sitark. Medical Corpe, recently atationed at Fort Sam Houston, Tex.. and First Lieut. fohn P. Dietrich. Corps of Engineers, re cently atrached fo the State School of Mines, Golden. Colo.. have heen placed on' the ratired list of the Army | on account of disabilities incident to the service. Miners in the anthracite region are | Col. Stark Is from Virginia. and re- | aiready removing their tools from the | ceived the distinguished service medal | pits. Mine supply firms ar cutting for services in the World War. He is | down forces in anticipation of a fall- | 2 Eraduate of the Universicy of Vir |ing off in business. The Lehigh Val. | ginia, and has been attached to the ey Railroad, an anthracite carrier, at Medical Corps of the Army since May. | Hazleton, is preparing to lay off crews 1893 | handling coal shipments, and to close Lieut. Dietrich i« a graduate of the | down shops and engine houses at United Statex Military Academy of | terminals originating coal exclusivaly, the special class of November, 1918, | Central Pennsylvania soft coal pro- He is from Missouri. ducers. mesting in Philadeiphia, have laid plans to rush into the breach to he cansed by anthracite suspension | with an output of 5.000,000 tons of | highly volatile ~ bituminous coal ! 11 HURT IN CRASH OF 1-MAN CAR AND | mii'adk. :37};3,;'.,“": it in e | ticipation of tter times. More 1t n VACATIONISTS’ BUS |maif i denn | half of the bituminous pits in Penn sylvania have been shut down entirely ! tor months and but |anywhare near few have baen ~| The “‘no-strike” normal préduction. citizens committe dent. said he measured that distance | formed at Wilkes-Barve in an affort from the spot where the wheels of the |10 avert a suspension, has disbanded. e left rails and the place it ¢ 3 i e 2 SUPPLY SALES STOP, Only the fact that the bus was of | - unusuall rugged construction prob. | ahly A:I 2 the Tives of half » dosan| HAZLETON, Pa., Auguat 29 (#).— Although its side MOSt anthracite miners of the Lehigh was crushed in. it remained upright | field today stopped buying supplies so the entire time it was being pushed | that they will not have any Ioft over sideways by the car. The platform of | When the suspension of production the car was said to have been pushed {begins next Tuesday. Contract miners almost completely back into the pas.|have purchased only enough powder senger section. Only seven passengers L0 keep them going for the remaining were on the car at the time and time of the old agreement, Downey was the sole passenger to be| All the collieries of the Hazle Brook | Huxt Coal Co., with operations In the Le He was standing on the platform. |high. Schuykill and Northumberland | ready 1o alight al the next corner. County districts, were idle today, and Downey declared the car had stopped 'the 3.000 emploves gathered at Hazle at Fourth street to pick up a passen- | Park here for the annual first-ald con. zer and its next stop was Second. eSts and outing. The Hazle Brook Third street being a ular skip. |Co. 1& the only large concern in the Downey did net see the ecollision, entire anthracite region which ar. the first intimation he had of the ranged for these contests this vear, erash being when he was thrown vio. {the others abandoning theirs on ac. Jently back into the passenger section. |count of the uncertain labor situation. Sullivan, the motorman. was At the close of the contests a big din: picked up unconscious and rushed to |Ner was held. at which oficials of the Casnaity Hospital. Ambulances from COMPANY ate at the same tables with both Casvalty and Emergency: Hos. | their men. pitals and patrol wagons from the £ . |CITY COURT RE sixth and second precincts were | H (Continved from First Page.) | CORD GOOD pressed into service, carrving the in. l jured to the hospitals. Most of those hurt, however, were found to be suffering more from shock than anything more seérious, and as 2 | which the District was involved du result all but Mrs. Dunnington were |ing the last fiscal vear, the city won permitted to go home in private con- | 393 cases and lost 39, according to tha veyances. annual report of Corporation Counsel Mrs, Dunnington, Stephens. strongly advised to remain under ob-| Two of the most important cases de- servatlon for some time. Fears were cided in favor of the District during also felt for the outcome of Moran's | the year were: Defense of the con. injuries, but he was permitted to leave 'stitutionality of the zoning law, and Emergency. In the case of Mr. Mel- defense of the Board of Fducation's chor, a Government physieist, the doc- | rule against students helon tors advised him to see hiz own phy. | ternities. sicians for an exhaustive examination, | During the vear the rity collected as there were indications that inter 440 for damage done te lamp pests, nal complications might develop. principally by motorists. Out of 422 pieces of litigation, in nowever. was| #ing to tra- | | " | American Pharmaceut As the Summer “vacation” of Presi. | dent Coolidge drawa to a close, it may | he pertinent to sum up what the| Chief Executive has accomplished. First, he has had a good reat and | his health is henefited by the l‘han:-‘ of air. | Second, he has kept in touch wih the work of Governmant dopartments in a ganeral sort of way dening himeelf too hea affairs and the debt negotiations have bean uppermost ameng the groblems considered, hut even In this Mr. Cool Idge has depended upon and has fol lowed the recommendations of his cabinet officers. Third, he has played his politica’ cards with caution and prudence. The Jast may prove in the end to| without bur- | fly. Foreign have been the most important of all For Mr. Coolidge likes pelitics. He | has lived and breathed its atmosphere | most of his mature vears. | Publicity” Is Good. Getting away from Washington to « place where his every mova s re ported was in the first place what the #xperts call “good publicity.” Then came the occasional conference with admi % who reported constantly on the President’s political strength Finally after A Summer of careful at tention tn Massachusetts State poli tics. in which the fate of Senator William M. Rutler. candidate to sue ceed himself next vear. hanzs In the balance. the President’s own sanction I& given 1o the publication of a lette wWherein there is a direct reference to the possibility that he will he a candi date in 1928, Barly in the Summer the visit of David Mulvane, Republican national committeeman from Kansas. who hold. | Iy proclaimed the President as a can “ didate for a third term. did not occa slon any frowns or denials from White | Court. " The public did not appear to resent the suggestion. and. as each caller arrived and added his testimony { on the President’s political popularity., | the impression grew rhat there was no | harm in letting it be known Mr. Cool idge was well aware of what was go. | ing on and was not hostile to the idea of trying to get a third term. FEvery President gets latters nrging him to be & candidate for a sacond or third term, as the case may he. The man who wrote hoping he would get another chance to vote for Mr. (ool Idge was one of 2 number who have suggested the same idea before. but until the axecutive offices made public the President’s reply no attention had bean given to such communications. Mr. Coolidge. 1o be sure, ignored the reference to his own political future which left it all just enough in the fiarl: to accomplish the purpose behind it an. Tactics Are Sound. Mr. Coolidge doesn't shout his thoughts on pelitics from the house. top. A hint ia all that can be elicited from him on occasion. His hint con- tained in the making public of the exchange of letters in question was ypical. It was intended 10 ronveyr several ldeas. Firat, the politiclans who might want this quastion settled at 5o early a date will find food for thought in it. Second. those who are thinking of grooming other eandi dates are thus to be discouraxed. Third, and perhaps most logical of all, Mr. Coolidge's hold on Congress, es pecially his own party, is to be strengthened by the knowledge that he is not to step out of the leadership of his party in 1328 and allow all the tactions and individualists to begin messing up the situation in Congress | in the next two or three years. Presf dentlal campaigns start at least {wo and sometimes three vears in advance of an election. Mr. Coolidge's friends think he is sure to be renominated If he wants 10 be. His letter made public the other day shows he has no objections to & nomination for anothar term. | So the fleld is clear. And the whole Summer mav bha put down as a profitable adventurs in presidential politics. in which Mr. Coolidze has | played his cards well and with sueh #ffect that ha will have greater in fluence in the next Congress than before. which means also that he s DPreparing 16 go to the country in the congressional campaign a vear hance as the sole fssue. D. (Convright. 1025 % PHARMACISTS ELECT. American Association Chooses of- ficers and Announces Award. T)!}S MOINES, Towa. August 29 (#). —W. D. Jones of Jacksonville, Fla.. was electad chalrman and Dr. Jacon Diner of Fordham University, New York City, vice chairman of the feal Association | | last night The Ebért { | award. which is given each vear to the man who has made the signal contribution to 1 Vvancement of pharmaceutical science, ‘was given to Dr. H. T. Youngker of the Massachusetts Coliege of Phar- macy. Beaton, for a paper on the | ‘Anatomy and Botanical Description | of Mire, presentad at the last eon. vantian, X POSEWNS OPEN. i Tests Announced for Jobs as Civil | | Service Laboratorians. The Civil rvice Commission today announced open competitive examina- tions for laboratorian (chemical) at $4.32 a day: laboratorian (mechanical) At $4.56 # day, and laboratorian (metal- lurgical) at $4.32 a dav, to All vacan. clez at the Naval Academy. Annapolis, Md., and vacancies which may oceu | in the navy yard service in the fourth | civil service district, The duties are to assist in physical, chemical and engineering laboratories: to prepare solutions, set up chemical | and physical apparatus, make repal and conduct experimental work. assist in making physical tests, heaf treat- ment, and metallographic examina- tions of metals: determination of trans formation temperatiires; calibration of instruments, such as pyrometers’ cal- culation and plotting of results of | tests, making sketches and drawing | of apparatus. | Full Information and applieation blanks may be obtained at the office of the secretary, fourth civil service | district, 1 treet. WILL TEACH RICE EATING.| Correspondence of the Associated Press. TOKIO, July 25.—Dr. K. Sugimoto, a rice expert attached to the Tokie Nutrition Laboratory, one of the three speclal scholars of the Rockefeller Foundation, said that one of his mis- sions abroad would he to teach the people of the United States “how to eat rvice.” He has baen making a special study of the nutritive value of iee. for the past five vears and has experimented on 30 persons. | | |day, dated veste ditien across Melville Ray, with strong, fair winds and no ice day | sage nivik, |8l ice fields | Disko tomorrow afternoon | passes on both the Peary and the Bow doin are | removal and shifting of steel gasoline | barrels and liberty |try to make corrections | coal | for tuel oil {unitx at | ment’s steam and hydro plant. | that | conténtion of Assistant ['nited States C., SATURDAY, AUGU 729, 1925 WRECKED STREET CAR AND BUS AFTER SERIOUS CRASH Gt Above: Badly damaged Tidewater bus, which, with 24 passengers, was struck at Third and G streets this nornin Below: One-man street car in which motorman was seriously hurt. MACMILLAN DELAYED COMING SOUTHWARD Peary and Bowdoin in Storm and Snow—To Reach Umanak Tonight. A Navy Department message today | indicated that the MacMilland Aretic | expedition. proceeding southward in Melville Ray, had encounterad a snow storm and a heavy sea The storm has caused some delay, | and the Flagship Peary now expects to reach Umanak, Greenland, tonight From that point the explorers will visit Godhaven to study the Norsy ruins. The Peary reported vesterda= that with good weather she expected 10 reach Umanak last night A radio message relayed from amateur station at Pittsfield, Mass., to the National Geographic Societv to ay, said the expe remarkahle run an has had “We left north Greenland vester morning at T o'clock.” the mes sajd. “We are now off Uper 73 north latitude, and free of We should arrive at The com- very unreliabie, due the " YOUNGSTERS STAGE | A.N. JOHNSON NAMED S e e e BARN DOOR CIRCUS TO ROAD PARLEY BODY engines Peary HEEDS SOUTl"I’S APPEAL FOR ELECTRIC ‘POWER 200 of Southeast Put on Colorful Dean of Maryland U. Engineering Event—1,500 Spectators Get School Go Money's Worth. Argentina. to to Mare than 200 yvoungsters of South. | sast Washington romped for two hours Thursd night in a revel of | glee rivaled aniv by that of the 1.500 enthusiastic spectators who zathered to witness the opening of the fifth an nual “Barn Door-Baled Hay Cirens and Parade” ziven by the children of ta Avenne playgrounds The fun started with a regular old time circus parade which marched to the music of the Navy Band. All the notables of the comic sheet, movies and sporting’ world were present. The “tired" boy was rolled along by the strong man; following these came fa mous prize fighters, world champion base ball teams, flappers, clowns, In. dians and many others, bringing the grand total up to 200 After the parade came the proper. Little tots hardly able to walk performed on the trapeze bar and danced with all the abandon of ! professionals. Helen Altman and Raby Emory.” hoth 10, gave inter- pretations of modern dancing. which were greeted with wild applanse by the andience. The Colin twins, sa | small they had 1a he lifted up to the bar. gave a remarkahble axhibition of acrobatic stunts. Firefighting. boxing and numerous other stunts econtrib. The taday ite annonnced the appointment of A N, Jahnson. dean of the schoal of engi- of a membe: Department Drought to Be Relieved hy War Department. neering the University of land of the American delezation to the Pan-American Road Congress to be held in Ruenos this Fall. He will take the place of Frederick L. Bishop, dean of the engineering school at the University of Pittsburgh. who resigned hecause school business requires that he re- main in this country now. All the American delegates are ex- pected to assemble in Monday. A luncheon has heen nared for them at the National Press Club. and several other appointments including one with State Department officials, have been placed on the day's program Monday night the leave for Swampscott. where they will confer the next day with President Cnolidge and receive final instruetions preparatory to sailing via the Pan- ama Canal for South Ameriea Thursday, September 3 JURY IS DéADLOCKED. MARYVILLE, Tenn., (®).—The jury in the case of Will D. | Sheffey, charged with the murder of Luther Wells, was deadlocked today At £:30 this morning the jury re- turned to the courtroom and the fore- man announced no agreement had been reached. He informed the judge that the latter's written charge was not understood by the jurymen The jury was sent back with .in- =tructions to reread the charge and to try to reach a verdict Mary- Stepe o relieve a shortage of elec. | trie power which extended drought has brought abouf in Seuth Atlantie States taken vesterday by the War Department. An order was is- sued to place in operation 1t once one of the big 25,000-kilowatt generating ! the Wilson Dam at Muscle Shoals, Ala., which, under present water levels, is expected to add ap- proximately 18000 kilowatts to the amount of power now available. This decision followed an appeal by Senator George of Georgia and other congressmen of the States affectad by drought, which has forced some in Austriss dependent upon electrie pow er_to curtail operations. The generating unit operation will require ahout for a “drying-ont process. The capacity of the lines of the Ala bama Power Co. leading to the plants at Muscle Shoals is £5.000 kilowatts., With the big generating unit operat- g at 13,000 kilowatts, combined with (uted to the fun. the pow ted b Gover Miss Thelma Smith was in charge he power generated by the the | and was aseisted hv Miss Elizabeth | Moss, Mrs. A. B. Pigeon and mem- bers of the police fore | T . {RED MEN TO M}\SSACRE PLEADS FOR RELEASE. | “MAN" AT BEACH OUTING Victim Will Be Burned at Stake | as Aires were pre- circus delecates will ordered into 10 davs izust 29 amount of power prodnced will he all August ° can be carried away by line reaching these plants. Carl Smith Seeks Writ, Claiming He Served 30 Days for Fine. Carl E. Smith today asked the Dis- trict Supreme Court for a writ of man damus against Needham C. Turnage, United States commissioner. to com.| A “massacre” will take place al pel him to extend the provisions of | Arlington Reach this afternoon at the section 1042 of the Revised Statute,|close of the all.day pow-wow held known as the poor convict act. to him. [there by the Red Men of Virginia. the since he has served 30 davs' imprison- | District of Columbia and Maryiand. ment in default of a fine. Commis-| Aceording to E. E. Santmire. sachem sione; Turnage recently held with the | of Osceola Tribe. No. 1, Improved Order of Red Men of Alexandria, a “man” will be hurned at the stake dur- ing the spectacular dance to he held during the “massacre.” The program of the pow-wow also includes a beauty contest, races for fat men and fat women and swimming contests. Members of the order. which claims to have had its inception at the original “Boston tea party.” will tell of the organization and its aims this evening. Ira Barton is chairman of the outing committee. |LOCAL CHINESE WATCHED | Police Take Steps to Bar Tong Out- break Here. A canvass of Chinese laundries and other establishments throughout the | city has heen initiated hy Inspector | C.'L. Grant with a view to visiting | all places where suspicious persons in connectien with tong warfare may re- side. Headquarters Detectives Serivenes Waldran. Sweeney and Cullinane hav heen detailed to the eanvassing work. Their duties. Inspector Grant said, | are to visit and meet as many Chinese | as possible, tabbing those who may appear suspicious. Defectives and the sixth precinet Under Capt. Riley. are co-operating in keeping a continual watch on Wash ington’s - Chinatown. regular demus; being posted through the entire day and night since the tong uprising | early this week. in Spectacular Pow-wow by Alexandria Tribe. | | | | Attorney Rover that the section does not apply to alternative sentences in Police Court, since that tribunal is not a TUnited States court within the pur- view of the statute. Justice Hoehling issued a rule on the commissioner to show cause next | Thursday why he should not release Smith from custody. Aftorney W. Bissell Thomas appears for the peti- tioner. BAND CONCERTS At Sylvan Theater, Monument irounds, at 7:45 pm. by the United States Marine Band, Wil H. Santelmann. leader; ‘Taylor Branson. second leader, conducting March, “On_the Mall”....Goldman Overture, “Fingal's Cave. Mendelssohn Reverie 3 _Vieuxtemps Grand scenes from “Falstaff”.Verdi Prelude, “A Basso Porto’ i Valse rondo, “Nur Ein V (“Just a Trial™) Suite, “Sigurd Jorsalfar’ (a) Prelude (“In the King's Hall.") (b) Intermezz Dream.”) (c) “Homage March.” “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band, bandstand, tomorrow at 5:45 o'clock, John S. M. Zim- merman, handmaster; Emil A. Fen- stad, assistant bandmaster, con- ducting. March, “Heads Up"”. Overture, “Euryanthe”... Solo for cornet, “Italian mance” Now stopped — than looked at all to pull out around to see Many a fender be saved if you (“Borgchild’s Rules for Coal Use. i A set of rules to guide American householders who burn soft coal soon will he issued by the American Soeiety of Mechanical Engineers. The rules | are being prepared, says an announce- ment by the National Coal Aseociation, .as a result of the “growth of interest | [in 'l)h- use of bituminous coal. Hersom . Weher Ro- (Frank Bernard.) Grand selection, “Ernani” Verdi Morceau, “Intermezzo.”. .....Rohm Waltz suvite, “Freunet Euch Des Lebens” .Strauss _ Finale, " Leigh ““The Star Spangled Banner.” ) of the District of Columbia and T) Washington glayving 1sn It is better to have looked and you have parked, and are about into traffic—look \SGHUUL CONTRACTS - THOUGHT ASSURED New Bids Expected to Cir- cumvent Delay on Three Structures. The District Commissioners are cor fident they will be able to let contrar | without waiting for Congress to mee: | in Decemher, for the srection of the three new =chonl buildings which have heen delaved hecause the ariginal hide were in excesa of the available appre priations. Engineer Cammissioner Rall plained today that the three ings have heen adverticed in way that contractors mav hid on all three structures as one project any two of them or on one of them Provision also has hesn made in the new hids to enabla a contractor to offer to build either a complete ei room building with various auxiliar rooms, or just the sight classrooms | build such Success Is Expected. ol. Bell pointed out that with thece alternative propositions the Commis sioners are practically certain the [ will be able to let the contracts when the new bids are open September 15 This will make it possible 10 begin constriction work early in the Fal When Congress convenes. the Com missioners will seek the additiona amount nesded put in the | rooms, sueh ax principals’ qu If Congress grants this in Col. Bell said, it to carry out the orizinal the buildings are complatad Need $60.000 More. The three school buildings in |tion are to he eracted ai Ninth Ingraham atreets, Fifth and « den streets and Fifth and She |streets. The total amount a for all is $409,500, and it is. estimarec |that an additional appropriation $60,000 will be needed 1o put in auxillary rooms If the Commissioners are required 10 limit the contracis a this time to the classrooms Munleipal Archi Harris day the low hifl receivad vesterda the construciion of the naw Krizh wood School at Thirtesnth and Nicho | 50n streets is well within the available {appropriations, and, rherefore permit the immediaie letiing contract. The appropriation {000 and the bid of Parsons was §254,000 SLEEPING MAN KILLED BY ILLUMINATING GAS Salesman Found Dead—Believed to to <ma rrars December possible plans befare ques ot 3275 & Hvman | Have Turnad on Combination i | Fixtur Thomas H. Boswell, 54 salesman, was found dead in bed 1his morning at his home, 1321 East C: itol et. having been asphyxiatec by flluminating gas. His wife found him dead when she went o his room about daybreak. A physician. hastily summoned, examined the body and said death had occurred an hour move before the bedy was {ound The room has a combination and electric light fixture, it is stated and relatives think the kev 1o the gas fixture was accidentallv opened when Mr. Boswell extinguished the electric Hght preparatory 1o retiring. oroner Nevitt is investigating The deceased. a native of Charles County, Md.. had been a resident of this city the past eight vears and ie survived by his wife and two sons. He was a member of the Modern Wood men and Royal Neighbors. Funera arrangemants have not been com pleted Accidentally. American Kil The State Department the Mexican government thorough inquiry into the reparted of an unnamed Americar cowboy near Palomas in Chihuahus | The department was advised of killing by Consul Dye, at J tafls were lacking led in Mexico. has asked to make a Break Window. Steal 3 Watches Four gold wrist watches $200, were stolan whan the show dow of the jewslry store nf S Bros. 1217 G street. was early this morning, Scratches on 1 thick plate glass indicated the nuse a glass cutter tn weaken the glass fore the smashing was done Calls Husband “Nagger.” Alleging that her husband cursed, abused and defamed her constantly that it is difficult to specific_instances.” Mrs. Nellie ( has filed suit for a limited divorce and {allmony from FElam C. Cr They | were married at Fairmont, W. Va., February 13. 1923, and have two ch |dren. Attorney J. M. Boardman ap- pears for the wife and asks tha cou to put the hushand under bond not to leave town. cite HOW TO AVOID AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS . tAE? never to have * - - “Yhe“ what's coming. and feeling can remember this. Published by The Star in co-operation with the Director of Traff: ke Advertising Club of Washington