Evening Star Newspaper, August 31, 1925, Page 2

B * THE EVENING Refuses to Resign CAILLAUX CERTAI OFDEBTTERMS0.K. Confident Negotia “’Will Be Wound Up in Nine Days. the PARIS vith Ontimisn Minister of Fi hility quic pre Cail 1o set h the his " + the United Amarican | ypronehing visit h ance laims od of 10 apinion vill he BERT E. HAN negotiatin hopes. to have f home eatch N Commission Ty = PUBLIC TOMORROW viedze | Newspapers Prepare to Give Names and Amounts of Payments. Ve deh and meet the requirements of | heli » i that < the Aays With a Supreme Court decision hav ng cleared up the muddie of last year ywer publieation of income tax returns colieciors intennal their momning revenue books at 9 throughout will en o'clock the wide tomerrow the | nation Newspapers American | ¢ country have ade plans to publish the names of xpavers, together with the amount tax paid during the fiscal yvear «nd. ing June 30, 1925 Foo the most t the ures will be fromincomes calenda ear 1924 = and concerns operate vear basis. Th wwever, operatl basis. whose returns on another period Dif presen of the 1 the Will Not Use income tax during in on some on a will red horit ared i hori American | calendar concerns. sing ihe most ipor ve are for cor erms = mentioned in Americ g > be based tow t he French ¢ \ and This Year. The prospect different from last vear tion was in great confusion over the apparently conflicting statutes, one of which in the new revenue law iuthorized throwing open the books ta public_inspection.” while the other provided penalty for “‘publication. Newspapers. however, for the most part advice of counsel last yvear printed the names and figures, and the Government to test the law made sev. eril cases against newspapers, taking g0 the Supreme Conrt for a de On May this year, the Court held that publication was lawful. The twe papers in the test suit were the Baltimore Daily Post and the Kansas City Post which with f1x 104 A« taxpayers’ records for the Dis chamber had baen | irict of Columbia are filed at the bffice nleve government,|of the collector of Internal revenue withdraw its{a; Raltimore. it iz there that they helongs 1o | will he made public. of the Records of the District of Columbia which. | tuxpayers have not as yet been sepa + members | 1uted from these of the collection dis. trict which comprises hoth Maryland and the District of Columbia, %0 no figures are as yet available as to the exact totul paid by local taxpayers ring the year to be opened to the public tomorrow. But preliminary reports by the collector show that there was a sharp faling off in the total paid by the entire district. The towal income tux for both Maryland and the Dist of Columbia - paid during the last fiscal vear was only house. He | $37.593,045.11 as compared to $49,726,- ree the,| 327.86 for the previous fiscal year. v SOUTHERN EDITOR IN SHOT TO DEATH | Alabama Journalist Killed at His Home by Man With Whom He Had Quarreled. rent entirely when the na vernme is con is essent pariia terstand takes first an d pro rccompanied the other is discussed a winced that M. ¢ mbears of the mis ceed 1o the I'nita es s one expert th date now he 1 an early has bheen de led tha Paris rd the sieamer ecision preme The sent various pe cent Auriol the Socialist party members in t ting the I decided recently votes. Mauyrice Bokanowsk the ‘opposition. He is a member Republican-Democ vith onl in the Poincare ¢ members of 1t of sinet Berenger Status Unusual. Henry | the miss; Senator member lar vears he hax bes inother \ singu eight of Con! the position in the Senate, us for servative cabinets, withe partisan Wha financial questions is xen being he vally gdmit ht than the member ted to have greater utterances any the . wel ther ipper extraord Siliternt of of | Conservat an neid sentials from int Senator Da 1 has heen elected hy Louis sse fourth the pres commit member ent Senate appropriations draft its report on Senator Chapsa) is » qu M. Cailiaux | the budget < supporter te wh judgment confidence figure ich quis Pierre de Chambrun of the amber is selected his thoreugh wiledze of his rkahle acqu public LaFayette and & member of the the fi intance men Ameri from | i ihat .hr have indicated him an | effective colleaguc | v Joffre\T M. ¢ when st made Ry the Associated Press JASPER Ala., August 31—« J Langston, 0. prominent Alabama newspaper editor, was shot and killed last_night at his home in Red Star by Ed Myrick, 35. a miner, it was learned The trouhle arose, sald, when Langston ordered Myrick away from his home | Myrick was visiting Mour, | home. — Sheriff Kilge Langston repritar and that Myrick began quarreling with Lanzston about the reprimand Langston the officers said, told Myrick to leave the house, und when - he refused to do so, went to the home i f a neighbor. where he borrowed a Simon mwezeneral of {shotgun. Myrick, seeing Langston 15 the | approaching the house with the g banking | procured his revolver, which was om in the Langston home. The men met and struggled in a hand-to-hand encounter. In the fight angston’s gun was discharged, the ot tearing Myrick's clothing. My rick then fired, officers said, killing the editor, Langston was today as acting editor Mountain Eagle. He was for some time. editor of the Corndva Herald and at one time warked on the Mont gomery Advertiser '/ GAY SOVIET ACCOUNTANTS \YQ‘Y’:: this Banvuls. | Embezzle From Government, Then o alllaux as Marquis de Chamt entative of an « 1 member o repre- | family of the | mem er deputy eanx ! with he strietly Caillaux Wil include the most i expert advisers M. ¢ nt officials ¢ who more nment | at Langstar xaid A hix son, Frank inat the nive he ministry hirs ne else sove pre financiy fied solutions be smatl s Toseph the Societe Generale is taken houses of Par M. Caillaux's knowled, in fully saficient 1o a conduct. the nge 12 MERRYMAKERS DROWN | Master in o of ¥n, him ha lisenssions in t work sper to have hegun of the J of Fishing Boat Only Survivor in Capsizing. Thought PERPIGNAN w) A 1 ed capeizing of the fishing Louise, while returning from a festival at France. Auzust dozen merrymakers are to have heen drowned in smack early — morning r-Mer of the Py The hoat's master alone is known o | vé&ybeen saved. He reached ore | fter Yhree hours’ swimming and gave arm ifesaving erew is searching for other possible survivors. J. H. BURNETT RESIGNS. Assistant U. 8. Attorr B a small foot | enes seaport at Lose Money Back Gambling. Firing Squad Ready. mx Cable to The Star and Chicago Daiy News. MOSCOW, August 31 A gay ae- countant in the zovernment chain of | theaters, named A. A. Grave, is due |to appear before firing squad for embezzling several thousand dollars, Grave, with an assistant, was found gambling in a government asino. They were als drinking champagne, neither of which would be possible on their government salaries. Investigation showed that $3,000 which Grave lost at the casino could United not profit the government gambling \r. monopoly, since It was embezzled from the government theatrical department. tomor- | Grave and his assistant secured $2,000 an false pretenses and finally $25.000 on the pretext of repairing the opera house, The p: went to Baku, where they were arrested. tried and conviet ed. Gve was sentenced to shooting ¥y to Resume General Practice. John H resignation Burnetf today an tenderad his \ssistant United States effect resume States attorney to Gordon I practice to take will the clation with James A, O'Shea Mr. Burnett was horn in Marion, 1., and came o Washingion in 1916, He Dy i assistant to Imprisonment. University and was admitted the | {CoDTTiEht. 1923, by Chicago Dails News Co.) bar in 1921. He joined the forces of . Ma)..Gordon last year and has been|- In torrid South Africa half the cot- - charge of a number of important |ton underclothing wern is from the minal cases. United States. | Rurnett the goneral of law in asso officers | that | n, | ROB PETER TO PAY PAUL |’ (GANTON REDS MAP PLANS FOR BATTLE ;Dig Trenches Around CityI | Prior to Conflict—Trade i Is Tied Up. | By the Associated Press | SAN FRANCISCO, | Cablesrams ‘from ¢« | the sirikes and Ansust 31.- delayed by, | disorders there, re.| celved here say that the “Reds’| | (Chinese declared under Russian Bol- shevik influence) are dizging trenches |around the city In preparation for | confliet with the opposing faction. | _Hu Hon Min. the elvil governor of | Kwantunz Provinee, in which Canton |is situated, is reporied to be in Wham- on the island of that name lies in the river between Can- ton and the sca. Hu Hon Min's home lin Canton wax reported earlier in the week to be under military guard to iect him The Kwantung soldiers, the * teds.” are being disarmed by poring faction, which is said causing continuance of the vhich had prevailed in the city mian ks, nton st = ‘anti the op 0 be unreat for Probe Is Started. f Liu Chung | minister of which was | procession Whampoa | were ap. his kil determine upon the Following the funeral Hoi. assassinated finance the Canton zovernment paticlpated in by w huge of ers, iaborers and cude two commissions pointed. one to investigaie ing and the other to penalties to infticted guilty he STAR, WAS 1925. It is reported that Li Fook.lLum, former mayor of Canton. who is now | In eontrol of Honam Island. has made | an arrangement with Gen. Chung Kal Shek. commander of the HRussian trained Whampos radets, that no !fighting will be permitted in Honam or Canton { Every indication is g Chinese sirikers are determined to continue in their refusal to carry onl commerce, although an agreement has heen reached by which all for | ¢izn firms except British will be per- ‘IINHNI for a 10-day period to remove | any zoods except kerosene from their | warehouses The Canton eity under a als, of which been uppointed. en that the | government is op- committee of 16 of no leader hax yet Five members of the minittee are active in the dminis. tration work and the rest 0 be called on to settle any new questions that may arise. The latest report that Canton Wwas quiet, but that there were indica | i that veigners there had no contidence that the condition would continue, although it believed that the rent ugzainst conduct ‘ing ght Canton or H would ¢ was zree g in ntinue CADE «l 'ROL. CITY. | Canton Badly Consul Reports. Organized, American State Department !said that Whampea radical leadership are control of Cantan and ‘administration of that disorganized Douglas Jenkins. American consul general at Canton, reported that there was oecasional firing in Canton. Au- gust 25 and 2, but conditions “were | fairly quiet on’ the 27th." ien. Hsu Chung Chi, described as | the leading Cantonese military figure {connected with the radicals a1 Can- jton, was sald to he supporting the cadet movements, but his allegiance was held doubtful. “@here ix indication of further {Aghting.” the advices said, “unless | Cantonese troops in the outlving| |districts attack. The government at nton now consists of # provisional m lon of three. including Gen Hsu Chung Chi, Wang Shao Ning and Gen. Chang., commander th Whampon cadets. | In contrast to the Canton situation, | Leray Webt American advices cadets in that eity today under complete the eivil is hadly of consul at Amoy, reported under date of August| |30 that the situstion there was qulet ! fand the boveott was weakening. The | | continued presence of the United! States gunhoat Hart there. was held! no longer necessary. i TWO HAWAIIAN FLIGHT | PLANES GO TODAY, | THIRD IS DELAYED, (Continued from First Page.) all three! toda ration in time te permit planes to depart together The plans of the Navy officers in ! charge of today's flight includ® pa trolling by fast rum chasers the 15-| mile channel from San Pablo Bay to| the Golden Gate. over which the twa | seaplanes will speed in their take-off. | S0 heavily laden with fuel will be the two aircraft that it not expected they would attain suffieient altitude ito surmount the hills on either side of the Golden Gate and it was deter- {mined to keep clear the course which | would enable them to start their west- ward journey over the regular ship lane. The crews of each of the planes comprise five men. The Augship, the PN-9, No. 1. has as its chief officer | Comdr. John Rodgers, Washing ton, D. C., whe Is also the flight com- mander. Lieut. Byron James Con nel, Pitisburgh, Pa. Kiles Pope. | . Jack Pa.: Otis Gil- | Stantz, chiefl radio man, lfii Haute, Ind., and Willam M. Bowlin, | chief ‘machinist's mate. Richmond, | Ind., constitute the rest of the crew. i Twenty-six-Hour Flight. ! The PN-2, No. 3, is commanded by | Lieut. Allan P. Snoddy, Yonkers, N. . and its erew is composed of Lieut. Avthur Gavin, pilot, Ashiand Wis} Charles utter, aviation chief ma chinist's mate, New York city: Noah | Howard Craven, aviation pilot. Okla- | City, Okla.. and Clarence W. | n. radio man, Birmingham, Ala. | It was caleulated that the Aflight | would require slightly more than 26 | Only one record will be sought, | distance, as a ship of this| type has alresdy remained aloft for a | period longer than that estimated | necessary for the test to begin today. The route, a direct line according to the Mercator projection, is already | patrolled by Navy boats stationed ap- | | proximately every 200 miles between | the Golden Gate and Honolulu. | The PN boats scheduled to start their flight today are virt.ally ident cal, and were developed by the Bureau of Aeronauties and (he naval air craft factory at Philadeiphia as the supreme type of twinengine tractor biplanes. From the top of the upper wing to the bottom of the keel they are 16 feet 6.87 inches, and in length | over all they are 49 feet 2 inches. The | spread of the upper wing is feet 110 inches and the lower wing 67 feet |2 inches. The totul area of wing sur- | face is 1. square feet. Two motors of 500 horsepower are each each power plant | 700 pounds. The pro- are of two hlades and made of wood. Compasses. chronometers, sé» |tants and galvanometers aid in keep- ing the aircraft on their course, and | eash carties a complste. radio. set by which communication will be main- tained with the guard.ships. statiofied along the route to Hawall 4 A hours. | | {that for | A light Left to ht unit Teft ta e . J. Sutter, aviation chief machinist's mate; €. W. Allen, Mig CALIFORNIA TOWNS SHAKEN BY QUAKES Distinetly—No Damage Is Reported. BFthe Associated Pross CALEXICO. Cali distinct earthquake here at 5:05 ociock vesterday after noon. followed immediately by lesser shocks. No damage was reported August 31 shock was A feolt TAWLEY, Calif., August eurthquake banged rattled windows here late The shock came at [ sbout 15 seconds. No datnag ported. 31 () joors and ond | 3@ Wi the at the vesterda CHICAGO vere earthquike shock by the seismograph of States Weather Bureau versity of Chicago early T . tremor began and nued until greatest shock recorded tral standard time. The was estimatad at 1,790 Chieago. AUTO DEATHS GAIN BRINGS PEDESTRIAN CONTROL DEMAND meay panupuo, August Uni movement miles from Cafed s that reaches the jayvwalker, and ir the vast majority of automobile fa- tali“ies here thix vear it has heen shown that the victim strolled into the path of an automobile hefore the driver of the ear could stop.” Statistics as prepared by the partment of Commerce show that during the four-week period ending August 15 368 persons were killed by automobiles in the 57 citiex. Dur- ing the previous ‘four weeks 417 had met death from the pe causes in the same cities. New York. Phila delphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and other great centers of population are included among the number New Bedford Safest. Ne jedford, Conn., the ment of Commerce reported, still holds first nlace among cities of more than 1000 population as the safest iraffic city. It has suffered but two fatalities in the year. Dayton, Ohio: Houston, Tex.: Lynn, Mass.; St. Paul, San Antonio and Waterbury, Conn, have reported no traffic deaths at all during the past eight weeks. Washington's descent into of cities still reporting increases elicited inquiries of a more detailed nature in view of the fact that it oe- curred in the midst of charges that the eity is “overrezulated” and suh- jected to far teo num us “‘experi- ments" on the part of Mr. Eldridge's office. From January 1 up to May 3, when the existing traffic code hecame ef fective, 27 persons were killed, 17 se- riously injured and 948 less seriously injured. Since May 3 until today, which is almost identically the same length of time, % deaths have occur red, 17 persons have been seriously hurt and 914 have suffered minor in- Jurie These figures show comparatively little change in the traffic record of Washington since the inauguration of the present traffic regulations. Al though two less persons have heen Killed. but three more have been ser ously injured. There has been an en- couraging drop in the number of minor injuries, but these include De the list evervthing from a skinned knuckle to | victims who needed treatment at hos- pitals. Trafic Director Eldridge ut, however. that there are cent more automobiles on the str of Wa last vear. He also called attention t the fact that included as “traffic” acel dents were tragedies that should not rightfully be called the results of street conditions. One of these was the aceident at Klingle Bridge, in which three persons lost their lives. “Go f{rom tep to bottem of the number of traffic fatalities In Wash- ington thus far this year and you pointed et Depart- | per | gton today than there were | ght—W. H. Bowli mander: 8. R aviation pile dio ma hinist's mate, first class; 0. G. Stantz, ¢ it. Arthur Gavin, first class. “S’ll)r"' HOBBS TO BE ATTENDED IN DEATH BY “GAN( | Calexico and Brawley Feel Shock Playmates, One of Whom Saw e ¥ HE LED atal Fall From Building. to Act as Honorary Pallbearers | At His Funeral. | i | ‘Sid” Holbs, ar-old idol of northeast, hav- o 1d plac iy ng died as he live l—the leader is going to receive the due ng 4 “hero frernc when his pl them by of his proper tomor vmates n palibesrers i building under < the Todd plice 1exs uver onstruction home at has cast a strange pall the Lunch assumed their death a man o police street from his 15 the them lead 1d s since ip, by id mt naturally was ris vouthful compy chock-full of excellent ideas for good clean, sportsmanlike play and ¢ sequently he was just as popalar with the Erown- Todd piace way as with the hoys It was but place " Sid common agre s f soked up to He was was the fellow who hy natural, therefore, that tomatically voted the of heing peliceman yesterday robber chase” was suggested igitives,” Carl Brown. 13 tretch, 12, and Jack Sheriff. Officer Sid a lively chase for minutes. but finally he cor. nered Jack on the seeond finor of the new house at 148 Tedd place. Jack like a real robber, took a desperate chance and escaped across a perilons partition separating the house from the one adjoining. Sid. as was to be expected, despite his vounger years was not to be outdone. But the plucky lad’s physical powers were not quite equal to his will. His foot slipped, there was a frightened vell that froze the compunions in theit |[VACUUM OIL HEARING OVER TO -SEPTEMBER 8 honor when a The lames 12, led several Court Postpones Consideration of Motion to Amend Complaint Filed Against Penn Company. By Hoehling the T postponed until Septem 8 hearing on the motion of the Vacuum Ol for leave to amend its hill of complaint against Oil Co. The plaintiff wishes to add a charge that crankcase draining was Isold by the defendant at one of its ! filling stations when oil of the Vacuum €o. had been requested. The | keéper of the filling station denies that he ever sold such used oil, according to { Attorney Alvin L. Newmver, counsel | for the Penn Oil Co. Attorneys Ver- non E. West and Donaldson & John- | son appear for the Vacuum Oil Co. An application for a temporary in unction against the Penn Oil Co. was recently denied by Chief McCoy. Justice Supreme consent of today unsel, trie Court her Co. to the one, unavoidable conclusion—regulate pedestrians like you do motorists. Of the three in- stances where drivers were held ac- countaible two occurred before this | office began to function. The other | was the case in which the negro bootlegger killed Sister Cephas. He | now faces second-degree murder. “Washington wants to improve traflic_conditions and lower its death | record, but it Is not willing to the main thing necessary to realiza tion of that ideal. The minute we suggest regulation of the pedestrian there is a mob ready to hang us. I can remember there was a too, when the Commissioners decided all motorists must keep to the right around the city’s circles. But it be- came a law, and now no sane per- sons would think of cyiticizing it. And some other things are coming, too, you can bet. £ 1 will come neighhorhood. | the Penn | Justice | do | big fight, | emer At suffered and Policemar ed on a hardened on the ground belo Sibler Hospital, where iter, they said he had fractured skull and two And ux a hush settled haunts of “the bunch.” « wced otficinl from the ner's office pronounced Sid's death an cident Sid’s limp hody sack of serious-1 coro. Curl and remainder Jin of 1 throken. they asked wh their love for the my and Jack Podd place Red-eyed they their not world the 1 om voung enough know that and e N weeping do to show leader. F They must Sid died a That ftern let hero, is why, at 2 on, some half a to keep down their throats and stay back in their 2 o'clock tomorrow dozen boys, the in the tears that won't eves, will stand re- spectfully in awesome silence while he last rites are heing performed over the hody of their fallen comrade in his home. Several of the hoys were so shocked | by yesterday's tragedy that they were | 100711l today to he included in the list l:.( palihearers, it was learned. Among | striving & nps by those whe will serve are Carl Brown, who was one of the robhers being pur- sued by Sid: Charley Char- ley Matthews, and | Jimmy Durkin Meanwhile Rid's pretty littie f.year- old sister Kathleen. not comprehend. ing what has happened, is wondering ‘\\H]\ childish curiosity “why Sid is golng away to the cemetery I The cemetery S Mary's, on Lincoin road The services will be conducted by a priest of St. Martin's parish Bondrell. Walter Preller |BRIG. W. C. CRAWFORD OF SALVATION ARMY DIES ! Former District | Division Had Retired Last Win- ter Due to Ill Health. Commander of Brig. William . Crawford, long in the service of the Salvation Army and formerly commander of the District of of the Army. died at Arlington, Mass., Thursd; accord- ing to word received Brig. Crawford w retired as commander of the District of Columbia Division last February. due to il health. Funeral services were conducted to- day, with interment in the Salvation Army burying ground at Kensico, N. Y. Brig. William Barrett, who suc. ceeded Brig. Crawford as commander of the District of Columbia Division, with Adjt. Earnest Holtz and Adjt. George Rose. attended the services, | Brigadier Crawford is survived by his widow. i WOMAN KILLED ON RAILS. Husband and Baby Slightly In- jured at Eckhart, Md. Special Dispatch to The Star. ECKHART., Md., August 31.—Mrs, Agnes Crowley, 36 years old, wife of Patrick Crowley, York, was in- stantly killed on the national high- {way here urday midnight when she stepped in front of a car of the Cumberland and Westernport Electrie I Railway. The accident occurred in {front of the home of Willam Lee, {Whom the Crowley family had been visiting. Mr. Crowley and their in- fant son were slightly hurt. Mrs. Crowley, blinded by the lights of motor cars, stepped directly in the path of the trolley. Her hody was drazged about 100 feet. The accident held up motor cars for a distance of a mile In each afrection. Columbia division here. New he died | ! | 1 NEW WAR ONRUM OPENS TOMORROM % | | {Andrews Has Forces Ready for Big Drive to Dry Up i United States. | The Government has girded itself to | enforce prohibition with a venzeance and, beginning tomorrow, will throw its forces without reserve into the war | on rum and the anticipated flow of holiday ligu The Coast Guard shal Andrews. is understood to id its lines for the new Fall Winter campaign against rum It ix taken ax more than a « dence that the Coast Guard s ed a new aliznment of its ¢ force under Comdr. H. G. Hamlet to ply the coast off New London, Conn and New York on the very eve of the effective date of the prohibition unit's new mobilization for battle. Gen. Andrews admits that hereto- | fore there has been no adequate re port on just how successful the Gov ernment has been in its effurts to en force prohibition Millions of dol been given States dr | vet no_ absolute sults the under Field Maf. have and | inei- | nonne troyer rs money making the Andrews feels there United Gen i I ol investig zet at on to e been hie re the ck-up on One of will o ol the fucts Washington results hib who will the chief informed the front More ships service in than ever ch his ind e ke probably be waters south of have been aperated section before the Coast Guard Particular attention will he paid to the Florida coast and to the conntless bayous and inlets of the Gulf from Florida west to the Rin Grande. More than 30 Coast Guard hoats scattered alonz the shore south of the Canadian horder One of Field Marshal principles of operation he claser contact hetween the principal {anti-rum forces of the Government in the field—prohibition Coast Guard and custom: In the new reor unit there will be five istrators,” at New York {falo, Chicago and St. Pau PRIEST CEI;.EBRATES TWO ANNIVERSARIES in that coast Andrews will unit nized prohibition acting admin Boston, Buf. Father Brosnan Observes Fiftieth Year in Jesuit Order and Thirty- Fourth of Priesthood. | Re past 15 town College. today fitisth anniversary {into the Society of | thirty-fourth ann nation as a priest He entered the Jesuit vederick. Md He ha eacher at Woodstock (¢ Holv (ross Colleze \iase. ana St Philadelphia. as town. He was professor of theal at Worcester for nine y Father Brosnan, who | a1a. was born next door Ford Theater on Tenth speclalities have heen philosoph Father Brosnan. who | failing health for the past three ve. received many floral gifts room in the collese infirmary Alovsiug P. Brosnan he ears a teacher at celabrated of his entrance Jasus and the his ordi ermary of Order at ollege. Md Waorcester Jnseph's College. a well as at George 65 vears the theclogy His and has heen in his today at {INQUEST JURY HOLDS MOTORMAN FOR DEATH OF FIREMAN IN CRASH (Continned from First Page.) I bie file ah it wended tery and circle about American A of the group ‘Then, reverently ad of the fune way through the ceme a position In a semi the grave. with a larg party os took the nine firemen who acted palibearers lifted the fag-draped caskel from its carriage and bore the hody of their late com rade to lts last resting place Widow Collapses. The heavily veiled as she stepped from her ar and had to be almost carrie the grave on the arms of relatives. She { was unable to hold up throughout the | serviees, and was assisted hack to the jcar before the military escort from | Fort Myer fired its salute of three rifle {Vvolleys and the bugler sounded “Taps. The Klan rites began with the read | ing of several ver | chapter of Roman: i the white robes. This Seripture | reading hegan. “I heseech vou. there fore, biethren, by the mercies of God that ve present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God | Which i vour reasonable service | . The Klan chaplain then eulogized | Pvt. Munn In u brief address, point | ing out that “this departed Klansman strived to live up to the principles of this order and the teachings of the Bible as a true Klansman shoald and was ready to meet the Gre: Wizard who,rules the destiny of all Klansmen should take a lesson from the life of tHe fireman, the speaker added, so that they, too. “might hear the good words, ‘Well done, thou good and faithful servant Klansman's Hymn As he concluded the assembled knights of the robed order jeined in | singing the Klansman's hymn. “Blest Be the Klansmen's Tie.” to the tune {of “Blest Be the Tie That Binds. ; Kleagle Mueller then read the familiar | Scripture with the quotation. “O | Death, Where Is Thy. Sting?” and | ended his remarks with an exhortation [to God to “receive the soul of a de | parted Klansman.whe has rendered faithful service." Following the Klan ceremonies Rev. | Dr, Henry W. Tiffany, pastor of the Babtist Church of the Redeemer Brooklyn, N. Y., offered prayer and repeated the bibiical reading,. *Ashes to ashes dust to dust.” There was a.short pause, and the firing squad came to attention and rendered the military tribute to a de parted soldier. The pallbearers, all members of No. {21 Engine Company, of which Mann was a_member, were: William T. Len- non, E. Davis, L. B. Wilson, C. L. Wilkinson, T. H. Fenton, H. 8. Brown, C. K. Burns, R. E. Reese and Sergt P. Steinman. TEST ATLANTIC PLANE. widow collapsed amahile by the clergyman BORDEAUX, (). —Capt. ncois Coli and Lieut. Paul Tarascon, maimed French war veterans, who plan to attempt shortly A transatlantic flight, today their machine in a trial flight from Paris to Istres. near Marseille, and thence to Bordeaux. Subsesquently | they said they were confident ) would be able to fiv from Pariz to New York, thus winning the prize of $25.000 offered by Raymeond Orteig of that city. France, August 31 ~ | Lakes unfurled in the center | s of the twelfth | tested | AGTIVITY FORESEEN IN SCHOOL CIRCLES Routine Affecting Opening Program Awaits Supt. Bal- lou’s Return Tomorrow. the which has the Summer in prepara Machinery of District publi schoal system functioned slowly threnghout wi h speed tion for the opening of the new 21 Supt been v Me soon as Dr. Ballon desk in the Fra will plunge immediately € accun | routine matters. The will_hold its first the new scholastic vear afterncon. and the super- also will be confronted with sk of arranging the calendar for iitial session e geared to with the return tomor Frank W. Ballo ationing Belgrade September has at As returns to lin School he into a mass Details Claiming Attention. Although a number of 1t details incident thie school vear were re n 1 e dishy W ed ore he le Iy e inte several inmov whic he ard meeting | dominate schedule for These inclu tions mh inted nek dne and pre Acting Supt forecast today tha to resignations we Rohert he ap bt Hay as great creased ears. The provided in the now in the seivice as in compensaiion lary bi her past teachers = holding t < pe o Statisties Mr. Ha Ilustrated hy As an illustration recently compiled that there were as compar vear. The total the still Bal the prev nations for will ¥ Dr current year he be During vanklin ou's absence the a d its interi ighout ials ting roor tion hree Rose hall furmerly Other Cha ges Cited. The « hoard. ar <hifted the build Hine the floor nsed remodeled riment of s h nd now the ers fo lance and work ' Dr office ser dep. ations were m Rallou make Franklin ictly an administrative headq school The this build auest for the tem four classes formerly heen tr neferrad ing have 1o schools MACKENZIE LEADS IN AMATEUR GOLF, TOPPING CHAMPION (Continued | recisterin, the Max A | three ove n wi Eob ( with Marston en-hole score qualifying round follow Thomas V. Devine, Har 444387 ephen E 3940 B, Weppner came 1 a 40 Pitts Stranahan, Toleda Hoffner Hiemenz. Lancaster Crawford, Pitisubrgh, 40 Eyerett Brooks, St. Lonis, 45 | ©Christz Dieble, Youngstown, 4 —94 Robert A 84 Max R 4181 William E 4088 V. L. Bradford Helghts, Pa., 42—40—8 William C. Fownes, e 7 Chicago, 44—4 Gardner Marston, Philadelphia 40 Richardson, Washington a8 Pattersor h omerville, London, Ontaric 82 Lawyer, Bronxville, N. Y 4 E.J ers, St. 1 Frank E 4440 43 suis “Robert T. Jones, jr., Atlanta, 38—33 3 Keefe Carter Okla Ardmore 40 for Oakment course e Par Total Grand (01al—8.§ |FIRE DAMAGE SLIGHT, | SMOKE DRAWS THRONG Rags and Paper in Basement of 1326 New York Avenue Burn; Firemen Forced to Use Masks. Fire in the basement of 1326 New York avenue yesterday afternoon gen erated dense clouds of smoke that poured from the building, brought out many pieces of fire apparatus, drew a large crowd of spectators and did very little damage to_the premises, The blaze was confined to the basement land the smoke was caused by greasy |rags and paper burning. So dense was the smoke. however, that fire men were forced to don gas masks | before entering the building. Pvt. Thomas H. Tilkerton of . 3 Engine ( pany whs burned about the face and arms while fighting a fire in the garage of Mrs. Barhara Wiedman, rear of 215 “Third streat; | early yesterday morning. The fire de. stroyed an automobile and two motor trucks. Pvt. Tilkerton’s burna were 20 painful that he was ralieved from Auty.. Origin of the fire was not de termined. ’)