Evening Star Newspaper, September 9, 1925, Page 2

9 * U.5. WORKERS KEEP MEMBERSHIP GURB Vote Down Resolution to Let Member in One Branch Join Another’s Union. Br w Staft Correspondent. BOSTON, September 9.—The morn- Ing of the third day of the eighth gen- eral convention of the National Fed Federal ploves, in_ ses- nsumed largely by a sdiction of the eration of sion here, was co discussion of the various locals. ion offered by local No. . proposed to establish concurrent jurisdiction which would allow a member employed in one department to join the union in another department Maj. J. Q. A. Braden of V was one of the principal speakers behalf of the resolution. but after lengthy discussion the question was voted down by the convention. Miss Mathilda Lindsay, formerly Washington and an employe in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, ac dressed delegates on Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers, of which she is now assistant director. She outlined the work of the school ting out that it was found ed and maintained women's organizations tn co-operation with the administrative heads of Mryn Mawr College to foster education amon women in industry. Many of the schoc graduates, she said, are devoting their efforts toward raising ihe intelligence of woman workers The fed rdopted a resolution tndorsing the Bryn Mawr School ring to co-oper ate with it vay possible It is understooc James P Keon, secret treasurer of the federation the last three vears, will not be a candidate for re election. Miss Gertrude M. McNally the executive vice president, appears to be the unanimous choice for the position. Both Mr. McKeon and Miss McNally are connected with the Washington office. Election of off cers will be held Friday The delegates were the the Boston local last night at a shore dinner and dance at Nantasket Beach. JOHNSTON TO PLAY DAVIS CUP SINGLES Will Meet Lacoste While Tilden Will Play Borotra in Round Tomorrow. Ashington in and « N eve tha Mc ar for By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA William T. Tilden wi Borotra, sensational French player. in the first singles match of the Dav! cup challenge round tomorrow at the Germantown Cricket Club hetween the United States and France. William M. Johnston will face Rene LaCoste in_the second match These pairings were a result of the draw Myrick of New York, chairman of the Davis cup committee of the United States Lawn Tennis Association, in the presence of the rival team cap. tains, R. Norris Williams of the United States and Max Decugis of France, and a gathering of tennis of- el s ings will be reversed on when Tilden will play 1d Johnson will meet Borotra the final two singles matches The draw confirmed general expec tations that Tilden and Johnson, who brought the Davis cup back to Amer ica from Australia together in 1920 would bear the siniles burden, but no further intimation was given to the makeup of the American doubles team for Friday’s match. Williams and Vineert Richards, how ever, are expected to be named to morrow for this assignment. France will pair Borotra and Lacoste in the doubles BRONCHOSCdPE TO‘PROBE LUNGS OF TWO BOYS September §.— | oppose Jean made today a held by Julian pairi in Philadelphia Patients Swallow Tack and Carriage Bolt—X-Ray to Aid. Br the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, September Side by side in the bronchoscopie clinic of the Jefferson Hospital today lie two be from the Middle West awaiting the intervention of surgery to probe their lungs for foreign objects. delicate operations by the broncho. scope will be undertaken as soon as X-ray minations are completed. Bernard Frens of Frema Mich fved last night accompanied by his father, Albert H. Frens, a farmer, to have the surgeon’s instruments locate and remove a tack swallowed while kitemaking. The other patient, Roy Kruger of Rockford, Ill., swallowed an inch-long carriage bolt several months #go and was brought to Philadelphia to_have it taken out Bronchoscopic operations were com pleted vest 15-months’-old Lydia Reitz of Li Neb., and Betty I Markel, 2, of Clear fidld, Pa nut fragments were successfully taken from their lungs. AVIATION PILOT KILLED. SAN DIEGO, Calif., September (®)—Aviation Pilot John G. Stinson was killed and Aviation Rigger Samuel H. Lyon slightly injured vesterday when a seaplane fell several hundred feet into San Diego [ Both were attached to the North Island Nava Air Station. Hospital British Unemployment Growing. LONDON, 2ber 9 (#).—Un- employment eat Britain con tinues rapidly to increase. The re- port for August 31 shows a total of 1.354,100 persons unemployed, which 10,362 more than the previous week and 191,220 over last year Septe in ( lrreguiar 4 School Attendance Causes | $250,000,000 Loss Trregular school attendance in the Tnited States last ar caused a waste of approximately $250,000,000, according to an estimate today by the Bureau of Education of the Interior Department. A study embracing 72,120 country children in 70 counties of 10 states showed an average actual attendance of 147.7 days. Half attended school Jess (han 7.4 months, the bureau found, more than one-fourth con- siderably less than five months, and more than one-eighth less than three months. Attendance in consolidated schools was found slightly better than in one teacher schools. Other studies showed poorer attendance among vounger than among older children, and the bureau urged closer co-opera- tion between teachers and parents to asugove the situatiom. of labor | The | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1925 I New League Head MILLER AND HAIR LEADING AT GOLF Each Gets 77 in Morning Round of Bannockburn Fall Tourney. M. E. Miller of Bannockburn and Srwin Hair, unattached. led a field of 75 golfers today in the morning round of the qualifying round of the Ban- nockburn Golf Club's Fall tour- nament, with scores of B. 1. Doyle of Bannockburn and J. A. Cox, unattached, were tied for second place with cards of 78. K Alvord of Ban- nockburn, with a s of 79, was the fifth man to turn in a score under 80. Other scores in the morning round follow: W. J. Cox, 81; J. T. Harri Bannockburn, §2; M. 1. Robh, Ban: nockburn, 83; J. L. Tucker, Manor, $4; Roger Coombs, Washington, 8 S.'S. Moise, Bannockburn, 86; Larr: Day, unattached, 87: George E. Truett, Washington, $7: Thomas Pitt, unat: tached, 87; J. E. Graf, Beaver Dam, 88; D. M. Dulin, Bannockburn, 91; T." Cummings, Indian Spring, 91: George R. Holmes, Indian Spring, 9 A. Coombs, Congressional, 94! Kellerman, ‘sr., Columbia, 99; Col A. F. Daunemtller, Congressional, 103. Nearly 150 entries, including many of the leading amateur golfers from clubs about Washington are in the | tournament, approximately haif the ficld being ‘scheduled to start toda: while the other haif play in the qual fying round tomorrow SENATOR RAOUL DANDUKAN., of Canada, elected permanent presi- dent of the sixth assembly of the League of Nations at Geneva, Switzer- land, Monday. RUM PACT SCOPE RULING 1S URGED Supreme Court to Be Asked|ror the matoh ey rosnde | |gin Friday. Semi-final and final to Determine Rights Grant- | Roems & Sk ety o¢ the ed United States. District amateur and junior champion- | qualify which be- | ships and_ title holder of the Middle [ Atlantic Golf Association. did not en-| | ter the tourney. although his father, { Albert R. MacKenzie, who won the The Department of Justice and the | Middle Atlantic event two years ag Tressniv hive reachad agree- | i8 an entrant. George J. Volgt, who e ‘mination by the|WOD the tourney last year, will play ment looking to determination by the |,y year, as will M. A. Shipley and Supreme Court of the rights of (C. N. Agnew, ir., stars of the Ban American prohnibition authorities un-|nockburn Club. - the liquor an | i E | Section of Tra THREE DENIED BAIL ON MURDER CHARGE closed among Federal judges on the has been no letup on the part of the Coast Guard in seizing ships sus- pected of belng rum smugglers, it | has been know some time that the | Treasury desired final court re- view treaties. Appeals will | | hy the Department of Jus- | tice, it was announced yesterday several cases decided against { Government involving the seizure of | | toreign craft outside of the 12-mile | limit | (Continued from First Page.) in I | the | to population in the outlying sec- tions of the city, the ratio ranging | from 5 to 10 passenber automobiles | !per 100 persons in the sections near the center of the city and ng- ing from 12 to 20 per 100 per- sons in the sections further ot No similar analysis has been made of the Maryland and Virginia auto- mobile registrations, but applying a ratio of 13.4 cars per 100 persons to the §7,400 persons in the metropoli- ! n area outside of the District of Columbhia results In an estimated total of 11,712 passenger automobiles | in_that territory, or a total of 95,-| 952 in the entire metropolitan area The experts say that of the 20 per cent of the city's working population who ride to work in automobiles four-fifths own their machines and one-fifth are taken to work in the autos of friends. The taxicab is not factor in the local transportation | situation, the report declares. The principal use of the taxicab in this| city. they find, is to and from Union | Statlon. which is approximately a | | mile from the center of the hotel and | shopping district. i The engineers reported that the! total seating capacity of all the| | street cars and motor busses in the | clty, 36,051, plus the estimated seat- ing capacities of the private automo- IS HELD IN ABEYANGCE |bfles. taxicabs and sightseeing busses. | | produce a grand total of 376,738 | —_— available seats, or sufficlent for 75.9 | Oklahoma Governor Wants Request | PEF cent of the permanent population {of the District. | From Mining Districts Only 24,000, or less than § per cent Troops Put in Writing. for Wrecking Passenger { Train Saturday Night, Causing Death of Engineer. a | By the Associated Press. STANFORD, Ky Herbert Hale. Oscar Dishon and Elzie Dishon were held without bail vester- day for the November grand jury on |a charge of murder. This action was |taken after a preliminary trial grow. |ing out of the wreck of a Louisville |and Nashville passenger train lasi Saturday night near Knob Lick, Kv Ollie Kidd was held as a material wit ness Hale previously had confessed he and the others had pulled spikes from |t and tampered with the switch | which resulted in derailing the train |and killing the engineer. John ¥. Dud derer. The three reside in the vicinity | where the wreck took place. |PLEA FOR MARTIAL LAW U. S. Court Will Act. | The appeals first must go to the | | Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, but they represent the initial step in the effort to get the Supreme Court de- termination The appeals to General Sargent announced. include cases growing out of the seizure of {the gatind Norwegian craft, and | the British Diamatina The | two vess were seized last | vear, carried 40,000 | cases of liquor. Libels against them | were dismissed by Federal Judge Hand. Judge Hand's ruling followed one by Judge Thomas, who dismissed {2 libel against the schooner Over-the | Top in Connecticut On the oth hand, conviction was | obtained in the so-called Pictonian ‘\uisov which. like the gatind and | Diamatine, the Attorney General re | called, was taken by Coast Guard ves | sels more than 12 miles out. Attention | also was called to convictions obtalned |in the Federal Court in Louisiana { when the sloop Wanderer was seized in the Gulf | Ruling Wide in Scope. | In that case, Mr. Sargent recalled { the court held that even the intent to | violate the American law brought the alleged rum smuggler within the ju risdiction of American authorities. |~ Another case to be appealed which !involves a somewhat different phase | of law is the seizure of the motor hoat Ray of Block Island. Judge Brown of the Federal Court in Rhode Island held there that the local police who had taken the ship had no au thority to do so September 8 be made, Attorney s: a vessel which approximately an important | | i for of the population of the city lives | more than one-fourth of a mile from | a street car line. Of this number | 19,100 live between onefourth and | one-half a mile from a car line; 3,800 | live between onehalf and three fourths of a mile from service; 600 live between three-fourtns of a mile | and one mile away, and only 500 live | more than a mile from existing serv |fce. This leaves 472,200 persons liv- | ing within one-fourth of & mile of. service. A similar analysis of how close the | population of nearby Maryland and By the Associated Press. | OKLAHOMA CITY, September 9. | Officials of Pittsburg County, here to | | request martial law for the McAlester. | | Hartshorne mining distriets, left for | | McAlester tonight without a decision |after a conference with Gov. Trapp | vesterday. The governor asked that | the request for troops be submitted in writing. Will Anderson, sheriff, and W. E Gotcher, county attorney of Pitts- burg County, told the governor how | VIrEinia is to existing transportation e = serious the 'conditions had grown |l}Ines. shows the following: Within PREMIER BANS COMMUNE |around the mining area since the dy.|One-fourth of a mile of service, 58, | «|namiting of the fan house at Reck | 500: from one-fourth to one-half a | ARSI Island mine No. 12 last Sunday. and :Nle, 16,700; from one-half to three- | g : declared the miners were heing in-|fourths of a mile. 7,200; from three Australian Official Denounces Ex-|yiniGete, into ‘staving away from the | fourths to a mile, 2,700, and mu"‘ = [ iinie it than a mile, 2,800, T R | The Pittsburg officlals wers asked Tractlon Lines Good MELBOURNE. Australia. Septem- 5 g to get information te verify thelr ber 9 (#)—The disturbed conditions | Statement that many men would go to| TIn glving the history of the Capital in Australia have caused Premier Tractlon Co. from the beginning and work at this and other mines but for Bruce to take a definite stand against | threats of violence from union miners. | enumerating Its present equipment, the Communists. the report states: In a public address here today the POLICEMAN.KlLLS WIFE “In general, the track and pave- premier denounced the local expound ment of the Capital Tractlon Co. 1 Street i | i i {ers of holshevism, and assertad that in geod condition. The surface and he would not hesitate to appeal to the alignment, except n some of the out people for indorsement of his action Iying portions of open track, . are If necessary he would seck a mandate good, and there are relatively few for further action to insure peace and cases of low Joints. The condition good government. of the open track on Connecticut uve- | == nue 18 good, while the track of the Striking Sailors Face Arrest. two leased iines to Kensington and | | | | Rallway Employe Ends His Own Life. CHARLEROI, Pa., September 8 (#), ~—Charles Thomas, & pollosman for the West Side Street Car Co. of Charlerof, yesterday shet and killed | bis wite nnd then ended his own lite with the same plstol. The hodias were found by a 10-vear-old son of Mrs. Thomas by a former marringe. Authorities asaigned domestic troubles ‘a8 the cause. Then | i : Takoma Park needs considerable re MELBOURNE, Australia, Septem- ber 9 (A).—Warrants have been fs- sued for 400 Melbourne seamen for their part in the unofficial _strike ag the recently announced wage | decrease. 'MRS. WILSON STUDYING LEAGUE; DECLINES TO DISCUSS WORKINGS Feels Comment on U. S. Position Being Controver- sial Would Not Be in Keeping With Ideals of Husband—Deeply Touched by Tributes. alignment, The Capltal Tractien Co. new owns 318 cars, which are used In active wervice, It also owns 331 cars, some of which are in operating condi- tlon, but are never used except in emergencies, while the remainder are composed of cars which are obsolete | or in unserviceable or parttally dis. | mantled condition. The passenger rolling stock of the Capital Traction Co. appears to be in excellent physical condition, the car bodies being un- | usually well painted and in good re- | The report sets forth that the fair | value of the property of the Capital Traction Co., based on _the recent de- | clsion of the District Bupreme Court, | is $31,822,035.85. The Utilities Com- mission, however, hus neted an ap- peal, wo that the valuation is atiil be- fore the court W. R. & E.'s Conditlon. Taking up the Washington Rallway and Electric Co., the report atates: “In general, the track and track zone pavement of the Washington Railway and Electric Co. s in good | condition, although there are numerous street crossings where the track zone pavement is_somewhat rough for vehicular traffic. The open track on Cabin John and other suburban lines, while not in such good alignment as most of the paved track, is in suf- ficlently good condition to permit rea- sonably high scheduled speeds. “The rolling stock of the Washing- ton Raflway and Blectric Co. consists of 463 cars. It will be noted that the company has 70 cars equipped for ene-man operation. All of the cars s0 equipped are used in regular all- day service, 8o that the maximum use is made of them. Because of hte lack of favor with which this type of car has been received by the general public the Public Utilities Commission will not permit the remodeling of any additional equipment for one-man | operation at the present time. | | ONE-FIFTH OF WORKEf{S HERE 7 RIDE IN AUTOS, REPORT SHOWS |Machines Carry More People in Heart of (i Public Conveyances, Declares Second mission, | tranaportation | werfes base ball By the Associated Press. States toward the league. She belleves GENEV eptember 9.—Not far that the newspapers and the people from the spot on the shore of Lake |of the United States not only will Leman where President Wilson orig- |respect but approve her dectsion not !inally planned to build the home of [to talk for publication about matters |the League of Nations and erect ajupon which the American Government |gateway of peace dedicated to theland the American people alone should {tegions of men who had fallen in_the |decide. world’s most devastating war, Mrs.| Mrs. Wilson does not seek, however, Woodrow Wilson, revering her hus-|to evade officlal calls from delegations band's memory. lives in & lakeside |to the League of Nations Assembly villa, continuing her pilgrimages to|who desire to pay homage through | b BBy [ her to the memory of President Wil Nothing disturbs her tranquillity of | son. Yesterday she received represent- spirit; and nothing, apparently, pos-|atives of the Geneva Canton, whe {sibly ‘can induce her to abandon her |voiced the appreciation of Geneva for determination quietly to continue in|‘“the great American statesman’ and the pursuit of the mission which she |its gratitude for “his happy selection has assigned herself, and which she|of Geneva as the seat of the league." deems sacred. That mission is to|She was greatly affected by the re- study the League of Natlons, which [ceipt of a gift of flowers and a beau- her husband founded, and to do it as| tifylly embossed, vet simple testi. would any of the thousands who come | monial of greeting from the citizens to Geneva—quietly. modestly, without | of Geneva. ostentation and without special privi-| Every day Mrs. Wilson goes to the lege. | assembly sesslons. Yesterday, as a Mrs. Wilson absolutely refuses all| student, she attended one of the regu- invitations to “functions” arranged or [ lar luncheons arranged by Amer {sought to be arranged in her honor; | cans especially Interested in the leagne she declines to make her appearance |for visiting Americans, where instruc- just because she is Mrs. Wilson, and | tive talks are delivered by various | operatic labove all, she declines to be inter-|heads of the league sections on the| “While the rolling stock of the et | varied wotivitiee &F e daagis. | Washington Railway and Electric Co. | | With the League of Nations & con-! Ry her unaffected and retiring man- | i§ less standardized than that of the troversial issue in the United States,|ner Mrs. Wilson has, gained the ad- Capital Traction Co., with the result| Mrs. Wiison believes she would not | miration of all the members of the as. | that there are a greater number of he true to her husband’s standards [sembly, of all the people of Geneva |different types of equipment, all of and ideals if, taking advantage of the|and of the siréams of Americans pass. | the cars present a well maintained fact that she bears his name, she per-, ing through Geneva. — and well painted appearance on the mitted herself to indulge in comment| She received the correspondent ef |street and are apparently in first- on the League of Nations, and espe-|the Associated Press and told Bim of | class operating condition. i}a.]h' on the position of the United hn; joy in coming here, A The report sets forth the valuation . after a dest ction Survey. of the property of the Washington Railway and Electric Co.. as found by the commission in 1914, with additions to property since that time included, $18,131., Thix company, how ever, also appealed to the Distriet Su preme Court from that valuation, and & decision has not vet been rendered Discussing this situation, the en gineers say: “If the same principles are followed by the court in respect ation as were the basis for the July 1925, order relative to the valuation of the Capital Traction Co. the above figure of $18.13152 will be sub. ntially inc sed The engineers then give a history of the operations of the Washington Rapid Transit Co., running independ: ent bus ling and explain that the rommission has not vet announced the valuation of the rapid transit company. Touching on the business of the Washington. Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Rallroad. the engineers sav it is not a particularly important factor in local transportation, pointing out that the section of Maryland near Washington through which the line passes is sparsely settled. There is. however. a substantia! volume of com- muting to Washington from Baltimore | and Annapolis. Virginia Lines. Of the Washington and Old Domin- fon Raliway, the report sav. “Beyond McLean, Va. passes through a relatively oped country, a distance of 6.7 miles, this line to this valu- | undevel | fa14 girector of the Playground and y Than | i | = WHAT IS LEFT OF THE PN-9 NO. 3 Here is the PN-9 No. 3, Hawaiian seaplane, which fell into the Pacific Ocean after having completed only 300 miles of its projected flight, an almost total wreck. It met with disaster while being towed to the Mare Island Navy Yard, when the swell from a ferryboat upset and submerged d. pver had towed it back to Ia LEADERS DISCUSS NEGRO IN AMERICA National Association Opens Its Tenth Annual Conven- tion in This City. The tenth anniversary convention of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, of which ohn R. Hawkins of Washington is president. and which has been con ducting a scientific survey to deter mine the possibilitles of the in the economic world, was opened this morning at 10:30 o'clock at John Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church The session was called to order by President Hawkins, after which an address on “Africa, the Neglected Fleld." was deiivered by Dr. Alain Leroy Locke of Washingt Hix address was followed by one on “The Civilization of Africa.”” by Dr. James Dillard, also of Washington. who is president of the Jeannes and Slater | funds has this to | to Great Falls, a place of considerable | natural beauty, at which the rallway company has developed a picnic and amusement park.” A description of the operations of the Washington - Virginia Raflway | morrow, Company also is incorporated in the | report “The suburban communities tn Vir £inia and Maryland ars well served by motor bus lines, in addition to the electric rallways and steam raflroads.” the report continuas. “These sections have a rolling topography. and most of the residential developments are located on the higher elevations, and for this reason are some distance from the ratl lines, which have been located In the valleys for economlic reasons. Hard-surfaced roads radiate from Washington, and have bean a large factor in the development of this method of transportation. Motor bus lines have entered practically avery ettied community and have been seri ous Inroads into the revenues of the long-established rail lines." The survey of which this report is a part was made by tha New York re in co-operatlon with Mal. R. Covell of the utilitles com and will be studled with a view 1o determining whether the local systems should be merged. ANTI-FIREARM LAW URGED BY SULLIVAN IN ANNUAL REPORT (Continued from First Page.) trafMe signal lights to be inatalled soon | on Sixteenth street and Massachusetts |avenue and urges the Commlissioners 10 impress upon Congress the advisi- bility of making liberal appropriations for such intallations. The report commends the members of the force for the manner in which they handled two big events that oc- womes, In urging that the city pay cross- ing policemen, the report points out that when the old law was enacted requiring the street car cempanies to pay these men there was very little for them to do but direct street cars. ‘Today, bowever, the police heads say, the bulk of the work of traffic police- men is in regulating vehicles and pedestrian PR ¥t Phi Beta Kappa Elects. NEW YORK, September § (#).— The fifteenth national councll P Beta Kappa yesterday re-elected all ita officers for another term. Those re-elected were: President, Dr. Charles F. Thwing_of Cleveland, Ohlo; vice president, Dr. Francis W, Sheppara of Chicago; secretary, Dr, Oscar M. Voorhees of New York. The annual business session of the convention, which will include election of officers and the consider: tion of plans for the coming vear, will be opened at the John Wesley Zion Church this afternoon. “The Negro of Today” will be the tople of discussions to be held this afternoon following the business ses sion. George W. Cook of this city will preside. and the speakers will include R. Maurice Moss of Baltimore, a soclal investizator; Abra L. executive secretary of the Minneapolls Urban League, and E. T. Attwell Recreation Assoclation. Subjects which will be discussed in prepared addresses, tobe delivered to- are: “The Negro Before the Civil War,” “The Negro in Business, “The Negro Church” and Negro Press, Past and Present The association s directed by Carter G. Woondson, 1538 Ninth street, this clty. S. W. Rutherford is secretary treasurer The committees on local arrange menta are as follows: General com mittee—James C. Burlls, chairman: R. Price Hurst, J. A. Turner, Kelly Mil ler, Mrs. L. A. Pendleton and L. R Mehlinger. Entertainment—Mrs. Cor- alie F. Cook, chairman; Miss Lucy D. Slowe, Miss Zita F. Dyson, Mrs. Mar tha A. McAdoo. Miss Nannie H. Bur-| roughs and Miss Bertha C. McNeill | Excursions—A. H. Brown. chairman; Langston Hughes, 1. P. Bond. Pub. liolty —Edward H. Lawson, chairman; W. O. Walker, W A. Hamllton, Louis A. Lautier and Eugene L. C. | Davidson. curred within the last flscal year— | bovmyd Gny oo | the Hely Name parade and the world BROTHERS QUIZZED IN GIRL'S MURDER Bloodhounds Track Alleged Assail- ants Who Fired Into Speed- ing Auto. By the Associated Preas. ROANOKE, Va Frank Mauk, 20 years old, and hia brother, Claude, 18, have been ques- tloned almost continuously since their September 9 arrest last night en charges of mur-| dering Miss Mary Dixen, 19-year-old Villa Helghts girl, who was shot through the head as she was riding with gome friends Monday night, but detectives sald they had not been able to get any statement from the they established the motive for the shooting. Authorities | expected to make two more arr sts today. The Mauk brothers were taken into custody last night sfter bloodhounds on the preceding night had followed trafls from the scene of the shooting to the Mauk home. Shoeprints near the spot from where the bullet was fired at Miss Dixon coinclded with the size of shoes worn by the brethers, detectives said, and reports from Fin: castle, where the brothers are held in jail, sald they had been identified by Bdmund Campbell. a companion of the girl when she was shot, as the men who stood beside the road as the automobile passed. Miss Dixon, Campbell and another couple, were driving along the road near Hollins College Monday night when two men flashed & light in the road. The driver of the car increased the speed and as the machine passed the men a shot was heard and Mlss Dixon crumpled in her seat. “Covered Wagon Babies” Hold Reunion; All Born in Pioneer Trek to California By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, September §.— Years ago, while covered wagons were about just lumbering and lurching over the prairies, one would stop occasionally. After a spell of waiting would be whipped up and the wagon would be sent on its way. Around the camp fire that nigh word would be passed, “It's a girl, or “It's a boy."” 2 Last night, a generation later, a number af ‘“covered wagon babies” met around the festal board here as a feature of San Francisco's observ- ance of the seventy-s 3 birthday of the State. In memory, the wagons creaked once more and Indiane slipped outside the glow of the camp fire. The guests came from all parts of the oxen|the State. the celebration Three Other features of were ‘provided by the Army. airplanes scouted overhead in the glare of as many powerful search- lights while anti-aircraft guns pep- ered blank shots in an effert to bring them down, The Army was staging an alrplane invasion of the city and the manner in which it is met by the land forces, negro | the | the | Harris, | “The | IFRATERNITY URGES REGISTRY OF ALIENS! Sons and Daughters of Lib- erty Want U. S. to List All Immigrants. Registration by the Government of all aliens row in this country or who | may come here in the future will be urged on Congress hy the Sons and Daughters of Liberty. the natfonal | patriotic fraternity, now In session here. 1 A resolution this effect was | adopted unanimously today by the | Natlonal Council of the order in secret | meeting at the Raleigh Hotel. The | resolution, presented by George W McFariland of Trenton, N. J.. chair- man of the national legislative com mittee, will ask Congress to enact a law requiring all aliens to register | their names and certain other infor- | mation with an appropriate Federal agency, presumably the Bureau of | Immigration. | Quota Law Explained. The action today followed an ad dress on immigration given last night by Assistant Secretary of Labor W | W. Husband, in which the cperation | of the present quota law was vigor ously defended. The workings of the | law were fully explained to the dele | gates, nssembled in Knights of | Pythias Hall William H as elected national tion. to sue t the Mossberg of Maryland ouncillor of the | ceed Mrs. Cecllia | closing session today. | national officers elected were Miss Lottie Reitz, New York, asso- ciate councillor; Mrs. Julia B. Gay Virginia, vice councillor; Mrs. Minnie | Berwinkle, Pennsylvania. associate | { vice councillor; Herman W. Rellstab. | New Jersey, treasurer: Mrs. G Romary. New Jersey urer: Mrs. Luella Raiph, New Jersey associate secretary: Mrs, Libby Cum- | mings, New Hampshire, guide; Mrs. | Elnora Palmer, Pennsylvania, inside | guard, and Miss Conna Winningham, | North' Carolina, outer guard. i Meet Next in Richmond. ! It was decided to hold the next ! | tional convention in Richmond. Va The national council authorized the appointment of a committee to write the history of the order for fncor- | poration in the 1925 proceedings of | the order At the meeting last night M Gola Duval presented 1o Mrs. Kaiser, the retiring national councillor. a gift in appreciation of her services on behalf of the Washington and | Alexandria councils. Mrs. W | Willlams presented a gold piece to the new national councillor on hehalf of the Friendship. Hope and Justice | counctis of this city The 300 delegates began the return to their homes this afternoon | LEGISLATIVE DRIVE HEADS COOLIDGE'S | AGENDA ON RETURN | E orgar Kalser, Other na | | | | (Continued from First Page.) | pay according to their ability and that the terms offered Belgium do not represent a Yprinciple which will be applied to France and Italy, whose | | representatives are io confer with {the United States Debt Commission |in the next month. Maps Election Plans. While on his vacation President Coolidge has had lelsure Lo carefully consider not only the party's legisia tive program, but the plan of cam | paign which he believes the party | must follow to win in the by-election next year. In brief, he has no | panacea to offer the voters and does ! | not intend to recommend any radical | | leginlation that would upset economic | | principles to ald the farmers. His| { course has been pretty well charted | | by his messages and recent speeches. | It may be outlined as follows Prompt revision « the tax laws with reduction of taxes carried to $350,000.000, if possible. Surtaxes re. duced to 20 per cent. if possible. with | proportionate reduction in the normal taxes Reduction in the inheritance taxes with the policy established of the | Government finally retiring from this field of taxation. Afirmative action on the World | Court protocol, with reservations that United States shall not be responsible for the obligations of the lLeague of Nations, and definite statute to deal ' with advisory opinions of the court Rail Bill to Be Asked. Legisiation that will make it ad- | vantageous to the raflroads to con- | solldate into a number of large units | and some compulsory feature to be ap | plied after meven years have been | | given for voluntary action. The ud | visers of the administration, despite | | Senator Watson's assertion, are not | agreed upon the compulsory clause, | | ns they have not yet found a way to force consolidation legally | There will be no farm legislation | of a character that can be classed as class legislation, merely a develop- | ment on the administration’s pro {gram for eo-operative marketing | The administration is opposed to the | price-fixing hill. The President also is | | expected ta_press Congress for legisla ton to reorganize the Federal depart- | { ments and he will agree to a general | | public bufldings bill which will inelude | at least $60.000,000 for buildings in | the District of Columbia. President Coolldge faces the fext | Congress with confidence, believing that the program which he will recom | mend is one which should commend | | 1tnelf not enly to his own party, bu | to the country at large. He is ad- | vised that there will not be much opposition to revision of the tax laws. with division onl y upon the extent of | the reduction of the surtax and es- tate taxes. Rail Bill Row Looms. | The real struggle in the next Con- |gress will be on railroad legisia- tlon, but with the death of Senator La Follette nothing like the hard con- test that had appeared when Mr. La Follette was living is anticipated | There is no certainty that the next Congress will conclude action on rail road legislation, as present indications are that the next session will adjourn early in June on account of the elec tions. Before President Coolidge prepares | his meseage he will find plenty of impertant work before him in con ference with Gen. Lord, director of the budget, Mr. Coolidge intends to keep down the ostimates to within $3,300,000,000 and to do this it is prob- able that the annual expenditures of the military eatablishments will be scaled down greatly. Before he enters upon he will have acted upon which the Acting Secretary of Wa will submlt to him relative to C Mitchell's recent charges of criminai negligence in the conduct of national defense. | | | l | | | | | | | | | this worl the report Huge Lumber Yard Burns. HAWKESBURY, Canada. Septem. ber 9 (#).—Miillons of feet of valuable | timber, the property of the Hawkes. | bury Lumber Co., was destroyed b: fira in the company's vards toda Tha fire, which started at & a.m., still is burning and a change in tha direc- tlon of the wind would jeopardize the town of Hawkesbury, ! | | { publican ! many | the United States was considered | today \Lum that all SLUSH FUNDISSUE IS RAISED BY HYLAN Huge Sum Being Collected to Beat Him, He Charges, Walker Attacks Mayor, By the Associated Pross. NEW YORK, September 9 —Charges of a huge slush fund and disloyali- to the party thunder in Democratic ranks in the municipal primary cam- paign Mayor Hylan night charged that meat packers, traction magnates, underworld para sites and gamblers were distributing money hand over to nomina State Senator Walker “The slush fund crowd’is ready to turn it« money bags upsidedown,” he added. “They have approached news paper editors with offers of hlocks of traction stock in return for support Seeks to Weaken Hylan. Senator Walker, whose demands that the mayor pledge himself to abide by the result of the primary have been ignored, opened a drive to get support of Hylan district leaders. Walker sald Hylan appeared to be running as a “confederate of the Re- party to make it more Aiffi for a Democrat to win My opponent being childish even in his polities,” Senator Walker said, “and intimates that un less the game is plaved his wav, he will take his bat g0 home Representa supporter of the tion candidate. the Democratic ew Yorkers shame.” in five speeches Jast fist cult on and ball and L. Mils Republican organiza D. Waterman, sald mpaign had made their head in e Ogde . hang Hughes' Advice Asked. John J. Lyons. another Republican candidate, appealed to Charles Evans Hughes as one of the framers of the primary law to state whether it \was the Intent of the law that Lyons should be branded as an “insurgent’” because he entered the contest in opposition to the organization leaders. William M. Bennett asked suppor of district leaders because he =: party needed stronger Waterman despite the spli cratic ranks A bill prohibiting the of estimate from considering a posal for a fare higher than i on any transportatior line in t until such proposal had upon by a popular referend pessed today by the measure was sponsored b: Craig. that Demo a e Boar pr been passe board. I Control Mayor Raps Measure. Mayor Hylan, in joining Tamman members of the hoard in passing the bill, characterized the measure political gesture.” Referring to measure as the “Craizg buncombe bill Mavor Hyla criticised Alder. manie President « = and Borough Presidents Miller and Bruckner of Manhattan and the Bronx. respest ively supporting the Bill at this time, whereas they opposed on three occasions when it duced last Spring. Al th members of the aig. at the board meet the mavor had “mo the preservation of the 5-cent fare an D ook had in the discovery of the North Pole. Before entering the aldermanic chambers Mavor liylan had prepared a statement om the Cra bill, in which rmed political camoufiage with intent 1o hoodwink the put and that its introductio was for political pury in the p maries He said place no it was intro. ee are Tam board Controller ¢ ing, said that more claims for that he would in the way of the bill's pointing out that a new Board Eatimate could im- mediately repeal the measure. Hecklers Are Ousted. A ripple of excitement ran the meeting when the mayvor ordered police to eject a number of persons who heckled him during his discussion of the bill. The commotion arose when the mayor reiterated a state ment denying he ever had accused Borough Presidents Bruckner of the Bronx and Miller of Manhattan. to gether with Aldermanic President Collins having opposed the five- cent fare “Why did you put oppoments in the field against them. Mr. Miller de- manded. The mayor denied the charge Hearst did it “You know you put them in,"” another he mavor, structed the police those who were sent trouble—the paid disty to make a hurrah CANADA NOT THINKING OF U. S. ANNEXATION Premier King Tells National Ex- howeve technicality passage through a spectator shouted. shouted angered, in take care of in here to make hers sent here plainly hibition Directors at Luncheon He Opposes Union. By the Associated Press TORONTO, September 9.—“Cana dians are no more thinking of a nexation with the United States than citizens of the United States are thinking of annexation to the British Empire.” Premier MacKenzie King declared at the directors’ luncheon on “International day" of the Canadian National Exhibition He added, amid laughter, that the idea of Canada's annexation of Great Britain and the United States was one that he would prefer to see brought about hefore the joining of Canada to So he would the idea and the concerned, his_might of Canada far as he was oppose with all of annexation United States. Harold Shantz, American consul in Toronto, gave a message of greeting from the United States. Ed WhitewHO\lse Made Spick and Span for Coolidges’ Return White House employes were busy adding final touches of polish and cleanliness to the Exeoutive Mansion preparatory to the return tomorrow of the President amd Mrs. ‘Coolidg Although palinting of woodwork and other renovation of the mansion have been completed for some days, there was a stir in the air as the personnel gave a last-minute inspection to In- was in order. A corps of workers armed with mkes combed the leaves from the frpnt lawn, and also endeavored with sprinkling apparatus to encourage the grass (o display its freshest green. "Rhere have been only a few minor altenations in the White House in- terior, but the President and Mrs Coolflige will find a coat of fresh paint on the white woodwork in their rooms, as wed) as the front vestibule and the red apd blue roo; A vacuum- cleanimg system has been installed and pW to use to give the enitre mansio spick-and-span appeara@iee,