Evening Star Newspaper, September 22, 1925, Page 2

2 * URDER FOLLOWS NEW TONG TRUCE Lasting Peace Is Signed Only **to Precede Outbreak in Boston. Br the Aseociated Press NEW YORK. September The Hip Sin and On Leong Tongs last night signed a new agreement to end 2 the intermittent hostilities which have | occurred recently throughout the untry. Lee Kee, mediator in the Chinese quarter. presided at a solemn meeting where Wong Get, Hip Sing leader, and Lee Gee Min. On Leong chief, met and sizned a “Hop Tung.” The meeting was held at the Waldorf- Astoria, where Capt. John F. Archi- poli, head of the gangster squad, was a guest of honor. It was explained that the previous treaties were only “Wo Yuk.” which may be broken. but Involves certain religious associations which make it inviolable. A hours after this new treaty was signed word came of another tong murder in Boston The Chinese quarter here has suffer: ad heavily from the tong warfare. A number of its inhabitants have heen killed; 150 Chinese now are on Ellis Island awaiting deportation hearings. The Federal authorities are wontinuing a campaign in which they hope to apprehend every Chinese in this country without authority and deport him Chinese 1s Murdered. BOSTON. September ). doe Tong. Chinese laundryman. was shot and killed last night in his place of husiness in the Wes after the murder. A few hours earlier an attempt had heen made on the life of another member of the \Wong fam- jly. 2 merchant in the Chinese section of Roston. The hody wase of the laundryman found Dby a resident of the dist who heard pistol shots and saw young Chinese running from the spot. Wong had heen shot three times in the head and instantly killed. A few hours Dhefore. as .Jimmie Wong, a merchant, sat at dinner with his white wife and three friends in a room behind his basement store in the Chinese section, a youngz Chinese entered the place and fired four shots | the s None of unman ange. The at point-hlank shots took effest caped POLICE ARE INFORMED. Told of Sigi Two Warring Tongs. Formal announcement of a settle- ment of the differences hetween the On Leong and Hip Sing branches of Chineze residents of this and other cities was made in a telegram received from New York last night by the H Sing faction from the On Leong Ax mociation. Lou Toy. president of the local Hip Sing organization, at 325 Pennsylvania avenue, received the message was addressed 1o the Kim Lai Yuen Co. at that address. It stated that the treaty of peace had heen duly signed and confirmed. asked that appropriate public announcement he made and order all to preserve peace. Inspector Clifford L. Grant. of detectiver. has had supervision over Chinatown hroadened since trou- ble hetween the warring Chinese fac- tions started. and Capt. Martin Reilly of the sixth precinct also has had his detail there doubled. _ Detectives Cullinane ~and = 0D were membere of Inspector Grant's command on duty in Chinatown last night when the telegram was reseived Th were told of its receipt and ziven a copy of it. Inspector mave he thinks the telegram ine Tt is recalled that a truce hetween tHe factions was signed in New York =dme time abo. but it was not followed by a complete ceseation of hostilities. No assaults have heen committed the Chinese quarter here during the time murders have heen rlsewher It is the intention of palice officialz ta continue thefr supervision in the Chinese quarter until it is definitely settled that there is no danger of an outhreak. WINS PARKING CASE. Newspaper Man Ordered to Appear g of Peace Retween in Court on Sunda H. Skinner. local charzed with viola rBgulations. won der in Court evidence ved that was parked in front of his residence on Eichisenth sireet, between Cali fornia and Vernon streets. an Sunday. hetween the hours “'Case dismissed” of Judge R Mattingly. atiention whs called to the fact the parking restriction applied 10 secu lar days of the week only. Ar. Skinner told the court that the summons 1eft in his machine ordered him to report in court Sunday. and although Police Court is closed all day Spnday. he was threatened with ar rést the following nizht because he hid not made his appearance. Police- men 1. H Scott of No. & was the com plainant Tpon hearing of Skinner's case. M. Bell, jr. assistant counsel. promptly nolle charze against Vincent Corez. a Fili pino. when he learned the charge was of a similar nature, B. F. MORAN IS newspaperman f the parking case in short or- today when the his automobile was the eomment when his I corporation DEAB. Was Chief Commissary Stewart of U. 8. Coast Guard. Chiet Commissary Steward B. F. Mpran, United States Coast Guard. the possessor of # long record in the Ceast Guard and avho had served at the Washinzton headquarters of the service since August 1. 1917, died in Ptovidence Hospital Sundax. after a lingering illness Chief Commissary Steward Moran heid an exceptionally meritorious rec- ngd. Enlisting in the service in 1895 h# served on the Coast Guard cutter Crawford and later on the Windom Apring the Spanish-American War. In 1908 he was transferred to the Apache at Baltimore. where he served until discharged from the service for physical disability in 1916. Being a lover of the service. he refused to quit, however, and in 1917, with his physical condition improved, he again enlisted in the service, remaining at the Washington headquarters until his death. Several vears ago he was awardell a_ sitver medal by the Government for saving a-child from drowning at Baltimore. He is survived by a siste Miss Helen Moran, and a brother, Charles Mporan, both of Baltimore Funeral services will be conducted n Baltimore tomorrow morning at 230 o'clock. Interment. with mili- tary honers, will he in that eity. g ——w In protest against the passing of n excise sales tax all stores of Porte Rico clos2d two days recently. ? the “Hop Tung™ | few | t Roxhury dis- | trict by a young Chinese who escaped | that | chief | committed | of S oclock and | that | prossed | {String of Chicken | Eggs to Moon and | BackIs U.S. Output The chicken population of the United States was placed at 400,000, 000 today by the Department of Agri- culture. ! This number would make a proces sion of chickena 100,000 miles long and they could lay eneugh eggs each vear to reach from the earth to the moon and back again, the department estimated. If made into an omelette, the consequences could scarcely be estimated, It was added unoffefally. | DENIED EXTRA PAY FOR SPECIAL WORK. | Controller Holds Electrician | Not Entitled to After- | Hour Cdmpensation. | { | i ) | The Distriet Police Department may have to depend upon the voluntary co-operation of Alfred O. Stearns, an | electrictan at the District Building, to {Keep the speedometers of motor cyele { policemen accurate for the time being, as the result of a decision by the con- | troller general, holding that Stearhs {cannot he paid extra for testing the speedometers after office hours in the District Building. Will Be Put Up to D. €. Heads. Ofticials of the Police Department | - planning to put the situation be. e the Commissioners, and they ex- | sed the belief today that Stearns | continue 1o keep the speed-| tometers In good condition, despite the fact that he cannot he paid for such | work until some solution is found !for the problem that has heen raised 1 Tt is suggested in the decision of | the controller that since Stearns has | an expert knowledge of | speedometers his regular position | < electrician might he reallocated der the classification law to cover his qualifications. Another alterna tive suggested was that Congress he requestad to straighten out the diffi. | culty, which makes it impossible to pay him any longer for this work. - o would Speedometers Held Important. | Police officials point out that in| these dayvs of increasing traffic the accuraey of the speedometers of the motor cvele squad is most important, ‘and it was recognized in the decfsion | L of the confrcller that the usual quali fications for an electrician in the Distriet_service would not include the knowledge which Stearns has of speedometers. In addition 10 testing and repairing - the instruments, Stearns has heen appearing as a wit- | ness in eases where the accuracy of an officer's speedometer has heen questioned Edwin B. Hesse. ce Department chief clerk of the said today that it has been nearly two vears since que. tion was ralsed concerning i*e paid to Stearns for testing speedom- eters. but that he has continued to | e wo.F thus far | \CAPT. F. L. MERRITT 1 | DIES AFTER ILLNESS' Former Newspaper Man Was Praised for Work During War. | To Be Buried n Arlington. | Capt. Fred Lee Merritt, who served A= A representative of the Southern Railway in Washington In matters | arising with the War Industries Boar during the early part of the World! War and later as a member of the personnel board of the nitrate division | of the War Department. died at his fresidence in the Laclede Apartments.| 1223 Vermont avenue, vesterday. He| had heen in failing heaith for several| vears, his condition becoming worse @A short time ago. He was in his early fifties. | During the war Capt. Merriit {&iven important assignments in {York and Washington. his service | {being praised in letters of recom-| imendation from high officials in the | War Department. He was honorably | |discharged from the Army in 1919,/ |afterward seiving as an employe of | |the Bureau of Tariff of the Interstate | 1Commerce Commission until forced to! {1etire, due to ill health several months | {ago. Capt. Merritt was formerly a news. paper man and At one time was an {editor o the Daily Citizen at Ashe- ville. N. €., and subszequently manax ing editor of the News and Ohserver at Raleigh, N. (.. and managing editor of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilor. He | also acted as Washington correspond ent of the Providence (R. 1) Journal. In 1904 he served as secretary to the president of the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad, and from 1909 (o 1912 was general agent of the New | Orleans Great Northern Raliroad. | A native of Chatham County, N. (., Cept. Merritt was a graduate of Wake Forest University and Harvard Uni- !versity. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Eleanor Green Merritt, who is a native of Lexington, Va. Funeral services will be condncted | at the residence tomorrow afternoon | at 1:30 o'clock. Interment. with mili- tary honors, will be in Arlington Cem- eter . PRINCEiAHME.D IN Tl-JRKEY.\ was | New | | Fugitive From Asylum Landed in | Constantinople Yesterday. i LONDON, September 22 (#).—A Reuter dispatch from Constantinople states definitely that Prince Ahmed ISei(-cd«"n. brother-in-law 4 of King | Fuad of Egypt. landed in” Constanti- | Inople Monday from the steamer | { Phrygie. | { The prince recently escaped from an asylum in England. He was ac- | companied by his mother. an English attendant, A French nurse and an Egyptian steward, Turin. the Detroit of Ttal ! bile world. of its ears to other o | mentary | First | Ei THE 'EVENING RIGGS AMPLIFIES D. C. TAG RULING: Use Held 0. K. if Home Is Maintained Here as Well as in Maryland. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., September 2 Maintenance of a bona-fide home in the District of Columbia as well a= in Maryland will obviate the necessity of an automohile owner_equipping hix car with anything but District license tags, Judge Samuel Rigge of Police Court announced this morning in ex planation of his ruling on the tag is- sue raised by arrests of Maryland residents using District tags. 1t was indicated that Judge Riggs believed that it was because his at- titude was not understood that ob- Jections had heen raised. Judge RIggs explained, however, t this exemption could only apply to cars which the owner nsed between the Maryland and District homes. and not to those vehicles which might be kept in Maryland all the time. Summer Residents Not Affected. The judge added, further. that the exemption would not be allowed if the District home was closed, but in this connection it was understood that | where the car owner was retaintng a | home in the District while passing the Summer in Maryland he would be within the law in using only Dis. trict tags. ~ Ross H. Snyder, counse? for the American Automobile Association. which had announced {ntention of making a test based on Judge Riggs' ruling applying to District motorista having Maryland tage. was in court this morning when cases growing out of the tag war were heard. but none of those coming up was of a nature allowing of appeal. Five Are Conviet Five convictions, five acquittals and six continuances was the net result of 16 cases heard hefore Judge Riggs this morning. Among those whose hearing over for non-appearance was Calixto adleo. chauffeur for Senator O, Weller of Maryland. The driver wa taken several days ago while in the Senator’s car, which failed, it was said, to bear Maryland plates. > charge ever has bheen placed against Senator Weller, and was stated in Police Court today that that official’s car has heen provided with Maryland tags. Sentence was suspended upon pay- ment of costa averaging 32 each by the five defendants found guilty: They were John Boyd. Brookeville: W. A. Wallace, Sfiver Spring: Walter H. ‘Powell, ' Silver Spring: Howard E. Victory, Silver Spring. and Frank . French, Silver Spring. Those acquitted were Maude S. Emory. Washingto: Lonis W. Hor ner. Washington: T. RB. Hammaros, Silver Spring, and F. A. Bergmann, Woodside, SCHOOL ROUND-UP WILL BE LAUNCHED went AT END OF WEEK| (Continued from First Page.) schools. 47.825, a gain of 49 over 1924, and normal schools, an increase of 180 over last vear. An analysis of the opening day en- rollment figures by school officials showed-that the gain was general in all sections of the Distriet est gains. of course, were noted in the outlying communities of the north- west and northeast, where building developments are under way. School principals have been instruct- ed to furnish the officiale with daily eports on attendance until the cloke of the week. Jach report will be an alyzed by the officials as a means of providing accommodations for the seri- ously congested schools. Comparison of Figures. The following table showing in de. tail the enrollment in the various schools and divisions vesterday, in comparison with the enrollment on the first day of school last vear, com- piled in the office of Asst. Bupt. Robert Haycock, follows: 1925, 324 .. 2812 e 1T . 1,104 . 1,206 L1104 | 1675 319 182 186 140 114 147 A6 1924, Wilson Normal 222 Miner Normal Central High . G Eastern High Western High Business High McKinley High ...... Armstrong High ..... Dunbar High ..... Columbia Junior, 9th grade Hine Junior. Sth grade. Macfarland Junior. 9th gr. Jefferson Junior, 9th grade Powell Junior. 9th grade. Shaw Junior, 9th grade .. Randall Junior, 9th grad 2.812 1.459 873 * No 8th grade. division Second division Third division ....... Fourth division . Fifth division . h division Seventh division ighth division Ninth division schools) Wilson “hool Tenth div Lieventh division Twelfth divigion Thirteenth division Miner Normal School ... . Columbia Junior, elemen- tary classes Hine Junior, Glnases ..ot abisns Macfarland Junior, elemen- tary classes venas Langley Junior, classes .. on Junior, classes v . Powell Junior, elementary clarses .. Shaw Junior, classes & ves Randall Junior, elementary ClAsses ....... 3 Phelps Vocational .. ... O Street Voeational . L2181 . 4,588 .. 1483 389 . 4.964 5 2,560 (special Practice ementary elemen- elementary 514 424 362 312 90 51 REE RS E31 “Total - ..49,174 47,825 {Vandals, Seeking to Continue Attacks BY JOHN GUNTHER. By Cable (o The Star and Chicago Dails News. | PARIS, September 22.—What mys- terfous hoodoo pursues the work of the sculptor, Rodin, beyond the grave? Another vandal attempted on Mon- {day night to enter the Rodin Museum, where most of the works of the great sculptor are kept. He was armed with an ax and a mallet, with which he planned to wreck “The Thinker," “The Bronze Age” and other famous master- pleces. The vandal was apprehended before he could do any harm by guards \ho | have heen on duty since a similap | ghoulish happening in the early Sum- | mer, when a boy scaled the walls of the garden outside the museum armed with sawa and chisels and proceeded to knock apart. then saw Into pieces the great bronze statue of Adam, b 8 |at an art shop. Ruin Rodin’s Work, Made Before Death which stood before the portals of the museum. He was arrested while try- ing to dispose of chunks of the metal He was adjudged in- sane. Similar attacks were made during Rodin’s lifetime by demented persons who were enraged by his realisific sculpture. Coincident with news of the at- tempted vandalisth - comes the an- nouncement that Jules Mastbaum of | Philadelphia has purchaser from the French government, for & sum run- ning into six figures, no less than 9% statues by Rodin, which he plans to exhibit at the Philadelphia sesquicen- tennial. Later the collection, which will be the largest outside the Rodin Museum, will be housed permanently in Philadelphia. (Copyright, 1925, by Chicago Dally News Co.) E. | The great- ! 357 STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C {CAREER OF CAILLAUX IN FRANCE 1Jailed During the War, He Is Now Leader of Gravest Mission, Sentiment to Be Absent From Negotiations on War Debt. ! BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Fiction contains no more remark- ahle career than that which will cul- | minate with the arrival in Washing- Iton this week of Joseph Caillaux, | French minister of finance. Jailed during the war for fllicit communica- tion with the enemy. then exiled from | Paris_and banished from public life, M. Calllaux comes to the United States, intrusted with the gravest and greatest financial mission In KFrench history. He has already been a pre- mier of France. and on two other occasions a cabinet minister. If he ef- fects for his countrysa satisfactory settlement of the gigantic debt it owes the United States another premiership is easily within his grasp. gotiations about to he opened in \V: taxpayer. ably more for Joseph Calllaux. Calllaux—the nearest nunctation of his name is A man in the early sixties. been In French politics throughout his mature life, but did not obtain inter- natfonal remown until the Franco German erisis in Morocco in 1911, War was averted over the Agadir episode that vear by the action of Caillaux | then premier. in surrendering a strip of French possessions in Africa to Germany. He was accused of humil {iating France and encouraging Ger many, instead of placating her. But excused the on the that through it obtained Ky-0—¥ | Catllaux ground deal he tions in Morocco—the same ambitions now costing France so dearly in hlood {'and treasure in war against the Riffs. i Wife's Murder Trial. | later, in 1914, with the World War imminent, Cafllaux agal dominated public discussion |in France. because of his wife's sen- ysational trial for the murder of M. | Calmette, editor of Le Figaro. The 1 nch were immersed in that cauxe celebre to the virtual exclusion of everything else in the world. includ- & the impending onsiaught by Ger- {manf. Calmette. an implacable po- 1 litieal foe of Caillanx, wae attacking | the latter in Le Figaro through the | means of published letters exchanged | hetween Caillaux and his wife prior to their marriage. Mme. Caillaux, {avenging her own henor, shet and killed Calmette in the office of Le | Figaro. only to be triumphantly ac- | aquitted. | The great war was | Several succeeding !F‘ra ce, mistrusting vented his active {war activities. Eventually Three vears now raging. premiers of Caillaux, pr association with he was The ne. | ington mean much for the American | L o et {mmericar! | where his wife, three vears previously. | ties for a long term of vears. | sumed jon Caillaux |afterward that German acquiescence In French ambi- | sent to South America on a war mis- | i{slon to Argentina. In 1917, when allied fortunes were at their lowest | enb. Caillanx visited Tialy and Swit- {7erland. In those countries it w | charged that he had heen in commu- {nicatlon with the German { men through indirect channels {a view to nxcertaining on what terms {peace would be made with France. 1On the strength of documents found {in his possession, Caillaux was ac- | cused of conspiring to bring about |an end to the war which would have lresnhpd in_the imposition upon France of disastrous terms. Cail- laux was not alone in his apparent desire to end France's agony. | The movement which he represent- led was called “defaitisme” —defeat- {1sm—and it was excoriated in a his- | toric speech delivered by M. Clemen- i ceau. then premier. in the French ! Senate on July 22, 1917. A few months {later Cafllaux was arrested. and for more than a vear languished as & po- HAS FOUND NO RIVAL IN FICTION JOSEPH CA| Itical prisoner in the same Paris jail was incarcerated. In 1919, months English pro in{ler the armistice, Cafllaux was tried by }He has | and condemned to exile from Paris the French Senate. found guilty and non-participation in French poli- In 1924, soon after M. Edouard Herriot as the premiership. a, general was proclaimed. “The ban was lifted. He returned his old pelitical haunts in Paris, and. 10 the consternation of press and Dublic, afirmed his intention of re suming public life. It was not long the Harriot ministry M. Painleve, named premier, invited Caillaux to become minister of finance. It Is in that capacity, fully rehabilitated in his public career, thai he now ix about to speak for France at Washington. Has French Confidence. M. Cafllaux has the general confi- dence of France, but it 1= net enthusiastic confidence. Many French- men still mistrust him. But practi cally without exception the whole na tion sees in him the shrewdest finan cler the republic possesses. He is a government auditor of finances by profession and a wizard in figures that have to de with fiscal affairs. During the war it was dangerous in Pari« even to mention Cafllaux's nam If he returns to next settlement In his diplomatic pouch. he will be lionized. and the latch string of the premier's residence on the Quai d'Orsay will dangle in his direction. There is reason to state that the American Government. in dickering with M. Caillaux, will argue that the French people have never horne an adequate burden of direct taxation for the costs of the war. Cafllaux is a he- liever in direct taxation. France's present income tax was instituted at his instigation. It 1= a most unpopu- lar tax. If Caillaux setties with the amnesty fell | United States at the expense of more govern- | | diract direct_taxes for his people, he will be hooted. not cheered. when he refurns to Paris. The French don’t mind in- taxation. and pay a good deal of that xort.. But they are bitterly op- posed to the income tax on the ground that it Is an intolerable- invasion of private affairs. Mesars. Coolidge. Kellogg. Mellon, Hoover. Smoot and the other American debt commissioners weicome the arri- val of a French negotiator of the Cail- laux type. He isa “brass tacks" states. man. Brass tacks. not sentiment, are 10 he the keynote of the Impending ne- gotiations at the United States Treas- ury. America’s rapresentatives are confident they will speedily get the conferénce with the French down te brass tacks, and they intend keeping it there. i (Coprright. 10751 ! = | PRESIDENT TO LET CONGRESS FIX U. S. ARMS PARLEY ROLE Page.) (Continued from Fi of considering _existing international conditions in China. according to the spirit of the covenant. Tsao Hsin-chu, the Chinese delegate, refused, how- ever. to allow adoption of the resolu. { tion ‘without specific explanations and in a speech sald the main object of the conference would be revision of a|the treaties so as to put China's fn- ternational sltuation more within the spirit of the league covenant. The delegates to the assembly again [went on record today as opposed to |any changes at present in the statutes |'of the Permanent Court of Interna- tional Justice, Having induced with. Uruquay to | | | | | { North American Co., TRACTION MERGER IN FUTURE PLANNED " FOLLOWING SURVEY (Continued from First Page.) terested. it wax said. No hindrance from public bodies is anticipated, Con- greas having already gone on record as favoring a consolidation, while the local Utilitiex Commission has also unofMclally sanctioned any action that promises betterment to Capital mass transportation. Seeking No More Rtock. From F. 1. Dame, president of the it was learned that no attempt will be made at th time to acquire more local street rail- way stock. “We have enough,” he sald. “until the future situation as- sumes some degree of definiteness.” The North American Co.'s silence draw its proposal for revision of the|concerning the back dividend payment statutes hecause such action might [ of 20 per cent on common stock to | Mock possible American adherence to! reimburse holders for four lean years ithe court. the delegates at session adopted a today’s | hetween 1919 and 1923, when no div resolution post- | dends were disbursed, paid on July 1 5 poning the Danish project to estab- | last, war explained by company offi- {lish a conciliation commission as & | cials, who stated thix dividend covered { branch of the court. ! Committee Report Approved. The assembly approved the report " | of ita juridical committee, stating that |the Danish innovation might invelve | not only many | of the communities in which they op- WaS | erate. amendments unacceptable to | men bers of the conrt, while it |also objectionable’ because it would |give the court a political tinge. Emphasizing, however, that the Danih initiative is directed toward unifying and strengthening the meth- 25 | ods of international conciliation, which loceupy a pre-eminent place among the |plans for insuring peace, the assem- Ibly urged all the governments to give mature study to the Danish project as the basix for some future action by | the league. | A new angle to the Turko-British |conflict_over the Mosul ofl district of Upper Mesopotamia developed today. The British delegation asked that the lengue council meet as soon as possible to consider the Turks' alleged deportation of Christians from the Mosul area and to sénd league repre- sentatives to the scene to investigate the charges made by Great Britain and the counter charges put forward by Turkey. Dispatch of these investigators was urged as the most practical means of preventing fresh _difficulties. The Turks have denied deporting Chris- tiana from Mosul and accuse the Brit- ish of occupying points temporarily held by Turkish troope. British Reaffirm Charges. The British, in their communique te the council today, said that not only had Turkish troops deported Christians from that section of Mosul provisionally held by Turkey pend- ing the council's decision to the soversignty of the entire territory, but that they had also exiled Chris- tians living south of the so-called Brussels line, which is occupied by the Rritish. : % The communique savs the British government feels strongly that quite apart_from the humanitarian consid- erations involved in the forcible de- portation of unhappy people into a cold, inhospitable region, Turkey's | latest action .constitutes a distinct|ow, i ] | i | a period when the and consequently were in no position to give fair judgment in the matter. Mr. Dame said the policy of his com- pany is to develop public utility facil- itles so that they may be adequate, 1o meet the present demunds with service of the highest standard, but also to respond immedi- ately to the growth of such commu- nitles and their businesses, however rapid it may be. “The North American Co. stands in A protective relation, to these proper- tles.” he said. “It is not seeking to exploit them for present large profits. 1t holds their secyrities as permanent {investments and seeks to establish ithem in the favor and confidence of the public by just methods and effi- clent administration and to maintain their finances on the most conserva tive basis. This, in a word, Is our present stand with regard to the ‘Washington situation.” - - D. J. PARTELLO, BUILDER.s DIES AFTER OPERATION ‘Was Real Estate Operator and Had Lived in Capital for Past - ©° 20 Years. Dwight J. Palrtello, 52 years ol, well known builder and real estate operator here for the last 20 vears and a lifelong resident of Washington, died in Emergency Hospital today fol- lowing an operation for stomach trou- ble Thursday. He had been ill about two weeks. Born in thix city, Mr. Partello wan the son of the late Willlam Z. Partello. He was educated in the graded schools and at Central High School. - = He was a member of La Fayétte Lodge, No. 10, F. A. A, M., and Ca vary Baptist Church. = Funeral services will be conducted at the Nevius funeral home, 924 New York ‘avenue, Thursday afternvon At 2'o'clock. Rev. Dr. W. 8. Abernethy, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, will officiate. Interment will be in Rock Creek Cemetery, ¢ “Mr. Partello ix suryjved by his wid- Mre. Augusta R. Partello; two wiolation of the territorial status quo | sons, Rees and Lynwood Partello, and and the treaty of Lausanne. # daughter, Miss Florence Partello. / - TOPIG OF PARLEY an | TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 22 REGIONAL PROJECT Suggestions Invited for Im- pravement in Virginia Coun- | ties Adjacent to District. Suggestion for the regional improve- ment of Arlington and Fairfax Coun- ties, Virginia, will be received by the regional development committee of | these counties, which met last night | at the Arlingion County Conrthouse ! and completed iis organization. J.| Cloyd Byars of Arlington district of | Arlington County. was efected chair- | man, (' Sinclair of the .lof’?ruon" district elected vice chairman | jand C. W. King of Alexandria secre- | tary. The other two members of the | commission are F. W. Cushing of| | Washington district, and M. E { Church of Falls Church, representing | Fairfax County i This is the committee which was| appointed by Gov. E. Lee Trinkle of | { Virginia to serve with the regional | development committee of the Nation- | al Capital Park Commission in plan- ning a metropolitan area surrounding the National Capital. | { Letter From Governor Read. | A letter from Gov. Trinkle was read in which the chief executive of Vir-| ginfa expressed the hope that this! commission would do everything with in its goweg to {mprove northern vir- | | &inla ih conformity with the plans for | the expansion of the National Capltal. | The whole regional plan was dis. | { cussed at some length by the commis- | slon. which. as it first act after the | election of oMcers, passed & resolution | inviting civie organizations and elti-| 7ens to bring to the attention of the | commission as soon as possible any | jdeasx they may have for the better- | ment and improvement of Virginia's area of the metropolitan district. | Conference Is Invited. Chairman Byars was instructed by | {the commission te request a confer-| |ence with the members of the Nation- | al Capltal Park Commission, the xhv{ and park planning committee of that body and the membersof the Arlington | Memorial Bridge Commission with a | {view 1o arranging a joint meeting of | |the central reglonal commitiss effect. | {ing a permanent organization, and| start promptly on the improvement | the Seine | month with a good American | held no interest, | work. Mr. Bvars sald today he would | |meek thix conference within a few idays andl attempt to arrange the meet- ing within the next week or so. | WIDOW 'OF LATE CHAPLAIN! | | OF HOUSE DIES IN WEST| | Mrs. Harriet Couden Succumbs m" Chillicothe. IIL—Will Be | Buried in Capital. i Mrs. Harriet Couden, widow of Rev. ! Dr. lHenry Noble Couden. blind chap- {plain of the House of Representatives :lnr 25 vears, died in Chillicothe, Il ! | Sunday, according to word receiyed ! here today. Rev. Dr. Couden, v#ho | 108t his evesight from a wound receiv- | ‘ed in a battle during the Civil War, | served- continuously as House chap- {plain from 1895 until February 28, | 1921, when he tendered his resigna- | tion. He died August 22, 1922. H Mrs. Couden’s faithfulness and de- | | votion to her husband was often com- | { mented upon at the Capitol, where | i i | | she was seen each day Congress was {in session leading her husband by the arm. guiding him toward the entrance i to the House floor, where he would be | | met by pages who would escort him to | the rostrum. | Mre. Confien went to Seattle, Was {s0on after her hushand’'s death 11922, She remained there about a| {vear and left to visit a niece at Chil-| {licothe, whers she remained until the | | time of “her death. The body is expected to arrive in | { Washington tomorrow morning. Fol- |lowing, funeral services will be con- | ducted’ at the chapel of 1. William | Lee, 332 Pennsylvania avenue, at 1| o'clock. Rev. Dr. Clarence E. Rice. | pastor of the Church of Our Father. | Universalist, will officiate. Interment | will be In Arlington Cemetery beside | her husband. ! Undiscouraged by fate which ren-! dered him sightless not long after President Lincoln's call for volunteers, Rev. Dr. Couden took A seven-vear course at an institute for the blind at Columbus. Ohio, and after receiving several degrees was ordained a Uni- versalist clergyman in 1878. COLORADO HORSES LEAD. Three Finish 60-Mile Grind in Less Than 9 Hours. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Sej tember 22 (#).—Three Colorado horses, Maj. Henry Leonard's Norfleet, Ed- | ward Pring's Ranger and Mark Hir. sig’s Sandy, made the best time for the first day of the Colorado endurance ride, each finishing the 60-mile grind in a_few minutes leas than nine hours. All 14 entries completed the first leg of the fiveday test, four Army horses finishing after the first three, The ride started vesterday. | HAVRE DE GRACE ENTRIES | | TOMORROW. FIRST RACE—Purse. $1.800: maiden 2- furiones. 112 The Coon Coon. Be Yoursell Manchester Qvliaue . Token Southern Son Ami H 8 1 B 5 B 112 tRock Sea Farm entry. , RACE - Purse $1.400: Tha Sep- andicap: 3-year-olis And up: 8 fur- nk .. Slow_ & oy Smoke . telpueses Valador .. "THIRD RACE—Purse, 1 mile and 70 yards Single Foot Shuffie Along’ Fas Mati 1 £1.400: 3-year- 1i00 Younr "k hone L1110 FOURTH | RACE——Th “.'I‘fldl‘:;l“,: Zeyear-olda: 3 .12 Sew Rocket ... 152 Brouner Founes. | m : 103 bt GEnline ¢ eee bide Curse Eaatern _ Sho: 15.000 added: B. Mclean entry ien Riddle Farma entry. Sagamore Stable entrs. . 07 Lieutenant 11 109 Picketer . joa 32 1103 Breakfast Bel] SIXTH RACE—Purse. $1.300: claiming: Vekoowin ARG ap. milE and & sixieenmt t8iate . .. ...... 02 Golden Ake Rejectton /.. *Kanduit tLady Amb'dor. $Clique Z 5 tWild Heaihar. *Commissioner. EVENTH RACE — Claiming: 300:" 3-year-olds and up: chth. 100 ijohn . ... g SR o <1+ LY Pendleion.. . 105 Noble Lads . st ! ton . .. REGISTERED MAIL STOLEN FROM STATION IN TOLEDO Jewelry Believed to Be Among Loot Taken While Clerks Were Out of Room Five Minutes. By the Associated Press. TOLEDO, Ohlo, September. United States registered and first- class mail of an undetermined value was stolen hetween 6:15 and 6:20 a.m. 22 |today from the registered mail room at the Union Station. The Joot included a pouch of regis. tered mafl, a hand package which mail clerks say looked like a jeweler's | hox. a registered letter and a hand package containing about twenty-five { fAirat-clase letters, Postal employes said it was cus tomary for the mail room to be un- occupied for slightly more than 5 minutes each morning ahout the time of the robbery while the entire force was ontside to receive or load matl. ASKS BALTIMORE’S AID IN PARK PLANS . BETWEEN 2 CITIES __(Contin from First Page.) into large forested areas as parks and playgrounds and connetted hy a sy: tem of fine roads with the District of Columbia would afford the ever-in- creasing population of the Capital City ‘a wonderful playground of a much larger area than it is possible to secure closer to the city. Report Shows Needs. “The Commitete of 100 of the Ameri- can Clvie Assocfation,” he continued “Iin its report on the development of the Federal City, includes a report on the relation -of Maryland to the Na tional Capital, which contains some excellent suggestions. This report em phasizes the necessity of a boulevard on the shortest and most direct route between Baltimore and Washingion and at the same time permitting of entry to both Washington and Balti- more by way of the residential sec tions. which in the case of Washing- ton would be by way of Sixteenth street and the drives of Rock (reek Park. The growth of the two cities toward each other has heen very marked in the last few vears, so that at the present time the suburban de. velopments are hardly more than miles apart. so that ihe provision of this direct and magnificent boulevard is a matter Tequiring attention in the immediate future and should not be left to the time when the intervening area becomes buflt up and crowded to the point where development of a suitable boulevard parkway would he impracticable, except at an enormous expense. “Of tremendous inter land is the protection waters of Rock Creek. which lie 1o a large extent in Montgomery Connty The land along these headwaters fs passing into the hands of private speculators, and unless these tributary streams are acquired in the near fu ture for park purposes they will be lost forever and their bhesuty will be destroyed. Ancther feature that is of fmmense interest to Maryland is the development of the Northwest Branch of the Anacostia River. Iix head waters are one of the most important sources of water supply for a consid erable portion of the State.” Explains Park Aet. Col. Sherrill explained in detail the provisions of the National Capital Park Commission act. and detailed how many of the problems of the Na tional Capital are of equal or. even greater Importance to the State of Maryiand than to the National Capi tal itself. “The Staie of Maryland. and City_of Baltimore,” he went on. “are ally interested in the work being done by this Park Commission and al- ready Gov. Ritchie of Maryland has indicated his approval of offering 1o appoint a committee of Marviand ci- izens to co-operate with the National Capital Park Commission as contem- plated in the act summarized above. “A similar commitiee has heen ap- pointed by the Governor of the State of Virginia, and it is hoped that the next sessions of the Legisiatures, of these two States will pass suitable leg- islation making permanent the co-op eration hetween the States and the Na- tional Capital “Another activity that has been tn stituted and is under way under the National Capital Park Commission ix a city planning committee, which is st to Mary- of the head | now engaged in making plans for th proper and harmonious development of the area within the District of Co-| lumbia. It is hoped that this planning commlttee will ultimately he extended {to a regional planning committee oper- ating under the National Capital and the Maryiand and Virginia, “Although Washington -and more are such nearby neighbo every one is impressed with the fact fRat the means of motor connections hetween the two are entirely inadequate. and there has hesn some consideration given fo the plan of a great parkway houlevard direct from Washington tn the groups representing States of Balti- ! Baltimore similar to the Lee highway boulevard now heing planned from Wacehington to the Shenandoah Valley at the site of the proposed Shenan- doah Park . “The Rotary Club of Baltiore would be assiting in a worthy public effort. it they would unanimously sup-| port the plans under way for the cre- ation by the Legisiature of a perma to work with the National Capital | Park Commission.” What is a hall-mark? Years ago to insure and silver, the British he | THREE ARE INDICTED ON MURDER COUNT |Grand Jury Returns 46 Ac- | cusations, Ignores | Two Cases. Forty-three other returned and two Three indictments for mugder the first degree were returned by | grand jury today. indictments were | cases were 1gnory | Those indicted for murder were Wil | Mam H. Ferguson, Denzie Jackson, | allax Robert Jac alias Rohert | Butier, ana Baker, all | colored. Fergugon, an inmate of the United | States Soldiers’ Home. is charged | with fatall wounding Andrew Davis, another inmate of the home, with a knife on the night of Septem ber 2. in a section just northeast of the Soldiers Home grounds. The xtabbing is alleged to have followed !'a guarrel. Davis died the fo day at Walter Reed Hospital Jackson s indicted for the ing of Willlam R. Thompson. colored, | July 28 in front of 319 O street southwest, following a quarrel. The allegation is that the aceused flod from this city and was not arrest until August 27 in his home, ] New Jersey avenue, where he was | hiding between the roof and the | cefling of the uppermost floor k son alleged that Thompson had a knife in his hand a1 the time of the shooting on, Charles i <haot Stabbing Brings Indictment. The third murde the stahbing of Kelly ; on Pierce sireer heiween North Cap itol and First atreeis. The allegation * that Raker and Saxton were riding together in an automobile. when dis pute as 10 the amount of gasoline the mackine arose. resulting uitl mately in the killing of Saxion Eight grand indictments and five indictments fe among those returned with grand larceny by the grand jur are John H. Warren, Fioy and Olevia Hodge. Georse Melville Ahmey. John ii. Allen, . | A. Reeves and Phillip Mickens. {wo in dictments being returned azainst last named = Forgery indictments agalnst Thomas . Chester anc Wesley Queen. alias J. W. King indictments being returned azainst Queen. Other indictments follow Jov-riding: Norman Luskey, { Christiana and Lewis Jewert charged in iwo indiciments las D, Addison, Soloman Philip Mickens, - P Housebreaking and larceny: Wal lace Tinker, Freeman Hawkins and William Montgomery, jointly tharzed in one indictment: Richard €linton George W. Carr and Rewmen Bryant, the last named charged in cne Indictment. Robbery Ma Johnson Thomas: Samuel Thor Wil Walter Haves, 1wo indictments beir returned against Haves. i Assault with a dangerous | Jerome Smith, alias Lefty thur Dorsey Assault with a dangerous | and assault with Intent 1o kill: Charles Jackson. William McAfee, alias Maj McCaffee: William U. Roherts and Rn fus Adams. False pretenses: Katherin ['san A arceny after trust Walsh and William A White slavery Harvey Devall om-support of wife: Harry Wins low: non-support of miner children. Walter Rernard FEllis Rrooke 1 | Jackson and Champ Payton: non.sup | port of wife and minor child or ch | dren. Charles" ] Winters, Powhatan | Temple Stephens and Frank H. | Dantels. | The grana jury yassault with a mdictment Saxton is calore Those chare were returne August e Jackson, Is Charge Robber alias weapon Smith: Ar weapon | E. Mo James R Smith ignored a case of dangerous weapon | against George Carr and a case of { housebreaking and larceny against Wellington Abrams. \WILL ON SINGLE SHEET |GIVES DAUGHTER $500,000 | Mrs. Ellen C. Garrison Leaves En- H tire Estate to Mrs. Nelle G. Wade. In a will written on a single sheet of letter paper. Mrs. Ellen C. Garrison, who died at Hot Springs. Va.. August 28, left all her property, valued at more than half a million dollars. to her daughter, Mrs. Nelle G. Wade of Wardman Park Hotel, according to the | petition for letters testamentary filed by Mrs. Wade, who is named exacn trix. in Probate Court yesterday | The will, which was filed for | bate, wax dated January 13, 1903. It | bequeathed all property to Mre. Wade as the testatrix's “sole next of kin and heiratlaw.” | The petition for letters testamen- | tary. filed for the executrix through Attorneys Frank S. RBright and H. | Stanlex” Heinrichs, lists the estate at 2,931.50, all in personal properiy. {with $5.539 in dehts outstanding. The ssets are represented hy $403.193 in | nent committee representing Marylamd | stocks, $123.201.25 in bonds, $24.750 in $1.787.25 cash, {-morigages and {cording to the p in ac- the genuineness of gold Government granted to the Goldsmith’s Company the sole right to de- termine the worth of coins and precious metals. A mark was impressed in the metal to indicate . its genuineness. This marking was done at Gold- smith’s Hall in London. Out of this grew the word ‘‘Hall-Mark” whi ich became world~knoyn -as-a stamp of genuineness. . Similarly, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS is the hall- mark of accuracy. ) For clean, accurate n labeled with one of the ews, read the dispatches following hall-marks: ) (By A. P.) (Associated Press) (By Associated Press) (The Associated Press) (By The Associated Press) The Star receives Associated Press, H %3 Shadowdale in'd' . 1108 Calembour .| Fogarty. .11 [ ce ea 3 the dispatches of The (#P) Means ASSOCIATED PRESS