Evening Star Newspaper, February 20, 1926, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. & Weather Bureau Forecast.) Mostly cloudy and warmer tonight and tomorrow: temperature tonight about 34 degrees 3 Temperatures—Highest. 42 at 2 p.m. yesterday: lowest, 24 at 5 a.m today. Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 24 29,880. Iintered as xecond post_office, Washing TAX LEVIES READY No. ~ FORFINAL AGTION; CONFEREES AGREE Sw W ] | !:_v\m- Assoclated Press. o NEW YORK, Compromise Measure Pro- | tugene B e e " | patrol boat eneca today denied re- vides for Total Year’s Re- duction of $381,600.000. i||ur from Nova Scotia that the Sen- had fired on the wchooner ast. as stated by the captain of ter vessel when it reached Lun The Seneca now is overhauling at the ara d that no shots had reason by the HOUSE GAINS MAIN POINT | int" st ON INHERITANCE CLAUSE | 5 o 1w for a nder of the Eastwood s quoted as saying that 200 rounds had been fired. many of them striking This Promises, However, to Become | e ship and - doing considerable dama - Stumbling Block to Final | Blake said Capt. the Seneca had heen watching the Eastwood for three Approval. I months, during which time she estab- hed contact with several shore ves. but had not even hailed her. HIT OFTEN, OFFICER SAYS. By the A<sociated Prese The vevenue bill. whipped into &hape after four months of constant work. providing for tax reduction of $351.000.000 this vear. $343.000 thereafter, and for many the administrative featu present income tax law. is ready ft< final trip through Congress Representing compromise many provisions between the Senate | | Briton Says Seneca Put Up Target as a Blind. HALIFAX. Nova Scotia, Februar 20 (A).—Over the telephone from Lu enberg, Capt. Spindler of the ! Eastwood insisted today his vessel | had been struck at least 69 times by a on | shells from the United States Coast U. S. PATROL BOAT CHIEF DENIE i HE FIRED ON BRITISH SCHOONER | Watched Eastwood for Three Months, But Never Opened Guns, He Declares—Briton Says Vessel Was Hit 69 Times. and House, the hill will be taken be- " fore each branch for ratification the first of next week. and if given ap- proval will be sent to the White House for the signature of President Cool fdge. The measure will become law before the end of next week under this pro- £ram, its managers believe. with many of its provisions for widespread reduc- tions in taxes becoming effective im mediately. The lowered income taxes will be effective on incomes of las year on_which taxes are payable by March 15. House Gained Point. Taxes eliminated by the Senate. but restored in conference on the insist- ence of the House conferees, included those on automobile passenger cars, admissions and dues and inheritances. While the House gained its main point, retentien of the modified in- heritance rates, with a provision for 80 per cent crecit on account of pay- ments on State inheritance payments, 1t was forced to yield to the Senate’ demand for a retroactive cut in this tax whereby the increased rates in ef- fect since 1924 would be eliminated in favor of the lower rates applying in the 1921 law. The inheritance tax. which proved to be the main stumbling block in the conferences, promises to be the sub- Ject of renewed controversy in both the Senate and House iwhen the compromise bill comes up for ap- proval. Quick agreement on other provisions are looked for. While the total reduction of $381.- 000,000 is $75,000,000 below the amount proposed by the Senate, it is $50,000,- 000 above that voted by the House. This is somewhat above the limit set | Guard cutter Seneca, while the liquor laden schooner was fiving the British i flag und lying at anchor 21 miles off | the Long Island coast. WASHINGTON, D. | The New York Coast Guard officials last right declared his narrative was hardly possible. Capt. Spindler said: 1 would not have thought that such a thing could possibly happen in this age if I had not been there myself and had the fact impressed upon me in a most uncom- fortable manner." The skipper declared that the cutter fired first on the schooner’s port side and then shelled it from the star- | board side. None of the crew was in- jured. They took refuge in the schooner’s hold. The firing was from a short distance and began after the Seneca had placed a target within 100 yards of the Eastwood, he said. The skipper claimed that the target put out by the Seneca had been only “a blind. “They had the whole sea for their ald. “TC it was target | wanted. why did they | select a particular spot not more than | 100 y way from my D side and then circle my ship pumping out | shells. the uajority of which were scoring hits. not on the target, hut on my vessel, and endangering the | lives of myself and my crew™ | | Capt. Spindler said the cutter could not possibly have falled to see the British flag he ran up as soon as the | shells began 1o strike the Eastwood. | He expressed amazement at the| Seneca’s action in view of the fact | that he “was not trying to get away.” | Throughout the entire encounter, | (Continued on Page prstetice they umn 3) ¢ C., SATURDAY, ering WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION FEBRUARY 20, STILL “CARRYING ON." CO0LDCE BETTE, REMANS N RO |Cancels Single Engagement. | Conserving Strength for | Speech Monday. President Coolidge canceled the single engagement he had today and remained in his room with the cold i which has been troubling him for | several days past. | His condition was reported im- { proved, however, and the President's { decision to remain in bed was simply a precaution. President Coolidge is i scheduled to speak Monday night be [fore the department of superin tendence of the National Education | Association and he desires to conserve | his energies. He has no temperature. | The cold has not prevented the Pres- {ident from keeping up with current topics and from making known his views to newspaper men, who were the first callers received since his in- by Secretary Mellon, but confidence | ‘was expresged administration lead- ers that such a cut could be made! without danger of a Treasury deficit. | !ing quarters to his office late vester- How Bill Now Stands. y day, and although troubled with a The conference agreement on the | gore throat, he talked to the corre. points in dispute follows: spondents for 15 minutes. The Ital- Restoration of the modified inheri-|jan debt situation and the proposal tance tax rates voted by the House,ithat the Government take over and including the provision allowing $0!gistribute stocks of bonded medicinal PoroSent credit on account of State|liquor are two of the subjects studied nheritance tax payments. |by the Chief Executive during his Retroactive cut in the inheritance two days of forced idleness. tax, whereby the increased rates voted | Mr. Coolidge agrees with Secretary In 1924 would be eliminafed in favor | Mellon that it would be unwise for of the lower rates in the 1921 act. the Governnient to assume ownership Allowance of the increased reduc-|of the medicinal liquors, as suggest- tions in the surtax rates applying onjed by Assistant Secretary Andrews, incomes between $26.000 and $100.000, | in charge of prohibition enforcement. ®s voted by the Senate. This involves|Mr. Andrews holds the opinfon that" a saving of $23,000.000 annually to!such a step eventually must be taken taxpavers in this class. | to stop leaks to the illicit trade. Repeal of the capital stock tax as; The President hopes that the op- voted by the Senate. | position to acceptance of the Italian Increase of the corporation tax, now | debt funding agreement now Indi- 1233 per cent, to 13 per cent for this|cated will not prevent ratification by year, and 1333 per cent thereafter. | the Senate. Should the agreement be Restoration of the 10 per cent tax rejected, Mr. Coolidge belleves, Italy on admissions and dues. but with an|would be likely to conclude that it increase in the exemptions to apply | was not called upon for further ef- on tickets costing 75 cents and less. | fort toward a settlement. Tather than 50 cents and less, as voted Itallan Debt Discussed. by_the House. Restoration of the automobile pas-| The recommendations of the debt senger car tax. with the rate reduced | commission, the President feels, were from 5 to 3 per cent. {based on expert analysis osd Ttaly's ? : | capacity to pay, and should these Reduction of Gif¢ Tax, | recommendations be disregarded it Retroactive reduction on the gift|would be extremely difficult to learn tax to make the lower rates in effect | how much Italy should be asked to on inheritances in the 1321 law effec- | pay. tive. This tax, as far as the future| Moreover, Mr. Coolidge is repre- is concerned, Is repealed by the bill. |sented as holding that the Senate Increase from $50,000 to $100,000 of | Democrats should be willing to ac- the exemption from the inheritance cept the funding agreement if the Re- tax. | publican party is ready to display a While Secretary’ Mellon indicated | liberal attitude toward the debtor some time ago that total reduction of | nation in accepting the debt commis- $352,000,000 was the limit which the |sion’s recommendationss. condition of the Treasury would per-. | -— mit, Senator Smoot, Republican, Utah, | head of the Senate conferees, pre. | dicted that increased revenue receipts MUSSOLINI PROTECTED. this vear as a result of improved busi. | ness conditions would permit a reduc. | Man Who Insulted Him Jailed Un- tion of $381,000,000. The total amount of reduction will dex’New Jaw. be lower next vear. it was explained. | TURIN, February 20 (#).—A new because the hicher corporation tax will | jaw designed to protect Premier Mus- then be in effect. Under the agree-|solini from insults, has had Enrico ment, corporation taxes pald up to Tempia, a Communist, as its first July 1, will be at the rate of 6 per | vietim, rent for the half-vear, and between! Tempia, found in possession of July 1 and December 30 at the rate | pamphlets containing matter consid- of 6% per cent. ered insulting to the premier, has been Increased reductions voted by the | sentenced to_ six manths’ "imprison- Benate on the cigar taxes were ac- ment and a fine of 500 lire under a cepted. but its amendment to have | law passed last December. discovery depletion allowances for ofl | . and gas wells on 30 per cent of the, , | Former Greek Premier Arrested. gross income was changed to make the rate 2715 per cent [ N The Senate hmendment limiting the | ATHENS, February 20 UP).—Former Treasury to two years in which to Premier George Kafandaris, who yes- make assessments on tax returns was | terday was asked to leave Athens for changed to three years. Four years and of Santorin, in the Aegean s now allowed. in connection with the govern- Many of the vital provisions of the | ment's plan to rid Greece of alleged bill had been agreed upon by both the | subversive elements, has been ar- Senate and House and were not in ! rested. disposition. View of liquor Ownership. The President walked from his liv- DUNCAN CAMERON TO WED MRS. ELSIE H. QUINBY | New York Man, Well Enown Here, | to Marry Washington Resident Next Month. A marriagelicense was issued here | today to Duncan Cameron of New York and Mrs. Elsie Howland Quin-| by of Washington. | Mr. Cameron. who is 31 vears of age. | is the father of Mrs. Juan Maver of | Washington, and is well known here. Mrs. Quinhy, who is 45, was vlh'hl‘vt‘d‘ about a vear ago. The wedding will} take place in March, and the Rev. | Charles Wood will officiate. URGES REMOVAL OF TOURIST CANP Fine Arts Commission Asksi » Site Be Changed From | Potomac Park. | Removal of the tourist camp In| East Potomac Park “to a more suita- | ble point” efther in or outside the Dis- | trict of Columbia. is a recommenda- | tion of the Fine Arts Commission to the Director of Public Buildings and ! Public Parks, made public today. The commission recommended that no permanent structure b= erected at the tourist camp. { An appropriation of $50,000 for con- structfon of a permanent building at ' the East Potomac Park location has: already been made. “The tourist camp -cannot be re-| garded as a permanent feature in any city development,” the commission said. “but must always be subject to| replacement to accommodate the| growth of the city.” | The commission said it had con-| sidered the design submitted by the | public parks director for a tourist; camp shelter house, and regarded the' composition of the design as good. Certain minor changes. however, were noted on the design. ! The report, in part, follow: i “The commission calls attention to| the fact that if a permanent brick building shall he erected within the present area of the tourist camp| such action will go far toward making that camp permanent. Thus the whole plan «for the development of the western end of Fast Potomac Park as the great recreation center of Washington would be defeated. The area has been planned in the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks as the location of base ball and foot ball flelds, a stadium, tennis courts, wading and bathing pools, and other Ike features necessary to the life and | health of the City of Washington. An Unsightly Area. “The introduction of the tourist camp in the midst of the park area of the city is unusual and in the present instance it is deplorable. The tourist camp is seen from the car windows by people reaching ‘Washington from the South. who look down upon an area disorderly in ap- pearance and necessarily without ade- quate regulation. A large space of the limited area available for recrea- tion purposes is thus given over to a small fraction of the people who could properly use it and who can quite as well be accommodated, as in other cities, at some point near the bound- ary of the District of Columbia. ““The commission, therefore, recom- mends that Congress be asked to change the appropriation so as to pro- vide for the removal of the tourist camp to a more suitable point, either within or without the District of Co- lumbia, but that no permanent struc- ture be created in any event. The tourist camp cannot be regarded as a permanent feature in any city de- velopment, but must always be &ub- ject to replacement to accommodate the growth of the city.” ? conference. These Included all of the ncomse tax schedules with the excep- tion of the surtax rates applying on incomes hetween $26.000 and $100.000, and most of the miscellaneous excise | and occupational taxes, which wlll be repealed. SCHOOLS REMAIN OPEN. Orders to Close Catholic Institu- tions Ignored in Vera Cruz. VERA CRUZ. Mexico, February 20 (#).—No action has been taken by the local government on the request by the federal government to close Catholic schools in Vera Cruz. The government also ordered a round-up of priests. There are only two Catholic churches and a few for- eign priests in Vera Cruz. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 20.—Prof. F. R. Moulton of the University of Chicago has fixed the date of the end of the world. But there is no imme- diate cause for alarm. You may figure it out yourself, he says, llke this: The earth is two thousand million vears old. The average life of such a planet is a thousand times a million times a million years, or 1,000,000, 000,000,000 (one quadrillion) years. So it will go on whirling on its orbit for ,'"1 :World’s End Coming, Scientist Says, . But Not for 999,998,000,000,000 Years another 500,000 times as long as it has already whirled. And when that time comes, the sun will get too close to this planet and uf! ‘That will be all. Just like the snuffing out of a candle, it will melt and be destroyed. Discussing the unjverse before a fl‘oup of &tudents last night, Prof. oulton pictured it as a vast space, 30,000 light years from top to bottom | Anderson and 200,000 light years from end to end—a watchlike disc. Light years are based on the traveling speed of light, 186,000 miles a second. 5. PROBE ASKED OF TWO SLAYINGS Government Entomologists‘ Found Murdered Near Mis- sissippi Bridge. By the Associated Preas Earlier reports of the death by shooting of William M. Mingee and John A. McLemore. emploves of the Federal Bureau of Entomology. at | Picatune, Miss.. were confirmed at the bureau toda; K. L. Cockerham. in charge of the bureau's work at Biloxi, Miss, has | wired a request that the Department of Justice take action in the case. | The dead mes had been stationed in | Picatune about a vear, and weressaid | to be well known in that section. Both were natives of Mississippi. They e working in co-operation | with the Mississippi authorities on pest eradication. Mingee was 38 vears old and McLemore 386. BOOTLEGGERS SUSPECTED. Shot-Riddled Bodies of Scientists | ound Near Bridge. | Br {he Associated Press. PICAYUNE. Miss.. February 20. A damaged motor truck is the only | clue in a search for the slayers of | two employes of the United States j Bureau of Entomology. whose bodies. riddled with buckshot. were found | vesterday within 50 vards of a new bridge which spans East Pearl River | on the Mississippi-Alabama State line. | William Malcolm Mingee and John McLemore, graduates of Mississippi A. and M. College, and reaidents of Picayune, Miss.. eight miles from the scene of the killings, were the victims. Robbery Is believed | to have heen the motive, and author- itles think rum runners committed the crime. | Friends of the dead men found the bodies during a search which was in- | stituted when the Government em. ployes failed to return from a hunting trip on which they started in the truck vesterday. The victims' emptied pocketbooks and other personal ef- fects were found near where they were killed. BERGER BILL AMENDS COUNTESS’ BARRIER Socialist's Measure Would Admit All Except Those Guilty of Felony. | By the Associated Press | A bill amending the immigration laws to admit to this country all aliens except those found gullty and convicted of a felony was introduced today by Representative Berger, So- clalist, Wisconsin. Commenting on recent exclusions based on grounds of moral turpitude and political utterances, Mr. Berger sald in a statement that the barring of the Countess of Cathcart, the Countess Karolyl and 8. Saklatvala, Communist member of the British Parliament, “discloses the danger of conferring discretionary powers upon officlals who may exercise it in the way our officials have.” If exclusion of aliens on the ground of indiscretions were to become the settled practice of all governments, he sald, “many wealthy and promi- nent Americans would find them- selves barred from other countries. Since every country has its own set of morals, exclusion on that ground would make international business and travel impossible.” RUHR PLANTS CLOSING. Unemployment Increasing Firms Restrict Operations. BERLIN, February 20 (P).—The present serious industrial crisis in Ger- many is forcing many firms to restrict thelr operations considerably and the number of unemployed in the Ruhr district_especially is increasing daily. The Krupp works at Essen have re. duced the number of their workmen from 42,000 to 20,000, and half of these are working only a few days a week. Three thousand men have been dis. missed by the Thyssen mines and oth- er firms have taken similar measures. Radio Programs—Page 27 Food Prices Rise As French Franc Sets Low Mark| « BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. By Cable to The Star and Chicazo Daily News PARIS, February 20, — Food prices already have responded to the latest pse of the franc, whieh dropy iday afternocon to the the end of the war It was announced this morning that the price of bread will be in- creased 5 centimes pound tomor- row and another Tuesday tories are showing reluctance to deliver large quantities of goods to merchants. who in turn are un- " ing t 1 their present stocks except for dol pounds and Swiss francs. The government is much alarmed at this state of affairs. blaming foreign_ speculators, mainly the New York nd Amsterdam ex- change, tor the fall of the franc The Senate now is studying the financial law, which wa raceived this week from the lower House. But since the Senate has no power to introduce new taxes. it is very doubtful whether it will be able to improve the situation. On the other hand. the treasury must redeem in three weeks a hundred million dol- lars in natfonal defense bond Nobody knows where the funds are to be found unless the Bank of France is authorized to make a new inflation. (Copyright. 1926, by Chicago Daily News Co.) ANOTHER MAN SHOT BY MANIC SHPER Railroad Detective Wounded by .22 Rifle as in Two Slayings. d F lowest rate since rs. By the Associated Pre OMAHA, Nebr., other man has Omaha’s “maniac rifleman Ross W. Johnson. 28-vear-old rail- road detective. was shot and seriousl: wounded last night at Council Bluffs, lowa, across the Missouri River from here Five empty .2%caliber shells sup- plied what the police considered a con- necting link between the latest shoot- ing and the mysterious slaying Omahans earlier in the week. Similar shells were found near the other vie- tims. The new outrage added to the appre- hension of residents of Omaha and vicinity who have been terrorized for six days by the activities of the night- prowling sniper. During that period several persons have been fired at in addition to those slain or wounded. Johnson was in a critical condition in a Council Bluffs hospital today. He was shot five times by a man with a .22-caliber rifle, believed to have been equipped with a silencer, as he was examining seals on a freight car. The man fled, speeded by two bullets from Johnson's revolver, which the detec- tive believes were ineffective. Dr. A. D. Searles, aged physician shot down in his office Tuesday night. and Willlam MecDevitt, killed outright on the street Sunday night, are the others whose deaths are ascribed to the “maniac rifleman.” Johnson gave a good description of his assailant. and stid the first warn- Ing he had was the sting of the hul- lets. February fallen 20.—An- vietim to shot Johnson who shot the Omaha victims, and that the man was at- tempting to escape on a freight train at the timé of the shooting. Johnson came here six weeks ago from Kansas City, and police were at- tempting to check his record there for an explanation of the attack. He did not recognize the man who shot him. He has a wife and two small children. DENIED AUTO FOR LIFE. Farmer Who Killed Man Convicted of Manslaughter. FAIRMONT, Minn., February 20 .—A sentence including an order to ‘“refrain from driving an auto- mobile for the rest of his natural life,” was imposed on Herman Lesch, farmer, near here yesterday following his conviction on charge of second degree manslaughter as a result of an automobile accident. Lesch was aslo fined $1,000 and given a suspend- ed sentence of seven years in the State Penitentiary. Police Inspector Danbaum of Omaha ; said he was convinced the same one NAVY PASSES A - LETO | oo " | Declares Matter of Curbing | Station Is Up to His Radio Committee. | Complatnts of radio interference hy the powerful Navy station NAA at Radin, Va.. blotting out and blanket- inz local stations and distant stations radios listeners in Washington, made to the Secretary of the Navy | by Secretary Hoover of the Commerce Wepariment. were passed hack to the | Commerce Department today by Act- ing Secretary Robinson of the Navy Replving to a letter from Mr. Hoover on the iiterference com- | plained of. Mr. Robinson sald the Ar- | lington broadcast station has been operated since 1922, solely on the recommendation of the inter-depart- mental 1adio_advisory committee of which Judge S. B. Davis, solicitor of the Commerce Department, is chair- man. Mr. | to Robinson sugzgested that the complaint and that it make spe- |cific recommendation as to time of | operation of the Arlington station. Several score letters have heen filed at the Commerce Department by | radio listeners regarding blanketing {of the city by NAA's strong signals. The latest originated only last night when Marion Talley. Metropolitan Opera Co. prima donna, sang for a “(Continued on Page 'TWO MEN MISSING Three Others Severely Injured, 60 Escape in East St. Louis, 111, Blgze. By the Associated Press. SAST ST. LOUIS, Il February 20. — Two men were missing. 3 others wwere severely injured and 60 guests were forced to flee in nightclothing when fire early today destroyed a sec- tion of the Arnold Hotel here with loss estimated at $130,000. The missing were H. L. Cole, day clerk, formerly of Springfield. Ili.. and a railroad man named Kato. Cole was sleeping in the hotel. The register was not recovered and A. C. Arnold, proprietor. said others might be miss- ing. : The injured were Harry Darling, 42, editor of the East St. Louis News Re- | view: Wallace Calvin. 37. of Chicago, and Willlam B. Dever. 45, of Terre Haute, Darling. who had planned to leave foday to accept a position with the Trenton, Tenn., News Democrat, received injuries to his back and head when he jumped from a window. Cal- vin and Dever received burns. They were taken to St. Mary's Hospital. | AlL were expected to recover. Many of the guests were unable to { get down any of three fire escapes and | came down ladders or ropes to safety. The cause of the fire. which started in the hotel restaurant, was undeter- mined. 10 HOOVER this | committee give full consideration to| Column 1) | Star. 1926—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. | from the hand of The o w M Orchestra Leader, Shot, Continues Until Collapse By the Associated Press LENINGRAD, Russia, February 20.—Sergius Novitsky. leader of the orchestra of the State Circus, acci- dentally shot last night by a Swiss marksman during the performance, continued 1o lead his orchestra un til loss of blood caused him to col- lapse. The marksman, named Kanons, was giving an exhibition of shoot- ing an apple placed on his broth er's head. One bullet siruck the orchestra leader in the mouth. shattering some of his teeth and tearing a part of his nose. Novitsky., however, was so self- controlled that the spectators were entirely unaware of the dccident until he was carried away uncon- sclous. As Novitsky is a cornet player the wound in his mouth will de- prive him of his means of liveli- hood and the state has undertaken to pension him CONGRESS SEEKING TOADJOURN JUNE Some Leaders Even Believe Work May Be Completed by May 1. By the Assoctated Press Adjournment of Congress hefore June 1 is now the hope and expecta- tion of Republican leaders in the two houses. With the tax hill practically ont of the way and work on the 10 annual appropriation bills well under wa that Congress May 1. As the legislative programs are now arranged there are comparatively few measures of major importance acted upon. These include should get away eral | railroad bills, farm relief legislation the $165,000,000 public buildings bill and Muscle Shoals Democratic leaders in the Senate have announced that the question of a unified air service must be fought out, but they are not adverse to an early adjournment, as this is a political year with the complexion of the new Congress to he determined in_the November elections The senatorial and congressional campaign committees of the two major parties already are laving plans for the campaigns and Senator. and Representatives will be drafted for campaign speaking in many States. SMOKING IN BED COSTS MAN'S LIFE A. L. McDermott Falls Asleep With Lighted Cigarette in Hand. A . L. McDermott, 34 years old, a carpenter. when he fell asleep while smoking in bed at his room. 436 M street southwest, early today. is blamed for the death of the | man whose body was found on a blaz | ing. mattress by E | he went in the room to arouse McDer- ! IN FIRE IN HOTEL | E. Gannon, when mott, who apparently was suffocated. McDermott apparently had been dead about 40 minutes, according to Dr. Gross of Casualty Hospital, who answered the call with the ambulance, summoned at the same time a fire alarm was turned in. The fire was confined to McDermott's room Sergt. Bobo of the fourth precinct supervised the police investigation. He reported that McDermott evidently had retired dressed and dropped off to | sleep while smoking a cigarette which fell upon the mattress and smoldered for some time. McDermott had been living at the house for six weeks, police were told. He was not married. His nearest rela- tive. a brother, W. E. McDermott of 130712 Prince street, Alexandria, Va.. was notified and appeared at the morgue to claim the body Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt will view the body later and issue a certificate | of death. GO 50 MILES IN 8 DAYS. IRONWOOD, Mich.,, February 20 (P).—Dragging a sled 25 miles, car- rying the body of Hugo Rust, a home- steader, who killed himself at his lonely shack, four men traveling on snowshoes required eight days to make the round trip. Much of the distance covered was over snow so deep a horse could not be used. A neighbor of Rust discover- ed his body on February 2. and it re-| quired nine days before word was taken to the sheriff. On February 11 four men on snowshoes, with sup- plies for ten days, started out to bring the body here, arriving vesterday on the return trip. By the Associated Press SAN DIEGO, Calif., February 20.— A saddened and chastened Tia Juana, shorn of its former glories and bereft of the color and life which were its outstanding characteristics, now greets the visitor. Since Clyde and Audrey Peteet were attacked in Tia Juana two weeks ago, and the girls, with their Ifnther and mother, committed suicide from shame over the incident the town is not the same. The new American border closing rule has made some difference, for the visitor must keep a wary eye on his watch to make sure that 6 p.m. finds him on the American side of the international boundary. On the second morning of the new line closing restrictions from the American side there was hardly a drink passed across the many bars of the clty until almost noon. At this hour it became apparent that a large number of tourists, merely addicted to the post card habit and total ab- stainers in fact as well as in name, were in the ecity. These A.morL.u walked briskly Tia Juaha Bereft of Color as Scandal along the main street, casting inter- ested eves in the directions of the sumptuous furnishings of the desert- ed saloons. and stopping momentarily at post card stands displaying photo- graphs of bar displays and Mexican lithographs on which the caption *I am now in Tia Juana, Old Mexico,” was the most prominent feature. In the afternoon the crowds from | the race track filled the streets for a short time. At 5:50 only an unusually large number of automobiles with San Diego and Los Angeles licenses show- ed the number of parties staying through the night. Hope is expressed along the main street that continuance of the 6 o'clock closing order will result in steadily increasing business if Amer- icans find Tia Juana perfectly safe during the night hours. But behind all this there isa cloud of gloom. Bartenders wipe and re- wipe their bars; proprietors jingle the keys in their pockets and restaurant owners stand stolidly behind their cash registers, all looking vainly for the crowded streets of a former day. Tia Juana is not dead, but is cer- tainly is not so lively as it was. ns Associated Press. ome of them, however, estimate | by | o he| i lighted cigarette which dropped | nly evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press service. news Yesterday’s Circulation, 103,141 TWO CENTS. HUNDREDS OF NEA. MEMBERS ARRIVING FOR MEETING HERE ;Most of 15,000 Educators in Capital Today for Open- ing Tomorrow. COOLIDGE TO ADDRESS CONVENTION MONDAY Discussion of 6-3-3 Method of Edu- cation to Feature Fifty-Sixth Annual Gathering. | Educators from State In the Union and n foreizn coun tries, numbering 15.000 and represent Ing 700.000 teachers of the United | States. were urriving at the rate of several hundred an hour at the Union Station this morning for the official opening tomorrow of the fifty-sixth {annual convention of the Department of Superintendence the National | Education Association The impending meeting, which will be addressed by President Coolidge at the Washington Auditorium on Mon | 4ay night, is proclaimed as the most j Significant educational gathering in | the history of the country | The Washington Auditorium. head lquarters of the convention, was a | busy scene today with more than a score volunteer schonigirls and teach }Pl‘s on duty filing the names and stop- ping places of the visitors. At the Union Station a corps of high school teachers welcomed the visitors as they alighted from their trains nerous | Seven Organizations Meeting. | While the sessions of the depart {ment of superintendence do be |&in until Monday. seven allied organt zatlons are meeting in the city today i Discussion of the six-three-three ymethod of education and plans for fts imore general adoption throughout the country will be one of the outstanding | objects of the department of superin tendence sessions his= is the system of junior high schools breaking the usual promotion from the elementary | schools to the high schools. It pro | vides for six elementary grades, three years in the junior high school and three vears in the senior high school. In 1908 the educational unit favored the District of Columbia with a visit | The department was welcomed by | President Roosevelt and they were |given a talk by Speaker Joseph G |{Cannon and Commissioner E. E. | Brown in the east room of the White | House, | The general program of the de- partment starts tomorrow with a pil- | grimage to the Tomb of the Unknown | Soldler. Returning from Arlington the | superintendents will attend the an- {nual vesper service tn Memorial Con itental Hall, at which the Right Rev. | James E. Freeman, Bishop of Wash- ington, will give the address. The | Washington Quartet will sing. This service ‘will be broadcast by station Distributing Year Book. The Department of Superintendence s distributing a year book dealing with { problems of the course of study in ele- mentary schools, bearing the title | “The Nation at Work on the Public | School Curriculum.” The organizations which are meeting The National Council for Studies at the Hotel La | Fayette and Cer High School, the Council of State Superintendents and Commissioners of Education at the ew Willard, the National Safety Council's Education Division at Cen |tral High School and the Washington Auditorfum, National Council Super visors of Nature Study and Gardening | assembly room, American Red Cross: National Vocational Guidance Associa: | tion, Washington Hotel: American As | sociation of Teachers' Colleges, Wash |ington Hotel, and National Association of Teachers' Agencies at the Harring ton Hotel. |SLAYER SLASHVES THROAT, HALTING OWN EXECUTION Attempts Suicide Few Houis Be- | fore Transfer From Jail Under Order for Electrocution. | Br the Associated Press. ! PITTSBURGH. February 20.— | George H. Prescott, convicted of first- degree murder for the slaying of Mrs Fern Thase. attempted suicide by slashing his throat with a razor blade }In the Allegheny County jail today |a few howyrs befors he was to have been taken to the Rockview Peni- i tentiary to be electrocuted Monday { He was removed to a hospital in a | eritical condition, but physicians said | he will recover unless complications | developed. Prescott once before attempted to \end his life by the same means. Ar- rested the day after Mrs. Thase's | body. shot through the breast, was found in her home, he cut his throat while being taken to jail and lay be. tween life and edath for a week. An investigation was ordered to de- termine how Prescott obtained the ! razor blade. A guard on duty at the time was suspended. MAN AND TWO-CHILDREN ARE BURNED TO DEATH Lose When Trapped Boarding House—Four Others Are Injured. By the Associated Press GREENVILLE, S. C.. February 20.~One man and two children were burned to death and four others seri- ously burned in a fire at the resi- dence of Mrs. C. I. Smith here early today. A dozen other residents es- caped. The victims, Russell Hamb; Evelyn, 11, and Earl Smith, 15, trapped on the second floor. Mar- garet Smith, 17, received severe burns, but escaped by leaping from a second-story window; the bodies of the two children were found on the sleeping porch, and that of Hamby in_a bathroom. Mrs. Smith, mother of tha girls, and an unidentified woman were taken from the fire suffering more or less serlous burns. Mrs. Smith operated a boarding house. Lives in 23; were