Evening Star Newspaper, April 27, 1926, Page 2

9 IINPSINTORNER, BT CHANGES WO Youth Decides Not to Drown Self When He Hits ley Waters at 3 A.M. itting the cold water inder Highway Bridge < this morning_induced hunge of mind in Jefferson 18.vearold automobile sales: wanting to end his life. wimmer, the reasted his way ments, climbed { lustily for help. cries, John M. 1 to police the bridge morning hours, sum- ret. W. J. Carter and adley from the later told the police he ht to the point of suicidal in- arrel with his sweetheart g a soclal function with -ht, went to the bridge in »d in a full-dress suit. going to end &ll,” Duffy told J. Harrigan, the taxicab driver took him to the bridge, as he ihed over the rail, The taxicab a point near the channel aled the driver tol window, pald him | er the rail. | returning from the party | ith Miss Henrletta | 4 k, Va., and a party | when a quarrel with Miss | 1, ‘nduced the de- sed him suddenly hire the taxicab sraddoc , Papal Legate ] . CARDINAL BONZANO, Will be the papal legate to the euchar- '"HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, APRIL HANDS-OFF POLICY INMEXICO SOUGHT People’s Reconstruction Body Speakers Blame Americans for Many Breaches. A stri “hands-off polcy” toward Mexico by the United States was ad- vocated toda by speakers at the meeting of r ntatives of a num- of labor and farmers' organiza- tions, called here under the auspices of the ‘eople’s Reconstruction League, tnterest of legislation pendin dealing with farming, snscription of and in the in Congres compuisory s in time of wal arsh of Iowa, execu- ccretary of the league, presided. About 2 dozen delegates attended. Herbert Janvrin Browne, 1122 Thir- teenth street, described as a_ student istic congress to be held in Chicago in June. The appointment of Mgr. Bon-| zano is expected to give widespread ! satisfaction. He was apostolic dele- gate in Washington for 11 years, from | 1912 to 1923. | HOUSTON FAVORS Tells Mid-City Citizens Con- gress Should Increase Ap- o bridge. Others in the 1 Duffy, sister | residing at the | necticut ave- | 6 street; | «nd drive to t ; were Mi; 2 Kilbourne place, john Ro 19 Oceanic ave- | znd Raymc a, Brookly | ot the party | sab which Duffy had | », but reached there | fearing undue ex- young wowmen of them at a dis- s being hauled » with the rope. Taken to Hospital. wdled a coat zbout Duffy Emergency Hos- Police b pital, where Dr. Perton t dered first aid. art Duffy, mother of the said today that she could not explain such an impulse on his part. Her son, she sald, had not | eamed depressed und apparently had Amply acted on a childish impulse. Duffy has recent returned home ttending school at a military acade Only the fact that the young man an expert swimmer, police said, en- led him to f 1t the tide and reach e abutment in eafety before being chilled to helpiessness by the cold water. HOPE IS ABANDONED FOR MISSING VESSEL Freighter Which Teft March 13 Overdue at Panama Canal Since March 22. { ' i 1 Newark . N. J., April 27.—Hope ghter Suduffco, over- ma Canal since March red by her owners, the oration of Port Ne: The ship was in command of | T. Turner and carried a crew pe of finding > the office of R, ting manager of the line Two_sister ¢ searching for, weeks have abandoned the quest and are proce to thelr regular desti- Port Newark for March 13. She city of §,350 r cargo was valued The Pacific coa had a deady ons, and with at $500,000. Capt. Turne New York Amerfcan I ‘ng the w o left 1086 home was in d ships of the rge of an Amer- of the crew included: adlo operator, Tur: J. Markham, sea- ; Pedro de la Cruz, ine Islands; H. Berg, ; Vernon Por- t seaman, Broderick, Calif.; H. L. Smith, Detroit; James Lamb, oiler, Twin Falls, Idaho; H. Mackenzie, wa- or tender, Cleveland; W. P. Schultz, steward, Charlotte, and Wit liam Nelson, Mess boy, Seattle. CHINESE EDITOR KILLED. Executed for Alleged Publishing of Soviet Propaganda. 7 Chicago Daily News. —Shao Plao-Ping, »y o PE; aditor of the Di heen summarily executed by the mili- ary for allegediy being a bolshevist igent and publishing communistic propaganda. The execution aroused the protesty of other local napers on the grounds that Peking is not under martial law and that Shao was not given a proper trial The Ching Pao {s one of the leading waculars dollies in Peking, with a «ronz student following. The execu: ton of its editor is an instance of present antiSovlet activities here now wince the defeat of the pro-Soviet KKuominehun forces. 1gh:t, 1926, by € e 0 The Star cago Daily News Co.) KIDNAPERS GROW BOLD. | Attempts Made on Young Sons of British Nobility. LONDON, April 27 (®).—Following the recent plot to kidnap the young Marqufs Townshend, the Dally Ex- press reports that threats have been de to steal John Reginald Yard- Buller, the 1l-year-old son of Lord Churston. The newspaper says Scot- land Yard is trying to track the writers of the threatening letters, the younger son of Lord Y who “married the actress Denise Orm. Lord Churston former- 1y was aide to the Duke of Con- naught. He also was aide to Lord Curzon when he was viceroy of India. Thomas B. Eckloff Re-elected. Thomas B. Eckloff of the Washing- ton Secular League has been unani- mously re-elected president for his mighth term. Other elections were Uinn A. E. Gale, secretary, and A. B. RBaden, treasurer. The vice presidents ‘hosen twere J. W. Nigh, David Eccles, H.W. Selah and Mrs. Gertrude Evans. The Washington Secular Leogue was founded in 1870. ——— It you need work, read the want olumns of The Stan | mittee, declared in an address before | The between N and O streets from resl prevent the erection of a public garage t propriations for District. The people of the District of Co lumbla should have more voice in the | government of thelr city and should be treated on as broad terms as pos- sible by Congress, Representative | Houston, Republican, of Delayare, member of he House District com- ftizens’ Assoctation in last night. he was in the Mid-City the Thomson School Mr. Houston said the favor of larger appropriations for the District by Congress, declaring the | $9,000,000 appropriated under the lump-sum plan was approximately the amount of tax which would be levied on Government property here were there a system of taxing such property. The association also voted its ap-| proval of the memorial to be erected in honor of District troops in the World War, and gave $25 to the proj- ect, on motion by Gilbert H. Hall. Paving Law Change Asked. | The assoclation voted to request the modification of the Borland amend- ment =0 that pProperty owners may by. taxed only once for repairs made on streets in front of their homes. District should pay the full amount for all additional repairs after street has once been put into good condition, it was declared. The reso- lution was_introduced Michael Mahaney, chairman of the ommittee on streets and alleys. Another resolution was adopted re- {terating a former stand of the asso- ciation to request the widening of Fleventh street from Pennsylvania avenue to Massachusetts avenue. Mr. Mahaney was instructed to visit the| House and Senate conferees on Dis- | trict appropriations to request that| this item be reinstated in the list of District appropriations. Would Relieve Congestion. i stated that the residents favor of 1 that | stion. | street It along the street being made wider, 1t will relieve acute traffic con The rezoning of Th dential to first commercial was asked also in a resolution. Miss Anna Day presented a petition signed by a large number of property owners on that, section of Thirteenth street favoring the change in zoning. A public hear- ing on the matter was requested in the resolution. A resolution was adopted also to carry on a fisht to at 1236 Twelfth street. A petition slgned by 25 property owners who ob- ject to the garago was presented. A resolution introduced by G. How- ard Dunnington urging the establish- ment of traffic lights in the vicinity | of Thomas Circle and at Mount Ver- non place, between Seventh and Ninth stroets, was adopted. The association also urged that the new traffic lights be still further extended as fast as VOICE FOR DISTRICT { Mexican economics, upheld the re- cent action of the Mexican govern- ment in depriving aliens from holding fee simple titles to Mexican lands, and charged that the American Govern- ment, in protesting against this ex- clusion of American investors, was influenced by “pressure of powerful corvorate interests.” Referring to animosity between Mexicans and citlzens of the United ates, particularly in border sections, Mr. Browne blamed the “swaggering, often drunken, and over-bearing Amer- fcan,” and declared: “For every citi- zen of the United States killed by 1 brigands there have been' 10 killed by American brigands this side the border.” ther speakers were Frederick A. Libby, who protested against the C: nson niversal draft bill, “which y upposed 1o take profit nd to conscript capital as well us labor, but which would do but rather would enslave the farm Edward Keat- editor of Iso spoke nst the biil. ‘hich he sald American invest- e legisiative representative of the Amer- n Legion, was to speak late this ernoon in’ support of the universal draft ‘measure. Senator Frazier is scheduled to speak tonight on the farmers’ problems. PRIEST ASSAILS REPORT. Says Mexican Situation Study Find- ings Are “Untruthful.” The report on conditions {h Mexico recently made public at Il Paso by & committ 17 invest), ors was branded ruthful” in state- ment issued yesterday by Rev. John J. Burke, general secretary of the tional Catholic Welfare Conference. Educational and not religlous motives were held responsible for M s titude toward religious Institutions in the report of the committee, which included a Jewlsh rabbl and members of the Congregutional and Methodist aiths, Futher Burke described the report as “untruthful in that it neither con- siders the actual provisions of the present Mexican constitution, which absolutely deny liberty of religlous wor- <hij, nor the actual persacution of the Mexican officials by which they have confiscated churches, prevented the priests and_peopla from holding re- ligious worship and closed schools be- cause the school authorities refused to promise not to mention the name God or Christ.” inve he added, “either did not see all the facts or they did not see them in the light of American principles.” SN RN WET “LUMBER” HELD. Fake Shipment, a Carload of Beer, Seized in Chicago. CHICAGO, April 27 UP).—A carload of beer, 34,400 bottles, was guarded in the railroad yards here this morn- ing. Six Chicagoans were arrested when they drove up to the car late last night in two big trucks, presuma- bly to take the beer away. The was shipped from Canada in care of a Chicago lumber company, which notified police when it was discovered that bottles were concealed under the lumber. Officers belleve the shippers had planned for the car to be un- loaded without knowledge of the lum- ber company. SR MINERS' MARCH HALTED. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. VIENNA, April 27.—Hungarian gen- darmes today halted 3,000 Salgotarjan coal miners marching toward Buda- pest. The miners, who now are work- ing only two days a week, planned an appropriations permit. A. J. Driscoll, president of the assoclation, presided. appeal for government aid. {(Copyright, 1926. by Chicago Daily News Co.) Shrine f_orv Holy Memories Between the Lincoln Memorial Potomac Park, there is to be erecte to both the dead and the living who in the armed forces of the great Wor As both a memorial and a place the classic structure will serve a dual Of exquisite beauty, dignity and Reflecting Pool and Tidal Basin, in d soon a beautiful memorial temple represented the District of Columbia rld War. where military concerts may be held, purpose. Greek simplicity, the temple will be built of white marble. By it the names of those who made the sacrifice, not only for their country but for you, will be preserved to posterity. Names will be placed either in the marble dome above or sealed within the sacred crypt of the corner stone. ‘We appeal to every Washingtonian to contribute to this memorial; to those for whom some one near a: favored. Your contribution to the $200,000 nd dear served, and to those not so cost of the memorial, whether it be for $1, $10, $100 or $1,000, or any intermediate sum, should not be a burden, but a personal tribute to the one, out of all the 26,000 names to be enshrined, who means the most to you. (Signed) FRANK B. NOYES, Chairman, District of Columbia Memorial Commission. MEMBERS OF MEMORIAL COMMISSION: Charles A. Baker, Gist Blair, Edward F. Colladay, John Joy Edson, Mrs. William Corcoran Eustis, Tsaac Gans, John M. Gleissner, Lester Jones, Edward B. McLean, J. R. McDonald, Frank B. Noyes, G. Logan Payne, Julius 1. Peyser, Anton Stephan, B e WASHINGTON, D. C. 1926 District of Columbia Memorial Commission: 1 hereby subscribe and promise to pay to the order of Joha Poole, treasurer, the sum of ciriesssweciienee I inclose check in full payment of above subscription. I will pay my subscription May 1, 1926, $..... ccovesiweee Atg. 1, 1926, $. coveomm s cmss T T T TP T T Py seecisasieseiiese Please Make Checks Payable to John Poole, Federal-American National Bank "‘""“'"-—--"_-"'-""',—f'_._-_-""""l Bathing Suits Must Be‘Within Reason’ At Atlantic City Assoctated ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, April 27.—No set rules governing the style of bathing suits for either men or women will be promulgated this year by Public Safety Director Cuthbert. “We will allow bathing suits which are accepted at other re- sorts,” he sald. "There are to be no set rules this year.” Fifteen beach censors will be named, however, and it will be their duty to see that the costumes and conduct of the bathers are “within reasonable limits."” It has been decided to officlally “unlock” the ocean on May 15. ANPROSECUTION APPROACHING END Government to Close Its Case Tomorrow—Dr. Li Again on Stand. The prosecution today began to gather up the “loose ends” of its tes- timony by which it hopes to obtain a conviction of Ziang Sun Wan, the Chinese student, on trial for the third time on an indictment charging mur- der in the first degreo in connection with the death of Ben Sen Wu, an ndersecrctary at the Chinese Edu- ational Mission, in 1819, United tates Attorney Gordon and Assistant United States Attorney Horning ex- pect to close the Government's cass tomorrow. The dofense occupled four days at the second trial with its testimony on behalf of Wan and if no longer time {3 taken at this trial the case will probably go to the jury early next week. Cross-examination of Dr. Kang 14, the star witness for the prosecution, by Attorney Wilton J. Lambert closed with the adjournment of court yes- terday. The dramatic features which marked his testimony at the second trial, when he grabbed the Bible and swore that an imputation contained in a question .of the cross-examiner Wwas untrue, were absent yesterday. Dr. Ii was unable on several oc- casions to vrecall with certainty whether he had testified in a certain manner at the first trial in 1919-1920 and at the second hearing last Jan- uary. Lambert elicited from the witness that he had been on “partles” with Assistant United States Attorney Horning and other members of the force of the office of the United States - | uttorney since the second trial. Kang Li explained that he had invited Mr, Horning and some of the “other boys" to dinner at a Chinese restaurant and had been with them at luncheon at Harvey’'s on one occasion. “I started to invite you on one party, Mr. Lam- bert,” said the witness, and the spectators burst Into laughter, which was quickly quelled by court officlals. Three witnesses today for the prosecution corroborated portions of the evidence of Kang Li. Janet I'ahnstock and her mother, Mrs. Ger- trude Fahnstock, who reside at the house where Kang Li was a boarder at the time of the tragedy, gave evi- dence bearing out statements of Kdng Li. The daughter, then a small child, recalled that Li had spoken to her after trying to get a response from the bell at the mission house on the day the bodles were discovered and that he then entered the building through a window. Mrs. Fahnstock told of Kang Li visiting the mission house and returning to the boarding place. Enoch S. Bradshaw, the policeman who entered the mission house at the request of Kang Li, testified. He sald the Chinese accosted him on the street and declared that while looking into the window of the mis- #ion house he had seen the foot of Dr. T. T. Wong, the director of the mis- slon. The policeman returned with Kang Li and on entering discovered the body of Dr. Wong. He told of the condition of the house when he entered. Later the other bodles were rglll(;'ld in the basement, the witness e GYPSIES ROB POLICEMEN. Fight Over Baby’s Name Then Pick Peacemaker’s Pocket. TAMPA, Fla., April 27 (). —Di- vision in ranks of a gypsy band over the name of the “king’s” new baby landed seven of the leaders in police court and cost them $15 each yester. day. Christening ceremonies went well until the champions of the names “Pete” and ‘“Mike” for the regal in- fant made the matter physical in- stead of verbal arguments, then the police intervened. One of the policemen answering the riot call to quell the 200 or more mem- bers of the band was relieved of his wnlllet containing $17.560 during the melee, GOLD FAILS AT REDLAKE. Ore Not in Paying Quantities, Is Report From Ontario. NEW YORK, April 27 (#).—Gold does not exist in paying quantity in the new flelds at Redlake, Northern Ontario, and the hundreds of persons Joining the gold rush to that section = are doomed to_ disappointment, ac- cording to W. F. Braun, Pittsburgh mining engineer, who has just re- turned from surveying the district. Mr. Braun declared the Canadian government should stop the gold rush, ‘Whatever gold exists, he said, would not assay over 10 to 17 dollars per ton. for many people, who, he sald, in- clude clerks, millhands and others not acquainted with mining, because of their poor equipment and small food supplies, oo o TWO VOLCANOES SUBSIDE. {55 HILO, T .H., April 27 (#).—The vol- cano of Mauna Loa, active since April 15, rested yesterday after a wonderful pyrotechnic display Sunday night. Parties returning from the mountain reported they saw many fountains of fire playing upon the heights. The great Kona Flow cooled, unfed by fresh emissions of lava. It glowed little last night, but much heat was felt underground by men who dared to climb high. New flows during the week end were slight in duration and traveled little. Roy Finch, volcanolo- gist, reported that activity in the great volcano Kilauea had decreased. There were less sulphurous fumes and no earthquakes. President Is Undeoided. President Coolidge has not arrived at a decision as to where he will spend the Summer months. was said today to have received many exceedingly attractive offers of Sum- mer homes in the North, but has not made up his mind which one, if any, of the offers he will accept. i He predicted severe hardships |, FINTH RACE—Tho Chesspeake 910,000 added: 3yearolds: 1 miles. G The President |y CRIMECOMMISSION 1926. 27, SCIENTISTS TOLD iPresident Is Told Next Year’sFigures SESSIONS OPENED OF WONDERFULFIND| - eicte_petic Methods of Prevention and Justice Discussed at Pre- lininary Meeting. ‘With the avowed purpose of pre- venting crime at its source and get- ting prompt and effective justice for the criminal after commission of a crime, the National Crime Cominis- sfon, headed by ¥. Trubee Davison, son of the late New York banker, opened a_two-day session at the New Willard Hotel today. Three commit- tees, composed of natfonally proml- nent men and women, headed by Noew- ton D. Baker of Cleveland, former Secretary of War; Herbert 8. Hadley, former Governor of Missourl, and Mrs. Richard Derby, met at the Willar in sessions preliminary to the general meetings tomorrow and discussed crime prevention, its causes and cure, legal procedure, prosecution and ju- diclal administration and the psycho- logical side of the criminal. A general session will be held to- morrow afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Willard, to be attended by representa tives of six crime-prevention commls- sions of States and municipalities. In- formal expressions of methods of crime prevention will be sought rom delegages at a dinner at the New “Wil- lard tomorrow night. The commission has been organized only to fight crimes of violence, and does not deal with the minor crimes. Personnel of Commission. Headed by Mr. Davison as chair man, the personnel of the commission is as follows: Former Secretary of Stato Charles Evans Hughes, Dr. ¥ A. Alderan, president of the Un Versity of Virginia; Newton D, Baker, Richard Washburn Child, former Amn. bhassador to Italy; Mrs. Richard Derby, Hugh Frayne, representing the Ameri can_ Federation of Labor; Herbert S. Hadley, former Governor of Missouri and chancellor of Washington Univer- sity; Frank O. Lowden, former Gov ernor of Iiltnols; Franklin D. Roouse velt, former Assistant Secretary of the Navy; Chester H. Rowell of California; Gen. James A. Drain, former national commander, American Leglon; Gen. Samuel McRoberts, Charles H. Sabin, Cchalrman of the finance committee of the commission. Subcommittees are made up as fol- lows: Local organization, Mr. Child: police, Mr. Rowell; soclal, educational and industrial conditions affecting crime, Mr. Baker; legal procedure, prosecution and judicial administra- tion, Mr. Hadley; medical and expert testimony, Mrs, Derby; legal educa- tion and standards of professional conduct, Mr. Roosevelt, and pardons, probation, penal laws and institutional correction, Mr. Lowden. Draft of Code Submitted. Meeting with his committee today, Mr. Hadley submitted as a basis for dlscussion a draft of a code of crim- inal procedure which he prepared for the Missouri Association for Criminal Justice. He declared that one or two meetings would be held to formiflate a final plan of the committee for a code of criminal procedure that would work effectively for the conviction of the gullt Members of the commission will call on the President at the White House at 12:20 o'clock tomorrow, and after luncheon at the Willard will hold a general meeting. State and municipal commissions working with the national organization for crime prevention include the Baltimore As- soclation for Criminal Justice, the Missouri State Crime Commission, the Chicago Crime Commission, the Cleve- land Association for Criminal Justice, the Minnesota Crime Commlission and the New York State Crime Commis- slon. The commission was formed about nine months ago by a group of citi- zens whose purpose was to try to find practical means of coping with the number of crimes of violence through- out the country and the fallure of swift and efficlent justice. It has no purpose of taking from the author- itles of the Federal Government, States or municipalities, committees or citizenship the responsibllity for crime prevention which rests on their shoulders, but believes its primary Fumose to be to awaken public opin- jon. RIVER CHARM FAILS. Bread and Mercury Myth Revived in Search for Boy’s Body. SIOUX CITY, Iowa, April 27.—The “river myth,” little remembered since the days of ‘“‘Huckleberry Finn,” has been revived here in a futile attempt to find the body of 7-year-old William De Raad, drowned Sunday in the Mis- sourf River. Some one remembered that back in the days when the river was younger it was said that if a dozen loaves of bread, with “quicksilver’” in their centers, were thrown upon the water they would gravitate toward the body. This was done yesterday. The bread swirled over the muddy water. Three or four loaves seemed to gather in a single eddy. Searchers centered every effort on that vortex, but the mystic charm of a generation ago failed. HAVRE DE GRACE ENTRIES FOR WEDNESDAY. FIRST RACE—Purse, $1,200; maiden 2- year-olds: 4% furlongs. Bobby Jones Frank ‘Andres 118 Fly Haw 11¢ 118 tDublin Show.. 116 : claimin, SECOND RACE—Purse, $1.2 3-year-olds and up: 6 furlongs. (oo osual oESR RooRE 3335 Inver Light. S Shardion itton. Brigtt 1 'Kindred ...... 104 THIRD RACE—Purss. 3-year-oids and up: 17w 1,200; claiming: Pt *White Marsh. Highwayman FOQURTH _RACE-—Purse, 1,600; the Larchmont handicap; S-nu‘oljl and up: 6 furlongs. jorris. . 112 Powde my .. 02 Ponlll‘l‘un 130 Sun Pal Sarazen Stakes: 110 11 118 116 Golden Mac anter . 1268 T3 n e SIXTH RAC 3-year-olds and up: x ronda 102 S 188 ¢ VENTH RACE—Pure. $1.200; claim- 1ol T e A wp T e . 88 Try . $1.200: cl ! T mnite asd 90 ;mm’ ¢Balboa . duit 94 | play “Arms and the Man,” Ancient City Ruins Yield Old Astronomical Observatory, Is Belief. The oldest astronomical observatory in the Western Hemisphere, dating back centuries before the coming of the white man, may have been un- earthed from the ruins of the anclent Maya city of Copan, in Guatemala, ac- cording to information laid before the National Academy of Sclences last night by Dr. John C. Merrinm, presi- dent of the Carnegle Institution of Washington. Although the institution is not yet ready to designate it definitely "as such, Dr. Merriam told the members of the academy that the institution’s archeological expedition to Yucatan and Guatemala had partially exca- vated a structure, which, from con- struction and position, gave every in- dication of having been used by the Maya priests for astronomical obser- vations, Indians Probably Sclentists. | Considerablo data had previously been obtained showing that these Ir dians, who set up the greatest abo- riginal culture in the Western Hemi- sphere, were probably accomplished | astronomers. They developed a re. markably accurate calendar, and it is hoped that the discovery of their ob- servatory n st in more ac- curate corre Ma; Christian calendars. Another important discovery this on, Dr. Merriam told the demy, was that of a much older and much more beautiful temple buried beneath another te: le at Chichen Itza, where the Maya had their religious capital, in Yucatan. This new temple has just been found beneatk the Temple of the Warriors, now almost completely excavated, and it may push the date of the first founding of Chichen Itza back many more years. Explanation Offered. The only theory yet advanced to explain the presence of the new burfed temple, Dr. Merriam said, is that some high priest, jealous of the artisticachievements of a predecessor, determined to efface the results of his handiwork and built the larger Temple of the Warrlors squarely over the carlier one. Modern civilization, however, has not only uncovered his deceit, but it has found that his art was inferfor to that of his predecessor. _Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller | Foundution presénted one of the most | remarkable motion pictures ever shown. It was a complete film of the activities ‘of blood cells, the picture showing these life cells actually at work. Other speakers included Dr. Henry Norris Russell of Princeton, Dr. Dayton C. Miller, Dr. Frank M Chapman, Dr. R. . Bassler. Talks of Seismic Disturbances. Dr. E. W. Brown, professor of as- tronomy at Yale University, declared that the earth probably goes through a process of swelling and shrinking, the difference sometimes amounting to 12 feet. Dr. Brown expressed a belief that this process would account for selsmic disturbances, the theory be- ing that the more brittle outer crust fafls to expand and contract to the same extent as the inner layers, bringing about sudden displacements of the esurface. “and VIRGINIA INVITES 13 BOVERNORS TO FETE| President to Speak at Celebration of Signing of Independence Resolution. By the Associated Press. WILLIAMSBURG, Va., April 27— Governors of the thirteen original States have been invited to attend the celebration here on May 15 of the ses- qui-centennlal of the adoption of the Virginia resolutions, which culminated in the Declaration of Independence. President Coolidge will deliver the principal address. The_invitations were extended by Gov. Byrd of Virginia and were sent to the chief executives of Massachu. setts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Delaware.. All are expected to attend either in person or by personal reperesentative. Although the adoption of the Vir ginia resolutions was not the first move of the American colonies for independence from Great Britain, it was this movement that received the support that led to the formation of the United States. As early as May 20, 1775, patriots of Mecklenburg County, N. C., adopted resolutions pointing toward independence and forwarded them to their delegates in Congress, who considered it inadvis- able, however, to lay them before that body. In July, 1775, Massachu. setts framed a new government in which the King of England was not recognized, and her example was fol- Jowed in January and March of the next year by New Hampshire and South Carolina. Other colonies express- ed a willingness to concur in any measure in which Congress might think most effective in promoting in- dependence, but it remained for the Virginia convention, in session here on May 15, 1776, to formally initiate the movement which culminated in the Declaration of Independence. — . ROOSEVELT BUYS RESORT. Franklin D. Purchases Property nf‘ Warm Springs, Ga. ‘WARM SPRINGS, Ga., April 27 (#). —Announcement was made here today of the purchase of the Warm Springs resort by Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, former assistant secretary of the Navy, from George Foster Pea- body, also of New York, principal owner of the corporation. The pur- 3% | chase price was not given. Mr. Roosevelt made no announce- ment as to the detalls of the purchase by him and his associates, or future developments, other than to say he expected to make the property an all- the-year-round resort. SUES FOR FILM RIGHTS. Shaw Charged With Hurting Sale of “Chocolate Soldier.” NEW YORK, April 27 (P).—Jesse A. Levinson brought suit in Supreme Court yesterday against George Ber- nard Shaw, British dramatist, to es- tablish his exclusive ownership of mo- tion picture rights to the German op- eretta ‘“Der Tapfers Soldat” and its English adaptation, “The Chocolate Soldier.” 4 Levinson asserted he has been un- able to market the motion picture rights because of Shaw's contention that the operetta is a burlesque of his and that Iits use in motion pictures would be an Infringement of his copyright. though the budget will come out this year with a_comfortable margin, President Coolidge has bLeen informed that the figures for next year indicatg a budget deficit approximating $21,000,000. On this basis the President was represented today as belleving that continuing appropriations would be difficult to finance in view of the present situation. The retirement plan sponsored by the administra- tion, as outlined by the President veste to Senator Stanfleld of Oregon, would continue the current annnal expenditure of $17,815,000, and, according to the Lord plan, would not rise to the limits of ex- penditure in continuing appropri tions set forth in the Lehlbach or Stanfield bills. DR MORE. 5. CLERKS GIVE TOMEMORIAL Department of State and 1. C. C. Employes Donate $244 and $295. Employes of two more Government departments have added their contri- butlons to_the fund for a District of Columbla War Memorial, it was an- nounced today by John Poole, treas- urer of the fund, augmenting the total by more than $: Government workers in the Inter- state Commerce Commission sub- seribed $294.99, and in the Department of State, $244. Reports of additional activity among the veterans' organizations have reached the memorial commisslon, and indications point toward additional stimulus among the other patriotic or- ganizations of the city. ‘Additional contributions of more than $10 were announced today as fol- lows: $150—Gist Blair. $100—Mrs. Agnes V. Scott, Hugh A. 'mployes of Dulin & Martin Co. razee Potomac Laundry Co. Cmployes of the Munsey and Building. Anton Stephan. Willis Selby. 10—H. Clifford Bangs, Dr. C. E. Ferguson. OLD-TIME MINISTER DIES. Rev. A. F. Gustafson Was a Cam- paigner for Abraham Lincoln. QUIN Mass., April 27 (P).—Rev. Adolph F. Gustafson, who campaigned for Abraham Lincoln in Indiana two- thirds of a century ago,is dead at his home here. He was born in Sweden 91 years ago and served in the Civil var. N e was pastor of a Methodist Epls- copal church at Chesterton, Ind., when Abraham Lincoln was nomi- nated for the presidency. He took the stump for Lincoln, organized Scandinavian clubs and conducted allies. He served in the 73d Indlana olunteers in the war. —e GETS LIFE SENTENCE. St. Clairsville, Ohio, Man Admits Slaying His Stepmother. ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio April © (®)—Pleading guilty to second d gree murder for the slaying of his stepmother, Mrs. Lunda Hogue, three months ago, Kenneth Hogue was to- day sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor in the penitentiary at Co- Jumbus. Hogue, who celebrated his twentleth birthday in jail last Sunday, confessed that he Kkilled his step- Iother because of a three-year grudge against her for having ac- cused him of stealing $3. Today in Congress Senate. The debt settlement with the Re- public of Latvia is before the Sen- ate today, to be followed by the debt agreements with several other small nations. Interstate commerce committes held executive session to consider pending bills for the regulation of radio. Public lands committee heard testimony on several bills affecting the houndaries of national parks in the West. Tariff investigation went on be- fore special Senate committee. Committee on territories held hearing on legislation for Porto Rico and the Philippines. Judiclary subcommittee met on all roperty bilis. (?;:’lfpmm 3( Senate and House met to adjust differences on Dis- trict appropriation bill. House. Victor Berger, Soclalist, Wiscon- sin, addressed the House for 30 minutes, followed by Representa- tives Holliday of Illinois and Jacob- steln of New York, who discussed the coal situation. Mrs. Kahn of California got unanimous consent to speak for 30 minutes on Thursday on reappor- tionment. The House this afternoon is considering the question of special consideration for a bill to reor- ganize the customs service. Subcommittee of House District committee continued hearng on Juvenile Court bill. Gibson subcommittee of House District committee continues cross- examination of Commissioner Fen- ning tonight at 7:30 o'clock in caucus room of the House Office Bullding. Subcommittee of appropriations committee, in executive session, considers second deficiency appro- priation bill. Banking and currency commit- tee holds hearing on stabilization, with Dr. Miller of Federal Reserve as principal avitness. Interstate commerce committes conducts hearing on coal legisla- tlon. . Forelgn affairs committee con- siders miscellaneous matters. Merchant marine committee con- duets hearing on Shipping Board operations. Rules committee conducts hear- ing on rivers and harbors bilL. Committee on agriculture executive session. ¢ Public lands committeo holds hearing on relief for certain lands in Oregon and Washington. Insular affairs committes holds regular meeting in executive ses- ~sion. Veterans' committee continues aa-.rin; on guardianship legisla- jon. Judiclary committee continues subcommittes hearing on bills re- lating to the penal code. Committee on education conducts hearing on motion picture bills. Naval affairs committee con- ducts hearing on purchase of air- craft, with Admiral Campbell as principal witness. A in SHODTING REVEALS ' GUN BUYING EASE Elgin Held After Wounding of Woman, Says He Purchased Weapon While Drunk. Out of a fumbled mass of evente swrrounding the shooting and serious wounding of Mrs. Mary C. May, 4 vears old, of Wilmington, Dei., ! front of the Raleigh Hotel yesterda: afternoon by a stray shot from 2. pi< tol in the hands of Carroll Eigin 24-yearold elovator starter at The tar Building, there arose an {llustra tion of the result of the ecsy uwccess bility which liquor-crazed men Washington have to re rs and & munition. The bullet of Mrs. May of her brain | which entered the hea:d o is lodged at the base Her condition continues critical at Emergency Mospital. Behind cell bars at the first pre cinet, Elgin, just emerging from the stupification produced by three pints of corn liquor, attempted to plecs to gether the events leading up to the shooting. Like a Bad Dream. all like a bad drea “I don't know wh I came on duty at morning, an Liac been drinking on an empty stomach I suppose I took about a pint of that lliquor in less than an hour. J don’t have any good recollection abou: time. I remember that 1 went ou and got the pistol and then across the street und got the « tridges because the man who me the pistol didn't have had probably drunk a pint of when I made those purchages. the pay roll for the elev that I had gotten fro: carlier in the day, but to get away with it truth. I even went buck and ga the pay roll to Willlam Hollander the elevator operator in the rear of the building. “Then I went out on the stree wanted a taxicab. ing's blurred. I remember &n argum: with the taxicab man. I remembe the explosion. I didn't even see an: woman around. I don't eve pulling the trigger, but I 1 done it. “Then 1 got into a and got caught.” Drunk When He Got Gun. Outstanding was the fact that he was un influence of a pint of coi er he bought the revolver and cartridges M. Berman, tailor and pawn sale shop proprietor, at 10 today that he knew I and had done tafloring work for h Berman said Elgin came into the store earl: yesterday morning to purchaze & pistol, but asked that it be put aside for him and held until he could par for it later in the day. Around noor Berman sald, Elgin returned and pali for the pistol. Berman declared he detected no evidenc the customer. At Groc street, at the corner of E streets, where the c “IU'S said. tol. o'clock in the 1! ‘the purc! 32 caliber pistol are forgotten by gin, according to his statement. B! to friends and witnesses to whom b spoke yesterday prior to the ehooting statements are alleged to have bee: made by him indicating that a “break up” with his sweetheart was respons ible. Elgin denied this at the first pre cinet toda tating t the estrange ment from ‘i girl’ was of threc months standing und that it nott ing to do with it. Story of Affair. From police and witnesses, the stor: of the entire affair yesterday appar tly is as follows: enEigin appeared at the cashier’s win dow early in the day and collectes as usual, the $123 pay roll of the elovator operators. At this time ther \was nothing to indicate he had been drinking. Then he left the building he savs, to purchase a cap, Which Le is now wearing. He returned, R saye, of his own volition to distributs e pay envelopes. mm‘;ei- it was discovered that proximately $33 was missing, o and above Elgin’s own pay, from envelopes. From one of the envelopes {turned over $18 had been taken From another §15 had been taken. Investigators state that he returned only after being warned that a search for him was getting under way in belief that he was attempting to n\i\k.. off with the pay roll. He was seen in front of the Harrington Hotel, ac cording to investigators. by a tru driver employed by The ‘Star warned to return. Then he camo back and handed over the envelopes to an elevator operator and went to the front of the building. When offi clals of the building learned he was back, police of Ne. 1 precinct were notified to come and arreet him, but by the time they arrived he had gone. Tried to Get in Taxi. olgin eventually arrived at tue 'l‘v}:elE;’v.h street entrance to the Raleigh Hotel. He endeavored to get into l!h' taxicab of C. A. Pepper of 1010 Co lumbia road. When Pepper appeared unwilling to take him the pistol wis whipped out and discharged. The bullet missed Pepper. But i whizzed by his head and struck Mrs. May, who was awaiting her husband outside the hotel. She was rushed to Emergency Hospital, while Elgin covering _ another taxleab _driver Henry G. Bahr, with the pistol, or dered him to drive away fast. Bahr obeyed. i The cab was rushing along until § reacheff Fourteenth street and Penn- sylvania avenue, by which time an- other taxicab, operated by Charles W. Galloway of 31 K street northeast crowded the fugitive cab, with the result that Traffic Policeman Carl G Paul, at the intersection, was able to arrest and disarm Elgin, taking him to police headquarters. Elgin at this time was in no con dltion to make a_statement, in the opinion of the police, but later gave police the name of the man fron whom the liquor was purchased. As a result Precinct Detective Mes ser of the first precinct, with Police man Stepp, arrested Gustav A. Gersh er, 47, ot 416 Tenth street, who, cording to police, signed a voluntar: statement admitting the sale of llquor to Elgin. Elgin also is salu to hav: signed such a statement as to p chase from Gersher. Gersher wis charged with sale and {llegal posscs ston of liquor. OLD-TIME BOND A JOKER. Holder of 72-Year Georgia Secu:- ity Denied Redemption. ATLANTA, April 27 (®).—A man i California who holds a State of Geor gia bond of $1,000, dated 1854, will finil he holds a joker, State Treasurer Wil- Ham J. Speer has announced. The 72-year-old bond was presented at the capitol this week in the form of clalm for payment. The treasurer will not make pay ment and will demand the return of the document as stolen property which, he asserted, was taken along V with much other “loot” by the troop- of Gen. Sherman during_the latter's famous march through Georgia. A- for the bond, it is not a real bond, 1 asmuch as it was never issued, tie treasurer