Evening Star Newspaper, May 27, 1926, Page 2

o N INDIGTMENT - DISWISSAL ASKED L=rhert Submits ['so Urging R2'case of Chinese on Bond. *F His Freedom Sought | = | Petition: Tiemiesal of the mu indictment | mzainst nx Run Wan, who three| tipies has gone on trial for his lite in ennnsction with the <avinz here in | 1719 of Bon Nen \Wu. an undersacre- | Yary At tha Chinese sadlonal M on. was askad todiv v oa petition ! filad bv Witton 1 Laemdy . ehiaf of dor in i eovntered “tinn on the petition, | lustice Aaolph . Hoehling. wh him his hherty ior the first time ! v hich i his finst teial hay enansel for 1 rwecnsad Chinese, If an untowari de is 1o be'en | the 1eleasa on tall of the defendant | in the interi is asked, | | €orsented 1a near 1he application. may | Feleaw Wan rhis aiternnon thus giv- | i seven years. duiing A portion of | Fe wns in the death cell at the | nviction and entence to i | Gordon to Nee Sargeat. Tnited Srates Attorney Gordon has frequently announced that he will not oppose the release of the Chinese uease a4 satigoctory bond, which he thin should he approximately s Maj. Gordon has had a con ference th Attorney General Sargent “nd says he will conier azuin with hix uperior before deciding whether to] the case again 0 enter a| Aizmiseal. Wan is reported as heing ‘opposed | te a velease on bail if it means an| indefinite postponement of the 1 rision to Arop the case. He expressed | the Adesire tn he axanerated by a jury. In asking for a dismissal of the wtment. and If any unnecezsary | Feley accompaniss such metion, that | "" he admirted 1o hail. the d-l!ndlm‘ slse acke the cour Tty i e e TR ves in the morning half of the very limited resources. |[aecond - dex apiny Sat | INGOLF TOURNEY Tuckerman. With 82, Lowest in Morning Round of Middle Atlantic. e T:; petition reads: vound for the Middle Atlantic golf _After being confined in jall since | -hamplonship Was on Go Tebruary, 1919, under indictment for | "d":" e l'h’ N sk ~",“" the allezed murder of ona Ren Sen Aan ‘ountry Club today ran high. Wu. petitioner was tried upon the| AN 82 registered by Waiter fourth count of sald indictment In the monthe of January and February.| 1926, said trlal lasting aby five veake and resulting in a disagreerhent of the jury, 10 of the jurvmen voling for an acquittal and ? against. Juries’ Votes Are Cited. ahout the 12th of April, 1926, Patitioner was azain placed on trial nd after five or six weeks' trial and ahout 30 hours of jury deliberation, a Aizugreement was raported. with state- mente varving as to the jury having stood from 10 16 2 1o 8 1o 3 for ac- auittal, thereby the fwn juries having ziven patitinner aach a vots of over twn.thirde—in fact, about 50 per ceat| for complete axaneration of the charge againet him. “Petitioner save that notwithatand- i3 lowest card turned in this ing. Tuche wn's K2 was certain to g iy in b ampionship flight. as many of the leading plavers of the Middle Atlantic section: play in | 'he qualifying round this afternvon The only other score turned in up noon today was the card of 88, made by J. Holt Wright. Earl McAlee L. Houghton and Harry G. Pltt Manor Club_stars; Gor F. Waod of -Richmond and K. F. Kellerman and J. F. Brawner, of Columbia. were among the men expected to xcore low today. the “om | | Scoring Is Mediocre. A day marked by mediocre scoring found George J. Voigt of Bannoc burn and R. T. Harrell, the Congres. . sional Country Club champion. en- ARl e som | tered from Wasnington. In the van of e e i vty | nearly fouracore Koifers who trudged 4 et : |over the hills and valleys of the =nd exoneration. In support of the | o 4 e forezoing statements of-fact and alle. | VWashington Colt and Country Chub cations. petitioner submita the af Bt il “davite of a large majority of the s furors whe sat in each of said trials, with the concurrence of their individ: nal recommendation for dismissal of the indictment and for the releass of the netitioner. rafore the premises haing con- ed. petitionar prave, first, that if Anv appreciahle Adelay be necessary pending said dismissal. this honorable court fix such reasonable hail for petitioner a= that, considering his vers limlted resontces. he may be anls ta furnieh o obtain his fresdom. Tue. that thie honerabls court arder | v Adiract an approval of dismissal or nnlle prae of tha indictment. Three. 0 such other and further rellef as the nase may require and to the erurt may sesm just And proper.” BOBBY JONES WINS OVER BRITISH STAR IN GOLF TOURNEY (Continued from First Page.) Middle Allantic (¢ champlonship. Voigt and Harrell each scored 17, one shot in front of the long-hitting Page Hufty of Congressional, holder of the Pinehurst North and South championship. These three und John H. Davidson of Washington were the only plavers in a group of 76 who started to finish under 80. Only players turned in cards. The other ran up scores too highto racord or succumbed to the rigors of the hilly course across the Potomac. Figh. players turned in cards of 24 or better. but probahly the acores above $2 will not get in the champlon- ship fight, as the class of the field which started today in the classic wa® even better fn scoring possibili- tiea than the group which played ves- terday. Neither Hassell nor Voigt ran into 1 any bad holes, playing steady golf all the way around. Ilarrell secured a | birdie 3 on the seventh hole and Voigt played his usual machine-like game { with nary a birdie gracing his card Hufty secured birdie 3s on the ffth and thirteenth, but ran up a 6 on the tricky seventeenth 1o boost his acore to 78. Frank Roesch of Washington after & 3--3—7 start played splendid golf to finish with a card of 80 Gunn weni et in 37. ane under par, | George P. Lynde of Washington too! this morning, when he won fram A, [a 9 on the tenth hole. while John €. Koon, scorinz birdiex an the third | Bryan. also of Washington. ran up & and Afth holes. The cards: | imilar total on the fifteenth out: ! Dinner Tomorrow Night. Gunn 443346346371 Gen. James A. Drain, president of Koon 54455544541 pe ciub and former national com. Guan Undeterred by Wind. mander of the American Legion, will ! preside a1 a tournament dinner to unn- wae hitting the ball In fine i morrow night. Senator Pat Harrison fashion undisturbed hy the wind. He | of Mississippi. A club member and an won four out of the fAirst Ave holes, | enthusistic golfer. will present the the second being halv fours. He | prizes tn the winners Saturday after- red his birdie on the 307-vard ffth | noon, . he reached the green with hik | The scores turned in vesterday fol- sécond shot. “He 1ost the sixth after going into | hunker with his second and missing | ard putt for a half. | 0on missad a 4-footer for a half | the «hort seventh. The eighth | halved in perfect fours.- On the !, 82 ninth Gunn was hunkered with his | iumbia sscond shot. but got the ball out and | Af— o1 10 the green with his third. Then | K"} H# lost the hole by taking three puits. | 87—G 20n the homeward route. Gunn won | dnd the tenth whan his opponent had | "RR--R.S. Merryman téouble in the hunkers. He alan fook | Dizgs. Iadian Spring the twelfth with a fine:3, but lost the | '"%82": . figreanth. when his hall went into a | Washinkto téap. The cards for the ast aiz holes:| Lynde. W Ginn. 443 2 s a4l e n Ngon. 54 43 4 A ineton: ¢ ZThe young Georgian's goif pleased | S1—F T oth i Wakhinkion: the gailery immensely. but it did not | cumminge. Folumbia: . R Honver. fndin s€em 10 please hini. e continually | Serin: " . o arked 1o his friends that he was | 5oL W Hegon Colimbia; John Brsap. not hitting the ball satisfactorily, but | €. Garnett. Washington: G."C. Todd, Wash- nHbody seemed to agree with him, par- | ington. tigularly his opponent. 94D, % Fvans' Conqueror Beaten. ; . D. Gillies, who defeated Ja /! Standish of Detroit yveaterda fminated J. B. Beck, Chick Evans’ cenqueror, by 1 up. H Rirnia took only the ninth hole in hfe mateh with Bobby Jones this morning. The American champion holed a 10-fnoter for a bhirdie 4 on ' the 438-vard te.th. The card: Oud— Jones. . Bitnie.. An— " Jones. . Bz‘fll 5 5 Fritish champlons faced sach other in the history of the RBritish amateur ! championship eompatitions, R. T. Harrell, Washington, and G. J. Bannockburn. Page Hufty, Congressional n, Washington. Bl—A. L. R3_E. L. L . Indian Soring: Harre F. De Moll, Colum- Rannockburn ward, Washington: Panl Y. H. Wilma, Indian Colnmbia. Washington: R, W. T. Rarnes. Wash: Saum. Columbia: V. €. Dicker. W. © Fvana Columbia 5 n Ho Columbia: K. Cornwel hinkion. B Wannarkburn: Dr. J. Washington: €. G. Duganne, H. Dflv!‘"I_hir.. Washington, . Washington R B . Col Hueh 3P ) i “hureh. Washing! sekburn J ! ckburn R. Thomas. Wi Columbia: F. S . & Warner, . Columbia —C, ongress) Washington: E. Peters, Bannockburn: Major hh. Banockburn . R. Wast, Columbia. Costello Post Will Officiate. During the observance of Decora- tion day next Monday a white oak tree on the Department of Agricul- ture grounds, planted by former Sec- B 4 45 3 4 the qualifying Tuckerman of the Burning Tree Club | Association | ‘LeFevre, Washing. | ‘Bobby plaved machinelike golf un. til the ninth, where he sent hie ec: ond over a wail to the left of the green, 16king &troke and distance. but even with that had a fine aggre- gate for the nine of 39. “Freshening landward winds ren- dered the judgment of long rhots dif- fidult. Jones was getting pienty of distance, as usual, but was often off the fairwa He was in little actual touble, ho Where hiz tee shot came to rest In the bottom of a bunker, only a foot from ite stesp face. He made a beau- tiful recovery. and was down in par 5. ;Charles Brower, former Princeton r. was eliminated by Lieut. Comdr. f, McMaster, who finished 2 up. “‘-.Yul Sweetser this morning defeat- J. D. McCormack, former Irish c@.;pion. 4 and 3. ‘e He| réquired seven strokes on thix hoie, | ver, except on the fifth,| employes of the Department who sac- rificed their liver in the World War, will be decorated with a flag and cut flowers by a committee from Costello Post of the American Legion. —— Noted Britons li;e. Sir Auckland Geddes, former British Ambasador to the United States, and Lord Stradbroke and Lord Dunwich were presented to President Coolidge today by Sir Esme Howard, the Brit- ish Ambassador. Mnss:lini Back in Rome. ROME. May 27 (®).—Premie Mussolini returned today from h .trip to Genoa, where he observed the 11 anniversary of Italy’'s entrance into the World Wi retary Houston in memory of the 87| {New York Society Woman Is Accused As “Queen” of 85,000,000 Swindle Gang THE EVEN BUILDING PROGRAM STUDY 1S BEGUN $10,000 000 for First Year’s Work Here Expected to Be Voted at This Session. * l The Public Bulldings Commission iny buckled down to the task of | I of the many {ment burenus in Washington in need lof hetter housing accommoglations { should he caved for during the firat £ the $50.000.000 building pro- e by Congress, Republicun, of ! wn of the commis- Islon, wnnounced follawing the meei- !ing thut the commisslon was net able | At the brief meeting today to reach definite conclusions, but sald consid eration of th: problem would e re. sumed iom morning. The comm| iv procesding on the expectati the first annu installment of $10.000.000 will he ea vied in the deficiercy bili to be consid- ered by Congress just before adjourn- ment. Exact Procedure Undetermined. It is not definitely known at thir time whether the commission will fhave S prepare detailed estimates swing each project to be Arst in inseriing priation in the daficiency bill. | Should it be found that sach item will have to be ifled, the Fuilding Com- mission will have to hasten itx dect sion ax to the program for the first vear. The (overnment considerable amount of land that would he available for permanant huilding sites, but quite a number of | these sitex have heen avcupfed since | | the war by the temporary structures. already owns & Relocation 1s Problem, One of the serions problems facing the huilding commission is that of lo- ating temporarily bureaus now quar- tered in these temporary buildings. it it is decided 1o place some of the first permanent buildings on those sites Hecause of the congestion and un | satstactory housing conditions exist- | ing in %0 many hranches of the Gov- ernment here the commission i fac- {ing no easy tusk in deciding where velief should b provided at the start, Although a variety of plans have been discussed from time to time for A RIeAl IANY Veurs as to where new Government bujldings might be lo cated, members of the Buildings Com- mission have reached no final concl sion and are not discussing publicly the tentative proposals until a definite plan is agreed upon. CAPT. WHITEHURST ~ GVEND.C. PO i | Engineer Officer to Succeed i Maj. Wheeler in Office of Col. Bell in June. | 1 | Capt. Herbert C. Whitehurst, Corps | {of Engineers, who has been detailed | by the War Department to succeed | { Maj. Raymond A. Wheeler, Assiman: | | Doix Fingineer Commissioner, who | will 1eave Washington next month te iattend the command and general staff | | chool At Fort Leavenworth, Kana.: is| i expected to report for duty to En-| i ineer Commissioner J. Franklin Rell | {June 5. | When | Capt. Whitehurst report, C‘ommissioner Bell plans to rearrange the duties of all three Assistant Fn- gineer Commissioners if the bill now pending providing for the appointment iby the President of a separate Public { Utilitien Commission is passe: | gress. 1t in Col. Bell's present inten {tion to detail Maj. W. E. R. Covell, now assigned to public utilities, to al. \Wheeler's work on the Zoning pmmission. his assignment also it supervision over the bullding in- spector'a office, the highway, bridge {and trees and parkings departments, Capt. Whitehurat wonld take over | Maj. Covell's work on the Public | Utilities Commission and assiat Maj. William H. Holcombe. Capt. Whitehurst has heen wor fin | arrien with ing the district engineering office at | Florence, Ala.. In connection with the | Muscle Shoals project. He i a native iof Virginla and a graduate of the Vir- |ginia_ Polytechnic Institute. Refore {#ntefng the Army he had a wide en. iginearing experience with Fvans, Al I mirall & Co. of New Tork as esti- mator, draftsman and designer. 1$5,000,000 NOW BID | FOR PRESIDENT SHIPS Oreglnn Group Attacks Sale to Dol- lar Interests as Blow to Seattle Service. | By the Associated Preas SEATTLE, May -A group of Portiand shipping men, known a& the Dawson-Thorndyke interests. havs | made an offer of $5.000,000, one-fourth |cash, for the five Rhipping Board ves. | sels operated out of Seattle to the Far Fast, in an effort to prevent their sale to R. Stanley Dollar of 8an Francisco. A telegram xent to Senator Jones, Republican, Washington, by Charles 1. Peabudy, one of the men interested {in the DawsonThorndyke merger, follows: “*Bofure Board ¢ finally will , then nt and Shipping closes deal with Dollars which | enable Dollars firs to crippl |dentroy, Reattle service to Ori { complefe American monopoly on Pa- cific, we desire place our service ir- | revoeably on record for this city’'s 1#ake by offering to pay $5,000.000 for five President shipe. We will execute |the contract for their maintenance on [ present runs for five vears, without right to divert them or any of them to any other service anvwhere. ( Govern. | carried | the $10,000.000 | | breaking _up of services of C. i STAR, WASHINGTO Sesqui Carpenters Speed as Martial Band Keeps Time By the Associated Press, PHILADELPHIA. May 27— Martial music has heen called into play to speed up construction of bulldinga of the Sesquicentennial International Exposition, which opens next Monday. Battie songa And other inapiring airs were 1o he played today by the Philadeiphia police band 2% It marches through the grouds of the exposition, halting nt unfinished butldinge to encourage the workmen to greater effort. At Camp Anthon, penters nre wor day to complete bar e are to he stationed during n. the band played for an hour vesterday, hamm planes keeping time with the mu- wiv. NORTHEAST T0 GET NEW PLAYGROUND 28,000 Square Feet at Ninth and E Streets Are Or- dered Condemned. Wayne, whe e night and cke where demund for an increase in the plavground facilities in the north- | anat saction of the city was met to- day by the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. At ita first aes- sion, when it ordered the condemna tion of the northweat cornsr af Ninth and I siresie northeast for playground purposes. The parcel of land com '$,000 square feet. and when afforta were made 1o purchase it the owners absolutely declined 1o sell. Ac cording to Maj. Cary Brown. assistant director of the Office of Public Ruild ings and Public Parks. hickly Settled Area. 1 queation Ik In a thickly mettled nreq of the northes: which Is practically devoid of pluyground facili tes amd 1« one of the few open xi Ieit theve. Thie determined (i mmission 1o order condemnati which wiil be institute immedinted v, amd ux xoon ux they pass throush the court the lund will he turned over to the District of Colum- bia for use In establishing A phay ground. The Urgent prises In ‘The plot [ minfssion also dirécted the condemuation of a parcel of land at Seventeenth and Mount Pleasant streets and Piney Branch Valley sidered as necessary for the comple- ton of that part of Piney Frs Parkway. As in the former c owner hare alsn declined to sell. plot comprizes about £0.000 square feer. ‘The purchase of approximately 12 Acres of land in what is known as Soapstone Valley was authorized by the commission At & comt of $36.000. This l1and liex between Connecticut avenue and Rock (reek and is con sidered necessary to prescrve one of the tributaries of that stream in the general plan of protecting the wate rhed of Rock Creek. Survey Recently Made. ¢ The park and planning committse of the commission recently made an extensive survey of this area and at that time decided that it preservation WAR ADAOIULSIY NecessAr: The commission adjolrned to meet on June 18 next. when i1 is expected to have all of the new members of the hody, recently appointed hv the Preai- pe | dent, in attendance. with the excep- tion of Frederic K. Delano o this elty, | whe i& now in Europe. The commis- sion Ald have at ite meeting today, however, Milton B. Medary, of Philadeiphia. one of the n ap- pointees on the bod GERMANY WILL PROTEST U. S. DUTY ON METALS | Additional Levies on Steel and Iron Products Recently Were Ordered Here. BERLIN, May —The German government intends to lodge a formal protest against the decree of the United Rtates Government imposing | additional duties on imported German iron and steel products. Countervailing duties recently were ordered on importation of German rolling mlll products and manufae- tures thersof hy Assistant Recretary Andrews of the Treasury in charge of cuatoms, ~The action wan taken on the ground that an agreement had bheen reached between German steel manufacturers and consumers which amounted vi tually to & private su The extra duties were ordered 1o 4he amount of the bounties allowed German manu facturers, SHERIFF TAKING STEPS T0 PROTECT EVANGELIST Conducts Inquiry Into Breaking Up of Services Three Times. Preacher Is Threatened. Be the Amsociated Prea TRAVERSE CITY. Mich., May — Circumstances which have led to the W Boman. Traverse City's “flving evi gelist.” three timee in the last fort- night were heing Investigated by Sheriff David R. Campbell today. The last gesture against Boman oc curred Monday night, when several hs kicked Jown the doors of the People’s Gospel "Tabernacle, walked down the alsle to the pulpit, where Boman was leading in prayer, and called him to “come outside and fight like a man.” The first outbreak occurred May 14, when seversl youths stormed the tab- ernacle, hurling egge The attack was repeated May 21. Last Monday night the number of disturbars had swelled to 75, and some of them carried clubs. A greater crowd of men and wom remained outaide, urging the hoys on. By the Associated Press., EW YORK. May 27.—A promi- ent New York society woman will be arrested as the ‘“‘queen” of a $56,000,- 000 State-wide stock fraud and swin- idle gang, Deputy Attorney General Kred K. Lewis announced today, His statement was made after the arreat of Harry Acton, 38 vears old, today on a charge of being & member of. the alleged gang. The name of the woman is not di- vulged. Acton, Tewis sald, was head of the Home Deposit Co. at 59 Wall street, L] and worked throughout the State with 16 subordinates, several of them heing women. The specific complaint on which he was arrested was the alleged swin- dling of Emile Brigaud of $500. Paul Sarazen, alleged to be a member of thé gang, was arrested some time Ago. Mr. Tewls said the gang's opera tions included the establishing of fake banks and deposit companies, the sale of fake stock and schémes whereby farmers and even large New York h.:n rs wers mulcted out of huge sums. § . induced to surrender yet N, D. €, THURSDAY KRIM A PRISONER; - T0 MAKE AMENDS Surrendered Riff Leader Ex- pected to Bow to Sultan Before Exile. b Morooco, May the surrendered Riffian rived at 15 o'cock this at Ize Marouene, north of (, where he was presented, with suite, to the commanding general of the Moroccan division. later he wus conducted to Bou Red, taking the military road towurd Tasa, where [ he ix expectad to arrive tomorrow. | 1t & presumed Krim will be re-| | quired 10 make honorahle amends to the Sultan. hie soversign. with suit- able elahorate orlental ceremonial, he- fore dsparting to the place of exile iprovided for him hy Franee The story of how Abd-El-Krim was remalnk 1o be told. It is presumed he vielded to ArguUments, supported by facts in the shape of rapid gnina in the Erench offensive. He set Krench and Spanish prisoners free to carry the announce- ment of hix surrender to the French. Typhus In Reported. AN of the Freuch prisoners of Abd KLiKrim have heen sent ‘hack to the L #rench lines, bhut as far ax can be judged hie ix not true in the case W the Spuninrds, i French =oldiera say (hat typhus has hroksn out in the Riff. ‘This, with a dwindling In feod supplies and the | loss of most of his war guist, may have cansed Ab | surrender. The prisoner el-Krim's nesgengers who con- | veyed the noi of Abd-el-Krim's an- nouncement o rrender said he ex- pecied to he within the French lines Iast night. Planes to Carry News. His capltulation doss not necessar- ily involve an end of hostilities. It ia thought probable that some chiefs | will try to organize centers of resist- ance and that control of these will | call more (or political than military action, » Ax far As the French zone is con- verned, all the tribes have submitted, With the exception of three of the five xections of the big Reni Zerousl band and a few of the Beni Mestaras north of Ouezzun. 1 ix nrsert of the French rone will 1t space of t News of Abd-ei-Krim's surrender will he announced to the tribes still | holding the fleld by pamphista drop. | ped from airplanes in the course of the day. RIFFS FREE CAPTIV con- | Start Ragged Groups Home With Cap of Champagne. TA Morocco, MAY 2T —ham- pagne wnae the stirrup cup that aped the ragged, way-weary, ill-conditioned French and Spunish prisoners on their way to the French lines, liherty and their homelands after months, even {vears, of privation in the prison camps of the barren, besieged RifY wan a knightly farewell Caid Haddou [ made to his late enemies, as recounted Iby two aviators, Lieut. Commurd and Nergi. Chenu. on arriving at Taza. Th umong the prisoners eLKrim, the Riffian ! . i acknowledgment of his ibmission to the French and Spanish. | Tuesdiy ovening toward 9 o'clock. maid Commard wnd Chenu, after a sultrs dny and when the prisoners feared for their lives under the menace of visible Rifflan disorganiza. tion, Caid Haddon surprised the cap- tives with the news that they would | he liberated the next morning. At davhreak Caid Haddou . assem. bled the prisoners and offerad sach of them A cnp of champagns. Then they were sent off. scarcely comprehanding | what was taking place. surroundsd by | an emcort of cavalry. The calalcade wiraggled through | lately hostile villages, where inhabi. tants, just waking up, came out into the squares (o see the Europeans stumble along. Two Spanish prison- ers who could not keep up with the convor hud to be abandoned by the wayeide. It is helie d_that only a few cap- tives reffain in the hands of Abd-el-Krimn/ These possibly already | are on the way to the Franco-8panish lines from distant parts of the interic CHURCHMEN ARE TOLD OF NEAR EAST RELIEF { Work Among Sufferers Outlined to Prominent Baptists by Officers | of Organization. A luncheon-conference of 8 number of prominent clergvmen attending the Northern Raptist convention in Wash- ington, was held vesterday at the lee ! vith Dr.” John Moore of | 3 . Y. as chairman. The | to discuse the work and | plans of the Near Kast Relief and | John R. Voris, assistant general nec- | of the relief organisation, waa | ncipal speaker. Mr. Voris told | of the wide aspect of the work of the Near East Rellef, of how it wax sup- | ported ~ by denominations .regardiess of affiliations and sounded & call for | trained religious workers for the chil- | | dren 1n the orphanagas. as well A& vo. |cational and_educational worke: Mr. Voris alto made the announce. ment that Dr. Peet, whe has achieved |fame as a Congregational missionary | In Turkey, will he sent over July 1 by | the Federation of Churches as “an | ambassador from the churchea of | America to the churches of the Near Fast.” The announcement also was made that little Zadi, the winsorne little Ar- menian girl who was the feature of the last golden rule dinner in Wash. ington, would prefent a gavel, made trom olive wood from the Garden of | Gethsemane, by bovs in the voca-| tional schools of the Near Kast Re. lief in Jerusalem, to the new modera- tor of the Baptist convention, Satur day morning, at 9:45 o'clock. | Pictures of scenes in the Near East were shown by S. R. Vinton: one of | the orphanage in the Caucasus, where | the temperature racently went to 20 helow zero. Dr. Shailer Matthews, | Aean of the University of Chicago, also made an address, The chairman of tha | committes of arrangements was Dr. | W. S. Abernethy of Calvary Baptist Chureh. Harold 8. Pellegrin. Poto. mae Division, Near Fast Rellef, at- tended the lincheon. COUNTER REVOLT OPENS AGAINST PILSUDSKI Dictator Declares. State of Seige in Several Towns—Galicians Are Aroused. By the Assoclated Press. BERLIN, May 27.—A volt against the Pilsudski gov rnment cording to rumors reaching the Polish legation here. 1t was reported that the Pilsudski government has declared a state of siege fn Lemberg, Cracow, Prremysi and cther towns. counter re- | has hroken out in East Galicia, ac- | MAY 27, 1926. RESCUED WOMAN PRAYS FOR THEM Left to right: Pvt. | After rescuing Mrs. Entelle Pickett. | colored, 41 vears old. from the blazing | pe at the corner | irteenth and D streets early ng Sergi. 1. C. neppier and | Private H. J. Bicksler of No. 18 Kn- gin Company modestly refused the which the grateful woman to heatow upon them. Thia Ald not prevent Mrs. Pickeit. how. | ever. from falling to her knees and | offecing prayers for them as a token of appreciation for their herofsm. | The fire started in a rear room of | the second floor of the dauble huild ing. and when James Plcketr. hus. hanA of the reacued woman, who also | wan rescnad, wan awakened, he inves | tigated the lower floor hastily and | then, returning to get hix wife, found | of T to- day, Act . J. Bicksler a 0 MOROS KILLED [N CLEAN-UP WAR Philippine Constabulary Takes Five Outlaw Forts. Band Makes Another Raid. By the Asor MANILA, May Col. Luther M | Steveus, commanding the Philippine | constabulury forces, now waging | campaign of extermination against {Moro outlaw hunds in the Lanao dis. {trict of Mindunuo, in a telegraphed | report to Munile toduy estimated that 150 Moros have been killed in the three |dayx’ fighting. ‘The total easualties of the constah {lary have been five men killed and 1 { wounded, the wounded including t {ofMcers | No_estimate ix made of the Maro { wounded nor can the numher of the dead he accurately learnad. hecanse Moros friendly to the government forces have refused to ventura intn the mountain districte, where tha out- laws have their strongholds. The mest nerioux fighting of the campalgn o ed vesterday at Tugaya, Lanao, a force of 125 constabulary. under Col. Stevens and Maj. Orville M. Johnson, atiacked the Moro posi ton, in which the outlaws concealed themselves in dugout Outlaws in Another Rald. Last night a band of outlaws n A raid at Basilan. capital of Lanao distriet, wheve they attacked a Chi nese store and wounded two persons The constabulary continued the pur- it of the ontiawse today. after heavy raine had cansed a brief suspension f operations. Other Aispatchas ra indicated that the constabula captured five Mora forts Four Killed in Rioting Col. George T. Langhorne 1'nited States Army, has proceedad to San Fernando, in Pampanga provinee, Luzon, to conduct an investigatinn an hehalf of Governor General Wood of the rioting thera last Sunday night In which 4 persons were killed and 1% Sergt. they were trapped on the upper floor. They rushed to the front window ting loudiy help. The result was a raising of ladders and the safe nduct of the two to the gro members of 16 engine company Preston Pannell. coloved. his wife | and four children, asleep in their rooms on the second floor ened by the smoke and noise in tim to leave the bullding safely. Whil firemen wera atill at work preventin the destruction of three buildings af. focted by the A Tavior's lunchroom on the fi appenred and opened for the dav's business, serving iremen and regular patrons while water from the upper floor was pouring into A portion of the lunchroom. Damage to the hullding and contents was estimated at $1,000, ved fn Manila hae QUAKE BURSTS DAM INAPAN; 18 DRON Mount Tokachi Eruption Toll| Is 60 Dead. 86 Missing, $37.000.000 Loss. | }’ 27 —~The Tokio correspondent of the Kveming News savn a sharp earthquake today At Hakonde, northern Japan. (Hakodat), burst & dam near the town, washing away 30 houses and drowning 18 people. Mount day. has 1 which erupted Mon- resumed its rumbling and alnor earthquakes are terrifying the | <urvivors of the eruption disaster. #6 Still Missing Jn Keuption. TOKIO, May P).—An oficial r port recelved by the home office t day erom the ilokkaido governmen: | sayx that the bodies of 86 vietims of | Monday's disastrous eruption of | Mount Tokachi have actually been received and that 86 persons are miss. | ing_and helieved 10 be dead. The veport astimaies the from the disaster at 80,000,000 ven | @bout $37.000,000). About 1006 per- | sont were made homeless, Further eruptions of the veleano, which re. <nmed activity after a long peried of quiescence, are not now believed likely. Ambassador McVesgh has conveved | to the government offers of ald from | the American Red Cross. The gov-| ernment expressed appraciation of the | v, but said that outside relief wax | damage | GATTI-CAZZAZA GETS | FIVE-YEAR CONTRACT Will Remain as Metropolitan Di- rector, Post He Has Held for 18 Seasons. | By the Asmnciated Proas. NEW YORK. Mav tract of Glulin Gatti-Cazazza ae gen- | sral mansger of the Metrapolitun Opera ("o.. A poat he has held for the last 18 years. has heen ranewed :o extend until May 31, 1931, it was vealed veaterday in a tribute to him The con- he opera company of opera affairs believed ment had been made, ®o that in case the | Metropolilan moves to new quarters. (a project which hae long caused feeling among differing factions in the company) Assurance may he had that Gatti-Cazazza Will he in a posi- tion to lend his advice and experience | in establishing the famous opera in it«_new home. | The tribute from the opera hoard | of directors, signed by Mr. Kahn, =ald. in part: “The Warm Appreciation on the part of the hoard of directors of your devotion, zeal and ability needs no further afirmation. Yon know the high regard in which we hold vou both in vour professional capac- ity and A% a man, and our unafter- able confidence in you. BROKEN WATER LINE FORCES BIG PLANE DOWN Effort to Make One-Day Flight From Atl'lntl to New York Unsuccessful. By the Asmociated Press. ATLANTA, May 27.—A broken wa- ter connection in one of the motors forced Capt. Roscoe Turner to make an emergency landing near Abheville, 8. C., today, an hour and a haif after he had taken off from Atlanta in his big Sikorskey plane on a proposed one-day flight to New York City. The plane came down at a farm- | house just outside Abbeville. The | #hip jumped several ditches and eame | to & stop with one wing resting in an apple tree. Repairs to the motor will be neces: sary before the flight is resumed, and just when it will hop off is not de- termined. The plane carried representatives: | of the Atlanta Junior Chamber of | l‘om:nercl and the municipal govern ment. Briand Cabinet Upheld. | PARIS. May 21 UP.—The Briand | government today was given a vote of confidence by the Chamber of Baputies, 320 te 209, | homes | The ! the | ing | which | my | eliminate the monotony of appearance | modernte in price and e | restdences are heing erected hy Walter wounded. The riot began with a dance hail Jfight. which developed into a general meles hetween moldiers of the Philippine constabulary and | civilians, Meanwhile, 18 constabulary soldiers still ave held in jall by the civil au- thorities at San’ Fernando charged with murder. Both civil and military authorities are attempting to fix re- sponsibility _for the conduct of the constabulary the night of the riot. ‘eeling against the constabulary i running high in Pampanga. hut no further trouble is expected, since the detachment involved has hesn re moved to another post, 50 ARE RESCUED FROM MINE FIRE Workers, Trapped by Explosion. Finally Brought to Safety by Comrades. STUDENTS INSPECT STAR MODEL HOMES Fifty From Manual Arts Classes at Eastern High See New Construction. Fifiy students of the manual arte! department of Fastern MHigh School this morning visited two of the homes being erected am part of the ideal demonstration sponsored by Star, Thix in the third gr of students to \visit (wo or mol r nine model home projects dur. the past six days. Classes from Langley Junior iligh School and \ Kirley Manus raining School ome earlier in the week. students visited the vject at West Virginia Queen street northeasi, is one of the two row-house [ By the Associated Press SCRANTON. Pa. {than 30 men trapped In a burning mine today were rescued after heing ! caught hehind the fire for several hours. ! They were trapped in the second tlevel of the Mount Leokeut mine of the Temple Coal Ca. at Wyoming. avenue and groups In The Star's demonsiratic and the semi-datached houses at Thir- teenth and Upshur streets northeast. enger nave the members of the manual arts clane of Fastern heen to ! Vinit and atudy thess houses that they | | G b3 om and | Smerered Aheir: o bus for the trip. | "R 1€, started: Getween Inemian =haft. A foreman was in the up and he led them to an air ‘hamher where he kept them until rencuers reachad them. The fire started from an undeter mined cause in the 11-foat vein on the second level, ahout 250 feet from the which is being erected by the cypface. It started near the fire hose’ T welcomed chanty snd emergency hospital close . H. Small and Bernard A. 8aul| , the shaft used for hoisting coal and of the construction firm. J. WHmMer | iy Emploves immediately fought Smith, ene of the nine members of [qhe flames. hut. despite thelr effort, it the local chapter of the American In- gyread and cut off escape. Help from stitute of Architects, who are part of i the xurface was summoned. and soon the personnel making possible the [q flond of water was sent down the demonatration, explained the archi-| chaft in many lines of hose. al planx of the row houses as| There were 320 men in the varions designed by him. {levels when the fire atarted. but all In thix profect the students wer: | escaped except those ir the second. shown the steps that have heen taken | They immediately foined in the work in construction and planning to of reacue. ive men n under the leadership of | 'h® E. C. Rick. head of the manual arts department of the scheol. Architeet Explains Plan. purty first visited the row’ project on West Virginia The party The house avenue, . H. Small Co. paged 1o escape, com that often creeps into row-honse proi- | ing out on A mine motor. the meter scts. The Arrangemeénts of the end | runner driving it through the fames houses, the xet-backs, the loention of | to the shaft an feet hevond. garages and the placement of hack | One rescue worker was injured he porches so the of the housew =il | falling timher. h present more harmonions combina. i . tion we atrased, These homes of red colonial brick | SEVEN DIE IN BLAST. designed fo be practical as well as: v to repro- | 3 dies i thel neigtothoon i whien| Ten Infured in Explosionin Swed they weare located, presented an in- | jsh Dynamite Factory. teresting problem to the students, in | that in the hand of the future build-| STOCKHOLM. Sweden. May 27 () ers and architecis will rest the re.|—Seven persons. six of them girle. sponsibility of bewutifying the Na.|were killed und 10 slightiy injured in tiona residential | an explosion toflay at & dynamite fac- gt .in the province of moderate size. The effect of pri- vacy and the kitchen arrangement of these residences were streased. Thoreugh Study Mnde, Following & thorough stu materials and construction the party visited the semi-detached housex at Thirteenth and Upshur streets. The | senator McKellar. Democrat. Tennessee, addresaed ths Senate on farm relief legisiation. Agriculture commitias held an other meeting on-tha Mayfield cot- tonseed ofl bill. Indlan affaire committee i hold ing axecutive seasion. Judiciary committee hald meat ing on the resolution adopted hy the Senate seeking the apinion of the committes on the employment of S8tate officers as prohibition agents. The Senate will hold special ses- sion tonight to take up several Dis- trict of Columbia bills and & num- ber of omnibus pension bills. House. Filibuster starts prompt in House with rivers and harbors bill the special order of business. Judiciary committee continues hearing this afternoon on Blanton impeachment charges againat Com- missioner Fennink. Gibson subcommittee of the House District committes expects to continue its hearings on admin- istration of municipal affairs in eaucus room of House Office Ruild- ing tonight at 7:30. ndiciary committes has hearing Vaughn. ‘They were designfd hy W, H. I. Fleming of the local chapter of the Américan Institute of Architeets, Owing to the ahsence of Mr. Flem- ing. Horace W. Peaslee, chairman of the advisory committee of the Amer- fean Institute, appointed Rohert Beres. ford, who i& designing one of The Ktar's model detached homes, to make & thorough explanation of the semi- detached homes to the stidents. Mr. Vaughn welcomed the class. The clase was particularly impress. ed with the unusual roof treatment of the semi-detached houses. which gives an air of individuality to each. | Proper provision for air above the celling through utilization of reof Hpa A design was outlined tv the class by Mr. Beresford. The students were given a thorough Inaight Into the process of construction in each of the two projects with a firat-hand view of the latest methods of house huilding from foundation to roof. Other classes have already express- ed a deeire to visit these homes, ao they may prove a practical lahoratory in construction and design that will assist them in their technical courses in the District public schools. o COX PAROLE URGED. Oil Man Was Sentenced to Leaven- worth for Eight Years. A parole for 8. E. T. Cox, Houston oil promoter, from l.eavenworth peni- tentiary has been recommended by the Federal Parole Board. % Cox, who was sentenced for eight however, 20. the hoard’s recommendatiol Meanwhile n must be approved by the Attorney General. — It pays to réad the want columns of The Star. Hundreds of situations are obtainéd through them. on two prohibition bills. Interstate commerce committes hold hearing on raiiroad eonsoli- dation. Foreign executive session, calendar. Committee on agriculture con- ducts hearing on_Tincher bill to amend the packers act. Rivers and harbors committee holds regul meeting in executive enni P SKpecial joint committee continues Investigation of Northern Pacifi land grants. Indian affaira executive session, calendar. ° Immigration committea halda et n i o affairs committee in on committee committee in on committee