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§30.000 AWARDED " | TOATTACKED GRL Miss Louise King Wins Half i Her Claim From Youth in % Prison for Life. By the Associated Pre BATTLE CREEK, Mich., June 12 ~A broken jaw and numerous bruises which Louise King, student nurse, testifled she suffered when attacked by Arthur C. Rich, youthful son of a Battle Creek millionaire, were the basls for a jury award of $30,000 to the young woman in Circuit Court here yester: Rich was convicted in March of criminally assaulting Miss King and is now serving a life sen- tence in_State prison. He was not present during the trial. Tt took the jury—four women and elght men—two hours to decide that Aiiss King was entitled to half the $100,000 she asked, after two weeks of court sessions had traced a path { similar to the trial of the assault case. As a climax to an automobile ride on which Rich and Miss King were accompanied by another couple the night of May 25, 1925, the plaintiff declared, young Rich took her to a golf course at the Battle Creek Coun- try Club and attacked her. Meda Reasoner, close friend of Loulse, who was with a boy friend of Rich in the automobile, testified that Miss King was bought to the college dormitory late that night in a dazed condition with her clothes torn and jaw broken. Wine, fired by whisky, was consumed by members of the part testified. Contention of that by smoking cigarettes and rolling her stockings she had invited attack which were injected into the assault trial were not admitted in the damage action. A 20-day stay of judgment to per- mit filing of a bill of exceptions was granted counsel for Rich, but the court took under advisement a motion 10 relieve the vouth's father and grandfather of $20,000 capias bail, AMUNDSEN MAY SAIL NORGE ACROSS COUNTRY Cablegram to San Francisco Taken to Mean He May Accept Pro- TRAFFIC BILL ADVANCED. Conferees of House and Senate to Meet Next Week. A conference between the Senate and House on the differing portions of the new traffic bill will be held early next week as a result of the action of the Senate in naming its conferces. They are Senator Capper, chairmar of the committee, and Sen- ators Sackett of Kentucky and King of Utah. The Senate made a number of changes in the House bill, including a revision of the definition of traffic which eliminated control of. pedes- trians and the striking out of the sec- tion designed to prevent taxicabs from having stands in front of ho- tel nd at Union Station. BILS GET BY CONGRESS Sixty-Two Introduced During Session, But Few Are Enacted. Sixty-two bills affecting the District have been introduced in Congress dur- ing the present session and only 15 of them have been enacted, according to a report prepared today by En- gineer Commissionar J. Franklin Bell, Legislation enacted, as schown by Commissioner Bell's report, follows: Authorizing the delivery of water from the Washington aqueduct to Arlington County, Va.; authorizing the purchase of land for the Rock Creek and Potomac parkway; author- izing the widening of First street northeast between G and Myrtle streets; authorizing the establish- ment of artificial bathing beaches: authorizing the acquisition of land at Cherry Hill Va, for a garbage reduction plant; an act giving the Commissioners general authority to open streets in accordance with the highway plan where all or any part of the cost may be assessed; author- izing transfer of jurisdictlon over a part of Anacostia Park for use as a tree nursery; authorizing transfer of land on Upshur street. An_act amending the act creating the National Capital Park Commis- sion: an act amending an act relative to the height of buildings (National ng the trans- the Conduit road; changing the system of fees in posal of Citfes. By ths Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, June .12.—The Chamber of Commerce has received a cablegram from Capt. Roald Amund- sen which it interprets to mean that he may consider a proposal to fly the ible ge across the United States. Amundsen is at Nome, Alaska, with party, while the dirigible is crated the Pole from Spitzbergen. Amundsen recently de- clined invitations to visit various American cfti saying he would go direct from Seattle to New York en route to Norway. Seattle and other coast cities have asked Amundsen to reinflate the Norge at Seattle and fly it across the country. THREE PLAYS PRESENTED AT PARK VIEW SCHOOL Puplls in Casts of Offerings Last Night—Money to Be Used for Equipment. ! “A Midsummer Night's Dream” and two other plays, “A College Joke” and “The Birthday of the Infanta,” wers presented at the Park View Platoon School last night under the direction of Grace G. Meyer, teacher in dra- Tuplls of the school made up and the money derived from the performance will be used in pur- View equipment. Miss rley 1s principal of the | ool 1 "hose in the cast of the three plays ; were “Midsummer George Peratino, 1 raham ‘King, | weon, t Smutzer, Frank | ¢ Haines, Thear Reichn, Rolando, Applaby Rie Ogden, | lard La Wall, | Simpson and | the Infanta"— argaret Thrift, ard Ridhenbacker, Ellsworth Everett, Helen Dick. swald Schneider, Carl Myer Dorothea Miss of the orchestra. JAMES H. KING, 86, DIES; VETERAN OF UNION ARMY Served With Western Union Tele- graph Company 45 Years—Fu- neral Monday Morning. * James H. King, $6 vears old, Army veteran and formerly for the Western Union Telegr: for which organization he worked for 45 vears, died at his residence in the Clifton Terrace Apartments vesterday. Born in New York City in 1840 King came to Washington in 1867 and { 4 had resided here since. tirad as an employe of the telegraph 413 sons, Charles nd o daugh King of this city, who were with him when he died. He also leaves a sister, Mrs. Addie Sanford of Newark, > six grand- children and three great-grandchil- dren. Private funeral services will be con- ducted 2 1 Connecticut avenue Monday morning at 11 o'clock. In- terment will be in Rock Creek Ceme- tery. . aat e BANQUET DATE FIXED. Knights of Round Table to Enter- tain at City Club June 25. Members of the local organization of the Knights of the Round Table voted to hold their charter night banquet in the City Club on the evening of June 25, at a luncheon in the City Club yesterday. C. E. Fleming is chairman of the general committee in charge of arrangements for the ban- quet, and presided at yesterday’ juncheon for Dr. Everett M. Ellison, president of the local club, who was away because of the death of his wife. A resolution of sympathy for Dr. Ellison was adopted. The members stood while divine comfort for Dr. Elli- son was asked by Rev. Homer J. Councilor. A motion was adopted also to have the club officially represented at the funeral services. G. H. Fonkem, in a brief address, congratulated the club members on the purpose for which they have or- ganized—"to render service.” The local club is to be chartered with about 40 members, it was statedd’ . and Harry V the office of the recorder of deeds and authorizing the construction of a new building for the recorder of deeds; authorizing the fssuance of a permit for a conduit across Twelfth street southwest; authorizing the widening of Harvard street. LONG LINES WAITED FOR PRIMARY PAY, SAYS PINCHOT MAN (Continued from First Page.) 700. Many volunteer watchers had been glven certificates as watchers, he said. He said that in his own ward he had seen 6, 8 or 10 Vare watchers standing in a row at the polling places. ias there been a good deal of po- litical corruption in Philadelphia?” asked Senator Reed. g “Well, it's not the purest place in the world id Mr. Walnut. Mr. Walnut said that the Republi- can organization in Philadelphia, which is the Vare organization, func- tions 365 days in the year. The ward and division leaders, he =aid, some- times hold jobs in the city government. It is considered quite a distinction to hold a job in the organization. These leaders are in a position to do favors for people in their wards and divisions. For example, if a man is arrested, a ward leader can get him out, “if he is the right kind of a man.” He said that ward leaders vary with the character of the ward. “How is it,” asked Senator King, “that in Philadelphia, where there are so many really fine people, there is such a subsidence of morals on elec- tion day?" Defeated Bosses in 1911, Mr. Walnut said that in 1911 the in- dependents had organized and beaten the machine, but that they had never beaten it since. The independent or- sanization . is all gone, he said. “The people are apathetic,” gested Senator King. The witness said that apparently they seem to think they are getting sug- with the city administration. he said. Robert Glendinning, a Philadelphia banker, was the first witness today. He said that he was chairman of the Pepper finance committee when it was first organized last September. He told the committee that he had left Philadelphia_December 27, however, and had not been active thereafter. Before he left, he said, something less than $50,000 had been raised by his committee. Among the subscriptions mentioned by him was $2,000 from THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1926 PRINGESS REJOINS LEEDS IN CHICAGO Tinplate Heir and Russian Bride, “Not Grecian,” Be- gin Second Honeymoon. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 12—Tanned by a South Seas holidey, Wililam B. Leeds, heir to the $40,000,000 tinplate fortune of his late father, started a second honeymoon here today with his wite, the Princess Xenta of Russia. They met last night, Leeds coming trom the Pacific Coast and his wife from their home at Oyster Bay, N. Y., as the result of a telephone call sald to have cost $199. Chicago was se- lected for the reunion, they said, be- cause they wanted to meet quickly and secretly. They laughed at stories of any marital rift, declaring *“We are utterly in love.” mind their discovery in a hotel suite after they had thought thelr elaborate plans for secrecy _successful. The voung helr evaded recognition for some hours after his arrival by dodg- ing through back doors of hotels and station corridors, but after he had been joined by his wife the two *‘sur- rendered”’ to newspaper men and photographers “The princess, in a black sult with a white gardenia in her buttonhole, a green hat, and a colorful bracelet, authorized the information that she is Russian and not Greek. She is the second daughter, she pointed out, of Grand Duke Mikhailovitch of Rus- sia and Princess Marie Georglevna of Greece. The latter was a sister of the late King Constantine, last of the Romanoffs. In‘her native tongue, said the Princess, her name Is “Ksenfa." Leeds deemed his recent vacation in the South Seas poor conversational timber and threw no light on reports that he had ignored Honolulu's elite to play with the beach boys. But he called himself “a very poor swim- mer."” The couple plan to spend four or five days in Chicago, without any very definite program except to go to Mundelein, Ill, one day to see the preparations for the Eucharistic Con- gress. They all but broke up the show last night when they visited a theater. They will return East together, they said, probably about the middle of next week. THE WEATHER District and Maryland—Occasional showers and thunderstorms tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature, gentle south and south- west win Virginia—Local thundershowers to- night and tomorrow: not much change in temperature, moderate south and southwest winds. West Virginia — Local thunder- showers tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature. Record for 24 Hours. Thermometer — Four p.m., 83: 8 p.m., 78; 12 midnight, 72; 4 a.m., 68; 8 am., 70; 11 a.m., 74. Barometer—Four p.m., 30.01; 8 p.m., 2 96; 4 a.m., 29.96; a pretty good deal and were satisfied | G: oy, U H You can't get a rise out of them,” , occurred at 4:15 p.m. Lowest temperature, 86, occurred at 5 a.m. Temperature same date last year— Highest, 78; lowest, 52. Condition of the Water. Temperature and condition of the water at Great Falls at 8 a.m.—Tem- perature, 74; condition slightly muddy. Weather in Various Cities. ax Temperature. v usjure; 1sam0] Stations. Weather. g s e g oy Cloudy Abilene, Tex. oy : ar galvest Clena Huron, §. . 20 18900 R RET I Clear Cloudy Pt.cloudy Clear 344 Omaha Philadelphia hoenix xS xongerogee: FERRE SRR R 3 Portla Raleigh.X. . Lake Ci 22 20 % Edward W. Bok. Independent in Politics. Mr. Walnut, when' he took the stand, told the committee that he was an attorney and chairman of the State Workmen's Compensation Board at a salary of $9,000 a. year, an office he has held since July, 1923, under appointment by the governor. He said that he had been an inde- pendent in_politics in Philadelphia d_opposed the organization headed by Representative William 8. Vare, He said that the Pinchot committee had undertaken to organize in 15 to wards which were regarded as the independent wards of the city. Prac- tically all of the money that his com- mittee had received, he aid, was from the Pinchot State committee. He listed, however. a contribution of $10,000 from Mrs. Pinhcot, wife of the rnor. This, he sald, he thought had been included in previous state- ments made by the Pinchot campaign leader to the Senate committee. Mr. Beutel told the committee that the Pinchot committee in Pittsburgh did not have any paid speakers, al- though one railroad engineer, McDon- d by name, was paid as an organ- er and also did some speaking. ‘While Beutel was discussing the paying off of the watchers after the election at Pepper headquarters he was asked by Senator Reed who was: the paymaster. He replied that he thought it was S. J. Copley, treas- urer of the Pepper-Fisher organization in western Pennsylvania. Copley, he said, was in the group around the table anyway. Mr. Beutel said that he had a number of calls from men who offered their services as workers, but who disappeared when they found there wasn’t any money to be had around the Pinchot headquarters. He said the common practice in Pitts- burgh was that a ward could be car- ried for so much money. The prac- tice, he said, was to ‘“get the ward leaders.” There are plenty of men, he said, in Pittsburgh who seem to have no other professional means of livelihood than politics. The balance of power, Mr. Beutel said, can be bought in Pittsburgh. 3 ““Was this last election bought?” “Yes, there were enough paid work- g D o 30 §i. Touls " 20 u St WASH. FOREIGN. (8 am.. Greenwich time, today.) Stations. Temperature. Weather. London, England. Ba Rain Paris. France. *Gor Copenhagen. Denmark. Horta (Rayal). Azores Hamilton, Bermuda Havana, Cuba, Part cloudy Colon. 'Canal % Clear Duty on U. S. Autos May Be Cut. OTTAWA, Ontarlo, June 12 (#).— The budget proposals which have passed the committee stage in the House of Commons reduce the cus- toms duties on Ameérican automobiles valued at over $1,200 from 85 to 2714 per cent and those valued at under $1,200 from 35 to 20 per cent. A pre- us _announcement erroneously re- versed these figures. e ———————————— ers to swing the election to any one of the three candidates for Senator.” The witness was asked if he con- curred in the estimates given by Col. Charles C. McGovern, chairman of the Pinchot committes in Pittsburgh, that there had been 50,000 paid work- ers in Allegheny County for the elec- tion. He said he thought that esti- mate was reasonable. Mr. Beutel estimated that there were from six to ten thousand indi- viduals paid off, and that these men have received the money to pay many others. In Pittsburgh, he said, the word “cheater” has a particular political significance. It means, he said, a man who takes money from one side and does not vote for it. ‘““They have a code of morals, then?” said Senator . Senator King asked who had the regular organization in Pittsburgh in the last election. The witness said it had been somewhat split, but that generally speaking the Pepper-Fisher ticket had the organization with it. He sald that ft was common talk that the recent election was the rot- tenest Pittsburgh has seen. N Nor did they even | Oxygen Action on Phosphorus in Body Declared Source of Life by Scientist By the Associated Pross. PHILADELPHIA, June 12.—Heat in the human body s produced by ac- tion of oxygen on phosphorus, accord- ing to Dr. C. E. De M. Sajous, profes- sor of endocrinology at the University of Pennsylvania. This, he asserted at the convention of the American Thera- peutic Society yesterday, is the source of life, “For two centurles we have known that oxygen acted on the human body, but we have not known how,” he sald. “Likewise we have known that there was an element in the cells of the body known as lecithin. T have found that in lecithin there is phos- phorus. “When we strike a sulphur match Wwe permit oxygen to work on phos- phorus and heat is produced. That s exactly what happens in the human body. Oxygen acting on phosphorus releases heat, and this is the heat that maintains the temperature of the body.” . Dr. Sajous sald that a bodily fluid known as enzyme is built up in the body along with the heat. It is the function . of the enzyme to digest germs, and when disease attacks the body the temperature is increased in order to multiply the enzyme. This increased heat is known as fever and when it reaches certain heights the :nzyme becomes so active that it di- gests also the human tissue. In that case death results, as it does when the s0dily condition is such as to prevent 1 fever. The speaker sald his discovery was made after 25 years of research. BAND CONCERTS. ‘The United States Army Band, Willam H. Santelmann, leader, and Taylor Branson, second leader, will give a con- cert in the Sylvan Theater, Monument Grounds, tonight at 7:30 o'clock. The program will include the following numbers: March, “With Shot and Shell” . Overture, Clift” . ““Seguidilla, Opus 22 Bi ‘The Mill on the .Relssiger dance, Frascard “‘Coppelia” ...........Dellbes Fantasia, “A Spanish Festival” . Demersseman “The Star § led Banner.” The concert scheduled for Monday at the Marine Barracks has been canceled, the band going to the exposition in Philadelphia. HAITIAN PRESIDENT BOOED INNEW YORK Executive, Believing Crowd Hospitable, Bows Thanks. Coming to See Coolidge. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 12.—President Lewis Borno of Haiti, arriving yester- day as the first chief executive of that ocountry to visit the United States, not only failed to receive from the harbor forts the 21-gun salute to which he was entitled, but met with a distinctfuly unfriendly demonstra- tion from some of his countrymen resident here. Butler Wright, Assistant Secretary of State; W. W. Cumberland, finan- cfal adviser from the United States to Haiti; Army officers and other rep- resentatives of the United States greeted the presidential visitor. Mr. Cumberland explained to President Borno in regard to the failure of presidential salute that there had been some confusion as to the time of his arrival. As President Borno stepped ashore he was greeted by Halitians with cat calls and jeers. They wore vari-col- ored paper hats and high above their heads they held placards bearing un- complimentary legends, printed in English. Cordially Greets Crowd. Bowing right and left, President Borno, who understands but little English, graciously acknowledged the cat calls, the raucous jeers and pla- cards, all of which he believed the signs of an ovation, and stepped into a waiting automobile. Passengers aboard the liner said President Borno had been heckled by larger groups of Haitians as he em- barked at Port au Prince last Sun- day. One passenger produced a_cir- cular given him by Haitlans at Port au Prince. It read in part: “Look_Out! “Mr. Borno, so-called President of Haitl, is going to the United States. Mr. Borno is only President de facto, | having been elected In spite of the fact that he is ineligible, being the son of a foreigner. Up to now, so far as it is known, Washington has not recognized the new government and it is supposed that Mr. Borno is going to explain matters and try to deceive President Coolidge and the American people.” Mission Here Explained. President Borno was interviewed. “The situation in Haitl is excellent, both politically and economically, wit splendid prospects for the future, he said. “T am fully satisfied with the heartfelt co-operation we have received from America and without which Haiti could not be in her sound and sane state today. L “My principal purpose in visiting the United States is to examine with your Government some of the prob- lems which concern the two coun- tries, in order that personal relation- ships and the opportunity for a frank exchange of views shall strengthen the cordial relations that now exist.” - At City Hall Mayor James J. Wal- ker welcomed President Borno and Mrs. Borno. The visitor, who re- ceived part of his education in Paris, replied in French. W. H. GIBSON BURIED. Former Subtreasury Head and TUnion Veteran Died Wednesday. Funeral services for William Howard Gibson, Civil War veteran and former Assistant Treasurer of the. United States in charge of the Subtreasury in Philadelphla, who died Wednesday at his residence in the Falkstone Courts Apartments, were conducted with Masonic and Grand Army rites in the chapel of J. Willlam Lee's Sons, undertakers, 332 Pennsylvania avenue, today at 10 o'clock. Interment was in Arlington Cemetery. Mr. Gibson was widely known in this city. He was one of the organi- zers of the origingl Columbia Boat Slub here in 1880, and served with the 7th Pennsylvania Reserves during the Civil War. Marriage Licenses. Marriage licenses have been jssued to the follo¥in%{ p. Doudiken and Mary E. Walter, ol B Brooks o1, Altoona, Pa.. and e note, %, and Mary K. orris. . White and Mabel V. Ruse. Ao W Bakaap. 0. S, Navs, Dogh arioa K. - Newsame E arice K. Brockwe l‘ th of Petersburg. Va. i rtha Herman. R Btk e B T e, heof BUGWAK and Eva M. Jiminez, both ith E. Nanney. T, i of Mercer, P: Heint 'and Eda both 4 . Ash_of Achill ety R PALLBEARERS SELECTED FOR DROWN FUNERAL Services for Prominent Insurance Manager Will Be Held at 3:30 0’Clock This Afternoon. Funeral services for Orville B. Drown, local manager of the Sun Life Insurance Co. of Canada, who died of heart diseaso Thursday afternoon, will be conducted ‘ut All Souls’ Episcopal fternoon at 3:30 o'clock. H. Sterrett, rector, will rment will be in_ Glen- wood Cemetery. The time for the fu- neral was postponed from 3 o'clock to 3:30 to give representatives of the Sun Life Insurance Co., arriving from Canada, time to attend. Pallbearers will include representa- tives of various organizations with which Mr. Drown had been affillated and ¢ personal friends. They are: Thomas W. Brahany, president of the Lions’ Club; Krnest E. Herrell, president of the Cosmopolitan Club; Elisha Hanson, worshipful master of Temple-Noyes Lodge, F. A. A. M. Arthur B. Shelton, secretary of the Columbla_Country Club; Willlam W. Bride of the Delta Chi Fraternity, J. Ralph Crutchfield, representing the Edgemoor community, in which Mr. Drown lived; Dr. Francls §. Machen, for many years personal physician to Mr. Drown, and J. 8. Ireland of Mont- real, Canada, agency superintendent for the Sun Life Insurance Co. Laur- ance Overing, divisional secretary of the company, also will attend the services. Special delegations from the Temple- Noyes Lodge, F. A. A. M.; the Eureka Chapter, R. A. M.; the De Molay Com- mandery, K. he Columbta Country Club, Cosmopolitan Club, the Delta Chi Fraternity and from other organi- zations are to attend the funeral. _Funeral services for Benfamin W. G 68 years old, long prominent in financial circles here, who died at the Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat Hospl- tal yesterday, will be conducted in the Sixth Pre erlan Church, Sixteenth and Kennedy streets, Monday morn- ing at 10 o'clock. Rev. Godfrey Cho- bot will officiate. Interment will be in Rock Creek Cemetery. Mr. Guy had served as a director of the Columbia Natfonal Bank, the Washington Loan and Trust Co. and of the Capital Traction Co. He en- gaged In a business career early in life and became a founder of Guy, Curran & Co., wholesale dry goods dealers. 3 s S ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 (Spe- cial).—More than 300 persons last night attended the final closing exer- cises of the Alexandria High School. held in the auditorium of the Elks' Home. There were 54 graduates, 34 girls and 20 bovs. The graduates were addressed by Dr. Charles Cal- vert Ellis, dean department of edu cation, Juniata College, Huntington, Pa., whose subject was “What Edu cation Can Do for Me.” The exercises were presided over by R. C. Bowton, superintendent of schools, and the diplomas were pre- sented by Urban S. Lambert, presi- dent of the school hoard. The salu- tatory _was delivered by Miss Eliza- beth “Nicholson and the valedictory by Miss Adelaide Risdon. Invocation was given by the Rev. Ryland F. Dodge, pastor of the Baptist Temple, and benediction by the Rev. H. L. Schlincke, pastor of the Methodist Protestant Church, Special prizes were awarded by I T. Moncure, principal of the Alexan- dria High School, as follows: A year's course in George Washington Uni- versity, for excellence in scholarship. school athletics and activities, to George Hoeft, president of the senior class; vear's course in William and Mary College, to one of the three highest in scholarship in the school, to Maurice D. Rosenberg; complete course in Straver's Business College, Washington, D. C.. based on result of competitive examination in which 12 ‘students rparticipated, to John Harwood Abraham: course at Stew- ard’'s Business College, Washington, D. C., for excellence in the commer- cial department, to Miss Margaret Tomlin. On_behalf of the Kiwanis Club, medals were presented to Miss Eliza- beth Nicholson and Miss Adelaide Risdon, valedictorian and rian, respectively. A speech of pres- entation was made by Rev. Ernest M. Delaney, pastor of the Second Pres- byterian Church. & Members of Post ¥, American Le- gion, at 2 o'clock this afternoon will begin the work of clearing the old First Presbyterfan Church Cemetery, on the west side of Fairfax between Duke and Wolfe streets. Headed by F. Clinton Knight, local commander, the war veterans will don overalls and jumpers and move all the weeds and debris from the old churchyard and straighten some of the tomb- stones in the yard. There are a fow persons buried in this hallowed ground of Revolutionary fame. While the legion members are at work the women of the auxiliary will serve fruit punch. City cars will be on hand to remove the refuse to the city dump pile. it A deed conveying from the trus- tees of the Young Men’s Christian As- sootation, Inc.,-to the City Council of Alexandria- 3.42 acres of land, togeth- er with the incompleted building of the Y. M. C. A., was placed on record yesterday afternoon in the office of the clerk of the Corporation Court. The cost was $10,000 and also $300, which represented accrued interest. The city soon will place on the ground a modern swimming pool, which has been offered free of cost by Leopold Ruben. City Manager Morton says he hopes to have the plans ready by Thursday in order that City Council may take final ac- tion in the matter. < Potomao Lodge, No. 38, Odd Fel- lows, at its annual meeting, held last night, elected these officers to serve for the year: E. C. Mawyer, noble grand; W. H. Scott, vice grand; El- more Mudd, secretary; E. P. Thomas- son, financial secretary; George W. Bontz, treasurer. The newly elected officers will be installed next month, at, which time the appointive officers will be named. Archie Feeney, colored, 39 years old, who lived on Seminary Hill, west of this city, was buried alive yester- day when a gravel bank on the farm formerly owned by Courtland H. Smith, under which he was working, caved in. His skull was crushed and both legs broken. His funeral will take place at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon from the Seminary Church, on Seminary Hill ® L7 e salutato-{ REPORTS ARE MAD ON GUARDIANSHIPS Limit of 5 Pct. Commission and Restriction to 5 Wards Urged by House Body. Reports, made to the House by Chairman Gibson of the subcommit- toe of the House District committee which during the last two menths has been investigating Commissioner Fenning and the general administra- tion of municipal affairs, on three re- medial measures were made avallable today. ‘The report on the bill with reference to commissions in lunacy cases in the District explained that “this bill seeks to remedy an existing condition in the District. Insane veterans are sent to St. Ellzabeth's Hospital from all sections of the country. In case the veteran has property it is necessary to securd the appointment of a com mittee by the Court of Equity. It has been found that one person is now acting as a committee for 93 veterans of the World War at St. Elizabeth's Hospital and has been acting in 44 other cases from which he has been discharged by reason of the death of the ward or the appointment of other committes. This committee has re- celved, since and including 1919, $88, 001.29 from these World War veter- ans’ cases. In nearly every case he has charged and been allowed from 5 to 10 per cent on the personal prop- erty and income coming into his hands. Five Per Cent Maximum Urged. “The director of the Veterans' Bu- reau is of the opinion that 5 per cent maximum is all that should be al- lowed to a committee. ““This bill further provides for an amendment to the present code by requiring the appointment of a guar- dian ad litem to act for the non-com- pos mentis person in case he has no known relatives residing within the Jurisdietion of the court to appear for him in all court proceedings. In explaining the bill covering com- missions of guardians, Representative Gibson polnts out that “this bill amends the District of Columbia code to permit a guardian to recelye a maximum of § per cent of the amounts collected and disbursed Instead of 10 per cent in accordance with existing law. The committee is of the opin- fon that 5 per cent is adequate co pensation for services of this char- acter.” Five Wards Limit Proposed. Mr. Gibson in his report on the bill covering the appointment of trustees and committees says: “The committee is of the opinion that the character of the duties of a commit- tee to a non compos mentis person is such that no one person can ren- der the best service in the interest of his ward if he has a large num- ber of cases at the same time. It was thought by the committee that the person acting as committee could give the necessary individual atten- tion in five cases of this character.” The purpose of these three pieces of legislation is to prevent in the future a wholesale business in guardianships. with commissions that the investigators have agreed are excessive, as shown during the in- vestigation of Commissioner Fen- ning’s practice. RUTHERFORD DENIES PROMISE TO TESTIFY Resents Official’'s Statement That He Will Go Before Grand Jury. Bs the Associated Pre PINE BLUFF, Ark.. June 12.—John Rutherford, brother of William Allen Scott Rutherford, in a statement given the Associated Press last night de- clared that he could not understand why Attorney General Gentry of Mis- souri should issue a statement say ing that he (Rutherford) had agreed | to appear before the grand jury in St. | Louis. Rutherford sald he already had stated he knew of no misdealing in connection with the case of his brother, who pleaded gullty to a charge of manslaughter in connection with the fatal wounding of Jack Tucker. ' “Gentry's statement that I have agreed to or intimated that I will appear in St. Louis is nothing short of a misrepresentation,” Rutherford said. Gentry stated yesterday that after a conference with Rutherford in Pine Bluff Thursday night Rutherford had promised to appear as a witness at the trial of the case Monday, after entry agreed to dismiss conspiracy harges against John Rutherford and | charges of second-degree murder and feloniously carrying a concealed weapon against his brother, W. A. S, Rutherford. BANK INSTITUTES SEARCH FOR $500,000 COLLECTION Paintings. Supposed to Have Been Put in Vault, Have Disappeared. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, June 12.~—The Russian department of .the Bank of Italy today began a search for a collection of paintings, bronzes and precious stones valued at $300,000, supposed to have been stored in a bank vault three years ago. The col- lection was assembled in the Far East by the late Ivan Leonidovick Kalmy- ff, court artist to the Czar of Rus- sia. The search- was instigated at the request of Mrs. Kattiska L. Meyer of Shanghai, sister of Kalmykoff, one cf numerous claimants to the property. ‘The bank is unable to find any record of when the collection was stored, al- though Kalmykoff exhibited it here three years ago. Kalmykoff died here in 1925 and is supposed to have left a will providing for the return of the collection to Rus- sia when the United States recognized that government. S TR0 ek The Smithsonian Institution says that the thickest part of a male adult elephant’s skull may range from 10 to 20 inches in depth. Bronzes and Jewels, | PAIR HELD IN SLAYING. Florida Man and Woman Accused of Killing Her Husband. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jun$ 12 (#).—Gordon Denmark, 22, and Mrs. Bertha Hall, 27, were held without bond last night in connection with the death Sunday last of J. H. Hall, the woman’s husband. Detectives sald that both Denmark and the woman had confessed to plot- ting the death of Hall, a groceryman. They said Denmark admitted to them he killed Hall, but that the woman plotted the crime. The Halls had been married 13 years. SECOND FETE HELD INWILLIAMSBURG Adoption of Bilf of Rights 150 Years Ago Celebrated by Notables. | By the Associated Press. WILLIAMSBURG, Va., June 12— For the second time within a month Willlamsburg was the center of a sesquicentennial celebration with the gathering here today of National and State figures for exercises commemo- rating the 150th birthday of the Vir- ginla Bill of Rights. Exercises in- cluded a parade to the site of the historic Capltol, addresses by prom- inent speakers and a luncheon. Several * thousand persons stood about the site of the Capitol wherein the Virginia convention on June 12, 1776, struck for personal liberty in the adoption of George Mason's fa- mous document, and heard Dean Roscoe Pond of the Harvard Law School praise the writer of the docu- mert and the legal phraseology of the manuscript. Presiding over the cere- mony was Gov. Harry F. Byid, who eulogized the Virginia planter who came from his sick bed to Williams- burg to write the Bill of Rights. Cox Among Speakers. At luncheon, attended by congres- sional committes delegations, repro- senting various State activities, and other notables, Justice Van Devanter of the United States Supreme Court was the principal speaker. Another prominent speaker at the luncheon was James M. Cox, Democratic nomi- nee for President in 1920. The celebration started with a | parade down historic Duke of Glou- | cester street to the scene of the adop- | tion of the document, which has now | become a part of every constitution in the land. Representative Mon- tague presented Dean Pond as the speaker of the occaslon after Gov. Byrd had spoken of the gratitude Vir- ginia owed Mason and of the life of the Fairfax County planter. Dean Pond eulogized the Bill of Rights itself for the foundation it laid for future declarations of liberty. It was point ed out that the manuscript adopted at Willlamsburg was now incorpor- eted in every constitution in the land and in the Constitution of the United States itself. Text of Bill Is Read. A part of the exercises was the reading of the Bill of Rights by Miss | Lucy Randolph Mason of Richmond, a direct descendant of George Mason. { Prominent attorneys from many parts of the country were among those attending the luncheon, over which Representative R. Walton Moore presided. In the afterneon the visitors will be shown through the bulldings of William and Mary College by Dr. J. A. C. Chandler and will visit other interesting historical spots around the city 'W L. MELLON HEADS PENNSYLVANIA G. 0. P. Secretary’'s Nephew Succeeds W. Harry Baker as State Com- mittee Chairman. | By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, June 12.—Wil liam L. Mellon of Pittsburgh, nephew of the Secretary of the Treasury, was elected chairman of the Republican State committee today in succession to W. Harry Baker of Harrisburg. Mr. Baker was elected secretary, a position he held. for years before he was elevated to the chairmanship. | four years ago. A last-minute agreement to avoid a fight and so go into the Fall cam- paign with a united front, resulted in the election of Mr. Mellon to the chairmanship. Gy Propagandists Punished. PARIS, June. 12 (@) ter of Justice Laval has ordered disci 'y measures against the signer ganda of the Alsatian ““Heimatsbund’ omeland league—an organization which is autonomist in its tendencies. The municipal authorities involved in the league’s propa dy have been relieved of th R. F. HARVEY’S SON LOWEST PRICES FURNITURE RENTING FOR Household Receptions Conventions Office Weddings - H. Baum & Son 464 Pa. Ave. NW. Main 9136 Parties Drives SWAT THE FLY Take advantage of an early start by an aggres- sive war on the fly at the beginning of the season. The Star has for free distribution wire - handle fly swatter: Ask for gne at the main office of e Star, or at any of the Branch Agen- City and Suburbar . Homes Valued at $10,000 to $250,000 Country Homes . Valued at $10,000 to $750,000 POLICEMAN'S BABY PRAISED BY PRINCE Remarkable Child, Swedish Heir Tells Officer, Hurt in Escorting Princess. By the Associatsd Press. NEW YORK, June 12.—Motor Cycle Policeman George H. Plate, slightly injured by the automoblile of Crown Princess Loulse here yeste.day, has royal assurance from the future King of Sweden that his 7-month-old daugh- ter 1s a very remarkable child. Crown Prince Gustavus Adolphus paid a call that was not on his socia! calendar to learn of Plate’s condition ‘The royal limousine drove up to the policeman’s home in Jamaica, Long Island, last night, stared at by all the neighbors, and Plate was surprised o opening the door to see his highness with outstretched hand. “This is my wife,” said Policemar Plate, after he had greeted the Crown Prince, whom he had been helping to escort during his New York viait “Madeline, meet the Crown Prince of Sweden.” The Crown Prince shook hands with Mrs. Plate, with her mother, Mrs Mary Van Gilluewe, and with 7-month old Juan Florence Plate, whom he praised as “a very remarkable baby." While dignitaries and officfals of his suite walted at the door the royal visitor remained a quarter of an hour at Plate’s invitation to get acquainted with the family. . The officer was thrown from his machine and .knocked unconsclous when he stopped suddenly In front of the Crown Princess' automobile to avold running into a crippled youth who was crossing the street. He was escorting her_highness’ machine to the Brooklyn Museum. The Crown Princess took Plate’s ad- dress, and waited at a private hospital to which he was taken until she was assured that his injurfes wers mnot serious. Italian Club Plans Outing. The Italian Fishing Club will give an outing tomorrow at its clubhouse, at Mount Calvert, Md., on the Patux- ent River. Special coaches of the Chesapeake Beach Rallway will leave District line at 9:30 a.m. There will be music, dancing. refreshments and a buffet lunch. The return train will leave Mount Calvert ut 6:30 p.m. Jo- seph A. Simi is in charge of arrange- ments. 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