Evening Star Newspaper, June 19, 1926, Page 2

2 THE EVEN JORANIS ELECTED BY D. C. BANKERS Succeeds Francis G. Addi- son, Jr., as President. Others Given Places. BY EDWARD €. STONE. Staff Carrespandent of The Sta HOT SPRINGS, V.. June 19. How. ard Movan, vice president of American curity and Trust Co., was slacted ident of the Distriet af Columbia k Association at final session onventior here today. W paid of W. B. Hibhe & Co. was elect first vice president: Robert V. Flem of the recond Wilmere 1 Waller viee president vice president Federal Amer lean National Bank, secretary, and Alhert iatley, executive of the Lin coin National Bank. treasurer In addition to thege officers the fol lowir ere elected members of the touncil of the administration: Edward J. McQuaid. vice president Liberty Na tional Bank: Lanier P. McLachlen, president McLachlen Banking Corpo- ration. C. H. Pope, vice president Munsey Trust Co.. and John M. don. cashier Bank of Commerce Savings. Addison Gets Post. Francis G. Addison, Jr.. retiring pregident, was named for Viee presi dent of-the American Rankers' Asso ciation for the Distriet of - Columbia: My McLachlen was made a member of ‘the nominating committee, with Joshua Evans, fr., as alternate. The convention then elected Harry V. Haynes a_memher of the executive council of the American Rankers' Association to serve for three vears. Four divisional vice presidents were elected to represent the local associa- tion in tha American Banmkere' As ciation, as follows: Trust company section, Charles C. Lamborn: national bank section, George 0. Vass: savings hank section, John M. Riordan: State hank section, Magirice Otterback. ' Committees Make Reports. Important committee reports were a vital feature of today's session, which was presided over by W. W, fpgid. The secretary read the report of the auditing committee. John M. Riordon. chairman: commerelal activi ties, Vietor B. Deyber, chairman: frapdulent securities, FEugene E. Thempson, chairman; law and legisia- tion. Corcoran Thom, chairman; w profitable busziness, John Poole, chair- man: standardized banking insurance. Howard Moran, chairman; with Treasury. Robert V. Fleming. chairman: advertiging, Eliot H. Thom- #on. chairman. metivities reportsd on real estate and building matters through a subrom mittes headed by Howard Moran. For the first five monthe of this vear permits showed a decrease of only 12 over the same period last r. the total issued heing 2.777. The amount of money invelved totaled $28.750.135. an increase of $1,613.669 The percentage of new houses in Washington this year has declined abqut 20 per cent aver that of 1925, but the increase In apartments was per cent. €0 that the total opera tions for the firat this vear period of 1995 by 11 per cent. o report added: “Those interest- ed in this subject stafe that this ondition s unfortunate, because there shotild have heen a total decHne in all. operations, rather than an fn- crease, as the number of vacancies in the number of apartment houmw is rapidly increas ing. for the supply of new buildings | 1887 i= rapidly exceeding the demand. “Some efforts should he made to rveduce the velume of bullding and gradually the oversupply will be ab sorbed. Labor Conditions Good. Labor conditio: generally, in Washington are very good. There has heen no change in the price of building materials. Real eatate loans in the first four months of 1925 were | £5.054.900 ahead of the same perfod | also last year. tha number of loans increasing by 166, “The nutlook for future building operatione in this city has heen ma- terially strengthened by priation hy Congress of $10.000,000 a vear means labor and materfal men will he steadily employed.” Auto Trade Better. The report on automotive trade and financing made by a suhcommittee headed by L. A. Slaughter, stated that salee of dealers handling medium priced cars, without exception, appear to have baen greater during the first quarter of 1928 than in 1925. The re- port adds: The percentage of new car sales in- volving the trade.in of old cars range from 36.4 par cent to 47 per cent. with one dealer reporting as high as 78 per cent, but from the information fur- niched. these_percentages are lower than for the same perind of 1925. All dealers report fawer used cars on hand now than at the same time last vear, with A fairly go0d demand fo: them when in gond repair, This does not, howaver. seem to be the same sit- uation in many other cities from which reports indicate a very poor market for second-hand cars. Pu chases an the installment plan appear 0 be increasing with an improvement in the promptness with which pay- ments are made when due.” The merchants and manufactur subcommittee reported, in part: “The committee finds that business condi- tions affecting merchants and manu- facturers in Washington are highly satisfactory. The country as a whole is conceded to he experiencing a minor trade recession, but our city is fortu- nate in that it population Is steadil employed. its per capita income ex- ceptionally large and that it enjoy comparative freedom from the labor utes which depress the business of centers, Busses and Business. “'A factor which lncal business men state has contributed a notable impetus | to their business is the increased effi- ciency of our transportation system to outlying sections (hrough the use of motor husses. The added buying power has been quite apparent and is a source of considerable satisfaction to local merchants, “In the retail trade, department store sales. which i= the only readily available index, have shown for the first four months of this year an in- crease of 12 per cent over the same period last year. this In spite of the fact that unseasonahle weather condi- tions have certainly prevailed this Spring “Figures complled by the Federsi Reserve Bank for the district show that Washington is weil above the average for the fifth district in sales inventory turnover and collections.” Began Banking in 1891, Howard Moran, the assoclation’s newly elected president, is vice presi dent of the American Security & Trust Co. and one of the leading hankers in Washington. H was born in the Capl tal 6n October 8, 1871. He attended the Washington schools until moving to Prince orges County, Md., in 1882, where he continued his education chn private and public schools in president of Riggs National Rank. | four months of | exceeded that for the same | for sale and for rent | the appro- { for tha next five years. This | 1administration | positions Moderately L By the Assaciated Pr NORTHAMPTON, Mass.. June 19.— | College girls cannot yet smoke “with | moderation. ke ladies. or lke gen- | | tlemen.’ President Willlam Allan Neilson of Smith College safd yvester day in an address at the final chapel services at the college. Discussing the actlon of the Smith College stu- dent government in allowing the students to smoke, he said: “The attitude of the familles of the students has changed. If the trusie the Student Assaclation make Government to {decisions on thexe matters, it must | [Claims College Girls Cannot Yet Smoke ike Ladies or Gentlemen be prepared to stand by what it thinks thelr mistakes as well as thejr wisdom. * ¢ * “Like all voung things learning I new habits,” they have snoked wkwardly. They cannot yet smoke with moderation, or llke ladles or like gentlemen. 1 helieve that this perfectly natural abandon in the use of a new privilege will gradually sub- side. Meanwhile, the present situation must be formally acknowledged to be the outcome of the principle of education with which we are pro- ceeding, and we have no other | apology to make. i TEACHERS FAVORED ol BY MCARL RULING Score to Gel Promotions and Increase Under Decision in Disputed Case. Six junior high school teachers at | the Shaw and Randall Junior- High Sehools, as well as approximately 20 téachers who on July 1, 1924, held in the other junior high | will receive promotions and | rétroactive salary Increasxes under a decision of Controller General 1. R.| MeCarl, The dect the second subject, which has proved a vexing | one the Roard of FKducation, | specifically points out, however, that | It henefits anly those junior high | &chool teachers who on July 1, 1824, | held college degrees and should auto matically have been put In the senior high school class, and should not by construed as a precedent. Seven Started Fight. It was on the latter point that Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of achools, and members of the Board of Education were principally con- cerned. and it waa for this reason that Auditor Daniel Donovan requested Mr. McCarl to render his first decision and make it plain that only the July 1. 1924 teachers,were involved Seven teachers at the Shaw and Randall Tunlor High Schools inltiated sehools, ion, on this to the fight for promotion to the class 2C | t after an investigation of | salary, b the board of examiners it was found but six of them actually held college | relations | The committee on commercial trade | | | | | iunly- In'the early part of 'tained. | the board's system of pro degrees on July 1, 19 therefore. within the scope of the MeCar] decisions. Board Members Aroused. Failure of the board te act promptly in favor of the Shaw and Randall teachers, following the first MecCarl decision, aroused the ire of the col- | | ored members of the board and caused | them to charge the “heing_persecuted.’ Dr. Ballou explained, however, that he was not opposed to the placing of teachers were | the six petitioning teachers, but he did want Mr. MeCarl te make it plain that his decision invelved them alone, inasmuch as If the decision could be cited as a precedent it would upset lons. It was learned today that there are about 20 men and women who were Junfor high school teachers on July 1, 1924, possessing college degrees, but did not receive promotion to the class 2C grade until a varylng number of months thereafter, and these teach- ors will receive a retroactive salary increase covering the period from July 1, 1924, and the time they were promoted he became identified with the drug business. then conducted by Dr. Alfred H. Wells at Hyattsville. When A young man of 20 he felt drawn to- ward the banking husiness and on June 12, of the Unlon Savings Bank of Wash- ington. which had just heen formed. Mr. Moran remained with this bank until May, 1896, when he joined the staff of the Traders’ National Bank of Washington, where he remained for three vears, resigning to help organ- e the Home Savings Bank, which was started in the Fall of 1899, Mr. Moran hecame assistant treasurer, treasurer and then vice president, remalning with this bank until fis merger with the American Security & ‘Trust Co. on April 19, 1919, When the Home Savings Bank was taken over he was made a vice president in the American Security & Trust Co. and has held Pposition up to the present time. n his church affiliations the asso- clation’s new head fs an Episcopaliun. He belongs to several clubs, them being the I'niveraity Club, Con- gresslonal Country Club and the National Press Club. Mr. Moran is also closely connected with the busi- ness life of Washington, being a direc. tor in the Board of Trade, member of the hoard of trustees’ of the Better Business Bureau, and a member of {ts executive committes, member of the Columbia Historical Rociety, Associa tlon of Oldest Inhabitants, and the District of Columbla Bankers’ Asocia- tion. He is also a director of the Peoples Drug Stores, Inc., as well as heing a member of the legislative executive committes of the eastern divihlon of the Natlonal Assoctation of Credit Men. He is serving on the national com- mittee of the Congress of American Industry, which meets in Philadelphia in September. £ Finance Companies Reviewed. Fernand Petit, in his report for the commitiee on finance and mortgage companies, stated that commercial bankers feel, and experience has proved, that finance and mortgage companies are doing a safe and con- servative business. As in the case of banks, the personnel making up the management is a vital point. During the past year a marked Improvement 1in those companies engaged in han- dling commercial receivables has been noted. The report continues: “The experience of some of our local companies accepting automobile paper proved rather unprofitable, and the investigation made by your com- mittee would indicate that our local companles are now restricting this class of business to a very narrow margin and are extremely cautious and selective. The practice now is to insist on a liberal down payment with terms of not more than 12 monthly payments. It is noteworthy that the'bulk of this class of business is being handled by large outside com- panies. “Mortgage companles. engaged In the purchasing of first and second trust notes and making of construc- tion loans have for the past two years enjoyed an_ extraordinary volume of business. It has required an enor- mous amount of money to finance building operations in this city and nearby suburbs, embracing both Mar land and Virginia.” The committee completed its report by urging serlous consideration of the recommendations which the commit- tee offéred at last year's convention, the recommendations calling for the submission at regular periods of re- ports by certified public accountants showing in detall the status of the business heing conducted. The com mittee al'o urged the companies to keep on hand proper and sufficient reserves to take care of any losses that may from time to time be swe- 0 | Navy planes has heen let by the de. and were, | 1891, he entered the service | among | ACCUSED OF MURDER. Man Held l;\ iyr:;\ll: Bomb Case Admits Buying Dynamite. SYRACUSE, N. Y., June 1§ UP).— A charge of murder, first degree, was lodged today against Ralph Seger of Homer, N. Y., in connection with the death of Mrs. Arlene Curtis, 50, a prac- tical nurse, as the result of the ex- plosion of a bomb delivered at her home 1n a package last Sunday. The police announced that Seger, who had been held several days on suspicion, had confessed to purchasing a small quantity of dynamite on the Friday preceding the explosion, but maintained hisx innocence regarding the actual sending of the bomb. NAVY LETS CONTRACT FOR 100 NEW PLANES Saves Half of Appropriation Through Glenn Martin's Bid of $2,112,000. ] A contract for 100 three-purpose partment to the Glenn Martin Co. of Cleveland. Ohio, which submitted the lowest bid in the tenders received sev- eral days.ago. The total made avail able for the planes was $4,100,000. Four other companies submitted bids. The contract contemplates delivery within 16 months, 50 of the planes to be delivered at Hampton Roads and the other 50 at the company's Cleve- land factory. The total cost will he $2,112,000, or approximately one-halt of the available appropriation. CHURCH FEDERATION COMMITTEE MEETS Executive Group Holds Last Gath- ering Until Fall—Many Reports Given. The executive committee of the Fed eration of Churches held its last meet- ing of the Summer on Thursday at the Franklin Square Hotel, with an attendance of 23 members. | The Epiacopal Church of the Good Shepherd and the Chevy Chase Pres. | Lyterfan Church were “received into | { membership. Rev..J. R. Duffield was appointed chairman of the committee on religious education. Rev, B Duugherty was mace chalrman of the mimittee comity, following the vesignation of Rev. J. Ii. Straughn, | | which was received with much regret. | | Congratulations were extended to Ma. | 1. Van Fossan upon his appoint- | { ment to the Natlonal Board of Tax | Appeals by the President | It was agreed that a “Federation Sunday” would be held in October or November with a wide exchange of | pulpits. Mrs. Krause, the worker in the Juvenile Court, stated that she has had all the work she can possibly handie during recent weeks. Rev. E. | 0. Clark stated that the prospect is for larger number of vacation | schools than last year and that the | training school at Rust Hall had been | quite successtul. Dr. H. E. Woolever presented coples of the bulletin containing a summary | of the annual reports of the executive | secretary and the various committees, | Coples have been disiributed to about | 2,500 interested friends during the past two weeks. Mrs. Darby gave an interesting account of the meeting of representatives of women's work held in Cleveland early this month, and Indicated the new lines of work which are to be launched in Wash. ington next Fall. Dr. W. S. Aber. nethy presided over the meeting. COLD MAY POSTPONE EDERLE'S ATTEMPT Channel Swimmer Finds Weather Like November—Eats Choeolate Pancakes Fried in Liquor. | | | | | BY GERTRUDE EDERLI By Cable to The Star. CAPE GRIS NEZ, June 19.—The | ing rainy weather is most dis- ging. It -seems ke November instead of Midsummer. The weather | ia likely to upset my plans to awim the channel in the middle of July. Most probably I will be unable 1o make the attempt before August. A study of the tidal chart shows that the best conditions of the water in the channel are on these dates: July 26, August 10 and August 24, but the wind 18 of equal importance to the water temperature and tides. The wind now is Wintry. this afternoon for 45 minutes. It was raining. Burgess and Pop who stood on the beach—watching Mar garet and me swim were almost as wet as we. We had chocolate pan- cakes fried In liquor at the beach hotel after the swim, The only amusement possible was | | sitting in ‘the hotel cafe playing the victrolas, one 1 left here last year and one I brought along this year. (Copyright, 1926.) EMBEZZLER SENTENCED. -Admits Taking $42,232 From Coal Firm—Gets Three Years. FATRMONT, W. Va., June 19 (#).— Entering a plea of guilty to an indict- ment charging embeszlement of $42,. 232.60 from the Consolidation Coal Co., George L. Kerr, former assistant cashier of the West Virginia division of the coal company, vesterday was sentenced to three to five years in the State penitentiary by Judge L. S. Schwenk. The money was sald to have been taken over a period of several months, the largest part of the shortage was made good by the bonding com- pany. I swam NI T TS French Pinne Hits U. 8. Warship. CHERROURG, France, June 19 (®).—-A French naval training sea- plane crashed into the mast of the American torpedo boat Lamsan, lying anchored in the roadsted here teday, fell aeross the deck and then into the sea. The pilot was killed. ™ . “jof the crew of the Cincinnati limited | I new building will he a bungalow, with | the $15 {in |and Casualty | only will recondliion the 40 sets, but | NG STAR. WASH NO RED SIGNAL, FIREMAN ASSERTS Only Surviving Member of En- gine Crew in Pennsy Wreck Talks. By the Associated Press PITTSBURGF he Pitts- | burgh Gazette ¥ auoted | | George McConnell, brother of Willlam | | 8. McConnell, only surviving member | that crashed into the Washington Express near RBlal le intersection ! Tuerdav, ar saving William told him | from his bed at the Latrobe Hospital | that ‘the block signal was “clear” and | no red flares Indicating danger ahead were visible, | A committee probing the cause of | the wreck, which caused a death toll | of 15, was tol vesterday by Flagman | | D. & McDonald and Brakeman T. V Reecher of the stalled Washington | ixpreas that flaves had been placed | and two block Algnals set, one indicat- | ing caution and a_command to stop. Willlam McConnell was fireman on the second engine of the limited, and according to the statement credited to | his brother, was at the left window of { the cab, watching for the block sig- nals when the limited approached Giray Station 1 The fireman saw a clear slgnal, the | newspaper account says, and calle across the cah: “Clear here, go ahead.” And his brother Kdward, engineer, who, with the crew of the first engine of the limited, dled with the crash,| is aald to have anawered: “Clear here, | too.” | Tt was only A few seconds later, ac- | cording to the retold story of the fire- man, that the erash occurred MONEY FOR RADIOS Heads List of Contributors | Today to Fund to Help Hospital “Shut-Ins.” | Mre. Woodrow Witen nended the | PTOperty Along Massachu- | list_of contributors today to the fund heing raised by the Washingtén radio hospital committee to recondition the receiving sets in 40 hospitals, char itable institutions and asylums in the | District. The donation of the widow of the war President was accompanied by A lette rom her secretary, John Ran dolph Bolling. which contained the following expressic »: “Mrs. Wilson | asks me o send 1 - Inclosed contri- | butlon to the Washington Radio Hos- pital fund and express her good wish for the success of your undertaking. Other Contributions Received. Besides Mrs. Wilson's check, the committee also received contribitions totaling $27. bringing the total above ' mark. ‘The contributors were | Mary T. Spaulding, $3; D, 11 Stevens, 0. L. du $5; Alice F. Phuper, $ A crymtul mei” $1; the Chavies Doyer Unit, American Women Lexion, $10, and ¢. R, 8. Croggan, $1. he commiltee ix endearoring (v riise 33,000, a part of which will be used (o repair the sets and refuvenste | them with new tubes and batterie “The remainder of the fund will | et aside to maintain the sets and (o equip the receivers recently placed | the Hebrew liome for the Aged Hospital. | Te Roy Mark, chairman of the com- mlttee, is anxious for the radio fans, who realize the benefit of radio en.| tertainment to the “shut-ins,” to con-| tribute to the fund. | He estimates that 50 cents from | each radlo listener in the District, not | perating condition | will keep them in | for at least two years. There are approximately 7,000 “shut ins” in the 40 institutions. Mr. M {points out, who are almost entirely | dependent ‘on the radio sets for their entertainment. Unless the commit- tee’s campaigh is siccessful, he said, many of thesé will be deprived of | thelr_only amusemeni, hecause funds | for their maintenance have been ex. | hausted. The 40 sets were purchased | and installed several vears ago | through popular_subscription. ! ributions should he sent to Her- Shannon, treasurer of the com- { mittee, at room 208 Colorado Building. | e 'HOUSEBREAKER GIVEN| SENTENCE OF 3 YEARS | Joy-Rider Gets = Similar Term. Others Sent to Penitentiary by Justice Bailey. Paul Graycyki was sentenced late vesterday afternoon hy Justice Bailey in Criminal Division 1 to serve three vears in the penitentiary. He was con. victed of three cases of housébreak- ing. The court fixed the penalty at three years in each case, but allowed the sentences to run concurrently. Paul W, O'Nelll will serve three yeara in the penitentiary for joy- riding. This Is the third time he hus | been in trouble for taking automobiles without permission. Charles Scott, convicted of seduction on the charge of a young girl, was given a term of 2 years in the pen- itentiary. Charles C. Ellis and Paul Thomas, both colored, were sent to Occoquan for one year on charges of petit lar- ceny. Harry S. Hayes, colored, was| given another chance by the court | under a suspended mentence of one vear. He was placed on prohation. Joseph Gillam. colored, who admit- ter three charges of housebreaking, wan given a term of two years in the penitentiary in each case. The terms were allowed to run concurrantly. LITTLE ENTENTE UNITED. BLED, Jugoslavia, June 1§ (#).— The little entente countries—(zecho- slovakia, Jugosiavia and Rumania— have decided to make a common front at the League of Nation's assembly in Raptember on all questions affecting them, The -foreign ministers of the three countries, following a two-day confer- ence, issued a communique to this ef- fect tonight, adding that they are in complete agreement upon their line of action, e Deportation Wrij Revoked. MEXICO CITY, June 19 (®.— President Calles has revoked the deportation order fissued recently againat Willlam H. Cole- a ‘(‘ana- dian physiclan practicing in Thr- reon, charged with acting as medi- cal inspactor for infurance com- anies _which had violated Mexican aws. He explained that he was ig- norant of the companies having vio- lated the law. | postpone action D. C. SATURDAY. JUNE 19, 1926 NEW 13TH PRECINGT WORK IS RUSHED Contractor Expects to Have Building Ready July 15. Date Mix-Up Explained. Work on the new thirteenth pre- cinct, on Nicholson street near Georgia avenue, I& now progressing satisfactorily and should be com- pleted by July 15, It was learned today at the Diatrict Bullding, The all up-fo-date improvements and fa- cilities, and is expected to be a model in_such structures, Inquiry was made concerning the new huilding in connection with a statement in an article in The Star of last Wednesday, in which it was stated that the bullding was to have heen completed June 1, but, because of delay, the contractor's honding company had taken up the work and was rushing it to completion. This information, which came from officials of the Police Department, was er. oneous, in %o far ax the work of the honding company is concerned, as the honding company for the con- tractor has not taken over the work, which s being done satistactorily by the contractor. The hid for the new police station submitted by the contractor called for completion of the work by July 15, bt the contract was so drawn as to call for its completion by June 1. In A statement to The Star the contrac tor calls attentic the fact “that Ithough the huilding was to have heen completed by June 1, there were certaln modifications and changes made in the plans in respect to said building wherehy my time for fts com pletion was extended.” Denying that the honding has taken tor declared, “1 am completing the work agreeable to the plans and speci- fications and the surety upon my hond has not been called upon to do any- thing in respect to aald work and has not attempted such a thing.” REZONING ORDERED OVER LARGE AREA setts Ave., Beyond 47th Street, “A Residential.” f the I opment _Corperation ment of a large territory lying he. tween American University and the District line were approved today by the Zoning Commission. despite the vigorous proteat made against the scheme by Hugh M. Frampton, presi- dent of the Cathedral Heights Citi- zens’ Association, at a public hearing of the commission Thursda The imission’s uction involves two important changes in the zoning of the wrea, 162 neres of which is owned by the development tion. Al propertysbutting both sides f Massachuseits avenue bhetween “orty-seventh street and the District line, except the frontage on Massa- chusetts avenue hetween Warren and Forty-ninth streets, wax vezoned from firat commercial C to residential A area, Provision for a business island in the center of this te made by changing the zoning of the property bounded by Warren streei, Forty-eighth street. Forty-ninth street and Yuma street from residential A restricted to first commercial C aren. Mr. Frampton in his protest against the plans urged the commission to on the proposed changes in zoning to give the resi- dente in the séction affected an op- portunity to map out a comprehen- sive, systematic and “sensible” scheme far developing the entire section. Other Changes in Zoning. The commission also approved an application to rezone from residential to first commercial property abutting both sides of N street between Four- teenth and Fifteenth streets, - and premises at 1810 and 1812 Florida Avenue. A protest against changing the zoning of the N atrest property was made at the hearing by a group of residents led by Dora Palkin, 1448 N street. Other changes in zoning approved by the commission follow: Change from 90 to 110 foot helghi area property abutting both sides of G atreet” between Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets, except the prop- erty abutting Seventeenth street. Change from residential commercial premises 1364 and to 1372 Irving street. Change from C to D area property on the north side of Fourteenth atreet hetween Florida avenue and the line of Chapin street. Change to B Restricted. Change from A restricted and areas to B restricted area property abutting both sides of Twenty-second street between R sireet and Decatur streets: also the property abutting the south side of R street from premises 2132 to 2224, Inclusive, and also the property abutting the north side of R street from premises 2127 to 2141, inclusive. Change from first commercial to residential, property abutting the east side of Eighteenth street northeast between Newton and Otis streets. Change from 80 to 90 foot height area property abutting the north side of Massachusetts avenue northeast between Second and Third streeta. The commiasion rejected the appli- cation for rezoning from first com- mercial C to second commercial D area, property on the wi side of | South Capitol street hetween C and D | streets, and postponed action on the | proposal to change from A restricted to B restricted area property bounded by Fourteenth street, Georgia avenue, and the lines of Asffen and Peabody streets, except the property abutting | these boundary streets. ; | | WASHINGTON-MONTREAL EXPRESS IS DERAILED yugh Devel the develop. 2hbos fo Plans 110 Passengers Escape anuryl When Cars Leave Rails, Crossing | Bridge, Near Montpelier, Vt. By the Associated Prei | MONTPELIER, Vt., June 19.—The | Montrealer, fast Washington-Montreal | express train of the Central Vermont | Railway, was deralled early today | near Riverton station, four miles | southwest: of this city. The cars re-| mained upright after leaving the tracks, and the 110 passengers escaped | injury. | Engineer Atherton said, after the | accident, that the trucks of the tender | had left the rails at a grade crossing near the station. He brought the train | to a stop, but not before it had crossed a bridge over the Dog Riveér, where | a 30-foot drop into the water was im- | minent. When the train halted one | coach remained on the bridge. up the work and {8 now | | rushing 1t to completion, the contrac: | National Motor Racing Association's to first | | who drives No. 8, F. | By the Amsociated Press. KANSA® CITY, June 18 | Keen. 23, Kansas City bandit, !ambitiona” for hia 13-vear-old brother | George. “l wanted to show him how to | make good.” the elder brother yester- day told Judge Thad B. Landon. ‘I | was doing the best 1 could for my hrother. I wanted to ses him amount to momething. 1 wanted to take him out of the ordinary house-looter class and make a real stick-up man out of |him. He can make & lot of beiter morey if he is a real atick-up man,” Keen said with pride. “Thirty-five years,” pronounced the conrt. | Keen had pleaded guilty to robbing | A street car conductor of He wan arrested several days ago following Bandit Boasts to Judge of Ambition To Make ‘Real Stick-Up Man’ of Brother | 1TCHILDREN LOST the hold-up of a grocery store, in which the young brother participated. Keen proudly admitted that he was teach ing the boy to be a holdup man. and George was equally proud that 23-vear-old brother had taken him as a pupil. The boy waa sentenced fo years in the State reformatory. Keen said that George had heen “pulling dinky burglaries and house- looting fobs." “He wasn't making anything out of them and there was danger he would be killed the fivst time he went in some piace where somebody had a gun. There is less danger in hold-ups and more money. “George would do anvthing 1 told him. He sort of thought I was a hero, 1 guess.” three |SPEED KINGS READY | FOR'BIG RACE TODAY IN LAUREL SAUCER (ontinued from First Page.) | able, however, that all 17 will not compete in each event. But at noon it was atated that all would be ready for the clansical 100.mile event. | List of Starters. The starters, as announced | morning, follow: this t car. Make o % Miller mes Gloason. ... 11 Snowberger | M [Rowland @pecial Hispano-Suiza Cornell Suecial nere —Tom Dawaen wood Wolt. . 3 Uil Frentenac K. Penjuke. . P and 1. Special hese, Fred Winnal, who piloia A Duesenberz, holds firat place in the | standing, with Snowberger, Gleason |and Kesch following in ihe order named. Eimer P. Gerner. vice presi- dent of the National Motor Racing Association, will have charge of the |track this afterncon as official starter. | | “Doc as he is known, superin- |tended the timing of the final test fights this morning. Ben Shaw, pilot ing-a Frontenac, had the beat show Ing with one lap of 38 seconds for the mile and an eighth, which is equal to 11 miles an hour The others made no effort to do hett come within the necessary limitations. In welcome contrast to the inaugu | races last Spring, ideal weathe prevailed today. A cool breeze swept grandstand and track alike and quickly carried the fumes of burning il exhaled from the exhausts out of range. The track is thoroughly sea soned. The bright, yellow boards last vear reflected the sun with the power | | than to | SALOONIST FIGHTS POLCE FOR HOLRS Barricaded, He Defies Shots and Tear Gas Bombs. Doubhle Attack Beats Him. By the Associated Prese RUFFALO, N. Y. 19.—John Pieber, Broadway saloonkeeper, has capitulated to police and dry agents June 1l [after a stege of several hours. during which many. shote were egxchanged and tear gax homha were nsed “to din. lodge him from behind his barricaded door. The assault on Pleher's place came after John McQuade, Federal dry agent. raided a minfature brewery next door and went into the saloon to make hix report by telephone. Pleber recognized McQuade, drew a revolver and ordered him out. Me- Quade also drew hia pistol and there was an exchange of shots.jy Neither man was wounded. Reinforcements were called from dry headquarters and the agents were joined by police armed with shotguns and tear Lombs. | Pieber barricaded the front door, and, apparently unaffected by the bombs, fAive of which were hurled through a window. defied the officers to enter. There was some doubt to the legal aapects of the case, and police oMicials ordered their men not to fire A touch of comedy was injected when Pieber came to t door and velled: { “Go on home! | Go on home! The saily drew a laugh from a Don't come in here! crowd which had gathered, and even of a spotlight, but with & full vear |fron, (ha hesfegers. of weathering and a few coats of oil the apeeding e a very satisfactory gra and altogether seemed more attrac tive, Kiaborate preparations have bheen made to handle a big crowd thix after- noon, Saturday being & half hoilday in Washington and At this time of year. State police took their positions at frequent Intervals on both sides of the Washington-Baiti- more boulevard. ipecial Trains to Be Run special trains will be run direct to [the speedway from \Washington and Baldmore. These preparations, getheh with-the ideal weather, gives promise of fuMfilling the expectations of the speedwas promot Elsborate arrangements have been made to keéep the spectators hetter informéd as (o the progress of the races. Although the scoring system used at all motor tracks has been in ' they | ack the place fr Baltimore alike | effect here since the opening of the | {rack, the cara swap advantages with 'Ry the Associated Press such lightning-like swiftness that it is almost jmpossible to keep tab on | yyajer Hagen, American star. def the scoreboard and watch the cars at the same time. To overcome thi amplifiers. installed up and down the grandstand, will announce just what | today. for i= taking place on the track When the snorting midgets are called to the mark this afternoon Rus- sell @nowberger will have the frat position by virtue of having chalked up the hest time in tha qualifying tests. Snowberger drove his Miller Special around the track this morning for an average of 122 miler an hour. Although thix falls below the réecord. breaking time of De Paolo here Iast vear, who went close to 136 miles per hour, Snewberger i& not obliged to meet the severe competition that ex. iated last vear, when it was necessary to increase the minimum qualifying speed with the understanding that the two cars falling last in the qualifving records would have to be dropped from the entries. 1601 Miles An Hour to Qualify. The minimum aqualifyihg speed to- day wag 101 miles an hour, which none of the pilots found difficult to attain, and only once did they even Attempt to mount the high bank leurves and give a few early specta- tors a real thrill. There are several veterans among | the entrants for the races. Al Aspen. and J. Special, | has seen a good many vears in the racing game. He dro road races when driving a fakt car was a feat that demanded the utmost nerve and endurance. Aspen has driven in the Sheepshead Bay races of some years back and has seen serv- ice at Indianapolia. Jimmy (leason, fearless and smil- ing. also including in his experiénve driving on the piloting No. of the crowd. Fred Winnai, a week ago, set a new world recor for one mile on the dirt tracks, is en- joying the limelight immenseiy. 1ike the veteran Barney Oldfield, Winnal clenches a huge biack cigar between his teeth when he drives. Ray Keech, who drives a No: 7 Mil- ler, 18 viewsd as pei the leading contender for the day’s glory. in the early | Indianapolis track. fs | Miller, and’ is eoming | in for a large share of the attention | it was decided to at- the rear. A-squad the back door. After a parley police aplintered | When Pieber turned to give his xite tion_ta them, others jumped the barri- de at the front door and rushed in, Several ahots were fired in the dark: ness. hut no ane wounded, and Plebér was finally overcome and hand- fled. He was dragged to a patrol wagon, still fighting. WALTER HAGEN BEATS ‘MITCHELL, 2 AND 1 American Wins £500 Prize and Unofficial Professional Match Play Championship. WEYRBRIDGE. England, June 19.— - ed Aba Mitchell. Rritish pro, 2 and 1 lin their hole match. which ended 00 A side and the unof. | elal professional match play cham plonship. Hagen overcame Mitchell's 1ead of four holes gained vesterday. Hagen was one hole in the lead at the end of this morning’s 18 holes. Playing phenomenal golf, Hagen wiped out the Rritisher's four-hole lend. in the first six holes played thix .morning. Then followed a breathless ding-dong struggle which laft the American 1 up at the sixty-third this afternoon. He equaled the course rec- ord with a round of 68, against Mitch- ell'n 73. The cards: . Out— Hagen . Mitchell In— Hagen ..... Mitehell .., 43 4 4 Hagen won the second hole with a birdie four, and then. after halving thé third In threes, took the next three holes running to square the mateh. He went one up at the tenth by holing a 30.vard pu The two up. Mitchell' won his only hole of the morning at the sevenieenth, with a birdie thres, Afternoon carda: o Hagen: Mitchell 'k _ Desmond. who will altérnate Itaflan Bugatti. The car saw service in-the Itallan Grand Pri? and Tago-Florio. race classics of Furope, before being brought 10 America sev- e months wgo. | A Mercedes, listed as No. 6, driven | by Warren Chadwick. In expected to | show. some mpeed. and with the His- pano-Suiza of Oscar Olsen, No. gives an. international touch to fine.up of cdrs before the pite That she frequently received fe $2,500 for advising wives to retus theif hushands, was the testimony of Armond Pugh qualified along with a palmist in London recently. Speed of Racing Auto Easil; E‘stimated By. Calculations Already Worked Out Starter’s Flag Code - For Auto Race Given Official Explanation ‘White oo Start (‘nnfllm Beginning last lap lack center, Disqualified evvvns JFinish How faat are they going? Once the big race is started this is thé question that will he asked oftenest by the spectators. The following table enables one:to estimate accurately the rate at whieh cars are {ravell Speed figuras are calculated in relation. to the di tance of 114 mile, which iz the cir- cumference of the hig bowl. Timing should be +done from the moment the driver croases the twhite starting line imm the starter’s box at’ the edge of the tely in front of | track until he crosses that point. ‘This Ia the way to use the table: It the time for m.kms one complete round of the track is 33 example, the driver is making 122.7 miles an hour. Miles again 322228 3 pownwmismi o, i et tf 3 it bbbt s e bt o | Afteenth, won with a four, put him | with the French star in driving the | the | seconds, for | "WITCH' CONVICTED, Two Say They Were Tied to | Floor and Beaten in Rites | of Mysterious Cult. By the Associated Preg CAMDEN, N. Tune *19. State police are msarching for A1 negro |ehildren reporied to have disappeared mysteriously from tha home of Abhy Vaney, a dwarf known as “The | Witch,”" while the latter was heing | tried ‘and convieted yvestarday on charges of cruelty to children Polica found 13 children home of the woman, the alleged high priestess of a religlons cult. Twn | of the oldest were taken to court, hut when officers returned for the others | wome time later, all had vanished “The Witch,” a negreas but 4 fest | 1all and said 1o be high priestess of {the “Church of the Black Chosen People of the Gospel Kingdom." was sentenced to six months in fail on the testimony of two of her alleged vic | tims, a negro boy and his sister, and | several otheg witnesses. | willia; le. 15, and his sister, Tdllian, 14;fold amazing storfes. Wil Mam sald he was beaten until he conld not stand. He said he was stripped of clothing, a rope tled around his neck and fastened to the floo Then he as heaten he tew fed. sometimes by a man and some- times hy he Witch.” Lillian =a she was forced to disrobe, her arms And legs tled with a rope and a_dog collar placed around her neck. Roth children sxhibited welts that doctors waid would remain prohahly for life Members of the church appeared against ““The Witch.” against their will, fearing, they sald, to fneur her wrath. GERMAN CRO'PS SUFFER | FROM SERIOUS FLOODS | Bastern Prussia Especially Dam- aged by Rains—Part of Dresden Under Water. By tha Amsociated Press BERLIN, June 19.—Southern anl eastern Germany are suffering hea ily from floods caused by recent raine of long duration. Crops. particularly in eastern Prussia, have heen hadly damaged Reporis from various sections along the Rhine, Mosella and Lake (on stance, say that the vineyards have been hadly damaged and some of them wholly ruined. Parts_of the city of Dresden are under water through rise of the Eihe River More than 5.600,000 marke' damage 1a estimated by the government to have heen caused In the state of Wurttemberg because of the overflow ing_of Lake Constance Cloudbursts and heavy'rains in tha Carpathian Mountains _have caused the Oder River to overflow its banks in the Ratibor region. destroving most of the crope. A hundred-foot hole has heen torn in the Neisee River dam at Striegau, in Prussian Silesia. and several vil lages have bean inundated. DR. ROWE IS HONORED | BY BOLIVIAN CONGRESS at the Pan-American Union Head Made Honorary President of | Panama Meeting. | Dr. L. 8. Rowe, diractor general of the Pan.Americ:n {"nion, was inform &4 hy cable yesterday that he had heen unanimously elected honorary president of the congress that is he ing held at Panama to commemora e the firat Pan-American Congrese cal | &d by Simon Rolivar In 1826 The congress convened at City vesterday and will sesaton untll June %5 Repretentn tives of all the American repuhlics are attending the congress, which has been called to commemorate one «f the significant events in the history of | the continent. The congress callad a1 Panama in June. 1826, by the libera tor Simon Bolivar repr the first attempt to settle by conference the problems confronting the newly established republics. The United States is officially represented at the congress hy John Glover South. American Minister at | Panama: William Jennings Price, former Minister at Panama. and Dr Charles W. Hackett of the University | of "rexs. * RECEIVERS ARE NAMED. Quinn and Button Appointed for Relief Association. | Justice Siddons of the District préme Court has selscted Henry 1 Quinn, local attorney. and Joseph Button. insurance commissionar nof Virginia, ae temporary recefvers of the Provident Relief Assoefation. John Brosnan. jr. former president of the association: Mrs. Eunice \ Avery. vice president, and other | stockholders noted an appeal from | the order naming the receivers. supersedeas bond to stay the a tion of the order was fixed at §2 The appointment of receivers fol lowed a petition of Mrs. Catherine Vernon and Mrs. Julla Meinberg, two sinters of Rrosnan, who ave dissatis fled with his conduct of the busineas. Attorney W. Gwynn Gardiner ap peared for the plaintiff. while the Assoelation was represented by Attor ney W. Bissell Thomas and Repre sentative Reed of INinois. PERSHING TELLS PLANS. | General to Attend Monument Dedi- cation at St. Nazaire June 26. PARIS, June 19 (®).—Gen. John &, who arrived at Cherhourg from the United States, that his only object in visiting Furope was in connection with his work as chairman of the American Battle Monumenta Commis sion. | He said that his plans re 1ngefl nite ss yet but that he expects to g to 8t. Nazaire on the 28th of this month for the dedfcation of the men%- ment designed by Mrs. Harrr Payus | Whitney. | Gen. Py Panama continue n hing sald he was happy - | to be back in France and that he ex pected, although now he is a retired officer, to call on the French military commanders whom he met during the World Wi when he commanded the American Expeditionary Forces. | Concession Is Canceled. | BOGOTA, Columbia, June 19 (#). | President Ospina has signed an order canceling the conceasion af tha Anglo:Colomblan development C Limited, for platinum dredging of th River San Juan hecause of alleged | non-compliance with the conditions of eoneession. 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