Evening Star Newspaper, July 13, 1926, Page 13

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% SHOWING THE FORCE l)l" ‘I‘Hl'. EXPLOSION WHICH WRECKED LARGE AREA AROUND DOVER,'N. J. Buildings eol::rlfid demolished by the giant shells. Men who have been over the ground since the explosion report that the ueflon reumblu a urt of wartorn ce after one pl the big battl f the W nrkl War. Hardly a building is left standin, pyright by Underwood & Underwood. lehG SOME OF THE BUILDINGS DEMOLISHED BY \\\ AL DEPOT'S HIGH EXPLOSIVES. Army officers, on one of the first trips Hon, looking over a bullding at Plcatinny, in the arsenal area. This particular structure was the target of a great nnn) hl:h -power :hlIA. hurled from burning ammunition de) SALVATION ARMY 1 ES ON THE JOB. Where there is nrfll for first-ald and relief wo A one will usually find the Salvation workers. This photo was snapped in the Armory at Morristoyw where a 4-year-old girl was being treated l"er the n;‘w;‘ X Copyright P, UNCROWNED ARAB '“[IUEEN"SUEBUMBS British Woman Became Pow- erful Influence in Mesopo- tamia After War. SHELL TRAVELS LONG DISTANCE. Burce Wilson with a frag- ment of 8inch shell, which exploded in the. Lake Denmark blast and was hurled two miles. One shell went down & chimney and ruined a . home miles from the ammunition depot. N Photo by Acmie. ALSACE-LORRAINE THE PRESIDENT ATTENDS CHURCH AT SARANAC LAKE, N. Y., S‘I.\l)-\\' MORNING. The photozrlpl; was taken after the service, and the President is walking with Rev. G. K. Newell, pastor of the little l‘rubyuflln Church. Members of the cougregation lined the pathway while the President and Mrs. Coolidge passed to and from their Copyright by P. & A. Photos. LARE-UPHAL Autonomy Demand May Be Revived if Paris Ignores District’s Plea. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, July 13.The movement for autonomy, which recently flared up In’ Alsace-Lorraine, the regained French provinces, is checked, but- is not dead. Such is the view held by responsible residents of the affected district, as expressed te a_ staff cor- respondent of the Associated Press. The territories, which were discon- By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 13—Miss Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, -sometimes called by the Arabs “the Uncrowned Queen of Mesopotamia,” died Sunday night in Bagdad while asleep. Her officlal position was Orlental secretary to Sir Henry Dobbs, high commissioner for Mesopotamia. She was renowned as a traveler, author tented under 50 years of GGérman sov- and poet and was one of the greatest ereignty, were popularly deemed to be - o % G gk R & p authorities on Arabs and, their cus- . pining for restoration to France, of % o e ; i i L . ; toms. which they were an Integral part for E A k B 2 three centuries after Louis XIV, Autonomy - is slumbering«—-after be- ing launched tactlessly #hd prema- turely by its leaders. Paris Move Awaited. ‘Whether it will revive depends seemingly upon whether the central government at Paris will pay more Was Powerful Influence. Her intimate acquaintance with thie desert. routes and’ the ways of the Arahs proved of great value to the British. _ military authorities. during the World War, and when Great Britain, topk a mandate over: Meso- potamia, 'and ‘established King Feisal at Bagdad, Miss Bell became & power- " MAMMA BWAN GIVES HER BABY THE FIRST SWIMMING LESSON. The newest urrlvnl at the Wash- ington Zoo is dainty Miss Swan, only a few !ll°~ But she took her first swim in hppoolyel- THEY GUARD THE EN'I'RANCI T0 THE SUMMER wm HOLSE. \\hlk Rine Camp, where the born ‘President and Mrs, well he maris afternoon, under the watchful eye ol her Miss Svnn does not intend fo try ho En*m o, Coolidge are established for the Bu mmer, is guarded, have a f amnintants, " fiie plotire was faken AZ tho pngt Whees - Iong e leads (o u.. Summer White House, on Channel swim this Summer.’ Lake. yTight by Underwood & Underwood. heed to the Alsatians’ demand for greater power in local administration and much less'centralization in Paris of matters which the Alsatians believe ~they can handie more quickly and bet- ~ter themselves, and especially whether the French government will refrain from giving away to any temptation to abolish the concordat, which regu- lates religious affairs in the affected provinces, or removes the religious schools which are overwhelmingly Ro- man Catholic. . The people of Alsace-Lorraine are ot interested particularly in the pro- gram to create a local government and parliament “within the framework of the French state.” This is indi- cated In a manifesto by 'agitators, which declares that Alsace, with its > textiles, potash, metallurgy and cereals, {s one of the richest districts in the world, and undoubtedly more prosperous than ever before, ever under German rule, when it possessed & local parliament. 1s Europe’s “Spoiled Child.” Alsace 'is the spoiléd child of Epn yope, somewhat puffed with impar- tance. because so long cotrted both by France and Germany. As one dis- tinguished - Alsatian told the: corre- spondent: “We are afflicted ‘here with the mal- ady-of comparison. We are compar- ing our 'lot under France with what it might have been had we stayed with Germany,.and checking up under dis- advantages of - French sovereignty with the advantages possessed ‘\hfle under German rule. e Alsatians”lost huge Surms by investing their fortunes In rman marks, “and now are féarful that the decline of the franc seriously will at- fect local prosperity."” It has been charged that the recent’ campaign for autonomy Was inspired partly by German agents, who wished partly to embarrass France at,the moment of French national dificulty. There also is a sentiment among some of the popglation, includingth ms-[ ants, that they were Ning mere taxes thlu the people "ot France | broper, A \ Beer Bottie Blast Hurts Boy. ' Seven-year-old Buckley, 1503 Seventeenth streét.. sou found w bottle filled with amber-: colored liquid in an alleyl néar fi home yesterday afternoon. —Child! curlosity caused him to oplfi it, and the contents, good beer, which had been in the sun long to be- come lively, mlufled was cut about the knees by the fl!‘nfl" and ‘was .Iven sul fi- linger. Hospital W‘Br. By the Assoclated Press, CHICAGO, July 18, — Grakelow of Philadelphia was unan- Imously elected grand -exalted ruler of the 'Benevolent.:.and l‘mmfll\m Orgler of Elks by the Grand to- g oceeds . Judge . Wi Illun lmnhm have ever seen.’ H.\\wl!y Atwell of Dallas, Tex. rekelow, director ot public wemn bY pilota of lghtee thast Philadelphia lodge sincs 1907, served as exalted ruler six t.rma‘ and { The race .is sponsored has been president' of - the* Pennsyl- {and the winners ‘will divide ‘1"3 El:; (h “‘hf:o:. Il; grand |of $2,500 rize e and esquire o for_threé. years, | ver tups. and has been a member of. the uruu ¥ ‘Grakelow —urged ' that directly khown. as tho civie ; CI center of its community; gréut meeting place Where otie and charitable activities and c-r.-n the unfortunate families,! the Boy Scouts, medical work, Thanksgiving baskets, hospital donations and public relief work wen tha prl cipal beneficiaries of the Judx! Alwell in_ his annual today, referrad to ‘the suspensi u! charter rights of seven lodges’ for violation -of . prohiibition laws, . dnd, +{ continued:; “Upon tht question of Intoxicating Phlladelphlan SUCCERUS TeX- | Mt e toote nas e %‘.‘s’.:;'k?&':: an—Order Stands for Obeying Liguor Laws. our \=ternity, and I think I may say :vfl.hout being far wrong. that all of he lodges have recognized:the wis- | dom, not to say mecessity, of l‘““fi{" within any' and every law passed by State or Nation. Thé o der cannot pretend to be patriotic:if it does not live the laws of the land. r” balloons; two of ‘I who 'have won numerous Mnnd Kendrlck Ml)ot‘o( Phflldel- "‘d nternational trophies, phia, and was elected without ‘opposi- . today | He has been a member of the [in a national race! for am and has | endurance’ prizes ogend “Elks. air from Grant Park“at 4 pim. the Al FENNING ANSWERS ALLEN COURT ORDER Indium Willingness “to!’ Sur- mdu ‘Lieutengnt’s Estate and Delendl Hil Legal l’rooeedhgl Dmrlct Commissiorier Frederick A. Fenning today answéred.the. rule. to show jcause . recently ‘issued against him by Justice Hoehling.of .the" Dis- | trict Supreme Court on a-petition. of [ Frank: D. Allen, leutenant, U. S:'N:, reticed, who_seéks to. have all pro- eadhn _velating to:Allen's adjudica- nacy yacated. iing qenu ‘that the court jiBe: vacated and 't lul they will be found to ‘and’ dccording ‘to law, Wwillingness. to surrender the of “Allen; -valued ‘at ‘about fider of . court _ap- provuu‘ & report ‘of -the' auditor as fo the amount due the officer. * Allen _declaréd same by a: jury. fos that he had any- the incarceratic F GIH | on the' hfifl' at''his_ office’ in “the & year ago and ‘con "o prepars the petk quity into ma mental pmr ‘which Itmlng ABD-EL-KRIM' ORDERFD * TO REUNION ISLE EXILE ‘Will Be Sent to French Possession | g 880 Miles' East of . % Madagascar. By the Associated, Preds. PARIS, July 13.—~Abd-el-Krim, the. Rifan chief who surrendered to the French, will be exlled to Reurnion Is- lahd in the Indian Ocean, under the terms of the Franco:Spanish Moroccan aecord, signed here today. Reunion, or Bourbon Island, lies 380 miles east of Madagascar and to the southwest of the British Island. of Mauritius. It is 44 miles long ‘and 32 miles wide, with an area of 370 square milés. The - population 1is. approxi- mately 172,000, . The climate is ggree- able, but Europeans almost invariably are attacked: by fever after, nsldlnx there four or-fivé vears. Discoyered . bv ithe. Punug\n-e early. in. the 16th m.ury. it w,n first named ° Mascarenhas.; The “French captured ft’ in 1649, fitst calling I% Bourbon, but " EivigE. lt l! in 1848, ;‘.‘.’3' \s‘" fi‘emmlm Hn m wt Te: red. mnutauryuhhtn Donis 18 the capital. i J BSOS TWO W)SSING GIRLS L SOUGH BY. POUCE : Police! mr-wmwn missing wirls, of ‘whom' 13-year-old | Bessie. May. oruusn.u. _MW EDERLERULEDU OF PARIS CONTEST Only -Améteur Swimmers Al-' » lowed in Cross-City Com ‘. petition There. 'BY GERTRUDE EDERLE. CAPE GRIS-NEZ, Franee, July 13.— 1.was very disappointed to recefve a telegram this morning ‘saying that I will. not: be' permitted . to . enter the | crogs-Paris swim because Vama pro- fessional, ' ‘The\ directors -of - the | Parisian newspaper L'Auto said u\:ey would be delighted to-have me er the race, but it is no aludv-ly “%-f-nm u;s Fg that” my . tralner, illiam Bur‘w R don-l. swam {n- the same wt:) .} years. ago, .but since then, they say, lunch-un with us and all of the un- leasantness of last year's effort was qu(ckly forgotten. J neither want to think of nor dis- cu-s ‘what happened last year, and Mr. ‘Wolff 8ays he is here on a vacation, but is not averse to tralning some channel swimmer if satisfactory terms can he arrange: He hu & home at Brighton, but, like many English“péople, he frequent- Iy lklummeru on ‘this side of the Chan- nel New York Girl Coming. Mr. Wolff told me he had recelved & cable from Miss Claribelle Barrett of New York City, asking him to train her, .but his answering .cable ‘ap- parently has gone astray., Miss Bar- rett is expected here almost any day now, but nothing has been heard definitely from her as’to whers or un- der whom she plans to train. Joe Costa, the Boulogne channel man who ‘tents All the tugs available 0 channel swimmers, and said in the nheighborhood to be the worst weather prophét in the world, predicted rain again_ today, therefore the sun is shin- ing. brilliantly.. Indeed, this has been the fairést day we have had yet. A few week® like' this and the channel water will be warm enough for a trial 1 dAy wmeh isa gnodlnrht:&!ce‘llwln n ve mee -wz:n.mlnt with Helmv;.u t:: mpflm for he’ swims so slowlé hile I have tried to to’ mnteh his, and Trainer Burgess has advised against ,our going out-together because such nmflelnl. he says; cah. do us hoih m .pod ful influence io - native affairs and Kink Feisal relied upon her advice. She was fréquently a go-befween for the* British . commissioner -and Arab chieftains. Her house in a suburb of Bagdad was a rendezyous of ambassadorial importance and she received many foreign visitors. Migs Bell was credited with having had a remarkable acquaintance with the subtlé mentality of oriéntals which led the Arabs to trust her more than any other European. She always shqwed interest in the Arab race and ‘|its progress. When she thought 'an . oteasion called for frankness, she did not he tate to indulge in outspoken languag with both' British officials and Arabs. Called’ Asquith Down. It ‘'was reported that when Lord Asquith -once .advocated ' that the British quit Mesopotamia, she bluntly.. told him he did not know anything about it, “#ive years ago she wrote up the Mesopotamian clvil administra- tion for the British govermment and her report was the first official “white paper” written by a woman.- Miss Hell was the daughter of Sir Hugh Bell; an ' ironmaster and colllery owner. She was educated at Queen's College, . London, and 8t. Margaret’s, Oxford. = She was a fellow of the Royal Geographic Society, as attached .to”the mmnry lntell'-m department at Gairo, Egypt, in-1916, and was laison officer” o the “Axab bureay in - Irak in 1916. She-was mentioned, in dispatches four She was born in 186! 'NOISE DRIVE usam:‘ Eldridge Asks !cllc. to Prohibit vnneuury Truck nhtubnm “Th Potice . Department - was Dlnctoru 0.

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