Evening Star Newspaper, July 22, 1926, Page 2

LATEST CLUES FA No Light on Ohic Publish- er’s Murder. By the Associated Press. CANTON, Ohio, July ter: as fmpenetrable on this, the seventh day since his death, as the night Into ‘which his slayers escaped Although five men apprehended at Akron yesterday were subjected to & night, they told little that igrilling would indicate any knowledge'of the In one instance, authorities crime. sald, the answers of the men differed regarding the time they spent in Can- ton on the day before Mellett was fa- tally wounded as he closed the doors of his garage. Pete Margras told of leaving Akron for Canton at 4 a.m. on July 15 with John Demos, returning ito Akron at 9 p.m. Demos declared they left at 4 p.m. and returned to Akron at 11 p.m. Mellett was shot shortly after mid- night on July 16. The quintet are be- ing held as suspicious characters. Detective's Data Growing. Ora Slater, Cincinnati detective, said has no tangible clue, althoug *h day adds to his collection of in- ation regarding the movement of n underworld characters. De- and police officials generally believe that within “the jungle,” as the Canton underworld section is known, live those who can shed light on the mystery of the murder. Mel- lett’s persistent fight on vice is held to have incited the revenge or hatred which led to his death. Deeming of importance the estab- ishment of the caliber and the type of the firearm used in the slaying, Dr. T. C. McQuate, county coroner, left itoday for New Haven, Conn., with a bullet taken from the brain of the ublisher and others found imbedded dn the kitchen wall. Experts in the YWinchester Arms Co. will be asked to classify the missiles. Investigators ‘differ on the instrument of death, Bome declaring it was a rifle and others a pistol. They disagree on the distance between Mellett and his as- sassins when he was shot. Clean-up Drive Looms. A renewal of the civie effort to elean up Canton was believed prob- able following the declaration by Mayor S. M. Swartz that he contem- plated asking 40 or more civic clubs to name a committee to aid him in a campalgn against alleged vice condi- tions. A review of the records of the Can- ton Police Department for five years shows that there have been 48 mur- ders here and that that not one of the perpetrators of these crimes has met death in the electric chair. Since January 1 of the present vear there have been 10 murders in Canton. ‘ Thirteen murderers In the 84 cases Thave been sentenced—7 of them for dife, 6 for short terms, 1 or 2 result- 4ng in early paroles. In 20 of the slayings the killers are still at large. In these 20 cases the murderers are known in 6 in- stances and are still sought, but in 14 icases they are unknown. One Died in Tong War. Gne slayer died in a tong war and pne committed suicide rather than surrender to police. Four cases are mow pending the Stark County tourts, two awaiting grand jury wiction, one awaiting trial, and another awaiting further action following dis- agreement of a jur although the accused made & fession to the prosecutor. Four alleged murderers in that pe- riod who were bound over to the grand jury were not indicted. One al- leged killer was relensed at a pre- liminary hearing before a police Judge. 72 KILLED BY AUTOS HERE IN 12 MONTHS Report for Year Ending June 30 Also Shows 43,856 Arrests on Traffic Charges. Motor vehicles were responsible for the death of 72 of the 86 persons killed by traffic accidents in the Dis- trict during the year ending June 30, according to the annua! report of In- spector E. W. Brown of the Traffic Bureau, submitted today to Traffic Didector M. O. Eldridge. Thirteen of the traffic victims were killed by street s and one by a horse-drawn hicle; 77 of the total deaths were adjudged as accidental, while 19 drivers were bound over to the grand jury. There were 43,856 arrests for viola- tion of the traffic regulations during the year, an incease of 10,747 over the preceding 12 months, the report show- ied. Of these 9,373 were for parking Wolations, 6,728 for speeding, 6,048 for ifallure to obey light regulations, 1,767 for reckless driving and 77 for driv- intoxicated. inng whil MACARTHUR REVIEWS C.M.T.C. GROUP AT EUSTIS ‘Youths From Here and Nearby Among Winners of Honors for Week's Best Showing. Maj. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, com- manding the 23d Corp Area, with headquarters in Baltimore, today is \visiting the Citizens’ Military Training Camp at Fort Eustis, Va. The pro- ‘gram arranged for him includes a re- i¥iew of the regiment. Eight boys, residents of Washing- ton, Rockville, Takoma Park, Md., and Alexandria, are included among a list of students who have been declared the best Basic, Red, White and Blue ecandidates for the first week of the jeamp. They are: J. D. Dickerson, 3413 Dakwood Terrace; A Plerdon, 622 ‘Maryland avenue; P. Plumbley, ‘Takoma Park, Md.: G. P. Killian, 1722 First street; . T. Pairo, 21 Phode Is- land avenue; F. G- Reach, 1800 G street; Paul D. Smith, Rockville, and ¥. 1. Pohl, Alexandria. Arrangements are being made for the 1st Batallion, composed of stu- Ments from Washington and Balti- ‘more, to visit the Norfolk Navy Yard. A solemn high military field mass Aill be observed at 9 o'clock Sunday inorning, Maj. McHugh, chaplain, Re- gerve Corps. will be celebrant, with Rev. E. A. Brosman of Norfolk, Rev. Francis Byrne of Newport News and . Fhaplain Gleary of Fort Eustis, as- ¥isting in the ceremonies: Solidifies Helium. LEYDEN, Holland, July 22 (@).— or the first time helium has been . imolidified Into a transparent mass by Prof. W. H. Keeson of Leyden Uni- He has accomplished this liquid hellum under high in metal, then in glass INNELLETT KLLING ;five Grilled at Akron Throw —The mys- of the murder of Don R. Mellett, Canton newspaper publisher, remains Sixth Woman Gets Seat in Commons LONDON, July 2 Mar- garet Blondfleld, former chair- man of the Trades Union Con- gress, is again a member of Par- liament. She was elected for the Wallsend division on the Laborite ticket in the bye-elec- tion to fill the vacancy caused by the retire- ment of Sir .Patrick Hast- ings. M Bond- fleld’s return to Parliament in- creases the number of woman mem- bers to six. It Miss BoNDFIELD, - Will glve Susan Lawrence and Ellen Wilkinson udditional sup- port on the offictal Labor opposi- tion side of the House and will ald Lady Astor, the Duchess of Atholl and Mrs. Hilton Philipson in their efforts toward legislation for women, TWO ARE DROWNED INLOGAL STREAMS Cripple Loses Life in Rock Creek—Boy Goes Down In C. & 0. Canal. Miss Two drownings followed in the wake of the heat wave in the past 24 hours, the body of the second victim, Brooks Turmer, colored, 22- year-old cripple, 12 L street, being found in Rock Creek at Twenty- seventh street this morning, when his - crutch, protruding from the water, caused an investigation. The first victim was Walter F. Hamburg, 15 years old, of 1354 Four- and-one-half street, who lost his life while bathing in the C. & O. canal, in the vicinity of Chain Bridge, yes- terday afternoon, despite the gallant effort of Robert @arner, a 16-year- old playmate of 412 I street northeast, to save him. Garner was so weal MANY STORES SEL Survey of Outlying Sections Shows Many Offered, Often Prominently Displayed.‘ Although the renewed crusude against the sale of obscene magazines has had telling effect within the first 24 hours after its opening, one need be neither a Holmes nor a Watson to find dozens of mnewsstands and drug stores in virtually every section of Washington offering salacious pe- riodicals for sale. They are of all varieties, too. Some specialize in pictorial features, show- ing nude female figures in an abun- dance of poses, which some crafty venders carefully displayed in their windows to attract trade. Others de- vote their entire space to flaming “Jiterature.”” And a few seek to cor- ner the market by printing both “art” ened by his struggles and swallow- ing water that it was necessary to take him to Georgetown Hospital for treatment. He later was sent home. Crowd Sees Boy Drown. Hamburg, Garner and Herbert Tay- lor, 16, of 1117 Fourand-one-half street, were members of a party of boys and girls who were on a hike from Hoover playground. The three entered the canal, while the others were eating, it was said, and young Hamburg was noticed struggling in the water after jumping from a scow. Screams brought the other members of the party rushing to the canal bank, and while the effort was being made to aid their stricken companion, passing motorists were halled with- out sucoess. Hamburg had gone down when an unidentified man, attracted by the commotion, came to the assistance of the boy, but he was unable to re- cover the body, which later was found by harbor police. Believed to Have Fallen. Turner, who had but one leg, was reported missing from his home yes- terddy afternoon, and it is believed he may have slipped into the creek accidentally while seeking _relief from the heat, and was unable to extricate himself from the soft mud after being tripped by his crutch. ROBBERS KILL MAN FLEE WITHOUT LOOT Jeweler and Assistant Shot by Band of Five Who Fight Way Through Crowd. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 22.—One man was killed and another wounded when five robbers invaded a Broad- way jewelry store in a daylight hold- up today. ‘The robbers escaped‘after fighting their way through a crowd that col- lected at the sound of the shots. Although the robbers escaped they did not obtain any loot. The man killed was Aaron Rodack, proprietor of the jewelry store at Broadway and 150th street. Sidney Freifeld, a clerk in the store, was seriously wounded. The shooting took place when Rodack and Freifeld attempted to protect the store’s supply of jeweiry. FALLIDE:‘:PLME CRUSHES 2 CHILDREN TO DEATH Three Persons Injured Canadian Forestry Plane Drops Into Lake Ramsay. By the Asscciated Press. VENICE, Calif., July 22.—Two girls were crushed to death and a boy prob- ably fatally injured when an airplane, piloted by Jimmy Crossland, commer- cial aviator, fell on the beach here, where a group of children were play- ing. The plane was not badly dam- aged. Crossland was held manslaughter. SUDBURY, Ontario, July 22 (P).— Three persons were injured, one prob- ably fatally, when a Canadian forestry plane carrying 5 persons crashed into Lake Ramsay, near here, yesterday afternoon. Alexander McLeod of Sud- bury, his daughter Myrtle, and Mrs. Clements of Chicago were injured. The two pilots of the plane escaped unhurt. Mr. McLeod suffered internal injuries. The women escaped with cuts and bruises. on suspicion of 14 Sprinklers to Be Put in Operation and “literature.” A reporter for The Star visited scattered sections of Washington to- day. In the first few districts he made purchases of a dozen or more periodicals which have been declared unlawful. In other sections he mere- ly examined the magazines that were offered for public sale. And he dis- covered that published indecency need not be sought far anywhere. Many Sellers Make Displays. that the trafic in lewd periodicals is nothing like as vigorous as it was this time last year, when The Star waged a campaign against it. But the fact remains that a number of newsstands and some drug stores are openly defying the law by not only having such literature and pictorial magazines for sale, but displaying them more advantageously than de- cent perfodicals. One drug store in the southeast sec- tion of Washington selected two so- called “art” magazines, opened them to the most revolting pictures within the cover and hung them in their windows to attract trade. Others were carefully displayed beside the soda fountain, where boys and girls con- gregate. Observation disclosed that the venders were as indiscriminate in selecting their patrons as In pick- ing their wares. Young Girl Buys One. While the reporter stood there two girls, possibly 14 or 15 years old, came in. They were typical flappers. Both ordered ice cream sodas and while they sipped them surveyed the array of “art” and “literature” that had been 8o carefully spread out before them. One purchased a ‘‘confessions’ magazine; the other contented herself with examining one of the “art” pe- riodicals and returning it to its rack. It seemed fair to conclude that simi- lar incidents must frequently occur in all parts of Washington. Investiga- tions invariably show that vendors of such magazines seek stands in places close to where young people of both sexes gather. There are several par- ticularly extensive stocks of such periodicals near Central High School, :or instance. And near dance places, 00, At least two of the magazines that were declared objectionable have dis- appeared from most of the news- stands. Three places, however, out of the dozen visited had ample supplies of them. These dealers all took the po- sition that the police should specifi- cally instrict them what magazines they could sell and which they could not. Matters of censorsh!p should rot be left to them, they declared. Hesse Holds Different View. Maj. Hesse, superintendent of the Police Department, sees this situation from an entirely different point of view, however. He believes sufficlent publicity has beer* given the matter to let a person even of mediocre in- telligence know what is lawful and what is not. No sane person, he de- clared, can find anything but vulgarity in most of the “art” magazines that are published today. “The only persons I shall notify,” Maj. Hesse sald yesterday, “are my men. I will tell them which maga- zines we intend to ban. They are to arrest vendors of these publications summarily. There will be no more warnings, no more lists. We will be ready in a very short while now, and my last.word to newsstand dealers and others in the trade is to take stock and return to the wholesale houses the questionable books.” With this view District Attorney Peyton Gordon is fully in accord. He feels that the time for leniencey passed last Summer and the hour for action has arrivéd. As in the last crusade, he has been besieged by wholesale magazine dealers. He has told them they must decide the ques- tion of decency for themselves or take a chance on the courts doing it for them at a price ranging from $100 up. One Dealer to Stop Sale. “‘One of these dealers told me he was not going to take any chances,” Maj. Gordon said. ‘“‘He declared he would bundle up all of his objection- abie magazines and ship them to Bal- timore. That is outrageous. We don’t want to clean up just Washing- ton; we want to fut a stop to this traffic everywhere. I am looking up the law now to see whether or not I can’t prosecute that man under the interstate commerce laws. “It seems to me that we might do well to get in communication with the Maryland authorities. Surely they do not want filth dumped from Washing- ton into Baltimore. We have gained little if we merely drive indecency from our city to a neighboring one. It is like saving our household at the expense of others. There must be some way of reaching this traffic and Irsl:;‘)iuld like to see a real fight made of this.” —s. Expect Cat Invasion. SARATOGA, N. Y., July 22 (®).— Saratogians are prepared for a&n in- vasion of domestic tabbies and more belligerent “cats” from the nearby forest. Government cultivation of catnip, heretofore centered near ‘Washington, 18 to be concentrated at the local biological survey farm. In addition to its use a perfume base and for medicine, the oil is popular among trappers as a lure. To Relieve Children From Heat Sympathizing with the children dur- ing the present heat wave, Commis- sioner Guno H. Rudelph today ordered the District Fire Department to put into operation as soon as pos- sible the 14 sprinklers used last year to drench the youngsters on hot days. Fire Chief George S. Watson plans to have the sprinklers in operation by to- morrow afternoon and will continue to run them througHout the warm weather. The sprinklers will be turned on every afternoon at 3 o'clock and will be turned off at § o'clock. They will be attached to fire hydrants at_the following places: Livingston road between Thirty- bia road between Georgia and Sher- man avenues, N street between First | 9! and Second southwest, Iowa avenue between Varnum and Webster streets, First street between New York ave- nue and N street, Otis street between ‘Warder and Georgla® avenue, Long- fellow street between Eighth and Ninth streets, E street between First and Seecond, Taylor street between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, Third street between L and M streets southeast, I street between First and Second streets southwest, G street be. THE EVENING ot Eeion) 1 | PPERS | In all fairness, it should be stated| It May Be Hot Here, But Read What Heat Other Points Assoct 3 NORTH HALEDON, N. J,, July 22—~So hot here that hens have been laying in drinking troughs and many have been drowned. NEW YORK, July 22—On the hottest day of the year here Hill- year Straton, minister's son, who is to be ordained soon, came out with the statement that the world is going plumb to heil. PHILADELPHIA, July 22— With a temperature recorded which makes his newly presented ornate sword almost too hot to handle, Lieut. Comdr. Byrd indi- cated he was open to any offer for another polar flight if it would start at once. ‘ CHICAGO, July 22—The hot weather cost Harold Roscoe $1,234. He started down town to buy an automobile, decided he would take a plunge in Lake Michigan en route, and when he emerged his trousers containing the money were gone, MORGANFIELD, Ky., July 22.— Sxtreme heat has hatched six eggs in the Greenberg poultry house here. The chicks are all normal and active and will be sold with those hatched by incubators and ens. I RECORD HEAT WAVE TAKES 3LIVES IND. C.; 50 DIE IN MIDWEST __(Continued from First Page.) doctrines into practice by closing all its offices at 8 o'clock this afternoon, instead of 4:30. Police Chief Hesse advised all his traffic officers to “take things easy” during the hot spell, urging them to rest in the shade on suitable intervals. Many Sleep in Parks. Scores of persons took full ad- vantage of the parks last night, and many of them made beds on the grass and remained all night, accord- ing to members of the park police force. Both Potomac Park and Rock Creek Park experienced the heaviest traffic in automobiles ever witnessed by veteran members of the force. From early last night the automo- iles began to jam the Speedway in Potomac Park and soon the road be- came saturated with traffic. It was then that hundreds of them turned to Rock Creek Park, where the t~m. perature {8 from 10 to 15 degrees lower than in the heated city streets. Until long past midnight there was a solid line of traffic moving in either direction and every available parking space in the park was in use. As in East Potomat Park and soon the road ple brought bedding along and made beds on the banks of Rock Creek. The park police for some time have been trying to relleve the nightly jam in East Potomac Park by call- ing attention to the lower tempera- tures in Rock Creek Park. It is pointed out that frequently there are many vehicles in Potomac Park seeking relief from the heat and the roads In Rock Creek Park are prac- tically deserted. Many people do not know that the roadways there are now lighted and that parking is permitted at night. Last night was sald to be the first time that these roads have had such heavy traffic in the nighttime. The police, realizing the intense heat prevailing in the city, will make no effort to oppose orderly sleepers who want to use the park. The “official” temperature of 104 de- gTrees was eclipsed by the street-level heat of 107 degrees registered yester- day afternoon at the kiosk on Pennsyl- vania avenue near Fourteenth street. The Weather Bureau instruments are protected from direct or reflected rays of the sun, but the thermometer down- town gave evidence of the actual con- ditions whicif confronted the swelter- ing inhabitants on the streets. The pavement on many of the un- shaded streets were mushy yesterday and today from the intense heat of the sun, and the tar surfacing on the new pavement on M street, in George- town, was so sticky that horses had great dificult in traversing it. Great patches of the tar adhered to truck partially denuding portions of the thoroughfare. Thousands Let Off. Thousands of Government employes were dismissed early yesterday. Apparently the only Federal depart- ments who worked uninterruptedly to regular quitting time yesterday were the Interior and Navy Depart- ments. The Treasury Department, many of whose bureaus and branches are located in temporary wooden build- ings in the Mall, bowed in deference to Old Sol. Chief Clerk Birchfeld said it would be “silly” to expect men and women to work in buildings where the temperature soared to more than 100 degrees, as was the case yester- day. A number of employes were prostrated as it was, he said. TWO DIE AT DANVILLE. Temperature of 102.2 Yesterday, Hot- test of Year in Virginis City. DANVILLE, Va., July 22 (#).—Dan- ville experienced the hottest day of the year yesterday when the mercury climbed to 102.2 degrees, reaching the maximum at 6 o'clock. Two deaths attributable to heat have been report- ed, George Walker, negro, dying last night and Grover Thurman, father of nine children, collapsing at the Dan River Mills and dying instantly. Clayton Brantley, power superintend- ent, reported flve negroes were “knocked out” while working -on a coffer dam in the river, but none of the prostrations proved fatal. UNIVERSITY, Va., July 22 (®).—A temperature of 105 degrees was re- corded yesterday at the McCormick Observatory of the University of Vir- ginia. This is five degrees hotter th ever before have been recorded, ac- cording to the official record kept ‘sln::a;he observatory was established n 3 350,000 AT BEACH. Record Heat Wave General All Over Eastern Section. NEW YORK, July 22 (#).—The East sweltered today in a heat wave that came in from the Midwest tak- ing a toll of two-score lives and pros- trating hundreds in the cities on:its course. R Temperature records' were broken here and elsewhere yesterday. So of the high marks were Baltimore, 102; Cumberland, Md., Philadelphia and Jersey City, 100; Springfleld, Mass., New Haven, 98.8; Albany, 98; N York, 96. cool with less than 80 degrees, but further West, Chicago registered 9 Milwaukee, 95.5, and Kansas City, 86. In New York it was the hottest July day except one since 5. In Albany weather records for 30 years ‘were broken, factories had to close at Lockport, N. Y.; and it was the hot- test day in the history of the New H,lven tween Third and Fourth streets north- | and east, C street between Fifteenth and streets southeast and O street between Twenty-sixth and | crowds. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1926. FILIPINOS' GOUNCIL |PRESIDENT'S RIGHT IGNORES THOMPSON| DOUBTED IN SUIT Will Not Try to Influence|Land Register Holds He Can- Colonel in Economic not Be Removed Without Study of Islands. Senate’s Consent. By the Associatsd Press. MANILA, July 22.—The National Supreme Council, composed of mem- bers of both the Nationalist and Dem- ocratic parties, organized for the pur- pose of futhering the cause of Phil- ippine independence, will maintain complete reserve concerning the in- vestigntion of Carmi A Thompson into economic conditions in the ‘The right of the Prestdent of lhel United States to remove from office | an apprintee confirmed by the Senate without the approval of that body is raised in the suit for mandamus brought by Lannes L. Farrall, who has declined to vacate the office of register of lands at Phoenix, Ariz. Arguments on the matter are sched- uled for this afternoon before Justice Hoehling. Attorney William C. Pren- tiss will defend Farrall's right to the islands. Mr. Thompson is the per- office, while Attorney Graves of the sonal representative of Presldent|ynioro. Department will uphold the Coolidge. attempted dismissal. The position of the National Su- preme Council was outlined in a statement by Senator Juan Sumu- long, one of the leading Democratic members of the council, “We want to refrain from doinig anything which might be interpreted as designed to or tending to influence Mr. Thompson in the performance ;)f his mission,” sald Senator Sumu- ong. WOOD DENIES RESIGNING. Such Rumors Spread to Make His Work Harder, He Says. BY PAUL WRIGHT. MANILA, July 22. 'You may deny The case gives evidence of develop- Ing Into a constitutional battle over the right of the President to remove appointees who have been confirmed by the Senate. Although confirmed by the Senate shortly after his nomination for the post last December, Farrall failed to receive his commission, and on the expiration of the last session of Con- gress, July 3, Acting Secretary Fin- ney of the Interior Department noti- fled him that his service as register was terminated. Says President Approved Act. Farrall then brought mandamus proceedings here to compel Secre tary Work to forward to President Coolidge for the latter's signature his commission as register. Briefs filed in the case show that the President per- sonally approved, by initialing a copy of it, the telegram of notification sent to Farrall by Finney, The brief for the Interfor Secretary cited section 176 of the Revised Statutes as au- thority for the action, but Farrall's ttorney, Mr. Prentiss, holds that sec- tion was repealed in 1887. = “It is astonishing, to say the least, a memorandum on Farrall's behalf says, “that the Secretary of the Inte- rior and his first assistant, and even the President, should be ignorant of the fact that R. S. 1796 was repealed in 1887." Counsel for Farrall reserved the point that after registers are ap- pointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, the power of removal is vested in and must be exercised jointly by the President and Senate. A somewhat similar point is now at igsue in the Supreme Court. in the case involving Postiaster Myers of Portland, Oreg. Holds Tenure Expired. In an answer to the Farrall suit upholding his action, Acting Secre- tary Finney said it was based on the fact that no commission had been issued to Farrall and that therefore his tenure automatically expired. Farrall, through counsel, not only is sharply disputing this point but also contends that the mere initialing of a copy of the telegram sent Far- rall by the President does not under any circumstances constitute pro- cedure required in the exercise of executive authority for the discharge of a Federal officer. Mr. Finney explains in his reply that while Secretary Work was absent from the city he called upon the President and showed him a copy of the notification telegram sent Mr. Far- rall and that the Executive approved the action by initialing the copy of ‘the message. Graves Acts for Department. Demurring to these circumstances of the case as set forth by Mr. Finney, Mr. Prentiss states that “the power of removal can be exercised only by have any thought of resigning.” Thus, Gov. Gen, Leonard) Wood at Malacanan Palace finished telling this correspondent today that there is reason for believing rumors he will resign are being started to make his position more difficult. At midnight Thursday Col. Carmi A. Thompson, speclal investigator for President Coolidge, and his party will begin a five-day voyage to the island of Culion and other points south and west. Culion s the seat of Gov. Gen. Wood's leper colony, where most modern treatment is working miracles. Col. Thompson has been in the Phil- ippine Islands two weeks, but he has yet to be introduced to the true na- tives, the folk who constitute nine- tenth of the population. Living in a modern hotel on & magnificlent waterfront, he has traveled in motor and street cars over a system of boulevards and parks designed by Burnham of Chicago, and has been delighted by courteous intellectual men and women encountered at con- ferences, dinners, luncheons and dances. The mission s beginning to make expeditions to points outside of Man- fla to discover what has been done by the United States for the islanders, and to get acquainted with the farm- er, who does the greater part of the islands’ work. Visits Farm College. The mission saw some of the pos- sibilities of the islands during a visit to the agricultural college of the Uni- versity of the Philippines at Los Banos. The Colonel was especially in- terested in the Nipa Palm as a new and undeveloped source of sugar. The islands have 100,000 hectares (about 247,000 acres) of unused Nipa terri- tory. The plant requires no expen- sive mills, as it can be boiled like maple sugar and it requires no culti- vation. Nipa produces roofing for thousands of native houses as well as aleohol and sugar, Another possibility shown by Dean Charles Fuller Baker, brother of Ray formal action over the signature of the President notifying the incumbent of an office that he has been removed therefrom, or by the nomination and confirmation by the Senate of another person to the office; that the alleged initialing of the telegram was not an exercise by the President of the power of removal, but merely evi- denced misconception on his part that the office was already vacant.” Stanard Baker, was “mpguey,” from which Col. Thompson was -told the Philippines can produce all the binder twine needed in the world. This\can be developed cheaply with small mills to the enrichment of the small farmer. At the agricultural college there was evidence that here as elsewhere Filipinos are discouraging Americans. Only two American technical experts Mr. Work and Mr. Finney are repre- sented in the hearing of the case by 0. H. Graves, assistant to the solicitor of the Interior Department. are left on the staff. The institution greatly needs money for agricultural experiments. —_— Cowboy at Rodeo Saves Daughter of Mexican President By the Assoclated Press. PHILADELPHIA, July 22— A Mexican cowboy saved Seno- rita Earnestine Calles from threat- ened danger at the exposition grounds, where her party had gone to witness a_rodeo. The daughter of Mexico's President had stepped from the grandstand to pose for photographers when a riderless broncho, in a pitching and bucking Al forced his own mount into the path of the runaway. There was a col- lision and the riderless horse went down. By the time it regained its feet Senorita Calles had been whisked to safety. FIREMEN TESTING ENGINES FOR RACE Contest for The Star Cup In- spires Strenuous Efforts to Win Speed Record. All over Washington today those folks who dwell near fire engine houses are hearing the Intermittent roars of powerful motors being started and stopped at unusually fre- quent intervals, but in no neighbor- hood is the turmoil so great as near the quarters of No. 23 engine com- pany, on G street between Twenty- first and Twenty-second streets. The lads of that company are pre- paring _to entér competition with every engine company in Washington beginning next Monday to prove their right to retain possession of the Eve. ning Star trophy for another year by leaving their quarters in the fastest time on a regular alarm of fire. And they are “tuning up” the old engine company set a record for all the world to shoot at last year when it left its quarters in seven and one- fifth seconds on a regulation alarm of fire. By so doing it bested every other engine company in Washington and easlly defeated the crack com- pany in Baltimore, which had claimed to be the fastest engine company in the country by having left its quar- ters in 10 seconds flat. Last One to Be Tested. TEN HELD IN TURK'PLOT LIBERATED IN ANGORA Startling Disclosures Promised at Triai of Others Accused of Attempt to Gust Kemal. By the Associated Press. ¥ CONSTANTINOPLE, July 22.—Ten of the nearly 100 prisoners awaiting trial at Angora on charges of plotting to overthrow the Mustapha Kemal regime were liberated today. JUDGE LETS MORSE WAIT UNTIL OCTOBER Shipbuilder, Given Respite, Must Face Fraud Trial in Fall Unless Doctor Forbids. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 22—Federal Startling disclosures are promised | | NEW. TOMY Holnes today de- for the trial, which has been delayed | \ineq to order Charles W. Morse, through the discovery by the police of hipbuilder, to appear in New York alleged incriminating evidence in lead to an indictment charging ments seized at the homes of the 13 in the sale of men recently hanged at Smyrna. The | Pim, with mall 2ad i (0 B police are displaying great activity|™j,qge Holmes, however, ordered throughout the country, and arrests | yroree to plead on the first Monday in e October unless a_physicilan to bo designated by the Governmeént should report that he is physically or men- tally unable to stand the strain of pleading or trial. Morse is il at his Summer home at Bath, Me. His wife died suddenly recently, about the time word was re- cetved that her husband had been ordered to plead here. RITES FOR R. L. LYNCH. Employe of The Evening Star to Be Buried in Fort Lincoln. The funeral of Riddick Lee Lynch, 25 Sixteenth street southeast, for nine years an employe in the com- posing room of The Evening Star, will take place at 3 o'clock this after- noon from Epworth Methodist Church. Mr. Lynch died after a brief illness Tuesday afternoon. Rev. John P. Tyler, pastor of the church, will conduct the sérvice and Interment will be in Fort Lincoln Cemetery. - Pallbearers will include Charles Berner, M. K. Rightstine, Harry Sauter, Edward J. Gardner, John D. Perry and Leroy E. Kluege. Warrants Are Due For 14 Proprietors Of Local Fountains ‘While soft-drink emporiums were crowded with parched-throat indi- viduals last night sanitary inspec- tors of the District Health Depart- ment began a drive to enforce ob- servance of the health regulations requiring all public drinking glasses to be sterilized. As a re- sult, warrants will be issued for the arrest of the proprietors of 14 establishments where violations ‘were observed. Six of the violations were found in confectionery stores, three in drug stores and five in near-beer saloons. = The inspectors visited 140 establishments. The campaign will be continued, according to Health Officer Wil- llam C. Fowler, until all places wrere soft drinks are dispensed have been inspected. GUSTAF GETS WELCOME. Swedish Prince Will Speak Today in Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES, Calif., July 22.— The reception accorded Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf and Princess Louise of Sweden yesterday will be continued in Los Angeles today. After being tendered a reception by Mayor George E. Cryer and other city officials this morning, the royal party will proceed to the Shrine Auditorium, where the Crown Prince will address residents of Swedish extraction. At the conclusion of the Swedish pro- gram the party will go to the home of Prince Erick of Denmark for lunch- eon. The Chamber of Commerce will en- tertain the royal party at a formal dinner tonight. \ Under Because 62 persons have been bitten by dogs since the first of this month and fearful that the hot weather will develop cases of rables, workers at the District Pound are making & determined attempt to round up all the unmuzzled dogs found straying about the Proof that the pound employes are causing the dogs to lead a real dog's ‘when it was 2 in New York State, 4 in New Jer. ux. 9 in New England and some else- ‘where. Crops were damaged throughout the Midwest and there was ous dam- age from forest fires in Montana. At a ceremony in Philadelphia, where he was presented with a sword, Comdr. Richard E. Byrd exp longing for North Pole temperatures. On the other ‘l.n , mountain climb- ers ascending Mount Washington, in New Hampshire, were forced to turn aside by .26 feet of snow. Showers and thunderstorms were forecast for life was evidenced today fe:‘nfim 28 ‘dmo.l? On ca) day &hx.lm)ow during 3 17 they gok & Round-Up of Stray, Unmuzzled Dogs The winning company happened to be the last visited by the judges, who were testing the Fire Department last year to determine the winner of The Evening Star cup, a trophy which is offered annually by this paper to en- courage speed in the Fire Department. No one ever thought it would break the tie of eight seconds which existed between two other companies. No. 23 has one of the most anti- quated pieces of motorized apparatus in Washington, an old, hand-cranked White truck. But Capt. B. W. Weaver had trained his men well and Driver P. P. Ballenger had guaged the width of his door, to a fine degree. Scarcely had the first stroke of the gong finished sounding than the eager motor of the old ‘White was roaring. “Bong! Bong-bong-bong!" So sang the old bell. “Box 13. Go!" cried Capt. Weaver. And in just exactly seven and one-fifth seconds from the time the gong had first begun to strike, No. 23 was racing down G street to its destination.. That is a record other fire companies will have to try a long time to lower. Made Under Usual Conditions. There was no effort to make it easy. All of the men were ordered to the back of the engine house™ and the gong was sounded in the official man- ner. To achieve such a record the men of No. 23 had to run to thelir sta- tions, crank the truck, wait unt!l the box had been counted, wait for their commander to order them on their way and then get under way, always remembering to be cautious enough to prevent an accident. A lot of motions had to be gone through to do all of those things in so few seconds. Capt Weaver has his same old driver and he is out to win The Star cup for a second successive year. - Last year's record will not fig- ure in the winner of the cup this year. It will remain as the record until lowered, but the companyeleaving its quarters quickest this year will get the. cup for a year. The company win- ning it three times becomes perma- nent owner. A real contest is in sight this time, because the more modern companie: equipped with the Goliaths of the ‘fire run that are supposed to be the fleet- est, most efficient apparatus yet de- veloped, are still feeling the chagrin of their utter rout at the hands of one of the oldest motor trucks in the District Fire Department. If there is any fair way of whipping that one they are going to do it. Way to Reduce Peril of Rabies is ‘considered a good record inasmuch as only one wagon with three attend- ants is covering all sections of the city. N qhh month's sixty-second case was recorded yeste: , when police were notified that Charles with an energy that augers well for | | BRIGH DENDUNGE HTTAGKSONU.S Editors Hold Cries of “Shy- lock” Can Only Create In- ternational Animosity. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 22.—The debate in the House of Commons on Mcnday regarding the British debt settlement and dispatches from the United States reporting irritation there at the continued clamor of a section of the British and French press with ref- erence to the attitude of the United States on the situation, has led to extended editorial discussion of the matter here. It is clear that there is uneasiness In some quarters lest what is considered the continual carp- ing over the position of the United States will lead to widespread ill feeling in Great Britain and America “The current controversy is causing trouble and it may make mischief,” says the Daily Telegraph, which, while criticizing the American stand, words its strictures more mildly than some of the other newspapers. The Daily ‘Telegraph deplores the fact that the United States rejected Great Britain's srgpumls for all-round cancellation of ebts. Blames U. S. for Instability. “The rejectlon,” says the newspa per, “was much a calamity as its acceptan ould have been the just triumph of American disinterestedness to the end of time. * * * America has not helped Europe as she might or as she ought or as eventually she will when her public opinjon takes x more generous and less strictly mer- cantile_view.” The Westminster Gazette, while be lieving it would have been better for everybody, including the United States, it all war debts had been canceled, deprecates violent attacks on the “‘American Shylock” and says such at- tacks are worse than useless and cal culated to lessen whatever chance there may be that the United States will play a helpful part. The Daily Mail, which for some days has pub- lished vehement attacks on the posi- tion taken by the United States and lampooned Uncle Sam as “Uncle Shy- lock,” reiterates today the charge that the disturbance in Europear finances is due to the debt claims of the United States. Puts Burden on Baldwin. This journal welcomes the coming to Europe of Andrew W. Mellon, the American Secretary of the Treasury “whose presence in these critical hours may be of immense service to the world.” The Dally Express, putting all the blame on “Premier Baldwin's wild. single-handed dash into the complex financial-polittcal problem of debts and making & set*lement with unexampled haste and prevision,” says the present outcry is too late. “An attempt to lick spilt milk off the carpet,” the newspaper adds, “is neither appetizing nor likely to prove successful. * * ¢ The error of 1923 will not be retrieved by violent denunciations in 19 BANK TELLER HELD ON-FRAUD CHARGE Accused of Taking $4,000 of Cus- tomers’ Money After Sell- ing Mortgages. Charged with embezzlement of ap proximately $4,000 from the Liberty National Bank, where he was em ployed as a note teller, Rafael Carmen Calvo, 26 years old, of 1604 Q street was arrested yesterday by Detectives Tally and Weber of police headquar ters, and was arraigned today In Police Court for a preliminary hearing. A continuance of the case until Monday was granted upon arralgn ment. Calvo was released on $5,000 bond. Calvo, who is the son of a former Minister from Costa Rica, is alleged by the police to have sold mortgages to customers of the bank and to have appropriated the proceeds to his own use. Police charge that he obtained the money at six different times until the total sum was §4,000 thus obtained and converted. According to the detectives, Calvo made a full confession. The allega tions in .the case place the time of the first operation at September, 1925 FRENCH ROUT REBELS BESIEGING DAMASCUS By the Assoclated Press. DAMASCUS, Syria, July 22.—Da mascus, which has been in a state of siege for the past 8 months by Druse tribesmen, will probably soon be re- lieved, -if official information reaching the French government proves to be correct. French troops, executing a converg- ing movement- on Damascus, have crossed the Kassivom Mountains, pro- tecting the city from the north, and also the Lebanon range to the west, virtually surrounding the insurgents, who have been hoiding the gardens of Damascus since October, 1925. A communique says the French have cleared the gardens of the rebels capturing 70 hostages and 296 prison ers. The rebels left 150 dead. H. H. MORGAN TO RETIRE. Henry H. Morgan, foreign service officer of clags 1 who has just re- turned to this cBuntry from nearly three years’ service as counsel general at Buenos Afres, will be retired July 81 under the provisions of the act approved May, 24, 1924. He is a native of New Orleans and was edu- cated at Brussels, Belgium, and Bonn, Germany. He entered the United States diplomatic service in September, 1882, as secretary of legation, Mexico City. Since then he has served at Lucerne, Stuttgart, Amsterdam, Bar- celona, Hamburg, Havana, Antwerp and other places. He {s visiting this city on his way to New Orleans. Al HE STAR will be glad to have its attention called to any misleading or untrue statement, if such should appear at any time, in any advertisement in its columns. Readers are requested 10 sist in protecting themselves and legitimate advertisers.