Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1926, Page 2

GEN. FRANK LAHN IS GRDERED HER Probably Will Succeed Fechet as Head of Air Corps Training Branch. Brig. Gen. Frank P. Lahm, one of the two new general officers in the Army Air Corps, has been ordefed here from San Francisco for a month emporary dut Army circles believe he later ceed Brig. Gen. Fechet in charge of air t Gen. Fechet will go to Kelly Field, Tex., to take command of the la Air Corps station. Gen. Lahm is a graduate of West ! which | Point, and has had service well equips him to take charge of the responsible post for, which he seems slated here. He was born if Ohio in 1877, and as appointed from there to the Mili- ¢ Academy. He was for a long time in the Signal Corps, graduated from the mounted service school in 1911, and served overseas as a colonel in the Air Service during the World War in the branch known as lighter than-air training. He was awarded the I cuished Service medal for his services during the w As one of the prominent free bal- loon pilots the young officer took in. terest early in aviation -and followed the subject with much interest, cording to officers here who are miliar with his eareer. It was said of him yesterday that his activities and zest for the possibilities of the Air Service were among the important factors in stimulating early work in aviation Gen. Lahm is both a free balloon and airplane pilot. He has been in command of air forces at the San Francisco headqui of the corps area. After the World War he served for four vears on the general staff. 8| SUSPENDS POLICE CHIEF IN CANTON ON LAXITY CHARGE (Continued from First Page.) against the Mellett was r Cra Slater, Cincinnati who came into the the Mellett murder night, reported today ing in sight.” Slater, conducting County investigation, and res to Prosecutor C. B. McClintock, is act- ing as “pivot man” in the swir leads as they are sent along by other detectives in the J. D. Cleary, Columbus detective enting Gov. Vic Donahey in the igation, has toured the “tend . conferred night and day with varigus investigators and w to Xdjt, Gen. Frank D. Hend Monday in Columbu Talks to P This afterncon Cleary had long distance telephone contversations with Warden P. E. Thomas of the Ohio State Penitentiary and ,with offici of the Mansfleld Reformatory con- cerning a new lead in the investiga- tion. It had been a constantly recur- ring theory that the plot may have originated behind the bars of the State institutions, where convicted Can- tonians have been placed for miscon- duct in public office, for perjury, for murder and for bootlegging. More than a score of detectives, 70 Canton policemen and regular and special investigators, grilling scores of underworld leaders Jere and else- where and traveling hundreds of miles in the dead of night and the glare of day to follow up vague leads in many directions, have all proved un- availing in the hunt for the slayer. Likewise, a reward of nearly $30,000, promises of protection and a certain degree of immunity fo informants, pleas to patriotism and Jjustice and hundreds of thousands of words of newspaper publicity have failed to un- ravel Ithe mystery which surrounds the shooting of the publisher. “Squealer” Not- Found. Theories have been woven around S, sometimes with evidence that »unded promis- ing but could not be clinched. Alleged bootleg kings have been grilled: wom- an drug addicts have been questioned; suspected “higher ups” have been in terviewed, but a “squealer’” has not been found. “If Mellett in any of his personal papers left definite clues, they have not been made known. Mellett had been threatened many times, and with “'stool pigeons” obtaining information for him concerning vice in the under- world it has been one theory that he may have known himself who were most likely to carry out their threats. OLDFIELD FORESEES DEMOCRATS VICTORS Early Complete Control in Both Houses, His Prediction, Based cn Farmers' Revolt. New dent pul of which her. detective, There is noth- he offi By the Associated Press. 2 ROCK, July 24.—Congress. am A. Oldfield of Batesville, \ of the National Democratic Congressional Committee, today gave out a ly complete Democratic control in both houses, based, he said, on an intimate tour of the entire Nation. The best the Republican Party can do in the Fall elections etain what it has, Oldfield d pointed out that the De only 35 seats in the House and nine in the Senate to obfain majorities. Ty he said, are to be filled chiefly i -ribbed Demo- cratic States. Trad:.ions handed down from the Civil War affecting the politics of the farmers of the Nation may be changed this year and a new party alignment formed, he hinted. “It is not politics, Dbut downright economic pressure and suffering that accounts for the bitter- ness of the farmers toward the Repub- lican Party—a bitterness that can only be guessed at by those who haven't actually visited the agricultural sec. tions,” he asserted. . EDITOR IS ARRESTED. Charged With Breaking Parole With “Scandalous” Articles. OMAHA, July 24 (®).—Edwin L. Huntley, editor and publisher of the Mediator; weekly Omaha newspaper, who was recently given a suspended jail sentence for alleged libel of Wal- ter W. Head, Omaha bank president, today was arrested for ‘breaking parole.” Huntley's parole was granted on the ground that he refrain from writ. ing “scandalous articles.” Probation Officer Joseph Morrow, who arrested Huntley today, said an article in last issue of the Mediator was “scanda- lous” and named an Omaha pastor. Huntley was placed in jail until he, can raise a 51{00 bond. | was made today by Gustaf Adolf of Sweden. o 1 i | | | | | | | { will | ining and operations, while | BRIG. GEN. FRANK P. LAHM. SLAYER TO PLEAD “{INWRITTEN LAW" Rancher Declares Cowboy Tried to Shoot Him When " Found With His Wife. By the Associated Press ALLIAY Nebr., July defense and the “‘unwritten law be the defenseof Albert Hill, 45 old rancher, of near Gordon, who Tuesday night shot and killed Oblennis, 25. a cowboy on his ranch. Hill said he had mistrusted Oblen- nis and_his wife and, Tucsday morn- ing. told them he was leaving for two avs. Instead of leaving Hill said he in the granary, and s nnis and his wife together. I knocked my’ wife down and then started to fight Oblennis,” Hill re- lated. “He got tte worst of it and ran to the garage and gol a repeating shotgun. 1 got my shotgun, too, and for my own protection shot and killed him as he came toward me, ready to shoot.” Hill then told how the body feli in the hog vard, how he went to hed, got' up at midnight, piled the body in his car and buried it in a shaljow pit in the sand hills several miles 7 lie then returned home, ed his wife about “mentioning scandal,” and left home to aid ther rancher in his harvest several away Hill's arrest and confession resulted from an investigation of Oblennis’ ab: sence by neighbors, Oblennis recently bec: from his wife. They h TWO FRENC o me estranged ve one child. CH AIRMEN VICTIMS OF ATROCITY Wounded Prisoners Are Bound to Airplane, Which Is Set on Fire. By the Associated Press BEIRUT, Syria, July 24.—Two French aviators, in the operations against the insurgent tribesmen, have met with an atrocious death. Be- cause of engine trouble, they were comipelled to come to the ground dur- ing a combined foot, horse ‘and aerial operatlon in the region of Ghoflita. They were captured by the rebels after a desperate resistance. In their wounded '-..Tmlon they were bound to the wrecked airplane, which was set on fire, The victims were air Lieut. Du Laurens D'Olselay and Sergt. Gressier. MAY TRADE SPECIMENS. Prince Offers to Exchange Stock- holm Exhibits for Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES, July 24 (#).—An offer «to exchange specimens of, in- terest now on exhibition at " the Swedish Museum in Stockholm for exhibits at the State Museum here Crown Prince The prince was particularly inter- ested in specimens of pre-historic ani- mals at the State institution, and it was while examining them that the offer was made. His suggestion was received with favor by the officials of the museum. Ford Plant’s Ton of Coal. In Henry Ford's Detroit plant a ton of bituminous coal is converted, in four minutes, into 8,000 feet of gas, 10 gallons of gasoline, 20 pounds of ammonium sulphate, 30 gallons of crude light tar, 3 gallons of creosote ofl, 2 gallons of lubricating ofl and 10 pounds of grease. “The 1,500 pounds of coke which is left can be utilized for many purposes. The market value of the products is $13.56. The coal costs the Ford Com- pany about $5 a ton, delivered. “Ostrich Farm” in Buckingham. The white and gold room in Buck- ingham palace in which ladies about to be presented at court sit in rows, | has been irreverently named by junior members of the royal household as the “ostrich farm.” The reason is that hundreds of ostrich feathers have been counted in the room while the women were awaiting presentation in the throne room. Some wore as many as thrée big feathers. Only or Lonely? From the London Post. He was a very little boy, in the draw- ing room for the first time. The visitor asked him: Have you any cats and dogs at home?” “No," replie an only child.” the boy sadly, “I am __THE SUNDAY STAR. CYCLONE RUNS FOLK TO CELLARS, ' FLOODS DRIVE THEM INTO HAIL -About Topsy-Turvy—Gale Blows 150 Miles an Hour—Mule Only Casualty. Special Dispatch to The Star. SEAGIRT, N. J., July 24—To the sleeping residents of this town and Manasquan, enjoying the first break in the heat wave, came a cyclone windstorm just after dawn today that routed them from their beds and sent them scurrying to cellar: twisting gale played topsy-tur all it could 1ift that stood in its path. For an hour the air became a play ground for house-tops, trees, ga- rages, barns, automobiles—only the firmest foundations held to the ground. - Shivering townspeople crouched terrified in their cellars. And_then, as suddenly as it had come, the cyclone swept out to sea. But the joke of the elements was not over. Torrents of rain began to de- scend at the moment the wind com- pleted its work, and the streets were flooded. The waters cascaded into cellars and the harrowed refugees were chased back upstairs. The elements were consistent the joke and established « limit. though property damage was great, the only casualty reported in' the whole area was an Army mule, speared by a flying beam, After another frantic hour, during which many of the townspeople were drenched by the rain falling through roofless houses or Into windows where the wind had smashed the glass, they ventured out at last only to feel the sting of the concluding jest of the storm kings. Abowt a half hour after the rain was over, a hail- storm set in and frozen pellets re- ported to he large as bruised many of those seeking to find a vanishing roof, or barn, or garage, or automobile. In Manasquan property was estimated in six figures. In Seagirt, not quite so hard hit, the principal loss was to the New Jersey National Guard, whose Summer camp at Camp Moore was virtually de- stroyed. None of the guardsmen was hurt, however. The usual eyclone tricks, most common in Kansas, were revealed to Manasquan residents after the hail- storm had spent ‘tself. One of the many garages destroyed was turned completely over, its roof Imbedded in the ground. On the principal street an old barn was lifted. carried 50 yards and set down on top of a house. At least a dozen houses were unrofed. Several automobiles were turned over, one steered by the hand of the wind to an ignominious repose in Al- damage | roof of the United States Coast Guard } in a cow pasture outside the town limits. A building under construc- tion was demolished. Tree Blown Into House. Hardly o tree is left standing. One tree- was blown into the side of a house, making a great hole. The station there was Hifted out to sea, as was one of the lifeboats on the beach. A garage owned hy R. Morton, made of frame steel, was carried from its foundation and blown into the side of a home of Liord Anderson, lifted away again and blown against the side of the Summer home of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Hampton, nearly 100 feet awav. Myron Brognard and Roy Trockmorton, employes of the Mortons, were sitting in the garage when its walls and roof flew away. They were unscratched. "The- force of the windstorm bare- 1y missed Ashury Park. A few houses were reported ‘badly shaken; some moved from their foundations, and | several trees were blown down. No serious damage was reported from the wind. The rain, however, Sooded the streets from one to two feet deep all over the town and filled many cel lars, causing considerable damage. Camp Is Razed. The National Guardmen at Camp Maocre had just arrived at the parade ground for final inspection, prior to breaking camp Monday, when the cy- clone descended. The soldiers s tered, the pace of many in their flight for refugze being accelerated by the gale. Not more than a hailf dozen tents were left standing. The poles were carried many yarde from the site of the camp, canvases were ripped and torn like tissue paper. Nobody was seriously hurt, g The windstorm eame from the northwest . and was said by Coast uards to have attained a velocity of 150 miles an hour. ‘Telephone and telegraph communi- cations were severed for several hours after the storm passed Residents of Ocean Grove, Bradley Beach, Betmar and Spring lake re- ported slight damage from the wind and rain, but the force of both storms was confined to Seagirt and Manas quan. Gov. Moore of New Jersey was in his Summer home not far from WASHINGTO Seagirt when the storm broke, but it was reported his residence escaped damage. After the storm was over, the governor made a tour of inspec: tion in the vicinity. GERMANS AGCUSED OF PLOT ON POLAND Ruthenian Secret Organiza- tion of 1,000 Laid to Ber- qu—-300 Arrested. Ry Cable to The Star. WARSAW, July 24,—A Ruthenian movement agalnst Poland with a wide secret organization operating is reported discovered in Galicia. Three hundred arrests have been made so far. This is not the first case of the kind reported, but it created more of a sensation than the others because the Galician authorities declare the | secret organization was directed from Berlin and agents connected with the German genergl staff are reported to have been accomplices. More than 1,000 soldiers, students and civil officials are said to have belonged to the secret organization, which functioned with modern tech- nical apparatus, including radio. A general uprising of the Ruthenians agajnst Poland is said to have been planned whenever the word was flashed through the air. Branches of the conspiracy are re- ported discovered in various military centers, even Warsaw, with the purpose of paralyzing military op- position. Official reports, linking the revolu- tlonary movement with the military in Galicia, discount the importance of the reports as a possible attempt by Marshal Pilsudski to cause a sen- sation to get rid of the Galician mil- itary, which has not jumped to his orders, The charge of a conspiracy mmkes it possible for him to start an inves- tigation and remove everybody in the army in Galicia who is opposed to him. (Covyright. 1926.) Explorers Well Supplied. When/ Albert Smith and three friends set out to climb Mount Blanc, each took four guides, together with 20 porters, to carry provisions, which included 20 loaves, 10 cheeses, four legs. and four shoulders of mutton, six pleces of beef, one of veal, four dozen fowls and chocolate, sugar, wine and dried fruits. Poison Ivy Hit Colonists. Poison fvy was one of the first aggravating pests found in the new world when the colonists first came to America. In fact, Capt. John Smith, as early as 1609, wrote of having found it, and gave a very accurate description in some of his records of the effect of the w Strangely enough, he was never poisoned by it himself, but saw the sufferings of others on a number of occasions. Pat Takes Wrong View. From the Weekly Scotsman. Paddy had taken té drink and his family were much concerned about it. At last they sent for the village priest to try reforming him. The priest did all he could and men- tioned the dramatic case of a woman who had partaken so well of ‘“the glass that cheers” that in blowing out a candle her breath had taken fire and the fire had consumed her. “*Paddy,” he said, solemnly, “let this be a warning to you. “Oh, begorrah, sir, it will, sir." whimpered Paddy. “Sure, I'll neve blow a candle out again in me loife, sir.” 5 % A pleasant Sabbath was Promised by the Weather Bureau last night. Forecaster Mitchell predicted that higher, with & possibility of scattered thundershowers. 3 The skies will be generally cloudy, he said. Similar conditions should The highest temperature recorded resterday was 84 degrees at 4 p.m. At o'clock last night it had dropped but; prevail tomorrow, also. l}a 2 Cooler Sabbath, With Chance for Rain, Promised After Less Trying Night| points, but after the brief shower ! the air cooled off rapidly and the ther- | mometer fell 10 degrees in the next two bours. Cooling breezes helped to the temperature would continue to!make sleeping easy hover around 80 degrees or a little | The humidity was blamed for the discomfort experienced by many yes- terday. i One prostration was reported to the police, Willlam Biddie, 18 vears, of 1370 ) street northeast, was overcome by the heat shortly before hoon while working on an upper floor of 1220 D street. He was treated at Emergency S - i I after which the government will de- MEXICO ARRESTS RELIBIOUS CHIEFS Heads of League Planning Boycott Held, New Ones Elected, Then Jailed. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, July 24—What may develop into an endurance con- test in arresting and being arrested apparently -has commenced between the police und the department of jus- tice authorities on one side and the League for the Defense of Religious Freedom on the other. * When the league’s first set of directors was ar- rested and put in jail and ‘the head- quarters closed, the league promptly opened under new management in an- other place, whereupon the police ar- rested the new director, Manuel Palo- mar Vizearra. Judicial orders were issued demand- ing “declarations” from Archbishop Mora y Del Rio of Mexico and Bishop Diaz of Tabasco. Will Decide on Actior Thix means that agents of the de- partment of justice will interrogate the bishops and take their depositions, cide as to further procedure. It is known that the league's pres- ent intention is to continue operating regardless of the number of arrests| or how many headquarters are closed. New directors will be appointed to carry on as fast as the old ones are arrested, and new offices will be opened as fast as the old ones are closed, The government charges ‘that the league is directing its efforts to cre-, ating an economic boycott, which con- stitutes an attempt to destroy the in. stitutions of the republic and also menaces public welfare. Plans Close Boycott. The league’s plan is that everybody shall stop spending money for any- thing except absolute necessities, thereby creating an economic situa- tion which will impel the government to modify its attitude. Government representatives con- tinue to examine many leading Cath- olics. The agents may either go to the residence of the ecclesiastics or summon them to judicial headquarters for examination on their attitude t, ward the league hoycott and oth movements opposing the religious regulations. ‘ tumors persist that Archbisho, Mora v Del Rio and the Rlnhuphvl; Tabasco may be arrested, but thus far no such action has been taken. Gas Overcomes Nurse. Found residents of the house unconscious in her room at 713 Nine. teenth street, Miss Malinda Lohr, 23 years old, a nurse, was taken to Emergency Hospital late yesterday suffering from gas poisoning. She by wae revived and is expected to re- cover. Police investigation indicated that a gas jet accidently had been turned on after being turned off to extinguish the flame. 3 Lecture on U. N. L. A. An address on the purpdse and activ- ities of the U. N. I. A. will be given by W. A. Waljace, secretary gemeral of the organization, at a meeting ‘Wednesday night, at 8 0'clock, fh the main hall of the Little Rock Baptist JULY 25 GRIME BOARD ACTS Commission Hears F)roposals to Tax and Keep Record of All Pistols Sold. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 24.—The Na- tlonal Crime Commissfon today turned | fts heavy artillery to the task of | silencing the pistol of the criminal. Representative Ogden L. Mills led the attack, supported by other prom inent speakers, who urged the imposi tlon of high taxes on pistols, a_sys tem for regisgeriig their sale and the restriction of ®ale to police, Army and v officers. Mr. Mills' suggestions | for checking crime were contained in a letter read' to the Natlonal Crime | Commission’s special subcommittee | which is studying the relation of the sale of small arms to crime. Indorsing the views of Mr. Mills, | Commissioner of Police McLaughlin advised the committee that only the | ce should be allowed to sell pistols. s to sportsmen’s activities said, “it it comes to an issue, 1 Move they will prove thelr American ism by living up to any laws we find it necessary to enact, tven if such faws hurt their sport.” | Police Commissioner Herbert Wil son of Boston suggested that the com- | mission write into any proposed law a provision that would make it a felony {0 possess a pistol with a silencer at- tached. AGAIN STARTS WAR | | (Continmed from F | Official E;iitor Accused of Blocking Probe Stops Sale of Papers. By the Associated Press. MUNCIE, Ind, July 24—Attempt to stop the sale of copies of the Post- Democrat, weekly newspaper publish- ed by George Dale, who gained Na- tion-wide attention following an appeal to the United States Supreme Court after a three.year fight of contempt o court charges in Indlana, was made by William Ryman, deputy prosecut- ing attorney of Delaware County, here today. Ryman, accompanied by three po- lice officers, called at the Reed news, stand and warned Arch Reed, the own er, that it he continued the sale o the Post-Democrat he would be prose cuted. The police officers said Ryman asked them to go with him as wit- nesses. After consulting his lawyer, Reed stopped the sale of the paper, but an eight-year-old son of Dale immediately established himself on the sidewalk in front of the newsstand and he soon sold out his supply of papers. Articles recently appeared in Dale’s paper in which the acting deputy prosecutor was attacked, and in to-| day's issue Dale charged that Ryman, | as deputy prosecutor, prevented the | grand jury from making an investiga- tion of the case of Alpha Holaday, Muncie ) salesman, released recently from the Atlanta prison, where he served a-term for using the ['nited | States malls in a scheme to defraud. | Dale is now on $1,000 appeal bond preparing to take his case 1o the United States Supreme Court. ile was sentenced to six months on the In. diana State farm three vears ago, fol- lowing his published charge that the Ku Klux Klan exercised control over court and county officials. The Indiana Supreme Court recent Iy upheld the decision, but granted the appeal. Dale was returned from Chicago, where he gathered funds to take hix fight to the United States Su- preme Court. FAME OF PIKE GOES BACK TO ROMANS Fish Long Held in Esteem Before " President Gave It Publicity. The pike, the big, hard-fighting game fish that has received much publicity lately through falling victim to the Waltonian prowess of President Coolidge, is a creature of high historic traditions, according to Lewis Rad- cliffe, United States Deputy Commis. sioner of Fisheries. Its fame goes | back to Roman times at least, for Mr. Radcliffe has found a verse about the pike in the works of the Latin writer Ansonius, which, translated, reads: “The wary pike, rushes hid, The scourge and scaly brood 'midst wrack and terror of the coarsest food.” Held in High Esteem. According to Mr. Radcliffe, the high esteem fn which it was held is re- vealed in that during the reign of Edward 1 the King fixed 4he price at double that of the salmon and 10 times that of the cod. As late as the reformation a large pike equaled in value a lamb and a small one more than a fat capon.« The plke was in- troduced into England about 1332. An old couplet ran: “Turkies, Carps, Hops, Fickerel, and Beer K Came into England all in one year.” “Izaak Waltoh devotes an entire chapter to observations and directions for fishing for the luce, or pike, re- counting the antipathy between the pike and some frogs,” says'Mr. Rad- cliffe. *“Of a method of cooking the pike he states: '‘This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men; and 1 trust you will Church, at Half and M streets south Children Remember School Fire Drill As Film Explodesl By the Associated Press. DULUTH, Minn,, July 24.—One hundred and fifty children attend- ing a matinee in the Dorfc Theater today, walked out ‘In orderly fashion when reminded to “‘remem- ber your school fire drill,” shouted by an unidentified boy as the film broke and caught afire, After the fire was extinguished, another motion picture smachine was utilized. and the children trooped back to watch the show. prove both, and therefore I have trusted you with this secret.’ Registration éa‘rds Needed by Autoists Headed for Canada By the Associated Press. American motorists planning trips to Canada were warned by the Amer- fean. Automobile Association yesterday to take along their State registration cards. In Ontarfy alone, an average of 25 cars have n refused admittance dafly. during the last few weeks be- ;‘m ‘the motorists h&mm cards at ome. | & : 1926-PART 1 SOUSA AIDS U. S. Suggests Use of Famous Instrumentation of British Guards. Capt. Santelmann’ Holds Plan Goed But Not Necessary in Peace. John Philip Sousa, master of the military march, is helping the War Department put more “zip” in Army | band music. He thinks the famous Guards’ Band in England is in a class by itself, and | has suggested that American military bands adopt its peculiar instrumenta on. Capt. William H. Santelmann, le; er of the United States Marine Band, questioned last night as to his opinion of the nf]\'lkll)llll)' of using the Brit- |1sh “instrumentation, declared he thought some of the foreign bands might well emulate American methods, “I have a high re Sousa’s judgment, Santelmann sald “The ' British juards have a way all thelr own of putting zip and zest Into their selec- tions. They . depend for the im- pressive effect on unusual instru- ments. Their instrumentation is of the spectacular sort. “We used those methods during the ar, hecause they were stir ing and helped to Inspire the listeners. the war we have seen no need f them. We have plenty of zip, never theless. 1 believe we in America have d for Comdr. however,” Capt. | some things that foreign bands would | CEORGE DALESPEN - » well to copy Capt. Santeimann indicated that music of the spectacular sort, Sinee | ARMY BANDS IN PUTTING MORE “ZIP” IN MUSIC JOHN PHILIP | 1ated to make young men give three hoorays and head for the nearest re- | eruiting ‘statfon, is very -desirable in | time of war, but not wholly necessary | or advisable in time of peace. It just takes a lot of handsome-ap- pearing _instruments but don’t mean much, s is concerned, he exp mus BILL PLANNED TO END BUSINESS | TAX CERTIFICATES | OF BUYING t Page.) are pald the certificates to the prop erty are sold in March of each year. | Buyers of these certificates hold them for two vears and the property owners have the privilege of redeem- | ing them within this period by paying |a penalty of 1 per cent interest a month on the amount of the tax due. | The holder of the certificate at the end of two years, therefore, collects an interest of 23 per cent, if redemp- tion is made at that time. If not re- deemed then the certificate holder ix |kiven a deed to the property by the district. Cases are known to District officials | where property owners failed to make a tax payment one yvea |levy regularly afterward, and then discovered to their surprise that the | property had been sold at a tax sale. | This situation, it was said, due to | the fact that the annual tax bills do { not carry an Item for any delinquency lin tha preceding y Unless the taxpayers consult the tax records he. fore procuring a new bill, it was ex plained, they may find themselves paying taxes on property on which a tax certificate buyer has a claim. cate buyers, according tn District offi- cials. to notify the owners of the prop- erty on which they have secured the d that they can regain title to it addition to an interest fee. A nomi in.erest of § per cent has been charged in some cases, it was said, but there is no law to regulate the rate of in- terest for redemption. and paid the | It is the custom of the tax certifi- | by p¥ing the 24 per cent penalty in | Records in the office of Ch Towers, collector of taxes, s there are three men and one invest- ment corporation that purcha er tificates to a large percentage of property sold at the public sal are Charles H. Wiltsie of Rochester, N. Y. Manuel Faust of Cleveland, T. J. Rout of this city and the tional Mortgage and Investment Corporation, also of this city. There were 19,000 pieces of erty sold at the last public March, and these bought cates to 10,613 pieces. The remain. ing parcels that were sold were ac- quired by 32 different bidders, A Wiltsie is credited with st of $178 2 ts, for .94; Mr. Rout, a cost of $104,124.36 Mortgage Invest- tion. with prop- ale in tax certifi- 23 Jots at a c . Faust, with 6,0 he paid $12 1,339 lots, at the National ment Corpor cost of wi sale the purchas the sold a 71 lots t. 1,033 lots, at a ame men were the acquired 8 | pieces that hought 190.93; M of $90.8 cost of §77.7 Mortgage and Inv lots. & Tax As strongest proponents of the plan for | changing the system of tax « i order to give property owners addi- tional protection as well as give the | Distriet and not the tax title pur- { chasers the benefit of the additional | funds collected from delinquent tax payers. M. cost ment Ce of Grange; Resenting Link With Divorce, » By the Associated Preas. CHICAGO, July 24. — Harold “Red” Grange, with whom Charles H. Taylor of Los Angeles charged his wife was infatuated in a veply to her divorce suit, today ened to “sue somebody Grange, neither knew except casually, having met them through C. C. Pyle, his manager, said he did not like the publicity. “If this matter isn’t cleared up,” he said, “I'm going to sue some- body. It 1sn’t funny any more, 1 saw Mrs. Taylor only twice.” POLICE FIGHT CROWD IN MAKING AN ARREST Riot Call Sounded for Reserves to Restore Order When Man's Friends Interfere. that he his wife A viot call was sounded for police serves to restore order at Sixteenth and A streets early last night when a large crowd of white and colored men attempted to prevent an arrest by Policeman 1. W. Gaither of the fifth precinet. Gaither was getting ready to take a colored man to the police box on a disorderly conduct charge when a few of the man’s friends interfered. Before the tumult died, Henry Rinke member of the police “flying squa ron”; Fireman Paul Grisso of No. 6 Engine Company; Detective Se geant Dennis Murphy, Detective Ser- geant Springmann, Chauffeur Jake Wolf and a half a dozen others had gotten into the mix-up. ‘The first three happened to be in the neighbor- hood when the trouble started. The name of the man whose arrest caused the fighting is not yet known to the police. At the station house where he was finally taken, after Rinke subdued him with a half-Nel- son grip while the others were standing off a crowd of between 50 and 75 persons, the man refused to talk. ‘When asked his riame, he would not reveal it. Finally, his actions led police to send him to Gallingér Hos- pital for examination. It took almost half an hour to dis- perse the crowd which collected at the scene. No serious injuries resulted. To ‘Sue Somebody’ | }‘(Ioolidge Fishes Till 7:30 O’Clock; 70 Trout Caught PAUL SMITHS, July 24.—1t was after o'clock to- night when President Coolidge re turned from the fishi pedition, but he and the se vice men who accompanied him broug back 70 brook trout, some weigh- ing 1% pounds. Coolidge went to the same stream on the Rockefeller preserve that he visited a week ago with ex- cellent results. Clambering over rocks and logs, he whipped the stream, until the approach of dark- ness forced him to abandon the exciting sport and return to White Pine Camp. MEXICO FREES HOI\_NARD. American Accused of Bigamy May Never Come to Trial. MEXICO CITY, July 24 (®.—John F. Howard, Haverhill, Mass., manu- facturer. has been released from jail at Cuernavaca, where he has been con- fined in the warden's room since his arrest at the instigation of his two sons, Albert and John, who charged their father with perjury and bigamy in conneetion with his divorce and re marriage in Mexico. Although there has been no formal trial, the judge declared that the evidence was not sufficient to justiry holding Howard any longer, and re leased him ander 1,000 pesos bail. Legal experts have expressed the opinion that the case may never go (o formal {rial, G |POLICE REMOVAL CAUSES FURTHER RIOTS IN JAPAN Outbreaks Reported From Various Sections, Following Nagano Dis- orders for Same Reason. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, July 24.—Further riots fol- lowing those’ at Nagano are reported from various sections of Japan. In the latest disorder a mob at- tacked a police station at Mikawa, Tochigi prefecture, last night. The mob was angered because of the aboli- tion of two police stations under re- trenchment orders, Several people were wounded and 20 were arrested. Suspension of police stations also caused the riots at Nagano. The government believes the opposi- tion parties may be instigating the riots. These | | which | * | have FIRE SPEED RECORD TESTS TOMORROW Capital Engines and Trucks Will Try to Lower Time in Getting Started. Washington's Fire Department will set out tomorrow morning to lower § | its own record for getting away to an || | alarm of fire in the shortest time. By speeding out of their quarters in the amazing time of seven and one- | fifth seconds, No. 23 Engine Compan stationed on G street near Twent second street, last yve lifted the | speed laurels from the brow of Pa more’s fastest engine company and at the same time hung up a record | that has never since heen equaled in official test by any company in the world, as far s can he lenrned In achieving this feat, the members of No. 23 cut nearly three full « | from the hest ti Baltimore's n pion company could make and ¢ pped | fouriifths of a second from the record | times that had be blished | two other Wu | during the same te | of its victol No. of The Star trophy r nds ton And by virtue 3 won possession, the year companies Cup for Truck Companies. Another cup, « red by the Me | chants und Manufacturcrs’ Assocta | tion exclusively for the big truck | companies, which could n compete with the engines heir much more ponde: was captured by No pany. The Merchants and turer seociation has ¢ other cup fi the truck companies to sho at this year To capture i | roared out of Park road, just street. in eight used was a big, six-whee and despite its tremendou aparatus bettered the hest could be made by the speed companies in altimore, Detrojt, Rochester and other cities which ha | previously claimed to have thé | five departments. PIENnts durin , the ime used will be followed to the which opens to used in ¢ De it, w hin lowering Tocal yus apy Mar cup, No. 6 Truck headquarters on ighteenth seconds. reached o t Summer letter in the contest morrow. These rules | the tests in |and they were adc that in the prds of those partment _could title to having the | company. if not.the [ Trophy Is Handsome. nd ed by vent ¢ i | The Star trophy is a hands - | ver loving cup, which was offered I this newspaper to stimulate interest n the test a give the winning com panies a permanent place in \l)'\\.vh their reeord: it be inscribed. The -up remains in the possession of the | winning el company for one vear, unti® the fit wins three times, wh omes the per- manent proper Three ju contest. | watch and compared "z prevent mi who ran the charze compa have cha ch is equipped with a caref test last S tomorrow — Hat Chief Thomas O'Connor, W. W. ! fire prevention engineer of the W Department. and a_reporter of Star, In addition. Edward B. Shaw, <ecretary of the Merchants’ and Man- ufacturers ation will accom pany them du part of the tests he judges will ne + either the engine the tfuck companies in | order, and will not previously a nounce the places to be visite They will jump from one section of the city to another so that no company will { know when to expect them This is | done to prevent anies from “warming up” their m s to get a quick start. It is especially de | sirous to’ have them leave ‘their | quarters ex as they do in to a regu fire. R alarm m » inswer v es Are Distributed. sound the comp, of the in preparing 1 blaz n a false alarm, The will motions | that would be nece swer a call t . they will ansy Failure to follow all rules for a fire call will promptly disqualify the of | fending company. and the judges will | move on to the next place. The rules, | as sent out to all companids by | George 8. Watson, head of the Fire Department, follow “Members of the stationed at different places on the apparatus floor, with the driver 14 feet in the rear of the apparatus seat | and on the side from which he mount itfl the seat. ’ ompany will be “In engine companies only one piecs of apparatus will be used, and it will | be optional with company command | ing officers as to which piece, the en | gine or hose wagon, is to be used. i Back From Front Door. “The rear step of apparatus in an | engine company is to be placed 39 feet | from the front doorsill. 1f the house is not deep enough to allow this, a line will he drawn on the pavement |in front of the door 30 feet from the | rear step. In truck companies a mark | will be placed on the truck 39 feet from the nt” doorsill | “The test will be s {“1-3" on the Mg g stroke of the gon | mediately take their plac | paratus, nd the motor ediately started 1l not be plaged | ever, until the officer | counted the box, | will_be ‘1 rted by strik g At the fir: members shall im- < on the ap il be im apparatus how- has nhove in in el hich, and has called MISS-GLEITZE'S THIRD CHANNEL EFFORT FAILS * Lordon Typist Swims 19 Miles in Five Hours, Part of Time in Choppy Sea. Sy ths Associated Press. | 'FOLKESTONE, England, July 24. —Miss Mercedes Gleitze, young Lon- don typist, has failed again to swim !(hp English Channel. This was her |third attempt. She started about | noon and was taken out of the water after five hours, after she had covered about 19 miles, though not in a direct course, Miss Gleitze was followed by a mo- tor hoat and as the swim proceeded the wind increased and the sea be- lllegal in France; By the_ Associated Press. PARIS, July 24-—-There still is a law on the irench statute books, al though not enforced, that imposes a penalty on women who beguile men into marriage. by means of rouge. powder, perfume and similar feminine aids. ; : ““Whosoever attracts into the bonds of marriage any male subject of s Majesty, by means of rouge or powder, perfumes, false teeth, false hair, steel corsets, hooped petticoats, ')llh heels or false hips, will “be prosecuted for sorcery and the mar- Use of Rouge and Powder to Win Husband Enforcement Is Lax riage will be declared null and void, if the aeccused is convicted.” This law, passed by the Parlia- ment of 1770 is still oni the KFrench statute books and could be appealea to by a present.day complainant. It séems to show that the mere man 0. ing Louis XV's time had some pro- tection from the wiles of the woman who resorted - to artificial means to win a husband. Kven the introduc- tion of the new civil code in 1804 Ieft it in force, under the section dealing with “fraud in the quality o merchandise.’ came very choppy. Waves broke over the head of the girl and drenched all aboard the boat, FRENCH PRICES SOAR. Cost of Articles Five, Six and Seven Times Figures for 1914, PARIS, July 24 (P).—An indication of the ever mounting cost of livi in France is contained in official f ures recently published by the minis- try of labor. These show that, taking 100 as the basis of the cost of Hving as of July, 1914, the wholesale price of 45 articles of aally necessity wi 664 for April, 1926; 702 for May and 754 for June. Foodstuffs as compared with 100 for July, 1914, were 561 for April. 3 ¢