Evening Star Newspaper, July 26, 1926, Page 2

1 ith Declares = Traction te’s Donation Nearly Half for Primary Race. - Br the Associated Press. i i CHICAGO, = July 26.—Frank L. $mith testified today before the Sen- | ate campaign committee that his suc- { desstul fight for the Illinois Repub- Jjean senatorial momination cost ap- - groximately $250,000, of which Samuel i Ensull, Chicago traction magnate, ; ave $100,000. | ICharges reported to the Senate by i Senator Caraway, Democrat, Arkan- , were that Smith's campaign had Jgost $2,000,000, and that more than £$1,000,000 had been spent on behalf “gf Senator Willlam B. McKinley. the defeated candidate. *Smith, who is chairman of the Illi- Mois Commerce Commission, told the eommittee that his information as to nsull's _contribution was given to him by Moore. FHe recalled no other contribution except Moore’s own, and '$600 or $700 in small checks that came to me."” Tells Reed “All He Knows.” “Then, do you want this committee to understand that Mr. Imsull the sole backer of your campaign?” asked Reed. am telling all that I know of the contributions,” answered Smith. “Just what Moore told me of.” Reed explained that the committee was ‘“‘not making any cl es.” “But Senator,” Smith interrupted, “charges have been made——" “I'm mnot going into that,” sald Reed, and he turned to inquiries about the advertising expenses of the Smith campaign. The witness said that billboard ad- vertising in his behalf was “‘taken care of by Mr. Wrigley. Col. Smith, the first witness called in the Ilinois primary investigation, reiterated that all the raising of funds was in Moore's hands and that “I told him I wasn’t geing to worry about it.” “But you're not in any way re- pudiating his acts now?” asked Reed. “No, sir.” Smith said he received the support | in Cook County of the “elements of the Crowe-Barrett faction who be- lieved in the United States staying out of the World Court.” Opponents of Court. “Who were they?” Reed asked. “Willlam Hale Thompson, Robert E. Cwwe (State’s attorney) and Charles V. Barrett,” Smith, replied. “Who did United States Senator Deneen support?” Reed demanded. “William B. McKinley.” Asked by Senator Reed as to Sen- ator McKinley's campalgn organiza- tion, Smith said that the Senator had the support of a portion of the State Republican organization and “the Federal organization.” “In Cook County he had a portion of the Crowe-Barrett faction,” Smith said, “as well as all of the Deneen organization. 1 got some of the latter.; “Do you know anything about any- body having offered their support for money in this campalgn?” Reed asked. Nobody made any such pro me.” Smith replied. e enator ,La Follette, Republican, ‘Wisconsin, the other memhe‘:- or(fil committee present, wanted to know if county committees were formed by the Smith organization. The nominee replied that where he could get the regular organizations In the countles he used those and where he could not new committees were formed. Took Stand In 1925. “When did yeu declare against the World Court?” asked La Follette. “When I announced my candidacy late in 1925,” said the witness. ““When did the Crowe-Barrett grou take a similar stand?” 5o “The next March, I think,” Smith answered. Smith testified that Moore had told him that he had given money to former Mayor Thompson for use in the campaign. “Did he tell you how much?” Sen- lto:‘ La. Follette asked. *“No.” “Did he tell you that he gave money to any one else?” “T don’t think he gave any to any one else,” Smith replied. Reed asked how long Smith had known Insull, and the witness said “about 12 years.” They had “talked politics” from time to_time, he said. He had no knowledge of Insull's contributions to political campaign$, but he had heard “a great deal about his contributions.” ‘When Insull gave $100,000 to his campaign, Smith said, he was “frank- 1y surprised.” PLEADS NOT GUILTY. Bank Teller Freed on $5,000 Bond to Await Grand Jury. Rafael Carman Calvo, 26, son of a for- mer Minister from Costa Rico, pleaded not guilty when arraigned today in United States branch of Police Court on @ charge of embezzling $1,500 from the Liberty Natlonal Bank, where he was employed for & number of years as teller. Calvo was bound over for action by the grand jury and released under $5,000 bond. The defendant was arrested last Friday by Headquarters Detectives Weber and Talley, Yollowing an inves- tigation of the accounts handled by him at the bank, which was made by Bank Examiner Thomas Carson, re- vealing, police say, funds which Calvo had diverted to his own use. Calvo 18 said to have used the money for stock investments which proved un- successful. S L Presidency Is Hazardous. Boing President of Haiti has been a lively and hazardous occupation for many years, the history of that little republic showing 17 presidents have ‘been ousted by revolution, two were murdered, five died in office under suspicious . ,circumstances, one per- ed in an explosion, one was poi- soned, another died of violence. But the epidemic subsided in 1915, when the United States stepped in to help establish and develop orderly government ,and the recent presiden- tial election, the twenty-seventh té be held, passed off without a revolution, without & murde nd the chance for a president to live out his term and end his days in peace have been vastly ijmproved with the United States Ma- rines helping hold the lid down. SU‘REIA’. there are 100,000 Washingtonians who will gladly send one< dollar or more to honer the living and the dead of the 26,000 from the Disgrict of Columbia who served their country in the armed forces in the Great War. - Send to John Poole, Treasurer, District of Colum- bia Memorial Commission, Federal-American National was | Baron de Cartier de Marchienne, whe becomes dean of the_ diplomatic corps, succeeding Senor Riano, the Spanish Ambassador. RUMISSUE TO RULE MISSOURT PRIMARY Three of Seven Senatorial Candidates Are Bone Dry. Klan Backs Williams. By the Assoclated Press. ST. LOUIS, July 26.—With eeven candldates seeking the long and short term senatorial nominations, prohibi- tion will be the chief question con- fronting Missouri voters at the pri- mary election August 3. ‘Taxation, the World Court, farm relief and other congressional problems have been pushed to the background. Three of the candidates are run- ning on bone-dry_platforms and the {.\flmufl Anti-Saloon League, the W. C. T. U, and the Missouri Association Against the Prohibition Amendment have also entered the fight. The Democratic candidates are Harry B. Hawes of St. Louis, Willis H. Meredith of Poplar Bluff, Ewing Cockrell of Warrensburg and Robert I. Young of St. Joseph. Those seeking the Republican nomi- nation are David M. Proctor of Kan- sas City, Senator George H. Willlams of St. Louis, the incumbent, and W. Blodgett Priest of St. Louis. Dry League Backs Three. The Anti-Saloon League is support- {ing the candidacies of Cockrell, Mere. dith and Proctor, while Hawes and Priest are classed as wet. Senator { Willlams is regarded by the Anti- Saloon League as wet and as indefinite by the Association Against the Pro- hibition Amendment. Young, who is {not waging an active campaign, is running as a dry. The Anti-Saloon indorsed the cai of Meredith and Cockrell after the former had withdrawn from the long-term race and the latter from the short term to prevent a split im the dry vote. . Hawes is being championed by the Association Against the. Prohibition ‘Amendment by virtue of his declara- tion against the Volstead act. Kian Also Factor. The Ku Klux Klan has taken a part with the commendation of Williams and Meredith by Dr. Willlam H. Camp- bell, grand dragon of the Missouri order. Senator Williams said that he had neither sought nor accepted such support, Meredith declared am running on a platform of law® enforcement and I am glad to get any votes from peo- ple who stand for the ideals I do; I don't care who or what they are. Most of the candidates are for farm relief, and Senmator Williams is up- holding his stand against the World Court. The prohibition issue, despite action at the primary, will continue as a gen- eral election question in November. A measure to repeal the State prohibi- tion law, submitted by initiative peti- tjons circulated by the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, will be one of the bills en the ballot then. BASE BALL POOL CASE CONTINUED IN COURT Martin Loewe Arrested on Charge of Violating Gambling Law. Patrons File Complaints. The case of Martin Loewe, 27 years old, 101% Sixteenth street, charged with violating the gambling law in connection with operation of the Na- tional Base Ball Weekly, was con- tinued when it was called in Police Court today and Loewe was released on $1,000 bond. Detectives Edward J. Telly and Arthur-Scrivener, who ar- rested Loewe about 2 o'clock yester- day morning, are continuing their in- vestigation, it was explained. Loewe's arrest followed complaints of three patrons of the alleged base ball pool, who informed police they had not been paid their winnings, amount- ing to $500, $176 and $80. They follow: S. J. Ralson, 826 Ninth street, who charges he was not paid a first prize of $500 due him, and John J. Lindsey and Joseph Lang, both of Soldiers’ Home. The former’s ticket called for $176, while the latter’s but $80. Detectives report that Loewe admits he was identified with the pool and that he contends that the first prize which Ralston claims, was paid to a man named McDonald and that Ral- ston presented a duplicate ticket in seeking the award. He does not ex- plain the claims of the other two | patrons. Lt Eating 1s Reguldted. Followers of the Buddhist religion ive attention to a strict regulation in their eating and drinking habits. toxicating beverages are expressly for- bidden, and the eating of meat is per- misgible only under the following re- strictions: One must have killed the animal himself, he must not have ordered any one to kill it, it must not have been killed by any one with the intention of supplying it to him, and he must not suspect that the animal has been killed. However, meat eat- ers among the Buddhists of Ceylon, Burma and Siam get around these laws. PSR IR Twelve Times & Bankrupt. For the twelfth t({x a maxn in Lon- don has entered a plea in bankruptey. He is Frederick Thomas Johnson, and he stated in his exa) on- that he has failed in business 12 times since 1900. He has served six prison terms | undey the bankruptorect, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON Los Angeles Flies For First Testing Since Repair Work VS INSULL GAVE | oz POLISH PLOT SEEN T0 TAKE LITHUANIA Moscow Gets Alarming Ru- | mors of Preparations to Annex Baltic State. BY JUNIUS B. WOOD, By«Cable to The Star und Chicago Dajly News. MOSCOW, July 26.—Alarming re- ports are emanating from Lithuania of thinly masked preparations by Po- land to repeat the exploit of annexing the Vilna district, invade Lithuania for the second time and seize the port of Memel. g The reports have caused a wide- spread repercussion in Russia. While the tone of the newspapers is con- servative, the general conversation in the streets is as to whether Russia may be involved in the hostilities. If 80, it certainly will not be on the #ide of Poland. Calls Soviet Sole Hope. “The sole guarantee of peace on QST‘I’I h'u ofinmher occasions, is the viet union,” says the mewspaper Rabochaya Moskva. “We will do everything possible to prevent the ap- proaching menace to Buuc peace as well as to the stability of Europe, but we are mot deceived by the hollow protestations’ of peace of the Polish forelgn secretary, Zalewski, knowing the actual acts of the Polish govern- ment.” | The actions already reported indi- cate that Poland contemplates the sdizure of Memel and possibly all of [men Lithuania. These include a confer- ence between Marshall Pllsudski with Gen. Zeligovski, the captor of Vilna, near the frontier; the massing of Polish troops at frontier villages; Polish offers secretly to furnish arms to disgruntled Lithuanians; infiltra- tion of hundreds of Polish students and agitators into Lithuania for the purpose of starting éisorders. This latter is expected to justify Polish in- ti‘rlvmflon under guise of preserving order. Predicts Move On Latvia. ““The situation is different than in the Vilna era, for Latvia is e: to move, realizing that Polish expan- sion will not stop at Memel and Kov- no, but will continue to Libau, giving Poland two ports on the Baltic,” says the Pravada. “Under the pretoxt of giving aid, Poland will in- vade as before, hoping for an alilance with Lithuania like that between a knight and a horse—Poland being the 'knight. “The League of Nations remains si- lent regarding Lithuania’s absorption as ft did regarding Mérocco and Abys- sinia. Meantime, England is attempt- ing to create a buffer against soviet Russia from _the Baltic to the Black Sea, lulling Latvia with whispers of red danger until she awakes with Ze- ligorski's bayonets at her throat. “Seizure of Lithuania by Poland not only threatens our boundaries, but makes east Prussia a defenseless is- land in the Polish sea.” The Soviet Russian government in- sists it does not foresee that it will be involved in the trouble itself. (Copsright. 1926, by Chicaxo Daily News Co.) WHOLESALE POISON FOR RATS FOUND Scientist Succeeds in Put- ting Arsenic Into Solution to Increase Power. Special Dispatch to The Star. PITTSBURGH, July 26. — The Mellon Institute of this city boasts of the presence on its campus of a veritable Pied Piper of Pittsburgh, for Dr. Oscar F. Hedenburg, holder of one of its industrial fellowships, has worked out a mew method of using an old poison_that promises to wipe out rats and niice in the whole- sale fashion related by Browning in his famous poem, In his search for the most efficient means for cleaning out rodent pests Dr. Hedenburg tried numerous un- usual poisonous compounds, but final- Iy came back to the old favorite white arsenic, or arsenious oxide, known since the days of the Borgias. He found, however, that the ordinary commercial product is too uncertain in its action and that rats could some- times swallow what should be killing doses and only get fat on them. The trouble seemed to be that the ordi- nary white arsenic was not ground fine enough and that it would not dis- solve satisfactorily in water. But when he ground it in water contain- ing an organic colloid substance, like gum arabic or glue, the arsenic was reduced to an almost inpalpable fine- ness—became, in fact, a colloid itseif. In this condition it'was extremely effective and almost incredibly rapid. A bait contalning one two-hundredth of an ounce killed a rat in 30 min- utes, whereas the same dose of ordi- nary arsenic required 24 hours for fatal effect. A largescale test was made on a dump where scores of big rats fat- tened. Two pounds of pofsoned bait was distributed and many rats were seen carrying it off. Ten days later only a couple of rodents were left out of the whole population. Dr. Hedenburg suggests that when his discovery is put into regular use and marketed it may be put up into tubes as a paste, to make for economy in use, and that for safety’s sake the paste should be colored biue. FOREST FIRES SWEEP ON. New Blazes on Montana-Washing- ton Border Defy Control. MISSOULA, Mont., July 26 (®).— Forest fires are again reported out of control along the Montana-Washing- ton border. New blazes in the Ka- niksu forest have swept 50,000 acres, with an additional 50,000 acres threat- ened, forestry officials said. Brush and forest fires have covered approximately 600,000 acres in the last three weeks. Unitarian.Minister, 91, First to Preach Evolution, Is Dead By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 26.—The Rev. Newton Mann, 91, Unitarian lead- er and said to be one of the first clergymen in America to expound the doctrine of evelution from the pulpit, died of pneumonia at his home here last night. The Rev. Mr. Mann had been pastor of Unitarian Churches in New York, Rochester and Omaha. He made notable astronomical dis- coveries, and was the author of e of & Great Litera- tare A Rationas View of the ssociated Press. LAKEHURST, N. J.,, July 26.— The dirigible Los Angeles was giv- en her first test since being recent- ly reconditioned, under command of Lieut. Comdr. C. E. Rosendahl, today. Eleven officers and thirty-three men were aboard ‘the ship when she was taken from her hangar for short trlal fights along the Jersey Coast between Asbury Park and Barnegat. The craft took off at 9:30. Of- ficers planned during the day to make radio compass calibrations with the Government wireless sta- tlong at Manasquan and Sandy Hook. SRR NG PNGADT ATTACKS RY REFERENDUN States Failing to Aid U. S. Enforcement Work Rapped at Governors’ Parley. By the Associated Press. CHEYE! » Wyo., July 26.—The United States is faced with three outstanding problems—law enforce- t, conservation of natural re- sources and control of nation-wide corporate monopolies—Gov. Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania told - the twelfth annual conference of gover- nors in an address. The Pennsylvania governor classed law enforcement as the “moral prob- lem of the Nation” and the conserv: tion of matural resources as the great- est economic problem in the United States. “In dealing with law enforcement there must be no twilight zone be- tween State and Federal authority where the enemies of society might hide themselves and escape punish- ment,” he sald. Opposed to Referendum. Velther can we suffer the State- |, made nullification of our national Con- stitution, whether under the guise of a State referendum or by the failure of the State to exercise its co-ordinate powers. 1 have small sympathy with the view which regards every new flise of the Federal power as necessarily an usurpation of rights properly belong- ing to thse States. The recent outburst against President Coolidge's order for the co-operative use of State and local authorities in law_enforcement is a typical example. Federal and State action should be co-operative, not hostile.” Although the governor was sched- uled to speak particularly on the sub- ject of State finances, he vented his feelings largely on other questions. . Mellon Ruling Attacked. He attacked Secretary of tlie Treas- ury Mellon as “an example of the failure of the Federal Government to co-operate with the State” in allowing the State police of Pennsylvania to inspect breweries under Federal per- mit only during the daytime, and not at night, “when crimes always are committed.” Next he turned to the problem of controlling ‘‘monopolistic trusts.” This is to be accomplished, he said, by co- operation of both State and Federal governments. “It is utterly futile to attempt to secure the regulation of interstate corporations by the action of a single State,” he added. “Nation- wide evils must be met by nation-wide remedies.” The use of Federal taxes for build- ing of a national highways system, the development of natural resources and industry within the States was Qefended by Gov. Pinchot. He cliar- acterized the theory that “‘each State exists for itself alone” as being ‘“nar- row and unworth; e P PR P B HEARING CANCELED. Washington Highlands Makes Pro- test of Trash Plant in Writing. The District Commissioners this afternoon canceled a public hearing scheduled for tomorrow morning at 10:30 o'clock to consider a proposal to locate a trash plant near Blue Plains. The hearing was called at the request of the Washington High- lands; Citizens' Association, but this organization made its protest in writ- ing in lieu of having a committee ap- pear before the board, and thus avoid- ed the necessity of @ public hearing. The written protest declared that the assoclation does not look with favor upon the project, as it fears that the dump will in time ‘‘become a smoldering, smoking evil-smelling’ nuisance, injurious to the health and comfort of the residents of this area. However, realizing the city’s urgent need of a place to dispose of this and having implicit confidence good judgment of the Com- missioners, we wil withhold all op- position to the plan.” INTRUDERS IN CHURCH BREAK KNOB FROM SAFE A M. 'E. Zion Building on 14th Street Entered Through Window Some Time Last Night. Detectives Scrivener and Keilly to- day were endeavoring to establish the identity of intruders who were in John Wesley A. M. E. Zion church, Fourteenth and Corcoran street, some time between the closing of last night’'s service and early this morn- ing. Entrance was gained by forcing & window. The safe in the church office was tampered with. The intruders broke the knob from the safe, but could not get the door open. Rev. H. P, Medford, fi)‘l‘or. reported the affair to the po- Lead Called Cancer Cure. Dr. Blair Bell of the University of Edinburgh has announced that lead used to cure cancer is proving prom- ising, as out of 227 so-called hopeless cases 30 have had no recurrence of cancer and have' shown no trace of lead poisoning. In 10 cases cancerous growths. have been arrested and 9 others have shown some improvement. Lead salt injections are poisonous and an effort is being made to devise a lead colloid that will not have pol sonous results. . RSN S AR ST B Blacksmith Uses Salesmen. In this day when the automobile has turned almost every erstwhile horse- hoeing establishment into a garage and it {s difficult for a horse owner to locate a horseshoer nearby, the tactics of a Detroit blacksmith are making him a fortune. He engaged salesmen to hunt out every horse owner in De- troit and motify him of the location of the blacksmith shop, with the re- sult that he was swamped with work and kept his place busy ever RUNAWAY HORSES BURST BRICK WALL Auto Hurled Through Side of Garage by Ice Wagon - Team in Wild Dash. In the most roved movie thriller style, a runaway ing crashed into a garage, ing two of its walls, catapulting a shining new automobile parked there through & six-inch brick wall and set- ting it down as a supporting pillar of the rear porch of the residence adjacent to the building. Joseph Brusiloff, owner of the ga- rage, was seated on the porch when the transformation took place before his amaged eyes. No persons were hurt, but the two horses attached to the ice wagon suffered severe cuts. The. automobile, belonging to Ralph V. Rowley, 2238 First street, escaped with minor damages, and a second car in the garage received only a bent fender. The accident occurred in the alley between V and W strests east of First street. The two sturdy horses drawing a four-ton delivery wagon of the American Ice Co. started on their wild run after their driver, John R. Werts, had left the wagon to deliver ice. Racing down grade over the con- crete paving of the alley, they were unable to make the turn at the foot of the hill, and struck the closéd door of the garage. The wagon tongue shattéred the door and the horses landed, with 1,500 pounds of ice added to their weight, against the roadster, shooting it through the wall and under the porch of Mr. Brusiloff. The Windshield of the car was not even cracked, nor were the small panes of glass in the upper half of a window of the shattered wall, though plles of bricks, plaster and D. C, MONDAY, JULY 26, 1926 attached to s loaded ice mp::.u.-ymnmm accommodating an sutomobile. The o % i wlc;vnwmdloflnl out what would in a garage which at the time was ure shows what they found out. LITHIUM, LIGHTEST OF METALS, VALUABLE IN ELECTRIC TRADE Also Used in Increasing Fusibility of Glass During Latter’s Manufacture and in Producing i Opalescent Ware. The remarkable strike of lepidolite in the newly opepned mine at Embudo, the manufacture\of glass. Practically the entire output of the Embudo mine splintered boards were dumped onto | northern New Mexico, again calls at- |at the present time goes into the the car. where the window was de- posited. ‘Werts was not held. DON JUAN RIANO QUITS AS AMBASSADOR FROM SPAIN TO WASHINGTON (Continued from First Page.) Ambassador Spain has ever had in_this country. M. Riano was born in Granada, March 24, 1865. He first entered dip- lomatic work when he became an ap- plicant as a diplomatic attache at the department of state in Spain, March 11, 1886. On September 22, 1898, he was first brought in touch with Amer- ican affairs, being assigned to the commission to negotiate peace with this country following the war. Rose From Secrefary. April 25, 1899, he became first secre- tary of the commission in Washing- ton, and on May 17, 1900, he was named first secretary of the legation. He was appointed envoy extraord- fnary and minister plenipotentiary to Washington on March 4, 1910. In 1914 Spain was raised to a first-class power by the United States and on November 3 Senor Riano was named Ambasgsador, officially being accredit- ed as such on January 1, 1915. Three universities in this country have conferred honorary degrees of doctor of laws upon Senor Riano, La Salle University of Chicagb and George Washington and Georgetown universities of this city. Senor Riano and Senor Riano have no children. First Belgian Ambassador. Baron de Cartier, the new dean of the diplomatic eorps, was appointed head of the Belgian diplomatic mis- sion to the United States in 1917. When the legation here was made an embassy in 1919, Baron de Cartier became the first Belgian Ambassagdor to this country. The Ambassador, who has been in the diplomatic service of his country sipce 1893 and was serving as. Min- ister to Peking at the time of his appointment to Washington, married an American, Miss A. D. Colburn, during his prévious service here as counselor of the legation. In addition to the heavy responsibil- ities of his post here during the latter period of the World War, Baron de Cartier represented his government at the Washington arms conference be- cause of his extensive knowledge and long assoclation with far eastern problems with which the conference | g dealt. In 1819 Baron de Cartier was ap- { tention to the use of this unusuat mineral in industry. Lepidolite, sometimes called lithia-mica, I8 one of the principal sources of the rare element lithium, the lightest of all the metals. Until well into the present century lithium, like many of the other rarer metals, was nothing more than a sclentific curiosity. Its useful- ness was practically unknown until about 1899, when it was discovered that lithium salts could be employed in the manufacture of lithia waler, a well known remedy for rheumatism. Today, however, its position is radi- cally changed, and lithium occupies a place in commerce that is unique. This element in the form of a hydrox- ide compound is used in large quanti- tles in alkaline storage batteries, of which the Edison is a well known type, the lithium hydroxide being one of the substances of electrolytes used in the storage and reproduction of electricity from batteries. Lithium has proved so effective in the pro- duction of electricity within recent years that in 1923 Thomas Edison purchased a lithia mine in the Black Hills, 8. Dak., so as to control his own source of supply. Bromides and fodides of lithia are employed in photography, while the flame color of the metal makes it highly useful in the manufacture of fireworks and sigmal rockets. All ot these last-named uses are, however, negligible compared with its use in FOOTSORE ELOPERS HELD BY SHERIF} Pair of 14-Year-Olds Still Profest Intention to Wed After Second Failure. By the Associated Press. . MACHIAS, Me., July 26.—Two foot- sore, hungry, bedraggled, 14-year-old elopers for whom northern Maine had searched since last Wednesday, await ed arrival of their parents at the county jail today undismayed by the unromantéic ending of their second elopment in. two weeks. “We want to be married,” David Coughlin and Nellle Piper, Ellworth High School freshman, protested as heriff Cummins locked them up. The sheriff gave them the first real meal they had tasted since Friday. They pointed by the interallied supreme | ant to sleep on jail cots that were rtabl economic council to devise a plan for| st least more o than the liquidation of the world's food supply. | ficor of the deserted barn that had and he also represented Belgium on i place i e e e b o P tlons. —_———— BALTIMORE WANTS FORT. Asks War Department to Sell Armistead to City at Appraisal. Acting Secrétary MacNider of the War Department today received a telephone message from the mayor of | ago. Baltimore asking that the old his- torical reservation of Fort Armistead, at Hawkins Point, Anne Arundel County, near Baltimore, be trans- ferred to that city for use as a pub- lic park at its appraised value. On the theory that the reservation ‘was not desired for that purpose by either the State or county, the de- partment arranged months ago for its public sale to the highest bidder next Thursday. Col. MacNider says he would like to accommodate the Baltimore authori- near. East until the sheriff’s posse found them. The boy and girl told of two unsuc- oessful attempts to storm the barriers of the international line, of vigilant watching by day and berry picking by night. They hid by day in the barn after abandoning the automobile in which they eloped. It had a flat ire. 3 rl;nv(d and Nellie essayed their first dash for freedom less than two weeks They were pursued by David's James, who found them ned camp. inc.:r‘;-dml 4 immigration officers turned them back into the Maine woods on their second elopement. ALIMONY PLEA FAILS. Mrs. Gertrude Benson Denied Re- quest Following 5-Year Separation. Justice Hoehling. of the District older brother, ties in this matter if possible and he | Supreme Court today refused the re- has asked the Judge Advocate Gen- eral of the Army if the requested transfer can be made at this late { culture, for Thes§ are | Gordon stage of proceedings. nearly 60 acres in the reservation. Rare Texas Peaches. Two peaches were brought to the office. of the Waco (Tex.) Times quest of Mrs. Gertrude Benson, ai employe of the Department of Agri- temporary alimony from W. Benson, automoblie sales- who procured a divorce from her in Chicago and married another woman. The court explained that his denial was without prejudice to the of Mrs. Benson No. 1. to ques- the Illinols divorce at the final r}‘ht b The parties” separated in heaving. Herald that measured 123 inches in | 1951 and i§ was nearly five vears, eircumference and weighed 12 ounces each.' They are EI and were raised on a tree in the yard | Benson, through Attorneys of L. P. Adams of that city. Mr. Adams. said that there were court pointed out, before Mrs. Benson her suit. Do anson, Binford & Kramer, asked dismissal of his wife's suit, setting forth taht he ob- three of the trees in his yard and { tained a divorce in Chicago on a that. they had about two bushels of | charge of desertion and his marriage peaches each on them. are of the size of the two exhibited. Most of them | to the second Mrs. Benson is legal. Attorney Raymond Neudecker repre- Mrs. L. P. Adams recently preserved | sented wife No. 1. and canned about two bushels from the trees, which made 32 quart jars i of canned and preserved fruit. The trees atre almost nine years old. Mr. Adams sald that after the “Passion” fruit, which has a deli- cious flavor, was sShipped from New King George and Qfieen Mary glass trade, which consumes enor- mous quantities annually. Experi- mentation in recent years has shown that the use of lithium in the manu- facture glass renders the glass “batches” more fluld and thus more easily handled when liquifying. It also materfaly toughens the glass and greatly reduces the tendency of the finished product to shatter. Lithium is proving to be an ex- cellent substitute for high-grade fluorspar and is extensively used in the manufacture of white table. tops commonly seen in restaurants. It is also filling a need in the production of opalescence In glass, an effect which in the past has been so diffi- cult to obtain. Although the United States pro- duces most of the world's supply of lithium ores, prior to the opening of the Embudo mine the commercial supply of these minerals was confined principally to the mines of the Black Hills of South Dakota and to a mine in San Diego County, Calif. So pros- perous has been the Embudo mine that a grinding plant for the prepara- tion of the finished product is now under construction on the grounds. This will mean an important saving in transportation, since heretofore most_of the ore has been shipped to the Wheeling Pulverizing Works at Wheeling, W. Va.,, where it was ground to various meshes suitable for the requirements of the trade. Paper Sees British As Singing “Yes, We Have No Bahamas” By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 26.—“What would Uncle Sam offer for that eligible group of islands?” asked the Illustrated Sunday Herald, commenting good naturedly on America’s “recent almost feverish interest in the Bahama Islands, in connection with the mission to London of Brig. Gen. Lincoln C. Andrews, the American prohibition enforcement chief. “We have @& vision,” says the newspapers, “of a happy world in which America hasthe rummers by the heels and Great Britain, after recording the transaction on the cash register, is cheerfully singing ““Yes, We Have No Bahamas.” DR. S. . THOMPSON FUNERAL TOMORROW First Colored Surgeon From D. C. to Be Commissioned in World War—Active in Lodges. Dr. Silas S. Thompson, said to be the first colored man to be commis- sloned with the United States Medical Corps from Washington during the ‘World War and a leader here in near- ly a score of organizations of his race, died in Freedmen's Hospital Saturday after a short illness. He was 45 years old. Dr. Thompson was eminent grand commander of the commandries of the colored Masons in the District of Co- lumbia and was past grand royal pa- tron of the order of the Eastern Star, colored. Besides the colored Masonic fra- ternity, among the other organiza- tions with which Dr. Thompson had been prominently identified were mem- bers of Simon Court, No. 3; Order of Cyrenes; Moslem Guild, No. 8, Heroines of the Templar Crusade; Syracuse Lodge, No. 5, K. P., and other organizations. Elaborate funeral services, to be at- tended by hundreds of colored resi- dents, will be held in the A. M. E. Church tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock. Interment will be in Arling- ton Cemetery. —_— RUM PARLEY NEAR END. LONDON, July 26 (#).—The confer- ence between British officials and the. American prohibition enforcement delegation under Brig. Gen. Lincoln . Andrews is nearing its final stages and it8 conclusions may be announced tomorrow. In that event Gen. Andrews will 80 to Paris for a few days before re- turning to the United States. Disagr ee About Cheese “Full of Little Animals” By the Associatéd Press. READING, England, July 26— King George and Queen Mary have widely divergent tastes in the matter Zealand to London recently for a din- | of cheese, it was discovered when they ner given to the Duke of York. This known as the , and recent Royal Counties ag- visited the ricuitural here. any case I like it good and ripe.” “But s full of little animals, George, and you know it’s not good for you like that,” suggested the Queen. The bacteriologist accompanying the party suggested to ome of the Queen's ‘ladles in waiting that the “little animals”*were “fungi, ma'am, not animals,” which remark was overheard by her majesty. corrected, “Oh, I am am 1! the rel smile, with a broad “Well, in any case, 1 pre-| BOULEVARD ROAD TO ENTER CAPITAL Maryland Roads Commission Enter on Big Program in Bethesda Area. ‘The largest single road improvement ever attempted by the Maryland State roads commission in the lower section of Montgomery County, acjoining the District line, will be undertaken and completed during the Fall monthe, ao- cording to announcements which have been made in Baltimore. All of the highway improvements will be made in the general Bethesda area and con tiguous to Wisconsin avenue extended Possibly the greatest improvement will come with the widening of Wis consin avenue from the District line to the union of the Georgetown and Rockville roads at Bethesda. ‘This boulevard highway, which will pass through the western section of the Chevy Chase Club property, ‘will be of concrete construction and wilt add 20 feet to the width of the present high- way. The street car tracks 1 be located in the center of the double road. To bring about this impwove ment land has been acquired from the Chevy Chase Land Co., the CHevy Chase Club, St. John’s Episcopal Church and private property imbter ests. Surveys have been complieted and the contracts will be let early in August for the work, bids already hav- ing been advertised for. To complete this section of the road it will be necessary to buld an addi tional bridge over the Baltimore and Ohio railroad Juct at Bethesda, and work on this will begin immediately County and State officials will get in touch with the Washington Railway and Electric Co. at once and confer with them in regard to relocating trackage and bringing it to the street level. Owing to the fact that the Wisconsin avenue is one of the main arteries leading into Washington, and has recently been improved in the Dis- trict, it is expected that much of the dangerous traffic congestion which has prevailed in the past will be elimi- rl‘ll:inddluon to the broadening of Wisconsin avernue, the State roads commission is advertising for bids for the placing of concrete shoulders on Wilson lane running through tery Park and Edgemoor toward Glen Echo for a distance of 1 mile. Likewise the commission will extend the present concrete shoulders on the old George- fown road 2 miles northward from the present improved section at Alta "grz.‘ B. C. Perry, president of the board of Montgomery County commis- sioners, has been active in securing the new improvements and is re- sponsible for gaining the consent of the State roads commission to enter in upon its new extensive program. MEYER DAVIS HEARING T0 BE HELD TONIGHT Orchestra Leader Faces Charge of Manslaughter as Result of Fatal Auto Wreck. Meyer Davis, local orchestra own or and organizer. will have a prelim inary hearing before Justice of the Peace J. J. Fainter in the office of Constable Thomas GaiTison at Hyatts ville, Md., tpRight on a charge of manslaughter in connection with the death of Bernard E. Booker, Phila- delphia attorney, who was killed while riding in an automobile oper- ated by Mr. Davis on the night of June 26 at Riverdale. The injury, resulting in death, was sustained when Mr. Booker's head was struck during a collision between the Davis automobile and another machine which had just crossed the Baltimore-Washington boulevard in front of the Riverdale Garage. Attorneys William E. Leahy and Morris Simon will represent Mr. Davis at the hearing tonight, which he demanded, following an alleged failure of notice of the coroner’s in- quiry at Hyattsville, which resuited in the issuance of a warrant charg. ing him with manslaughter. Attor- ney Arthur E. Presmont will be pres- ent to represent the interests of the family of the deceased. MASONS PLAN CEREMONY. Temple to Be Dedicated at Front Royal, Va., Thursday. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. FRONT ROYAL, Va., July 26.—The new Masonic Temple just completed here will be dedicated Thursday night. The services will be’ in charge of Charles L. Callahan of Alexandsia, Va., Virginia past grand master. John T. Cochran of The Plains grand junior warden; Rev. Frank Mc- Fadden of Winchester and others will speak. The committee has completed the program and expects to entertain more than 100 visiting Masons. The new temple is located on Main street and formerly was the L. Purdum resi- dence. A $20,000 addition has been made to the building. MOODY MAINTAINS MAJORITY IN TEXAS PRIMARY CONTEST (Continued from First Page.) incumbents. were leading their op. ponents but some of the margins ‘were small. The déan of the Democratic Texas delegation at Washington, Congress man John N. Garner of Uvalde, was safely renominated for the twelfth time. G. 0. P. Race Results. The first state-wide Republican primary, conducted mainly to estab- lish the party in Texas, is attracting little attention. Its main significance centers about the figint of the “regu lars” and Representative Harry M. ‘Wurzbach’s dissenting faction for con trol of the party. In a statement last night the regu lars declared that county chairmen favorable to them had been elected in the seventy-odd counties reporting. Representative Wurzbach, the only Republican Representative from Texa: had a heavy lead over his opponent Fred E. Knetsch from the fourteenth district. Col. Harvey H. Haines, put up by the regulars, headed by R. B. Creager. national executive committeeman, w leading E. P. su! ‘Wurzbach, for the gubernatorial nomi- nation. —_— Australian Chore Boy a Croesus. Dr. Sidney Kidman's career is one of the romances of Australia. He left home at the age of 14 with only a few shillings in his pocket and began work as a knockabout boy at 10 shillings a week. He now. runs sheep and cattle over a fair sized kingdom and owns flocks counted by the hundred thou- sand. He is a tall, gaunt Australian and neither swears, smokes mnor ‘When the North-South rail- he will be,