Evening Star Newspaper, August 15, 1926, Page 1

v WEATHER (U. S, Weather Bureau Forecast.) Probably showers and thunder- atorms with somewhat cooler today. Tomorrow fair. Temperatures—High- est, 98, 10 p.m. at 4 pm.; -— No. RISING TOURIST TID BRINGS RICH HAUL TOCAPITOL GUIDES 25-Cent Regular and 15- Cent “Job Lot” Fees Reach Big Daily Total. 1,117—No. 30,056. SOME OF ATTENDANTS DECLARED UNQUALIFIED Many Places of Interest Are Over- looked in 40-Minute Trip | Through Building. With the tourist tide sweeping into | ‘Washington with ever-increasing ve-| locity, the position of “official guide” | At the Capitol has ripened into an attractive and luscious plum to be shaken from the old political tree There the business of reaping quarters from tourists has become =0 extensive that the “official guides” not only escort individuals and small parties through the citadel of de- mocracy on a strictly retail basis, but they have a definite agreement with the big sight-seeing companies to job. 1ot their parties through at the re-| duced rate of 15 cents per head. Although it has long been known that the Capitol guides exacted a fee from each person they through the building. the! wholesale end of their business was not learned until a reporter for The Star joined a party of tourlsts at; Tnion’ Station, boarded a sight-seeing | bus with them and started out to| “gee” Washington | Fees Reach Big Total. { As a result of this journey he learn-| ed not only that the Capitol guides ' have gone into the wholesale business, but he was informed. too, that the guide who fails to muke something | more than §15 a day would consider | that the business was not a paving ! one. One thousand tourists a day at | the full rate of 25 cents per head, he | was informed. would not aggregate enough revenue to pay 16 guldes an | adequate wage. i The big bus in which the tourists | made their journey set out at 10:30 o'clock The Pan-American Union, | the White fiouse and the New tional Museum were visited in order with the Treasury and the Smithso- | nian Institution being pointed out en route. Finally the ponderous vehicle rolled up to the broad front of the Capitol, dazz white in the hot | morning sun. it with excited | anticipation, the tourists hurried | up the long steps to the bronze portal of their own United States Capitol. Suddenly the form of a big man | Ftepped ncross the open threshholdand | called upon the eager visitors to stop where they were. They were care- fully herded over to one end of the portico, while the custodian of the doorway called out to an attendant on the bus, who had been tar escorting his charges up the s “Hey. how many ya' got”" Turned Over to Guide. “Twenty-three.” responded the pant ing attendant. who by now had reach ed the side of his wondering tour ! Carefully the guard counted the mem bers of the party to check on the! weracity of their attendant. made | some minute notations in a small book | and finally invited the visitors to enter the Capltol. There he turned them over to a guide, who. they were | told, would take 40 minutes showing | them through Scores of times before the reporter | had been through those same halls, | and he longed to point out one inter- esting detail after another that the “*offici guide” either glected or knew nothing abou Senate was visited and its galleries were duly explained. A “peep” into the United States Supreme Court was per. missable en route to the House cham ber. On the House side, however the “lobby™ was the nearest the tour ists got to the chamber proper. The name of the artist who painted the ceiling and walls of the Presi dent’s room on the Senate side was confided to the tourists: they were | hustled past the historic paintings | that were hanging here and there, and spent most of their time in Statu: ary Hall. Here, the guide declared was a “mysterious floor.” e said he could stand at one side of the hall place his charges at the other anc Carry on conversation in a whisper which they could hear. The reporter strained both ears trying to cateh! even a murmur. but he had heard ! no sound from the guide up to this time. al Joins Second Party Out beneath the great dome once ore. the tourists were escorted 0 the portico and again turned over o the bus attendant. Here, however. the reporter deserte his tourist friends and q red up the door agair behind party of _eight automobi tourists. Each, was equipped with a new.-fangled sun visor. the womer men alike wore khaki knickers and | 2!l carried unmistakable evidence of having haled from th. zreat open spaces. “Did you wish to see the Capitol beamed the same guard who had so efficiently blocked ' the way for the sight-seeing purty i Yes,” murmured the first man. | “Well, that will cost you 25 cents.” | gesponded the guard “Sorry. but we don't get paid pv the Government, vou know. So ‘ve | will have to charge vou i The money produced and transtered to the gulde. he next turned to the anxiousiy waiting re porter: —*“And would Rapito1?” “Why, ves." replied the veporter. | *Well. that will cost 25 cents, | Pe. etc..” repeated the guide Explains Different Procedure *“What United porter. “Qh, well. if you don’t want to learn | anything, all right. but these people want to learn something, even if you don't,” frowned the guide contemptu ously. His identity revealed porter, the guide was axi vou like tn see the to enter the Capitol of the tates?” ejaculated the re. hy the re -4 to explain some things gratulated, i minister ton, D. C. “Now, first. how does it happen that T came in here with a sight-sec ing bus party and was not asked to pay. but that when I attempted to | enter alone you wished to charge me | ¢ 25 cents>’ the guide was asked lowest, Full report on page 7. | sponsored by | mously | driving to M 1 suelo De Cologan, a duughter | President ; married to C: 72, at Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. he WASHI . 'HUGE FEDERAL-AIDED ATRWAY | SYSTEM PREDICTED BY HOOVER | Secretary Discloses Plans for Private Development With Service Like That Given Navigation Pro- vidled—Would Save Billions in Defense. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, August 14.—A wide system of commercial aviation, financed by private enterprise and the Government, was pictured here today by Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, as offering to America a stanch aerial reserve, saving the Government bil- lons of dollars for air defense while developing business. speeding trans portation and thriving in its own right. : The Secretary outlined excl to the Associated Press the ment's ambitious program mercial air development, made sible by legislation of the last Con- gress, actually put into motion with the appointment of an 1 ndersecre- sively vern com- pos for velopment, and given Impetus yeste day with designation by President Coolidge of the first two of a chain of national rwaye, The immediate program contem. plates the rendering of the same aid to aircraft that the Government now Rives to navigation, and anticipates the turning over shortly of the trans- continental air mail carriage to pri- vate companies. But beyond that, as the majog ob- jective, the administration's plan is nation- | NGTON, D. C., SUNDAY 'ROACH SAYS POLICE to befriend commercial flving so that | it will flourlsh and grow ficlent national aeronautic structure available to the Government in an emergency for the national defense, thus saving the Government the tremendous cost of establishing and maintaining an aviation service solely for war-time uses. Commerci; fiving and a nation- wide air mail, express and passenger system, Secretary Hoover said. “Is a erable help to banks, speeding collections and saving interest; it expedites the movement of emergency expre: and it enables faster travel than the railroads give, for those who h it. “But the major purpose at the mo- ment is, for the value of commercial aviation as a military reserve, shift- ing the burden private enterprise “Before there can be any veal de- velopment of commercial aviation,” Hoover sald, “the Federal department of aviation m provide the same services it provides for navigation— lighting of air fields, maps of air routes, emergency landing flelds and markings for everyday flving. We will endeavor, too, to provide radio information to piiots. We must pro- vide rules for airways, and inspec- tion to assure safety in planes. “NG one private company could af- (Continued on Page 4, Column 4. ONCE-RICH BRITON HELD IN SHOOTING Former Husband of Ruth| LS Wynne Accused of Wound- ing Friend. By Cable to The Star and New York World LONDON, August 14. - Alphonse incis Austin Smith, grandson of of the builders of the Canadian " one { Pacific Railroad and former son-in-law of Robert J. Wynne. one-time United States Postmaster General, was ar- rested at White Stable, near 1sed of attempted murder. The police Inspector making the arrest testified he went to Stella Maria, Smith's seaside home, and found John Thomas Derham, interna- tional rink hockey player and grand son of Gen. Tyler, V. C.. dying of u bullet wound In the stomach. Thomas was taken to a nursing home, where | he died a few hours later. of both Ryan, Smith s a grandson Frank Smith and Hugh cfate of Lord Strathcona, and two of the earllest milllonaires in Canada, both being lroad builder Once Enormously Wealthy. Smith, as an heir, once was enor wealthy. It is reported he victim_of the notorious Wil Hobbs, Montague Noel was un Cooper | Newton and Roberick Morrison gang. Hobbs was the principal figure in the notorfous “Mr. A" blackmail “Mr. A” turning out to be the Maha- rajah Hari Singh of Jammu and hmir. One report sald these men were ap- pointed a committee of inspection of the Smith inheritance. Smith was married in 1912 to Ruth Wynne and was divorced in 1922, He took as his second wife Miss Catherine White, by whom he three children. He is a near neighbor of Derham, who is said to have given lessons in automobile Smith. Derham Also Married. Derham in 1913 married M of the Marquis de Torre Hermosa. For the last few years he has been living apart from h Both Smith and Derham are m, where they were schoolmates 40 and Smith 37. 1t is reported Smith in 10 dissipated a fortune of $1:000.000 and ther borrowed from Hobbs and New- won in Wynne's daughter ment a substuntial pected inheritance. in the dragoon guard In the war he joined the Canadian < us a private. Derham was a of Trinity College, Cam- and was a ¢ in the war. sriEht the divorce proceedings Mr. rect ed in settle- are of the e hith once was bridge. Married in 1912, Since her divorce from 1922 the first Mrs. Smith, before her marriage Miss Ruth Ber nudotte Wynne, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wynne, has made her home in the United States. Her fa- th Postmaster General Roosevelt and later consul general in London. Miss Wynne and Mr. Smith were married in London in October. After a honeymoon at h place Wendover. Smit bride took a house in London parted a vear later. A reconc was effected in 1916, largely throu the instrumentality of Mr. Smith mother. It was not la however, and in 1918 he assigned one-third of his income of about $75,000 a year to Smith in was was ser Miss Wynne filed action divorce in June. 1921, naming a Miss Gertrude Lawrence. One of her witnesses at_the trial was her sister. Mrs. Hugh Ronald French. who was pt. French of the British 1908 and divorced him in for army in 1913 The first Mrs. Smith made her debui here In 1808, trial, | Con- | rham \\nx“ years | under | | | | | in t who was } e | CHECK-UP OF HALL DEATH AREA MADE Prosecutor Measures Dis- tances and Photographs Home of Widow. B ihe Associated Pross OMERVILLE. N. The taking of photog: vements of the 1 Brunswick today mystery of the August 14— phs and meas- home in were added slaying four years > of Rev. Edward Hail and My mes Mills, for which crime minister’'s widow, her brother and a cousin are charged w h murder. Senator Alexander Simpson, special deputy attorney general appointed to prosecute the case, accompanied by Inspector Underwood of Jersey City and Patrick Hayes, chief investigator, appeared at the recently remodeled Hall home this afternoon with news- paper photographers and an archi- tect. Mrs. Iall did not_come out of the house, but Russeli E. Watson, one of her attorneys, offered the party plans of the building. These were declined. Measurements Are Made. Cursory measurements were of the house and grounds and tures taken by New Yorlk ne photographers, M usked the newspay: work for him, pecause tographers were noi available. e party then left for the Phillips farm, just over the Middlesex County line, where the were found under a crab apple tree. The dis- tance between the spot where the bodies bad lain, and the home of Mrs. Jane Gibson. who vesterday identi. fled Willle Stevens . Hall's broth- er, and Henry Carpender, her cousin, as’ the persons she saw there on the men to do the bodies night of the murder, were measured | by driving route arlier in the afternoon questioned several witnesses at State trooper quarte Inspector Underwood announced he ad telegraphed the San Francisco an automoblle over the Mr. unidentified head- itor in the original investigation. Expects Deposition Tuesday. le did not expect the deposition be- fore Tuesday. Dic m in the militar ucks at Alcatrez Island. thorities, Underwood said, fied their willingness to man over to the New thorities A San Dickman as having admitted that he accepted a bribe to drop his_ investi zation and disappear. but this wa later denied by Col. William Morrow, a At the disciplinary v bar- Army au had signi turn_Dick Jersey and Stevens will remain he county jail until Monday morn- when the hearing to determine ¢ shall be held for indictment of murdering the couple be resumed before Judge Cleary. Hall is at liberty under $15,000 on w Mrs bail FIND LOST BOY’S TRACKS. Searchers on Trail of 7-Year-Old Missing on Mount Hood. PORTLAND, Oreg., August 14 (@), While woodsmen, forest rangers, sol diers and officers were leading search parties on the today in search of Jackie Strong, vear- hou fresh footprints, believed t have been made by the boy iast night or this merning. were found th= footprints were | ated the boy had been d andered 7 vo brothers while fishing Thursday afternoon. —w Special Dispatch to The Star TAMFORD, Conn., August 14.—A preacher who numbers a President of the United States among his parish joners is more to be pitied than con olle Pierce shing ze at Kinanis Rev. Jason of the chur that President Coo tends, told a sathering of “lub members here today “Probably four out of five of those | eney “We have a special rate for the|who attended the services are not my |genuine in his attention to his spiritual | quest” was necessary, (Continued on Page 4, Column 2) ' people,” he said, “but ctm to thelduties™ | fa | ing capacity of the church do | service {Curiosity Fills Church of President To Regret of Rev. Jason Noble Pierce ! church just to see the President. The that we had to extend the seat signify a growth in spirituality but " | rather an increase in curiosity. ‘It seems too bad that a President right te attend a instead he cent Al eyes mg that his warm torest eneiies must ¢ >resident and that is hi in church attendance. has not a a of being There is friends made on an. the 1ist He S | ay from | ™ S ho A de to | into an ef-| of development and | | maintenance from of Commerce to direct nerial de. | t© {he Government New | in_covering up elues to the} the | made | Spuper | Impson sald he | herpes because of the officia - flicial Pho- | e greatest me Simp- | man Is serving a | au-| Francisco paper had quoted | ope of Mount Hood | old boy, lost in the wilds for 48 | { tomorrow: | known | promized the s ot | church | ! was too brief | today {from a mem is | Inclusion - s MORNING, AUGUST 15, AIDED MURDERERS| IN MELLETT PLOT Attorney to Present Findinés to Canton Grand Jury at Hearing This Week. DECLARES PATROLMEN DROVE LIQUOR TRUCKS McDermott, Sought as “Key Man,” Reported to Have Visited City With Rum Load. By the Associated Press CANTON, Ohfo, August 14.—What- ever evidence any one has concerning the murder of Don R. Mellett, pub- lisher of the Canton Daily News, will be sought by the Stark County grand Jury next week. Following the state- ment by Joseph R. Roach, famous “clean-up” attorney, thal while in quiring into an alleged liquor ‘conspir- acy in Canton he had procured con- clusive evidence against the murder- ers, Prosecutor . B. McClintock an- nounced today his information will be welcomed in the grand jury investi- gation. 1926. —104 PAGES. * o009 =l LAN'SAKES,2 WHAT A V') GETEA v &3 Sundlay St “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 and service will start immediately. Court action thus is to be brought {into play to release if possible the | stranglehold which outside investi i gators declare the underworld and political cliques have fastened on Can- ton. Roach says evidence which he possesses and which should be inves. | tigated by the grand jury includes the following: That the bullet which killed Mel- ! lett was fired from a revolver of for- eign make owned by a prominent | member of Canton's underworld. i Holds Police Aided Plot. 1 That Canton police officials knew of ! the murder plot against Mellett and | at least one police officer took part | in_the assassination i | That police officials have been pro- | tecting the murderers and have aided WOMEN IN FIGHT AT OUTDOOR GOURT Alleged Attackers of Another Held for Grand Jury at Riotous Hearing. Miss Ethel Clawans and Mrs. Mary E. Warnke, both of Washington, were held for the Marlboro County grand jury yesterday afternoon on charges of robbery and assault with intent to kill Mrs. Myrtle Rosenfield of Mount Rainier, after a hearing before Jus- tice of the Peace John J. Fainter. The hearing was marked by several outbreaks, chief of which was a fight which laid Miss Clawans out and pre- vented her appearance at the subse- quent proceedings. The stage for the action was the shade of a sugar pear tree which grows in the rear of Constable Tom Garrison’s home in Hyattsville. The occasion was the hearing on the events which led to an attack on Mrs. Rosenfleld on the night of July 20, during which she claimed she was bound, gagged and had a. liquid which “tasted like tobacco juice” forced be tween her lips. Miss Clawans and Mrs, Warnke had been arrested and released under $1,500 bond each some time ago in connection with the cas and when they appeared yesterda: afternoon the other witnesses and officials were congregating in the shade of the sugar pear tree. ‘Wife Defends Mate. As Miss Clawans arrived she said | “That the murder conspiracy is in-| interwoven with a liquor | v in which city and county officials either took part, or of which they have knowledge. That trucks carr g illicit liquor linto Canton trom ~Claveland some- | | times were driven by members of the | { police force. That Patrick ISugene McDermott, wanted as “keyman” in the murder solution, at one time during a stage in the murder conspiracy rode into | Canton on a liquor truck driven by | a city detective, i That besides volver, McDermott and the police of- ficer, at least two other Cantonians actively took part ely the owner of the re i in the assassina- | tion, while others knew it was trans-| ;nh | | That Plotters Looked On as Heroes. the impending murder wa common knowledge in the under- world and that those who took part | in the plot believed they would be ! they were | o play—heroes in having disposed of ace the Canton un-| -Mellett, the crusading, derworld had publisher. This evidenceg which Roach appears to him to be satisfactoril corroborated to bring about convic tion of first-degree murder, has mnot | been presented to a nd jury be cause of a “too Intimate’” contact be- jtween vice circles i#nd political and | official cliques. Blackmail between op- | posing political his wife, who was within earshot, ap- parently didn't like. Mrs. Rosenfield started around the table which sep- arated them and the two met, grap- pled and a fight started. The fight involved a number of innocent by- standers, among whom was Roy Fer. guson, 1416 Twentieth street, a Go : loye, who got hit in the they may, the case is to be laid he. CRMCNt employe. who evidence s available from any |y hington police, also appearing say: < rmatis Pa aracter witness, brought into [ Flite s plsniomRtE NS Play all available knowledge on how to stop.riots and managed to get she e e combatants separated about the tiige OFFICIALS FOUND DRIVING | that Constable Garrison, who was 3 STOLEN AUTOMOBILES conversing on the front n?r(‘h with | somebody else, heard the noise. Eleven Cars Recovered in Peoria, and Clues to Score More An- Constable Garrison, a man of action, appeared on the scene with a heavy nounced by Chicago Officer. By the Associated Press. revolver and a night stick, shouting in a loud, stentorfan voice: “In just a minute I'll have a patrol in service and cart the whole lot of you to Marl- {boro. T'll give you all the disturbance CHICAGO, August 14.—Recovery of stolen automobiles and clues to about a score more were announced tonight by Police Sergt. Frank A. Me- | Donald on his return from Peoria, in- you want. But the fight was over and Miss vestigating a stolen car market there One of the stolen was being | Clawans was out. Unconscious, she | | driven by J. Shirley West, chief of po- | | ! cliques and between the underworld and politicians, Roach says he has reason to belleve, also has blocked the prosecution. In answer to the challenge. McClin- tock said, “Let the chips fall where “air. | 11 outside on the lawn. as picked up and taken into Con- lice of Peoria. and another by Jess Identifies Women. stable Garrison's home, later to be re- Weast, assistant State's attorney of vived by a physician sufficiently to re- cline upon Constable Garrison's favor- Peoria County. Weast's secretary, Po-| _The State produced two witnesses— | liceman Richard Clandein, was driving | Mrs. R swnfield and her husband. ite armehair while the hearing started another car the serial number of | Mrs. Rosentield recounted the details She identitted Miss Clawans and Mrs. | "Recovery of the 11 cars came|Warnke as the two women. Under | through the arrest of Floyd Overby at | £rilling cross-examination by J. Wil- | Peoria two weeks ago on seven war- |5on Ryon, attorney for Miss Clawans, rants charging him with receiving |and by Richard L. Merrick, represent- i X her stolen property, automobiles stolen on |iNg Mrs. Warnke. she held to Chicago streets. identification, admitting :n. was (lx? she ‘(l'flulghl sight of the 7 faces of her assaflants. PAPER SAYS MRS. WILSON PROMISED LEAGUE VISITS Late President. on Deathbed, Said | to Have Received Assurance which corresponded to that of a car I of an assault on the night of July 20. stolen in Chicago. i tied up and unconscious on his return {home that night and of summoning help. His testimony was marked by verbal clashes with defense attorneys. Mr. Merrick asserted that positive tifical n_was ! Ol ntinued on Page 4, Column 1.) i of Regular Attendance. TSN v | VOLSTEAD IS DECLARED ust —Lord Rid IN LINE FOR DRY POST newspaper. in its column of | ) of the Du:. said to have Rid-| May Succeed Gen. Rhinow, North- i west Enforcement Director, Who By Cable to The but ersonal supervision, will print Will Quit, Paper Says. “It i< not generally Mrs. Woodrow Wilson late President on his deathbed that she would attend every annual assembly of the League of Na- tions, in commemoration of its in- | By the Associated Press ceptor, as long as she lived.” ST. PAUL, Minn.. August 14.—The AMrs. Wilson now is in Geneva. St. Paul Ploneer Press tomorrow will that Brig. Gen. W. F. Rhinow, .-— - ‘ Northwest prohibition enforcement di- Brief Will Ruled Out. T T e S W 3 | chiet aide, will resign at the expira- ELIZABETIL N. J.. August 14 (P).| tjon of their present terms, “accord- —The will of Police Capt. Brog (Copyright. 1026.) ing to statements made by their inti- Surrogate Parrott ruled : mate friends.” was scrawled on a sheet| The newspaper will add thatsGen. indum book and read: Rhinow “is expected to be succeeded T own in the world, Andrew \Volstead, former repre: properiy. te my wife.” | sentative, and author of the national the words “give” | prohibition enforcement act,” who is the official | now legal adviser for the Northwest district prohibition headquarters. 1t verythin nd personal of Tuled, mething about Mr. Rosenfield that | that though | Rosenlleld told of finding his wife | TODAY’S STAR. PART ONE—11 PAG General News—Local, National Foreign. Maryland and Virginia 26 and 27, - News of the Clubs—Page 33. Radio News and Programs—Page Around the —Page 35. Tales of Well Known Folk— Financial News—Pages 40, 41 and PART TWO—14 PA Editorials and Editorial Features Washington and Other Society. PART THREE—14 PAGES. Amusements—Theaters and the Photo- play. Music In Washington—Page 1. Motors and Motoring—Fages 5, 7. and 10. Army and Navy News District Natlonal Guard—Page 12 Boy Scout News—Page 12 Civilian Army News—Page 13 and News— Pages 9 —Page T1. Fraternal News—Page 14. PART FOUR—I PAGES. Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—8 PA Magazine Section— Fiction tures. The Rambler—Page 3. PART SIX—8 PAG! Classified dvertising. vs of Summer Books A. News—Page §. GRAPHIC SECTION—S PAG World Events in Pictures. COMIC SECTION—1 PAGES. Betty: Reg'lar Fellers; Mr. and Mrs.; | Mutt and Jeff. EXPERT WILL SEEK and Fea- Page 8. Action to Acquire Land for Program. | Faced with the danger of pro- longed delay in the Government's $50.000,000 building program here on account of the difficulty of pur ing land needed for the first struc tures,'the Treasury has obtained the services of an expert on sites, who will open negotiatiens this week with the owners of property needed. On account of policy the departinent | has withheld the name of its expert, but it was learned yesterday that he is a man of long experience in pick- Ing sites for the Government and is in such matters. Seeks to Shun Courts. It will be the program of the Treasury, acting through this agent, to make every possible effort to ac quite the land needed south of the Post Office Department Bullding for ‘lhe new Internal Revenue Bureau structure, and elsewhere. | It is the hope of the department |that the matter be kept out of the lcourts if possible, and the expert will devote his whole time and atten- jtion to the problem of negotiating the | purchase by the Government of all .the property necessary at a | considered fair and just to the Gov {ernment. 1 Condemnation Last Resort. I Should the expert fail, it is known the Government will step in and in- | stitute condemnation proceedings, but ithe Treasury is pinning its hopes on the new campalgn to keep out of the courts and make speedy progress in the great program of providing homes in Washington for the Federal bu- reaus. When the property is acquired, ac- |cording to plans now under way, the | Internal Revenue WBureau Bullding |first to be started. If no legal snarls develop in the question of acquisition of site, it is probable that the feunda- tion for the building for the Bureau of Internal Revenue may be laid this ! Fall. Veterans of the Great War—Page 13 U. S. BUILDING SITES Treasury Seeks to Avoid Court| expert in negotiating with the public | price | |and the Archives Building will be the | STORM HALTS HEAT WAVEAS THO DE After day for nea broken breeze for the Plain: led to to the h Col retired, | and Emerge Rober | for the | trom th, the storm whic to the dair Henry in the lobhy died Five Prostrated Yesterday, | But Further Relief Is Promised Today. hastening two heat wave rly by a week the was in tempers to the city Aged and afety. eat were H. old, who of the U shortly aft ney Hospital. t Mahoney, ¢ American Oil e effects of a heat vear: | working on a road at R Heat (; Col Jefferso He had some business | bert 13, by the | street, | work Those p late Ludlow. who res N street. was re gone to the bank Acting « Martyn issued a death due to npoplexy heat A Woulfe who s w X af a5 treated at km Felix | Michigan gency F | Mrs o« | ping at | Emerge | Eugen old, | Weath, | followin, said, showe |by a m da Early | caster | for Phi |at t Mr. W outiook day wa la p & | was 98 | maximu | storm b | cury caster afternoo Three Special T NEW hive: Samuel prostrate cation | night that a The highest ar could lower the temperature would be this | Ned MeDonald, avenue, Tospital. ; Schoffield tourist Hospita the ney st, Aty ors while and treated Weightma Burean, survey the storm, of < in morning el ther is Mr will nd but ¢ wil rore comfortable than Washington has had for vesterday mornj wedicted cooler ladelphi time it was not | the region of declining would e ColJumbia xtend down to th Late last eightman rorelief in quite favorable’ sefore evening temperatu degrees at 4 o'cloc m reached Frida oke about 6 o opped to 74 not predict on, he confidently would be decidedly lower past three or four s NEW YORK HARD H Distinet Dispateh to YORK, The Star. August such viol thunderstorm | day afternoon and furthe re expected to brin; rought W0 caus erty damage when lightning s barn of the Distr Infirm The cows in the barn Ludiow, U lored, o Co.. colored, 3 working announced night, reported Washington While the Storms deaths and prostrating five other persons yester. that Washington and its environs swelter has made temporarily vester howers to- | a decided ature welcome ed prop fire t Home at Blue were Those whose deaths were attributed S, stricken ust Co. arriving at w laborer who died attack while sslyn, Vi, es Apoplexy. ided at 1821 red in fo18. k to transact ‘oroner Her certificate of superinduced trated, none of whom is | in a serious condition, follow: James Twelfth overcome while at [ pake o ternoon and 0 ve: b tre B street ted at Emergency Hos vears in an at Casualty noof the the situat dicated that n there would be a definite break in tie present torrid wave this afternoon, likely to Weightman probably 1 s about the middle of the day, and If they accur th 1 be follow temperature veral ng the fore. weather today and New York, but | certain that temperature e District of however that the and should re vesterday | K. the same When the WK the mer- fore how much expected it than for the Damage Widely Separated Paints 14.—Three separate thunderstorms, one of them accompanied by lent wind as | (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) i | door, Mrs. Kate A !1sland avenue, vesterday | when she pilunged down a stairs. Dr. A. D. Evans, 1 Capitol street, was pronounced her dead as a result of a fractured skull and shock. afternoon flight of old, was killed at her home, 30 Rhode | Mistaking a cellar door for a pantry |at a local depa Huguley, 83 vears | his mother wa Mrs, James F. lago, North | Treasury Department summoned and |long resident of the District. partially Huguley was th Huguley, who ter serving 19 'Woman, 83 Years Old, Is Killed in Fall As She Mistakes Cellar Door for Pantry . ment store. said that blind e widow died 9 year: cars in the She was 4 life Funeral services will be held Tuesday morning at St Martin's Church. Interment Edgar A. Huguley, a son, employed | will be in Glenwood Cemetery, JS before Al last | to- | CENTS. CITY HEADS T0 CUT BUDGET WITHOUT HELP OF GOUNCIL Will Start Work on Pruning of $3,500,000 Wednesday. 3 Days to Suffice. FIVE ADVISORY BODY RECESS PREVENTS CO-OPERATION Col. Bell Favors Spreading Reduc- tions Throughout All of Departments. r without the advice of Advisory Council, the District Commissioner, this week will | undertake cut the preliminary estimates for the next fiscal vear to the tentative maximum limitation of $38.573.829 allocated by President Coolidge Confronted with the task of trim- ming approximately $3,600,000 from the budget in its- present form. the Commissioners ~ have Wednesday #.s the date for starting and expect to complete the work within three days. The advisory council. which had hoped to take some part in shap ing next vear's budget, ls enjoving a summer recess, with~its chairman Jesse (. Suter, vaAcationing & Ni- agra There is little iikeli hood that” a meeting wiil be held until his return, August 23 The advisory council had little op Lportunity to consider the tenta festimates in detail. due to the haste jin which they were assembled for | transmission to the Budget Bureau | Plans had been made to go more thoroughly into the detailed items when the budget was returned for | its customary pruni These a | rangements are now destined to | awry. Proceeding the Citizens’ sot res Haste. Herbert M. Lord Bureau h: that th his hands 15 d; Lord Req | As Brig. Gen. | director of the Budget | notified the Commissioners | final estimates must be in not later than Septembe earlier than usual, it is doubtful if the council will have sufficient time to study the numerous appre priation needs_in a comprehensive way, even if meeting is called | upon Mr. Suter's return. | Harry N. Stull, recorder of the | council, said last night that, hecause | of the lack of time in which the coun | il will have to consider the estimates nally would favor having the 1 ignore them ‘It seems that fwe have been rushed for time on |everything we have attempted to do. 'he declare 8 would need at least 1two weeks to make a careful study of |the detailed recommendations. If 1 had my way the council would not {even undertake to consider the budget {at this late date.’ | The Commissioners have not indi lcated yet what departments are most likely to suffer from the necessary r ductions gineer Commissioner J anklin helieves that propor {tionate cuts should be made in the {items of all the departments, and prob ably will advocate this poliey when the revision is undertaken Will Seek Reinsertion | The most urgent of those istricken from the tentative estimates it was said, will be included in a sup plemer statement, setting forth the | necessity therefor, and transmitted to |Gen. Lord along with the budget Commissioners are expected to rong effort to have these in view fact budget w essen | he pe | coun: Bell iteny he. {items reinserted | that the tentative to provide the most for the next fiseal | elimination might entail re | deficiency appropriation which | hope to aveid if possible The $42.000.000 tentative budget, it was pointed out, would be adequate to meet expenses without a further [ increase in the present rate of taxa 1 tion of §1.80 on $100 of assessed valu | ation. This figure was set with the |idea that, if granted, supplemental ap propriations would not be requested UNless AN emergency arose As the public hool estimate: represent approximately one-third of the total tentative budget of $42,000 { 000, the largest percentage of the re I duetion probably will be made in these though the Commissioners nizant of the school needs tand are averse to hindering any fur | ther the five-year school building pro m now under way e school | hoard's original estimates of $16,005, | 186 _already been trimmed to | $13,500.000. ; Would Delay Projects. | Reductions in the estimates of other ! departments of the District govern { ment are likely to eliminate some of the new projects which the Commis | sioners had hoped te 't in the next ! fiscal year, such as paving and grad | ing of streets. the construction of a {new bridge to replace the Chain | Bridge, a new building to house the |repair shop of the Police Department a new fire truck house in the vicinity {of Twelfth and U streets, widening | of roads in East Potomac Park and a | number of lier items | " The total appropriation needs re: ommended by the various department of the District and agencies of the Federal Government expending | District_appropriations a#mounted to $48.064.651 before they were trimmed to §42,000,000 by the Commissioners Distribution of Estimates. ‘hese were distributed as follows Salaries and expenses, $2,795.744, as ! compared with appropriations of 31, 1720,900 for the current year; contingent and miscellaneous expenses, § 38, { as compared with the current ap propriation of street and road improvement, $5,276,950, as com | pared with the current appropriation of $2719.750: sewers, $2.942000, as compared with the current appropria ! tion of £1.447,000; city refuse division, | $1.945,020, as compared with the cur- rent appropriation of $1,442,560; play- ground department, $177,310, as com- pared with the current uppropriation of $1 : electrical department, $1,- 1 080,320, as compared with the current | appropriation of $9 public | schools, $16,005.186, ax compared with | the current appropriation of $10,905, | 371: Police Department, $3,204,085, as compared with the current appropria- { tion of 33,0 9. Fire Department, as compared with the cur- ' 18 l it appropriation of $2,233,270, Health Dgpartment, §1,028.410, as com ontinued on Page 4, Column vear st !