Evening Star Newspaper, August 18, 1926, Page 5

PARK BOULEVARD PLANS LAUNCHED Delegates of Seven Counties | Back Shortest Route From | D. C. to Shenandoah. | By a Staft Correspondent. FRONT ROYAL, Va., August 18.— Plans for construction of a great 100- foot boulevard to afford tourists the shortest route between the National Capital and the Shenandoah National Park took definite shape here late vesterday afternoon with the formal organization of the Shemandoah Na- tional Park Highway Association. ‘The movement, which recently had its inception in Arlington County through the formation of a “Straight- to-the-Bridge Boulevard Association,” later renamed the Richard E. Byrd Boulevard Association, had contem- piated originally a highway com- memorating the achievement of Comdr. Byrd in flying to the North Pole, but in view of reports of Byrd's disinclination to have this additional honor thrust on him, the suggestion was dropped in favor of the name “Shenandoah National Park High- way. With several hundred prominent citizens and officials in attendance from seven Virginia counties, through which the new road would pass, the conferees unanimously elected the fol- lowing officers: Hugh E. Naylor President. Naylor of Front Royal, Arthur Orr, Arlington | County; George B. Robey, Fairfax | County: Thomas H. Lion, Prince Wil-| quier County, and Frank L. Taven-| ner, Shenandoah County, vice presi- dents; Mrs. Catharine M lington County. secreta: Huddleston, Fairfax County, treas- and O. W. Borden, Warren assistant secretary. Mr. Naylor was chairman of the Front Royal committee which recent- ly appeared before the Arlington County Assoclation and urged it to broaden its scope in furtherance of the project for a nearly direct high- way from the Arlington Memorial Bridge to the northern entrance of the Shenandoah National Park, at Front Royal, by way of Manassas Gap, lowest pass in the Blue Ridge south of the Potomac River. Mr. Orr was prime mover in the “Stralght-to-the-bridge” _movement and was president of the Richard E. Byrd Boulevard Association. He re- sides in Lyon Park. Mrs. Rogers, whose home is in Ballston, was assist- ant secretary of the same organiza- tion. Dr. Huddleston is treasurer of Fairfax County. Two representatives on the board of directors from each of the seven countles traversed will be selected by local committees of the new organiza- tion. The association went on record at the outset as indorsing the proposed 100-foot straight route through Clar- endon and Ballston from the memorial bridge to Falls Church as the first link of the new highway. Speakers Favor Movement. Formal organization was effected after a number of speakers had | spoken in favor of the movement. These speakers included Col. H. G. Benchoff, president of the Shenan- National Park Association; L. Melton, principal of facon Academy; Mayor B. of Front Royal; Maj. E. swing of the Manassas Battle- George F. Harri- rfax County, who said he was one of the initiators of the Lee highway project, and Lynn Robert- son of Manassas, another early leader in the Lee highway movement. Col. Benchoff pictured a highway system of the future that would i terlace Virginia with a maze of boule- vards, many of them centering around the proposed national park and others leading to Washington. He pointed 10 the urgent necessity of the citi- zens of Virginia making certain, be- fore long, that the quota of $2,500,000 on which the Government's offer of the park is predicated is raised by popular subscription. Prof. Melton declared there are 30,000,000 persons who want to get o the new national park and who “won't tolerate the necessity for go- ing over a route that is 20 miles long- er than the one contemplated through Manassas Gap.” He referred to pre- Vious statements comparing the dif- ference in length hetween the prope Lee boulevard and the Shenan- ih Park road. The former would anter the central portion of the park at Luray The meeting, which was held in the auditorium of Randolph-Macon Acade- my. was opened with an announce: ment by Mr. Orr of the purpose of athering, viz., “to get a highway | from Washington to the park by the <hortest feasible route.” This purpose, he added, embraced the “cardinal principle of highway construction, that of connecting one point to another by the shortest route.” Present Road in Bad Shape. Those who made up the caravan of automobiles frem Arlington and Fair- fax Counties Yere convinced of the necessity for a new road through Manassas Gap. if this is to be the northern gateway of the great park. Following as nearly as possible the route tentatively proposed for the new highway. the caravan was forced to| creep slowly over the slippery, tor- tuous road which leads from Dela- plane to Front Royal. More than once the delegates had to halt in order to help push some car_out of a ditch. Approximately 75 residents of | Arlington and Fairfax counties made | up the caravan, which left Arlington County Court House at & o'clock and | passed through Falls Church, Fairfax, Aldie, Middleburg, Upperville and Delaplar At Upperville the dele- | gates were met by a committee of we come from Front Roval, headed by Mr. Na At Front Royal Mayor Hillldge them the “keys to the city.” mayor's committee included Town Councilman Frank B. Evans, Prof. Melton, Col. & W. Millar and R. E. Herr. president of the Front Royal Chariber of Commerce. Among those in the caravan were Willlam L. Rragg, newly appointed governor's committee on park and city planning for Arling- ton and Fairfax Counties, and H. Earl. ton Hanes of Fairfax, another mem- ber of that committee. Caravan _arrangements were in| charge of C. R. Taylor of Clarendon, | EVENING STAR, WASH LASSITUDE OF CANTON VOTERS BLAMED FOR (Continued from First Page.) cated the largest United Brethren Church in America. The other de. nominations of the Protestant faith have exceptionally strong churches here. Has Largest Bible Class. Canton has the largest Bible class in the world. Canton has Sunday schools which overflow every Sun- day from the huge auditoriums built to hold them. One of the largest bulldings in the city houses the Y. M. C. A. The work of organization is praised unstintedly, its influence is wide. X The business district of Canton Is impressive. The streets are wide and clean. Two men threw some newspapers in the gutter the other day and were quickly haled into court and fined $5 each for the offense. The residences in the best districts are set far back in green lawns. From the doors of the hotels are hung attractive shields designat- ing the meeting places of Kiwanis Clubs, Rotary Clubs, and on a busy corner stands the Elks’ Club, ready to welcome beneath its shel- tering antlers any stray Elk who may come to town. Civic pride is high. Thought Vice Protected. On the other hand, there is Can- ton's underworld. Much of the for- eign population lives there. Thers is the usual amount of vice in an industrial city of this size. Per- haps there is more vice, and young Meliett belleved this vice was openly protected by the police. There is no conclusive proof that it was, however, than the fact that vice existed and the police force did nothing to clean ft up. Mellett hired informers to tell him what was going on. He centered his guns on two mémbers of the police force in particular and the rest of the police force and underworld in general. He told the people their police and city government were corrupt. Perhaps he was altogether right and maybe he was partly wrong. Plenty of good people in Canton are willing to swear either wayy The preponperant opinion, though, was that he was right. But did the good people of Can- ton respond? ' Did they group them- selves into an embattled and indig- nant citizenry? Did the revelations or the accusations of Mellett astound them? Let Matter Drop. They were surprised, but that was all. They may have been outraged, but that was all. They may have been worried, but that was all. “Mellett is right,” was what they said. ““He seems to have the goods.” But there they let it drop. 'hat's what we hire policemen for,” said the good people of Canton. *“Let them clean things up.” “That's the result of crooked poli- tics,” they said. “Maybe we ought to have a change. Politics are cer- tainly rotten.” But they didn't vote. They left Mellett to fight it out. It seemed never to occur to them that this is their city. It seemed never to occur to them to take off their coats and battle to preserve what their an- cestors, with coats off, fought to win. They let it slide. They passed it up. Mellétt was killed. Shocked by Murder. They were terribly shocked when Mellett was gone. Some of them or- ganized a civic committee to help seek revenge. The clvic committee was composed of two representatives from each of the clvic clubs They started off with a grand slam, with much talk and probably closed their meeting with prayer, but it was not so much a prayer that justice be done. It was not so much a prayer that the right triumph. Tt was a prayer—an un- spaken prayer, perhaps—that this thing be not aliowed to reflect on the good name of Canton; that the mur- derer should be caught, but too much fuss shouldn’t be made about it, for it might discourage business. That was probably what lay in the back of their hard craniums in op- posing the bringing in of Roach, the Chicago attorney. His coming was hailed in bombastic headlines, which annoyed the business men of Canton extremely. It wasn’t Roach so much as it was the publicity. The civic committee decided just how to iron out all the difficulties which it de- cided were impeding the progress of the investigation. It engineered a very nice little agreement, which was, in effect, that it would take the chief of police off the force by having him given a leave of absence and that his pay would be contributed by the com- mittee until time for his retirement, in nine months. In return for this favor to the Daily News and the friends of Mellett, Roach, the Chicago at. torney, would be removed, and to please everybody and even things up generally the director of safety, a ally News appointee, wi o reoven; ppo! would also be he stumbling block was that mayor wouldn't agree. The ciuie con. When its 90° in the shade and the streets are HOT! O —bring O your tired, / aching, hard-to- fit feet to Hirsh’s for a pair of STYLISH STOUT OUTSIZES The Arch Support Shoe for tll’lgo Stout Woman Patent Laather, Duit e $7.85 to $8.85 Sizen 2 2 i Yo ¥ EEEE MELLETT DEATH mittee disbanded in disgust and quit trying to reform Canton. The investi- gation went forward from that time on and has continued in a manner so involved and complicated that it would be ludicrous if it were not tragic. Private detectives engaged by differ- ent forces try to cut each others’ ‘throats by bickering as to who will get the credit for which. There were 40 newspaper reporters here at one time and they did things that should make American journalism blush in shame. Many of them from a yellow press, whose soul lies in the num- ber of editions that can be sold by black type, spread the most ridiculous rumors and created such a state of hysteria on the part of the public that at one time {t was rumored the governor. would send troops. Nobody knows what the troops would have done if they got here. They never came. A member of the police force who had been under fire from Mellett's News was seen walking about the Mellett home the day after the mur- der. A story was printed and screamed from the curbs here in Can- ton that the policeman had been stamping out the footprints from the scene of the murder. What he had been doing was getting plaster casts of the footprints, a legitimate un- dertaking, as he was head of the Ber- tillon bureau. He still has the casts, by the way. Unverified Storfes Broadcast. A private Investigator from one side of the case would talk to the re- porters, all too anxfous to get the story, and hint that somebody was blocking the case. The story would be immediately broadcast without further verification. On Monday, when two men from the underworld were taken into custody, headlines shrieked the news that Canton’s un- derworld will be trembling in fear. No reporter who wrote that went near the underworld. If he did, he would have had a hard time finding any trembling inhabitants. All of this commotion and frenzied running about is having little effect in getting anywhere with the case, for there are many who believe that little real progress has been made. It is, in fact, having the opposite effect. The people are getting sick and dis- gusted with the whole thing. A few days ago a police judge from the bench declared, “Now is the time to forget and forgive,” a strange sen- timent to have been uttered only a month after the murder, but one which :l’my be dangerously near crystalliza- on. But it does not take much casting about to place the blame or fix the re- sponsibility for the whole horrid mess. The political bickering and jealousies, the back-biting, the disgraceful inac- tion, unless there is action in aim- lessly running about in a circle, the whole business may be laid directly at the door of the good people of Canton. They have grown lax, disinterested, careless in picking the men to lead them and now they are suffering. the consequences. I Tag Whales for Study. In order to study the habits of whales some of these large sea beasts of the Pacific Ocean are béing tagged, 80 that thelr movements may be watched and studied. A similar study is being made with eels which live in the Pacific Ocean, and a Danish scientist has been en- saged by the Government for this worl CALLS The situation in Europe of the World War in 1914, GTO “BAD MAN" SEEKS PEAGE IN PRISON Theft of Pie Started Career of Tom Johnson, Who Ad- mits 1,700 Crimes. By the Associated Press. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., August-18. —A desire tg “get it over with” and | spend his remaining days “peacefully in prison” was the only wish today of | Tom Johnson, 39-yearold bed man, who recalls some 1,700 robberies, bur- glaries and a number of murders. Johnson, who yesterday listed the! criminal acts of his life as near as he | said he was able to remember, wishes | to plead guilty to some charge. That his desire will be granted was indicated by county authorities. In- dicted yesterday on a charge of first- | degree murder Johnson may be in the State’s prison before nightfall. His arraignment was set for today. The penalty for first-degree murder in Minnesota is life imprisonment. Attorney Shot to Death. The indictment charges him with slaying Leonard Erdall, a young Min- neapolis attorney, shot to death dur- ing a hold-up last December. John-| son, troubled of conscience, surrender- ed to authorities at Seattle, Wash., | and was returned here. 1 His record of crimes, which he| “swears” he committed, includes | “jobs” in 44 cities from New York | to San Francisco d from Canada | to Texas, during tHe last 20 years. Omaha with 380 leads the list. Others | included were New York, 175; San| Francisco, 175; Los Angeles, 17; Gal-| veston, 15; Sioux City, Iowa, 40, and | Butte, Mont., 20. He did not go into detalls of the 1,710 “jobs” he listed, merely giving the number of crimes that he could remember in each city. | Train Hold-ups Numerous. Numerous train hold-ups were re- corded, and one item said, “Havre, Mont., one pie and a year in Deer Lodge, Mont.” Theft of a ple and its consequences were responsible for his outlaw career, he said. When a youth he stole the pie because he was hungry. Told that he would get only a short term if he pleaded guilty, Johnson said he follow- ed the advice, but was sentenced to | a year in the Deer Lodge penitentiary. ‘There he was punished severely for in- | fractions of the rules and that he never forgot. " He decided to “get even with so- clety” because of his suffering in that Jail, and the crime career followed. Fifteen Years for Auto Theft. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, August 18.—For the first time in Criminal Court here the maximum sentence of 15 years' im- prisonment was imposed yesterday by Judge Eugene O'Dunne for auto- mobile theft. John Blakeney, was charged with having stolen an auto belonging to State Senator William Curran and_another belonging to W. E. Reed of Washington. He pleaded not gullty and was dismissed on the charge of having stolen Senator Curran's automdbile, but was found gullty of the theft of the other. SIMONDS has not been more acute since the outbreak (ESDAY, AUGUST 18, 19%. ° Czarist General’s Son Prefers Death To Going to Russia GEORGE ZAGORSKY. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 18.—Pre- ferring sulcide to return to Russia, where, he asserts, death at the hands of the Bolshevists awaits him, the 25-year-old son of a for- mer czarist general attempted to hurl himself from a parapet at the base of the Statue of Liberty last night. He was prevented only after a desperate tussle with a Coast Guard_corporal. The man, Georges Zagorsky, at- tempted his life because immigra- tion authorities ruled that he must he deported to Russia at the e: piration of his six months’ visitors pass in November. He had tried to enlist in the United States Army to prevent being returned, and thus brought his case to the at tention of immigration officials. Zagorsky sald that his father, a brigadier general under the Czar, and all the other members of his family, except one younger broth- er, had been executed by the Soviet government. Subsequently he took part in hanging 18 Bolshevists in retaliation, he said. — Reminded Her of Mudder. From the Boston Herald. Jane was spending the day with Mrs. W. while her mother attended to some business in a neighboring city. Jane was given many playthings, but Mrs. W., coming into the room, found her gazing sadly out of the window. “Why don’t you play with these pretty things, Jane?” Mrs. W. asked. “Everything I play wiv makes me think of my mudder,” Jane answered disconsolately. SAVINGS DEPOSITS 1408 H 8T. N. W. - AR RO X XXOOOOOOOOOOOOOROROOOO00L EUROPEAN CRISIS , FRANK H. ! ; AGAIN, IMMEDIATELY Widely Spreading Anti-American Sentiment Throughout Europe Necessitates Speedy Trip of Noted Interpreter of International Affairs to Study Effect on American Business Qutlook ABROAD . The anti-American demonstrations in Paris, former Premier Clemen- ceau'’s open letter to sident Cool- idge, the harsh criticism United States in the press of the leading foreign capitals, Lord Roth- ermere’s explanation of the London Daily Mail's editorial, have given grave concern to many serious think- ing people. Just what is all this leading to? Another war? A general European boycott of American-made goods? Just what will be its effect on the business outlook of the United States during the coming year? Prudent business men in every community want to know. . Realizing this, THE STAR has joined with associated newspapers in urging FRANK H. SIMONDS—the one generally acknowledged author- ity on European affairs—to make a flying trip to Europe immediately. MR. SIMONDS SAILS AT ONCE. He will be GONE EIGHT WEEKS. He will visit London, Paris, Berlin, Brussels, Amsterdam and will cover the session of the League of Nations at Geneva and will write a series of weekly cable articles, exhaustive and authentic, which will be published exclusively in Washington in the Editorial Section of he Sundiy Staf ——to be supglememed by occasional shorter ar ticles for publication on week days in THE EVENING STAR. SIMONDS is NOT a reporter. He is NOT A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT. i an INTERPRETER OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS. He knows Europe as doe-srno}o!tehel: American. He knows Europe probably as does no European. In Paris he generally is invited to address the Paris Chamber of Commerce on European Affairs. sources of information as has probably no other living writer. Premiers, Ambassadors, Statesmen, Party Leaders of every faction in every European country. FRANK H. SIMONDS. ‘He has access to the real He is the confidant of Rulers, |ENGINEERS TACKLE PROBLEMS IN GAS D. C. Men at Fort Humphreys Get Instruction in Chem- ical Warfare. BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY, Staft Correspondent of The Star. FORT HUMPHREYS, Va., August 18—Modern fighting methods were stressed today to the officers of:the 1218t Regiment of Engineers, National Guard of the District of Columbia, in training camp at this post. They were given special instruction in the theory and practice of tear gases and smoke screens, both for de- fense and offense. An expert in_chemical warfare, Capt. George W. Wise of the Regular 'Army contingent at Langley Field, Va., came here for the purpose of in- structing the officers in this bra h of modern warfare. He gave his first in- Islrucunns to the office: of the regi- tion will be given to the troops in the field. Lacking in Gas Masks. The regiment is not fully equipped with gas masks, there beingz only about 10 per company, but the men will begwen thorough instructions in the use of these in connection yith their introduction to the tear-produc- ing mases and operations in thick smoke screens. Capt. Clay Anderson, Regular Army dred copies of war problems which the troops will be required to work out in the fieid and which will re- quire a full day of maneuvers. Maps of the territory in which they are to do their “fighting” also are be- ing distributed for the purpose of acquainting the men with the nature of the terrain in the territories in which they will maneuver. The engineers’ problems in the war Zame will involve the solution of such questions as where bridges are to be built across streams, what roads are to be constructed, materials avaflable on the spot and those to be transport- ed and the assignment of companies and squads to particular phases of the construction necessary for a whole division of troops to move. The troops turned out of their bar- WE though it were new. speak for themselves, Bradbury 35 $5 Down *9e Steinway $165 $5 Down “%.5" ment, and later a physical demonstra- | instructor, has prepared several hun-| racks early today to find a heavy | downpour of rain, which meant to them no long marches into the areas where the engineering construction work is going on. But it w be a day of loafing or bun for Col. John W. Oehmann, ing the regiment, had prepared such eventualities. | There had been mapped out by | Lieut. George Harbin, plans training officer, the rainy-day schedule, which |called for knot slicing, used for the | | troops in the leashing of bridge tim- | | bers, and a review by company offi cers of the work of the first two davs in camp, as well as lectures to the men on the theory of some of the i work which they had been doing in a practical way in the field. The valuable results of this > | tlonal Guard training are being prac- | tically demonstrated under the.dir {tion of Master Serst s | ton, Regular Army has formed all the single company, afd for the three days has been putting them through some preljminary training to | instill into them the duties of a sol- |dier. Sergt. Sutton attributes most | of the results to Sergt. Ralph P. Gil bert of Company D, whom he de-| | scribes as an excellent drillmaster. For | ihis work in this connection, 7t | Gilbert s expected to recefve special | commendation in the report to the| | War Department following the train-| |ing perlod. | Sergt. 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