Evening Star Newspaper, August 21, 1926, Page 1

—— —_——————— WEATHER. €. Weather Bureau Foreeast.) thix afternoon and tonight possibly tomorrow: not quite so tomorrow afternoon and night Temperntnres— Highest, 67, at 2 o sterdar; lowest’, 60, ar 11 vesterday I report on page s Rain and cool ) pm. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 22 No. 30.062 Entered ol Washin on, matter c WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening - Star, WASHINGTO N, D. (.. SATURDAY, AUGUST 9 HIRT The Star’s every city block and the regular tion is delivered o Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed “From Press to Home Within the Hour™ ! carricr i system cov | | | Yesterday's Circulation, 94,084 Y-TWO PAGES (#) Means Associated Press. ON-VOTERS [IN FAILURE PRESIDENT NAMIES SEPT. 18 AS LIKELY DATE FORRETURN u Heat Wave of Last Year Re-| . e called by Chief Executive |\ &t ant in Making Plans. From Polls, Say the ' n thems: ting lead [ up- het cit 10 submit s to a thoronzh physigal examination and 1o ask for a diagnosis. But there | smal possibility that any lasting good [ Will come of fit. Reforms seem to travel in eveles. They are compar able to the spirit which prompts the careless housekeeper to fire the cook She places responsibility for run sing her establishment in' the hands of a hired servant, and after an ac- | cumulation of burnt toast. unswept | rooms and dusty picture frames has | become unendurable, she rises up in | righteous wrath and discharges the | servant. Then she hires another one ind the process is repeated. Until the people who own their « tablishments’ come 1o exercise a jeal- ous supervision over the manner in hich they are run wave after wave ¢ reform will spend themselves with effect Minister Hits Non-Voters. nd the middle of s “The peopie are ot turning the matter | from. God. They are staying afternoon, the | from the polls,” & minister here ser. | the other day. | Already there are wisps smoke {vising on the horizon from the cities jaround Canton. indicating perhaps a i smeuldering fire which will break into fiame. Steubeny COLD NIGHTS DESCEND ON CAMP IN MOUNTAINS Wadswerth, Guest at White Pine, Predicts His Re-Election as New York Senator. | By St o T [ Ad RUSSELL YOUNG, expuident of ‘The Star PINE CAMIP, Y. Au Nt Conlidze’s vacation will | sptem N &St out | | the ek Mountains away diseussing # < yesterday a said indicated that tentative date he has hiz Wash event President be extending h weation this vear pearly aoweek longer than last Sum. septemt 4 in i on would return 1o the | le is sick of an acknowl e L tems of "IN CANTON BLAMED OF GOUD GOVERNMENT People Not Turning From God, But Staying Awayj WII_I_ PE""UN FUR s Minister—Other Citi Are Using Searchlight. edged vice rule and wants a thorough house cleaning Bellair the othe ty of any its chief of police iled to prove him ense and he is hack on the job. Warren, another nearby town, raived o great turmoil and tried to et rid of its chief of police recent hut failed. Within the weak the home of Orris Hewitt, safety director of Niles, Ohio wess damaged by a homb placed there. it is Inferred, by those who resented W active campaign azainst boot ieggers. Easy Money Temptation. Muny logical explanations are put forward to explain the hold of the so- called “liberal” elements on some of these citi High among them is prohibition. Not that prohibition_has crazed men because it denfes them | thefr liquor and makes them run muck with shooting rons and hombs, but because of the many prob- its proper enfs ment, the ! » with which the law has come to evaded and the quickly aceumu lated wealth of those who make a business of breaking the law. The (Ith means power and it is exer- cised where it will bring the most leneficial results he hootlezzer has forged a con necting link between the underworld and the respectable citizens who huy his wares! This link did not exist be- fore prohibition. Here in Canton it (Continued on Column 2. n Page 3, "he President has not forgotten Als. Coolidge left the North and it was ap in which he is plans for continuing his he ix determined to “recuirence of 1 the B heat int last wave he and when they September from the manne 1ssed up here that [l ience White Pine Nights Cold. 1 is thousht likely that n this section during the past tive Avs may be responsible e tilk about the time the | party will head back for | Cay Ik days are unusually ‘ new and the nights actually are One meomtortable without overcoat early in the morning or atter sleen with any dedf of comfort recessary to pile | thres fon nketg. The nu- | merous open fireplaces in’ the cabins at \White I'ine Camp have been b ing away practically every wl every day durin; week. Because of the of trees about the camp. n Shore 1 POLICE IN CENTER OF MELLETT PROBE Officer One of Four Near Pub- lisher’s Home, Evidence Now Indicates. rent s the chilli- | i | 1 | i ‘ | 1 1 o prosiden the “n i dark. T £ - it = By the Associated Press CANTO. Ohio. | velopments of the 1 {have placed the Cant 21.—De- several days \ Police Depart of the Dot and its shes into corraption in ot st night and the past | b0 P dense growth | " arely in, the center the sun's rays | vestization the deatin of Go not get good play upon the | Mellett, Canton pubiisher, cahbins. They would o virtually un- ! tendant p Livable without the fireplaces {cial and underworld civel . 134 purchase oil According to info K} in the stoves camp. One of fhands of investigators, a police officer the hoys, returning to his tent after | was one of a party of four men who doing his trick of guard duty 1astioo, ga two teips to the neighborhood of | T, declared it vould have heen a | . : ia s s <o shovels | the Mellett home the night of the mur- The matives here call | der. A third trip was made later Summer and contend that | the night to the same district, but the will be no more warm | police officer was not 1t that < vear, snow will not make | time, it was helicved. 15 appearance until afte October 1 One member of t roup However, little attention DO 10| irate v = iiETievedl (G have the specified date by members of the | poyick o e presidential outtit,” because a time | \ticiieely f dozen men was by the natives for the dis five entimite. ho areiort b appearance of the mosquitoes and ted with the police depart black flies and, as a matter of fact. \pant have heen tled up with the ac despite the drop in temperature, these tivities that cuiminated in the sikiving pests have not entirely gone. of Mellett, and at two of these have been liniced with the murder plot fitself by evidence that is considered | reliable, but is to be further checked up, investigators say. for necessary the Mavine o m good a1 the time this Indian while there Weather th along was an been Ap: a ¢ President Goes Fishing. The chilliness of the air has not pre vented the President from indulging in o little fishing each day. Howeve 5 g he Tas been forced to cut in consider Injunction Is Dissolved. PR < fishing time because of [ o0 o 1 has been spending at e office nil e time ais | DRcsent Inyeatls : s suspension of Chief . A. Lengel about < to his NUMErous | Tyonth ago. This angle of the case past week. The |, ephasized yesterday when Judge became involved in the | ization with the second heen de rin has b ) ive with important LAKE SHIP SINKS INGALE: 4 NISSING 16 Picked Up After Steamer Goes Down Near Erie, Pa. One Lifeboat Lost. By the Aseriated Press CLEVELAND. steamer Howard sigantic waves into fur: sank in Lake Pa., today. wo lifehoats, containing 16 mem- | hers of the steamer, were picked up ! by the carferry Maitland of Ashta- bula. Another bhoat, in which 4 men put M from the sinking steamer, has not been found. i The men woat are August 21.—The Gerkin, battered which were whip- 50-mile-an-hour | ie 8 miles out ped | ahoard the missing life- | George McMinn, mate; | ard Freeman, watchman; Herman | Wageman, fieman, and William Lozan. derrick engineer. It is feared these 4 men may have ! been washed out of the little craft, Po Report of the sinking of the Gerken, | « treighter listed out of Buffalo, N. Y., and the rescue of the 16 men, was re- ceived here by the Intercity Radio! Telegraph ( in a radio dispatch from the Maitland | The sinking of the steamer was de- | seribed by J. B. Gamble, captain of | the hoat.” His steamer, he said, was ' loaded at Erie peninsula and was wound for Buffalo. While it was being | pounded by the heavy sea it spran a | lea Water rushed into the hold of the | boat very rapldly and it was only a | matter of a_few ded by Waves. | quire’ | boycott MEXIGAN PRELATES NEW CHURCH LAW Appeal to Congress to Be Fol- lowed by Organization of Political Party. WORK FOR AMENDMENT T0 BE THROUGH LAYMEN Non-Catholic Name of Group Decid- ed Upon—Big Plot in U. S. Against Calles Seen. By the Associated Press, MEXICO CITY, August 1t the intention of the Catholic episco- Pite to petition the Mexican Congres to amend the religious cl constitution. This announcement was made today by Pishop Diaz, secretary of the episcopate. Te change the constitution will re. two-thirds vote by Congres: and after this approval by a majority of the state Legislatures. The new Congress, before which the proposal of the episcopate will be placed, is due to begin its sessions September 16. The campaign will be handled by Catholic laymen, as participation in i politics by churchmen is forbidden by law. New Party is Planned. It is planned to organize a nation- | wide political party to support the mending of the constitution party will avoid adopting a Catholic name or violating the laws prohibiting participation by religious bodies in the politics of the country. The episcopate is said at present to be sceking con gres posed amendment. At the episcopate it is said t church services will be resumed when the religious regulations are modified, It is declaved that the episcopate is without power to end the economic instituted by the League for Defense of Religious Freedom, which ought about a considerable dis loceation in trade, since the league, and not the episcopate, ordered it. In opposition to the economic boy- cott, a rent strike has been started by workmen of the federal district, leration of Labor. Under the or ders union workmen will pay no rent to landlords who are members of the league or who support the league boycott. Workers will deposit their rent money in banks and pav it to landlords when they repudiate the economic boycott. President’s Letter Praised. A statement by the episcopate av sues that a constitition should sat- isfy the legitimate aspirations of a people, but the Mexican: constitution does not do s0, because a great m jority of the Mexican people are Cath- olics. The statement emph: the ne- cessity of separation of church and state, with both living in mutual har mony - It concludes with President Calles may have the glory of inaugurating a period in which Socialists, Liberals and Catholics may live amicably together in Mexico un der conditions of a real domacracy. It expresses appreciation of the con cill spivit shown in the pr dent’s ietter. WIDE REVOLT PLOT SEE a prayer that is ! | of the This | onal leaders to sponsor the pro- -{nue and { AN iy ] STES ARE CHOSEN FOR BATHING POOLS Two Approved for Construc- tion in Spring—Action De- ferred on Market Location. The National Planning Commission tos decided on a series of locations for bathing pools for the white and colored popu lations. The commission also announced this afternoon it had decided to, lay before President Coolidge the question of the advisability of reclaiming Fort Hunt and \Washington, on epposite sides of the Potomac, for park pur- poses. The locations of the first two ing pools 1o be constructed under the authorization of the last Congress are: For the white population, in I grounds of the new McKinley | School. now being erected on the {tract of land in the vicinity of tond and T streets northeast. ! For the colored population. in the [ area of the Rock Creek and Potomac ! Parkway, adjacent to the new col ored junior high school being evected t Twenty-fourth and N streets north- | west. Capital Park and High large Sec Other Sites Approved. . bathing pool locations ap. to be constructed when appropriations will permit, are: For white: in Bast Potomac Park. exact spot not decided on: in the An acostia 'k, on the e side of the river hetween the Pennsyl nia ave: the Anacostia b ges: at | the Mackarland Junior High hool or near the reservoir at the entrance to Rock Creek Park, and at the John Burroughs school in Brookland. For colored: In Anacostia Park, | Other proved today | | i e h- | the | | | | | i ring the last three days, and President has t \erences seheduled, one with Owen Young of New York. co-author of Dawes reparation plan. who ha invited to give his views 1 husiness conditions. of Agriculture Jardine, who i 1 number of matters pertaining to his department and the agricultural situation generally to take uap with the Prosident <1xd v o important | [Harry Jewell of Delaware dissolved the injunction which restrained Mayor M. Swarts from trying civil service Price Jansen and John charges of neglect of L commissioners, W. Burris, on Jansen and Burris are Lengel sup- | porters and Judge Jewell's decision paves the way for their possible dis- missal and that of Chief Lengel. The latest policeman to be involved is an officer whom investigators say ¥ jof they have enough evidence to con- | ship ted h for was Capt. Heyman of the Maitland put | his « 1 not sank the large w hour until t ‘anada, cr attracted The Two Boat: car fer he life he seen. v abo boat 2 by t from the boats. utes before the three life boats bat- vaves for more than he Maitland, bound ed their course and the distress flares Overthrow of Mexican Government Was Aim, Says U. SAN DIEGO. Calif., August 21 llfi). —Papers seized when Gen. Enrique | | Estrada, former Mexican secretary of |war, and a band of his followers were |arrested at Dulzura, Imperial Valley, unday night, have revealed an exten ve plot to overthrow the Mexican government, Capt. A. A. Hopkins of the Department of .Jéktice belie tion three. and a doza School The commi: ored bathing poo Agent. s Picked Up. playground and incinding additiona in the plans for ut and picked up two The third could Heyman, it w pool sites decided pt. t or near t | { i | vlete he Car- i ion. in referring to col . also called aiten- | of the Dos al bathing ich a center on today v Howard bility of facilities ould fit New York 1t the He and | here from cheon, the ! midst hix the o Pres Wadsworth outstanding aft motored After the Senator of the vesterday Wadswort oy N wh on murder liquor eonspiracy charges as only bt | viet, not charges, well. Norman Clark, former police p cutor, now under arrest on a charge conspiracy o violute the Federal liquor laws, has heen definitely con- | nected with the illicit liquor ring, it | is declared. He is said to have ac- copted liquor from bottleggers while | prosecutor. Detective Flovd Streitenbérger wa !drawn into the case by Louis Mazer, who endeavored to establish an alibi for himself by saying he ‘Was at Streitenberger's the night of the murder Several Arrests Expected. of wars on anp on Nirs of nd Senator ot impaign m resident Rether. near wlent's living dise t paign well The Ser ant at Mths Filmed With e in the and for rly not unly tor's own national aspe e i open cabin nearly an with | cam but the from a as | { the executive office | | Wadsworth, ! arrests are expected next few days, it is inti one may be made “al minute.” Leuck, assistant attorney. sent here Thursday night by District Attorney 5. Bernsteen, left Canton for Cleveland last night saving he expected to return on Mon duy. He did not say what he was 1o do in Cleveland today, but said | he would be “'busy It was believed that one purpose of his return might be to prepare Fed- eral warrants for the arrest of one or more additional persons in connection | with the liquor ring activities. POLA TO VISIT RUDOLPH. | Fiancee of Valentino to Come East for Three Days. HOLLYWOOD. Calif,, ) Pola Negri sereen jeave here August 29 for for a three-day visit with Rudolph Valentino, film actor, who is ill in a hospital there after undergoing a se double operation last Sunday Negri. few months ago an e of Conlidge policies seems | ,ynced her engagement to Valentino Tevery of " The time between Miss Negri's com according to the in- | gierion of the picture on which she him. is prosper- | j¢ now engaged and the start of one | possible exception of jon her return allows but the three | extile mill, the Senator | Qe in New York, A number within the mated. and most at any Howell States district from Cleveland efused Although having vaphed with G United s will Wadsw cks pronit Repul of New P the erno the G is in dot The main w th concerned according infor: the White House gressing v and the Senutor | owr spokesy s pro himself. August 21 star, will New York miy he national ques- ongest bul is the Na Senator said Ul Sooa feans the hared by nnar able. he < a part rmation reaching is. with r accasional clared . | s | Play “Strip Poker” in Park. MONNESSEN, Pa.. August 21 (®). —Lack of funds dida't prevent three bovs in this town from plaving poker. €rs | yocterday Constable John Kessler nd that there Is very te in- |y ought to an end what was, to by veign affairs. The Cle-§ ganders, a very interesting game of will have no effect i oqpip” poker in a public park. Twe i 3 AL A Ay ! am of the bovs had been thoroughly he _If_the Erench | wajeaned” and the third was almost (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) nude when stuble showéd up. Prohibition Held Incidental. is within reach of all g sworth and every Prohibition ! many other matt wrote it { | sage veceived here. announced in a message from the radio operator of the Maitland. stood | by until daylight and then started a search for the missing boat. The missing life boat could not be found when a search was conducted for it by the Muitland after day- break. according to a late radio mes- It ix feared the | small boat was swamped in the heay: sea and the men were drowned. Coast Guard Take Up Search. BUFFALO, N. Y., August 21 (#). The Howard S. Gerken, which sank in Lake Erie today, was a converted | freighter owned hy Howard | . Gerken of Buffalo. who was among the sur vivors. the | She | The vessel was former! Canadian steel steamer Phelan. was about 200 feet long, and was en- gaged in the sand and gravel trade. ERI Pa.. August 21 (#).—The Erie Coast Guard crew and the har- bor tug Buffalo have jolned in the search for the four missing members of the crew of the steamer Howard S. Gerken, which went down in Lake Erie eight miles off this port during ' the night. All lines of communica ion between Erie and the Coast Guard station are down, due to the fierce storm which -swept this region all night. NAVY NOT TC; ATTEMPT ANY ‘STUNT’ FLIGHT SOON Long-Distance Efforts Cost Money, Says Wilbur. Who Has Not Any to “Throw Away." By the Asso SAN FRANCISCO. August 21— Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wil- bur said here today that the Navy | would not attempt another Honolulu flicht. a Polar flight or any other ants” in the near future. “All those things cost money.” said. “and the Navy hasn't any money to throw away. Right now we have five ships stationed along the Pacific Coast to assist the big seaplane PR-1 on her flight from seattle 10 San Diego. “The Navy will make many flights this vear, but none of them will be! oss the Pacific. We have on the wific Coast an ideal testing ground r long-distance flights. After our | have thoroughly demon- | strated their powers on the Seattle- San Diego flizht it will be time to talk of other flights.™ Secretary Wilbur arrived here yes- rday from Seattle on the battle- ip California, . ated Press. he f planes {learned that the reve |w: | that {launch their attack. Nate {bonding Capt. Hopkins said last night that although a complete study of the doc- uments has not been made. it has been loutionary move 1 assumed widespread proportions. Coincidentally with his remarks, it rumored from a number of points insurrecto bands were about to Among_these rumors was one tha a boat left San Pedro, Calif.. Wednes. or Thursday night with 35 men and arms for the Lower California Peninsula. There they were to joined by others in an effort to seize Lower California. Kstrada, with h staff officers and 150 men equipped with machine guns. rifles and an armored truck, was headed for Lower California when arrested. Another of the rumors was that a plot of 100 revolutionists to march from the United States into Mexico heavily armed at Columbus, N. Mex had been discovered. While M. Ma are; collector of customs at Juarez, said that no Mexican troops had been sent to oppose the antici- pated invasion, Gen. Roman Lopez, commandant at Juarez, declared that troops are on their way from Chihua. hua City to Palomas, the border point. After having been in jail since his arrest, Gen. Estra was released vesterday under ‘he bond was posted by a_profes house of Los Angeles. s trada’s preliminary hearing has been set for September 6. He is charged with violating the neutrality of the United States. Members-of his staft are still in jail, held under bail rang- ing from $1,000 to $10,600 NUDE RIDER LASSOED. | Cowboy Ends Horseman's Career| That Shocked Coast People. MARTINES. Calif., August 21 (#) —The dexterous toss of a lariat has resulted in the capture of Rogers, ‘‘the nude horseman of the Tassajara foothills.” Residents of the countryside around Mount Diabolo were greatly perturbed Thursday night when they noticed a nude horseman galloping down the road. It later developed that Rogers, apparently demented, had escaped from his two brothers and a doctor i fierce struggle in which his clothing was torn off. He was tracked to a rocky ravine near here and was lassoed yesterday by a cowboy as he emerged from a cave. He was ordered committed to an insane asylum, ‘ be | £20,000 bail. | ional | Arthur | in a general scheme for providing ul timately bathing facilities for every section of the city Would Start in Spring. Although Congress did not include an appropriation for hathing pools in the last deficiency bill, it did enact a substantive law authorizing two bath- ng pools, one for white and one for colored, and fixing the limit of cost at $345.000, It is the intention to ask for th sropriation 1 December so that | pools can be constructed next Spring. | Llisted for construction juse up all of the $345.000. in which {event the commission might be able [ to get the sanction of Congress for | i first (Continued on Page 2, Column §.) PERMIT IS ISSUED FOR KLAN PARADE Officials Make No Estimate of ! Number of Members Who Will Take Part. | i ' The Metropolitan Police Devartment nas issued a permit to the Ku Klux Klan to hold a parade on vania avenue September 13, it was announced today by Maj. Fdwin B. Hesse, superintendent. The Klansmen { will march in full regalia, but with rafsed visors. Application for the permit was made more than & week ago by L. A. Mueller, imperial representative of the Klan. who had charge of the demonstration in \Washington last vear. Mr. Mueller has given the police officials no intimation as to how many Klansmen are expected to participate. Issuance of the permit has been protested by the local branch of the National Assoclation for the Advance- ment of Colored People. FERNALD GROWS WORSE. WEST POLAND, Me. August 21 P).—United Statés Senator Bert M. Fernald of Maine, who i seriously ill at his home here, was reported early today as having suffered an ill turn which affected his hear Radio Prpg;ams 7Pag_e’ 20 Pennsyl- | tion to the need for the development | of a neighhorhood center for colored | people In the vicinity to the It was explained that these bathing ! | price of land exceeds 25 per It may develop that the two pools |’ will not | \ | { | | | [1o17 {and | and hegan taking do | dving man DYING MAN GRANTED LAST WISH TO GIVE OBITUARY TO THE STAR James T. tails of Rich Experienc Sure It I that the closing hour of his life was o vapidly approaching, James T. Summers, $2 years old, of | Ninth street northeast, expressed had gratified today as his last | earthly wish that he might he per mitted to give the details of his own obituary to a reporter for The Star. You see,” the old engineer and! shipchandlew explained in a lahored | voice, when a reporter sat by his bed n the notes the “1 have read so There were | perhaps vou | Realizing dictated, ! many times about friends. mistakes, and 1 thought would like to get the st from me and be sur For some week Summers has been fighting a hopeless battle | wzainst internal complications. His | death was expected momentarily last | night and when he awoke this morn- ing from a brief sleep, he told mem- bers of his family that he was willing o meet his end without fear, but | pleaded with them to send for a re-| porter, so that he would die knowing | the story of his life would be printed | correetly. i In the §2 years of his life. Mr. Sum. | mers has | rd through and been a | personal witness to many of the im- portant events in the history of the United States and of Washington. | e was the first_engineer to com contract for the filling in | of the old Potomac flatas, which now | ave the National Capital's beautiful | age re 1o Reporter “To Be Correct.” missed witnes: Surratt only d en route Potomac Park the hanging of M hecause his hoat caps to the execution grounds. The passing of vears and the rav of his present iliness, which doc. zree with him must prove fa within a very short time, have failed to dim Mr.” Summers’ memory dates and important incidents in h life, and although he was interrupted time and again during the recitation of his life experience by his fast fail- ing breath, his mind recalled histo al dates which even his bed were unable to remember. “I was born and raised in Wa He tors h- ington,” he began, following the usual | gireets obituaries, “the My style of newspaper vear of my birth being 1844 father was born the Washington died, in 1799. 1 was vied twice, the first time in 1865 —the vear Lincoln was nated—and the second time in 1873. My first wife died, and if T could only live until next Wednesday 1! see the fifty-third anniversa second marriage. gu my first job newshoy. That was about somebody stole the stone the Pope of Rome had sent over here to be placed in the Washington Monument. My what a row that caused! 1 can re. member now how night they ecalled out (Continued on Page 4, Column v Januar: was as the soldiers to MCARL UNYIELDING ON SEHOOL SITES Controller Flatly Refuses Commissioners’ Request to Reconsider Decision. Controller General MeCarl today flatly refused the request of the D trict Commissioners to reconsider his recent decision that an unex- pended balance of $154.000, veappro- ed for the purchase of school . ix subject to the limitation that may not be expended when the cent of the assessed valuation. he controller generals opinion overruled a decision of Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, Distriet auditor. that the £154,000 item is not affaeted by th restriction. When Mr. Me reversal was made known the auditor reported to the Commissioners that it was not the intention of Congre to apply the limitation to all acqui- sitions,” and cited the report of the House conferees on the District ap- propriation bill to support hix con- tention. On the basis of Maj. Don- ovan's statement, the Commission: urged Mr. McCarl to reconsider decision. In reply to Commissioners said: The interpr ment in que: upon the term: his the request of the the controller gener:l tation of the enaci- ion was placed solel of its provisions Their meaning was clear and simple and no extrinsic cvidence as to the meaning is permissable. 1 feel, there fore, that there is nothing to justi me in reaching any other conclus) than that expressed in my decision, August 14, 1926, and the same is adhered to." LILLIAN CANNON BVALKED ‘ AGAIN IN CHANNEL SWIM | Bad Weather Once More Causes Postponement of Attempt to Bet- ter Miss Ederle’s Time. By the Associated Press CAPE GRIS-NEZ, France, August 21.—Miss Lilllan Cannon, Baltimore swimmer, who hoped to start today on an attempt to conquer the English Chanel, was compelled to postpone the attempt because of bad weather. Miss Cannon started on a channel swim on August 17, but was forced to leave the water after 2 hours and 35 minutes because of a storm. The Baltimore swimmer hopes break the record recently set by Gertrude Ederle of 1§ hours and 31 minutes, PHILADELPHIA GETS i | | | | i | i | | | | Summers, 82, Veteran Engineer, Tells De-! | i | | | two for'j square 3 - ternal Revenue which 11 those around | goes not own i | | | | would | ing which is to ¢ of my [and ¢, Twelfil | a | dec the time | the archives site | forward with busy we were the | intimated at { might | TWO CENTS. REVENUE BUILDING SITE TOBE SOUGHT BY CONDENATION | Department of Justice {o Be- gin Stens for Acquiring Land Next Week. SQUARE IS NOW USED BY WHOLESALE HOUSES W. F. Field Is Appointed Officer in Charge by Treasury—Has Had Much Experience The Government stitute condennation acquire land tion of the new I reau Building at Twelth it was announced today. At the time that the Treasury last week to negotiate wit property not only in Wash throushout the cot whe buildings are to Field. He has ment service formerly w the Treasury prior t Veterans' Bureau Condemnation proceedings were cided upon tor the Internal Re Bureau site by off the ury after Mr. | the situation as for purchase. Conferon carly_next week hetween the Treasury Depi t Department of Justice, | division, where papers will pared. necess ind I3 street same it site for man in chav Treas over e held Liwyers of land pre T res rds stice Department to Help. The Department handle the suits in District preme Court. Work T next week on the ¢ns but estimated that the involved would proboi months before rveach the courts The property to he ), located betveen Te h und streets, Little B and This is the only part of the ded upon by the Public Build the 1 uof In Government Letween le 15 and ¢ on which hounded Twe will Su started officials details of Justice the upy al could condemned site de Commission for Already ment has title to the squar Eleventh and Twelfth. Li and the proper located the market sh treet, Little B 1s s [ and vear George | gircets. hives Site I Adjacent o Ar This location for the enue Bureau Buildi th ite for the new Tntern rehive tod bt i Thirteenti the asury ha neernitig further As yet on made action on In case owners of square prop: in the to be condemined should come offers which would e aceeptable to the Government, it was the Treasury that thes be accepted. There will be ne delay. however, in proceeding with the condemnation. as the Government is anxious to carry forward the sreat Federal building program wi sible specd consistent with ment. Mr. Field has been his new duties for @ week and is ex pected to continue his work here i Washington for some time bhefor he z0es into the country-to negotiate for further sites. N SUNDAY BASE BALL Court Rules Arre: tion of Law of 1794 Can Be Made on Monday. Has Had Great Experience. = Mr. Field, according to Treasurs 3 ficials, has had great experience in st for Viola- | this line of Government wctivity and is well prepared to represent the Gioy ernment in the enormous deals which “will be negotiated under the $155.000, 00 buildings n. During his ervice Treasury Mr was at wssistant to Moyle, wrior Field ames 1 with the one time who was iy the Associated Press PHILADELPHIA, base ball m: August 21.—Pro. fessional ¢ be played in | Assistant of the under ot MeAdoo. The site for the new Internal Rev enue Bureau Building, Secretary Treasurs this city on Sundays free from police | speaking, is located between tl untess a by at the game or ted, under an interference, peace ocew ance s cre a a nui ach of the |Office Department and the Mall opinion | Th e condenmed is v by wholesale principally in ds, to now houses grains square cupied dealing handed down today by Judse Frank | fertilizers, chickens and other prod Smith in Common Pleas Courf The decision provides, however, that there shall be no restraint on the mayor or police officials in enfore ing the Sunday law of 1794, thus per mitting the arrest on Monday or other week days of those conducting the games and their prosecution under the old law, the violation of which punishable by a fine of $4. The Sunday closing lav hich forbid “worldly activities’ nday, provide that warrants for violations shall not be served en that duy. is Test Game Planned. Arrangements for a test game to- on ! | uce WIG MADE SUICIDE of .m,.{flas Victim Apparently 40, and Note Indicates Baltimore as Home, Police Discover. Police today investigating the morrow _have been completed and | cide by asphyxiation yesterday of Connie Mack, manager of the Phila delphia Americans, said that unle: rain prevented the Athletics meet the Chicago White Sox at Shibe Park in the first Sunday professional base ball game ever played in Phila delphia. Under Judge Smith’s opinion, whic nted the Athletics an injunction re. straining Mayor Kendrick from order ing police to interfere with the con. | police first announced t, the residents of the vicinity of | of information given them Shibe Park, if the believe their right |to her identity was tucned | to quiet and undisturbed religi worship_are encroached upon as 18 a would o | hair d fesult of the game, may bring action | in a court of equity ment of a nuisance, Follows Sesqui Case. for the abate. |stead, | | The action upon which Judge Smith | ruled was the outgrowth of the Sesqui- entennial Exposition’s program of an open Sunday.” After the expositi authorities had announced that a 50- i ! {asked not unidentified woman house at 1408 Eighth ed that the victim, instead of being thought vears old, r bhobbed street e of advanced first, was only a wig she wor eiving the police. It also was learned that the woman was not Mrs. R. A. Duling as the on the Basi but a clue up todiy who clothin s. Hal B made s was ut 40 ove about ay by Detective Edward Ke found a note secreted in h asking the finder to notify 147 N. Cur treet, more.” An effort locate Mrs. Halstea The woman told Mrs. L. L. Harmer proprietress of the rooming house, on Thursday night when registerinz, that she had recently lost her hushand, and to be disturbed. The odor to the discovery of her is” being to of gas led cent admission would be charged on |P0dy vesterday Sunday with all amusements free counsel for the Athletics said the, felt justified in bringing a “test case" to_determine whether Sunday base ball was illegal. A large throng of base ball fans at- tended the hearing. Members of the organizations which for enforcement of the ing laws also were present. Manag base bail, in his opinion, would not | Kn in- | to were | leiter dressed and more orderly than | yesterday h of the la constitute a brea A wds, he said, day base ball cr ! those attending week-day games. are campalgning | Federal authorities unday clos. | 7 Mack testified that Sunday | which he as LETTER WRITER HELD. BERKELEY, Calif.,, August (®).—Clarence Neal, 30, was under ar- rest here today and wiil be held by for examination rirge that he President <oolidze letters in rted the Masons and the hts of Columbus were conspirin pverthrow the Government. stal inspectors made the arrest on the receipt of a tele- graphic request from Washington. the result of | wrote