Evening Star Newspaper, September 5, 1926, Page 2

CALLES CONTROLS MEXICAN CONGRESS Legislators Expected to Pass Any 0il and Land Measures He May Propose. Special Dispatch to The Star. MEXICO CITY, September 4.— President Calles sends modification of the alien land and petroleum laws 10 Congress they will be passed on the first roll call. This was mad: evident today in the unanimous ceptance by the Chamber of Deputies of the report of its credentials com- mittee. The Senate Is expected to line up similarly as soon as the pro Calles leaders perfect plans for its organization Presidenti; pears to be in the heyday Diaz regime. Prestdent Calles has it “in the hollow of his hand. Its mem bers indicate they will pass any meas- ure he sends to it. However much 1he Agrarians and Laborites may be disposed 10 squabble over their own control of Congress ap s complete as It ever was of the late projects for setting the pace for the | rest of the world. all indications are that they will be pro-Calles on a show down. A prelimina canvass of the new chamber of deputies reveals the overwhelming preference. however, for letting well enough alone, put it, =o far as the alien lan petroleum luws are concerned two laws in their present helieved ideally to satisfy revolu- tionary aspirations as embodied in article the 1917 constitution This is the Magna Charta of Mexico in the estimation of the pro-Calles congress, in their personal views the deputies are ferventl tampering with the existin < in- terpreting it. This will be done, it is indicated, only If the president in- ut the most deferential of all congresses will leave it to him take the first step in that direction. Any projects emanating from vest- £d interests—specifically great landed enterprises as well as oil companies may look for short shrift from the thirty-second congres This s avowedly an anti-capitalistic con- gress. Its members proclaim their championship of the proletariat. Their program, they further will be devoted to uplifting of Mexico. They are the wige earner, whether \ the factory or in the fields The supreme task before the newly assembled Congress, according to Deputy Antonio Diaz Soto y Gama, radical leader, is completion of a rian reforms, e proposed to make the fight of his political life to give every campesino in Mexico, as the humble farm element is called, a piece of land. There are 100,000,000 acres of na- tional lands in Mexico. Deputy Soto Y Gama wants it divided up among The campesinos. (f Uit were done it would give every one of them a farm of appr mately 20 acres, and in some : llotment to the individual would be even larger Soto » Gama brands the gov greatest latifundista er—of all and he will pry the federal government from its vast holdings Antonio Soto y Gam spects the most interesting in congressional life Mexico has de- veloped in the last 20 ve He is a radical antedating the present sian leaders. He wrote the Plan de Avala, Bible of Zapatismo. What is calied Zapatismo, otherwise known as the political philosophy which underlay the revolutionary movement 1 the state oi Morelos. headed by the celebrated late Emiliano Zapata, Gama’s brain. Marvelously learned in radical literature, he is held by his followers to be the most original po- litical thinker of his ume in Mexico. i2ven his opponents concede his sincerity, integrity and independence and by common consent he is regarded as the finest orator of them all. He is the standpatter of s wdpatters on art and may be counted on to Vote no to the Iast on any measure calling for modification of the exist tng laws interpreting it. Soto vy Gama i a native of the state of San Luis Potosi and is just past his fiftieth vear. As the chamber of deputies line up on its preliminary organization, the Agravians consutute m Stategic mi- nor They aver they hold the bal ance of power® The maje s split among (wo groups socialistic in char- acter known as the alianzas and the co-operatistas v represents the labor syndicate The senate remains to be organized. The credentials of claimants for seats aro still to be passed upon AUSTRALIANS VOTE. Constitution's Amending in Two Ways Put Before People. MELBOURD Australia, ber 1 (®.—A referendum heen taken on the federal govern- ment’s proposals to modify the con- stitution. Two of the chief proposals were, first. a measure empowering the governmen: 1 and commerce (meaning to have con < and cembines) and, sure en ring the to perform pa services of their being threatened upted was and rm are land hoid- congress to loose in many re Septem- has just 2overnmen in the evan or inter Voting but the complated. both pro. compulsory. ng has not vet been sene 4 that posals have heen rejected > 102,337 N, Advertimng and SUNDA 333 naT0s 94160 o203 Toial avaraga nat vad ¢ Dails avaraze number of Yoarly average net oo iation SUNDAY 1o lanon 10 EROY W HERROX Advertiung Managc: am 1o hefore me this Porfirio | s they | hese | against | to | " !keeper, who has the genuine confi- ment as the | figure | Rus- | was the product of Soto V| regulate industry | | | | | The atmosphere was charged with | |the premonitions of impending great | | events at the Zoo Every- | | where within the big reservation there | was a feeling of suspense and of tense | { terda | waiting | In the lion house, the high-strung tigers paced their cells nervously. | Young Mr. and Mrs. Lion talked m; tones the whole afternoo rby the two older monarch {of the jungle passed guesses back and forth between their cages. ry time Head Keeper Blackburn ! hurried past, old Mrs. Hippo left off | scrubbing her half-ton youngster long enough to look up out of the huge | bathtub Witk expression that | asked plainly: Heard anything cant ship yet?” Nope, nary & word,” was the hur- { vied_rep! Not even a word from the giraffe. | Guess they sailed, all right, but cables {are busy these Saturd rou_Know. Wish we would get that wire, though. But you can trust Dr. Mann, Giraffe May Be on Way. | And off trotted the good old head | whispere 1 while ne; an from the immi- | dence of every resident of the Zoo. But he could offer no remedy for the | suspense his pets were suffering ye terday. For, you know, it was the day Dr Mann, the head of | the Zoo, ¢ sail from Africa | with our almost enough animals up our Zoo all over again. Now, you can imagine how poor animals must have felt. suppose you had been living far, {away from your native country for ever so many years. and one day you | Bot word that one of your own fellow townsmen was coming over to pay you a long visit. And on the day he tart, somehow, somewhere, telling vou he was honestly and truly on his wa Wouldn't you. tvo. be just zy with suspense? We folks, of course, are most in- affe. And the ani- to fill those Ju | terested in our gi | the giraff, TH T > e — - mals at the Zoo are anxlous to see him, too. Some of them, like us, have never seen a giraffe, and. any- how, they would like to have at least one of those jungleland daddy-long- legs. But don’t vou realize that Dr. Mann is bringing back, too, some new lions to tell the llons already here all about “the old home town.” and some hyenas to laugh about the news back in Africa with our hyenas. Just luncreds of the animals wlll be get- ting their first real news from home when the Smithsonian-Chrysler ark gets in. Delay Not Expected. We did our best to get with Dr. Mann yesterday. You re- member that he wired you ildren last week that vour giraffe was well and tha: he would sail with it and all the other animals on September 4. He even promised that he would almost sleep with your giraffe to keep it from getting lonesome on the voyage. But what we want to know now, of course, is whether he really left Africa yesterday, as he promised. There {8 every reason to believe that he did. Certain! if there was any delay he would have told the officials at the Smithsonian Institution about it. He probably would have needed a lot more money. Neither they nor secretary at The Star have heard word, and they are all betting that Dr. Mann waited until our giraffe was safely on board the ship before rushing a last-minute ablegram and then jumping on the boat himself just as it slipped away from its dock. That means, of course, that we can't heéar anything definite until Monday anyhow. And, naturally enough, how ever such a situation might affect us, it is not helping to relieve the anxiety of the pets at the Zoo. Old Boco, the big chimpanzee, alone was himself vesterday. He kept tossing sawdust at the crowds who visited him, grin- ning repeatedly and seeming to try to say: “Aw, come on, cheer up! Let's play and forget that giraffe until Monda. Itll get here all right. Hey, look out for this handful of sawdust!" touch | PRESIDENT HELPS G. 0. P. IN QUIET WAY THROUGH INTERVIEWS (Continue: | | | | { i opinions expre: E tial visitors to the newspaper men. Although the President emphasized the prosperity of the country, he | took occasion to see to it that im portant issues were clearly defined. For instance, there have been inter- views coming out of here intimating {that further tax reduction is a prob- ability within the next two that the Coolidge economy program is to be continued, that there is to be « continuance of rigid prohibition en forcement and that there is to be aid extended to the farmers through the medium of a practical means of co. operative marketing. Besides all | this, the President has spoken frankly of the party’s record on | Court and the settlement of foreign | debts. ] Publicity on Big Scale. Few persons realize just what this | means. There are more than a dozen | | correspondents “covering”’ the Presi {dent up here, and through them tories very much to the UKing of the President and very beneficent to his | party have been sent broadcast over | the countiy. 1t would be no exagger- ation to say that these correspondents so far during the President’s vacation | have sent out over the telegraph wires more than 1.200,00¢ words. { There is no telling just how many of | the electorate these words have reach- led, but it : certainty that they have been iead by a large majority | {of those men and women who are going to vore in November and that {they have unquestionably made a deep impression on many. Those who have a full realization {of what the President has done in | the matter of helping the G. O. P. use alorg in this election and at the {same time refraining * fr act icipation in the campaign agree < pi he is 1 astuteness and ¥ of the right oee years, pubiic i continues to receive | representative indust teaders at | White Pine Camp, the latest scheduled | being » P. Carleton of Fall River, | Mr. and Mrs. Carleton, who Bretton Woods, a nd will be overni the Summer White House Sheffield Expected. es har A Sheffield would visit the [ week. He will be followed by Attorney Gene! who is com down from Verms 20 black bass fishing with the The Attorney Gen and veteran fish | erman bound in Lake Osgood ar ters in this sec or. there is excellent promise of good fo: sident and his cabi memb: Represe i of New York can leaders of the i are week end ne Camp. Accom he President | o Lake Placid, the way panied this afternoon i Writer Sued for Divorce. Ler 4 (A, Honolul rom Who! eved time HONOLULU, Septe r divorce the authovess Mre. Agee i t the present es desertion. a 1911 w York the World |/ | charg ! last night, | eharg FLOWERS TO BE SOLD FOR CRITTENTON HOME Workers to Visit Ball Park Drive for Funds to C::ry Work. Flowers are to be sold for the bene- fit of the Fiorence Crittenton Home, on Conduit road, at .the American Ieague Base Ball Park, under the auspices of the board of managers of the home, during the game hetween Washington and Boston tomorrow aft in on | ernoon, it was announced vesterday Mrs. Charles R. Shelton is chairman of the committee in charge. Assisting Mrs. Shelton are members the board of managers and of the ous “clreles” which work for the upkeep and running of the home. They are as foliows: Mrs. Thomas E. Robertson, pre dent of the hoard of managers; M Walter H. Brown, Mrs. John Boyle, A. 8. Douglas, Mrs. A. H. <. Guy Baker Stevenson, Mrs. . J. Quentell, Mrs. Augustus Gumpert, Mrs. Charles McGulggan, Mrs. Edward Walsh, Mrs. Helen Hunter Kerby, Mrs. Robert Eller and M F. Rorke. Mrs. John Har- woou and Mra. George Price are in « of the committee on badges placards, which are o be dis- played. Mrs. Douglas, treasurer, who is treasurer of the home, will be in charge of funds REPORT REBEL RETREAT. Chamorrists in Statement Tell of Losses in Battle. ALVADOR, Republic of Sal- lor. September 4 (#). -A Chamor- rist government statement says the revolutionists have been dislodged from Cosiguina with the loss of many prisoner ind much war material. Listed among the dead are Gens. Samuel Sediles, Robert (. Bone and Julian Banegas and Col. Torres The revolutionists in their statement they are now bombarding and MOTHER AND BABY HIT. Mrs. Elizabeth Laurenzi Knocked Down by Auto. 1S-month-old baby, aurenzi of Seat Pleas- knocked down Ly an automol while crossing at teenth and I streets northeas:, carly ccording to police report. the automobile was op- Imer ‘. Brown of Capitol Md. Mrs. Laurenzi main- Police erated by Heights, ay 1 nd refused police say. viah hospital treatment, | | by | Hotel und E SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. Z0O RESIDENTS IN SUSPENSE | AWAITING WORD FROM GIRAFFE Was to Have Sailed From AfrAica Today for | New Home in Capital; Many Other Jun- gle Beasts Accompanying Him on Trip. GRAND JURY ASKED IN ABDUCTION GASE Norfolk Priest Requests Judge to Call Special Venire. Byrd Urged to Act. By the Associated Press. NORFOLK. Va.. September 4.—A spectal grand jury s expected to be called early next week by Judge B. D. White of the Princess Anne County Circuit Court to investigate the kid- naping Wednesday night of Rev. Vincent D. Warren, Norfolk Catholic priest, by a band of white-robed and houded men. Formal request for an investigation was forwarded tonight by Father War- ren to Judge White and to Common- wealth's Attorney Edwin J. Smith. Judge White, apprised of the fact. sald he would call the speclal jury @s soon after receipt of the request as practicable. In the meantime Sheriff John C. Litchfleld and three deputies have started out in quest of Information that might lead to the identification of the priest's kidnapers. Tonight, after a day of travel, the officer said neither he nor any of his assistants had gathered any clue. May Identify One. Father Warren's statement that he believed he could identify at least one member of the band that spirited him away from two male companions as he was sitting in an automobile beside the public highway, not far from Princess Anne Courthouse, caused a mild stir and it was believed possible that information now in hand may lead to the ultimate identification of the entire group, estimated at about 28. The American Civil Liberties Union today offered to put its legal re- sources and influence of its friends at the disposal of Father Warren, and at the same time wired Gov. Byrd re- questing him to spur Princess Anne County authorities to the investiga- tion. Father Warren, in receiving the telegram, a copy of which also was forwarded to the newspapers, said: “While I appreciate the offer, I be- lieve it would be unwise to accept at this time. My deep trust in the in- tegrity of the citizens of this com munity, learned by me during my 11} years with them. leads me to believe | that my many friends of all shades of belief will be able to take care of the situation amply Offer Legal Aid. The text of the telegram was: “We learn with indignation of the outrage against you by gang of masked and sheeted hooligans on the evening of September I. We gladly offer our legal resources and the in- fluence of our friends in bringing these idiotic cowards to book and giv- ing publicity to the facts.” Sheriff Litchfield was the subject of the following telegram sent by Forrest Bafley, a director of the union, to Gov. Byrd and made public here: “Reports indicate that Sheriff J. C. Litchfield of Princess Anne County sees nothing to investigate in the outrage against Father Vincent D. Warren of Norfolk, who was kidnuped a masked and sheeted band on the evening of September 1. If this is true, we respectfully urge prompt instruction by State executive on the responsibilities of office and the right of citizens to protection against law- breakers.” Sheriff _Litchfield tonight said he | had heard nothing from the goverhor and denied he had been derelict in his duty. “I shall be more than glad to hear from any one any clue that might lead to the arrest of the band,” he declared. “T have searched over the lower end of this county and I've not been able to get a single clue that might be followed." The sheriff said he did not know whether the hooded band came from Norfolk or from the county. OKLAHOMA DEMOCRATS ADOPT ANTI-KLAN PLANK Action Follows Charges by Repub- licans That Candidates Belong to Order. Br the Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY, September 4.— The Democratic State convention here today adopted a plank declaring the party to be “unalterably opposed to any attempt of control of the admi istratfon of any branch of the county, State or National Government by the Ku Klux Klan or any other sect, ¥ or combination. is question as we do,” the plank read. “we hereby pledge the Democratic party as an organiza- tion and each of the respective nom inees thereof to a strict and faithful adherence to this principle in appoint- ments and administration of ail its affairs.” T | State Republican convention on August 30 adopted an_anti-Klan plank, charging that Democratic State and senatorial nominees were members of the Ku Klux Klan and dominated by that organization. DAHLIA SHOW SEPT. 28. | Plans Under Way for Agnual Exhi- bition at Mayflower. Plans are under way for a dablia show to be held in the Mayflower the auspices of the Na- fa avd Iris Society, ording to an tional Capital Dah September 28 and 29, announcement made yesterday. Sil- ver and bronze imedals are to be awarded to the local exhibitors who win hono! 7. D. Blackistons is | | Fit- | | | | od that neither she nor the baby |staging the show chairman of the general committee in charge of arrangements. Dr. W. E, Sheets vice chairman, and .. W. Hol- land secretary Chairmen of the subcommittees for the affair are: Mrs. Edna Reinohle, the finance committee; S stein, publicity; Dr. J. B. S. awards and judges: J. M. RR. Adams. H. Keesecker, Preston, com- chairman of Roern- Norton, ‘hedule, and Robert L. mittee on prizes " Sheriff., Won by Prisoner’s Courtesy., Yields Suit Case and Sees Him No More His con ce in sha‘tered. Sheriff Clay tockvilla, Md.. is scow +nd its environs for Curtis Har colored. also of Rockville, who im in the Union Sta- tKing with him Sher. which con human nature Plummer ng Washing- ht set Pl statad tl rming from New Yor whom he had app wanted Rockville on bigamy and deserting his ) first He admits that Harrity won him er on the train by a campaign of and voliteness nd that when tsted on carrving his suft cquiescel. When they ar- in the Union Station. according to Plummer, Harrity, still in charge of Plummer's sui* case, excused him- sel? for a minute. Plummer walted patiently for 10 minutes and then went to for H v. who had van- tshed. In repo the matter hLe rexolved that in the future he will make use of his handeuffs instead of storing them in his suit case, h a, A group of beauty contest welcomed to the National Capital In a brief address, Commissioner Kudolph told these aspirants for the title of Miss America SEPTEMBER 5, winners from 1926—PART 1. various _parts of the country, en route to Atlantic City, were vesterday by Commissioner Cuno H. Rudolph, who received them at the District Building on behalf of the city government. that Washington is engaged also in a contest to develop the National Capital into the most beautiful city in the world. LOEWENSTEIN FLAN PUZZLES FRENCH Financiers Skeptical About Offer of Loan to Belgium Without Interest. By Cable to The Star. PARIS, September skeptical, French financiers are await ing more detail of Albert Loewen stein’s amazing offer to lend the Bel- | glan Government $$50,000.000 for two years free of interest. They suspect to put it bluntly—that there must be atch in it,” and wonder what, ex the generous Belgian or his group intends to ask in return. It is rumored Loewenstein proposes an ex clusive concesslon for electrification of the entire Belgian railroad system. Apart from this, however, financiers wonder what conditions he will make, for instance, in the event the Belgian government should not be in a posi- tion to pay back the loan at the end of the stipulated period. The Belgian cabinet has not yet been officially in- formed of the offer and, although in a telegram to the press Loewenstein affirms the state would not be re ! quired to risk any of the national patrimony, it is felt there may be moral reasons for close examination o the proposal before accepting it. Loewenstein, with headquarters ina Basque castle near Biarritz, manipu- lates—figuratively speaking—a net work of wires controlling vast elec trical and other industrial enterprises | all over the world, notable in Argen- tina. Brazil and Spain, with a fleet of airplanes at hand for communication through Europe and with his country place in England. He is a mysterious king of finance hardly known in name, but wielding autocratic and almost unchallenged power over enterprises which may | bring fortune or misery to whole ! countries. He has lost and remade | his fortune and i now at the head of a group reported to control capital of bhilllons of dollar: He is a lover of sport and has a racing stable of renown. WRECKED SHIP SINKING FAR OFF VIRGINIA CAPES Schooner Albert W. Robinson, With Rigging Gone, Leaking Badly 300 Miles to Sea. By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, September 4. four-masted American schooner Al- bert W. Robinson of Boston was re- ported badly wrecked and sinking 300 miles off the Virginia Capes this morn- ing. The Coast Guard cutter Mas- coutin has beeh dispatched from here to her assistance. The schooner was sighted Dy the American steamer Pawnee in latitude 37:07 north and | longitude 70:45 west early this morn- ing. She had lost practically all of her salls and her foretop mast, fore mast, main topmast and jib boom rig ging had been carried away. She also was leaking badly. The message from the Pawnee ap- prising Coast Guard officials of the Robinson's plight said the schooner had run out of gasoline with which to operate her pumps, but that a lim- ited supply was put aboard from the Pawnee with which it was hoped to keep the vessel afloat until the arrival of the Mascoutin some time tomorrow. The (vew of eight men declined the offer of the Pawnee’s captain ty take them off. The Albert W. Robinson is operated as a coal and lumber carrier and was | st reported at Baltimore, where she | discharged a cargo of lumber loaded at Savannah in July. AVIATOR ABANDONS RACE FOR ERRAND OF MERCY. Instead of Competing in Sesqui Regatta, Takes Man to Dying Wife in Cincinnati. Special Dispateh to The Star. PHILADELPHIA, September 4.— Racing against , death instead of | against other airplanes for a trophy ‘Abe Caperson, pilot of the K-6, gave | un his place in the Sesqui air races to- | day to carry Herbert Cisler, Brooklyn | husinaes man, Cincinnati, where | ler's wife lies critically ill ! Cisler, in Brooklyn, received word this morning that his wife was dying. | He went at once to the Curl air sta- ' tion at Garden City, L. I, to charter a | plane, but found that the only plane capable of ma the trip had been sent to Philadelphia to compete in the | air regatta. i J. P. Andrews. a pilot on the Cup- | tiss fleld, flew with Cisler to the Model Farm fleld, where the air races are being held. arrivinz just as the alr were getting into full swing. ler's stor quickly told and person took h for the jump to | Cincinnatl. Caperson was to have | taken part in the second race for the | Independence Hall trophy, over a dis- | tance of §4 miles. 4—Stirred_but | The . - { nounced tonight by Carry C. | president Loan by Germany To Former Enemies Believed Planned By the Associated Press. BERLIN, September 4.—Peter Reinhold, the national finance minister, addressing the meeting of the Association of Industrialists vesterday in Dresden, significantly remarked that an event would soon come to pass which would prove how solid Germany's currency is throughout the world. It was the government’s duty therefore, he warned, to prevent any return to inflation. The Berlin press interprets Herr Reinhold’s remark as an fllusion to a coming international loan in German marks intended to & French and Belgian currency. NEW CLUE FOUND INHALL-MILLS CASE Handkerchief With Initial “S” Picked Up Near Scene of Crime, Witness Says. By the Associated Press. SOMERVILLE, N. J.. September 4. ~~A man's bloodstained handkerchief. bearing the initial was found four vears ago near where the Rev. Edward W. Hall and his choir Mrs. Eleanor Mill: death. but It figured in the case for the first time today. The handkerchief Thomas Lyons, retired bus owner of New Brunswick, N. J., ac- cording to Inspector John Underwood, one of Special Prosecutor Simpson's investigators. vons was questioned today and said he was returning from Red Bank about 12:30 the night of the murders. As he passed the Middlesex County Vocational School on the outskirts of New Brunswick he heard persons ar- guing. He did not stop and later an automobile passed him at high speed. He heard a man say, “I told you not to do that Four or five days later he read of the murders. He talked to a New Srunswick policeman, and they went to the spot where he had heard the argument, and they found the hand- kerchief. Lyons said he gave it to the officer, but it never had come to light. The investigators will continue on Tuesday to check the alibi of Henry Stevens, brother of Mrs. Frances evens Hall, widow of the murdered clergyman. Stevens declares that he was Ashing a’t |La\ alette the night the couple were slain. Witnesges who, it was said, would support his story were unable to swear as to the date. CLARENDON SEWERAGE CONTRACT TO BE LET Installment of System Delayed by Property Owner's Refusal to Grant Right of Way. Sperial Dispateh to The Star. CLARENDON, Va.. September 4.— A contract for the extension of the sewerage system of this place will be let within a short time, it was an- frell, of the Clarendon Com- munity Sewerage Co., at mass meet- ing held in the community hall here. It was explained that the project had been held up for some time by the refusal of a_certain landowner to agree to terms for a right of way for the lines. The board of directors of the company, it was announced, will appear at the meeting of the board of supervisors of Arlington County on eptember 13 and request them to obtain the necessary right of way through the land either by condem- nation or purchase. was found by |COURT ASSIGNMENTS Notice—Tomorro September 6, be. ing a legal holid: there wil be no session of the court on that date. Equity Division 1—Justice Stafford. e \Sgignment for Tuesday, Septem- er Justice Stafford will hear naturali zation applicants on Tuesday and Wednesda Equity Division 2—Justice Hitz. Motions for Tuesday, September 1—Estate of Elizabeth Pugh; torneys, Lambert—Ross. 2—Wilson vs. Hillegrand: . atter- Prentiss—Wilson, McNeill. tewart vs. Stewart; attormeys, <. Taylor. . In re habeas corpus of Harry F. ans: attorneys, Curtis—O'Leary. Carey vs. Carey; attorneys, oardman-—Kennedy. Union Finance Co. vs. Century Homes Corporation: attorneys, Fasby- Smith, Pine & Hill—Thomas, at neys 3 | | i | Stephen ORTABLE SCHOOLS REASSIGNED IN CITY 250 Pupils Will Be Affected by Transfer of Four " Buildings. Reassignment of four portable schools to as many different sections of the city, affecting 250 school pupils upon the opening of school on Mon- day, September 20, was announced last night by Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent. One of the portables will be taken from the John Greenleaf Whittier School, Fifth and Sheridan streets and placed at the Woodburn School. at the juncture of Riggs, Blair and Rock Creek Church roads: another will be placed at the E. V. Brown chool in Chevy Chase; a third at the Bryan School. Thirteenth and B streets southeast. and a fourth at the Kingsman School, Fourteenth and G streets northeast. It is explained that the latter three portables are being taken from the Petworth School, which is being re- lieved by the opening of the Job Bar- nard School at Fifth and Decatur streets. This leaves the Petworth School two portables. Teachers to Be Reassigned. All the reassignments have been ordered to take care of threatened part-time classes. As far as possible teachers who have had charge of portable schools will be transferred with them. Stx new schools or eight-room addi- tions, five white and one colored, will be opened two weeks from Monday Other switches in the present place ment of portables may be found nec essary as the school year progresses. Whether or not the old Brightwood School will be abandoned with the opening of the new Brightwood School has not been definitely decided. As- sistant Supts. Robert L. Haycock and Kramer are considering the placement in the old Brightwood of seventh-grade pupils until the ad- dition to the Macfarland Junior High School is completed. Mr. Haycock announces he is pre- paring the customary instructions for parents relative to the entering of children in the first grade and kinder- garten, as well as high-school eligibles coming from other cities. Friday, September 17, has been set as the first day for such school routine, chools Newly Equipped. Spic-and-span equipment will greet the pupils who enter the new schools. After the school year is well under Vi arrangements will be made by the Board of Education to hold joint dedicatory services with citizens' com- mittees at each of the schools. The new schools opening follow: James F. Oyster, Twenty-ninth and Calvert streets, eight rooms and audi- torium. Job Barnard School, Fifth and De- catur streets, eight rooms. John Greenleaf Whittier, Fifth and | Sheridan streets, eight rooms. George Truesdell, Ninth and Tngra- ham streets. eight-room addition. New Brightwood School, Thirteenth and Nicholson streets, 16 rooms and auditorium. New Bell School, Second street and Virginia avenue southwest, eight rooms. Russian Contribution to Strikers Reaches $4.000,000. MOSCOW. September 4 (#).—The central council of the “Red” trade unions to date has transferred to London $1.500,000 for the relief of the British miners now on strike. This brings the total Russian contribu- tions for that purpose to nearly $4,000,000. U.S. GUNBOAT FIRED UPON BY CHINESE Elcano, Patrolling Yangtze River, Hit by Bullets Near City of Wuchang. By the Associated Press. PEKING, September 4—The United State gunboat Elcano was fired upen vesterday . 7 miles below Wuchang by Cantoness forces attacking the city, states a dispatch received today from Hankow. The gunboat was not damaged. commanded by Lieut Comdr. A. 8. Merrill. was patrolling the Yangtze River with several other foreign warships to protect their na tionals from injury in the conflict be tween Cantonese troops and northern troops under Marshal Wu Pei-Fu So far no harm has befallen any of the 1.500 white residents of the triple cities, Wuchang, Hankow and Hanyang. except damage to propertv ‘The American church and hosiptal at Wuchang have been struck several times by Cantonese gunfirs but with out injury to anyone there. The struggle for supremacy in the central provinces. populated by mora than 100.000,000. with centinuous fighting for 10 days. was increasingly flerce vesterda the Cantoness prassed their attack for possession of the triple citias which form the commer cial center of central Chinu Pagoda Hill. one mile south of Wuchang. the Cantonese poured artillery fire into the city. Severa! times their troops advanced to the streets but were repulsed in handto hend fighting. Gunboat: ¢ the northern forees raked the enemy's lines with heav: fire from the Yangtze River. aiding reinforcements from Honan province in stiffening the stubborn resistance of Wu Pei-Fu's troops. Chang Teung-Chang. governor of Shantung province, is reported pre paring to send 60,000 of his soldiers to support Wu Pel-Fu, war lord of the central provinces. Martial Jaw has been proclaimed in the Peking area by Chang Tsune Chang. who already has put it into e fect at all points along the Peking Nanking Railway. QUAKE RECORDED HERE. Severe Shocks Believed Centered 6,000 Miles to Northwest. A severe earthquake was recorded from 10:50 a.m. to 1 p.m. today on the Georgetown University seismograph Maximum intensity was registered at 11:36, and Director Tondorf esti mated the distance at 6,000 miles northwest of Washington. MAINE CHAPLAIN QUITS. Former Bltm st Resigns War Veterans Post. NEW YORK. September 4 () Mgr. John P. Chidwick. former chap lain of the battleship Maine, has re- signed as department chaplain of the United Spanish War Veterans of the State of New York, it became known tod Mgr. Chidwick has been afliated with the United Spanish War Vet erans for 27 years. He was chaplain of the Maine at the time it was blown up in Havana Harbor. SHIPPING NEWS Arrivals at and_Sailings From New York, Daylight Saving Time ARRIVED YESTERDAT. Dublic—Bremen .. ............. ierri Ventana—Bremen Mevania—Cartagena Agwimoon—Paranagua DUE TODAY. Cameronia—Glasgow . .... Frederik VITl—Copenhagen. ... Pastores—Port L, i San Jose—Porto € Mexico—Progres Medea—Jacamel o DUB TOMORROW —Soutbampton Ml asia—Lundon - C ol Albert Ballin—Hambury Dr(‘r-—su\llhlmnlun . 9 Duilio—Genoa ... .. Cedric—Liverpool 1pshojm—Gothenbirg Pennlarid—Antwerp . . [uscania—Southampton Ameri Banker—TLondon Leviat on .. St. Gearge—Bermuds RoRalind—St. Johne. DUE TUESDAY n—Hav! . 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Last year 12,000 lives through acts of s ersons in the United States lost their violeace, 70 per cent of them being slaughtered in cold blood by professional criminals. Why does such a situation exist? What can be done to remedy it? Louis Seibold —will discuss the American crime problem in 8 serles of remark- able article in which wifl be embraced a symposium of the best informed opinion—publication of which will begin Tues- The Zvening Hefaf, day in