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RIVER FLOODS DETOUR ON day had some wet going when they struck the detour on the other side of Laurel, made necessary . brid . Flood conditions on the Patuxent River sank the detour under a foot This Washington-Taltimore bus came to grief and hefd up trafiic when it got into deeper water repairing of a bridge on the pike. of water. off the gide of the road. WASHINGTON-BALTIMORE PIKE. Motorists using this toad {ester- y the Washington Star Photo. 10,800 HONORING BHE FIRST CHIEF JUSTICE. Associate Justice Van Devanter of the Supreme Court placing a wreath on the statue of John Marshall, the Nation’s first Chief Justice, at ceremonies held yester- day under the auspices of the Sons of the Revolution to commemo! the 171st anniversary of his birth. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 1926. FACING THE TASK OF RECONSTRUCTION IN MIAMI. rincipal business streets of destruction or se store buildings on one of the structure of any kind escapes already has gotten a start in, most of the storm:stricken communities. rious damage in the hurricane. Carpenters_at work patching up damaged the southern Florlda city, in which scarcely a Reconstruction work Copyright by P. & A. Photos. AMERICAN FIGHTING SHIP DRAWS MANY DA L ring its recent call at the Danish capi itors who boarded the cruiser during a three-hour reception, for w gen docks d v their turn on the pier. ISH VISITORS. T al. King Christian was among the aore than 'he U. S. S. Memphis at the ('f&nga-d h the crowds are shown waiting opyright by Underwood & Underwood PARIS WOMEN SHINE 'EM UP. up by women in Paris is that of market district of the ‘merchants and other tradesmen. FORESEES DAWN OF ANEW EUROPE Berlin Foreign Spokesman Comments on Stresemann- Briand Parley at Theiry. By the Associated Press | September Predict- BERLIN, onstruct- | ing the dawn ed politically for eign office spokesman last night aid | that the political conference between the German Dr Stresemann ter | BBriand of France, a ced for discussions through which | agreement might | emend advan- | minister. Min tage to nd_Germany. The| questions for discussion were not di-| vulged, but it is understood they will of the franc include stabi »f occupied | dates | tement by the foreign office | an was made after the cabi- had approved in resemann | after | This rpokesr net unanimously principle the report of Dr. s lks with 2L Briand on hi Germa. in the L compr ministries, was appoint binet to carrvon further Fr: German discussions. The also approved the labors of the Ger man delegation to the recent German League meetings. The German negotiators in conferences with France will 1 Stresemann. Minister of Finance Rein- hold and Minister of Economics Cur tius. Opportunity for Concessions. The foreign office spokesman ob- jected to references in the news pers to “what price evacuation” eaid that while a number pean countries were enjovi 3 {leges at the expense of Ger | Germany was enjoying prerogatives | through the Dawes plan and there ample oppor for conces- the limit all around of the present reparations scheme. Foreign Minister semann, glv Ing an nt of } tewardship to | the cabinet, emphas: despite ress reports to ti cussions with M cerned the outl gram_ for a man-French 1 pro- osed eventus His govern- | ment, llke the 1 cabinet, h a free hand in ing at an inde- pendent dects He also took ocea- efon to deny that the price of §.000,- 000,000 marks German rs!lh\a\\-; ead upon for occupation debentures had b hdrawal the of m Germany | the foreign relations com- | mittes of the Reichstag will not meet until the return of all the German delegates from Geneva it is certain at Dr. Stresemann will receive the support of the majority of the Reichs tag for reasonable agreement with France President V'on Hindenburg ha clally th the foreign mi tor his praiseworthy policy, express- | ng the hope that “all differences with ' France will soon be alleviated and the Rhineland soon will be free’ any Woman, 101, Dies. LANESBORO, Minn.. September 25 ) —Di laimed Mr one of Minnesota's oldes here yesterday. She wa old. Bhe was born in Fre Norway. | Fire Oliver Owen Kuhn who will Boa, 16 Feet Long, Escapes; Meal Time Only 5 Weeks Away By the Associated Press. NEW BRAUNFELS, Tex., Sep- tember 25.—Five hundred or more persons joined in a search today for Big Boy,” a 16-foot boa con- strictor, which smashed its cage at the Comal County fair this morning and escaped. The reptile has not been found. The reptile lieved to be coiled in the top of some large tree. Show attendants said they last ke about 10 days ago. ually fed about every BETHESDA C(.)VRNEVF;STONE LAYING THIS AFTERNOON Postmaster General New, Commis- sioner Dougherty and Others to Speak at Fire Station Exercises. The corner stone of the new Beth- esda Tire Department station will be lzid this afternoon at 5 o'clock with appropriate ceremontes. Post- + General Harry S. New and Dougherty, Commissioner of Columbia; George S Watson, chief of the Washington Department _and Barnard <h of Rockville will speak, as will the 'ort Myer Cav- h music for the corner stone. The alry Band will furni occasion. The new fire station is located on the Georgetown road, a few hundred vards north of the junction with the Rockville road ' STANDARD 0IL VESSEL REPORTED FIRED ON Shanghai Hears Officer Was Killed on Yangtse—China Denounces British. By the Associated Press. SHANGHALIL, China, September 25. 1t is reported from Chengling that the Standard Oil steamer Meiyang has been fired on near Hankow and her quartermaster killed. (The Meiyang doe: available shipping not appear in ) Protests to League, GENEVA, September 24 (A).—The Chinese delegation to the League of Nations made a protest today against | the part taken by the British gun- |1 "30 Fate manufacture. boats on the Yangtse River in the re- cent trouble at Wanhsien. The pro. test caused something of a sensation MARS NEARING EARTH. | Planet's Secrets May Be Learned| | Next Month With Conditions Gooa:Absolves Woman Who Shot Her CHICAGO. September 25 (P).—Se- erets of Mars may be learned before the end of next month, Prof. E. B. Frost of the Yerkes Observatory, at the University of Chicago, declared vesterday During the latter part of October. | he said, the planet will come within | terday by a coroner's jury, which re. | approximately 42,600,000 miles of the carth, and. with the sun opposite. { conditions will be most favorable for observation. However, the planet may not move to a favorahle point until 1 week he said In July. 1824, the planet came even | closer to the earth. Lut hecause of its | position then conditions were mot fa- en pressed forward to congratulate vorable for observation. FONCK PUTS BLAME ON LANDING GEAR Failure to Function Properly Caused Plane Wreck, He Tells Jury. By the Associated Press. HEMPSTEAD, N. Y., September 25. —Fallure of auxiliary landing gear to tunction properly is blamed for the wreck of the glant Sikorsky biplane and the deaths of two of his com- panions by Capt. Rene Fonck, French ace and leader of the tragic attempt to make a non-stop flight to Paris. Fonck was called as a witness at the inquest into the deaths of Jacob Islamoff, Russian mechanic, and Charles Clavier, radio operator of the ikorsky plane, who died in the burn- ing wreckage when the plane crashed at the take-off. Criticism of Fonck. Earlier in the day District Attorney Edwards made public an affidavit from Col. H. E. Hartney, former general manager of the Argonauts, Inc., orig- inal promoters of the flight, in which Col. Hartney declared he resigned from that organization because of Capt. Fonck's participation. He gave as his reasons Capt. Fonck's alleged lack of rehearsal flights, poor pilotage, {rresponsibility and incompetency and a desire not to jeopardize the friendly relations between France and America. What action, if any, the grand jury may take will probably be determined by the findings of the coroner’s in- Fonck took issue with Col. in declaring that the plane actually took the air, and said that if the landing gear had not been dam- aged, he would have been able to make a normal landing at Curtiss Field, below the bluff at the end of the Roosevelt Field runway. The damaged gear caused the plane to | ‘cartwheel” and turn over when it landed, he said. He believed Islamoff vier were killed or rendered sclotis by the crash and were not burned to death. Denies Blaming Mechanics. Fonck was unable to give any rea- son for the collapse of the auxillary landing gear. He denied published re- ports that he had placed any blame | on_the mechanic, Islamoff. | " Fonck and Lieut. Lawrence Curtin, | second pilot, and Edward Honour, ex- | pert of the French manufacturers of the plane's engines, who were also witnesses, united in declaring the | plane and equipment the last word | _Lieut. Curtin corroborated Capt. | Fonck's testimony regarding the at- | tempted take-off and declared that he | considered the French aviator a com- | petent pilot in every way JURY FREES SLAYER. | Husband and Was Happy. ‘ CHICAGO, September 25 (#).—Mrs. | Marguerite Develaux, who shot her | husband to death and then walked to 1 the police station and declared herself | “completely happy,” was absolved ye: {turned a verdict of “justifiable homi- | {ctde.” | She testified she was goaded to the | {killing by her husband's constant | abuse through 28 vears of married! |life. After the verdict the woman's] | three sons, ranging from 15 to 25 y | | of age, kissed her, and scores of wom- her, 3 One ofethe Iatest vocations taken shoe shining. This stand is in the French capital and is’ chiefly patronized by cattle Wide World Photos. Murder Victim's Corpse to Be Present In Courtroom to Combat Lenient Juries By the Associated Press. TULSA, Okla., September 25.— Charging that juries are becoming too soft-hearted and too prone to over- Jook the fact that a man has been killed, County Attorney Byron Kirk- patrick announced yesterday that at the next murder trial here the corpse of the victim would be brought to the courtroom as a “silent witness.” they forget the victim. Any reference to the dead man is promptly objected to by the defense counsel on the ground that it is prejudicial. This time, however, I am going to pro- duce the head man himself.” The first tryout of Kirkpatrick's plan will come next month, he said, when Mrs. W. J. White, negro woman, is put on trial for the slaying of her husband. The negro woman charged “The defendant during the trial isy her husband was attempting to “‘sepa- surrounded by friends and members of his family,” Kirkpatrick said. “Juries are becoming scft-hearted, rate me from my religion.” Kirkpatrick said that ne expected to meet with considerable oppositiom. 160 FRENCH MAYORS FIGHT ECONOMY PLAN Abolition of Subprefectures and District Courts Opposed—Poin- care Ignores Them. By the Ascociated Press. PARIS, September 2 Mayors of 160 French towns and villages met in Parls vesterday and adopted a resolution against a recent decree suppressing hundreds of subprefec- tures and district courts in the in- terest of econom In some quarters it is felt that this action may offer one of the most serious difficulties to the Poincare government during the coming ses- sion of Parliament. The delegation of mayors, many of them deputies, later called on Pre- mier Poincare to demand that the de- cree be rescinded, but he refused to see them. The mayors declared that the suppression of these small offices would interfere greatly with the ad- ministration of the interior of the country as well as clog existing courts to a point where justice will became a farce. NUTS UNDER QUARANTINE. Steps Taken to Keep Out European Weevils. Thanksgiving and Christmas nuts may be curtailed this year by a quar- antine announced yesterday by Sec- retary Jardine against all kinds of chestnuts, walnuts, filberts, and acorns in an effort to prevent entry of the European codling moth and’ various species of chestnut weevils. The or- der goes into effect October 1, after which importations must be under permit and in compliance with regu- lations. HITS COTTON ESTIMATES. Representative Urges Semi-Month- 1y Reports Be Stopped. Legislation to cause the Department ot Agriculture to cease publication of the semi-monthly cotton crop esti- mates is proposed in a letter by Representative Black, Democrat, of Texas, to Southern members of Con- gress, whose united support he solicits. He also believes that “some- thing can be done to cure the specu- lative element who take advantage of just such situations as we have now and beat the market down to much lowen levels than it would really go under ordinary conditions, even if the crop is fully as largs as has been predicted.” ~ This, he holds, after comparing census ginning figures and the latest crop ‘estimate, is not the case, since the ginning figures are much lower this year than last, YELLOW FEVER CURB OVER WORLD WINNING Surgeon General Cumming, on Eve of Public Health Meeting Here, Cites Success. Sanitary measures throughout the world to prevent the spread of yellow fever, Surg. Gen. Cumming of the Public Health Service said today, were reflected in the fact that no ship or person entering the United States was detained on account of that dis- ease during 1925 or thus far this year. Gen. Cummillg, head of the Ameri- can delegation to the First Pan-Amer- fcan Conference of National Directors of Public Health, which convenes here Moday far a three-day meeting, said that the fever in the past had cost the United States thousands of lives and millions of dollars in delays to steamers and railroad traffic. Only one outbreak of the disease has been reported this year, and this, in Brazil, was put under controi promptly. Approval by all American republics of the sanitary code adopted at Havana in 1924, he belleves, will further international as well as_. na- tional health conditions in the West- ern Hemisphere. This code, already ratifiedd by the United States, Cuba, Costa Rica, Peru, Chile, Nicaragua and Honduras, will be discussed at the conference next week. BLIMP VISITS CAPITAL. TC-5 Gives Practice Flight for Sev- eral Officers. The Army Air Corps blimp TC-5, which, in the last few months, has be- come a frequent visitor to Washing- ton from its base at Langley Field, Hampton, Va., came up to the city yesterday to enable several officers in the lighter-than-air branch to get in some practice flights. Col. Ira Fravel, chief of the lighter- than-air branch of the Air Corps here, piloted the blimp over to Annapolis yesterday morning, and returned to Bolling Field at 2:30 o'clock. * The ship returned to its base before sun- down. — UNION POLICY URGED. Shoe Workers Addressed by John D. Nolan at Convention. ROCHESTER, N. Y., September 25 (#).—A strict trades union policy be- tween employers and workers in the shoe industry was urged as a neces- sity by President John D. Nolan, ad- dressing the Shoe Workers' Protective Union, at its natfonal convention in session here. * He also urged the making of trade | agreements with manufacturers wher- | ever possible and condemned the Vio lation of such agreements when made. He said strikes should be to only as a last resort, MAPPING OUT THEIR DISTRICT IN! yesterday of five of the seven members o vey of the municipal administration of the District. of € of Delaware, Gibson of Vermont, M lumbia. 'VESTIGATION. The first meeting in the District commit(ee room f the House committee authorized to make a comprehensive sur- Left to right: Representatives Houston McLeod of Michigan, Reid of Illinois %ml ’!V:flielwud of Vi Copyright by Underwood & Underwood CANCER CONTRO FAGTS DISCLOGED Medical Authorities Say Dis- ease Is Not Inherited—In- dicate Curative Plan. By the Associated Press. .LAKE MOHONK, N. Y., September 25.—An important weapon combating cancer was made ready for use yes- terday when the world recognized authorities on the disease put into a single statement all the basic knowl- edge they have on the subject. The statement, regarded as the most important pronouncement on cancer ever made, was adopted at the closing session of the four-day sym- posium on cancer control, which was attended by more than 100 cancer specialists of the United Statcs and several European countries. Points concerning the disease on which the experts agree were incor- porated in the statement, which is designed for the public and the medi- cal profession alike. While the basic knowledge of cancer is admittedly in- complete, the summary is considered as a foundation upon which to pro- ceed in waging warfare against the disease. Not Infectious Disease. “Although the present state of Kknowledge of cancer is not sufficient to permit the formulation of such pro- cedures for the suppression of this malady as have been successfully em- ployed for the suppression of infec- tious diseases,” said the statement, “there is enough well established fact and sound working opinion concerning the prevention, diagnosis and treat- ment of cancer to save many lives if this information is carried properly into effect. ““Although the causation of cancer is not completely understood, it may be accepted that for all practical pur- poses cancer is not to be looked upon | as_contaglous or infectious. “Cancer itself is not hereditary, al- though a certain predisposition or susceptibility to cancer is apparently transmissible through _inheritance. This does not signify that because one's parent or parents or other mem- bers of the family have suffered from cancer, cancer will necessarily ap- pear in other persons of the same or succeeding generation. Effort to Control Cancer. “The control of cancer, so far as this subject can be understood at the present time, depends upon the employment of measures of personal hygiene and certain prgventative and curative measures, the success of which depends upon the intelligent co-operation of patient and physician. “Persons who have cancer must apply to competent physicians at a sufficiently early stage of the disease in order to have a fair chance of cure. This applies to all forms of cancer. In some forms early treat- ment affords the only possibility of cure. Cancer in most parts of the body can berdiscovered in a very early stage, and if these cases are treated properly the prospect for permanent cure is good. “The cure of cancer depends upon discovering the growth before it has done irreparable injury to a vital part of the body and before it has spread to other parts. Therefore efforts should be made to improve the meth- ods of diagnosis in these various loca- tions and the treatment of the can- cer so discovered. Early Signs of Disease. “The public must be taught the ear Aimee MeéPherson Polled Large Vote For Governorship By the Associated Press. SACRAMENTO, Calif., September 25.—Aimee Semple McPherson and members of the movie colony who live and work near her evangelistic temple just outside the gates of Hollywood, figured prominently smong the “write-in” candidates who polled a vote here and there in the August primary election. Mrs. McPherson, the secretary of State’s office revealed today, re- ceived many votes for governor; Kenneth Ormiston, former radio operator at the temple, drew a vote for lieutenant governor, and Min- nie Kennedy, mother of the evan- gelist, was favored by some for State treasurer. Among the movie stars, Mary Pickford stood out as the choice of write-in voters for State super- intendent of public instruction. Lon Chaney and Charlie Chaplin were favored for seats on the State supreme bench. CHICAGO REPUBLICANS WET AND ANTI-COURT County Convention, Controlled by Crowe-Barrett-Thompson Group, Fixing Platform. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 25.—Denun- ciation of the World Court and of the Volstead law was iricorporated in a proposed platform of the Republican County convention late yesterday. The convention is controlled by the Crowe-Barrett-Thompson factions of the party, the:leaders being State's Attorney Robert E. Crowe, Charles V. Barrett, former member of the board of review, and former Mayor Willlam Hale Thompson. Hotel Man Commits S;Jicide. GREENSBORO, N. C. September 25 UP).—John R. Atwell, 64 years old, vell known business man, ended his life here yesterday by shooting him- self through the mouth with a shot- gun. Despondency over financial dif- ficulties was given as the reason for the act. For several years he was in the insurance business here and last Summer he operated a hotel at Chim- ney Rock. attention when any of these indica- tions are belfeved to be present. * * « “The most reliable forms of treat- ment, and, in fact the only ones thus far justified by experience and obser- vation, depend upon surgery, radium and X-rays. “Emphasis should be placed upon the value of the dissemination of the definite, useful and practical knowlege about cancer and this knowledge should not be confused nor hidden by what is merely theoretical and experi- mental. Promotion of Research. “Efforts toward the control of can- cer should be made in two principal directions, the promotion of research in order to increase the ¢xistent knowledge of the subject and the prac- tical employment of the information which is at hand. Even with our present knowledge many lives could be saved which are sacrificed to un- necessary delay.” After a brief morning session at the Lakes Mohonk Mountain House the spe- clalists went to New York City, where last night they were the guests of he American Society for the Control liest danger signals of cancer, which |of Cancer. The speakers included John can be recognized by persons without a special knowledge of the subject, and induced to seek competent medical W. Davis, and Dr. George A. Soper, managing director of ‘the society, which conducted the symposium. _land that he im) HOLDS BLUSHERS MAKE GOOD AT LAW Industrial Psychologist Says Fluent Talkers Are Best for Executive Jobs. By the Associated Press. HAMILTON, N. Y., September Easy blushers make good lawyers, diffident talkers are apt to be good die-makers, while the man who fol- lows sports in the daily papers may well be the ideal captain of industry. So says an article fn “Industrial Psychology” published here today. From 30,000 hours of experiment in the psychological laboratory of Colgate University, the author, also the magazine’s publisher, has evolved a new system of guide-posts to em- ployment. Members of the human family all appear as extroverts or introverts, with their capabilities sharply divided thereby, and their slightest moves of face, voice or body are the clues to classification. System Being Tried. “Introverts” explained the author, “gre characterized by their emotional outlets being expressed largely within themselves, that is, their emotions are introverted. “The extroverts, in contrast, ex- press their emotional outlets in action, and in associating with others. They might be called men of action while the introverts are men of thought. This classification is not new, but the study of personality manifesta- tions of the two groups is, and So is the application of a “personal inven- tory” chart to personnel work in large industries By the system evolved, and now be- ing tried in certain big companies, says the article, every employe is de- scribed by his immediate superior. Forty-one personality traits appear on the chart as valid indicators of the type. All personalities are not sharply ex troverts or introverts, many tending to both types. The following interesting conciu- slons are among those to emerge from the study: Office clerks are inclined toward introversion. | Foremen and executives, whose duties require handling others, are distinctly extrovert. Inspectors, accountan and re- search engineers are in general intro- vert. Characteristics of the introvert are listed to include: Easy blushing, an outspoken manner, fluency in writ- ing, but not in speech; care in dress- ing, eating and other personal details, a tendency to Wworry, a response to praise, “high-brow’ tastes, prefer. ence for fine, delicate work, ‘axtreme consclentiousness. Characteristics of the extrovert in- clude: Ready laughter, fluent speech, carefree disposition, no susceptibility to flattery, willingness to lend money, love of sports, scorn of the “high- brow,” conservative views, if any, and tact. FIVE HELD IN BOMBINGS. CLIFTON, N. J., September 2§ (®). —Five men charged with recent bombings in the textile strike area were held yesterday in bail totaling $350,000. Tony Pachno, this city, pleaded guilty to participation in five ings, and was held in $100,000.. others pleaded not guilty. Police said Pachno confessed to bombing five homes since plicated. the