Evening Star Newspaper, October 15, 1926, Page 2

HUNGARY PREMIER ~ AND CABINET QuIT - Regent Expected to Ask Him to Re-Form Ministry Next Week. By the Aseociated Preas BUDAPEST. Hungary. October, 15. ~The Bethlen government has re signed. This ministry took office in April, 1921. Count ‘the resignation of Regent Horthy last understood he will construct his m nistry next President Seitovazk tional Assembry is salted for the all important post’ of minisier of interior. succeeding M. Rakoysky, re. signed. Louis Valeo. Bethlen's trade minister, becomes foreign min ster, a portfolio held b M. Herman will trade hia cabinet evening e aske to It s to re. k of the von become minister of Resignation Foreast in June. The resignation of Premier Count Bethlen was forecast as early as last June. He was then returnns from the League sessions in Geneva, where he was slapped in the face by & Hungarian. During its tenure of office. lasting more than five and a half vears, the Bethlen governni:nt went through moet hectic times: yet with the aid of ithe Tiaague of Natlons and Jer miah Smith™ of Boston. Bethlen his conntrs out of ite ficulties It was in 1921, Bethlen had taken ofl.ce, “ir Emperor Charies clanjes ina’ Hungary 1o have himue o King of the realm. This was irustra by the allies 2nd Admiral Horthy, regent i ater Count he fate Srered o] il the Counterfeil Scandz! Blamed. PARIS, Ociober 15 (). A Havas News Agency dispatch from the Hun garian capital links the resignation of the Bethlen miniztry with the notori ous 30,000,000 French franc counterfeit | scandal Following the decision af the ronrt of cassation in confirming tne sen tences of the convicted forgers.” saye the dispatch. “the cahinet, considering te political responsibiii endered its resignation to the regent. LAPSE OF TIME CAUSES DROP OF SUIT FOR DAMAGE Miss Viehm;e: i;lds Proceedings in One Case Alleging Slander by Mrs. Henry Lamar. Miss Norma Viehmeyer, who sued | Mrs. Henry Lamar, amateur wife of the former heavyweight boxing cham. pion, for $100.000 damages for alleged | libel and slander. today dismissed her action in the District Supreme Court through her attorney. Edward M Martin. Dismiseal of the suff followed the filing of a plea by Attornevs Raymond Neudecker and Willlam C. Ashford that the plaintiff had waited too long to start such a declaration, it heing contended that the District cnde hars such claims after lapse of one vear. The libel complained of was hased on a suit for divorce hrought by Mre Lamar against her hoxer husband. in which proceeding \iss Viehmeyer was named a co-defendant. The court granted a motion filed hy M Lamar to strike out the alieged slander counts of the suit on the ground that Mrs. Lamar and her mother, Mrs. Ac ton Shackleford Moore. could not properly be joined in a comhined suit for libel and slander where the acts complained of occt ar different times. | There still remains another €uit of Miss Viehmever against Mre Lamar for slander ‘alleged 1n have arisen trom derogatory words spaken of the ! plaintiff during an alleged conversa tion between Mrs. Lamer and the par ents of her hushand. HAWAIIAN FLIGHT PLANE TO TRY FOR NEVW RECORD Lieut. Davison Will At tempt to Break Duratinn and Dis- tance Marks in November. By the Ameociated Pre:e SAN DIEGO, Calif.. 15 The Hawaiian flight pane P'N-1 is be. ing prepared for an atiemnt tn hreak the world seaplane recovde for tion and distance, Lieuts. G. (. Schida: and Wead. The plane will renain until its 1.950 zailons of exhausted. Capi. Jo.n manding the Aireraft Squadvon Fleet. said in anno:irci would take place tin November The duration res of planes 18 28 hours 27 seconds. Lient Davison, who wa< ship when 1t was fn Hawaitan flight by 4ng been named as pilot Comdr. Octaher dura d oxts v by isates and adr. Ralps ncge o from wible, has n FOR SATURDAY. FIRST RACI The Gov plechase Handican'$ . (10 a And up anout 2 milek tBrirhiness 133 +TagsAl 132 148 Ambrose Sire. $Erse +0a . 30 133 Grassland ¥ K wnd antry sepn £ Widener reerires Siable en a0 oudde cizimen RACE. -vear-olds Clari ont 5 o 1der 1saming : purse furlongs siaiila B Piees Gang £1.300 iWar Eae' Rells R, pidseler RT8 furtongs ‘) Blur Bit o Love 108 wiite w 12 FIFTH RAQE—The Laure! ile 1o 110 ns 124 130 20 108 ance Play . ns | Stable entry. s s $IXTH RACE—The Severn Claiming Han- ree, $1.800. 3-vearolds and up *Galden Volt i THIRD RACE—The Orinle Pyses Al ages: 54 furlones ""m 114 Sport Trail [ ontiarrat 112 aster Bells . 107 ema 106 afie 107 +E B McLean entry l F Carman entiy Samuel Rose entry FOURTH RACE—Th puree. $1.500° % vearo varmora 100 lev 122 aid of the Mist port Tra e 0 e y Sar by Princess Doreen Crusader Dancing Fool Fleetwooa - Claiming Puree. 4 up: mile d A fur! Pans Binks aeing Tall G~ Bethlen handed | he prem er himself® c'rank | Handicap: | $10.000 add- | Back Home Again . DOROTHY REAMER. 115, TORELINQUH * ARMALTOCOAST New Will Ask Private Inter- ests to Bid for Transcon- tinental Service. i 1 | | By the Associated Press | The Gavernment intends tn relin- lquish cperation of the transeontin | ental air mail =ervice and within 30 days invitations will be issued by the | Postmaster General calling for bids for its operation by privaie enterprise. | With the passage by the last Con of legislation plscing the De- { partment of Commerce in ze of | commerecial aviatic mauttel Post master General New said he feli the iime had arvived when the Post Office | Department could step out. The department has on hand ahout 85 airplanes, hangars, located at fiving fields ac the country, and shop equipment worth several million dollars he Postmaster (ieneral re- ated today that no company e suceessfully operate a commercial air service on a mail contract alone, but must alsn be prepared to transport passengers and expre Mr. New is laying plans for changes lin the air mail posiage rates that will render them more uniform and provide a flat/ rate [ throughout the country re; | distance. In addition to the transfer of the | transcontinental line to private econ- | tractors the over-night New York Chicagn service alsn will he let | contract to private operation. The | bids for the two services will he re- | turnable 60 days after the date of | the advertisement | 1t has never heen ot the Post Ofce Department | continue permanently the operation the air mail service, the Post- | master General said, the plnn bheing {10 develop it to a point where its | feasibility could he adeqnately {demonstrated and then turn it over |as commercial fiving compantes he- [eame strong enough to handle ir. [ It is felt that the work of the | department in thie direction has | pushed commercial fiving in America | several years ahead | i | ardless of the intention |ENVOYS MAY SUBMIT | Secretary Kellogg Expected to Suggest Voluntary Measure | to Diplomate. | Co.operation of 14 memhers of the ! diplamatic corps in the efforis of the Toeni authorities the trafiie District Will he sugzesiad hy Secretary to the heads of the different and | Tegal of the department are consid nggestion of the District that members of the enrps who drive automobiles and the chauffenrs of those who do not them selves drive submit 1o private exam { thation 1o demonstrate their aoility to drive and their knowledge of local trafic regulations The impression prevails at the De. partment that such a reaquirement could not legally he enforced, hut that the members of the corps generaliv would not such mable nreeaut interes - sufery eni 1o safeguard root in the odly Kel | embageies ficers of ering the Commissionens tions. | | to the ahject m in HUNDREDS the | olds 130 1 SEd Pendleton Fran| Removin, Wa., while higl - uld | applicable | by | to | TO AUTO DRIVING TESTS| undoubt- | diplomatic * THE EVEXNING STAR. MISSING LOGAL GIRL LOS ANGELES SAFE IS FOUND AT RACES AT DETROIT TOWER Dorothy Reamer Is Now Back Home—Male Companion at Laurel Escanes Police. Flight Made in 16 and Half Hours, With Broken Gen- erator Only Trouble. | | | | | | Py the Associated Pr DETROIT, Mich.. October 15.—The vy's great airship, the Los Angeles {arrived at the Ford airport at Dear- [ horn. near here. at 3:28 am. today and was arfehored safely to the moor- ing tower 213 hours later. “'The only tronble we had.” Comdr. Rosendahl =aid. “was the fact that Dorothy Reamer. 16 vears old, is at | her home, 18 Franklin street. taday | | following her arrest at the Laurel | race track yesterday with a man who sald he was Royal W. Gill, Baltimore, and whom the Maryland police are | seeking following his eacape from the office of Judge E. F. Hatch. Lanrel. where the couple was heing detained the arrival of Washington Reamer left her home Septem- | hours after we left Lakehurst. We i 1. whils her mother and step- | were only ahle to send messages with father, Fred A. Norris, were at the |.ur emergency apparatus. movies and she had not heen heard | Ohio Storm Dodged. of until yvesterd: when James Wright. race trark detectiva Fecog- Recause we were afraid of running nized the sirl from a phoiograph re- | down onr stdrage bartery, we confined produced on a eircular distributed hy | our transmission te sending reports of { Norris. The detective tnok the coupie | pur location at various times to the United States Navy Department. {to Judge Hatch's office to await the “Our weather maps showed we | arrival of ths stepfather and Wash- Ington police. would run into a storm over Ohlo, and Bre-ks gway to Freedom. | because we were vatching for this . storm our speed was cut down. At Norris arrived first and waa stand- | that we made the trip to Detroit in 16 [ing in the doorway when the sup-| hours and 30 minutss, and eur sched- posed Gill broke into a run for an|yle called for a 15-hour run. Near | automohile tn which a man. represent-| Youngstown we gtruck a line disturh Inz himself as a Maryland constable, | jdrove him aw | tempted to halt + | was bowled over by him as he dashed | to treedom. - { The license numher which the car |hore was that which had heen issued to Mrs. Allee Warfield Gill. widow of M. Glllet Gill, prominent and wealthy Raltimorean. She has a son whose Iname is the same given hy Miss { Reamers companion yesterday and ! 1ast night he was not at his Balti- | more home. | Norris branght | ington last night [no one to 12k | home. this mornin girl’s mother, 1t she nothing of the Laurel affair. was highly nervous and steadfastly refused 1o discuss the case further. She admitted. however, that her daughter was at home. Divorced Father Aids, track companion hefore the Wash- ington detectives, Frank Varney and H. K. Rrodie, arrived At the time of Miss Reamer's dis- | appearance. her father, who iz di- | vorced from her mother, was notified and he assisted in the search. The girl was thought to he elther in Roanoke, V. or in Pittshurgh, Pa {Tn a “Aver,” which her stepfather had printed and distributed among mem her of the Police Department, a physical deseription of the girl was and xhe was declared to he nusly Inclined” and “a great | A reward for information leading ta her recovery was offered by Mr. Norris. et through. aperd was 54 miles [an hour. We made very good time | over the Allegheny Mountains, and except for having to waste time look {ing for that storw in Ohio we would | have made a fast trip. “Retween Philadelphia York there weer some lew-hanging clouds. After that the weather was clear. Wa reached 4,000 feet. our maximum height, hetween Lancaster and Chambershurg in Pennsylvania, Axe and New | the girl fo Wash- and wonld per with her. At Mre. Norris ville, Pa. Air Bumpy Over Lake. lLake Frie bumpy. The lowast temperature we | struek was 30 degrees. But it w: cold at that and this morning the ship was covared with frost. “We went over the mooring mast first at 1,500 feet to observe condi tions. The landing was made very easily in about 45 minutes, and 30 minutes for a landing ix considered good time. “If the weather is favorable we will remain in Detroit until about 10:30 a.m. Saturday.” The Los Angeles is scheduled to take part in the dedication of a mu nicipal airport at Youngstown, Ohio, tomorrow. MRS. EMILY C. HEILIG DIES AT 87 IN PARIS Mother of Corre!ponden.l of The Star Had Notable Place in Ameri- can Colony There. “Over the air | t | | | | | was The girl's race made hiz escape i DENY MUSSOLINI IS ILL. | Officially_denving the report puh- lished by the London Daily Express |that a Cerman surgeon has heen | to Rome ta operate on Premier Mus- | solini, th> Ttalian Embassy last night charged that “alarming informatien of this kind i& spread abroad on arcount | [of maneuvers against Italian ex- | | changea.” | “The Ialian Embassy [ this report is absolutely false, and | that Premier Mussolini enjovs excel- | tent health.” said the statement News has reiched Washington from Paris of the death in the Frenc capital of Mrs. Emily . Hellig, mother of Sterling Heilig, for nearly 40 vears special correspondent of The Star In that _eity. Mrs. Heilig, who was in her 8ith v was one of the most remarkable women in the American colony of Paris, and known to many visitors from the United States, At the suthreak of the World War, although then nearly an octogenarian &he made a trip to the front with her | <on and for three vears. in spite of her age, served with the Amerfcan Ambulance Hospital. In recognition of this she was decorated with the medal of honor by the French minister of war, Mrs, Hellig was the widow of Daniel Heilig of Philadelphia and a ter of the late Rear Admiral George Kutz. chief engineer, United States Nawy. Interment will he in the United ftrres, states that Abd-el-Krim Reaches Exile. PARIS, Octoher 15 (). - Dispa‘ches received here say that AhdelKrim former Riffan war lovd, who for many vears carrfed on warfare against the Spanish and French in Marocco, has arvived on the Island of Reunion, in the Indinn Ocean, After his surrender to the | it was decraed that Krim shonld be | sent in o Rennion. which lies | | 485 miles east of the Island of Mada gasenr. Diog’ Arrcsted ;swfioorstep Milk Thief: Pile of Empty Bottles Found in Lair French | By the Acoviatad Prese MILWAUK Wis., October 15, thief. were his move- ment Caught stenling of milk, n| Finally an early riser saw the dog '|leap upon the rear porch, seize a handsome pofice dog B €T | hottle of milk in his mouth and dash today in the kennels of the Wisconsin | away. He took refuge under an old Humane Society. { barn. where he was later trapped and For many week< women In one part | demonstrated his skill in removing of the have heen disappoinfed to pe from bottles, Aind no milk on their doorsteps in the | A large pile of empty hottles under morninz, and much criticism of dairy | the harn were taken as evidence. companies resulted. Men stationed in | while the thief was held for identifi- | the neighhorhood d to cateh the | cation s stealthy hotiles wa i PAY TRIBUTE TO SLAIN OFFICER AT the body of Detective Scrivener, who was slain early Wednesday morning, from his lpme, 3123 N stree hw officials of the Police Department and fellow members of the force stand at salute, i T » the radio generator hroke down two| around looking | and we held that altitude to Connells. | | HOOVER STRESSES - SAFETYFORAUTOS Must Continue Efforts to Cut Down Accidents, He Tells Conference. The | the part of the co-operating orga | tions making up the National Confer ence on Street and Highway Safety to safeguard the lives of automobilists was emphasized hy Seerets at the initial session at the Depart ment of Commerce of representativ of most of the co-operating bodies. These men had gathered here to re. view the work of the past six months and to Jay the groundwork for ued operation of the safety projects sponsored by the conference “In spite of onr efforts at saving of [life on the highway etary { Hoover said, “antomol accidents | have not decreased. have in creased.” i Mr. Hoover gave it as his opinion | that the first step in a national auto- mobile safery program--that of educ: tion—should he followed by State logis need for continued efforts on bt Iation to bring ahout uniform adoption | and execution of the safety sponsored by the conference. Mr. Hoover's views on the increase projects lin by S a statement from William M uart. director of the census. id there were more than deaths in automobile accidents in 1925 and that since 1906, the vear for which such fizures ave s ahle. 160,000 persons have met death in automobile accidents. These fiz ure: which trains are involved, nor | In which grade crossing ace | Agure. | Representatives of a score of the | automohile, railway and trade organ | izations co-operating with the national | conference attended the meeting. 'TOWNER ADDRESSES | FIWANIAN SESSION By the Associated Pracs ROANOKE, - Va., Kiwaniane the | 000 | | those lents October capital distr opening their eighth annual conven. tion thi= morning, were urged hy { Merle E. Towner of Raitimore, re- tiring district governor. “to co-operate {in creating and malntaining that sort of public opinion and high idealism |that makes possible the increase of | righteousness, justice. patriotism and | good will The d ot [lowed the address Mayor Charles . Fo | message praised the objectives of Kiwanis and invited the visitors to avail themselves of the hospitality of the city. Randall Caton, jr., of Alexandria, made the response. Formal opening of the convention took place at 8 n'clock with Dr. John 0. Rovd. nresident of the Reanoke { club, presiding. Singing of Kiwanis | Rongs. divected by the Rev. F. H. | Scott ‘of Roanoke. preced | cation by the Rev. W. ¢\ Campbell, D, D. | "Speaking turther. District Governor Towner outlined the prineipal activi | ties of the distriet organization, em phasizing work heing done Ki- wanians in hehalf of undernou | neglected and crinpled children. governor Idress fol- of welcome by . who in a brief | . i | BAND CONCERTS.. | TOMORROW. | By the United States Soldiers’ Ifome | Bana Orchestra at Stanlex Hall, 5:45 {o'clock, John S, Zimmerman, {leader; Emil AL second leade RITES L PRINCIPALS IN INTERNATIONAL ORATORICAL CONTEST TONIGHT Hoaver | automobile accidents were hacked | who | he said, do not Include those in | d the invo- ! for burjal at Wincheater, “’A'SHINGTON,V D. C. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1926. | children from | | | | 7d. in the early hours of last Wednes- | da | | Dr. Wilfley. explaining that “this | | 3 3 tragically unusual. frightfully hideous™ | | 3 event warranted a departure from | | the usual in obsequies, called on the people of Washingten to “encourage ¢ a revival of law and order, of respect. | obedience and love for those charged, under God. with enforcing the law and to see that every one, from these in high places to those in the lowest, obey even the most minor of the Clovernment legal restrictions.” Until this respect for all laws is | obtained, he declared. there will be | crime and “our brave defenders of | the home will he subject to the| dastardly machinations of prowlers in nizht and others who flout | our laws.” h ister recounted how he had { prepared to unite in marriage “thi® fearless, upright gentleman allld ";'\l-\ ant of the people to the beautiful | euhEswch voung girl of his choice,” and of the | shock he received on learning. but a | ! few hours bhefore the time set for the ceremony, of the murder of the bridegroom-to-he. As he spoke, he Ingked at the tear-| stained faca of 19-vear-old Felen Rarnes Parker, whom Scrivener had picked for his bride, and who sat, convulsively sobbing, near the flag draped bier. Scores of Scrivener's friends filed | past the casket during the hours pre- ceding the rites. The front room and hallway of the house. owned by Mr. | and Mrs. Matthew Walsh. was banked | | high with gorgeous floral pieces bear- | Ing cards from conntless organizations | H resident Coolldge, who will make an address. o Above: The contestants, left to rigl ose Munoz-Cota, Mexico; Herbert { Wenig, America; William Meades New ugland; Herbert Moran, Newton, Maxime Raymond Puel, France. ACID FAILS TO BARE | FIGURES ON GUN IN | i head. lay a small spray of pink rose- | _ontinued_from First Page) | pude to which was tled with satin | ribbon, a card with the inscription “With all my love. Helen.” Six of Scrivener's colleagues of the | Detective Rureau carried the casket | [ from the house after the cersmony | {0 the metor hearse which was to take the body to the Scrivener family home [in Winchester, 1 Thoy were headed hy Edward Kelly, Serivener's inseparahle partner on the homicide squad, whe now has the sad | duty of investigating the muvder hest friend. \With Kelly wer Thomas K Sweeney, Joseph F. Wald- | n. Kugene Davis, Henry M. Jett and E. L. Phillips, all of the Detective Bu- | reau. AS the pallhearers bore the hody, | tenderly, from the house, a company | of uniformed policemen swung their | nightsticks to attention at a signal | from Mal. Edwin B. Hesse, superin- | tendent of police, who stood bare- | headed Feside his staff of police of- ls. Hundreds of friends and | neighbors thronged the sidewalk and strest for me distance from mpl‘ hoiise, unabie 1o get into the room. crivener's parents were not pre: ent. Turner Serivener. the father,| was called hack to Winchester yve. terday because of the serious illness of Mrs. Serivener. Accompanying the | body to the Virginia city were the three brothers— \Walter, Lohr and Gurner Serivener —and one or 1wo other relatives. | Arviving at Winchester late this offered for the capture of Serivener's alaver today. In zddition to sums of. ed by newspapers, the Police De- tment s offering $300, and Detec- ames Springman made it known |t that he was commissioned to | | offer $inu Mris. Mina Van \Winkle, lieutenant of the Women s Burean, was in con- ference vesterday afternoen and late Jast night with Inspector Pratt, but stated today sne was taking ne aetive | part as vet in the investigation othar | than the general activity characteriz: | ing the whole Police Department i Questioning Establishes Little. person arrested during the days by police whe could possibly e had any sort of a con nection with the murder has heen questioned along this line. without | helping police to any material degree. Rex Downing of Pennsylvania and | Frank Roberts of New York ity | were being held for investigation at the seventh precinet. Precinet au med any knowledze as | were heing held. intimat- | . that they were not be- | he held in the general mur l Kvery last few | | | the der investigation. Of these questioned thus far in con | nection with the case. detectives are | satisfied none has been able to he of assistance ,n the probe. Maj. E. B. Hesse today ivgived a | letter advocating the wearin: ®f pis- | afternoon the body was taken to the | tols on the outside of the uniform by | Serivener home 342 Kairview avenue. policemen, from Andrew K. Revnolds, | where it will be kept until funeral | local real estate man. | ®ervices are held at 1:30 flock Sun Mr. Reynolds stated that “it takes day afternoon in the Chureh of the, too long a time for a man to reach in | Disciples of Christ. Rev. Sewell . and get his gun out in an emergency | Goode of Rockville, Md., for many and a bandit can kill. as it has alveady | Years an intimate friend of the fam heen Indicated. by assassination of | 1lv. will oficiate, assisted by the local | some good men of the police depart- | pastor, the Rev. W. L. Dudley. In-| | ment here of late.” In addition. he | terment will he in Mount Hebron | said, the mere appearance of the pis. | Cemetery. {10l would serve as a notice for cau-| It is understood that Miss Parker | tion on the part of the bandit heing | Will attend the funeral. accompanied | placed under arrest. | by several girl friends. Delegations of The thoronghgoing effort of the | the Washington Lodze of Elke and one who filed off the pistol numbers | the Costello Post of the American hecame. known ke todav. |11 was | Legion will attend the ohseqnies. established that the serial numbers | Scrivener was in his 36Gth vear. hav had not only hean filed off the barrel, | iNK been horn at Rock Knon Springs. | bit aleo off the bitt of the pistol and | Frederick County. July 9. 1889, Hes o the metal st bereatn the com! | worked on his father's farm while not position handle casings. There were | Attending school. and at the age of 21| threa other numbers on the pistol. | ¥% teaching a school at Trone. \a.| These were oo Bltnol| Several vears later he worked for the | these were missed or deemed unim.| CAPital Traction Co. in Washington | Portant and deft intact T Through |28 & motorman. then joined the police | | prior communication with the arms | force, and in a few years was de company. howaver. it has already | tAched from the uniformed service and | bheen established that these assigned to the detective bureau. in numbers were the last threa of the | Which he had distinguished himself on | evial number of the pistol. many occasions for intrepidity. | In' additlon to his parents and Minister Has Sorrowful Duty. The minister whe was to have per- brothers, he is survived hy one fl["pr.‘ Mrs. Dale Raker, this cjiy. | formed the wedding ceremony on the Ay of Serivener's assassination offi- ciated instead today at his funeral In the presence of his sweetheart, relatives and persons high in the public affairs ofs the Capital, Rev. Dr. Farle Wilfley, pastor of the Vermont Avenue Christian Church. paid a striking tribute to the slain detective at preliminary rites held at his late home in Georgetown. Grim-faced men—many of them comrades of the deceased—and others in the company of mourners which overflowed into the street in front of 3123 N street, could glimpse from the tuneral place the tragic spot. in an | broken nose. alley just across the street, where | Smith stated Arthur Scrivener fell, mortally wound. | in self-defense. POLICEMAN IS FINED. | A_fisticuff hetween Cecil Smith of | 31 N street southeast, a Capitol po liceman. and George P. Grimes of 210 Tenth street southeast. October 11. resulted in the former heing fined | $100 when arraigned on an assault charge in Police Court today hefore Judge Robert E. Mattingly The argument was started at Eighth styeet and Pennsylvania ave nue southeast, and during the fight | that resulted’ (irimes received a that he had acted Prcacher-Editor, in Editorial. Confesses Frauds to Finance Purchase of Papcr Miss., October 15. he used the names of two prominent men without authority as indorsement on paper upon which he obtained $35.000 with which 10 finance the purchase of the Hattiesburg American ontained in an editorial over the signature of Dr. G. S. Harmon, editor and publisher of the American, appearing in the | Hattiesburg paper Dr. Harmon. in hix stetement to the | readers of the American and the public, savs he will go before the Forrest County grand fury. lay before that body the facts of his act and place himself at the disposal of the . The editorial further states that Dr. Harmon. finding that he could not meet his obligations. was confronted | with the enormity of his offense, and | that he made a clean breast of the | whole matter to the two men involved |and. by the use of every asset he {~ould command. made full restitution. | | Dr. Harmon, in his public state. | mant. further announces that he had | severed his connection with the Hat | iesburg American, which he pur-| |chased ~ from Howard 8. Williams | three vears and eizht months ago. Dr. Harmon was formerly engaged in evangelistic work. being a Methodist | marhur. He s widely known in the Willtams, frem whom Dr. Harmon purchased the American, entered the evangelical fleld ax a “layman evan gelist” upon (ransfer of the paper. | He held a meeting at Herrin, Il {ufter one of the shootings growing out of Ku Klux Klan dificulties there and was heralded as a Herrin peace By the Associatel HATTIESBUR Admission that and elementary schoo from traffic dangers? Yestor NG . .vaae YestorrNol .o viws Name...... 4 |t | stated TEwt out ballot and mail to Scheol Bditor, The Evening Star.) - R S A . MORE PARENTS ASK SCHOOL-HOUR SHIFT 77 Pet. Using Ballot Urge 9:30 Ooening—38 Pct. Favor Classes at 8:30. The proposal to change the opening bour of the public sehools from A to 9:30 o'clack as a means of saving the dangers of the heavy flow of morning traffic eon- tinued ta receive the Indorsement of a majority of these whe veted today in The Star's referendum en the question A count of the ballots sent in sin vesterday shows 77 per cent in favor of 9:30. Of the athers approximately 14 per cent eppesed any change and a little more than & per cent advocated opening jhe schools earlier. eithdr at 230 or 845 oclock Accompanying the hallets was a letter from E. W. Rond. Rlair road. calling attention te dan- gers confronting children who must nse Piney Rranch road in going to and from the Takoma Park Schoel. Urges Parking Limit. “The Takoma School.” Mr. Rend wrote. “has no sidewalk in front of it and a great many of the children must approach it over a narrow road, Piney Branch. That street and Ceday street join in front of the scheol 1t form an outlet for practically all ol the Takoma traffic. which s very heavy. Usnally a liceman is statiened at that intersection just he- fore and after school, and a portion of Piney Branch road is closed during recess. This, however, does not help children whe must nse Piney Branch ing to and from school . Rond said a child was killed ag yoad and Cedar street a fow s ago and i discu ng the oe currence he advocated certain park- ing restrietions in that vieinity. “Rlair road is to he widenad sauth of Cedar street, hut that will not help the situation very much on the north side of Cedar street.” he comtinued. “Parking should he ahsolutely pre hibited at all times 30 feet from the intersection of Blair rcad and Cedar street. Parking also should he pre hihited at the intersection of (edar street and (arroll avenue —in fact, on both sides of the viaduet for a trafic Is congested and of the mest serious 1o life to he found in Wash tnday Tavs ington, Some Oppose Change. A numbher of those who vated “No™ to the aqu ion a later opening hour submitted written reasans why they apposed the proposition Mrs. Bolivar J. Lloyd. 3736 Ka nawha street, said the present heurs are convenlent and that the children wonld eontinue to face traflic dangers t all hours. Mrs. Llayd sail she he. lieved reeords wonld show more chil dren have heen injured at nther timen of the day than at 8 a'clack E. T. Cedergren writes that If chil dren are mot taken Inte the school bulldings until 930 they will he play ing In the strests during the rush period of trafe. This writer pr ferved 230 If a change must he made. 1. A. Jachowski, 1007 Hamlin s northeast. voted hecanse with many schools running two shifts for the lower grades a lat ening hour wonld either shorten the time in school or require the afternoon clasess to return heme at dark Mrs. Paul F. Howe, >82 ninth street, expressed th more policemen and traMe lights would afford the hest protection, bt that if a change is to he made. 2:30 eems e rahle to a:3n fhe ressad the importance of ample sleep fo- school children and said a later anening of school would fur- nish a temptation ta allow children up later at night Urges Parents to Aid. Mre. Edna R. Kerwin, "809 Tweniy- sixth street northeast, voted for the 8:30 opening hour, and suggested that paren's ask themeselv the question, “What am | doing ta teach my child safety?” Mrs. Kerwin urged fathers and mothe not te leave the hurden of safeguarding the children to the schools and the traffic hurean R. K. Hamilton, 1514 K street, ad- vocated a 3" opening with ne change in the closing time, but added that the speed limit for teaffic should be made 10 milex an hour within 1we blacks of & school and rigidly enforced Mai. J. H. Woodherry, 1. & A, 3579 Queber sireet, voted againat the changing of school hours, suggesting that a simple way to prevent automo- biles ani children from colliding would he to keep machines ont of the school hlock, where children must necessarily he found in large numbers. Twenty- jef that Officials Meet Informally. School. trafe and police ofMcialn gathered at the Willard Hotel this afternoon at a luncheon arranged by the American Antomabile Association to discuss informally the whole sul. t of safeguarding school children n the sireets of Washingion Another development today was the statement of Traffic Director Eldridge hat he would suggest to Supt. of Schools Ballon that the latter ask the school prineipals to report any loca- tions where chool, Slow™ signs shonld be erected. Mr. Eldridge said he helieved the schéol principal s in the hest position 1o tell where th signs should be placed if a buflding does not already have them Officials of the traMe sign shop vesterday’ that while exaet figures on the number of schaol signa not available. they helievad 100 of the schools had them. are 160 public school huildings, and the estimate of the traMe shop, therefore. would indicate that a eon: siderable number of the achools do not have the aigns. C. P.Clark of the A. A. A., who has heen providing the helts and badges for the establishment of the scheol- bov patrol system, under which the older bove watch over the smaller children in going to and from school, announced today that another huild- Ing. the Jackson School in Georg town, inaugurated the patrol today. . A floating bridge in to be built across the, Hooghy River at Howrah, Bengal. Australia is going in for sclentifio goat farming on a large sca School-Hour Ballot Do you favor later opening of primary Is to protect children Do you favor 9:30 a.m. as opening hour?3 If not, what hour do you fzver? ........ . (} 1