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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1927. BETTER ENTRANCES "5 e mvo rron canana 00 ARE HOMELESS T0CITY ARE URGED Modern Minist IN DIXIE TORNADO Massey First Modern Minister to Reveal Nichols Says Directional De- Property Damage in Louis- Text—President Sees Gain in velopment of Capital Can Nation’s Friendship. jana and Mississippi $200,-| Be Controlled. g R g 000—Death List 32. Bank Official Dead ALL POLICE SEEK, - BEATER OF W ‘Victlm Attacked Is in Hos- pital—Rewards Totaling $1,500 Are in Sight. SUBURBAN PARKS PLANNING STUDIED Maryland and Virginia Groups Meet With Capital Commission Here. talked-of channels for direct diplo matle communcation was indicated in the exchange of greetings between the President and the new envov. It wan, tha President said, “a striking proof of the fmportance and extent of tha contacts and relations between /| tha two countires.” Minister Massey | transmitted from his countrymen to |the American people "a pledge of |Canada’'s enduring friendship.” By tha Associated Press. Vincent Massey not only is Cana- da's first Minister to the United States, but he is the first foreign diplomat, at least to the knowledge of present State Department officlals, to make public the text of his creden tials Mr. By tha Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, February 19 Lonisiana and Misslssippl today were nearing an authentie approximation n{£ the damage done hy the tornado which | struck sections of both States Thurs day night While the death count stood at 32, rescua parties were still searching debris for other bodies. The body of one negro girl in Tensae Parish was | found a_quarter of a mile from the | place she was when the ' tornado struck. ! The storm dead were divided as fol- ows: Twelve dead in Sabine Parish. Ta near Pleasant Hill; 11 dead in Tensas Parish, La.; 8§ dead at Rosehill, Miss. 200 Lose Homes. More than 100 were injured and 200 | With every member of the Matre- politan Police Department under spa- cial orders 1o hunt the assatlant of Mrs. Daisy Wel 32 years old, of 137 D street sonutheast, whose head crushed by blows from a blunt instrument when she was assaultad and robhed in the Capitol grounds last night. the way was paved today to pay $1500 for anv information leading to the apprehension of the man who at her In a broad o the police force, Supt. Hesse called for a citv-wide gearch and announced a $500 reward for the attacker. This was followed shortly pption in the Sen- ate of an amendment to the District appropriation bill providing $1,000 Declaring 1t fs possible to control the directional development of a cfty by bullding residential sectors where that type of property i& neglected. J €. Nichols, member of the National Capital Park and Planning Commis sion, vesterday advocated drastic zoning measures for the District with |a view to stabilizing real estate values | here. in an fllustrated lecture at the Cosmos Club under the auspices of the executive hoard of the American Civie Association Mr. Nichols described a residential development of the higher class in | Kansas City, Mo, which he said was |buflt in a section whose status was about the same as Northeast or South st Washington, and he cited the | success of that project as an argu a brief ment in favor of building exclusive | residential neighborhoods here in sec Park extension and development in of Maryland | ed today | he Marviand Planning Com apital Park X 1. meeting in | The three bodies their for tan areas | | | Massay presented his letter of credence, signed by King George, to President Coolidge yesterday. Later he disclosed, with the consent of the State Department, the language of the document, which read “George, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British domin- Measage From Premier. ‘The Minister received a message from Premier King of Canada, just | before the brief. official ceremony | that marked his reception. Tt pointed |to the “notable appointment” the fons beyond the seas king, defender|('nited States of William Phillips, of the faith, Emperor of India, etc, to|now Ambassador at Brussels, to he the President of the United States of | the first American Minister at Ottawa, America sendeth greeting as being a complimentary selection “Our Good Friend: We have judged | that would prove effective in extend it expedient to confer the rank of ling the mutual welfare and good re v with the | il T. CARROLL GRANT. ehensive scheme toward which | T. Carroll Grant, 44 | sistant real estate officer and assi recretary. Washington Loan & of Hyattsville, Md.. died this me at Episcopal Eve, Ear and T an. | Hospital of meningitis after AL S e ay down a broad, | vears old, as ant rust - | t HYWELL DAVIES. HYWELL DAVIES Demoerat, of South tra and the wother link in t connecting Ana A% G { the preamble | the land to | 5l i’ Bopalobithe eomminsion | gift will serve to at-| ther gifts to the National Capi- | Fi kustain i ‘ n yesterday after-| legation of citizens | hment | e that the Glover tra s of a| h of the United | ¢ Standards, but took | s announced that it npilation of def Pe cost of the| It w the co as to vait figures project Charles W. Eltot, 34, city planner of the commission. submitted a report on the proposed fort drive, eonnect ing all the Civil War forts included | in the defense of Washington that| are still in a state of preservation. He estimated that it would require $2,000,000 to acquire the necessary land for such a drive, either by direct purchase or by condemnation. Would Be 22 Miles Long. It was pointed out that the drive would cover a distance of 22 810 miles from Conduit Road to Blue Plains, cireling the northern and eastern sec- tions of the city. The report favored the directing of the drive through a series of parks and houlevards, and 2,000,000 figure was given on this basis. It was pointed out, however, that it is possible that in the actual establishment of the drive, it might be necessary to forego the park and boulevard development in some sec- tions because development had gone €0 far as to make the acquisition of the land extravagant. In the laying out of the tentative route, straight lines and level ground have been avoided, the desire being to have many curves and hills, the re- port indicated. ANTI-EVOLUTION BODY PLANS TO !NCORPORATE Articles Filed in Little Rock Court for Association in Nation- Wide Fight. By the Aseociated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark., February 19. —The American Anti-Evolution Asso- ciation filed articles of incorporation with the Pulaski County Circuit Court here vesterday, with the Rev. Ben M. Bogard, president, and Judge Thomas E. Toler of the seventh judicial dis- trict, vice president. Its design is to organize the State and Nation against the teaching of evolution. ik KE CbéTLY. | the late Judge | sisters, | terment in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Marlboro, Thomas J 3 principal _of Marlboro Academy, and had resided in Hyattsville for the past 20 vears, where he was prominently identified with its civic affairs. Mr. Grant was member of the Washington Board Trade, He is Rosalia s born son of r many in Upper the late n vears ived by his ant, who is 5 Art Rosalie ( Charles R. Grant, tr ton Loan and Trust Co., and three | Miss Neilie Grant, Mrs. J. C. | Mattingly and Mrs. John S. Ridgely of this eity services probahly held Monday at St Church, ‘Hyattsville widow, | Miss asurer Washing. | will be Jerome's Catholic | followed by in- | | | DUCE MAY ASSUME CHANGELLOR TITLE Compromise With King on Relative Positions Debated in Fascist Circles. BY HIRAM K. MODERWELL. By Cable to The Star and Chicagzo Dally News. Copsright, 1927, ROME, February 19 (By Courier to Switzerland).—Dictator Mussolini as chancellor for life of the Kingdom of Italy—this {6 the latest solution pro- posed and now being actively nego- tiated between the Fascisti and the house of Savoy, to define permanently | the relative positions of the King and the Duce in the new Fascist state. It this solution is accepted, the extreme Fascisti would renounce thelir claim to make Mussolini supreme head of the Italian nation, while King Vietor Emmanuel would return to his former policy of giving undivided support to_the Fascist leader, aiming to unite all factions in a supreme drive to establish Italy as one of the world's great nations. Effect of Compromise. This compromise if successful would guarantee on the one hand that Emperor Benito I, will never be proclaimed. On the other hand it would guarantee that Italy, in her march to greatness will be governed more or less according to the tradi tional liberal principles of the house of Savoy—sentences of exile, long im- prisonment and loss of citizenship will mostly be revoked, persecution of citi- zons for their private beliefs will be ended and a reasonable measure of civil liberty will be re-established. The title of chancellor (similar to Bismarck’s), weuld supplant the com- promise titls, “head of the govern Printer’s Helper Invites Wedding Guests to Basket Ball Glme' NEW YORK, February 19 (®).— The implshness of a printer's devil landed Alexander Dessler, 16, in court vesterd: Invitations sent to nu- merous friends of Mr. and Mrs. Her- man Cooper to the wedding of their daughter Bertha, 15, to Harry Rosen- bloom, 16, brought the recipients to a public’ school where only a basket ball game was in progress, Dressler ‘laughingly admitted he had printed the invitations and sent them out as a joke. He will he sen- tenced Monday on a disorderly con duct charge. GIRLS COOK OWN GOOSE. Arliss Blames Feminine Boldness for Attitude of Men. ST. LOUIS, February 19 (#).—By “boldness in dress, speech and man ner.” girls of today are ‘cooking their own goose with the men,” George Arliss said here vesterday at ar fund luncheon. He attributed the existence of the Eex play to the misinterpretation of the new Iiharties accorded young girls and women today. DON'T WANT AMUNDSEN. Police Say Picture Was Printed by Mistake. ITAVANA, February 19 () police officials deny that they d Am was -Cuban it to It was due say, that Amund printed in the licia, or official police ther with a notice of ffered for the detention deseribed 2lmost unpronounceable 1id to be a Turk MONGOLS TORTURE TWO U. S. EXPLORERS HUNTING OVIS POLI (Continued from First Page.) we got more hopeful that 't 10 be tortured to death Then they had ; conference b to let us go for way we had come il have to we the mountains, sometimes 40 soldiers. that, and fi s have our under guard the re: o that 1 eried their suffering. i through . nd below 1o interven made their Tra on The expedition brought back 10,000 et of moving plcture film and 4,000 i1l photographs. vian Hailroad 1o I'eling v irriving there t - with | the | ment" which Mussolini assumed when he found the traditional office “presi- dent of the council of ministers” not sufficiently imposing. Suggest Fascists Disband. hancellor” would correspond par- tially to Mussolini's real position, too, as dictator of every phase of Italian life. It i8 also suggested that the Fascist party would be disbanded, since all Italian citizens now are supposed to be obedient elements of the Itallan Fascist state. This compromise would end the rivalry of many months be- tween the sovereign and Mussolini, but it still is uncertain whether the extreme Facist elements will accept or abide by it if it is accepted. TRAIN BANDIT GETS $7. Worces Brakeman of Coast Express to Let Him Off. SAN FRANCISCO, February 18 (#). masked robber last night held up passengers in the tourist sleeper of the Ocean Shore Express, which left here at 9 o'clock for Los Angeles, ané robbed two men of a total of $7. He forced a brakeman to signal for a stop, and leaped from the train and escaped as the train neared Bay Shore. | £aid. are its most | for visitors form their first—and per- tions other than the Northwest. Says City Unbalanced. Washington, he said, is a most un balanced city in its development. Its building is going in one direction, and Mr. Nichols contended that the values of real estate here are jeopardized by that uncontrolled growth. In build ing residential areas, Mr. Nichols con- tended that beauty in the smalier de alls, guch as tree planting, roadbeds and the orderly arrangement of ma terial at adjoining industrial plants, are equally a& important as beauty in the mere design of large bulldi A city's approaches, Mr. Nichols important factors haps lasting—impressions by what greets them when they emerge from a ratlroad station or steamhoat wharf. He advocated immediate improvement and heautification of Washington's railroad, highway and river entrances. Plans for Streets. Bringing strangers to the District through some of the city's entrances, Mr. Nichols said, like bringing house guests to your home up through a chute in the cellar.” The laws requiring straight streets intersecting at right angles in resi- dential sections of the District were declared detrimental to beauty and in total disregard of the tapography of this sectlon of the country. Wind- ing roadways with long vehicular blocks cut through with narrow and attractive footways, were suggested as a means of protecting residential sections against commercial en- croachment while adding to the beauty of the home =ites. NEW COMMITTEE BETS D.C. VOTE BILL Turned Over to Senate Judi- ciary Members Be- fore Report. The joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to en able Congress to grant the people of {the District of Columbia representa tion in Congress and in the electoral college was reported to the Senate to- day from the District committee by Senator Jones of Washington. Senator Jones explained that in ac- cordance with a previous understand- ing, he would ask that the resolution be sent to the Senate judiclary com- mittee for consideration hefore it is placed on the Senate calendar. This action was taken. The same resolution also is pending before the judiclary committes of the House, so that the procedure taken today places the measure in the same status in hoth branches of Congress. This will make it possible for the judiciary committees of the House and Benate to consider the resolution at the next session of Congress. SCIENCE SAVES HUNTER. NAIROBRBI, Africa, February 19 (#). —Honore Palmer of Chicago, stricken with sleeping _sickness while lon hunting near Nguru, owes his life, perhaps, to a German scientist. The hunting party encountered the scientist, making a special study of sleeping sickness, just as Mr. Palmer became {ll. This was in the wilds of the Gurumeti River region. Immediately the German adminis- tered treatment and in a short time Palmer had improved sufficiently to withstand the journey to Nairobi, a distance of about 350 miles. He progressed so well that he is now walking. RT. AND CONCE: TODAY. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra at Stanley Hall, 545 o'clock, John §. M. Zimmermann, leader. Emil A. Fenstad, second leader. George Washington was well sup- plied with swords, according to John | Clagett Proctor, historian of the So- ciety of Natives of the District of Columbia, who told the society at a meeting in the Washington Club last night that the first President owned seven such weapons and willed five of them to nephews at the time of his | death. “Where the seven swords are | now,” continued Mr. Proctor, “would | be a most interesting thing to ascer tain." An elaboratd program of mu- sic was rendered at the meeting Accompanying the will signifying that the nephews were to have pos-| ession of the five swords, Mr. Proe- | {tor said, was a stipulation that the | nephews were not to unsheath them | for the purpose of shedding blood ex cept in self defense or in the defense | of their country or its rights. In con- | | nection with mention of their usage | for the latter purpose was the advice | {to keep them unsheathed and prefer | falling with them in their hands “to the relinquishment thereof.” Mr. Proctor said that in an account of the Masonic services conducted at | | the tomb of Washington it is stated | | the swords were removed from the coffin. The latter swords, however, said the speaker, were not service swords, but were used principally for ceremonies. They are preserved and ra on exhibit in the Alexandria- | | Washington Lodge of Masons, at Alex { andria, Va., Mr. Proctor said | The sword left to Washington's nephew Samuel Washington was left by the latter to his son, Samuel T.! Washington, who in 1843 presented it | to Congress, Mr. Proctor said. The Washington's Nephews Got Five of His Seven Swords. Society of Natives Told throughout the Revolutionary War, but this may not he the case, he co tinued. This sword is now on exhibit in the National Museum, he said. The entertainment features were under the direction of Mrs. Roscoe L. Oatley, chairman of the entertainment committee, She introduced Mrs. Wil liam C. Stierlin, who took charge of the program of music for the evening. The program included selections by members of the George Washington Glee Club, including vocal solos by R. C. Ferguson, tenor; Paul C. Brown, tenor, and James Duncan, barjtone, with several plano selections by James McLain. Other musical numbers consizted of vocal solos by Paul C. Brown, accompanied at the piano b Mrs, Stlerlin: violin selections by S. ) Markwood, accompanied by Mixs Eli abeth Harrow: vocal solos by Mrs. Johanna Best Russell. accompanied by Mrs. Newton Todd: recitations and a talk on Bermuda by Talbot O. Pulizzi plano solos by Mrs. Newton Todd and vocal solos by Miss A. Steinmetz, ac- companied by 8. J. Garrity. J. C. Kondrup was appointed chair- man of a committee to arrange for the annual banquet of the society, to be held some time in April. Samuel S. Adams, president of iety, who presided, called atten- tion to the recent death of Snowden Ashford, speaking affectionately of him as a charter member of the so- | ciety and a friend of many years. 1ight new members were installed. They are: Mrs, Hester Lochrey, Miss Allca Douglas Goddard, Mrs. Mary Clements, Gustay Bachenheimer. Miss Catherine Lynn._ Edward J. McQuade, latter sword, he added, i= said to be the one carried by Gen. Washington Mrs. Mary A. Byrns and Willlam J. Harper. ~ envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary upon our trusty and well beloved the Hon. Charles Vincent Massey, member of our privy council Of Canada, with the especiul object of representing in the United States of America_the interests of our Do- minfon of Canada. Envoy Given Wide Powers. “We request that you will give en- tire credence to all that Mr. Massey may represent to you in our name, especially when he shall assure you of our esteem and regard, and of our hearty wishes for the welfare and prosperity of the United States of America. And so we commend you to the protection of the Almighty “Given at our Court of St. Jam December 7, 1926, in the seventesr year of our ref our good friend, (Signed) “GEORGE, RE IMPERATOR." friendship between neighboring states was cemented anew when President Mr. Massey Significance of this opening of long- | office at Tall's Coolidge accepted the credentlals of | from (offered by More than a century of peace and | Capital lations of the two countries. Minister Massey spoke of the un broken friendship of upward of a ce tury “between these two democrac as ‘he handed his letters from King George to President Coolidge. “My mission has been established in the confident hope that it will serve to strengthen those cordial sentiments which exist between Canada and the United States, as well as between the United States and the empire of which (anada is a part,” he said. “I &hall be both proud and happy to do all that lies in my power to help in the achievement of thess great ends.” ““Thess relations, and cordial sentiments between countries, to which you terred. will, T am sure,” Coolidge said in reply, “he markedly advanced hv the opportunities for direct mutual exchanges of opinion your presence in this the existing the have re. I wish will rec to assure you that vou ive the heartiest co-operation he officials of this Government in car mission DR. BROWN CHOSEN FORC. 5. C. POST Assistant Director of Bureau of Standards Named as Chief Examiner. Dr. F. . Brown, assistant director of the Bureau of Standards and Ord- nance expert of the United States Army during the World War, was se- lected by Presi- dent Coolidge late vesterday after noon to be chiet examiner of the Civil Service Com- mission. The nom- ination has been sent to the Senate for_confirmation. Dr. Brown, al- though a native of Washington Courthouse, Ohio, has been a resi: dent of Washing- ton for many years and is one of the leaders in scientific circles here. After receiving his early education in Indiana public schools, he was grad- uated from the University of Indiana, recelved his masters degree from the University of Illinois, did graduate work at the University of Chicago and won his doctor's degree at Princeton after two additional years of study. He was successively instructor and professor in the high schools of De- catur, IIL; the University of Illinois, the University of Iowa and the Uni- versity of California. When the World War broke out he became a major of ordnance in the Army. In that capacity he was responsible for the perfection of work on the ballistics of airplane bombs and su- pervised the general task of testing bombs. He is the author of scores of articles on physics, chemistry, en- gineering and the general subject of science. Besides being a_ member of many learned socleties, he helongs to the Cosmos_Club, the Washington Acad emy of Sciences, the Washington Philosophical Society, the National Research Council and is a fellow of the American Assoclation for the Ad- vancement of Science. His assistant directorship of the Bureau of Stand- ards dates from 1919, POST OFFICE ROBBERS ESCAPE IN COUNTY Prince Georges Authorities Baffled as in Case of Christmas Eve Murder. DR. F. C. BROWN. Special Dispatch to The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., February 19.—Prince Georges County authorities are searching for trace of veggmen who Thursday night robbed the post station, near here, of about $30 in cash and $40 in stamps. From the general store of W. Hopkins, in which the post office {8 located, a number of automobile tires and cases of cigarettes were taken. Hall's Station 1s a short distance from Duley's Station, whera Daniel Kuhne, a hermit farmer, was murder- ed Christmas' eve presumably by robbers. No solution of this robbery was eoffected. The murder of a Navy proving grounds employe in the ad- Joining county of Charles by two hegroes, was solved within a few davk, and the negroes are in Jail awalting trial. CROSSING W;\TCHMAN HIT Autoist Says Rain Prevented His Seeing Man Waving Warning. Special Dispateh to The Star. HAGERSTOW Md., February | 19. —Edgar J. Lowe, 65 years old, Nor- iftolk & Western Rallway crossing watchman, was run down by an auto- mobfle last night and is in a critical condition at the Washington County | Hospital with several fractured hones and internal injurles. Melvin Ripp a business man of Martinsburg, W | Va., driver of the automobile, said he was blinded by rain and did not see the watchman waving to him. Lowe lives at Shepherdstown, W. Va. | | | ). —A brother and six MISSING AVIATORS PLANE IDENTIFIED Wreckage Backs Theory That Gray and Harris Lost Lives in Accident. By tha Associated D MITCHEL FI1 19.—One of the airplanes which searched through the night for Lieut. Willlam A. Gray, 28, and Lieut. Wil lard J. Harris, 38, Army aviators, who disappeared in a dense fog off the New Jersey coast Thursday, returned today and reported the wreckage n Forked River, N. J., was part of the plane flown by the missing men. The theory that the men lost their lives in the accldent now is generally accepted here. Both Men Under 40. The aviator vanished while en route trom Mitchel Field, N. Y., to Langley. A wing of the n chine, the landing gear and several struts were found in the surf near Forked River. Army authorities were of the opinion that the pilot was flying about 20 feet ahove the hreakers, which he was using as | a guide, when the plane crashed She Field the Weather Bureau sent warnings that the fog ceiling descending. The a tors were out was be lieved to have heen flying through the | haze directly over the water, and that when they dived, blind. info the waves, the wing was ripped away. Were On Training Trip. The aviators had been on a cross- country training trip. They had arrived at Mitchel Field from Boston, Wednesday. Fog almost obscured their machine as they passed Laval- ette, N. J., where they were last seen. Lieut. Gray was born at Mass., and was unmarried. he piloted the TC-5, semi-rigid drigible, through an Ohio storm on the a versary of the Shenandoah dis; Lieuf. Harris was a native of Wil liamsport, Pa., and was unmarried. His mother is Mrs. Anna Mary Harris of Springfield, Ohio. TWO DIE OF BURNS. Maryland Farmer and Woman Vic- | tims of Similar Accidents. Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md., February 19, ~—Merlin Shank, a tenant farmer, and Mrs. Ethel V. Henson, both residents of Washington County, died at the county hospital here last night of burns resulting from their attempts to rekindle fires with kerosene oil. The accidents, in different sections of the county, occurred yesterd FAMILY LEGISLATORS. Brother and—s;“": buulidg’e Cous- ins, Seated in Vermont. MONTPELIER, Vt., February 19 Mrs Dick seats in the State Legislature, Leroy Bryant (nee Brown) aud P. Brown are the paiv Incidentally they are cousins ot President Coolidge and the ily home ix ‘‘next door” to the Coolidge farm at Plymouth. e Asks Alien Seamen Be Deported. | Asserting persons connected with shipping _were collecting between three million and four million dol- lars annually by bootlegging excluded aliens into the United States, Andrew Furuseth, president of the Interna- tional Seamen's Union, addressed a petition to members of the House yesterday asking support for a bill already passed by the Senate to de- port certain alien seamen. Basket >Ba.l] Team Walking 26 Miles To Enter Tourney By the Associated Press. WAYCROSS, Ga., February 19.— Five members of the local high school basket ball team are walk ing to Nashville, Ga., 26 miles from here, to enter the Southeast Georgia tournament. They expect to arrive at their destination in time for the first gama Monday. The Wayeross School Athletic Association had no funds for transportation. e I storm struck har two | President { {ng out the high aims of your | “ebruary | v after the fyers left Mitchel | er ucgupyY (WO are homeless in the varlous section: The property damage was compara- tively low, due to the fact that the 2 est in isolated farm- ing sections, At Pleasant Hill simple rites were 1 held for seven of the nine members of | the Ashby family. The bodies buried in one grave. A cold, dri | rain fell as the pastor pronounced the last rites, while the dusk was lightened { by three fires at which the grave- | digzers were warming | Residents of the section said the { Aghbv family had been picked up hodily and thrown across the read, | where they were discovered later by W. W. Bruce. who lives about half a mile away. The Hicks home, on the | Jefferson Highway, was leve Not | |even a brick of the foundation was| {1eft in its original place. Two per- sons died there. Souvenir Hunters There, Souvenir hunters tore down what was left by the wind. Practically all of the Hicks household effects had heen taken, including three jars of peaches. Sfate traffic police were hur- ried to the scene to keep traffic mov- |ink along the Jefferson Highway. Tensas Parish reported that difficul- was still being experienced in glv. aid to the injured, due to im- able roads. A. Davis, manager of the Lelia Mack plantation on Lake St. Jose, stated ‘that when the wind hit the plantation house he and his wife and their 14-year-old son took refuge on a {porch which had heen spared. | “The wind was blowing so hard,” {Mr. Davis said. “that it lifted my son ahove my head, and it was only by | seizing his foot and struggling des- [ perately that T kept him from being blown into the lake.” | CcALIFORNIA TOI till Menaced by Rising Rivers. 108 A February 19 (#).— Flood waters raging down from the | upper drainage of the <‘olorado, Gila {and Big Williams Rivers still menaced farm and r: today in the Imper All available men a nd_ teams were at work construecting additional levees to protect existing bulwarks from a threatened overflow. The danger was believed to have heen temporarily averted when a diversion dam across the Colarado River below Rockwood gate - was dynamited to give the waters, which were reported flowing 35,000 second feet at the heading, a clear passage to the Gult of California. 3 Although no additional property damage Was reported, the death toil | mounted to last night with the | discovery of three more bodies in the wake of the storm The latest fatality when the hody of M. Angeles aviator, wa in the surf near San was wrecked fox with a Diego bakers. With San Diego still cut off from rail and highway communication yes- | terday naval craft were pressed into service to carry mail. COUNTY TO BUY OIL. Arilngton Supervisors Authorize Contract With Texas Co. Spectal Dispatch to The Sta; CLARENDON, Va.. February 19.- E. ¢. Turnburke, chairman of the Boar Supervisors, at ‘a special | meeting of the board lust night at the courthouse, was authorized to sign the contract with the Texas - Oil Co. for the country’s supply of ofl for | the coming vear. The county engineer was instructed to investigaie a report that high ten sion wires were attached to an ad- | vertising signhoard at Lee Ifighw nd Glebe road. He was instrueted also to have the wires removed if they were dangerous. Announcement was made that the board would hold a special meeting Wednesday night at {the courthouse to consider the yearly budget. SHOT TO DEATH IN AUTO. Gang Vk_t{;n Believed Slain by Mistake. February 19 identity s blamed police | Vizerilio Guadagni, | 1v today by shotgun slugs | speeding automobile. was riddled as he drove through the West Side in a car be- longing to Dun Tagnotti, business agent for the Truck Drivers’ Union, in response to a telephone call belleved {0 have been intended to lure Tugnottl | | | | ty ing 1 o + NOW 25, Farm Lands was_ revealed | R. Fore. Los found floating iego. His plane hen he ran into a dense 80 of yeast to San Chicago CHICAGO, case of mistaken labor warf for the de 40, killed eu tived from His body in by | | operation was unsucce CLAIMED BY DEATH Member of U. S. Board of Railway Mediation Had Distinguished Career. Hywell Davies, 67 vears old, mem her of the Inited States Board o Railway Mediation, died Thursday night at Gieorge Washington Hospital following an operation for intestinal trouble. He had peen in the hospital a week Davies was appointed to the Board of Mediation when recently formed from the Conciliation Service of the Department of Labor. where he had served since 1914. Previous to his connection with the Department of Labor he was president of the Ken- tucky Coal Operators’ Association. He was a mining engineer by profession He came to the United States in 1885 from Wales, where he was born in 1859. He was widely known for his ability in settling labor disputes. Mr. Davies is survived by his widow, Mrs. Ella Davies, and eight children, all living in Los Angeles He was a member of the Knights of Pythias. The funeral was held at 11:30 o’clock this morning at Hysong's Funeral Home. Rurial will be in Los Angeles. Secretary of Labor Davis and for- abor W. B. Wilson Davies at the rites ) honorar Secretary Davi; Gov. E. P. a member of the hoard of media- tion: H. L. Kerwin, director of concil- iation, Department of Lahor; W. commissioner of conciliation, . Willilam Bevard, Department abor. Members of the board of mediation and other officials of the Government were present at the funeral. FARM LOBBY QUIZ ASKED. Several Senators Behind Move to Hold Investigation. A move to force an of lobby MeNary been started by a number of Senators, who want the inquiry linked up with the proposed investigation of the bank- ing lobby active during the fight over the ‘McFadden branch banking bill. Chairman Keves of the Senate com- mittee which is considering the resolu- tion of Senator Glass, Democrat, Vir- ginia, for the banking investigation is deferring committee action until sentiment has crystallized among the Senators who have indicated to him their desire for a broadening of the inquiry to include farm relief. DIES OF HIS INJURIES. John Fahy, Auto Accident Victim, Succumbs in Hospital. John Fahy, 8 yvears old, 424 Fast Capitol street, who was injured in an autemobile dent on the road near lLa Plata, harles (‘ounty, Md No- vember 14, died at Casualty Hospital about 9 o'clock last night. Two friends injured in the accident recovered. Thursday afternoon attending sur- geons removed one of his eves, but the Coroner death cer- pallbearers were: Mr. Wilson. former investigation g activities in behalf of the Nevitt gave the tificate, and Mar notifled of Fahy's death. POTATOES PR'OVE COSTLY. BATH, N. Y., February 19 (#) Probably the most costly potatoes on record is the crop which figures in a law suit he eces still_unfinished, with a verdict of $2.483 on file, pending, and costs of $1,168. TAXATION AIDS HORSE. () —Tax- horse back LONDON, February 19 ation 1s putting the lowly nto style in London, displacing the automobile. One firm now has G0 more horses than before the war, aud is still displacing mechanicul vehicles with horses whenever thers is an op portunit | With care, a horse doing ordinary work should last for 15 years. They have been found more economical into an ambuscade. School in Classing Stu By the Associated Press. CHARLOTTE, N. C., February 19 Teachers should go slow in clas ing pupils as “dum-bells,” Dr. John | Henry Hightsmith, State inspector of | high schools, declared here yesterday in an address before State high school principals. Dr. Highsmith, while suggesting no remedy for backward students, urged that something should be done for them. e called attention to a num ber of investigations that had been made concerning mental ability and said thut the results of the investiga- tons should pave the way for a remedy. The speaker asserted that pupils should not be placed in the “dumb bell” category until something was done toward remedying their mental deficiency. The meeting was called to attempt to ascertain the reason for students faillng to make the grade required for passing. This question was not discussed specifically yesterday, but it was hinted that the fault was with a teacher rathgr than the pupils. Out- side interest was another cause ad vanced. Digoussion will continue to- day. ¥ % | | | :I'ewachers Warned to Be Careful dents as Dumb-bells! Dr. Highsmith alsn objected strenu- ously to lengthy examination in high schools. He said many high schools were following in the footsteps of col- | leges by giving three-hour examina-| tiona. “This is too long,” he declared. hour is enough.” A change in the system of promot- | “An| | ing pupils was urged by Dr. M. R.| 9 Trabue, professor of education at the University of North Carolina. Dr. Trabue suld two separate sets of yrades were needed, one to furnish guidance to colleges, business houses und uny other agency desiring exact information concerning the work the puptl could do and the other set to give parents and the puplls an fdea of the application and effort expended by the puplls. 1ie expressed the opinion that th thme would come when the present promotion system would be abolished and promotions made at certain defi- nite stages. | “Why," he asked, “should not chil-| dren be'in the elementary grades up to 14 vears of age, then go to high, school for four years and then to col- lege for four years?"' The answer to the question was left to the audience. Morrow of Kentucky, also | H. | -Haugen farm relief bill has | land authorities were | The case was started in 1918 and is | | of the countr. wis accepted without Serious State. Mrs. Welling 18 in dition in Casualty 11 The sole support of h 9.year-old son, she home from the | pital mother and her way el. where > oper 11:30 was on iscoll 1 Libra later 3 \ Zeno R. Wright of the th precinct was shot in a duel with a burglar answer- ling the general description of Mrs. Welling's assailant, whom she d scribad as a negro, when tha prisoner broke from him at a call box at Ten. nessqs avenua and B streets north- east ' and escaped, Wright beliaves he wounded the man as he was at tempting to forca entranca into & grocery store at B street and Twelfth | place northeast. One of the negro's | bullets struck Wright in the left arm below the shoulder. Blood Transfusion Planned. Doctors at Casualty planned today | a blood transtusion In an effort to save the life of Mrs, Welling, who, despite the seriousness of her wound | has retained consciousness sufficiently to enable her to describe to police her assailant and the circumsiances of the attack. Leaving her place of emplovment shortly after 11 o'clock, Mrs. Welling started homeward through the Capitol Grounds, her customary route, she ex- plained. She was on the walk oppo- ite Congressional Library and had stopped to regain her handkerchief which had fallen when the negro sud- |denly appeared and started slugging | her ‘with a club or iron bar. Mrs. | Welling remembered nothing further | until she emerged from a faint and was able to crawl a short distance to a point near the coping diagonally |across from the fountain in front of | Congressional Libra | Samuel Wertlieb, 300 Fourteenth treet southeast. motoring along See- | ond street, saw Mrs. Welling and went |in search of a policeman. 'He found Policeman Bryan H. White of the fifth precinct at Pennsylvania avenus and Fourth street southeast. Scene Searched for Clue. They put Mrs. Welling in Wertlieb's car and took her to Casualty, where surgeons expressed surprise that she had survived the assault. A search for a possible clue was made at the scene of the attack and resulted in the finding of Mrs. Wel- ling’s pocketbook, emptied of its con- tents, $10 or $1 Mrs. Welling is divorced from Car- | ter Welling. who now lives in Keyser, W. Va., police were told. She makes her home with her mother, Mrs. Sarah Lamb, and the boy. The shooting of Policeman Wright | occurred about 3 o'clock this morning, {the sound of gunfire arousing the entire neighborhood. Wright said he arrested the negro as he was attempting to break into the grocery store, and had trouble get ting him to the call box. As he stop- ped at the box, the man drew a pistol and fired. The negro Immediately broke and ran, with Wright. behind him, firing. He escaped in the darkne Wright reported the occurrenee at the ninth precinct and then went to Casualty for treatment. Mrs. Wellingotold police her assail- ant was light-skinned, poorly dressed nd about 30 years old. and Wright said this would answer to the xeneral make-up of his prisoner. FARM BILL ADVICE FLOODS PRESIDENT FROM BOTH SIDES Page.) r Con / (ontinued from First H. Gray, its Washington representa- tive, were among the President’s first callers today and they told him that | the federation is 100 per cent behind Haugen bill as passed by | ion of Congress.” 3 ompson declared that he and his colleagues had informed the Presi- dent that this bill is entirely diffarent from the McNary-Haugen measure that failed to become a law a vear ago, as “it is virtually a new bill" They pointed out to Mr. Coolidge that he could sign this measure without in any manner embarrassing himself in view of his opposition to the McN. iaugen furm bill last year, hec the important changes that have made in it “Great Interest” Shown. The President was also inforued that the membership of the federation Is determined in its belief that the bil is # good measure and that it should become o law. They polnted vut that the Middle West, where the strength of the federation centers, has already demonstrated its desire to see this bill become a law Mr. Thompeon said that while he could not violate confidences norrepeat the President’s statement to them, Mr. Coolidge had shown “great interest” in what they told him. Asked whether the President’'s attitude seemed en- couraging to the farmers, Mr. Thamp- son said. “The President is alwavs encouraging.” I Farm Bureau Federation officlals then declined to be interviewed further The White House was baing flooded today with telezrams from all parts from farmers and in- ul leaders alike, some urging the # Nary-Haugen ust sxecutive to sign the M bill and others pleading with him to veto it These messages arrvived in batches, and after being arranged in order, were shown to the President, Not in a long time has interest in a measure whose fule remains in the hands of the President created such Widespread und profound interest as is expressed in the tide of telegrams that into the White House Lill will be sent to the Depart. dieultire lute today for the Secretary Jardine. 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