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. BIG TAX REFUNDS . ORDERED PROBED Joint Congressional Commit- tee Will Scan Those in Excess of $75,000. By the Associated Press. Investigation of all tax refunds of more than $75,000 hereafter allowed . by the Treasury will be undertaken * by the joint congressional tax commit- tee. Congress stipulated, in its last ap- propriation of § 00,000 for tax re- funds, that the Treasury submit to the committee the facts on all refunds in excess of that figure. At the sug- gestion of the Bureau of Internal Rev- «nue, however, the committee has de- cided to investigate each of these re- funds. Parker to Conduct Probes. L. H. Parker, chief of the commit- tee's division of investigations, has been instructed by Chairman Green to undertake the investigation. The joint commitiee, created under the 1926 revenue act and including the rank- ing members of the House and Sen- ate committees in charge of tax leg- islation, also has authorized its ex- perts to make further tax studies. Chairman Green made public today & report by Mr. Parker recommend- ing tightening up of the law relat- ing to the penalization of corporations created for the purpose of evading the surtax payments. The report, which has not been acted upon by the joint committee, declared that under the revenue act ©f 1918 and 1921 that section provid- ing a tax of 50 per cent on all profits allowed to accumulate in such cor- porations “has not been enforced to the extent intended by the Congress,” but that under the act of. 1924 and! 1926 “there seems to be some possi- bility that it will be enforced in a re- stricted manner."” Change in Plans Urged. “It is not evident,” the report added, “that the bureau intends to assess the additional tax in the case of large operating corporations which are able to invest their enormous earnings in their own business or related indus- tries, It is possible to replace section 220 by other provisions which will ef- fect the result desired more automat- ically. We belleve that such a change :Xhm”d be given serious considera- on.” DEATH PENALTY OPPOSED. XKenilworih Citizens Go on Record Against Legalized Boxing. The Kenilworth Citizens' Associa- tion at a meeting last night at the Kenilworth Public School, unani- mously approved a resolution, offered by Miss May Rouse, chairman of the committee on laws and legislation. to :k}ol‘hh the death penalty in the Dis- rict. : In addition the association went on record as being opposed to legalized boxing and indorsed the position of the commisisoners for their opposi- tion to bills introduced in Congress to legalize boxing. The association heard a special re- port favorable to the establishment of an airport on the site of the old Benning race track. A committee v:"uh also awomtad to ;vork with other citizens® ll;o&g ons in the ram to erect a national stadium hgrreo‘ ¢ . The meeting was addressed by James G. Yaden, head of the Federa- tion_of Citizens’ Assoeiations. SPECIAL NOTICES. A A L W, 7.- ‘meeting THE EVENING STAR, RISE OF A NEW CHINA ARTICLE 1II. BY UPTON CLOSE. Experts in the Far Eastern section of the American War Department are agreed that the entire armed forces of the Western powers which could be made available at Shanghai within a month would be unable to defeat a determined onslaught by the Nation- alist army, to say nothing of the forces of Marshal Chang Tso-lin, who has offered to send his huge northern- ers to the scene if the powers land any more troops. When I was n the staff of Gen. Wu Pel-fu four ars ago, he instruct- ed us: “Carefully avoid any clash with foreign troops. It will be a good while before our men can stand up to them.” Last Fall a commander in the North- ern armies and an officer in the Can- tonese forces both assured me their soldiers no longer feared white troops. “You have seen the paper tiger that Is carried in a Chinese funeral pa- rade,” said one. “It looks very fero- clous until a gust of wind rips it open. My men call foreign forces ‘the paper tiger”.” Await Chance for Proof. While not aggressively challenging, officers and men today await with confidence, and almost desire, the op- portunity to demonstrate that a Chinaman is as good as a white man on the field. No longer do they go out armed with umbrellas instead of rifies, call off the war in cold weather and decide the victory by poker games between commanders. The change be- gan after the army of Sun Chuan- fang, now hoiding Shanghal, in 1924 almost annihilated a white Russian division employed by Marshal Chang Tso-lin of Mukden. In the old days the Chinese soldier was an outcast and acted like one. Then when the Japanese tried to ab- sorb Shantung, Chinese students be. came militant and joined the army of Wu Pei-fu. Western propaganda of soldier worship during the World War had a large share in breaking down the old Confucian attitude toward fighting. Finally came the creation of the Nationalist force, a Chinese army trained to fight for a cause rather than for a man. The founding of the Whampoa Cadet School near Canton was Dr. Sun Yat-sen's last accom- plishment. It was staffed with 60 Rus- slan military trainers lent by the So- viet. It became an honor to be a Whampoa cadet. They are nominated from all over China by the county committees of the Nationalist party. A professional soldiery made up of picked young brains succeeded the job- less outcasts who were so often ban- dits. Cadets Well Trained. The term of training is a year and a half, a class of 600 being turned out every six months. Cadets also are given a thorough training in party principles and the Nationalist creed and must pass a stiff examination in the art of propagandizing before re- ceiving commissions. The armies of Wu Pei-fu and Chang Tso-lin are still of the old type, but an intense hatred of foreign aggres- sion is building up a new morale even among them. A large factor in this change is the abandonment of the old attitude of the Chinese public toward the soldier as he takes the role of lib- erator from foreign dominance. Until a year ago the Chinese army was trained according to antiquated goose-step methods brought in by way of Japan. Red Russians brought in modern ways. My observation is that in machine-gun fighting, trgnch war- fare and infantry deploymen armies are today as modern as almost any in the world. They appear to be still far pehind in the science of artillery. This, however, is not so important, since heavy artillery can- not be used in the rice country of central and south China. Of course, China is far from armed in a modern sense. Chang Tso-lin's g BRI e Eve v the achington new, o the “Ciky of Washineton, B¢ A X F::flam."hu&l .‘"E‘n}nm f::.n.ir WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY bis oiher than those contracted by we ARENAS C RILE T008 Maeerd, by myself, WANTED 10 BAUL FULL R PART NEW VYORK: ¥ Snx’f)o}l‘l? 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Some Eager to Challenge the West. v has been well equipped by Japan war matertal, including poison and hand-grenades. He has a good stock of American war stuff {ieft by Gen. Graves at Vladivostok |and sold him by the Japanese com- mandant, who, upon our protest, was “punished” by a foreign trip and a promotion. Wu Peifu’s forces have received meager supplies from British sources. Russia has been able to re- equip the army of Feng Yu-hsiang, the “Christian general.” in the north- west, and to send some help to the ationalists at Canton: but, contrary general bellef, only a few ship loads. There is also, despite the agree- ment of the powers to keep war ma- terial out of China, a large lilicit trade. Italy is a flagrant violator. There are even airplanes, of which Chang Tsolin has 15 or 20 and the Cantonese half a dozen, the latter with the advantage of several Amer- ican-trained flyer But China is_progressing rapidly in making herself independent of out- side help in arms. Two great ar- senals are in operation and are being enlarged. 'The one beside Hankow, at Hanyang, run in connection with China’s greatest steel works, was taken from Wu Peifu by the Can- tonese, and is turning out rifles and ammunition day and night under Rus sian and German experts. The other, at Mukden, is superintended by a glant one-armed English ex-officer, one of the perfectors of the trench grenade for the British arm Put Up Valiant Fight. The Chinese soldier has never been afraid to dle, although his sense of humor and compromise has always tended to turn a war into a talk-fest. With strong control, and a cause to fight for, he has, however, recently shown ability to endure appalling laughter, as in the campaign between he Christian general and Chang Tso- lin, or the capture of Swatow by the Nationalists last Summer. In the slege of Wuchang, one of Wu Pei-fu's divisions, cut off by their fellows' transfer of allegiance to the Nationalists, fortified them- selves within the anclent ramparts of the city, and held out for six weeks against hopeless odds until not enough remained to bury their dead. The average pay of the soldier, when he is pald, is only $3 a month in China, from which he usually feeds himself, except while in action. Thanks to the ability of Finance Min ister T. V. Soong, the Nationalists' young Alexander Hamilton, the orig- inal Cantonese forces are regular paid, though the armies they have absorbed in thelr victorious march do not fare so well. Sun Chuan-fang, with the rich revenues of Shanghai district, maintains the highest-paid army in China, while in the north Chang Tso-lin is the only commander who has regular pay days. Many Men in Service. While there are huge numbers of soldiers of varlous sorts in_the dif- ferent regions, the number of reliable and well dr:lled troops is about 70,000 in the Nationalist service and about twice as many in the Northern fac- tions. It has been made plain re- cently that these armies would unite against the foreigners if necessary. Of course, the great powers have their fleets.” But Dr. Hu Shih, Cor- nell and Columbia graduate and ac- knowledged intellectual leader of the New China, put it to me this way: “Warships are useless to fight a self- contained nation. They can shoot only as far as theéy can see. And if they should attempt to prevent our taking over of the foreign areas they will do more damage to the proper- ties of. their own people than to us.” (Copyright. 1927.) jarm ’L:fls In the next article Mr. Close tells how prom:;m :ln,d .:hett:nott are used so ive Chinese Nationalists. E LAUDS U. S. ATTITUDE TOWARD RUSSIA Refusal to Recognize Soviet Gov- ernment Defended by Rev. Ed- mond P. Walsh of G. U. The United States Government's ac- tion in refusing to recognize the Soviet government of Russia was defended in an address by Rev. Edmond P. ‘Walsh, 8. J., dean of the Forign Serv- jce School of Georgetown University, meeting of the Cathedral Heights Etill‘zenl' Aimmlon in St. Alban's Parish Hall, Wisconsin and Massachu- setts avenues, last night. Rev. Mr. Walsh, who spent several years in Russia as a member of an American relief commission, described conditions as one of somber tragedy. He declared that no nation in history has suffered more since 1914 than Rus- sia and expressed doubt as to whether any other nation could stand up under similar strain. Despite the fact that certain Senators have been bewailing and lamenting the American attitude in denial of recognition to Russia merely because its government was set up under revolutionary stress, as ed out, he said, this Government was the first to recognize Russia after its first revolution and was the first to recognize the second revolutionary power, because they had complied with all requirements under s | diplomatic usage and nothing in their constitutions appeared objectionable. Refusal of the State Department to recognize the Soviet regime, he de- clared, was based on the purely Com- munistic foundation on which it was built. He pointed out that the bolshe- vik constitution clearly indicates an intention to dominate the world with its ideas and Communistic principles. 4 - S. Collin Chevrolet Sedan, lef! - m;.,mmf 0. left by Miss Beatries Ford Sedan. left by Mr. L. L 1, CcARL” Y TO WHOM IT MAY CON hip heretofore exi Pakis ‘and Aleck Cokinos &, Contectionery ndma]‘/ w. 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The idea is preposterous here, he said, where the bulwark of the n: tion is made up of the middle cla: reasonably comfortable and conten under the protection and rights grant- ed by our Constitution. The Soviet fishes in troubled waters, he declared, and it is in times of stress, when pros- perity should wane and many workers should be idle, that the Communist would seek to further his doctrine. Summarizing Russia’s present ht, Mr. Walsh cited as causes: Morbidity pessimism and cynicism of intellectu: al leaders; unrgst due to land hunger of the peasants, who owned not a foot of land nor a single root grown there- in; constitutional hunger—a yearning for something bigger and better, a part in the government which shapes their destiny; rapid growth in indus- trial amd factory life without advance- ment In mechanical facilities; and a bewildering ethnological composition of population—about a hundred dif- ferent nationalities with nearly as many languages. The greatest opportunity of any man in modern times to do really great things, he sald, fell to the lot of Kerensky, but he did not seem to have the stability to dominate nor to prevent the establishment of the Soviet government. A big mistake, he Wanted for Rent or Sale. Housen, business propertics. stores. apart- JOETATIERBERT & SONS, 2013 15th B4 N.W. Maln 4590, declared, was made when he did not have Trotzky and Lenin shot. He commented on Kerensky's escape after his downfall, which was made in the automobile of lh*mtlfln Am- | p! |4 CITIZENS FAVOR PLAN TO PROTECT SQUARE Dupont Circle Association Also Pledges Support to New Utilities Body. A resolution pledging support to the movement to preserve Lafayette Square for buildings of national character was adopted at a meeting of the Dupont Circle Citizens’ Asso- clation at Rauscher's yesterday. The association promised its co- operation in the effort to have Con- gress acquira the property for the sites of structures of this character. It, was declared that hotels, apart- ment buildings, office buildings and Other such structures mar the ap- pearance of the square and render it unsuitable as a park so near the ‘White House. The association also pledged its support to the new Public Utilities Commission in its work of carrying out the provisions of the act of 1913 creating it, which’ would protect the public against aggresfon by public service corporations. The secretary was instructed to write to the new commission and get the names of any members of the association who have not applied for their share of the $3,000,000 refund from the Potomac Electric Power Co. Admiral Joseph Strauss was elect ed delegate to the Federation of Cit- izens' Associations to succeed Snow- den Ashford, who died recently. Maj. Clayton Emig, secretary of the asso- ciation, was nominated as the asso- ciation’s candidate for the Citizens' Advisory Council. It was voted to support legislation to be reintroduced in the next Con- Br for the establishment of a municipal - airport for commercial purposes. It was pointed out that 46 of the 48 States of the Union al- ready have such airports. New members elected were Miss Helen Ernst and Mrs. Henry Lloyd Aspinwall. Admiral Willlam Ledyard Rodgers, president of the association, presided. WAY HURT. MRS. CARAWAY Senator’s Wife Injured in Auto Ac- cident at Brownsville, Pa. BROWNSVILLE, Pa., March 8 (#®). —Mrs, T. H. Caraway, wife of the Senator from Arkansas, is in the hos- pital here suffering from injuries to ‘] the chest and back as the result of an automobile accident on the national pike, two miles west of Brownsville. enator Caraway is remaining with his wife, but they expect to resume their drive to Jonesboro, Ark., within a day or so. The Caraway car skidded on a wet road and crashed into another ma- chine. Mrs. Julia Solomon and Mrs. | Mary Basco, hoth of Greensboro, oc- cupants of the other automobile, were injured and are in the hospital. bassador, the streets. George R. Wales, delegate to the Federation of Citlzens’ Assoclations from this association and members of the Citizens’ Advisory Council, was unanimously chosen as the associa- tion’s candidate for election to the counell. John E. Burton, first vice resident presided. commandeered in JEERED AT PRISON Shouts Greet Visit to Scene of Killing of Tombs Warden and Keeper. By the Associated Prees. NEW YORK, March 8.—Jeers and epithets shouted by prisoners peering betweeh bars greeted a judge and Jury yesterday when they visited the tombs to study the scene of the kill-| ing of the warden and a keeper last November. Judge Mancuso and the jury were taken to the tombs by Assistant At- torney Brothers, who i3 prosecuting Robert Weiner and Oscar Amberg, charged with murder. A brother of Oscar Amberg was among three prisoners who killed themselves after they falled to escape. It is alleged that Weiner threw over the wall the pistols the prisoners used in their vain attempt to shoot their way out of the jail. Visitors Jeered and Cursed. The jeering and cursing began as soon as the judge and jury arrived at the jail. The prisoners were espe- cially angered because they were rob- bed of an exercise perfod. The noise did not cease until the visitors were out of sight. The jurors were taken to the spot where Warden Peter A. Mallon was killed, to the jail physician's office and the guard house, where keeper Jeremiah Murphy was killed, and to view the south wall, where the three prisoners, trapped behind a coal pile, ended their own lives with cull from the revolvers they used to kill Murphy and Mallon. Do Not Visit Jali. Amberg Is alleged to have conspired with Welner to furnish arms for the attempted outbreak. They did not visit the jail. As the judge and jurors approached the jail the shouts of the prisoners could be heard by those in the streets bounding the jail yard. Keepers sald that ag first the prisoners thought the visitors were the grand jury, but when they learned who they were they only increased their jeers. Newspapermen were not allowed to enter the prison with the jurors, al- though they protested that the in- spection was part of a public trial and should not be conducted in secret. ASKS TREES BE REPLACED BY FIRM OF BUILDERS Parking Superintendent Cites Con- struction Co. as Responsible for Two Recently Destroyed, Clifford Lanham, superintendent of trees and parkings of the District, recommended to the Commissioners today that the two trees cut down during the construction of a garage company building on New York ave- nue near Thirteenth streat be re- placed at the expense of the construc- tion company. The trees were de- stroyed by two employes of the com- pany, who were fined for their act in Police Court. The plan, according to Mr. Lan- ham, has the approval of Auditor Daniel J. Donovan. The cost of the trees and the labor involved will be taken from the deposit which the construction company put up as a guarantee against damage to District property. Mr. Lanham proposes to replace the trees with Norway maples, 31 inches in diameter, in lleu of saplings 1-inch in diameter, which are usually planted. ANNOUNCE “STAG NIGHT.” American War Veterans Promise Feature Stunts Tonight. The first “stag” night of the Ameri- can War Veterans’ Club will be held tonight at 8 o'clock in the Arcadia gymnasium, Fourteenth street and Park road, the program to include three boxing bouts and other interest- ing features. The program will include boxing ex- hibitlons under the direction of Frankie Mann. The four Gladding Sisters, ‘Zoo” Kenney, the Misses Gladman and Oulahan, Sergt. Mc Don- aid, the blind baritone from Walter Reed Hospital, and Kin Carroll will en- tertain, The minstrel troupe from the Vin- cent B. Costello Post will entertain with a program, which will include Tommy Murray, Sammy Bear, Tim Regan, Charles Plunkett, Barney Puck, Al Stern, Paul Berthe, Whitey Little- ton, Wilbur Alderman, “Heinie” Mil- ler and the Costello Post Drum and Bugle Corps, under the direction of Kin Carroll. An added feature will be stunts by Draper F. Horton, for three ylzars assistant to Houdini, the magi- clan. The master of ceremonies will be Lieut. Happy Walker, assisted by Lieut. Floyd G. Caskey, chairman of the entertainment committee; A. Clyde Connolly, Maj. Roy E. Hughes and Paul F. Grove. WASHINGTON, | IUDGE AND JUROR D. C., iWife’s Objection l Plays Havoc With ! Mechanics’ Trade By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 8.—The wife's objections to oily odors, solled hands and greasy clothes have cre- ated a serious problem for the au- tomobile mechanics’ trade, Fred G. Wacker, chairman of the standard- ization committee of the Automo- tive Equipment Association, said yesterday. Only two out of every 100 young men who enter the service branch of the automobile industry remain longer than two years, Mr. Wacker said, the reason being because they married and are forced by their wives to find cleaner jobs. So serious has the situation be- come that the Automotive Equip- ment Association has undertaken to correct the conditions objection- able to the wife. “Garage owners fust afford their men all facilities for cleaning up before they go home and muss up the family household,” Mr. Wacker sald. “We can't blame the wife for not wanting her husband to come home smelling like an oil well.” SEPARATE RADIO DIVISION CREATED Commerce Department An- nounces Organization to Be Headed by Terrell. ‘While four of the five members of the new radio commission were on their way to Washington or making plans to be here tomcrrow or Thurs- day for the first informal meeting of the commission the Commerce De- partment today announced creation of an independent radio division, under the direction of Willlam D. Terrell, who has been chief radio supervisor for navigatio O. H. Oaldw of New York, one of the men given recess appointments by President Coolldge to the new com- mission, was expected in the city this afternoon, while E. O. Sykes of Mis- sissippi and H. A. Bellows of Min- nesota were to be in Washington to- morrow. Dillon Leaves for Capital. John H. Dillon of San Francisco left the Pacific coast for Washington today and is expected in the Capital Saturday. The other member of the commission, Rear Admiral W. H. G. Bullard, will arrive in Washington from China about April 1 The commission will take up the duty of handling judicial and semi- judicial radio questions, but will ex- ecute its decisions through the new Commerce Department agency whose creation was announced today. Mr. Terrell has had charge of radio ques- tions all during the period of develop- ment of the broadcasting system. He was born in Galansville, Va., and edu- cated in the schools of that place and in Washington. He has been with the Commerce Department since 1911, was a delegate to the London radio con- vention of 1912 and technical adviser at the Paris International Telegraphic Convention of 1925. Presidential Control Urged. President Coolidge was asked yes- terday to issue a proclamation de- claring a “national emergency” to exist in radio broadcasting and to take over supervision of the indus- try himself. The request was made in a letter to the President from Representative Bloom of New York. Mr. Bloom questioned the right of the newly created Radio Commission to function in the absence of funds, which were denied it when the Sen- ate failed to pass the second de- ficiency bill. He pointed to a provision in the act authorizing the executive to sus- pend radio regulations during an emergency such as, he declared, now exists. The President then could redele- gate licensing powers to Secretary Hoover or even to the commission, Bloom contended. He argued that unless that step were taken any ac- tion by Hoover or the commission would invite court action by dissat- isfied broadcasters. NEW STAR DISCOVERED. Polish Professor Cites Planet With Harvard Telescope. CRACOW, Poland, March 8 (®).— The discovery of a new star of the twelfth magnitude was announced here yesterday. It was discovered by Assistant Prof. Casimir Kordelewski of Cracow University, who used a telescope borrowed by that institu- tion from Harvard Universit; TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1927. JUSTIGE HOLMES YEARS OLD TODAY| Jurist on Supreme Court Bench, as Usual, After Greetings From Associates. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. dean of the United States Supreme Court, both in vears und length of service, is 86 years old today. The venerable jurist took his place on the Supreme Court bench as usual today at noon, following warm greet- ings from his assoclates and Chlef Justice Taft. At his home this morning he re- ceived an abundance of flowers, tele- grams and letters, expressing the con- gratulations of both high and low from all parts of the country to the justice. The morning was one con- gratulation after another for him. Greeted at Caplitol. The justice left his home about 11:30 o'clock as usual. He drove to the Capitol. where he was greeted by his many friends and associates befors taking up his official dutles for the day. Members of his household sald there would be no special celebration in honor of his birth. “The occasion is much the same as any other day in the justice's life,” it was sald at the home. Last year marked the twenty-fifth vear on the Supreme bench for Jus- tice Holmes. Friends pointed out to- day that his latest birthday celebra- tion comes almost simuitaneously with the rendering of one of his most vigorous and characteristic decisions —that of yesterday in which the Texas primary law placing restric- ions on colored voters was over- thrown. Characteristic Anecdote Told. A characteristic anecdote illustrat- ing the high esteem in which the ven- erable jurist is held by his assoclates was related in connection with his birth anniversary. Not long ago a young lawyer was arguing a case be- fore the Supreme Court. An ob- stacle in his way was a decision which had been rendered by Justice Holmes. He proceeded to attack this. . Chief Justice Taft smiled broadly. When the lawyer had finished, he said: “You may argue against Justice Holmes' decision, but we do not. We obey him.” Justice Holmes is hale and vigorous and is at his place every day the court is sitting, driving or walking to the Capltol from his home at 1720 I street. URGED AS BOULEVARD. Citizens’ Body Discusses Plan for North Capitol Street. Plans for converting North Capitol street into one of the great boule- vards of the city was discussed last night at the meeting of the Central izens’ Association in the North Capitol Bank. The prospective widening of the street and the installation of a bril- liant lighting system were described by the speakers. Dr. William P. Ken- ealy, who has directed the campaign for the improvement of the street, predicted that the changes would re- sult in a great boom for that area. Condemnation of the one-man type of street cars was expressed by the assoclation and it was voted to appeal to the Public Utilities Commission for reliet from the traffic congestion sald to be caused by these cars. John G. McMahon, secretary of the associa- tion, was appointed to present the case to the commission. BIOGRAPHIES UNDER WAY. Committee Extending M. C. List to Include Sixty-Ninth Congress. In obedience to a resolution passed in the closing hours of Congress, the force under the joint committes on printing that has been working for several years on a revision of the congressional biography, to include every person who has served in Con- gress since the Continental Congress, is now busy working on the biogra- phies of those who served in the Sixty- ninth Congress. ‘This will bring the record up to date, complete, including about 80 additional House members, 19 Senators and the Vice President, and all of the women who have ever been in Congress. It is expected that this very important book, which some of the largest libra- ries in the United States consider their most-used book of reference, will be ready for distribution about August 1. B — Thursday in Franoce is the school holiday which American children have on Saturday. 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Wonderful closets 57,950 Only $69.50 a month—more than half of which applies on the purchase—which means that all expenses (equivalent of rent) will amount to less than $30 a month. Open from 9 a. to 9 p.m. Either car line; 16th St. bus; or we will send an auto 1Z 5 Mental Strain Puts Rapid Calculator at Threshold of Death By the Assoclated Press OMAHA, Neb., March ha's “human adding ' George H. Wood, was near death last night, physically and mentally exhausted by the strain of rapid calculation by which he won his sobriquet. By a sy s which he described “ellminating conversation from mathematics,” Wood, who is 50 ¥ s old, was able to add long rows of figures with uncanny speed and accuracy. Several times in competition he arrived at totals before experts using adding ma- chines. Instead of saying mentally, “two and two are four,” Wood read only the total—“four"—saving time b; the elimination of the ‘“mathe- matical cenversation." Physiclans said excessive mental strain was responsible for Wood's serlous physical condition. GIRL PLANS TO ENTER PLEA OF BURGLARY Former Co-Ed Expected to Admit Third Degree in Robbery of Bank. By the Associated Press. VERMILION, S. Dak., March §.— Tentative plans for a plea of guilty to third degree burglary were an nounced late yesterday by counsel for Miss Mariad Meyers, 19-year-old former university co-ed. Miss Meyers' case will be called for trial tomorrow, and if the girl's mother consents, a plea of gullty will be made and sentence. accepted. The girl told authorities it was to obtaln $24 for tuition at the Univer- sity of South Dakota that she at- tempted to rob a bank here several weeks ago. She recently was held sane. PRISONERS RETURNED. Bandits’ Victims to View Four Men Arrested in Camden, N. J. Four colored men arrested in Cam- den, N. J, yesterday in connection with the alleged appropriation of an automobile belonging to Joseph Fen- wick, colored, 1311 Wylie court north- east, were returned here last night by Detectives Davis and Alligood. * The prisoners registered as George Alexander Butler, 23 years, Seat Plea: ant, Md.; Vernon W. Higgs, 18 years, 1458 Columbia road; Alfred Carter, 24 years, 13562 B street northeast, and Louis Simms, 22 years, 729 Navy place southeast. Detectives have arranged to ques- tion them tonight when several per- sons, victims of bandits, will be sum- moned to police headquarters to see OWN YOUR Modern in Concrete Street D. J. DUN 1319 N. Y. Ave. Best Location in Petworth Convenient to Street Cars and Bus Line!! s ) MADAGASCAR DEAD STILL UNCHECKED Paris Fails to Establish Di- rect Communication With Storm-swept Island. By the Ass PARI cation w ciated ch 8.-—Direct commun!- he Island of Madagascar, swept by a cyclone last Thursday. was still lacking today; therefore, Paris was still without definite word as to the exact number of casualties or the extent of the damage. Reports from the Island of Mauri-* tius, in the Indian Oocen, about 500 miles east of Madagascar, seemed to show that the loss of life was not as great as at first indicated, although considerable damage was done. The Lyonnaise-Madagascar Co., which has a large plant at Tamatave, on the east coast of the Island of Madagascar. has received a wireless message from its nager, advising that the company's staff is all safe and its buildings are undamaged. Tamatave is reported to have suffered most in the storm. The ministry of colonies announced today that it had received nothing di- rect from either Madagascar or Re- union Island, telling of fears that a new storm was headed toward the is- land. 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