Evening Star Newspaper, July 5, 1927, Page 2

BN O TOSE " PATROTI DISPLAY Concluding Exercises in Cel- ebration of Nation’s Birth- day Marked by Thrills. Washington's celebration of the 151st anniversary of Independence day ended in glory last night when a throng of 60,000 persons blanketed the slopes at the foot of the Washing- ton Monument to witness patriotic pageantry. A concert by the United States Ma- ine B: new Commissioner’s ini- to the city, the reading the Deelaration of Independence and a swirling array of fi nd ban- ners, constituted the exer held in SMASHED BY Lieut. C. C. Champion, Jr., Pilots Fighting Craft to Height of 37,500 Feet. Plans to Remove Pontoons and Seek New World Mark for All Types. Flying a Navy fighting seaplane, Lieut. % %c. Champion, jr., of the Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Depart- ment, reached an indicated a 00 feet over the Capital yesterday, shed the previous world's sea- ltitude mark of 33,500 feet held a and came within 3, of equaling the highest altitude ever Sylvan Theater, the Jeafy dell just Juth of the Monument. While thou- stood quietly during this form celebration, even more thousands swarmed the north of the mound waiting im \ f-v!'] the darkne: ompanying pyro- technie followed the Sylvan pres Crowd Gathers Ea <t by the score and then by the 1 od, the crowd began as sembling on the mound even before ind while they busied them- h the selection of age the United Stat e leadership of Tay 3 e It from 7:30 o'clock arkness fell, bat- rchlights, station- : four compass points some dis- tance from the base of the Monument, slowly roved the full height of the shaft, weaving a Soft mantle that il- luminated the whole grounds. An- other powerful light set up at the west end of the Lincoln Llemorlal re- flecting pool, slowly rose xd fell from the mirror surface of the dasin to the marble sides of the shaft, flooding the grounds with its light. Here and there in the mldst of the vast throng varicolored light bombs were set off by the impatient folks who had “brought their own.” From a distance the Monument greunds, with the fitful flares and the réving light shafts that played upon tha ris- ing columns of smoke resembled & vast pyre built for the celebration Sylvan Theater Program. Promptly at 8 o'clock, the lesSer thousands assembled in Sylvan Théé: ter, sang “America” to the pitch of the Marine Band—and the formal eX- Arriving selve point und <on, played in concert reached by man—40,820 feet, credited to M. Callizo of ¥r e, The barograph carried in the plane now in the custody of the Bureau of ardards and when calibration tests are completed, probably tomorrow, Lieut. Champion expects the instru- ment to reveal an actual altitude of 36,500 fect, or 3,000 feet in excess of his world made at Hampton Road Va Lieut. pache’ ered with a Pratt & Whitney “Wasp” air-cooled radial engine of 400 horse- power. Attached to the engine was a Roots type supercharger, developed by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. May Seek More Records. Satisfied with the splendid perform- ance of the plane and engine nearly eight miles above the earth, Navy aeronautic officials, it is understood, are planning on removing the pon- toon and substituting wheels with tie view of desérmining the ship's per- formance at high altitudes as a land plane. The “Apache” as a seaplane is equipped with one main pontoon for landing on the water which weighs about 150 pounds, and two small wing-tip pontoons. Minus the weight of the pontoons and the head resi. ance they give, it is believed that the little plane could be pushed several hundred feet higher than the Callizo record, which will be two vears old August 23. Regula- tions of the Federation Aeronautic In- tethationale require planes competing for altitude records to exceed the mark ercises were begun. Following the song, a silence settled over the crowd and from the bottom of the dell, which forms the theater, a voice rosé to the outer slopes in the rendition of the Declaration of Independence It was Charles E. Carusi, presiden$ of the Board of Education, who rea! the historic document, and although the vast out-of-doors presented & handicap for any human voice to overcome, the big assemblage wa$ quieted while it strained to catch every word that was read. At the con- * clusion of the reading, a tremendous ovation rose on the hillside. Following the reading of the Decla- ration, Isaac Gans, chairman of the _ community celebration committes, in- troduced Col. William B. Ladue, En- gineer Commissioner of the District. Ladue Is Introduced. The flood lights which emulated the , footlights of other theaters did their gleaming best, but to the thousands | mounted on the receding slUpe their new Commissioneg was merely an- other figure in the center of the stage. Col. Ladue's address waa brief and pointed, and little more than a greet- ing to the citizenry, but he took time to fire a verbal broadside at militant radicals, the defeat of whose purpose he declared. depended upon upright citizens the length and breadth of the country. In callingsupon the Nation’s citizenry to combat radicalism, Col. Ladue pledged his own service to the District of Columbia and its people. Following Col. Ladue's address the massing of the colors was staged. Flags born by the veterans of all the wars whose fighters still survive, ral- lied to the stage while the band played. As each banner was marched briskly in from the leafy “wings” of the stage it swirled and coiled as a thing alive in the weird light. A detach- ment of soldiers lead the massing ceremonies, and this color guard was brought up close!y by guards of sailors and marines. National Flag in Evidence, ¢ With the national flag, borne on many staffs, the banners of patriotic organizations, including the Daughters of the American Revolution and the American Red Cross, floated in the breeze. Another banner, neither patriotic nor national, but withal human, fairly gleamed in the light rays. It was the community center banner telling with bold black letters: +20,000 Children Play in Safety on Your Playgrounds.” With all flags and banners aloft in a colorful mass, Judge Mary O'Toole led the crowd in the recitation of the cath of allegiance to the flag, after which the whole assemblage sang “America the Beautiful.” The formal exercises were over and the uniformed end costumed principals from the sylvan stage marched up the slope to the Monument base to witness the aerial fire display. The beginning of that march was a signal for a swarm- ing exodus over the top of the mound to the north slope. After considerable delay in setting off the fireworks, dur- ing which a Navy airplane, piloted by Lieut. Comdr. W. W. Davis and Avia- tion Pilot S. H. Bushong, circled over- head displaying its running lights, the display began. Rocket Wins Applause. Suddenly, while the throng was get- ting more and more impatient, a rocket hurtled skyward and burst with a happy bang that brought forth the first of many rounds of applause. When the annual “Good Night” burned its sputtering message the thousands slowly drifted in all direc- tions from the hillsides. WOMAN APOLOGIZES IN NOTE FOR SUICIDE, Native of South Carolina Found Dead in New York, Book of Poems Beside Her. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Jul tine Vaughan Henris 8. C., was found dead from gas today with a book of poems at her side in a rooming house in West Eighty-ninth street, B Mrs. Henricl, who was 30 years old, left a note apologizing to the pro- prietor of the roomin, ouse for “the trouble I cause yo In another note she asked that her moth: Mrs. Vaughan of Spartanburg, S. C., and Mrs. Sibil Sills, at a New York address, be notified. Mrs. Sills said Mrs. Henrlcl was well educated =ud Mad shown talent as a writer, Mrs. Ernes- i Chair of Dietetics Wanted. Two contributions of $50,000 each ®ave been made toward the establish- ment of a chair of dietetlcs in the Uni- versity of London. The gifts are in line with the movement to give the medical profession and others an op- portunity of widening their knowl- edge of food values, and through bene- fiting the public. One contriiution OTYSFLAGFLYING DISPUTE MINIMIZED Board. of Commissioners Consider Question “Tem- pest in Teapot.” The District Commissioners do not propose to take any official cogni- zance of the premature manifestation of patriotism on the part of some Washington merchants in displaying flags from sidewalk flagstaffs Satur- day in violation of the order which authorized_thedisplay only on Inde- pendence Day, it was learned today at the District Building. A list containing the names of 60 merchants who are alleged to have violated the order was prepared by the first precinct station and forward- ed to police headquarters, iut that is as far as it probably will go. Maj. Ed- win B. Hesse, superintcpdent of po- lice, is not inclined to carry the mat- ter any further, while the Commis- sioners, it was said, ar2 not even in- terested in seeing the list. As a matter of fact, the Commis- sioners as well as police department officials regard the whoie affair as a tempest in a teapot. Order Explained. While the order of the Commis- sioners specifically directed that the flags be displayed only on the Fourth of July, the fact that this day fell on Monday when virtually all of the downtown stores were closed, it was said, presented a reasonable excuse for the action of the merchants in displaying the emblems Saturday. Moreover, it was pointed out by Daniel E. Garges, secretary to the Board of Commissioners, that if any on~ is called to account for the pre- mature flag exhibition. it should be the American Legion and the Veter- ans of Foreign Wars, which conceived the sidewaik flagstaff idea and were is- sued permits to carry it out. And. if for any reason it is decided to press the matter, the Commissioners indi- cated that they would deal with the veterans’ organizations and not the merchants. Reason for Warning. The activity of the Police Depart- ment in warning the merchants against putting up flags in advance of the time designated by the Com- missioners, it was explained, was due to the fact that the object of the sidewalk flagstaff idea was to have a uniformity of display on special occasions. As some merchants displayed the flags prematurely and others waited until the day designated, an irregu- lar display resulted over the week end and defeated the purpose of the plan. PLAN RELIEF OF PEOPLES STRICKEN BY DISASTERS U. 8. Red Cross Represented in Con ference at Geneva Considering Earthquakes and Floods. By the Associated Pre: GENEVA, July 5.—The adoption of a convention for collective govern- mental relief for peoples stricken by disasters like earthquakes and floods is the object of an international con- ference. which has just opened at the League of dency of Dr. Wilhelm Kuelz, former German minister of interior. The American Government declined the invitation to send a delegate, but the American Red Cross is represent- ed by Tracy B. Kittredge of Berkeley, provides for collaboration of Red Cross_organizations. M. Tchitcherin, Soviet foreign com missar, sent notification that Moscow that the proposed governmental union would either weaken or duplicate the activities of the Red Cross. osi BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldlers’ Home Military Bands this_evening at 5:40 oclock, John §. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster. - March, “The Elite”.....Zimmermann Overture, “Grand Festival,” Reissiger Morceau, “Prelude to Third Act of Kunihild"” cereeaianaaes ..Reinicke Patriotic fantasia, “America Forever,” Tobani ‘m Lonely Without You,” ‘Warren and Love in Vienna" .Komzak Fox trot, Waltz suite, Life was given anonymously by a waoman and the other by a n\(\nu[:\ctur’ of Adietetic preparations. AR Finale, “I Never Knew".......Fiorito “The Star Spangled Banner.” Ititude of | ations, under the presi-! Calif., because the proposed _treaty | refused to participate, on the ground | THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C SEAPLANE ALTITUDE RECORD NAVAL AVIATOR | | LIEUT. C. CHAMPION, JR. of the other by 100 meters before the challenging plane can be credited with | the record. However, no official plans are afoot for attacking the mark, which has stood unsh; against several attempts by Lieut. John A. Macready, the former “alti- tude” pilot of the Army Air Corps. Flies in Perfect Comfort. Yesterday’s flight to the maximum “ceiling” of the “Apache” required one hour and five minutes. Along about the 18,000-foot level, Lieut. Champion turned on his oxygen tank, and heavily clad against the bitter cold aloft, he reached his objective in the same comfort that would have at- tended a pilot flying about Washing- ten vesterday at the 3,000-foot level, be reported on landing. The previous Amer made June 7, 1923, at San Diego, Lieut. C. F. Harper, U. 8. N,, who, in a Douglas seaplane, with a Liberty 400-horse-power engine, reached an al- titude of 13,898 fect. The record Lieut. Champion broke on May 5, how- ever, was held by France, at approx- imately 31,000 feet. The flight yvesterday was witnessed by observers of the National Aeronau- k—% ation, which, on receipt of @ final calib:.tion from the Bureau of Standards will forward t1: mark to the Federation Aeronautique Inter- nationale at Paris for certification as a world record. ‘Hoover Adds Voice In Praising Capital As Summer Resort n record was Secretary of Commerce Hoover today added his_commendation to the virtues of Washington as a Summer resort. Entering the conference room at the Commerce Department today, where a group of correspondents awaited the regular Tue talk with the Secretary, he said: “I see there are a faithful few remaining in_Washirggton. “These who have left to escape the heat have been fooled by Wash- ington's delightful weather.” At the same time Mr. Hoover announced that he would leave Washington about August 1 for his Summer vacation. He expects to be gone during the entire month of August on his annual inspec- tion of Commerce Department ac- tivities on the Pacific Coast and will stop at Rapid City to visit President Coolidge on his return. The President has invited him to spend a fow days n the Black 5. MERCHANTS 'SEEK NEW NAME FOR HOUNDSDITCH English Traders Claim Reputation of 0ld Street Is Hurting Business. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 5.—Merchants who do business in Houndsditch, an East End street near Whitechapel, with the churches St. Botolphs at each end, complain that the unsavory reputation of the street {s hurting their business. They ask that its name be changed. History certainly has not been kind to Houndsditch. John Stow, Lon- don’s famous chronicler, speaks of the old City Ditch, on which site the pres- ent street stands, as “a filthy place, full of dead dog: Shakespeare and other writers have also spoken of it most contemptuously. City authori say that historic street names should be maintained and suggest that if this is not done it will be most convenient to number the streets, as is done in American cities. The whole history of the City of London, they point out, is bound up with its street names. lic Hill is so called because there used to be a garlic market there, just as at Corn- hill there used to be a corn market. Fig trees used to flourish where now is Fig Tree Court, Inner Temple. Cloth Fair, West Smithfield, was once the rendezvous of Flemish cloth mer- chants, while Conduit street, in the fashionable West End, is reminder that centuries ago water was brought down this route in wooden conduits which were often only hollow trees. Crushed to Death i ) HARRY FAU!KNER, While directing a switching crew ‘handling cars in the vicinity of Sec- ond and I streets northeast about 6 o'clock this morning, Harry Faulkner, 30 years old, a yard conductor in the employ of the Washington Terminal Co., was caught between a car and stop-block and crushed to death, He was pronounced dead by a physician on duty at Union Station. The body was taken to the morgue, Faulkner roomed at the home of Mrs. E. O. Munger, 1337 H strect northeast. He is survived by three married sisters. FOURAREKILLED, B HURT IN AUTOS Two Die Today in Hospitals, Swelling Toll for Holi- day Accidents. The death of two persons today hrought the toll of automobile acci- dents in Washington and vicinity over the Tndependance Day holiday period, ending today, to four killed and eight injured. One man was killed while on dward T. Downs, 63 years old, 627 street southeast, died at Casualty pital about 1:30 o’clock this morn- after the automobile in which he riding had been struck by another r near Waldorf, M while on his way to Leonardtown to attend the funeral of Mrs. Tina Guy, his sister, in St. Joseph's Catholic Church there this morning. Struck by Speeder. Fdward F. Downs, a son, 630 M street southeast, who drove the car, was not injured. Mrs. Annie Con- nors, his sister, the other member of the received slight injuries. d their father to the hos- pital in a passing car, but his skull tured so badly that he died soon after being admitted. Downs said his car was struck by a speeding machine occupied by col- ored men. He pulled as far as pos- sible to the side of the road, he said, but was unable to avoid being hit. The older Downs was thrown into the road. Downs left his car at the scene of the accident and when it was sent for today it was found stripped of five tires and accessories. Arthur Breoks, colored 30 years old, - | 925 Beventh street southeast, was ar- rested hers today by Policeman T. M. McVearry of the fifth precinct and held to await the result of an investl- gation into the death of Dowi Brooks, according to the police, is said to have admitted being the driver of the car that struck the Downs car. He was traced through the license number on his damaged car that was left at the scene of the ¢ccident until it could be towed away. Dies in Hospital. Mrs. Downs, widow of the man killed, summoned home from Co- lonial Deach toda where she had been staying with two of he: children. Mr. Downs had long been a resident of Washington and was in the prod- uce business. Funeral services will be held in St. Peter's Catholic Church, where he was a member of the Holy Name Society, at a date to be fixed later. James McLane, 23 years old, 1004 I street northeast, died at Casualty Hos- pital this morning as a result of an accident near Mount Zion, Md., Sun- day afternoon. McLane, accompanied by Francis and Harrison Shoemaker, $ Fourth strect southeast, was on his way to Chesapeake Beach for the Fourth of July holiday when the car hit a pile of stone, careencd, over- turned several times and landed at the foot of a steep embankment. The Shoemakers, not badly hurt, righted the car and brought their in- jured companion to the city. Sur- geons at Casualty Hospital examined him and found him suffering from severe internal injuries, and an opera- tion was performed last night in an effort to save his life. The operation disclosed severe jnjuries to the liver and spieen. MéLane resided with his mother, Mrs. Nellie M. McLane, widow of Lieut. Simon McLane of the District Fire Department. Killed by Engine. Crossing the railroad track near Summit, Va., yesterday afternoon, William H. Coates, - colored, 1337 T street, and his wife. Julia were in- antly killed when an engine struck their car. They were thrown 40 feet from the automobile and Coates’ body was cut in half against a telegraph pole. erlL Coates’ sister, Emily Miner, who was driving the car, escaped with a out head. She is in the Fredericks- burg Hospital. Their son Earl suffered only bruises. The car had stopped to wait for a train to pass and then start- ed across the tracks, when a single engine shot past on another track, hitting the car in the rear. The party was on its way to Sum- mit. Mrs. Regina E. Warren, 87 years old, wife of Franklin E. Warren of 339 N street southwest, was injured in an automobile collision on the State road about three miles south of La Plata, Charles County, Md., late yes- terday afternoon while returning from a Fourth of July outing at Chapel Point. Her head was cut and she sustained a slight fracture of the skull. She was brought to the city and taken to Providence Hospital, where her condition was reported favorable this morning. Driver Is Arrested. Her husband was driving the car, the couple having their daughters, Regina, 16, and Vivian, 14 years old, with them. Husband and children were only slightly shocked. Morris Franklin, colored, of Washington, driver of the other car that figured in the accident, was arrested and taken to La Plata, where he is charged with reckless driving. He also was held to await the outcome of Mrs. Warren's injurles. Mr. Warren said the car of the col- ored man, making a wide turn near a curve, left the paved road and reached the gravel on the side, and it was zlgzagging back to the paved portion when it sideswiped his car. Vera Curtis, colored, 19 years old, 416 Sixth street, was slightly injured in a collision between a taxicab in which she was riding and a street car at Sixth and B streets about 12:30 this morning. Three persons were hurt in a collis- jon of two automobiles on the Tidal Basin roadway _yesterday. Pearl Carter, 24 years of age, Gaithersburg, Md., a passenger in the automobile of John B. Cross, 3617 Prospect avenue, was treated at Emergency Hospital. Alicenda Lee and Edwin Tucker, both colored, of 822 Twenty-third street, passengers in the other machine, driven by Ashbury Robinson, 1021 Thirtieth street, were also injured. William H. Abbott, 67 years old, 324 Fourteenth street southwest, was knocked down at Sixteenth and I streets this morning by the automobile of Mary Sideman, 1665 Lamont street, and severely shocked and bruised. He was treated at Emergency Hospital, where his condition was reported un- determined. Chinese Money Varied. There are more than 200 separate and distinct forms of money in China. Some of it is good in all provinces, but all of it s not par in some sections, and the value of different coins and paper constantly changes. There are unknown numbers of copper coins in circulation dating back before Colum- bus' time. Their value has varied from 100 to a dollar to as much as 2,900 to 3,100, At one time there were 17 mints in China working 24 hours a day stamp-, ing out small cash coins. Millions of counterfeit copper coins are believed to enter the republic annually from Yellow Sea islands. The present re- Klectric signs are beceing popu- lar dm Jtalys * iy public has five different designed silver dollars, $10 and $20 gold pieces and 10, 20 and 30 cent pieces, USPECTS SOUCHT IN PHLADELPHIA Man Held There May Be One Who Cracked Safe in Sev- enth Street Store. Believing the $15,000 safe robbery at King's Palace, $10-818 Seventh treet, Sunday to be the work of pro- fessional yeggmen from Philadelphia, who had sent skilled “advance men" ahead to inspect the field of operation and pick out the most convenient and profitable site for an operation. In- spector Henry G. Pratt, chief of detectives, assigned a detective from his newly organized ‘clean-up” squad at headquarters to go to Philadelphia to run down some secret information now in hand. One of the dutles of this detective will be to look over three men arrested in Philadelphia today on charges of blowing*a safe there; two of whom are alleged to hi been caught in the act aftera ‘nitrgglycerin jom,” the third being arrested in his rooms. From a brief description obtained by Inspector Pratt when he telephoned Philadelphia about noon today to get the latest information, the attempted safe robbery there bore many marks of resemblance to the local crime. Stores Report Suspicions. Information reaching detectives vesterday confirmed suspicions which had caused Inspector Pratt as early as Saturday afternoon to notify the first precinct officials to be on the look-out for robberies or burglaries. Suspicions had been aroused Satur- day by reports from a department store and from two jewelers on F street regarding the activities of two men in the shops. In the department store, it was re- ported that two men had been in- specting fire eral cashiers ported suspiclous men obtaining change from the varlous points at which the money was kept. Men looking at diamonds in the jewelry stores without making purchases had aroused the suspicions of two other store proprietors, who communicated with Inspector Pratt. Today the police are convinced that these fire escape inspectors, money changers and diamond viewers were the advance guard for a gang of pro- fessional safecrackers obtaining the “lay of the land” for the real work- men of the gang. Done by Experts. Further information which police did not disclose confirms these suspi- cions. The work on the King's Palace safe, done with nitroglycerin in a manner so skillful that not a sign of a fingerprint was left as a clue for police, also was indicative to police that skilled safeblowers had been operating. The entrance to the store was gained through a door on Seventh street by removing screws about the lock. The robbery took place be- tween 6 am. and 9 p.m. Sunday, it is believed, a period when the watch- man was absent from the store, and it is thought that this knowledge of the unguarded period also had been discovered and communicated to the band of yeggmen by an advance agent. JAPAN REFUSES AID TO SHIPBUILDING FIRM Population of Kobe Concerned as Creditors Seize Cruiser and Two Submarines. By the Associated Préss. LONDON, July 5.—Reuter's Tokio correspondent says news from Geneva regarding the naval conference has been overshadowed by the financial situation of the Great Kawasaki Dock- yard Co., which was involved in the recent crisis of the Fifteenth Bank. Announcement of the government's decision not to ald the Kawasaki company is causing great concern in Kobe, where 10 per cent of the popula- tion is directly or indirectly depend- ent upon the concern for a livelihood. A collection of Japanese prints and foreign works of art belonging to Kojire Matsukata, president of the company, has been seized by creditors. The Exchange Telegraph's Tokio correspondent reports that the credit- ors of the Kawasaki company have disrupted the government’s attempts to solve the dfficulties by stepping in and foreclosing on the dockyards and assets, including a cruiser and two submarines 20 per cent completed, upon which the government had ad- vanced 24,000,000 ven ($12,000,000). The correspondent states that the government has decided it is power- less to intervene and that the civil law must take its course, involving a heavy monetary loss to the navy. Many Islands in Philippines. The Philippine Islands are very much that way. There are 7,083 of them and their total area is 114,400 square miles. When the Filipinos at- tain their independence a good name for the mew country might be the United Islands of the Philippines, says the Capper's magazine. SECOND JAPANESE BEETLE FOUND - ON ROSEBUSH IN CAPITAL Other Specimens of Dread Insect Pest Believed to Be Experts Say. The probability of a mild infesta- tion of the dread Japanese beetle in the gardens of Washington was seen today by officials of the Bureau of Entomology of the Department of Ag- riculture with the receipt of another specimen. In an effort to clear up the infesta- tion, plans are underway to put to work some expert Japanese beetle scouts from the Philadelphia station of the bureau, who will attempt to col- lect all the insects, if possible, or at least to locate the center of the trouble. The specimen received to- day came from 1143 Fifth street north- east, and was found Sunday on a rose bush. It is the second ever found in Washington. The first was discovered on a rose bush in Petworth last August and resulted in a combing of the section by entomologists aided by Boy Scouts. It was thought then that this was an {solated insect, brought in from the North on an auto- mobile, since the garden where it was found was just off Georgia ave- nue. Others Believed to Be Here. The present finder, however, has made no trips out of the city recent- ly and does not remember any by his immediate neighbors. Bureau of En- tomology experts believe this insect probably was born in Washington and is unlikely to be the single representa- tive of the family. e the request last week that all cts bearing’ a TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1927 ——'—_I——'_'—_——m CAPITAL TEACHER WHO FLED FROM HANKOW REACHES HOME Miss Edith Hart Tells Dra- matic Story of Trip Down Yangtze. Ship Was Fired on From Shore, She Says—De- scribes Conditions. Having been fired on while escap- ing from China with the last of the | missionaries to leave the danger zone, | Deaconess Edith Hart principal of St. Phoebe’s Training School for Mission- | aries at Hankow, has rcached Wash- | ington safely and is now at the home | of her mother, Mrs. Edith Hart, 6/ Seventh street southeast. Miss Hart left the danger zone only at the warning of the American con- sul. On her voyage down the Yangtze River her hoat was attacked, but she escaped unharmed. She is here on a special furlough. May Return This Miss Hart, who is a James W. Hart, of of Charles Hart, pr High School, was not due fo regular furlough until two years from now, but the stress of circumstances during the civil war in China and con- sequent danger, brought orders for her leave now. She expects to return to the Orient again in December, if the situation has cleared sufficiently. Departure of Miss Hart was dramatic and sudden, owing to the Nanking fnci- dent, in which the American colony escaped from that city farther down the river, after gunboats had been forced to pour a barrage of shots into the shore, to stop attacks by Chinese. The Nanking affair had taken plsse March 24, and at noon the next 8 the American consul general sent word to Miss Mart and her school advising them it would be best to leave the clty by 6 o'clock that night. With six hours to arrange the future of their school, which is operated under supervision of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States, Miss Hart con- cluded this work, packed her per- sonal helongings, and with Miss Jes- sie Wilson, & native of Scotland, the only other foreign teacher at the school, left the city. Went on British Ship. They went on board the British merchant ship Lung Wo in the Yangstze River. Under convoy of gunboats this ship, with its cargo of Winter. sister of Dr. ¥ street, and BALTIVOREGUARD SHOOTS 2 CONVICTS Marykand Penitentiary 0f- ficialWounded in Attempt- i ed Break. BALTIMORE, Md., July § (). Charles P. Country) Carey, a “liter,” MISS EDITH HART. do not favor the Soviet principles, her opinion. Asked concerning Fugene Chen, the prime minister of the Nationalist party, and Michael Borodin, his Rus- sian adviser, Miss Hart said the min- ster was one of that group of intelli- gent Chinese, who, having received a good educatien in English have taken an English first name. He was described as of medium height, about 40 vears of age, and of ‘“pleasing, lovely manners.” Daughter Educated in England. “He is more eloquent in English than in Chinese,” she explained, and nearly always wore European clothes His daughter, 12 years old, educated entirely in England, was for a while in school in some of the buildings of the St. Phoebe School, which had been loaned to a private school oper- ating at a Summer resort, Chi Kiang San, but which had moved to the mis- sion compound when the railroads were cut during hostilities. The girl drove up to school in a handsome mo- tor car. Another interesting figure in the Nationalist movement located in her city of Hankow, Miss Hart said, was Sen Fo, a son of the late Dr. Sun Yat Sen, noted leader of the Canton or Southern movement, out of which has grown the Nationalist party. The widow of Dr. Sun Yat Sen also lives in Hankow, Miss Hart said, -and is reputed to exercise considerable in- fluence in the councils of the party. “foreigners” and their possessions, took five days to make the trip of 600 miles to Shanghal. It was during this trip, Miss Hart explained in an interview, that they were fired upon by Chinese forts on shore, opposite Chin Kiang and Nan- At one place, which she did ignate, the gunboats of the convoy returned the fire, but ‘they were operating under orders not to take the aggressive, and hence did not lose their full attack on the forts. Fortunately for herself, and the party aboard, the Chinese shots missed the ship for the mbst part. When such firing began, all passen- gers were ordered below, she said. Some shots hit the steel plates of the ship, however, and were deflected into the river. Waited Two Months. Final reaching Shanghal after the pro®acted journey in which the boats all tied up for each night to proceed the mext morning, Miss Hart said she waited at the port during April and May, in the hopes that the situation might clear, so that she could go back. Early in June, however, it was decided by Bishop L. H. Roots, in charge of the church’s affairs at Han- kow, that further delay would be use- less and that Miss Hart should take a furlough home. She sailed June 4. “The school was left in charge of the 14 native teachers. The third “foreign” teacher, Miss Venetia Cox of Winterville, N. C., was already on furlough. In discussing the situation in China, Miss Hart characterized it as more distressing and more disturbing to the nation as a whole than anything which had happened during her 21 years experience in that country. She expressed confidence, however, that the “intelligence, resourcefulness and industry” of the Chinese people them- selves would eventually bring them 10 a sounder position than they ever had attained before. How long the interlude of diffifficulties might be, however, she said, neither she nor others she knew who wefe familiar with Chinese life, could venture to predict. Soviet Control in Dispute. Cautious in her remarks on the situation in Hankow, and the rivalry in China between the Peking gover ment and the Nationalist part. which has taken control by force of arms of much of China, Miss Hart, upon questioning, told something of the argument over the alleged partici- pation of the Russians. The two wings of the Nationalist party, she explained, appeared divided over the alleged ‘“red” influence in China, the one denying charges of Soviet control, and the other openly admitting some participation of the Soviet leaders. The real Chinese people, however, whom Miss Hart has come to know e, in Washington, resemblance to the Japanese beetle be sent to the bureau for identifica- tion seven or eight calls a day have, been received from Washington gar- deners, but previously none of these has been identified as the dreaded insect. | From now on an especially close | watch is urged particularly in the neighborhood where the beetle was | found. Tt is possible, Bureau of In-| tomology officials say, that if the ! beetle really has obtained a foothold here it soon would spread all over the District unless all specimens were collected and killed. Difficult to Control. Once established, Bureau of Ento- mology officials point out, the beetle | is difficult to control. It can be kept in check, but at considerable expense. It breeds and spreads very rapidly and defoliates flowering shrubs, fruit and shade trees. It appears to have jumped over a large part of Maryland to Washington, probably carried on the hood of an automobile, which picked it up on the road through Pennsylvania or Dela- ware, There is no certainty, however, DAVISON GIVES USE OF BOLLING FIELD FOR CITY AIRPORT (Continued from First Page.) be glad to arrange for the use of its lights, operated by naval personnel, upon the arrival and departure of the air mail planes. Some duplication of equipment and some expense can thereby be saved. No Deflnite Time Limit. “While there is no definite time limit place on this offer it is subject to the same conditions made in my previous letter on the same general subject that there shall have been a sufficient manifestation of interest in the ‘ocal community to insure that steady prog- ress will be made toward the proiision of an adequate commercial airport for permanent use.” Under these temporary arrange- ments, it is practically assured that there would be no expense involving the District. But Mr. Davison made it plain that any use of Bolling Field would be restricted to a comparatively short period. Necessity of Assurances. Secretary Davison impressed upon Maj. Covell the necessity of the Dis- trict Commissioners giving definite as- surances that Washington would make some provision in its budget for a permanent airport, with annual appro- priations in which the Federal Gov- ernment as well as the District would share. With this in view, Maj. Covell today prepared to work out a definite proposition which could win local sup- port and in itself give evidence of the good faith of the trict’s intention to provide an aviation field without due loss of time. ‘Washington’s joint civic airport committeee will meet temorrow to con- sider the situation, and it is likely to come up also at the meeting of the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce tonight. With Bolling Field practically as- sured, without the necessity of put- ting up a guarantee, it was felt that the business men ef Washington would give their whole-hearted sup- port to a businesslike proposition, in which the Federal Government would assume its proportionate share of the expense. Their position has been all along a reluctance to construct an expensive airport entirely out of Dis- trict funds, with a corresponding in- crease in the local tax rate. It i3 the War Department’s conten- tion that the first evidence of the Dis- trict’s desiis to co-operate in the air- port situation should be the immedate selection of a site and the inclusion of an estimate in this year's budget for work on the airport during the coming vear. With the assistance of the Government, it was felt that establish- ment of a permanent field should not be permitted to drag out over a period of 10 y as suggested before, but should be limited to a period of not more than five years. Adams Gives Assurance. Maj. Covell was of the opinion to- day that the engineers’ final estimate of the cost of establishing a field at Gravelly Poing could be scaled dowp. to a point withif reason. e will begin the preparation of a final report to the District Commissioners embodying definite recommendations for financing Washingtqn's airport in the light of the ‘War Department’s present position. With the support of the National Aeronautics Association, it was felt that the District will be able to give the War Department satisfactory evidence, as demanded, of the in- auguration of a definite project for the acquisition of a permanent airport. Mr. Adams assured Secretary Davi- son that his assoclation would, through its national organization, sup- port any project which might be evolved. He added that, in his opin- ion, the people of Washington would be only too glad to give the War De- partment the assurances which it de- manded before making an exception to its well advised policy of keeping commercial activities from military reservations. Baltimore Awalits Report. From Baltimore came word today that no further attempt will be made to induce post office authorities to give that city preference over Wash- ington as an air-mail stop until the specinl committee of the Baltimore Airport Commission makes its report this week. As soon as the report is submitted, according to John L. Alcock, chairman of the commission, it will be taken to Washington. “When all is said and donme, an afrport is like a rallway station, in that it always s located as n that it does not exist in patches through nearby Maryland ~woods, where a close watch is considered ad- visable, The beetle 18 very apt to be found on rosebushes, since these are more regularly examined thanother shrubs. as possible to the center of popul tion and on a site that offers the best facilities to the traveling pub- lie,” sald Mr. Alcock. “When the site committee makes its report Igfeel that we shall have convincing eévidence that Baltimore, SV - {and Benjamin F. Spragins, Richmond, Va., another, prisoner, were shot to- [day after they shot down a guard in {an attempt to flee the Maryland Peni. | tentiary. Alfred Walker, the guara, ‘\\uw shot above the heart. The shooting occurred in the yard, both prisoners having been given per- mission to go to the office to obtain packages. Both carried pistols. After Walker was dropped by a bullet the two convicts ran to the main door of the prison, when they were shot down by Guard Charles T, Stortz. Carey, one of four men sentenced to Jife imprisonment for the riurder and robbery here of Willlam B. Norris in August, 1922, was shot twice in the leg. raging, who was serving 10 on a burglary charge, also was n the leg. FEAR SEVERAL DEAD, 75 HURT IN WRECK Reports of Train Crash at Jomes Point, N. Y., Bring Calls for Am- bulances Around Nyack. shot i By the Associated Press. NYACK, N. Y., July 5.—Reports of several dead and 75 ipjured in a rail- road wreck on the West Shore line at Jones Point brought calls this after- noon for every available ambulance from Nyack, Newburg and Suffern, Y. The report was that a N York, Ontario & Western Railroad pai train, with about eight cars, m 1t full speed southward, had craght into a freight train at Jones Poin$ south of Bear Mountain. Scenes of great confusion r-um an early check of the &M injured. e e WOMAN ATTEMPTS " TO BLAST RED HOUSE Moscow Communique Announees Shooting of Trio Implicated in 4 Plot for Explosion. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, Russia, July 5.—A daring attempt to blow up a building ad- Jjoining the headquarters of the po- litieal police in Loubianka Square, Moscow, on the night of June 3 was revealed in an official communique today. A woman “monarchist terroris named Zakhartchenko Schultz, was charged with being at ihe head of the plot. Mme. Schultz, who entered Russia clandestinely from Finland, the communique says, was subse- quently shot with two male com- panions while attempting to evade capture near Smolensk. Before they were shot down by the Red army soldiers, it is stated, the three terrorists killed a chauffeur and gravely wounded another man for r.fusing to assist them in escaping, and seriously wounded a militia man. PRINCE TAKE.S WHACKS AT AUTOS AND ARTISTS British King's Third Son Scores Royal Academicians at Banquet. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 5.—Prince Henry the King's third son, took whack after whack at art and artists at the Royal Academy banquet in celebration of the annual exhibition. His ironical remarks caused much laughter, said the prince, “that w see a Royal Academi- cian at a meeting of a modern pack of fox hounds, even in a motor car.” This was his way of expressing re- gret that the paths of the artist and the hunter—who helonged to two of the oldest professions on earth—had in later times so far diverged. “Please remember utioned the prince, “that by profession I am a soldier and that a soldier's training is not along the high road to art. This speech has heen Somewhs my mind, o that you can under: |1t during the field exercises, when at. tention was fixed upon the action of the artillery, I found my thoughts switched off from the R. A. of Alder- shot to the R. A. of Burlington House.” These Males Keep House. That the male of the rare Arctic surt birds not only keeps house, but hatches eggs and protects the young better than the female, has been learned through recent discoveries. The bird has been known to science for 160 years, but only recently were a nest and ezgs found. These were at Mount McKinley, Alaska. where the habits of the birds were ob- rather Mhan Washington, supplies the The site_committee is headed by George \C. Smith. Baltimore has au- thorized) a $1.300.000 bond issue with which to purchase an airport site, and_is said to await only the word of Post Office officials to guarantee an amplesized landing field for the mail planes. Deny' Blocking Baltimore. Business interests in Washington, it was saidjtoday, resent the criticlsm directed against them by Balti- moreans, who protest that \Washing- ton blocked designation of the Mary- land metropolis as an air mail stop. According to Chamber of Commerce officials, thisycriticism is entirely un- Jjust. Washingtont first tackled the air- port_proposition in 1925, jointly with the National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission, and just before the Lindbergh ilight local business in- terests agaln iagitated the question when it was learned from Ral‘imore papers that the movement for an air- port In' that city had collapsed. As here, the guccess of Lindbergh’s transatlantic flight revived the in Baltimore, t by that thme tme Post Office Depprtment had placett Washington tenfatively on the sched- ule of the New York-to-Atlanta route, So far as fdouble-crossing” Bal- timore. is concenped, it was said on behalf of local trpade bodies, there has been nome. o “utnh :