Evening Star Newspaper, July 9, 1927, Page 4

VIRCINI TAX PLAN SAVES $1569.583 Gov. Byrd, in Statement, Re- veals Huge Economies in Government. By the Associated Press RICHMOND, Va., July 9—Details of the saving to taxpayers of the State H 2, of which . is due completely to the new n. were released here last night in s : Press by Gov. Harry F. Byrd. This statement Is in accordance with tables prepared by Tax Commissioner C. H Morrissett and sets forth tax reduc: tions on land and tangible personal property made possible by the new system of taxation cffective Jnnuary 1, 1927, “In 1921," the statement said, “the State tax on land and tangible per- sonat property of 25 cents per $100 of ussessed value was completely re pealed. Today no State tax exists in Virginia on this class of property. “In certain localities the State tax repealed was reimposed by the city or county for local purposes and more revenue attained without incry the previous combined State and lo- cal rate. It is conservatively estl mated that one-halt million dollars relieved hy the States e the losses sagregation was ity without in- previous tax burden counties and three cities removed the entir cent tax. Ninety counties and eight cities will enjoy a tax reduction. Land Owners Benefited, “I am gratified that the f tax reduction will be made to owners. This will give greater relief to the farmers than all . medicine remedies sugzested relieve the householders generally. “In addition to the removal of the State tax on land and_ tangible per- sonal property and enabling substan- tial relic” to such taxpayer- the fol- Jowing additional taxes were reduced: Notes, bonds and other evidences debt, from 55 cents to b s per $100; Virginians owning stock in for- eign corporations, from $1.10 to 50 cents per $100; capital enzaged in business, from $1.15 to 85 cents per $100: lo' due to segreating machinery to los ty. net loss, §1 387.04. “Excepting an equalization of ce! tain railroad taxes the only genel tax increase i ginia during my term has been the increase just noted above In income taxes, and this in- crease was dedicated to reduction in above mentioned capital taxes, in line with progressive taxation policy, so as to invite new capital and new resi- dents into Virginia. The increase in motor taxes could not be considered as a general tax increase, as such tax is dedicated to roads, directly bene- fiting those who pay the tax. Assembly Is Praised. “I congratulate the General Assem- bly in adopting this plan of taxation, which has operated so admirably the first year, “The deficit of $1,300,000 March 1, 1926, has been converted into a sub- stantial surplus. “Tax reduction has been made pos- sible without retarding the progress of the State. In fact, Virginia, in all her essential activities, has never ad- vanced to the extent of the progress made in the past two years. Rural achools and rural roads have received dhcreased appropriations. But to me the chief value of the segregation tax plan is the equalization of taxes brought about by the removal of the State tax on land as- sessed on values varying from 10 to 70 per cent of actual value. State unity has been measurably promoted and friction between localities quieted. “In addition to the tax reductions already made 1 will show in detail in my speech at Madison Court House on July 15 the economies of the two sessions of 1926 and 1927, which will make possible a further State tax reduction at the session of 1928 of at least $750,000 vearly, providing due economy is exercised in appropria- tions.” The following cities did not com- pletely reimpose the 25-cent State tax reduction: the net reduction and sav- ings to the taxpavers is herewith listed: Alexandria, 10 cents, $12,902.48; Bristol, 25 cents, $17,151.63; Char- lottesville, 15 cents, $19,468.62; Clif- ton Forge, 25 cents, $12,644.22; Dan- ville, 25 cents, $63,808.53; Fredericks- burg, 15 cents, $8,196.74; Norfolk, 6 cents, $103578.81; Portsmouth, 5 cents, $18,072.89. The total savings of these citles was $255,828.92. The net tax reduction and the amount of saving in counties near Washington follow: ~Arlington, 3% cents, $9,503.62; Falrfax, 25 cents, $35,792.68; Fauquler, 6% cepts, $9.- 072.07; Loudoun, 5 4.7 cents, $8,377.95; Prince William, 14 1-6 cents, $9,124.85. The total savings to taxpayers in tho various countles aggregated $1,314,059.15. LIS EARLY TRIAL FOR TRIO IN HUSBAND SLAYING Doctor, Widow of Dead Man and Alleged Gunman Accused of Murder Plot. By the Associated Press. FRANKLIN, La., July 9.—An im- mediate trial of Mrs. Ida Lebouef, Dr. ‘T. E. Dreher and James Beadle for the murder of James J. Lebouef, whose mutilated body was found in Lake Palourde, near Morgan City, early Thursday morning, was indicated by authorities here today. The three priosners were held with- out bonc in the parish prison. Follow- ing h confession yesterday Dr. Dreher has been in a highly nervous condition, while Beadle has main- tained the same sullen silence which has characterized him since his arrest, even while Dr. Dreher was urging him ;o “come clean and tell your part n it.” Sheriff Charles Pecot announced that he had obtained the gun which was used in the shooting of Lebouef, which Dr. Dreher said. Beadle did at 4he instigation of himself and Mrs. Lebouef, and that he also had taken from Beadle at the time of his arrest a knife which might have lLeen used in making the incisions in Lebauef's body. . Collision Hurts Two Autoists. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICK, Md., July 9.—Joseph Krleger of Washington and Howard B. Smith, Frederick Junction, were slightly injured vesterday when their automobiles ecollied on the Washing- ton-Frederick pike near Smith’s home. Charges of reckless driving against Krieger were dismissed. Robert Luhn and Clarence Fox, Both of this city, were injured yester- day in a motor cycle accident near here. Court to Be Established. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICK, Md., July 9.—A per- manent Maglstrates Court will be established in the county courthouse here, it was announced yesterday Previously magistrates have held court in the City Hall and pri ices. The permancnt court | o ated | asing | That we, the Young America, in convention assembled, desire to go on record for the ob- servance of law, and especially for the strict enforcement of the 18th amendment. In answer to the open letter to the associations regarding citizenship and legislation pro- gram for the coming bicnnial 192 1928, the ome item desired by all replied 1wcas law observance and law enforcement.” Needless to add that Mrs, John M. Hanna of Dallas, Tex., present presi- dent (holding office 1926-1928) of the Young Women's Christian Adsociation of the United States of America, is firmly on the dry side of the prohibi- tion question. Not only offic but convincedly personally here is her first and foremost reason: “High ideals, clean living, thinking," s she in the cl Southern accent that scores of journs in the North have not compro- mised, “go with abstention from liquor. T would like Amerlca to give the eighteenth amendment a fair trial, which T feel we have never done. “1 recently heard Dr. T. Z. Koo, Chi- nese man of letters, speak of the im- jence of Americans in expecting ir new laws to work so quickly. “‘We Chinese.’ said he, ‘think in centurie: u think in years.’ That remark confirms my theory that seven vears, or any number of vears which do not compass one gen- eration, are too few to judge results. Look at some other reforms that have heen of slow but steady growth. Duel- ample, held public favor for the drys say drink- as not until dueling dden by law that it passed owly out. Expects Complete Success. upon our South! And how long it took in passing! But today it has passed, or nearly so, because people have come gradually to see the wrong in taking law into their own hands rather than helping to see that jus- tice is administered through court processes. Little by little, the Ameri- an_people, in whom I have such faith, will see the good intention be- hind the prohibition amendment, cow friendly toward it, and finally abide by it. “We have proof that the majority favor it, not only by its passage after long and careful consideration, but by the fact that candidates for office, no matter how popular and morai they may be personally, rarely win out in an election if they are ‘wet.’ This is most emphatically so in the parts of the South I know. “You don't think there s likelihood of the repeal or modification of the Volstead law?” An emphatic shake of a head crowned with silver hair. “None. The drys have faith in their law and in the willingness of go0d citizens to keep it. Once made, it should stand. The people make the laws. They owe loyalty to the representatives ~through whom they pass these laws. The great majority wanted prohibition—want it still. What else can the minority do in a repub- lic than live by the wish of the ma- Jority?" “Law, Once Made, Is Sacred.” “The minority has always the right to agitate, to alter ‘objectionable laws if it is strong enough. The minority can always become the majority if it is able to convince others of the sound- ness of its arguments. Law, once made, is sacred and should be treated with respect and dignity. “The facts, I admit, are that many do not respect the law. Unhappily, some of our best people find no dig- nity in this law. But instead of say- ing, “Then let us break it,’ they should say, “Let us be loyal citizens and keep it faithfully, even at personal incon- venience, so long as it s our law, and prove its potency! " ‘We called Mrs. Hanna's attention to the fact that New York's woman magistrate, Judge Jean H. Norris, op- poses prohibition with the contention that it leads to an increase in youth- ful delinquency and crime. “That,” replies Mrs. Hanna, “is to be laid at the door of the elders. It is the older generation that sets the ex- ample, and then invelghs against youth for following it. We make youth a scapegoat To the argument of many who op- pose prohibition in the belief that it is based on a wrong psychology and is a menace to the law, order, decency and temperance, Mrs. Hanna answers: Interpreting Human Nature. “Such opposition is to be expected because the law is new and suddenly forbids an evil which many have not regarded as an evil simply because it is of long standing. There was a time when killing or plundering was not thought wrong. Yet today no noi mal person takes the law into his own hands when it comes to murder or selzing property. ‘We reminded Mrs. Hanna that both wets and drys array themselves on the side of the weak. The wets would repeal the Volstead law so that the voung, and those who tend toward moral turpitude may be protected agalnst themselves. The drys use the same argument. Our lady from Texas smiled. “I know. It is a matter of interpreting human nature. I belleve the eight- eenth amendment will eventually re- move temptation from the morally turpitudinous. To my mind, there is no way to make a righteous nation but by setting high standards for public behavior. “I do not beliove that merely to for- bid a thing makes the average person crave it. It makes the average person think about it. Prohibition then be- comes educational—and the problem is solved.” e FUND SOUGHT FOR POOL. State Teachers’ College at Freder- icksburg in $35,000 Drive. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERI Va., July 9.— A campaign for $35,000 with which to construct a modern swimming pool as the first unit of a Student Service Building has been uidertaken by the Fredericksburgh State Teachers’ Col- lege, of which A. B. Chandler, jr., is president. Contract for the swimming pool will be let as soon as the funds are avail- able, with the confident hope that ad- ditional funds will be forthcoming from the next session of the Legisla- ture with which to complete the building in its entirety, The college officials point out the urgency of the swimming pool. Prison Guard’s Wounds Fatal. BALTIMORE, July 9 (P).—Alfred H. Walker, Maryland Penitentiary guard, died yesterday from bullet wounds inflicted by two prisoners, who attempted to flee the prison Tuesday. Herbert R. O'Conor, State's attorney, started to prepare indict- ments for first degree murder against the convicts, Charles P, (Country) Carey, a “lifer,” and Benjamin F. Spraging, Richmond, Va., serving 10 vears for hurglary. The prisoners went to the lobby on forged passes, shot Walker and took his keys. Run- ning to unlock the maln door they were shot in the legs by another Zuard, by ZOE BECKLEY. land for four “Lynching, too—that terrible blot | THE EVENING STAR, WASTINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1927. Speaking of Prohibition Prominent Women Discuss the Nation’s Mo, Debated Topic. All rights reserved.) “Illinols has overwhelmingly de- clded the question of modifying the prohibition amendment—an un-Amer- n an un-Democratic measure which would only have existed during w time—and 1 personally am heartily for its repeal. “As Commisioner of Public Welfare yvears agent in Cook County, 1 have been in touch with public health, housing, policing, un- employme! psychopathic ho pitals, pen: mothers and wa acted.” 'his fs how Anna L. Smith, head of Chicago's public welfare department, feels about it. She points to a petition gned with 750,000 names from the ty of Chicago alone, which was pre- sented at the senatorial election last Fall, to show that she is not alone in her feeling that an embargo on all in toxicants is mistaken way to mak a people temyerate. “Yet no woman,” she continues, “in all this land is more opposed to the saloon than 1. It was the saloon that took the workingman's money and iept him from his family. But the passing of the saloon neither eradi- ates his_desive nor takes away his vight to the moderate use of liguor. “If prohibition prohibited, I would be for it. If stopping the poor man's beer supply caused him to abst from drink, I would be heart and in favor. But it does not. Many welfare workers say it does and quote statlstics. But if any of than goes ahout among the poor and troubled more than I do. I don’t know who it can be. I find the workingman makes his brew at home now and the whole family helps make it and helps drink it! “More Drinking Now.” “I am at the head of a tact-findiry department. The facts arc ‘hat mor drinking goes on now thin ever be- fore. You have only to visit psycho- pathic wards, accident wards, cit hospi alcoholism and cirrhosis of the liver to prove this “Education in the dangers of alco- : actically stopped, simply emperance interests lie back upon their ‘laut and declare that the Volste: ended the liquor traffic is no more need of educating the peo- ple in the effects of strong drink. Id ucation and a slower process of d ing things up would bring about true temperance.” Mrs, Smith insists she belongs to “the great army of ze women.” She has a home, a girl 22 and a joh— a very attractive job, apparentl She docs not advocate the repeal or modification of the dry law because she wants to drink. And her colle daughter * never so much sipped an intoxicating thing. The average woman, ‘“wet” or “dry,” she declares, wants law, order, prosperity and temperance. The only difference between the wels and the drys, says she, is that the drys be- lieve betterment can he had by for- bldding all liquor and the wets believe a slower, less drastic method would accomplish more. The Poor Man's Beer. “Prohibition,” continues Mrs. Smith, “should have passed with the heat- less, sugarless, meatless days of w time. The saloon, however, should have been permanently abolished. Tt is comparatively easy to get a law passed, but next to impossible to get it repealed. In 60 years there has not been a oonstitutional amendment re- pealed. “If rich people and social lights get all they want to drink, in spite of the law, why should not the poor man have his beer, of good quality, at low cost, the output controlled by the Government? it is folly to say pro- hibition has put the thought of liquor out of the workingman's mind. He may have a harder time getting it, but he gets it, and it is terrible stuff. “Speakeasies, stills, home-brew -are everywhere, and I ask the drys to tell me how they can be abolished! Can human nature be changed in a day, a year, reven years? Can the weak be- come strong, the ignorant become edu- cated just by the passing of a law? 1 say such a miracle is too much to expect, and that a wrong method was followed. “I overheard a conversation be- tween two women. One of them sug- gested a cooling drink. The friend agreed that an ice-cream soda wouldn’t go so bad. The other laughed, ‘I know where to get a real drink,’ she said. ‘But,’ objected the other, ‘it's so warm it will make us still warmer.’ ‘Never mind; I'd rather have it just because they tell me I can’t’ was the retort. It is that spirit which causes the harm. Mrs. Smith does not lay all blame for law-breaking, crime, the rebellion of youth and the indifference of parents to the eighteenth amendment. Much of the trouble is the natural aftermath of war, and some of it comes from the general speeding up of life—the automobile, telephone, radio and other inventions that have done away with time, space and isola- tion. as Wants New Amendment. “There is impatience everywhere— unrestraint and the desire ‘to ‘live.’ People won't stand forbiddings. To my mind, the solution of this drink problem lles in passing a new amend- ment nullifying the eighteenth and placing the decision with the indi- vidual States. “States’ rights are necessary be- cause temperaments and living condi- tions differ so widely. This is the only way the will of all the people can be served. HARAHAN’S ADOPTED SON DIES IN CRASH President of C. & 0. Railroad Goes to Scene of Accident to J. D. Keiley in Virginia. By the Associated Pre: CLIFTON FORGE, Va. July 9.— J. D. Kelley, 28 years old, adopted son of W. J. Harahan, president of the Chesapeake & Ohio Raflroad, and di- vision engineer of the C. & 0., was killed this afternoon when a railroad motor truck in which he was riding collided with an express train at Fordwick, 32 miles from here. Irwin Hill, who was with Keiley, escaped without injury. Kelley was placed on the train to be brought to the hos- pital here, but died before the train reached Clifton Forge, President Harahan came here last night following receipt of the news of the accident. . Fleeing Prisoner Wounded. Special Dispatch to The Star. LURAY, Va.,, July 8—In a futile dash for ilberty vesterday Ben Mo- zingo, serving on the convict road force near Shenandoah, was seriously wounded by a charge from a guard's shotgun. Mozingo had heen convicted for disturbing public worship at the Faith Healer Church, hack of Shen- andoah, and sentenced to four months. His time would have been this morning. ‘:m lis no glitter lin the streets, | erate | imparted by the 1s, where people are dying from | d law has | nd that there | |ENINGRAD LOSES BRILLIANGY OF 0L Glitter of Luxury in Beloved Capital of Peter the Great Leningrad. the St. Patershurg of Czar: it . hos heen revisited and pictured hy Walter € 10 years riated Pres iys of the € o the. in Mose Whiften after an ahsence of My Whisten was ‘the Assn orrespondent there in the witnessed the seenes o capital city. He is iated Press. correspondent e present Russian capital BY WALTER €. WHIFFEN. LENINGRAD, July 9 (@ city, heloved capital of Peter the ¢ and “window leoking toward 1u- rope,” better known as Petrograd or St. Petersh ren after 30 vears | one who knew it at the peak of its glory and who witnessed the begin ning of its decline, resembles a tar- nished brass button Outwardly it is the same: the con- tour and design are there, but there There is much activity and even signs of mod- but the brillianc audler czarist uni- the smartness of the women, ot and motor prosperity, forms, the lJuxu cars of oth mourous ves was a feature of 1d which cau cets at 8 a.m. to he as lively as the same hour of the afetrnoon, There are almost no restaurants, and as there are ave sordid affairs, re mo cafes chantant nor out- lying resorts such as used to cater to the tastes of the wellto-do pleasure- seeker, and whose patrons were cht tained in lavish hion with hands wehestras folk songs and life which llet in ion standard of Lle attendance o opera is hor practically pre-revol merit, but the fashior has given place ently sorts, e sorts’ of & evening dres: Leningrad today somnolent and dr Prospect, formerly cround, Is crowd noon, but, with m heople of and in “hourg fashion" of a l Iy wpped a I the: the shadoy but with nothing ration’- looking in the er was scarcely a time cn some portion of it replacements, and ip that foreign ctors had repeatedly offered to repave the whole of the boulevard h durable and guaranteed paving for the cost of the repairs for a given period. The offers were as repeatedly refused because of the profit to be had by the bureaucrats of the day from the frequent replacements. The broad cement sidewalks were receiv- ing apparently long needed attention in places. Here nd there a plate- glass window neatly bored through by rifle bullets 10 ye: go and patched with metal washers and bolts still does duty and serv a reminder of those troublous days. was not underg Changes in Evidence. A stroll down the Nevsky E to accustomed eyes further evidence of the changed time Street besides the street c manned hooded and woollen-jacketed women, and a line of new and efficient looking motor busses, is confined largely to shabby public carriages and motor cars, and an o onal government- owned motor truck. At the far end of the Nev: Winter Palace of the Czars, built by the Empress Elizabeth about 1750 at a cost of 10,000,000 rubles at a_time when she could not pay her milliner. It was a sort of tified precinct where one felt the presence of impe- rialism and power. The big circle, with the column of Alexander T mark ing its center, with the palace occup: ing one large nd the former go ernmental departments the rest, im- parts no feeling of reverence to the people of today. The front of the palace Is still pock- marked by rifle and machine-sun bul- lets .of revolutionary days. The paint is peeling off, the gates are incrusted with rust. and the whole circle of buildings, with one exception, shows signs of dilapidation and decay. The exception i3 a former municipal ad- ministration department, which still serves a similar function, and which looks conspicuous with its fresh coat of yellow and white paint. Palace Dreary and Deserted. An old graybeard permitted the writer to enter the courtyard of the Winter Palace. Piles of timbers and rubbish partially filled the space that once resounded to the rumbling wheels of imperial coaches. In one corner A group of children of the strect were making merry with a circular swing erected there. The palace, with its various wings named for bygone Czars, their windows streaked with dust, Jooked deserted and dreary. The Her- mitage, that famous repository of paintings, statuary and gems which every visitor to St. Petersburg or Pet- grad, hastened to visit, has over- flowed into the Winter Palace. Con- nected as it is by a sort of “bridge of it readily lent itself to the of the Hermitage, whose exhib- ky is the sibility to accommodate them through confiscation of valuable private collec- tions. ) Another wing is devoted to exhibi- tion of revolutionary mementos—il- Justrating the progress of revolution in Russia during the last hundred years. There are to be found portraits innumerable of victims of revolution, both imperial and proletarian; bombs and infernal machines and implements of torture which have marked its path. P he admiralty building, adjoining the palace on its other side, is still used for admiralty purposes, and ap- pears to be in a fair state of repair. Beyond lies St. Isaac's Cathedral completed during the olas I, and 39 years in process of con- struction, dating from 1819. It is awe- Inspiring from without, with its ma. sive granite columns and gilded dome, Tts interior is dank and denuded of somo of its glittering altars, ikons and candelabra. A few minutes in the chill of its echoing emptiness suf- ficed to glve an impression of the stag- gering blow dealt by the revelution to the Orthodox Church. Famous Hotel Converted. On a_side of the square in front of St »'s Cathedral, and facing the fo German embassy, wrecked by Russian rioters at the beginning of the World War, the Hotel Astoria, once the rendezvous at the tea hour for fashionable women, foreign and Russian, has been converted into liv- ing quarters for Soviet employes and their families. The tearoom serves as a playroom for children. A six-story brick buildiny under construction on a strect just off the Nevsky, whose exterior was completed at the outbr of revolution, stands precisely at is did 10 years ago—ex- cept that the wooden scaffolding has long since gone for firewdod. The three canals which descrihe semi-cir- cular arcs_through the center of the the Moika, the Catherine and the Fontanka,.are bare of the barges, chiefly wood-lzden, which they once carrled. The same {s true of the Neva, where scarcely a craft of any sort was to be seen. The factories across on Vassili Island appeared to be working, and the docks, with a few ships tied there, were mildly active. ‘Across the Neva, in plain view from | more ed | ROCKVILLE. ROCKVILLE, Md., July 9 (Spe- clal).—During May and June contri- butions to the Montgomery County Social Service League totaled $2,570. according to announcement by treasurer, Mrs. Milton Bancroft. A large part of the amount received 1e- sulted from the recent drive for funds and came through the various wom- en's clubs of the county. chlman K. Hackeft, 25, of Fed- burg, Md., and Miss Lindred S. Munderloh, of Baltimore were rried Thursday evening by Rev. B. . John of the Baptist Church, and same minister officiated at the marr here vesterday of George C. . of Reform, Va., and Miss Helen' Virginia T: . 19, of Barnes- vill . both ceremonies place at the home of the minister., Mr, and Mrs. Austin Thomas Powell of Brookeville, this county, have an- nounced the nt of their Miss nia, to Wal- te p k Banse of Hazleton, Pa., the wedding to take place next month. Rev. H. L. Coffman, pastor of the Methodist Church at Potomac, offi- siated at the marriage a_few d » of Lloyd R. Green and Miss Gri hoth of Washington, the emony taking place at the home of the minister. Tests for Children, A child health conference for the mination and, if desired, vaccina- tion of children of preschool age will he held at the Rockville High School Building next Thursday morn- ing and afternoon. Dr. F. B. Macke of the State Bureau of State Hyglene expected to conduct the examina- ons and will be ted by one or of the county health nurses. A similar conference will be held for colored_children Thursday afternoon at the Rockville Colored School Build- ing. During the last school year Dr. William T. Pratt, county health offi- cer, gave free treatments to 298 chil- iren at various public schools of the county and is continuing these treat- ments at his office in Rockville during the Summer. Colesville Man Stricken. While conversing with a friend near his home yesterday afternoon Jacob Powell, a merchant of the Colesville neighborhood, was stricken with apoplexy and died almost in- stantly. He 64 years old. Sur- him are his widow, formerly Buscher of Washington, and ldren. Mr. Powell was well in the lower section of the where he lived many vear: A Dioria, 47 years old, and Miss ret Loro, 37, both of Washing- married in Rockville ye terday afternoon by Rev. Bertram M. Osgood of the Baptist Church at the home of the minister. GOVERNMENT WINS RUMANIAN ELECTION Liberal Party Under Bratiano Gets 295 Seats to 83 for Com- bined Opposition. known county. Nice M. By the Ascociated Press. BUCHAREST, Rumania, July 9.— The government—Liberal—party won an overwhelming victory in Thurs- rliamentary elections, getting seats, while the National party returned 70 candidates the ies an aggrezate of 3. A few returns were still outstand- 1 today, but they cannot change the result, Opposition newspapers say_that the triumph of Premier Bratiano's party was due to coercion and intimidation. This is_denied by the government, which declares the elections passed quietly and there were only a few un- important incidents. It is expected Parliament will as- semble July 20. The newspapers fore- see that the government will have a certain amount of support from the Peasants’ party and say it is likely the existing cabinet may be modified %0 as to admit several members of the Peasants party. SYMPHONY CONDUCTOR DEMANDS WAGE PEACE Stock May Not Return to Chicago if Difficulties Are Not Ironed Out. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 9.—The Chicago Herald and_Examiner said today that Irederick Stock, noted conductor cf the Chicago S Orchestra, may not return to Cl ago if there 1s no satisfactory settlement of the wage dispute between the musi ‘ansa ° the hicago Orchestral Association. Dr. Stock, who now is vacationing in Europe, has directed the Chicago orchestra since the death of Theodore Thoma; Th musicians, through their union leaders, have asked increases of $20 a week, which would add $60,000 an- nually to the pay roll. They now re- ceive $80 weekly. The management of the orchestra has announced that such an increase canfiot be met and that if it. is insisted upon the orches. tra_ il be ¢ mpelled either to disband or_reduc- its personnel to 50. Dr. Stock is understood to have ex- pressed himself as determined to re- main permanently away if the orches- tra is cut. MANY SEEK LICENSES AS AIRPLANE PILOTS Department of Commerce Swamped With Applications for Approval. By the Associated Press. Recent transoceanic flights have so stimulated interest in commercial aviation that the Commerce Depart- ment has been swamped with applica- tions for pilot licenses. Assistant Secretary MacCracken, fn charge of the department’s air activi- ties, today announced that because of the large number of requests, the filing of an application would serve as a tem- porary license pending inspection at a. later date of the plane and its equip- ment. i MacCracken had hoped to complete examination of all applications on hand by July 1, but the deluge made this impossible. Commerce Depart- ment approval of an air pilot’s licanse is required under legislation of the last Congress. —_— Church Purchases Site. Special Dispatch to The Star. STAUNTON, Va., July 9.—For $34,000 Central Methodist™ Episcopal Church South has purchased a 67-foot frontage on West Beverley street, upon which to erect a Sunday school building. A committee appointed by the quarterly conference some time ago, announced the purchase today. The plans will take care of thoroughiy remodeling the present church build- ing, increasing the capacity of the main auditorium. —_— the windows of the Winter Palace, stands the low, stanch walls of the Peter and Paul prison fortress, scenes of torture of other days, but now a museum. Guides lead visitors into its dark, dank dungeons, and explain in voluble Russian how the instruments of torture were applie those 1m- prisoned by orders of ti polices | Llnta i il el ELKTON’S ‘MARRYING PARSON’ SUSPENDED Ministerial Misconduct and Church Defiance Charged by Com- mittee of C ergy. By the Associated Pross. ELKTON, Md., July 9.—For the econd time within a fortnight a arrying parson” has found an un- kindly spotlight directed upon him. ¢. Hiram McVey, after holding the for almost exactly two weeks, pended as a Metho- copal minister, after an in- tion into his conduct by a com- mittee of clergymen. This committee, composed of seven Wilmington clergymen appointed by Dr. J. W, Colona, district superintend- ent “of the Wilmington conference, found Mr. McVey guilty of “min terial misconduct and defiance of con- stituted authority of the Methodist Epi 1 Church.” Tt recommended that “the marrying parson” be tried hefore the church board at the next quarterly conference, which is to be held in Kent County, Del., at the call of Supt. Gumby of the Dover district. McVey was charged with perform- ing 18 marriages after he had prom- ised Supt, Colona to abandon his tivities here and return to his Green- wood, Del., home. When McVey re- ceived Dr. Colona’s request, about a week ago, he said that he had not understood the situation here. Ar. MeVey, despite notification, did not at- tend yesterday's committee inquiry. STARVATION THREATENS PRISONERS” FAMILIES Supervisors of Frederick County, Va., Unable to Cope With Sit- uation Needing Large Fund. ar. July 9.—A unty families 18 re- rd of Special Dispatch to The S WINCHESTER, V number of Frederick ¢ ave bordering on starvation, it ported at a meeting of the be upervisors today, as a result of hus- bands and fathers being convicted of carious crimes and sent to the peni- tentiary. The board, it was authority to appropriate county funds for their relief, except in very small doles, and it i expected the matter will be taken up with one or more State agencies. A tubercular mother with four children was given meager tempc allowance, and an- other mother with as many cl was likewise assisted. Her hu had been given a life sentence s months ago atter pleading attacking the girl. The Am: gion has become interested in the and probably will seek to have the matter reopened and more thoroughly investigated. plained, had no Germany's building boom is grow- ing. ALEXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 (Spe- cial).—Northbound traffic over the Washington-Richmond road will be routed over Washington street as a result of a survey made by the Alex- andria Police Department on the recommendation of the city council. The matter was brought to the atten- tion of the council by Mayor William Albert Smoot, and it has been decided to remove the traffic signs at Franklin and Alfred streets, and in the future direct automobiles to the V street route, which is direct, and 60 foet in width. The Daily Vacation Bible School, which has been conducted by the Aley wndria Mjnisterial Association for sev al years, will open Tues ing and continue for four weeks main sehool, for children 8 v nd ove Church h garten w E. Church. A school w the Free Methodist Church dren of that community, whil schools will be located 'in the byterian Mission and the Chapel the Good Shepherd. All of the scho will be held in the morning, w exception of the Preshyter sion, which will hold its se the afternoon. A burglar attempting to ente home of Frederick H. T Prince street, shortly before this morning, was frightened when he heard Taylor ¢ s is Hall, and the kinder I be h for Roger C. Sullivan, c Community Band this Summer, has selected the of the Alexandria Post Office site for the hand pavilion. T concert on the new by the Citizens' Band last night. Two hundred gallons of corn liqu taken several nths police, were poured into a terd: The body of Mrs. 37 years old, who die sanitarium at Charlot taken to her late residenc Columbus street. Fun will be conducted by R liam S, Hammond, pastor Southern Methodist Church, f home Monday The decease is survived by father, William , Murray, Ri all ‘of Widewater, and Harr; tur of Cleveland, O} Representative R. Walto; or has been notified sioner Col. Ladue of the Dist Columbia that work of the half mile of Belgian block extending south from High on the River road to Ale be started in August. irfa the road from Fe n north has just been complet by the State Highway Comm concert progr resurfaci Andri Norfolk Storm Victim Dies. ORFOLK Winegar, who was in the Pendleton, aged 33, of S rd_at the orfolk County, day during a se at’a Portsmouth ho Wednes- pital terd: ashington | morn- The rs of will be held in the Christ I be held in the Trinity M. th the Mis- ons in scending the rman of the ms lawn o by Engineer Com- t of road v Bridge The work of July 9 (A).—Lester : . Paul, Minn., aught under a falling tree home of J. C. —_— e ——————————aeayy ARLINGTON G. 0. P, DELEGATES PICKED County Meetings Favor Platform Pledged to Stable and Econom- ical Government. Special Dispateh to The Star. CLARENDON, Va., July 9.—Dele- P to the Arlington County Repub- n convention, to be held in the old Columbia Pike schoolhouse Friday elected in all but Cherry- Potomac precincts ut mass eld in the various precincts ale held its elec. v night. Potomac will es at a meeting to v night. In most in- dopted resolu- on to include m to he adopted pledges and economical form of lic in the platfor tor' atable coun don meeting approval stered of a resolution to be >nted to the conver favoring ppointment ‘competent county manager to ttaining an economical e administration of the " This action was address on the ad- ager by H secretary _of of Washington. The candidacy of for common D. Langley ndidate for con- trict. An ad- y Club ysen ndon Porter, C . MeCrillis, M n Park precinet—D gates M. D. Ely, M: Saunders, Jame A. Poole, R P | Medtey; al rtes, Mrs, s, M. . H. A. Mar’. and M. 1 recinet—Del A. Marsha L. Baldwin, Hugh M alternates, Steger, Joseph i Humm, Mr Richmond. Ballstc H. D. Caffman, M. Dohert J. Mateer, E ffrey and’ vne and Mr: lyn precinct- Hendrick and W. D. Arrangements are being made in Furope for autoists to send telegrams. from telephones in booths along high- ere windstorm, died ways, payments to be pliced in a spe- cial box plac ephone: Woodmard & Lathivop Women Who Use McCall Patterns —will be glad to avail themselves of the service and advice of Mrs. Kath- ryn Chaney, McCall supervisor, Monday and Tuesday, July 11 and 12. Bring your sewing problems to her. PATTERN SECTION, § SecoND FLOOR. En Route by Train Hllustrated Above Golflex Dress $39.50 SPORTSWEAR SECTION THIRD The Golflex dress is ready to board a transcontinental train for the Summer travei- ing—and as it is of crepe silk, it will not crush easily. In Navy, Black, Drecoll Red, Nougat - beige, $39.50 Other Travel Dresses $25 to $35 Hlustrated Below Blue wool and striped metal three - piece ensemble, with crepe de chine skirt, $25. On Board Ship Knitted Two and Three Picce Jumper Dresses and Ensembles $19.50 to $25 Knitted costumes are especially smart and ap- propriate for shipboard, as they do not wrinkle, and prove comfortable and warm on dec SPORTSWEAR SECTION Trip FLOOR, Steamer and TravelCoats A wide selection of most adaptable sports and travel coats that are use- ful “en route” and after one “arrives.” Of Ro- dier’s kasha, tweed and homespuns. $49.50 to $95 WoMEN’S COAT SECTION THIRD FLOOR [ o®en urged for some time. 3 A s e