Evening Star Newspaper, August 6, 1927, Page 1

The Foening WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY., AUGUST « WEATHER. “~ (U. 8. Weather Bureau Foree i Fair, warmer tonights tomorrow in- creasing cloudiness and warmer, prob- ably followed by showers at night. Temperature—Highest, &5, at 5 p.m. vesterday; lowest, 60, at 6 a.m. today. Full report on’p e The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. Yesterday's Circulation, 96,795 s TWO CENTS. 10YEARS 700 LONG T0SERVE, COOLIDGE QUOTED AS SAYING lExpects to Go Out of Office on March 4, 1929, Call- ers Report. SMILES AT QUESTION OF LOOKING FOR WORK Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 10 and 11 e ),412. 5, ociated Pre Kntered as second class matter #) Means vost office, Washington, 1. C. BOMBS BLAST BALTIMORE MAYOR’S HOME, NEW YORK SUBWAY AND BIG CHURCH War Department | Gets Urgent Plea For Day-Old Baby By the Associated Preas, ‘The War Depariment fs prepared to honor requisitions almost everything from carpet tacks to 16-nch guns, but a request just received from a little =irl in Cu it alls, Ohio, for little bah; or preferably 1S N'TaTHIS ASNOBLEY, EXAMPLE" | for | for - 1 core lujurcd; as 28th lrcolj ‘Area Is Rocked. | | Broening House Set Afire After 1 Explo ion. | [ er,” two days old, has stumped the departments. one Series of Bombings and Violence Reported a1 or milit. v suppl The letter follows ar Departmen Washing Dear Sirs: Please nd me a little haby er brother. T want it about one or two days old. I want it real had. and so do the neigh- bos. The little boy next door would like to have it too. So please send #. T will thank you very much. If you haven't got one that is a couple of days old, send me one U the age of two cr three weeks soodbye. OPERATORS BALK AT STRKE PARLEY By the -~ There was a series of homb explosions in the United Siates and South America overnisht No eviden ade public 10 show that the onnection between the bombings and the Sacco-Vanzetti case. In New York two subway sta tions we: ymbed. A score of persons being badly injur At Baltimore a bomb w ploded under the porch of Muvor William K. Broening. No one was injured Assoer w . i OFFICIAL TURNS | BACK ON TRIP Police No Motive; Probe to Be Ordered. 'ENTIRE POLICE ORCE ON DUTY E | ; s ex- ‘ Peace of World Unaffected by Fail- | ure of Geneva Parley, Presi- dent Believes. Emmanuel h was badly damaged 1 nomd that explod- ed in the basement. No one was injured. In Buenos general strike to protest the execution of Sacco and nzetti, was marked by disor- der and the explosion of two bombs. Dispatches .from Pergamino said a bomb had heen exploded in a Ford automobile agency and on a railroad there. Communists made dcmonstra Sfore consul at mayor of 1 ppealed to President ¢ to grant clemency o §: Vanzetti, At Cambridge, Mass., police teres in Rochester and Chicago Also Are Damaged. Assign D cr Followinz a Dak., Aug clination on his part statement re. nation Coolidge was Yesterday that office on March 4, next Coal Situation Uncertain as < Governor’s Plea Is ! Turned Down. reszented will 1924, | By the Acsociated Press. { NEW YOR August ibway and elevated station in New | York was placed under heavy police | guard today in a determined attempt 1o prevent further activities of bomb- | ved in some quartecs to be | Acsociated Press. P t of TIMORE, 5o out of Mayor 6—The 6.-—~Fvery William F. Brocning | v a bomb 6 o'clock | 1. which terrified his wife fire to the r August s a hostile the house Lille, le has olidze o and | This was to his de ht - in connee- a pumor that naval limita 1929, when ha there would sufficient time between . and March 4, 1920 out of office, for a 1o he convened, agree and | submit its findings for the preparation a treaty for ratification by the enate. Besides t honesty of public in his , the Pre sion to three | that his fe v term que: ht thing do with unexpected decision. hor was tion wit he m THO MOVES MADE. TOSTAY EXECUTN s mort WU. S.HasMore Pl:mei U atorePone (EICALS GATHER Plants st Peesen 1) DEDICATE SPAN CHICAGO, August 6. America is making such gress that there are more com- meveial aireraft plants than auto- mobile factorics, and none is able 1o keep up with orders, William P. MacCracken, Assistant Secretary of O in Charge of Avia- tion, said today. More than 50 aireraft m turing companies are o Aid Mr. MacCracken. but ave quantity production. WITH SOVIET URGED Favors Settlement, Blaming ‘Intrigue for Trouble in Indide.~-+~ dren the faet 1 two « W rocked Park section, empt reel By the Associated Press, COLUMBLUS, Ohio, August coal situation in Ohio and the of the ecentral competitive field mained uncertain today, with the pro- posed interstate conference of miners and operators seemingly balked by the refusal of the Illinois mine owners to participate. At the same time the tens the Ohio fields was relieved following the report of Col. R. . Connelly of v. Donahey’s staff, who toured the districts and told the %overnor all was peaceful, with no need of calling ou the militia. Deputies Ready for Strife. exclusive Forre | ers—bel e city’s northwest 6.—The e rest | 1y ve. | When he guarter. mayor conference The was not en route to St. Louis, and unable to assign any one to mark family for deatlr George G. Henry, chief police in- spector, refused to express an opin- jon as to the motive. “The police are trying to learn that now,” he In o 1arters, however, the outrage, taken in con-| nection with the bomb explosions in | New York and Philadelphia last| 5 Dight, w10 Sacco@nd Vi Plans Made to Use Troops, e et e e atane | if Necessary, to Protect Buildings Here. Broening, and her daughter and son. | | an him we for | expreesion intention cen of the s as made t last Tues iU. S. and British Notables at | Frontier for Peace Bridge Ceremony. Aviation rapid ness in in Montana rding the third ave had some- 1 influencing his mmerce ¥s There Are Other Men. 0. H. P. Shelley, former Republican | national committeeman for Montana Frank Hazelbaker, Republican State n of that te, and J. prominent in Republican had called to pay response to their of ippointment and gret that he had decided not to run n. he is reported to have said here are planty of other men for the offi Th is not country, and, besides, 10 long time to serve as Pre When this trio repeatec what the President had er's words were interproted as that he probably had soma | ebjection to running again because of i = Pt { seruples against breakinz down th arrive was Secretary of State Frank Miners Agree to Parley. | third-term _tra Thin s B, bellogg, who was 1o be the gusst| On the ether hand, Harry Fishwick.|was based-solely upon his merition of of “Ms. #redertok-T:-Pratt over the | head of the Illinois miners and & {10 vears—which would be about tha week end. Vice President Charles G.| member of the scale committee of the |length of his administration on Mareh Dawes was due later in the day. as| United Mine Workers, has agreed 104, 1933—as being a long time 1o serve. | were Gov. Alfred Smith of New attend the conference. | "How this was taken by somae | ing. not | By the Aseociated Press. BUFFALO, N. Y., August 6.—The| frontier is prepared to wel- come distinguished guests from two | | nations at the dedication tomorrow of {the new international bridge across | {the Niagara River commemorating a century of peace between the United | States, Great Britain and the Do- | minfon of Canada. | With the arrival today of United States Government officials and diplo I matic representatives of the United | States, Great Britain and its North | 'A\mm- can province there began a | { round of social functions that were to {fi nish brilliant preliminaries to the | formal opening of the bridge. First of the American off ials to ated Press. The governor was informed that 2 men had heen deputized and appar- ently would be able to handle any emergencios. The refusal of the Tllinois operaiors to participate in Gov. Donahey’s pro- posed interstate conference set for August 15 at Toledo.was based on a belief that the econforence could not be assembled bocause important distiicts had discontinued dealings with the unions. Rice Miller, president of the Tlinois Operators’ Association, in d take part, said the there could be no %o and that possibly on v | would come of such a conference. do At 2 a.m. they were waakened by the oltifes 1 unusual barking of a neighbor’s dog. pol They lisiened and believed they heard gome one prowling around the houst & - The son, William F. Broening, jr. Federal and city police telephoned the police. Three officers | acted quickly today to ke every arrived and after an inspection of the | josible precaution to prevent radical premises said there was no one about. | oo oo Vyere” g the reports were Returned to Bed. received of hombings throughout the Mrs. Broening returned to her bed | country, presumably in reprisal for in the front room of the house, where | the Sacco-Vanzetti death sentences. her daughter. Mise Iithel "Bromiing: | 4 number of entrances of the Capi- 2 o N ety & = | tol were ordered closed after a confer yoom in the rear. directly over tie | 0 ence between David Lynn, architect officials | Saceo’s cap 0 v id to them obie Shyeatianise thel fring ot acco - Vanzetti sympathizers — who { | a fusillade of shots at the East | [shortly before midnight wrecked home, being | | Cambridge District Courthouse. | | {wo subway stations in the Madison e police | | The shots were fired during the | |0 00 LS : ki 1 | nizht from a speeding automo- Square district, terrorizing thousands motve | | pije. ’nnd injuring more than a score and his ettt | The Federal Government took | | hand in the investigation this morn- | ling. assigning Department of Justice e | <quad and Burcau of Combustibles | - : | e Lt | eror as Motions Are Filed The two bombs were exploded al- . | | ‘ AGAINSI UT ES most simultancously in the Brooklyn- for New Trial. { Manhattan Transit station at Broad-| [RSEEURE———— way and Twenty-cighth street, just | py the Asso | {above the Flatiron Building, and the| posToN, August 6. Counsel for | Tuterborough Rapid Transit station, | Nicola cco and Bartolomeo Van | at Fourth avenue and Twenty-ecighth | zetti today filed in the Norfolk County |street, adjacent to the site of the [ Superior Court .at Dedham a motic [old Madison Square Garden L el | The bombs exploded with such | Petitioned Gov. Alvan 1. Iu force that walls of masonry were | Stay of execution. torn away, holes were hlown upward | The petition for a new trial alleges | through the -sidewalk, kiosks at the| prejudice on the part of Judse | subway entrances were practically | Webster Thayer, who presided at the _demolished and windows of surround- | (rial and who refused previous mo | 1ng Puildings weer shialtered for four | tions for a new trial. It also asserts| | S e that new evidence has been found to | Dozens Thrown From Seats, the effect that holes in By fortunate coincidence a {rain: Which Judge Thayer had said were (fficia| was in neither station when the ex.|important to the case were made by | plosion occurred, although in one in-| Chief of Police Gallivan of Braintree. i stance a train was approaching at| A-third ground is the allegation that | reh under which the bomb was | LPDrOAS : ;?m'md"' of the building, and David S.-Bar l«::e»\‘,‘.;:;t;.{?:d‘;:f.1"'-“'.’ \‘\el‘e applied | willlam H. Proctor, a State firearms | Though assuredy the police no one | sergaent-at-arms of the Senate. wera thrown from their senia oo " [eXpert; had changed his testimony. s ihe ho‘qrp.d;;’]fig'yl")‘x'(flo;\.;":z\a‘l;::‘é\ It was decided to leave open only | The only clue in possession of in- Reasonable Time Asked. {SECmmEE e rightened uptl J ¥ | the three main doors on the East | Vestigators thiz morni . s e fell off in slumber. - Iron hox, smelling streagie ot mitsa | The petition to the governor asks BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. " Lew At 6 o'clock when gardeners in the section were starting to work the blast occurred. The three members of the family jumped up and met each | other in the hall and ran terror- stricken to the front lawn. The rear porch was in flames. The | hlast shook every house in the area. shattering the windows of many, and | within a few seconds the residents were running to the street. A neigh- hor sounded the fire alarm while an other took the Broenings into his| home. Rear Walls Cracked. The blaze was extinguished quickly. but the firemen found the explosion | had cracked the rear walls. Police| found particles of the bomb, which | they helieved was equipped with a time apparatus to discharge it. Authorities are confident the bomh was placed beneath the porch at 2 o'clock when the family was fir awakened Mavor Brot I ng Is serving his sec ond term as mayor. He is a Repub- Jican and popuiar with all classes often referred to as “Billy the mix because of his friendliness. CHANGES TRAIN MINUS SHIRT. Mayor, Half Shaved, Rushes From Pullman to Return Home. 6 (P CINCINNATI, Ohio, August haif — Without a shirt, and with on of his face shaved, Mavor Rroening of Baltimore made his way bound timore & Ohio TRailroad train 1o an easthound one at Winton T cinnati, today. when informed that an attempt had heen made to blow up his home with a bomb His journey to St. Louis and Fort Worth, Tex., was cut short hy the newa of the explosion. He received a telegram from his wife when he reach. ed Winton Place and had just time enough to hoard the train going in th irection. one injured, but come home at once.” read the message received by him from Mrs. Broening. No Idea of Motive, The mavor was in the washroom of the Pull making his morning toilet wh s handed the mes- sage and that he had time enough out and another t tie did <ed just o get He seized his and oniy from the Hae T have no idea w bed,” he was elected home was campi er. 1 no o would commit ain no ad injured be SLCOMES U. S. FLYERS. Die Pilots. th ico to Spirit o [} went of b wel h n < i 1 1 oS aviato San Diega on it tizht ted in Mexico been 2lights ‘he Tlane reaches the ca r ersal « . the "ot § Tampice to Meaicp Clly plane: n Diego { William K. | lace, on the outskirts of Cin- | atch will | om hou 0 G, balast Tor yepais, 2 front, one at the House end, one lead- ing into the rotunda and one at the Senate end. All Capitol employes as | well as the regular uniformed police | have been instructed to he on the | Jookout for suspicious characters, and | the guides who escort sightseeing | parties through the buildings are co- operating with the police. Capt. Gnash, head of the Capitol police, is carrying out the speeial precautions. Officials’ Homes ed. l 'red by the bomb outrages, Maj. | sdwin B. Hesse, superintendent of po- lice. ook every precaution. Uniformed patrolmen were ordered on “short heais” around the homes of Secretary of State Kellogg and the | Assistant § ries and other pl. | where radical demonstrations might | be made and a close watch ix being maintained by plain clothes men at | Union Station. Maj. Hesse said he thought no at- tempt would be made 1 dicals to stage a demonstration in Washington, but declared that the Police Depart- ment is ready to meet any emergency. With the slightest manifestation of trouble the Police Department plans | to_cancel the leave of absence of all and augment the entire sary with military troops Avmy posts. A repre sentative the War Department conferred today with Maj. Hesse and [told him that the Army is prepared at a moment’s notice to dispatch troops 1o Washington should an emergency arise. Police Heads Confer. These men would be drawn princi pally from Fort Myer and the Marine base at Quantico. Maj. Hesse made hig plans for protecting Washington at a conference w Inspectors | Charles A, ant super- | intendent. and att, chief | of the Detective Bu These offi cials were closeted with the superin | tendent for about an hour. Maj. Hesse was reluctant to discuss policemen | force if nec from nex | the plans of the department. hut an- nounced emph: lly that | department is “on_its toe | 7 (Continued on Page 'HEROIC ENGINEER REFUSES REWARD Junior Officer on Liner Cut Off Steam When Propeller Broke 1,000 Miles at Sea. ic he entire and fully Assaciated Pross YORK. A By the Heroism and four man Ll a danger imperilling sust 6 offices NEW of a junior on the o averted ceident in midor board umbus ou the | In seme unknown manner- [ by striking a_submerzed derelict when 1,000 miles out of st a propellor. Released of the load, the e raced until it off a cylinder head Weber, fourth en crawled thro voom filied with oilers held his and closed 2397 lives on ssibl | Columbus | port, { hie Anto our vilers le the found neer, and sam, and zineer the steam vaive \assenzers took up a purse fo {the squad, but Weber refused to take {any reward, consenting merely to be {trustee of a fund of §850 with which {to buy watches for the oilers. The Columbus, which arrived 36 ! nverdue last night, wili return ) | clothes Column 1) | the | the en 1he en- | for a stay of execution “for a rea able time” in order 1o permit counsel | to prosecute motions for a new trial. | The petition to the governor set When the hombs expiofed under. | forih that the defense also had filed a &round passengers and street crowis|Pelition for habeas corpus in the Suf- in the Madison Square distr, | folk County Superior Court. fwown | Into | immediate confusion. | Arthur D. Hill, chiet counsel for the making ri:r-w“difl’u‘:-‘.‘.nm,:,’: subway, | defense, conferred with Justice kd- police in ascertaining \\h«u.'::k,,"f‘ ward T. Broadhurst of the Superior one had heen Lilled and in carryiny | COUrt at the courthouse in Boston to- the injured to ambulances which |94y #nd upon leaving said that Jus- Avafatushed to the scene from ai | tice Broadhurst had refused to act on o | his request that a stay of execution All Officers Recalled, be granted by that court and that Police * Commisslo, some justice other than Judge Thayer morning canceled he assigned to hear the motion for a policemen and recalled to duiy aj| PEW trial ‘:L'_';-‘_'}“ on vacation who were within| Michael A. Musmanno, an attorney | ach. Uniformed men were placeq | 28sociated with the Sacco-Vanzeiti station platform, and piain | defense commitiee, filed the motion | L Gaval on oo ms | e for new trial with an assistant clerk | a L Uhe duaing Herbert B. ameng crowds on the platforms s T e L. Seigel, -vea rlier in | : & dentist, was held without ) 1 todas | the week." filed the petition fo wtay | tion with Tnglish troops should be, it glycerine, found in the wrecked I et | 7 O N cdnarigh 144" 3 T. station. The hox, locked with | B el a brass padlock, was taken to police | headquarters for examination by | experts of the homb squad. LONDON, August 6.—*I helieve an | actual showdown with . the Soviets | would pay us betier than this con- [ tinual intriguing of Moscow in our colonies,” declared an influential mem- ber of Parliament to the writer. com- menting on the situation in Ind The Indian situation is serious reports are reaching London almost weekly of riots which can be quelled the killing or wounding of numerous | | Indians. The official explanation of the India office is that not much attention be i paid these disturbances since they are only local between Hindus and Mus- sulmans, Competent observers who recent’y have been in India, however, think differently alist feeling in India has inci greatly sinc the war, when the Indians began ta think that the price of their co-opera ner Warren thi; all - vacations | on every assigned nd circutate | of the court at Dedham. | Bhrmann, who withdrew fro -old | connection with the case e Attorney Ryan, of the investigation a. TROUBLE IN CANTON REPORTED GROWING Bomb and Pistol Attacks, With Street Clashes, Stir Chi- nese City. e = ~ | (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) | August 6.—Unrest is growing ste in Canton, bomb and pistol attacks on officials | and . |street clashes between radicals and 2| the police causing much anxiety. A strike of longshoremen has added to the difficulties Scenic Beauty At Capital's Door Imperiled By Proposed Power Develogment Remarkable airplane photographs in the Graphic Section of next Sunday's Star_show sections along the Potomac River which will be forever inundated if power plan is ratified. In Next charged with suanicion ot tie . | of execution with Hermun A I not complete independence, at least | [ thomin the hombing of ihe Twenty. | Donald, the governors secretary. | complete autonomy. islfil\\":\le)’x:“y‘-[[|>\ ion of the 1. R, Meanwhile Hill went to the Suffolk NaLosli s WeHa Lo nnes | ay shortly before midnight, County Courthouse with the intention 'he situation became worse after Asks Holding Without Bail, of conferting with Chiet Justice | oy, Hiots ad been rutiiese L : Walter Perley iall of the Superior {eVErl Bulue 11015 e, Drcw vuthioss: o e Court. As Chiet Justice Hall was | {0 [ - Nationalist movement “.( T N s S not at the r‘h; hou . o ;' g n | seemed to die out, but intense sub- tions last might, sald that p g "L . Stead with Justice Broadhurst. terranean work is heing done by the juested that Seigel” b hela. wichi | Petition fo Governor. Vi Sippbrtecicins Etaliv oy sttt Seizel b el | v s e er working directly ing after a detective had stoppad him | v the Governor in Councll of the | IO the mischievous work of the Patrick s Catalempting to enter St.| (ommonwealth of Massachusetts: | [SUominiAng maedthe himal i Catposri UNE (0 enter nonwealt fassachusetts: | ligious friction between the Mussel S s atter | “Respectfully represent Nicoln | i Hindus, the former being % k‘\nn said Seigel ncknowledged that | \pee have el a motion for a new |Supported by the British authorities € was an anarchist, saying h : ; b Ot LR R e L e ing r;)m”he trial «3, !lh\r? ‘?ulylnnm’ ‘« ourt I,_.( nt]::*; anced, and consequently opposed to | Q“’ mideclinealto any a2 | f,wl::x‘w:n O aan ':“’\I)‘:l‘; o Mihe | the British administration. This fric Lisel wals slispectediof liaving taken | Superior (Conrt in fhe County of Suf- | LoD resulted in ielots, 'Buer a5 hays in the Tombin. ‘eonfimm g, AKen | Superior Court in the County of SUf- |l curred n the Jast four months, e 2 U},. ,‘1:“‘),,:,‘“‘ hat 1t 1n thelr intenti -;\)r O linvolving the loss of nearly a_thou -'*h'[" gertained from Seigel,” he sald, | tion o he heard ax soon as they can| (Continued on Fage 4, Column 3.) Wash.. ihreiS Jrrested in Spokane, | obtain hearing upon same, and in the Jash, Mree vears ngo s a vagtant | cvent of their fulira o ohiain reliot MovemenIEring an unconstructive | thereby in the courts of the Common- ovement % 07 wealth, {o prosecute their case before Knowiedge Ted, that he had any | the United States courts with all pos Itonacdge of the bombings or any |sible diligence, and that it will be im [yt i the Sacco-Vanzetti case | possible with the exercise of ntmost in eamiane fact that he did not believe | diligence to obtain a hearing and de-| [t capital puniaiment. cision of the said cause hefore the st e found in the East Side|time set for their execution, namely, tubway of the Interborough Co. were | Wednesday. Auzust 10. ninto custody today. “Wherefore, they respectfully pray i a stay of execution may be ordered om0 are Released. for a reasonable time, in order to en ne of them, who gave his name {78 Stanley Zuke, 2 found by a motorman in a tra dugont | @ recess in the walls. The motorman topped his tain and took him to the | Platform, where he was joined by & | companion, Chester Towsky, al They said they were residents of { Seranton. Pa. Zuke said his hat had | blown off, while waiting for a train! |#nd he had stepped onto the tracks to | retrieve j | Armies Reach Agreemer:!. ” | SHANGHAT, August 6 (P),—A wire- |less message from Wuhu, Anhwei Province, says an agreement¢has been reached 'between the Hankow and Nanking armies in ' that region. It adds that the troops of Geén. Chlans Kai-Shek will return to Nanking soon. ) | ':/‘V\u; nd Gablowsky were r | after heing questioned 1wo hours by | members of the bomb squad. il |, Oscar Teifer, who was standing on the opposite platform of the B. M. T. | station Broadw; and Twent | eikhih street, from where the ex- losion at midnight oceurved, said, It sec like the whole town” was | Lalliy on him. 1 was waiting for a train and IKing up and down the platforn he said. “My wife had gome 1o the restr Before | knew what had | happencd there was a flash, and I | was flat on my face. 1t seemed like the whole town was falling on me. 1 remember breathing some of the dust and trving to get up to find my wife. Then I lost consciousness. “When 1 woke up the station was | black. Not a light. I groped to the lrp:tronm and_found my wife lying (@eRgiaued on Page 4, Colymp 4 y. | I | Gen, Chiang Kal-Shek atjone tinie was in command of the Soiithern Na- tionalist (ilankow) armies in the drive against the Northern, o, Peking, forces. He broke with the:Hankéw regime last April, charging tiat it was being influenced too strongly by.Com- munist advisers, and set up an oppo- sition government at Nanking. ..The break came shortly after the capture of Shanghai by Chiang. TN LR | n. | younger | event. | short |an effort to reach KEurope and the from Britain States; Davis and others. Royal Party f Great Prince of Wales and Baldwin will represented by officially | Great Britain, while Canada will be Premiers and | King of the Dominion and G. Howard ago Daily | York, Sir Esme Howard, Ambassador | to the o Attend. i At the ceremonies tomorrow the Premier Stanley represent Mackenzie Ferguson of the Province of Ontario. I will arrive Sunday after the dedication. brother of W After a luncheon at American visitors, infe afternoon from orly by the calling out of troops and | Toronto and will return immediately Prince the _George, Prince of les, will be in the royal party. the Buffalo Ath- { letic Club in honor of the British and ormal receptions were 1o be tendered during the after- noon, while at nigh t dinners were arranged for Vice President and Mrs. Dawe: 1 Sir Eeme Ho abelle and rs. Kellogg. Indians Join Ceremony. Secretar oward and Lady ry of State and Incident to the Peace Bridge cere- | monies there will be a gather; night of Indians of of the Iroquois at the Ame; ng Lo the Six Nations can end of the span, in commemoration of the historic part which their ancestors played in the development of the Ni- agara frontier. Nea end of the structure Canadians were to u noon in a parade, to night by a pageant a tario, depicting the v. frontier history. British, American flags broke out in pi falo and Fort Erie Peace Bridge itself wated for what man as the mpst importa ara histor; boundary and Canada. Théusands of Thousands of ¥, and many tomorrow to w to Radio experts throu; elaborate make it po: Africa, Aus the Rritish United the addres: Martin sting of chenectady, wave length w radio hool ble for li Isles. a 5. « at Antipodes The program Is to and will be broadeast by WGY on the since the day ago, when bitter struggle. line between v mor New es and Canada 395-meter w: r the Canadian Americans and mite this after- be followed to- t Fort Erie, On- arious stages of and Canadian rofusion in Buf- today and the was gaily deec- ny characterized U event in Niag- 100 years seitled the this country Visitors. rs were ar e were expected itness the main ghout the world jare completing arrangemenfs for an k-up that will steners in South Zealand and well ad the to hear s Rice, manager of broad- he General Electric Co., announced that a d be d in start at 3 pm. in this country ve, op- erating simultaneously with WJZ and a chain of station: PLANE RUSHING RELIEF FOR PERSIAN EPIDEMIC 100,000 Packets of Vaccine Sent Over Air Route to Com- bat Plague. By the Associated Press, FRANKFORT, Ge 6.—One hundred thou: rmany, August sand packets of cholera vaccine are being rushed in a special Tufthansa air where an epidemic the eastern province: ing by way of Mosco arrive at Teheran, the tomorrow. ‘When the epidemie trol of the local auth sian government appealed Hoechst Laboratories sE VM plane to Persia, has broken out in The plane, fly. . is expected tn Persian capita’, zot beyond con- orities the Per- to the here, and the John L. cretary of Labor James G.| the central fleld, also accepted the invi- | tation to attend. Gov. Donahey requested Gov. Fish | er of Pensylvania, to join him. but | the Peunsylvania governor was in the { West and his office had not been able to deliver the request. 'FIVE KILLED IN JULY IN TRAFFIC CRASHES | Total of 351 Injured in Month Is Report Made by Police Superintendent. accidents in the District during July and 351 were injured, according to a monthly statistical report made | public today by Maj. Edwin B. Hesse. superintendent of police. Compared with July, 1926, this is an increase of 1 trafc death and a reduction o 222 in accidents. Arrests for the month totaled 7,758 of which 2.818 were for violaton of ths traffic regulations. Seven hun- dred and forty-seven of these arr were for infraction of the park rules, 411 for speedinz. 249 for v lation of the headlight 9 for driving without pe 7 for disbbeying ‘'stop” ilar signs. Arrests for violation of the Vol stead law numbered 433. One thou sand and sixtv-nine arrests were made for violation of the Sheppard law. nd and sim SHOOTS WIFE AND SELF. Norfolk Painter in Hospital After Killing Helpmeet. RALEIGH. N. € Charged with slaving his wife then wounding himself with a pi Dorsey St. Clair Hamilton, 47, folk, \'a., a painter, is in a | hospital, with what physicians | was an “even chance to vecover. The shooting took place home of Charlie Harward, a farmer, on the Bailey road, eight miles from Raleigh. late yesterday. There were no evewitnesses. Mary Harward, 17. daughter of Mrs. Hamilton by her first husband, and Mrs. Charlie Har- ward were in another part of the house. Thae girl reported that she saw her stepfather approaching the house, but before she could tell her mother, Hamilton entered and formd his wife Iving on a couch. e shots were fired. and DRY 6AMVPAIGNS URGED. Temperance Union Seeks Clean-up in 1928 Contests. CHICAGO, August 6 (). —Increased efforts to make the 1928 presidential campaign thoroughly “bone-dry” are called for with President Coolidge's ! announcement that he does not “choose” to enter another campaign officials of the National Women Christian Temperance Union day. Starting with the unio tional convention in Minneape gust 2+ to September 1. a co barrage of educational influence against the “wet” situation will be carried on. It is the intention of the union to president of the # United | Mine Workers, speaking for those of | dent was only thinking of the mental . Five persons were Killed in traffic | regulations, | igust 6 (P).— | = | | tations fe | will have no serions effe as possibly meaning that the Pr and physical strain associated with the office and that he was thinking of his own health and physical well | beinz when he made this reference to | 10 vears. | The President himself declined tn amplify the announcement of his d | cision ‘at the bi-weekly press confe: | ence. He evinced amusement. how- ever, when he was asked what he was | contemplating doing when he w | out of office. Sought No Ouiside Advice: He chuckled and there w look to his eves as he repeated this question and he smiled broadly as he inswered it by saving that work has always come to him fast enough in the past and he guessed he wouldn't have to look for it in the f | Besides, he thought it is too ear | be thinking about that _.ow. The President. however, wag repre- sented as intimating that he souznt no outside advices bhefore ne made { public his decision. He appearea very | proud of the fact, too. He was 1epre- | sented aying that with the excep- | tion of Everett Sanders, his seerctary and his nersonal stenogr whom he divulged his decision few moments in -l | vance of its preparation for the pres the newspaper correspondents viere the first to know about it Although the President made mno | mention of Mrs. Coolidge while mak- ng this admission, it is generally un- | derstood that he talked it over with her a number of times before he de- cided upon the publication; alse that he mentioned his intentions to ona of his associates here, in whose lovalty nd judgment he has a very high re- gard. He was in 2 s a merry Iy to most happy frame of | mind as he disenssed the subject. He | appeared almost jovial and “unques | tionably delighted in the little bit of revelation about bhis ability to keep a secret and to keep his awn counsel. This genial mood was particularly ap- parent when he got so much fun out of talking ahout what he would do when he ceases to be President. Holds W The Tresident was represented as considering it too early now to tell the effect of the collapse of the naval limi- conference. He thinks the statements on the subject jssued by ador Hugh Gibson, head of the n to the Geneva ence, and Secretary of State Kellogg cover the position of the American Government admirably. He could not see how he could add any- thing to what they have said ¥ The President is very positive, how- that the unsuccessful outcome on the peace world. In I »pinion. the es, Great Britain and Japan are now pr 1 where they wera hefore entering upon the tripartite conference. He is satisfied that the friendly feelings nd cordial under- standing between these three govern- ments have not been impaired in the least, just because thev were unable , to agree on a naval building program. The Republican trio from Montana were not the only ones who called upon the President yvesterday to ex- t at his decision to not be next vear. Fred W. Tohnson of Chicago, sident and vice president, respec: tively, of the Chicago and Northwe ern Railroad. during a long chat with the President told him of their disap- pointment, and said they hoped he would reconsider the matter. They added that during their travels since the announcement they observed that the disappointment was pretty general d Peace Unaffected. the Unite clsan up not only presidential cam- paigns, but senatorial and congres sional elections, the officials announced, and that people were hopeful that when the time comes the President (Conginued on Page 4, Columm 39