Evening Star Newspaper, August 12, 1927, Page 2

e R Lo T N SUMMER SCHOOLS CRADUATION HELD. Seventy-Nine Pupils Pro- moted—45 Others Re- ceive Diplomas. Wins Promotion | Graduation exercises are being held | today for 79 SB pupils who, through | attendance at the Summer. have earned the privilege of enteri high school next month. Exercises also | are being held at the Dunbar His School for 45 pupils who have qu through attendance at the Dunbar Va cation High School to receive the al graduation diploma. ‘oday marks the close of the most schools ording to s s Walter B. Patte: tor of special activiti Mr declares that the pupils in attendance e Summer schools eagerly have lvantage of their opportunity up” work with the result high percentage will he pro- oted when school, reopens next Sep- ber, The graduation of 73 SR pupils who will go to high school next month took place Central High School this mornin wh the duation of the 45 pupils who are receiving the regu chool diploma was held = school 11:30 o'clock er pupils were holding pupils in the Patterson | elementary zrams of entertainm handwork List of Graduates. nt | follow: . Barnard Thomas . Fiorello 0Od n To Central Richard Elgin, Freder- Marks, Mark R nce Orphan To School: Christine Al irich and Frances Wahler. To Me Kinley Technical High School: Paul ins Wilton Smith. To Western Hizh School: Andrew Conlyn and George Rowzee Class instructed by W. M. Ce To Business High School—Kmn Hahn, Marjorie McKinley, Louise D, Osterwald. Helen R. Stone and Mat da R. Wood; to Central High School— Harry Fowler, Barb: Catherine Kline, Edith R. Parl Clara_Schneibers; to Eastern School—Lloyd L. Bramble. Law. William A. McClos E. O'Brien, Franklin J. Richards, Ste- phen 1 Smith, Ainsworth Tucker, Kenneth Wade, Lester Wade. Ida V. Lyons, Mary L. Snouffer, Ruby L. Whitley . Jost: to McKin- | Jey Technical High School—Hugh R. Chapman, F Kennard, Olin Me- Knight, George F. Sesso, Marguerite | Doffer and Rynell B. Stork: to West- ern High School—Reed M. Farvell, Nadine Brownfield. Eleanor Coffey. Emeline Jennings, Margaret Kline and Winifred Kohler. Class instructed by C. L. Stack: To Business High School—Rita Am- brogi, Mary Beck, Madaline Cambrey | and Ruth Crump. To Central High School—Charle Blackburn, Richard Bodmer, Mar- garet Ballden, Lillian Berman, Lo- raine Bold, Helen Dettweiler, Mar- garet Laws and Florence. O'Dono- ghue. 3 To Baker, Douglas dester, Marvin _Lohr, man, Louise Sellner Thomas. To McKinley Technical High School | —XKenneth Larigey, ; To Western High Séhool—John Har- dester, Campbell Pryor and Martha Sherier. John F. Cook Vacation School: To Dunbar High School — Donald Bernard Hill and Eleise Velma Mur- ray. To Armstrong Manual Training School—Elroy Cartwright Lewis, John | Rufus Roberts. Anna Louise Bowser | and Corrine Green. Pupils who received high school | ;flnlomu at Dunbar High School fol- ow: Armstrong Technical High School: | Alonzo James Aden, Horace Lucius Robinson and Carrie Elizabeth Love.: Dunbar High School, academic de partment: _ Willlam Calvin Cur Clyde C. Freeman, William Ennis Henry, Fitzgerald Huntington Jenkins, | Richard Henry Gaskins, jr.; Curley King, Lewis Addison Morse, Frank Leslie Norris, Ned Riston Perry, Al- fred Vergil Pettie, William Edmon Ray, ir.; Silas Franklin Sheiton, Wil- liam Elmer Toyer, Charles Ann Myles, Gertrude Edmonia Anthony, Beulah Eugenia Barber, _Alice Genevieve Betz, Elleene Magdalence E. Brown, Alics Butler, Nellie Beatrice Cheat- ham, Dorothy Viola Carter, Vera Bernice Cooper, Annie Elizabeth Hairston, Florence Beverly Howell Leona Eleanor Jackson, Mabel Cecelia Tancaster, Eumice Genevieve Moss, Carmel Priscilla Neale, Althenia El beth Queen, Fvelyn Leanor Smith. Marvis Alexandra Taylor, Lucy Eliza- | beth Turner, Gladys Evangeline Wil- liams, Paulina ila Washington and Helen Virginia Williams. Department of business four-vear course: Homer Reulah Eugenia Barber Freeman Guy. Shaw Junior Hi Jones, Mattie Barnes, Lane, Gladys Alberta Evelyn Alma Harley. Grade School Programs. ean D. 0. W. Holmes of Howard 1'}?\»2::“ made the address 1o duates at Dunbar High School le Asst. Supt. of Schoole Eugene lark awrrded the diplomas a’s Spelling Lesson, tion, was given by the blis at the S. J. Rrown V Pupils who took at this schoo siness Garrison, J done and A High School ick Hart, cioppi ar Eastern High hn Eastern High School—Marshall Collins, David Har- Blanche Leh- and Virginia practice, Franklin, and Edna George Thomas Evelvn Vashti Powell and the prog Jennie Ison. Percy Ruth Sel stein, Katie Clarence Rro Ruth Katz part in included Alons Coppe ning and man Dekelbaum, Gsell A doll contest and a ball game fea- | Le program at the I Poems were recited by Edith | \teh, Jeanette Phillips, Virginia Coulter and_Edith Kind | At the E. V. Brown School a num- | her o and violin solos_were | inment prozram. Pupils included ey Mulli- | Christine Merri Ann Bono, | Ann M igan, John cker. Falls, Mary Voigt and articipatini o 7 numbers was given ol, with the follow- Flournoy, Caroline Johansen, Muriel Anderson, Griest, Althea uzzo, Dorothy Darl- uise Acton, Ralph O'Lone, Marian Laura Binkley, Babbis, Irma rl Burgess, Ely, Edith ¥Franc Helen Dorothy Hargett, Thomas Cooper, Helen Weiskey, / MeNabe, Mary P ing, Mary Cupp, L \Weed, Rosemar Diven, Gladys Powell, “rances O'Lone. Anna 3 Gillard, Green, orge Daniel Gevinson, Thelma Ab. 3 e Clear, Catherine Brad Harper, Louise Crook atherine Butler, Freda ham Widone, ~Lillian aine Reich, Ttobert De More , Edward McRady, Marie Nostadt, e Thompson, Margaret Thomp: Fleanor Neely, Doris Rohrbach, Rock, Anna Sakolsky and Mary K Bailey. ton, Dai! weather observations are | were ch | tomobiles 'HUNGRY BURGLARS !H. 7. Bicksler of Local Esther | - | three years assistant mili _NELSON T 18 ARE ARREST IN MIDNIGHT RAID Three Accused of Violating Dry Law at House on Canal Road. A midnight raid last night at 5201 Canal road, mear Chain Bridge, re sulted in the arrest of 18 men and women, who were charged with dis- orderly conduct, while three persons rged with violations of the prohibition laws. Thomas Burton Reid, and his brother Joseph, were charged with sale and ion of intoxicants. Their ra Hart, 23 years old, w with ille; possession men were released on hond in the sum of $1,000 and . the girl furnished a $500 bond for her appearar ars old, ars old, posses- al Two in Army Uniforms. Two of those arrested for disorderly conduct were in Army uniform and | gave the names of William Thomas Meade, 32 vears old, Bushki and Harold Martin, 30 vears old, Reservoir ‘street. ~They stated they had been directed to the prem! by a stranger. | The raiding party reported the seizure of 1,000 hottles of home brew and several bottles of liquar. The raid was based on a previous visit of plain clothes men, it was stated, who | claimed that they purchased home brew for 25 cents a bottle and liquor | for §2 a pint. | Four Patrols Required. | The raiders, who occupied three au- | in a quick sortie on the building, were headed Ly Capt. Wil- liam G. Stott and Lieut. McGill Grove | of the fourteenth precinct. It took | four police patrols to carry the pris- oners to the fourteenth precinct sta- tion house. In Police Court today the Reids de- manded jury trial. Joseph was held on $1,100 hond and Thomas, $1.000. Charges against Mrs. Hart were nolle prossed. Other . defendants charged with disorderly conduct for feited $5 collateral by not appearing in court. Early yesterday afternoon police of the thirfeenth precinct, commanded by Capt. Lord, and accompanied hy revenue agents, raided 5103 Georgia avenue, arresting Clarence FEdwin Hepner, 2 ars old, and confiscat- ing 1,245 bottles of alleged home brew besides a distilling outfit. Hepner was charged with manufacturing and | illegal possession of intoxicants and | was released on $500 bonds. Police stated that a man and wom- an disappeared through a back door | as they came in the front. The raid | was made after citizens had reported | that 40 or 50 persons were seen en- | tering and leaving the house. ROB SAFE, THEN EAT| Market Loses $200 Cash After | i | Key ‘of Tennes |t 1y | peared | he g jon Gr THE . EVEN NELSON . JOHNSON GETS HIGHER POST Division Chief Promoted by President to Be Assistant Secretary of State. Nelson T. Johnson. chief of the I Fastern Division of the State Dopart [ment and a recognized authority on | Chinese affairs, vesterday was ap { pointed Assistan The appointment was mad President and announced | Summer White House. Mr. will sueceed to the post vacated | the promotion of Robert k. Olds the undersecretaryship of the dr | ment in succession to Joseph C. Grew, | new Ambassador to Turkes The new Assistant retary, tive the District of Columbia, been the department since 1907 | when entered 1 student inter prete China. He passed through I 2rades in the consular service and {atter « of assignments in Ch wos ordered hack here for specialized | work. I the from by to | a ma of has | in | a se Assistant., expert as- tions dur- Becomes Expert He was detailed | sistant on Far ling the conference on tions of armaments here in 1921 and in 1924 became foreign service officer and assistant to the then chief of the Far astern Division, John Van Mac- Murray, who subsequently was named Minister to China Johnson has been chief adviser to {Seeretary Kelloza on the Chinese prob | lem the last two vears, and in that {eapacity has frequently had oceasion {10 confer with President Coolidge on | developments of the Chinese situation. [ As an Assistant Secretary he will con- {tinue to exercise general supervision over departmental activities in connec- tion with policies in the Far East. He ix a graduate of George Was ington_University Other Changes in Servi Other changes in the foreign service | {announced at the State Department | inclnde the following: Frederie R. Dol- | beare of New York. counselor of le- zation, from Bern to Ottawa! Hallett Johnson of New Jersey, first secre- tary, from Paris to Oslo; David McK. . from cor werp to third secretary at Be MacVeagh of w York, secretary, from Managua to V on, D. C.: John P, Moffatt ¥ or first secrets , from Ot [ Washington, D. C.; 'Edward L. of Pennsylvania, first secretary, Berlin to Brussels; Clifford Glasson of the District of Col vice consul, from Prague to Port Sai Maxwell L. Hamilton of Towa, con from Shanghai to Washington, D. C; muel W. Honaker of Texas, consul, Port au Prince; Rol of M “husetts, onsul, from Gieneva to this city Fred ¢, Eastin, jr., of Missour sul at Sao Paulo, has resigned. | | John Re trom Yl con- | 'AID ASKED IN HUNT FOR ELMER R. BAYNE Police of Capital and Maryland Urged to Search for Missing Youth. of Washington nd were asked today to earch for Elmer R. Bayne, 22 yvears old. of 20 1t place, who disap- Wednesday, leaving behind two farewell notes to friends. One note, addressed M and written in pencil on a sn of paper, was found Tue: to Bayne's automobile, ch had heen parked in front of a home at Clinton, Md. The note bade Marjorie “gzood-by, foreve and was signed Another note i ck and Buddy 1ot he ot ou of Buddy Middleton’ mobile within 100 yards of his par- | home, at Clinton, last Wednes day night, saving he w ng to| visit his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. R . Bayne. The note was found Tuesday, but as Bayne v seen the next evening at Clinton, littl attention was paid te it. The other note was found in Bayne's room, nt place. When last seen ing_a blue serge leather shoes and with brown band. He slender huild and weighs or 135 pounds. His Police authorities rjorie 111 piece pinned yne was wear- suit, 1 patent a P is about | v Bandits Enjoy Lunch Be- hind Counter. Burglars entered the ©Old Dutch Market, 3107 M street, last night and ate fome hologna and blew a safe. Hidden behind a pile of sugar sacks, they cracked the safe, tearing the door proximately $200, An inch piece of broken bit, used in boring a hole through which to pour the explosive, was found near the wrecked safe. ently” working leisurely, the burglars partook of a light lunch back of the counter, drinking four hottles of milk and eating a piece of holo; . Entrance to the store was gained by forcing a basement door and then prying open a_doubledocked door lead- ing to the main floor. It was the same method used in the robbery last Mon day morning of the Old Dutch Market 1t 811 Fourteenth street, and, like that market, the establishment robhed s night has a record of robherie all the safe was rified leaving it in the icebox. beries were discovered hy ager, C. . Harpe FIREMEN IMPERILED BY STREAM FROM HOSE 15t the burglars Both the Engine Company, Knocked Into River, Narrowly Escapes Injuries, Thrown into the water by the force of the hose on the irefighter while battling a blaze at Twelfth and Water streets southwest late yesterday afternoon. . J. Bicksler, 24 years | old, member of No. 16 Engine Com- pany, narrowly escaped injury from the propellor of the fireboat before he- ing assisted to shore by Private George W, Rock of No. 13 Engine Company, who plunged overboard to the rescue of his comy ron, The powerful stream of water sent | out by the fireboat also inflicted | slight “injuries on C. W. Reid of No. ‘n, gine Company and (‘aesar Youn, colored, of No. 4 Engine Company. The | fireboat and the engine companies had responded to an alarm from the lum. {her yard of Johnson & Wimsatt, Inc. The fire was extinguished quick- 1y and dam; Reports for Temporary Duty. Maj. Martin F. Seanlon, Army | Corps. formerly in command of Bo | ing Field, Anacostia, and for the pa [ At the United States em) | Tialy, has reported ' artment | ceneral staft corps, preparatory fto from its hinges, and stole ap- | rob- | man- | e was estimated at $200. | e o De- | for temporary duty in thé taking a course of instruction at the|can delegation, at WORLD DROPS WORK OF HEYWOOD BROUN | Articles Discontinued Because of “Extravagant Opinions” - on Sacco-Vanzetti Case. | | By the Associated Press. IW YORK, August 12 r. editor of lhe Ne k World, in a signed statement in that paper today announced that articles by Heywood Broun, one of the stand- ing features, had heen discontinued | because Broun insisted upon discuss- |ing the Sacco-Vanzetti case “after two | articles in which he had expressed his, | personal opinion with utmost extrava- }Eilnu e |7 The last | August 6, aph: From now on, T | will the institution of 1 bridge, which once we ealled Harvard, |he known as Hangman's House?" Pickets before the Statehouse in Boston Wednesday carried placards | with another quotation from a pre- | vious article which asserted “If all the. | venerable college presidents in the |country tottered forward and pro | Puli Broun contained article, the published following know, nounced the men guiity, they would |7 «till_be innocent.” The World has lowing the fulle: on of individu its special wr their own name statement pretation of thi allowed Mr. } cles on the = Z which he expressed his personal opin ion with the utmost extra nce. “The World then instructed him, now that he had made his own position | clear, 10 select other subjects for his next’ articles. Mr. Broun, | continued to_write on the | zetti case. The World, therefore, ex- | ercising its right to final decision as to what it will publish in its columns, as omitted afl articles submitted by | Broun. | Broun told the Associated Press he | would devote his time to the writing of magazine articles, or perhaps would | return to the stage | Ruth Hale, president of the Lucy Stone League and Broun's wife, was one of the New Yorkers to go to Poston to picket the statehouse, alwaye helieved in possible expres- opinion to those of who write und caid Mr. Pul vining its inte privilege, the World oun to write two arti case, Gets Radio Parley Berth. Teizhton W. Togers of the Depart- mant of Commerce has heen appoint ed assistant secretary of the Ameri- the International | made at about 5.000 places in the Air Corps Tactical School at Langley ' Radio-Telegraph Conference. The ap- United States and its possessions, ' Field, Va., beginning next month,- poinlgent was announced -today, » the | Johnson | | | it ne PLANE CARRIERS | eruisers | the | will | three fleet submarines. V4 | & t Cam- | e | straight in | STAR, WASHINGTON DIVORCE FRO | | Denies Charges Made ' Against Him by Women. Tells of Life. | Cult Leader, on Stretcher in Court, Defends House of David Colony. | By the Associated Press. ¥ 1 on the as a witness for himself in the s dissolution iit against the House | David, today admitted on cross-exami- | | nation by Assistant Attorney George | 2. Nichols that he had never securcd {4 Jegal divoree fro mhis first wife. shteen or nineteen attorneys told | {me 1 didn’'t need one. 1 was only an | ignorant hoy then,” he said It has been the contention of the States that Purnell was a bigamist, His wife, “Queen” Mary, had previous: | ly insisted that Purnell had secured a divorced and that she was legally mar- vied to Purnell. The admission paratively brief di Purnell’s own counsel in which, in a monotone of “noes” and “I never did Benjamin categorically denied charge after charge that has heen laid against | him by St of came after a com t examination by into conrt on and permitted to testify cot. The courtroom w nd back of Renjamin were 5. A colony nurse | arvound the cult Purnell wa stretcher from the crowded | scores of his followe hovered attentive! leader": tretcher. Purnell said he was horn March 27, 1861, e was somewhat ue con cerning his early life, but said that he and Mary Purnell, who testified yesterday, had heen members of a colony headed by Michael Mills, in Detroit, some 20 years ago. “I don't think 1 did,” was his an- swer fo a question as to whether he had written two pamphlets introduced by the State and claimed to instruct colony members to perjure themselves essary. He denied flatly any mi tment of girl or woman members of the col- ony and aiso denied ever having of- fered “hush money” to Ruth Swa son, a State witness, to persuade her not to testify about mistreatments al lezed by the State. Purnell told his cross examiner that he married Angeline Brown in Green- up County, Ky, when he was 16 ears old. | sist | haa D. €., FRIDAY “KING™ BEN ADMITS HE LACKS M HIS FIRST WIFE He described what he termed the “lighting of the graph.” e explain- ed there was a spirit of truth t its place in him. It happened, b while he was a pillar of the Michael Mills Colony, and led him to break away from Mills’ faith and set himself up as the “seventh messe e the time Mills was serving a jail sen- tence on charges of abusing & members of his colony. Purnell said he broke away from | Mills hecause “Michael never had any faith After an hour testifving, counsel 1 the cuit leade was exhausted, He was wheeled back to his ambu nee and returned to the colony was reported he would be retu the courtroom for completion of cross. esamination as soon as he is able, probably this afternoon or tomorrow morning. Purnell looked flashed and his gestures we mated, however. He wore a pulled far down over his long gr: hair Purncll’s voice was weak the stenographer was forced to repeat his answers for the benefit of the court. He rested his head on the cot pillow as though he were tired. De fense counsel asserted “he is a very sick man and will not be kept on the witness stand for long periods at a time 'urnell replied with quavering neg: atives when asked if he had set up “an inner circle of Shiloh Girls” or posed “God Emmanuel, the Prince of Peace or Gabriel. Benjamin insisted there were no tunnels or hiding places in Shiloh or any other House of David buildings. 35 minutes of Benjamin in and fo is weak. His eve: ani- cap s0 NEAR COMPLETION Last of New Cruisers Will Be Finished by 1930, Navy Resume Indicates. By the Associated Press. A resume of work on under construction by the Navy show- ed that the aircraft carriers, Lexing- | ton and Saratoga, both will be com- pleted by next January 5, and all of | st three of the eight 10.000-ton | authorized by Congress by March 13, 1930 It ver ships now | all of the six U beinz constructed for | vy by the K ingnan Dock & | Engineering Works in China, which | have been held up hy labor troubles, be finished by January 15 next, | that by September 1. 192, the ne that and will be added to the na The cavrier Lexington, previousiy estimated f mpletion on Novem- he . was cent complete on August 1. 1t will be ready by January 5. while the Saratoga, per cent complete August 1, is scheduled for completion October 31, | ~The light cruisers Pensacola and | Salt Lake City are due to be complet- ed July 9, 1 On August 1 the Pensacola, being built at_the York Navy Yard, was 13.7 per completed. while the Salt Lake City, under contruction by the Amer own Boveri Electrica was 203 per cent on the way than 1 per cent of the preliminary | work on the other six cruisers had been started on August 1. CLUE T0 ACID BOMB TOSSER THOUGHT FOUND | Mre. Brooke's Information May Aid Police Locating Assailant. Although still confined to her home, 1736 North Capitol street, from shock | and pain induced by an acid bomb thrown through a eet car window against her right arm Monday night. Mrs, Cora Lee Brooke stated this morning that she believed fhat she had obtained a clue as to her my terious assailant and will actively sist police in their investigation. | Mrs. Brooke has held several con- ferences. with detectives of the fifth precinet, who are investizating the | bomb throwing, and expressed the | hope today that the mystery will be | | cleared up shortly. She stated that | | her arm appeared to be better yest \ in | | day but that the small scar where she | was seared by the acid bezan to hurn red that | again this morning and she anpe to have lost her strength in | arm, et g T Awarded Scholarship. | Mildred Stohlman, daughter of Wil- | m Stohlman, Somerset, Md. an Jumnus of Immaculata Seminary. has won a scholarship to the Colleg lof St. Mary-of-the-Woods. Indiana {awarded by Mrs, rigie Gunn | Mitehell, president of its alumnae, for | A grades during the entire “hool course. In announcing the winning of the scholarship by Miss Stohlman officials | of Immaculata stated that she was | president and honor pupil of her cl | and president of the athletic tion. 1 { | high s | will be exhibited unde | described LEE B0 | Arlington County cf 17 200WATT LIGHT T0BE TURNED ON Lamp to Be Exhibited Tues day Will Blister Skin at 1,000 Feet. By the NEW Assaciated Press. YORK, August 17.—A light o strong that it will produce the fect of sunburn at a distance of two miles, and will blister the skin of a person standing 1,000 feet away will be turned on at § o'clock next Tues- night at Charlotiesville, Va., the General Engineering Management Cor- ion announced yesterday. he searchlight will have a beam of .385.000,000 candlepower, which will be visible 200 miles. The crater arc of the light, it was announced, will be the hottest spot on earth when 17.200 watts are turned on to give the light its full power. The temperatu the crater will be approximately degrees Fahrenheit and the c bright the sun of 38,000 er will as at high <ht 2 id to be five times more powerful than any 1 1 heretofore, full power in Institute of <ion at the he Virginia sponsor the with the s now in s irginia Service Co. will conjunction Public Unive: Public exhibit. “If the Wilson ohservatory were on Mars,” an engineer of the corporation said, “it_will be possible for one there to tell the minute light flashed on at Cl He the huge com- streamer of flaming gas. ted that when the light shall be swung around in a circle, it will be visible at all first-class Amer- ican observatories. heam parable to It was expec ULEVARD PARK OPENING TOMORROW Washingtonians Invited to Attend Ceremonies at Woodland Site, Near Ballston. Residents of Washington and near- | by Virginia have been invited to join in a field day tomorrow south of Balls ton, Va., in celebration of the opening of a new re woodland park along the propozed Lee boulevard, it wa imnoanced today by Dr. S. M. John son, president of the National Boule-| 1 Asso Addresses will be Perry 1. Mitchell, pastor of the Clar- wdon Baptist Church; C. R. Ahalt, president of the Arlington County Chamber of Commerce; M. K. Church, ic leader, and Dr. on. de by Rev. Dr. Johnson. The exercises, fo hegin at 3 o'clock, will inciude a ball game between Ar- lington and Fairfax County teams, an old-fashioned basket dinner and the speeches. The gathering fs part of a together” movement for the Vi nal avea, Dr. Johnson state immediate objective is united suppe of the program to widen and strai on Lee Highway from Falls Church to Key Bridge le ud a direct road leading to it at the Fort Myer reservation from alls Church, Ballston and Clarendon he explains, “get inia The t ~Dog Days" E_nd Aft;: “Dog days” departed yesterday, con- siderably chastened by the cool recep- tion they received this year. | Heralded as the hottest period of the | | vear, when men suffer and dogs go| | mad. dog days this season fell down | on tradition and supplied Washington | | with temperatures pleasantly subnor- | | according o r of the ather Bureau, Dog days are supposed to hegin July 3 and end August 11, and they | et their name from the Summer an- ties of Sirius, the dog star. Sirius, it seems, selects this period to join with 0ld Sol in his morning rising habits and the conjunction of the two usually coincides with sultry weather, W r F]outing’ Tradition By Bringing Subnormal Temperatures Government weather officials put no faith in Sirius as a weather prophet, | and they pointed out today that their forecasts recentlv would have fallen wide of the mark if they had depend ed on tradition. July, it was said, had an average temperature of 76 degrees, which is slightly below normal, while 9 of the first 12 days of August have heen two or three degrees below normal. Meanwhile, the stay-at-home vaca- tionists are congratulating themselves on the foresight in saving the ex- pense of an out-of-town trip by bask- ing In the Capital's balmy climate this Summer, that | and to build the Lee hou-| AUGUST 12, TAX GUT UNLIKELY, DAVIS DECLARES Necessities Demand Large Funds. By the Acsnciated Press. MOOS RT, Au - ry of Labor James J. Davis, speak terday to 30,000 farmers of lllinois attending the annual picn here of the Illinois Agricultural As sociation, declared that money cannot ppropriated by the Gov many important ne are reduced. sre is it surplus ary Davis, ust 12 for | taxe it if s tion b 000,000 face of rause said this I of | Sec | ther the minimum 300,000,000, the “In amount The flood re the Mississippi valley, together the Boulder Dam revelopment, require millions, and millions will be needed to connect the with the Great Lakes. It is all right to talk ahout reduced taxes, but not in view of such a program. “People should remember the old song_entitled, ‘Egss Without Ham Are Not Worth a Damn,’ and if tho: who direct the expenditures of the Government do not have the money coming in to pay for these develop- ments and if you reduce taxes first it will be pititul for the party in power. They ecannot rajse once they have heen reduced.” Seeratary Davis spoke by subject of selective immig id he aw, to provide for uniting famili who are on both sides of the occan. Labor is the “only great subdivision of human endeavor” that is acting fairly toward the farmer, said Senator Kenneth McKellar (Democrat) of Ten. nessee, who praised the McNary-Hau- gen farm relief bill, “More than thirty millions of our with will B ation. He is a basi r,”" Senator McKella added. “the age income for the average farmer is $730 a vea other groups average $1,415 These figures tell their own special benefits to all groups | the farmers.” | “I am on my vacation, and am re- | | xcept | sponding to an invitation made to me in St. Paul by the Pre: him at the Summer | White House Secretary Davis said. He denied th: by the President. “Conditions throughout the country | ave fine, and they are going to get better,” ‘the Secretary declared. seemed much impressd with South Dakota crop conditions, observed in his flight over the restern part of the State. After his visit with the Presi- by rail to Huron, where he will r | enter the airplane for a flight to Wash ington, S ey |PRESIDENT OF TYPOS Howard Faction Wins in Contest Over Pensions and Mailers’ Union Issues. Br the Associated Press, INDIANAPOLIS, August 12— fifth day of the six-day diamond lee convention of the Internatio | Typographical Union opened here to- | day with the two bigzest issues hefore the delegates settled and with the progressives, headed by Charles P. Howard, president, victorious in each instance, A rule fixing the retirement age fn !l}fl old-age pension laws at 60 yvears f continuous w adopted. A pro put forward by the Maiters: 1" asking permission . to withdraw its membership from the Typographical Union and asking the appointment of 4 committee to determine the propert hts of the mailers in the interna- was voted down, 296 to 201, The administration” faction which | has contral of the executive council and which is headed by James M. Lynch, defeated for re-election a president in 1926 by Howard, vigor- contested the progressives in argument on the two issues before votes on them were taken. The desire of the mailers to with- draw from the International follow charges by them that they are being discriminated against by the printer They claim some of the introduced have sought to remove the mailer 'rz-p‘msonmmn, from the execu © counci i r voti e o and to limit their voting President Howard announced tha William Green, president of the \r:f:fll ican Federation of Labor, will address the convention this afternoon. | THEATER MEN INDORSE 50-CENT TICKET PROFIT New York Houses Favor “McBride Plan” Requiring $10,000 Bond for Agencies. By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, owners, repres | New York's | aproved the | provides for the agencies at aot more wer boxoflice prices, fiv-six theaters % Ziegfeld intere nted at the meeting leading owners not the Dillingham and Theater owners s agencies other t n that of McBride, a leading ticket | owner, who suggested the plan, had | not approved the plan, they expected | no_difficulty on that point. | The plan would require | brokers to post £10.000 honds to guar antee performanc | and its operation would he controlled | by an arbitration board of five, Theater per cent of last plan,” which of tickets by than 30 cents including the o rep- Among the langer houses, JUSTICE McCOY WARNS _ OF RADICALISM MENACE | In Luncheon Address Need of Educating Aliens in U. S. Customs and Traditions. The importance of educating alien as to the customs and traditions o this country as a means of keeping them from begoming radicals was stressed by Chief Justice Walter I. McCoy of the District Supreme Court in an address at a luncheon of the | Cosmopolitan Club in the Lee House vesterday. Justice McCoy dec ort should be made Jdiens as they come in” in order that that they might be taught the Ameri- ideals of patriotism and justice. ised the local Americanization school and declared that only about {one of a thousand graduates of such schools 18 likely to hecome a radical. He also emphasized the deep interest shown by the students in such schools, adding that they often know more ahout the United States Constitution than native-born Americans. Frederick J. Rice, president of the club, presided at the luncheon. [y red that every “to catch the Secretary Warns Farmers | taxes “fly on the | an amendment to the | | Prof. Shepherd Says Interna- | people are engaged in agriculture—it | dent to visit | he had been summoned to Rapid City | He | dent, the Secretary expects to return | IS VICTOR IN CLASH! night | represented were | ticket | of their obligations | Stresses ALLEGED RUM SHip CUTS BARGEINTWO 34 Men Arrested, 7 Trucks and 3 Cars Captured, Wi}h $500,000 Cargo, '~ rnment | tional Statutes Insure Protection. Mass., August = s in complying with © Mexican property laws, as evolved under the “Calvo principle,” do not necessa protection hy the United States, said Prof, W. K. Shepherd of Columbia Univérsity at the round-table discus- sion"of the Institute of Politics today. Reconrse may be taken to interna- tional law, which protects citizens | abroad, he said. Another phase of the Mexican prob- lem discussed by Prof. Shepherd was | the apparently retroactive effect that he declared Mexico's alien land law will have. This statute he termed retroactive, “if not also confiscatory in spirit and tenor.” Discussion of international debt set- | tlements hrought forth opposition from the West and agreement from the George Winfield Scott, for- mer Columbia University professor of international law, contended that the levies had been laid on a sound legal is of capacity to pay, while Henry A. Wallace of Des Moines, son of a former Secretary of Agriculture, as- erted that the debt hurden eventually resolved upon the American farmer through reduction of European buying power:. Feli Morley of the editorial staff criticized American ignorance of Ori. | ental history, politics and philosophy as a cause of Chinese hostility toward American: R. E. CLAUGHTON RITES. Services Held This Afternoon, Rev. W. A. Eisenberger Officiating. Funeral services for Richard F. Claughton, 61 years old, vice president | of the Washington Stock Exchange, who died in Garfield Hospital Wed- nesday afternoon, were conducted at the residence of his sister-in-law, Mrs. John M. Beavers, liam A, Eisenberger, assistant pastor of the Church of the Covenant, offi- ated. Interment was in Rock Creek meter Pallbearers were C. €. Glover, presi- dent of the Washington ock Ex- change; David N. Rust, Lawrence Slaughter, J. Morris Woodward, Charles Stott and Charles Sifford. CONSIDER FASTER BUSSES ablishment of express service on its motor bus lines running from Pet- worth to hth and Pennaéylvania venue and to Potomac Park s being given some consideration - by: the Washington Rapid Transit Co. If the {company decides to seek approval for | such ser ask that the ex- | press busses come downtown .on some | | street other than Sixteenth, in" order | {to avoid congestion on that thorough- | | ta rush houy: | | is gonsidering | { other changes in schedules to fmprove | [ service after the 31 new busses jus | | authorized are received. COOLIDGE MAY RUN IF HE IS DRAFTED, PARTY MEN ASSERT (Continued from | the opposition party, that hi | tion was a forezone conclusion. | Secretary ssing a va- riety of subjects relating to the La. hor Department with the President to- day. He brought with him some fig- | ures showing a slight increase in un. |employment.” He explained, however, | that this unemployment is only in |spots. He said he expects an im- provement when Fall sets in. | | mentioned the textile, steel, | glass and cherry-growing ind being the principal ones there is unemployment slight business recession v, according to Mr. Davi’ ob. servations, but he feels satisfied that the situation will grow ne worse and that within a few months there will Le a noticeable improvement. He said the slump in the industries where there is a lotting down in employment is due to a large extent to foreign competition. This competition could | be met without any diffi tariff on the articles in question wa cased, he said. secretary Davis reported to the Pres wdent that the bituminous coal strike sing £ with no j of un imme tement. He sa that the general competitive fields are the only ones affected He said ther ave 50,000,000 tons of soft cosl in | stock and that there is no reason to | be_akarmed whout any shortage Mr. Davis said the matter of the Federal Government deporting Sacco and Vanzetti, as has been suggested, has never been put to him. Eugene Meyer, jr. head of the re. organized Federal Farm Loan Roard, another visitor expected today, is understood to have been summoned by the President for the purpose of s the agricultural situation ss judgment upon ideas pre- him this Summer looking tending relief to the farmers. Gen. Herbert M. Lord, di- rector of the budgzet, will arrive at the game lodge tonight loaded down with” figures relating to preliminary estimates of the Government depart- ments. He and the President will %0 over these estimates ;fonight and ries where APPEALS POSSIBLE renounce diplomatic | of the Baltimore Sun in his address | | By the Associated Pres | NEW YORK. August 12.—The Aj- sonia, a single-stacker steamboat, w41 by police to contain a half-millio: |lar load of contraband liquor, was ah. chored under guard off the § Liberty today after it had |tack of almost haif a hund | the surprise attack of almost ! hundred Staten Island police, h | 4 sand barge in two in the Ki | Kull and had run upon a where it was captured 1| Guard. hirty-fonr men were arrested the Staten Island police, who al | tured seven i-ton trucks and three pensive automobiles. In addition Coust rd made prisoners of men aboard the Ansonia. Second 24 Hours, The steamer was the second al |rum runner to be captured in York larbor within 24 hours. British steamer Sebastopol was t yesterday with a load of liguor esti- mated by the Coast Guard to be worth $300,000 at bootleg prices, and the crew of 17 men was held for hear |lated. The Sehastapol was also tect nically classified as a pirate ship eause it was said to have chan name at sea to the | Patrolman | the sing its Westmoreland Dauria early toda stacker tied up abandoned dock at Arlington |about one hundred ‘men gar around a fleet of waiting trucks parently preparing to unload steamer's cargo, He telephoned for reinforcements and when these arrived and called upon the throng to surrender there b a wild scramble to escape. | Thirty-four men, however, including | those police believe to be the ring |leaders, were arrested. say Cuts Barge in Two. While the police were busy takis heir prisoners the crew of the steam- er, which had not yet begun to ur load, cut the boat loose from tha dock and started at full speed through the waters of the Kill Von |Kull. " In his haste to escape the helmsman ran his hoat into two anchored sand barges, cutting ome of them cleanly in two and causing two men on board to be thrown head- long into the water. The alleged rum runner careened onward through the darkness until it ran its prow high and dry onto a sand bar. Police said that all the men cap- tured except six were truckmen and [laborers. The six occupied expen- |sive automobiles which were lined up on the pier with the trucks | The Ansonia was deseribed as a lake | steamer. The only American freighter Ansonia. listed by the Bureau of Navi- | gation was built in Cleveland eigh years ago and was formerly called the Lake Forney. The Ansonia Steam- ship Corporation of Wilmington was listed as the owner. Befora arriving here.she was last mentioned -as arriv- ing at Norfolk, Va. 2 'WOODLOTHIAN CLUB WILL TAKE CRUISE Department Store Employes’ Group to Leave Tonight for Two- Day Outing. i The Woodlothian Club employes of Woodwa partment store, will composad ¢ 1 & Lothrop embark t . ion a twoday eruise aboard the * | Southiana %0 Old Point Comfort, No Emlk. Hampton Reads and Yorktown, | veturnirig early Monday morning. | Leaving the employes’ entrance of the: store at 6:30 o'clock tonight, the iclub members will be conveyved to the | Seventh street wharf in busses, where | they will be photographed prior to |the departure of the steamer, heduled for . A program of dancing, from 8:30 until midnight, has been arranged, with a “gold prize” waltz at 10:30 p.m. The boat will arrive in Norfol # o'clock tomorrow evening and {leave at midnight to ancher in H. ton Roads. Early Sunday morning the party will arrive Old Point Com- fort and after religions services and an nspection of Fort Monroe the boat will leave for Yorktown. Points of interest ahout Yorktown will be visited and at 530 p.m. the boat will begin its journey homeward. At 0 Sunday evening the Wood lothian Chorus will present a sacred cantata. Music for dancin aind din- ner will be fur d by the Wood- lothian orchestra. Following is the Woodlothian eruise committee: Ger 1 chairman, Ge« H secretary, Mi Marion Vi Committee on George D. Halse: Ticket committee: man, chairm s 2 Publicity committee: chairman; Richard tainment committee: chairman: H. G. S. McCarthy, mittee on danc! C. A. Riden. n H, B. a Cudwo . W. Hardy, Harvey. B, P. Leef, Miss L. K. Ashfor : J. Hall, chairman mmittee on conces- i Richardson, chairman. Religious services: Stanley Robinson, Congert. by the chorus: W. H. Star- nell, chairman. b o LEWIS W. OLDHAM DIES. War Department Mess_engar Served for 20 Years, Lewis W, Oldham, 49 vears old, rol ored, who had served as a messenzer and clerk in the W, Department for more than 20 vea died at his dence, 1320 T street, yester a long illness. > He was a member of Social T No. 1. F. A, A, M., colored, and | Sun Lodge. No. 1365, (. 0. He also belonged to the Florida A nue Baptist Church. and hid heen ae tive in Boy Seont activities, ne A scoutmaster of Troop 307 :'nl e in the nd-hand business, He is survived by his widow, Mrs Alma ndy Oldham: three brother ohn W., Rev. P ind Rev W ham, nd a sister, Mrs. Rena Hen . ser He furni der: BAND CONCERT. By the United States Army Rand, at the Tuberculosis Hospital, Four- teenth and Upshur streets, at 7:30 o'clock tonight. Program. rica First”, 1l Guarany waltz, “Besos March, “Am Overinre to Mexican .Losey Gomez Martinez 3 Two popular (a) (b) “Me and f Cheek 1My Simmons ...co..Rubens “on’ Tipt Hosmer Air de ballet, “Polka Caprice”..Perlet Novelty, “Maryland”. ... -Short (With ‘solo variations for different piece, m'dne_rmlne'w?u shall be the preparation ef the instruments,) March, “Sagamore”. “The Star Spangle .Goldman aner.’”