Evening Star Newspaper, August 22, 1927, Page 2

GRANT 10 OPPOSE RVER POWER PLAN Will Express Park Commis-! sion Sentiment—Hearing to Be Held Thursday. The stand taken by the National {of tons of rock from Montana Hills. Stone From Hills Mounted in Brooch | For Mrs. Coolidge | | . Mont., August 22— Mrs. Cootidge is 1o receive from the women of Billings a brooch, set with an oval agate, found after sorting hundreds The agate, an Inch and a half in length, bears an image in colors o Pompey’s pillar, a huge mound of rock naar here, discovered by the Lewis | and Ciark expedition. The rock, miles from any other, was named after Capital Park and Planning Commls. | sion in opposition to the proposed | development of hydro-electric power | at Great Falls will be expressed by | Lieut. Col. U. S Grant. 3d. at'the; public hearing to be held by the War | rtment in the auditorium of the | Building Thursday. | nt plans to read to the tWar Department engineers the reso- | tution adopted by the Park and Plan ning Commission. holding tho$ ghe upper Potomac and its scenic hill- gides shouid be preserved and that | the power development would destroy the park project. Citizens to Oppose. The Federation of Citizens' Associn- tions, which has gone on record also In opposition to sacrificing the nat-| ural beauties of the Potomac region | In order to develop waterpower, will have s;akesmen at the hearing, James G. Yaden, president of the fed- sration. sald today. He expecte Maj. Clayton Emig, and possibly other del- | erates, to attend. The Potomac Electric Power Co., it also wae stated, will have representa- tives at the hearing. at least as ob- servers The question comes up on the ap plication of the Potomac River Cor- poration of Wiimington, Del, for a preliminary permit for a project that would include power development, not only below Great Falis, but .t'Hf ‘e pers Ferry and Charles Town, W. Va. Harpers Ferry Hearing. The application must be acted on Rnally by the Federal Power Com- faiesion, but the hearing this week s under auspices of the War Depart- ment, which mak preliminary re- ports to the Power Commission on all proposed power developments. The hearing here Thursday will fol- Jow a similar session to be held at Harpers Ferry on \Wednesday to hear the views of the people of that reglon. Maj. Brehon Somervell, United States engineer for this sec- tion of the country, will be in charge of the hearings. OPPOSE POWER PERMIT. Special Dispatch to Tha Star. ROMNEY, W. Va. August Under a resolution adopted at a mass meeting of Romney and Hampshire County citizens here, John L. Leh- man, attorney, was directed to ap- pear at a public_hearing in Harpers Ferry. W. Va., Wednesday and op- pose the application of the Potomac River Corporation for a Federal per- mit to erect a dam on the Potomac River and tributaries for the manu- facture of electric power. The opposition was based on_ the gamage to be done river bottom land in Hampshire County by the flooding of the section, and also on the ground that West Virginia water power would be used for creation of electric power to be marketed out of the DENIES 20— MACNIDER SENATE AMBITION Assistant Secretary Says He Is En- tirely Satisfied With Pres- ent Post of Duty. Col. Hanford MacNider, Assistant Becretary of War, taday put a quietus ©on recently published reports that he will resign his present office to run for the Republican nomination for Senator from Iowa. “I have never run for public office in my life and have no intention of running for the Senate,” he said to- day when questioned about the report. He also ‘made it clear that he was en- tirely satisfied with his present activi- ties and had no ambition for a seat in the Senate. Though he did not care to discuss the matter further, it was re- |, called that Col. MacNider had been tendered the appointment as Senator from Iowa, when Senator Kenyon re. signed and that he had declined it. ‘That he is not discpuraged in the feast by his recent airplane experi- ence in Connecticut was clearly indi- cated this afternoon when he left on another aerial irip to Frankfort, Ky., to attend the convention of the Ken- tucky department of the American Legion, planning to return to this city tomorrow afternoon. — Warrant Officer Retired. Warrant Officer Joseph A. Me- Geary, who has_ been under treat- ment at the Letterman General Hospital, Pesidio of San Francisco, has been placed on the retired list of the Army on account of disability incident to the service. Fram i BAND CONCERTS. TONIGHT. By the United States Navy Band, at the Capitol. 7:30 o'clock: Grand march from the “Tannhauser” Suite, “Peer Gynt, D (a) Abduction of the (b) Arabian Dance. (¢) Peer Gynt's Homecoming. (d) Solveig's Song. Marche, “Militaire Francaise,” from Algerian suite. . Raint-Saens Overture, “Roman Solo_for pi g nol” opera Wagner Grieg Bride. bre” . Grand scenes from the opera Jewels of the Madonna.” Wolf-Ferrari Valse de concert, “Jolly Fellows,” Volstedt Intermezzo, “Wedding of the Ros I “The Star Spangled Banner. the United States Army Band, herrier place and 7:30 o'clock: ib- n at Reservation 400, Macomb street northwest March, “Hail to the Spirit of Li erty” £ .8 Overture, Extra, fox-trot Characteristic p! D Air de ballet, “Polka Caprice”..Perlet | Belected Extra, fox-trot .Verdi Grand sel Novelty, March, “Embossing the Emblem,” Alexander “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Marine Band, at the Marine Barracks, 4:30 o'clock: March, “Sons of Uncle Sam” Overture, “Siege of Rochelle Trombone solo, “Aereo Polka Zimmerman Robert E. Clark. Excerpts from *Florodora” Xylophone solo, *“Valse Caprice. Rubinstein Wilbur D. Kieffer. Hungarian Dances, Nos 1 and 2, tuart Georgetown University Hospital. « ' HOOVER RETURNS TO CITY Pompey, negro chef for the explovers. President Coolidge's train bringing the presidential party from the Sum mer White House to Yellowstone National Park is expected here (oday. when the presentation probably will he made. JHURT AS SPEEDER ATTEMPTS ESCAPE Policeman and Two Others Injured as Car Crashes. Others in Mishaps. Speeding away from Motor Cyecle ceman Lloyd §. Graham, who was o ing him to the thirteenth pre- | cinct station after arresting him for | speeding on upper Georgia avenue, re- sulted in the injury of William E. Creekmore's two companions, Charles B. Wagner, 43 years old, and Clarence W. Leary, 41 years old, when Creek- more’s automobile threw a tire and crashied into a fireplug near the Six- teenth Street bridge on Military road, early yesterday morning. | Creekmore, ‘who with his_injured companions lives at 1349 U street. was driving his automobile to the police station, trailed by Graham. after the latter had arrested him for speeding through Brightwood, when unexpectedly, the officer declared, he sped away in a mad dash for freedom. The officer followed the automohile and when the fleeing vehicle lost » tire it erashed into a fireplug and overturned. The flving tire struck Graham's cycle and threw him to the ground, injuring his left leg and his back. Wagner and Leary were hoth hurt when the machine turned over, but Creekmore escaped in the dark- ness. The injured men were treated at Children's Hospital. Seven Others Hurt. Seven other persons were injured vesterday in varlous kinds of traff accidents. . Miss Mary Duvall. 17 years old, 1209 Twenty-ninth street, and Miss Ruby Riley, 20 vears old, 3023 Cam- bridge place, were slightly injured, when the automobile in which™ they were riding with W. J. Graham, 7010 Alaska avenue, struck a tree near the ford at Blagden avenue and Rock Creek Park, at 2 o'clock vesterday morning. They were treated at Policeman Victor P. Kew of the fourth precinct received severe hody and knee injuries late last night when the motor cycle side car in which he was riding with Albert Miller, 500 M street southwest, in the operator's saddle, bounded into the air following a blowout of a tire. The cycle turned over and Miller was slightly injured also. Both were treated at Provi- dence Hospital. Miss Irene Maynette, 29 years old. 936 N street, and Miss Betty Gordon, 22 years old, 809 Ninth street, were cut and bruised when an automobile operated by Miss Maynette, collided with a tfolley car at Seventeenth and H streets yesterday afternoon. They were treated at Emergency Hospital. Repair Car in Crash. A repair car from the automobile repair shop of Edmund Carl, 623 H street, itself figured in trouble at Thirteenth and Quincy streets this morning while the driver, Edmund Herman Thaden, 18 years old, 2612 Pennsylvania avenue, was responding to a call, The machine collided with an auto- mobile driven by Ernest Emmert, jr., 5301 Thirteenth street, both vehicles overturning. Emmert, suffering from injuries to his hody, legs and arms, was treated at Garfleld Hospital. ‘Thaden, reported to have told the police he had left his driver's per- mit at home this morning, was charged with failing to exhibit his permit and cited to appear in Traffic Court. Garland Cheek, colored, six years old, 1610 First street, was knocked down by an automobile near Florida avenue and First street about 9 o’clock this morning and slightly hurt. He was _treated at Homeopathic Hospital by Dr. John L. DeMayo. Margaret Smith, colored, 38 years old, 1919 Gales street northeast, was knocked down near Nineteenth street and Benning road yesterday afternoon by the automobile of Thomas M. Ar- thur, 504 G street, and severely shocked and bruised. Physicians at Casuaity Hospital rendered first ald. MAN DEAD, WOMAN IS HELD FOR MURDER Police Say Quarrel Preceded Shoot- ing of Victim—Self-De- fense Is Plea. Clara Rodling, colored, 26 yvears old, 209 Clark court, is being held by the police today on a charge of murder in connection with the death last night from a gunshot wound of Tracey Smallwood, colored, 33 years old, who resided two doors from the Rollins woman. Police say the shooting fol- Jowed a quarrel. Smallwood was a visitor at the Rollins home last night and, the police learned, the couple he- came involved in an argument involv- ing a third person. The quarrel was culminated by a shot and Smallwood was taken to ‘Emergency Hospital, where he cied moon afterward. "The accused woman is said to have told the police she shot Smallwood in self-defense. The woman was held to the action of the grand jury at a preliminary | hearing toda ——— poe AFTER COAST VACATION | Secretary Tackles Flood Area Re- ports—Will Visit Zone Soon After Survey of Situation. By the Associated Press. Secretary Hoover returned today to the Commerce Department after a month’s vacation in California and im- mediately immersed himself in a mass of reports from R°d Cross and other =ources relating to the Mississippi flood situation Mr. Hoover held off engagements in order to apprise himself of the lat est devalopments in the flood fisid, where he has been in charge of the relief forces since last Spring. As soon as his preliminary. surv. Brahms Characteristie, “The Jolly Musl- clans’ .. Muscat Grand “Military Tattoo’ Rogan Marine's hymn, “The Halls on- tezuma.’ ¢ S “The Siex Spaniled Benoent B is finished and routine business of the department completed, he will | between |that she be hrought to a W3 hospitar, v | said, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. MONDAY. AUGUST BOSTON COMMON | OANISFOUND ONHARYLANDROAD | Mystery Surrounds Identity of “Ruth Perkins,” Picked Up Unconscious. Writing the name “Ruth Perkins” upon a ship of paper, a young woman, and 30 years of age, who was picked up unconscions on the Washington-Baltimore Boulevard near Savage, Md.. early this morning. to- day furnished the authorities at ¢ linger Hospital, where she is being held. with a mystery, lighted only by her early incohierent mumbling about heing poisoned and the announced belief of the Maryland State police at Laurel that her real name is Fisher. The woman was found In the middle of the road by Charles A. Weaver and Frank Giddings of Berwyn, M. their automobile narrowly es ning over her prostrate body i darkness. The two men were trying to render assistance to the woman when two Washington motorists, re- turning to this city, arrived on the sceng and assisted in getting the wom- an to the Laurel police station. Act ing uren the direction of the police, she was taken to the home of Dr. Bryan P. Warren of Laurel, who, after a hasty examination, advised Rushed ‘to Hosp The five aufomobili Emergeney Lospital. Washington ‘the woman mu coherently, and from her rambling talk a_story of a “ride with some friends” during which the complained she was “feeling bad” and the act of one of the men of her friends in giv- ing her “some tablets,” telling her to ‘take these and Kill vourself” was gathered. Examinations at Emer- gency Hospital failed to reveal any evidence of a poison, which the wom- an mentioned in her utterances, and she was removed to Gallinger Hos- pital this morning. here she was placed in a ward which was subsequently quarantined for Further examination hy s Tiyman of the Gallinger staff produced no direct evidence of Poisoning. The woman refuses or is unable to talk, Dr. Hyman said, and when asked her name she wrote “Ruth Perkins" on a slip of paper. She would write no address, however, and she would give no details of her ride last night. Mumbles She Is Nurse. Maryland State police today name was “Fisher,” but e: fact that she lived could give no address for her During her hysterical rambling she mumbled that she is a nurse stationed at Baltimore, but no further informa- tion could be learned along this line. I Here. s then sped to On the trip to USE OF TYPO HALL DEPLORED BY UNION Sacco Meeting Held Without Approval, Resolutions Declare. Use of the Typographical Temple recently as a meeting place for local Sacco-Vanzetti sympathizers re- sulted in adoption of resolutions “de- ploring”, such use at a meeting last night of Columbia Typographical Union, No. 101. Reiterating its determination to uphold the law and support orderly government, the printers’ union ex- pressed regret for the use of its hall “by any group which, under the guise of so-called free speech, em- harrasses law-abiding members of the union by staging a protest meet- ing which in reality seeks to med- dle with orderly legal procedure of a sovereign State, resulting in aid and encouragement to the lawless elements in this country.” Meeting Urged Strike, The Sacco meeting in question was held August 5. Resolutions were adopted urging the American Fed- eration of Labor to call a one-day strike of protest against execution of the two radicals and denouncing their conviction as “a crime against two fellow workers.” Dale Sheriff, president of the Typo- graphical Union, said today that per- mission to use the hall was given those in charge of the mass meeting about two weeks before the date of the meeting. and before the Sacco- Vanzetti case had become “so acute.” After the meeting the impression got out that the Columbia Typographical Union had fostered or taken part in the meeting, Mr. Sheriff explained. and it was to counteract this impres- sion that the resolutions last night were adopted. He said a request of the local Sacco-Vanzetti defense com- mittee to hold a second meeting in the hall last week had been refused. The union does not wish to curb free speech, Mr. Sheriff stated, but neither does it wish its position as an advo- cate of orderly government questioned. Text of Resolutions. The complete resolutions, as intro- duced by Norman Sandridge and adopted by the membership, follow: “Whereas the International Typo- graphical Union has consistently main- tined its position as one of America's greatest institutions, and “Whereas Columbia Typographical Union, No. 101, b its 112 vears of exlstence—75 y unit of the International T: jcal Union—contributed a matchless quota to the Nation's good: “Resolved, That the Columbia Typo- graphical Union in regular meeting assembled reiterates and reafirms its changeless determination by every means within the power of its mem- hership to support the established laws and forms of orderly govern- ment, and “Resolved, That its membership de- plores {he use of its hall by any group which, under the guise of so- called free-speech, embarrasses (he biding members of this union hy ging a ‘protest’ meeting which in lity’ secks to meddle with order} legal procedure of a sovereign State and, as well, aid and encourage the lawless elements in this country.” sl DRUGGISTS TO PLAN . FOR $1,000,000 BUILDING St. Louis Convention to Names Committes to Arrange Details for Capital Structure. law A committee will be appointed at the national convention of the Ameri- Pharmaceuti Association, which opens today in St. Louis, Mo., to decide upon fhe site and design |for the new $1,000,000 headquarters {building for pharmaey in the United tates, which will be erected in Wash- ington, W, T. Kerfoot, local druggist, It was decided to have the bullding in Washington in a caucus of all the leave Washington again, probably by the end of the week, for New Orleans. Thereafter he will tra region ag od i druggi ended on th e money sub;, . hington | bled in- | AMATEUR GOLFERS START ON TOURNEY {Unsettled Weather Fails to| Prevent Opening of Qualifying Round. By the Astociated ‘Press, MINNEAPOLIS, August Threatening skies greeted the players |at the start of the first qualifying round of the national amateur golf championship at Minnekahda today, but an overnight shower did not ma- terally affect the turf of the 6.669-yard vd course, Neither did the mose: firmament deter a large gallery from gathermg hy the time the first pair drove off, at 8:30, Forecasts of good scores were written by some of the early starters, Bob Gardner, Chicago, twice title holder being one under fours on the firat six holes, and Eddie Held, St. Loufs, runner-up in the Western cham- plonship, being even fours. A gallerw of several hundred tralléd Jimmy Johnston of the home club, who led lat the half-way mark in the recent national open. Early Scores. Gardner reached the turn in 36, one above par. George von Elm, Los | Angeles, defending champion, was one | above fours at the sixth, while Bobby Jones, runner up to Von Elm, started | with a par, went one over on the long | second and then got a perfect three fon the 14l.yard third. Some of the | first nine scores ran as high as 46 | while most of them were above 40 for |the early players, leaving Gardner's | 36 momentarily at least in the van | for the firat quarter. Von Elm made a julcy 39 on the ne, largely by taking a six on ard seventh, where he got in trouble and went two above par, although the length of the hole usually has a par of five. He was one above par on the 444.yard second and | Jones was one under fours at the sixth and even with_par, getting a birdie three on the 309-vard fifth to balance a five on_the second hole. Jimmy Johnston reached the sixth, one under par, with four 4s and two 3s, while Art Everra, his youthful townsman, was two under 4s at that point, a score a trifle better than any other produced to that point. Jones’ Performance. Bobby Jones reached the turn in 36, one above par, in spite of his out-of- bounds shot at the second. and one ahove par at the seventh. He was not as true as usual with his wood and had to shoot from the rough fre- quently, Raymond J. Daley, Chicago, shot & 34, three under par, on the in nine for a 75, to take temporary lead for wday's 18 holes. He got four birdies coming in and was one above par on only one hole, the seventeenth. He was erratic on the out nine, taking 41, six above par. Johnston reached the turn in par 36, despite a 6 on the 512-yard ninth, playing every hole in perfect figures except that and the 524-yard fourth, where he got a birdie 4. Golf Scores. ‘edar Rapi T Bridgeport T—40—77 Omaha. .. 33—40—83 Morgan Manch 44—42—86 BLIND GIRL FREED. Defendant on Vagrancy Charge Released by Court. Judge George H. Macdonald in Po- lice Coyrt today dismissed the charge of vagrancy against Catherine Min- nick, 23-year-old blind newspaper girl, who lives at 1124 Tenth street. The charge was preferred by Sergt. Ledderman of the Woman’s Bureau, who stated that the girl begged for alms while sitting in front of a five. and-ten-cent store on Seventh street. SACCO AND VANZETTI ARE REFUSED STAYS BY TAFT AND STONE (Confinued from_ First Page.) prison hospital kitchen, was brought to the death house in an aluminum container and given the trio in their cells. Sacco Still. Hopeful. That Sacco has renewed hope that his life may be spared was revealed by Musmanno after he had seen the pair early in the morning, shortly after he had arrived from Washing- ton, where he attempted to file a writ of certiorai in the United State Su- preme Court Saturday. Musmanno said that Saceo showed much interest in the legal battle that is still being carried on by his counsel. But Vanzafti, the quieter of the two, continues {o show the effects of the mental strain under which he has been placed, said the attorney. He asserted that he found Vanzetti wear- ing a knotted handkerchief on his head and that he was afrald to ques. tion him about it for fear of disturb- ing the prisoner's mind. Vanzetti is getting little rest, said, Musmanno. He paces his cell almost continually. Sacco asked about his son Dante and showed great anxiety concerning him, according to Musmanno. cco was said to have started to write a letter to his son last week, but later was reported to have halted his writing. Yesterday, however, the cit- izens' national committee made public a letter which is the one, the commit- tee said, that Sacco wrote. Talks of Hunger Strike. The letter, which is dated Anugust 18, is addressed to “My dear son and companion.” It goes on to say that “J never thought that our inseparable life could be separated, but the thought of seven dolorous years make it seem it did come, but then it has not changed really the unrest and the heartbeat of affection that has re- mained a- it was." The letter mentions ‘the end of Sacco's hunger strike and explains, “If 1 stopped my hunger strike the other day it was because there is no more sign of life in me.” In speaking of the son father last week, the lette “I saw that vou will remain the same affectionate boy, faithful to your mother, who loves you so much. am sure that from what your mother told me about what you said during these last terrible days when I was lying in the iniquitous death house that description gave me hap- piness because it showed that you will he the bheloved boy I had always dreamed.” Sends Greetings to All. It closes by saying: “Best fraternal greetings to all_the heloved ones, lovekiss to little Inez and mother.Most hearty affectionate ambrace. Your father and com- | panion. P. S.—Bartolo sends you the most affectionate greeting. 1 hope that your mother will help you to under- stand this letter because I could have wriften much better and more simply i | | visit to his aays: About one-third of the world's an- nual production ot silver is made into Snanatacire of TaFious History of Sacco and Vanzetti Case Briefly Reviewed By the Associated Press. BOSTON, August cola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzettl, radicals under sentence of death by electrocution shortly after midnight tonight, were convict- ed of the murder of a paymaster and his_guard in a hold-up in South Rraintree on April 15, 1920, Both were known to De- partment of Justice operatives because of radical activities. Before trial for the South Brain- tree hold-up Vanzetti was con- victed of a robbery while armed. The State’s case in the South Braintree matter identification by fact that both men were heavily armed when arrested, Sacco with a revolver, claimed to he that ed by the slain guard: a cap identified as Sacco’s found on the murd ene, and vari- ous other circumstantial evi- dence, The defense contended the men were armed becauss they teared deportation as radleals; produced witnesses to contr dict identification, and charged collusion hetween Kederal and State officials, persecution for political ideas and prejudice on the part of trial justice and jury foreman, Sacco worked in a shoe fac- tory in Stoughton. Vanzetti was a fish peddier in Plymouth. Both are Italians. WATCH ON FEDERAL BUILDINGS 15 CLOSE Guards Maintained at Capi- tal and White House by Hesse. ‘With the zero hour for Sacco and Vanzetti set for midnight tonight, offi- cials in Washington found no cause today to increase the police precau tions already taken to safeguard the ‘apital from any attempts at bomb aprisals or disorderly protests which may be made by sympathizers of the two condemned men awaiting execu- tion in the Boston prison. Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintend- ent of police, declared that he does not anticipate any trouble and unless some unforseen disorder occurs he sees no reason why members of the Metropolitan police force should be deprived of their usual days off or vacations. He added that no new orders had been issued to the detective force, whose men are guarding prac- tically every public building which might be made a target of radical sympathizers. Guards Watch Closely. Despite the quiet that prevails everywhere in the city, the guards on duty at the Capitol, White House, State Department and other public buildings increased their vigilance. A special force of police, armed with sawed-off shotguns, will patrol the Capitol Building and grounds "h two shifts tonight as they have been doing since the first orders were issued some two weeks ago. They will be on duty from 4 p.m. until midnight and will be relieved by a second force who will remain until 8 o'clock in the morning. Sightseers flocked through the Cap- itol as usual today, although the ap- proaches to the building were under close guard. A special guard main- tained outside of the office of Secre- tary of State Kellogg had been re. moved today when it was learned that the Secretary’s home is being guarded as formerly when threats growing out of the Sacco-Vanzetti case were made. The State Department Building. it- self is closed to business and the gates at the main entrances are locked. White House Precautions, The greatest precautions are being taken at the Capitol, however, where 100 men are on duty in day ana night shifts. No disorders of any kind were reported to the police today, nor had any suspicious person been ap- prehended. With President Coolidge and his staff absent from the city, it was said at the White House that it WAS unnecessary to enforce any un- usual measures of safety. Gates lead- ing into the White House grounds will be closed tonight, as they have been since the mansion has been under- going repairs. According to Maj. Hesse, the same precautions will be taken evervwhere in the city until it is certain that there i3 no likelihood of trouble break- ing out over the Sacco-Vanzetti case. Conditions at present, he said, are as quiet as could be expected. THREE YOUTHS DIE IN CROSSING CRASH Fog Obscures Train as Roadster Is Caught on Rails Near Hurt, Va Special Dispatch to The Star. DANVILLE, Va., August 22.—Ol- lie Miller, 19 years old; Halley Hag- wood, 18, and Henry Dunnevant, 18, were killed early this morning near Hurt, when a roadster in which they were driving to their work.in Alta Vista was struck by Southern pas- senger train No. 30, northbound. A heavy mist prevailed at the time and according to Connie Pannill, a negro driving close behind them, the roadster was straddling the track and was moving when the train came swiftly out of the fog. Hagwood was carried 300 feet on the pilot of the engine, the other two being thrown with such violence that they suffered skull fractures. Hagwood lived to reach Lynchburg station, and the other two expired while being admitted to a hospital. The engineer is said to have blown his whistle for the crossing. All of the victims were unmarried. U. S. TO PARTICIPATE IN GENEVA PARLEY Accepts Invitation to Third Gen- eral Conference on Communica- tions and Transit. By the Associated Press The United States has accepted an invitation of the League of Nations to participate in the third general con- terence on communications and transit at (ieneva tomorrow. The State De- partmet announced today. Hugh F. Wilson, American Minister to Switzerland, assisted by Chauncy G. Parker, counsel for the United tates Shipping Board, and Normal F. Titus, chief of the transportation di- vision of the Commerce Department, will compose the American delegation, The conference, the State Depart- ment said, will not draw up any inter- national convention. but will merely consider plans fc e collection and exc) regard to | 29 1927. CROWD DISPERSED Several Arrested as Police Charge Group -Bearing | Sacco-Vanzetti Placards. | By the Associated Press. BOSTON, August 2. Several men and women were arrested on Boston | Common yesterday when police | charged into a group of about 20 per-| sons carrying placards bearing in- seriptions relating to the Sacco-Van- | zettl case. A crowd of several thou- | sand persons was dispersed and scat- tered about the common. Those arrested were taken into custody in various sections of the common after the police had broken up the crowd. A few minutes previously the police had arrested Miss Paula Hollaway of New York, who appeared on the common wearing a red slicker which re, on the back, the appeal: “Save and Vanzetti. Is justice Followed by Crowd. The yYoung woman walked across the common without speaking and a crowd gathered and followed. Two mounted policemen accompanied her and rmitted her to cross without stopping her, When she turned back for another trip they arrested her and she was taken to a police station in a patrol wagon. A crowd o between 3,000 and 4,000 persons had gathered on the common as the result of an announcement | that pickets would appear there de-| spite the cancellation of all speaking permits. The pickets failed to show up as moon as expected and the crowd was milling about apparently in good humor when Miss Hollaway appeared. After her arrest the others arrived and the crowd gathered ahout them. | Mounted and foot police attempted to | break up the gathering and as the pickets separated the officers arrested them. The crowd alternately cheered and hooed. Refore the excitement on the com- mon had subsided, the crowd had swelled to upward of 10,000 persons, most of whom appeared to be present solely as onlookers, It was the larg- est assembly vet held In this city in the interests of Sacco and Vanzetti. Yesterday also was the first time the police had resorted to a mounted force to break up the crowds at one of these meetings. Crowds Are Charged. Officers on_horseback charged into | the massed throng and set the scat- tered units in motion along the prom- enades of the common. Police Com- missioner Wilson and Supt of Police Crowley were both present. The Sacco-Vanzetti pickets number- ed upward of a score, each hearing a placard with a legend descriptive of their cause. One of these read: “Try it on! Contrary to the opin- ion of the Lowell Committee, the cap does not fit Sacco.” “Save Massachusetts honor!” another slogan. Of those arrested only three were held under charges. They were Ra- phael and Peter Sansevrino, brothers, of Boston, charged with disorderly con- duet, and Morris Schulman of Brook- n, N. Y., charged with inciting to ot. Schulman, who wore a hiker's costume and carried a knapsack, said he was on a walking tour to Port- land, Me. Miss Hollaway and Miss Clarina Michelson, also of New York, were tak- en to a nearby police station and later released. The police said they had heen detained for their own protec- tion. Miss Michelson was arrested Saturday while picketing the state- | house. One man was taken to the same station and also released later. EXPLOSIVES FOU By the Ansociated Press. SACO, Me., Awgust 22.—The Saco police yesterday found 13 bokes of high explosives, a box of caps and 75 feet of fuse wire on the new county road, about 50 feet from the road, in a fleld a short distance from the Fen- derson field. A story that the explosives werd being taken to Massachusetts Satur- day in a truck that became disabled, and were placed in the fleld, was being investigated by the police. The explosives were in an open sec- tion of the field, subjected to the rays of a hot sun during the forenoon. NINE ARE INJURED IN WEEK END FIGHTS Victims, AN Colored, Receive Hos- | pital Treatment After Hurts by Weapons. was Nine colored persons recelved hos- | pital treatment as a result of eight week end fights in which an ax. knife, blackjack, bottles and a shos were among the weapons employed, accord | ing _to reports by the police. Those injured, all colored, were Jen- nie Green, 18 years old, 628 Fairmont street, wounded by a blackjack while in the Oriental Cabaret, Seventh and S streets, inflicted by another woman; Robert Robinson, 22 years old, knife " GIFFORD_PINCHOT DRY FORCES CUT 10 AVOID DEFIGT 25 in New York Lose Jobs Be- cause of Mills’ Spending, Lowman Says. As part of a Nation-wide campalgn to “clean house” in the prohibition service, 25 men were dismissed as prohibition agents in New York City today to prevent that office from running into a deficit. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lowman, in making this announce- ment, explained that it had been dis- covered when Chester P. Mills was displaced as prohibition administrator by Maurice Campbell that Mills was running his office on a schedule which would have expended $94,000 more than the appropriation available. The cut of 25 men will take up only about two-thirds of this it wAs explained, and more dismissals will be necessary. The least efficient men are being dis- missed without specific charges -and with no prejudice, leaving about 50 prohibition agents in New York City. “Drunken Agents” Going. Mr. Lowman. at the same time dis- closed that he is determined to “‘weed out the drunken prohibition agents' wherever found in the service through- out_the country. “‘Wherever we find an inefficient, in- competent prohibition agent,” said Mr. Lowman, “or one addicted to the use of intoxicating liquor, we are letting him out.” The house-cleaning process was or- dered, the Assistant Secretary dis- closed, at the recent conference here of all prohibition administrators, before Mr. Lowman was sworn in officially as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, August 1. The adminis- trators at that time were told to clean house, it was explained. A process of elimination has been going on since. Opposes Public Drinking. Campaign against habitual drinkers in the prohibition service, Mr. Low- man said, would be carried on un- remitting| *I don't think a man who publicly drinks liquor ought to be in the Prohibition Bureau as an enforcement officer,” said the Assistant Secretary. ““We don't want our prohibition agents seen drunk.” ‘The dismissals in New York City today, it was explained, came about largely through a failure of former Prohibition Administrator - Mills *‘to keep a full account of his obliga- tions,” according to Mr. Lowman. No charges ef officlal misconduct will be filed, but the Assistant Secretary said he thought that any prohibition dministrator ought to know what he doing. One of the reasons for the force in New York having heen increased be- yond the appropriations available, it was explained, was because of the disintegration of the former beer and alcohol squad, many of whose mem- bers were added to the New York area. GUDES CASE LEFT T0 SENATOR CURTIS Kansan to Pass on Woman Dropped at Capital for Sacco Plea. Further action in connection with the suspension of Mrs. Lenora H. Jones, Capitol guide, once tutor of wound across the chest, inflicted by a young man in the Silver Slipper | Club, 1200 U street; James Jackson, | 912 Delaney court southwest, struck th an ax by another occupant of | the Delaney court address; Agnes | Lee, 28 years old, 346 Armory court | southwest, struck on the head with a | shoe by another woman: James Sykes, 40 years old, 78 C street southwest. and Pinkney Rayfdrd. 39 years old, 1626 Cook court, scalp wounds, in- flicted by each other with bottles; Al- fred Hill, 21 years old, 946 Westmin- ster street,’ stabbed in the left arm; William Page, 18 years old, 1630 S street, and Nicholas Cannell, 20 years old, 463 School street southwest. State Trooper Killed at Sacco Demonstration | « By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, August —A Pennsylvania State trooper was shot and killed during a Sacco- ‘Vanzetti demonstration at Acme- tonia, near Springdale, today. The officer, Pvt. John J. Downey, from the Greensburg barracks of the State police, was shot while assisting in breaking up a meeting of some 2,000 Sacco-Vanzettl sympathizers. Downey, accompanied by other troopers, Sought to carry out orders of Sheriff Robert Braun not to permit the meeting. When the sheriff’s announcement was made to the crowd there were jeers and hisses. The troopers charged, using gas bombs and riot clubs. The crowd soon dispersed. After quiet had been restored the State troopers sought to keep 22 Senate pages, for-“indiscreet activity" in reference to the Sacco-Vanzetti case awalts word from Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas, who has befriended her in the past. The Senator, who is on vacation | in the West, has been advised of Mrs. Jones' suspension by David S. Bar sergeant-atarms of the Senate, an by Miss Lola Willlams, secretary to the Kansas legislator. Action Up to Senator. Tt was Senator Curtis who assisted Mrs. Jones to obtain the position of teacher of the Senate pages’ school and as guide to Capitol visitors dur- ing the Summer recess, and officials at the Capitol today indicated they would be guided largely by Senator Curtis in whatever step is taken next. Mrs, Jones w: spended indefinit Iy last week for Iking too freely and too sympathetically™ about Sacco Vanzelti, and for writing Gov. Fuller of Massachusetts that she would like to substitute for Sacco in the electric chair. She explained later that her sole purpose was to encour- age “world peice” and that she was not an anarchist in any sense of the word. She also told Mr. Berry, it is stated, that she was opposed to cap- ital punishment and hoped by her sac- rifice to aid the campaign against death by the electric chair. Teaching May Cease. Senator Curtis’ secretary expressed the belief that the Senator would be greatly displeased at Mrs. Jones' ac- tions. She explained the Senator had ted himself in Mrs. Jones' wel- hecanse of her previous residence in Ka and her valiant efforts to support an invalid husband and daughter She formerly was a school teacher in Boston. For the past two years she has conducted and taught the Senate pages' school in the basement of the Capitol. the meeting place cleared. It was then that Downey was shot and killed by & man who was captured. Downey. shot twice in_the _Shet, R SRT LRI 1t was intimated at the Capitol today :hat Mi ’ usefulness as instruct- 1 t an end {MELLON ASSAILED ASENEMY OF DRYS {Pinchot Sees Secretary as | Chief Factor in Failure of Prohibition. By the Associated Press, WINONA LAKE, Ind., August 2 —Gifford Pinchot, former Governor vania, dressing the Con of the World League Against fdrew W, | Treasury, as bein |the speaker declared. Alcoholism last night, assailed An- Mellon, Secretary of the hief obstacle complete enforcement of prohibition in the United S “Back of him and therefo responeible, s President (' Much of the former governor's address was devoted | to a resumption of his attack on Sec. | retary Mellon, whom he charged with | refusing to have the prohibition law For many reas Recretary Mel- lon is utterly unfit to have charge of the enforcement of the eighteenth amendment,” Mr. Pinchot declared. “First he is wet. When appointed as Secretary of the Treasury. AMallon was, if not the largest, one of the largest makers of whisky in America through his ownership in the Over- holt distillery. lled Wrong Man. “Both because of his personal views and his business interests he was just the wrong man to enforce the law. The result has proved it. “The trouble with the Coolidge ad- ministration is that it has talked in favor of the drys, but acted in favor of the wets. President Coolidge per- sonally obeys the law. He has, it is true, said In messages to Congress that the law ought to be observed and ought to be enforced, He did it is true, call a conference of governors on law enforcement, the result of which was utterly nothing. 1 was there and [ know “Under the Coolidge administration there has heen dry talk enough to keep the drys contented—most of them—but not dry action enough to keep the wets from getting all the drink they wanted.” After relating his experiances as Governor of Pennsylvania, Mr. Pin- chot declared emphatically that pro- hibition can be enforced. “‘My four years of struggle to make Pennsylvania dry, proved that what is needed to enforce the law is just one thing—a determination to see that the law is,enforced,” he said. Hampered by Mellon. “During these four years of inces- sant effort to enforce the law, the chief obstacle against which I had to contend was not the bootleggers and wet politicians and it was not the breweries and distilleries. The chiet obstacle was the Federal Government in Washington. The thing which hampered me beyond all else was the refusal of Andrew Mellon to have the law_enforced. “When the eighteenth amendment was first passed criminals generally assumed that the Government would respect and enforce its own Constitu- tion. Consequently the figures of crime, poverty and drink steadily de- clined until Secretary Mellon came into office. The present enormous de- velopment of bootlegging has taken place entirely under Mellon’s admin- istration. If he had done his duty it never would have taken place at all. “I call upon President Coolidge to put the whole power and influence of his office vigorously behind the Con- stitution of the United States and thus cure a cancer that carries in- fection to every part of our country— a cancer which the President, and the President alone, can cure.” Wheeler Says Law Enforceable. Prohibition statutes in America not only are right, but_enforceable, de- clared Dr. Wayne B. Wheeler, gen- eral counsel and legislative superin- tendent of the Anti-Saloon League of America, in another address. “Where national prohibition en- forcement has failed in the United States,” Dr. Wheeler said, “that fail- ure is largely due to the appointment or election of men who were opposed to the law or who publicly declared that they did not believe it could he enforced. Some of these wet officials enforce the law, if at all, in a way to make enemies to it. “A prohibition law will not be en. forced if jts friends demobilize. Amer- ica has cast out the saloon, but the bootlegger, moonshiner and rum run- ner must not be allowed to return in fqree. The moral forces of the Na- tion must array themselves for a greater conflict now than in the fight for adoption. Fewer Changes Urged. “One need is fewer changes in en- forcement administration methods. Since national prohibition went into effect there have been four differant programs. “The permissive features of the law and the control of non-heverage liquors make necessary establishment of an administrative ‘bureau of prohibition. “The general amnesty, offered to the small bootlegger hy some Federal of- ficers who declared they would prose- cute only larger offenders, is one of the most dangerous invitations to crime. The distinction drawn is as false as to suggest that only whole- sale murderers shall be punished, or that only emblezzlements over $10,000 shall be penalized. “As long as a liquor criminal con- tinues to violate law after his first conviction, no sympathy should be wasted on him." A bootlegger is neither a good citizen nor a good sport. He is a traitor to his country, a leech on society, a poisoner and as- sassin of his fellow men. The man ;nm buys from him alzo violates the aw. “The time has come to stop coddling these cyiminals and treat them as conspirators against the Government, liquor outlaws and enemies of the re- public.” . RIDER ESCAPES INJURY. Agee Bowles Thrown From Horse—Animal Dies. B. Agee Bowles, 3715 Porter street, vice president and cashier of vhe Poto- mac Savings Bank, was thrown from his horse, but escaped injury yester- day, when the horse fell into a ditch concealed by high grass, cut a vein and bled to deata. The accident occurred on NBradiee Lane about a mile and a half from the District line, r. Bowles was riding with William Britt, 3109 Thirtg- eighth street, at the time. He (4 not see the deep ditch that flanked the road and turned his horse from the highway into the grass. RITES FOR A. B. WHITE. Funeral to Be Held Tomorrow, ‘With Burial in Arlington. Albert B. White, vears old. hus- band of Mrs. Mary E. White, died in Walter Reed Mospital, Saturday, Fu- neral services will be conductesd at the apel of Thomas S. Sergeon, 1011 Seventh street, tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment will be in Ar- lington Cemetery. Mr. White was a member of Ana- costia Lodge, No. 21, F. A. A. the Fred E. Stuart Encampment, 1. O. O. Richard J. Harding Camp, U. §. .,'and Caitrai LodgwiNo. 1. 1. O.