Evening Star Newspaper, September 3, 1927, Page 2

g o INSPECTORS PROBE POSTAN'SINCRY Pelice Find Batch of Undeliv- ered Letters Near Gver- turned Auto. i are investi- | Post ! h caused office inspectors gating circumstances Wik Edwin B. Seebold, 27. a substitute mail carvier, to abandon his over- turned automobile and a bateh of un- delivered letters found by the police at about 7 oelock this morning at Twelfth street and Florida avenue | northeast. According to meager information re- ceived by the police, Seebold wandered about the streets in a dazed condition for about two hours before returning to his Lome in Lenox, Md.. without reporting at the main post office. His bloody cap was found in the street heside the automobile and letters were scattered about. Report Is Awaited. Assistant Postmaster Haycock had | received no official report of the ac cident today, but said that Seebold vas supposed to have reported for v at the post office early this morn- " Inquiries by the police determined that Seebold left for work at the cen tral post office at o'clock this morning and the mail which was found had been carried home by the carrier the night before as undelivered of the case which ing. it w learned today cock said it is against orders riers to take home any undelivered ail. and that Seebold should have turned in the letters last night Policeman Dand of the ninth pre- einct found the overturned automobile and took the mail back to the precinct statlon. It was later turned over to the Post Office. The automobile was damaged badly. Thrown Out on Head. | Seebold’s auto, it was believed, struck the curbing when he lost con- trol of it. He evidently was thrown out on his head. A man who said he was the mail carrier's father called up the precinct later in the morning to explain the accident. Seebold, it was said, may have sustained a broken jaw. ’ Police were unable to find any trace of the men, although a search was made at hospitals. They are waiting for some member of his family to re- port. Meanwhile, the Post Office sent its own inspectors out to Lenox to make inquiries about Seebold. COOPER HEWITT NAME BRINGS CUSTOMS PROBE Mrs. G. W. McCarter's vEflects Passed Duty Free When She Calls Herself Non-resident. September 3.—On orders from the Treasury Department, the collector of the port began an in- vestigation today to ascertain whether Mrs. G. W. McCarter, the former Mrs. Cooper Hewitt, is a resident or non- resident. The McCarters arrived on the Ma- Jestic -last Tuesday. Mrs. McCarter ‘was on the passenger list as Mrs. Copper Hewitt, and made out her declaration in that name as a non- resident, thus having her personal ef- fects passed free of duty. Her hus- band made a separate declaration as a resident. - McCarter said his wife had to travel on a British passport, as by her mar- riage to the Baron D'Erlanger she had ‘become a British subject, and had not yet regained her citizenship. Assistant Collector of the Port Stuart said he was investigating to THE - EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, Dry Agents Give Youth First Sight Of Auto and Train By the Associated BLU 1ELD, ber 3.—Geor s old, said he never more than three miles from home and never saw an automobile or train until he was brought here yesterday by Federal agents to face charges of I8 ition law violation. | The officers said they found a large still near his home at War Creck, 40 miles from here | | CLASH FORESEEN OVER SUNDAY LAW Opposition Develops to Pro- posal Advocated by Lord’s Day Alliance. Opponents of Sunday closing laws, it was learned today, are hegining to or- ganize a fight to block the plans of the Lord’s Day Alliance to secure D e of a model “blue law” for the District of Columbia during the next Congre: The National Association Opposed Blue Laws, Inc., with headquarter at 817 Thirteenth street, is a leader in the movement and in a statement is- | sued tod. denounced the appeal of the Lord Day Alliance for a “war chest” fund to finance a Sunday clos ing law crusade. “Bigotry Lobby” Alleged. Never in American his ‘bigotry lobby’ been so i arrogant as today,” declared Dr. seph A. Themper, national president of the blue law opponents. “The enact- ment of a Sunday blue law for Wash- ington would be the entering wedge milar laws from Maine to Cali- fornia.” Dr. Themper declared that the modi- fication of the Lankford bill last April to permit Sunday matinees but forbid Sunday evening sho with a clause allowing Sunday bas ball, is “a sample of the adaptability in tactics by the Sunday-closing Straightjacket” Planned. “It was frankly admitted that this was done only because the original draft of the Lankford bill could not pass,” said Dr. Themper, “but that if the milder measure should be en- acted, it was intended to fight in th coming session for a ruthlessly fa- natical bill that would ban every ac- tivity on the Sabbath except church worship and a few allied occupations. In the next Congress the efforts to put Washington in a Sunday straight- jacket is to be renewed, and it now appears that all compromise will be abandoned, - with the Lord's Day Al liance fizhting tooth and nail for a law that is reminiscent of Salem witchcraft and the heresy huntings of long ago.” VIRGINIA “HELD UP” BY LANDOWNERS Highway Commissioner Telli Gov- ernor of Exorbitant Charges in Road Extensions. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., September 3.— Highway Commissioner Shirley, in a see whether Mrs. McCarter had changed her status as foreign resident by her marriage to McCarter in 1926 in New York. If it was decided, he said, that she was a resident of New York instead of Paris, she would have to make a new declaration and pay duty on all effects except the $100 ‘worth that is allowed all residents. —_—l e ARRESTED FOR ARSON, ADMITS KILLING FATHER Illinoisan Taken Into Custody by Police as He Prepares to End Owa Life. By the Associated Press. DECATUR, IIl., September 3.—Ar- rested on a charge of arson as he was preparing to kill himself, Gis A. Stroh, 41, of Gibson City, told officers that he not only was guilty of arson, but that he killed his father nine years ago. Several letters dated yesterday and a bottle of poison were found in Stroh’s pockets. The letters declared (that his home had been wrecked, and \that he had despaired of ever being thappy again. il Alittle more than a year ago Stroh imnd his wife separated. She went to fkeep house for Louis Asher, a farmer. iAsher's house was destroyed by fire {mnd Stroh was suspected. i Claude Swanson, State's attorney iof Ford County, said Stroh’s father ad been dead nine years and there ‘had never been any suspicion that his death was not normal.- The prosecutor said he doubted Stroh’s story of murder. WILL SUE OVER WAGE CUT 14,000 Norwegian State Employes Decide to Take Action. By Radio to Thi News, OSLO, September 3. thousand state employes, including all functionaries in the railway, postal, telegraph, customs and lunatic asylum services, have decided on a lawsuit against the government be- cause of the 10 per cent wage re- duction which takes effect from Janu- ary 1, 1928. I. M. Lund, president of the newly ereated Court of Compulsory Arbitra. tion in Labor Conflicts, has under- taken to plead their case. SEIZE 250-GALLON STILL. @cen Attracted by “Clicking” in Garage—House Party Raided. Sounds of clicking of a big gas meter, and boiling mash in a double garage in the rear of 128 D street southeast, lead Detective W. 8, Brown, dry law enforcement officer of the fifth precinct, and Policemen Ralph G. Blasey and Joseph E. Mullen on a tour of investigation about 4 o'clock this morning, and brought to light a copper still of 250-gallon capacity in operation, they reported. They also found 500 pounds of sugar, a quantity of mash, 28 gallons of peach brandy and 500 empty jars, they sald, but the fnan in charge of operations disap- peared out the rear door when the raiders approached. A police squad from the second pre- cinct arrested Paul Kendrick, 29 years old, in his apartment at 1123 Four- teenth street last night, while a party of friends were visiting him, and seiz- ed 25 bottles of beer and two quarts e Star and ¢ Copyright, 192 report made to the governor, calls at- tention to the manner in which owners of land are holding up the State when ground is needed for the opening of a new highway or for straightening roads. Usually the courts name a board of commissioners to.determine the price of the land, and Mr. Shirley refers to one instance in which the State was asked to pay for land at the rate of $20,000 an acre, and an inspec- tion of the books of the land assessors disclosed that the same land was val- ued for taxation at $12.42 an acre. That some other method for fixing the value of such lands as are needed by the State will have to be devised is quite plain, he points out, else the right of way will cost so much that road building will have to be curtailed. In many of the more progressive counties of the State owners of land have been willing to give whatever was needed, especially when the old road was already on their land, and they lost practically nothing by the change—in fact, gained. S MISS ALICE L. RIGGS DIES AFTER LENGTHY ILLNESS Funeral Services for Member of Famous Family to Be Held Monday Morning. Miss Alice Lawrason Riggs, member of the Riggs family, £o prominent in the early history of Washington, died at her residence, 1617 I street, yes- terday after a long illness. She was 86 years old. Born in this city, Miss Riggs was the daughter of the late George Wash- ington Riggs, who in 1854 founded Riggs Co., which afterward became the Riggs National Bank. He began in the banking business in 1840 as head of the firm of Corcorun & Riggs. He resided for many years on the present Soldiers’ Home property, which he s0ld to the Govérnment. Mr. Riges was the son of the late Elisha Riggs, a merchant of George- town. F son, the late E. Francis Riggs, succeeded him as president of Riggs National Bank. A sister of Miss Riggs, Miss Cecelia Riggs, married the late Sir Henry Howard, an English diplomat, vhile another sister, Miss Katherine Riggs, married the first French Minister to China, the late Mr. de Geofroy. Miss Riggs is survived by but one sister, Miss Jane Riggs of this city. Miss Riggs had at various times been a member of several boards of charity here and was for many years a in various Cathol charity She also carried on much pri- charity work. neral services will be conduc t. Matthew's Catholic Ch Monday morning at 10 o'clock. v. T. Lawrence Riggs of New lavan, Conn., a mephew, will ~officiate, as- sisted by Rev, Edward L. Buckey and Rev. John Callahan. Interment will be in Rock Creek Cemetery. WIFE ASKS DIVORCE. Charges Lewis C. MacLoon Nagged and Scolded After Nuptials. 1.0S ANGELES, September 3 (#).— Lewis C. MacLoon, theatrical pro- ducer and manager, was made de- fendant in a suit for divorce filed here vesterday by Mrs. Lilllan Albertson MacLoon. Mrs. MacLoon charged her husband, since the day of their marriage in New York, April 17, 1923, had nagged, ate WONAN INURED INAUTO ACCDENT Miss Kate Murray Suffers Skull Fracture When Car Goes Over Embankment. Miss Kate Mur 70 years old, H115 Belvieu avenue, West Arlington, Baltimore suburb, was probably fatally injured this morning about 9:30 o’clock when an automobile in which she was a passenger, struck a telephone pole on the Washington-Baltimore Boule vard near College Park, and went over a 30-foot embankment. “The_injured woman, her skull prob ubly fractured and_ severe was brought to Casualty 1 Other occupants of the car were not severely hurt, police were told. Miss Murray and Miss Mary . @ younger sister, accompanie their nephew, Edward Dorsey Frank- and the’ latter's daughter, Miss Kathleen Franklin, were on their way to Virginia. Tt is stated that Franklin was under instruction of his daughter in driving nd that he lost control of the car wien he made an effort to pass an other machine on the road. FORMER AMATEUR JOURNALISTS UNITE Some of Nation’s Most Prominent Men Belong to “the Fossils.” Mur- by By the Associated Pres: NEW YORK, September 3.—An organization composed of some of the most prominent men in the country who dabbled in amateur journalism ago was incorporated y ¥, in Brooklyn, as “The Fossil To perpetuate friendships form 40 years ago between members when, as ‘youths, they edited or wrote for then known as “Amateur Journals,” is the way the incorpora- tion papers read. It is planned to hold occasional re- unions and to maintain a library in which their juvenile literary out- bursts can be bound and exhibited. Among the incorporators were Thomas A. Edison, United States Senator George H. Moses, James M. Beck, former United States solicitor general; Josephus Daniels, former Secretary of the Navy; Cyrus H. K Curtis, New York and Philadelphis newspaper publisher; Joseph Dana Miller, editor of Land and Freedom: Frederick I. Ives, Philadelphia, and Charles W. Richardson, Washington. YOUNG ELM TO BOONE WILL BE DEDICATED 400 Descendants of Pioneer and Companions Gather to Honor Trail Blazers. By the Associated Press. ASHEVILLE, N. C., September 3.— The famous Boonesborough elm in the town founded by Daniel Boone and now out of existence, and under which the first law-making body west of the Appalachians met in 1779, was to be replaced today by a young tree. Approximately 400 descendants of the famous pioneer and his compan- ions met here and planned to take the young elm by automobile over practically the sarhe trail followed by Boone across the mountains into Ken- tucky. At Boonesborough, once a thriving trading post, of which noth- ing remains except a monument erect- ed to Boone, the new elm will be placed on the spot where the famous tree once stood. In an address dedicating the new tree Dr. Archibald Henderson of the University of North Carolina, a de- scendant of Richard Henderson, the first Governor of Kentucky Territory, arranged to describe Boone, instead of being a Nomad, a romantic and elu- sive figure who pushed his way west- ward to avoid contact with other men, as actually the agent of enter- prising North Carolina business men opening up new territory. GERMANY MAKES 11,250 DELIVERIES TO ALLIES France Receives Most From Former Enemy on Contracts Under Dawes Plan. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, September 3.—Since Sep- tember 1, 1924, when the Dawes plan went into cffect, Germany has exe- cuted 11,250 delivery contracts., She fus sent to her former enemles goods to the value of 892,000,000 marks. The principal deliveries went to France, 4,878 contracts having been executed to the value of 496,000,000 marks. France received around 103,- 000,000 marks’ worth of synthetic nitrates and artificial fertlizer, be- sides millions marks’ worth of timber, paper, cattle, machinery and sugar. Belgium came next, with 106,000,000 marks’ worth of goods, chiefly cheml- cals, Ttaly received mainly machin- ery, Rumania and Jugoslavia mostly mefals; Greece, cattle, and Portugal electrical apparatus, Besides the Dawes deliveries, there were special dyestuffs delivery agree- ments with France, Belgium and Italy to a toltal value of 23,000,000 marks. LARAMIE “SIGHTS” LINDY. Noted Airman Circles City on Way to Salt Lake. LARAMIE, Wyo., September 3 (). —Col. Charles Lindbergh flew over Laramie early this morning en route to Salt Lake City from Cheyenne. He sighted in the cast at 6:47 and after a few minutes’ circling above the eity struck out in a westerly di- rection. Swooping low aver the busi- ness dis 't he dropped an auto- graphed message to the city of Lara- mie explaining his inability to stop on the way West and urging co-operation in the project of commercial aviation. Col. Lindbergh took off from Chey- enne at 6:31 a.m., two hours ahead of his scheduled time. ALBANIA GRANTS AMNESTY Freedom for Political Prisoners Af- fects Heads of Villages. ROME, September 3 (#).—A special dispatch to the Giornale D’ Italia from Scutari, that President Ahmed Zogu of Albania has granted amnesty to all political prisoners. These number more than 70, and are mostly heads of nortk-rn villages who were involv- ed in the outbreaks of last November. The correspondent says the amnesty decree is seen as an invitation for a of whisky. Kendrick was charged with fllegal sesslon of intoxicants nni main- ining u disorderly houss He de- Doited 50 eallataral, g scolded and found fault with her, br littling her efforts both as a hou | wife and as a producer of theatr plays. She asked a division of the community propertys | compromise with the Catholics, espe- clally, he says, since the priests who fled ‘abroad because of accusations of political offences, now will be allowed 1o fe-enter-the countrys 1 ated Press. ,» N. eptember 3.— Mrs. Hannah Butler, president of the Clementon Heights Women's Club, who refused to leave the Camden County joil until she was vindicated, s at_her home last night satistied | she had won her point that she was illegally committed. She had served 6 days of 12 s' sentence on a charge of breach of the peace. Mrs. Butler was arrested after a quarrel with a neighbor and was sent to jail when she refused to sign a bail bond to keep the peace ordered by George Wilkinson, who calls him- self an assistant police recorder., She was fined §12 c Friends paid the fine he was committed when she refused to pay the costs after refusing to sign the peace bond. D. ¢, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, Woman Who Refused to Sign Peace Bond | Released After Serving Six Days in Jail In ordering her discharge on a habeas corpus writ which Mrs. Butler was prevailed upon to sign, Judge Henry Burt Ware sald he believed she had been detained illegally. “I am gratified at being vindicated in this manner,” said Mrs. Butler. "I would have stayed in jail a year be- fore I would have signed a bond to keep the peace, even if I had been forced to pay $1 a day board. I did not remain in jall on account of bad temper. as many ' people think. 1 stayed as a free American citizen com- mitted by a man who did not have the right, and I wanted it proven.” Mrs. Butler was still attired in the Dlue housedress she wore when ar- rested as she left jail. She immediate- Iy returned to her two small children, who were looked after by her husband during her stay in jail. OISTER TAH LA FOR CNSERVATON Maryland - Virginia Confer- ence Passes Resolution Asking New Law. Special Dispatch to The Star. COLONIAL BEACH, Va., Septem- her 3.—Discussions were resumed to- day in the Maryland-Virginia confer- ence on oyster con: tion, follow- ing the outline yesterday of a plan to solve the problem of depletion. Judge C. Vernon Spratley of Virginia was chosen chairman of the conference. A resolution that the represent- atives of both States recommend to their respective Legislatures a con- current law for a bushel tax on oys- ters taken from the public rocks of the Potomac River, the proceeds of which would be used for restoration of depleted oyster rocks, beds and shoals in the river, was passed yes- terday, The Virginia representatives are Judge Spratley, Dr. John W. Bowdoin, State Senator C. Harding Walker, W. A. Ballard, K. W. Lineweaver and Joseph E. Healy. They were accom- panied by State Senator T. J. Down- ing, chairman of the committee on game and fish of the Virginia Senate, and M. D. Hart, executive secretary of the Fish and Inland Game Depart- ment. Mr. Downing requested that the conference take action in reference to concurrent legislation relating to uniform fishing seasons for shad. Robert T. Archer, assistant attor- ney general of Maryland, who ac- companied Conservation Commission- er Earle, John T. Handy and H. A. Woodfield to the conference, outlined Maryland's legal stand on the ques- tion of Virginians fishing in the Po- tomac without licenses. Judge Spratley dismissed the sub- Ject with the hope that the Maryland committee would recommend to its Legislature the repeal of the law which imposes a resident tax. He asked whether Maryland would con- sider the placing of a tax by Virginia on fishing in the Potomac. The fund thus created would be used to restock- ing that river with fish, and the tax {)rognsed would be the same as Mary- and's. ANXIETY IS FELT FOR TRIO IN YAWL Craft Set Out August 24 to At- tend Lipton Cup Races, Fail- ing to Arrive. By the Associated Press. BILOX Miss., September 3.— Anxiety was felt here last night for the safety of F. G. Collins, Eddie Moore and Robert Pringle, who left here August 24 in a 17-foot cabin yawl, the Corsair, for St. Petersburg, Fla., to attend the Lipton cup races, which begin today. The last word from the three men was Wednesday night, according to advices from Pensacola, where Albert E. Bessey, an entrant in the races from Biloxi, reported having talked to them. Relatives received a telegram from the men August 27, saying that it was probable strong headwinds off Pen- sacola would force them to abandon the trip, and that they would return home in a few days. Bessey said they told him they were going to fish for a day or so, instead of continuing to St. Petersburg. It was believed here that they might have anchored off an outlying island to await favorable winds, and in that event the craft might not be heard from for a week longer. Although the vawl carried no auxiliary power, it was regarded as seaworthy and car- ried provisions for 12 days. P e LIQUOR RECORD BROKEN. 256 Arrests and 87 Stills Destroyed in Baltimore in August. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, September 3.=-All records for arrests and sefzures of stills were broken in Baltimore during August, when 256 persons were taken into custody and 87 stills destroyed. according to the monthly report of Col, John F. J. Herbert, director. A total of 251 cases was made, 114 saloons raided, 217,092 gallons of whisky mash, 4,190 gallons of whisky, 2,135 cases of home brew, 2,926 gal- lons of beer mash, 42 gallons of alco- hol, 22 automobiles and 20,145 pounds of sugar confiscated. Stills seized ranged from 27 to 1,000 gallons ca- pacity, Herbert said. - NEGRO COLONY PLANNED. Project in Exclusive Bar Harbor District Reported Under Way. NEW YORK, September 3 (P).—The New York Herald-Tribune says that a Summer colony for negroes will be established near Bar Harbor, Me., in the vicinity of the Summer homes of John D. Rockefeller, Vance McCor- mick, Philip Livingston, and other wealthy families as a result of a real estate deal just closed. John E. Nail, a director of the Na- tional Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People, is in charge of the development of about 300 acres now held on option, it is said. The property is in Sorrento, alongside Winter Harbor and facing Seal Har- bor, which is included in a 10-mile circle noted for its exclusive atmos- vhere. e NEW CANAL MARK SET. 543 Vessels Pass Through Panama Zone, Netting $2,274,040. PANAMA, September 3 (A).—A total of 543 commercial vessels passed through the Panama Canal during the month of August, being a new record. The previous record was 509 transits, made in July, 1927. Total tolls for August reached $2,274,040, the sccond highest figure in the history of the canal. In Decem- ber, 1823, 5,729 in tolls was col- decteds CHOLERA POENC HTS CANESEARMY Northern Troops = Suffer Heavy Toll From Disease on Retreat From Yangtze. By the Associated P SHANGHAI, September 3.—Cholera is reported to have joined the forces of the Nationalist troops in pushing Gen. Sun Chuan-Fang's Northern army back from the Yangtze, where, according to the Nationalist accounts, the general lost 20,000 men in comtat during the heavy fighting of the past week. Foreign dispatches from Nan- Kking state that a cholera epidemic is taking a_heavy toll among the sol- diers in that district. “Bodies are piled high on the river banks,” says the vernacular papers here, “and hundreds are floating in the river. It is impossible to bury the dead. The medical ald is most in- adequate.” Drive to Yangtze Collapses. Gen. Sun Chuan-Fang's rapid and spectacular drive to the Yangtze from Shantung during recent weeks, in which he forced back the Nationalists to the south of that great waterway, would appear from dispatches re- ceived here to have collapsed com- pletely. The Northerners are said to be retreating along the Tientsin- Pukow Railway, having reached Chu- chow, leaving Pukow in the hands of the Nationalists. The Nationalists announce that the way to Peking is once more open. jen. Sun Chuan-Fang's reported sud- den retreat northward is explained in dispatches as being mainly due to the fact that the Hankow forces, previously announced as planning to join the Nanking Moderate Na- tionalists, are said to be taking an active part in the renewed Nationalist drive. The Hankow contingent is sald to be pushing through Anhwei Province towards Pengpu. Heaviest Fighting Along River. During the past week the heaviest fighting has occurred on both banks ot the Yangtze, from Nanking 650 miles downward. The Nationalists are said to have defeated the strenuous attempt of the Northerners to estab- lish strongholds on the south banks of the river, the Northerners fihally crumbling because of lack of reserves and ammunition. SEARCH FOR HILL LEADING TO CUBA Fugitive Slayer Reported Seen by Friend in Key West, Fla., Yesterday. By the Associated Pres STREATOR, Ill, September 3.— The country-wide search for Harry D. Hill, as the fugitive killer of his moth- er, today centered in Cuba. The 21-year-old youth yesterday was reported to have been seen by a friend in Key West, Fla., and later'was be- lleved to have taken a boat for Ha- vana. Young Hill has been missing for nearly two weeks, since the body of his mother was found in a shallow grave in the basement of their home. MIDDLE-AGED JOBLESS AIDED BY MANUFACTURER Moving Spirit in Organization to Procure Work Revealed as University Graduate. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 3.—The moving spirit in the recently organ- ized Co-operative Action Association, Inc., a membership group designed to help procure work for the indigent and jobless middle aged, revealed himself yesterday. Hhe is Clement Schwinges of Brooklyn, a graduate of the University of Bonn, in Ger- many; a retired manufacturer, and a student of international economics. For the past two weeks he has been known only as “Mr. Action,” a slightly built, imperious man with white hair. By his own efforts he had succeeded in gathering together about 300 jobless' middle-aged persons. RESIGNATION OF WALSH HELD AID TO COSGRAVE Minister of Posts-Telegraphs in Free State Cabinet Also Declines Legislative Nomination. By the Associated Press. DUBLIN, September 3.—The resig- nation of James J. Walsh as minister of posts and telegraphs in the Free State cabinet and his determination not to stand as a government nominec in the legislative elections on Septem- ber 15 is commented on here as likely to improve, rather than impair, the Cosgrove government’s chances of success at the polls. Mr. Walsh's resignation is said to have been due primarily to disagree- ment with President Cosgrave on his tariff views. Being a whole-hearted protectionist, he declared himself sick of Mr. Cosgrave's tree-trade policy. STUDENTS. AID FUND. Poor Scholars in Germany Give to Flood Relief. BERLIN, September 3 (#).—Self- supporting students from 20 countries attending German universities set an example of international co-operation after the flood in Saxony. The students heard of the disaster while in convention in Dresden. They dispatched a telegram of sympathy to the Saxon government at once and followed it up by taking up a collec- tion among themselves. Though all are working their way through col- lege, they managed to scrape to- gether 366 marks. This contribution represented their lastycash. 1927. MEXICAN RAILWAY MAY END SERVICE Demands Outlawry Be Quel! ed, Following Ransoming of American Rancher. By the Associated Press. NOGALES, Ariz, September 3.— Confirmation reports that Alfred Quimby, American rancher in Nayarit, Mexico, had been captured by an out-| law band and released after payment of 5,000 pesos ($2 ransom was followed today by ting the Southern Pacific of Mexico Rail- way would discontinue service in the bandit-infested area unless outlawry | is quelled. The Quimby ranch is only a few miles from Acaponeta, where bandits recently attacked two trains of the Southern Pacific of Mexico Road. M W. C. Dunn, wife of an Ameri rancher living r Quimby, said there were about 50 men in the out law band. 4,000 Troops Being Moved. Indication that the government would take immediate action was seen in the announcement by army authorities that 4,000 troops were being moved into the heart of the bandit country from the state of So- nora. A conference between the railway officials and Gen. Ambrosio military commandant of Nayarit, rel- ve to adequate protection for west t trains, was reported in dis- patches from Mazatlan aloa, bor- der state to Navarit. The dispatches also reported the threat made by the railway officials. Friends Pay Ransom. Quimby, captured when bandits, un: der the leadership of “El Pillaco, raided and sacked the village of Tecuala, Nayarit, was said to have been released when his friends made the final payment of the ransom. Tecuala is near Acaponeta, where the Los Angeles, Calif., school teach- er, Miss Florence Anderson, was fa- tally wounded recently in a bandit attack upon a train. Other train at- tacks in the same locality and nu- merous attempts to burn railway bridges have featureds the bandit ac- tivities. ALEXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA, Va., September 3 (Speciall.—A drive to collect city li- censes owed by business and profes- sional men has been opened and the delinquents are being notified to pay the fee. Those who fail will be charged with delinquency and sum- moned to appear in Police Court. The license, due June 1, is still owed by many—physicians, lawyers and others There are approximately 200 owners of automobiles who have not paid the city license on their machines. Fire Chief James M. Duncan, jr., will head a delegation of approximate- ly 100 members of the Alexandria Fire Department in the firemen's pa- rade in Washington Monday. The Co- lumbia engine company’s hose reel will be taken. The auxillary of the Alexandria Fire Department will also march in the parade. The Friendship Veterans' Fire Association, now inac- tive, will send 40 members and the old Friendship engine, a replica of the one presented the company by George ‘Washintgon. Property Changes Recorded. The following deeds of property transfer have been placed on record in the office of Elliott F. Hoffman, clerk of the Corporation Court; B. B. Ezrine Construction Co. to Maude Hall Arrington, house and lot 15, block 1, Mount Vernon Park; Ray- mond Ernest Middleton and wife, to Charles D. Moody, house and lot 5, block 24, section 4, Rosement: Charles of TWO FOREIGN OFFICERS TO SEE CAVALRY ACTION Maneuvers in Texas to Be Witness- ed by Italian and Ar- gentine Attaches. Two foreign military attaches, Brig. ien. Augusto Villa of the Italian army and Maj. Angel M. Zulosa, of the Argentine army, have accepted the invitation of the War Department to witness the maneuvers of the 1st Cavalry Division in the vicinity of Marfa, Tex., September 20 to Octo Cavalry, Maj. Gen. Herber and 10 other offi- sers, specially ignated by the War Department, - also ~ will observe the | maneuvers. The 1st Cav: exception of leave Fort Bli for the march <t Brigade will start September 4. with the | ._while the m Fort Clark, CAPITAL MENWIN HONORS AT SHOOT Two Medals and 18 Cash Prizes Gained at Camp Perry Meet. cial Dispatch to The Star. MP PERRY, Ohio, September 3. flemen of the District of Columbia gave g good account of themselves vesterday as they took away two s and 18 cash prizes in the open- s events of the national rifle —H Outclassing a field of 1,036 competi- tors, Second Lieut. Richard M. Cutts, States Marine Corps, 3101 ourth street, won first place and a gold medal in the National Rifle Association rapid fire champion- ship match, with a score of 99 out of a possible 100, Second Lieut. Henry C. Espey, Com- pany E, 121st Engineers, District of Columbia National Guard, tied 10 others for thirtieth place, with a score of 96, while Marcus W. Dinwiddie, 2012 A street, present time ecivilian and former Olympic representative of the local militia, took sixty-ninth place with a score of 95. Finished in Money. Others to finish in the prize money were as follows: David S. McDougal, 2601 Thirty-sixth street, Western High School, 151st place, score, 92; Sergt. George Votava, Company E, 121st Engineers, 169th place, score, 92, and Capt. Clarence S. Shields, Company E. 121st Engineers, 205th place, score, 91. This match required that 10 shots be fired in 60 seconds at a 10-inch bull’s-eye 200 yards away and 10 shots in 70 seconds at the same bull's-eye 300 yards away. At the 200-yard range the tirers assumed the sitting position from the standing, when the targets came up and at 300 yards the prone position from standing. In the 600-yard members’ match Mr. McDougal again stepped into the limelight and topped the local shots with a perfect score of 50, but took only twenty-second place, because 4 of his 10 shots were inside the inner 124nch V ring of the 20-inch bull's eyve, while the winner, Corpl. Ray A. McAllister, 6th Engineers, Camp Lewis, Wash., ran 12 consecutive V’s. Thirty-Eight Perfect Scores. Some idea of the class of shooters participating in tkis match may be had from the fact that 38 perfect scores were made from the field of 1,067 entries. In addition to Me- Dougal, three local Guardsmen weathered the onslaught of the ex- perts and finished in the prize money as follows: First Lieut. Thaddeus A. Riley, Company E, 121st Engineers, 103d place, score, 49; Second Lieut. D. Moody to Adeline G. Middleton, house and lot 24, section 4, Rose- ment; Carl Budwesky, trustee, and others, to Snyder-Kane-Boothe Cor- poration, lots 3, 4 7. and 8, section 2, Temple Park; Lloyd R. Turner to Herbert A. Simon, store and dwel- lings 308 and 310 King street; H. T. Selecman and wife and John Leary and wife, to Joseph A. Hastlett, house and lot 6, block 13, northwest Alexandria; Snyder-Kane-Boothe Corporation, to Robert W. Powell, house and lots 16 and 17, block 6, Rosemont. The Alexandria Municipal Swim- ming Pools will be reopened today and will continue open from 2 to 6 p.m. each afternoon until cool weather prevails. The pools were closed last week due to the cool weather, which caused a severe drop in attendance. Prisoner Held Insane’ Tony Vaccadi, 45 years old, arrested for investigation by Motor Cycle Po- iceman Wesley Snoots Thursday night, was found insane by a lunacy commis- sion which met last night."He prob- ably will be removed to the asylum at Staunton, Va. When arrested Vaccadi drew a razor.on Snoots and then sus- tained a badly cut head when the po- liceman, in self-defense, hit him with a blackjack. He was then treated at the Alexandria Hospital and appeared in Police Court yesterday. His case was suspended by Acting Justice Ay- lett B. Nicol pending investigation. Calvin Butts was delegate to the an- nual conterence by the Free Methodist Church at a meeting held Thursday night. William S. Adams was named reserve delegate. Other elections fol- low: George Peverill, Calvin Butts and Ernest Finnell, trustees; L. J. Mulhol- land, superintendent of the Sund: School; L. J. Mulholland and Caly Butts, class leaders; Joseph Massey, V E. Newman, William S. Adams, Mr R. E. Butts, . Frank Butts and Mrs. Maggie Suthard, stewards. The Alexandria_ Kiwanis Club has slected Nelson T. Snyder, jr., and Capt Thurlow White delegates and H. Gentry and Thomas Chauncey alter- nates to the Capital District Conven- tion, which will meet in Wilmington, Del., October 14, 15 and 16. WRECK SIGHTED ON SAND. Flyers Report Hulk of Submarine Near Corpus Christie. BROWNSVILLE, Tex., September 3 (P.—Reports by aviators that a battered vessel, thought to be a sub- marine, had been sighted on the sands of an fsolated section of the coast 40 miles from Corpus Christi, today caused authorities at Fort Crockett to order a boat to investigate. The airmen sald an object re- sembling a depth bomb lay near the ship. RESCUE TUGS READY. Prepared to Go to Flyers’ Aid at Two Hours’ Notice. BOSTON, September 3 (#).—Rear Henry C. Espey, Company B, 189th place, score, 48, and First Lieut. Hugh Everett, jr., Company A, 203d place, score, 48. In the 200-yard “any rifle” match M. Dinwiddie repeated his rapid-fire score of 95 out of a possible 100 and took eighth place and a bronze medal from a field of 574 entries. Other local prize winners in this match were Mr. McDougal, sixteenth place, score, 94; rst Lieut. Hugh Everett, jr., forty-ninth place, score, 92; Sergt. Hugh E. Riley, Company E, 121st Engineers, fifty-third place, score, 92; Sergt. Prescott J. Blount, Battery A, 260th Coast Artillery, seventy-second place, score, 91; Leo Kasehagen, 3d, 1248 Irving street, National Capitol Rifle Club, seventy- seventh place, score, 91; Sergt. Votava, eighty-eighth place, score, 91, and Capt. Clarence S. Shields, one hundred and fourth place, score, 91. FREED IN SLAYING OF ‘HOODED’ VISITOR Virginia Farmer Given Verdict in Two Minutes by Three Dan- ville Magistrates. DANVILLE, Va., September 3 (#). —Charles W. Wilson, aged Pittsyl- vania County farmer, was acquitted here yesterday of the charge of mur- dering Claiborne Sparrow, local res- taurant proprietor, during the visit of a crowd of “hooded men" to his home August 24. The verdict was returned by three magistrates after deliberation of less than two minutes. Wilson contended that he shot through a window into “the crowd" when they attempted “unlawfully to invade his home."” Sparrow was in- stantly killed. The other members of the group dispersed on the first shot, witnesses testified. AIR EXPRESS DELAYED. Two Forced Landings Mar First Trip on Boston-Hartford Line. HARTFORD, Conn., September 3 (#).—Two forced landings because of bad weather between Boston and this city today delayed arrival of the Eos- ton-to-New-York plane which was to have inaugurated the new air ex- press service over this route, ‘W. E. Kline, the pilot, left Boston on schedule, at 7:15, last night, but was forced down at 8:30 near Dudley, Mass. A second forced landing was reported, but not verified at Putnam, Conn. Officials of the American Ex- press Co. waited all night at Brain- ard Field here, but gave up the vigil when the plane had failed to arrive by 10 o'clock this morning. EUROPE HONORS CRITIC. BERLIN, September 3 (#).—Rarely has a more international tribute been Admiral Phillip Andrews, commandant of the Boston Navy Yard, said today that the naval ocean tugs Wandank and Mohave were prepared to put to sea at two hours’ notice to render any possible aid to airplanes. Both vessels were fueled to prepare for any emergency when word was received of the start of the Hamilton lane. 2 Both were being held in readiness for any indication that the plane teached these waters. ° paid than that to Dr. Julius Elias, litterateur and art critic, who died here. A joint tribute to his merits was signed among others by Gerharf Hauptmann, Arthur Schnitzler, Max Liebermann, Max Slevogt, the two Renoirs, Pissarro, Tristan Bernard, Lugne-Poe, Sigurd Ibsen and Bjorn Bjornson. Elias was_one of the foremost au- thorities on Fyench impressionism and Scandinavian giterature. FEE SYSTEM STIRS FALLS CHURCH RO Petition to Ask Council to Re- scind Appointment of New Traffic Officer. Special Dispatch to The Star FALLS CHURCH, Va., September 3 —There is a first-class row, not only in the town council, but among citl- zens generally, over action by the council this ‘week in appointing Charles Whalen, jr., a special traffic officer, to be compensated on the fee system. Two immediate resuits ar the resignation of Amos Rust, the rez ular salaried traffic officer, and plana for circulating a_petition asking the couneil to rescind its action Elected After Fight. Whalen was elected by the council only after a stubborn fight against him by Councilmen Shreve and Sale, who contended that it would be a backward step and a disgrace to the town to have a “for revenue only” en- forcement of the law when the evils of the system have become so widely recognized and the tendency through- out the country is to abolish the fee basis. Councilmen Daniel, Kendrick and Knowles voted for the appoint- ment, and Shreve and Sale against ft. Councilman Westcott was absent. yas sworn {n Friday morn- ayor Moncure. For 3l rest he s entitled to a fee et o whether conviction or acquittal re. sults. The mayor also is entitled to & fee of §1 for each case he hears, Rust Turns in Badge. Mayor Moncure said today that while he favored the appointment of Whalen, he had no desire to profit from fee system arrests and that it was his in- tention to turn his $1 fce in each case over to Justice of the Peace Moling. Citizens expressed curiosity as to the legal grounds for such action, as the mayor is required by the charter to preside at the trial of cases brought under town ordinances and cannot delegate this duty to a justice of the peace. As soon as Whalen began his duties yesterday, Officer Rust turned his badge, asserting that he would not co- operate in law enforcement with a man who had a direct pecuniary inter- est in making arrests. o MURDER FOR $3.75 ADMITTED BY BOYS West Homestead, Pa., Youths, 14 and 16, Confess Slugging Victim With Club. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Septemberr 3.— Two boys in their teens were in jail here today, charged with highway robbery and murder. The prisoners, Alvin Hess, 16, and Robert ~Stevens, 14, both of West Homestead, ~freely admitted, de- tectives sald, that they stalked an unidentified man along the Mononga- hela River bank, slugged him with a club, crushed his head with a stone and took $3.75 from his pockets. Tthey were held for the coroner. EX-SLAVES TO GATHER. Two Centenarians Will Attend Alexandria Camp Meeting. Special Dispatch to The Star. 2 Anl&ExANDRIA. Va., —Mrs. Isabella Drew, 103 and John Beckham, lO:’.yev:Tl.I o‘:o' among those attending the evangel. istic camp meeting ana sixty-sixth annual ex-slave convention and emancipation celebration, beginning tomorrow and continuing to Septem- ber 22, on Old Boys School grounds here. ~ These meetings have been staged by the National Ministers® Evangelistical Alliance of America, National Ex-Slave Association and American White Cross Society. . CIVIC BODY ORGANIZED. Mohican Hills Citizens to Send Delegates to Federation. Special Dispatch to The Star. GLEN ECHO, Md., September 3.— Residents in a section of Glen Echo Heights, connected with the Conduit road by Mohican road, have organized the Mohican Hills Citizens’ Associa- tion. The other roads defining the section are Wiscasset, Dahlonega, Pawcatuck and _Scioto. Delegat, have been elected to represent the society in the Federated Citizens' As. sociations in the metropolitan area ad- jacent to the Capital, and have been authorized to take steps for applica- tion to representation. They are: O. M. Kile, C. A. Korbly and Joseph McCloskey, with John McKay, Ellis Whitcraft and the president of the society as alternates. The officers elected are: W. M. Gamble, president; Mrs. Arna Plowman MacKay, vice president; Mrs. Ruth McCloskey, secretary; Miss Ruth Kile, treasurer. 75 YEARS IN CONVENT. Sister Simplicia, Born Near Rock- ville, Md., Passes Anniversary. Special Bispatch to The Star. FREDERICK, Md., September 3.— Sister M. Simplicia Yost, who recent- ly celebrated her ninety-third birth- day, has completed her seventy-fifth year as a nun in the Visitation Con- vent here. She entered the order on August 28, 1852, having been Miss Mary Yost, daughter of the late Casper and Mary Carlin Yost of near Rockville, where she was born. Despite her advanced age, Sister Simplicia retains all of her faculties and is active. She has never been outside the convent in her long serv. ice there. $ AIR WEDDINGS OPPOSED. BERLIN, September 3 (#).—Mar- riages in airplanes are not viewed favorably here either by church or state authorities. Some registrars argue that the law compels them to perform their functions at their offices, except in cases of serious illness of one of the parties. Others say it is impossible to conduct the official business ¢f a wedding ceremony in the deafen! noise of motors. Moreover, they A it is extremely undesirable for official registers to be taken up into the air. Pastor Teichmann, who solemnized an air marriage some time ago, re- mains under suspension at half pay until his case shall be thoroughly in- vestigated by a church consistory. Frederick Tax Rate Same. Special Dispatch to The Star, FREDERICK, Md., September 3.— City officials have set the new tax rate for this city at $1.10 per $100, the same rate that prevailed last year. The budget adopted provides for ex- penditures of $254,306.10 during the coming year. A balance of $14,821.41 was reported in the treasury. September