Evening Star Newspaper, September 9, 1927, Page 2

SEED AN GREDIT LOISAMES NE : Hoover Assures Debt-Ridden Farmers Foreclosures Will Be Delayed. o BY REX COLLIER, aft Correspondent of The Star, LAFAYETTE, La., September 9.— A =ordid story of destitution in the flood-swept land of Evangeline, espe- cially among families with large households of children, was recited to Secretary Hoover here today. The flood has left hundreds of these. *Cajun” families in utter poverty, and face to face with the rigors of a Winter without any source of in- come heyond the aid furnished by the | Red C As the school bells of the Nation ring out their familiar mes: 1o mil- ‘ lions of youngsters in the next week or two, the tannedskinned children of these stricken parishes will wend their way to water-stained schools in | makeshift garments contributed ¥ the Red Cross. But for the charity of the American people these tots would have no clothes in which to at tend their S. Food Stations Planned. Tom and Mar: pi Valley, are munchinz on dwiches and fruits at lunch- and Celeste will partake of b s supplied through the genere sympathetic friends. The Red Cross will set up food sta tions at 2 number of the schools, un- approved by Secretary class % outside the tast time ays alwaye are a worry parents. Here, elsewhere, e busving themselves with | the task of outfitting their offspring for the Fall opening. While they sit | by and watch the boiling pot full of vegetables ready for camning, they are cutiing and sewinz the blue denim and ham of velief agenci into waists sses for the brown. eved boys ris playing in the | yavd -""Half of the 3,000 school children in Avovelles Parish lone lost all theic | elothing in the rampage of the Atcha- | falava and Bayou des Glaise retary Hoover was told by local vep-| resentatives. About 525 persons are | destituze and 1500 farmers need seed | for Fall plants On the strenzth | of the urgent plea for the returned | refugees, the Red Cross raised the | total graut to this | h to $167,500 Weevil Ravages Late Crops. Parish, where TSONS 7 b ationed. it is s there will not he a single hale of ton reaped from the post-flood \»Iunr” ing. because of the depredations of | the boll weevil. In past vears n; mnked second among the State's par- | jehes in the production of cotton. | There will be no cash crops this year, but many families plan to raise a late p of vegetables jrom seed supplied the Red Cros An additional out- lav of $60,000 to carry the relief work | through December was given the arish. P2 aint Martin Parish, in one of the| ctions of the famed °sugar bowl” is agriculturally and finan- cially broken. Six hundred thousand Qollars of public donations will be expended there by the end of this year Of this money $3,500 a day I8 Deeded to fill hungry mouths and buy stock feed, seed, clothing recon- | struction and gther necessaries. The Red Cross agreed to spend £110,000 i the parish between now and the middle bf Octobe: 5 Saint . Martin, home of Evangeline and land of roman is conhjnlnml with stark. prosaic facts. Ninety five per cent of the tillable land is | taken up by small farm: Their owners have loaded themselves up with farm mortgages of every de- seription and are unable to meet even the interest p: . soon o come due. The ch habilitation committee estimates that 210.000,000 in credit will be needfld‘ in ordler to meet or extend these nh.h- gations and obtain further ltv:’\n:: with which to plant next vear's sugar cane, rice and corn. There are no ecrops this year beyond small truck gardens. Labor Problem Acute. | The labor problem is growing more | and more acute. With no erops to| harvest, there is no employment for | the families cmployed by the small group of large plantations. and an | exodus of these hapless households @lready has begun. They will not| come back until some agsurance can be given that the levees which broke down will be repaired. Withdrawal by Controller General MecCarl of $2,000 000 of rivers and har bors money sought for this repair work has deepened the gloom of the | parish It is now too laté to repair | the ¥ ks in time to prevent a Spring flood, it is declared, even though the | became available right now. tin Parish the Red ablished sewing centers, | where sewing machines are available to the good housewives who wish to fashion clothes out of the §0,000 yvard: of cloth given them. Steam pressure cookers, for the canning of fruits and vegetables, also are being made avail- ahle. six carloads of lumber have | been ordered for reconstruction and repair of ruined or damaged buildings. About 500 families of the parish are in urgent need of clothes for the Winte Th n Iher as | | | | an id richest ee hundred families are penniless | Parish, in the heart of the 1. They need seed cane for | es of land in order to start planting. Their land bank tgages are coming due shortly, and | Tnformed of | v Hoover gave at a_plan would be work losures would be uil the end of 1928 Makes Auto Tour. ta the reports | sh representatives, Secretary | made an automobile tour hrough most of the territory in ques- | tion. In Lafavette Parish, which suf-| fered but lightly, he passed through | flourishing fields of waving cane, and | thence to St. Martin Parish, where the f burrs were in sharp contrast neighhoring | ¥ heneath the & the famous Javou Teche, viewed the near by, hort 1o those of the He stopped i of on the and houses ran but veading \nehes ne oak his party were necessitated by ges and past countless tly released from the Bare-footed women and 1 men stood in the door- s or gateways along the route, us over the unusual procession of jarge automobiles, but unaware of who cupled them. Hogs. chickens and tered from the roadway at the approaching cloud of dust. he party passed through Breaux nd other small towns, meet- eir_special train again at Ope- A visit to sand-marooned Mel- ville is next on schedule. hed-out by s ns but rec water lad One Slain in Gang Warfare. ST. LOUIS, September 8 (P).—Gang warfare broke out again here today with the killing of Alphonse Palazzolo. notoricus Italian gunman, and the | Gen. s, | of humo- FARMERS' MARKET | gress the purchase of any particular | prep | eastern half will not be disturbed, how- | LEGION CHIEF PAYS TRIBUTE AT TOMB Arlington Half of Wreath for Unknown Is Laid .n Memorial. With massed American Legion col ers forming the background and rep- resentatives present from all local leglon posts, Howard P, Savage, na- | tional commander of thée Legion, this morning Jaid half of a gigantic wreath at the base of the Tomb of the Un- known Soldier as the last official act hefore the Paris convention. Having been made in two pieces, each four feet high, the second half is to be carried on the flagship Le- viathan to France, wherg Comdr. Savage will lay it on the Unkmown | SoMier tomb there. The Leviathan and its distinguished Legion delega- tion ¥ tomorrow morning. | Disabled Veterans Make Wreath, | The wreath was prepared by dis- | abled veterans, who will be unable to | make the overseas trip, under the di ion of the Legion Auxiliary and the national president, Mrs. dalin ght Macauley wing Comdr. Savage from | New York this morning were Milton | J. Foreman of Chicago, past national | commander and chairman of the dis- | tinguished guests committee, and Dan | Sowers, national director of the Ameri- | canism Commission. At the ceremony | also were Count de Sart %, charge A'affaires of the French embassy: Col. John I Markey, member of the Rattle Monuments Commission _and past department commander of the | Lezion for vland, who represented Gen. John f. Pershing; Past Depart- ment Comdrs. Paul McGahan and | Amos A. Fries of this city, | J. Miller Kenyon. present department | commander of Washington; H. 1. | mund Bullis, department adjutant of this city, and Austin 8. Imirie, grand ¢hef de gare passe of the “40 and &." Shortly after the ceremony Comdr. Savage's party returned to New York accompanied by Admiral Robert I Coontz, U S Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune and . O’Connor, presi- dent of the United States Shipping Board. At Philadelphia Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis was to board the train Upon arrival in New afternoon a municipal reception will greet the party, which, escorted by ial police detail, will make a tour of the city. In the evening Comdi Savage will be host at the Ameramn Legion dinner to be given aboard toe S. Leviathan to 200 representative Legionnaires from various States and | the distingulshed guests. DAWES TO MAK rk late this t [ ADDRESS. Vice President Will Bid Legionnaires Adieu in New York. YORK, September 9- (#).— ident Charles G. Dawes ar vived today to bid the American T.egion bon voyvage on its flagship, the Leviathan, which sails for France to. morrow. He will address the Legion- naires at a dinner on the liner tonight, and plans to return to his home, at Evanston, Iil, tomorrow. The Vice sident wore his famous underslung pipe and was in the hest He refused to discuss poli- ties, explaining that he had come as the guest of a non-partisan organiza- tion. « t i ¥ It | I D. C. LEGION DEPARTS. Virginia and - West Virginia Also Represented on Liner. By the Associated Prass. | NEWPORT NEWS, Va.. September | 9 —More than 2000 members of the American Legion from Southern States embarked here yestérday for | France on the liner Pennland, a | former Army transport They represented Virginia, Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, West Virginia, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and the District of Columbia. HEARING ORDERED District Heads Seek Views on | Sites for Relocation Before Going to Congress. The District Commissioners today called a public hearing for October 5 to consider a site for the farmers’ produce market, which is soon to be forced from its present location to make way for the new Internal Rev- nue Building. A number of sites already have been uggested, but the anxious 1o get the consensus of the | public and the farmers who use the | market before recommending to Con- h | ‘'ommissioners are | property. 'The hearing will be held in the boardroom of the District Build- ing. May Start in November. he Commissione: also decided to- day 1o vacate the western half of the farmers’ market whenever the super- vising architect’s office of the Treas ury serves notice on them that it is red 1o begin the e: vation and | other work preliminary to the con- struction 1o the new building. The | Congress provides funds for a permanent ever, until for the acquisition site for the marker. According to information given the Commissioners, the supervising archi- tect’s office of the Treasury probably will start to dismantle the sheds over the western half of the market early in November. Thege gheds are to be moved at the expense of the Federal Government to a location designated by the Commissioners, where they will | be kept in storage until a permanent loeation is found for the Karmers' Market. As the District will be re- quired 1o bear the cost of re-erectin these =h Engincer Commissioner William ¥ due rounced that he | would prepare estimates on the cost. | Problem Is Discussed. The problem of relocating the | farmers who will be ousted when the | sheds on the western half of the pres- | ent site are torn down was discussed | briefly by the Commissioners, but no | definite conclusions were reached. It ! was pointed out that only a few | farmers probably would he using the | market when the dismantling is start. | ed, and that it might be possible to crowd all of them under the sheds on | the eastern half of the site. | A suggestion was made to the Com- | missioners several days ago that the | farmers who are forced out of the| market be given temporary space along the south crub of B street, oppo- site the Center Market. “This sugges- tlon, it was said, will be givén further consideration, but if finally approved it is unlikely that thé sheds will he reerected to protect them. Tha pres. wounding of a_ l4year-old boy by- stander, who chanced to be within range of bullets fired from An auto- mobile into a poolroom. ’, ent plans contemplate the storage of these sheds on District-owned property until a pew asite is acquired. tery today abt | which 1 | ment it | this |v vear's Schneider Cup cont most | navat States petition eign countri ve | vidual | eve at Fort W aeronautics | veng Officers of the American Legion, on the eve of their d where they sflit a wreath in two sec Savage, national commander of the Legion, sho will be carried to France by t riure for the convention in Paris, visited Arlington Ceme- ions and 1aid one on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Howard P. placing half of the wreath. The other half, held by Mrs. Adalin Me- glonnaires and lald on the Tomb the Unknown Soldier of France. he | WILLIAMS IS OUT OF SCHNEIDER CUP SEAPLANE CLASSIC (©ontinued_from_First ments which are alwavs present ning the refinement required in tion for a contest of this na prepar nd it will be appreciated how ture entirely inadequate the time available | has been “Knowin, the put. Wil accomplishment Ably no other te’ what a is to him to h opportunity of ed States representation effort and stress | ms has exerted for | of this project one can, 1 fully keen disappoint- ve to forego ffording the in this keenly regret it, for I know hat no time or effort his been spared | by this tireless and zealous young officer. “In previous y has been the 15 pro! ipprec , since the United | contesting for the | chneider Cup, it has been a com- between Government effort m the part of the United States and he activities of manufacturers of for. . in some cases partially This a ked 1 rois - government interes the first time that an indi has undertaken and obtained private backing for such an entry. | Lieut. Williams, trying to beat ime, has been beaten by time in this nstance. He is now deterntined, how- to attack time again and, going hack to his original program of re. | pturing for the United S the | atly coveted world speed record, | b | will, it is hoped. bring fresh aeronauti- { *ailing for Americ cal laurels to this country.” Obstacle ia] Pontoons. Lieut. Wiliams’' decigion not .to go | abrond with his seaplane until he was | J satisfied that every tioned perfectly part of it fun, s made last night | hington, where the craft | has been housed in a private seaplane | hangar and from which place it has been making test flights. According to word received here, the | obstacle between him and Venice was | ment and it was in the pontoons. The fluats, of the hollow “V"" type, had been constructed | by the Naval Aircraft Factory at Philadelphia from designs submitted by Harry Booth and Arthur Thurston, I engineers, who desizned | the Willlams' racer. \When the plane | was launched it was found the pon- toons had insufficient buoyaney and | the reesrve xet, nearing completion | at the factory, was modified with bulk- | w the upper surface of the | se were tested and found to function perfectly in the water, elim- irating the trouble with the first set, which caused sprays of water to shoot up into the path of the propeller. However, a series of tests in the air high " speeds résuited in a nose- | heaviness tendency of the plane, and research finally traced the cause to the bulkheads™ built on the minute to correct the original error. Lieut. Williams, it is_learn=d, would not, under these conditions, venture to turn loose the 1.260-horsepower ackard 24-cylinder engine on a acing course with 360-degree turns, Decision Is Lauded. Tnsufficient time remained design and build a third set toons and still get to Venice days before the start of the r or o qualify in the navi and seaworthiness trials. closely assoclated with the lauded the decision as constituting precaution, which, if not taken, mizht have resulted in disaster to the pilot and_plane. Advices received here today indi- cated beyond a doubt that had Lieut Williams desired, he could have broken the maximum speed record for sea- planes—258 miles an hour-—yesterday and in so doing complied with the Navy's requirements hefore the Tren- ton would be placed at his disposal. With the decision to remain at home, however, Lient. Williams agreed not to take any unn chances and to re- of pon- | two ce in bility Airmen profect ama While he is engaged in this task for the next week gr two, 2 new pontoons, built from funds whi liama collected to foster the priv racing airplane project, will be under way. After the piiot has flown the threekilometer course and also has clipped the speed record for 100 Kkilo- meters, he will return to the pontoons and wade into those records with When conceived the and Williams project was excented by the pilot early in 1426, the thought that the plane would he a candidate for the Schneider Cup never occurred to any one. The Government had e iged in that competition in 1 1924, 1925 and 1926, but when the Navy withdrew from furth eompetition every one turned to Wil 18 America’s hope of bringing the trophy home permanently. | til today, airmen here who have been | al RAPID CITY OFFERS PRESIDENT TRIBUTE; COOLIDGE RESPONDS sponse and the taking of a pano- ama photograph of the huge gath- ering. “This oceaslon not only furnished the citizens of this city an opportunity | to fittingly express their gratitude and esteem for the President and Mrs. Coolidge and to expr reret at thelr leaving for st, but it afforded many their first chance to sce these distinguished visitors. Al- though the Summer Capital has been | out here for three months, there were | any number of store clerks and fac | tory and mill hands whose work made it impossible for them to be on the | streets at the time either the Pres.| ident or Mrs. Coolidge was passing. | With the tempo suspension of | all business today, the opportunity coveted by these less fortunate citi- zens was presented. Rousing Send-off. | | The indications are that there will| [ he a tremendous crowd at the sta-| | tion here tonight to give a rousing | | send-off to the presidential party when | | the special train departs for Wash- | ington. However, nothing of a for- mal nature has been arranged as a| | farewell demonstration at the sta-| | tion. What transpires there will be informal and impromtu. The last day of his in the| Black Hills found the President at! his desk in the high school building at 830, By the time the hour for the citizens' demonstration arrived he had his desk- cleared of ‘routine business. In the meantime the offfce | force was busily engaged boxing up the executive papers and file indexes, | preparatory to shipping them back ta} the White House. Intense Packing Activity. The State Game Lodge, which has | | been the home of the President and Mr: Coolidge during their stay in | the Hills, has been the scene of in- tense packing actlvity for the past three or four days. It was announced ‘mally that before noon today vthing will be in readiness for the dential family to leave. although special train is not scheduled to start until tonight. 'he game lodge will be opened to the public Monday, €. C. Gideon, man- ager, who as been the President’s outdoor companion this Summer, an- nounced this morning. jons already are rooms in the lodge. There | been a great scramble on the part of those who are seeking reser- vations to land the rooms in which the President and M Coolidge slept. It is understood that Senator Norbeck of this State, who had considerable | | to do with the President’'s coming to | the Hills this Summer, and who has { for more than two months been liv- ing with his family in one of the tourists’ cabins not far from the lodge, will be given these rooms. Will Leave Tonight. When the President’s special train | leaves here tonight it will make very few stops en route to Washington. It is scheduled to arrive in Union Sta- tion Sunda night. The first stop will be at Brookings, Dak., to- morrow morning, where the President will make an address incident to the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial Llllm y at the South Dakota State College. The President and his family will go direct to the White .llouse from Union Station, and Monday morning will find him at his desk in the ex utive office, ready to resume thg Na- tion’s business. American property had the Navy, in ed a “fly-over” when the plane was eliminated from | by an aceldent prior to | Lient. Dayid Rittenhouse, 1. . had won the trophy for the first time at Cowes, England, in 1923, a “fiy-over” would have heerya seeond victory, and Li mes H. Doolittle’s success in would have hrought ahout the three victories in five raci s--neces- sary for permancnt fonl. Instead the Nayy ed to advantage of its righis and declare a “fly-aver” in 1924, In 1925 the Italian eam asked for a month’s postpone- cranted. Italy won the r: The jonal Aeronautic Assoclation, late in July, asked for a postponement of 30 days to enable Lieut. Williams to get ready, but the Aero Club of Italy, promoters of this year's event, replied that because Fngland would not agree to the pos ponement, Italy was unable to the change in date. The additional 3 days, it was emphasized at the Navy Department today, would have made it possible for Lieut. Williams to have gotten all the mgs” out of the ship and reach Venice in time for the race, Moffett Is Disappointed. Admiral William A. Moffett, the Bureau of Aeronautics, the cont heing | Rear chief of was keenly disappointed over the out- come of Williams' efforts to get into the race. The admiral has heen an ardent ad- vocate of racing, and when the de- partment withdrew from high-speed racing early this vear, he threw his entire support hehind Williams. This included the loan of the Packard en- gine, the most powerful in the world, and virtually the entire facilities of the Bureau of Aeronautics, While the seriousness of the pon toon trouble did not come to light un- | following Williams’ project closely in recent weeks suspected something was wrong, despitc the pilot’s opti- mistic announcements following his numerous test flights that things were running If they were as sntisfac ms painted them, they w e ‘had not put the plane over the 3-kilometer speed course and produced some official fig ures as 1o its speed. The answer w given today with the pontoon diffi- culty. Mechanics Are Transferred. The fact that Willlams thought ‘he would be able to get away at the last minute was demonstrated here y terday when orders were given by the Navy Department to the four me | chanics from the Naval Aiv Station here, who have heen sting the pilot’ for more than a month, to re port to Trenton. . A spare engine 2nd the reserve pontoons already had been placed ahoard. The Anacostia mechanics are Aviation Chief M chi Mates J. C. Kelly, R., V Gowan, C. T. May and G. E. Tran- berry. When TLieut. Williams takes off from Mitchel Field In his converteq, of iand plane he will be at the scene of | Utilities Commission for tmproved flights made early in November, | service on the Anacostia line of the which resulted in his establish- | Washington Reilway and lectrie. Co. ing & new world speed record of 266 | \Cilefhe order gives the tompant miles per hour in a Navy Curties 3 Yacer, "o accomplish this he dived | the opton of replacing the conductor- acostia line with the piane from 9,000 feet almost verti- | 1ess cars on the A cally and then flattened out. His | two-man or either the new type competitor in the triale, Lieut. H. J. one-man or equipping those now | Brow, did likewise, and had not Ad- [in use automatic rear exits, it miral Moffett stopped the flying when | declares that “the commission is of he did airmen agree that either or | the opinion that as a general prin- both planes might have heen torn to | ciple one-man cars riot equipped with pieces by the tervific strains brought | automatic treadle rear exits and MODERN ONE-MAN CARS ARE REQUESTED 1Public Uiih’ties Commission Orders | Improved Service on Ana- costia Line: Modernization of all of the old type one-man cars now in service in the District is required under the terms of an order issued today by the Public 1923 The trophy now would have heen to hear upon their wings, double front doors to permit of simul- Woman. hm“ned Wit Reveals Hiding Place of $27 Savings By the Associated Press. DENVER, Colo., How she withstood torture for 4 minutes with a hot iron and a cig- arette in the hands of a bandit rather than reveal where $27 was hidden, { was told today by Mrs. Andrew Smi- {hula, Denver housewife, Mrs. 8mihula, who is 37 years old and the mother of three children, sald shs was confronjd by the ban- dit in her home yeste; » “When she September 9. satisfactory service for the City of Washington.” Of the 70 one-man cars now In serv- jice only 16 are of the modern type with automatic rear exits. The re- maining 54, 12 of which aré on the Anacostia line, therefore, will have to be remodeled. Grease Forces Swimmer to Quit. WILMINGTON, N. (., September 9 (#).—Blinded hy grease that covered a = taneous entrance and exit cannot give h Iron by Bandlt, refused his demand for money she declared he held her while he heated an iron over an electric burner and applied it to her arm. She sald he applied the iron sev- | mates | Bushnell. 9, 1921.! STATES TO ATTACK .. ESTATELEWY More Than 50 Delegates From Legislatures to Meet Tomorrow. Holding that Congress has defi- nitely usurped the rights of the States in several fields and particu- larly in enactment of the Federal estate tax, a group of more than 50 | delegates from the Legislatures of | States will meet at the Raleigh | Hotel tomorrow 1o prepare a program | for amendment or repeal of legisla- tive acts regarded as hostile to State | interests. At the time the | delegates will outline methods of | procedure and set a date for the National Council of State Legisla- tures, which is to meet in Wash- ington in November. At the latter conference it is expected governors of 25 States will join personally in presenting to Congress the program to be drawn up by the committee which meets tomorrow. Headed by Lee Sat mer speaker of the Texas same rwhite, for- Legi! | {ure and chairman of the organization committee of State officials, the dele- believe there is already too much centralization in tha Federal Government and hold that the tend- ency toward further encroachment on the sovereignty of the States | should he stopped. Their immediate hope is_repeal of .the Federal estate tax, although they will suggest amendment or repeal of other acts which they helieve encroach on State functions.” Delegates to the confer- ence tomorrow cite the estate tax by the ¥ederal Government as one of many acts on the part of Congress usurping the powers and privileges properly resting in the States. They hold the tax should be collected by the States alone, and should be added to other revenues desired by the States and used by them for de- fraying the expenses.of State Gov- ernment. Review of Congress. The movement, which amounts to a virtual r by members of the of acts of ature which affect the States directly, is a new one, and one of the first attempts at concerted effort by the States to in- form Congress of the rights of the States in matters before the United ates Congr Members of Legislatures will gates duly appointed by tives under authority gr respective Legislatures. Standing com- mittee will be appointed, whose duty it will be to keep in touch with Con- &t ational Legi the Council of State he limited State execu- nted by their | activities of the Government and to make recommendations to the council. Those to Attend. Among those who will attend the committee meeting tomorrow are the followin Texas chairman. South Carolina Butler, Columbi; Presiding, Lee Satterwhite, Lieut. Gov. T. B. Representative Olin D. Johnston, Spartanburg: W. G. Query, chairman tax committee, Co- lumbia; Edgar A. Brown, ex-speaker, Barnwell Michigan—TLieut. Gov. Turen D. Dickenson, Lansing; Senator James C. Quinlan, Grand Rapids; Raymond H. Berty, Detroit. Florida—Speaker 8. W. Getzen, Tllinois—Senator Jesse L. Deck, Decatur; Senator E. D. Telford, Salem. Minnesota—Speaker John A. John- son, Preston. Pennsylvania—Horace W. Allentown; Franklin S. Edmond: mmissioner, Philadelphia; Warren Doane, Philadelphia. West Virginia—Speaker Vernon F. Johnson, Berkeley Springs: Senator H. P. Henshaw, Bunker Hil Indiana—Senator J. Francis Loch- d, Milan. Vew Hampshite—Representative E. kell, Concord. Representative Gilbert Mor- gan, Cleveland. Maryland—Representative ald_Horsey, Baltimore. olina—W. L. Long, Roa- Thaddeus A. Adams, J. Ron- oke T Charlotte, ippl—Senator Carl Marshall, . Lou Senator T. J Anderson, Summe Tennessee—Speaker Selden Maiden, Greenfield. Kentucky—Lieut. Gov. Henry H. Denhardt, Bowling Green; Speaker G. L. Drury, Morganfield. Colorado—Lieut. Gov. Corlett, Monte Vista. Missouri—Speaker Phil A. Bennett, George M. | Jefferson City New York-—Representative Louis A. Cullivier, New York City. Nebraska—Speaker James A. Rod- man, Omaha. Rhode Island—Speaker Roy Raw ings, Richmond; A. A. Sherman, Ports- mouth. Virginia—Senator R. 0. Lively; €. H. Morrissett, Richmond; Representative J. W. Topping, Cape Charles; Representative E. Thurman Boyd, Lynchburg. Arkansas—Ex-Speaker Thomas ill, Pine Bluff. Connecticut —Tax Commissioner William IT. Blodgett, Hartford. b Delaware—Speaker Willam Win- trup, Wilmington. Towa—Charles McLean, Dubuque. New Jersey—Representative Walter H. Olden, Princeton. ‘Alabama—Hugh D. Merrill, Annis- ton. Louisiana—A. P. Frymire, New Or- leans, Maine—Senator William H. Holman, Bangor Wisconsin—Senator Oscar H. s, Milwaukee. Norris, A, Mor- ¥ PAGE HUFTY LEADS JUNIOR GOLF FIELD Other Low Scores Made in Morning Round of District Cham- pionship. Page Hufty of the Congressional Country Club, led more than a score of junior golfers of Washington in the flrst round of the District junior cham pionship at the Town and Country Club today, registering a score of 76, one shot below the 77 turned in by Carl F. Kellerman, jr. John C. Shore. of Argyle, the only other competitor to hreak 80 over the first half of the 36-hole competition, scored a 79. Other scores follow: Edwin Burr, Bannockburn, 81; Robert C. Hyrd, Manor, 81; Frank K Roesch, Washington, 82; Thomas P. Bones, Columbia, 82; Roger Peacock. Argyle, 83; Fred O'Connell, Columbia, Everett Kynon, Columbia. 84; Richard Peacock, Argyle, 86 W, B. Curtiss, Indian Spring, 87; J. W. Merritt, Columbin, S8, Six strokes behind the leader, eral times about her head and shoul- ders and that while he was waiting for it to heat he burned her with a cigarette. After 45 minutes of tor- wide area of the river's surface north of the fish factories, Lee Greer, who yesterday attempted to swim from ture she told him where her sav-|Southport to Wilmington, wa obliged ings were hidden. He took the $27|to call off his effort, aftér having cov- and left. Police were unable to, trace ered more than ird of the distancé <. WEr ¢ with compayatiy s T a0 Rl & A Roesch, who is defending the cham- pionship, was not expected to catch Hufty over the afternoon round. Latégt plans for alrplanes are said to permit of nen-stop flights much farther than from Paris to New York. to dele- | to acquaint themselves with the | | \ LEE SATTERWHITE. HOME FOR BABIES’ FUTURE IN DOUBT, AS LICENSE IS DENIED | (Continued from ¥ Dyke's situation is unusual. 1t is imed that the Maryland-District line | runs throngh her 'house, her own sleeping quarters heing in Maryland | and the children’s wards being over | the line in the District. Surveyor May Be Necessary. William J. Ogden, secretary of the Maryland board, in his official re- port, made the following observation for the benefit of Attorney Peter: “She claims the children are sleeping in | the Dist of Columbia, so that she may place them in Washington h pitals, where she usually abandons them, and when the District of Co-| Jlumbia authorities go after her, she | claims she is a resident of Montgom- | ery County, Md.” As a result of what appes said by hoth District and Rockvi officials that it may be necessary call in a surveyor to settle the dis- pute definitely. In the meantime, N Dyke figuratively “high and dry” wigh 14| | children on her hands and in the posi- tion of heing unable to operate he home Jegally either under the Ma land or Disirict regulations. | Mrs. Dyke applied for the permit | after she had heen advised by the Rockville State's attorney that the supervision of such institutions had een placed in the hands of the State board by the last Legislature. The investigating committée report- | ed that several violationg of the law. | which requires that no hother shall place a child less than 6 months old |in a_home or institution unless pro- vided for by the cougts or on author- fans, had been Takoma Park 1 of the infants, it was | found in home. Sever said, had heen in her care since they 2 weeks or more of age. were 2 Other Homes Watched. A dozen or more privately conducted homes for infants: operating in Mont- gomery County and drawing largely upon the District of Columbia as their source of supply, are said to be under the suspicion of the Maryland author- it Withont notice to Mrs. Dyke, the | investigating committee arrived at her home last July and found 12 in- fants occupying the prémises During | the interval when the ‘State board re- fused to issue her a permit she has taken two other children into the home, Mr. Peter, at Rockville, is under in- stractions from the hoard that further continuation of a haby home by Mrs. Dyke will bring her in violation of the State laws regulating such institutions and make her liable for a fine not to exceed £100, or 100 days imprisonment in_event of conviction. Mrs. Dyke today declared she was anxious to continue her home, to which she has devoted 13 years, but did not want to violate the law. Since the visit of the investigating commit- tee last July, she explained, she has not accepted any child under 6 months old. Care Held 0. K. So far as the care of the children are concerned, the State hoard gives Dykes a clean bill of health, al- though the report points out that she is lax in keeping recoids of the infants under her care and after they leave her home, Each child in the home at the time of the visit, the report stated, “ap. peared to he a healthy, well cared for child. The mattresses and bedding were clean and the child comfortably and tidily clothed. There was nothing offensive or Insanitary in the arrange- ments, There was no sign of illness during the period of our visit, about an hour; there was no crying or dis- tress of ‘any of the children.” Even the District authorities, who withdrew their contractual relations with Mrs. Dyke because of her slack methods of investigation of the care which the ¢ at the home. Before the Health Department will issue a per mit to such a home within the Dis- trict it requires approval from the Board of Children’s Guardians. Be. cause the board claims that Mrs. Dyke did not conduct a careful enough in- vestigation into the antecedents of the children placed under her care, it revoked her permit on the ground that there was not ample protection from a health point of view “Mrs. Dyke keeps no records,” says the report of the Maryland board. “She has several loose leaves of a form of register, hut none of the babies not in her care is registered. About seven names were on one of the sheets, but mo account of what had become of them. All over a year ago. When the habies are adopted she requires the people to pay any arrears that she has charged against the baby.” Often Has Unpaid Bills. Board is charged at the rate of $30 or $40 a month, but investigation shows that the character of the| parents from whom some of the babies are received often leaves Mrs. Dyke with unpaid bills on her hands. During the last three years Mrs, Dyke hzs placed hetween 75 and 80 children in homes for adoption. Some are the children of deserted mothers, some ave children of young wnmar ried girls and others are of parents who are unable to provide properly for their children in their own homes owing to varying conditions. While persons who adopt children from the home are expected to meet any ar- rears in board, that practice alone is not condemned by authorities, al- | sanization | working \nd varied program and ac | forward | enersgy | seventieth session of Congress. | service, | Engraving and Printing, W | Orleans, FEDERAL WORKERS REELECT STEWARD Organization Plans Drive for New Members af | nual Meeting. Special Dispatch to The Star. SAN ANTONIO, Tex. September 8.—Assurance that effort in the in- terest of the Government worker will he unremitting was ven today hy Luther C. Steward, ranimously re-elected to serve h ninth term as president of the Na- tional Federation of Federal Em- ployes. He will serve two years under the biennial plan of conven- tion and election followed by the or- continue to The convention fn session here is iduously through a full journment 'We of the the Federal said its president, “look the accomplishment of eat things in behalf of the Gov- ernment worker. The convention now nearing its close has provided an excellent opportunity to strength- en and clarify the program on which we have been working and which we shall urge with every ounce of at our command at the late today. ation of expected National Fede nployes, to To Seek New Members. “Of paramount importance to Go ernment employes within and with out the nks of the organization wi be a ¢ gn we contemplate push pidly onward to our goal o 100 per cent organization within the Federal service. When we meet in convention two vears hence. we hops to have Government employes or ganized as a fully united group. Then and only then, can they expect te receive the extent of recognition thes deserve in higher salaries and other wise improved conditions in"the pubiis service, “Our one big prohlem during the next session will be classification. The Personnel Classification Board mus go if the lot of Federal employes it 1o he a more bearable one. “It has failed to perform its duty as the law provided; it has repeatedly placed obstacles in the way of sati< factory operation of the classificatior law “Then there are salary increases te be fought for throughout the Federa classification of the field, ané a number of other improvements it Government employment which are needed to make Uncle Sam a more desirable employer. g Re-Election Unanimous. The re-election of Mr. Steward without n_single dissenting vote eame along with that of eight vice presi dents late yesterday. He was flomin ated by John Fitzgerald of New York first vice president, who characterize the leader of the organized employes movement as “tried and true.” The nomination was seconded by Thomat Ryan of Chicago and Miss Belle A Trouland, local No. 105, Bureau of ington Eight vice presidents were re elected as follows: John Fitzgerald New York, first; L. E. Bentley ew second; 8. Tyson Kinsell Philadelphia, third; Lee R. Whitney Milwaukee, fourth; Charles L. Wie gand, Baltimore, fifth, whose nomina vas seconded for Washington by M. McNally, national secre treasure John P. Thompson San Franciseo, sixth: Thomas W ould, Cleveland, seventh, and M. J Hines, Leavenworth, Kans., eighth. Miss MeNally of Washington, D. C. was unanimously re-elected secretary treasurer toda Many important organization prob lems occupied yesterday's sessions, in cluding an ine se of local contribu tions to the National Treasury, spon sored by the Women's Union of the Bureau of Engraving. This was | adopted. D. C. Delegates Speak. The convention voted increased sup port to the national organization with the direct view to enlarging the mem bership and being thereby enabled te widen the scope of the work in behal of Government workers. It was point ed out by speakers in strengthening the organizatio only through' still more concent efforts by a large group can the F eral service be surrounded with satis factory working conditions. Taking a prominent part in the dis cussion were Miss Trouland, Local No 105; J. B. Borland, Local No. 2 1 A. Braden, Local N . Kinney, Local No. 261, and M ly, Who represents Local 103 All are Washington delegates. GIRLS LEAP INTO CANAL AS FOUR DIE IN FIRE Bargemen Rescue Several Em ployes Who Escape Blaze at Film Product Plant. By the Associated Pre: LONDON, September 9.—Only by 1 quick jump from the windows of & building into Regent Canal, with thei clothes ablaze, did several girls esc death in a fire which killed four of their companions and injured severa others in the premises of the Film Waste Products Co., in Red Hil street, Regents Park. It originated ir a spool winding room and spread rap through tons of celluloid, benzine and other inflammable things, Four girls perished immediately ir the fiery blast. Others dashed for the stairs, while several jumped from windows into the camal,” where they were picked up by barges. 3 A nearby garage caught fire and nine motor cars were burned. The police threw a cordon around the ares nnd_ ordered the inhabitants in neigh boring houses to evacuate them until the flames were extinguished, AMELIA BINGHAM NAMES SISTERS BENEFICIARIES Actress Bequeaths Books to Board of Education in Will Filed for Probate. By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, Septémber 8.7 residuary estate of Amelia Rin. m, actress, is hequeathed to her two sisters, Mrs. Mino Leslie, North Port land, Oreg., and Clara Hartzler of Hicksville, Ohio, under the terms of will filed yesterday. The Board ducation of Hicksville -receives Bingham's collection of hooks T The actress died a week ago in her home her though Mr. Ogden of the Maryland hoard said it opened the way to ex- ploitation. Denied a license by the Maryland authorities and unable to operate un- der a District license, Mrs. Dyke was clearly perturbed today over the fu- ture. Through friends she is attempt- ing to straighten out the tanglé with the Maryland board and conform with the regulations regarding infants un- der 6 months of age. Remedy Pointed Out. “‘Some one has to take care of these ¢ v [ @ fi —_————— when seen today, were a rently comfortable and happy In thelr mir- oundings. They have a good sized ard in which to play and were com- tably clothed and under the, care of competent. nurses, Since the demand for babies for adoption exceeds the supply, it was T;M by reputable physicians here that Dyké's home fills an urgent need, s tarly for the class of infantsg oming usually under her care. The emedy, they pointed out, is strict en- orcement of regulations safeguarding babies,” she said. “The mother of |e sploitation of children in such one of them has disappeared and no|homes and in stricter methods of in- trace can be found of Rer anywhere, | v What & golng to become of them if |t they closg this place™” a The - .bables under her care, t estigation to déterminé conditions in hé homeés from which they are taken nd to which they ultimately urned over, ¥ g