Evening Star Newspaper, September 15, 1927, Page 2

. e SPEAKER OPPOSES SPECAL SESSION Longworth Expresses Op- position on Visit to White House. Speaker Longworth voiced his op position to a special session of Con gress in a conference today with Pres ident Coolidge. Agreeing with Senator Curtis of - | Kansas and Representative Tilson of Connecticut, Republican leaders of the Senate and House, that there was no necessity for such a session, Mr. Long- | wortl told the President he thought | nothing construcive could be accom- plished by convening at an »arly @ate. Gihers Also Opposed. epresentatives Ran and Cole of lowa, Hock of Kansas and Hogg of Indiana. all Republicans, who also were among the President’s callers to day, were unanimons in saving they ses no need for calling an extra ses mion The President, however, has not | committed himself, and associates of | his today represented him as not being ready 1o make a definite deci- sion. In the meantime he is listen- inz to the views of party leaders, | which thus far have been over-| whelmingly in opposition to the proposal of an extra session. It is believed that the views which he has received since returning to Wash- ington have gone far toward con- vincing the President that an extr: session would be not only unwel- come, but would accomplish very | little. Senator Borah, who also conferved with the President today. said that while he does not care ane way or the other whether there is an extra | mession, he felt very sure that noth- | ing would be gained by an early| start on the part of Congress. | Nye Wants Extra Session. ! Senator Nve of North Dakota, who | belongs to the independent group in the Senate, expressed himself as| being strongly in favor of an extra | session. He told the President lhan‘ much could be accomplished if Con- | gress got to work at an early date and that the possibility of a last- minute jam would be avoided. The President was advised by Speaker Longworth that the major committees of the House will meet in advance of the opening of Cungress and that they will have the important legislation ready for action virtually | as soon as Congress convenes. He felt very sure that by having Con- gress meet earlier it would not expedite matters. He said that his experience in Congtess has convine -d him that more could be accomplished with Congress not in session. The Speaker doubted very much if the Mississippi flood relief and control Jegislation would be ready by the time Congress meets in December. In view of this fact, he can see no reason for calling Congress earlier when there will be no possible chance for an in- telligenit discussion of the flood Question. The Speaker also discussed with the President some of the more important matters of legislation. which will be brought before Congress this Winter. e explained, however, that a definite program has not been agreed upon, but he felt very sure that flood legisla- tion and tax reduction would have a preferred place on the legislative schedule. He said that earlier in the Summer he had been advised that the Treasury surplus would be sufficient to permit the cut of about $300,000,000 in the taxes. Whether this is the ca: at this time he was unable to say. I hopes, however, that the tax bhill will be brought out early and passed carly in January. Discusses Foreign Questions. i Senator Borah said, following his conference with the President, that the question of an extra session was only one of a number of matters d cussed. He was not inclined to =ay how he advised the President in rhe matter, but he did say that from his observation Congress could ac- complish just as much without being called earlier than the usual meeting date. He added that he has cume 10 the conclusion that the Senate rever gets to work anyhow before March 1, no_matter when it convenes. The chairman of the foreign affairs committee discussed with the Presi- dent the pending foreign questions, which included the French commer- cial ireaty and the negotiations for renewal of a French loan. He said the matter of foreign debt was not discussed. Senator Caraway, Democrat, Ar- kansas, said today that in his opinion Congress should be convened before December to hasten consideration of the problems of rehabilitation con- fronting the people of the Mississippi Valley, as well as to take up legisla: tion for permanent protection again: future floods. The Arkansas Senator returned to the capital today. Senator Caraway said he believes the permanent solution of the prob- lem of controlling the Mississippi @gainst a repetition of the disastrous flood of this year will have to be met by a_ combination of levee systems and diversion of some of the large volumes of water that now reach the gulf through the Mississippi proper. There is urgent need, however, he said, for the regiir of levees broken by this year's #‘ods in time to pro :t the adjacent communities from going upder weter again when the normal rise of the river occurs in the | Spring. Secretary of Commerce Hoover en- dcared himself *o the people of the flooded States 1Y coming to them in their hour of trouble and showing in- tellizence and sympathy, Senator Caraway stated. He declared, how- ever, that the President should have alled an extra session of Congress iny to deal with the flood emergency, and added that in his opinion the President apparently had failed to grasp the situation in which the people of the flooded area found themselve: On the suhject of agricultural re Bef the Arkansas Sepator predicted the McNary-Haugen farm measure, providing for an_equalization fee on certain farm products, will be passed again at the coming session by a more substantial majority than it _ob- tained in the last Congress. The measure was vetoed by the President at that time. Although the division of seats be- tween Republicans and Democrats will be cloge in the new Senate, Sen- ator Caraway indicated that he be. lieves the Republicans will organize the upper branch. Criticizes Flood Policy. Flaborating on his statement that Congress should have been called fol Jowing the Mississippi flood, Senator Caraway said that while he was not unmindful of the generosity of those who had contributed to the relief of the stricken area, % did not believe the Government should have put the people of the flood zone in the posi- tion of accepting charity. Senator Caraway said his position on the question of flood control and prevention legislation is that the Gov- ernment should do what the indivi- duals of that large section are unable to do for themselves. He also ex- pressed the view that the Government should render the same character of assistance to the people along the Mississippl, who are trying to culti- vate land, where there is a possibility of an overflow of water as is rendered in the West, where the people are wtriving to obtain water to cultivate wridvand, e T— TAFT.ON SEVENT Chief Justice Declares for “Keeping Close Step With | { Our Ideals.” Famous Chuckle Follows Mention of Grandchildren in Family Party. | | i By the Associated Pre: NEW YORK, September 15.—Chief | Justice Willam Howard Taft, who is {70 years old today, in a telephone con versation from his Summer home in Murray Ray, Canada, with Martin Green of the New York Eveni said he believes the world growing better, but not so rapidly many people think “I'am an optimist.” must be content to keep close between our ideals.” The Chief Justice sent a message of “most grateful appreciation” for the | “boundless messages of good will” he | had received on his birthday. “I am very grateful that my three | children and their wives and husbands | are with me and Mrs. Taft at Murray | Bay for this occasion—and my 10| grandchildren,” said the former Pres. ident. ‘en grandchildren, judge™" querled | Mr. Green. | he said, *“wa steps INJUNCTION SOUGHT 0 BAR TAX| ORDER Independent Owners Ask| Court to Restrain Commis- sioners in Stand Ruling. The Independent Taxi Owoners’ As sociation, which operates 160 taxicabs in Washington. today filed suit for injunction in the District Supreme | Court against the District Commi: sioners to prevent enforcement of the recent police regulation specifying | taxi stands and requiring the taxicabs | to use these locations for parking | their automobiles. Through Attorney Alfred D. Smith, the company says that all police regu- lations with reference to the direction of motor-driven vehicles were render- ed void and of no effect by the pass- age of the traffic act of March 3, 1925, and the District Commissioners have through the chiet of police directed the arrest of taxi drivers who fail to carry out the directions of the recent | order for hack stands. Since the | Commissioners can only make regu- lations under existing laws, since the old regulations are void, counsel con- tends, the plaintiff company has the legal right to park its vehicles in any place on the public streets where an other motor-driven vehicle is permit- ted to park. The court is told that there are about 1,600 taxicabs operated in the city, and it is claimed the places desig. nated as taxi stands would not begin to accommodate them. CHIANG IN FLIGHT 70 U. S. INCOGNITO| Chinese Newspapers Say l"ormeri Nationalist Commander-in-Chief Is on French Liner. By the Associated Press. COLOMBO, Ceylon, September 15.— Gen: Chiang Kai-Shek, former com- mander-in-chief of the Nationalist forces in China, has left Shanghai and is traveling incognito as a third class passenger on the French liner | Chenonceaux en route to the United | States, say the Chinese newspapers here. Recent dispatches from China have suggested the possibility that « ng Kai-Shek would visit the United States, but his exact whereabouts have been somewhat of a mystery. A dispatch to London from Shanghal on Septem- ber 12, said that he had returned to Shanghai secretly in response to a| demand by his followers, but this| could not be confirmed, and was de- nied in Shanghai . The She- nonceaux sailed from Shenghai Au- gust 27. | fadame Chiang Kai-Shek, wife of | the general, arrived in San Francisco on September 8, planning to proceed to New York on her way to Europe. STREET CAR REROUTING EFFECTIVE SUNDAY| Anacostia, Brookland and Le Droit Park Lines Will Be Involved in Shift. A general rerouting of the major lines of the Waghington Railway & Electric Co., ordered several months ago by the Public Utilities Commis- sion, will go into effect Sunday morn- ing. it was announced today. A delay in making the changes was necessi- tated by the installation of a switch at Ninth and 1 streets which cost the company approximately $25,000 Instead of running to Kieventh and Manroe streets, the Brookland ears will g0 to the Rureau of Engraving and Printing and the wharves. The ‘Anacostia cars will go to Eleventh and Monroe streets instead of running up Ninth street to Florida avenue and thenca to Eleventh street, while the Le Droit Park cars, which now run to the wharves, will terminate at Fif- teenth and G streets. S The rerouting, the Utilities * Com. mission believes, will improve service lines, reducing th 10 6 minutes, and Brookland headway from 7 {all who have ever met hir | was | the school superi . THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. ¢." THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 1927T. IETH BIRTHDAY, ' SAYS WORLD IS GROWING BETTER CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT. 107 was he reply, “and 1 wizh yvou eonld see them.” My Green gaid that as Mr. Taft talked of hic ehildren “his voice car- vied pride and as he mentioned his grandchildren he chuckled the won derful, infections Taft chuckle which has won him the affectionate regard of Queen on Shopping Trip Finds Closing Day Is Wednesday Br the Assaciated Press YORK, England, September 13 N nd her danghter, Princess Mary, have learned that there is an “early closing day” for stores, and that in this town it is Wednesday. They drove from Goldshorough Hall to do some shopping and were surprised to find that an antique dealer’s store was closed and_the appavently deserted. They ed several times, and at a young assistant_opened the door Queen Mary smilingly apologized for interrup her holiday, and the young woman showed them round the shop, meanwhile sending a hurry cail for the manager and one of the directors. Queen made nd aga olog several pur- zed hofore TOWEL PROBLEM AFFECTS SCHOOLS Millions on Hand, but Con- tainers Are Too Small to Fit Them. “Due to a “slip-up” by the general supply committee, the paper towel containers in all public schools will remain empty until after the Christ- mas holidays, it was developed at the Franklin Schoot ‘today. Several million paper towels which were delivered to school authorities during the Summer have been found entirely too large to fit jthe contain- ers, with the result that pvery school principal has heen instrijcted by Dr, Frank W. Ballou, superfntendent, to use individual judgment in rationing ont the towels. School Forms Late. incident with this revel: learned that the school faces a lack of necessar) the opening of the sc! s ay, with the result that the Government Printing Office, which has had the order gince early in the Summer, has been compelled to put on double shifts in an effort to fill the order. Maj. Raymond O. V marth, busi- ness manager of the school system, said today that he has received posi tive assurance ym the Government nting Office that all the forms necessary will he in by R: Maj. Wilmarth declared tod the General Supply Committee furnished thousands of dollars worth of supplies to the system during the Summer promptly and satisfactorily. It is presumed that the committee took it for granted that the school towel receptacles were of the same size as those in the Government de- partments. After the towel situation was hrought to the attention of Dr. Rallou, tendent issued this to all prinei P f) explanatory statement pals of buildings: Nothing Can Be Done. “The paper towels now heing deliv- ered ta the public schools were fur- nished by the general supply commit- tee. When the public schools furnish- ed the requirements to the general supply committen they specified the size towel required to fit the con- tainers in school buildings. When the towels were delivered at the ware- house by the general supply commit- tee, it was found that they were of a different size and type than the towels heretofore purchased by District of Columbia. The matter was faken up immediately with the general supply - committee, througzh the proper District officials, and it was found that nothing could be done to relieve the situation at this time. These towels have, therefore, been issued to the schools. The paper towel containers now in the xchool buildings will not hold this type and size of towel, and the appropriations available will not per- mit of the purchase and installation of a new set of paper towel holders. “Principals of huildings are request- ed to use the towels heing jssued to the hest advantage, even though it will not be possible to place them in the containers now in the build- ings. An additional order of paper towels will bs placed with the gen- eral supply ecommittee during the materially, especially on the Anacostia | year, and every endeavor will he made | on this second order to secure towel that will fit tha exisiing equipment.’ Girl Piays Betective Who Robbed Her Br the Assnciated Press. 4 NEW YORK, Beptember 15.—Th capture of two young men who had | chloroformed and robbed her of $1,600 | in cash and jewelry in an upper Broadway hotel Saturday was cred- ited by police today to Miss Cordie Harvey, 25, the daughter of a Rhodell, W. Va., blacksmith. Going without sleep for almost three days, the girl beat the city with detectives visiting tenderloin dis- tricts and inspecting the rogues’ gal- lery at police headquarters hefore she disguised herself and picked out one youth in Pennsylvania Terminal and another on a street corner in “Hell's Kitchen.” Edward -Kelly, 23, and Paul Jef- to Catch Men of Cash and Jewelry feries, 23, hoth waiters, were accused ot inducing the girl, in New York on a vacation, to visit a room in the Hotel Martinique to meet a fictitious couple who would assist in making her stay in the city pleasant. “She js a remarkahle woman,” sald investigating detectives. “She de- scribed the men in most minute detail, even to the stripes on their socks, and with one of the men (Kelly) to a de- fect in his teeth.” Police said she visited alone a Broad- way restaurant where she had seen one of the men before the robbery and, on the pretense that she was the man's sweetheart, obtained from a waiter the address of a tenderloin speakeasy, where clues to the identity of the youths were ow»@. Sl the | BLAMES DRY BODY -FOR CRIME GROWTH ' Cook County Official Attacks [ League at Laying of Jail ; Corner Stone. | Ry the Associated Pre CHICAGO, Septem! ! ing prohibition as a 1se of crime | President Anton J. Cermak of the | Cook County Board today blamed the L Anti-Salgon Leagne for overcrowded | fails inSen address at the laving of | the corner sto@ for the new $7 | 000 County Jail and Criminal Courts | Building. : | “If the Anti-Saloon Teague had not 15, Attack converted part of the peopie to the helief that prohibition would do away with the need for penal institutions. Gid, “1 o not believe we would sathiered here, I have foun he | G0 per cont anore { prisonces at Joliet, 112 per cent more | oy at Pontiac Reformatory, 148 p ‘ut_more casea of insane criminals | 2t Cheeter Asylum and 448 per cent | more alcoholic ¢ | wer sinee i | The new ail, he said, is a cor {example of “the “utter necessity [ modifying the Volstead Taw and hrin ing back personal liherty,” DEATH TOLL CUT phibition."” rete N EXCANSTORM ;U. S. Consul at Mazatlan ! Reports—400 Bodies Re- | covered in Japan. ! Ry the Associated Press. NOGALES, Ariz., First official the storm-stricken west coast of Mex ico hrought hope today that the death | toll might be considerably lese than | was feared when the hurricane tore out telegraph and railway lines of | communication. William P, Blagaer, American con- sul at Mazatlan, last night telegraph- ed that no deaths had been officially reported there. He said considerable damage was done to the residential district along the water front. September 15.— Freighters Are Located. [ Two freighters, reported missing | out of Mazatlan, have heen accounted | for. A third steamer, the Bolivar, re- mained to be heard from. A fishing | fleet oft Mazatlan also was still miss | ing, although it might have found foty in the narbor of La Paz, Lower California. The death tol! at Salina Cruz and | Manzanillo, where the hurricane was rveported to have struck with iis greatest force, also has been less than first believed, due to the precau- tions of the military forces at those parts. Residents were forcibly moved to higher ground in hoth cities when the barometer dropped suddenly last week, giving warning of the com ing storm. This move, officials said, undoubtedly lessened the list of dead. 400 BODIES RECOVERED. 12,000 Japanese Troops Aid in Relief | Work on Island of Kiushiu. TOKIO, September 15 (#).—About 400 bodies thus far have been re | covered from the western part of the [ Island of Kiushiu, which was struck by a typhoon and huge tidal wave on Tuesday. Dispatches from the island state that a force of 2,000 troops is assist- ing Jocal organizations in the search for the thousands of persons reported missing and in clearing up the de- bris from the towns and villages in Kumamoto prefecture, the center of the storm-swept area. A total of 500 fishing boats were reported to have heen wrecked off agnsaki, with the loss of at leas fishermen. At Kawahchi Flot Springs 12 of 13 hotels were swept away and the thirteenth was hadly damaged. Previous advices received by the government placed the injuries at 300 and the number of houses de- stroyed at 700, Damage Is §250,000, The damage caused at Yokohama, which was struck by the tail of the | typhoo | about $250,000). The storm, about 60 yards wide, left a trail of wrecked buildings, tangled wires and broken glass in its wake. Two large structures and several smaller houses and stores in the vi- cinity of the rall station were de- od and 30 persons were injured. ges containing 30 taxicabs were wrecked and most ° the vehicles dam aged. Four freight cars on a railway | siding were overturned and smashed. Telegraph posts were torn up, win- dows smashed and iron girders bent [like mateh sticks | Kye-witnesses s | had passed within a few | making an appalling noise, houg | some huge monster were screeching in |its death agony.” : | Slemp Wants Virginia Sessions to ‘ Meet Annually. RICHMOND, Va., September 15 1/. State support of the Institute of | Public Affairs, which the University of Virginia proposes to make an an nual event, was advocated to G Byrd today by C. Bascom Slemp, Vir- ginia Republican leader and secretar o the late DPresident Warren G. Harding. Mr. Slemp declared the institute a valuable asset and urged an appropria- tion before the governor's budget com- | mittee, He also urged an appropria- tion for a radio broadeasting station at the University of Virginia. ASKS $25,000 AWARD. | Woman Seeks Damages as Result of Auto Injuries. Adine Marie Hampton, 21 today sued Ralph Il B $ Columbia road, for $25,000 dam- ses for alleged personal injuries. e says she was a passenger in angs' car returning from Baltimore abont 1 o'clock in the morning of Mareh 13 when, it was overturned |at College Park, Md., and she sus tained serious injur) Mr=. Hamp | ton is represented by Attorneys | Galloway, Douglas, Obear & Douglas. Lieut. éol. James Huston Dies. Lieut. Col. James Huston. U. | Cavalry, died at Fort Sam MHouston, Tuesday, according to War De- | partment advices. Col. Huston was from Texas and served for two ye: in the ranks until his appointment as second lleutenant of Cavalry in July, 1900. - He served in the Spanish War, the Philippine Insurrection and the World War and reached the grade of lieutenant colonel in July, 1920. His widow, Mrs. Marguerite W, Hus- ton, lives at Fort Sill, Okla, 300, | | Covering ths reported to the | for | reports received from | is estimated at 500,000 yen | GIRL FLYER READY 0 CHALLENGE SEA Ruth Elder Says She Will At- tempt Trip to Paris on | By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, September 15.-A pretiy 23-year-old girl fiver, who talke} aughingly of the adventure in which 10 persons have disappeared, today was at the starting point of her pro- | jected flight to Paris, eager to ba the of her sex to cross the Atlantic | by air. | “Miss Ruth Elder of Takeland | swooped down from the sky | velt Field last evening with her co- | pitot. Capt. George Haldewan, after wiles from Wheeli | W. Va, and fmmediately hegan i prepavitions for taking off on he L610mile Aight across the sea Sunday ning. “We have everyvthing Sunday except the w “G hought, runway ready, dandy, pilots O, K. Give us a w break and we'll take off (hen. Fla., n ¢ to leave ther,” she nthusiastic Over Trip. “T've heen dreaming and planning | this ever ainca 1 first learned to fly s ago. Then Lindbergh did I was more determined. I nt n Tier auburn bobhed hair by the wind at the flyir |her lavge gray eye vivacious confidence as details on her monopline Detroiter An n Girl “She weighs 5,600 pounds loaded, 2080 empty, and will carry about 500 gallons of gas. She'll eruise ahout 4,800 miles. I figure abont 100 miles an hegr or a bit better as a cruising speed,” The Amerlean T'll do it—I and Capt. Halde- was swept field and sparkled in e reeled off, the stinson Girl is driven by a 200-horsepower Wright whirlwind engine and is a duplicate of the | John Carling, which vanished in mid- ocean; the round-the-world plane | Pride of Detroit, and the Royal Wind | sor, whose transatlantic flight has | been abandoned. Plans Paris Shopping Tour. Attired in light tan knickers, man's white shirt, tan sport shoe: as K over her head, Miss Elder was dapper and immac e as Col Lindbergh on the day he arrived here with unsoiled collar and neatly pressed flving togs after his flight from St. Louis on his way to ern drawl, she answered “Nev ‘em,” vefu cigarette. “Do you want only hecause you are a asked. “Well, they've go gowns there, I hear,” she replied with a mocking smile. “I've never .been to Europe-—might as well go this way —get some clothes—doll up a little come back by boat—taking it ea. o flying back for me." “What will you wear on the flight?" “What I've got on, 1 suppose, I don't know, | “Are you engaged to Capt. Hald mann?" estions, she said as she to Paris to fly ' she was girl? pretty evening pilot interrupted. Denies B der w she had Offer, ked about a re- been married in Miss port that Arizona. “Never bheen in the silly | she said laughingly. ‘“Nope, married—not even engaged.” And she shook her head vehemently | when it was susgested she might be in love. And she offered no explana tion for her application for a passp.rt u- der the name of “Mrs. Ruth Elder.” Miss Elder was asked if it was true she had been offered a honus to aban- | don her flight because of the disasters | befalling recent transatlantic expedi- tio State,” never 0, but it wouldn't have done any zood if I h she said. “I'm here to fly —quickl Miss Elder's home is with her par- ents, at Lakeland. She has five broth- ers and three sisters. MARRIED IN BIRM GHAM. Girl Flyer's Sister Says Husband' Name Is Womack. Ala., September 15 (#). Ider of Lakeland, Fla | e Haldeman, will a tempt a transatlantic Might in- the plane American Girl, was married {in Rirmingham in September. | Lyle Womack of Lakeland, I | Elder's sister, Mrs. James G | here today. | | =Miss Ruth who, with ¢ BAND CONCERTS. | By the United States Army Band, 1“! the Capitol steps, at 7:30 p.m. March, “Major General Hanson F. Suite de Baliet patra’”., , and Cleo- Trumpet solo, ald Rodriguez Second Teader Thomas F. Dare “Old Timers”. ., .Lake eteh, “Down South,” Myddleton Selection, “Souvenir de Reethoven,” arranged by Tobani March, “Huntingdon Municipal Band,” Played by Waltz, an e | Medley Ameri Overture, “Semitramide”. Mexican waltz, Martinez to be selected. rtege du Sardar,” Tppolitow-Twanow Ixcerpts from “Erminie”. .Jakahowski | March, “Hands Across the Sea,” Sousa “The Star Spangled Banner.” Two popular sen Characteristic, “'C By the Army Music School, at Du- pont Circle, at 7:30 p.m. March, “Playfellow”. Overture, “Fingal's Cave, Mendelssohn “ilimore Herbert Symphonic piece “Festa di _Cam- pagna” ... Fili Grand selection from the ballet * celsior” ......... Scherzo, “Orientale’. . .Orlando Tone poem, “Meditation”.. .. Morrison March, “Col. Bogey”.. . Alford Yankea Rose.. ...Holden Blue Skies. . “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Marine Band at Sylvan Theater, Monument | grounds, 7: Overture, 1 and Ludmilla,” Glinka Solo for xylophone, “Valse Cap Wieniawsky Wilhur D. Kieffer, Intern , “'Petite Rijoute Cornet solo, “The Premier, e”. Bohm polka, Llewellyn Arthur & Witcombh, “Seeond Polonaize™. . % March, “Tell 1t To the Marines, Branson Trombone solo, “Wonderland”. .Smith Hervey Clark. Morceau characteristique, AMSHCANE® .. oo uoiuecors “Reminiscences of Tschaikowsk: Godfrey “The Star Spangled Banner.” Goes to Fort Eustis, Warrant Officer Percy H. Moore has been relieved from duty at the general depot, this city, and ordered to duty with the quartermaster at Fort Fustis, Va.. where he will re. lieve Warrant Officer John 8. Ree- ords, who has been transferred to Fort Hayes luhduty. Roose- | to he the first girl to turn the | and a flying helmet, which was pulled | In dashes marked by a soft South- | “Say, listen, I'm married,” the co- | Popular selection, “The Princess Pat,” | .Berlin | | girl yesterday when she was brought | California Veteran Is - Other Outstanding Candidate at Session. | Delegates to Debate Plan to Relinquish Memo- rial Day. the Assoriated Pre RAND RAPIDS, Mich., September 15.-—Organization politics, temporari Iy eclipsed by the annual parade of veterans and the “camp fire” session | vesterday, flared anew on the c tion floor’ toda the first session of the ( tional } campment opencd. Worn and tived after m, mile under a sw g sun yesterday afternoon, the 1534 veterans in tendance at the encampment cam the convention hall this morning to name one of their group for the office lof “commanderinchief. Maj. Ge lohn . Clem, Washington, and F hridge Hawk, Sacramenta, Calif., peared to be the outstanding Hdat Frank Cole, Jersey Citv, ap- candi is Iheing mentioned, and John T. Ieese | of RBroken Bow, Nebr., is receiving the support of delegates from some of | the Middle Western Stafes, Resolutions, among them a_petition by the McLean Post, No. 16, Reading, *a., asking that Memorial day ob. | servance be relinquished by the thin ning ranks that have long assisted them, will be debated by the de zates, The petition is understood to be in protest against the movement to tur Memorial day over to the Ameri Legion, which the McLean Post fec is to the other veterans’ o A resolution calling for 1 increase in pensions has been in- troduced by Grandville Morse of Went- ham, Mas; With an attempt at the same tri umphant spirit that marked the march of the long columns along his toric Pennsylvania avenue at the close of the Civil War, the veterans marched determinedly along Monroe avenue yesterday, passing in review hefore Commander-in-Chief Frank W Walsh of Milwaukee and his staff. During the hour of march the mer cury rose from 80 to 88 degrees, and although several spectators fainted there was only one call for the ambu- lance for the aid of a veteran. Following the parade and they gathered at the annual campr in the National Guard Armory and traded “yarns” of more than 60 years ago. Mrs. Maybel Ross of Chicago was | elected president of the Ladies of the | G. A. R. at the business meeting yes | terday. Other officers will be named | today. 'ANACOSTIA TO GET | MORE OLD-TYPE CARS | Ruling to Modernize 10 Does Not | Apply to 13 Additional | One is Quite a shock is in store for the Anacostia Citizens' Association, which | recently won its vigorous fight to rid | the Anacostia line of the Washington { Railway & Electric Co., type one-man car: of the old | " Instead of 10 cars of the conductor- | less type, which are now in operation lon the Anacostia line, there will be on Sunday and thereafter, due to the general rerouting of the company's change in routes will carry all of the old one-man type cars on the Brook- land line into the community of Ana- costia, _Even the Public Utilities Commis- sion was unaware of this situation until today, when William ¥. Ham, president of the car company, called at the commission’s offices for an in terpretation of the recent o-de: directed the company to put the one- man cars, with automatic rear exits. on the Anacostia line, or else replace them with two-man cars. Mv. llam { wanted to know if the order applied { to the 23 which would he in service on Sunday, or the 10 now in operation. After an informal conference with Mr. 1 the commission came to the conclusion that the order would apply this time only to the 10 new in serv- e It w pointed out, however, that the recent one-man car order of the commission stipulated that all of the old-type one-man cars are not ez pabla of giving satisfactory service, =0 there is some likelihood that the commission in the future will order the modernization of the additional 13 one-man cars slated for service on the Anacostia line. o |WRITER'S SISTER LOST f Mary Manning Was With Brother, Capt. Dingle, on Cruise to Get Story Material. By the Associated Pross. ~—Mary Manning, 34, sister of Capt. A. Dingle, sea story writer, was lost at sea off Nantucket last week, it was learned here toda Capt. Dingle, ac- companied by his sister, who was his ‘“crew,” was on one of the voyages which form the basis for most of his tales of the sen when the tragedy oc- | curred. | While cruising in a heavy sea, the Gauntlet, Capt. Dingle’s craft, struck a partially snbmerged wreck and the | steering gear snapped, swinging the craft _around with such suddenness | that Miss Manning was thrown into the sea. She sank immediately and did not reappear, | Miss Manning was the heroine of | many of Capt. Dingle’s stories. Drowned ifi Plane. DIEGO, Calif., September 15 . K. Kruger, aviation pilot, United States Navy, attached to the fleet Air Service, was drowned when his plane fell into San Diego Bay to- POPE LAUDS WORK lines to go into effect at that time. The | which | AT SEA OFF VESSEL STAMFORD, Conn., September 15. | {he GEN. CLEM NEAR TOP IN FIGHT | FOR COMMANDERSHIP OF G.A.R. IR|SH FREE SIME ching for a | . CLEM, - TOADMEXICANS ' Catholic Bishops, in Annual Convention, Receive Praise for Welfare Council. | | | Waork for the past year of the Na- | tional Welfare Council, part rly its efforis in Mexico, received high praise today at the annual conven- | tion of the Catholic bishops of the United States now heinz held in Caldwell Hall of Catholic University, n a letter from Pope Pius, read 1y “Again and again, as occasion of- fered.” the letter said, “we have con- atulated yon on your splendid zeal as you continually rendered meri- forions service ‘to the church both iduous administration of your »wn_dioceses. by generously coming {to the aid of various people suffer- [ing from great disaster. and finally ing to a happy issue under- | takinzs of the greatest value to our h. 1 Harboring of Mexicans. TJust quite recently learned with pleasure _from our ipostolic delegate at Washington ow zealously the organization known 1< the National Catholic Welfare | Council has hitherto striven (o de- | fend and. in every possible way. sne | cor the church in Mexico. which has | heen =0 sorely tried. When the Mex- ican hishops in the first instance ap- | pealed to you. citizens of a neigh- | horing and most prosperous nation. for help and comfort, you hastened to provide hoth in generous measure. “You upheld the Mexican hierarchy | in their public protest against iniqui- tous laws, and you yourselves issued a splendid statement wherein you made known to all, Catholic and non-Catho- lic alike, the truth regarding the Mexi- can situation. Surely every one knows how effectually you have assisted | Catholics of all classes from the neigh- horing republic of Mexico who left i 1t we have | their native land to escape grievous persecution. When of late this perse- cution went to the extreme of banish- ing by force the bishops themselves from their dioceses, it became forth with vour great eoncern hoth to harhor | the bishops as vour own brothers and show them every mark of considerate kindness.” Sthool Systems Discussed. The meeting this morning was con- cerned principally with a discussion of primary and higher Catholic educ: | tional systems in the United States. { Tt was pointed out that every effort should be made to further this work, and that every effort by publicity, i struction throush diocesan confer- |ences. and on the occasion of large | Catholic celebrations, the need of voca- | tions for the religious communiti | should be shown. 3 One of the greatest difficulties in nearly every part of the country, it was said, it to. supply teachars for small schools in rural districts. As the tendency is toward cities and large centers of population, the teachers i\\'lm will engage in this work should be provided with every comfort and convanience, Right Rev. Pascual Diaz, Bishop of | Tabasco, Mexico, as secretary for the bishops of Mexico, announced here inst night that the bishops deported | by Mexican authorities had not made | any concessions in order to return to that country. Bishop Diaz said the bishops of Mexico, the great majority of whom have heen deported, stand {“as they have stood from the hegin- ning, for the principlé of relizious iib- erty. for the right of the Church of Christ to live and function as the church. Wish to Return. “Naturally, as lovers of our native d. we wish to return to her,” he added; “we would do all we can to return, except to make any sacrifice of her honor and our own, or any vielding of these principles which are urity of her permanent well- being.” The mental test for immigrants con- ducted by the United States Public Health Service doctors at American consulates abroad were condemned by the Bureau of Immigration of the National Catholic Welfare Association in its annual report to the conven- tion of bishops this morning. The tests were branded as unfair and without due regard for the humane and moral consequences. It was said that the diagnoses are based largely on the subjects’ reaction to ridiculous questions. The meeting this morning was pre- sided over by Cardinal Mundefein, ardinal O'Connell having returned home. The convention, which ended this morning, was attended by 56 hishops from all over the country, four arch- bishops and Cardinals Hayes of New York, Mundelin of Chicago and ©O'Connell of Roston. Aviation Pilots E. L. Hayne and . Thompson, who also were in the plane, were rescued by speedboats | om the North Island Naval Air Sta- | tion, Half the Turbinia, the first vessel ven by steam turbines, was placed on exhibition in the of Kensington, By the Associated P DOYLESTOWN, Pa., September 15 —Although {t cost her $100, Miss Ruth Steiner, 18, former Morrisville High School athlete, is not sorry she assaulted her science teacher, Miss Mary Bones, 28. Miss Steiner ad- mitted she struck the teacher, but sald Miss Bones pushed her first. “Are you sorry you did this? Judge Willlam C. Ryan asked the before him for sentence, after having been found gullty by a jury. ir,” answered the girl. on realize I ean send vou to prison for this?" asked the judge. The girl did not answer, Girl Pupil, Fined for Hittinngeach;r. . Declares in Court She Is Not Sorry “Da vou care whether T to prison?" asked the judge “Why, certainly,” Miss Steiner re- plied. “Well, the only reason I will not is because of vour sex and age,” Judge Ryan said. “There is nothing I can say that will impress you, evi- dently.” The girl's father pald the fine and costs. Miss Stéiner, a senior and captain of the girls’ basket ball team until her dismissal from school for insub- ordination, said Mlss Bones was “al- ways sneering at her” and was “re- l - ELEGTS NEW DAL | Voting Today Follows Apa- | thetic Campaign—De Valera in Test. | Be the Assaciated Pre DURLIN, September 15 State voters went to t 10 cheose the members of the newg Dail ‘Eireann. The results will de. ltermine the fate of President William T. Cosgrave's government, raief | onp: n to which comes from the | Fianna Fail party headed by Eamon Valera, briet | Mi Cosgrave announced of the last Dail parent apathy Trish Free e polls tnday - election eampa “ was marked part the leading observers he the voting would be licht, grave called the ) the government's successes {in two Duiblin byeeloctions fallaw ling the failure of the appesition’s vote of censure in the Dail an Augner 16, 4 when the speaker of the Honse rast the deciding vota in faver of the a4 ministration Campaign Ts Quiet. At dissolution the standing of the parties was: Government, 43: Finnna | Fail, 43 Soclalists, 22, Farmers. 11 Independents, 14, National League, § { Sin Fein, Independent public: | The government hoped today te sufficient seats to remain in with the support of the Farmers aug Independents, whose candidates haye invited the voters to back the govern ment after giving the first preference | to themselves, A feature of the campaign was the quietude of the Kianna Fail speakers | in an apparent desire to convines the electorate that their elevation t¢ power would not mean a revolution, They declared their intention o honoring the Free State's nationa loan and savings certificates and of safeguarding the rights of all invest ors. They would not stand for anothey struggle with England, nor for attack ing Ulster, they said, but would ae cept the existing realities while work ing for independence, Mr. De Valera charged the govern ment with making a disastrous finan cial settlement with Ingland, involy ing an annual payment of £ 00,000 which, he said, was proportionately greater than the amount England payi the United States for the advancer made, during the war. Referen &n since olution by of to on the electorate, jieve that Mr, tafter the o ele E n, n et ! Tssue. | De Valera also promises to consull | the people always, and this was con | strued by Cosgrave as meaning con is'il!fliunal referenda. Cosgrave, oy his part, declared his intention of abol 1shing the referendum provision fron the constitution. The campaign was less marred by Ais ler than any within memory Fervid oratory. and not violence, hat been the weéapon of the party leaders and campaigner Mr. Cosgrave's final called for decision on “the one rea <ue.” “The government,” he said stands for maintenance of the treaty (with England); for the principle of majority rule, and for using the treaty and our democratic constitution i1 order that by them the lives of Irisk men. women and children may be mad} hetter, richer and happier than thost of our past unhappy generations,” |PIRATES REPORTED i RAIDING RUM SHIPS | Vessel Painted Like Coast Guaré Boat Has Crew With Gold Badges. By the Associated Press, SCO, Sepiember 15. - 1 says a mysterio pirate craft, painted white with oo low stachs to simulate the appearanc of a United States Coast Guard vesse { and manned by captain and crew wearing gold badges and aniforms i1 imitation of Government agents, hai heen raiding rum ships off the Cali fornia coast north of San Francisco The Treasury Department, accor Ing to the newspaper acconunt, hi ordered revenue cutters to run dowe the hijacker craft, confiseate stolen liquor and arrest all on hoard The strange pirate craft raided ship along rum row recently, e ing to information given to Frank Austin of the ‘oast Guarc here, the newspaper says. Some o the rum ships, suspicions of the raider several times were said to have heet on the point of opening fire upon her but refrained, fearing she might turr out to be “the real thing." declaration “xaminer Ship. ptember sident o Dies on Board _GRAND RAPIDS, Mic 15 OB—Charlen | he Sligh Furniture Co. he ed o heart “disease early |hi!w'n:l-‘vvw‘l aboard the steamship Rersngaria re turning from Enurope. ac-ording 1o 1 wireless message receivi s eived here fro the steamer’s capiain, ity _Mr. Sligh, who was born in Grand tapids 78 vears ago, is survived by his widow and two daughters, i s Mellon Gets Steel Report. Secretary Mellon has i ry s received the report of Customs Commissioner Camy on the investigation of alleged unfais trade practices hy German producers of steel and ex ts to i his decision within a few Aane, "'0 ¢ American steel manufacturers have requested that an anti-dumping order be issued against the German inter ests and that a higher duty ba imposed on G?rman-madn steel products, MARLBORO ENTRIES FOR TOMORROW, (Horses Listed Aceording to Post Poeitions ) FIRST RACE_ .v::r.lnm: B3 furionge: 1500 claiming: 3 *Shelton 107 su P un Kin Lady Edna 103 Nwillie M SECOND RACE—Py, aalaia -vear-olds and un; a1 Tarepge: "~ 77 . 124 Jang et Rigel . Jedbur THIRD RACE sear-olds aod up anite .. . ley _Oop” . Advisor -Purse. $500: claimine; 3 51y furlongs 4 Dream M Covey Boy Loch Leven . *Obliaue . FOURTH RACE—Py 500 Byearaids and un: 6% Tirionee *Lisab . atlonge Dream of Vaitss 115 FIFTH RACE—Purse, and up: clavming 1 4 w0 Parchesie . 104 Two Feathers .. 108 TAnpellate ..... 108 Going Home .10 1J. Y. Christmas entry. SIXTH RACE—Purse. $600: claimins: 3 ear-olds and up: 1 miles. 106 *Raconteur © 113 Transplant . (H RACE—Purse. $800: claiming r-olds and up: 14 m sponsible for her trouble at the school.” She contended Miss Bones refused to permit a hoy to apologize for an offending remark he had made Bellfont 110 Sun Rock . 108 Star Cudsel 108 - Legal i Al tice allowance rlaimed. Weather Clear: track faste