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{CAUFFMANN RITES 10 BE TOMORROW Former Associates to Act as Pallbearers—Burial Will Be at Rock Creek. ‘Honorary pallbearers for the flmeml‘ ternoon of Rudolph Kauft- dent of The Ev and 4 who died ¢, were an- tomorrow an, viee pr ar Newspape Dunkirk nounced tod: sen from sonal friends and bu s fallows % Beale R. Howard. representing The Jvening Star Newspaper Co. Clif ford K. Berryman, a past and representing Cha A Kauffmann iny assy irence A. ident of the board of Church of the Cove- oclate of Mr. Kauff- board for many Vears; Stephen T. Mather, director of the National Park Se representing the board of directors of the National Geographic Soclety; George E, Hamil- ton, representing the hoard of trus. tees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art; David sergeant-at-arms, United and Maj. Gen. George F. S. M. C. re- tired. Funeral services will be held tomor- row afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Thurch of the Covenant. Rev. William A. isenberger, assi . will be the officiating cl Burial will be in Rock Creek ¢ The Washington Chamber of Com- merce last night adopted the following resolution on Mr. Kauffmann's death: “Whereas the Washington Cham- her of Commerce has learned of the death of Rudolph Kauffmann, citizen and business man of Washington; and “Whereas Mr. Kauffmann, during his 50 years of life in the District, was actively_identified with outstand- ing civic, business and welfare move- ments, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Children’s Hospital, the Na- tional Geographic Society and The U. Evening Star Newspaper Co., of which | © he was vice president and managing editor; “Therefore, be it resolved, That the membership of the Washington Cham- ber of Commerce desire to make public expression of their profound regret at the great loss which Washington has suffered through the death of Ru- dolph Kauffmann, whose splendid rec- ord should be a source of pride to the loved ones he leaves behind, as well as a source of inspiration to all others who know and love the city which he served so faithfully. DEPARTMENT STORE EDUCATION URGED C. A. Weissenberger Emphasizes Need in Addressing Sales Convention Here, HARRY A. MACKEY. | Far ahead in the vote for mayor of Philadelphia. MURDER ADISSION Mrs. Elsie Sweetin Says She Did Not Know Contents of Signed Paper. By the Associated Press, MOUN’ V' ON, TIll, September 21.—Mrs. Elsie Sweetin, on trial for the poison murder of her husband, took the stand today with the jury excluded from the courtroom to tell Judge Roy Pearce the circumstances of various alleged confessions she made after her arrest, Mrs. Sweetin, with tears in her ves, told the judge how she had been persuaded by Lawrence M. Hight, former clergyman and her alleged ac- complice in the murder, to sign a con- fession that she had given poison to her husband. She said she was sick when she was arrested and brought to the Mount Vernon jail and questioned for hours by the State’s attorney and newspaper reporters. She said that at 4 o'clock in the morning Hight was brought into the sheriff’s office in the courthouse where she was being held. She said there were a number of people in the hall outside of the door of the room in which she and her alleged lover were locked. She said Hight told her he had made a confession that she had killed her husband and he had killed his wife and that there would be a mob. He told her to say she had given her husband poison and she would be taken out of town and that then he would go back to the original confession he made that he had poisoned her husband. “I was so tired and scared and sick that I agreed to do what he said,” ‘The department store as an educa- tional institution was advocated by C. A. Weissenberger of Baltimore, in an address before today’s meeting of the seventh annual convention of the sales promotion division of the Na- tional Retail Dry Goods Association. The convention is being held at the ‘Willard Hotel. ‘The department store should educate its customers to display good taste, he said, out that the store's function is not merely to sell, but should also be to encourage in its cus- tomers appreciation of good style. Declaring that “furniture is the last thing to be bought in prosperous times and the first thing to be curtailed in times of depression,” he blamed ad- wvertisers for failing to teach people that they will be judged as much by their furniture as by their automo- biles. Salesmen and saleswomen must know as much or more about new styles as the people who buy from them in order successfully to sell clothes and to discuss them intel- ligently, Raymond D. Hill of the Palais Royal told the convention. De- claring that newspapers often know ‘move about styles than advertisers, he urged stores to win the reputation for knowing about fashions. Women are style hungry, he said, and go to the stores which have the right infor- mation as well as the right clothes. ‘Basement store advertising was dis- cussed by John J. McGowan of Pitts- burgh. He said the basement store has ceased to be the stepchild of the department store. The delegates were guests at lunch- eon at the City Club of the Washing- ton Advertising Club, and this after- noon they were visiting Mount Ver- non, Arlington and the tomb of the Unknown Soldier as guests of the merchants of Washington. R FOSSILS OF TROPICAL LIFE FOUND IN NORTH Specimens From Greenland Show Palms Once Grew in Abun- dance There. Correspondence of the Assoclated Press. COPENHAGEN.—Dr. Lauge Koch, Danish explorer, has returned to Copenhagen from an exploration of Greenland with evidence that Green- land was once a tropical country. Koch and two assistants explored the coastland of North Sc ribysound to Denmarkhaven, Greenland. The ex- «ploration is considered important be- cause it shows inhabitants new routes to North Greenland. Koch brought back the largest collection of speci- mens ever taken from Greenland. eight tons of fossils, plants and ani- mals, showing three geological pe- rlods. Some specimens indicated that at one time there was tropical life on Greenland, such plants as palms grow- ing there in abundance. Signs of numerous hot springs and rich animal life were found. EX-SENATORS HONORED. Lenroot and Underwood Named on Anglo-American Commission. President Coolidge today appointed former Senators Irvine L. Lentoot of Wisconsin and Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama as members of the so- called Anglo-America Commission, a general arbitration body between the Tnited States, Great Britain and France. Senator Lenroot takes the place left vacant on the commission by the death of former Senator George Gray of Delaware and Senator Underwood replaces the late Richard Olney, for- mer Secretary of State. Kelloway Sails for U. 8. LONDON, September 21 (#).—Hon. Kelloway, managing director of the Marconi Wireless Co., is sail- ing on the steamship Homeric today for New York to represent the Mar- Mrs. Sweetin declared with the tears streaming down her face. “I made the statement because Hight told me it was the only thing I could do. I had to have rest. Later something was written and I signed my name to it. I didn’t read it. 1 told him what Hight told me to tell.” Mrs. Sweetin declared she had no recollection of a conversation in the Salem Jail with Miss Sarah Lewis, Chicago newspaper reporter, who testified yestorday that Mrs, Sweetin had made a detailed statement to her admiting her part in the poison plot. She also denied that she had made a confession to her father-in-law, C. C. Sweetin, who visited her in the Jail several days after the first of the alleged confessions was made. Hight was again in the courtroom this morning. BRITAIN TO ENLARGE SITE OF STONEHENGE Many Notables Sponsor $175,000 Drive to Preserve Historic Ruins From Encroachment. Correspondence of the Associated Pre: SALISBURY, England. — Stanley Baldwin, England’s prime minister, is behind a drive for a $175,000 fund with which to preserve the historic site of Stonehenge, ancient temple of the Druids, from unsight]y buildings. Among others who are backing the movement are Ramsay Macdonald, Labor leader, and Lord Grey of Fallo- den, Liberal statesman. The money is to be used for purchase of 1,500 acres of land surrounding Stone- henge, to preyent its being built upon by those seeking to make the an- tiquary of commercial benefit. Stonehenge is one of Britain's most ancient historic sites. It stands out high on Salisbury Plain and is visible for miles around. The “Stonehenge Circle” itself, containing the ruins of the temple of the Druids, was pur- chased’ nine years ago by Sir Cecil Chubb and presented to the nation. The stones of the temple, laid many years before Christ by the Druids, are kept in a state of preservation by the government. Already an aerodrome is in exist- ence within sight of the “Circle,” but up this will be removed, and the whole historic area, silent and still reminiscent of the worship mysteries of the Druidical priests, will be re- tained for the benefit of antiquaries and historlans. . 29 NAMED IN RUM PLOT. By the Assoclated Pres AND, Ohio, September 21. —Twenty-nine persons in a half dozen States were named in 12 secret indict- ments made public today following Federal grand jury investigation into the activities of the Superior Indus- trial Alcohol Co. ring, in which 112 indictments were returned a year ago. The indictments charged the defend- ants with conspiracy to violate the nation prohibition laws, failure to label spirituous liquor, false billing, obtaining cheap freight rates by fals billing and false labeling. Shipments | of from 2,000 to 10,000 gallons of alco- hol were made and amounts of mon ranging up to $30,000 were paid, it was revealed in testimony. : DENIED BY WOMAN it the surrounding land can be bought | THE EVENING NUNGPAL CENTER CHANEES PROPOSED 'Fine Arts Commission Rec- ommends Alteration in | Original Plans. | | From the 5:30 Edition of Yesterday's Star. | Modification of the original plan for |arrangement of the buildings in the | District's proposed municipal with Muni; to the Commissioners today by Commission of Fine Arts. The original scheme provided for grouping the buildings on three of the four squares of the contemplated site 3 between Pennsylvania and In- dia; avenues and Third and Sixth streets, leaving the fourth vacant for future expansion of District activities. The new District Building and a struc- ture to house the courts under this plan were to front on Pennsylvania avenue, while the third square facing the courthouse would contain a build- ing for the administrative offices of the Police and Fire Departments. The commission’s latest suggestion is that the central feature in this group should be the Municipal Build- ing, and that it should occupy a posi- tion in the area corresponding to the position of the courthouse in Judici- ary Square. The adoption of this plan, it was pointed out, would re- move the proposed vista to the court- house from Pennsylvania avenue, which Municipal Architect Albert L. Harris had fashioned in his sketches by the widening of John Marshall place. The commission also recommended that Congress should declare its in- tention of taking the necessary and by an authorization act and establish a commission to acquire the property either by purchase or condemnatior, and that the land for the Police Court, the Municipal Court, the Juvenile Court and the Police and Fire De- partments’ headquarters be acquired first. In addition the commission said plans for these buildings would be prepared at the earliest possible mo- ment and a preliminary plan for the entire group should be made to de- termine the arrangement of all the buildings to be included in the civic center, The commission’s recommendations were contained in a letter which hore the signature of Charles Moore, its chairman. They were given consid- eration at the semi-weekly meeting of the Board of Commissioners, but no action was taken. PLAN FOR DISARMING DRAFTED AT GENEVA Resolution Insists on Keeping Pro- posal to the Fore Until Goal Is Reached. center view to emphasizing the new al Bullding was recommended tha By the Associated Press. GENEVA, September 21.—The text of a draft disarmament resolution which was agreed upon yesterday was approved with minor changes in wording by the drafting subcommit- tee of the disarmament committee of the League of Nations Assembly today. One change from the original text of the resolution requests the Council to inform the League’s preparatory commission on disarmament that its task should not be understood as be- ing limited to the preparation of the first conference for the limitation of armaments, but that its efforts should be continuous and go on until the final desired goal of the reduc- tion of armaments is achieved. Insistence upon keeping to the fore the disarmament activities of the League until the goal of disarma- ment has been achieved was inserted in stronger language in the resolu- tion today as a result of a request by Count von Bernstorff, the German delegate: “I am as satisfiled as one can be with an international document of this sort,” M. Paul Boncour of France told the Associated Press after the meeting of the drafting committee. “It embodies all the principles of the conclusion of regional pacts for which we have contended.” NEW ZEALAN‘D’S NAVAL BILL OFFERED IN HOUSE Contribution to- Singapore Base Features Measure—Affront to Japan Denied. By the Associated Pross. WELLINGTON, New . Zealand, September 21.—Premier Coates today introduced in the House of Repre- sentatives the government's naval de- fense proposals, whose chief feat®fe is a contribution by New Zealand to the Singapore naval base, The prémier said that the proposals would bring New Zealand's expendi- ture on naval defense up to 10 shillings (about $2.50) per capita. No affront to Japan was Ccon- templated in any way by the construc- tion of the Singapore base, he said, adding that Japan's action in the Great War had been unforgettable, especially the visit of Japanese war- ships to New Zealand waters to assist in the convoying of troops. Considering the long trade routes to be defended by Great Britain, Premier Coates said, New Zealand was bound to shoulder a fair share of the imperial naval budget. The proposals were adopted by the House, 51 to 10. FILIPINOS SEEK PARLEY. Quezon and Osmania Ask to Talk to President on Governorship. President Coolidge was asked today to receive representatives ot the Phil- ippines Legislature in connection with the appointment of a successor to the late Gov. Gen. Leonard Wood of the islands. Pedro Guevara, resident commis- sioner of the islands, called on the President and informed him that Man- uel Quezon and Sergio Osmania of the Philippine Legislature wanted to call at the White House. He said Mr. Coolidge indicated a desire to confer with the two . Mr. Guevara said no names were mentioned during the White House discussion Fall Weather Due H A steadily falling temperature will give Washington a cool night and a crisp Fall day tomorrow while frost is scheduled for tonight in the moun- tain regions of Virginia, the Weather Bureau forecasts today. The temperature is expected to de- scend to the 46-degree mark tonight, the lowest it has reached for several coni interests at the forthcoming Washington radio conference. Sena- for Marconi himself is scheduled to #ail from Italy early next week to at- 4 tend the conference. months, and it is anticipated that it will remain chilly tomorrow. Frost promised for Virginia is not expected to ,prove of ‘umdem _heaviness to ere Tomorrow, With Frost Likely in Virginia Mountains age the apple crops, notably in the territory around Crozet. Several points in the West were isited by light frosts last night, sim- iliar to those in store for the section along the Appalachian range. Freez- Ing temperature and a heavy frost pre t North Platte, Nebr,, and Bismarck, N. Dak., last night. Other places where frost was noted last night were: Portions of Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Indiana, southwestern Ohio and northwestern Tennesseo, -b 4 STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C COMPETE IN NON-STOP RACE Left, Eddie Stinson; right, “Duke” Schiller, who are taking part in the New York-to-Spokane’ derby. Some day when the elevator in the Washington Monument suddenly stops and a load of passengers are marooned somewhere between the base of the towering shaft and the upper level, modern science is going to step in and bring them to the ground, safely and slowly. The Bureau of Standards has sub- mitted to the director of public build- ings and public parks a report on the feasibility of installing a storage hat- tery to handle the electrical require- ments within the Monumental in case of sudden failure of the commercial electrical supply. The bureau, after investigation at the request of the office of public buildings and public parks, found that Battery Proposed for Washington Shaft As Safeguard Against Elevatqr Accidents installation of such an auxiiary elec- trical supply is entirely feasible, and submitted a report on the current con- sumption of the elevator, and on a specification for a battery to care for the elevator motor and lights. “The electric elevator of the Wash- ington Monument is required to per form somewhat peculiar and exacting service. A large number of passen- gers must be handled on each trip and owing to the great helght of the shaft and absence of natural illumina- tion,” the bureau said, “any failure must be carefully guard- ‘The auxiliary batteries may be in- stalled to guard against failure of the commercial current supply. DEFENSE RESTS INDUVALL CASE Attack on Witness Marks Mayor’s Trial Under Cor- rupt Practices Act. By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, September 21.—The defense rested shortly before noon today in the case of Mayor John L. Duvall of Indianapolis, charged with violating the corrupt practices act. The State in rebuttal called Lew Shank, former mayor of Indianapolis, to the stand. Shank was mayor just previous to the present Duvall ad- ministration. An attack on the reputation of Frank Sipe, who charged that Mayor Duvall had offered to sell him the >ity market mastership for $3,000 after the 1925 election, marked the defense's action in Duvall’s trial here today on a charge of violating the corrupt practices act. Tire salesmen, garagemen and others testified that Sipe’s reputation for truth and veracity was ‘“very bad.” Sipe formerly was employed by Mayor Duvall when he (Duvall) was Marion County treasurer and later he became a constable, Sipe last week testified that Duvall had promised him the city market mastership for his support in the election and that the mayor had failed to live up to the agreement. Sipe said when he ap- proached Duvall on the matter he was told he could have the place for $3,000. SPANISH KING ADDS 70 TOURISTS’ AIDS Trip to Royal Summer Residence Now May Be Made at Small Expense. Correspondence of the Associated Pre: SANTILLANA DEL MAR, Spain.— Everything in Spain likely to attract visiors from abroad interests King Alfonso, who has inaugurated regular communications between the royal Summer residence and this village, renowned as the supposed birthplace of the famous Gil Blas. Tourists may now make the journey there and back in one day at small expense. The birthplace of Gil Blas is not the only attraction, for in the vicinity are the famous prehistoric caverns of Alta- mira, more than five hundred meters in depth, whose walls and roofs are adorned with paintings and scratched gketches dating back thousands of years. The caverns are now furnished with an electric light system. The existence of the caverns has been known for only 50 years, and they are supposed to have been the place of refuge of the aboriginal in- habitants when threatened by aggres- sions from invaders. In the quiet village are also two Romanesque churches and an inn where Gil Blas is supposed to have lived and which is still in use. S PLANNING PILGRIMAGE. Local Order and Auxiliaries to Visit Gibbons Institute. The .annual pilgrimage of lhe' Knights of St. John and the ladies auxiliaries to the Gibbons Institute at Ridge, Md., in honor of the late Car- dinal Gibbons, who bought the land on which the school is built, will be held Sunday. The public is invited. The members will be gathered in buses from the colored Catholic parishes early Sunday morning, and will leave Good Hope Hill at 9 o'ciock. Dinner will be served on the school grounds. The afternoon will be taken up with exhibition drills, music and addresses by members of the institute and the Knights of St. John. Those who are scheduled to speak include Daniel Spriggs, the master of cere monies; Victor H. Daniel, Garner B Mahoney and A. C. Monahan. Man, 35, and Girl, 17, Held. Frederick Norman Marston, 35 years old, a mechanic, and Elsie Lovera James, 17 years old, both of Philadel- phia, were arrested this morning by Detectives H. E. Brodie and F. A. Varney and an agent of the Depart- ment of Justice, at 619 Massachusetts avenue. After both had signed con- fessions that they had lived as husband and wife since last Fall, Marston was formally charged with violation of the Mann act, while Miss James was booked at the House of Detention as a material witness. . German Trade Balance Grows. BERLIN, September 21 (®).—Ger- many's August trade balance shows a marked improvement over that for July. Imports exceeded exports by 292,000,000 marks, as against an un- favorable balance of 430,000,000 in the .preceding month, i Stoops to Retrieve Ten Cents, Pocket Is Robbed of $800 By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 21—t cost James McStowe of Canton, Ohio, $800 to retrieve a dime that had fallen from his pocket to the floor last night. Whilo he was bending over to pick up the coin from the floor of a washroom at the Morrison Hotel he was jostled. A moment later he discavered his bilifold, contain- ing $300 was gone. DELEGATES VIEW ROOF FIRE TESTS Demonstration Staged for Conven- tion of Mutual Insurance Companies. Brands of fire were sent ‘flying across roofs at the Bureau of Stan- dards today while delegates to the thirty-second annual convention of tha National Association of Mutual In- surance Cos. watched the roofs with- stand the flames. The fireworks were staged as a demonstration of methods used to test roofing materials at the bureau and were conducted by S. H. Ingberg, in charge of the fire resist- ance section. A demonstration of the use of hand fire extinguishers also was given under the direction of W. F. Stutz of the bureau staff. Another member of the staff, Dr. M. G. Lloyd, chief of the safety section, spoke on lightning pro- tection. The meeting of the conven- tion, which is being held at the May- flower Hotel, was held at the bureau today. The delegates were received at the ‘White House by President Coolidge at noon. The afternoon was to ba spent in sightseeing trips. It is not only the funnel-shaped cloud that causes tornado damage, Charles H. Ridgeway of Kansas City told, today's meeting of the KFedera- tion of Mutual Fire Insurance Com- panies, which is holding its eleventh annual meeting in conjunction with the association’s convention. He pointed out that the straight gale often wreaks more havoc than the more spectacular tornado. He urged the delegates to go in, more fully for tornado insurance. Co-operative production and mar- keting of crops was urged as a solu- tion to the farm relief question by Assistant Secretary of Agriculture R. ‘W. Dunlap, who addressed a joint meeting of the two organizations last night. He declared that co-opera- tive insurance companies have awak- ened many other business and farm interests to the value of co-operation in_their fields. Carvel B. Benson, insurance com- missioner of Baltimore, stressed the need for greater standardization in in- surance. He said mutual companies competing with other insurance com- panies have lowered rates. SAYS LABOR SECRETARY IS GUILTY OF CONTEMPT H. E. Goldsmith Charges He Re- fuses to Obey Restraining Order, Recently Issued. Contempt proceedings against Sec- retary of Labor James J. Davis were sought today in the District Supreme Court by H. Ely Goldsmith of New York City, consultant in immigration matters. An order was signed in the local court some weeks ago Which restrained the Secretary of Labor from interfering with Goldsmith's practice before the immigration offi- clals and the Labor Department. It is alleged in the petition of Gold- smith that since the issuance of the order he has repeatedly tried to ap- pear before immigration officials at Canadian entry ports, and that they have refused to hear him on the ground that the disbarment order pre- vented them from doing so. Gold- smith also tells the court that As- sistant United States Attorney Leo A. Rover had informed him that the Labor Department heads had been served with the court’s injunction and that he was entitled to practice. The department had charged Gold- smith with violation of certain rules and regulations in obtaining vises of passports for immigrants and ordered him disbarred. -—— PLANE VISIT PERMITTED. Mexican Flyers to Take Part in Tucson Lindbergh Reception. Permission for two Mexican air- planes to enter the United States in order to participate in the Lindbergh reception ceremonies at Tucson, Ariz., tomorrow has been granted by the State Department. At the request of the Governor of Arizona, the department notified the embassy in Mexico City of its action for the information of the Mexican government. The planes are expected to go from Sonoya. i . WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 192 GLENNA COLLETT LOSES GOLF MATCH Former Miss Stirling, Cham- pion 3 Years, Takes Game in Second Round. razer of Ot- eliminatod Miss Glenna Collett of Providence, R. I, from the national wdémen's golf championship tourney by defeating her in the sec- ond round, 2 up and 1 to play. The match was a “battle of ex- champions,” since Mrs. Frazer, as Miss Stirling, held the title in 1916, 1919 and 1920, and Miss Collett in 1922 and 1925. The young Providence r had been a general favorite, as final she swamped Mrs. Frazer by 9 and 8. Playing with the calmness that comes with long experience, Mrs. Frazer held the match even in the first nine holes, and wore Miss Col- lett down by superior steadiness on the greens on the homeward swing. The Providence miss had trouble with her putts throughout. Mlle. Simone Thion de la Chaume also ‘come through the round, win- ning by 1 up from Mrs, H. G. Hig- bie, Detroit. A closing flash of bril- liant golt cut down an early lead gained by the French girl, but could not quite gain victory. Mrs. Frazer and Mlle. de la Chaume thus will meet in the third round tomorrow. A Canadian bid for the woman’s golf champlionship of the United States was carried safely through by Miss Ada Mackenzie of Toronto. The Ca- adian champion won by 4 and 2 from ss Helen Payson, Portland, Me., making two eagles and a par at the finish. Miss MacKenzie swept the last three holes of the match in a flash of remarkable golf. Miss Virginia Van Wie, Chicago en- trant, lost the first hole, and halved the second, but won the next two for a 1-up lead over Miss Edith Quler, Reading, Pa. They were even at the turn. Miss Van Wie won by 2 up when she staged a brilliant finish to win the last three holes. Miss Maureen Orcutt, Haworth, N. Metropolitan champion, started off h a birdie 3 for the first hole, but dropped two of the next three to Miss Rosalie Knapp, Glenhead, N. Y., who became 1 up at that point. Miss Or- cutt passed the turn 1 up on Miss Knapp. Miss Knapp wavered and took 7s on the eighth and ninth, while Miss Orcutt made 6s. tarting off at a fast clip, Miss Marie Jenney, Yonkers, N. Y., took three of the first four holes from Miss Jane Brool Englewood, N. J. Miss Jenney was 4 up at the turn. Miss Jenney ended her match on the thirteenth green, 6 up and 5 to play. Miss Brooks was off form, taking two ;s]:\nd lapsing to an 8 on the ninth ole. In an all Middle Western match, Miss Bernice Wall, Oshkosh, Wis., had a 1 up lead over Mrs. Miriam Burns Horn, Kansas City, Mo., at the end of the first four. They were even at the half-way mark. On the second half Mrs. Horn opened a winning streak that swept five holes in a row and gave her the match by 5 and 4. Mrs. Henry Pressler, western cham- pion, who yesterday eliminated Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd, ex-national title holder, was 2 down to Mrs. Courtland Smith, Glenridge, N. J., after four holes, but was leading by one when the ninth was passed. Mrs. Pressler eked out a l-up vie- tory when she won the fifteenth and held her scant lead by halving the last three holes. SOMERSET ORGANIZES CIVIC ASSOCIATION Charles S. Mocre, President, and Three Delegates Named to County Federation. Special Dispatch to The Star. SOMERSET, Md., September 21.— At a largely attended meeting yes- terday at the home of Dr. R. W. Bal- com permanent organization of the Somerset Citizens' Association was_ef- fected. Mayor J. W. Stohlman pre- sided and all town officials were pres- ent. By-laws prepared by a commit- tee made up of Charles S. Moore, Al- bert L. Kley and Mrs. George E. Far- rell were adopted. Charles S. Moore was elected president, O. H. Gish, vice president; Mrs. George C. Spencer, secretary, and Mrs. Thomas P. Dowd, treasurer. The officers constitute the executive committee. President Moore, Mayor Stohlman and Willlam B. Horne will be delegates to the County Civic Federation. Co-operation with the federation and town officials in matters of pub- lic interest was the subject of much discussion. Stress was laid on the desirability of keeping Somerset and its immedi- ate vicinity a residential section. It is located immediately west of Chevy Chase on Wisconsin avenue, a short distance north of the District of Co- lumbia line, and has no stores, fac- tories or other commercial enter- prises. Among the activities contem- plated is assisting the Parking and Planning Commission recently author- ized by the Maryland Legislature to improve the parking system in the subufbs adjacent to the District and making an effort to have better street car facilities above the District line on Wisconsin avenue and adjacent territory, as well as extensions of bus lines from Chevy Chase and Wash- ington to this community. ARTISTS AR.RIVE TODAY. Distinguished Eurcpeans on Jury for Carnegic Awards. Four distinguished European ar- tists, Maurice Greiffenhagen of Eng- land, Felice Casorati of Italy, Karl Hofer of Germany and Maurice Denis of France, who came to the United States to represent their respective countries on the jury of award for the twenty-sixth Carnegie Institute international exhibition of paintings, will arrive here late today, remainin, until Friday afternoon. when they will leave for Boston. Accompanying them are Homer Saint-Gaudens, director of fine arts, and Guillaume Lerolle, European rep- resentative of the department of fine arts of Carnegie Institute. Hungry Bug Rivals Can-Eating Goat And Alarms Town By Radio_to The Star and Chicazo Daily News. Copyright, 1927, HEIDELBERG, September 21.— An omniverous brass-colored bug has invaded Heidelberg and is multiplying so rapidly that it is causing panic among housewives. The insect (niptus hololeucue),which migrated from Asia Minor, devours linen clothing, furniture, walls, floors, metal, even water pipes and chandeliers, putting the tin-can-eat- ing goat to shame. The bug's amazing appetite, coupled with its swift reproduction, is alarming the citizens, who have appealed to the zoological depart- ment of Heldelberg University for a A proposal has been made to burn houses which the brassy bugs 300 FALL IN CLASH WITH CHINESE TROOPS Casualties Mark Disarming of Those Whose Loyalty Is Doubted by Nationalist Council. By the Associated Press. SHANGHALI, China, September 21.— The disarming of troops whose loyalty is doubted by the Nationalist military council has resulted in three engage- ments along the Shanghai-Hangchow and Shanghai-Nanking Railway, re- sulting in more than 300 casualties. The- 1st Army Corps, under Gen. Ho Ying-Ching, tore up the railway at Hsinchwang and disarmed a train- load of 1,500 men coming from Han- kow and belonging to the 31st Army Corps. Further fighting occurred dur- ing the disarming of 3,000 additional men and hundreds of wounded were brought into the hospitals in the na- tive city of Shanghai this morning. Gen. Yo Ying-Ching said that the disarming was carried out on_the orders of the military council at Nan- king, which has been growing suspi- clous of disloyalty. The council or- dered the 31st Corps to entrain for Nanking, at the same placing machine gun traps at various points to over- power any resistance. The successful carrying out of their plans is stated to have resulted in the disarming of practically all the troops adhering to Chow Feng-Chi, military governor of the Province of Chekiang, who recently has been claiming control of the Shanghai area. Gen. Yo Ying- Ching, who succeeded Chiang Kai- Shek as commander-in-chief of the Nationalist armies, is now declared to be in control of the Shaighai area and the Province of Chekiang. —_— PHILADELPHIA VOTE. GIVES VARE SLATE COMFORTABLE LEAD (Continued from First Page.) and gubernatorial elections coincided. Year after year the Legislature is overwhelmingly Republican, but year after year the governor elected in the off-years is Democratic. The Governor of New Jersey has great appointive powers. He names all of the county prosecutors, judges and many officers elected in other States. REGULARS LEAD VOTING. ALBANY, N. Y., September 21 (#).— Party organizations showed their strength in yesterday’'s primary elec- tion by returning their candidates gen- erally throuhgout the State where there were contests for the more im- portant nominations. ‘The most important of all the con- tests was a tricornered race, in which the organization did-not take formal part as such. This was in the thirty- fifth congressional district, which in- cludes Onondaga and Cortland Coun- tles, where Clarence E. Hancock re- ceived the Republican nomination to succeed the late Representative W. W. Magee. Hancock defeated Frank E. ‘Wade and William Allan Dyer. The Democratic party organization on the face of incomplete returns ap- parently was successful in the con- test for the nomination to fill the only vacancy in the State Senate, caused by the death of Daniel J. Carroll of Brooklyn. —The organization backed Louis J. Jacobson against Laurence F. Carroll, 22-year-old son of the late Senator. Organization candidates generally were successful also in Assembly con- tests. The only woman who figured in the primary contests, Elizabeth E. Egan, who sought the Republican As- sembly nomination in one of the Onon- dago County districts, was defeated. —_— OIL FIRMS CHARGED WITH VIOLATING LAW Arlington Prosecutor Takes Steps for More Rigid Enforcement of Fire Protection. Special Dispatch to The Star. CLARENDON, Va., September 21.— Violations of the county's fire ordi- nances are charged in warrants is- sued yesterday afternoon by Common- wealth’s Attorney William C. Gloth against the Penn Oil Co., the Republic Oil Co., the Independent Oil Co., Tay- lor-Korman Oil Co. and the Crown Oil and Wax Co., all located at Rosslyn. The Penn Oil Co. is charged with the use of wooden fences, loading platforms and runways, open electric wiring and with not having its tanks moated. The warrant against the Re- public Oil Co. alleges wooden plat- forms and open wiring and that the yard is littered with trash. That against the Crown Oil and Wax Co. alleges wooden fences are used, tan! are not moated and the only exit to M The In- |0 the pump house is open. dependent Oil Co. is charged with using wooden fences, open wiring and unmoated tanks, while the Taylor- Korman Co. is charged with not hav- ing moated tanks. Judge Gloth declared that disas- trous fires of recent years make it im- perative that the companies operating in the oil districts strictly observe the | Ty, fire ordinances. The ordinances, he sald, became effective more than a year ago, plenty of time to comply with the law. ~ The warrants are returnable The party will be at the Mayflower. Saturday morning before Judge Harry R. Thomas. Governors Shake Hands in Mid-Hudson As Longest Suspension Bridge Is Star’ted By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 21.—While the Governors of New York and New Jersey shook hands in midstream, two spadefuls of earth were turned up on either side of the Hudson River to- day. officially beginning the construc- tion of the world's longest suspension bridge. As Gov. Smith of New York and Gov. Moore of New Jersey joined hands on board the Hudson River steamer Dewitt Clinton, symbolizing the connection to be consummated by .the interstate bridge from Fort Lee, and the companies have had | D.G. SCHOOLS SHOW ENROLLMENT GAIN Figures on Second Day Are 1,809 Greater Than Same Date Last Year. With the enroliment in the public schools tor the second day running 1,809 pupils greater than the enroll- ment on the same day in 1926, offi- clals at the Franklin School con- fidently predicted a “big year,” in so far as enrollment is concerned today. Assistant Superintendent of Schools Stephen E. Kramer pointed out to- day that the several hundred pupils who will not arrive in the city until shortly before the eenvening of the Seventieth Congress are certain to swell the enrollment, probably to another record-breaking mark. Par- ticularly large increases have been noted among the high schools. The enrollment at Central High School yesterday reached 2,605 pupils. as compared with 2,554 puplils on the second day of school last year. East- ern has 1,858 pupils this vear, as compared with 1,669 last year and Western 1,319, as compared with 1,149, hool officials declare that they will be able to meet the enroilment increases without taking any drastie steps outside of causing certain chil- dren in Maryland to go to schools farther from their homes than crowd- :{d ones near the Maryland border ne. Following are the second day en- rollment figures, as compared with the second day of 192521 Normal _schools Central High. .. Bl Business High. McKinley High. Columbia Junior, ninth grade Hine Junior. ninth grade.. Mactarland Junior, ninth grade 3 Langley Junior, ninth grade Jefferson Junior, ninth grade Powell Junior, ninth grade. Armstrong High Dunbar High. Shaw Junior, ninth grade. . Francis Junior, ninth grade Randall Junior, ninth grade 167 128 160 006 1.669 190 110 11704 5.128 087 Total high school. .. First division . Second division . Third division . Wilson Normal Fourth Division. . Fifth division . Sixth division 3 Seventh division .... Eighth division Ninth division ...... Abbot Vocational ,.... Dennison Vocational . Columbia Junior, seven and efghth grades ...... Stuart Junior, seventh and eighth grades ........ 3 Hines Junior, seventh and eighth grades .. Macfarland Junior, seventh and eighth grades . 0ld Brightwood, seventh and eighth grades. Langley Junior, seventh and eighth grades . Jefferson Junior, and eighth grades Powell Junior. seventh and eighth grades .... seventh Elementary total . Tenth division Eleventh division o Miner Normal Préctice . Twelfth division Thirteenth division Phelps Vocational .. Washington Vocational Shaw Junior, seventh and eighth grades . Randall Junior, se: eighth_grades cis Junior, seventh and eighth grades ...... Total colored schools. Gragd total . 17700 16,604 66,871 64,003 JUGOSLAV POLICE BATTLE RAIDERS All-Night Conflict Follows Bomb- ing of Railway Line as Train Passes. By the Associated Press. BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, September 21.—A nightlong clash between a strong band of Bulgarian commitadjis, or border raiders, and Jugoslavian po- lice authorities followed the explosion of a bomb last night on the railwav line from Guvegueli to Skoplie, near Strumitza, just as an express train was passin. The police said they had encounter- ed the commitadjis soon after organ- izing a force to search for the per- petrators of the explosion and that they had engaged in guerrilla warfare with them lasting all night. Strong reinforcements have been sent to the district. In the explosion the tender was torn from the locomotive and thrown over an embankment. The train, however, was brought to a standstiil without any one being injured and the mate- rial damage was small. The outrage is attributed here to supporters of a Macedonian revolu- tionary committee. HAVRE DE GRACE ENTRIES FOR TOMORROW. (First race, 2:16 p.m.) FIRST RACI : . for Zyear-oide: 5% Furlongs 0: Clalming: irk n " Tuy . aLiitle Broom. Traps (L < i0eeadin a William Garth entry. SECOND RACE—] ¥ 4 for 3-yearolds and up: T maley: Claimne: Donna O, . lmmolau:a %3? Dby Littlo Taussti ©. 108 1 Three D's o-... 111 ofo) THIRD RACE—Pur, : for S-year-olds and 4pec8 Trion Aversion 2 . Lawless . *Rougerte " Tlexitimat Fentight e N 109 - N2 108 108 107 *Fine Manners . 115 *Las FOURTH RACE—Purse. $1,300: Gade about Purse: £-year-old ilice: 8% fuslonss, Nitouche B N. J., to Fort Washington Park, up- per Manhattan, thousands of persons were gathered on the banks of the | Fred A. stream. Alirplanes soared overhead, daylight fireworks burst in the sky, flags waved from shore and from battleships on the river, the blare of a dozen bands ceased, and after an instant of silence, artillery roared in announcement that the ground had been broken. The bridge is scheduled for com- pletion in 1932, Its towers will reach into the sky for a distance of 625 feet above the | R water line d it will be suspended over 8,500 fe of the Hudson River, se. $1.400: oule- 'S-gearolds and up; ot . 111 Reminder « 108 Pleasant 1 102 Marconi SIXTH for 3-ye: ia's Cholce 102 Bachelor's Error. 107 Confidante ..... 110 3Spandor . 1107 ¢ SEVENTIL RACE—Purse, $1.300 ing: for d-year-olds and up: 1 miles Offsvring P " :%"'"‘i}’.'.,, 'fi'fl';fiy"“"' H ar 7 ar Bavy Dream” ot ‘Vail claim- . 108 , . 108 108 ug 110 -ansplant , A, allovancs, cimed,