Evening Star Newspaper, May 5, 1928, Page 2

2 = MISS DOODY WINS FINAL IN ORATORY Holy Cross Academy Student|International Victor in Private and Pa- rochial School Test. The field of contenders for the cham- hip of The Star’s area in the National Oratorical Contest was ted yesterday afternoon, when Holy Cross n the private t final District of rginta territory, in which * contest is sponsored by The Star, Miss Doody set the boy-girl score at 6102 The only other onal finals here is ephine Sterling of the Wash- on-Lee High School of Ballsion, won the championship of the Vir- Fach of the Washington gh Schools and the Maryland jct on the other hand. saw fit to their forensic welfare in mas:uline in favor of the boys. dis vest ba Miss Doody, of Mrs. who is the 18-vear-old Daniel Doc 1129 nted her victorious ate and parochial schools s vesterday almost identi- had offered her oratorical second group meeting of at which time won the d She ype of speak- ciation and core tion. s the quiet. meticulo er, care of her er rect in her pronur Students Cheer Speakers. There is inflection in her voice, an ;us: enough facial expression to color ) speech nrfifih& xfmdcmm“ it as o L of dramAtNd. parochial _district aged In a_meeting that v & school affair. Held at the afternoon, when tolks are busy, the audi- Sas almost entirely one Of SW-|iqge gith usurping the authority of had trooped into the St. itorium to “root” for the ante S Tespective schools. hampions of their ;;:Sden and school directors, nx;’l: more particularly the coaches of :h three contestants who comprised m: field, were there, t00. &8 excited a8 - Test as one by one the speeches were livers d’st:me\in E. Kramer, first assistant superintendent. in charge of the District of Columbia high schools, presided as of the meeting and, through his affal teasing when he was about to make the announcement of the win- ner, contributed as much thrill as the orators themselves. In his introductory, Mr. Kramer reminded his sudience that the oratorical contest and its various | d ts is & serious affalr. em“pflm‘eh!;‘"slld to the crowd of p” boys and girls before him, ive these speakers and the er is allowed but 10 munutes in which to deliver his speech,” Mr, Kramer said, in announc- the rules of the contest, “applause should not be given during an oration. The best possible demonstration of your interest in these speakers and the most inspiring tribute you can give them is &n attentively upturned face. The admonition was heeded for ex- cellent attention was given each speaker. Meigs is First Speaker. Arthur Meigs, spokesman for Sidwell's School, was the first of the fim“m “be introduced. The ) Meigs' speech %&Wclm eration. Then came Miss Doody. Her topic *The Present Significance of the Con- stitution” was ted with many of the fine qualiies of the speech which receded hers and then there must nave been mn:&hx:!l el:;‘:;\ her bid, for the judges rul T T. Tre concluding speaker was Miss Mary Mildred Hall of St Cecllla’s Academy. Between her victory in the up meet and her fight for further ors _yesterday, Miss Hall had de- vele more power and greater con- wiction, it seemed to those who had heard her in both eontests, and to those same auditors it a) ed that lb;fl:oulfl 8o far o g 1 yes- terday's speakers close quarters the judges’ ballots, Miss Hall is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs, William Hall ©f 624 G street southeast. At this juncture in the meet, Herbert Diamond, violinist in the Central High Bcbool Orchestra, offered a solo to the plano accompaniment of L. E. Manoly, facuity leader of the youthful musi- eians. The orchestrs itself was con- tributing lively tunes to the success of the contest. Checks Are Awarded. Col. C. Pred Cook, librarian of The Star, was presented following the solo, &s the representative of this newspaper who would make awards already won by the three speakers. Col. Cook ex- plained that the three checks for $20 which he was sabout to present werce the prizes won by the contestants in their group meetings and after he had iven each orator the fruls of nis bors, he flipped & fourth check with & pleasantly aggravating sort of grin Here's another check,” he added “Iv's for 850, but there's no name on it yet. 1 have & fountain pen here and the judges out there among vou know name I'll have 1o write in the e audience fairly squeeled its nery ousness and then Mr, Kramer came for- ward smiling. Before he made the an- mouncement his audience was ready to scream—and some of the young women actuslly did “The winner, he sald was & girl, and Arthur Meigs, sensing doom, applauded #portingly. The last name of the school 1s “academy,” Mr. Kramer said and the | students of both the Holy Cross Acad- Ce emy and 8 ta’s Academy ap- piauded wildly, only % stop with a 3 when it dawned upon them that ach school was an “academy Then— Doody's name, and bedlam Cook, brandishing bis now flled took the stage again honors were scoorded the win- Col out check for $50 snd & mer. The judges in the meeting were Elmer Louis Kayser, professor of histry at George Washington University: ¥. A Young, professor of poiitical science at George Washington, Dr. Charles H. MeCarthy, rofessor of history st Catholic University; Dr. Frank Hart, ofessor of logic at Catholie Univers- .y “Waiter 3. O'Conner, protessor of political economics st Catholic Uni- Versity and John Waldron, professor of English at Georgetown University Mrs. Abrota N. Pratt Dies, Mrs. Abrola N, Pratt, desconess in the Mount Plessant Congregational | 24 Church and the wife of . Butley Pratt of the Behoo) of Religion st How- ara L ersity, died Thursdsy st Ger-| . - - i pival 5. Pratt o clive | " geged for many years in missionary HAZLETON, Pa May 85 (&) A work Besides her husband, she is sur- | strike occurred todsy st the Drifton vived by & duughter, Mrs. W Coy of Woodhaven. : [convention here today adopted a reso- H Me- N. Y. Funersl serv- fces will be held &t her residence, 328 U.S. PEAGE MOVES LAUDED BY WOMEN League for Peace Also Indorses Ban on Arms Shipments. Close on the heels of their denun- {ctation of the State Department’s policy {in Nicaragua, members of the United | States section of the Women's Inter- | national League for Peace and Freedom | {at the opening of the last day of their | |lution lauding the Department for its present peace treaty efforts. The resolution sets forth that the league “expresses its very deep satisfac- {tion with the progress of the treaties | for peace and desires to commend and thank the Secretary of State for the lead he has taken in promoting the | multi-lateral treaties.” | ,, Another resolution adopted indorsed the Burton resolution forbidding the chipment of arms to nations at war, Nicaraguan Question Discussed. Members of the league heard both sides of the Niacaraguan question from THE EVENING speakers at their banquet at the Wil- lard last night. Senator Dill, Demo- ;crat, of Washington. and Horace G. Knowles, former Minister to Santo | Domingo and _other countries, de- nounced the policy of this Government | for retaining Marines in Nicaragua, | while Representative Fish ot New York defended the State Department’s action | _ Representative Fish denied that the | | Marines were sent there to permit the | | exploitation of the country by American interests, contending that there was | nothing in the country to be exploited. | | He said the sending of troops there | {was a humanitarian measure. The | | United States would have taken over | Mexico, Cuba and Nicaragua long sgo | {if its motives were imperialistic, he as- | serted. | Dill Assails Coolidge. | Senator Dill charged President Cool- | | Congress and predicted that the Nica- | raguan affair might lead to complica- | | tions with other countries. Miss Jane Addams, the international | president, presided. Miss Dorothy Det- zer, the secretary, spoke briefly. Repre- | sentative Berger of Wisconsin was a | guest of honor. Miss Addams and 12 other delegates | to the convention called on President | Coolidge at the White House at noon. Miss Addams discussed with the Presi- | dent the progress of the multilateral | treaties and the league's proposal for | the demilitarization of the Mexican bor- | der. She also informed the President | of the league's stand on the Nica- | raguan question. 'RITCHIE WOULD GIVE CAMPAIGN TESTIMONY | Had No Funds Nor Expenditures, However, He Tells Senate In- vestigating Committee. By the Associated Press BALTIMORE, Md., May 5.—Gov. Al- bert C. Ritchie, in response to a re- quest from the Senate campaign ex- penditures investigal YOUTH WHO HAS STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., ADMITTED STRING OF STORE HOLDUPS e, y i Detective Frank Alligood with Milton C. Bowling, 20 years old, arrested in a Pittsburgh hospital, where he was being treated for bullet wounds received when Alligood fired on him as a suspect in the numerous chain-store robberies. He has | admitted part in four robberies. -——Star Staff Photo. PLANES T0 REPEAT tack Group to Leave Lang- ley Field Today. BY FREDERICK R. NEELY, Staft Correspondent of The St LANGLEY FIELD, Va,, May 5.—Hav- ing given a vivid demonstration of serfal warfare tactics to members of Congress and high Army officlals from Washington, the first pursuit group from Selfridge Field, Mich, and the third attack group from Fort Crockett, Tex., were to leave Langley Fieid early this afternoon for Fort Bragg in Fay- ettsville, N, C., where yesterday's oper- ations here will be repeated. From Fort WARFARE TAGTICS “Victorious” Pursuit and At-| | ‘tngr(her that the pilots could see me’ | whites of each other’s eyes, opened fire, | the two fixed guns on each -pursuit | plane blazing away through the pro- N pellers and raking the ground before it. Just as they came out of their dives ach formation dropped a parting salute of several fragmentation bombs. The day's exercises were closed with | an aerial review of the 56 planes across ;;ho fleld at an altitude of less than 500 eet Associate Curator of Nation- al Museum Internationally Known as Botanist. {RUMANIAN PEASANTS | | MAY PROCLAIM NEW | | TRANSYLVANIA REPUBLIC | | ____(Continued from First Page.) | Funeral services for Charles Nelson [, " |Rose, 66 years old, Internationally fes, granaries, water power. transporta- | known botanist and associate curator on, banks s. . that e expeag b cnat the | Of the National Museum, who died at congress will make known to the world | his residence, 1812 Calvert street, yes- some of the grievances and disabilities | terday, will be conducted there Mon- under which the untutored masses are | 2 | suffering. | dav. | “I will not bow to mob pressure and | Cemetery. | yleld the reigns of government to the Born near Liberty, Ind., Mr. Rose was |inexperienced, incompetent rabble” 18 | o3 cated at Wabash College, receiving FONERAL HONDAY SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1928.° Accused Over Evolution DISTRAUGHT MAN SAVED FROM LEAP Hospital Patient, Recovering From Suicide Attempt, Aids in Rescue. Elwood Volz, 27 years old, of Bladens- burg, who still is suffering from an | attempt to end his own life six months | ago, yesterday afternoon went to the | assistance of another Emergency Hos | pital patient, Henry Pruden, District fireman, a victim of hallucinations, who | | attempted to leap from a balcony at | | the institution. | Pruden, suffering from a nervous afiction, was taken to the hospital two days ago when he jumped from | his third story room, at 1843 Calvert street, landed on the roof of a one- | story garage and then fled, despite the | handicap of a broken ankle. When he returned he was taken to the hospital | by_police. | Yesterday Volz and other patients were sitting in the sunshine on the bal- | cony when Pruden, shouting that some one was after him, ran to the edge of the balcony from the ward and started |to jump, it is said. Grabs Water Pitcher. ! It was then that Volz grabbed a | pitcher of ice water that was sitting be- | side him and started toward Pruden, in- tent, he said later, on throwing the | water on the fireman, hoping that the eold water would so startle him that his leap would be arrested until the ar- | rival of assistance. | Volez's good iIntentions were not car- ried out, however, since Dr. Edward | Grasse, resident physician, and Ches- ter Hinton, nn]orderly,hgmhbvd e dis- | 5y gne Amnciated P traught man just as he was about to| KAN: e -+ AL o Tiay Hintow pullsdihim fo| . SIASL CITE. May: = The' £18 safety with a “strangle hold” on his | trial of a Methodist bishop before an neck. | ecclesiastical court was under way here | “Tospital authorities then notified po- | today with the presiding bishop of the | lice of Pruden’s condition, and he was tribunal named in a complaint charging removed to Gellinger Hospital, where | 'f | there are faclities for safeguarding his | violation of church dogma and discipline. Shortly after the personnel of the BISHOP MecCO! EVOLUTION STAND OF BISHOP SCORED Complaint Filed Against Right Rev. F. J. McConnell, Head of Trial of Danish Prelate. | lite. Shot Self in Face. | Volz was taken to the hospital last | November, when he was found in the asement of his home with the left side of his face torn away by the full charge of a shotgun. | of Copenhagen. on charges of imprudent conduct unbecoming a minister, was confirmed at the quadrennial General | Conference of the Methodist Episcopal s | Church here yesterday, the compl He had attempted to end lis life, he | was filed against Bishop Franc afterward said, because of his inabil-| McConnell of Pittsburgh, who is presid- ity to find employment. He is a car-| ing at the Danish prelate’s trial. penter. | The complaint, entered by Rev. When he was first taken to the in-| George A. Cooke of Wilmington, Del, stitution, it was thought he could not | took exception to the manner in which |live. Surgeons, however, have grafted | Bishop McConnell conducted an annual | skin and worked on him so faithfully| conference at Wilmington March- las | for the past several months that he is|and to his alleged approval of the teact | now glad to be alive, he says. Although | ings of the theory of evolution. The | he lost the sight of the eve, the sur-! pittsburgh bishop was quoted on evol: geons have succeeded in restoring his| tion in a pamphiet issued by the Ame: | face to almost normal condition. vil Liberties Union in January. Mr. Cooke charged that Bishop COOLIDGE WIRES WIDOW. | | Connell's stand on evolution was | President Expresses Condolences on | repudiation of his vows as a minister ¥ and in violation of the laws of the Death of Editor. | church, which uphold the Bible as the President Coolidge telegraphed yester- | inspired word of divine truth. {day to Mrs. Edgar B. Piper his con- I, charging unlawful conduct of the | dolences on the death of her husband, | Wilmington Conference, Mr. Cooke o Charges Repudiation of Vows. | court selected to try Bishop Anton Bast | INJUNCTION ISSUED IN'SIDING DISPUTE Restraining Takoma Park Mayor From Making Arrests Complicates Controversy. The strip of land adjoining a siding of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, at (North Takoma, Md. came into new t‘pmmim-nra tod: due to the issuing |of a temporar: unction yesterday at | Rockville, Md., by Judge Robert Peter | against Mayor Ben G. Davi restrain- recent ordin { council. Added | controversy—on the one sid br of Comm support tention of the Balti road that it has a righ at the siding, and o | Mayor Dasis conten {of land is to be used |and that zoning pro I‘t?us land for commercial purpos ; Becomes FElection Issue. unloading on the s Jordan, who nloading there, asserted Chamber of Com run the town | Chamber of Commerce has been org: | ized in the las s, Mrs. Wal | terholter asser eighty per against the siding in April a | cent of the Chamber of Commerce i |in the District.” | Bring Test Case. L. A. Cutshaw, chief police officer | the town, made an arrest yesterd: | a test case, the mayor sais | Routenberg, assistant division engineer |of the B. & O. prepared to unload a | car of coal at th | rested. Following Peter a few hours later jssued an in- ion which has been served on the | | ment regarding the & Declared Impudent Attempt. | “This bold and impudent attempt on Interment will be in Rock Creek | oF of tland Ore n. claimed that Bishop McConmell had|the part of the B. & O. Railroad to g i ;fi‘ffl,},’:’f(o g0 ,,}‘Th‘fi'mm,‘cmmed to the correctness of the con- | take possession of one of the public lof your “husband, whose journalistic |feience, knowing that part of the pro-|parks of tne town of Takoma Park, | abilities and friendship I valued highly,” | ceedings had been suppressed. TheiMd. will undoubtedly result in solidi- AMr. Coolidge said. “His death will be a | complaint set forth that charges had|fying public sentiment in the muni | the attitude of Premier Bratianu to the | demands of the Peasants’ party. Despite the action of the government an A. B. degree there in 1385, and an | gisiinct loss to the George Washington | been brought against two former min- M. A degree in 1887. In 1887 he was | Bj_Centennial Commission, on which he | isters at Wilmington for alleged vio- Mrs. | lation of church rules regarding re- ting committee, | the Arm: Bragg the pursuit and attack organiza- | in requisitioning all automobiles, reduc- tions will go to Fort Benning, Ga., and | ing the number of trains and interpos- | thence to the general service schools of | ing every form of impediment to the | | success of the congress. Maniu declared | y. asking that he r before them to At all these places to be visited, | that by tomorrow 250,000 asants give any campaign | minute study of the Air Co w.-uu{ would Be in Alba Julia. v | costs, in & ta, that body late | will be given by the students of the gen- | The two small hotels of the town,| yestreday said: ‘I have not now and never have had any campaign chair- man, T, treasurer or any repre- sentative at all. I have no campaign an | fund and have not made any campaign expenditures. In view of this I imag- not_desire my testi- event “suggest Wednesd: that is convenient to you. —_— SOVIET STATUS FIGURES IN D. C. ALIMONY CASE| to Lawyers for Husband Point Lack of Recognition by United States. The fact that the United States has never recognized Soviet Russia and has no official dealings with that country and that alimony payments from Ben- jamin Perlmutter, a grocer at 701 1 street southeast, could not reach his wife, who is a resident of Odessa, Rus- sia, is one contention set up against the wife's plea for separate maintenance in | Dist: Supreme Court. Milton Strasburger and Harry H. Hol- lander, attorneys for Perimutter, also contended that his wife is not entitled to alimony on the plea that she deserted her husband after attending a political meeting in Odessa in 1909. Attorney Crandal Mackey appears for the wife, Justice Gordon has taken the case under advisement. DANGER OF DAM’S COLLAPSE FORCES | 20,000 FROM HOMES | (Continued_from Pirst Page) Greenville, 7 miles east of the riv was not endangered, but the lower sec- | tions of the mill towns of Piedmont, | with 4,000 ulation, Peltzer, 6,000, | and Ware Bhoals were imperiled. Six dams below the one at Table Rock Cove also were believed in danger. Precautions were taken to strengthen the dams which furnish power for the | cotton mills in the valley to enable | them to hold in check the torrent that | collapse of the Table Rock Cove dike will release. County highway patrolmen estab- lished a deadline on the road to the dam last night and permitted no cne 1o approach it, but a reporter from the Greenville News reached the scene shortly after midnight and reported two | | huge sloughs in the earthen wall and one or two fissures through which water wes pouring. He said officlals had given | | up hope that the dam could withstand | the tremendous pressure and belleved it | might give way at any time While no loss of life was feared, ex- tensive property damage was inevitavle, | At Pledmont the largest damage was | | teared, us fully balf the litte mill town | iies in the valleys that water will cover On either side of the river there are Jarge cotton mills, Half the population had moved to high ground. FProm Ware Bhoals (o Columbis, | where the Saluds empties into the Con- garee, there are no towns of any size, d the river flows through low, flal country | | The dam was completed last Fall at | s cost of $1,000,000, but had not yet been put o use, &s the reservolr it | | ereated had not completely filled, Dedi- | cation ceremonies had been set for May The system was 1o operate by gravity, and no pumping station wes | | maintained at the dam Colliery of the Lehigh Valley Coal C duced rates for mining work as & con- | Air Corps pllots, as the maneuvers in| | force, which is composed of over refuskl of the union o accept re- || eral service schools and methods will | which has a population of only 15,000, be studied to combat air attacks as dis- ( were aiready chokea today with the played by the flying circus. Likewise | stream of peasants pouring in from ;m Alr cOr;;; will be‘nen[ 1e.m|ngdmwlevery nook and corner of the state. the ground forces will seek to evade or v frustrate offensives from the air Lett Moo Wesks Ags, As the final number on the lengthy | Many of the pilgrims left th .. homes program developed yesterday, the sec- weeks ago. They slept with their| ond bombardment group, based at this|clothes on in the streets, highways and field, gave a spectacular exhibition of parks and as dawn came thousands close formation night flying. Seventeen |more poured in to join the swelling big double-engined bombers grouped in | ranks. | a diamond-shape formation cruised | They carried bedding on their backs | about the sky, now and then illuminating | and the wives trudged along laden with | the ground below with parachute flares live chickens, suckling pigs, loaves of which drifted slowly to earth sending bread nad other rations for the stay.| out & flaming white light. The bombers | Many men were barefooted and wore | without the aid of floodlights on the Shaggy sheepskin coats. The women field landed in formation, using their | Were gay in their multi-colored national big glaring headlights to illuminate the | costumes, with their hair in long braids ground on the approach to earth Many Fly to Maneuvers. | coins hung about their necks. “1 hope that I am too good a citizen About half of the congressional dele- |and patriot of Rumania to allow the gation who flew down from Wuhlnzwn'rensnnu to start anything like a revo- Thursday afternoon returred to Bolling | lution which might drench the country Pleld last night, and the remainder, |in blood,” Manfu said. The meeting, he with more than a dozen newspaper men, | continued, had no such purpose, its were flown to the Capital in 12 air- main object being “to give expression in planes. mighty and unmistakable tones to the One of the most remarkable features | disgust of 85 pér cent of the population of the entire program yesterday \mvnr Rumania toward the present illegal, | that although nearly 100 planes were | tyrannical, incompetent government, | involved in the maneuvers and about |Whose overthrow the congress will de- 76 of them were in the air at the mand from the regency.” same time, flying closely together, nct| In order not to concentrate the entire one mishap of any sort occurred. attention on Alba Julia five smaller | Tt was emphasized by officers at the Satherings will be held simultaneously fleld that these results pointed to the |in Bucharest, Jassy, Cralova, Cernautt| skill_and thorough training of the and Bralla | LSS R BACKS SLAVERY PACT. GENEVA, May 5 (#).—Ecuador an- nounced adherence to the League of Nations' convention against slavery to- day is one of the frankest documents ever recelved here. After reviewing the growth and ensuing abolition of the mode widely known forms of slavery, the document adds that Ecuador has | abolished exploftatton of the Indian in | that country by white men, one of its | most despicable aspects formation called for rapid exchange of | signals while flying at terrific speeds One slip-up or misunderstanding prob- ably would have resulted in disaster to most of the formation, it was said. Planes Score “Victory.” Fifty-six modern military battle planes | dropped nearly 10,000 pounds of ex- plosives and fired 10,500 rounds of ma- chine-gun bullets into a wagon tra target yesterday. scoring a highly suc- cessful “victory” and climaxing a day | of gigantic aerfal military maneuvers which were arranged for the purpose of acquamting other branches of the serv- ice with methods and the tactics em- | ployed by the Army Afr Corps. By far the most spectacular event of the day, the bombing and machine gun . £ 200 Hurt at Race Course. ROSEBERRY, Austraila, May 5 (4"~ | More than 200 spectators were injured. | when n large sectfon of | many seriously firing gave a vivid demonstration of the | 4 stand at the racecourse here collapsed striking force of the independent air | today, PUrsULL At tack and bombardment aviation ‘The earth trembled, clouds of dust and smoke were thrown high in the air | and flames leaped out of the ground as | the alr force made its attack, The prob- lem was to show how attack aviation | functioned. Eighteen attack plancs— | two-seaters—carrying six machine guns | and half a dozen bombs—approached the target in two sections of eight planes each and, at an altitude of not more than 100 feet, the first formation of three planes opened up its 18 ma- chine guns. Immediately after this formation came two other groups of three planes each and they specialized | on the bombing, dropping 17-pound fragmentution missiles. The second fight of eight planes repeated this mat The attack planes were Lo clear awny all anti-air craft defenses and pave the way for the 17 bombers which arrived overhead at 5,000 feet Just as the low fiying planes cleared out of sight Hits Bunched Perfectly, Bunching their hits in & perfect pat- tern, the 300-pound demolition bombs tore up the earth and dug enormous craters all sbout the wagon train, The bombere dropped their “eggs” almost simultaneously and considering the size of the targe. wlong with the altitude they were flying the results were de- clared by officers 1o have Leen highly success il | As the bombers pussed out of sight the 21 pursuit planes, which had been crulsing around at such a high altitude er College sireet, s 3 o'clock Bundsy aft- Interment will be in Cypress )siopee that have hen idle for some time ernnon Miill Cemetery, Brookiyn, N. Y. 13 dition for the rteopening of several AUt 800 employes are aflesied, Mr, Jenkins, Capt, Gu feet the vanguard of the pursult forms- | per wligs 0 o, Wil 10 plags 89 Glowa | Radlo C oy |that they were hardly discernible 0 tielr noses downward for what | was left of the targel. At about 1,000 membert the Radio Commission and ot [ Hill, Army Bignal ¢ ton, which was traveling st _pearly 250 | Gen, George I.‘llulvn. retired, former chief signal |also awarded a Ph. D, degree and an |paq been serving so effectively. LL. D. degree in 1925. He was an assistant professor in bot- any at Wabash College in 1888 and 1889. Appointed as first assistant in the division of botany, Department of Agri- culture, in late 80s, Mr. Rose continued in that capicity until 1894, when he was named curator of the de- partment of botany, United States Na- tional Museum, and in 1905 he was named associate curator of the Mu- seum. He was in direct charge of the National Herbarium, and became an associate in botany at the Museum in 1912. He also served as research as- soclate in the Carnegie Institution of Washington from 1912 to 1923. Mr. Rose, who wrote extensively, pub- lished the “Monograph of North Amer- A Unbelliferae” in 1901 and the Cactaceae.” in four volumes. from 1919 to 1923. Mr. Rose's articles on cact} are recognized by leading botan- ists as being of great importance. He is survived by his widow, Mrs and great clusters of gold and silver | Lou Sims Rose: two sons, Joseph S.|ance, that involves the “new principle,” Rose and George Rose, and by two daughters, Miss Rebecca Rose and Miss Martha Rose, He was a member of the Cosmos Club. NEW INSURANCE CODE New Jersey Senator Declares There Is No Necessity for Legis lation Here. The proposed new insurance code for Washington, which has passed the House and Is Senate subcommittee, was opposed by Senator Edwards, Democrat, of New Jersey, in & letter today to Thomas M. Baldwin, jr., superintendent of imsur- ance In the District. Senator Edwards took the position that there is no necessity for the legis- tion; that it would give too much au- thority to the superintendent in deter- | mining questions of policy, and that it would increase the cost of administra- tion of the Insurance department The letter was in response to one Mr, Boldwin had written to Senator Ed- wards, in which the superintendent told of the effort: making for a number of y s o have @ new code enacted, and offering o give the Senator additional information on any of the details of the bill. this morning. " n K, Robl won, ¢hi s - - being considered by a| the department has been | ‘etr of the Army; Sam Pickard and Carl Butman, members of the He had been in geod health | Coolidge joins me in sympathy in your | marriage after divorce, and that the sorrow.” two ministers were given pastorates in violation of church laws, Mr. Cooke said that personal vindi- | cation entered into his action, inas- | h as he and Bishop McConnell had |CAPITAL INVENTOR SHOWS RADIO MOVIES | diferst oo doctrinal’ matiers since T0 GROUP OF EXPERTS : School at Boston University. g Not Matter for Trial R. J. Wade, conference secre- tary, with whom Mr. Cooke entered | ector, which fiashed the moving fim | e complaint. said the allegations { before & “radio eve.” changing the light | yer® 1O & fRatter for i, But { variations to electric impulses for radio | pie (COTPIAIE Ot & st | transmission. It ooy atit ThE o The demonstration began when an | i, OP g o attendant learned by phone that the mittee deals with matters of discipline. projector was starting. He switched | Bishop McConnell declined to com- Projector was Starting He Stched | ment on Mr. Cooke's allegations, other | than to say he had received two letters from the Wilmington minister making starting an electric motor, which re- volved a drum of speclal design con- | aeeysations against him, and he sup- formed the basis of the e b | (Continued_from First Page) L cealed within the box. It is this drum, | | fAitted inside with & spiral of radially | located quartz rods of curious appea | The 17 h | court hearing the case of Bishop Bast ministers comprising ager, Jacob H. Fish, and $40 from Lucian H. Davis, a clerk. On the first job they used an auto- mobile stolen from J. Eris Powell, 6 Quincy street. Chevy Chase, Md. The automobile of Miss Evelyn Walker. 1 Sixteenth street, which had previously been reported stolen, was used in both visits to the store at 1901 Twelfth street An automobile stolen from E. Madi- |1t was pointed out . 6 | last night went into executive session. | " The 'incoming radio impulses are| St a T picked up by the audio set, conveyed fo | It Was understood that witnesses would | the cabinet and converted by a special | [tvpe sensitive neon lamp into varying | tion of events leading up 1o the con: light rays. These rays pass longitudi- | (0 05 0% 1906™ 0 Ph» T nally through the quartz rods and are | S9U 1926 on charges of misuse | fiashed across the mirror in the form | Of charity funds, and his subsequent | o suspension by the church. of imperceptible lines of light. The |lines succeed each other with such _— | rapidity that they build up complete pictures, in motion, through optical il- SANITARY STORE BAND'T | luston. | | “similar machines have been installed | ARRESTED IN PITTSBURGH {in the homes here of Willlam P. Mac- | Cracken, jr., Assistant Secretary of Com- S Bl . | © FOR'FIVE THEFTS ‘HERE | sioner Pickard, Willlam Gibbs McAdoo | ————— and Paul Henderson, former Assistant| (Continued from First Page) Postmaster General Pictures l;‘l\'\' O s D — been broadcast experimentally to these | §20 from the pocket of Elmer 3. !mm:hll(\.u. prior to today’s formal dem- | fens, the manager. and then e onstration, : | & hail of bullets from a woman neigh- The film broadcast this morning was| par ag - A ol e Chiidren: FIAYINE: 10~ ] oo T SIS AL FHN K atrens, gether, of a little girl hanging up doll clothes on a wash line, and of a larger girl bouncing a ball on the pavement. | , The original film was in pantomime form. Mr. Jenkins frankly admitted that the pictures shown in the mirror were “not vet as perfect as theater movies, which have had 35 years of development,” but he declared there was “no practical | limit” to the possibilities of perfecting | the device commercially The motion pictures today resembled | | the “movie cartoons” shown at thea | There the bandits ters. It is only a matter of time before | o sacond-story w NrS actual, delicately-shaded motion pie= | Conners, 402 M s pone Sy |tures will be broadeast, he asserted. | near the store, which is on the corner She fired three shots at them as the ‘re leaving. An automobile belong: 11 e Peerless Motor Co. was used o the .ast job. Reason for Hold-up. Bowling sald today that he and his companions selected the Sanitary store: because they have no telephones with which to summon and because owed to keep Bowling was in- by palice and rematned silent many newspaper men until he saw that man who knew him but he was faced by a The storfes in the papers caused many women to visit him {in the hospital, seeking missing Many left with tears in their eyes. sons. | TWO DROWNED IN AUTO. | AKRON, Ohio, May § (#—Two lmrm\wl: of & family of five were drowned and the others were rescued | when their automobije crashed through |an fron railing and plunged into a res- | |ervolr at Sandy Beach Park last night The dead are Frank Rosensky. a rub- {ber worker, and his daughter Anna, 18 Rozensky's wife, Anna, 35 and two other ehildren- Anthony, 21, and Jesse 12 were revived after being taken un .lu;lv\\n fous from the submerged automo- bile . | . | Mexican War Survivor Dies | OREEN CASTLE Ind. May 3 (4 Urlah Gasaway, 101 vears old, one of Jenkins, Washington Inventor, demonstrating a new principle in transmission of motlon plotures before (he last survivors of the Mexican War a Mexie Navy radio Ma | 8, €. Hoope: - died at the hame of his daughter, Mrs deral Radio Commission Morton Smith, at Reelsville, last night Wl dast ‘ - - . - 2R ~Star Stall Photo, |, Christmas, . | be called in an exhaustive investiga-| where they took $47.07 from the man- | | pality solidly back of Mayor Davis, who is seeking to protect the property of the town. It is so contrary to the re- | peatedly annou policy of Daniel | Willard, the president of the railroad. not to antagonize municipalities or large groups of citizens and patrons of his raiiroad. that I am quite convinced that the railroad is being used as a tool | by local politicians seeking to defeat | Mayor Davis for purely partisan polit- ! eal reasons. It is in no sense a boma | fide effort to try out the title to the parkway in question. the status of | which is identical with several other | parks in the North Takoma section, al | of which have been dedicated for many years to the town as parks.” Chamber of Commerce Stand. H. L. Thornton, real estate man and | president of the town Chamber of Com merce, issued a st erting that the freight shipm o Takoma are of such volume as to make the North Takoma siding indispensable Mr. Thornton declared that the T of Comn pt of t t ct politics into the sit- | uation. {REAR ADMR. ROBISON 'HEADS NAVY ACADEMY | Will Take Charge as Superintend- ent June 20—Nulton to Com- mand Battleships. ral S. S. Robis " the thirteenth naval & headquarters at Seattle, n ordered to Annapol e, on June 20, Tin- U St. Naval eship division of s rendered dis- avy, Secre- ed States ber of books on subject. D.C.CHOSEN FOR MEETING Women of t ington as the on. Mrs. R. O address on “Our Je at the final session, ports were made. guests at a lw parish hall U. S. LEADS IN STUDENTS. More in L\'r;c N';;. Than Al Other Countries, Bureau Esthmates Comparat - The delegates were on 1 the St. Pauls at approntmately one million and give the rest of the world 930,000 American students of high school rank were esti- mated to number 4,300,000 as compared with 5,700,000 for the other countries. In schoals of all kKinds 29.000.000 were | enrolled i America, which was said to nare thaw Afth of the warlds one-;