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-~ o Seek to Prevent Repetition of Trouble at Seventh and Hamiiton Streets. taken by Dis- | to improve tempo- and grading condi- vicinity of Seventh and h A view to pre- of the flood that ing the torrential Emergeney steps were rted on a the end tem of treets, 1o t in the p: Seventh street ns to form a fi peci the mouth of & tempo- galvanized pipe near | leads to the sewer. In the ports from the Wes Bureau that in might be expected at any time. T i A Davison, Acting En- r. and A. D. Black, eer, conferred this ded to begin at once e rushed. Mr. Black an- nounced obably will be complet- ed before dar Correction of Trouble Assured. ent correction of the trouble ! Pz'h:n?n nity of Seventh and Hami- | stree It come. it was pointed | out, with the development of the large Genuded area to the northeast. from which the dirt, sand and gravel was washed into the 9 t trunk sewer. feet of gravel sediment from recent were found in this sewer by en- who entered it for an inspec- jon. 5 Maj. Davison and Mr. Black are now giving consideration to the 1 of the Trinidad Citizens' Association for | immediate relief from potential fiood | eonditions at the Florida avenue viaduct | and at Fifteenth and H streets north- east. The engineers have already made | an inspection of these two points, and | Afaj. Davison expressed the opinion that the condition at Fifteenth and H| streets can be remedied by the cons | struction of additional catch basins, | \ ! I l Fhree-year-old Eleanor Keppler. wit after journeying from Offenbach, Germ. year and she has been in Offenbach with her grandmot married in Chicago, and then sent for his and railroad porters, the child traveled ti | $ Solid | Colorado, h a brand-new doll, arrived in Chicago any, alone. mother died last . Her father recently child. With the aid of steamship officials he entire distance alone. ~Underwood Photo. | e i S iy | | ! | | night the Republican presidential nom- inee has devoted most of his time to | recelving from various party officials SWIM MARATHON Seattle Girl Second, Gertrudei Ederle Fourth, in Lake Ontario. By the Assoeiated Press. TORONTO, Ontario. August Swimming a relentless crawl stroke that shot her through the water at a star- tling speed. Miss Ethel Hertle of New York led the field of 52 in the women's marathon at the end of the first 2'% miles of the 10-mile grind through the | 29— IWORK SAYS RASKOB ABSURD IN CLAIMS Denies Extension of Party Budget—Hoover Strength in West Is Reported. | Dr. Hubert Work, chairman of the | Republican national committee, today characterized as “absurd two state- ments attributed to Chairman Raskob | of the Demoeratic national committee, | one claiming 309 clectoral votes for Gov. Smith, and the other in which | kob said he had information that the Republican budget would be be- tween $6,000.000 and $8.000,000. In a brief rejoinder issued at his headquarters here today, Chairman Work stated definitely that the Repub- | lican budget of between $3,000,000 and | 4,000,000 has not been extended. | ement read as follows | Yesterday’s press dispatches from St. | Louis quoted Mr. kob as claiming | 309 electoral votes for Gov. Smith. In | the governor's column he listed the | South, Kentucky, Tennessee ahoma, New York, New Jersey, Island, Wisconsin, Arizona, Maryland, _Massachusetts Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Mis- souri, New Mexico and Nevada “This morning’s papers quote Mr Raskob as saying he ‘has information that the Republican budget ‘is between $6.000,000 and $8.000.000." “One statement is as absurd Ol Rhode | as the other “Our original budget of $3.000.000 to $4.000.000 has not been extended.” Cites Optimism in West. Optimistic reports of Republican suc- cess in the West were brought to Re- publican national headquarters today by W. Irving Glover, Second Assistant | Postmaster General, who recently | turned from an extended trip | called on Dr. Work today “Frankly. I could see nothing Hoover all through the West.” he Nor ny fair-mind: observer Another busy day of conferences with campaign leaders to discuss financial affairs, the progress of organizatior plans and the program of speaking en gagements loomed today for Mr. Hoover. but id. and fr |a | e VARNEY IS N CITY FOR NOTIFICATON Prohibition Presidential Nom- inee to Attend Exercises for Edgerton. ndidate for the on the Prohibition ticket and other leaders of the Prohibition party arrived here today to attend the official notification of James A. Edger- ton, of this city and Fort Lyon, Va., of his nomination to the vice presidency on the party ticket The notification ceremony will take ace at 7 o'clock tonight at Mr. Edger- two miles southwest of Alex- His notification and accept- William F presidency Varney [ on’s home andria, Va HIS | 411ce speech will be broadceast by Station | WRC from the station in the National Press Building at 10:30 o'clock tonight An informal meeting of members of the national committee of the party was on this afternoon in the office of Mr. Edgerton in the National Press Building to discuss the future course to be taken by the party in_connection with the coming campaign. Whether the | party ticket will be withdrawn in favor ' of Herbert Hoover or will be kept in the field in certain of the Southern States for its moral effect was to be discussed Dr. D. Leigh Colvin, national commit- tee chairman, is presiding. eted by Edgerton. »d at Union § from his home in New York He was met at the station by Mr gerton and other party leaders. Mr Varney and members of the national ommittee were the guests of Mr. Edger- ton at luncheon in the National Press Club. tion P. Pruzh, former national com- chairman of the party and now member the national executive committee and chairman of the Penn- sylvania State committee, arrived here from Harrisburg, Pa.. shortly after noon Other members of the party expected rly this afternoon include Will I fartin, national executive committee State chairman for New Jersey, and Since his return to the city Friday first-hand information as to the prog- ress of campaign plans while he was away on his trip to the West Coast. Hoover Conferences Today. Mr. Hoover slated to confer today with J. R. Nutt of Cleveland, national | treasurer, and Jeremiah Millbank of IS| New York. Eastern_treasurer, concern- ing finances. He also is seeing Repre- | sentative Wailter F. Newton, chairman of the national speakers' bureau; James W. Good, Western manager, and Repre- | sentative John Q. Tilson, director of the Bastern speakers' bureau. It has been decided definitely that | Mr. Hoover will not undertake to pre- pare an address in time for delivery over the radio from Washington on Labor day. and present indications are that it may be two weeks before he makes his next speech. The itinerary of his speaking trips out of Washing- ton has not been mapped out. Headquarters Almost Ready. Found Dead in Kitchen of Apartment. Miss Grace M. Schaeffer, 30 years old, a former teacher at the National Park Seminary, at Forest Glen, Md., was found dead last night in the Kitchen of her apartment, in Phillips Terrace, 1601 Argonue place, with ber head resting on the stove and the gas flowing from the fets. Coroner J. Ram- sey Nevitt issued a certificate of sui- eide. A year and a hall ago Miss | Michael O'Brien, former candidate for | the governorship of Connecticut on the | party ticket | Tonight's notification ceremony wilk | be preceded by an automobile parade | trom Washington to Fort Lyon, under {the leadership of Edward H. Young. |grand marshal. Approximately 100 | automobiles | column. The procession will be formed |at Seventeenth and K streets, under | direction of Mr. Young. Led by the | Independent Boys' Band of the Sons of | Jonadab, a temperance organization | the parade will move eastward on K treet to Fourteenth street to Highway Bridge Given Police Eseorts. | A detail of motor cycle policemen | will escort the column to the south end | of the bridge, where it will be met by | Virginia motor cycle policemen and ;('s('nrled to Alexandria by way of the lower road. Entering Alexandria by way of Washington street, the column {will go to the office of the Alexandria | Gazette, which will be serenaded by the | band. ¥ In Alexandria the column is to be | joined by automobiles from Alexandria, ¢ expected to be in the | and south | | t noon Washington today IRNANSAS AWATS RGBINSON SPEECH Crowd Hours Into Hot Springs (orwotification of \ Senator. \ the Ascociafed Pross HOT SPRIN'GS, Ark, August Vanguard of {he thousands expected | rere to witness \the sight of a Southern- r receiving notWication of his selection for a place on \the presidential ti-ke of one of the ¥ major partie oday wa. stres into this quiet ittle m< in ¢ty The majority off early arrivals cam from homes southy of the Mason-Dixon li:+ that of ithe man they hav to honor—Senator Robinson, of who will\be notified fomnall that he s the Democratic party’s vice presidential nominee Nearly all who already arrived scarcely had unpacked their suit case before they began inqliries as to whi the nominee was expected to sa his acceptance address. Dry Stand Mpoted. “What about prohiMition?” Tha: {was the main question' of those who {wish to know how the Benator, alway |2 consistent supporter of temperance laws, will deal with the smbject so care- | fully covered by his raning mate, Go' | Smith, the presidential nominee | Parm relief shared wiih prohibiticy {the spotlight of advance :peculation. It {has been inc.:ated for some time tha | Senator Robinson will shoulder much of the burden of this issue. While Gov | Smith has outlined his idea for the aid {of ¢ -riculture, it is expected that much of the campaign work wiN be turned {over to the vice presidential candidat~ who is familiar with the sabject from |long years in the Senate In the meantime, preparagions were being pushed toward completion of 85 20 jon's ng line, ‘ome | tomorrow William ¥. Varney (Ieft), head of the Prohibition party ticket, who came to| arrangements for the ceremonies at for the notification ceremonies tonight for James A. Edgerton the Arlington Hotel. Stands with seat- ing capacity of 24.000 stretched across (right), the vice presidential candiate. MORE COUNTRIES JOIN PEACE PACT Liberia and Peru Formally | Achere—Others Announce | Intention. By the Associated Press. The State Department announced today that Peru and Liberia had offi- cially adhered to the Kellogg treaty and that Denmark. Bolivia and Austria | had informed the United States of their intention to adhere. the natural amphitheater in front of TARIFF STRESSED Glen After Strenuous Day. By the Associated Press. WATKINS GLEN, N. Y., August 29. —Tariff revision is the keynote of the Eastern campaign of Senator Curtis, Republican vice presidential nominee, who is carrying the brunt of his party’s speaking drive in the East. In an address at Syracuse yesterday the Senator promised tariff revision to BY CURTIS IN EAST the hotel. Workers were busy adjust- |ing the amplifiers over the “speakers stands, and others compared the in- stallation of flood lights. The ampli- fiers were tested and the hills sur- rounding Hot Springs proved to be ef- fielent sounding boards, sending the voice of the trial speaker booming over the center of the city. To Speak Monday. Senator Robinson yesterday devoted | much of his attention to a speech he i will deliver in Dallas next Monday at a big Labor day meeting. In this ad- dress, which he has announced open his campaign formally, the Sena- tor will deal at length with labor and farm relief questions. | The vice presidential nominee ex- pects to accomplish much work on his schedule of speeches before he starts | next week on the campaign tour dur- ting which he will make 14 addresses | through the South. TAYLOR ARRESTED KNOX ATTORNEY SAYS s waters of Lake Ontario today. D.C.CODE IS “.‘.EGA'.'l A hundred yards behind, Olive Gat- erdam of Seattle, Wash., guarded see- It is expected that {or tomorrow Mr. Hoove | headquarters, at 231 by this evening | Falls Church, Clarendon and Potomac, | Slew personal | Va. - The procession then will move _Massachusetts | west on King strect to the Fairfax {avenue, will be ¢ The Massachu- | highway and will turn south a mite setts avenue house, which is only a{west of Alexandria on Telegraph road The Ambassador for Peru. Hernan Velarde, in a note to Secretary Kel- logg, said the position taken by the American_ State Department in having initiated the negotiations of a multi- Schaeffer suffered a nervous break- down and it is thought by her relatives that her act was due to a return of the oid allment. culture as well as to industry and labor, | and at Harrisburg tomorrow he is ex- pected to emphasize this argument. The vice presidential nominee is con- | SRR BY COTHAM POLICE [ Files Motion to Quash Evidence in, Crash Case When Jury Trial Is Denied. | Contending that the District code denying his client the right to a jury trial for reckless driving is unconstitu- tional, T. Morris Wampler, attorney for | Philander C. Knox, jr. son of the former Secretary of State, today filed | @ motion to quash the evidence. M} the case was continued until s-v.um'y' for argument ! Knox today stood trial on & charge | of g a street car and was t\nedi 25. He had ignored 2 summons given Eun at the time of his arrest last July #nd the charge was not formally placed | fgainst him in Police Court until last Week. when hfiawn arrested on a reck- less driving charge. it later arrest followed a colliston | between his car and that of William/ J_ Patterson on Bowen road. Knox | orfeited $40 collateral the day af'r.-' he aecident, and $500 bond the next| #a when he walked out of court after being brought in on an attach- tent. His bondsman surrendered him last Thursday and he was released on a new bond of $1,000 RECOVER 20 AUTO TIRES AFTER ARREST OF TRIO olice Hold Men on Grand Larceny Charge—Detectives Claim Con fessions Made. Twenty automobile tires have already peen recovered and the recovery of tany more is expected as a_result of | the ar yesterday by Policeman Joseph Sineavitz of the Traffic Bureau of Albe dney Fowler, 21 years old sant place southeast: Malcolm Stewart, 23 years old. 329 Rhode sland avenue northeast, and Jack Mel- 22 years old, 530 Sixth All have been charged ceny a avenue business man « he faw Fowler and Stewart 1 two ties from a parked automo- ook 1he tag numbers of their au- tomobile and Sincavitz picked them up Iookout The: ted Meeks rters I Zugene Davis o whom the case was three men admit that tripped at least later abandon- greater part over police obfles, pointing ones they took, it is automobiles heen SIX HURT IN CRASH. L rect Driver conscious—Five Others Locked Up 8ix colored men from Baltimore were taken v Casualty Hospital this morning after thelr automobile crashed into and demolisied a fire nydrant on Bladens- burg road nesr Mount Olivet road northeast The driver, James Wicks, 26, was still unconsclous when taken to the hospital His condition is undetermined The other men were treated {or minor cuts and bruises and then locked up at the b preeinct for investigation AL the hoepital one of the members of the party wid Dr R. J Bogan that il of the passengers were asieep at the time of the crash and It is general believed that the driver also may have been siseping Church Conference Tonight August 29 —The eonference of the De Episeopal Church POTOMAC quarter fet hodist | Mass. | lake. ond place with a lead of 100 yards over Ruth Tower of Denver. Miss Hertle swam at a rate of 43 strokes a minute. Her time for the 215 miles was 1 hour, | 11 minutes and 34'; seconds. | Gertiude Ederle of New York, first woman to conquer the English Channel and coupled with Miss Hertle as favorite to win the first prize of $10,000, was in fourth place, 50 yards behind. May El- well of Revere, Mass. swam strongly behind “Trudy” in fifth place, 10 yards back, and threatened to pass her at any time. To complete American domination of the first lap, Anna Beloit of Westfleld, Mass., and Jane Thoms of Terre Haute, Ind., swam neck and neck in sixth place. The next division, in order, consisted of Geraldine Hagar. Syracuse, N. Y. Martha Stager, Chicago; Daisy shlw.l Shawinigan Falls, Quebec: Mille Gade Corson, Denmark: Mrs. Hazel Robinson. Niagara Falls, N. ¥.: Lucy A. Freeman Dimmond, New York: Marion Bland. Dearborn, Mich.; Doris Jackson, Long Beach, Cal: Agnes R. Chester, New York: Marie Butler, Holland: Mille Hudson, England; Mimi Vogel, Switzer- | land; Virginia Doncoes. Hartforc | Conn.: Mrs. Delah Sullivan, Holyoke, | Lily Dibble. Majorie Jackson. | Maric Sitwell, all of Toronto. Mabhel Dorfel, Philadelphia: Clarabelle Barrett, Winthrop, Me.. Dorothy Brown, St Petersburg, Fla, and Eva Merrison of Bost Conditions were ideal for the event with brillilant sunshine and a slight westerly breeze which caused only a faint ripple over the surface of the The temperature of the waier was about 60 degrees and the westerly wind was expected to make it warmer during the day. { MONTREAL JAILS FOUR | IN LIQUOR CONSPIRACY Detectives Posing as Chicago Bont-i leggers Make Deal to Obtain | Forged Labels. { By the Assoctated Press MONTREAL, August 20--The col- lapse of a conspiracy to furnish boot- | leggers in the United States with forged | labels and documents of the Quebec| Liquor Commission found four men in | jatl today | Bathelmy Caron, Emile Giroux, and T Renolds, found guilty of the conspiracy, were sen- fenced to trom 15 days to 7 months m jail Evidence against the men. was ob- 1ained by two detectives posing as Chi- bootleggers, who negotiated for forged documents. Boys' Band Ends Tour. The Washington Boys' Independent Band, under the direction of Maj. C J. Brown and Pri L. Kidwell, will return tonight after u)rnpvllng its an- nual educational tour to Buffalo, Ni- agara Palls, Philadelphia and New York City. The boys rendered concerts at orphanages and hospitals during their She had returned to Washington yes- ferday following a long period of con- valescence spent with her brother, Dr. J. Schaeffer of Grand Haven, Mich. It was thought that she had entirely re- covered from her breakdown and she | bad come to Washington to live. The body was found by Mrs. Mary Neal, manager of the apartment house, seated in a chair and slumped over the | stove, with a blanket placed over the head. Other oecupants of the build- ing had detected the odor of gas som- ing from the apartment. | Mrs. Neal summoned the Fire De- | partment rescue squad and the Cas- ualty Hospital ambulance. Arriving with the ambulance, Dr. J. Rogers Young of Casualty pronounced her dead and 'gave it as his opinion that life had been extinct about three hours. | According to her brother, P. Schaef- | fer of Lancaster, Pa.,, who came to this city immediately upon hearing of his sister's death, Miss Schaeffer was a teacher at the National Park Seminary for three years. She suffered a nervous breakdown due to overwork and was forced to resign. For a time she in a sanitarium, but later went to live with her brother in Grand Haven She wanted to return to Washington, Mr. Schaeffer declared, because of her wide acquaintanceship here She had no relatives other than her two brothers. Arrangements for the short distance from Mr. Hoover's resi- | toward Pohiek Church |ver is devoting much of his time to dence, at 2300 S street, has been leased until November, from Mrs. Francols | Berger Moran, of 2150 Wyoming avenu. In this spacious home Mr. Hoover will do his office work and meet the groups of party leaders and committees | that come to Washington. Although | he will journey from Washington at in- tervals to deliver campaign speeches, | this house will be his campaign base | until he makes his second cross-country |trip to California just before the eclec- | | | tion to vote It had been planned to establish the Hoover personal headquarters in the house at 2223 R street, use of which had | been tendered by the late Representa- ! ' Frothingham of Massachusetts, but | delay in obtaining it led to the change. | In his conferences this week Mr. Hoo- | consideration of campaign organization plans for the East, particualrly New York. He is scheduled to talk tomor- row with William H. Hill, one of the! original Hoover men in New York, and | with H. Edmund Machold, chairman of | the kmmmnmn State committee of New | Yorl | CRASH FATALTO MAN et meve s een wnae | PINNED UNDER AUTO| 20 ARE"NDIOTED jJnlm R. mnu\x;n Dies in Hos-| BY D c GRAND IURY pital and Nephew Driver Is Held by Police. Variety of Misdemeanors Listed in PR Report Submitted Today—Charges Against Two Ignored. The grand jury today reported indict- €UPants underneath, after it was said ments against 20 persons and ignored | !0 have been sideswiped by another One man is dead, a woman is slightly injured and the driver is being held by | Prince Georges County, Md., authorl |as a result of an accident near T-B IMd, early today in which an automo- | charges against 2 others. | J 55 years old, onerated are Joseph Cartler, charged e s R B 50 st, was with larceny after trust, and Willlam H. Thomas, charged with joy-riding, | crushed and died a short time afler | Those indicted and the charges | Feaching Providence Hospital, where h against them include *|and his' companions were taken b Reglnald Busey and Richard Duckett, | Passing motorists Poile housebreaking and larceny; Robert 20 years old, of 215 A street southeast Doons and Eugene Johnson, ,,.,,d"mm Mangums nephew, James W. Man- larceny; Lonnle W. Jordon and Carmine | §Um, 28 years old, who were with him Oddone, housebreaking and larceny; | 8ccompanied him to the hospital Carmine Oddone, Lonnie W. Jordon,| At the request of Maryland poli Jeremiah G. Leonard and Willlam k. | the nephew who was driving the car, Rice. joy-riding: Thomas Benton and | Was arrested by local police and later Richard C. Cole, grand lareeny and | turned over to a Prince Georges Coun joy-riding; Richard Duckett and Ray (v officer. He was to be held pending €. Anderson, d larceny; Herher, Jerry Richardson and Januie | of the accident Herbert. robbery: Msthew Colllns, allas' According to Miss Polley, they had Joseph M. MeCoilough, assault with in- | been visiting friends in Prince George ent to commit robbery: Oras C. Smith. | County and were returning home, She forgery and uttering: St. George Smith, | was sitting between the two men false pretenses (sald, and wes aslecp. The first thing i»m- remembers, she declares, was heing . pulled from the wreckage of the ma | Fleet Leaves for Maneuvers. chine by the man who teok | NEWPORT. R. 1. August 29 (#) - | Washington | ‘The United States Scouting Fleet which | John Mangum was formerly employed | has been stationed here since July 1| at the navy yard. His wife died three left today for Hampton Roads for ma- | weeks ago . Hassell neuvers in the Chesapeake Bay area| On Berg Ordered 3 Miss Hazel headed by the flagship Wyoming. The Crulser Raleigh and the destroyer Con- | verse were left behind to take part |nl the anniversary celebration of the bat- tle of Rhode Island. | ‘ SC]’IOO] Agcflcvl;s to Gct | Due in 1983 Under Terms of Odd Wi”l' i By the Associsled Press ATLANTA, Ga., August University of CGeorgia today sei about the task of collecting 81,500,000 due about 1983 under the will of the man who invented stan life insurance tables The nvestigation will take the uni- versity business staff into many States 11 be held tonight at 8 o'clock | and forelgn countries before the quest is auditoriym. The Re v presiding clder o andria Aitrict Baltimore Confer ence. will preach. A busine, 5hON will follow lne sermon. rhureh ¥ V. Regester ended, slb heeause Prof, Charles F. Me- f|Kay of Columbis University, New York vas & mathematical gentus with en ec- p centric turn of mind The man who, 8s a Columbla pro- 20.—The | 1 1y in N The fleet was | until early in November. oot wa; §“unl f()l‘ By Coast Patrol Ml“lon and Half | By the Assoclated Press On the chance that the Greater Rockford plane might have landed on @ huge iceberg reported off the southwestern coust of Greenland, in- struetions have heen sent from the Coast Guard offices here (o the pa trol boat Marfen, now in that viein- ity. to inspect the fce formation The Marion has been charting lee conditions and making meteorologl cal observations in the northern wa ters, and has been partieipating in the ‘search for the Greater Rockford and its crew. The iceberg is said to be approximately 5 miles long and its position has been given to the Marion by radio operators in that reglon, & | fessor, comptled most of the early tables used by insurance companies relative o life expectancy, left $7,000 to the | university at his death in 1883, with | the provision that the accumulated principal and interest, amounting to well over a million, be given to the school 21 years after hia last grand nrghew and grand-niece has died. ince the professor had eight broth- | ers and sisters, the university's task will 1ot be ended for at least 56 years The hoard of trustees learned with sur prise that the §7,000 already has grown /000, i i bile turned over, pinning its three oc- | Willie | an Investigation Into the circumstances | she | Fort Lyon, the site of one of*the Civil War forts which surrounded the National Capital, is a mile south of the Fairfax road. ‘The notification is to take place in the garden in the rear of Mr. Edger- ton’s home. This garden formerly wa: the parade ground of the fort and is surrounded by the high ecarthworks of the old military stronghold, forming a natural amphitheater. It is expected that between 400 and 500 persons will attend the ceremo Rev. Thomas E. Boorde of the Tem- ple Baptist Church of this city will act as chairman of the proceedings. He will introduce Dr. Colvin, who will de- liver the notification speech. Mr. Edger- ton's address of acceptance will follow Following the notification at Fort Lyon. Mr. Edgerton and Dr. Colvin will return to the Press Club to repeat the notification and acceptance speeches for ( the radio. ATTACHE OF MUSEUM DIES AT HOME HERE Effie Bennett Decker Gained Fame as s Microscopic Tllustrator of Tiny Shells. Mrs. Effie Bennett Decker, 59 years | old. microscopic fllustrator in the conch- l”h,a‘ division of the National Museum, died at her residence, 3111 Hawthorne place, early today after a long illness. Mrs, Decker had gained wide recogni- tion for her work In sketching tiny shells while viewing them through the microscope. Mrs. Decker was a charter member of the Arts Club, 4 member of the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution and a | former member of the City Club. She was A communicant of St. Margaret's Episcopal Ghurch She Is survived by her daughter, Miss | Ruth Decker | Allan, )r., of Richmond, Va. Funeral services will be conducted at the residence tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment will be n Glenwood | Cemetery. ‘D. J. HOWELL, HIGHWAY ! Alexandrian Directed Laying Out of Massachusetts Heights, This City. Bocclal Dispateh to The Star ALEXANDRIA. V August uvid J. Howell, 62 years old Duke street, dropped dead from a heart attack. He Avenue 29 700 of was direeting them to | Toadway construction near the Episcopal | High School at the time jees will be held at 2 o'el ¥ afternogn at the residence. Interment | will be in lvy Hill Cemels He was | the senlor member of the firm of D. J | Howell & Son, engineers, with offices in Mr. Howell, a native of Vi, wis & prominent civil and consulting engineer and was a f the American Soctety of Civil Washington Soc! of Civil the New England Waterworks Co. He was manager of the Alexandria Water Co. for several years and his flrm | constructed the Barcroft dam for that | organigation. My Howell was instru mental in organising the Belle Haven untry Club and was the engineer in charge of construction when the club was erected He was In charge of surveys for a sec- ton of the New York Barge Canal and other canal projects and among Funeral o ¥ and and divection were the Belle Haven Iosemont subdivisions, of this elty the Massachusetts Avenue Helghts and | | Forest Hills of Washington Mr. Howell was a graduate of Wash- |ington and Lee University. He fs sur vived by his widow, Mrs, Mary M. How- ell, who was at their Summer home in Charles Town when he died, and a son, Heudrice [ I, who was his father's and a sister. Mrs. Edgar | ENGINEER, DROPS DEAD vesterday | the | numerous subdivisions laid out under his | lateral renouncing war, would be “for all time a legitimate source of pride to the great nation of the United Statés of America.” “In fulfillment of the express instruc- tions of the President, Mr. Augusto B. Leguia, and of his government, I hasten to express to your excellency that Pern, formally, and with sincere enthusiasm, adheres to the anti-war pact,” said the note, “and that as soon as a certified copy thereof shall have been received, it will be submitted to the cognizance of the national Congress for ratifica- tion. “Peru, who has ever been a partisan of cordiality and peace in international relations and who aspires, therein, to nothing more than to the predominance and triumph of justice, cannot remain indifferent to the position taken which the signing of the pact referred to im- plies for the progress of mankind. “I would therefore request your ex- cellency to be =0 good as to consider Peru and its government as adhering to the transcendentag treaty in ques- | tign.” treaty Al Nations Invited. In keepiug with the spirit of the ne- otiations which resulted in the treaty, | mvitations have been placéd by Ameri- [can diplomatic representatives before | 48 governments other than those powers | which already have signed. Those - | vited Include every sovereignty of con- | sequence except Russia, which has been bidden by France to join. The American invitation said: | “The United States has been anxious | from the beginning that no state should | el devrived of an opportunity to par- ticipate promptly in the new treaty and | thus wiot only lign itself formally and | solemnly with this new manifestation of the popular demand for world peace, but also avail itself of the identical | benefits enjoyed by the original signa- | tories. g | “Accordingly, in the draft treaty pro- | posed by it, the United States made specific provision for participation ‘1 the treaty by any and every power de- | siring to identify itself therewith, and this same provision is found in the definitive instrument signed in Paris." Several Countries Send Word. Declaring that several expressions of | intentlon to sign have already reached Washington, the invitation said that this convineing evidence of the world- i wide interest and sympathy which the | new treaty has evoked is most gratify- | ing to all the governments concerned.” | While these invitations were being | tinuing the practice of his Western campaign, speaking three and four town today, however, after a strenuous visit to Syracuse. There dress at the State fair grounds, but before that he spoke briefly at a re- ception, urging woman voters to in- creased aetivity. He also visited a chil- dren’s spelling bee, called at the grand- stand at the fair grounds race track, and went to an Indian village, where he witnessed a war dance. He spoke briefty on each visit. TWO ASSAULTS BRING YEAR AND $500 FINE Colored Man Convicted of Attack- ing Two White Women in Same Night. Convicted of having assaulted two Davis, colored, who police say lives at 153 N street southeast. was sentenced to 360 days in jail on one charge and fined $500 or 360 days on the second today. Davis was accused of having as- saulted Mrs. Dora Summers, 1520 South Capitol street, in her home Saturday | night, and Mrs. May Berry, 1643 Half; street southwest, on the street shortly | before. Both women were badly bruised | and scratched DS EE VAo Road Bids Asked. SEAT PLEASANT, Md.. August 29.— Bids are being asked by the State Roads Commission for the construetion of 8 miles of concrete surfacing along Chapel road to the Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Railroad cross- ing M Seat Pleasant distriet. Proposals will be received until September 11. tion of its adherence followed and at Sofia Premier Liapscheff said Bulgaria would sign. Favorable replies are expected shovtly from Argentina, Norway, Hungary Greece and Panama. SOVIET PRESS COLD. MOSCOW. August 29 (#).—The Rus- sian press shows very little enthusiasm over the Kellogg-Briand renunciation- of-war treaty, both Izvestia and Pravda, leading official papers, being decidedly delivered several countrles in the old world and the new extended themselves | to be among the first to add approval | after that of the powers. Jugoslavia was first to follow the original 15, when | Foreign Minister Marinkovitch signed the pact just 15 minutes after receiving the officlal invitation From Havana came the Cuba intends o be the American country to sign. The formal cmony of adherence wa for tw ay At the same hour the Bolivian lega- | | ton in Washington announced that | | Bollvia was one of the nations which had notified Secretary Kellogg of its | intention to adhere o the pact. | " The Peruvian government's notifica- | word that first Latin cold in their editorial comment Meanwhile, the Soviet government in- tends to make a careful study of all documents relating to the pact before | making any decision as to whether to accept the invitation extended through the French government Pravda says that while a great part of the bourgeols press abroad is prais- ing the “universality of the pact it is simultancously giggling in its hands over the fact that the pact does not oblige anybody to do anything.” i Izvestin says that as long s nations keep arming the pact cannot be any thing but @ dead letter. The Russian position, 1t adds, is that full and last- ing peace can only come after com- plete universal disarmament Contains Names o By the Associated Press REDONDO. Calif August 38— The bottle at the beach here was declared| vesterday by J. L. Scott to resemble that of his missing son, Gorden Scott, who with Jack Frost. aviator, was lost | | a year ago in the Dole flight from Cali-| | fornia to Hawall | his confidence that the message was written by his son, later he expre gd himself as not absolutely certain - spite the evidence of the writing. he sald, there were clreumastances which made it diffioult to belleve that his son had composed it. The note, written on a fragment of 1N»«‘)tc in Bottle Washed Up by l;.;cific handwriting of & note pieked up in & | § T Dl Albusian cloth, apparently from a shirt, said: | “Run out of gas. Dropped 2,000 miles southwest of south in sight of desert nd. Not sure of reaching it. Please send help. Not much water left. “I. Frost | +Q. Scott.” | The note was said to have been found | n the heach by two boys, who turned | o the hottle over to a motorist to give Although the elder Scott first declared | to the police. The motorist did not leave | Suite d'orchestre the bottle with the police, and an ef- fort is being made to find him to identi- fy the contaner. ‘That tightly corked bottle could traveled 2,000 miles tn water dure g & year was declared possiblo by of- clals of the Giovernment Weather Bu- reau h = . oy times a day. He rested in this quiet| e delivered his principal ad- | | Suspended Officer Will Be 1' Brought Here to Face Shooting Charge. | | | Edward M. Taylor, suspended motor | cyele traffic officer, who is charged with having shot Willlam S. McBreen, pro- | prietor of the gasoline filling station at 2837 Benning road northeast. August 30, 1927, was arrested in New York last night as a fugitive from justice by | Headquarters Detective John Fowler. | He left New York in custody of the de- | tective at 1 o'clock this afternoon. | Tavlor denied that he knew anything | of the shooting. an Associated Press dis- patch said. Fowler went to New York !with a warrant issued Monday by United States Commissioner Needham | white women in one night, Lenwood ;C. Turnage charging Taylor with as- | sault with a dangerous weapon and as- sault with intent to kill McBreen. Police said Taylor's service revolver | furnished the clue that led to his ar- rest, authorities reporting that bullet removed from McBreen was fired from Taylor’s gun. Taylor is accused of having shot MeBreen in mis- take for Henry A. Finke, an employe of the filling station. with whom Taylor was said to have had a dispute over the reported disappearance of some money left at the station for Taylor | by _colored men. Taylor recently was suspended from the Washington police force when charged with having hijacked a truck- load of liquor, and was at liberty on $1,500 bail following indictment. s .-— Organize Veterans for Smith. Plans for the organization of war veterans in support of the Smith-Rob- inson ticket are expected to be com- pleted at a meeting tomorrow night at the headquarters of the Democratic central committee. 16 Jackson place. BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Navy Band i the Navy Yard bandstand, 7:30 o'elock tonight. March, “Light Cruisers” Benter Overture, “Semiramide™. Rossint Duet for two piccolos, “Birds of the Forest"” Danare Scenes from the opera, “La Travi- ata,” Verdl Valse, “Jolly Fellows" Vollstedt Two marches “All Hands Beater “The Class of 91 & U8 N4 7 Benter Selections from “Song of the Flame, Stotdhart Hungarian, No Liszt Fox trot. “Just Like 8 Melody Out of the v Donaldson “The Star Spangled Banner.” By (he United States Mavine Band at he Capitol. 7:30 o'clock tonight Les Preludes” Chanson negre, “Le Bananier, Gottschalk Saxophone solo. “Valse Vanite,” Rhopsody b «Liset Wi e Grand scenes (rom “La Gloconda,” Ponchiellt “Romance™ . Svendsen Waltz, “Der Rosenkavalier,” s‘em»\rd Puéommu'l sovaae o Lisst apriceio Espagnol™ K “The Star smwm:?‘k“ The concert schieduled in Washingt Circle Friday night has been nngll.e: 5 By the United States Soldiers' Home Military Band at the bandstand tomor- row at 330 o'elock March, “The Lineoln Centennial.” Lee Sanford ‘King Charles VI Halevy “Three Dances King Henry VIIT" Sir Edward German Excerpts from comic opera, “Ere minle" .. . Jakabowsky Intermezzo, “The Flower (irl", Wenrich “My Queen” . .. ... .. Rueslossi The Battleship Caiifornta.” “The Star Spangled Basner." Overture,