Evening Star Newspaper, November 2, 1928, Page 2

MURPHY ORDERS: SEWER PIT PROBE 18- Pupils of Webh, Pierce and- - Kingman. ~ Schools Stricken With Diphtheria. An fmmediate investigation into con- | ditions surrounding an open sewer cu' | in the street diagonally opposite the ‘Webb S¢hool at Fiftéenth and Rosedale | streets northeast was ordered today by Dr. Joseph A. Murphy, chief medical inspector of the public schools. i Eighteen cases of diphtheria have been discovered among pupils of the | Webb, Pierce and Kingsman Schools, all of which are within a radius of | three blocks of the sewer operations. The last two cases were two pupils in the Webb Building. | The complaints of several residents | of the vicinity of the Webb SChml.: including the -parents of some pupils, | were placed before Robert L. Haycock, assistant superintendent in charge of elementary schools, shortly before noon and Mr. Haycock, considering the con- ditions described by the complainants to constitute an “emergency,” prompt- 1y telephoned Dr. Murphy. Mr. Hay- cock also will ask Miss Adelaide Davis, supervising principal of the sixth di- vision, to, make a complete rcport on her findings concerning the pit. According to complaints of residents of the adjoining streets, which were presented to Mr. Haycock this morn- ing, the pit, lying in the center of the sidewalk and undermini»< a portion of the abutting houses’ fro* vards and the treebox area, was opened after the middle of September in the course of operations which were to install larger sewer pipes. An opening large enough “to put a horse in” was cut through the brick and concrete main, and op- erations were slopped three weeks ago. During that period, the complainants say, nothing has been done to seal the gaping hole in the street, and only a few loose boards xhal\;‘e bfnn placed across the opening in the pipe. During t}?ee heavy rains about two weeks ago, they say, water backed up in the pipe, flowed out of the opening and completely filled the gaping pit with sewage. The pit is nearly 20 feet long, 10 feet deep and 10 feet wide. The ex- posed sewer main with the board cov- ering over its hole can be seen in the bottom of the pit, while the earth which was Gug from the pit was piled up in the vehicular war of the street so that it completely blocked the gutter. The earth packed tightly by the feet of play- ing children and rains, acted as a dam which held back in a still 1 rain wa- ter ana seme of the overflow from the sewer in a black, foul-smelling pool of water. A pit three times as large as the one immediately across from the Webb School, which has been open for the same length of time, blocks the street at Fifteenth and G streets northeast. Operations on this cut have not been suspended, but a small force of men was kept on the job and today they mere plastering the final coat of cement upon the exterior of the main in prep- aration for the refilling of the hole. The earth taken from this pit, however, was stacked in a pile that reached a levd: above the tops of the first-story win-| dows in adjoining houses. It was piled | in the gutters and, like that at the; smaller pit a block down the street,! dammed up the surface water. | In his telephone conversation with | Mr. Haycock at noon today, Dr. Murphy said he did not believe the sewer pits, even though open, would constitute a source of diphtheria germs, but he de- clared that such a condition as Mr. Haycock described from the complaints of residents might, under certain condi-, tions, be a dangerous breeder of other germ diseases. He :promised Mr. Hay- cock that he would notify the sanita- tion office &nd make an immediate in- spection. B i, T BEGIN LABORATORY BUILDING IN SPRING American —Pharmaceutical Association Will Erect $500,000 Structure. The half-million-dellar structure to house the national headquarters of the American Pharmaceutical Association and an important laboratory designed to aid in protecting the public health, authorized by the assoclation at its last annual meeting, 'will be. started; next Spring, near the LincoldMemorial on the north side of B street, just west of the National Academy-of Sciences. This announcement was made today. by Dr. Samuel L. Hjlton, chairman of the council of the association, who said that the building committee is prepar- ing to invite architects to submit plans. . Dr. H. A. B. Dunning of Baltimore, chairman of the committee on building, has the matter in charge. The building committee, appointed about two years ago by Dr. Hilton, has been busy in the interim collecting funds, and has now -chased the land for the new struc- ?l‘:rre, which is located in the center of the tract between the National Acad- emy of Sciences and the Naval Hos- al. p“I)I'. Hilton anticipates -that the asso- ciation will be able to break ground for the building in the Spring. Purpose of Building. The building, which under the pro- gram of the Fine Arts Comission for structures along B street in the vicinity of Arlington Memorial Bridge plaza must be in keeping with the type of building represented by the National Academy of Sciences, will not only be the national headquarters of the Amer- joan Pharaceutical Asociation, but will contain a valuable library on pharmacy, a museum to show the advance of the science of pharmacy in the last 150 years, a_ research laboratory donated by Dr. Alfred R. L. Dohme of Balti- more, for the purpose of going into re- search problems pertaining to pharmacy | and the office for the publication of | the organization’s organ, the Journal of the American Pramaceutical Association. Endowment Planned. Dr. Hilton declared that it is the aim of the organization to have an adequate endowment fund, in addition to purchasing the land, which has al- ready been done, and to erect the building. Various problems relating to public health will be studied by experts in the new home of the American Pharmaceutical Association, Dr. Hilton declared, in an effort to further assure the public that it will get pure medicines. o ROBBED OF $10,000. Bank Cashier Held Up as He Takes Pay Roll to Post Office. GAS CITY, Ind, November 2 (#).— The cashier of the First State Bank herc was held up and robbed of a $10,000 pay roll this morning by four men, who escaped in an automobile. ‘The cashier had just started for the post office with the pay roll money for a glass company. As he stepped out SEWER PITS HELD s Below: Open sewer repair pit in the .In l:nvcfii[lfion today by cial IDENTIFY PANZRAM INJAIL LINE-UP Massachusetts Women Link Prisoner With Death—Con- necticut Reports Boy Killed. Simultaneously with the positive identification yesterday afternoon of Carl Panzram, prisoner at the District Jail, as the man last seen with 12+ year-old Henry ‘McMahon, whose lifes less body was found on the outskirte of Salem, Mass., six years ago, wor¢ was received from New Haven, Conn. that a°boy was killed near there Au fuxt 9, 1923, under circumstances sim lar to those related to police here b: Panzram in his last confession. ! Following his original confession to Maj. William Peake, superintendent of the jail, telling of the killing of boys in Salem and Philadelphia, Panzram ad- dressed a letter to the chief of police of New London, Conn., stating that he had killed a boy in that State, but was not sure whether it was near New Lon- don or New Haven. He had killed so many persons, he said, he could not re- member all the details of each crime., Connecticut Death, The letter yesterday was received by Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent of police, from Chief of Police Philip T. Smith of New Haven. It stated that on & road leading south from New Ha- ven to Bridgeport the lifeless body of an unidentified boy was found in Au- gust, 1923, The body appeared to have been lying there in a clump of bushes about a week. The victim seemed to be about 20 years old, the letter as- serted. In most of the other points the description of -the youth tallied closely with that given by Panzram of the boy he said he murdered. This was the murder her S&W :lhe “enjoyed” more than any ef the others. : On October 26 Panzram confessed to Lieut. Edward J. Kelly, chief of the homicide squad, that he killed a boy about 16 years old on the exact spot where the body was found. He said he gagged the boy with a handkerchief and then choked him to death with a leather belt. A handkerchief was found tied around the boy’s head and a belt around his neck and knotted behind his left ear, the letter from Chief Smith said. Identify Prisoner. The identification of Panzram in the Salem case was accomplished h]y Mrs. Bertha M. Luxton of Marblehead, Mass, and Mrs. Theresa Parsons of Salem, who arrived in Washington yes- terday in company with Chief of Police Daniel J. Phelan and Capt. Gideon Pelletier of Salem. They went immediately to the jail, where the women unhesitatingly picked \ out Panzram from seven prisoners lined ! up before them. They say they are sure he is the man they saw disappear in the woods on a Summer day six years 2go with the McMahon boy whose body was found there and whom Panz- ram has said he murdered. The Massachusetts officers were to confer with United States District At- torney Leo A. Rover today and deter- mine what steps will be taken in the light of the identification yesterday. LINDY MAY FLY HOME TO VOTE ON TUESDAY Report Says He Will Then Return to Mexico, Probably Making Non-Stop Hop. MEXICO CITY, November 2 (®).— The newspaper Excelsior says that Col. Charles A. Lindbergh is planning to fly from Chihuahua, where he is on a hunting trip, to St. Louis in order to vote in the presidential election. After voting, the newspaper says, the ico City, possibly in a non-stop attempt, for & visit to Dwight W. Morrow, Amer- into the street, he was accosted by the robbers who grabbed the package con- taining the money and sped away. ¢ ican ambassador. The colonel is ex- SCHOOL HEALTH PER Above: Pool of stagnant water at Fifteenth and Rosedale streets northeast. the Health Department at the instance of school offi- colonel will fly from St. Louis to Mex- | | IL same vicinity. These conditions brought —Star Staff Photo. M CARL PANZRAM. SLAYER AND ROBBER ESCAPE STATE PRISON West Virginia Convicts Climb Through Skylight to Roof and Scale Walls, By the Associated Press. MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va. November 2.—Two prisoners, one of them serving a life sentence for a killing, escaped from the West Virginia State Peniten- tiary here last night or early today. The convicts forced a plate from the rear of a cell, climbed over the cell tier and through a skylight to the roof, and then scaled the outer. prison walls, prison authorities sald. The life term convict is Sam Blevins of Wheeling. He was accompanied by Clarence Pyree, McDowell County, whose term would have expired next June. Pyree was serving a sentence for Tobbery. - Penitentiary officials said the men had fled some time between 8:30 o'clock last night and 6 o'clock this morning. SHAW’S CURT REPLY TO LECTURE REQUEST RILES SCOTCH CLERIC| ) and he promptly whote to Mr. Shaw and mentioned well-known public men who had been welcomed to the soclety's platform. Then he continued: “You have a perfect right to say that you have not time to come though I find that statement hard to believe from a man who evidently finds plenty of time to bask for hours almost naked on a raft on a sunny beach of the Riviera, and can spend whole evenings with a famous Yankee | pugilist who seeks to worship at the Shavian shrine. “What you had no right to do was to accompany your refusal with a | gratuitous and typically insolent piece of advice to our secretary that we should keep our guineas for other men who need them more. It is quite evi- dent that you are not in need of guineas. What you are in need of is the grace of common courtesy.” G. B. 8. sent the following message on a post card today in reply: “Hoots, toots mon, Dinna tak offense whar name is meant and gie yer siller til the young, a’ tel't yet. “G. Bernard Shaw. “P. 8. I trust this is worthy of a de- ;oteld student of Burns and Walter cott.” AX SLAYER KILLS 3. (Continued From First Paj i SANTA ROSA, Calif., C. J. Bertola family of three here to- day and escaped, his identity unknown, afier firing the dwelling. MIDWEST STATES INTCE KING'S GRIP iBlizzard Spreading, Threat- ens Lower Mississippi Regions and Texas. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, November 2.—Driven on by fresh blasts from the Arctic, a| Rocky Mountain blizzard with accom- | panying snow, rain and freezing tem- peratures spread farther afield into the Middle West today, threatening the lower Mississippi Valley regions. with snow and nearly all of Texas with cold weather. The outlook was for more snow in Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and Kansas. Strong north winds swept Oklahoma, where the temperatures hovered about the freezing mark. Freezing weather was expected in the panhandle and South Texas plains, with the prediction that only the extreme Southern por- tion would escape the cold wave, which followed heavy rains in the State. ‘Warmer in Dakotas. Somewhat warmer weather prevailed |in North and South Dakota, and in { Western Nebraska, temporarily releas- | ing those sections from the blizzard which brouilht a heavy drifting snow mantle to the grazing country. Omaha and Eastern Nebraska re- ceived the first touch of the snow last night, which followed heavy rainfall over a 36-hour period. Continued low i temperatures with snow prevailed at Sioux City.” Snowfall in South Dakota ranged from 4 to 6 inches, while Southern Minnesota also was visited by snowfall. Fair but cold weather in the Rocky Mountain States today held little promise of rellef from the second storm of the season, which had halted »* mail planes, blocked highways, delayed's trains and disrupted wire communica- tion, More snow was predicted in a few isolated Wyowing and Montana sections. Resumption of air mail service was expected today. Wyoming Covered. ‘Wyoming was covered by heavy snow, { while most of Colorado was blanketed with snow ranging from 2 inches in depth in Denver to several feet in the higher mountains. Near zero tempera- tures prevailed in some localities. All of Kansas was visited by heavy rains and snowfall yesterday, bringing moisture which was welcomed by Winter wheat. growers. Cold weather prevailed there today. Disturbed conditions prevailed on the Pacific Coast with” prospects of a rain- fall following a gale sweeping in from the ocean. Anxious Middle Western foot ball crowds gained some encouragement from Saturday's weather forecast, which was for generally fair weather, with rising temperature. Nothing approaching the full force of the storm will be felt in Washington, the forecaster announced today. Some rain is anticipated tonight or tomorrow and the temperature is expected to drop Saturday night, but neither the rain nor the cold is expected to be se- vere. TUNNEY CANVAS HUNG NEAR THAT OF WALES Boxer's Portrait, Painted by Sir John Lavery, Goes on Ex- hibition. By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 2.—Gene Tun- ney's portrait, painted by Sir John Lavery, went on exhibition today near portrait of the Prince of Wales at a private view of the annual exhi- bition of the Royal Society of Portrait | Painters. Critics said that Sir John's head of the retired champion looked more like that of a university athlete than a professional boxer. ‘The artist was among the guests at a dinner given to Tunney last August. At that time he proposed painting Tun- | ney, but no announcement was made that the sittings had been arranged. Consequently the portrait was som thing of a surprise to those who a tended the exhibition. Tunney hangs near early portraits of the Prince of Wales, in the Garter robes by Sir Arthur Cope, which King George loaned to the exhibition. An- other notable portrait was that of Ber- nard Shaw by the Hon. John Collier. WILLYS GIVES $25,000. Automobile Manufacturer Makes Gift to G. 0. P. Fund. A contribution of $25,000 to the Re- publican campaign fund by John N. Willys, president of the Willys-Overland Co., Toledo, Ohio, was announced here today at the national committee head- quarters, # D. C., FRID NO BORAH CUTS SHORT BOSTON ADDRESS Senator Complains of Late- ness of Hour to Make Lengthy Remarks. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, November 2.—Disagreement between Senator William E. Borah and | Boston Republican leaders over the arrangements for his campaign address tonight nearly led to the cancellation of his appearance in the Bay State Capital. After alengthy and apparently stormy conference with members of the local campaign committee headed by Robert | M. Washburn, president of the Roosevelt | Club of Massachusetts, following upon | his arrival from Baltimore, the Senator | late last night tentatively accepted the program. The committee’s arrange- | ments had called for his speech over a | Nation-wide radio hook-up at 10:30 p.m and the Senator strenuously objected to | this late hour for the delivery of the address. Will Speak Briefly. Although the local committee had re- quested Mr. Borah for an hour or more, the Senator agreed to speak only for 15 or 20 minutes. “I am in the hands of the situation,” he declared to newspaper men. “I shall | only speak for 15 or 20 minutes.” | late hour he had considered the possi- | bility of canceling his address engage- | ment. ‘The Senator's speech will culminate | a -huge Hoover-Curtls demonstration, pwhich will consist of a torchlight pa'ade and the assembling of the Re- pubi‘can presidential ticket's supporters in the Boston Arena to listen to Herbert Hoover’s St. Louis speech over the radio. Following Hoover’s address, Francis Prescol;,, Massachusetts State party chair.aan, and Washburn will deliver shor¢ speeches and then Mr. Borah will give ais address. Declares He Is Well. “My ear and my mind are all right,” Senator Borah commented in regard to the report of his illness. Commenting on the resignation of Alanson B. Houghton as Ambassador to Great Britain, Senator Borah in a statement lauded Houghton's ability and declared that his diplomatic experi- ence would be of value to the Senate in regard to foreign relations. Houghton is the Republican candidate for Senator in New York. |OPERATION FATAL TO NOTED MUSICIAN | Oscar @. T. Sonneck, Former Music Chief at Library of Con- gress, Succumbs. Oscar G. T. Sonneck, chief of the music division of the Library of Con- gress here until September, 1917, and an authority on music, died at his home in New York City, Tuesday night, according to advices received in Wash- ington. Library of Congress officials in a re- port shortly after Mr. Sonneck left there in 1917 expressed great regret over his loss to that institution. Mr. Sonneck was the American dele- gate to the International Music Con- gresses at Rome and London in 1911, and to the Beethoven Centenary at Vienne. last year. He was secretary to the Beethoven Auocl\tlon of New York, which in 1927 published a quarto vol- ume, “Beethoven's Letters in America.” Among the works of Mr. Sonneck are “Suum Culque: Essays in Music,” “Mis- cellaneous Studies in the History of Music,” “Orchestral Music” and ‘“Beethoven: Impressions of Contem- poraries,” He wrote the music for four songs arranged from poems of Edgar Allan Poe and other musical composi- tions, chiefly of the lieder type. He was an executive member of the Society for the Publication of American Music. Mr. Sonneck was born in Jersey City. He received an exceptionally thor- ough general and musical education in Germany. He spent the six years from 1883 to 1889 at the Kieler Gelehrten- schule in Kiel and the next four years at the Kaiser Fredrich Gymnasium, in Frankfort-on-Main. A year at Heidel- berg was followed by four years at the University of Munich. He studied the history of music under Sandberger, com- position under M. E. Sachs, piano under Kwast and instrumentation under Knorr. FLYERS REACH WYNDHAM. Australians Bound for England May Cross Sea Tomorrow. SYDNEY, New South Wales, Novem- ber 2 (A).—Capt. Frank Hurley and Flying Officer Moir, Australian airmen, bound for England. arrived at Wynd- ham, Northern Territory, at 9:45 am. today from Daly Waters. They intend to fly across Timor Sea to Java tomorrow if weather conditions permit. T - A Feast of Fact and Fiction In the Magazine of Next Sunday’s Star “Frenzied Whoopee Sweeps Candidates to Campaign. Deadline” Don Glassman, a_special writer for The Star, travels with Candidates Hoover minute campaigning. and Smith and writes of last- He also indicated that because of the Mr, Sonneck was 55 years old. Death | followed an operation for appendicitis.' “Ancient Custis Slave Remembers Brilliant Arlington Enoch Quila Chase, a Washington writer, interviews a former Arlington slave, now living in Virginia. November 2| (#).—An ax murderer wiped out the | “Belle Boyd, Confederate Union Force” One of the intensely inte writer, Joseph Gollomb. “Dynamite Was Packed in in War Time” Head of the Picture Division during the war tells of photographs which cause “One of the Great War Thrills Was Luring U-Boats to Destruction” First accounts of battle when German submarines were destroying great liners. “Old War Office Had Plate in Many Stirring Events” John Clagett Proctor writes of old-time Washington its people and historical b Also fiction, “Flesh Pot “Lindy Wins Bet With Roge thrilling adventure article a Girls’ page. In the Magazine of Bertola was a retired grocer. The pected at Mexico City on November 7 or 8 and will remain about a week.: other victims were his wife, Maria, and their duaghter, Camille. Spy, Matches Wits With resting articles of the famous Some Photographs Taken d “difficulties.” adventures in the high seas, vildings. s,” by Wainwright Evar s’ Aid,” by Will Roge nd stories on the Boys’ and Next Sunday’s Star EMBER 2, 1928 A (Continued From First Page.) universe. ‘This probably would not overthrow the Einstein theory, however, since some parts of it apparently have been verified by other experiments. Prof. Michelson said last night that he believed Einstein had made Incor- rest assumptions from the outcome of the Miohelson-Morley experiment, but nevertheless had arrived at correct re- sults and that the theory eventually will be regarded as the most important since Newton’s laws of gravitation. He | still believes in the existence of ether {and holds that it will be necessary to reconcile the Einstein theory with this conception. There will be a dinner in Dr. Michel- son’s honor at the Cosmos Club tonight, when the Optical Society will be pre- sented with the Frederick Ives medal by Dr. Herbert E. Ives, the American in- ventor of television. This medal was established by Dr. Ives' father, Seek Light on Light. Science still is groping for an ex- planation of the phenomena of light, Dr. Paul R. Heyl of the Bureau of | Standards told the society this morning. It was first regarded, Dr. Heyl pointed out, as an independent substance of the nature of & luminous cloud pervading nature. Some of the Greek philosophers thought that it was something pro- ceeding from the human eye toward ex- terior objects. Later it was considered as a stream of particles proceeding from the sun or other luminous body and hit- ting the eye. This theory was held by Sir Isaac Newton. Still later it was re- | garded as a wave motion in a hypo- thetical ether. The more advanced ex- | perimental work of today shows that neither the corpuscular theory nor the wave theory fits the observed behavior of light, Dr. Heyl said. ‘The eventual explanation, Dr. Heyl held, probably will be that light is of a nature which permits both explanations. The latest concepts of the structure of the atom, he said, may provide some explanation. These hold that the atom is electric in nature, but that the elec- tric charge, instead of being localized in revolving electrons, is distributed through the whole atomic volume. This charge may suffer a periodic fluctuation in intensity and in consequence emit radiation in the form of trains of waves. It may also emit electrons, which may be regarded as little bunches of fluctuating electric charge split off from the main body of the atom. “You have all seen,” he said, “tufts of flame ris- ing from a wood fire. Except for the fact that these tufts do not last more than a fraction of a second, they repre- sent fairly well the emission of elec- trons.” Nature of Ether Studied. The nature of ether, Dr. Heyl said. Is another problem which is far from solution. Older physicists found it necessary to fill the interstellar spaces with something to serve as a medium for the movement of light and for the action of gaity, electricity and mag- netism. Since nobody knew what this substance was, Dr. Heyl pointed out. everybody could attribute to it the THOMAS P. MORGAN - DEAD AT 7 YEARS i Widely Known Insurance Executive Was Native of Washington. Thomas P. Morgan, sr., 75 vears old, for many i3:enn; identified internatio ally with the insurance business, mem- ber of an old Washington family and a leader in the Masonic fraternity here, died at his residence, 1715 Riggs place, today after an illness of three weeks. Until his retirement five years . Mr. Morgan was general supervisor of all agencies in the United States and abroad for the Mutual Life Insurance capacity for 20 years, Prior to that he was manager for the company in the District of Columbia and Northern Vir- infa. He was past president of the ife Underwriters’ Association of the District of Columbia. A thirty-third degree Mason, Mr. Morgan was past grand commander of the Grand Commandry, Knights Templar of the District of Columbia, past commander of Washington Com- mandry, No. 1, Knight Templar; past master of Lafayette Lodge, No. 19. F. A. A. M, and a_member of Lafayette Chapter, No. 5. Royal Arch Masons, ;'l:‘ldl of Almas Temple of the Mystic rine. Native of This City. A native of this city, Mr. Morgan was the son of the late Thomas P. Morgan, Commissioner of the District of Colum- bia from 1879 to 1883. He was born near the Capitol, but spent much of his boy! at Oak Lawn, in the home built by his father, now known as Tem- ple - Heights, overlooking Connecticut avenue. Mr, Morgan was educated in the pub- lic schools here and at Emerson Insti- tute. His first employment was with John O. Evans, a leading contractor years ago. Mr. Morgan entered the insurance business in 1888, representing the New York Life. The follo year he went to work for the Mutual Life. During the years with them he had the distinc- tion” of being one of a few persons named special executive to represent the president of the company, Director of Bank. Mr. Morgan was a director of the Union Trust Co. and was an honorary member of the Washington Board of Trade, with which organization he was active for a number of years. During the Taft inaugural proces- sion Mr, Morgan was marshal in charge of all clvic organizations. Mr. Morgan was married to Miss Edith Johnson of Cumberland, Md., the great-granddaughter of Thomas John- son, early Maryland governor. He 1is survived by his widow, three sons, Johnson R. Morgan, Thomas P.! Morgan, jr., and Henry W. Morgan, al of this city; four daughters, Mrs. W. 8. ! McLeod of Galveston, Tex.; Mrs. B.| Lowndes Jackson, Mrs. Edith Morgan Stevens and Mrs. Tevis M. Carr, all of | this city; 16 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. completed. FRENCH CABINET AGREES ON 2 BUDGET ARTICLES Announces “Complete * Accord” After Period During Which Crisis Threatened. By the Associated Press. ; PARIS, November 2.—The French cabinet today ironed out all differences that appeared for a time to threaten a crisis. It was announced there was “complete accord.” The differences had arisen over two articles in the present budget. The a) ticles in question concerned the al tribution of lands, houses and other forms of wealth to regularly constituted religious associations and derit with credits proposed by the ministry of for- eign affairs for the establishment in France of novitates and training schools for French foreign missions. Radical ministers, who opposed the return of any and all religlous orders and congregations, accepted the modifi- cation that such return would be limited and that every case would be] taken up separately. Co. of New York, having served in that | Funeral arrangements have not been | MERICAN OPTICAL SOCIETY TO HONOR MICHELSON TODAY PROF. ALBERT A. MICHELSON. properties which best fitted the par- ticular theory. Thus the idea of ether moved from that of an extremely at- tenuated gas to that of an elastic jelly. Later the Einstein theory did away with the need of ether altogether to explain gravitation by the thesis that space itself was curved in the presence of matter, and that an object falling to earth was rolling down a hill of space. Thus, Dr. Heyl said, ether now may be simply another term for space itself. The learned members of the Optical Society yesterday afternoon relaxed from their grave mathematical discus- sions to watch a colored moving pic- ture of Cleopatra vamping Antony, which was shown to illustrate some new principles in color moving picture pho- tography. The pictures were studies in reds and greens, with particular at- tention to faces and clothes. Dr. C. E. K. Mees then showed a reel of motion pictures of the planet Jupi- ter, made by Prof. W. H. Wright at the Lick Observatory. The reel illustrates the rotation of the planet, showing the various surface features. Jupiter re- volves in 10 hours, in comparison with the 24 hours required by the earth. The method employed was that used in the familiar “speed-up” pictures which show flowers in the process of blooming. The separate exposures were made at regular intervals through two or three successive nights. Not only did the picture show the diversified surface of the revolving planet in clear detail, but even disclosed the move- ment of a satellite causing an eclipse like that which results when the moon passes between the sun and the earth Dies Here at 75 THOMAS P. MORGAN, SR. POSTAL OFFICIALS OUSTED BY GLOVER Lansford, Pa., Pair ‘Accused of Hid- ing Post Office Nameé in Mail- ing Anti-Hoover Circulars. By the Associated Press. Robert H. Stickler, postmaster, and his sister-in-law, Mrs. Bessie Burns Stickler, assistant postmaster at Lans- ford, Pa., were today removed from office by acting Postmaster General Glover. The ouster followed investiga- tion of charges that they had connived to secure the mailing from the Lansford post office of circulars attacking Her- bert Hoover, without postmarks or identification slips on the mail bags. ‘The mail matter signed “Non-Partisan Committee” also attacked candidates for local offices in that district, the department said, and had “purposely been daubed so as to conceal from the ublic the name of the post office send- nsgut the circulars in question.” th had been suspended by Post- master General New October 19, pend- ing the investigation, and an inspector is now in charge of the office. {STOCKHOLDERS 0. K. MERGER OF RIGGS AND GEORGETOWN BANKS (Continued From FPirst Page.) Seventh and I streets and Eighteenth street and Columbia road. The officers and directors of both institutions have been enthusiastic over the merger plan and were highly grati- fied by today's ratification by the stock- holders. List of Directors, i‘ ‘The directors of the Farmers & Me- i chanies National include Willlam M. | Beall, J. McKenney Berry, Charles H. | Cragin, Joseph H. Cranford, Henry W. Fisher, Willlam C. Gwynn, William | King. ‘Joseph H. Lee, G. L. Nicholson, J. Wilbur Sherwood, Thomas J. Stan- ton, Jullan M. Walters, Robert D. Weaver, Raymond J. Wise and Hilleary G. Hoskinson. The i)ment irectors of the Riggs National include Charles C. Glover, | Willlam J. Flather, H. Rozler Dulany, | Sterling Ruffin, Charles C. Glover, jr.; tLouis E. Jeffrles, John 8. Larcombe, | Henry B. Spencer, Julius Garfinkel, Fleming Newbold, C. Powell Minniger- ode, Willlam M. Ritter, Harry F. Clark, PFrank J. Hogan, Randall H. Hagner, Robert V. Fleming, Coleman Jennings, { John Olive La Gorce, Isaac T. Mann, Edmund D. Rheem, Karl W. Corby. John J. Pershing, Edwin. B, Parker, Charles H. Tompkins and Henry P. Erwin, ‘The merger is one of the most im- portant that has ever taken place in the city and is the first since the Secu- rity Savings & Commercial Bank took over the Central Savings Bank about w0 years ago. 4 BOY, 14, ATPLAY, CRASHESTO DA™ Charles A. King, Jr., Loses Grip While Swinging.on Bar at School. Al While swinging from an iron bar over the stairs leading to the basement of the Wallach-Towers School yester- day, Charles A. King, jr, 14-year-old Hine Junior High School student, lost his grip as he reached the topmost point of the arc described by his body., and crashed head first onto the con-‘ crete steps. He died a few hours later at Sibley Hospital from a fractured skull. Several boys who were playing with him at the time said this morn= ing that he had already leaped at the bar and swung and was trying to re- peat the feat from a higher step when he fell. He lived at 1367 E street southeast. School authorities say that the boys are forbidden to swing on the ‘bar, Several of the students were engaged in the dangerous play yesterday. Ties Hine Junior High and the Wallach , Tnxen Schools adjoin. group of boys were returning ws their classes at the end of the m&m recess. One of them jumped to the bar and swung. Then Charles tried it. Ree alizing that their playmate was seri~ ' ously injured his companions ran to the school building and told a teacher. The unconscious boy was carried into the building and Dr. J. C. Pyle, who lives nearby, was summoned. The boy's father, Charles A. King, chief of core respondence and records of the Geolog= ical Survey, was informed of the accie d:‘nt and arrived soon after the physi- cian. ‘The combined efforts of Dr. Pyle and Dr. Paul S. Putzki were unsvalgr’l’g. and Charles died at Sibley Hospital a few minutes after 8 o'clock last night. Mrs. Ethel King, mother of the s was near a breakdown this morning. Charles had one sister, Ethel, 16 years old, & student at Eastern High School. The bar from which he fell extends from an fron railing around the top of the stairs to the wall of the building. It is about midway from the top of the stairs to the ‘bottom. No funeral ar- 1;;2gemenu had been made this morn« ) . DECLARES SCHOOLS CAN AID RIGHT Minnesota U. Head Holds Deflec- ‘ tions From Rectitude Too Much for One Agency. | BY the Assoclated Press. | , BUFFALO, N. Y. November 2.— | Asserting that “apparently there have { never been so many deflections from ) rectitude, so much positive immoralit; and criminality as today,” Lotus I; Coffman, president of the University of Minnesota, said here today that “no one agency can correct” the situation, Ee“r‘vt::re“"t the schools “can be of great In an address before the western sec~ tion of the New York State Teachers' Association, he said that many factors have contributed to the situation, in- cluding the migrancy of our population, # the increase in wealth and “its misuses here and there” and the “current phi- lasofihy of life which portrays satis- faction and pleasure rather than sacri- P e ane e e nd.” he said, “one his phuoug.hy ot life being displayed, one sees it in the medern drama, mod- ern fiction, current novels, the screen, and displayed on every hand on_the magazine shelf. It is a philsophy which ) :‘filgl:gflh& t:“t 'Che fault does not lie | e youl ‘The j fault is with the tmear" o ! courts, he said, cannot aid “becoming more drastic, the I..emmubr!e, .annot do it by enacting new laws, the omes cannot do it by giving more at- i 't;::‘!:ggg sto hmtn:: cfi.i;nn(, and the cannof olg-ume religion.” » T o) Even the schools working alone,” he :):x‘tdth Et’yannot l:ufl;i a new philosophy, can of t e present situation.” e Y PLAN ROOSEVELT STATUE. | PANAMA, November 2 (r.—A bl | to honor Theodore Roosevelt by nnm}:'lu; ‘a public square after him and erect- ing his statue in it has been presented to the national Congress. The measure was sponsored by Eduardo Chiarl, & brg‘:ué o; to;lr?er 'Prcsldent Chiari. inds for the statue would be rai: by_public subscription. s Passage of the bill seemed to be as- sured since 25 of the 46 members of Congress subscribed to it before it was presented. ) o FLETCHER ARRIVES IN U S. NEW YORK, November 2 (#).— Henry P. Fletcher, United States Am- bassador to Italy, returned today on the iteamship Roma to participate in the Pan-American conference scheduled to start at Washington December 10, The ambassador, accompanied by Mrs. Fletcher, will go to his home in Greencastle, Pa.. to vote Tuesday and then will go to Washington. PIMLICO ENTRIES e e — FOR TOMORROW. (Pirst Race, 1:15 P.M.) FIRST RACE—| ;2 r (FIRST RACE_Purse, $1.300; 2-year-olds: Jane Rinehart, 08 *Vimont Siena Also ellzibis *Chas. the Pirst. Joe Engel * Star Flye ozo .. *Juntus Tom Kaniy . = Z2Z232 2 . Elder Blossom SECOND RACE—Th Steeplechase Handicap: 510,000 added: 212 % s and up: 2 Bridee .. ¢ b Rudolf Gracie . a Arc Light. (I\In,uml p Rip ... . 137 Nomad 8 furlongs. a Widener entry. b8anford Stud Farm entry. ¢ Pive pounds claimed for rider. THIRD RACE—Purse, §1,300; 2-year-olds; | THIRD RACE_Purse, $1.300; 2-vear-olds; Golden Arrow ... 108 Ial z Sun Hatter...... 108 1’\('-';:3 i aucona . 2 Fortune's ‘Favits 108 corun® Grit FOURTH RACE—The cap: all ages; purse, $13 Exealibur _...... 111 Helen's Babe .... 11 Gaffsman ....... 12 FIPTH RACE—The Wicomico; 3-year-olds: § furlongs: purse, $1.500. g Twitter .. Sistership Tifin ... Stretcher Fair Anfta Old Dutch Balko .. Forest Park Handi- 00; 1 miies,2nd Hydromel .. ‘Also, elig watertail SIXTH RACE—Purse. $1.300: 3-year- and up: elaiming: 1. miles. i B 3 117 Pair Class 17 Campanint 112 Purple Piraie : 107 SEVENTH RACF- P olds and up: claimin 13 b $1.300:_ 3-yen \le and 70 yards. lla M. 13 Grey of Dawi 13 +Joe Adams +North Breeze *Faddy ... Miss Prim Fair Lark Wrackeen *Tallades: Heartache .00 *Apprentize allowance claimed. Weather clouds; track fash m elizin) 1 1ces _Roc :alden Tinted " Son Ami cat .. *SBonata’ . 3 ‘Amenra |