Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1929, Page 2

STo0NREFUNDS ~ AT TANPAVERS District Unable to Return Ex- --cess Payments, Lacking Addressee. ‘The District government'has between { $18,000 and $20,000, representing ex- cess payments of realestate taxes, which it is having' dif ity in returning to taxpayers becausé of the lack of their addresses, according to a statement pre- pared for Tax Assessor Willlam P. Richards today by Mrs. Anna E. Thomp- son, director of the tax refund division of the assessor's office. | Since its creation in January, 1928, | the tax refund bureau has returned aj proximately $40.000 to real estate cwn- ers who made duplicate payments. 2,220 Refunds Made. According to Mrs. Thompson's report, 2220 refunds for excess payments on T°al estate taxes have been made, and |, many of these required diligent inves- igation to locate the property owner. In one case it was necessary to trace an owner to the Philippine Islands. The work of the tax-refund division has been exceedingly tedious as a result of the lack of the home or business ad- dress of many of the owners ¢f real es- tate. In order to facilitate the work of the refund division as weil as assur2 prop- erty owners of the return of an excess payment they might make througn er ror, Mrs, Thompson urged that tax- payers whose addresses are not noted on the real estate tax bills write them in under their names on the coupon, which is taken by the collector of taxes when the bills are paid. The 1930 tax bilis will not be issued until July, but Mrs. Thompson points out it is not too early to advise the tax- payers carefully to observe the bills to note whether they contain the home or business address. Annual Bills Unmailed. Lamgely through the lack of addresses, the tax assessor's office has been unable | to mail annual real estate tax bil with the result that thousands of ta: payers are required to call at the Di trict Building for the bills. The mail- ing of tax blls, however, according to the assessor, can only be regarded as action baskd on courtesy. “The law not only fixes a time within | which tax payments must be made, but rovides a penalty for periods of de- inquency,” said Mr. Richards. “The taxpayer is forced to assume respon- sibilty if he wishes to avoid penalty. His payment of any tax demands as careful attrntion as any other part of the managraent of his property. Based on Courtesy. “The mailing of bills and notices ¢an only be regarded as action based on courtesy.' However, this office is not in possession of a complete mailing list, altbough strenuous efforts have been made toward that end. Every year the clerks of this office have been instructed to obtain the addresses of the taxpayers, but this effort has met with little or no success.” The tax refund bureau has been one of the most important and invaluable units of the tax assessor’s office. Prior to its creation, it was said, several years elapsed sometimes before over- payments were discovered and refunds made to taxpayers. Now the refunds are prompt when addresses are avail- le. “The procedure for handling tax bills after payment changed somewhat with the establishment of the tax refund unit. Now as soon as the bills are paid they are sent by the tax collector to the assessor's office where the payment is recorded on the tax ledgers. Any overpayment is immediately noted. and the tax refund division so notified. A thorough check is then made by the refund division to determine whether any error has been made, and if not, steps are taken to communicate with the property owner. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Fair with light frost tonight; tomorrow increasing cloudiness and somewhat warmer, gentle northwest winds becoming variable. Maryland—Fair with light to heavy frost - tonight; tomorrow increasing cloudiness and somewhat warmer, gentle | to moderate northwest winds becoming variable. Virginia—Fair with light to heavy frost in the interior tonight; tomorrow increasing cloudiness and somewhat warmer, moderate to fresh northwest w‘;{m, diminishing and becoming vari- able. West Virginia—Fair with light to heavy frost; slightly warmer in the west portion tonight; tomorrow . in- creasing cloudiness and somewhat warmer; possibly showers in extreme ‘west portion. Record for 24 Hours. ‘Thermometer—4 p.m., 53; 8 p.m, 50; 12 .midnight, 45; 4 42; 8 am, pm., 29.80; 8 pm., ; 12 midnight, 29.95; 4 a.m., 29.97; 30.11; noon, 30.12. est temperature, 54, occurred at noon today. Lowest temperature, 42, occurred at 6 _:ém. 'A)dtll'. & ‘mperature same date last year— Highest, 84; lowest, 47. ’ Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today—Low tide, 11:10 am. and 11:37 pm.; high tide, 4:31 am. and 0:;1 p.m. ‘'omorrow—Low tide 12:07 p.m.; high tide, 5:27 am. and 5:53 p.n‘x‘. & The Sun and Moon. Today—Sun rose 5:: 4 ‘?M;‘- se 5:27 am.; sun sets 0rTOW—Sun. ris B H | P v sy rises 5:26 am.; sun| Moon rises 3:08 a.m.; sets 1:23 p.m. Automobile lamps to N half hour after su‘l’:get. i ; Condition of the Water, Great Falls—Very muddy. £wpreisak 5aUHH ¢4 036 Cloudy * Proioudy u cloudy T Clear udy gt ] BB : PP TERER NS SO AR a R 8088283332 ITSTIRTRISTRILEB I3 iear %:e\nw lear Sitar” may ul | DEATH IS ASCRBED TOELECHCLOS - Minute Quantities Seen as Cause of Fatalities. ' BY HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE, Associated Press Sclence Editor, PHILADELPHIA, April 19.—Two re- cent discoveries, one that death may be due to loss of minutes quantities of elec- tricity from the body, and the other that cancer cells grow no more rapidly than normal cells, were explained to the Amerisan Philosophical Boclety here today, The electrical experiments were re- ported by Dr. George W. Crile, director of the Cleveland Clinic and the Cleve- land Clinic Hospital. The cancer find- ings were from Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute, New York. Dr. Crile described the vital force which is life as “an electric strain or potential.” Certain forms of life he was able to measure in terms of voltage. He took fruit juice, and by restoring its lost potential was able to cause in it some of the manifestations of the life of the original fruit. Thirty-five years ago, Dr. Crile said, he first began to search for the “essen- tial feature in Mving organisms which is lost upon death. Researches Summarized. “I propose now to offer new experi- il Upper: Secretary of the Interior Wil- bur and (lower) Senator Nye of North Dakota, who will speak to the Nation tomorrow evening at 10 o'clock over the Columbia chain in another of the series of radio addresses on national affairs, arranged by The Star and sponsored by the Columbia Broadeasting System. NATION WILL HEAR : WILBUR AND NYE OVER RADIO FORUM (Continued From First Page.) period. Senator Nye is chairman of the public lands committee, which deals with legislation relating to the vast public domain in the West. He also is a member of the important committee on appropriations, the committee on claims and the committee on territories and insular possessions. Nye Headed Oil Hearings, As chairman of the public lands com- mittee, Senator Nye has been in charge of the hearings before his committee during the last year or two relating to oil leases, particularly of the inquiry into the Salt Creek leases, some of Wwhich have since been canceled by the Government. Senator Nye, as a member of the immigration committee, has taken a keen interest in the national origins clause of the immigration act and has sought to have the clause repealed or suspended. Senator Nye has been identified with the progressive wing of the Republican party in the Northwest. A native of Wisconsin, he has resided in North Dakota for many years. After he left school he went into newspaper work | and for a number of years has been a n!w‘sfilpel’ publisher. in his own State. e was a candidate for Con- gress in the second congressional dis- trict several years ago, running as an independent. In 1925 he was appointed by the governor of the State to fill a vacancy in the Senate caused by the death of Sepator Ladd. It was nip and tuck whether he would be seated, for it was argued that the governor had no right to appoint to fill this vacancy without specific authorization from the State Legislature. He was finally seated, however, by a vote of 41 to 39. Not long afterward he went into the race to succeed himself and was elected to fill the unexpired term of Senator Ladd and also for the long term. which does not end until March 4, 1933. During the last presidential campaign Senator Nye came out strongly in sup- port ,of President Hoover as against Alfred E. Smith and was instrumental in carrying North Dakota for Hoover. DOUBLE SIGNIFICANCE SEEN IN FEDERAL JONES LAW ATTITUDE (Continued From First Page.) bootlegger and those whom they em- ploy in the process of distributicn it may be expected that supplemen instructions to Federal attorneys i} be issued in the hope of making the en- forcement policy of the administration gradually more effective. For the next year or so, however, | the drive will be against the so-called | commercial cases. s (Copyright, 1920 WOULD APPLY WISDOM. Department of Justice Seeks to Create Confidence in Jones Law. Restraining reins of “wise discretion” have been put upon enforcement of the Jones Jaw by ‘order of the Department of Justice. 2 ‘The move is intended to create pub- lic confidence in the new prohibition law and to give it “a fair test,” accord- ing to a letter sent to all United States district attorneys by Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General, in_charge of dry-law enforcement. The letter, accompanying a copy of mental evidence which identifies a form of energy that is lost in death. These ;zsnrchu may be summarized as fol- lows: “In animals, plants and fruits a po- tential exists during life and disappears at death.” In a living apple Dr. Crile found a potentiality of 50 millivolts and that the fruit had “a steady respiration, consuming from three to four cubic centimeters of oxygen every hour.” The apple responded in potential and respiration to anesthietics, adrenalih, temperature changes and exclusion of oxygen “just as they had acted on the rabbit and the dog.” Experimenting with apple juice alone he found that. potential could be in- duced, and while it existed there was respiration like that of the living apple. * " he said, “may be defined as a potential which is maintained and is varied adeptively according to environ- mental conditions; that potential being maintained by chemical activity— mainly by oxidation. “In_the higher, multicellular orga- nisms life is an adaptive difference in potential between the brain and the other organs and. tissues, especially the liver.” Gives Data on Cancer. On cancer Dr. Carrel said: “With the help of new techniques de- veloped during the past years in my laboratories it has become possible to define tissue cells not only by their shape and structure, as was done pre- vicusly, but also by their functions.” ‘Thus, he explained, ceils are iden- tified by their mode of locomotion, their architecture, rate of growth, residual secretions, conditions of medium require for nutrition. “These_techniques,” he said, “have el A in wfixch they live and substances they | BRTISHENVOY DES AT EBIS ARLEY Lord Revelstoke Is Victim of Heart Attack—Conference Near Breakdown. (Ormtimied Prom First Page) hational, ‘bank and. the plan of pay- ments with the schedule of annuitles proposed by the creditor countries. It also will comprise Germany's offer, with an .explanation ‘of how the experts found it impossible to proceed with its consideration, % The German delegation will be given an opportunity either to approve. the document or to submit a minority re- port. In that case both the documents will go to the governments from whom the e ts received thelr mission, and then it will be an affair of diplomacy to determine the subsequent steps. Comment by French. Comment in French circles on the situation was to the effect that Dr. Schacht by refusing to increase the QGerman offer in an effort to meet the allied claims had relieved the French experts of all necessity of straining a point and making further sacrifices to meet the Germans. In French Nationalist circles Dr. Schacht, in fact, was declared to have opened the eyes of the French people to the real character of the German negotiations. These, they said, were proven materially to tend not only to repudiation of part of the reparations debt but also to revision of the treaty of Versaflles. ‘The American experts as well as the | others declined to express themselves | as to the situation produced by the Ger- man attitude. Mr, Young and Thomas ! W. Lamont are making no new plans | for the moment, while J. P. Morgan is still cruising in the Adriatic. He is expected back in Paris some time next week. Gilbert Is Key Man. 8. Parker Gllbert, the sgent general for reparations, is the man upon whom events are likely to center with the passing of the present reparations com- mission. Dr. Schacht’s declaration that | the reich would ask for the benefit | of the transfer clause in the Dawes plan places the burden of decision on | the transfer committee, but it is gen- | erally felt that Mr, Gilbert, as the agent | general, would have the deciding influ- | ence in all matters concerning applica- | tion of the Dawes plan. | ‘The French stapd all along has been that if the present experts’ committee should fail to reach an agreement, it would simply mean falling back upon the terms of the Dawes plan calling | for annuities of 2,500,000,000 marks | (approximately $600,000,000), which is | far more than even the allied proposal had envisaged. The German stand has been, how- ever, that the Dawes plan provided specifically for guarding against repa- rations payments in excess of Ger- many's capacity to pay and it is upon this provision that the future discus- sions- will probably center. Procedure Is Outlined. If the transfer committee decides that Germany cannot buy foreign currency and pay cash for part of the annuitles, been applied lately in New York and also in Europe to the study of cancer. “The classical conception of the ma- lignant cells has almost completely col- lapsed. Thus these cells are not an- archical. They grow no more rapidly than normal cells; they have no more growth energy, and they are not neces- sarily diseased. They do not possess any specific morphological character- istics, but. they differ from the normal by certain properties. “A striking fact is that they obtain the nitrogen necessary for multiplica- tion from proteins or from protein split products, which normal cells of the same type are unable to utilize. Such a property explains their unlimited pro- liferation within:the body, because the substances compelling their multiplica- tion are located within their reach in the tissues.” PERSHING QUARREL DENIED BY “TIGER” IN REPLY ON STORY (Continued From First Page.) enceau sald , “but every time I met him I pre upon him the urgent need of getting more American troops into_action. “He as military commander refused to do so until they were ready. We always had that discussion and we had in this respect diffierent views, but we never quarreled, and we were and we gre friends. “When I went to America the last time he accompanied me to the Metro- politan Opera House: later, when I went to Chicago, he was in Indianapolis, but joined, me and Gen. Dawes, and we three went to Chicago togeth Mr. Gilbert is authorized to accumu- late in his hands German currency to the amount of 5,000,000,000 marks, ual to two annuities. The capacify of absorption in payments in kind of some of the creditors is expected to relieve the situation as far as cash pay- ments ‘are concerned for a few years, but the question may become acute respecting some of the others such as | Great ritain, the second highest | creditor, which is averse to receiving | any goods on reparations account. ‘When Dr. Schacht was told that his stand on the German figures meant reversion to the Dawes plan, under which Germany must pay 2.500,000,000 marks subject to immediate increase under the prosperity index, he replied: “I understand, but it will be impos- sible for Germany to execute the Dawes | plan, and she necessarily will demand that the clause giving protection against ruinous transfers come into play.” Big Sum Already Paid. In its memorandum Germany had said that she already had paid 46,500,000,000 gold marks (about $11,160,000,000) in cash and kind. This has long been a point of controversy between the Ger- mans and the allies. The Germans are credited in the 1922 report of the Rep- arations Commission with only sbout 9,500,000,000 marks, and the Dawes committee office has added 6,500,000,000. But, besides these 16,000,000,000, Ger- many contends that she should have credit for - 30,000,000,000 more. This sum comprises about 11,000,000,000 marks for German property sequestered and liquidated by the allles abroad, such as the German property in the United States seized by the alien prop- erty custodian’s office. The balance. of the German claim consists of some dis- puted credits for deliveries in kind and the German claims against Bulgaria and the states carved out of Austria- Hungary and of German state property in former German territory taken under ‘The interview is one of many which Marshal Foch granted M. Recouly dur- ing the last 15 years of their close friendship and will form part of a book called" “The Memorial of Foch,” which is to be published in a few days. Gen. Pershing told the Assoclated Press that he had nothing to say on the subject at present. Charged Stubbornness. M. Recouly 'quotes Marshal Foch as saying Premier Clemenceau considered that Gen. Pershing's efforts to build up an autonomous army, acting by itself within the allied ranks, was preventing the Americans from giving the aid they should have given to the allied cause as a whole, E The * * was said to have accused Gen, Pershing of being too stubborn and headstrong and reproached Marshal Foch for being too patient and easy with the American commander. M. Clemen- ceau declared that the time had come to go over Gen. Pershing’s head and appeal directly to President Woodrow Wilson to intervene and, if that falled, to_remove him. It was on October 21, when Chateau Thierry, St. Mihiel and the Argonne were history, that Clemenceau, accord- ing to M. couly’s story, after having already spoken to Foch on the subject, I!I;".l the marshal & letter insisti lh,:t the Jones act, instructed Federal attor- neys to use as the basis for initlal tests of the law “only good, strong cases in- h volving commercialism. “In order that this new legislation " Mrs. Wille-'| that d racter of cases in which you seek indictments for violations coming- within. its pur- view. > Isolated ‘violations, cases in. which convictions nbt- to the: terests -of ind of a-confidertce in The selockivenee 'o.i the new law as an enforcement measure.” ' 2 oducts _sent to this ecountry 5 vear were & 3 t to appeal to President Wi ilson. s Marshal Foch is said to have réplied 'that to have done this would have been to tilt, like Don Quixote, with a lance against Windmills. Would Have Gained Nothing. “It was not at all certain that Presi- dent Wilson would have acceded with- m,m’“zw my demand and sac- ing,” Marshal Foch told . “If after that incident, w] -he. would naturally have Pershing had the puace treaty. German Stand Stated. The breakdown yesterday came after a ccmmittee of eight, headed by Lord Revelstoke and containing Mr. Young, had met to attempt a reconciliation of the German offer of. less than $7,000,- 000,000 (present value) against the al- lied terms of around $10,000,000,000 (present value). [ Dr. Schacht almost immediately said that under no circumstances could Germany _increase the size of its an- nuities ~beyond 1,650,000,000 marks (about $396,000,000) and for any longer than 37 years. Even these payments were possible, he declared, only if the allies made it ible for to increase her ability to pay by giving access to raw materials and other re- sources of which she was now deprived. The inference obtained by his listen- ers was that he sought return of the Polish corridor, Danzig, the Saar Valley Upper Silesia, or, in’other words, sought to make a business agreement contingent upon & political revision the treaty of Versailles, 3 Paris Bourse Heavy. The Bourse was quite heavy today as a reaction to failure of the second committee t‘eodwl" the repara- roblem yesterday. . p s L tered yesterday in rom & Tecent stock were lost in today's Daw tions All advances re partial recovery market sluggishness early trading. —ians. SENATE FARM BILL, READY BY MONDAY, TO HAVE DEBENTURE IDE (Continued Prom First Page) which this might be done. A separate e the appros been inted, Gen. mk:;‘tu:thhmmmlfl"v‘;uhwt measure doubt have been more stubborn than ever. 3 3 “Even supposing he had been re- - his Buccessor would have nesded touch with wer{;hl&". i to in 5&" é:”h“w: uite probable e bl we would have m‘ something, was my A That was T .3 ON, D. ©, FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1929. . JUDGES AND ORATORS IN Top: The judges (left to right)—Rep- resentative Walton Moore of Vir- ginia, Judge Mary O'Toole of the Dis- trict of Columbia Municipal Court and Representative J. A. Garber of Virginia. Middle: The contestants (left to right) —Elizabeth Brereton of Warrenton, Carey H. Blackwell of Alexandria and Helen Lucille McCarty of Herndon. Bottom (left to right): Thomas Ed- ward Taylor of Lincoln and Jerry Schutz of Ballston. LAST OF DISTRICT FINALS ON TONIGHT Five to Cofnpete to Represent Virginia in Oratory Next Week. ‘The last of the 11 district finals in The Star's area of the Sixth National Oratorical Contest will be held at 8 o'clock tonight in the auditorium of the ‘Washington-Lee High School of Ball- ston, in which two girls and three boys will ‘compete for the right to represent the Old Dominion in The Star finals next week. Presided over by Col. John R. Saund- ers, attorney general of. Virginia, the contest will be judged by two members of the Virginia delegation to Congress {and a Washington jurist, Representa- tive R. Walton Moore and Representa- tive J. A. Garber, and Judge Mary O'Toole of the District of Columbia Mu- | nicipal Court. Contenders and Subjects. In the order in which they will speak and the orations with which they will make their bids, tonight’s champion- ship contenders are: Helen Lucille McCarty of the Hern- don High School, on “The Citizen: His Privileges and Duties Under the Con- stitution.” Elizabeth Brereton of the Warren- ton High School, on “Personalities of the Constitutional Convention.” Thomas Edward Taylor of the Lin- coln High School, on “The Development of the Constitution.” Carey Howard Blackwell of the Al- exandria High Scheol on “The De- velopment and Purpose of the Consti- lution.” and Jerry Schutz of the Washington-Lee High School on “The Constitution; a Guarantee of the Liberty of the In- dividual.” Winner to Receive $100. Besides the championship of the Vir- ginia district in the contest and the accompanying right to represent that section in The Star finals tonight's win- ner will receive $100. Newbold Noyes, associate editor of The Star, will make the formal presentation of this news- paper’s check as soon as Col. Saunders announces the victor's name. Music for tonight's meeting will be furnished by a section of the Independ- ent Boys' Band of Washington, while enthusiasm will be supplied by the spirited student contingents, who root for their favorites in the race. Miss McCarty, the first speaker, is the daughiterof Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin McCarty of Herndon, and Miss Brere- ton is the dlushur of Maj. Lewis H. Brereton, United States Army Air Corps, and Mrs. Brereton of Warrenton. Thomas Taylor is the son of Mr. 'and Mrs. H. B. Taylor of Lincoln, Carey Blackwell is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. 8. Blackwell of Alexandria and Jerry Schutz is the son ‘of Mrs; H, C. Houghton. The McKinley High School finals, which determined Harry Schonrank, 18-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. ward Schonrank, 1207 G street south- east, as that school's spokesman in The | Star finals, concluded a seriously con- tended series of eliminations. Although the finals got away to a slow start when the first two contestants faltered in their sgeechel and needed prompting to set them aright, the meet concluded with a brand of oratory that made the judg- ing an uneasy task. - Mark Woodward launched the meet with. a speech on “The Citizen: His Dutles and Privileges Under the Con- stitution.” This son of Francis A. Wood- ward, principal of the Gordon Junior High School, and Mrs. Woodward spoke in pleasing tones, but without gesture and animation. He encountered diffi- cultigs when half way through his speech and was unable to proceed with- out a prompting word or two from a friend in the audience. But he carried on and completed his speech with spirit. Harry C. Putnam, 18-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence S. Putnam, 3038 O street, was the second Tech orator to compete. Speaking on “The Constitu- tion and Big Business,” Putnam used gestures of natural grace and interest- ing inflection. He, too, faltered, how- ever, and a prompting word was re- quired to send him on to completicn. - Allen Pope, jr., 17 years old, of 4722 Fifteenth street, winner of second place in the meet, whipped into his speech on “The Rights and Duties of a Citizen Under the Constitution” with an. elo- quence and oratorical earnestness which established him as one of Tech's real contenders for the championship. In the official rating, though, Pope had compiled a total which won him second place. Two More Years at Tech. Gordon Horsnell, 15-year-old sopho- more and son of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Horsnell, 604 Twenty-first street, spoke against a handicap of physical and scholastic youth. With two more years ahead of him at Tech, his school need have no fear of finding itself with- out an orator of contest worth in the immediate future. Schonrank, the victor, was the final speaker on the Tech program, which was presided over by Mrs. Eda Frost, the faculty contest committee chair- man, He used much of his stage pres- ence of the drama type to confirm his | - poise as he faced his audience in the finals, and his expression, too, was largely dramatic. His voice was pleas- ing, and in The Star finals next week he should make a creditable showing. Followers of the contest witnessed one of the year's upsets at Tech in the elimination of Victor Jaffe, champion of that school in last year's contest. He had been discussed as champion again this year, and his elimination by a jury of McKinley teachers in the finals came ’ as a surprise in that school. Jaffe is an orator of ability and personality, and | his appearance in the Tech finals prob- ably would have lent a continuance of the pronounced competition which had characterized the contest until- his elimination. GROUP OF DOGWOOD TREES WIN PRAISE Two Rows Ax;e Bnnfilu)v!‘utlm of Former' Crosby S. Noyes Estate. One of the beautiful groups of flower- ing dogwood trees in nearby Maryland is to be found near Silver Spring on part of the former estate of the late Crosby 8.- Noyes, once editor of The Evening Star. When Mr. Noyes owned the large Summer place known then as Alton Farm, he brought theré, among many varjeties of flora, two rows of dogwood trees, which today appear on either side of & iane leading downhill. These trees provide one of the most beautiful fea- tures of the entire estate, which is now in other hands. Mr. Noyes was & great lover of trees, and brought to the place many kinds, some of which were entirely new to this region. But at this tfme of year the flowering dogwood, which is native here and of which he was very fond, is bleoming in full beauty ‘and makes a picture. which in its way is unequaled in Washington and vicinity. The campaign for preservation of the flowering dogwood in Washington and vicinity i8 going forward with vigor, and those behind the movement feel that much good is being accomplished in keeping the general public from breaking down branches' to earry home flowers which only wilt and die in a short time. FLYER ADDRESSES CLUB. Lieut. Walter Hinton, first transat- lantic flyer, described . his experiences as an exploring aviator before the get- together meeting of the St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church Men’s Club last night in the parish hall of the church. . Motion pictures depicting the Easter services at the church were .shown to the nearly 100 persons present. The meeting was_held under the auspices of the St. Thomas' Chapter of the Brotherhood" of St. Andrew. . William R. Ellis presided. - LANE OF DOGWOOD MAKES GORGEOUS DISPLAY TN PR ATHAREDE RIS Tabby Cat Third in- Baby Race, » HAVRE DE GRACE RACE TRACK. Md., April 19.—Perfect racing weather was experienced for the running of to- day’s program, of which the Madonna Handicap was the feature. The Ma- z,onnn attracted five fiilles and mares run over a route of 1 mile an yards and also was to mark the dm?ll: appearance of the year of the good an o' War filly, Bateau, which races in the cvlors of Walter M. Jeffords. Earl Sande also was to make his sec- ond appearance of the year in the sad- dle, he having elected to ride Safety Pin, one of his candidates for the Pimlico Oaks, in the running of the M%no'tver.kl dash of 5! furl e track was in excellent for the 'S Sport. o Itso Scores Im First. The first race of the card, a sprint, of four and a half furlongs for two- year-olds, went to Itzo. Tresch was second and Tabby Cat third. The race wlu"zul%.:p ub?u! 15 minutes beeause of e post actions of Starhoare Sptotein . n leld was released Treacle took the lead, but before they reached the stretch Itso had run into second lace and after straightening out for ome took the lead to win rather han- dily. Treacle, rated in the fleld, held on long enough to place, while Tabby Cat kept Mabel Basil out of third money. HAVRE DE GRACE RESULTS FIRST RACE — 2-year-old maidens; | 415 furlongs. It 11.40, $6.40, $4.25, won, e, $4.90, $3.60, second. :‘Ilbby Cat, DI.W, third. so ran—Diana Mullen, Paywell, Phenomenon, Starboard, Light, W’l‘l?nw. Rosatina, Florence May, Tariff. Mabel Basil,” Winning. Card, Sweet Tidings, Baronne. . \BOY FATALLY HURT WHEN HIT BY AUTO Benjamin Felton, 13, Dies in Hos- pital Hour After Accident. Driver Is Held. Benjamin Felton, 13-year-old pupil of St. Paul's Parochial School, at Fif- teenth and V streets, died at Emer- gency Hospital early this afternoon from injuries sustained an hour earlier when he was knocked down in front of the school by an automobile driven by Robert Morton, colored, 24 of 1807 Thirteenth streer. T O Morton, held by the eighth precinet police, said the boy ran into the street from behind a parked automobile go quickly that he was unable to stop. Young Felton lived at 1525 street. o BRITISH DRIVER HITS 215 MILES IN TEST Capt.” Campbell, Seeking to‘Brelk Record Set by Segrave, Pleased by Demonstration. By the Associated Press. VERNEUK PAN, Cape of Good Hopé, April 19.—Capt. Malcolm Campbeil, British racing driver, ‘who is seeking to break the 231-mile-an-hour mark set by Maj. H. O. Segrave, touched 215 miles an hour in a trial run here today |in his car, Blue Bird. Capt. Campbell made only ene trip, but he was highly satisfied with its re- sult. He experienced difficulty at only one stage, when, as a result of & bump, he was literally shot ‘into the air and travelled 30 feet without touching the track. He expects to make his final at- tempt tomorrow. T DA BURLINGAME HONORED. Members of the command of the sec- ond police precinct yesterday presented Capt. Guy E. Burlingame, who recently retired from the police department, with & gold watch charm inscribed “To Our Captain.” The patrolmen: at No. 2 gave the captain a gold watch on his retirement, HAVRE DE GRACE ENTRIES FOR TOMORROW. RACE—Purse, $1.200: furle FIRST, Rivers: 2-year-olds: 4ia Guilford ¢ Merry Mas . A H. P. Whitney entry. RACE _Purse . $1.400: -year-olds; 84 firloni . 115 aKopek .. Port Harlem Islam il Mish Stylish Mack .. & George D. Widener entry. b Samuel Ross entry. © Rancocas Stable entry. THIRD RACE—Purse, $1,400: the Tip Top Handicap; 3-vear-olds and up: 8 furlongs. The Heathen Night Lite Greenock Extrems. . Arcturus ¢ Crystal & Houssain Sen of John ... Charles ‘the Firsi 108 Edis . 12 Rancoeas_ 8. % b Samuel RM:M. :;“" cH Archibald entry, 36 i FOURTH RACE— . $1.400: - bars S Sear-olte 1 il and $07yats, Com Mayor Wal Altituce FIPTH RACE—The Philadelphi $10,000 Added: 3-vear-olds aad u Dowasiac (R. Leishma: STock ta. Pascamby s bry. Seaxram_Stable eniry. Audley Farm entry, SIXTH BACE—Purse $1.200: s @ sear-olds 04 B B mlke O mine: & Fores .uno‘r"? i < d 09 8. oikiniiey 108 ie Ann vt . et Purse. $1.200; clalming; SEVENTH RACE- 4-year-olds, and up; 1% miles.