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2 .THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON.- D. ¥, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5 1929. B9 MDDES 0 66T ACADENY AWARDS Adams Will Present Diplomas Tomorrow—Dress Parade Scheduled for Afternoon. Special Dispatch to The Star. | ANNAPOLIS, Md., June 5.—Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams will present diplumas to 239 midshipmen at graduation exercises at the Naval Acad- emy at 10:30 o'clock tomorrow morning. Secretary Adams and Rear Admiral S. | S. Robison, superintendent of the acad- | emy, will be the only speakers. Gov. Ritchie of Maryland will be an honor guest. Admiral Robison will en- tertain the Secretary and the governor | at a Juncheon at his home following the ! exercises i Lieut., Comdr. Harry Patrick, secre- | tary to the academic board at the naval school. in announcing the list of gradu- | ates, said that 205 will be commissioned ensigns in the regular line of the Navs. | Nineteen members of the class have elected to accept commissions s sec- | ond lieutenants in the Marine COrps. | While four others will be_commissioned in the Supply Corps. Eleven of the midshipmen who will be graduated to- morrow have been disqualified because of physical defects and will not receive | commissions. They will resign Adams o Present Commissions. | e commissions will be handed to the graquates immediately after the | graduation exercises in Dahlgren Hall.| The graduates will march from to Memorial Hall, in Bancroft Hall, where Secretary Adams will administer the oath of office and then present 0l issions. “Brizes won by members of the grad- uating class and other midshipmen wiil be presented by Secretary Adams at the full-dress parade to be held at o'clock this afternoon ‘The Xarl‘\\'rl\‘ ball, an outstanding feature of every June week, will be held tonigh! in Dahigren Hall. No one will be admitted 1o the hall without an invitation and preparations are being made to enter- tain 10,000 persons. Members of the Plebe Class will be allowed to partici- pate in the dance. Tt will be the first hop to which they are permitted since entering the Academy. Two o tons of the academic term were held last night. One was a garden party given by Admiral and Mrs. fln\flson to Tembers of the graduating ciass. The party was held in the spacious gardens Surrounding the superintendent’s home. The other event was ihe ring dance given by the second classmzn, who will become seniors after the graduation ex- ercises. During the festivities the sec- ond classmen formed in procession and Tarched through a large ring’built on The stage of Mahan Hall. As they passed through the ring the girls who accompanied them placed their class rings for the first time on their fingers. Warships Ready for Cruise. The squadron of warships that will earry the midshipmen on their Summer cruise through European waters was completed today with the arrival of the Utah. The other vessels, the Arkansas and Florida, arrived last The middies will embark Priday The list of graduates in’the order eir class standing follows T e ebsier, A. L. Baird, J. M. Farrin, jr.; K. Pryor, J. H. Keatlev. W. C. Allen, L. E. Richardson, C. C. Shute, C. E. Trescot{, G. H. Wales. H. J. Hie- menz, F. M. Adamson, C. E. Weakley, D. E. Wait, D, P. Bush, H. S. Persons. ir.; E. A. Junghans, S. C. Anderson, H. A. MacFarlane, R. A. Heinlein, G. L. Huff, L. T. Morse, T. E. Kent, jr: M. B. Hinman, R. B. McCo¥. W. F. Coleman, C. L. Miller, M. B. Wyatt, L, O. Fox, F. Novak. J. W. Davison. W. S. Gates. J. R Moore, W. L. Kabler. T. P. Wilson, E. W. Parish, jr.. W. 5. Denham, E. J. Bacher, C. B. Laning, F. G. Lippert, J. P. Canty, P. Foley, jr.; J. Berzowski, C. V. Ricketts, R.. C. Brownlee, 2d; F. R. Duborg, R. J. Ramsbotham, R. C Take, G, H. Defter, C. J. Moore. H. C. Murray, W. L. Dye, W. H. McClure, P. L. Humphrey, H. B. Twohy, G. W. Ashford, A. C. Perkins, L. C. Baldauf, M. C. Mains, H. R. Garner, H. E. Kar- Ter, R. C. Lynch, jr.; C. A. Peterson, C 'T. Fitzgerald, E. C. Folger, jr.; J. W. Waterhouse, M. G. Kennedy, B. H. Bush, E. F. Hutchins, H. L. Ray, L. P.| Carver, D. T. Ferrier, O. G. Kirk, R. Jackson, R. D. McGinnis, W. T. Hast- ings, jr.. G. P. Garland, E. T. Schrei- ber. R. L. Johnson. A. W. Strahorn, A. S. Hill E. J. ODonnell. J. A. Collett, B. A._Van Voorhis, F. H. Schwable, W. S. Rodi- gon. C. O. Triebel. E R. Hannon, 7. W. White, R. D. Hogle. P. A. Walker, W. H. Watson. H. D. Akin, J. F. David- L. E. 'McIntyre, F. J. Huelskamp, E. P. week. B. Stephens, Martin C. C. Marcy, G. 8. Patrick, B. Coe, R. §. Benson. J. B. Duval, jr.; H. C. Bernet, W. S. Brown, J. R. Yoho, E. F. Butler, E. C. Dyer, L. T. Stone, F. W. Kuhn, K. H. Garrett, G. F. Beardsley, | R. R. Ballinger, W. T. Easton, M. G Brown, G. C. Briant, C. H. Crichton, M. L. Curry, 8. B. Frankel, L. H. Jones, J. Andrews, jr.; J. H. Mills, jr.. K. Tol- ley., G. Cone, S. B. Perreault, F. S. Keeler, C. C. McCauley, W. D. Bucka- lew, F. E. Hall R. N. 8. Clark, W. I. Darnell, W. J. Galbraith, C. W. Johnson, W. P. Epps, S. C. Strong, R. P. Davis, E. N. Dodson. J. M. Bermingham, H. N. Coffin, J. T. Hardin, S. A, Lincoln, jr.; P. J. Nelson, D. J. Welsh, W. E. Pennewill, L. K. Greenamyer, D. T. Eller, G. N. Johan- sen, H. Nash. C. K. Carmichael, C. D. Wargeld, F. P. Mitchell, jr.; R. R. McGreone, W. 8. Arthur, R. H. Wilkerson, D. Clarkson, N F. Frank, jr.; R. B. Sullivan, ir.; E. J. Burke, F. D. Jordan, E. V. Dennett, G. F. Duvall, J. P. Rem. bert, Jr. A. M. Gray, A. J. Miller W. A. Cashman. A. E. Loomis, R. W Denbo, E. G. Conley. J. Raby, J. H Prause, A. H. Hood, P. L. Woener. R. 8. Rooney. E. A. Roth, S. B. Griffith 2d; D. F. Weiss, E. C. Stephan, J. W. Britt, R. F. Crist, H. J. McRobert W. G. Waltermire, C. C. Roberts, A. D. Lucas, C. R. Fen- ton, J. A. D'Avi. C. C. Morgan, C. A. ‘Walker, jr.; H. Nielson, D. B. Dowling, M. M. Martin, R. J. Connell, W. 8. Butts, E. Roughton, Carl A. Johnson C. E. Brunton, E. C. Collins, G. L. Kohr, F. J. Johnson J. H. Flatley, jr.; J. L. Foley, G. A Sharp, O. C. Ledbetter, W. S. Stovall, jr.; J. V. McAlpin, jr.: L. C. Simpler T. W. Davison, C. K. Hutchison, H. C Lang, C. W. Stewart, R. S. Keyes, jr.; W. F. Bryson, A. R. St. Angelo, C. E. Giese, C. R. Armbrust, H. C. Cone. J B. Lake, jr.: C. A. Meeker, C. F. Miller. F. A. Brendley, R. G. Visser, J. M. Hezlep, R. A. Hart, P. R. Osborn. C. G. Christie, J. H. McElroy, C. F. Phillips. W. J. Richter. A. H. Wotton, D. C Roberts, H. S. Walker, jr.; D. L. Mat- tie, M. C. Dickinson, A. L. Bond, L. V. Duffy, D. F. Stillman. W. Oliver, W. A. Marchant., A. F. White, Asthma Club Formed. Weary and worn and frazzled with coughs, sneezes and shortage of breath. asthma sufferers in London have formed Many The Earl of Lim- erick, who was elected president at the organization meeting, was unable to at- tend because he was suffering from a ‘Although a an Asthma Research Council. doctors are members. bad attack of asthma. DENNIS TO HEAD College Head HOWARD APPOINTS | THREE NEW DEANS Get New Heads. : | Three deans of dopartments at| | Howard University were appointed by | the Howard board of trustees at its an- {nual meeting yesterday afternoon. Dr. | Numa P. G. Adams was named dean of the School of Medicinc: Dr. Arnold B. | Donowa was chosen dean of the College | of Dentistry, and Dr. E. P. Davis was | made cean of the College of Liberal | | Arts, | Progress in scholarship, enrollment | {and the broadening of the work of the | Law School, the library and the de- partment of biology, the latter through numerous special gifts, was indicated in the annual report of Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson, president of Howard | Dr. Emmett J. Scott, secretary- treasurer of the university, reported | that the school’s budget for 1928-29 is $1.030,076.18 and that the education | | plant at Howard now is valued at more | than $3,000,000. | Successful Year. | In nis report, Dr. Johnson declared | | that. in the history of the university. | the year just ending has been the most successful from the standpoint of governmental appropriations, grants of | scholarships to faculty members who are to take leave for advanced study, ' and gifts for special purposes. Notable among the year's gifts, the presmmf{ cited donations from the Rockefeller | WILLIAM C. DENNIS, EARLHAM COLLEGE WEDDING ANNIVER ) | | | (Departments of Medicine, ' Liberal Arts and Dentistry { x ARY REMEMBERED When attaches of the House Office Building heard that the veteran car- penter there, Charles A. Howard, and Mrs. Howard, were rounding out a half- there | 5:30 | ¢ the most exclusive social func- | ot | Chevy Chase Lawyer, Long in Public Service. Returns to Alma Mater. | After years of distinguished public service, William Cullent Dennis of 3 | West Underwood street, Chevy Chase, | Md., 15 returning to Earlham College, | Richmond, Ind., his alma mater. to as 1sume the presidency of that institution. {His father, David Worth Dennis, wns“ for 40 years a professor at Earlham. Mr. Dennis is a lawyer of interna- tional prominence and a former as- | | sistant solicitor of the State Depart- {ment. He expects to leave for Rich- I mond this Summer to take over his new | duties. His appointment was announced | | vesterday. His services to the United States | have been varied. He was agent for the Government in the United States and | | Venezuela arbitration at The Hague in the Orinoco Steamship Co. case in {1909-10. He was also agent for the Government in the Chamizal arbitru- {tion with Mexico before the Interna- | | tional Boundary Commission in EI Paso, | Tex.. in 1910-11. | | e "was secretary to Chier Justice | White, sole arbitrator in the Costa Rico- | | Panama boundary arbitration in 1913- | {14; legal advisor to the Chinese gov- | | ernment in Peiping in 1917-19, and | | special counsel of the Department of | State in the preliminary conference on | communications in 1920-21. |, On September 24. 1921, President | | Harding apopinted him as agent of the | United "States in the United States- | Norway arbitration at The Hague un- der the treaty of June 30, 1921. He a served as counsel of the British-Amer- | ican Claims Commission at London. | Mr. Dennis has degrees {rom Earl- | ham, Harvard University and European | | colleges. | e |WOMAN MISSIONARY TO LIVE IN CALIFORNIA! | |Miss Jennie L. Peck Has Spent | 53 Years Working Among Colored People. | Miss Jennie L. Peck, who has been in missionary work among colored people for 53 years and who has been prom- | inently * identified with the Mission | School on D strect southwest near | Third street, and with school and| church work here, is leaving today to | | | | | Foundation, | Board, and the Jullus Ros-nwald Fund the General Academic salaries also have been creased. he said. Dr. Adams, new medical sehool dean, is an alumnus of Howard University in- graduating from the College of Liberal Arts in the class of 1911 with the dis- ! tinction of magna cum laude. Fram | 1912 to 1919 Dr. Adams was a membpri of the college faculty holding the posi- tion of instructor, assistant and a Education | century of married life yesterday, picture shows Mr. Howard recei retary to Representative Garber of Virginia. hey raised a purse of $150 for the couple. The ng the gift from Miss Gertrude Cpffman, sec- Star aff Photo. 'PROFESSOR WHO URGED SENIORS TO BE “SNOBS" STICKS TO GUNS, !One of Four Small Boys Arremd‘ He r in_the Rush soclated professor of chemistry. ceived his medical education University _of Chicago and Medical School Upon completion of his interneship n | 1925 Dr. Adams began the private prac- | tice of medicine at Chicago Graduated in 1922, | Dr. Donawa, dean of the Dental School, is also & graduate of Howard University, recelving the degree of doc- | tor of dental surgery in 1922. At the end of his junior year at Howard he received @ scholarship for under- graduate interne at the Forsyth Dental Infirmary, Boston. He was the first of his race to be admitted to this institu- tion. In his senior year at Howard he was appointed by the board of trustees to serve as student instructor in cen‘al anatomy. Upon the completion of this interneship he was appointed roentgen- ologist of the Forsyth Infirmary. | Dr. Davis, head of the department | | of German.' who was appointed dean | of the College of Liberal Arts to fill | the vacancy made by the resignation | of Dean D. W. Woodard, was awarded | the degree of bachelor of arts by How- ard University in 1907, the degree of | master of arts by the University of Chi- | | cago in 1911 and the degree of doctor of philosophy, magna cum laude, by the University of Chicago in 1923. In | 1922 he was university fellow in German | at the University of Chicago. He has traveled in _Germany, Switzerland, France and England. = Dr. Davis, in addition to being head of the depart- | ment of German, is also chairman of the academic board of examiners and president of the board of athletic con- trol. EPIDEMIC OF ALARMS IS BELIEVED ENDED Admits Turning in False Calls. = i Police believe they have put an end | to the epidemic of false alarms in the | eleventh precinct. during the past two| live in California. weeks with the arrest last night of four | Born in Illinots, Miss Peck’s first work | small colored boys, the oldest one 12 | was done in Iowa, but later she was, years, following the sounding of another | engaged in missioriary work {n Louisi- | call for fire engines about 9 o'clock in |ana and Texas for nearly a quarter of | the evening. st | century. ‘In Chicago she was super-| The boys. arrested by Precinct Detec- { sor of the worlk for colored women und;”‘ls’l;"-‘ o camy 'gp}:: Be-| When Miss Nannie Burroughs organ- | night. One is said to have admitted | Former Champion Spends Much Time in Literature, Says ! Mrs. Dewing, After Visit. ized her training school for women and | turning in about 10 alarms. As yet none | girls here, Miss Peck came here at her | of the boys has been charged | Tequest and that of Rev. Walter H.| The alarm last night brought fire ap- | Brooks, pastor of the Nineteenth Streef | PaTatus to Talbert street and Mount | Baptist Church. After five years in that View place southeast. | | post, Miss Peck was engaged in volun- . teer work among the colored churches |and tegching in the homes A IGIRL, 19, SEEKS LICENSE On Monday night a testimonial and | presentation was endered Mise Peck ac AS COMMERCIAL PILOT | the Mission School i e 2 Miss Peck has been a member of Cal-| CALGARY, Aberta (S y vary Baptist Church since coming 10| weighing 100 pounds and 19 [xwr{;llraxl old, Washington 19 years ago. { but “just thrilled at flying," Louisa — . Burka hopes to be Western Canada’s WIFE'S SISTER FORESEES | °r}sommereal plot ‘ i |, Just now, while ‘she s waiting to | | hear from ‘Ottawa if she has passed { TUNNEY AS WRITER/ the test. she is dreaming of the day | S = | when she will realize her ambition and | Fistic fly over the Rockies to Vancouver as | s well as (o follow the trail blazed by Lindbergh and fly to South America. | Miss Burka, who was born in Eng- | land, near Liverpool, the daughter of | Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Burka, now of By the Associated Press | Calgary, believes her weight and age | HARTFORD, Conn., June 5—A pos- | should be no bar to commercial flying. sible literary career for Gene Tunney| “I love it." she declared. *You must was predicted today by Mrs. Edwin S.|be happy to fly well. You must relax | Dewing, sister of the former champion's | and have a good time. As soon as you become happen scared { wife, the former Polly Lauder of Green- ! wieh. Mrs. Dewing returned to West Hartford today after a two-month ! visit with Mr. and Mrs. Tunney at Brioni, Italy. | ““He. 1s of course, very much interested | | in literature and spends a great d»al‘ of his time reading.” said Mrs. Dewing. “It may be that some day he will put something down that he thinks is good and show it to & publisher “But he wouldn't care to do anv| writing unless it is good. He i the | typs of man who doesn't care to do | | anything unless he does it well.” | {BARBER THINKS VOTE | ‘ PUT JINX ON THREE| | Cast Ballots for Group of Guber-| | Who Faced | | Impeachment. | SHREVEPORT, la P .—J. K | Shearer, Shreveport barber, claims the | | world’s heavyweight title for putting the “jinx” on gubernatorial candidates. Shearer voted for “Jim" Ferguson in Austin several years ago. Ferguson be- came governor, but later was impeached | by the State Legislature. Moving to Oklahoma City, Shearer cast a ballot for the colorful Jack Walton, who was elected goyernor and also impeached. His last “jinx"” vote was cast for Gov. Huey P. Long of Louisiana, who faced | impeachment charges, but was cleared. “Next time,” says Shearer, “I'll toss one in for the candidate I don't like.” tense something is likely to | The air is no place to get It_is no_place for nerves Automobile Salesmen To sELL NEW GRAHAM-PAIGE CARS AND USED CARS Call Ans Time Screen Doors New—That Do Not Warp or Sag 3 BRANCHES 674.C Sts SW S& Fla Ave N E 5021 Ga Ave N W, natorial Candidates 38 .00 BOSTON Trip OR PROVIDENCE SUNDAY, JUNE 9 I Throush Route—L Precedi Spee Bride es Saturday Night Excursion Standard Time Ly _Washington Rogers Explains Meaning of Word as Answerdo Bos- ton Critics. *Jobs Require Politicians and Preachers to Differ,” He Declares. BY ROBERT EMMONS ROGERS. Associate Professor of English, Massacnusetts Institute of Technoloy. By the Associated Prese | CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 5.—I ap- pear to have started something. Nev must have been scarce Saturday eve- ning. Although, as a frank, young reporter told me, if the Old Orchard fiyers had hopped off that day I should probably have found myself on the financial page if at all. i I had thought I was making a lit- tle private informal talk to the tech- nology senior class. But either there was present a reporter sent out on a forlorn hope, because there was nowhere else to send him, or else some senior with newspaper affillations rated his space string higher than he did the niceties of the situstion 1 won't deny that he did an excellent job. To catch an improvised talk on the fly, with about one minute’'s notice, and to catch it is such a way that the speaker must acknowledge the essential ac- curacy, even to verbal accuracy, of most of the story is good reporting. Probably another good newspaper man is being spolled to make a so-so engineer. 1 doubt if the two talents are compatible. Might Have Toned It Down. | I T had known he was there T should probably have played up some of the more important points, toned down some of the other less essential ones, and been a little less hardboiled than I feit I could be with my own crowd But that doesn't matter now. The | thing stands. My topic was, as the headlines play it up, “The Necessity of Being a Snob!” The reaction from the politicians, evan- gelists and editorial writers was almost PROF. R. ROGERS sclous group bent on leadership will re- | sult in the curtailment of legal or eco- nomic rights now enjoyed by the major- itv is mere demagoguery. To say that class leadership is wrong is nonsense. Already our social system is & resultant of classes clashing as classes. Banking as a class, labor as a class, politicians as a class, lawyers as a class—all bent on control. wake up the inert and irresponsible class of college men, try to make them a b self-consclous, proud of what differen- tiates them from the crowd, proud to | make use of that power, the power of breeding, brains, training opportunities. Are they worth it? and the clergyman seem to doubt it And the college man’s attitude to date gives them reason. If they worth it, then the greatest educational experiment any country has ever seen has failed. More money, time, patience, sacrifice, thought, has gone to the mak- ing of our college men than has ever gone to the making of any class in his- tory. If callege men are content to speak, think, bear themselves, live and die as if none of this opportunity had been lavished on them, then the man in | the street, the unimproved product, is the better bet. Politicians and clergy- men think that anyway quire them to think that ‘Their jobs re Why not make an attempt to | The politician | are not | (CONFEDERATE CHIEF ASKS FAIR' HISTORY Veterans Urged to Write War Expariences to Correct “Falsehoods.” { By the Associated Press. CHARLOTTE, N. C., June §. A. T. Goodwyn, commander-in-ch the United Confederate Veterans, in his address today at the thirty-ninth |annual reunion of the organization, |called on the members of his com- | mand to write thelr war experiences in order to aid in correcting “the errors and falsehoods” of prevailing histories of the war betwzen the States. | Gen. Goodwyn briefly opened his ad- dress and then gave the manuscript to his wife, who read it. Calls It Economic War. “An American history that would do | ustice to all concerned would clearly | show that it was a veiled economic war of industrial greed against the agri- cultural South,” Gen. Goodwyn said. | “Justice cannot, be done to the people of the South if the acts of 1861-65 are {to be interpreted by the standards of today. * * * The critic should not be | preoccupled by assumptions, nor preju- | | dice questions and interests of a former period, nor be bereft of an apprehensive sympathy with the environments of those whose conduct and opinions are criticized. “We fought four years of military | war against almost incredible odds in | numbers, equipment and resources, and | now in sober retrospection, in prayerful | introspection, in the words of another, | we can say, ‘We thank God that at | Appomattox we were with Gen. Lee and not with Gen. Grant.' “We fought 10 vears of political war | to save our civilization after our South- land had been divided into military dis- | | tricts by a sectional despotism of selfish- ness, greed, deception and hate. “Politicians Menace Law and Order.” “The wisdom, endurance, courage and loyalty of a people were never more | sternly tested than during those deplor- able years. Selfish, designing politicians were the malefactors of that period, as | they are the menacing influence to law | and order today. Must not that be false which requires for its support so much imposture and tyranny?” At the opening session of the reunion the veterans were welcomed to North Carolina by Goy. O. Max Gardner ana heard Senator Pat Harrison of Missis- | sippt in an address. | | _In welcoming the soldiers, Gov. Gard- | |mer told them their lives had been | an inspiration to our children and a | benediction upon our efforts to rebutla that which was destroyed by war Traces Causes of Civil War. ‘Tracing the causes of the war be- | tween the States, Senator Harrison said | the principal cause was not slavery, but “the unquestioned right of a State to exercise powers not expressly dele- gated in the Federal Constitution to| | the Pederal Government. “The South,” he said, “resisted any | invasion of the right of the States to control their own domestic affairs as a violation of the Federal compact.” As the reunion turned into its sec- ond day, officials in charge estimated 4,000 veterans weer in attendance and predicted the number would reach 5,000 before the close of today. | Memorial Association Meets. The Confederated Southern Memo- rial Association, of which Mrs. McD. Wilson of Atlanta is president, opened | its convention also last night. Toda | the Sons of Confederate Veterans will hold the initial meeting of their con- vention. Edmond R. Wiles of Little Rock, Ark., is commander of the latter organization. Half a dozen bands, including the | United States Marine Band, are adding color and music to the reunion. Unseasonably cool weather the past | two days has caused the veterans to call for more blankets at Camp Goodwyn, vhere many of them are quartered. for college men. His specch drew the Husbands Arrested Because Wives Pour Hot 0il Over Choir By the Associated Press TIRANA, Albania, June 5 — Six men were arrested yesterday because their wives were alleged to have poured scalding oil on the heads of a choir at Delvine, Southern Albania. while singing a solemn high mass for the first time in the Albanian language instead of the Greek. An inde- H pendent national chureh of Al- bania recently was created. Since wives are immune from | | prosecution, the six husbands will be tried by a special court for political offenses. Father Nicho- i las Osti of the divine church will | | be tried at the same time for re- fusing to use the Albanian lan- guage, which was said to have | | provoked the tumult. | 1 \ MARINE CORPS OFFICERS | GANG WAR IS BLAMED FOR SHOTS AT FESS Senator's Son Escapes as Men in Car Fire on Him by Error Near Hamilton, Ohio. By the Assocated Pr HAMILTON, Ohio, June 5 -—Mis- taken identity was accepted today as a reason for the attempt near here last night to shoot C. Sumner Fess of New York, son of Senator Simeon D. Fess | who was fired upon as he drove from Middletown Fess was unhurt. A theory that his automobile migh: have been mistaken for that of a gang- ster, was considered by police. who said the ‘shots probably were fired by boot- leggers, who mistook the Fess machine for that of a rival. Several persons have beeen killed here recently in gang to Hamilton. | warfare. ARE ADVANCED IN RANK| Edward B. Manwaring Promoted to Full Colonel—Two Majors | Become Lieutenant Colonels. | Fourteen Marine Corps officers have just been promoted, Marine Corps head- | quarters announced today in official or- | ders. The officers advanced and their dates of rank are announced as follows: Lieut. Col. Edward B. Manwaring, | colonel from May 16 | Maj. Calvin B. Matthews, licutenant' colonel from May 12 | Maj. Albert E. Randall, lieutenant! colonel from May 16. Capt. Ralph J. Mitchell, major from December 22, 1928 Capt. Archie F. Howard, major from | May 12. | Capt. Raymond R. Wright, major!| from May 16. | First Lieut. Willard P. Leutze, cap- | tain from July 15, 1926. Second Lieut. Clarence M. xmgm,[ first lieutenant from July 16, 1928. Second L'eut. John D. Muncie, first| lieutenant from February 11 | Second Lieut. Philip L. Thwing, first | lieutenant from February 25. | Fess was alone at the time. Two shots were fired and the car then sped away. he declared. $6,000,000 TO BE SAVED IN PAYMENT TO ROADS Has ment Providing Senate Authorizes $42,007,089 Mail Fund. By the Associated Press Adoption by the Senate of the joint resolution_authorizing the appropiation of $42,997,089.50 to compensate rail- roads for carrying mail under increased rates allowed by the Interstate Com- merce Commission, saves the Govern- ment _approximately $6,000,000, Postmaster General Brown entered into an agreement with the railroad companies to get their money for them this month, the last of the fiscal yea if they would waive interest charges The controller general has arranged formal waivers of interest, which the raflroads will sign when they are paid the resolution carrying a stipulation to that effect. Postmaster General Agree- | April. Second Lieut. Willlam E. Burke, first lieutenant from March 2. | Second Lieut. Robert G. Hunt, first| lieutenant_from April 2 ! Second Lieut. James E. Kerr, jr,, first | lieutenant from April 9. | Q. M. Clerk Frank M. Sherwood, chiet quartermaster’s clerk from January 11 Pay Clerk C. A. Phillips, detached MB.. navy yard, Norfolk, Va., to MCB, | NOB, San Diego, Calif. { MOHAIR SUITS 518 Open acharge account. Easy Terms EISEMAN'S, 7th & F ' PASSENGER KILLS WIFE ON VOYAGE TO SPAIN Cuban and Son Held at Cadiz After Slaying in Mid- ocean. By the Associated Press. i CADIZ, Spain. June 5—A midocean slaying was disclosed here today with arrival from New York of the Spanish liner Manuel Arnus and_arrest of | Manuel Secades Japon and his son. ‘While Secades and his son by his | first marriage sat in the ship's dining | room in the course of their voyage | Secades senior, 60, & widely known Cuban lawyer, shot and killed his 26- | year-old wife, Lucrecia Humara. | The authorities were notified by wireless and a justice came aboard., | placing the ‘slayer and his son under arrest. He was believed to have be- come temporarily mentally deranged Rubber Shipments Decline. NEW YORK, June 5 () —Shipmen‘s of crude rubber from British Malaya the chief producing country, declined sharply last month. Gross shipments are reported at 43960 long tons, as compared with 49,816 long tons in| Of this amount 30,966 tons went to the United States, against 34,634 during the previous month. — — — | SUMMER SCHOOL | Commercial ~ Art—Interior Deeoration— Costume Design. Children's eclass. uitions. | LIVINGSTONE. 1333 F St. N.W. Met. 2883, | Sewing Machines Used—Guaranteed Cash or Terms Tow | | them properly. exactly what might have been prophe- sied | 1t is interesting that the two persons quoted in the Monday morning papers who seemed to agree with me were both college officials. They knew what I was talking about. 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