Evening Star Newspaper, June 30, 1929, Page 2

NEARLY $200.000.000 1S U. S. SURPLUS Income Tax Returns $153,- 808,166 More Than Last Fiscal Year. By the Associated Press ‘The Gevernment ot the United States, | ‘which started the 1028 fiscal year on | Isst July 1 with an indicated deficit of §34,000.000 in its business operations, clesed the year lsst night with & sur- plus of mesrly $200.000.000, due to & startling increase in income tax re- THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, [ WASTE MATERIAL PUT TO GOOD USE ' tax psyments for the fiseal yesr up to the close of business on | June 77, latest Treasury figures avallable, had totaled $2,327,760,722, o $153,808,166 more than was collected ir the entire 1928 fiscal year. and & $158.- E{lfl increase over the same period of | of the surplus for the fiscal year will not be known until tonight, when the ‘Treasury will issue the totals for -hP‘ 13-month period, but the figures of | June 27 indicate that the prediction of | Secretary Mellon of a Government suy | plu.! of $160,000,000 or $170,000,000 wi be slightly ‘The surplus, due | almost entirely to the income tax re- mj was l!t-t:'i.‘hmed by ’n-ensury nm- trading_d year on the stock market, whion brmmnv large profits to the holders of stock and more income to the Government. Coolisige Asked Co-eperation. At the business meeung of the Gor- | ernment as | President l'lmed the departmer, hes that the estimates at that time om Gov for the year indicated = deficit of $94,000,000, and ssked their | ca-operation in practicing tae strictest | economy. Government expenditures were in- fiscal year at the t | By tne Associated Press. TOM ROBERTSON, With the © ('lul) Kitchenette” for “Tim Can Tourists”™ eo-flr-“ from old boxes. 300,000 LINE COVENTRY STREET ! 'FOR LADY GODIVA PAGEANT, Americans Among Spectators When Ride" | COVENTRY, Engiand, June 29.—Ah of | estimated 300,000 persoms lined the year aggregated $3.621.- Atthe!h!nfhlsmun‘!unel'l the Government had totaled $4,019,660,731 for tu 1928 fiscal year, March 4 had otaied $3,738,745.469, and did not include the farm board appro- priation. FATHER OF 8 SLAIN BY PARENT OF GIRL| Man Accused by Another Neighbor | Is Fatally Wounded Near Home. By the Associsted Press ANSONIA, Conn., June 29.—Salva- had been (rl!ndly with his 15-year-old ‘daughter Eleanor. Bat- uclh surrendered voluntarily at the e station. ren, received a letter this after- according to police, from Angelo 'rello, 50, telling him that Cisco had §een too friendly with his daugh- . jBattaglia went into a rage, ac- cord{:g to memben of his family and | thredtened C! Cisco, 'ho llved near the Battagha home, heard of this and went to visit Battaglia tonight to deny any wrong- doing. When OCisco was within 100 feet of his home, Battaglia fired one shot at him. Cisco fell on his face and Battaglia fired the remaining barrel, blowing away part of Cisco’s head. Police tonight detained Quadarello, the alleged author of the note sent to Battaglia, as & material witness. Bat- | taglia was locked up without bail, pend- the outcome of an inquest to be ; held Monday. PAINT FIRM EMPLOYES OVERCOME BY FUMES By the Associated Press. LOUIS' -cellulose. Nm of the employes, all of whom ‘were men, was unconscious but all were treated in and in of nlneu}g:'u -Dabney Co. whe remaining L | octacion” st Highiand Park. i near | | clined to comment when she main thoroughfare of this old city to- day as a beautiful golden-haired girl rode on & white charger through the | heart of the town attired only in flesh- colored tights. It was a holiday pag- eant and procession .of Lady Godiva enacted for the benefit of the Coventry Hospital. Hundreds of Americans and other ‘watch | tourists crowded the streefs to the ancient story of the Saxon lady ! who rode naked through the streets of Coventry about 1040 A.D., to gain from her hu:bhnl. c, Earl of Mercia, the remission of oppressive taxes on his ever, silenced the opposition. on Horse Is Re-enacted for Hos- pital Benefit. people, again unfolded in picturesque | pagean Miss_ Muriel Mellerup, the modern Lady Godiva, med the lpamxlml!()y 600.000 eyes and cameras without fiinching, but there wux an un- dertone of criticism of the whole pro- gram in some quarters. The presence | of numerous clergymen, eouneillors, | aldermen and other dignitaries, how- Godiva's harse “Peaceful,” was led by | Benedictine nuns and headed a proces- sion 4 miles long illustrating epi- | sodes in the history of ancient Coven- | try, portraying a wide ramge of histor- | ical subjects and including Mary, | Queen of Scots: Sir John Falstaft and the gunpowder piots. EDITH MASON ASKS DIVORCE DECREE Singer Says Director-Hus- band Threatened to Kill and Upbraided Her. By the Assecigfed Presss. CHICAGO, June 29.-:A “suppressed divorce bill filed by Edith Masen, prims donna of the Chicago Civic| Opera Co., sagainst her husband. | Glorgio Palacco, music director of the | | company, was made public officially | today after mews of the action become known to local newspapers. Both hold contracts with the Chieago Opera Co. for next season. Miss Mason charged the conductor | with cruelty, set forth that he once | m-nmeummlhsmh-mml\ that he her often and some- Just before she wa to | role and that he onmce | and cattle The couple was ‘married Jure 29, 1919, They have one 4-year-old daughter. Both were expected by friendestn seek her_eustody. | Miss Mason, in Chicago, is 36 years old. Her mur‘ was g St. Louis grain operator. Polaceo | is 54 years old. Kem'henthe high seas en route home from Ttaly. l‘huunnnmmthebfllthnlhe‘ & nervous breakdown last ?ekury ‘because of continued hnnm- | Polacco. Pebruary, she lflfl!fl. Polacco had to be restrained from striking her. She sald he “took great pleasure in creating scenes just before your oratrix took her place upon the plstform, to disconcert her and make it impossible for her to appear her best. Polaceo rose to fame at 22, when he | became director of the famous orches- | tra at the Lyric International in Milan, Ttaly. He met Miss Mason while direct- ing the Met; litan Opera Co. of New York, of which the was a member. MRS. WILLEBRANDT LEAVES U. S. POST - FOR OWN PRACTICE ' | (Continued From First Page.) ; Stz %% pooniniton, entogecmens aad | o N enforcement an supervision of Pederal penttenmns‘ one a{ the chief aims of her work been directed toward improving | prisons and providing better care for | the inmates. It was her insistance upon the car- ' rying out of her prison reforn) ideas that caused her clashes with John | Snook, warden of the Atlanta Pederal‘ penitentiary which received much pub- | licity and resuited in removal of the | warden. The prison system, she in- | sisted, should be operated scientifically and in an effort to carry out the idea | she secured the services of Bnnlorfl* Bates, prominent penologist as superin- | tendent of Federal prisons. Ameng the Rrst things she will do in private life will be a series of articles for a news syndicate, setting forth her ! experiences in the Department of Justice, and it was because of the contract for this work, that she de- | left her office yesterdu HOOVER LAUDS POETRY IN LETTER ON BURNS By the Associated Press. by Hamilton Fish, jr., member of th House committee on foreign affairs, to- for Robert Burns. sons gathered on the Mall in Central | Park w& y tribute to the Scotiish poet. esident’s letter said that in in some manner reached stored Ilulose. = fmndn. phmm:m expressed that the fumes were sf o in the dhlfhl. your memorial to Robert Burns to stross mmm’fie ‘The services wére held under the au- spices of the Rebert Burns Memorial Associa | h‘rc'l;ded as a defamatory stain on her- |vinced that the collapse of the war NEW YORK, June 30.—A message | from President Hoover and an address | | treaty are still uns for the time when ‘man to world o’er, ghall brother me.” day featured commemoration services |On the Rhine: Germany's obl 4 Five thousand per- f =g A R the !orwlrd march of the human spirit | single s the poet leads the way with the vision | of ideals, and ther=fore you do well in | { Mountains of hatred and distrust have GERMANY RESENTS WAR GUILT CHARGE == Government Takes Cogni- zance of Sentiment in Treaty Day Manifesto. BY DE. GUSTAV STOLPER. Special radio dispatch te The Ster. BERLIN, June 29.—On the occasion this week of the temth annmiversary of thehyonwhkhmettueyolm- sallles was signed, the German govern- ment issued & manifesto recalling nm Germany added her signature to a docu- | | ment which “was a bitter disappoint- ment for all friends of justice and true Deace.” | But the government also took oc- casien to reject again solemnly the treaty's thesis of war guilt. The mani- | festo said: “Germany signed the treaty with- cut acknowledging thereby that the| German people were the instigators of the war. This reproach keeps our peo- | ple in a state of unrest and disturbs | confidenes ameng the nations. We ! know we speak in the names of -all| Germans in rejecting the assertion of Germany’s sole guilt for the war.” Want Stain Removed. Other peoples seldom realize what s role the war guilt question still plays. For Germany the reproach of sole guilt h.kh must be removed. the Am the reparations debt and one- sided disarmament rest on article 231 gu the treaty, which established this ‘There are in Germany, 1o be sure, as |in"all lands, naive persons who &l | :mwe:::u:tzmm; if this article is uty y reparations | l.ng’ the ltmkn;:;loné"unm:g:emln! 's mili- soveref ppear. Natu- rally the government does not share this naive view. The government and the majority of the German people know | that Germany must pay because she was defeated, and the victorious powers have exploited their might to the utter- | most. But it is precisely this that justi- fled the Left government in declaring ns a ment for lll the friends of justice. WO The government is today headed by | 1 the same man who signed the Versailles | |treaty. He is an authentic witness to the sentiment that dominated the Ger- man people 10 vears ago. It was German socialists who 1 the revalution | were filled with blind confidence in Presiden? Wilson and his principles. It was they who in the Autumn of 1918 when hunger and distress overthrew Germany's army and people, saved the country’s existence as the only existing organized power, but who were also con- | front was only the beginning of a bet- tér, freer and nobler order in Europe. “Hand Shall Wither.” Hence, bitterness was strongest in their ranks and anger was deepest in their breasts when the conditions of the ‘dictated peace were communicated | by the German negotiators, who were kept incommunicado in the park at Versailles. It was the socialist cl cellor Scheidemann who declared, “th inand shall wither that signs the treaty. The compulsion of necessity was stronger than moral 1esistance. Hunger compelled signing. = Since then there have been many changes in the world. been removed and the worst excesses of unreason have been alleviated. great questions raised bv the Versailles ved, today. Emopc -Llllus!lnd intastic sums, even in the Young plan: disarm- ament, from which one hoped in 1919 A permanent peace, has not taken a le]n to fulfill tha! ideal; the most intolerable errors in the fixing of n- daries are still as far removed fre e ction as they were a decade a; (Copricnt, 1020.) French and English | was blamed by | and her husband, Cli ! the refrigerator. refrigerator nmfln to that In the Olark | Plans to Have Boys of Coun- try Make Book Racks, Tables and Other Articles. | Uaele Sam has launched a Nation- | wide eampaign to rob the soap-box | orator of his more useful to the sreat public. With the aid of tool-| handy boys of the Country the Government hopes to | reclaim mest of the millions of dis- carded jes and crates that are wasted snnually and make them over into | book racks, tables, toys and other utili- tarian objects. | A model laboratory where the al- chemy of young woodcraft:men al- | r!m is accomplishing wonders with waste Jumber, boxes and barrels of the Natjoral Capital has been set up in the boys' department’ of . the Washington Y. M. C. A, at 1736 G street. Se suecesstul has this laboratory | become since its establishment recently that Department of Commerce officials have called attemtion to the shop in m'\ official bulietin, and have used a picture of ome of the boy craftsmen, [wflh his preduct, on the cover of a booklet, “You Can Make It,” Just released. Tom Robertson Homored. Tom Robertson. of 636 Quebec place, s member of the boys' department of the ¥. M. C. A. snd his handiwork is a “camp kitchenette’ for tin-can tourists, comstructed from a couple of nld bexes from the corner l!’ot! e Commerce e tooant by its national ottt on wood tion, quotes James C. In- gram, Boys’ secretary of the local Y. M. C. A. as pointing out that “the sug- gestions of the national committee for using cast-off boxes and lumber shows the way out of a dilemma for us.” The weodworking shop, set up witn the co-operation of Government au- thorities, was made possible by a group of loeal business and professional men the Y's Men's Club, whe staged a benefit “circus” at the Y. M. | €. A. and raised sufficient momey to equip the shop and operate it. Marinus DeGast is in charge. Mammers Tell Story. ‘The new activity had an instant ap- peal and the banging of hammers and rasping of saws tell a story of conven- tional boxes being rescued from the serap heap in the interest 6f conserva- tion and industry. Following directions and illustrations contained in Secretary Lament's new ooklet, the “Y" boys are building everything from benches to bmodvr coops and from see-taws to serving trays. 1In addition. the thop has sup- | plied a newly organized archery club | with bows and arrows with which to practice the ancient sport, and the young_workers declare they are ready to tackle nearly anything else, however intricate. erchants of Washington have begun to react favorably to Uncle Sam’s new drive, for they are findlnx that the age-oid of wha o with old boxes and crates is hhl solved for them. It was to solve this iem that the Department of Commerce Iaunched its educational program. “The profitable and economical util- :@m of ueond—h;ne ‘wooden hotxm crates presen problem extent of which is not generally real- ized.” it is stated by Axel H. Oxholm, director of the program. “Some idea of the scope of the meay be gained if one stops to consider the vast amount of lumher annually comsumed in the manufacture wooden evmtll.nera_ “If this supply of lumber were of & | grade suitable for application to eon- mfihn pul it would be sufficient build 000 average-size frame bousuanou'h to provide homes for » population four times that of the Nation's Capital.” P 'REFRIGERATOR GAS BLAMED FOR DEATHS Chicago Health Officer Says Woman and Three Children Were Victims of Fumes. By the Asseciated Press CHICAGO, June 29.—Methy! chloride gas, escaping from electric refrigerators, Health Commissioner el for the death today e eritical illness of two others and death of three children a week ago. Mrs. th Clark, 28, died early today ifford Clark, and mother, Mrs. Margaret Hennesler, were at a hospital, where their recovery was reported doubtful, Dr. Kegel reported that investigation showed the refrigerator at their apart- ment was leaking and that he was con- vinced that escaping methyl chloride was responsible. He al dren of lrvinl Markowski, who suc- cumbed to a mysterious poison last week, probably had’ died frwl the effects of the gas which hld lfltwn into food in found that a Arnold H. of one pe: nplrtmmt was used i the Markowski | ‘hom Thz health commissioner annouced he would institute an investigation of elec- | tric refrigeration systems to determine which ones crelud the potsonoua gas. DEATH-CEI.L WEDDING | FORBIDDEN BY JAILER Doomed Slayer, Who Dedicated Drawings and Rhymes to Girl, Won Her Love. By the Associated Press. LOUISVILLE, Ky.. June 29.—A pro- posed death-cell wedding was blocked here today when Thomas A. Dover, jatler, refused permission for Robert Lee Bennett, 32, to marry Miss Ernest- ine Cook. W Bennett, who has twice been sen- tenced to death for the killing of his grandmother, allegedly for robbery, makes claim to being an artist and a poet of sorts. He has given newspa- | pers coples of drawings and rhymes, most of them dedicated to Miss Cook. The girl, accompanied by her sister. a vaudeville actress, went to the jail ndly to ask permission for the wed- f see no reason for the ‘eddtng and so far as I am concerned it will n¢ allowed,” said Dover. Bennett won a new trial after his first sentence on the grounds of in- | | But | competent. evidence. He was eonvleud P jced & secand time. and senten spent about wu years in delth cnul here yv‘ifid at the Bmz penitentiary at e Blue Summit Camp to Open. CHARLES TOWN, W. Va, June 20 « 1al) —Blue Summit camp, & Sum- mer camp for Hebrew boys on the Shenandoah River near here, will open July 1 with 100 in camp, the manage- ment announced today. The camp, Nearly th.rer-rmrm of the gutomo- biles manufactured in Italy In the peat year were exported, ol which is an annual affair here, has ex- E: ided from a small project to one now clud! numerous cabins and other putld and with a staff of ao\;nflhn. rostrum and convert it, The Washington boy so honored is | 0_asserted that the three chil- | D. C, JUNE 30, | | | 7 MV 0L ST A | 1929—PART 1. The siene eolumns which will frent the new entrance of the Department of A ulture have been in ition i the new lmlldirl& whieh ls nearing mmphlhn. i Loy oy 5 , —Star Staff Phe'o. Mrs. Strawbridge, VnsmngI Here, Says Philadelphia Campaign Spreads. . Offers of Support Coming to' Her From All Parts of United States. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Mrs, George H. Strawbridge, promi- iment Quaker hostess of Philadelphia. | whose letters asking society women i “set an example” by giving dry fune- tions, have attracted natlonal notice. was in_Washington during the week end. - She came to report the succe ful progress of her campaign to ‘ier!ll. persons—men and women— | some of them in high position. Mrs. Strawbridge began a month ago | {to urge women of social unpcruncc o | refrain from serving liquer in their homes, in order to hold up the hands Pt Hoaver in drive for To date. Mrs. Straw- ridge assed only women in | Philadelphis and its suburbs. Presently, | and by degrees, 1 1 she will institute simi- | lar efforts in many other cities. She is advised by Washington friends to let the work be carried out by local people, rather than have it directed | from any central quarter. Mrs. Straw- bridge will adopt this suggestion. Spreads Over Country. Although the Philadelphian has not lized outside of her own home | communty, she finds that the move- ment, without any initiative on her | plrt has spread all over the United | From East and West, North | a d South, she says, unsolieited offers of support lneo.un‘ They come in some from who say she o oa e ¥ ‘right track In an interview with this writer, Mrs. Blrl'\fl“! states that she feels sure she has “started something.” She does not think by any means that the fashionable luncheon and dinner tables of the land are going to go dry all of a en, as a result of what she has ey ieve T sugges ar extensive fruit. e sald Mrs. names of the women I wrote to, or the names of | those who replied. I have neve; thor- | ized the publication of my original letter, but it got out through some of the recipients, and has been widely re- | ecd The letter emphasizes that | nothing in the shape of an or- | glnlnuon or public meetings, or brass | h.ud methods of any kind. It merely | asks the co-operation of women in posi- tion to set personal examples in some concerted fashion. “My letter proceeds frem the premise that until there is widespread willing- | ness to cut out drink st social func- tions there is small hope that our so- called better-class people can ever. be | inspired to observe the liquor laws. “1 am taking my stand on the spirit of President Hoover's inaugural address, | | when he said: ‘For our citizens to | patronize the violation of a particular l law, un Lhe Emunn that they are op- | ructive of the very | | basis of % -un that protection of life, home { property whic y claim under er laws. If cmr:nsl’do not Iike a law, ulerr duty as honest men | and women is to discourage its viola- tion. Thelr rlgh! 1s openly to work for | its repeal.’” Reaches 2,300 Women. Mrs. Strawbridge was asked to ex- plain her method of nppmnchmgt women wham she considers to be in a | position to set the dry pace in “society,” | | “So far,” she replied, “I have ad-| | dressed 1f to some 2,300 women in Philadelphia and its environs. I have had”more than 1,000 replies. The over- whelming mnm'lt: is favorable. I have had several hundred unfavorable letters. | Not all the women who write in sup- | port of my suggestion are prohibition- ists. Indeed, very many confess they are not er have not hitherto been pro- | hibitionists. But scores upon scores of them say the President's appeal is ir- | resistible, and that henceforward they purpose carrying it into effect at their tzwl\A ug{a ¢ o vl of women explain that the are ready to ‘cut out liquor,' as soon .Z the practice of doing 50 becomes more general. They hesitate to do so now, ying frankly that ‘everybody’ is serve cocktails and what goes with them, and that they do not feel themselves in position, for the present at any rate, to become conspicuous exceptions. Many who talk along these es_express the hope that my idea will swentually many followers. 'lhey seem an: to be among thém. Admit They Are Not Drys. ) t do the unfavorables write you?” Mrs. Strawbridge was requested to reveal. “They declare quite bluntly that they do not believe in prohibition,” she said. “They cllim it is doing more harm t] good, is breeding disrespect for all law, can never be enforced and, as far as they are eoncerned add thlt they will do nothing to ‘make matters worse,' as they put it. “Many lcknowledge their incorrigible antipathy to prohibition, tell me the; ey admire my ‘courage’ in trying to dry up fashion- able parties, but doubt whether I'm ever folnl to get anywhere. At least, they leave me in no doubt that I can expect no co-operation 1mu| !hem . )(n Strawbridge asserts the les of the British Ambnnder in hington and of'the new American bassador in London—especially that | | { ness | expi o | of my correspondents, who | WOMAN AS SOCIAL DRY LEADER SEES COCKTAILS LOSING CAST MRS. GEORGE H. STRAWBRIDGE. of Gen. Dawes—are going to have | “prodigious effect.” It is Mrs. Strawl 's_opinien, too, that with our hiue- lomatic setting the example of qlxm'hls uncticys, American embassies and le. gations everywhere will have a “cue’ they are not likely to ignore, dentally, she approves President Huo- ver's ban om prohibition education in the publie schools. dren,” Mrs, Strawbridge thinks, “are the ones we must reach.” Far From Usual Type. ‘This Quaker prohibition Joan of Arc is about as far removed from the pop- | ular conception of a woman dry cru- sader as can possil gined. | She is in the early forties, tall, hand- some, stylishly groomed and possessed of a sense of humor not usually ast0- | clated with a missionary. whridge, the daughter of an | old family of Pennsylvania T: was educated at & Friends’ Schoel in Maryland and later at the University of Pennsylvania. Her husband is a rominent New York and Philadelphia merchant and she is the mother nl l'o daughters. Mrs. rawbridge is viee president of the lqpub]lnn ‘Women of Pennsylvania, of whom Mrs, George Horace Lorimer is president. __(Gopyrient, 1929, FIREWORKS BLAST TAKES FOUR LIVES ; Several Others Injured by Accident in St. Louis 5 and 10 Cent Store. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, June 29.—Four persons were burned to death and several wera injured when fireworks on display at; the F. A. Scharlott, Inc., 5 and 10 eent | store were ignited accidentally late to- day, immediately enveloping the store in_flames. The dead are Thomas Henderson, 12; an unidentified woman of about 23 or | 30, and two unidentified girls, about| 16 _and 14 years ald. The fire burst from the fireworks ' 4 counter, opened this morni llumi- nated by a string of red and white elec- tric lights. It is believed a shart circuit ignited one piece of fireworks and it spread flame to the others. Fireworks, ets and roman candles burst through the store windows after few moments and girl clerks customers ran out _scream the clothing of several in flames. Henderson, who died at a “Parents, not chil- | Joud | ns. The store was ablaze in & | CREAGER DEFENDS | | Lone Star State’s G. 0. P. Leader Defies Brookhart | at Patronage Mearing. f | | By the Associated Press. SAN ANTONIO, Tex, June 20— Vigorously defending his actions as ’Repulfllun national committeeman, Rene B. Creager testified today bef, the Senate patronage committee, chc ing the committee had exceeded ¢t authority granted it by the Senate and telling Senator Smith W. Brookhart of | le\l, chairman, that “You can't bluff | llt ger went on the stand after a g_ande onr 'mnma had del:::ed tgz- ‘exas ernnun orga e prefaced his testimony with the state- ment that the “committee has exceeded :ub]ecls cther than pnmmge | Brookbart Makes Sally. |1 say that even co ummuhn“dw m, said: “Woil. you mfi?zn-cum':oum'tmn‘w | anybody on this committee | Creager m numn applauded. answered_testimony hy A. G. 'M‘lflm that he Had been lld- lared, Was naped, M-.fl mrhdn an insane ACTIONS IN TEXAS e -| the authority granted it” by considering | “And I refer to the chaitman when | eourtesy has | “And you are not going to buft'me,” | reptied. 1.5, EVISES USE ENGLAND PRASES FOR WASTE BOXES DAWES' ‘REFORMS Wearing of Long Trousers'at Formal Function and Dry Stand Are Lauded: BY JOSEPH B. PHILLIPS. By Radio to 'rh- star. LONDON, June 29.—That ous | personality,” wmch the British press o | unanimously attributed to Ambassader Dawes when it was first announced that he was coming to London as Am- bassador has given evidence of its vigor. Scarcely a fortnight passad after the arrival of the new diplomat before two striking “reforms” emanated from 4 Grosvenor square. The “went dry.” And the ‘Ambassaaor appearsd at Buckingham Palace for the court held by the Queen ,nmnd in full-length trousers, 'which constitute the fll dress of his ewn country, instead of the knee breeches | prescribed for court dress 1n the coun- try to whieh he is accredited. The matter of how an American should dress when appearing Mm‘u an Old World court has since earliest days ot the United SHN bem an unsettled international Colonial history is full of it. o lub- ject aroused the righteous wrath of early Colonjal editors more thag the way high soclety of Philadelphis ‘and New York “aped the fatuities of Britain™ in dress and social intercourse. Franklin_Started Move, Perhaps {t was Pranklin who first | started the tradition of “democratic | stmplicity” of dress as a contrast te | the ostentation of Old World courts And perbaps it was not done as altru- istically as tha schoolbook history has made it appear. Even this age of spe- cialized “public relations experts” has few more astute in tQe art of “space grabbing'—to use a modern term—than Franklin. When appeared in plain brown velvet before e King of France he was flatter- ingly compared to a “sturdy Democrat from the age of Cato.” When he tried the same costume before the English Privy Council the adjectives were less fintt!nnfi’ “An uncouth person,” was r the term. [+ tradition. he Started, #f not | steadily maintained, « ly cha If Americans wish to maintain the dition of the “sturdy Democrat from ‘the age of Cato.” the English now refuse to lose their calm. Even in the famous case of the :Me Ar:lbasudot Bn:rvk;ys appearance at & wedding breeches it was prlncmlptl the American | Dress which inflated the incident. And | Ambassador Dawes’ reward for appear- !ance mn full trousers has nothing but praise. Papers Praise Dawes. tm‘G'l. Dawes is mb:bxe ht." newspapers the | “At Rome one does as Rame 'lth | In limits. w.mmreumvhy | American diplomat should change the | eostume which he would wait uj his own President for the fancy of the country to which he is aceredited.” | bassy was that full of the costume of state in | be the costume of Wa: sentative abroad. Had the Ammv in active he I!w!d uniform . Metm:mtu- mmm e Committes. heard test. | Ben en he discussed briq:e he had bullt, connecting Browns- e ma n gone i | by the committes and many “false statements” put into the mord Creager charged that C. Malott, Whfl had testified ho lttzmpted to ob- | tain a concession for the and ‘thnzmmnchh'vunn-dte Creager, had as his only purpese “to ho!mme up just as any ordlmry black- mailer. Attacks on the conduct of the cus- toms department in Texas under Roy c-mybelx an appointee of Creager, ‘tn made during the session. District udge John Valls, formerly district at- torney at Laredo, repeated evidence of :n lla:-fl rrwy between Olmp- | Allen Walker, & former d Unlud States nfrshal, but now a gl- t.lve In mmo on 8 liquor indictment. told me.” Valls declared. "ehn cllnpboll frequently sent him to Mexico to get liquor. en he would meet Walker at the bridge and enter the United States, knowing officers mun and apparently said. which Campbell was riding. “Walker also said that he had brought 72 cases of liquor into Texas and that while he was in Detroit the liquor was removed from his home and disposed of by Camphell and Roy West.” Valls Dflbfi ‘Walker, Questioned by Bullington. Wichita Falls, vice chflrmln of the Texu Republican txecuuve committee, | valls said he did not place much credence in the statements made by alker. “Th!y ‘\en not legal evi- dence.” be During the three ;un of his a-mce as district director of igration, from lfl! to 1926, Campbell's ameers ‘tailed co-operate because his men were old | in the service and mine were all new,” and | Hansen sal at_least one Del hospital, had gone to the store with his | Goat. Raisers twin brother, Prancis, to purchase fire- works. Francis said he did not know | | how he got out, but that he found him- self in front of the store and his brother was missing. There were about 30 customers and 40 employes in the store. LINE TO BE SOLD. CHICAGO, June 29 (#).—Federal | Judge George A. Carpenter today con- | firmed Special Master Herbert A. Lun- dahl’s report on the receivership of the Chicago & Alton Railroad. A decree of foreclosure and an order tor the sale of the road was expected to be issued by Judge Carpenter within a few days. The estential points in the special master's . report which were contested before Judge Carpenter were the liens held by the Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co. of New York, for $22,000,000, and the United States Mortgage & Trust Co., for $16,000,000. | | Five thousand five hundred and seven lications for permits to drive an automobile in the District were filled with the Trafic Bureau this month, shattering all previous records for any one month, it was announced yesterday by Inspector E. W. Brown in charge of the Traffic\Bureau. The applications of 1,512 of the prospective drivers were denied for various reasons, but the re. .‘g.ni.nl 4,007 were granted permits r a rigid examination, \ 1 re The Senate committee todsy had a telmllghkd denial from Representative | John H. Robsion of Kentucky that R. | D. Waddle, former postmaster at Somerset, . had asked to cone tribute to campaign Jfunds. He at- tnched a statement by Circuit Juflge R. Tartar of Somerset in Which the Jud'e called Waddle's charge “scurrilous reports.” 7 RUSSIANS TO DIE. MOSCOW, June 28 (#).—Seven persons described as former imperial | secret ee?mu and speculators, were sentenc to death today by the district court at Mohilev, in White Russia. Nineteen others were sentenced to vary- lni terms of imprisonment. was charged that the defendants set fire to a co-operltlve farm and at- tempted to assassinate tatives of et authorities in the town of Juravichi. 5.50.7 Apply for Permits to Drive Automobiles in D. C., Shattering Record The nearest approach to the new cord occurred in June last year, when 5,083 applications were filed. The num- ber of working days in June, 1928, how- ever, were 36 in comparison with 24 this year, which Traffic Bureau officials point out makes the record even greater. would not search an automobile in| sity dealt with cautiously by the Bh ‘Their own Sir Bsme Howard had too recently ine stalled prohibition in his own domain. Landon ng-answer to that except that it was his excellency's and when Dawes followed quently prohibition ‘American embassy was a much hvelier topic with American embassies in other countries, where wine is a more important ;L tg;; entertainment than it was in suit, reviled. with equal intensity dress. Yet Aml is praised as “a for the ties was reviled. (Copyright. 1929.) LA FONTAINE TAKEN ON GAMING CHARGE County Officers Act on Warrant, but Baid Discloses “Nothing Suspiciouns,” Is Report. Bqui with a ga warrant inst James La e, 2 taine, v officers last 1l said he did not Wlnfi to | Foi Mrs. Retta Morris, jus peace, at Hyattsville, by whom he was held under $500 bond for hearing in Hyatts- ville Police Court Wes ay. P ‘The raiders searched the found ‘“nothing suspicior ccarding to Constable Andrew Gasch of Bla- densburg, who, with other county mn. accompanied Chief Deputy Sheriff A. :v Hepburn of ntwood on the oray. SIGMA CHI'S ELECT NEW GRAND CONSUL National College Body Names Los Angeles Man Head of Fraternity at Chicago Convention. By the Associated Press. PORTLAND, Oreg, June 29.—A. P. Thomason of Los Angeles was elected grand consul of Sigma Chi. national college fraternity, at the ocnehmu session of the four-day convention here this afternoon. Mr Tm suc- ceeded Herbert C. Chicago who had filled this w-tmp.nnn Dr. Joseph C. Nate of re-elected grand annotator will be Irwen P. Reiger of Chies who re- places George F. Kestler, ‘Trustees named for revenue 'derived by the District from the issuance of its mu month w-fiw T pay 3 1 3 or & permit which 1s for three years. et 1and and George B. McCann of Ohilo. For the four-year term G. Warden of Des Moin u.lon-nu.! Meckley Potts of New York Cf For the two- tenure, Hamiton of Atlanta, Ga.