Evening Star Newspaper, July 13, 1930, Page 3

HOOVER 1S INVITED TOANNUAL PARADE Ball Game Between Police and Firemen Arranged for Labor Day. Precident Hoover has been invited to review the annual firemen's parade on Labor day, in conjunction with the base ball contest between the firemen and policemen at the Griffith Stadium. Invitations also have been sent to the Governors of Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, apparatus from all these States being expected to appear in the big parade. According to the present plans of the committee, of which Odell S. Smith is chairman, the parade, which gets | bigger each year, will start at 11 o'clock on Labor day, and will take two hours to pass a given point. At 2:30 o'clock the United States Marine Band will give a concert at Griffith Stadium, and promptly at 3 o’clock the gong will sound for the ball game. Proceeds from this event go to the widows and orphans of firemen and policemen whose lives are lost in the line of duty. The expenses of the affair are to be met through the generosity of business men and resi- dents of the city. Band Contest Is Feature. Another feature of Labor day will be & band contest, which is scheduled to start at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, pos- sibly on the White Lot. Prizes again will be awarded to the winners in this contest, in which bands from several 5 will participate. izes will be awarded to the engine companies in the parade in various classes. These include volunteer com- panies, according to size and appearance, Prizes also will be awarded for the best floats in the parade, as well as for in- dividual apparatus, musical organiza- tions, fraternal organizations and comic entries. Arrangements are being made for a carnival for the entertainment of visi- tors, which probably will be in the na- ture of streef dancing. A subcommittee composed of Charles W. Darr, chair- man; Dr. George C. Havenner and Sergt. A. J. Bargagni will confer with the auxiliaries in the matter. Parade and Game Committee. ‘The committee in charge of the Labor day parade and base ball game is as follews: Odell S. Smith, chairman; Ru- dolph Jose, vice chairman; Harry F. Allmond, secretary; Edwin B. Hesse, treasurer; Edward R. Pierce, assistant secretary; Harry M. Luckett, assistant treasurer; Sergt. A. J. Bargagni, Asst. Supt. E. W. Brown, Representative Wil- liam W. Cchen, Charles W. Darr, Maj. Charles Demonet, Maj. Daniel J. Dono- van, Mrs. John Allan Dougherty, Wil- liam Phelps Eno, Lieut. Howard S. Fisk, Isaac Gans, Dr. Frank E. Gibson, Dr. George C. Havenner, J. Thilman Hen- drick, Gen. John A. Johnson, Mark Lansburgh, Martin A. Leese, Dr. A. M. MacDonald, Capt. O. R. Moxley, Edward J. Murphy, George Plitt, Maj. Henry G. Pratt, Samuel J. Prescott, Lieut. M. J. Ready, Cuno H. Rudolph, Asst. Supt. W. S. Shelby, Inspector H. J. Stoll, A. J. Sullivan, Lieut. Mina Van Winkle, | Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh, Chief George S. Watson, Charles J. Waters. Parade marshal, Sergt. A. J. 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Domestic Tangle Remained Problem After New Ruler Was Acclaimed. This is the first of a series of $iz articles describing the events leading to and subsequently developing in the restoration oj Carol on the throne of Rumania. The second will appear tomorrow. BY LELAND STOWE. Special Dispatch to The Star. | BUCHAREST, July 12.—Some time before midnight on the night of June | 6 an agitated young captain of infantry | dispatched a courier at breakneck speed to the Rumanian army headquarters. The courier carried with him a note as curious as it was remarkable. Flushed and winded, the courier saluted and handed his message to the general in charge. The general scanned the paper, still scowling at this freakish interrup- tion of a late evening’s relaxation. Then his lips uncurled in a broad smile. “Tell your captain,” he said, “that I un;ilersund perfectly—and that all goes well.” ‘The note which evoked this enigmatic response read thus: “The ‘Closed Question,’ surrounded by two regiments of infantry, is marching toward Cotrocent Palace.” Prince Carol Returns. ‘This was the officlally discreet way of saying that Carol Caraiman, former Crown Prince of Rumania and for four years an exile, who had renounced his rights to the throne of the Hohenzol- lern dynasty, had returned to Ru- manian soil and was about to re-enter the royal palace. The general's suave smile was another way of saying that the event was not as surprising to some people in Rumania as it was soon to prove to be to the world. For more than four years the relation of Carol, first son of the late King Ferdinand, to Rumania’s royal affairs had been regarded officially as termi- nated. Since the act of Parliament of January, 1926, wherein Carol's right to Succession was constitutionally revoked, | the status of the former Crown Prince | had been stamped as settled. Hence | there had grown up the habit, among | government and army officials within | the borders of this Balkan kingdom, of referring to Carol in course of con- | versation as “the Closed Question.” Now the “Closed Question,” under es- cort of the 2d and 9th Regiments of Chasseurs and en route to Cotroceni Palace, was wide open again. Within the space of a dramatic 16-hour flight | from Munich to Baneasa Flying Field, on the outskirts of Bucharest, the de- ceptive cloak of a comforting figure of speech had been snatched away. Small wonder that the Rumanian general laid down his elongated, gold-inlaid ciga- rette holder and smiled. Another Astonishing Message. Thirty-six hours earlier an even more | astonishing message had come to Bu- | charest—this directly to_ the personal | suite of Prince Nicholas, Regent of Ru- mania and younger brother of Carol, in the royal palace. On the other end of the telephone was speaking a man who for four years during the war had been an Austrian army officer on the Rus- sian, Serbian and Italian fronts—Col. Victor Precup of the Rumanian army, !a burly man with a granite jaw and | laughing eye and the quiet voice of a |man to be entrusted with a mission. All that he said in that eventful tele- | phone conversation with Prince Nich- olas is not known, but his first words were these: “His majesty King Carol will arrive in Bucharest by airplane on Friday night. I shall keep you informed.” With these words, for the first time, Nicholas was informed that the plot to restore Carol upon Rumania’s throne had blossomed at last into action. With- in a short period Prince Nicholas had notified government officials, and espe- cially Premier Julius Maniu, of the im- pending return of the prince to whom, legally, every Rumanian frontier was barred. There still remained more than 30 hours before the scheduled hour of Carol’s return. Secrecy Disregarded. Perhaps this is the most amazing of all the astonishing factors connected with Carol's return to power some few weeks ago. So sure were those who ma- neuvered Carol’s coup d'etat of his re- ception in Bucharest and of his success- ful restoration that they calmly notified Prince Nicholas and the Bucharest gov- ernment of the prince’s plans nearly a day and a half before his arrival. Even the precaution of further secrecy was discarded. It was as if Nicholas was informed in order that he might pave the way with the regency, with Maniu and the government. I heard this story seated at dinner in the garden of the Luzanna Restaurant, just before I left Bucharest, from the lips of one of the half-dozen persons in Bucharest who are qualified to tell it. From the beginning he had been “in the know.” He was not bragging; simply narrating events. And the events con- nected with Carol's return, when told simply, are but the more surprising. It has not been easy to report accu- rately all that has happened in Ruma- nia since Carol stepped into a Farman airplane in Munich on the morning of June 6, disguised as secretary to Capt. Popp, Rumanian military attache in Paris, gnd bearing the passport of Nicholas Eugen, the attache’s chauffear. In fact, it has been almost impossible. Gossip and rumors and “doctored .state- ments” were perhaps never more inevi- table than during the overthrow of Ru- | mania’s regency and the early weeks of | the new regime. Yet the element of drama has been heightened by that fact, and perhaps the incidents of Carol's re- turn should be resketched and filled in for no other reason than for the sake of striking as closely as possible to the truth. In the garden of the Luzanna Restaurant this drama was unfolded, while mentally checked by informa- tion gathered from many other sources. For obvious reasons the name of my in- formant cannot be revealed. Carol Aided by His Brother. “There were only four people in Bu- charest,” he said smiling, who were com- p'etely informed of his majesty’s plan to pared the way. Their names? Remem- ber I am not to be mentioned, but I will tell you.” Then he named them. Mihail Man- oilescue, now minister of industry and commerce in the new Maniu cabinet, who once was tried for treason in con- nection with an earlier plot for Carol's return; commmdnntvmmnn of the Ru- To these four, plus M. Tata- rlnndelpLPfl’potmmlm-‘ tion, King Carol II owes his restorat t:n.'l';he the ible mpu:: Pri e of ince Nicholas, who gladly aided the collapse of the regency for his brother’s.sake. ‘The story of Carol's flight to a throne has been told, but the precise inciden of June 6 may be summarized as lows: 6:30 a.m—Carol took off from Mu-, nich with Caj return. They were the ones who pre- | the " THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JULY 13, 1930—PART ON KING CAROL II. [ONLY FOUR MEN IN BUCHAREST GIVEN CREDIT R RESTORATION OF KING CAROL ON THRONE HE HAD ABANDONED FOR FOUR YEARS OF EXI LE PREMIER MANIU. for the first time pointed to his dis- creet ‘“secretary” and informed the astonished French pilot Lalouette, “It is His Majesty King Carol.” Until that moment the aviator had not dreamed that he was an instrument in the impending overthrow of the re- gime in Rymania. Carol Recognized by Peasant. 2:15 p.m.—Third forced landing in countryside 50 kilometers from Cluj. Among the peasants gathered about the stranded plane one had served his mil- itary enlistment in Carol’s regiment and was quick to recognize him. “He is our King.” the peasant declared, and Carol admitted the fact as if, once in Ru- mania, no further danger threatened. 2:30 p.m.—Carol arrived in Cluj, Northwestern Rumania, was greeted by the army officers, toasted with cham- pagne and changed into the uniform of & Rumanian general, which had been held for him there by Col. Precup. 10:10 p.m.—Carol landed at Bancasa Airdrome, immediately went to the 2d and 9th Regiments of Chasseurs and was escorted by them to Cotroceni Palace. ‘That is a swift outline of a prince’s abandonment of exile by a single day’s flight across two-thirds of Europe. From midnight Friday until Sunday after- noon, June 8, events rushed at kaleido- scopic pace. By daybreak the tottering regency had resigned; by noon the for- mer Maniu cabinet—secretly happy to do so—followed suit. Before nightfall George Mironesco, former minister of foreign affairs, had formed an emer- designi to nullify the existing legislation depriving of succession and to name him King. Banishment Rescinded. By 2:30 Sunday afternoon the Na- tional Assembly, consisting of both Sen- ate and Chamber, had rescinded the 1926 act of banishment by 495 to 1, and Rumania's errant prince was called before Parliament as Carol IL “Long live King Carol!” shouted Senators and Deputies with enthusiasm. And then| M shortly thereafter, upon the glowing reference of Cicero Pop, President of the Assembly, to Princess Helen as “the noble guardian angel of the King's son,” they cried in unison, “Long live her majesty Queen Helen!™” They were speaking precipitately, al- though they did not know it. On Prin- cess Helen has been conferred the title of “her majesty” by royal decree, but she has not been decreed “Queen of Rumania,” nor is she as yet recognized as such by the government and the King. But at that moment of delirious acceptance of a new regime Graustark- ian melodrama was running at full tide. The four-year “closed question” had been opened and apparently definitely reclosed. Within 48 hours the Hohen- zollern dynasty had been reconsolidated, perhaps saved. And the new King had spoken like a King. “Unite, Rumanians, from all four cor- ners of the country. Unite in your thoughts and your sentiments. Forward, march, and to work.” Yet the fact remained that Rumania, having found her King, had yet to find her Queen. The royal domestic tangle was still unsolved. BY DR. JAROMIR KOPECHY. By Cable to The Star STRBSKE PLESO, Czechoslovakia, July 12 (N.AN.A).—"The accession of | King Carol II to the throne of Rumania has made and is going to make no change whatever in the foreign policy of Rumania.” These words were spoken to me with the greatest emphasis by M. Mironescu, the {mnuur for foreign affairs in Ru- mania. King Will Support Peace Plans. “I have been privilege to examine closely with his majesty all exsiting in- ternational problems,” M. Mironescu went on to say, “and as the King has already declared, he is firmly deter- mined to support in every way a purely peaceful policy on the part of Rumania. This policy is based upon an alliance with Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, France and Poland, and upon friendly relations with Italy. Further, Rumania bases her desire for peace upon an improve- ment in relations with and a rapproche- ment between the states of Central Eu- rope. “In developing this general aim at the consolidation of peace and the closer relationship among nations, we are strongiy in favor of the initiative taken by M. Aristide Briand for setting up some system of federal union among the states of Europe. We look upon such a union as an organism which may well exist within the League of Nations, in no way infringing upon the basic principles of that great interna- tional institution, but helping and facil- itating the activities of the League by the very solidarity displayed by the countries within M. Briand's federal union.” M. Mironescu is no partisan of those who are in favor of the revision of the peace treaties, he said. “A federal union of European states is & vast undertaking and if it is to be successful it must be based on the existing treaties of peace. Any at- RUMANIAN FOREIGN POLICIES REMAIN UNCHANGED BY CAROL! Mironescu Declares Nation Favorable to Briand Federation and Balkan Union, Although Foreseeing Difficulties. tempt to touch those treaties which were drafted with so much trouble at the conclusion of the Great War would, I think, lead to results which would be most unfavorable to peace. “I believe that a federal union sys- tem as advocated by M. Briand would have to be carried out in stages; that is to say, by means of the creation of regional unions, which would be used as pivots around which the greater edifice could be planned. I believe that these unions could be established most easily and firmly upon an economic basis. Without a serious agreement in the economic fleld, any grouping of countries on a purely political basis would not be very effective.” I asked M. Mironescu to give me some expression of his views on the idea of a Balkan union and to outline the policy of the Rumanian government on this subject. His excellency said: “The possibility of a Balkan union has indeed been recently discussed. The idea is not a new one, but it is an attractive one, and it may be that at the present time such a union may be less difficult to effect than in the past. Foresees Serious Difficulties. “I have a feeling, though, that serious difficulties are going to arise as soon as something definite comes to be drafted. For such a union to be suc- cessful, all the countries intemsted in the scheme would have to be con- vinced that existing frontiers should not be disturbed. I am ‘afraid that such a conviction is not generally held. Clearly, so long as differences of opimion exist on this vital point,»a Balkan union would be difficult to set up. “Speaking personally, and speaking also for the Rumanian government, the idea is & good one and would be of use in consolidating peace and in, help- ing to develop the vasous kan states. For this reason we have de- cided to lend our help to any move- ment toward a Balkan union. I can- not say more than that.” (Copyright, 1930, by North American News- paper Alliance.) JOHNSON IS JAILED FOR PISTOL THREAT Man Who “Poked” Revolver at Operator Given 180-Day Term. Edward Johnson, whom police sald “poked” a revolver at Prances Pearson, telephone operator at Schuyler Arms Apartments, several weeks ago, was sent to jail for 180 days by Judge Ralph Given at Police Court yesterday. John- son was charged with carrying a con- cealed weapon “with intent to use.” The man pleaded guilty. It was tes- tified that Johnson walked into the fashionable apartment house late at n&ht and held up Miss Pearson. She called police and Johnson threw away his gun and ran. Police found the revolver outside of a window of the house lobby. e Last week Judge John P. McMahon found Johnson guilty of threats against telephone operator and sentenced him to post a $500 bond to keep the peace, in lieu of which he was to serve six months in jail. NAIL CAUSES FATAL FALL Workman Jerked From Building in North Carolina Tossing Lumber. CANTON, N. C,, 12 UP).—A nail that caught 1 the ¢ Victor Haney, 2 the top of s two. , jerked him Toet ' amihnt oy, I today. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. of employe of a fiber mill, as llg,mberlrom e TODAY. Oumttfi.nmglugmcnhmmflu followed hike up Rock Meet at Con- 12:10 p.m.—First gureed landing near Czechoslovakis. nd. Harr Pa. snd;:h s T;ansfer & Stg:fe mC.?., p Creek. t necticut avenue and Tilden street, 5:30 pm. Meeting, Dames of 832 Twen- RARE OLD VIOLIN THRIFT SHOP GIFT Child Welfare Agency Adds Instru- ment to Sale Collection—Pic- ture Exhibit Planned. ‘The Thrift Shop, child welfare agency located in its new store, 1011 E street, has just received, as part of its stock, & rare old viglin. The instrument was a gift of a friend of the shop and it has n added to the s of materials for sale. Plans are being made to have an exhibition of Florentine pictures when the shop reopens next Fall after being closed for the Summer. ‘The shop recently distributed checks for $3,000 each to the four agencies which benefit from the shop—the Child Welfare Society, the Children's Hos- pital, the Children’s Country Home and the Prenatal Clinic of Columbia Hos- pital. This le a total of $12,000 given to the four child welfare agencies. FIVE DROWN, TWO éAVED, IN MOTOR BOAT UPSET Fatality at Lake Kachess, in the Cascades, Has Caretakers of Lodge Among Victims. By the Associated Press. . SEATTLE, Wash,, July 12.—Five per- sons were drowned in Lake Kachess, in last night, after a motor boat overturned. Two were saved. ‘The dead d 3 Laki watchman named Hagas, from Easton, ‘Wash. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Harrigan, care- {akers of Snoqualmie Lodge, were res- SR M o Nineteen days left to file your - sonal tax return. ahu-umkwfn w associations located in the of Columbia,are not taxable. IGAROL'S ENEMIES ALL FRIENDS NOW Many Claim Credit for Coup Which Brought Rumanian to Throne. By Radio to The Star Dally News. Copyright, 1930. VIENNA, Austria, July 12.—Now that King Carol is safely back, Bucharest | has a new parlor game, it is reported here—choosing among the various per- gn:lu who claim to have brought him ck. * Carol had plenty of enemies when he was away, and now most of them are 80 much “is friends that they take you by the arm and tell you confidentially how they “assisted” his return. The real story of the smoothest coup in recent history discloses one directing genius, one chief assistant, numerous skiliful and loyal subordinates, and Carol himself—to say nothing of a handful of queens, a sprinkling of princes and an aviator or two. It was the pleasure of this corre- spondent when in Bucharest to ask Carol recently directly who was chiefly responsible for his return—and Carol put his hand on his chest and said I myselt.” In a sense this is true, but under Carol were expert wonkmen, with- out whom he would have failed. Before the actual machinery could work much organization in Bucharest had to be done—and Carol was not in Bucharest. So his frlend Michael ollescu took the job. For several years Manollescu had been Carol's chief courier and once he was arrested by the Bratianos and charged with treason. Verdict of Acquittal. By a typically Rumanian coincidence the judge who t at Manollescu’s court-martial was a general staff officer named Col. Precup. This Col. Precup announced the verdict acquitting Man- oflescu. And who should happen to be Manollescu’s chief assistant in the coup that brought Carol back but an officer named Col. Precup? Things follow like that—in Rumania. Mancilescu attended to the diplomatic end. That is, he launched complicated and dangerous negotiations with the various persons without whose consent Carol could not easily return. Queen Marie had to be sounded out, Prince | Nichols had to give his consent, Pre- mier Juliu Maniu was told. ‘When detalls in Bucharest were ready Col. Precup got on the job, and did a job so marvelously perfect in every de- tall that no a single hitch occurred, not a single leak slipped out—until Carol swooped down from the skies to regain a kingdom he had thrice renounced. On May 23 Col. Precup arrived at Cluj, a Rumanian town near the Hun- garian border, and let Col. Dahinten, commander of the Transylvanian Air Force, into the great secret. Then Col. Dahinten arranged for Carol's landing at Cluj. Col. Precup continued to Paris by a circuifous route, arriving there May 27. chateau. Previously Col. Precup had arranged a dupe wherewith to fool the chief of the Rumanian secret police, Col. Radoi, whose job it has been for the past four years to shadow Carol and prevent his return. Col. Radol is looking for a new job now. During the whole week of the coup Radoi was stationed some- where pear the Jugoslav frontier. shad- owing a decoy, Gen. Precup had slyly planted there. Dramatic Words Spoken. Arriving in Carol's chateau, Col. Precup uttered as dramatic words as ever were uttered by one man serving another: “Be under my orders for the next few days,” Precup told Carol, “and I will be under your orders for the rest of my life.” ‘With the aid of two subordinates, Col. ‘Tatareanu, Rumanian military attache in Paris, and Col. Popp, his assistant, the plot got under way. Work was dif- ficult because the Rumanian Minister in Paris, M. Diamandy, was a bitter ant{-Carolist. M. Diamandy, too, is looking for a job today. One of the first difficulties was a passport. So Carol was given the pass. port of Eugene Nicolas, Col. Popp chauffeur. It was as “Eugene Nicolas that Carol crossed the French frontier into Germany. The chauffeur's photo- graph was cut off the passport and Carol's inserted. Col. Popp went out to the airfield nenr Paris and hired a Farman plane and its pilot, M. Lalluette. The pilot never knew who his passenger was. The price has been variously stated and ap- pears tn have been $1,000. In any case, a rendezvous was made for Munich, on the early morning of June 7. Carol and Col. Popp, accom- panied also by M. Dimitrescu, Carol's personal secretary, left for Munich by motqg- car. : Meantime Col. Precup with his or- ganizing genius—and luck—continued to move with great dexterity. He left Paris by plane, alone, for Strassbourg, carrying an old uniform of the 'Ruma- nian Aviation Corps and with it some medals. Prom Strassbourg he dodged about, by train, by automobile and ain by plane, until he re-arrived at Cluj, inside the Rumanian frentier. Then Precup sent a telegram to Munich. It read: . “Heard from Mary? Should- Sophie wait here? Send merchant.” He received a telegram promptly: “Mary fit she ready to travel. She is expecting you Britannia den't for- get to tell Tiktus, otherwise he will get 1ll. Kiss for Sophie.” Authorities Are Deceived. ‘These tel s, in German, com- pletely deceived the Rumanian post office authorities.’ Carol was “Mary”; Precup was “Sophie”; “Britannia” was Cluj; “Merchant” was the plane, and “Titkus,” another officer. So with the exchange of telegrams the scene was finally set. There had not been a slip. And Carol hopped off. ‘There is some doubt as to whether Col. Popp accompanied him in _the plane, or if he flew alone with Pilot Lalluette. 1In any case, the first bad break of the whole affair occurred— the plane had a forced landing. But luckily it landed safely, inside the Ru- manian frontier. But in nervous ex- citement Precup and Dahinten waited at Cluj, as hour after hour passed, and Carol did not arrive. He had left #unich at 5 am. and should have been at Cluj at noon. Two o'clock came, 3 o'clock, and still no Carol. So Dahin- ten sent out a squadron of scout planes —final dramatic touch! ‘To play safe Precup had in fact gone to the refinement of having chartered lanes ready to render aid, and posted th at Budapest and Prague. But they were not used. One of Dahinten’s fiyers, Capt. Cristescu, found Carol's plane, stranded on a mountain side. Cristescu’s machine was too small to uk&o&‘ lromx':w dangerous t:;r-\n safely with an extra passenger; there- fore, he shot, like blazes back for Cluj. ‘Within an hour a MYm plane had re- turned, picked Carol up, and carried him to Cluj, where Precup embraced he changed into the uniform—and medals—which Precup had so perspicaciously held ready. After & brief reception by the garrison Carol took off again. Fly at Night. His pilot was Capt. Oprish, had to fly at night. The delay of the forced_landing retarded the getaway from Cluj until 7:30 pm. Some of his advisers suggested that Carol should wait until morning, but he insisted on ing on. The final lap was un- eventful, and with the faithful Precup at his side, Carol reached the Baniasa Alrdrome near Bucharest at 10:3¢ p.m. He had wanted to land at the uu&ry i S He found Carol at his | and the Chicago | Sutzu, whom | [ | Above: The modest home of Mrs. Helen York, widow of Lamar Watson York, murdered dry agent, the payments on which have been reduced to $13 a | month by contributions of the public to a fund raised by The Star, Below: The check delivered to Mrs. York yesterday. —Star Staff Phatos. 15 CALLED EPOCHAL kins Addresses Louisiana Medical Society. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW ORLEANS, July 12 —Establish- | ment by Congress of the National In- stitute of Health, as th> Hygienic Lab- oratory of the Public Health Service henceforth will be known. was hailed as “epoch-making legislation” by Dr. | Joseph C_ Bloodgood of Johns Hopkins | University at a dinner here tonight i given by the Louisiana State Medical Society in honor of Senator Ransdell. It may mark the beginning. he de- ' clared, of Federal appropriations for protection against disease, in keeping with the importance of the object. “Medical research is here and is go- ing on making discoveries,” he said., | “but progress is slow, and there is every | reason to believe that it can be greatly | increased by additional workers and ad- ditional funds. The medical profession has the brains, but not the budget. Benefits of Research. g “Today practically every important | p, method of diagnosis which allows us to | recognize disease in its earliest and | curable stages and practically every method of treatment which promises anything toward a cure has been the‘ result of research. But, in spife of the | fact that for the majority of diseases we have neither a prevention nor a cure, | the number of research workers and laboratories, although decidedly on the | increase, 1s far too small to meet the demands. Neither the people nor their representatives nor the medical pro- fession think in terms of preventive | medicine or research.” | Dr. Bloodgood urged more attention | 1 of t | |8 by medical Societies to proper publicity | so that the public could be kept formed of the progress of medical re- | search and preventive medicine. Typhus an Example. “We may be threatened now with typhus fever,” he said. “The twelfth csae was reported in Maryland on July | 9. There have been three deaths. Re- | cent investigations in this country, New | Zealand and the Malay States lead to the belief that typhus fever may be | transmitted by the tick and the disease ‘may exist in rats and mice. Twelve cases and three deaths in Maryland ap- pear, small and insignificant, but the | press is educating the people to the | value of immediate attention to the beginnings of anything that suggests disease. In the last few days a spe- clalist of the Department of Agricul- ture visited, on invitation, Gibson Island | and gave helpful advice at once on the | control of the ticks and chiggers which | at present have produced nothing but | bites.” Copper Earliest Known Metal. NEW YORK (#).—Copper was man’s earliest known metal and by its scale man has been a skilled artisan for a very long time. Six thousand years ago copper pins and needles were buried in the tomb of Enefru, an Egyptian King. vided a final nervous moment, because | no one at Baniasa knew Carol was coming. Getting out of the plane Carol | was rushed to the garrison»post at| Cotroceni Palace. There he was greeted | by Banoilescu, and soon by his brother Nicholas—and the most dazzingly suc- | cessful coup outside “The Prisoner o{‘t Zenda” was complete, | But one final item remained. Thel marvelous Precup thought of it next day. In embarrassed haste he rushed off a telegram to one of the conspira- tors in Paris, “take off mustache.” For such was the attention to detail in the plot that Precup had posted in Carol's French chateau a Rumanian officer re- sembling Carol, and had put a false mustache on him to make the resem- blance closer! Hot Weather and —and all t[v‘pel of complete show- ers. led by mrp Plumber. E. G. Schafer Co. S 13th St. N.W. NEW HEALTH LAW | SAVING CROP LANDS TALOR N PRISON | Dr. Bloodgood of Johns Hop- Prayers of Moslems Wearing Outlawed Headgear Bring Needed Rain. By the Associated Press. KOZAN, Turkey—A rain that fell on 4 semi-fezzes saved the Spring crops f this Anatolian district, according to he local tailor who fashioned the for- YORK WIDOW GIVEN STAR FUND CHECK $2,103.66 Raised by Citizens Aids Family of Slain Dry Agent. ' A heavy burden has been lightened |at the home of Lamar Watson York, | prohibition agent slain in the line ot duty three months ago, due to the gen- | erosity of countless residents of Wash- ington and-vicinity. | " Mrs. Helen York, attractive young | widow of the martyr to prohibition en- | forcement, was pleased beyond words yesterday when presented with a check | for $2,103.66 by a representative of The Star. The check was the grand total «g{; fund raised for the widow by The | Star. | “Words are simply inadequate to ex- | press my gratitude to The Star and the | people of Washington,” Mrs. York de- | clared as she examined the check for |the first time. She added that the | financial future of her fatherless fam- | 1ly now appeared secure. | The young mother of three children | later visited the offices of the National | Permanent Building Association and | applied the entire fund on a mortgage |on the York home at 1244 C street | northeast. While the lump sum was in- sufficient to retire the indebtedness, the | principal and interest was reduced from | more than $3.400 to $1,300. It was disclosed that Mrs. York's payments toward cancelling the mort- gage would be $13 instead of $36 a month in the future. Mrs. York recently received an ap- pointment to a responsible position S | the Department of Justice. A house~ | kepeer was employed to care for the | three York children, Robert Lamar,.9 years old: Charles Irving, 4 years old, and James Henderson, 1 year old. 'BIBLE CLASS GROUP - WILL VISIT EUROPE 25 Under Y. M. C. A. Leader to | Sail Aboard Leviathan for Passion Play. A group of 25 members of the Organ ized Bible Class Association, under the leadership of Page McK. Etchison, reli- glous work director of the Young Men's Christian Association, will sail for | Europe Wednesday on the Leviathan, e: rr;ut: to the Oberammergau Passion Play. ‘The Washington party will be joined by other pilgrims from Marylangd, Pennsylvania and New York. The | group will visit mahy places of interes: | during the month "abroad, including Shakespeare country, the Wagnerian festival at Munich and the battlefields. Assisting Mr. Etchison in directing the tour will be his wife and H. A. Councllor. The party will spend several days in London, cross the Channel fron: Harwich to the Hook of Holland, visis ‘The Hague, Amsterdam, Volendam and the Zuider Zee: devote several days to | sightseeing in Berlin, Potsdam, Nurem- berg, Munich, and will view the Passion Play on August 3. On leaving Oberam- mergau_the group will stop at Munici again, Heidelberg, Wiesbaden and Bie- brich, will go by steamer down ths | tailor clapped one on his own head and | Thereny meagsear of joid Turkey, and| piin ¢ Cologne, will view the battle- For months drought menaced the |fleld of Waterloo at Brussels and hwt'i farms, and the prayers of fezzless Mos- end the tour in Paris, from which . lems brought no rain. Then the tailor | Several side trips will be taken. of Kozan, one Djemal Effendi, con-| The party will sail for home frota cocted a cross between a fez and a tur- | Cherbourg on August 14 on the Americe, ban, the two types of headgear which | arTiving in New York August 23. the Kemalist government has outlawed. | m:?;fc t"},’,”};”o’,"\fm‘}fh"}; l:;:t‘{mrw'; - When he had made 14 of these, the and. Mve, Etohison and 3¢, Gounelor; are Miss Lottle L. 3 3 Elizabeth Baugh, Mrs. Ada L. Mrs. W. R. Ballard, Miss Lula M. Comstock, Mrs. Emma_R. Earel, Mits Lula Mae Evans, Bruce Etchisor, Miss Alice B. Greene, Miss Emm. distributed the others among 13 vil- lagers. Each man astride a camel, the procession solemnly rode to the flelds | and prayed for rain. Two hours later it poured. The tallor, realizing he had struck gold mine, announced the annual rasshopper plague could be staved off y fez-turbans, which could be procured for two measures of wheat each. Guschewsky, Miss Fanny L. Guschewsky, B. J. Hamm, Melvin Koons, Mrs. Eva L. Linville, Miss Sara Lytle, Mrs. Anns S. Littell, Nelson Littell, jr.; Mre. Sarah B. Thomas, Mrs. Sarah C. Sin- clair, Mrs. M. E. Seiss, Mrs. T. Morri ‘Wampler, Miss Adelaide Wampler. e smaioisun. 4 Then the republic's gendarmerie got wind of the business and hauled him to a cell. MILLIONS TO BE SPENT Rolling Mill Company to Make Additions to Kentucky Plant. ASHLAND, Ky, July 12 (#)—The American Rolling Mill Co. today an- nounced an appropriation of $1,000,000 Hurley Goes to Pittsburgh. | Secretary Hurley of the War Depart ment left here yesterday afternoon b | airplane for Pittsburgh to attend th: banquet of the Society of the 3d Di- vision. He was accompanied by Ma . Gen, Preston Brown, deputy chief ¢ | staff, who commanded thr 3d Divisio during the Meuse-Argonne campaign. |to be spent in additions and replace- | ments at its Ashland plant. The ap-| propriation was made at a recent meet- ing of the directors at the home office, in Middletown, Ohio. This appropriation is in addition to one of like amount made in January, | and the $2,000,000 will be spent in in- | creasing facilities for the Ashland steel | mills, which now employ more than 3,600 men at full capacity. | construction work will begin officials stated. Girl Decorator Acrobat. 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