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Evening star., 1924-06-20
JUDGE ACCUSES DRY
OFFICER OF PERJURY
Mattingly Says Agent Summers
Tried to Hurt Two Citizens to
Improve His Record.

Albert E. Summers, prohibition en-
forcement agent, was accused by
Judge Robert E. Mattingly in Police
Court today with having deliberately
perjured himself by bringing false
charges against two young men, one
of them student at George Wash
ington University, in order to i'm
prove his record as an officer.
Henry Maranian, the student, and
his brother. Aodvis, who manage a
store at 1885 o street, were accused
by the agent with having sold him
liquor in a back room of the place at
10 o'clock on the night of May 2.
Judge Mattingly said he had letter
to prove that Henry, who is supposed
to have given Summers the liquor,
was in his classroom at the university
at that hour.
Furthermore" continued Judge
Mattingly, II personally visited the
store and find that it has no back
room. 1 do not believe a word of
the testimony of the government
agent He has deliberately commit
ted perjury and conspiracy to ruin
the name of two good citizens. 1t is
a pity that officers of the law resort
to such means to make cases for their
credit"
Fuller Arlington of the third pre-
cinct, assisted Summers in max ing
the case and Judge Mattingly de-
clared he intended having it further
investigated to have the arresting
officers prosecuted for perjury and
conspiracy.
Evening star., 1924-06-20
q. S. CITIES FEEL STRIKE.
Border Centers Hold Up Canadian.
Bound Mail
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, June 20.-With mail
covering the floor of the Windsor,
Ontario, post Office six bags deep as a
handful of non-union employees sought
vainly to sort it, business and indus
trial leaders of Canadian border cities
sent scores of kilograms to postal au-
thorities protesting against the strike
of postal employees that began Wed
nesday. Had Detroit sent its usual
amount of mail the Windsort office
would have been swamped, officials
said.
Not one of five daily shipments was
sent from Detroit. Cleveland, Toledo
and other cities thus were cut off
from mail communication with Onta-
rio points. Joseph P. Casgrain, post
master of the metropolitan area Of
Windsor, expected authority today
from ottawa to engage substitutes to
replace the strikers. Those employees
who were not at work yesterday. he
said, are regarded as having severed
connections with the postal service.
A detachment of provincial police
guarded the Windsor post office last
night. At s o'clock this morning
twenty pickets resumed their vigil
There have been no disorders.
Evening star., 1924-06-20

ing their applications to the proper
addresses. No applications are to be
mailed to the Veterans Bureau, but
are to be sent to the branch of serv
ice to which the veteran belonged,
whether Army, Navy or Marine Corps
At the Veterans Bureau plans are
forging rapidly ahead for the purpose
of taking care of the last stages of
the bonus. The service branch of
the government will receive appllca-
tions from veterans, and then certify
them to the Veterans Bureau with
proper amount of adjusted service
credit. 1t is the job of the Veterans
Bureau to pay the veterans or their
dependents either in cash or adjusted
service certificate.
Certificate Sketched.
This certificate, carrying a form of
twenty-year endowment insurance,
has been sketched by hand in tenn
porary form at the bureau of en-
craving and printing and submitted
to the Veterans Bureau for approval.
When final approval is received
from the Veterans Bureau, Maj. W:
w. Kirby, director of the bureau Of
engraving and printing, said today il
would require approximately one
month to engrave the necessary
plates and begin printing the GER
tificates. None has yet been printed,
as no plates have yet been engraved.
The sample was done by pen. and is
now in the hands of the Veterans
Bonus work at the Veterans Bu-
reau will be handled IN the hrst
basement, Maj. o. w. Clark, IN charge
announced today. In this first base
ment at the bureau building. totai
of 1880 feet of floor space mas Al
ready been allotted, has been lresnly
repainted. and wired for new ana
more powerful electric lights. Inc
place will be one of the coolest spots
in the city during the hot summer
ahead, Mai. Clark predlcteu.
workers Assigned.
Workers from the regular forces oI
the Veterans Bureau have alreadF
been assigned to take care OF tne
preliminary part of the work there.
1t is expected, however, that oegln-
ming soon the War and Navy De-
partments will begin turning over 10
The veterans Bureau certified ac-
counts of veterans service, so tnas
the Veterans Bureau viii nave 10 aoo
to it's personnel force. SeVeral per
sons will be added next Monday, MAJ.
Clark announced. but they Will All pe
taken from the civil service rolls,
which already contain thousands o'
The first persons to receive con-
s;deration for employment, IL was
learned from all departments con-
cerned, will be those with gooo rec
ords who have been let out OF otner
on account OF cuts In aP
Evening star., 1924-06-20
POSTAL STRIKE HITS
CANADIAN INDUSTRY
Breakdown of Mail Service Stirs
Business Leaders to Urge
Settlement of Dispute.
SPURNS ARBITRATION OFFER
Government Declares All Strikers
Will Lose Jobs.
sPURNs ARBITRATION OFFER
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TORONTO, June 2o.-Postal service
was reported badly demoralized in
several cities and towns of eastern
Canada yesterday, as negotiations be-
tween representatives of the strik-
ing members Of the Federation of
Postal Employees and Dominion Off
Gals remained in a deadlock. In
several places a Skeleton" service
was maintained through employment
of outside help.
The province of Ontario was the
hardest hit. In the majority of cities
and towns in this province the strike
has demoralized business.
Hamilton workers have returned
to their posts. while most of the OF
tawa postal employees did not go out
1t is believed that the strike order
was not obeyed by workers in Brit
ish Columbia and in the prairie and
only partially successful in the prov
ince of Quebec.
Government Is Firm.
Indications early last night were
that an agreement soon would be
reached between the strikers and the
government, but at midnight mem
bers of the federation announced they
had determined to continue the strike.
Acting Postmaster General Stewart.
they said. had declared the govern
ment would refuse to grant their re-
quest for a board of arbitration. He
also indicated, they added, that the
strike could be settled only on the
governments terms, and these they
refused.
Post Office and other government
officials have reiterated their stand
that none of the men on strike would
be reinstated, declaring that the sub
stitutes who filed their places would
be kept in the service.
TT CITIES FEET SrpTrT
Evening star., 1924-06-20

CONTINUED from F1rSt paSe.)
surgeon where he stood leaning on
his golf club and said: Shut up
now and go on before 1 hit you" Sen
ator Robinson's friends say DR..
Mitchell muttered some words about
golf being a gentleman's game. DR..
Mitchell also is said to have re-
marked: Why. you are not going
to hit anybody"
with that Senator Robinson hit Dr..
Mitchell in the face with his fist and
knock ed him over a bench AS he fell
DR.. Mitchell is said to have called
Senator Robinson name and the
senator fell on top of him Col. Cliff
ford grappled with Senator Robinson
and Senator Walsh took DR.. Mitchell
tors friends and held him until he
got up DR.. Mitchell did not know
who Senator Robinson was and ask ed
his name, stating he intended to re-
port the incident to the board of
governors of the club.
Make Verbal Reports.
Verbal accounts of the affair were
given by members Of the two matches
and by both participants in the affair
to officials Of the club after the game
had been discontinued and both par
ties came to the clubhouse The mat
ter had not been formally brought to
the attention of A. T. Brftton. presi-
dent Of the club, today, although MIR.
Britton said he had heard of it
Senator Robinson was democratic
floor leader during the last sessi on
of Congress, following the resigna-
tion by Senator Underwood of this
inrnortant post. He will be one of the
most prominent figures in the Demo
cratic convention, which opens next
Tuesday.
DIR. Mitchell is chief surgeon at
Emergency Hospital, lives at 1884
18th street and had a notable record
as a surgeon during the war.
Evening star., 1924-06-20
FIRE Department NEEDS.
Oyster Cites Two New Stations and
Five Pumping Engines.

The fire department needs two new
stations and at least Ave powerful
pumping engines in order to keep the
fire hazard at its minimum, in the
opinion expressed by Commissioner
Oyster today.
At the District building 1t was re-
rarded probable that when the new
Estimates go to the budget bureau
July is items asking for money to
erect new stations at 18th and CAL
latin streets and one to replace No.
engine house, on Massachusetts
avenue between 4th and 5th streets,
will be included.
The plan for enlargement of the
fire-fighting facilities also includes
retirement of converted engines and
vehicles which had tractors installed
in places of the horses which pulled
them.
Evening star., 1924-06-20
One Dead Fly No,O
| Means Millions
| Less Later Or,

One dead fly now means millions
less later in the summer.
Swat him!
Having advised householders to be-
gin swatting the fly, Health Oficer
Fowler suggested today that the war be
carried step further by establishing
food blockade against the pests in
every home. Here are some OF the
health officers proposals for starving
out the common enemy:
Keep the. garbage can tightly COW
cred
Throw a cover over foodstufrs lying
on the kitchen table.
BE sure to screen all windows and
doors-''
DR.. Fowler pointed out that these pre-.
cautions will serve not only to put the
fly on a. starvation diet and cause him to
seek a more liberal boarding house, but
will at the same time keep away such
undesira BILE pests as reaches.
And while you are battling against
the house ny, keep one eye on the mos
quito, DR.. Fowler advises. In combat
ing this pest, the health officer says,
householders should prevent water from
standing in their yards. Another precau.
ton is to pour kerosene in backyard
cesspoolS occasionally.
Evening star., 1924-06-20

would give me untold pleasure but
for Deafness which excludes even a
sound through the radio A next
door neighbor very kindly invited
me to listen-in to sermons from the
Cathedral Close, but 1 heard not the
faintest word.
please believe that your kindly
offer will be a treasured, enduring
memory all my life and that L thank
you accordingly.
May you and all those interested
in and working for this beautiful
cause have "a prosperous life, long
and happy
The honor is not in the service,
but in that the service is the King s. >
THE violetS are blooming today
through your kind offer of a radio"
Additional contributions of S31
during the last twenty-four hours
have brought the cash fund to a total
Of s55375. This money will be used
to purchase the necessary apparatus
for installation of the sets donated
by radio fans, which amount today
IN $50
Evening star., 1924-06-20

DR. HrdIicka. would be an impossi
bility. Albino women, he said, some
times marry and bear children. These
usually revert to type. The men sell
dom marry. The people are freaks,
although tendency to albinish
might run in the blood.
The theory that the alleged tribe
of white Indians might be descended
from d lost ancient people was
secuted also by DR.. Hrdlicka. The
country was peopled by Axtecs and
Mayas. he says, both of whom were
dark skinned and have thousands OF
representatives, little changed from
their ancestors. alive today. In fact,
he says, these speak practically the
same language.
Second Theory Scored.
The other theory put forward
that the white Indians might not be
Indians at all but descendants of
some of the early Spanish soldiery
or pirate crews who had been driven
into the jungles--Dr. Hrdlicka de-
clares equally impossible. Such
pen. 1t would be impossible for such
a people to continue their isolation.
Whites are not made for such a life
and could not endure it. They would
have drifted back to civilization
again. Civilized races, according to
DR.. Hrdlicka, do not revert to savag-
cry, at least not in a few centuries,
as it would have been necessary for
these to do. The albino theory, he
says, is the only one in any way
plausible.
Albinisn, DR.. Hrdlicka explained, is
due to a lack of pigments in the blood,
bringing about an almost total lack of
color, a deformity in itself. AlbinoS al
ways can be distinguished, regardless of
race, he declares. They retain, as rule,
oil nfh hlr a q q nj their rnannla
There are even aibino negroes, he
said, who have not the slightest trace
of white blood. These, however, never
are pure white, but are distinguished
by white blotches on the skin.
Reports Not Uncommon.
Reports of white Indians, some of
them possibly made honestly, are not
uncommon, according to DR.. Hrdlicka.
Every scientific investigation has proved
them false. He referred in particular to
the report of blonde Eskimos found in
Northern Canada by the Arctic explorer
Steffanson. Steffanson, he claims, prob
ably was miSled by some albino types,
but his pictures showed that the race as
a whole were very ordinary ESkimoS
DR.. Hrdlicka declared.
"A member of the white race is not
a member of the Indian race, DR..
derstood, once and for all. A man is
either a white man or an Indian. If
he were a white man he could not
survive under such conditions. If he
were an albino Indian he could not
perpetuate his race. The origin
of the American races is known
There is no mysterious people back
of Central American history.
II am sorry such a thing has been
put over on the public. No sensa-
tional discovery has been made"
DR.. Fawkes, who has spent a life
time in the study of North American
Indian types, said that bodily com
position of a people was somewhat
out of his line, but he inclined to the
albino theory. He said, however. the
arrival of the alleged white Indians
would be awaited with interest.
Evening star., 1924-06-20
STAR TREAT ALREADY.
Plans Complete for Entertainment
of Newsboys and Carriers.

Everything is in readiness for the
treat in store for Star newsboyS and
carriers tomorrow, when they will be
the guests of Sidney Lust, proprietor
of the Leader Theater, at the open
ing installment of THE Fortieth
Door," the new serial starting at the
Leader. Tickets may be had from
Gait Burns, circulation manager of
The Star.
Advance notice credits this new
chapter play with being one of the
most thrilling ever offered the public.
Centered around the activities of an
American who discovers rich tomb
in the Valley of the Kings, in Egypt,
and falls in love with Mohammedan
girl. the action is stirring from start
to finish.
Every boy who takes advantage of
the offer of MIR. Lust to see this pic
ture will receive something new in
the ice cream line, it is stated
Evening star., 1924-06-20
ST. PAUL CONFEREES,
IN ROW, PICK TICKET
National Farmer-Laborites Name
Provisional Leader, But Want
La Toilette to Run.
By the Associa ted Press.

oS 'iio associdueu freSS
ST. PAUL, Mimi, June 2o.-The ma
tional committee of the new National
Farmer-Labor party. which adjourned
its three-day convention last night
after nominating provisional ticket
ana adopting a platform, met here
today to organize and discuss meth
DDS for continuing it's work.
The committee, which is combosed
of two delegates from each state and
allied political groups, was to elect an
executive committee and a chairman,
in addition to drawing up plans for
negotiating with the conference for
progressive political action to be held
at Cleveland July 4.
Communists in Control.
The Communists, who ruled the
convention just closed, have control
or the committee, which includes Will
liam u. Foster and c. E. Ruthenberg
of the Workers Party; C. A. Hatha-
way and Joseph Manley of the Fed
Grated Farmer-Labor Party; Alexan-
der Howatt, Kansas; Duncan McDon-
aid, Illinois; William Bouck, Wash
ington State; Charles E. Taylor, Mon
tana, and William Mahoney and Louis
Engstrom, Minnesota
Mcdonald, whose home is SPRING
neld, ILL.,, was nominated by accIama-
tlon as the party's candidate for
President- Bouck, a Puget Sound
!ancner' was chosen as the vice pres
ldentlal standard bearer.
Their nominations came after farm
er delegates had attempted to get the
con nyentlon to indorse Senator Robert
M. La Toilette Of Wisconsin for Pres
ldent. The national committee was
instructed to negotiate with the
Cleveland gathering in an effort to
nave Senator La Toilette indorse the
St Paul convention.
LIN Toilette In First Choice.
McDonalds candidacy was pressed
only in the event that Senator La
Toilette refused the Communists in
dorsement. The senator previously
had repudiated the St. Paul conven-
tion
Foster, as head of the Workers
party, announced, however, that only
unqualified approval by La Toilette
or the st. Paul action and submission
TO the campaign control of the new
party's national committee would re-
SUIT IN the withdrawal Of Mcdonald
Several score Farmer and Labor
delegates expressed much dissatis-
Iaction with the Communist-con-
troiled convention here, and dele
saIonS from two statee-Minnesota.
and Nebraska-walke out of the
meeting place.
Fifteen Minnesota Delegates head
ed by Frank Starkey, president of the
81. Paul Trades and Labor Assembly,
Ieft the hall after Starkey had un-
successfully tried to get recognition
from the chair to object to the nomi-
nations and the platform
+ Want Convention Repudtated.
The Minnesotans later held an 'in-
d1gnatfon" meeting at the labor
temple here, expressed themselves as
"disgusted' and decided to appeal to
the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Fedora
ton to repudiate the convention. The
platform, drawn up by the Commm-
lists and presented to the convention
wednesday night was Adopted 1AGf
Evening star., 1924-06-20
MCDOWELL CASE TO JURY.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CLEARWATER, Fla. June 10
A verdict of guilty with a recon-
mendation of mercy was returned
by the jury in the case of Frank
Mcdowell, tried here this week
for the murder of his mother Feb
ruary 10 at st. Petersburg.
By the Associated Press.
CLEARWATER, Fla. June 20.-The
fate of Frank Mcdowell, self-con-
fessed slayer of his tow sisters at
Decatur, Ga, and his mother and
father at st. Petersburg. Fla, was
placed in the hands of the jury ex-
actly at noon.
Arguments of defense counsel pic
tured the young slayer as mentally
irresponsible.
Evening star., 1924-06-20
TEACHER CHANGES UP.

Changes to be made in the person.
mel of the high and Junior high
schools at the beginning of the new
school term in September were dis
cussed by the principals of these in
solutions at a conference today with
Supt- Frank w. Ballou in the board
room of the Franklin School.
A number of junior high school
teachers will be appointed before the
beginning of the next scholastic year,
to take classes in the two new junior
high schools which will be opened.
PfineipAls for these institutions also
W4A be appointed
Evening star., 1924-06-20
BELASCO OPENS JUNE 80.
Repertory of High Glass New Plays
to Be Presented.

The BeIasco Theater has announced
that beginning June 80 it will offer
pany headed by Robert Ames and
Lotus Robb
The dramas will be presented by
Thomas w. Fowler. and it is an
present plays only of the highest or
der, including Two Fellows and a
Girl" Polly Preferred ITO the
Ladies'" THE Deep-Tangled Wild
WOOD Magnolia" THE New Poor
and other established successes which
are new to Washington.
The series will open with In Love
With Love-" There will be no sun
day performances and anything OF q
risque character will be strictly pre-
hibitAd it in annoQncAd~
Evening star., 1924-06-20

night with but three changes. High
spots in the platform included: Rec
ognition of Soviet Russia; nationali-
cation of large industries with par
ticipation in the management by
workers; government ownership of
banks; public ownership of railroads
and marketing institutions; compen-
sation for the unemployed and en-
ployment Of the unemployed on pub
lie works such As road-building and
swamp reclamation. ana q federal
|uiuiWNW HaIl fAR foE AlI AQEGlEA
Evening star., 1924-06-20
GIVE UP BARRACKS
AT VETERAN CENTER
Officials Decide Quarters at Fed
eral Park, Nd, Unfit
for Use.
SAY CHARGES EXAGGERATED
Food Declared Below Par Only Dur
ing Kitchen Strike.

Charges made by Veterans Bureau
beneticiaries stationed at the United
States rehabilitation center at Fed
eral Park, Md, that their barracks
were vermin infested and the food
was unfit for consumption, were de-
clared to be exaggerated in a report
submitted to Director Hines today by
the bureaus inspection division.
AS a result of an investigation of
the veterans will be removed from
the barracks, which were found un-
suitable for occupancy, and housed in
fourteen new bungalows.
Director Hines. in commenting on
his inspectors report, declared the
barracks were built during the war.
and due to their hurried and fiimsy
construction are at present a fire
hazard. The new housing facilities
will be light and well ventilated.
Reaches in Food.
The director said the investigation
showed the veterans had just cause
for complaint, as at the time their
charges were filed the mess facilities
under a handicap due to a walkout of
some of the attendants.
A strike of students at the center
also occurred It the time of the walk
out of the kitchen employees. The
strike was said to have been precipi-
tated by the dismissal of Daniel Kelly,
a student, following a row with one
of the mess attendants He had COM
plained of finding reaches in his food,
and his reinstatement to training
status was one of the numerous de-
mands made by the veterans for a
general cleanup at Federal Park.
ellyS case, however, was not touch
ed upon in the investigators report.
The beneticiaries also appealed to
the central office here for the removal
of Edward Hale. community man,
ager. Although the inspectors made
no recommendations for the dismissal
OF any of the officials in charge at
the center, Gen. Hines said he was
giving the matter his personal at
tention, and if any one was found
to be derelict in his duty proper
steps would be taken.
Volunteers Help.
The director said that when the
investigation was made the mess
hall equipment showed a lack of care.
but that these conditions were
brought about as result of some
of the employees leaving their posts
before replacements could be made
Between June l and >. when the
walkout of the mes sattendants was
in progress, some of the veterans and
station employees volunteered to as
sist the curtailed kitchen force, and
in this way only. it was said. were
the men given any food at all.
In view of these circumstances, the
inspectors report declared that due
consideration should be given the
fact that between June l and an
emergency existed and that service of
any kind, when a complete breakdown
was pending, should be commended
rather than condemned"
Gen. Hines indicated he would con-
tinue to closely watch developments
at Federal Park to make sure that
the improvements already effected
and to be effected will clearly remove
all grounds for complaint on the pal
OF the men being rehabilitated there.
Evening star., 1924-06-20
By the Associated Press.
Mailing Clerk Killed by Pal.

NEW YORK, June 20.-Wafter
weitlauf, an eighteen-year-old mail
ing clerk in a street railway office
today, was killed by his friend and
pal, George Parretti, fifteen, who
shot him with a rife he had pointed
in fun. Parretti, playing bandit in
the offfces of Weitlaufs employers,
picked up one of several rifles which
were stacked in the corner, aimed it
at his friend and pulled the trigger.
He was arrested ON . homicide
Evening star., 1924-06-20
Crystal sets and Equipment.

Crystal sets and equipment receiv-
ed during the last twenty-four hours
follow:
Previously ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS sets, "a
pairs of headphones. so aerial posts,
crystals. pipe for so ground connections,
antenna and lead-in wire and other
equipment for installation.
Mrs. Ella Money, Parker avenue,
Cherrydale. Va, crystal set.
H. E. Burton, College Park, Md,
crystal set
Total-I50 sets, "a pairs of head
phones. 60 aerial posts, crystals, pipe for
so ground connections, antenna and
lead-in wire and other equipment for
iStallation.