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Evening star., 1924-06-15
DIPLOMATS BACK cUMMINs.
Dean of Corps Pleads Case Before
Foreign Office.

By Cable to The Star and New York World.
Copyright, 1874.
MEXICO CITY. June 14.-With II. A.
Cunard Cummins, British agent in
Mexico. locked in the British legation
to prevent expulsion from the coun-
try. the diplomatic corps here is anx-
iously tdyqing to find some compro-
mise with the governments determi-
nation to eject Cummins as an unde-
sirable alien.
The case will be finally settled. The
government wants to deport him and
insists that. as diplomatic relations
between England and Mexico do not
exist, Cummins can have no diplo-
matte status. The local diplomats,
and his own government has been
addressing him as charge d'affaires.
The Chilean minister, dean of the
diplomatic corps, is tonight making
nnal effort TO arrange a method by
which Cummins can leave with some
show of decorum. 1t is agreed he
must go, but he himself is not in
clined to do SO, and has the backing
OF his government.
For forty eight hours he would ad-
nit no one to the legation and was
thus cut off from communication with
London. Today he admitted secret
service operatives and got in touch
with his government.
The trouble arose over his inter
vention on behalf Of Mrs Rosalie
Evans. whose properties in Puebla
were confiscated under the agrarian
law The Mexican government con-
sidered his communication to the
hnally ordered him to quit the coun-
try.
Evening star., 1924-06-15

were approximately 400 individuals
needing these sets and but a small
percentage of donations. The Star
has taken the matter in hand in order
to call to the pubIics attention this
worthy cause. To date, June 10,
1924. there remain about $50 un-
fortunates to be provided for, by a
donation of a crystal set, phones, an
tenna or lead-in wire, insulators or
radio poles. If you have none to Of
fer. your cash contribution will be
welcome.
Imagine yourself crippled beyond
cure, or, worse yet, hopelessfy blind.
surrounded by four walls, unable to
see the beauties of nature. ever
changing scenery, feeling only the
severe heat of summer and cold of
winter, with no comforts, and, at the
most, only the bare necessities of life.
having few relatives and oftentimes
no friends in this busy world, and re-
alizing your helplessness and desti-
tute financial condition burdens those
dearest to you: waiting and awaiting
with pleasure the call of death. TO
these people, with your help, will 20
the blessings of radio"
Evening star., 1924-06-15
FIGHT IN MOVING WAGON.
Huckster and Policeman Struggle.
Collide With Auto.

A fight on a huckster wagon from
1st and 3 streets southeast to Della
ware avenue and 4 streets south
west, preceded the arrest yesterday
of Daniel Thomas Kendrick, twenty
Eve, of 1905 New Jersey avenue south
east, the huckster, by Traffic Police
man William OConnor, the other par
ticipant in the battle.
Crowds gathered on the street to
watch the progress of the huckster
wagon, with the driver fighting and
driving at the same time. Nearing
the conclusion of the journey, Motor
Cycle Policeman o. r. Saunders came
to the rescue, just before the horse
and wagon crashed into an automo-
bile owned by Geore Dorm of 923 I'd
street southwest
Kendrick was charged with reck-
less driving, assault and colliding.
According TO the police, he failed to
observe q traffic signal by O'Connor
from his post at 1st and B streets
southeast and, after the policeman
reached the wagon, he resisted ar
rest.
Evening star., 1924-06-15
Father! Here's Your Day; Let's Hope
The Rest of the Family Observes 1t
Nobody Knoics Who Started it or Where It's Going
to End, But ''Be Kind to Daer' Idea Has
Quite Bit of NopeIty.

And, if pater becomes talkative,
forsaking forced monosyllabio utter
ance. he will, rather, may, be per-
mitted to finish a cogent thought
ance.
And, gathered about him may be
friends of bachelor days regaling
themselves with stories of the long
ago all pungent with romance, gayety
and care-freeness.
When mother puts baby in the
bath tub and tells father to plaster
on the 1ather while she cnris her
hair. he can ignore such an order
entirely. go downstairs and relax in
his easy chair without fear of the
usual Sabbath harangue about the
undomesticity of the male of the
species.
noon motor trip into the country
and play with that fool thing''-the
radio set Mother will spend the
afternoon quietly at home, darnlng
socks, sewing buttons on 1ather
trousers or other little unimportant
duties which she discovered were
neglected until dad" was getting
dressed.
Can Revive Beaver Game.
Furthermore, he needn't shave. re-
gardless of the amount of under
brush on his face, unless he pleases.
For all these preroBdtlYeS, ana
many others are fathers on June Is.
Who started Fathers day appears
to be a mystery. Perhaps it was
Just a concerted move on the part
of the nations downtrodden better
halves, and then again mother may
have felt sorry that she had day
and dad didn't and so got the women
behind it.
While the family is supposed to
contribute cigars or something else
that he likes to father today. there
has been no suggestion made that
the tobacco industry had anythin &
to do with starting the movement.
No more than the florists had any
thing to do with getting you to
wear carnations on Mothers day. It's
just sentiment. you know, and every
ono joins in.
You may go as strong as you care
to in giving dad presents today
bathrobe. striped necktie, silk hand
kerchiefs or use your own Judgment
for there is only one thing that father
can't do on Fathers day: Kick about
your charging his gifts to his ac-
count
oh. yes. it's going to be great
day for father.
MaFbe.
Evening star., 1924-06-15


shock, she will recover soon. tho nby-
sicians said. Miss Dwyer, the coroner
said. declared she had not heard the
fatal shot and did not know of the
killing until friends came to the
house. summoned by her outcry.
Miss Dwyer told the coroner that
she and Roberts were friends of long
standing, but that she had never re-
turned his professed love for her,
Both Roberts and Miss Dwyer vere
held in high esteem throughout the
community, where they were well
known. Roberts was an ardent
church goer. deeply religious and de-
gout, IL was said.
During the world war Roberts
fought with Company NJ, 3sth Infan-
try, which was actively engaged in
many of the important battles. In
one of the engagements he was
wounded severely in the right arm
with shrapneL From this wound he
was confined to the field hospitals for
many mo0ths- In his pocket the cor
oner found well worn New Testa-
ment, which had been evidently his
constant companion since Christmas,
1917, the date with which it was
marked.
Funeral arrangements have not
been made. Besides his father and
mother, Mr.. and Mrs. Z. j. Roberts.
he 10 survived by several brothers
and sisters. ..--.--...---.-.-
Evening star., 1924-06-15
Clock Hands Set accurately by Radio;
May Ring Alarm or Regulate Cooking
U. S. Experts Successfully Manipulate Timepiece al
Standards Bureau From Arlington Broadcasting
Station after Long Experimentation.

dots start coming through. They con-
sist of short trains OF electrons trav-
cling at radio express-train speed
through the ether. They are picked
ceiving set, thence to the special re-
lay, tence to the series OF relays and
here the dots die. For the third ma
chine in the relay series Is so wound
move the end. It's called a retarda-
tion relay.
Takes Fraction of Second.
But when the dash came there were
enough electrons in the train to pull
over the relay instruments and finally
the clock relay magnet. The clock
magnet releases spring in the
clock itself and pulls the hands up
to nooR--or to 10 o'clock. or to what
for. All this takes three millionth of a
second. The clock can easily be I'D
justed to make up for this delay.
Ah-but suppose the clock is fast?
How is it going to be pulled back?
That's where the little puzzle entered.
The physicists and engine ers put their
heads together and solved this intri-
cate situation in a simple way. They
fixed the clock so that 1t would stop
at the time when the time signal
would be given. in case 1t was fast.
so that the hands moving around the
dial encounter an obstacle at noon
at it were. And this obstacle is re-
leased by the long dash indicating
noon time. Then the hands do their
stuff and set exactly at the right time.
DR.. Dellinger supervised the work
L.. =, .l-.sxN 49,. Il
up the various things. 1t was to Mr..
Walls that the problem of eliminat
ing dots fell. He solved this by the
special series of retardation relays.
The experiment, however, still is
in it's infant stages and experts at
the bureau of standards announced
that they were loath to give more
detail to it than is outlined above.
Evening star., 1924-06-15
Notice, ye women folk
Today is Fathers day.


Today is Fathers day.
II is the only day in the year that
dad can do anything he wants to
without fear of getting bawled out
for 1t Let him try IT'D
Today he is entitled to drop his
cigar ashes on the living room car
pet and rub them In with his shoe.
He may with immunity pull his
armchair up to the library table and
rest his feet on the vanished top.
If he needs a dust cloth to shine
the car, father today may walk boldly
up to the laundry bag in the closet
and confiscate anything that suits his
purpose.
Without danger Of making grounds
for divorce he may give free vent to
his feelings in a burst of oratory
when he finds, on trying to shave
that wifey has used his last blade on
the back of her neck without any
lather. COZ course, many wives boast
II one of the youngsters yeIls,
hearts content and not get a nasty
oh-you-brute look from mother.
Preach Your own Sermon.
He can play golf all day. skin
church, come in late for dinner with
an unannounced guest and get away
with it
He can dry his hands on the guest
towel.
If friend wife has company for din
ner and he does not like 'em, he
can come down stairs in his shirt
sleeves and speak as follows: Hello.
everybody. Sorry but I'm eating
down town tonight. Have a good
time, then put on his hat, square
his shoulders, swagger a bit and go
out
He can cover all available chairs
with his working clothes, leave his
slippers wherever he steps out of
them and even spill gravy on the
Sunday table cloth without fear of
feminine scowls.
oh, Leave the Dishes, Dad.
Father is permitted to scatter Sun
day papers all over the floor until
he has digested them completely.
And. while reading he safely may
ignore S. o. S. calls for family chores.
And father, faithful old provider
will not have to turn over his pay
envelope this day. (Father doesn't
get paid on Sunday.)
Evening star., 1924-06-15
ton was directly in front Of the
breech of the gun.

ton was directly in front Of the
breech of the gun.
Condition Serious.
Rynes was delirious today and is in
a serious conditions, surgeons of the
Relief said. They expect him to pull
through, although it will be some
time before he is able to testify.
Preparations are going forward for
tho funeral of the forty-eight victims
of the disaster, which will take place
here Tuesday next with full naval
honors.
The caskets containing the bodies
will be grouped in the center Of rrona
Field, where in other days the Navy
athletes, some of them now among
the forty-eight, carried the colors of
their different ships in victory in tests
Of skill and endurance.
In a hollow square about the field
the escort, composed of detachments
from all the battieships in port, will
be drawn up, with a firing squad of
marines at the head of the pyramid
of dead, to fire the last three volleys
over the bodies of their comrades.
The funeral addresses win be de-
iivered by Admirals Wiley and Pratt.
Evening star., 1924-06-15

tions at which veteran convention
news handlers will be entitled to
rub their eyes.
Plans for Guests.
The New York Newspaper Club has
undertaken to establish a fellowship
with visiting members of the profess
sion, through Charles G. Hambridge,
its former president and one of it's
founders.
Two floors have been taken over in
addition to the clubs established head
quarters for the convention period
Dining room facilities and accommo-
dations for the preparation of news
will be greatly enlarged, and lounges,
libraries and amusement rooms will
be extended.
The club will have a program of
convention entertainments all its
own, which will include indoor as
well as outdoor diversions. The fea-
ture of the latter promises to be a
midnight frolic at Coney Island, in
which it is expected upward of 1000
of the journalistic craft, local and out
of twon, will participate.
Evening star., 1924-06-15
ROAD ENGINEERS GIVEN
BIG CHICAGO WELCOME
Representatives of Twenty Latin
American Countries Greeted by
Mayor at Luncheon.
BY the Associated Press.

.
CHICAGO. June 1.-THE Pan
American Transportation Commis-
sion representing twenty Latin
American countries was entertained
today by city officials, the Association
of Commerce and business men. The
commission of thirty-eiGht prominent
engineers and educators motored here
from Aurora, ILL.,, and was welcomed
at a luncheon by Mayor William L.
Dever.
TT is to the interest of every one
to cement permanent, friendly rela-
tions between all countries of the
hemispheres." Mayor Dever said, "and
l can think of no method so effective
as the development of highway trans
portation to work out this end"
The unity brought between every
state and every community is the
most important single factor in the
development of highways in the
United States, Hector Vigil of Chile,
a pioneer in South American highway
development responded. The addresses
at the luncheon were broadcast by
radio to South American points. The
commission left tonight for st. Paul.
Evening star., 1924-06-15
BEST MAN DROPS DEAD
AT MARRIAGE SERVICE
Collapses in Presence Of Four Sis
ters and Wife Whom He Had
Wed Secretly.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ORANGE, n. j., June 14.-While act
ing as best man at his friends we'd
ding, in the presence of his four sis
ters and his secret bride, Thomas J..
Nicol, bank accountant Of Kearny,
N. J., fell dead today in the midst
of the marriage service
Mr.. Nicol was assisting at the mar
riage OF David Bamford Of Irvington
to Miss Carolyn Boggart OF Orange
in the Orange Methodist Episcopal
Church. Rev. T. Porter Drumm was
officiating.
The service was half over when Mr.
Nicol suddenly collapsed. Ushers car
ried him to the vestry room, where
enorts were made to revive him.
Meanwhile DIR. Drumm continued the
service to it's conclusion.
AT the end of the service it be-
came known that Mr.. Nicoi was dead.
His wife. whom he had married se-
cretly, in the excitement of the mo-
ment, told of her marriage.
Evening star., 1924-06-15
SHOT IN FEUD FLARE-UP.

MIDDLESBORO, KY, June IA
Probably fatal wounding of George
Colson by Floyd Ball in a pistol duel
in a drug store here late today
marked a fare-up in the Ball-Colson
feud. The principals both had figured
in previous engagements between the
opposing factions
Ball was arrested and placed in Jail
Reports from hospital where he was
taken were that Colson was barely
alive" as a result of four or Eve pistol
bullet wounds
Probably the most notable en-
counter between members of the BAN
and Colson families was a fight In the
court house in Pinevi1le ia May, 1922.
In that engagement Ripley Bail was
killed and Clay Colson, Frank Ball
and John Hurst were wounded.
Evening star., 1924-06-15
MEXICO EXPLAINS
ENJOYS EXPULSION
Declares British Charge D'Affaires
Long Has Been Persona Non
Grata With Obregon.
DENIES HE rs NOW OFFICIAL
Diplomatic Corps Takes Sides
With Accused Official.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, June 1.-THE for
eign office this afternoon issued
strongly worded statement giving the
reasons for the expulsion from Mexi-
co of Herbert c. Cummins, British
charge daffaires here. Its substance
is that Mr.. Cummins for years has
been persona non grata with the
Mexican government, which accuses
him openly OF lack Of respect and
courtesy, and even with wiiifuiiy in
correct statements to his government
in reporting local incidents.
According to the statement. the
Mexican government twice asked
Great Britain to recall Cummins, the
British government on each occasion
backing their man, until, finally,
Mexico decided he must be expelled,
claiming he is not diplomat, but
private person.
The statement concludes by saying
that Mexico is eager to renew friend
ly relations with Great Britain. but
must have acceptable representa-
tives here who will observe diplo-
matte customs.
Evening star., 1924-06-15

You need no longer set your clock.
principle. a new invention announced
yesterday by the bureau Of stand
ards. the ether wave can awake you
in the morning by ringing your alarm,
or it can tell you when to quit work,
or light your lights. or regulate the
cooking on an electric stove while the
housewife does her shopping.
Yesterday at noon a blast OF cleo
irons was shot forth from the Ariing-
ton broadcasting station, a long dash
indicating IL o'clock. The waves sh OF
ards, moving the hands from two
minutes before noon to exactly noon.
And a new miracle OF radiology had
been performed. An electric wave
had moved the hands OF time.
eliminates Long Work.
DR.. J. II. Dellinger, in charge of
the bureau of standards radio Iabora-
tory: +. w. Dunmore, his assistant.
and H. J. Walls. engineer. smiled with
relief when the experiment which
represented months OF work and
technical figuring proved success.
There's a complicated mechanism
connected to the clock to regulate
it by radio. First of all, the clock
itself is an electric self-winding
chronometer. To il is attached SER
les of three relays-which look very
much like the machines used S re-
ceivers by telegraph operators. To
these relays in turn is attached a
clock relay. also somewhat like the
telegrapher's instrument, powerful
enough to swing a magnet inside the
clock Then there is special radio
relay, to swing the radio waves from
the receiving set into the special re-
lay series. OF course the primary
point is an antenna.
Here's what happens when Airing
ton starts time signalling. AT hHe
minutes before IL o'clock a bunch OF
Evening star., 1924-06-15
Crystal Sets and Equipment.

Crystal sets and equipment received
yesterday afternoon follow:
Previously acknowiedged-One hum
dred and twenty sets, twenty-eight
pairs of headphones, sixty aerial
posts, antenna and lead-in wire, crys-
tails and other equipment for installa-
ton.
Billy Heintz, 1435 B st ne, crystal
set
Ruth Heintz, set headphones.
Z. L. Cecil, 14o6 Monroe St, crystal
set.
Mrs. Smith, crystal set. phones, ex-
WND, PHO, Rz. ABB, JOG, complete
antennas, lead-in wires.
MiIler-Dudley Company, 1716 14th
st. NV, crystal set complete.
Frank G. Stewart, 1920 14th st. NV,
crystal set.
Total-One hundred and twenty-six
sets, thirty pairs of headphones, sixty
aerial posts, antenna and lead-in
wire, crystals and other equipment
for installation.
Evening star., 1924-06-15
Complete Records of All
Apparatus Donated to
Star Fund Assured.
S62.5O Comes in Four
Hours; Subscriptions
Total S4O9.25.

A complete record of every radio
set donated to The Stars "shut-in
fund" is being kept by Thomas A.
King, deputy scout commissioner,
who is supervising the activities of
the Boy Scouts detailed to the special
squad installing the apparatus in the
homes of Washington's poor and
needy invalids.
After the set is received at The
Star, it is taken to the radio fund"
headquarters of the scouts in room
5S6, The Star building, and labeled.
name of the donor. Corresponding
data Is kept in a file index system
maintained by Mr.. King, which also
contains the name of the "shut-in"
Mr.. King will be able to furnish every
person who donates a set the name of
the invalid into whose lonely life it
has brought ray of sunshine and
happiness.
Keep Sets in Trim.
AS each set is installed, the Scouts
make special note of the condition
Of the "shut-in," and this informa-
ton is recorded in the file index
Periodically the Scouts will return to
the homes of the inyalids to keep the
sets in perfect operating condition
and to ascertain what changes radio
has made in the lives of those un-
fortunates who before had nothing
to entertain them. The observations
of the Scouts will be added to the
record, and as result the history
of every case Of the shutting who
received sets donated to The star
fund will be on file.
A number Of government employees,
in sympathy with the campaign OF
The Star to place a crystal set at
the bedside Of every deserving invalid
first Saturday half-holiday and pay
day combined and came to The Star
building yesterday afternoon to con-
tribute to the cash fund which Will
be used to purchase antenna wire,
insulators and other apparatus neces-
four hours $50. .50-one OF the largest
day's receipts since the beginning of
the campaign-was added to the fund,
swelling it to $409.25.
Club Gives 81
Twenty-four dollars OF yesterday
afternoons receipts were contributed
bv the Monday 500 Club of Takoma
park. D. C. The mysterious person
who has been soliciting money for
the fund also came in with $14.5O. 1t
was his third visit, and, according
to the list of contributors ne turned
in. he apparently covered most of the
northwest section to appeal for sub
scriptions from his friends The Pc
tition which he used to raise the
money was attached to the list OF
contributors 1t was headed Inc
Idea" and read:
aThe idea of providing a radio crys-
tai set for each 'shnt-in' blind and
cripple individual unable to purchase
Same originated with Leroy Mark and
was Endorsed by Roxey' OF the Capitoi
Theater of New York city. 1t was
intended that the discarded crystal
radio sets of those who have pur-
chased better sets be donated to this
worthy cause. and the Boy Scouts
offered to Install them gratis. Ply
sicians were requested to send In
names OF these shut-ius'
Results were amazing In that there
Evening star., 1924-06-15
SHORT BANDIT GETS $50.
Hold-Up Man Makes
Midnight Raid.

The Short Bandit, so called be-
cause of his diminutive size. who has
been sought by Washington police for
the past several weeks, added another
robbery last night to his string of
lawleSS acts.
walking into the grocery store of
George Nicholas, 1923 G street.
shortly before midnight, the bandit
flashed a pistol and got away with
$50 in cash.
According to descriptions given the
police this hold-up man tallies with
the one who robbed a man on 11th
street, another on Columbia road and
later held up taxi driver.
Evening star., 1924-06-15
SECESSION MOVEMENT
FEARED IN SOUTH AFRICA
Gen. Smuts, Backed by British.
Faces Defeat by Beers
and Labor.

By Cable to The Star and New York World
Copyright, 1874
LONDON, June 1.-THE secession of
South Africa from the British empire.
with possibilities OF serious trouble.
will become an immediate politica,
issue If events turn out as row indi-
Gated by reports concerning the gen.
eral elections to be held in South
Africa Tuesday.
1t now seems likely that Gen. SHUTS
VINO is supported by the whole English
press. viii be beaten by a coalition of
Dutch Nationalists and Laborites. The
hope Of the LoyaIists is that If SHUTS
loses the victorious Beers and labor
leaders WIN at once quarrel. before the
Dutch secession movement gets under
way.
Evening star., 1924-06-15
HORSEMAN INJURED.
Animal Pursuing Runaway
Crashes Into Automobile.

Riding horseback after a runaway
horse on Pennsylvania avenue near
9Th street northwest, William John
son, colored. eighteen years old, was
badly hurt when the horse he was
riding ran into an automobile owned
by Robert Penderton, 1923 9Th street
southwest.
johnson, suffering from cuts, was
taken to Emergency Hospital and
later removed to Gallinger Hospital.
The horse also was injured and taken
to DIR. Robinson's veterinary hospital,
where F. M. Johns, the owner, for
whom Johnson was riding it to Belts
Vile, Md, claimed il last night. Po-
lice later located the runaway.
Evening star., 1924-06-15
Child, Not Rats, Eats Poison.
,ciaI Dispatch to T7,e Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ANSONIA, Conn. June 14.-Endeav-
oring to exterminate rats in her home
in Spring street today. Mrs. Stephen
Mozzo, a cripple. placed chocolate
candy covered with poison on the
floor. Her four-year-o1d son found
some of the candy, ate it, and was
dead when the doctor arrived.