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Evening star., 1924-05-29
NATIONAL ARBORETUM
ENDORSED BY CITIZENS
Favor Bill Now Before Presiden-
for Park Development
in Northeast

Approval of plans for a national
arboretum on the Mount Hamilton
and Hickey Hill tracts, as provided
for in the park development bill
was given by the Rhode Island Ave
nue. Citizens Association, meeting
in the Sherwood Presbyterian Church
last night. The tracts mentioned
are between the eastern branch of
the Potomac River, Bladensburg road.
the right of way of the Pennsylvania
railroad and Benning road.
a resolution requesting the Dis
trict Commissioners to build a perma-
nent bridge over the Baltimore and
Ohio and Pennsylvania railroads
somewhere in the loop made by the
railroad south of South Dakota ave-
nue. was adopted.
The railroads, it was stated, inter
cept all traffic into northeast Wash
ington between the avenue mentioned
and Eckington, place and greatly in
convenience the population living
north of the railroads by giving them
no proper outlet to the main section
of the city. The private grade cross
ing at Langdon is dangerous and the
camel back bridge across the rail
road track at 22d street is dis
grace of long standing to respect
able and intelligent community" II
was stated.
Following a report of Kenneth +.
Armstrong, chairman of the commit
tee on streets and sidewalks, the as
sociation voted to ask for the various
street improvements as recommended
by the committee.
A resolution was adopted to request
the purchase of tract of land In the
vicinity of Rhode Island avenue ard
South Dakota avenue, TO serve as q
site for a new public school.
Thanks were extended TO Lteut.
Col. c. 0. Sheriff. for his efforts IN
securing the development of two
small parks in the neighborhood and
in having band concerts there.
The following were installed as
new members: George E. Good. \.
r. Ellis. Howard NJ Carter, James
M. Ridgeway, Frank Street, Mrs. l..
A. Gardner, Howard S. Gossage, Mrs.
Mary c. Winter, Miss Ruth C. Winter.
Conrad H. Blanz, Samuel Alpher.
Inn,ns Dunn and w C. Hait muller.
Evening star., 1924-05-29
MAN AIDED MAYFiELD
RACE, SAYS CLARKE
Former Imperial Wizard Admits,
However, His knowledge Is
Second d-Hand.

Charges that the Ku Klux KIan put
men, money and power into the cleo
ton of Senator Mayfield, Democrat, of
Texas, were made before the Senate
privileges and elections committee
yesterday by z. q. Clarke, once or
ganizer and chief officer of the KIan.
Clarke took the stand after Senator
Mayfield had told his counsel to with
draw the legal objections they had
entered to his appearance.
Lacks Personal knowIege.
Although Clarke was the chief Of
ficer of the Klan at the time. he ad
mitted that he did not know person
ally of money actually sent into
Texas for the Mayfield election.
He drew sharp cross-examina-
ton. w. F. Zumbrunn, counsel for
Senator Mayfield, not only citing
Clarke's Mann act conviction in Tex
as, but bringing in the witnesses con-
nectlon with msil fraud cases, his
"banishment" Or expulsion from the
klan, and other matters
When Zumbrunn suggested that
Clarke. in Houston. Tex. while be-
fore the federal court. had entered
Parker of Texas and r. r. Creager.
Republican national committeeman
from Texas. to get his white slave
punishment mellowed up" by testify
ing in the Mayfield contest. Clarke
denied the assertion vigorously. He
said he had talked with attorneys,
and made "a speech to social
gathering of some fifteen men of
more or less Importance about the
klan situation, but had agreed to
nothing.
When asked what Gov. Parker was
doing there" Clarke said:
81 don't know"
In his account of what the Khan
did in Texas during 1922. Clarke said
he, as Imperial Wizard, let DR. III. w.
Evans. the present chief of the order
have a free hand" Expenses of the
organization were passed upon by a
finance committee. with which Clarke
said he had nothing to do, but from
1t he heard some protests about
what the Klan was spending in Tex
as. He did not know of men being
sent into Texas for Mayfield, he said,
and testified to various conversati tions
with Evans.
Evening star., 1924-05-29
MUST CURTAIL FORCE,
Standards Bureau Obliged to Lay
Off Fifty Workers.

Curtailment of the skilled and un-
skilled staff of the bureau of stand
ards must be made on June 30 be-
cause the bureau will be unable after
that time to pay increased salaries
recommended in the reclassification
act and still carry on it's rolls the
present personnel. About fifty en-
ployes will lose their jobs on that
date. according to Assistant Director
f. c. Brown. Those to go have al
ready been selected, according to
their efficiency ratings.
The reduction in personnel is gen.
eral, DR.. Brown said, and does not
apply to any single class or group
of employees. The reduction will
bring the bureau staff from about
900, its present personnel, to $50.
DR.. Brown said the bureau would
try to continue it's normal activities
with the reduced force at the same
peak of efficiency that has charac-
terized it's work in past years. An
increase of 100000 in the funds
available for the bureau would save
the reduction in force, DR.. Brown
believes.
Evening star., 1924-05-29
EUGENE F. SMITH NAMED
PRINTERS UNION HEAD
Wins by 500 Votes From John w.
Breen-Other Officers and
Delegates Chosen.

Eugene F. Smith was elected presi-
dent of the Columbia Typographical
Union last night at the annual cleo
lions. He received almost 900 votes
more than John n. Breen.
Frank ID. Seiffert was elected vice
president and George G.. SeiDold and
II. G. Parsons were reelected secre-
tary and assistant secretary and treas
urer, respectively.
Other officers elected were: Ed
ward w. Davidson, doorkeeper; John
II. Hooper, trustee; Arthur q. Bate
man, Joseph II. Cummings, Burton
w. Doyle. Frank ii. Hambright,
George &. Lear and Edwin A. Sulli-
van, executive committeeman for
book and job printing offices; Edgar
!. Lowd, Claude /. Mallard and Earl
w. Plantz, executive committeeman
for newspapers; Robert J. billiard,
executive committceman for linotype
machinists, and John F. Quinn, execu-
tive committeeman for monotype ma
chiniStS.
Delegates Chosen.
Delegates to the international con-
vention elected were: Charles F.
Bauer, sE. NJ. Miller, H. ]. Broderick
and j. l.. Kelly, with Ola Mallory,
Clyde ID. McCurdy. James l.. Sullivan
and Jacob Wagner, alternates.
Auditors selected for the next year
were +. j. ElWood and L. n. Warner.
In international balloting James NJ.
Lynch received 1.103 votes and Charles
+. Howard 699 for international presi-
dent; Seth Il. Brown, 1895, and George
r. Beach 675. vice president; Austin
Hewsin, 1883. and William r. Trot-
ter G44. second vice president; J. w.
Hays, 1910, and William a. Aldrich
700, cretary-treasurer: Walter +.
AmeS, 692; Malcolm Knock. 1858; f..
ID. Balentine, 1909; George p. Nichols.
1,031; r. IT. Mock, 946: Edward Cum
ningham, $50; Walter NJ Fischer. 616;
Theodore II. Freese. 5s4, and Anton j.
Chramosta, 50, for trustees to the
Union Printers Home.
The vote for agents to the home
was Joe Johnson, 1929, and Jerome
V. O'Hara. 495. Delegates to con-
gress of Canada. George w. Howard.
637, and l.. II. Spalding. 932. Board
of auditors. Fred Barker. gel; Fred
$. Walker. 1913. Delegates TO Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, Max S.
Hayes, 1904; T. W. Mccullough, 1,032
Frank Morrison. s96; John c. Hard
ing. 1905; William Y. Young. 1,014;
Charles A. Burton, 6o7: Raymond T.
Moore, S99: A. A. Couch. $50: George
II. knell. $40; William J. Robinson,
$50. and r. o. Jaggers. 81.
Evening star., 1924-05-29
80 COLORED PUPILS
RECEIVE DIPLOMAS
Commencement Exercises at Dun
bar Mark End of Night
School Course.

Ninety pupils who have completed
the elementary course in the colorsd
night schools We're awarded diplomas
at commencement exercises last night
in the Dunbar High School audito-
rum. DIR. ]. Hayden johnson, mem
ber of the board of education. was the
commencement orator The diplomas
were conferred by William l.. Hous-
ton, also a member of the school
board. The Invocation and benedic-
ton were pronounced by Rev. u. F.
Rivers. DR.. Winfield S. Montgomery,
assistant director of the night schools,
presided. The Dunbar High School
Orchestra and Carey Browne, violin
ist. furnished the music.
The graduates are:
Stevens School, Rosa Stokes Meth
erland, principal-Alfred De l.. Brok-
enborough. Charles Ashton Dunkins,
James Gaskins, Lanzy Junius Gooch,
Gerard DeriI Levy, Alvah Harold
Thurston, Horace Ward. Alice Era
Anderson. ALA Gordon Butler, Essie
Maud Brown, Matte Douglass Brown,
Lena Elizabeth Butler, Fannie Var
lfan lone Hill. Martha Elizabeth Lee.
Lauretta Scott Martin, Edna May Par
ker, Christina Jeanette Pendleton,
Marie Elizabeth Randall, jeanette
Matte Scruggs, Creola Virginia Wat
son. Della Anna Wilson and Florence
Louise Young.
Dunbar Elementary School. d.
David Houston, principal - Wallace
Preston Abbott, Eunice Vernetta Bal
lard. George Henry Brooks. Joseph
a
Harris, James Irving Wilson.
Garnet School, Albert q. Knorl,
principal - Leroy William Brown,
James William Butler. George Philip
Coleman, Oscar Erving Collins, Willie
James Evans, Farley James Harris,
Reed Allen Webb, Francis Theodore
Scott, James Primas,. Normal Pauline
Carter. Lucy Elnora Davidson, Essie
Jane Laury, Emma Alfonso McCrorey
wood Taylor. Lucille, Thomas. Theresa
Caesar Thomas, Susie Couch Furr
Kate Myrtle Wright, Isabelle Daniels,
Dorothy Pauline Fisher, Edna New
ton, Sallie Payton.
Lovejoy School, Effie F. Simmons
ter Brooks, George Edward Diggs
Lucius David Evans, Charles Grace
son, James Frank Jones, Joseph John
Jones, Wilbur William Jordan, Ern-
est Daniel kirkland, William Reth-
ford Minor, Linval Myers, AlphonZo
Sullivan, Ernest John Taylor, Theo-
dore Roosevelt Williams, Eva Fran
ces Brooks, Minnie Carroll, Margie
Martha Driver, Inez Evans, Alberta
Gardner. Caroline Jones. Gladys Helen
Savoy. Emma Washington.
Randall -Cardoza School, +. f
Parks, principal - Shepard Wardell
Beatty, James Thomas Bromhead
Van Buren Clark, James Hodge
Philip Young, Irene Ruth Golden
Alice Jane Johnson, Susie Isabel Hill
Susie Elizabeth, Beatrice Adelaid
Lewis, Henrietta Bell Parker, Hattie
Tolson, Raymond Franklin Allen.
Evening star., 1924-05-29
RELIEF GIVEN HOMELESS.
Mississippi Property Damage More
Than $1,000, 900.

JACKSON. Miss, May 29.-With the
dead buried and the injured being cared
for in hospitals. Mississippi yesterday
turned attention to the many families
rendered homeless and destitute by the
violent wndstorms which swept sec
tons of the state Monday night and
Tuesday morning. taking a death toll of
twenty-one persons and injuring more
than half a hundred, and causing prop
erty damage estimated at more than
sl,000.0 900.
Acting Gov. Dennis Murphree yester-
day issued proclamation calling on
citizens of the state for assistance for
the storm sufferers. Units of the Red
Cross have organized and have taken
charge of the relief work in the stricken
centerS.
Reports yesterday from Summit stated
that practically every building in the
town was damaged, two churches, sew
eral business houses and many resi-
dences having been totally wrecked.
The loss there was estimated at
The loss there was estimated at
at Collins, where virtually the same con-
ditions prevailed. Heavy damage also
was caused at Increase, where thirty
persons are homeless, and at Johnston
Station.
Wire communication. badly crippled
in the storm areas, was gradually be-
ing restored today.
Evening star., 1924-05-29
LABOR CABINET FATE
IN BALANCE TODAY
Official Party Organ Admits Issue
in Doubt in Unemployment
Bill Debate.
LIBERALS MAY SAVE DAY
Asquith Regarded as Likely to
Back Macdonald.
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 29.-That the gov
ernment's fate is in the balance in to-
nights debate in the House of Com
mons, with the issue doubtful, is ad-
mitted by the Daily Herald, labor
organ, while all the political writer's
concur in the declaration that the ad-
ministration will find itself in a
tighter corner than ever before and
can in any case expect only small
majority.
Prime Minister Macdonald, in a
speech in the house of commons today.
indicated that if his government should
be defeated tonight on d test vote 1t
would go before the country in gen.
eral election.
The debate centers around motion
by the Conservatives to reduce the
salary of Tom Shaw. minister Of
labor, this being Il technical way of
ernment's policy toward relieving
unemployment. A similar motion was
talked out in the house Il week ago.
Asauith Action Vital.
Everything apparently depends
upon the advice former Premier
Asquith gives his followers at today's
Liberal meeting, and several of the
lobbyists believe this advice will be
in favor of supporting the govern
meut.
1t is conceded by the correspond
ents of the liberal papers that if the
liberals vote merely according to
their feelings on the unemployment
question the government will go
down, but they do not disguise the
fact that if the Liberals turn out
the ministry. involving a dissolution
of Parliament. they will make them
selves unpopular with the public,
wha,e last desire is for another cleo
tioA
:. Former Premier Lloyd George is
credited in many quarters with the
view that the government has already
had enough tether and is said to be
prepared to vote against the Labor
ties. but it is not suggested that he
Us in revolt against Mr.. Asquith or
that he is likely to discard the Liberal
leaders advice.
Evening star., 1924-05-29
HOFFMAN CONVICTED
OF Staying WOMAN
Second Degree Verdict Returned in
Death of Mrs. Maude
Bauer.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 2e-Harry l..
Hoffman, charged with Staying Mrs.
Maud A. Bauer on a lonely Staten
Island road. today was found guilty
of murder in the second degree.
County Judge Tiernan imposed
sentence of twenty years to life i'm
prisonment in Sing Sing.
Hoffman. on his way, to prison
van after sentence had been imposed
passed within few feet of District
Attorney Each and shrieked:
Now you and your lying witnesses
can divide up your reward. / am
innocent and you know it"
Later Hoffman collapsed in his cell
and wept.
Hoffman. a motion picture operator,
is married and the father of two
children.
Shot. Beaten and StrangIed.
On the afternoon of March % the
body of pretty Mrs. Maude Bauer
young mother of two daughters. was
found by the side of a lonely Staten
Island road. She had been shot,
beaten and strangled, and there was
evidence that she had successfully
fought off an assault.
Witnesses told of having seen Mrs
Bauer. driving her mother and
daughters in her small car, stalling
the motor in the mud when she
swerved to avoid collision with a
truck. Her mother told of a passing
motorist, a lone man in a coupe, who
stopped and rendered his services to
Mrs. Bauer as she was walking to-
ward a distant house to seek assist
ance.
Gun and Auto Clues.
Hoffman maintained his innocence,
and a fellow motion picture operator
RaCey Parker, told the police Hoff-
man had been with him in the pro-
lection room of a theater at the time
Mrs. Bauer was murdered. But the
police had learned that Hoffman,
three days after the murder sent to
his brother gun of the caIiber of
the automatic pistol with which Mrs
Bauer had been shots They also
found a bullet hole in the. upholstery
of his motor car, a coupe identical
with that described by those who had
seen the mystery motorist
Parker. a few days later, repudiated
man, declaring his fellow operator
had asked him to frame" it, as he
feared the police would arrest him
for the Bauer murder.
At the trial Barbara Fahs, a thir-
teen-year- schoolgirl, identified
Hoffman as the man who had offered
Mrs. Bauer a ride, and a firearms ex-
pert declared that only bullets from
Hoffman's gun could have caused the
death of Mrs. Bauer
The case went to the jury last
night.
Evening star., 1924-05-29
HOLD MEMORIAL RITES.
Washington Hebrews Honor Dead
in World War.

Memorial exercises for Hebrews
who died in the world war were held
in the Washington Hebrew Congre
cation cemetery, under the auspices
of the Vincent b. Costello Post of the
American Legion and the Jewish We'll
fare Board, yesterday afternoon.
Due to inclement weather and the
lack of available shelter in the ceme-
terry the services were confined to
prayers by Rabbi Abram Simon and
Rabbi ]. T. Loeb.
These services have been made an
annual affair in order that the
service rendered by Hebrews of the
United States for their country in the
great war might not be forgotten.
Memorial addresses which were
to have been delivered at the ceme-
terry by DR.. Simon and DR.. Loeb but
were postponed, will be supplanted
by special services to be held in the
synagogues in the near future, 1t
was stated.
Evening star., 1924-05-29
.FRANKSCASESUS
FOUND NEAR DEATH
Druggist. Who Disappeared From
Chicago Hospital, Critically
Ill in Louisville.
by the Associated Press.

3y the Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky. May &c. F..
Heath, a Chicago druggist, was found
in an unconscious condition at a
rooming house here today and taken
to hospital, where he is IN a crit
ical condition.
Police said the man was suspecte ed
of being implicated in the kidnapping
and staying of Robert Franks in Chi
cago. basing the statement on infor-
nation from the hospital that Heath
had confessed. Inquiry at the hos
pital revealed that Heath mad made
no statement concerning the case, the
authorities apparently having misun-
derstood the message
Evening star., 1924-05-29
LEGIoNNAIREs TO PARADE.
Will Be Reviewed by President
With Other Veterans.

Seventeen hundred legionnaires will
march in review past President Cool
idge, with Grand Army veterans ana
Spanish war veterans, tomorrow
morning, en- route to the trains for
Arlington.
1t was announced today that 500
men of the colored legion posts will
assemble at o'clock in front of the
Twelfth Street Y. M. c. A. and will
proceed at $40. headed by a sixty
five-piece band. to the front of the
District building.
There they will be Joined by 100
American Legion men, headed by the
Army Band. At $50 the procession
will start up Pennsylvania avenue to
East Executive avenue. thence north
to H street, each to 18th and south
to the Mount Vernon station. AS they
pass up East Executive avenue they
will be reviewed by President Cool
idge. Grand Army veterans and the
Marine Band will lead the parade.
1oo xryDrAnrJc roD nrAn
Evening star., 1924-05-29
Spanish Teachers Elect.

The Association of Spanish Teachers
at meeting last night at 1435 K
street elected the following officers
for the coming year: Prof. Angel c..
Vas1ues. of the faculties of George
Washington and Catholic universities,
president; Prof. Jones of George
Washington, vice president; Mrs.
Marjorie Cade, secretary.
A program committee was named,
consisting of Prof. Jose Llorens as
chairman; Miss Reeve. Miss Cunradi
and Prof. Jones.
DR.. GuiIlermo A. Sherwell read the
last chapters of his work on Quevedo.
He has presented this work in a series
of five lectures before the association
this year.
The meetings of the association will
be resumed next October. and every
one in the city interested in Spanish
culture is asked to attend.
Evening star., 1924-05-29
100 WREATHs FOR DEAD.
Salvation Army Plans Tribute at
Arlington Tomorrow.

The Salvation Army in the District
of Columbia will pay tribute to the
soldier dead by placing 100 wreaths on
different graves and monuments in
the Arlington cemetery tomorrow
morning under direction of Adjt.
Ernest Holz. divisional secretary of
the Salvation Army in the District
of Columbia
Adjt Holz was a United States
Army chaplain overseas during the
late war. He will be assisted by
Adjt George Paxton, Adjt. Agnes
McKernan, Capt. Harold Smith and
Envoy Mary Billings, all of whom served
Evening star., 1924-05-29
HONOR INDIANS MEMORY.
Sioux Parents Travel 1000 Miles
for Exercises Here Tomorrow.

Travelling two thousand miles to
pay tribute to the memory of SOL
dier son, Joseph Take-the-Shield and
his wife, Sioux Indians, arrived in
Washington today from South Dakota
to attend the Memorial day services
at Arlington cemetery tomorrow. The
son, whose name was also Joseph
Take-the- Shield, was killed in ac-
tion in France on November 1, 1918.
The parents, who live on the
Standing Rock Agency in South Da-
kota, called at the bureau of Indian
affairs today and requested that they
be given an American flag to take
back with them as a memorial to
their soldier son. Both parents speak
English. Besides attending the serv-
ices at the cemetery tomorrow they
expect to decorate the grave of their
SON.
Evening star., 1924-05-29
81 ALABAMA STORM TOLL.
Eight Members of One Family Die
in Crash of Home.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, May Gala
bamas death toll in the tornado of
Tuesday was placed at twenty-one
yesterday, with belated reports that Mrs.
J. s. Cofield was killed twelve miles
west of Hamilton. Ala, in Marion
County, when her home was de-
molished. Her husband. son. Prime
Cofield, and grandson, w. c. Cofield,
were seriously injured.
Sections swept by the storm were
busy yesterday burying the dead and
caring for those injured and rendered
homeless. This was especially true
near Empire, in Walker County,
which bore the brunt of the tornado
lily We're killed in the crash of their
home.
About fifty persons were injured in
the state.
Evening star., 1924-05-29
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
Heath Fled From Chicago Hos
pital During Search.

CHICAGO. May o9.-Charles F.
Heath. a former druggist. watched in
a Louisville. Ky, hospital as a sus-
pect in connection with the kidnap-
ing and murder of Robert Franks,
thirteen-year-o son of "A Chicago
pital here last Monday, after he had
apparently attempted TO end his life.
Detectives were seeking him when he
vanished
Heath had swallowed sleep-pro-
ducing drug on Sunday. but when de-
had disappeared from Mercy Hospital.
He formerly had drug store less
than two miles from the Franks
home.
Evening star., 1924-05-29
OKLAHOMA TORNADO
KILLS 8, INJURIES 20
Three Communities Swept With
100000 Damage in Eastern
Part of State.
ALABAMA DEATH TOLL 21
Million Dollars Damage in Storm
Area of Mississippi.

BY the Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, May %
Nine known deaths, more than a
score injured and property damage
estimated at around 100000 was the
toll paid by three communities in
eastern Oklahoma swept by a tornado
late yesterday, the second in twenty
four hours.
At Wetumka, an oil town of $500
inhabitants, seven persons lost their
lives when thirty homes were razed
At Warner, a small farming center
near Okmulgee. two persons were
killed and most of the towns business
section was destroyed. Checotah, In
Mcintosh County, suffered consider
able damage from wind and torrential
rainfall.
Three persons were unaccounted for
at Wetumka.
Evening star., 1924-05-29
Maccabees' Club to Parade.

The Caravan Club of the Maccabees
will observe Memorial day with a pa
rade tomorrow. Twenty-Five deco.
rated automobiles will convey the
club members through the city. The
parade will be led by the deputy SUI
,preme commander of the order,
Thomas Osborne, president of the
club. A trip to Gettysburg has been
planned later in the year.
Evening star., 1924-05-29
Library Open 2-6 Pm. Tomorrow.

The central building of the PubIic.
Library will be open tomorro ",
Decoration day, from to 6 pm, for
both circulation and reference use of
books. Library officials express re-
gret at their inability to keep the
library open from 9 co 9 on hoildays,
as formerly, and as is customary in
other cities, but, they point out, the
fund for Sunday and holiday service
was reduced in the last appropriation
bill, making it necessary this year to
limit the hours on Sundays and holi-
days to 2 to 6 pm. Takoma Park and
Southeastern branches will not be
open.
Evening star., 1924-05-29
GIRL SCOUT SERVICES.
Organization Will Visit Arlington
and Decorate Graves.

Girl Scouts representing all the
troops in the District of Columbia divi-
sion will visit Arlington National Gene
terry tomorrow and place upon the
graves of the veterans of the civil
ration of their service to the nation.
Approximately 110 Girl Scouts act
ing in conjunction with the American
Legion will leave for Arlington at s
o'clock tomorrow morning and will
occupy the whole day in decorating
the graves. A picnic lunch has been
arranged for them by the American
Legion.
The girls will be in charge of Miss
Margaret Hussy. local director, and
Mrs, Julia Thomas of Clarendon, Va.