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Evening star., 1924-05-14
Deaths Reported.

The following deaths have been reported to
the health department in the last twenty-four
hours.
Margaret A. Lyons. 80. 2725 N st.
Rev. Patrick ]. o'Connell, 73. Providence
John W. Wyatt, IS, Georgetown University
Hospital.
Ella Belyea, b5, Emergency Hospital.
Alice A. Beck, SO. 500 9Th st. sw.
Josie W. Donohue, SO. 40S Shepherd st.
Richard E. Murdock 40, 63l / ST. s.w.
Edwin L. Thomas, 43. wardman Park Hotel
Frances K, Jacobi. 40. Georgetown Univer-
Catherine L. Killigan, 83. 102 st.
Joseph E. Wren, z, Children's Hospital.
Sarah A. Shane, months. 2821 36th st.
Clarence NJ. Jackson, A, 2257 Sherman ave.
Amelia @. catlin. so. 1912 18th st.
Maria Meade. 81. Emergency Hospital.
Bernard a. Mcdonnell, ss: 1908 oath st
Laura NJ. Work, "a, in auto en- route Ward
man Park Hotel.
rn1s.,tE EtSn tDoHgseftyi H. George Washington
Louis Rich. GO, Emergency Hospital.
Helen B. Blackburn, 62, GARFIELD Hospital.
John Gleason, 95. 1106 North Capitol st.
Mary A. Cooke, so. 1883 Connecticut ave:
Frederick G. Steinmetz. 56, st. Elizabeth's
Mary Morgan, 20. Providence Hospital.
Mary Donegan, 60. 638 r St s.w.
Robert B. Handy. z days, Columbia Hos
Joseph W. Settlers. day, s1e eth St s.w.
Maude Stingley. 81, II Grays St aw.
Mamie Hxwley, 81, 2l13 12th st. -s,~
Martha Cant. Sc, 1901 Q St Sc.
ISt.. EsTssd q FSs1sss %sse 8 sss sieFsr e Hospital
Mary f. Coleman, 4s. 1919 New Jersey ave
Elsey JtEes. months. IL Fenton st. ne.
Evening star., 1924-05-14
FLOOD Is ABATING
IN UPPER POTOMAC;
STILL RACES HERE
Continued from First Page.)

ing officer of the naval air station.
Sycamore Island is completely COW
cred. and only the trees and the up
per portions Of the houses remained
visible today. The water, however
has not yet reached the interior of
the main clubhouse. although it is
now washing over the porcheS The
locker rooms, the canoe house and
other buildings on the island are half
submerged. Every other dwelling
within a mile of Sycamore Island, eX-
cept those built high up the palisades,
is under water.
A bare half dozen families occupy
ing camps and houses along the
Potomac remained in their homes to-
day and they were prepared to de-
part on q minutes notice. The banks
Of the river above the flood were
lined with bedding, furniture and
gees as they fed Saturday night and
Sunday morning, when the wall OF
flood waters began tumbling down
the valley pas; Washington.
Traffic along the road to CHAIN
bridge and the Conduit road was
iammed all day, and every available
traffic policeman was ordered to duty
there. At Chain bridge, the trafhc
became unmanageable for a time ana
the officers in charge were ooliseu
to lessen their parking RESTRICTION
to preyent serious trouble. Hundreds
IF motorists attempting to reacn
Great Fails on the Maryland SIDE
we're stopped by United states mar
sba1s and Informed that the entlre
section is under quarantine pecause
% small nox. The road on the VIZ
ginia side, however, is open.
IND AcKS
Evening star., 1924-05-14

pounded by Senator Spencer, Repub..
lican, Missouri, had been furnished
him In advance. Tough replied in the
negative.
How did Senator Spencer pro-
pound to you exactly the questions
answer?' asked Senator walsh.
The witness said he had prepared a
list of questions, but did not know
where Senator Spencer got his ques-
tions. The questions used by Sena Or
Spencer, he conceded, were very Sim
liar" to those he had prepared.
Senator Spencer then explained that
he had requested the bureau Of mines
to review certain testimony, and that
in doing so the bureau had prepared
some questions which would bring
out the data desired.
Cautioned OF Secrecy.
Tough testified that Admiral J. K.
Robson cautioned him in April,
1922, to observe the utmost secrecy
in the matter of the storage of oils
for the Navy. He agreed under
questioning by Senator Walsh, that
this conversation occurred about the
time the Teapot Dome lease was
made with Sinclair. In the same
month Secretary Fall asked him for
his views on the probability Of drain
age Of the Teapot Dome reserve by
wells on the Salt Creek field, he said,
and he expressed the opinion that
the danger Of material loss was seri-
Gus. The witness said he had been
informed by his superiors in the
Interior Department that leases were
under consideration and that the mat
ter was not to be. discussed because
it was considered a naval matter
which must be kept secret.
After the Teapot Dome lease was
made Tough made a special investi-
cation to determine whether there
was danger of drainage. He ex-
planned that had water been found
between the first and second walls
its presence would have conclusiveIy
excluded any drainage, but no water
was found.
rs it not true that the Teapot
Dome lease was made without any
specific report on file on the matter
of the danger of drainage? asked
Senator Walsh.
II think there were reports" re-
piled the witness.
Evening star., 1924-05-14
Speed Record Set
In Getting Flood
NeUs and Photos

At 10 o'clock yesterday morning
a reporter and a staff photog-
rapher for The Star were assigned
to make a trip to Harpers Ferry.
AT 1890 the telephoned story on
food conditions there was lying
on the copy desk at The Star, be-
ing edited, while food photographs
reached this office in ample time
to be reproduced in the $50
edition of The Star and to prove
the journalistic feature of the day.
A coincidence in connection with
this timely and accurate piece of
newspaper work is that the re-
porter'S father was a member of
the staff of The Star in 1889, when
the worst previous flood inundated
Pennsylvania avenue, while his
grandfather, serving as reporter
for this newspaper in 1859, made
the journey to Harpers Ferry to
witness and to cover for Star
readers of that day the execution
of John Brown.
Evening star., 1924-05-14
MANY BREAKS IN CANAL.
Flood Damage May Bring End to
Historic Waterway

special Dispatch to The Star
HAGERSToWN. Nd, May 14-Dis-
covery of many breaks in the hank
OF the old c. & Q. canal. as the flood
waters in this region are receding.
gave rise to reports here todav that
the canal probably would be nut ont
OF commission for all time
one of the breaks was at GaIIfneer,s
VIDE water and two were at Sprinp
Culvert. Much of the canal is still
under water. The towage comnanv
OF Washington, d. c, Appropriated
a large sum of money last wear and
repaired the canal in several places.
Thls historic canal was laid out by
George Washington and has long
been the means of coal transporta.
tion between the Georges Creek
region and Georgetown, Md.
Ihe Hood was rapidly receding to-
day. Two office buildings of the
Snaderson & Porter Construction
Company were carried away yester-
day and a motor boat valued at s25.-
600 belonging to that company dis
appeared.
The water today is eight feet be-
low the flood crest, which reached
thirty-e eight feet, a mark just four
feet short of that of the Johnstown
flood of 1889.
Traffic has been resumed on the
bridges between Maryland and West
Virginia and all railroad trains are
reported to be running again on
schedules.
Evening star., 1924-05-14

stage of twenty-five feet, danger of seri-
Gus damage by high water in Pittsburgh
passed late today, when the gauge be-
gan to drop after having reached a
maximum of 26.4 feet.
The most spectacular feature of the
food was the dash down the Mononga-
hela River of sixteen barges, owned by
the Iron City Sand Company, after they
broke from their moorings. One Of the
barges. loaded with machinery. sank
near the Point" where the Mononga-
hela and Allegheny rivers Join Two
others were reported to have sunk, but
the others were rounded UP along the
Ohio River. A derrick boat chasing
the barges crashed into one of the piers
Of the Panhandle Railroad bridge and
was partly submerged
Evening star., 1924-05-14
So, 600, 600 VIRGINIA LOSS.
Piedmont and Shenandoah Valley
Sections Recovering.

sections Recovering.
RICHMOND, Va, May 14.-Although
the James River at Ric .nond, already
nineteen feet above IL. formal stage,
continued to rise Il. night, other
rivers and streams that left their
banks and caused the worst flood the
Piedmont and Shenandoah Valley Sec
tions of Virginia have experienced
in a decade were receding and sur
veys Of the damage were started.
No accurate estimate of the none
tary loss will be available for prob
ably a day or two, but it is known
the damage will pass the S2,0OO.000
have lost their lives, and many were
rescued after being caught in the
swirling waters.
At least a dozen small bridges were
washed away, many miles or rallroad
almost everywhere in the afected
district were inundated and in sew
eral places large portions were swept
before the on-rushing waters.
HYDRO ell ectric plants were seriously
damaged, many of them being put out
of commission, forcing manufacturing
plants to close down and leaving
residents of more than dozen cltles
and towns without light and power.
Other manufacturing plants WCAo
flooded and their machinery and stock
ruined, and still more business build
inrs. residences and other structures
in the lowlands were filled with
water Farm crops were seriously
damaged, railroad traffic was sus-
pended or crippled and live stock and
fowls Jared badly.
Al Richmond the turbulent waters
of the James River had backed into
Shockoe Creek and flooded Main
street in front of the downtown rail-
road messenger station with about
two feet of water at o'clock, and
government forecasters declared the
river had not as yet reached Its crest.
RoAT IN CITY'S STREET.
Evening star., 1924-05-14
JACKIE COOGAN WILL SUE.
Charges Concerns Used Name for
Advertising.

NEW YORK, May 14-Jackie Coo
gan, boy motion picture actor, Is To
bring suits in the local courts against
the AdamS-Bach Handkerchief Manu-
featuring Company and Charles +
Weyand & Co., both Of New York
asking damages for the alleged un-
authorized use of his name and pic
lures for advertising purposes. Each
suit will be for $4,000
The pending actions became known
today when attorneys for the boy :
mother, Mrs. Vivian r. Coogan of Los
Angeles, had Nat Lewis appointed by
supreme Court Justice McCook as the
boys guardian for purposes of the
suits.
Evening star., 1924-05-14
TRAIN SERVICE RESTORED.
Two Scores Of Buildings Hit by
Flood at Point of Rocks.

FREDERICK, Md, May 14.-Reces-
sion of the flood waters Of the Poto-
mac River began today to restore
conditions to normal at Point Of
Rocks, where two score OF buildings
were almost submerged yesterday.
Train service on the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad was restored late last
night, although east and west bound
express trains were running late
Much Of Point Of Rocks remained
under water early today and boats
tion in some sections of the town.
The river has fallen approximately
four feet from the flood peak reach
ed yesterday. Property damage in
Point of Rocks is estimated at sew
eral thousands of dollars.
Evening star., 1924-05-14
800 DWELLINGS FLOODED.
Ohio River Waters Impair Car
Traffic at Wheeling, w. Va.

WHEELING, W. Va. May II
Lower floors of more than 800 dwell
ings in the lowlands were inundated
by the flood waters of the Ohio river
here today. Street car traffic was
affected, as was railroad service on
the Wheeling and Lake Erie to
Cleveland and the Baltimore and
Ohio over the. river division.
The stage at the Wheeling wharf
passed the thirty-seven-f mark
before noon and the river Continued
to rise slowly.
Evening star., 1924-05-14
Laymen Will Attend BANQUET.

Dr. l.. W. Glazebrook. president OF
the Laymen's Service Association OF
sne Diocese Of Washington, DR.. W
Sinclair Bowen, chairman of the com
mlttee on rural work; Commander c.
T. Jewell, secretary of the associa-
ton, and other laymen of the Epis-
copal church will go to Aquasco, Md,
tonight and attend the "father.and-
SON banquet to be given in the
parish hall Of St PauPs Church.
Baden. Maj. Gen. John A Lejeune of
the United States Marine Corps and
Ogle r. Singleton will be the princi-
pal speakers. Rev. Charles L. Crusoe.
the rector, has arranged the dinner
and will preside
Evening star., 1924-05-14
Few Girls Have Perfect Feet.

A large industrial concern employ
ing $1,000 girls. employs physicians,
chiropodists and otSer specialists to
keep them in physical condition. A
curious fact was revealed in the ex-
animation of their pedal extremities
in that fewer than 25 per cent were
found to have perfect feet.
Evening star., 1924-05-14
BAR MEMBERS AT BALL.
Association Entertains Lawyers
and Their Wives.


The Federal Bar Association enter
tanned its members and their wives
and friends at a banquet and ball in
the Hotel Ebbitt last night.
Gathering first around the banquet
board, the guests dined sumptuously
Thomas G. Shearman acted as toast
master and introduced the speaker of
the evening, Representative John E.
Raker Of California. Senator Ralston
of Indiana who was to have spoken,
had to send his regrets.
Representative Raker told his audi
ence that law holds far greater op-
portunities for the young man today
than ever before. To go far in the
legal profession. however, he asserted
that the young lawyer must make
monetary considerations secondary to
his desire to give service and promote
the best interests.
Mr.. Shearman spoke briefly. He said
that law is a means to an end and
that the ultimate aim of all law is to
obtain peace and freedom for the
people whom it is intended to serve.
After the addresses. dancing began
and lasted until past midnight.
Evening star., 1924-05-14
TRACK AND BRIDGE SUFFER
Harpers Ferry Flood Damage Es-
timated at Half a Million.
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star
HARPERS FERRY, W. Va. Nav
with mile and a half of the Bal
tlmore and Ohio Railroad tracks ont
near this city, a portion of a pier of
tRe toii bridge missing and five feet
OF fnud IN portions of this city. the
mood was falling at the rate of thir-
teen inches an hour today.
property damages as a result of
the high waters of the last five days
is estimated at 100000.
Workmen are hurrying repairs on
the railroad washout, and it is be-
!!eved trains will be started over the
line, which goes through the Shenan-
doah valley, by early tomorrow. The
bridge repairs also are under wav
Evening star., 1924-05-14
COOLIDGE HEARTENED
BY SUPPORT OF VETO
Continued from First pare. !,

of which affects the revenue-eettine
side Of the government.
Take, for example, the McNary-
Haugen bill, which requires a $780,.
100000 appropriation. Mr.. Coolidge
probably. will veto that measure II it
comes to him, on the ground that the
government hasn't the money for that
purpose. So It is economy which the
President has decided upon as his
battle slogan, and he can get more
that way than any other, for the excuse
of lack of funds is unanswerable unless
taxes are to be Increased instead Of re-
duced this year.
Evening star., 1924-05-14
ORAT0RY OUTCOME
NOW UP TO JUDGES
Continued from First Page

s at Memorial Continental Hall, with
President Coolidge presiding.
Niyidly impressed with the impor-
tance of the contest, with the Con-
stitution as the subject, both here
and throughout the nation, the local
judges are carefully reading anew
the orations. They are marking each
contestant so per cent on content of
Grafton and so per cent on delivery.
When the final selections are made
the grand prize winner in the District,
and an alternative. will be announced
in The Star. To the winner will po
The Stars check for 5000. Each of the
eight local district winners has re-
ceived from this paper a check for 500
- Statement by Judges.
At the conclusion of the hearings
late yesterday afternoon the judees
issued the following statement:
During the course of the contest
we have daily more deeply realized it's
Importance, and have individually and
collectively been profoundly impressed
with the very high all-around quality
of the orations.
DTOnq.
ganda not only the competitors them
selves but all those associated with
them. and the general public, who
test, must feel that what is being
done is of inestimable value In the
future preservation of our Consti-
tuition.
TT would be well were our public
school students required to take a.
course in the study of the Consti-
tuition of the United States, its
genesis and the conditions under
which it was formed; especially
should they know the background Of
Mach Interest shown.
THE interest evinced in the con-
test not only in the District of Co.
lumbia, but throughout the country,
affords gratifying evidence of awak-
ening public realization of the para
mount Importance of studying our
Constitution"
Yesterday furnished one of the
most exciting days in the local con-
Swiftly in an automobile of The
Star the distinguished board OF judges
was taken from the courthouse at
$3.50 o'clock to the Eastern High
Scn0Ol, JnenCe Iar nOrtn out COnnectlcut
avenue to the Holy Cross Academy,
thence south and west to the Western
High School. The journey of the judges
was concluded at o'clock.
Yesterday was visiting day" with
the other contestants, winners at other
schools going from each of the three
schools yesterday, in order to sit N
the audiences and listen to the abfli-
ty of their rivals inNthe contest
ThronE at Eastern.
At the Eastern High School the
judges were greeted by the largest
school audience in the history Of the
contest. The entire school was pres
ent,, as Principal Hart escorted the
judges to seats in the auditorium, and
then presented Ruth Greenwood, win
ner in the third district Of the local
zone, and representative Of her school.
An appeal for suffrage for the Dis
. trict was voiced by Miss Greenwood,
in the course, of her oration on 1.-The
Constitution" Suffrage is not an
inalienable right of citi.enship,"- the
speaker declared. but it is controlled
by the states, subject to the limitas
I tion0 OF the fifteenth and nineteenh
Samendments, which prohibit discrimi7
Evening star., 1924-05-14
, BOAT IN CITY'S STREET.
Alexandria Water Forces Moving
Near River Front.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, May 14.-A-
though flood waters OF the Potomac
reached a higher level here than at
any time for many years, little dam
age has been done along the water
front. The highest level was reach
ed shortly after o'clock this morn
ing, when members Of the Old Do
minion Boat Club in canoes passed UP
King street past Union street.
Merchants along the river have
moved, all goods to the second story
No particular. damage was done when
water in several Instances entered
the ground floor of several ware
Evening star., 1924-05-14
BY F, U. RUDOLPH A1fUNDSON.

Correspondent of The Star and the North
American Newspaper Alliance.
PORT MOLLER, Alaska, May IL
Sergt Alva G. Harvey, mechanician
with Maj. Frederick L. Martin. gave
me today his complete story Of the
Evening star., 1924-05-14

Taxicabs had their origin in China
about 600 years ago, when natives
carried passengers in a vehicle and
dropped pebble in a receptacle to
measure off every mile that was tray-
aIad
Evening star., 1924-05-14
1e BARGEs SWEPT AWAY.

PITTSBURGH. Pa, May 14.-A-
though the river stage last night was
more than three feet above the flood
Evening star., 1924-05-14
Martins Eyes Affected.

Next morning. May 5, at 4:30. we
continued toward the lake and reach
ed it about noon, but there was not
q sign of habitation. By this time
the majors eyes were in a bad con-
dition, and the course was left for
me to pick. He could just see well
Evening star., 1924-05-14
SENATE OIL PROBE
HEARINGS CLOSED

CONTINUED from First Page.)
Evening star., 1924-05-14

houses. Water reached about five
feet beyond the usual high-tide level
Evening star., 1924-05-14

adventures OF tne
two United States
Army world flyers
when their plane,
t h e S e a t t ] e,
crashed against a
m o u n t a / n side
north of Chignik.
Sergt. Harvey de-
scribed the sew
en-day j Q u r n e y
Of the a ir m e n
through the Alas
kan wilderness to
ort NJ o III e r,
which, he told me,
he never could
have endured had
it not been for
fh Of hi1
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-02-22
Tierney the Star
at Indoor Meet
n. Y. Athletic Club.

New York. Feb. 2l--Joseph Tier
ney, Brilliant Holy Cross runner. was
the outstanding star of the annual
indoor track and field games of the
New York Athletic Club. held to-
night at the 22nd Regiment Armory.
Tierney shattered one worlds rec
ord and hcttercd another in his only
two appearances in the meet. He
set the new mark in the Bucrmeyer
800. lowering the record formerly
held by Jake Driscoll in So seconds.
shortly afterward Tierncy flashed the
quarter mile in 40 2-5 seconds in II
relay. Is of a second better than the
worlds indoor mark. but his perform
ance will not stand as record be-
cause ii was made in a team race.
Holy Cross was beaten in this event
in spite of Tierney's great work.
Il. W. Landon. New ork \. G. high
jump star tried for new worlds
mark at 6 feet, 6 inches but failed by
n narrow margin.
Booth lever. former Penn sprinter.
and Marvin Rick, eX-Irinceton run
ncr. repeated 1928 victories in the
games the former sweeping series
of three sprnts while Rick. aided by
n $50 yard handicap. vauquiShed a
crack field of distance mon at three
miles, included Il. T.. Brown. of Hos-
ton, and johnny EOmig of Penn state.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-02-22
White Actress to
Play Opposite
Negro Leading Man

New York, Feb. 21.-A young wom-
an whose name is being withheld has
agreed, after one leading actress and
many near stars refused. to play OPP
posite negro leading man in an in
racial play soon to be staged "-Nll
Gods Chilun Got Wings" by Eugene
O'Neill. ii was revealed today. The
white woman is required, in the clos
ing scene of the play, to Kiss the
hand If the negro whose wife she
Las become.
O'Ncilrs determination to go
through with the staging of this play
to make it realistic with "a white
woman and "A negro man in the
leading parts. has started much talk
in theatrical circles. He first offered
the leading female role to one of the
lest known actresses and when she
refused consulted many others be-
fore finding one he said was willing
to hold art above race prejudice.
This yCung woman has asked that
her name be kept from the public at
least until the play opens.
The plot of AN Gods Chillun Got
Wings" deals with inter marriage
among negroes ana Wh1te people ana
its scenes are laid in the negro dis
tr,ct Of Manhattan. The opening
scene is n busy corner in this sec
ton. on the sidewalk arc eight chill
dren. four white and four negro. One
little white girl, Ella. holds marbles
for Jim Harris. a negro boy. They
are portrayed as child sweethearts,
she asking:
do you want to he my fcller?"
When he answers in the affirma-
tive she watts him kiss, saying:
Then I'm your girl"
Nine years later the players are
on the same corner; Ella Is bong
treated brutally> by one of the white
men she has grown up with and his
attitude is contrasted with the Kind
~ way Of her negro sweetheart Ella
and Jim are married. Later she be
comes insane over the race problem
Ter insanity becomes childish mp
pn4s when her husband fails to
pass bar examination and rcuua ms
h simple negro. She kisses his ,tand
and he prbys 10 be made worthy If
the child you send me for The wom-
an you take away
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-02-22
Colby Ice-Snow
Teams After H0nOrs
Augusta Carnival
Especial to kenncbec Journa

especial to henncheC Journal
Waterviile. Feb. 21-The snowshoe
and ski teams of the Colby Outing
club will leave Waterville tomorrow
for the Winter Carnival at Augusta
to take part in the collegiate events.
The men who will accompany Capt.
John y. Laughton Of the snow shoe
team will be John A. Barnes. Percy
5. Loveley and William f. Pierce.
Jr. The ski team will be made up
of Capt Cranston Jordan. George
Barnes. Joseph c. Smith and Archer
Jordan, Jr. The Colby teams will
take part in the events which are to
be run off Saturday m0rning.
The Blue and Gray hockey team
will leave Waterville Saturday morn
ing for Augusta also 10 meet the
Bates ice crew in one of the main
attractions Of the Augusta Carnival
on Saturday afternoon. Owing to
the poor conditions. there was no
practice this afternoon on the Colby
rink and the men are feeling the ef
fects Of the two days off the ice.
Colby will put up a hard fight to
win the Governor Baxter trophy
which is awarded TO the winner Of
this contest.