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Evening star., 1924-06-24
GIRLS DEATH RAISES
TRAFFIC TOLL TO 40
Hattie Walters Is Latest of 1924
Victims: Struck While Picnick-
ing-3 Others Hurt.

The fortieth death from traffic ac-
cidents in the District since the first
of the year occurred last night, when
ored girl of 944 2Sth street. sue
cumbed at Freedmen's Hospital from
a fractured skull. She was struck by
the automobile of Morris H. Kafka,
twenty-six, 1886 Huntington street,
Friday afternoon at the Zoo.
The little girl was on picnic in
the park with her Sunday school class
and, it is stated, she darted from the
path of one automobile in front of
the one driven by kafka while on
her way to get water. She was given
first aid at Freedmen's Hospital and
taken home. Later she became un-
hospital, operated upon for a frac-
ture of the skull and died. cor
oners jury was summoned to inves-
tigate the death this afternoon.
Three Cyclists Injured.
Two bicycle riders and man
driving a motor cycle were injured in
traffic accidents Yesterday. Frank
William Tolson. colored, fifteen. Alb
61k street southwest, were the BIZ
cycle riders. The former was knock
ed down by an automobile at Column
bla road and 18th street about 5
o'clock in the afternoon, while the
latter'S wheel collided with an auto
mobile at 7th and D streets south
west two hours later. Neither boy
was hurt seriously
Harry Cooley, eighteen. 1905 G
street southeast, was injured when
his motor cycle colIided with an
automobile at South Carolina avenue
and 18th street southeast about 4
o'clock in the afternoon. He was
taken to the Office of DR.. Floyd ".
Atkinson, treated for a fracture of
the right leg and removed to his
home.
Evening star., 1924-06-24
REV. DUDLEY is CHOSEN.
Heads Lords Day Alliance of D. c.
Others Elected.

Rev DR.. George Fiske Dudley was
elected president of the Lords Day
Alliance of the District of Columbia
at an organization meeting held yes
terday at st. Stephens Protestant
Episcopal Church. Other officers chosen
were: Rev. DR.. Charles H. Butler, sec
retary treasurer, and vice presi-
dents: Rev. w. A. Morgan, Rev. D. L.
Blak emore, Rev. H. w. o. Millington.
Rev. G. E. Hawthorne, Mrs. John
Newton Culbertson, Rev. P. W. Cros-
by, Rev. Charles H. Butler, Rev.
George M. Cummings. Mrs. G. c. Nor
ris. Rev. Harry D. Mitchell. Rev. B. H.
Melton, Rev. M. S. Kenworthy, Mrs.
Ellis Logan, Rev. r. D. Winger, Rev.
W. H. Brooks, Rev. c. E. Fultz, Rev.
H. H. Ranck. Rev. w. L. Darby, and
DeetS Pickett.
Addresses were delivered at the
meeting by Rev. DR.. Harry L. Bowl
by general secretary, and Dudley Oil
yer Osterheld, general counsel of the
Lords Day Alliance of the United
States, with headquarters in New
York City.
Evening star., 1924-06-24
LUTHER LEAGUE OPENS
TWO-DAY MEETING HERE
Will Convene in Luther Memorial
Church-Reception, Banquet
and Tour Scheduled.

The third annual convention of the
Luther League of the Maryland
Synod is to be held. beginning to-
night, at the Luther Memorial
Church, 14th and n streets north
west, sessions to continue through to-
morrow evening.
Loyalty to Our Church" is the
convention theme. Vespers at 8
o'clock tonight will open the pro-
ceedings, after which Rev c. P. Mac
Laughlin of Pittsburgh will speak
At the close of the service an in
formal reception will be rendered the
convention under the auspices of the
Washington District Luther League.
open the days sessions, after which
of the local league, will give an ad-
dress of welcome. The response will
be by Virgil w. Doub, vice president
of the Synodical League.
The business session is to begin at
$40 am. tomorrow. The afternoon
meeting will open at l o'clock, with
Rev George S. Bowers of Baltimore
scheduled to talk on the convention
theme.
A Sightseeing tour will be taken at
$3.50 o'clock. AT 6:15 pm. tomorrow
q banquet will be held in the social
rooms of the Church of the Reforma-
tion The last meeting will be at
SIS O'Clock, when the pageant, The
Reply of Youth is to be presented
by the Washington District Luther
League.
Evening star., 1924-06-24
SHIPBUILDERS SUE U. S.
FOR OVERTIME BONUS
New York Workers Ask d. C. Court
to Compel Government to Pay
Them $4,000.

Edwin C. Bennett and sixty other
employees of the Newburgh shipyards
at Newburgh. y. Y, yesterday filed suit
for an Injunction IN the District Su-
preme Court against the United
States Shipping Board Emergency
Fleet Corporation, Andrew w. Mellon,
Secretary of the Trea sury, and Frank
White, treasurer of the United States.
The plaintiffs seek to prevent the
coming into the Treasury on June 30
of 1910, 900 which they say should be
distributed among them for their
share in completing sixteen vessels
for the government at a saving of
$3.50. 900.
The court is told that the men were
advised by the shipyard that they
should share in one-third of the saw
ing on the cost of the vessels. They
worked overtime and made possible
the saving to the government, and
assert they are entitled to share in
the fund.
Evening star., 1924-06-24
AIR MAIL SERVICE
READY FOR OPENING
Will Be First Real Effort to Offer
Aviation as Business Aid.
Says Henderson.
SCHEDULES ARE ANNOUNCED
34-Hour East-West-32.H -FOUR
West-East Is Planned.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Assoclated Press.
CHICAGO. June 24.-Day and nigh
transcontinental air mail services
sch eduled to start July ! will mark
the worlds first comprehensive effort
to present aviation as a business ser
vice, said Col Paul Henderson. second
assistant postmaster general, out
lining plans here.
Next Tuesday at am, Pacific time
one plane will leave San Francisco
and a 10 am. eastern time, another
will leave New York on the 26S0
miles route of the tranScontinental !
air mail. The scheduled time west
bound is thirty-four hours forty-five
minutes and east bound thirty-two
hours five minutes.
More than half the distance will
be illuminated for night flying. Tho
night flight area is divided into three
sections: Cleveland TO Chicago; Chi
cago to Cheyenne and Cheyenne To
Rock Springs, Wyo Only the cente~
summer. AS the days shorten electric
and acetylene gas rays will take the
place of the retreating sun on the
east and west wings, until there will
remain for the daylight hops only the
SierraS in the west and the Allie
ghenies in the east.
The line has been divided into three
postal zones, New York-Chfcaso-
Cheyenne, and Cheyenne-San Fran
cisco with rates of cents per ounce
or fraction for each zone or part
thereof. Letters may be mailed any
where to be forwarded to the nearest
air mail junction point Air mail
postage will suffice even though
correspondence originates and ter
inmates off the air mail line.
Tri-colored red, white and blue lei
ter boxes installed along the route
signify the special service Others
are being installed in important cities
of the route where arrangements have
been made for quick transmission OF
mail to junction points for trans.
fer to airplane
Evening star., 1924-06-24
$22,0OO,000 SAVED
BY NATION IN june
Treasury Reports Huge Slice
Taken From Interest on
U. S. War Debts.
BRITISH PAY $69,00O,0O0
Steady Decline Means Lower Taxes,
Officials Say.

The June fiscal operations Of the
Treasury, while ranking among the
smallest of postwar financial issues.
will have a wider permanent effect in
the way of cuts in fixed expenditures
of the government than most of the
quarterly operations in the last five
years Treasury experts have calculated
that saving of approximately S22,o00,-
900 in annual interest charges will re-
suit from the change in the public debt
situation accomplished in June.
About s15O,000, 900 in new securities
have gone on the market from the Treas
ury this month, but proceeds from these,
with balances on hand and payments in
the second tax installment, will retire
something like s445.000,eo0 in Treasury
notes and tax certificates which matured
June Is. The tax certificates bore per
cent, and the Treasury notes, which
were issued in 1921, carried 5 q per cent
interest. The new certificates pay only
eA per cent interest. the lowest rate of
any government security since the issue
OF Panama Canal bonds. At the same
time the British government made pay
ment of $69.000,0oo. which under the
law, must be used to retire the Amei-
can wartime debt. That payment. there
fore. will cut of S69.000,000 of liberty
honds bearing an average of almost 4
DER cent interest
&5c1 ,OOO,O 900 Paid on.
While the cut in the total debt
brought about by this one operation ap-
pears as a drop in the bucket when con-
sidered alongside the national debt OF
mere than s21 900, 900, 900. Treasury Of
ficiaIs point with satisfaction to the
amount of interest that would have to
be paid, and that means taxes to be
raised, provided there was no reduction
in the debt The Treasury has issued
only $50, 200. 900 in new securities, while
il has retired and destroyed a total of
s521 900. 900 in outstanding debt. -.
TT is this steady biting Off OF the
rreat national debt that means lower
taxes in the future" Treasury official
said. He added that in the last three
Years the Treasury has been able on
every occasion to retire more securities
than It has issued in each fiscal opera
lion. and the great debt, 80 per cent OF
which resulted directly from world war
expenditures, is gradually being Whitfield
down.
Evening star., 1924-06-24
Will STUDY BATTLE
SITES OF CIVIL WAR
Gen. Clem, Judge Goodrich and
Maj. 0'Connor to Consider Pre-
serving Famous Fields.

Mai. Gen. John L. Glenn, United
States Army retired representing
the Northern Army in the civil war.
Judge John T. Goodrich of Fredericks-
burg, Va, representing the Confed-
crate army in the same war, and
Mai. James A. O'Connor, the engineer
officer in charge of the Washington
d. c., engineering district, represent
ing the United States Corps of Engl-
neers, have been appointed members
of a commission, created by Congress
at its latest session, ito inspect the
battlefields in and around the Fred
ericksburg and Spottsylvania Court
house, Va, in order to ascertain the
feasibility of preserving and marx
ing them for historical ana proles-
sioEal military study.
Gen. Glenn, known to fame as the
Drummer Boy of Shiloh" who lives
at 1870 wyoming avenue, this city, is
designated as chairman of the COM
mission. He entered the Union army my,
at the age of twelve, having been
born in Ohio, August 13, 1851, and
having become drummer in Com
pany c, 22nd Michigan Infantry, May
l, 1853 He served oSa as m1siclan 1ss4 ann 1n
December, 1871, Gen. Glenn was made
a second lieutenant, 24th Infantry.
transferred to the Quartermaster
Corps in 1882 and was retired as
Judge John T. Goolrick served as
a Confederate soldier on the battle
fields of Fredericksburg and Spottsyl-
yania. Courthouse and has, since the
war, done a great deal of writing
on the subject. Among his Wrlunes
is the History of Fredericksburg
and there is perhaps no one who has
a more. thorough knowledge OF the
battlefields in question than he.
Mai OConnor is in charge or the
project for increasing the water sup
ply of the District and the projects
for improving the navigation Of the
Potomac and the reclamation OF the
valley of the Anacostia River.
Evening star., 1924-06-24
BAND CONCERTS.

Tonight at $50 o'clock. Mount
Alto Hospital, Wisconsin ave
nue. northwest, by the United
States Navy Band, Charles Ben
ter, director; Miss Gretchen
Hood, soprano.
March, Stars and Stripes For
Overture, Southern Plantation
Songs ......... .Conterno
Humoresque, Gallagher and
Sheehan"- Arranged by Sousa
Through the courtesy of Mr..
John Philip Sousa.)
Two songs for cornet-
ta) Memory Lane" Conrad
(b) waiting for the Dawn
(Bandmaster G. De, Giorgio)
Soprano solos, Selected"
(Miss Gretchen Hood)
Popular
(a) "Limehouse Blues" Brahm
(b) "ChanSonette". Friml
Excerpts from "Buddies,"
Williams
Descriptive, "In a Bird store"
Lake
Waltz, "Old chestnuts"
Arranged by Lake
Popular, selected.
Finale
THE Star Spangled Banner"
At Walter Reed General Hos
pital tonight at $50 O'Clock, by
the United States Marine Band.
William H. Santelmann. leader:
Taylor Branson, second leader.
March, The Standard Bearer"
Overture, 'Di Ballo". Sullivan
Intermezzo, "Pepita" Tobani
Cornet solo, Bride of the
music musician John P. w Wbiten ,Gta1k
Excerpts from The Red Mill"
Herbert
valse Caprice. "Maesmawr,"
rsecond Hungarian Rhapsody"
List
"The Star Spangled Banner"
At the United States Capitol
tomorrow at S pm. by the
United States Marine Band.
William H. Santelmann, leader;
Taylor Branson, second leader.
March, Messenger. Farmhouse
Overture, The Flying Dutch
man wagner
ta) Valse Bluette. .Drigo
(b) 1ntermezzo, "Cinderella's
Wedding Procession"
Saxaphone solo, "Tyrolienne
Musician ssis1 Frank wiblitzhouser. nu1!
Grand scenes from "Pagliacci,"
Leoncavallo
Waltz. Gold and Silver" Lehar
Torchlight Dance No: l,
THE Star spangled Banner"
By the United States Soldiers
Home Band, bandstand, tomor-
row evening at 5:45 o'clock,
John S. NJ. Zimmerman, band
master.
March, Our Governor"
Zimmerman.
Overture. "Frolic of the Fairies.
Bigge
Morceau, Love in Idleness."
Fantasia, Songs of Scotland"
Fox trot. Mr.. Radio Man"
valse intermezzo, "Fascina-
Finale, 1n1a "oh, Babyi" Donaldson ;Ssey
1.-The Star spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1924-06-24
YOUR BONUS
Questions That Bother You
Will Be Answered in
This Column.
Address: Room 30, News De-
pnrtment, The Evening Star,
Washington, ID. &.

Q. Please tell me to whom and how
should / apply for the bonus. My
boy was killed in France while Serv
ing in the 23d Infantry, 2d Division
He entered the service in December
1917, and was killed in July, 1918. |
am a dependent, being his widowed
mother. / have been subscriber of
The Star for over fifty years-Mrs.
e r. O'C.
A. Secure an application blank
(they are available at the post office,
the American Legion or The Starr
and. after filling it out, send it to the
War Department. You are entitled
to about 1915, payable in ten cash in
stallments, beginning on March /,
1925.
@. My son entered the Navy when
he was seventeen years old. He
served on the Nevada during the war
as gun captain. After the end of
the war he re-enlisted and was sent
to Siberia on the U. S. S. Dakota,
where he died with the influenza
February 27, 1920. Will be entitled
to bonus under this new law?-Mrs.
+. r. c.
A. You did not state the date of
your sons enlistment, but from the
information contained in your letter
he must have enlisted early in the
war and served to the end of the
emergency, so L DelleNe ne "oulu
have been entitled to the maximum
benefits. Therefore you are entitled
to receive the maximum adjusted
service credit, or $625. This sum will
be paid to you, if your application is
allowed, in ten quarterly cash in
stallments of s6250, beginning March
1, 1925.
Q. Question seven of the applica-
tion blank has confused me. Will
you please help me out? Question
seven reads, Service in organiza-
tionS, at stations or on vessels in the
order named from - TO - /
was on detached service several
times and in three hospitals, both on
this and the other side. l was not
with any regiment or any other unit.
How should l answer this question?
Do 1 have to give the name of the
boats / sailed on?-H. Y. w.
A. If you were on detached service
give the name of the camp or city in
which you were stationed, together
with date of arrival and departure.
Approximate if you cannot remember
actual dates. Unless you were in the
Marine Corps it is not necessary to
mention the boats upon which you
sailed. Since you were going over
seas for service ashore, the name of
the boat is immaterial. Be sure,
though, to give the actual date of
sailing for France and the actual
date you disembarked. -s-
Evening star., 1924-06-24
MENTAL TESTS PROBED.
Lasalle Method Taken Up by Mid.
City Citizens.

Meeting for the last time this sea-
son in the Thomson School last night,
the Mid-Cty Citizens Association
adopted a resolution to have the ques-
tion OF the so-called Lasalle mental
tests for school children referred to
the executive committee for it's con-
sideration and with power to act and
express the sentiment of the associa-
tion toward the tests. This action
followed the submission of a report
on the tests by the school committee,
Mrs. S. F. Sparks, chairman
Another resolution was adopted to
refer the matter of a more adequate
playground for the Thomson School
to the executive committee. Alleged
placing of wrong street numbers near
the corner of 14th and N streets was
referred to the committee on streets
and alleys for investigation. ]. c.
Buchanan, vice president, presided.
The association will convene in regu-
lar meeting again next September.
Evening star., 1924-06-24
REILLY HEADS ALUMNI.
Business High School Association
Elects Him President.

Business High School Alumni Asso-
citation elected John Reilly its presi-
dent for the next scholastic year at
the annual meeting last night, in the
school auditorium. Other officers
chosen are: Henry Schweinhart, first
vice PRESIDENT; Marguerite McDon-
,ough, second vice president; Leroy
Mann, third vice president; Marine
Collins, secretary. and Jerome kauf-
man, treasurer.
OF the eighteen candidates on the
ballot for membership on the execu-
tive committee, the following were
chosen: Mary Sherman, Richard Hart,
Maxwell Stokes, James c. Wilkes,
Doris Schultz, Robert Parsons, Henry
e. Espey and Margaret McCloskey.
Evening star., 1924-06-24
Four Outings Scheduled.

Four organizations will hold out
ings, at Chesapeake Beach tomorrow.
They are Grace Episcopal Church OF
Georgetown, Maryland Avenue Bap-
tist Sunday School, Riverdale Pres
byterian Sunday School and the
Northeast Business Mems Associa-
ton. Fifteen hundred are expected
on the four excursions. Miss S. S.
Wheatley of 1880 Florida avenue
northwest is in charge of arrange
ments for Grace Church; Daniel w.
Worley is chairman of the Riverdale
committee, and DR.. Robert W. Nc
Cullough of S04 n street northeast
has charge Of details of the business
mems outing. Athletic events with
prizes will feature the church out
ingA
Evening star., 1924-06-24
Club to Visit Members Home

Members Of the Cosmopolitan Club.
their wives and friends will hold the
hrst of series of summer nights"
tonight at the home of Michael Heis-
ter, member of the club.
An entertainment program has
been arranged by DR.. ]. Rozier Biges.
chairman of the entertainment com
mlttee, and Bertram G.. Lennon, Ra
phael Semmes, Milton Hopfenmaier
Joe Fisher and Anthony A. Auth.
Dancing is also scheduled after the
entertainment. A buffet supper will
be served by Rauscher's. The usual
weekly luncheon will take place on
Thursday at the Franklin Square
Hotel
Evening star., 1924-06-24
Bishop Fiske Steadily Gaining.

BALTIMORE, Md, June 24.-Bishop
Charles Fiske of Utica, N. Y. had
very good night and was resting 8
comfortably" the superintendent o.
the hospital where the EpiscoPaI
prelate is i'll of pneumonia said TINS
morning. His temperature at 8
O'Clock was ss7, pulse 100 and res
piration, 49, The bishop has been
slowly but steadily gaining for the
last five or six days.
Evening star., 1924-06-24
PLAN ROCHAMBEAU HONOR
S. A. r. to Place Wreath on
Statue Here July i.

The 199th anniversary of the birth
of Cornte de Rochambeau will be COM
memorated by the Sons of the American
Revolution in the District of Colum-
bia, Tuesday, July l. A select COM
mittee will place a wreath on the
statue of Rochambeau in Lafayette
Park at that time The committee is
composed of Clarence A. Aspinwall,
chairman; Edward w. Dom, jr.; Col.
Charles L. Frailey, David B. karrick,
James L. Karrick, jr.; Richard w.
Hynson and Benjamin DEM Miller.
Accompanying the committee will be
Brig. Gen. George Richards, presi-
dent of the society, and Rev. DR..
Walden Myer.
Evening star., 1924-06-24
Yale President Recovering.

BALTIMORE. Nd, June 24.-Re-
ports this morning from the bedside
of President James Rowland Angel
of Yale University, who underwent
an operation last Friday, were very
optimistic. His progress toward re-
covery has been uninterrupted, and
he was declared to be doing finely;
couldn't b bsttsE0
Evening star., 1924-06-24
Benefit Ball Game July 26.

Arrangements are being made for
the annual double-header base ball
game to be held at the American
League Park July 26 for the benefit
of the Catholic Community House.
The teams to participate will be the
Knickerbockers VS.. Dominican Ly-
ceum and the Mohawks VS., the Pet
worthS.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-06-06
Weatherhead Leaves
State for Portland
Newspaper Position

Helena, May 26-George Weather
head. one of the best known of the
Montana newspaper men, has left
Helena for Portland, Ore, where he
will take position on The Telegram.
Mr. Weatherhead has been engaged
in the newspaper game in Montana
for the past 10 years, coming first in
to the PlentywOod section in 1914. He
established the Plentywood Pioneer
Press in 1916 and sold it in 1918 when
he removed to Great Falls and served
as telegraph editor on the Great Falls
Tribune for about Is months.
Since that time he has been en-
ployed, mostly as a news writer, on
the Anaconda Standard, Butte Miner,
Butte Post, Billings Gazette and Mon
tana RecOrd-Herald. For about a year
and half he has been connected with
the. latter newspaper in the capacity
of state house reporter and political
writer.
Accompanied by Mrs. Weatharhead
he is making the trip by automobile
to Portland, in which city one of
their daughters makes her home.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-06-06
America MarvelS
NATURAL AND OTHERWISE
By T. T. Maxey
CHICAGO DRAINAGE CANAL

The Chicago Drainage Canal ranks
well to the fore among the great en-
cheering feats of modern times.
The purpose Of it's construction was
twOfOld. Primarily to purify ChicagO's
supply of drinking water, which is OBJ
tanned from Lake Michigan, by revers-
ing the flow of the Chicago river so
that the sewage from the city, instead
of being dumped into the lake, would
be carried off into the Des PLANES riv-
er which in turn empties into the nli-
nOis river, Ultimately, to provide a
ship canal from Lake Michigan to the
Gulf Of Mexico.
Commenced in September, 1892, and
formally opened in January, 1900, this
sO-called canal is approximately forty
miles in length, has a minimum depth
of twenty-five feet, varies in width
from 16O to 300 feet at the top, and has
capacity Of about 100000 cubic feet
of water per minute.
-Four major operations were In
vOlved in this huge task First, the
Chicago river had to be both widened
and deepened for more than five miles
next the digging Of a canal for twenty.
eight miles; then the river had to be
diverted from the old to the new chan
mel and finally the building Of a tail
race and new channel for seven
miles.
Grave fears were entertained by
many that the cities past which this
diverted sewage must flow and which
obtained their supplies of drinking wa
ter from this stream would be visited
by an epidemic of water-bOrne diseases,
particularly typhoid Again the ques-
ton as to whether the taking of suf-
fcient water from Lake Michigan to
flush the canal would adversely affect
the interests of the states and cities
bordering on the lake, through the low.
ering of the surface Of the water III
the lake, and in turn interfere with
the navigable capacity Of the rivers
which flow into the lake, was long and
seriously discussed.
But scientific examination and inves-
tgation failed to substantiate the
threatened dangers from disease; the
imagined damage to the navigation In
terests Of the Lake Michigan region
failed to materialize.
That Chicago has benefited immeas-
urably from a sanitary standpoint
there is not the question Of a doubt,
according to the reports of the health
department. When the locks In the
Des PLANES and Illinois rivers. which
connect the canal with the MAssissipDi
river are increased in size and the
fixed bridges which span the canal in
the Chicago zone are transformed to
swinging or lift bridges, it is expected
that barges and light draft river craft
Will move in large numbers from Chi.
cago, through this man-made channel
to New Orleans.
90, 1929 Western Newspaper Union.l