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Evening star., 1924-09-03
TWO SLIGHTLY HURT
IN AUTO ACCIDENTS
Woman, %, and Man, sc, Knocked
Down by Machines in 4
Capital Streets. 4

Several persons were slightly IN
jurcd and a number of automobiles
damaged in traffic accidents which
occurred overnight. Two pedestrians
were taken to hospitals after being
knocked down, but both were able
to go to their homes later.
Mrs. William Stilling, % years old,
Of 1897 Church street. was struck
and Knocked down by an automobile
said by the police to have been
operated by Roy r. Critchfield of
Clarendon, Va. which he was driv-
ing on NJ street at Connecticut avenue
late last night Critchfield hurried
her to Emergency Hospital, where
she was treated for shock and slight
bruises.
Thomas W. Mudd, Sc years old, OF
1102 Eighth street southeast. was
knocked down by an automobile
operated by Christopher c. Brooks
of 1914 T street. while the latter was
driving on New Jersey avenue near
K street late yesterday afternoon.
Brooks carried Mudd to Sibley Hospi-
tai. where it was found he had re-
ceived bruises about the face and
head.
Persons cut or bruised in several
other slight collisions refused hospi-
tai treatment, police reported.
Evening star., 1924-09-03
D. c. OWNERSHIP
Of LAND PR0BED
Fire Brings Up Question of
Jurisdiction Over Alex
andria Shipyard.

AS the result Of developments at
a recent fire on the Alexandria water
front, Commissioner Rudolph has di-
rected District Assessor Richards
and Fire Chief Watson to ascertain
whether the land occupied by the
Virginia Shipbuilding Corporation at
Alexandria is technically a part of
the District of Columbia.
At the office of Maj. OConnor, War
Department engineer for this district
1t was stated today that the ship
yard is filled ground and regarded
as Federal Government property.
The question of whether the Dis
trict has any jurisdiction over it was
brought to the attention of Commits
sioner Rudolph by Fire Chief Watson
who said today he was told at the
time of the recent fire that that por-
ton of the Alexandria waterfront
was in the District of Columbia.
The chief said today that he was
whether he would have to regard
the shipyard as part of the Distric,
in future.
On August ., the steamer Dell
brook caught fire and in response to
call for aid Chief Watson sent the
fire boat to the scene at O'Clock
in the morning. The chief states
that after the fire boat had been a,
work on the blaze for Is hours Lieut.
George w. Wells, in charge, was
ready to return to Washington Ac.
cording TO Watson. an official of the
company that is salvaging the shir
requested that the fire boat remain
until the fire was completely out
expressing the belief that the ship.
yard was District territory
Chief Watson left the fire boat or
the scene as precaution, but he
said he thought he should refer the
question to the Commissioners to de-
termine definitely whether the Dis.
trict has any responsibility over the
land.
Evening star., 1924-09-03
BONUS WORK NEEDS
400 MORE ON ROLL
Applications Pouring Into
War and Navy Depart
ments from Veterans.

approximately 400 stenographers,
typfsts and clerical workers will be
needed by the War and Navy Depart
ments before the end of September to
keep their forces up to peak and en-
able them to keep pace with the
steadily increasing number of appli-
cations for the soldiers bonus, it was
learned today. The War Department
section of the adjusted compensate ton
unit, headed by Adjt Cen. Robert c.
Davis. will need about 800 employees
to fill vacancies caused by resigna- =
tions and lapsing of temporary ap-
pointments. while the Navy section
will need about 100 employees
Thousands of applications are pour
ing into the War and Navy Depart
ments daily for adjusted service COM
pensation certificates. These appli-
cations are being checked up and
then certified to the Veterans. Bureau
for final issue of the certificates.
Seven thousand certified applications.
the first batch issued, were sent by
the Veterans Bureau yesterday, and
will be followed from day to day by
thousands more. The Navy Depart
ment will send to the Veterans Bu-
reau its first batch of certifications on
September Is.
Get 10000 Applications.
The War Department to date has
received more than a million applica-
tions for certificates, with more coming
in every day. The highest day $4,000
came in, while on other days not more
than a few thousand have been re-
ceived. At the Navy Department nearly
100000 applications have been received
for checking.
Employees appointed to the temporary
posts offered by the bonus work must
have passed civil service examination
at some time during the past five
years. Civil service rules for employ
ment of stenographers have been sus.
pended temporarily in SO far as they
apply to the bonus work. but the posi-.
tions are only temporary. Neverthe'
less, the opportunities for employment
according to- officials, are expected to
absorb much of the surplus clerical
help in Washington.
Evening star., 1924-09-03
SOLUTION REMOTE
IN POLICE KILLING
Detectives on Hunt for Leisinger
Slayers Report No Appre-
ciable Headway.

Four headquarters detectives. spe-
cially assigned to run down every
possible clue that might lead to the
identity of the murderers of Policeman
Raymond c. Leisinger, shot to death
last week while trying to halt a sus-
pected bootleggers' automobile, have
failed so far to make any appreciable
headway, it was stated today by In
spector Clifford l.. Grant, chief of
detectives.
Nine colored suspects still are be-
ing held by the police. Mary Nelson,
the girl in the pink Dress" who was
arrested recently in Alexandria in
connection with the investigation,
was ordered released today by In
spector Grant. When arrested she
wore a pink dress, similar to that
worn by colored woman seen in the
murder car as it fled.
No additional arrests have been
made lately, the inspector declared.
Evening star., 1924-09-03
d HELD FOR ASSAULT.
Colored Woman's Charge Lands
Quartet in Jail.

Three white men are being held
for investigation at No. 4 precinct in
connection with an alleged criminal
assault committed on Alice Scellers,
colored, 36 years, of 106S Thirtieth
street, after she had been taken into
a sedan occupied by the men, while
she was at Seventh street and Virginia
avenue southwest last night.
The men gave their names and ad-
dresses as follows: Thomas d. Collins,
81, of 499 H street southwest. Daniel
J. Curtin, 20, of GIG H street south
west; Milton Guthridge, 20, of 612
Seventh street southwest.
They were arrested by police of the
fourth precinct, who waited at the
hiring agency listed as owners of the
car from the license numbers taken
by pasSerSby.
Evening star., 1924-09-03
RECEIVER is DOUBTFUL.
Court May Not Appoint Man a
Teapot Dome.

CHEYENNE, Wyo., September g.
Federal Judge T. Blake Kennedy de-
clared this morning that he may not
appoint receiver for Teapot Dome
to replace Rear Admiral Joseph
Strauss, resigned, even though appli-
cations may be handed him for a new
appointment. This action, he de-
clared, was in view of the fact that
the Bureau of Mines is on the ground
at Teapot Dome and is competent to
handle the Governments interest in
the receivership.
Evening star., 1924-09-03
THREE HELD IN RAID.
Young Woman and Two Men Al
cused on Statutory Charges.

A raid last night on a double apart
mont over a, store at. 1742 l. street by
members Of the vice squad resulted in
the arrest of a young woman and two
men on statutory charges.
Arthur Simos, also known as Louis
Browny, 25 years old. charged with
conducting q disorderly house, was re-
leased today on $500 bond to await a
jury trial. The girl. who gave her
name as Mary Henrietta Steward, %.
of the L street apartment, is being held
at the House of Detention on a statu-
tory charge. The other young man,
who said he was Clement Bell Young,
no address given. was released on bond
on similar charge.
Evening star., 1924-09-03
MAN HELD IN KILLING.
Percy Short to Face Grand Jury ir
Death Case.

Percy Short was held for the grand
jury by a coroner's jury yesterday
afternoon on a charge of having
fatally assaulted Richard Chase on
August 81, during a fight near First
and M streets southwest. Chase died
at Emergency Hospital three days
later from cerebral hemorrhage and
shock.
A coroners jury also investigated
the death on Labor day of Leonard
Gray, who was struck by a taxicab
operated by w. f. Murphy on Nichols
avenue near Sheridan road southeast.
A verdict of accidental death was
rendered.
Evening star., 1924-09-03
Woman Hurt in Fight.

Ella Hackley. colored, 80, of :1765
Oregon avenue, received a fracture of
the skull last midnight during fight
with Osie Sterns, also colored, 35. of
.175S Oregon avenue, at kalorama
road and Champlain street. Police
say that Sterns threw a stone at the
woman. Ella was taken home by
friends and later was removed to
Gallinger Hospital Her condition is
serious Stsrns, It is. understood. will
n taken into custody.
Evening star., 1924-09-03
MISSION MEETING OPENS.
Colored Society Convenes in Second
Baptist.

Devotional and song service led by
Rev. DR.. o. j. Allen, colured, pastor
of First Calvary Baptist Church, Nor
folk, Va, featured the opening ses-
sion of the seventh annual conven-
tion of the Scott Carey Baptist For
eign Mission Society ,(colored) of the
United States of America, in the Sec
ond Baptist Church on Third street
between H and ! streets, today.
Addresses were also delivered as
follows: On behalf of the General
Baptist convention of the District of
Columbia, DR.. w. II. Jernagin; on be-
half of the Baptist ministers confer
ence, DR.. NJ. w. d. Norman; on behalf
of the denominations, Bishop Z. W.
Jones' on behalf of the church, the
pastor, and response by DR.. +. W.
Jefferson.
Evening star., 1924-09-03
SHERIFF AND DEPUTY
AT HERRIN ACCUSED
By the Associated Press.

HERRIN. ILL.,, September 3.-Sheriff
George Galligan and his deputy, Ora
Thomas, were charged with having
fired the first shots in the encounter
last Saturday between his force and
a group of ku klux klansmen in the
early testimony given today at the in
quest held into the deaths of six men
slain in front of the Smith garage.
Dave Sisk, an employe of the garage.
testified that the sheriff and his
deputy fired the shots that killed
Chester Reed, who has been generally
described as a bystander.
Sisk also testified that he saw
Thomas holding Green Dunning, one
of the three k1ansmen slain, and tina t
this was just moment before Dun
ming dropped from several bullet
wounds. He added, however, that he
did not actually see the shooting of
Dunning. and that he could not say
who fired the fatal shots at him.
Evening star., 1924-09-03
Mans Pocket Picked.

while NJ c. Richards Of 3349 Nichols
avenue southeast was sitting on a
bench inside Union Station this morn
ing, engrossed in watching the
scurrying travellers. somebody reached
into his pocket and removed a bill
fold containing $92. he informed the
police. Richards suspects a pair. of
white men who sat near him and he
claims he can identify them it they
are apprehended.
Evening star., 1924-09-03
PRESIDENT NOT MEMBER
OF KLAN, SLEMP SAYS
Tells Editor Coolidge Is Not in
Sympathy With Order in
Reply to Letter.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 3.-Presi-
dent Coolidge is not a member of the
ku kluX Khan, and is not in sympa-
thy with the organization. his secre-
tary. c. Bascom Slemp, stated in a
letter written to Joseph Branin. edi-
tor of a newspaper syndicate, and
made public today by Mr.. Branin.
The letter from Mr.. Slemp was in
answer to one by Mr.. Branin.
Concerning the ku kluN klaR,'
wrote the secretary. the Presiden,
has repeatedly stated that he is not
member of the order and is not in
sympathy with its aims and pur-
poses"
Evening star., 1924-09-03
Free Factory Site Offered Ford.

WARSAW, September 3.-The mu-
nicipal council of Bydgoszcz (Brom-
borg) in Polish Pomerania has sent a
message to Henry Ford Offering to
give him a large factory site in the
suburbs of the city should he decide
to establish an eastern European fac
tory and distribution center there.
As has been reported.
Evening star., 1924-09-03
QUAKE IN sMINDANA0.
Much Damage Caused on Coast of
Island.
BY the Associated Press.

MANILA, September 3. - Strong
earthquake shocks caused much dam
age along the eastern coast of Min
danao on Saturday, according to ad-
vices received by the Weather Bureau
here. No loss of life has been re-
ported. Great cracks appeared in the
earth near the town of Panpalan. The
telegraph lines were broken in many
places by, falling trees. It IL believed
the earthquake centered In the
Philippine deep, Pacific Ocean,
Evening star., 1924-09-03
BALTIMORE PLANS
10000 IN PARADE
Holy Name Officials Make
7: Provision for MaryIanders
in March Here.

7. J. Haltigan, archdiocesan presi-
dent. and Very Rev. NJ. j. Ripple,
o. p. national supreme director of
the Holy Name, attended q conference
of 400 representatives from 6S of the
Baltimore and nearby parishes in
western Maryland, in st. Johns Hall,
Valley and Eager streets, Baltimore,
last night. Representatives also were
present from Annapolis, Westminster
and Tayneytown.
The Baltimore contingent has di-
vided their representation into II
sections and pledges to have fully
10000 men marching in the Holy
Name parade here, Sunday, Septem-
Der 21 i
Special provision is being made by
the railroads out of Baltimore to
carry the families of the marcherS on
earlier trains on the morning of the
parade.
There never has been anything in
connection with Holy Name matters
in the archdiocese that has aroused so
much enthusiasm and interest as the
Washington celebration said Mr..
Haltigan today.
At the conference last night each
parish reported on the official dele
gates who will sit in the business
sessions of the convention here, ire
spective of the number of Holy Name
members who will participate in the
parade. Each parish reported from
one to three delegates.
ArchbishOp Is Host.
Archbishop Curley. who is director
of the Holy Name Society in the arch
diocese and president of the Catholic
University, is the official host of the
convention. To be sure to be here
for those duties the Archbishop is re-
turning from Europe on Friday, when
progress of the convention details
Bishop John J. Dunn. auxiliary
bishop of New York and spiritual di-
rector of the archdiocesan union of
Holy Name societies, is leaving Rome
this week so as to be on hand to head
the monster New York delegation In
the parade. ..---
The comittees on stands. guests and
finance met in the Holy Name con
vention headquarters. 1914 Massa.
chusetts avenue, last night. The
finance committee reported that
funds are coming in slowly. The
stands committee reported that all
matters In connection with the re-
viewing stand and for the religious
exercises are fully under way.
The guests committee will send out
engraved invitations to the special
guests this week.
ColOred Members Prepare.
The colored Holy Name societies
throughout the District are makine
plans to entertain their fellow Holy
Name men who will come here tc
take part in the parade and rally
William J. Smith, president of the
Holy Name Guild, a coloreG organiza.
ton, is arranging to have q dinner
served to the colored marchers in the
basement of St Augustine's Church
Word was received at the campaign
headquarters today that campaign
is in progress in Columbus, Ohio, tc
muster a sufficient number Of Holy
Name marchers for a special traiI
from that diocese. Special rates fol
the trip have been secured.
Evening star., 1924-09-03
APgenttn0.

Argentina.
For week ending Monday, September 2, 1924
Mean Depart. Avg Depart
.a tempera- from pre- from
1.ay,Gs.s tuEe. normaL, eip. norm.
wheat areA 90 RI 90
Southern wheat areA< so O =l3
Evening star., 1924-09-03
FOREIGN.

Is am, Greenwich time, today.)
,tious. Temperature. Weather
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-01-03
FIFTY BIG NEWS STORIES
DURING THE LAST YEAR

20. One thousand killed In
earthquake in Persia.
June
IS. Ii Yuan-Hung, president Of
Chinese republic, is captured by
troops on order of Wang Chen
Ping, governor of Chilli province.
IS. Former Premier Stambouli-
sky of Bulgaria killed while try
ing to escape from troops of new
government.
IS. Mt. Etna, in Sicily, erupts
and endangers five villages, caus.
ing 10000 inhabitants to flee.
%. Leviathan averages 2S.04
knots an hour on trial trip,
breaking worlds record for pas
senger i'ners.
July
"a Turks and allies sign peace
treaty at Lausanne. Turkey gets
back Constantinople; exchange of
population ordered between
Greece and vice-versa.
August
2. President Harding dies.
8. Vice President Calvin Cool
idge takes oath of office as presi-
dent.
"a. Air mail plane spans Unit
ed States in &c hours and IA
minutes.
81. United States and Mexico
resume diplomatic relations.
Italian fleet bombards Corfu,
killing Is Greek civilians; Greece
invokes intervention of League
of Nations.
September
/. Earthquake, fire and tidal
wave take toll OF more than a
million killed and injured in 70
kohama and Toxic. Disaster
said to be greatest in modern
history.
8. Seven United States de-
stroyers wrecked on California
coast; twenty-five, sailors miss
ing.
10. Fifty persons killed in
earthquake in Calcutta. India.
October
20. Bavarian government
breaks with Berlin; takes charge
of 1900 federal troops garrison
ed in Bavaria.
26. Charles P. Steinmetz, IA
nous electrical engineer, dies.
80. National assembly at An
CORA votes establishment OF
Turkish republic; Mustapha
Kemal Pasha elected president.
so. Andrew Bonar Law, for.
mer premier of England, dies.
November
4. Lieutenant A. N. William
son, United States navy, breaks
speed record for airplanes, traV.
cling 266.5S miles an hour.
8. Bavarian monarchist out
break crushed; General Luden'
dorff arrested.
IS. Premier Poincare an
nounces France will not evacu-
ate Ruhr until Germany has eX-
ecuted every clause in Yer.
sailles treaty.
%. Chancellor Stresemann's
ministry falls when German
reichstag refuses vote Of conf
dence.
%. DR.. Heinrich Albert ac-
cepts chancellorship of Ger
many.
December
2. Three villages destroyed
and GOO persons drowned in flood
caused by collapse OF dixie guard
ing elena lake in Italy.
8. Vera Cruz capital captured
by Mexican revolutionists.
16. Rev. DR.. Leighton Parks,
Episcopal rector. of New York,
flouts virgin birth doctrine and
/reopens war between modernists
and fundamentals in Episco-
pal church.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-01-03
y. S. Experts Perfect
New Monster Gun
For Army Artillery

WASHINGTON. Dec. 29.-Army
ordnance experts have developed
what they believe to be the heaviest
and most powerful gun of its type
in the world.
The new weapon is of the 14-inch,
o0-calber type and is postwar de.
Velopment. 1t is capable of hurting
an armor-piercing projectile of 1860
pounds for a distance of twenty-three
miles and can be mounted on wheel.
ed carriages and drawn along rail.
road tracks.
An electrical apparatus is provid.
ed to lower the gun into position for
passage through railroad tunnels
and elevating it to firing position,
The total weight of gun and carriage
is 100000 pounds.
One feature of the monster weapon
is its ability to fire either from its
carriage upon the tracks or when
rolled to concrete implacement.
For this purpose, wheeled supports
are provided which can be removed
within thirty minutes.
Because of the great weight of the
gun, war department officials be-
lieve some railroad bridges may not
be sufficiently strong to carry it
across, and department officials have
opened communication with railroad
companies in effect TO have stronger
bridges built in the future.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-01-03
By JGSEPHUS DANIELS
Secretary of the Navy in Wilson's
Cahinetl

RALEIGH, n. c., Dec. 29.-The
W-makers in congress didn't do
anything the first month of the SEES
sion but play for position. Then
they adjourned for the holidays. The
people too kstock to see what had
beet done. And here is the net re
suit and the position of government
and politics as the presidential year,
begins:
Leaders in botl parties are try
ing to find a chemical substance
that will make Oil and water mix,
Or at least to stay together N the
same bottle until the November elec-
tons. The same thing was attempt
ed in the early days of 1912. The
manipulators and prestidigitators
tried the shuffling then. 1t did
not succeed. Will it work in 1924?
When congress assembled, in view
of the disturbed conditions and the
need for action, the thing that would
have suited the country would have
been to have found the common de-
nominator of politics. Instead OF
trying to do that, the whole ma
neuVering was to try to prevent
common elements coming together.
For example, in the senate, instead
of Lodge and Bruce, who think alike
on the Esch-Cummins act, trying to
sleep in the same bed, every re-
source was employed to construct
bed that would hold Henry Cabot
Lodge and Magnus Johnson.
Not Happy BedfeIlows
Carpenters were brought in with
Curtis, of Kansas, bossing the job
10 > l,O 70 l-a o.
enough for the MinnesOtan. Then it
was so big Lodge got lost in the
springs. Then they shortened it and
the legs of Mangus hung out over
the footboard. 1T is too wide, said
Lodge. cit isn't wide enough said
Magnus. Finally, when it was be
lieved they were safely tucked in
Lodge protested that Magnus snored
like a threshing machine and Mag
nus objected that Lodge Wheezed
like an engine drawing money with
| the Esch-Cummins guarantee hose
The only hope for Cummins was to
keep them in bed together. 1t al
most disturbed the Christmas fes-
tivities this attempt to make bed
| fellows who have II ing in COM
mon.
Now the Se0S4pi6 lullS 20 nave
| done would have been TO get to-
| eether all the senators who think
| alike on the Esch-Cummins and
| other issues and have a real show
| down. 1t means sacrifice for the
| western progressives elected as Re
| pubIicans to stay in the same party
with Lodge, Brandegee and Wads
worth. They cannot walk together
| because neither. in convictions nor
! temperament are they alike.
| A smiling young lady of Niger
| Went for a ride on {, tiger,
| They returned from the ride, the
lady inside.
And the smile on the face OF the
! tiger.
These lines tell the story Of what
| will happen if the two elements, as
wide apart as possible, insist upon
| remaining together. One or the
| other must be swallowed. Already
| standpatters. swearing they will
| ne'er consent. will make any conces-
| sion that does not take away actual
| power fromo the big interests they
represent. But there they take their
| firm stand.
One thing Is certain; N stand.