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Evening star., 1925-07-09
MOTORS KILL TWO
At SAME CORNER
Accidents at Porter Street
and Connecticut Avenue
Prove Fatal.

Traftic-congested Connecticut ave.
nue. claimed two more lives yesterday
in two accidents, both of which oc
CURED within three hourse of each
other at the same intersection, not far
from the scene of the triple tragedy
of klingle Bridge several weeks ago
Yesterdays victims were Julian
Pretzfelder, 90, Of Seattle, Wash, a
guest at the Raleigh Hotel and Mrs
Alice Moore, 54. Veterans Bureau
employe, of 1924 Porter street.
Pretzfelder Died Today.
Pretzfelder died early today from
injuries received yesterday afternoon
when the automobile driven by vii
liam H. Mcclure of 901 Pennsylvania
avenue crashed into a street car al
Connecticut avenue and Porter street,
Mrs. Moore was killed almost instantly
at the same corner about 3 O'Clock
yesterday afternoon, when she was
crushed beneath the wheels of a
heavy truck driven by William Davis
colored employe Of the District gov.
ernment.
Inquests into both deaths will be
held at the morgue this afternoon
Coroner j. Ramsay hewitt announced
On the decision of the coroner's jury
will rest the absolution or holding OF
Traction Co. and Davis. The latter
was arrested and lodged in cell
pending the outcome of the inquest
Pretzfelder received q fracture OF
the skull when he was thrown to the
roadway as McClure's car skidded
into the street car on the rain-soaked
street after yesterdays shower. Nc
Clure was injured, but not seriously
According to witnesses, Mcclure was
attempting to pass another auto
mobile when his tires slipped on the
wet surface and careened toward the
southbound car diagonally into the
path of northbound street car. Both
men were taken TO Emergency Hos
pital. Mcclure was treated for cuts
and bruises. Pretzfelder did not re.
gain consciousness before death.
Was Alighting From Car.
Mrs. Moore, police say, had just
alighted from a street car, and was
starting to cross Porter street en- route
to her home nearby when the truck
turned from the avenue into the side
street and knocked her down 1t is
said the truck was proceeding at a
speed of not more than Is miles an
hour at the time.
Mrs. Moore is reported to have
lodged another car just before being
run down. The front wheels of the
truck passed over her body before the
machine could be stopped. The woman
was carried TO the fire engine house
nearby. where an Emergency Hos
pital physician pronounced her dead
She is survived by a daughter, Miss
Margaret Moore, who also is employed
at the Veterans Bureau.
Evening star., 1925-07-09
MOTHER AND CHILD
BRUTALLY KILLED
Heads Crushed and Threats Cut
With Saw-Like Instrument in
Tenement House.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. July 9.-Mrs Mar
garet Dianco and her 6-year-old daugh-
ter Jennie We're found murdered to-
day in their apartment in an East
Thirty-fourth street tenement house.
Their heads had been crushed in and
their throats slashed.
Police said that the murderer of
the woman and her child used a saw.
like instrument, which almost severed
their heads. The childs body was
found at the Threshold of the apart
ment, indicating that she had attempt
ed to escape her assailant.
The bodies were found by a man
who said he was looking for a fur
niShed room.
Evening star., 1925-07-09
Exchange Expels Kohloss.

NEW YORK, July Cp.-Robert
A Kohloss, jr.. member of the
brokerage firm of Joslin & Kohloss o1
Springfield. Mass, was expelled from
the New York Stock Exchange today
He was accused of having made mis-
statement to the business conduct
committee of the exchange in relation
In it's periodical QUESTIONABLE.
Evening star., 1925-07-09
BOYS KILLED BY CAVE-lN,
Roof of Cavern Gives Way, Bury
ing Two Lads Inside.

SOUTH RIVER, N. J., July GP.-
Chester Byonin, IL, and Alfonso Kos
cinkwicz, IL, were suffocated yester-
day when the roof of A cave in which
they We're undressing to go swimming
gave way Companions found their
bodies early last night.
Evening star., 1925-07-09
HdrUest Workers
On Seized Train
Quelled by Posse
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
LAMAR, Colo, July 9.-Armed
with revolvers and clubs, about 80
harvest field workers boarded
Santa Fe freight train east of
Syracuse, Kan, yesterday and
subdued the crew with little diff
Guilty, ordering the engineer to
speed up"
AS the train passed through
Syracuse the conductor dropped a
note asking police at Lamar III
meet the train. A hastily organ
lied posse surrounded the freight
as it slowed down here and began
firing over the heads of the harvest
workers. Sixteen We're captured
and there We're no casualties.
On sighting the posse some Of
the harvest hands dropped from
the train and showed fight, but
when the posse started shooting
they scattered.
Evening star., 1925-07-09
Policemen Seeking
Stolen Watch Dog
Find SeIUes Robbed
BY the Associated Press.

SAN PEDRO, Calf. July .
The automobile of Mrs. l.. +. Ban
tier, parked in the shopping dis
trict here yesterday, had no lock
on ii. so she chained her German
police dog TO the car to guard it.
When she returned a half hour
later the car was still there. but
the dog had been stolen.
She telephoned police, and Detec-
tive Lieut.. q. W. Beeson motored
out to look for clues. AS he stepped
from his ear he noticed the spare
wheel had been stolen. He went to
the telephone to turn this new de-
velopment over to Patrolman Ben
Hoskins to handle. The latter was
off duty at the time, and in getting
out of bed to answer the call found
that his clothes had been stolen.
Evening star., 1925-07-09
WASP CAUSES FATAL HIT.
Stings Driver, Crash Follows-one
Dead. Two Hurt.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex, July 9
(FO.-The sting of a wasp caused an
automobile collision on the San An
tonio-Corpus Christi highway near
here last night, resulting in the death
III John II. Wicker of San Antonio
and injury to two children.
The wasp stung Buster Coffman of
Corpus Christi on the face, causing
him to lose control of his automobile,
which plunged into a motor bus in
which Wicker was a passenger. The
two injured children were in the bus.
Evening star., 1925-07-09
WELCOME CLOUDS
HALT HEAT WAVE
Mercury DeScends, With
Cooler Weather Promised
for Tomorrow.

Old Sol hid his face behind a screen
of clouds today, bringing relief to
Washington and this vicinity. AT
noon the mercury had succeeded in
climbing only to II degrees.
The Weather Bureau predicted the
thermometer would not register in the
COS today, or perhaps tomorrow, but
permanent relief from the heat and
humidity can not be expected for
several days.
Cooler weather is en- route on the
wings of a thunderstorm which is now
causing disturbances in Ontario and
to some extent in mid Western States.
1t will arrive here by Saturday,
barring unforeseen elemental upsets.
Overcast weather is predicted for
today, tonight and tomorrow, but
showers were not expected by fore
casters, though they added that the
prediction was for this section general
ly and that local disturbances might
cause precipitation which would lessen
the heat.
Showers Bring No Relief
Showers yesterday afternoon sent
the mercury tumbling from it's high
mark of 80 degrees at 1:30 o'clock to
70 degrees a half-hour later. But the
humidity climbed at the same time to
new suffocating heights. from It's
registry of SO before the shower to IS
soon afterward. The temperature
dropped to rs at midnight and to 73 at
2 o'clock this morning, affording com
Portable sleep, but started to rise early
today.
Only one additional prostration was
reported late yesterday. Alexander
Berthe, 81 years old, of 1116 Seventh
street, a plasterer, was overcome
while working on scaffolding on a
new building at Third and F streets
and fell into a pile of lime. Some
of the mixture burned one of his eyes
painfully, but physicians at the Epis-
copal Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital,
where he was taken, said the injury
was not serious.
Evening star., 1925-07-09
Dog Giues Up Life
To SaUe Mistress
From RattIesnake
BY the Associated Press.

MUSKEGON. Mich. July q
'krip.' an old brindle bull dog,
owned by Miss Mable Hit, gave
his life yesterday to save his mis-
tress. While walking near her
cottage. at Point Sheldon, she
came upon a rattlesnake coiled.
ready to strike. "Krip" attacked
the reptile. killing it only aftep he
had been severely bitten. 1t was
but n few moments before the
poison started its work and with
in an hour the dog had died
Evening star., 1925-07-09
'FrOnp Press to Home
Within the Hour"

The Stars carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi-
tion is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
Evening star., 1925-07-09
WEATHER.

10. s. Weather Bureau Forecast)
Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow,
followed by thundershowers tomorrow
afternoon or night; warmer tomorrow.
Temperatures: Highest. 80. at 1880
pm. yesterday; lowest. 73, at s am.
today Full report on page I.
Evening star., 1925-07-09

Continued on Page 2. Column ~
The Washington times., 1925-09-23
81, 480 Pupils
ENROLLED IN
SCHOOLS
Records Will Be Broken, Off
Gals Believe, With Over
crowding Worse Than Ever

An enrolment on he second day
of the school year of 4,480 pupils
in the District schools indicates
crowding considerably greater than
last year, and continuation of the
congestion which officials have been
striving to overcome by the five
year building program.
With the school year scarcely
under way, the increase over last
years initial registration is more
than 1900 pupils.
1T is believed by officials that the
heavy initial registration is but d
forecast of increases which will ex-
coed any ever before recorded by
the District school system.
1t will be at least another month
before the highest enrolment fig
ure of the first semester is reached.
Students will be entering school
during the next four or five weeks
or perhaps later. due to the re
| turn of Congress in December.
| 1t is estimated that more than
| 400 classreons axe needed TO place
The Washington times., 1925-09-23
5000 REGISTER
FOR NEW YEAR
At c. ".
Opening Exercises Held in All
Departmental. U. Lie
brary Half Finished

Opening exercises for all depart
ments will be held today at George
Washington University, which re-
sunes classes with a registration Of
more than 5000 students.
Students in the arts and science
department assembled this morning
in Corcoran hall, and other classes
assemble at 2 and at o'clock. Ad-
dresses are being made by Dean
Howard l.. Hodgkins, Professor
Henry Grattan Doyle, and Professor
A. e. w. Schmidt. Law school stu
dents met this morning and will
gather again at o'clock, to be ad-
dressed by Dean w. G. Van Week.
Medical students will assemble al
4:30 o'clock for an address by Doc
tor William G. Borden.
Gallaudet College resumed classes
today with an enrolment OF 100
students. The Kendall Gre an school
has sixty students registered.
Catholic University reopened yes
terday with the largest registration
in it's history. Returning students
found the new Mullen library half
completed, and the new chemical
laboratory addition finished.
The Washington times., 1925-09-23
YOUTH HELDFOR
OPENING U.S..
MAIL
Rudolph H. Eckstein. %, Con.
fesses After Decoy Lte-
tiers Trapped Him

Charged with opening special de-
livery letters and diverting their
contents to his own use, Rudolph
H. Eckstein, twenty-four years, of
81 L street northwest, distribut-
ing clerk at the City Postoffice to-
day pleaded guilty when arraigned
before United States Commissioner
Needham c.. Turnage.
Commissioner Turnage set the
bond in the case at 1900. which
Eckstein furnished pending further
court action.
Detection of the youths alleged
pilfering was brought about. &C
cording to the two postal inspectors
who arrested him today, through
three decoy special delivery letters
which they, themselves, put in the
malls.
The inspectors say the youth has
been under suspicion for some time.
They would not estimate the
amount involved in the special de-
livery letter lossse. Eckstein has
been employed at the City Post
office for four yaaEA
The Washington times., 1925-09-23
PLANS RETR|AL
FOR CHINESE
STUDENTS
Ziang Sun Wan Probably Will
Face Court Again in
November

Arrangements for the retrial of
Ziang Sun Wan, Chinese student,
for the murder of Ben Sen WI,
under-secretary in the Chinese Edu-
cational Mission, who was killed in
January, 1919, with two other
Chinese members of the mission at
the Mission House, on Kalorama
road, are being completed by Dis
trict Attorney Peyton Gordon, with
the intention of having the case
set for some time in November.
VANS conviction was set aside
in the United States Supreme Court
on the ground that a statement by
him, admitted in the trial of the
case, was prejudicial to the de-
PENDANT, since it was not voluntary.
The Supreme Court based the rul-
ing, according to it's opinion, on
the virtual confinement of the
prisoner at the time in a hotel room
in Washington and the continual
presence of police prior to the MAX
ing of the statement,
The retrial is expected to cost the
Government three times or more
as much as the original trial, since
five Of the witnesses are now in
China and many more are scat
tered throughout the United States.
More than fifty witnesses win be
The Washington times., 1925-09-23
WARMER D AY 5
ARE COMING,
He SAYS
Bureau Expert Reports Low
est Temperature Here Since
Early Spring

The tickle weather gods who do
their stuff in the National Capital,
abruptly changing their chant from
the Sweat. you mortals. fan and
mop your brows" of Sunday TO
"Shiver. shovel coal and hug the
radiator" last night, and today are
to relent a trifle tomorrow. ac-
cording to the Weather Bureau.
Today's chill rains will cease and,
while the skies will remain partly
cloudy. some of the chill will de-
part and more seasonable tempera-
lures will send the winter over
coats back to the hooks for day
or two longer.
The lowest temperature since last
spring was registered at the Wealth
er Bureau at Z o'clock this morn
ing, when the thermometers stood
at So degrees, after an almost
steady drop from the 80 degree
temperature recorded monday after
noon.
Yesteday's highest temperature
was but 65 degrees. while today {
probably viii be several degrees
below this mark Yesterdays high
mark was 10 degrees below the
10gnaI for September ~.
The Washington times., 1925-09-23
TOWN IN PENNSYLVANIA
BOASTS BIG TRAFFIC

MUNCY, Pa, Sept. 23.-The
residents of this town believe that
the traffic is the heaviest for any
municipality in proportion to its
size in the entire State. The town
has population Of 1900 and every
hour between 500 and 1900 auto
mobiles pass through the town.
Besides, being on the Susque
hanna trail, the town is crossed by
a second State highway in the cen
ter of the town. All of the traffic
Is successfully handled by Robert
Burns, who is the chief OF police
and the entire police force.
The Washington times., 1925-09-23
HE WON THREE WIVES
BY EASY LOVE MAKING

NEW YORK, Sept. 23.-Called
the fastest working Dlgamist ever
arrested in Westchester." Jay F.
Squier, twenty-five, of Plainfield, N.
j. was sentenced to from three and
half to seven years in Sing Sing
by County Judge Bleakley at White
Plains. Two of Squier's wives were
in court as he admitted he had
married three girls in six years. 1T
was SO easy making love that l
fell for it," he explained.
The two wives, the former Dor
othy Vanderbeck of Plainfield and
Vera Jewel of Peekskill, each the
mother Of two children, told Judge
Bleakley Squier recently was mar
ried to Miss Georgiana Kilduff of
Brooklyn. Squier said he had
known Miss Kilduff about a week
and a half" before they were wed.
The Washington times., 1925-09-23
NEW BUS SERVICE WILL
OPERATE IN FOUR STATES

HAGERSTOWNg Md, Sept. "a
Buses to operate over 500 miles Of
roads in four different States
Maryland, Pennsylvania. Virginia,
and West Virginia-will be used, be
ginning this week, in new trans
portatIon service with Hagerstown
as the central point. The service
will be installed by the Interstate
Coach Line Company, of which T. Z.
Moore, of Pennsylvan a, is general
manager.
Four large automobile parlor ears.
of the latest and most luxurious con-
construction. have arrived in ia
gerstown. from a factory in Ohio,
and will be put into operation between
Hagerstown, Greencastle and Chain
.bersburg, Pa: Martinsburg, w. va.
and Winchester, Va 1t is under
stood that the company will extend
the scope of its operations later. 1t
The Washington times., 1925-09-23
PRIMO IS
V|EDF(R
LOVE
MafaIda OF Italy Is Bride OF
Dethroned Prince Philip
bf Hesse
By GUGLIELMO EMANUEL
AnfernaaionaI News service

r ACCONIGI, Italy, Sept. 23.
Princess Mafalda, second daugh-
ter M King victoe Emanuel was
married here today to Prince
Philip 81 Hesse, with ceremonies
impressive in the simplicity which
marked the union Of two ancient
royal families in an old fashioned
love Mach.
Mafalda, proud daughter Of the
House Of Savoy, renowned annbi-
ton when she united her destiny
to that of German prince whose
principality was swept away in
the upheavaI which cost his Hohen-
zollern uncle the throne Of the
German Empire.
Haze Double Ceremony
The famous old Racconigi castle,
scene of today's nuptials, has wit
messed many scenes of pomp and
pageantry since Piedmont builders
raised it's keep and battlements in
the Alpine foothills six centuries
ago. But never did the old pile
look down upon a more joyous day
than that which attended the plight
ing of the troths here today.
There were two ceremonies-the
civil and the religious, the one per-
formed by Premier Mussolini as
head of the government. the other
by venerable old priest who had
baptized Mafalda and her brothers
and sisters-who in fact, baptized
Continued on Page 8. Column %
The Washington times., 1925-09-23
TONG LEADERS oUlZZED IN
MEAT CLEANER STAYING

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 23-
Leaders of the local On Leong and
Hip Sing longs were being CUES
toned at detective headquarters to-
day, following the Staying late last
night of zee Chock, twenty-six,
Chinese waiter. Chock was killed
with q meat cleaver.
Chock was said. to have been a
member of the On Leon Tong and
police were called to the neighbor-
hood by telephone report that
three members of the Hip Sing
Tong were seen running from the
building. The Chinese who turned
in the report later identified the
suspects at Hip Sing Headquarters.
They are being held.
The Washington times., 1925-09-23
DIRIGIBL [
CHIEF SAW
DANGERS
AHEAD
Was anxious for
Ship to Visit as Many
Fairs as Possible
BY DAVID p SENTNER

] IAKEHURST, N. j., Sept. 2S!
The official correspondence be-
tween the Navy Department and
the late Commander Zachary
Lansdowne Of the lost naval diri-
gible Shenandoah, revealing Lans-
downe's protest against flying.
over the Middle West in the
stormy season, was made public
today by Captain George w.
Steele, Of the Lakehurst Naval
Air Station, testifying before the
board Of inquiry, meeting here to
fix responsibility for the disaster.
The communication between
Lansdowne and chief of naval
operations showed that .Lansdowne
had recommended the western
flight be made in the second week
of September instead of the first
week, pointing out the earlier
date was in a season Of thunder
storms.
Navy Refused o. X.
The Navy Department wrote.
back, on August IL, that this recon-
mendation had not been approved
The Washington times., 1925-09-23
CAUSE OF MANIcUlST'S
DEATH IS STILL MYSTERY

RICHMOND, Va, Sept. 23.-The
body of Mrs. Della Clarke Richard
son, pretty manicurist, found dead
in her apartment last Monday, to-
day was still being held at the
morgue pending Instructions from
relatives, at Dover n. H., as to it's
disposition.
Coroner Whitfield has not yet
completed an analysis of the wom-
ans stomach to determine whether
she died of poisoning In the
meantime, Herbert E. Richardson,
.jr., the womap's husband, who is
confronting a charge Of numbering
her, is reported to be improving
following his attempt to commit
suicide by shooting himself.
The Washington times., 1925-09-23
ROD LA ROGUE, FILM STAR,
HURT MAKING PICTURE

QUERNEVILLE, CAL, Sept. Pa
Rodney La ROGUE. film star. was
seriously injured while on location
near here in the filming of a new
production. it was learned today.
La ROGUE while exacting one of
the screen parts too realistically
plunged an indian knife into his
thigh cutting deep cash. Sew
eral stitches were required to close
the wound. Physicians said he
would be laid up for several DAYS.
The Washington times., 1925-09-23

caiIlaux, Who Heads French
Commission, Expresses
Optimism Over Farley
By H. X. REYNOLDS
international News service

S
NEW YORK, Sept. % Pre-
pared to effect an agreement for
the payment Of Frances $4,000
600, 900 war debt to the United
States, Joseph Caillaux, the
French finance. minister, and =
commission of financial experts,
arrived in New York today on the
liner Paris and left almost i'm
mediately for Washington.
The French liner reached quar-
antine at $50 a. M, and locked
in the Hudson three hours later.
M. Caillaux and his associates de-
barked at once and proceeded by
automobile to the Pennsylvania
Station, where they entrained.
He Is Confident
Before leaving for Washington,
Caillaux issued a formal statement,
declaring that he was confident
that F'ranco-American debt set
Element would be made. !.
M. Caillaux made the following
statement to newspapermen who
journeyed down the bay to meet
him:
II have come, accompanied by
eminent members of all political
parties in the French parliament,
to bring a settlement Of our debts.
There is no instance in history in
which France. has failed to do so.
I'VE are men of good will, my
colleagues and I. We shall nave
great pleasure in meeting the men
of good will who form the War
tcontinued on Page 3. Column A.
The Washington times., 1925-09-23
REPORT THAT STEAMER Is
IN DISTRESS UNFoUNDED

LONDON, Sept. %. Marine
circles here were alarmed for a
time today by reports that the
United States line steamer George
Washington had gone aground near
Bremen.
The offices of the United States
lines here announced that the
plunged an Indian knife into his
laved two hours, but will sail from
Bremen this afternoon.
The Washington times., 1925-09-23
COOLIDGE INVITED TO
SCHNEIDER CUP RACES

President Coolidge was invited
today to attend the Schneider Cup
races In Baltimore on October "a,
in which the seaplanes of the
United States, Great Britain and
Italy will contest for the cup now
held sby the American navy.
The Washington times., 1925-09-23
Man Killed in Wreck

NOGALES, Ariz., Sept. 23.-One
man was killed and ten injured
today in the derailment of a train
on the Southern Pacific OF Mexico
Railway south of Mazatlan, Sinaloa,
Mexico, according to word received
here.
The Washington times., 1925-09-23

the entire school system on full
time schedule.
Part-time classes will prevail in
many sections this year.
Three high schools will be I'M
able to operate on regular schedule
due to oVercrowding.
They are Central, Dunbar, and
Business High schools.
Under the part-time program. one
class begins the days work at
O'Clock while another starts at !
o'clock.
The first class which, ordinarily
would remain until 3 O'Clock must
surrender its classroom at 1890 tc
the later class. which occupies il
until 4:30 o'clock.
The Washington times., 1925-09-23
Bride is Sought When
Serenader is Shot
TO Death
by international News Service.

NASHVILLE, Ienn., Oept. Io'
Tragedy had ended a honey
moon here today and a police
search was under way for Mrs.
Kelly Simmons, bride of a few
hours, in Connection with the in
vestigation of the killing Of
Turner Pate, twenty-five.
Pate was killed by a bullet
through his heart.
Police say their meager infor-
nation indicates that Pate went
with a group Of friends to SER
enade Simmons and his bride,
who were married Tuesday
night. Mrs. Simmons apparently
fired to brighten the serenaders
and accidentally struck Pate,
the police say.
Mrs. Simmons and her hus-
band disappeared in a motor car
Immediately after the shooting.
The Washington times., 1925-09-23
i. THE WEATHER

official Weather Bureau Report
Showers tonight; Thurs
day partly cloudy and
slightly warmer; moderate
east winds. Temperature
Yesterday-Highest, 60; low