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Evening star., 1925-07-12

limited space where thousands of hu-
man beings-all more or less uncom-
Portable from the heat-gathered.
Protests Futile.
Not willingly did they wait, nor did
they like the heat or the exhaust
from running engines. They pro-
tested and fumed, all TO no avail. Yet
what was agony TO most of them was
grist TO the mill of the ice cream
makers, for they brought forth a
sticky ice cream creation stuck on a
stick and sold them by the thousands.
Ice cream went like hot cakes in
Midwinter and cold water, toted in
pail by an old colored man, went
for cents glass to persons whose
fastidiousness wouldn't let them
touch a common drinking glass in
their own homes. 1t all started at
$50, when it was sure that Nc
Donough had won the race. They
broke in a mass for their machines,
all with the one thought-home to a
bath and dinner,
At 9 o'clock last night they were
still getting into Washington, for the
jam at the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road tracks wasn't the only hold-up.
way down the pike into Hyattsville
and beyond to the District line. At
Riverdale a tire blew and a line of 200
cars was held up for Is minutes.
Again in Hyattsville they stopped. and
again just this side of Bladensburg.
AT the District line they stopped
again, only toescatter once they were
inside the District, with long lines of
race fans reaching down all the high
ways leading from northeastern Mary
land.
Trains Held Up Line. =.
The race fans got themselves in a
fine jam yesterday. Yet their i'm
petuosity could we'll have been ,averted
had the speedway sponsors had time
to construct q tunnel under the rail
road tracks, for as much time was
taken UP waiting for trains to pass as
was consumed in getting cars over the
track. And then after they were past
this trough spot" came the half mile
of bumpy dirty road to the main pike.
That wasn't SO good. either, but there
were no lengthy stops on 1t.
Inside the inclosure, inside the wire
fence that kept the thousands away
from the pits and the danger of the
track, the problem was simpler. Here
again they converged on a common
runway, but the traffic was handled
better and more eXpeditiouSly. And
when they got out, through the tun-
mel running under the track even
while Fred Conner and Reginald John
son were still hitting the boards at
more than 100 miles an hour they
had two roads to travel into Laurel
before leveling out for the run back to
Washington or Baltimore.
Evening star., 1925-07-12
PLAN TO RESTORE
HISTORICAL FORT
Montana Society, Citizens
and Railroad Intend to
Re-create Fort Union.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HELENA, Mont, July 12.-Fort
Union, recorded by the Montana State
Historical Society as the first fort to
be established above the mouth of the
Yellowstone River and one of the best
known in the Northwest, is to be re-
stored TO portray to visitors it's part
In the historic records of the West,
If plans of citizens of Montana,
North Dakota and the Great Northern
Railroad materiaiize.
President Ralph Budd of the rail-
way, Secretary David Hilger of the
Montana Historical Society and other
interested citizens visited the spot late
In May and located the old block
house baStions and other indications
which Mr.. Hilger believes will, with
the aid Of some of very detailed de-
scriptlons and pictures in the society's s
library, permit an exact reproduction
of the old fort. The owner of nine
acres of land, which includes the site
of the fort, has offered to donate this
property if the purpose can be ac-
complished. The United States Gov
ernment will be asked TO cooperate
1t is estimated that the cost will be
$4,000.
To Hold Mass Meeting.
A mass meeting, which will be at
tended by the Governors of Montana
and North Dakota and by pioneers of
both States, has been arranged for
July Is at the site of the fort. 1t is
expected at this meeting to perfect
plans for the reconstruction and main
tenance of the fort and to acquire the
40 acres of land in Montana and
North Dakota which are needed for
the fulfillment of the plan.
The fort, which was actually a for
tilted trading post, was established in
1929 by Kenneth Mckenzie for the
American Fur Co, of which he was
a member. The site is a short dis
tanCe above the mouth of the Vel
lowstone River on the north bank of
the Missouri River. The boundary
line between Montana and North
Dakota runs through the 40-acre tract
which is sought for the project.
The original fort was destroyed by
fire in 1881, but was rebuilt immedi-
ately and extended. In 1868 it was
pulled down on order of the command
Ing officer at Fort Bulford, miles
south.
Evening star., 1925-07-12
Road Would Circle City,

With New York City approaching
The saturation point in motor traffic
within the next five years, D. Everett
Waid, president of the American In
stitute of Architects, has proposed a
30-mile elevated automobile highway,
sktrting the entire shore of Manhattan
Island. Such an unobstructed road
way, free from crossings and with ap-
proach ramps at every 10 blocks,
would have tremendous capacity for
pleasure cars travelling safely at 80
mile speed, says the Popular Science
Monthly,
Evening star., 1925-07-12
BIDDERS WITHDRAW
OFFERS FOR SHIPS.
Ford Proposal Only One Filed
. Since Rejection of Best
of Others by Board.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A number of the original bidders
for 200 Shipping Board vessels re-
Gently offered for scrapping have
withdrawn their offers since the
recommendations for an award made
by President Palmer of the Fleet Cor
poration was rejected by the board,
Among these is the Boston Iron
& Metal Co. of Baltimore, whose
bid was the highest, and was ap.
proved by Mr.. Palmer.
New bids have been asked. and the
only one received so far, in addition
TO those from the first bidders, is
from Henry Ford. Mr.. Ford said he
mailed a bid when the ships were
first offered for sale. but 1t was not
among those opened on June so.
Shipping Board officials said it never
reached them. The new bids will be
opened July 16.
Chairman OConnor has teIe-
graphed Commissioners Haney and
Plummer, who are away from Wash
ington, TO return as soon as possible
TO take part in the consideration of
the bids. Indications We're that he
would write President Coolidge, Civ
ing an outline of the situation re-
Sarding the sale, but he would not
comment on this feature.
Henry Ford formally entered the
bidding for the vessels with an offer
described by Chairman O'Connor as
way over" that of the Boston Iron
d Metal Co. of Baltimore, the best
previous bid submitted
While not revealing details of the
unsealed Ford bid before turning it
over TO President Palmer, Chairman
O'Connor said it provided for resale
of engines and other ship equipment
only as junk. The provision of the
Boston Iron & Metal Co bid for re-
sale OF equipment for second hand
use was not regarded as desirable by
the chairman and some other board
members.
Evening star., 1925-07-12
PLASTERERS' UNION
TO CONTINUE FIGHT
Business Representatives to
Back Body to Limit in
Trades War.
By the Associated Press.

CLEVELAND, July 11.-More than
two hundred business representatives
of the Operative Plasterers' and Ce-
ment Finishers' International Associa-
ton in national conference here today
went on record that they would sup
port their organization TO the limit in
the jurisdictional fight with the brick
layers.
The conference was called by Ed
ward j. McGivern of Boston, interna-
tional president of the plasterers. Nc
Givern charges that the Bricklayers.
Masons and Plasterers' International
Union is trying TO absorb his union.
The conflict between the two bodies
centers on the claims OF the bricklay-
ers, McGivern said, to the right to set
mantels and other ornamental trim
mings made of composition that is
mixed on the job by plasterers.
Today's conference in Cleveland was
called by McGivern when building op-
erations involving, it is said, $500, 000,-
900 by six leading contra ctors in the
East were threatened with a tie-up be-
cause of the disputes. McGivern told
the conference that these six contrac-
tors had agreed to employ his men.
Evening star., 1925-07-12
Phone Calls Recorded.

To keep a record of the number of
calls made on a telephone and SO
check up the telephone bill at the
end of the month. a Brooklyn, n. Y,
inventor has devised a meter that
registers the calls automatically. 1t
is attached to the neck of any desk
phone and registers when the receiver
is put back on the hook after each
call, says the Popular Science
Monthly. 7:
Evening star., 1925-07-12
WOULD BAR TENNEsSEANS.

NEW YORK. July II R.-Dr.
Henry H. Rusby, dean of the College
of Pharmacy of Columbia University,
in his annual report to President
Nicholas Murray Butler today, advo-
Gated that Columbia and other Ameri-
can universities refuse to recognize
any educational credentials issued by
such State as Tennessee where laws
are passed restricting teaching of
certain subjects in the schools.
ut would be an evil policy" Dean
Rusby said, for schools engaged in
preparing men for professional work
in which the slightest deviation from
scientific accuracy may result fatally,
to recognize as valid a preparatory
training Of which the fundamental
principle is that recognition of facts
is non essential. or that truth may be
set aside to secure a reward offered
for such treachery, or to escape a
penalty inflicted for refusal in it,
Evening star., 1925-07-12
VICTIM LEFT ON ROAD
BY HtT-AND-RUN DRIVER

Roy Jenkins, 1851 D street north
east, was in a serious condition last
night at Casualty Hospital as a re-
suit of an automobile accident near
T. B., Md. He was brought into
Washington by Kirby Kepler, 1914
Sixteenth street. and Policeman Hogan
of the I'd precinct, who found him
lying in the road unconscious when
they were driving past.
AT the hospital later. Jenkins told
the police that he had been side
swfped by another machine. which
threw him off the road and overturned
his car. He said that the other car
drove on without stopping and he was
too dazed to get It's number. He is
suffering from broken ribs and In
ternai injuries. -..
Evening star., 1925-07-12
Almost a National Record

We pleased to report a remarkable further
drop in the death from consumption in the District
of Columbia during the fiscal year which ended June
80, 1925.
The rate among whites dropped from, o. deaths
per 100000 i'll the previous year to the noteworthy
low rate of
50.6 deaths per 100000
in the year just ended This is almost national
record and exceeded only by white cities that
are new, have no slums and enjoy an exceptional
climate.
The general death from consumption in the
District of Columbia dropped from 103 deaths per
100000 the previous year So deaths per 10000 in
the year just ended
The number of deaths from consumption among
coored people slightly increased to 283 during the past
year but this is less than half Of what was 20 years
ago.
These results while very gratifying, show that
still more Washington people should follow health
teachings published by through newspapers and
other health literature.
In preventing tuberculosis our teachings also lead
to healthier bodies and to an increased resistance
against disease germs in general.
Association for the Prevention of tuberculosis
Telephone Main 992 l022 Ilth Street NV
Who have paid for the above bulletin lle0aI notice.
Evening star., 1925-07-12
JAM Is worst IN YEARS
ON ROADS FROM RACING PARK
Dripers Fume and Drivers Fuss and Drivers Rare
and Drivers Cuss and Drivers Raise IA Lot of
Dust, and Get Home after Dark.

Sunk deep In the mud of the in.
closure at the Laurel Speedway as
night fell last night We're two lone
motor cars-sole survivors of the
thousands of machines parked in the
inclosure around which 16 speed
juggernauts of steel yesterday. Sole
survivors of the jam inside the in
closure. but outside the Enclosure on
the narrow half mile of road that
led from the track to the Baltimore
Washington pike were a brace of
more unfortunates, thrust off the
road in the middle of the worst traffic
jam about Washington since Novem-
Der, 1921. when President Harding
was held up for more than two hours
on the old Aqueduct Bridge while
on his way to Arlington.
If Peter de Paolo or MeDonogh or
any Of the other dare-devils who fin
tshed the race yesterday had prog
ressed as slowly as the 5000 automo-
biles which tried to get away from
the track in a bunch at $50 yester-
day afternoon toward Washington,
they would have taken a month to
go the 25o miles they travelled in
something just over two hours yes
terday. For by a watch. and an ac-
curate watch, too, II required just
one hour and a half 10 travel the
400 yards from the fence surround
ing the track to the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad crossing, less than a
half mile away.
All Dash for Opening.
They fumed and fused, they raved
and cussed, these thousands of driv-
ers who sat in their cars. hot, sticky
and uncomfortable, without the be-
nign thought of a cooling breeze,
brea thing the fumes from thousands
of exhausts as they waited-not pa
tiently-for Maryland's traffic cops to
get the Jam untangled Instead of
sticking to the three we'll travelled
paths across an old cornfield on
which the speedway was built, they
ran any old way across, all reaching
a common crossing point at about the
same time, TO make them utterly un-
able TO go ahead. The old adage
which has il that haste must be made
slowly never fitted a situation bet
ter. OF course, the Maryland traffic
officers tried their best to get the
jam Strengthened out, doing heroic
work TO avoid bent tenders and
bruised temperaments. Yet these mo-
torists converged upon them from
to cross a narrow pathway over the
for two cars.
The shrill scream of thousands of
motor horns blended with the cries
Of hawkerS for ice cream companies,
newsboys and the general din of a
Evening star., 1925-07-12
AUTO SPEED KINGS
SMASH OLD MARKS
Better Equipment, Added to
Faster Tracks, Provides
New Racing Class.

Better tires, faster tracks, modern
spark plugs. the super.charger and a
score of other little things combined
with faster engines to make the auto
mobile speed kings of today 100 per
cent speedier than their predecessors
of Is years hack. For of the group
which finished the 250-mile speedway
classic yesterday, only two or three
are really veterans in a game which
takes It's toll early-with death hold
ing the stop watch.
This Is the reason yesterdays race
was won by De Paolo at the phe-
nomenaiiy fast rate of 1898 miles
an hour. Pete stepped on the old
wagon on the last four laps, after he
had word from his pit that he had to
catch McDonogh. before the pitmen
knew of the mistake in the clocking
machine.
Speeds Compared.
Fifteen years ago. had De Paolo
borne down on his accelerator as ne
did over the last four and a half miles
in his chase to catch McDonogh, he
might have sped his Deusenberg up to
IS or 80 miles an hour. That would
have been considered phenomenal.
Yesterday he went the last four laps
at a speed of between 81 and
80 seconds each-somewhere between
l26 and 100 miles an hour. He made
UP two-thirds OF a lap on McDonogh,
but couldn't quite cut down the gap
between his yellow streak and the
flying tuggernaut of crimson where
McDonogh set the pace.
officials of the American Automo-
bile Association are authority for the
statement. also, that the new board
tracks, constructed with a wooden
ulKA A-@ - -
lives when car skids. Soft mud and
dust are the factors that make car
turn over. Seldom does the car leave
its four wheels even when a rear tire
blows. But when a front shoe goes,
or the car leaves the hard track to
go down into the soft earth below,
then the trouble comes.
When They skidded.
There were three skids yesterday on
the boards. In each OF them, the car
stayed on It's wheels and returned to
the race. When Ralph de Palma,
driving that hard.luck car of Ralph
Hepburn, No. II, skidded down off the
boards and hit the dirt, the car
turned end over end
The manufacture of tires nowadays
has progressed to such a point that
many times race can be won, even
In such heat as yesterday, without d
tire change. Neither De Paolo nor
McDonogh changed a shoe during
their 223 circuits of the track In the
old days they were always pulling up
at the pits for new tires. The super
charger. which forces raw gas into
the cylinders under great pressure. Is
another modern device which con-
tributes to speed. II was borrowed
from the airplane.
Evening star., 1925-07-12
Oxygen Tent for Patients.

To supply pure oxygen TO pneumonia
patients, enabling them to breathe
freely and thus aiding recovery, two
New York doctors. Alvin l.. Barach of
the Presbyterian Hospital and c. A.
L. Binger of the Rockefeller Institute,
recently invented a portable oxygen
tent that is suspended over the pa
tents bed by an iron framework. says
the Popular Science Monthly. Oxygen
,is- fed to the patient from tank
through rubber tubing.
Evening star., 1925-07-12
REVOLT is CONFIRMED.
Ecuador Coup Officially Announced
by Legation.

SANTIAGO, Chile, July II CP).-
The Ecuadoran legation issued a cir
cular tonight confirming the over
throw, without bloodshed. of the Ecua-
doran government headed by Presi-
dent Cordova. 1t says that a govern
ing junta has been organized COM
posed of three civilians and three
military men.
A dispatch from Guayaquil states
that President Cordova and the mem.
hers of his cabinet were made prison
ers in their homes after the military
coup Thursday night.
Evening star., 1925-07-12
Men Deep IL, Earth
Did Not Feel Quake
In Santa Barbara
By the Associated Press.

SANTA BARBARA, Calf, July
11.-Scientific theories We're some
what upset today by the discovery
that men working on the face of
the big Montecito water tunnel,
1000 feet horizontally in the depths
of the mountains. east. of this. city,
and at a perpendicular depth Of
nearly 5000 feet below the summit
Of the range, did not feel the big
earthquake at all.
Some of the scientists in their
explanation of the shock have said
1t was due 10 a deep.down displace-
ment in the earth's crust, but the
fact that the tunnel workers did
not share in the quake seems to
contradict this theory.
Evening star., 1925-07-12
BATTLE ON SCIENCE GRIPS
SCOPES CASE As FIRST TEST

debated a long time as to the mean
ing of much in the Bible and espe-
cially of the account of creation and
yet Tennessee jury that has given
no attention to evolution Is supposed
to know, first. what evolution is and.
second, what the Bible teaches with
reference to the creation of man. and,
third. whether these theories and the
account in the Bible are in conflict.
And Mr.. Bryan says they should
decide all this without evidence. 1t
Is obvious that no jury can accom-
plish any such thing.
THE effort to keep the defense
from offering evidence in this case is
plain effort to run away from the
facts and is doubtless on account of
their inability TO get any scientific
that prove the correctness OF evo-
luton.
This is further shown by the fact
that Mr.. Bryan delivered a public
talk here and said the facts of religion
and evolution will at last be brought
to light. This Tennessee jury Is ex-
pected by the State without any evi-
dence to find that no man can be a
Christian and evolutionist and this
despite the fact that millions of the
ablest men in the world, including a
ligion, are both Christians and evo-
lutionists. And among these are the
ablest scientists of the world.
Statements Ambiguous.
Mr.. Bryan's statement about the
rights of Tennessee to protect It's
religion is ambiguous if he means
that any State has the right to pass
a law which prohibits the teaching
of theory that is contrary TO any
religion and he is flying in the face
OF every State constitution the fact
that any theory of any scientific
view may be contrary TO any religious
idea furnished no right for a State to
prohibit 1t. II this were true, then
most Of astronomy and geology would
fall under the ban.
The constitution of Tennessee con-
tains one of the strongest guarantees
of religious liberty among all the
constitutions of the Union, and no law
that would undertake to establish
religion or measure conduct would
have any validity in this State or any
other State without first getting rid
Of the constitution.
Whether the scientists come from
Tennessee or outside to tell the mean
ing of evolution, cannot matter.
Science is the same everywhere. The
constitution does not permit the
legislature to put a Chinese wall
around the State of Tennessee, as Mr..
Bryan seems TO think should be done
We have no doubt that some
scientists will be called from Ten
nessee, as the statute is so recent
that there are some scientists left
there. 1t is not even sure that the
statute would work as Mr.. Bryan
believes, as all the jurors testified
they had never heard of evolution
until the law was passed"
Evening star., 1925-07-12
BALTIMORE HEAD SILENT.
Refuses to Comment on Rejection
OF His Bid.
Special Dispatch 70 The Ssar.

Special Dispatch 70 The Ssar
BALTIMORE, Nd, July 11-Morris
schaplro, president of the Boston
iron and Metal Company, refused TO
comment at all on the rejection of. his
bid of S1,S70,00 for the 200 vessels by
the Shipping Board.
Il have nothing to say" he replied
when asked if he thought this action
gave other bidders an unfair advan-
tage in that they now know exactly
what the other bids were, and he
would not admit or deny that he
would submit another bid
after the bids were opened last
week Mr.. Schapiro announced that
the vessels would be scrapped and
sold for scrap iron if the company was
successful bidder on it's offer of
$1,370,000 for the 200 vessels.
Evening star., 1925-07-12
Corns Off by X-RaYs.

Science is coming to the relief of the
man with corns. 1t is now claimed
that with a single treatment with
X-rays, a large corn can be removed
in one piece with no vestige remain
ing. and leaving a smooth, healthy
skin, says the Popular Science
Monthly
Evening star., 1925-07-12
THEUNIS COMING TO u. S.
WITH BELGIAN DEBT BODY
Commission, Which Includes Fran
qui and Gather, to Leave for
Washington July 90.

By the Associated Press.
BRUSSELS, July 1.-THE cabinet
council today designated former Pre-
mier Theunis, Emil Tranquil. banker,
and Felician Cattier. financier and
statesman, as members of the Belgian
commission to Washington for the
discussion of plans for funding the
Belgian debt. The commission will
probably leave for Washington July 20.
Evening star., 1925-07-12
June Circulation
Daily. ,: 95,O23
Sunday .1O2,111

LEROY ". HEBRON. Advertising Man
ager Of THE EVENING and SUNDAY STAR.
OF comics Of the papers named sold and dis
trihuted during the month of June, AID
1925 was as follows:
Evening star., 1925-07-12

About one-fourth of the Office staff
in the Soviet government department
in Russia are women.
Evening star., 1925-07-12
Darrow Attacks Bryan.

The Chicago lawyer, associated with
lawyers who are defending the young
biology teacher, directed his attack
particularly against William Jennings
ecution, who has held that evolution
and Christianity are irreconcilable.
Millions of the ableSt men in the
world, including a large proportion of
students of religion, are both Chris
tians and evolutionists," Darrow as
serted. And among these are the
ablest scientists of the world"
The visiting counsel for Scopes fur
ther declared that the fact that any
theory or scientific view may be con-
trary to any religious idea furnishes
no right for a. State to prohibit it.
If this We're true" he said, then
most of astronomy and geology would
fall under the ban"
Darrow'S statement follows:
There are two things necessary to
crime under the Tennessee statute:
One, teaching the theory of creation
contrary to the divine account as re-
corded in Genesis; two, teaching that
man was evolved from the lower form
of animal life. These are purely QueS-
tionS of fact.
With one or two exceptions, every
juror in this case has stated he knows
little or nothing about evolution. The
same thing could be said about almost
any jury that would be assembled in
any State in the Union. AS there are
some thousand different religions and
some five hundred Sects of Christians,
naturally there is some difference of
opinion as to divine account as taught
in the Bible.
More than one account is given
of the creation of man in the Bible
and these do not agree. Men have