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Evening star., 1925-06-13
five Die IN STORMS
THAT SWEEP WEST
Three Children Killed by Bolt of
Lightning Hitting Texas
Schoolhouse.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 13.-Five persons
were killed last night in the Middle
West and Southwest by wind and elec-
trical storms. Two were killed by
storms Thursday night in Minnesota.
Three children met death and Is
persons were injured, half a dozen Sc
riously, when lightning struck a
schoolhouse 10 miles south of Breck-
enridge, Tex, at the close Of a com.
munity meeting. Witnesses said the
bolt went down the f1ue and out a side
door. An aged woman was crushed
to death near Chicago when a shed
toppled over on her during a freak
rain and wind storm. Several persons
in the city were cut by, flying glass
from broken window panes.
A Chicago woman was killed and
her two sons were badly injured near
Lake Zurich. Wis, when their auto
mobile struck hole that had been
washed out by the storm.
Evening star., 1925-06-13
SUICIDE PACT TOLD
BY WOUNDED STUDENT
Boy and Girl, Who Killed Herself,
Preferred to Die Rather
Than Be Parted.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WELLESLEY FARMS, Mass, June
13-Because they preferred death
rather than separation during the
Summer vacation Sterling Mills, 49,
year-old high school student, and
Priscilla Amidon, his 15-yearold sweet
heart, agreed to die together last
Tuesday.
Details of the suicide pact were OBJ
tanned by Assistant District Attorney
Dudley d. Ranney after he had ques-
toned the boy for several hours in
the Newton Hospital yesterday.
Mills is in a critical condition with a
bullet wound in his head.
He said he met the girl on the
way from school by an arrangement
of several days before. They went
to her house and got the revolver and
then walked into the woods off Glen
road. He fired the gun once as a
test and gave It to Priscilla. She
shot herself through the head. Mills
said he then picked up the weapon
and turned 1t on himself.
Mr., Ranney said the boys story
seemed true, and unless there are
untoward developments there will be
no prosecution. Mills, who has been
unconscious three days, does not know
that Priscilla is dead. and will not
be told until his condition improves.
Evening star., 1925-06-13
GRIFFS- FINED $500,
BUT SAVE GAME
Chicago Loses Forfeit Claim for
Failure to Appear on
Field.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 13.-The Wash
ington club of the American League
today was fined $500 for violation of
the league constitution in its failure
to play a game with Chicago on Tues
day, but Chicago'S claim of forfeiture
was not allowed because the White
Sox team failed to appear on the field
In uniform.
This action was taken at meeting
of the board of directors, before which
appeared Manager Eddie Collins and
Secretary Barbour of the Chicago
team and President Clark Griffith of
Washington.
scheduled game in Washington Mon
day and, according to the league
rules, this should have been played off
on the next open date, which in this
case was the following day, Tuesday.
Griffith announced that Washington
would not play on that date on ac-
count of excessive heat, and claimed
that the home club had jurisdiction
over postponed games.
B. B. Johnson, president of the
American League, presided at the ses-
sion and only two other members of
the board took part-Thomas D. Shibe
of Philadelphia and E. S. Barnard of
Cleveland. A proxy for Frank Navin
of Detroit was carried by Mr.. Barnard.
Griffith Is member of the board, but
as IN interested party was not allowed
to vote.
Evening star., 1925-06-13
MOVE FOR TAX CUT
GAINS MOMENTUM
Underwood Out for 2 Per
Cent on Incomes and Sur
tax Maximum of 13.
By the Associated Press.


The subject of Federal tax revision
is gaining increasing momentum cal
culated TO lead to some action by the
next Congress.
Senator Oscar W. Underwood, who
helped write the first income tax law,
in an address in Montgomery, Ala,
last night declared for a fiat per
cent income tax and a maximum sur
tax of 13 per cent, the pre-war figure.
President Coolidge has formed some
ideas on the subject and believes a
considerable reduction in the tax load
could be effected by eliminating the
Federal levy on inheritances. In this
respect he agrees with Senator Reed
Smoot of Utah. chairman of the
Senate finance committee, who has
predicted that the next Congress will
make an effort toward lowering taxes,
Fears Effect on States.
The Utah Senator's view that the
States should be calleds upon, in turn,
to quit the income tax field, however,
suggests In the Presidents mind that
such a step would present many diff
ficulties. The revenue of some States,
he feels, would be seriously curtailed
If they were forced to abolish their
taxes on incomes.
The 13 per cent surtax maximum ad-
vocated by Senator Underwood is
about half of that contemplated in the
Mellon plan and one-third of the rate
in the present law, which was develop
ed by Republican insurgents and
Democrats in coalition. He suggested,
also, that estate taxes be reduced to
the pre-war rate of 10 per cent from
the present 40 per cent.
Senator Smoot said he believed the
surtax rate would be reduced to 25
per cent or perhaps less. He predicted
that increased exemption would be ac-
corded small incomes and that the tax
imposed on them would be lowered.
Would Abolish Bureaus.
The reduced rates proposed by Sem
ator Underwood would, in his opinion,
provide sufficient revenue for the
Government, and, If not, he suggested
that some of the Federal bureaus be
abolished until expenditures do not
equal revenue.
II would slow down the Govern
ment," he declared, before it slows
down the business of the Nation
The high surtax rates, he said, had
made it more profitable for the man
tive enterprise and invest his money
where he need not fear conf1scation. +"
He pointed out that under the pre-
war tax law nearly 80 per cent of the
revenue came from incomes of more
thar 100000, and in 1921 only Az
per cent was realized from that
source.
Evening star., 1925-06-13
GRANDMOTHER WILL GET
PENN STATE DEGREE
Woman Member of Faculty to Be
Honored for Second Time
in Two Years.

BY the Associated Press.
STATE COLLEGE. Pa, June 13.-
For the second time in two years a
grandmother will advance to the plat
form to receive a degree from the
Pennsylvania State College at the
commencement exercises on Monday
She is Mrs. Susan A. Porterfield, for
The last two years q member of the
college faculty, who will receive the
master of arts degree in Spanish.
Two years ago Mrs. Porterfield re-
ceived her bachelors degree from
Penn State in the same class with her
son Henry. An older son was gradu-
ated from Franklin and Marshall Col
lege in 1914 and his two children are
proud of the scholastic achievements
of their grandmother. At the com
mencemeft exercises in 1923 Mrs.
Porterf1eld was one of two grandmoth-
ers to receive degrees, the other being
Mrs. Sarah Shoemaker Farley, who
completed the course in botany.
Evening star., 1925-06-13
Fighting Eight Days.

Fighting began at Canton eight days
ago between rival elements of former
followers of the late DIR. Sun Yat-Sen,
the South China leader.
The immediate cause of the trouble
was the efforts of the Cantonese gov
ernment to dismiss the Yunnanese
army, former allies of the Cantonese
under Sun Yat-Sen's regime. The
dismissal was desired because the
support of the army had become
burdensome to the Cantonese govern
ment.
Yunnanese generals under Gems.
Yang Hsi-Min and Lau Chun-Wan and
their troops had complete control of
Canton.
Cantonese troops under Gen. Hsu
Chs Ung-Chi, reinforced by Gen.
Chu Pei-Tak, attacked the Yunnanese
occupying Canton with the object of
freeing the city from their rule.
Today's dispatches indicate this
effort has been successful.
Dispatches have said the Canton
trouble was not connected with the
disturbances at Shanghai and else
where in China.
Tuesday the Yuannanese fired upon
a launch flying the American flag and
carrying four Americans attempting
to cross the river from Honam
Island, site of the Canton Christian
College, to the City of Canton. An
American woman was wounded in
the arm and others in the party were
injured by splinters of glass.
On Thursday the American gun
boat Pampanga was fired on near
Canton as it was conveying a supply
launch to the Christian college. The
gunboat returned the fire but no
casualties were reported.
Thursday 10 foreign gunboats were
at Canton and others We're expected
to arrive.
Evening star., 1925-06-13
DAWES PLANS TOUR
OF FAR WEST CITIES
Nav Go Out to Pacific Coast After
Speech in Denver on
July "a.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
CHICAGO, June 13.-Vice President
Charles G. Dawes is considering Far
Western tour following his Denver
speech, July "a, in support of his ad-
yocacy of revision of the Senate rules.
Should he decide to proceed west
from Denver he probably would speak
at Seattle. Portland, San Francisco
and Los Angeles. A Midwestern series
of addresses also Is under considera-
ton for the Fall.
The Vice President, who in several
speeches has urged that the Senate
rules be changed so that majority
may prevent f1libustering and proceed
with its business, will leave June 21
for his second speech in the East on
the subject, at Manchester, N. H., on
June 23. In April he spoke at the an
nual meeting of the Associated Press
in New York City. Since then he has
spoken at Birmingham, Ala.
Vice President Dawes may devote
September, October and November to
a Middle Western tour to include In
diana, Ohio. Kentucky, Kansas, and
possibly Missouri.
Evening star., 1925-06-13
"BOnd Street Bend"
Gets Society O. X,
Doctor Scores Gait
BY the Associated Press.


LONDON, June 13.-"Have you
got the Bond Street Bend?" is the
question being asked by London's
young bloods and society butter
flies. If so. they say, you are all
right, but according to Lord Daw-
son of Penn, physician-in- ordinary
to the King. you are all wrong.
Observation of people walking
in the society haunts of London
reveals the fact that so per cent
walk with bend. launching their
shoulders, bending their knees
and walking in the form of a ques-
ton mark.
When asked: "Why do you walk
this way?" a fashionable woman
replied: "Oh, l don't know. Fash
ion, l suppose. One simply can't
have the oldfashioned figure. One
simply has to droop."
Lord Dawson says: THE ma.
jority of the population continues
to walk with shoulders forward
instead of square. The result is
that we have, through abdominal
protrusion and the bend gait, all
sorts of ailments that should never
happen
Evening star., 1925-06-13
WARREN s. STONE
RITES ON MONDAY
Rail Labor Leader, Dead at
SIS, Did Much for Union.
Started Big Bank.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 13.-Ar-
rangements were being completed to-
day for the funeral of Warren San
ford Stone. 65, head of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers and
its trust companies, cooperative
banks, office buildings and other
holdings, whose resources approx
mate s150,000,0 900.
Funeral services will be held Mon
day. They will be conducted on the
day Oberlin College was to have
honored the labor leader and financier
by comforting upon him the degree of
master of arts.
Mr.. Stone died late yesterday from
general breakdown caused by
Bright's disease. Death came in a
hospital, where less than three months
ago Mr.. Stone had written an edi-
torial for the May issue of the
brotherhood organ, in which he indi-
Gated he had an intuition that life's
end was near. At that time physi-
clans said he was suffering from
uremic poisoning.
Collapsed Tuesday.
He recovered sufficiently to return
to his duties, but was taken to the
hospital again Tuesday after collaps-
ing in his office and never fully re-
gained consciousness.
1.-The highest temperature they have
any record of here in the hospital is
1885 degrees" Mr.. Stone wrote in
part in his first editorial. Il tried to
break the record but could not, my
highest being 1885, and that for only
a short time. After you pass 1O4h
you do not know the difference; the
wheels are going round, but you do
not know 1t.
Now I am back to normal tenn
perature and the doctor says l am
coming through and that the old
machine is good for years to come.
1 hope he is correct, because, while
that invisible intangible something we
call life has never meant so much to
me. even at the best, yet | want to
live as long as 1 can be of use to
my fellow men.
by the time this reaches you
shall perhaps be back in the harness
again. If I am, all right; want to
keep on as long as l can be useful. II
Evening star., 1925-06-13
May Demand Compensation from Brit
ish on Hankow.

PEKING, June 13 CP).-The Chi
nese government today protested by
note to the British legation the recent
killing and wounding of Chinese at
Hankow. The note empha sized the
seriousness of the situation and re
served full liberty to demand compen-
Sation later.
The Chinese note requested the Brit
ish legation to notify all British con-
sulates to take measures to prevent
recurrence of incidents such as took
place at Hankow. In referring to the
seriousness of the situation at Han
kow the note pointed out that the
Shanghai affair still is unsettled
Chinese students here were today
attempting to promote a one-day strike
of all native employees in japanese and
British business establishments and
were also making efforts to extend the
proposed strike to Chinese domestic
servants of Japan and British resi-
dents.
Fernacular newspapers printed lists
of japanese and British business
houses, including those within the le-
cation quarter, and said all Chinese
employed by them had been can
vassed regarding the proposed strike.
Evening star., 1925-06-13
"Heaven City, Probed in Oil Mans
Death after Bout; Girl Took Part

death was due to natural causes.
No arrests have been made, but
the girl was sent back to her home
in Dabneys, Va. Schofield, said
to be a wealthy oil operator from
Oklahoma City, had met the girl
through a matrimonial advertise
ment.
Attention was attracted to Moore
in Chicago several years ago when
his life institute" was brought to
light. Mrs. Shirley Talcott. whose
husband committed suicide in Lake
Michigan after he said he had fail
ed to persuade her to forget Moore,
was found still aiding Moore at
Heaven City" Talcott once was,
a complainant in court against
Moore, whom he declared had
hypnotic eyes"
Evening star., 1925-06-13
Suter, Representing 40
Groups, to Ask Help in OBJ
tanning Swimming Places.
PRESIDENT APPROVES
TIDAL BASIN REOPENING
Lacks Power to Act, But Expresses
Hope Col. Sheriff. May Find
Way to Provide Use.

President Coolidge will be asked to-
day by Jesse c. Suter. president of the
Federation of Citizens Associations. to
consider what action he might he able
to take to bring about the temporary
opening this Summer of bathing
beaches for the white and colored pop
ulations of Washington.
Mr.. Suter, who also Is chairman of
the Citizens Advisory Council. said
today that he planned to seek the ad-
vice of the Chief Executive in view of
the action taken by the federation.
which represents more than 40 neigh
borhood organizations, urging that
every effort be made to have bathing
facilities provided through some tenn
porary arrangement in order to afford
the people supervised water recreation
during the hot weather.
The federation instructed its COM
mittee on public health to do every
thing possible to bring about the
opening of the beaches as a safe
guard against persons being drowned
by bathing at various points along
the river where no safeguards are
available.
AS chairman of the Citizens Ad-
visory Council. Mr.. Suter several days
the Senate and House committees on
appropriations and on the District of
Columbia. asking them to sanction
the operation of two beaches this
Summer with funds provided largely
from private sources.
Text Of Plea.
The text of the letter taken to the
White House today by Mr.. Suter fol-
lows:
THE excessive heat and numerous
drownings make imperative the imme-
diate reopening of the bathing beach
on the Tidal Basin as an emergency
measure. A like need exists for similar
accommodations for colored bathers in
a suitable location.
Col. Sheriff. has a workable plan
for Immediately taking care of this
emergency and has expressed to the
Citizens Advisory Council his readi-
ness to proceed to put 1t into opera
ton IL approved by the chairmen of
the Senate and House committees on
appropriations and on the District Of
Columbia. Representative Zihlman,
prospective chairman of the House
District committee, has given ap-
proval. Senator Warren wires he is
willing to leave it to the judgment
of our local city government, which
Is tantamount to approval, as the
Commissioners of the District of Co.
lumbia heartily approve.
Two Not Reached.
kilograms to Senator Capper and
Representative Madden, sent June 10,
remain unanswered. as their present
whereabouts remains unknown. Our
inability to reach the other gentlemen
makes 1t necessary to appeal to you,
Mr.. President, with the earnest re-
quest that you formally advise Col.
Sheriff. of your approval of his plans
to provide such emergency bathing
facilities. 1t Is. of course, understood
that the opening and operation of
these beaches this Summer will be
with privately contributed funds as
well as from the welfare funds of
which Col. Sheriff. is the custodian.
1T is suggested that Col. Sheriff.
seek the advice of the Federation Of
Civic Associations, the central body
Continued on Page 4. Column 2)
Evening star., 1925-06-13
By the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, June 13.-The death
of George Schofield, SO years old,
after a boxing match, in which his
15-year-old sweetheart was a par
ticipant, has led to an investigation
of Heaven City," love colony,
founded near Harvard, ILL.,, by AL
bert ]. Moore in 1923. The colony,
made up of twenty or more men,
women and children, was formed
when unfavorable publicity caused
Moore to leave Chicago. 1t con-
sists Of 130-acre farm.
Schofield died shortly after exert
ing himself in boxing bout with a
colony member in which the girl
joined when Schofield failed to live
up to his boast of prowess in the
ring. A coroner's jury found that
Evening star., 1925-06-13
FOUR SLAIN, 4 HURT.
IN z GUN BATTLES.
Two Police Sergeants, One
PatroIman and Gangster
All Fatally Shot.
By the Associated Press.

by the AsSoC1BteQ frcss.
CHICAGO, June 13.-Gangsters and
police shot 1t out today at close quar-
ters in a revolver battle resulting in
the death of two police sergeants. and
of John Genna. one of the attacking
gang, and the wounding of a third
policeman and Genna's two com
panions.
Genna is believed to have been a
brother to Angelo Genna, gangster,
recently assassinated.
The killings are believed to presage
a bitter police war against gunmen
and beer runners.
Supt. of Police Morgan A. Collins
declared that the police killers should
be indicted and hanged before the day
ended.
Those who were killed were:
Sergts. Charles Walsh. almost in
stantly killed, and H. Olson. died in
hospital, and John Genna, gangster.
died of wounds.
The wounded are: Sergt. Conway,
shot near the heart, who may die,
and John Stale and Albert Anmalie,
gangsters.
Chase Lasts IL Miles.
The battle burst after a chase of
nearly a mile and a half on Western
avenue after the police squad of four
sergeants from the detective bureau
saw a large automobile speeding
south.
The police car turned and pursued
The gangsters increased their speed
and at Sixtieth street their driver lost
control, and the car crashed into an
iron fence.
The detectives stopped few feet
away as the gangsters tumbled from
their car, with revolvers and shot
guns ready.
fusillade of slugs and bullets was
launched at the policemen. The first
volley dropped Sergt. Olsen when a
slug crashed through his mouth and
shattered his jaw. A hail of bullets
riddled Walsh, killing him almost in
Stantly.
Fifty Shots Fired.
More than so shots were fired, the
crashing of firearms alarming the
neighborhood. The battle occurred in
front of an automobile garage and
sales agency.
AS the police sergeants fell under
the severe fire of the gangsters, Genna
and his confederates started to flee.
Sergt. William Sweeney, the fourth
member of the police squad, virtually
single handed shot and captured the
entire gangster crew.
He pursued Genna into the base
ment of residence as they made tar
gets of one another, their revolvers
splitting bullets at every step. AS
Genna reached the basement, one Of
Sweeney's bullets dropped him, and he
fell. dying.
Spurred by the shooting of his three
Continued on Page 2, Column p
Evening star., 1925-06-13
FILM ACTOR BROWNS.
Doubling for Star, Tries to Shoot
Rapids in Canoe.

MARSHFIELD, Greg, June 13 P).-
r. D. Jones, a Hollywood actor, dou-
bling for a star in the Famous Play
ers-Lasky Co., filming a motion picture
here, was drowned in the Coquille
River yesterday. Jones was shooting
rapids in a canoe for a picture. The
canoe overturned and Jones disap-
peared.
Accounts received here said that
Jones was inexperienced in handling a
canoe, and was warned by a log driver
not to attempt to run the rapids.
The film company has been here
since the first of the week under the
direction of Irving Willat. Jones was
a young man and married.
Evening star., 1925-06-13
5000 TROOPS MOVE.
Cantonese Land at Tungpo-Ad.
vance Into Tungshan.

LONDON, June 13 R.-A delayed
Reuters dispatch from Canton says
5000 Cantonese troops - crossed the
river Thursday night from Honam
Island, in the Pearl River and land
ed at Tungpo, three miles east of
Tungshan. Fighting began east of
Tungshan before daylight yesterday
and later the Cantonese advanced
into the city. At the time the
dispatch was filed, fighting was going
on near Kwantung University, mid
way between Tungshan and Sha-
meen, the British settlement.
The strategic points at Shameep
were protected by sandbag bdrfs-
Evening star., 1925-06-13
GUARD FOR ALIENS.
Peking Government Expected to
Order Protection.

SHANGHAI, June 13 GP).-It is
unofficially reported the Peking gov
ernment has decided to issue on Mon
day a mandate instructing Chinese
provincial authorities to protect
foreigners during the present dis
turbances throughout the country.
Two thousand troops from the
Mukden army of Gen. Chang Tso-
Lin the Manchurian dictator, arriv-
ed in Shanghai this morning under
command of Gen. Changs son, Chang
Hsueh -Liang. The troops were
posted throughout the city, and at
the boundaries of the international
settlement which was marked by
Chinese flags.
Evening star., 1925-06-13
NOn-COmbatants and Soldiers
Are Stoned and Beaten to
Death by Victors.
BODIES OF SLAIN LIE ON ROADS:
EXTENSIVE LOOTING CARRIED ON
Treachery in Ranks of Kwangtsi Troops,
Who Quit for Cash, Is Main Cause
of Defeat of Yunnanese.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associate Press
CANTON 13-The attacking Kwangtuns Cantonese
forces under boshevk officers after fierce attack the
Tending Ynnanese forced them and
today imposed cruees soldiers population
we'll.
The attacking at Tungshan and
from that point they attacked leaving the defending
river transport facilities therefore unable to launch
counter attack.
After landing the Kwangung troops gave surendering
forces consideration although the defeated troops had voun
tariy given up their
NON-COMBATANTS ARE VICTIMS
The winning forces then began ootng the city
confined stations of opposing forces but extended
homes of -combatant citizens.
Revolving followed all parts city many
which witnessed by Europeans from the foreign quarter
Innocent people stoned and beaten by
Bodies of slain innocent bysanders along the
roads The surenderng Yunnanese troops
beaten death by the kwangng forces Shameen
foreign population conquered soldier commit suicide by
diving into the after witnessing the killing his
The forces either shot defeated
the river after beating them with bamboo
troops took petty articles household property
campaign OF terror
TREACHERY CAUSES DEFEAT.
The principal of the defeat of the troops
driven of Canton the treachey the ranks OF
the Kwangtsi troops, who quit for cash consideration
Considerable damage done buildings
gun fire. The revolving inside the city
caused by the Kwangtung troops.
The defeated leaders they would
avenge the wrongs done today .