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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-31

rection of Hyattsville Khan. No. 2,
of the Realm of Maryland, but
branches of the order throughout
Maryland and Virginia will CO.
operate.
The names of those in charge Of
arrangements are being carefully
guarded.
The fiery cross will be between
fifty and seventy-five feet high and
will be erected on a cliff overlook
ing the bay. 1t will be visible both
on land and water for miles around.
The site of the old Belvedere
Hotel, which was burned down n
year or two ago, has been selected
as the spot for the cross, because
its proximity to the boardwalk and
the railroad station.
Officials Of the Chesapeake Beach
Railway Company will superir,
tent the erection Of the cross so as
to guarantee Its stability and guard
against risk of fire and accident.
Some To Be Masked
The initiation ceremony will be
staged at the foot of the burning
cross, with the participating klans-
men dressed in full regalia and
wearing their masks. The public
will be permitted to approach close
enough to get full view OF the
entire ceremony.
The klansmen will wear their
robes all day long. The beach will
! place absolutely no restrictions
upon the hooded members. They
will be permitted to appear either
with or without their masks.
Because Of the unmasking OF the
klansmen during the recent parade
in Washington, there is no longer
so much secrecy about membership,
and most Of the klansmen are ex-
pected to appear without their
masks.
But there are numerous. doctors
lawyers. judges and business men.
1t is pointed out, who cannot afford
for professional or business reasons
TO make known their membership in
the order, and they will appear care.
fully masked.
Public is Invited
In addition to the 10000 Klans-
men, the entire summer population
Of Chesapeake Beach and North
Beach--about 1000 people-will turn
out en- masse. A general invita-.
ton has been extended to the pub
lie, and the crowd, it is expected,
will be further augmented by thou.
sands of -Klansmen.
The entire resort will be turned
over to the Khan for the day Both
the railway company and the Bust.
ness Mems Association of Chesa-
peake Beach are preparing for the
! largest crowd ever handled at the
resort in its entire history.
Special trains will be run all day
long. Extra parking space is being
arranged at the Beach
For the convenience of persons
desiring to drive only as far as the
District line and there take trains
! the railway company will arrange
| special parking space at Chesapeake
Junction. Special policemen will be
employed to assist in handling txaf-
fic.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-31
GUARD URNS
FROM CAMP
At BEACH
Officers Praise Work of D. c..
Soldiers and Declare
Morale Is High

Amid the cheers of admiring
friends and relatives. the District
National Guardsmen returned home
yesterday from Virginia Beach, Va.
where they have been for the past
two weeks.
The tanned guardsmen marched
from the wharf of the Norfolk and
Washington Steamboat Company to
the arn1ory at Fifth and L streets
northwest, where they were paid
off and dismissed.
Colonel John w. Oehmann, COM
manding officer, expressed himself
as gratified with the result Of the
two weeks training the men re-
ceived. The conduct Of the troops
was of the best. not single court
martial trial having to be held, he
said. The morale of the organiza-
ton was never higher. he stated.
Major General Anton Stephan
lauded the work of the guardsmen
during their training period, and
also spoke Of the desirability of re-
turning to Virginia Beach next
year. There Is a movement on TO
build good roads from the main
highway to the camp and to pur-
chase adjoining property.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-31
TRAINS
co ON LATE
SCHEDULE
Fall Timetable to Chesapeake
Resort Will. Continue Till
September "a

The late summer schedule of
trains to and from Chesapeake
Beach went into effect this morning
and will continue until Monday,
September IA. when the curtailed
winter schedule begins.
During the next two weeks. with
the exception OF Saturdays and Sun
days and Labor Day, trains will
leave the District Line at 8 and
80 a. m. and 2:30 and $40 p. M.
returning from the beach at 6:S5
a. m. and / 2:30 and p. m.
On Saturdays trains will leave the
District Line at 9:15 and 1880 a. m.
and 2:30, 3:25, and p. m. re-
turning at 6:35 a. m. and 1890. l..
$50. s and 10 D. m. On Sundays
trains will leave the District Line
at $50 and II 80 a. m. and 800.
445 and 8 p. M, returning at Z
a. M and 1. 3. 6. 8 and 10 p. m.
Special train service will be in eff
feet on Labor Day to accommodate
the crowds.
The resort closes for the season
On Sunday, September 13. after
which there will be limited daily
service for the convenience of
fishing parties.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-31
SUIT FILED
To RECOVER
100000
Fleet Corporation Sues Five
Indemnity Concerns on
Company Bonds

The United States Shipping
Board Emergency Fleet Corpora
ton has filed suit in the Dis
trict Supreme Court against the
New Amsterdam Casualty Company.
Maryland Casualty Company. Fi-
deity and Casualty Company Of
New York, Globe Indemnity Com
pany and the London and Lam
cashire Indemnity Company to re-
cover $3.50 900 under bonds given by
tracts made by the Fleet Corpora
ton with the Green Star Steamship
Corporation of the State of Della
ware in 1920 and 1921.
The Shipping Board charges that
the steamship company failed TO
keep its agreement and failed to
make settlement. so that it is in
debted to the United States to d
total of $434,665.36. and that the
steamship company on October l.,
1921, acknowledged itself to be in
solvent and ceased to operate ans
of the twentyfour vessels which
had been allocated to it under the
agreements. No portion of the in
debtedness has been paid, accord
ing TO the Shipping Board, and
the companies are liable on the
bonds to the limit of $4,000 each
and Judgment is asked for that
amount against each of the five
companies. United States Attor-
ney Gordon and his assistant, Leo
Rover, appear for the Fleet Cor
poration.
1t is also claimed that the steam
ship company discontinued bust
ness without accounting or paying
10 the Shipping Board the moneys
due it at that time and that be-
tween February Is, 1920, and Oc-
ober 4, 1921. the company from
time to time 'frauduIently and dis
honestly" transacted fuel oil from
the Governments vessels to ves-
sells owned by the steamship com
pany, and failed to account for the
value of the oil. The Government
further declares that from time to
time the steamship company sold
property belonging to the United
States without accounting for it.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-31
KHAN To STAGE
PICNIC At
BEACH
10000 Members Viii Take
Part in Ceremonies at
Chesapeake Resort

Ten thousand Ku Klux Kiansmen
from the District and all sections
OF Maryland and Virginia are Sc
cretly arranging to stage a huge
picnic and demonstration at Chesa-
peake Beach on Saturday. Septem-
Der 12. 1t will be the first Khan
outing of its. kind ever held in this
section of the country.
The celebration will reach it's eli
max In the evening. when the
Klansmen will light a huge fiery
cross and conduct an elaborate in
itiation ceremony.
Some of the most noted Khan
orators in the country have ac-
cepted invitations 10 address the
throng. Their names will be made
public on the eve of the picnic.
Although preparations for the out
ing have been under way for more
than a month, the greatest of Sc
CT ecy is being maintained. and news
did not leak out until today.
Names Carefully Guarded.
The excursion will be under di-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-31
INVESTIGATES REPORT
PRISONER HAD SOFT SNAP

The Department of Justice has
launched an investigation into re-
ports that unusual liberties have
been given Terry Druggan. Fed
era1 prisoner IN the Cook County
Jail. Chicago.
Reports of alleged freedom given
Druggan on several occasions re-
Gently were placed before Superin-
tendent of Prisons Luther White.
together with a demand that the
freeing of frankie Lake, Druggan's
partner, twenty-five days before his
sentence expired, be thoroughly in
vestigated.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-31
Cypsies Burned Alive

MOSCOW, Aug. 81. Accusing
them OF being horse thieves, peas.
ants In the Moscow suburb of Push.
Min have burned alive two SyDsieN
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-31
BETHESDA WINS
MONTGOMERY
PENNANT
CIinches Race In County
League by Victory at
Silver Spring

ROCKVILLE, Aug. 31.-By de-
feating Silver Spring al Bethesda
Saturday afternoon. to z, while
Boyds split even with Glen Echo,
at Boyds. in a doubIeheader, Bethes-
da clinched the pennant in the
Montgomery county baseball league.
Boyds. the runner.up, and Bethesda
each has three more games to play
but Bethesda could lose them all
and still he a full game ahead.
Rockville won both ends OF a
doubleheader with sDickerson. at
Rockville
The team standing is now as fol-
lows: Bethesda, 1913; Rockville.
1917: Silver Spring. SO; Glen Echo.
7-10: Dickerson. 2-15.
Next Saturday afternoon Rock
vile plays at Dickerson, Bovds Mt
Silver Spring, and Bethesda at Glen
Echo.
Doctor John Gardner. county
treasurer. has given notice that all
State and county taxes for the wear
which began July / bear interest
at the rate Of per cent, beginning
September ]. He has arranged for
such taxes to be paid at any OF the
banks of the county or at the treas
urer's office in Rockville.
The farm of George u. Savage
containing 1913 acres and located
near Jamestown. this county, was
sold by Sheriff Clay Plummer At
public auction Saturday to James
f. kelchner. OF Rockville. for SO $50.
The farm Of Thomas r. Barnsley,
near Avery. this county, was also
sold at public auction Saturday, the
purchaser being the Montgomery
County National Bank of Rockville
and the price $4,000. The place con.
tainS ISL acres.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-31
23-FooT SNAKE SEEN
NEAR SHAKER COLONY

CINCINNATI. Aug. 81. With
their hair standing on end. their
knees quaking for fear that they
will actually see what they are seek
ing. groups of persons quite fire.
quently of late have invaded the
Lebanon, Ohio, in a search for an
enormous snake, said 10 1--WE in that
neighborhood.
As far as can be determined only
two persons have actually seen the
reptile, which they say is from
twenty-five to twenty three feet long
and as large as the average stove
pipe. They are Dutch" Bishop and
Dave Thompson. farmers.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-31
.z|ON|STS HAVE
WARM FINAL
SESSION
Leave Formation Of Executive
to Committee After 12
Hours Fight
BY international News service

VIENNA, Aug. Sl.-Wltn the
radical socialist element vigorously
protesting, the Zionist congress,
after a stormy final session, last
ing twelve hours voted to leave
the formation of the executive In
the hands of President Weisemann
and Vice President Sokolow. ana
adjourned.
The selection of coalition execu-
tive proved to be the most contro-
versial problem which came before
the congress. After repeated at
tempts to choose proved futile, the
standing committee recommended
that the task be delegated to
Messrs. Weisemann AMI Sokolow
This recommendation was adopt
ed by the decisive vote of 142 to
Is but not until the extreme social
ist protested against such radical
departure from Zionist traditions,
which they declared favored choice
of executive by direct vote.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-31
French Claim Fulton
Launched Boat
On Augrone

REMIREMONT, France, Aug.
S1.-American history may have
to be revamped, for the citizens
of this town have decided to
erect a monument to Robert
Fulton announcing to the world
that it was on the River Aug
rome, which flows through this
city, and not on the Hudson,
that Fulton launched the first
steamboat.
Fulton, according to the Re-
miremont history, came to
France with the idea of inter-
esting Napoleon in his inven-
zion, but the little Corsican was
so busily engaged in fighting
united Europe that he sent the
lovely but Inflated Josephine to
watch the efforts of Fulton.
With fitting ceremonies Full
ton launched a steamboat and
operated it upon the waters of
the Augrone. Josephine WAS
greatly impressed and promised
to secure a subsidy for Full
ton. She either failed or for
got her promise and Fulton re-
turned to America to seek the
needed financial aid.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-31
ALARM CLOCK RoUTS
BURGLAR FROM HOUSE

TOLEDO, Ohio, Aug. 81. A
frightened burglar fled from the
home OF Carl Schultz, at 4:30 a. M,
when Schultz's alarm clock sounded.
Schultz told police that he had
set the alarm when he retired. He
was awakened by its ringing just
in time to see man fleeing from
the house.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-09

ed across, keeping step, it would soon have
the huge structure swaying, creaking and
straining at its rivets and cables. For
this reason soldiers crossing bridges are
ordered to "break step"
Il a regiment should wish to make the
suicidal experiment of bringing down the
bridge with the vibration of its feet IT
would probably have to experiment some
time until it found the BRIDGES funda-
mental vibration and adjusted its step to
it-for resonance must be exact, The
baby must push the hammock at just the
right instant or it slows the vibration in
stead of increasing it. Had the Charleston
been danced to slower or faster time, or
perhaps even to the same time in another
hall, nothing serious might have happened.
Resonance, though not understood I'M
til studied by science in modern times
has been used by man through the ages
and by savages of today with surprising
results. Travellers in the wilderness of
Africa and South America have wondered
how news of their approach and dOings
was spread with a speed that suggested
telephone or radio. II proved to be res
OnanCe.
With infinite pains, the savages hewed
and whitfield a pair Of hollow trees until
they were in resonance, that is, until the
fundamental note which would cause them
to vibrate as whole was the same. If
you struck one the other would boom in
sympathy. This done, one would be kept
in the main village of the tribe and
listener stationed with his ear to a small
hole in the log.
The other log would be carried Ear away
across mountain, valley and stream to an
other village. If either log was struck the
sound itself could not be heard in the
other village, but the faint vibrations in
perfect resonance would start a sympa-
thetIc agitation of the other log, and the
listener with his ear at the hole would hear
II. 1t is reported that this trick is done
IN India with gOurds and with drums.
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of the old dance snapped some worn
out link in the structure, throwing its
burden on another, which also gave up
the ghost. The walls bulged, the floors
fell, and amid the ripping, tearing and
thunder of rending materials and cloud
of dust the structure went down in ruin,
taking vengeance on the lives of forty
four of its destroyers and injuring and
terrifying most of the others in the
building.
The ancient Egyptians used the power
of resonance for evil purposes as well as
good. When the Pharaohs were laid away
in their tombs with all the valuabies they
would need in the hereafter, they pro-
tected their underground treasure cham
bers with massive blocks of stone which
might well defy modern grave robbers
unless armed with compressed air drills
and dynamite. The ancient thieves had no
such implements, and, like all robbers,
they had to work fast or, in their case,
be caught by the commission that guarded
the .tOmbs and suffer as disagreeable
death as these authorities could invent.
These ancient craftsmen, after burrow-
ing down into the earth and reaching the
great blocks, broke them up quickly and
easily by esonance-tapping with their
hammers in perfect unison but varying
tempo until their leader felt the stone
respond to a certain rate. They had
struck its fundamental note and had only
to keep on little and soon it began to
fly to pieces.
1t is asserted by many that it was by
resonance that Joshua and his host tum-
bled the walls of Jericho. His army, it
is recorded in the Bible, marched around
the town, blew its trumpets and down
crashed the walls. By blowing exactly
the right note on all the bugles il is quite
possible that the masonry might have
been caused to disintegrate, just as the
Pickwick Club did. The difficulty of this
explanation lies in explaining how Joshua
got all his bugles in such perfect tune and
how he knew just the right note. That in
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itself would be something of a miracle.
More probable is the theory that it was
a coincidence of the tread of the march
ing host happening to hit the fundamental
note of a large section of the wall. This
might have weakened it until it needed
only some additional thing to shake loose
some small keystone in the structure to
wreck it all. This could well have been
accomplished by the blaring note of not
all, but just one or two, of Joshua's
buglers. For all we know, Joshua's host
may have done a few steps out there not
unlike the Charleston.
Resonance can be produced only in
elastic material. Felt, for instance, is the
most inelastic material known. Felt not
only refuses to vibrate when struck but
II absorbs and kills vibrations in otha.
bodies. Sound-proof walls have felt lin
ings. Felt in the construction of the Pick
wick might have saved it. If the walls
of Jericho had been built of felt Joshua
and company might have marched and
blown till they were black in the face
and the battlements would have stood, at
least until the moths got into them.
Even greater feats than science has ever
attempted have been done by resonance.
The moon, according to astronomers and
biologists, was born out of Mother Earth,
and the father was resonance. 1t hap
pened great many million years ago,
when the earth was red-hot mass and
the day was only three or four hours long
because the planet revolved much faster
than now. There was no moon.
The sun raised two tides a day, about
an hour and forty-five minutes apart, and
by this rhythm or resonance the tides in
creased, swinging or oscllatng more and
more as the baby's finger swung the ham,
mock. One day the tidal wave went too
high to be recalled and a molten wave
lesped into the sky. The moon was born.
While only lovers, dogs and burglars
take much interest in the moon, millions
of dancers all over the world will be con-
cerned to know that the resonant Charles
ton has sunk dance floors as much as four
inches in New York and other cities.
While dancers seem willing to risk their
necks, tender-hearted landlords are forbid
ding the resonant antics of the Charleston.
and it may soon be taboo from coast to
coast.
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down, il would have produced noise and
various vibrations, but little effect on the
structure.
Resonance" said the engineers called
in to inspect the ruins. what were they
dancing when it fell?"
The experts were informed that the
building went down during waltz. Now
that ancient dance of our fathers day
has been done on every kind of floor,
from the waxed maple of the ballroom to
the creaky boards of the barn, without
knocking any houses down. Sotle scien-
fists had to look a little deeper. They
learned that the dance just before the last
waltz had been the Charleston. Then they
knew they were on the right track.
Reformers and moralists of all sorts
look upon the Charleston as perhaps the
most harmless of all dances since the state
" minuet. II violates no laws, no codes
of which they know anything. But to
the structural engineer it is menace and
invention of the devil, monkeying with the
laws of vibration and the building codes.
The tango may be a home-wrecker, but
the Charleston is house-wreCker.
The Charleston isn't really any more TO
be called dance than is the daily dozen"
or the army's setting-up exercise. II is
series of antics such as might cause a
monkey with any pride at all TO side with
the fundamentalists and deny his human
relationship. The dancers, if you wish to
call them such, go through this ritual fac
ing each other, but as far apart as the
most rigorous reformer could ask The
woman places her hands on the mans
shoulders, and he holds her by the waist
al point just about where wOmen's hips
used to be before hips were abolished.
The reason for this defensive attitude
becomes apparent as soon as the music
sets the couples into action. The dance
is nothing but a series of kicks and stamps
-bow-legged kicks, knock-kneedkicks side
kicks, back kicks, front kicks and stamps
to correspond. This irresponsible kicking
around, like a fy-pestered horse, makes II
obvious why the dancers maintain the
arms-length position. To dance the
Charleston at close quarters would call for
cricket players shin guards.
What the Charleston lacks in rhyme
and reason II makes up in rhythm, vicious
brick-and-mOrtar destroying rhythm which
the scientist c~lls resonance. Resonance
is a peculiar trick of nature by which an
Insignificant force can be accumulated IN
til il becomes a torrent Of destructive
energy. Engineers are continually using
resonance to get something out of almost
nothing; for instance, radio but, like dyna-
mite, they hate TO see it in the hands Of
frivolous persons.
Resonance is a kind of vibration. A
baby pushing against his 200-pOund mother
living in a hammock can hardly stir her,
but if he pushes her again, at just the
right moment, his second push is a little
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at one blow. Often it slowly wears
il out by fatigue of material" Steering
knuckles of automobiles sometimes crys-
tallze inside without betraying any
change in outside appearance, and then,
some day, when no special strain is being
applied, just snap like glass, causing seri-
Gus accidents.
This seems TO have been the case in the
Pickwick Club. The Charleston had been
danced in Boston for about three months,
and it appears to have been special
favorite in that hall. Probably the first
time it was done the music and the per
formers hit the fundamental rhythm Of
the building, and, without knowing what
il meant, felt the structure respond. There
is feeling of subconscious satisfaction,
an celebrating sense of power in making
big inanimate objects sway to the magical
motions of puny human beings. This may
account for the fact that dancers at the
Pickwick Club at once became addicts Of
the crazy Charleston.
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that old building tired, more tired every
day, until it could no longer stand up and
Topped its weary bones on the street.
On the fatal night the jewellers danced
the thing four times, which was once too
often, and still the building stood for a
few seconds. II was like a prize fighter
knocked out but still on his feet against
the ropes. The building was not equally
fatigued in all its parts, the most exhaust
ed had to give way first. Somewhere,
perhaps, girder or steel bolt needed
only the proyerbial straw to break the
camePs back.
Expert mathematicians, who have fig
ured the effect of concurrent beats de-
livered by the heels of man and woman
of average weight, estimate that at about
the fftieth cadenced step in dance like
the Charleston every couple deliver a blow
on the dance floor that, at each stamp,
sends il quivering with vibrations equal
to the force delivered by giant twenty
times their weight.
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pushes. Each of
these pushes must
come at exactly the
right interval. In
other words, they
must all be in reso-
nance.
All the soldiers in
the United States
Army, alta c king
Brooklyn Bri d G e
with their feet and
hands, coulu do no
more than mar the
paint, and yet, if
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