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Evening star., 1925-04-14
BAB00N CAUSES PANIC
IN zoo AT NEW YORK
Breaks Bars and Holds Keepers at
Bay for Six Hours-Is
Finally Shot.
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, April 14-Joe, 90
pound baboon in the Central Park Zoo,
ran amuck yesterday in the monkey
house and kept a score of keepers
and a handful of police reserves at
bay for more than six hours until
he was shot dead. Several hundred
persons were in the monkey house
when Joe ripped off two of his cells
iron bars and leaped at the crowd
Screaming men, women and children
,trampled on one another in fighting
for the two exits.
A vigilant keeper shut the monkey
house doors before the baboon could
get through. Efforts to coax Joe back
TO his cage with sweetmeats failed.
He skilfully avoided attempts to las
so him and lodged his pursuers for
six hours. Finally he leaped to a win
dow, raised the sash and was about
TO leap to freedom when Patrolman
David Berger fired, Joe dropped, shot
through the heart.
Evening star., 1925-04-14
LIVE WIRE KILLS TWO
IN STORM IN MIDWEST
Freak Tornado Does Much Prop
erty Damage in Indiana and
Michigan Towns.
By the Associated Press.


INDIANAPOLIS, Ina, April IA
A Windstorm that almost attained the
destructive preparations of a tornado
hoped about over Indiana last night,
leaving in its wake damaged homes,
uprooted trees and leveled power and
communication lines.
Apparently entering the State from
the West, the storm passed over Sui
Iiyan, in the Southwestern section only
q few miles north of the territory hit
by last months disastrous tornado;
then moved northwest, through In
dianapolis, Kokomo, South Bend, and
hnauy yeering eastward to Fort
Wayne. No fatalities or serious in
1uries were reported, but the material
damage will aggregate thousands of
dollars.
BENTON HARBOR, Mich. April
IA high wind and electric storm.
accompanied by a heavy downpolfr of
rain, caused two deaths, wrecked a
partly completed factory building and
snapped off numerous telephone poles
in Berrien County last night. Two
men were killed when they came in
contact with a high tension wire that
had been blown down.
Evening star., 1925-04-14
TREASURY TO PROBE.
Will Act on Swiss Complaints
Against Customs Agents.

The Treasury Department will look
into the cause of Swiss protests
against alleged activities of American
customs attaches in connection with
enforcement of the tariff law pro-
visions under which price informa-
tion is sought.
Officials of the department are of
the opinion that recent developments
in Switzerland, which approached the
character of a diplomatic convention
with the American legation in Berne,
had arisen more from the activities of
representatives of the Department of
Commerce and the Tariff Commission
than from those of customs attaches.
Secretary Mellon, it was indicated to-
day, will talk over the situation with
the State Department.
Evening star., 1925-04-14
SITES FOR SCHOOLS
WILL Be INSPECTED
Locations Recommended for
Fairgrounds Also to Be
Visited Tomorrow.

Budget Bureau, District government
and school officials will make an in
spection tomorrow of school building
and playground sites recommended
for inclusion in the school budget for
the next fiscal year. The party will
be composed of +. j. Bailey and
George b. Kennedy Of the Budget Bu-
reau, Assistant District Engineer
Commissioner Holcombe, Supt. of
Schools Frank w. Ballou, Asst. Supt.
Robert L. Hayeock and several mem
bers of the Board of Education.
The survey of school sites will mark
another preliminary step in the prep
aration of the school estimates. The
properties to be inspected have been
vising principals of the several divi-
sions in reports to DR.. Ballou.
Draft Budget Next Week.
Actual drafting of the school budget
will be started next week, following
the school boards annual conference
with representative of the civic asso-
Citations and trade bodies scheduled
Monday night at o'clock at the
Franklin School. At this meeting the
delegates from these organizations Will
be given an opportunity to outline the
needs of the schools in the communi-
ties they represent.
The school board has not vet placed
any definite limitation on its budget
for the fiscal year of 1927, but indi-
cations are that it will exceed the rec
ord breaking estimates prepared for
the fiscal year of 1926, which totaled
about $12, 800 900. The new budget
will include about $4,000 900 for carry
ing out the second installment of the
S19,000,000 five-year building program
which has been authorized by Con-
gress. This S4,O00,OO however, will
come out of the surplus credited to the
District in the Treasury.
The school and playground sites in
spected tomorrow, if approved. will be
inserted in the budget as items credit
ed to the five-year building program.
The. inspection party is scheduled to
leave the office of Supt. Ballou at 8
o'clock.
Evening star., 1925-04-14

With nominations scheduled to close
today for the first election to the
Citizens Advisory Council, reports
from the various citizens organiZa-
tions indicate there will be 80 or more
candidates in the field for the posi-
tions on the council.
A number of new names were added
to the list as the result of meetings
Of neighborhood civic bodies in all
sections of the District last night.
OF the eight members to be elected,
six will be chosen by the Federation
of Citizens Associations and two by
the Federation of Civic Associations,
the latter representing the colored
organizations.
The secretaries of the respective
federations will now prepare formal
ballot sheets. The Federation of Citi.
zens' Associations will elect its six
members on the night of Saturday,
May 2. George H. Richardson, presi-
dent of the Federation of Civic Asso-
Citations, said his organization would
decide, at meeting on April "a, when
its two members will be elected.
Three Candidates Named
Three women nominated by their
associations last night today said they
would accept and would be in the
All nave DSen prominent
association activities.
Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley, put forward
by the Kalorama Citizens Association,
is chairman Of its committee on law
and legislation.
Mrs. Frank Hiram Smell, chairman
of the law and legislation committee
of the District chapter of the League
of Woman Voters, was nominee of
that organization.
Mrs. Alcena Lamond was named by
the Takoma Park Association, of
which body she is vice president. She
was for many years president of the
Eastern Star Home, resigning a year
ago.
Charles A. Baker Endorsed.
Charles A. Baker, past president of
the Federation of Citizens Associa-
tions. who previously had been nomi-
mated by the Conduit Road associa-
ton, was named last night by the
Northwest Suburban Association. He
was also indorsed by the Takoma
Park Association, which instructed it's
delegates to the federation to vote for
both him and Mrs. Lamond, its own
nominee.
George A Finch, vice president of
the federation, and long active in
civic affairs, was nominated by the
Piney Branch Association, on motion
by Edgar B. Henderson, president of
the association.
Henry K. Bush-Brown, sculptor,
was nominated by the Washington
chapter of the American Institute of
Architects, and was indorsed by the
Arts Club, of which he also is a mem
ber.
William S. Torbert, chairman of the
Evening star., 1925-04-14
JEWS TO ASK SECOND
TERM FOR COMMISSIONER
Delegation viii Appeal for His
Retention as Administrator
of Palestine.
BY the Associated Press.

JERUSALEM. April II Gewish
Telegraph Agency)-A Jewish dele
cation will appear before L. :. &mery
British colonial secretary, who is ex-
pected here this week. TO ask that Sir
Herbert Samuel continue in office as
high commissioner of Palestine for a
second term.
A demonstration in favor Of Sir
Herbert'S remaining in Office occur
red Saturday in the synagogue, where
the high commissioner attended serv-
ices. He was giving ''maftir," the
reading of the weekly portion Of the
prophets. During his recital of the
prayers, when he came TO the pas
sage "On His chair there shall not sit
a stranger and others shall not in
herit His glory" the congregat ton
rose and repeated the passage after
him
Evening star., 1925-04-14
BIG NOTES ARE CALLED IN.
1OO-Billion Mark Paper Declared
Void After April 20.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, April 1.-THE last issues
of German notes of huge denomlna-
tions, the product of the era of in
fiation, are being withdrawn from
circulation.
Holders Of 10Obillion mark notes,
designated as the first issue, and
bearing the date of October 26, 1923,
and holders of 10-billion mark notes,
dated November l., 1928, have been
warned to turn them in for redemp-
ton before April 20. 1925. The Reichs-
banks obligation for these notes ex-
pires upon that date. The time for
redeeming 5-billion mark notes, dated
November 1 and November Z, 1928,
expired on April 5.
Evening star., 1925-04-14
POLICE PROBE BLAST.

MORGANToWN. W. Va, April IA
police who investigated an
explosion of dynamite near the Con
tinental Coal Company's mine at
Scott's Park here late last night found
that no damage had been done and
that no one was injured. The explo-
sion occurred in an open field.
Five men were arrested for ques-
tioning concerning the blast.
Evening star., 1925-04-14
DOGS BRING MAIL FAR.

EDMONTON, Alberta, April IA
Mail from Aklavik and other points
in the Far North arrived Sunday at
Fort McMurray, 800 miles northeast
of here, and is to reach Edmonton
Friday on the Alberta and Great
Waterways Railway from Waterways,
Alta, having covered approximately
], 800 miles by dog team relays, it was
learned here today.
The mail is the first of the year
from trappers, traders and pros
pectors of the Far North for aAAsa1rs
points in nearly six mQRskzs
Evening star., 1925-04-14
DRIVER OF LIQUOR CAR
WOUNDED WHILE FLEEING
Dry Agents Capture 1000 Cases
and Make Four Arrests in
Running Fight.
Rr the Associated Press

NEW YORK. April 14.-When the
driver of a truck, on which they said
were 500 cases of liquor, failed to stop
At their command, prohibition agents
early today opened fire, near the
Bowery, and in a running fight
wounded the driver. Two trucks
each containing 500 cases of LIQUOR,
and a pleasure car were confscated
and four men We're arrested.
Three Federal agents drove to Glen
cove, Long Island, at midnight. in an
effort to stop a shipment of liquor
they were informed was to come in a
15-ton speed boat Failing to arrive
in time, they returned to New York
and stationed themselves at the Man
haitian end of the williamsburg
Bridge. Soon two trucks appeared.
One needed a command to stop. The
other kept on.
The shooting caused such excite
ment that it was necessary to call out
police reserves.
The pleasure car seized was trailing
the trucks,
Evening star., 1925-04-14
Helium Used as Starter.

Helium, the non-combustible gas
used in filling the lighter-than-air
craft, has found another use. 1t has
always been impossible on the Los
Angeles to carry enough compressed
air intact for the purpose of kicking
over" the engines in starting Ex-
periments conducted at Lakehurst,
the Naval air station, have developed
the fact that this gas can be used
successfully in starting the big motors
of the craft
Evening star., 1925-04-14
INCOME TAX DECISION.
Court of Claims Action May Have
Wide Scope.

The United States Court of Claims
yesterday handed. down a decision re-
garding the income tax reductions of
a Marine Corps officer, which may af-
feet officers of the Army, Navy, Ma
rine Corps and other branches of the
Government service.
The opinion involved only $2189, in
the case of Clifford Jones, a Marine
Corps officer, who during part of a
taxable period lived in quarters pro-
vided at Fort Monroe, Va, and also
in Washington under an allowance.
He paid his income tax under protest
and sued to recover the amount Of
the tax on his allowance.
The court held that such officers
may deduct from their incomes in
making returns allowances for quar-
ters or the value of quarters provided
by the Government in lieu Of allow
anceS.
Evening star., 1925-04-14
Asks 5000 as Price
Of a Single Drink
OfGenuirse Whisky
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, April IA
Suit for the recovery of one drink
of whisky was filed yesterday by
Jacob Jung, a baker, against Dis
trict Attorney Matthew Brady and
Chief of Police Daniel O'Brien. In
his complaint Jung alleged that Po-
liceman James Giffen last January
entered his bakery without war
rants, ard therefore unlawfully
seized the drink of whisky. Jung
said that in lieu of the liquor he
would accept $299.
A demurrer to the suit was en-
tered before a justice of the peace,
who held Jung had sufficient cause
for action, and ordered Brady and
O'Brien to proceed with the case.
Evening star., 1925-04-14
ASSAILANT Is HUNTED.

BRISTOL, Va, April 14.-Blood- :
hounds last night failed to pick up a
scent when taken to the scene Of an
alleged attack by a negro man upon
a 1I.year old white girl, and were dis.
carded by a posse OF armed civilians
and police officers, who continued
search for the assailant.
Two negroes were detained, one at
Blountville, Tenn, and the other at
Bluff City, but were released when
the girl failed to identify them.
Evening star., 1925-04-14
AirpIanes to Bear
10000 Post Cards
Ouer North Pole
BY Cable to The Star.

TROMSO, Norway, April 14.-Six-
teen thousand postcards sent by
Americans and Europeans for trans
mission to the North Pole will be
carried in the two airplanes of the
Norwegian Aero Club expedition that
will hop off from Spitzbergen for the
worlds summit next month. Upon
the return of the expedition the cards
will be mailed to the senders.
Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the
South Pole, who will be an observer
in one of the planes, said prior to the
departure Of the expedition from
Tromso:
Every one who bought the cards
may be assured that they will be
carried, without exception, across the
North Pole. Every precaution is be-
ing taken that they receive the pole
imprint They will be unusual SOU
Venirs"
Evening star., 1925-04-14
$4,000 IS SUBSCRIBED
FOR WILSON MEMORIAL
National Appeal for Funds for
Memorial Now Will Start
From Staunton.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
STAUNTON, Va, April 14.-With
an over-subscription of $4,000 a citi-
zens committee here last night closed
a campaign for 100000 to go toward
establishing a birthplace memorial to
Woodrow Wilson here.
In announcing the result OF the
campaign, William A. Pratt, chairman
Of the committee, said national ap-
peal for funds for the shrine soon
will be made by a committee of dis
tinguished Americans headed by
President Edwin A. Alderman of the
University of Virginia.
Evening star., 1925-04-14
$4,000 Viii Found
In Shoe of Dead Son
after -Four Years
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH. April 1.-THE
will of Frank Cato, the where
abouts of which had been unknown
since he scrawled it on a slip of
paper four years ago, was found
yesterday in the shoe Of a dead son,
where Cato had placed IL. The
will, disposing of $4,000 estate
to Mrs. Cato, was filed for probate
today.
IF 1 should die without explain
ing this paper to you 1 hope our
beloved son in Heaven will help
you find it, the will said, in part.
1t was executed soon after the sons
death and placed in "a shoe that
was retained as a keepsake.
Evening star., 1925-04-14
DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE ILL,
Condition of Former Canadian
Governor Causes Anxiety,

WATERFORD, Ireland, April IA
The condition of the Duke of Devon
shire, former governor general of
Canada, who suffered a slight stroke
of paralysis at his Irish estate, Lis
more Castle, near here, on Sunday,
continues to cause anxiety, although
he is better than he was Immediately
after he became i'll.
The dukes eldest son and heir, the
Marquis of Harrington, has arrived
at the bedside from Derbyshire. Doc
tors from Lismore, Dungarvan and
Cork are in attendance on the Duke
sf DsvonshiEt. who is in his 57th year.
Evening star., 1925-04-14

other clubs are being annoyed by
"holdout" athletes.
Several promising and costly stars
have been added TO the major league
ranks since the close of last season
and many clubs have attempted to
strengthen their teams through
trades, but those that finished near
the top OF the two heaps last year
are generally favored TO furnish the
stiffest fight this year
But whatever the dope. it probably
will be upset one way or another.
It always has and the prognostica-
tions OF the experts in early Surfing
have nothing to do with the final
outcome of the races in the Fall.
Evening star., 1925-04-14
FORD DAM BURSTS;
SC0RESFLEEFL00D
12-Foot Wall of Water
Sweeps Michigan Valley.
Troopers Save Many.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
DETROIT. Mich, April 14.-Scores
of families in the Valley of the Huron
River between Flat Rock and Lake
Erie were driven from their homes
early today when the dam at the
power plant of the Ford Motor Co. at
Flat Rock burst and released millions
OF gallons Of water into the valley.
More than 5000 acres is reported
under water, which is said to be
IL feet deep in some places and stead
lily rising.
The valleys inhabitants were
warned of the flood by troopers from
the South lockwood station of the
Michigan State police. who started
along the river to rouse persons living
nearby as soon as guards at the dam
had telephoned the station of the dis
aster. SO rapidly did the water rise
that the officers were soon forced to
take TO boats, going thus from house
20 mousse with their warning, ferrying
scores of families to places OF safety
and sending the men ahead in com.
mandeered boats to aid in the rescue
work.
Live Stock on Floating Debris.
No lives have been lost. so far as
could be learned, although many
houses built below the level of the
dam We're inundated.
reports from various places along
the miles from Flat Rock to Lake
Erie indicate that the entire valley, a
some places mile wide, is under
water.
Hundreds of small houses. many of
"hlch are set on stills, line the river
at AT ltS banks, but State troopers be-
heVe no lives were lost, because of
the ample warning given.
Although the water was high
around the bridges of the Michigan
central and the Detroit, Toledo and
Shore Line Railroads below Flat
Rock, traffic was not interrupted.
Small barns, lighthouses, wooden
farm implements, trees. bushes and
furniture We're drifting down the val
ley on current running 10 miles
an hour. The troopers reported see
ing chickens clinging to drifting sheds
and once dog, marooned atop n
small barn, howled in fear as the
waves rocked and buffeted his raft
through the wreckage.
Dam Partly of Earth.
The break in the Ford Co. dam fol-
lowed the crumbling of the earth en-
bankments that flank the new Detroit
Edison Co. dam at French Landing,
several miles above Flat Rock, yester-
day. The imPounded water of the
smile artificial lake rushed through
the break.
The dam. which is 32 feet high, is
built partly of concrete end partly of
earth. Engineers estimated today
that already 10000 cubic feet of
earth have been washed away, while
the river today is eating into the re-
naming earth works, and engineers
believe more will be swept out.
The new power station of the Edi-
son Co. was to have been opened May
/. The cost of the plant was $3.50, 900.
Evening star., 1925-04-14
THOMAN INQUIRY
DROPPED BY POLICE
Slight Trace of Poison Found,
But No Indications of Any
Foul Play Indicated.

Although some evidence of poison
ing was revealed by an autopsy over
the body Of the late Samuel p Curtin
Thoman, corroborating TO a certain
extent charges that ne was given
strange white powder" in a drink
While on his death bed a year ago. the
authorities Will definitely drop the in
vestigation. because the evidence
found was not sufficient proof Of foul
play.
This was made known today by
Coroner ]. Ramsay hewitt after a con
ference with Deputy Coroner Herbert
T.. Martyr in charge Of the autopsy.
which ciimaNed a police investigation
of an attack by unknown persons"
on Mrs. Fleta MotherweT daughter Of
the deceaS Sed.
DR.. Oscar 3. Hunter. assistant dean
Of the George Washington Tniver-
sity Medical School. who has conduct
ed the pathological examination Of
the eXhumed vital organs. viii report
formally late this afternoon that he
found slight evidences Of poisoning
but. il is understood, will Indicate that
he could not assert that the effects
noted were the result Of deliberate
dosage.
The poison. the presence Of which
caused the pathological changes in
the tissues observed by Dr. Hunter
under the microscope and which was
confirmed by distillation Of the organs.
might be found naturally in any body.
according to DIR. T. NJ. Price health
department chemist, who already has
formally announced his failure 10 ind
any trace of metallic or alkalold
poison in the remains.
Police Drop Case.
The fact that the presence Of The
poison referred TO could not be def
nitely attributed to malicious sources
automatically rendered its discovery.
from criminal standpoint valueless
The corOner's office. consequently.
does not feel justified in recommend
ing further police action with regard
to letter. now in the hands Of he
police. naming a certain person aS
having poisoned Mr. Thoman last
May. The unknown persons who
were reported 10 have blindfolded
gagged and bound Mrs MotherweH
several weeks ago were supposed Is
have been in search Of such letter
Inspector Clifford L. Grant of The
Detective Bureau who requested the
eXhumation of the body already has
announced that he VIII drop the in
Vestigation if the cOroner's office re-
ported lack Of poison in the remains
The latter itself, police say. does not
warrant making an arrest.
Evening star., 1925-04-14
Totals Indicate Prosperity.
Recent Gold Exports Heavy.

The silver exports amounted to ST.
916,717 during March, and were bal
anced by imports of $6,660,750 during
the same period.
The gold movement since last July,
when the fiscal year began, has re-
suited in the export of $207,023,9O6
worth of the metal. while the imports
haven been $109 ass, ,281, so that the net
loss for the period is approximately
5000. 900. The amount is still small,
as compared both with the monetary
stock of the metal now in the country
and with the imports, balances which
the United States has experienced in
recent years. In the fiscal year ended
last July the country imported $417,-
025.63S in gold and exported only
$40, ,206, ,941.
Evening star., 1925-04-14
"KING BASE BALL"
BEGINS RULE TODAY;
GRIFFS PLAY AT 2::30 m.

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Evening star., 1925-04-14
SECOND R.ACE-3Claiming: purse, 81 zoo:
THIRD z RACE-PIIrse, 81 ~
~ Ell,nn. 4 fllr.lnnrs
FOURTH RACE-The Tip-Top parse,
i 900: for 3-year-olds: 8 y furlonsG

All 2. Whitney entry.
c-Mr. And Mrs. w. NJ. Jefords entry.