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Evening star., 1925-02-04
NEW HOPE SEEN FOR RIGHTING
WRONG DONE EMPLOYE BY u. S.
Friends of George. Taylor of Richmond Heartened
by Committee Report Recommending Pay
ment of 81, 900 to Postal Clerk.

paid Taylor the sum of $40 to reim-
burse him for money he had paid
out of his own funds in cashing
two money orders during the super
lunchtime. The superin-
tendent, under cross-examination
admitted that 'if he had been mean
enough" he could have included the
marked money in the SAG paid Taylor
and stolen $50 out of his own cash
drawer himself.
Prosecuting Attorney Drops Charge.
Robert H. Talley. assistant United
States district attorney. handling the
prosecution, upon hearing this ad-
mission and further testimony re-
.garding the superintendent's wi
cious" character, Immediately arose
and demanded that the jury return
a verdict of mot guilty" sn behalf
of Taylor. The judge approved the
verdict.
Judge waddill later announced:
"It was the most outrageous case
brought against an official l ever
knew of, and there is not the slight
est justification or excuse for the
refusal to give this man vindication.'
Prosecutor Talley, on reading this
statement, announced: nave
always taken the same view
Schieck, the station superintendent,
later was transferred from the Rich
mond post office and then dropped from
the service. Mr.. Tayler was reduced
to extreme poverty and suffered great
humiliation. He appealed to the
Hitchcock administration of the POST
Office Department for reinstatement
and back pay, again to the Burleson
administration, and finally to the Hays
administration. Will Hays. after a
personal investigation, recommended
to President Harding that an execu-
tive order of reinstatement be issued
and this was DONE. only to find the
order technically blocked
Now In Feeble Health.
At present Taylor, we'll in his
seventies, is reported to 'be in very
feeble health, patiently waiting and
hoping for the aid he believes
Uncle Sam eventually will give him.
But governmental and Legislative red
tape is a sluggish thing with which
to deal.
That is why his friends are wonder
ing if he will live to see his complete
yiudiCatiop
Evening star., 1925-02-04

other associates. The girl was Olivia
Burchett, member of the family of
Teral Burchett, occupants of the
house.
Seek Second Victim.
Meanwhile Lieut.. Crimmins OF No
10 fire engine company was forced to
brave the flames on the second floor
in search of another child erroneous
ly reported to have been in the build
ing
Fling arrived at the scene and
rescued the child before firemen re-
sponded to the alarm, which was
turned in about 2:30' am. Burchett,
mis- wife, sister-in-law and three
other children succeeded in escaping
without aid The two-story frame
structure was partly wrecked and
the blaze spread to the rear end of
the Northeast Temple and burned
two windows of the Princess Thea
ter. The fire is believed to have
started in shed at the rear.
Second Call Answered.
Several hours later firemen were
called upon put out a two-alarm fire
in another residence in the eastern
section of the city, the home and
place of business of Mr.. and Mrs
Harry Schwartz and three children
at 1892 Fourth street south ca ST
The Schwartz family abandoned theiI
living quarters on the second floor
over their store, before firemen ar
rived
The fire started in the store, burn
ed through the ceiling TO the sec
ond floor apartment and reached the
roof of the home Of William Ladding
adjoining. Damage to the two build
ings, and contents was estimated at ap-
proxima tely $4,000.
Evening star., 1925-02-04
DR.. Copeland Says

In "The Health Book" by
Royal S. Copeland, M. D., for
rner Commissioner of Health,
New York City, appears the
following:
"a sick person has an
appetite which must be
coaxed. Pretty dishes
and. flower on the tray
will add to the happiness
and promote the recovery
of the sick one. Don't
forget about the joys of
tinkling ice in palatable
drink of some sort. A
jaded appetite may be
stimulated in this way"
Be sure that the ice you use
Uhether for the sickroom or for gen.
eral bwboseS-is pure and safe Ameyi
can Ice can alaU1ys be relied upon
Made from filtered drinking acdter.
Evening star., 1925-02-04

Will George Taylor, Richmond
postal clerk, live to see the wrong
done him by a misinformed Govern
ment rightedo
His friends are not devoid of hope.
although their IA years of constant
efforts in his behalf so far have been
in vain. Their hope took on renewed
vigor yesterday when the United
States Senate committee on claims
reported out bill asking Taylor to
accept $4,000 'in full and final settle
ment of all claims for salary he would
have received" until reinstated in
1921, had he not been unjustly dis
missed from the Government service
May 23, 1911.
The story of George Taylor has
aroused the sympathy of the highest
Government officials during all that
| time, but Federal red tape at the
same time has served to prevent
Uncle Sam from administering the
justice which he admits is due the
enfeebled Virginian. Only an act OF
Congress can right the wrong.
The bill reported out yesterday is
based on data supplied Congress by
the Department of Justice the post
office and the controller general, all
of whom agree that Uncle Sam was
unjust to Mr.. Taylor. but that redress
can only come from Congress.
Dismissed in 1911.
Mr.. Taylor was q stamp clerk in
1911 L station B in Richmond. at
S1,l00 per annum. He had been in
the postal service 16 years and his
record was good. on May 90. 1911,
he was dismissed from the service
upon charge of stealing $40. He
was indicted and tried in October,
1911, in the United States Court for
the Eastern District of Virginia.
Judge Edmund Waddill, jr., presiding.
He was acquitted
The following facts developed at
the trial:
The sum of $40 in marked money
was given by postal inspectors to
the superintendent of the station.
The superintendent reported that on
his return from lunch on May IL,
1911, the $40 was missing from his
cash drawer. The marked money was
found in Taylor's safe.
But the trap proved nothing when
it was brought out that the superin-
tendent, upon returning from lunch,
Evening star., 1925-02-04

Continued from First PageD
District Training School. This is the
institution established by the appro-
priations of 1924 for the custody, care,
education and treatment of feeble
minded persons. The bill places the
institution under the control and
supervision of the Board of Charities.
A bill which has passed the House
for the payment of pensions withheld
from members of the police and fire
departments or from their widows on
account of deficiency in the police
mems and firemen's police fund dur
ing the period from January !, 1911,
to July 80. 1915, amounting to
s6S,425.O6 The money is to be paid
wholly from the revenues of the
District.
All of these bills and the King
resolution now go to the Senate
calendar The traffic bill favorably
reported today is the measure that
was introduced yesterday by Senator
Ball. 1t was drafted by joint COM
mittee of the Senate and House fol-
lowing extensive hearings.
Permission to Merge.
The merger bill merely gives the
street railways authority to merge
within the last few days by Senator
Ball in the Senate and Representative
Zihlman in the House.
The Reed bill to add two new
members to the Public Utilities Com
mission was made special order of
business at the meeting of the House
District committee next Wednesday.
The House committee agreed to
participate in a joint hearing with
rN1o
posed by an engineer named Riker,
indorsed by Gen. Goethals, to relieve
automobile parking in the District.
An informal hearing was given to
property owners urging extension OF
.Rittenhouse street.
Representative Rathbone of Illinois
endeavored 70 get d favorable report
on his traffic bill during consideration
in the House committee OF trafhc
regulation measures, but Representa-
tive Gibson of Vermont pointed out
that the subcommittee for the House
on this subject was in disagreement
and that a majority of them favored
the Gibson bill r, .ther than the Rath-
bone bill. AS ali illustration of one
of the provisions on which he said
careful consideration should be given
before action was taken, Representa-
tive Gibson pointed out that a traf-
fic director under the Rathbone bill
would be allowed to say how auto
mobiles should be registered and
licensed and to say what punish
ments the court should impose for
certain violations. He thought that
If this was. not unconstitutional it
was. at least, "very dangerous" and
Representative Keller agreed with
him.
Warned of Short Time.
Representative Rathbone warned
his colleagues that there was less
than 80 days before the end of the
session, and that there is crying
need for a new traffic code and that
there is a great and insistent demand
for passage of this measure. He en-
phasized that in all substantial de-
tails there is a complete agreement
and that the differences are on rela-
lively minor details.
Representative Blanton, Hammer,
Beers and Gasque all agreed that
they favored the Gibson bill rather
than the Rathbone bill, but they be-
Meved that differences could be ad-
Evening star., 1925-02-04
CAMPAIGN AIDES NAMED,
University of Chicago Will Seek
S17.5Oo.OOO Fund.

DR.. Harold G. Moulton, director o.
the Institute of Ecopomics, who i.
heading the University of Chicago
S17,500,000 campaign in the Distric
of Columbia, Baltimore and Rich
mond. today appointed the following
to aid him in the conduct of the cam
paign:
Leroy T. Vernon, Washington bu
reau of the Chicago Daily News; Prof
Mollie Ray Carroll, Goucher College
Baltimore; DIR. Edwin E. Slosson, edi.
tor, Science Service; George NJ. Nor
ris, attorney; A T.. Stewart United
States Chamber of Commerce; Grac,
Abbott, chief, Children's Bureau; Prof
Gertrude Van Hoesen
Evening star., 1925-02-04
ASKS LIMITED DIVORCE.
Elizabeth Leech Alleges Husband
Short on Clothing Allowance.

Grover P Leech, an automobile
salesman, who makes about 500 a
week, has been married whole year
and has given his wife, Elizabeth
Leech, but s13 for clothing. accord
ing to the statements contained in a
suit for a limited divorce filed today
by the wife in the District Supreme
Court. Mrs. Leech says they were
married at Rockville February g. 1924
and that her husband has been cruel
and continually intoxicated"
Through Attorney Ralph A. Cusick,
the wife declares her husband last
September left her at a local hotel
without paying the BILL and her mother
had to come to her rescue
Evening star., 1925-02-04
japanese Visit D. c. Schools.

Seushiro Hattori, principal of the
Dairen First Middle School Of Dairen
South Manchuria, and Shuzo Avar pro-
fessor Of the University of Port Arthur
in South Manchuria, visited several of
Washington's high schools today. Both
of these prominent japanese educators
are interested in the military and physi-
cal training in American high schools,
and made special note of this work at
Central High School.
Evening star., 1925-02-04
PARK ACTION PRESSED.
Resolution Requests Right of Way
for Appalachian Bill.

The House rules committee is re-
quested to give right of way to a bill
authorizing the Secretary OF the In
terror to appoint commission to ex-
anime suitable national park sites in
the Southern Appalachian Mountains. in
a resolution introduced late yesterday
by Representative Henry W. Temple of
Pennsylvania,
Under this request debate would be
limited to 80 minutes.
Evening star., 1925-02-04

ola COloreQ girl
from her blazing &
n o m e at 730
Twelfth S tr e e t
northeast.
Fling, after car
rying the child
through a verita-
BILE inferno of
flames that had
cut off his only
means of egress,
fell senseless with
his human bur-
den as he reached
the rear door of
the house, and
had to be rescued
himself by Po-
liceman L. e.
Thomson a n O
Evening star., 1925-02-04
TELLER COMING TO U. S.

MEXICO CITY, February 4.-Senor
Don Manuel c. Teller, the new Mexi-
can Ambassador to the United States.
will leave here Friday evening for
Washington to assume his duties, it
is officially announced
Evening star., 1925-02-04
HURT
REScU|NG CHILD
J. H. Fling Burned and Over
come by Smoke in Early
Morning Blaze.

Policeman J. H. Fling of No. 9 pre-
Ginct was burned about the face and
overcome by smoke early today in
effecting the rescue of q four-year-
Evening star., 1925-02-04
Army Officer Resigns.

The resignation of First Lieut..
Gerard Swarthout, U. s. Field Ar
tillery, has been accepted by the
President
Evening star., 1925-02-04
WE MAKE WEEKLY TRIPS
10 RaItimore Nd Milmi n ton NaI

PSI N . IhA-Nor u AM SLURAGE co.
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT A SpE
Masonic Hall Corporation will he held at Mo
sonic Temple 9th and Va. ave. Sc on FRIDAY
February 20. 1928. at o'clock nm for tho
purpose of authorizing a loan TO be made on
the property of the corporation. and for in
creasing the capital stock of the corporation
Jesse H. MITCHELL
President
PHILLIP W. THOMAS
Evening star., 1925-02-04
DISTRICT BILLS GET
HOUSE AND SENATE
COMMITTEES O. K

Continued from First Page.)
Evening star., 1925-02-04
SECOND TRUST NOTES

Will sell a second trust note of 81 500 for
81 900, or al a discount of SO Il per cent, Ad
dress RnX LOO L Star office
Evening star., 1925-02-04

FULL DRESS SUIT MADE TO ORDER BY
ono OF WaShingtons best tailors: size 40.
never worn: bargain at $50; cost $50 Tel
Lincoln 2321 after pm. :.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-09-19
Traffic Problem
In Grass Valley
Goes Back to rs
Ry United Press Leased Wire

GRASS VALLEY. Cal. Seut. 10
Even before the days of the au.
tolaobiIe this city had its speed
problems.
This is evidenced III an article
fasnd iii the flies of a local news
paper of September lO, 1873, in
which the youth of the town were
taken to task for their reckless ten
deqeies toward speed.
The article gives an account of
an accident, caused when youth
cautercd into town horscbacl, en-.
tirelv too fast and without regard
for dangerous crossing.
I'VE have seen about 20 horscs
slip ana fall at that corner, all
caused by too much Speed-eX"mples
hove no effect in stopping Tcoplc
from running risks.
The corner referred to in the
articcl is still regarded as a danger
ot.s one TO automobile traffic.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-09-19
Long Beach Woman
Seeks Word About
Son, Charles Neil

Mrs. Ruby Neil, SO LAST Eighth
street, Long Beach. Caiit5rhi", :
anxious 10 ascertain tine present
whereabouts of her ~au, Charles Ned
from whom she last heard was III
this city five or SiN months ago.
Mrs. Neil has written = Chief
Barker, asking him - aid her in To-
eating her son. aHd ihe chIef ;arLed
letter over to the Press in the hope
that publicity 10 Tie 'matter' Ntu.d
frirg the desired results.
According to tn" letter Neil eane
here with Il companion several
mcuths ago. 10 work IN The lettuce
fields. His companion, Mrs. Neil
believes. was killed III au aatomo-
bile accident here. though she was
ror able 70 give his name Her
SON wrote her a letter in the carly
part Of the wear from tbs city and
then dropped out Of sight complete
j..
Nr~. Neil states that She i very
much worried aud desires II find
ont whore her son is solely To know
that ne iS welt and not in trouble.
Anvoon Knowing Neil 5 present
locatioa - eequested TO give t..e in
for"a tom ~ Chief Barker.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-09-19

warning On the stone coping around
the well. About ten miles below
Alambique is the grave of III
Cinnamon who died of thirst on the
road i'll 1917. On one side from
time to time one may catch gimpscs
of the Gulg Of California, a most
dcsolatc shore with barren red mud
flats which 60 cndlessiy down to
meet feeble surf. Inc land is
dead and the sea seems dying, but
actually the water is teeming with
life and if the fresh winds of the
open Pacific are lacking to put life
into the surf, there are still the
great tides in the gulf and the wa
ter level rises and falls as much as
IS or 20 feet at times.
The north shore of the Bay of
San Felipe is marked by black
volcanic hcadland. The bay is not
especially we'll protected but is
bcartlrul nevertheless. To the
south and the west an endless line
of yellow sand-duncs extends as far
as the eyes can see. The north
shore of the bay is rocky with
sandy inlets. The rocks swarm with
LII sstis and Nith' sca Hfh uft cgety
kind. Great sea turtles axe cap
turcd in the sand.
The last A. miles to San Felipe
requires about six hours motoring.
The road is sandy in places, rocky
and rough i'll others and cut-up with
innumcrablc cross washes. There is
constant danger from high ccntcrs
and extremely careful driving is
required.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-09-19
UNION OIL ADS
ARE TO FEATURE
HIGHWAY SAFETY
by United Press Leased Wir~

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 19.-The
national campaign for street and
highway safety received its biggest
Pacific coast boost today when it
was announced that the entire out
door advertising campaign of the
Union Oil Company of California,
supplemented by its regular news
paper advertising throughout all
territory in which the company op-
crates, costing in excess of half a
million dollars, for the IA months
beginning October 10, will be de
voted to the fostering of safety
rules and precautions among mo-
torists. The announcement is sign
ed by l.. p. st. Clair, vice prcsi-
dent
The company will display total
of 10000 full size posters during the
period of the campaign. These
posters will appear continuously un-
til December Is, 1925 on all of the
1900 board locations which the com
pany has under contract. There
will be IA separate designs, each
covering one of the big phases of
the present safety need. The first
broadside, poster showing group
of children playing and motorist
stopping is headed "Children Will
Play. BE Careful - This poster
will be on the boards October Is.
staying up until November l., whcr
the second shot will be fired.
Decision of the company to de-
vote over 100000 to the safety
cause comes after lengthy and
complete investigation into the ac-
cidcnt situation ON the Pacific
coast. The investigation convinc,
ed the officials that the Pacific
coast is facing Il crisis in this re-
spcct, and that efforts should be
directed toward safe motoring and
safe streets before any further at
tcmpts to increase automobile us
arc
Imperial Valley press., 1925-09-19
run OVER DESERT
TO SAN FELIPE IS
MADE BY CLUB CAR

Over the desert to th> Say of
San Felipe! That is the vacation
excursion of real delight into a land
where the fishing is excellent and
the scenery is distinctly different
from the rest of the world.
\ road car sent out by the tour
ing department of the National
Automobile club proceeded to Mcxi-
cali and then over the desert l42
miles to San Felipe. South of Mex
icali for 20 miles Il section of the
country is much the same as on the
American side of the line. Beyond,
the desert begins in real earnest
with host of ocatillos flying their
scarlet flags ut the tips of their
spear-likc branches. To the east
rises the black smoke of the con
struction camp where a railroad is
being pushed south through the de-.
ia of the Colorado and which will
eventually give he Imperial Val
ley direct connection with port of
its own to be built at San Felipe.
About so miles below the border
is encountered an ocean of red silt
which has been rolled clear to the
foot of the Cocopahs by the Colo,
RADIO. On one side is vcritablc
jungle of willow, cottonwoon and
arrow weed. A few miles below FL
Mayor, the road opens into vast
flats of red mud. The surface is
roughed somewhat with alkal but
nevertheless the road has been pack
ed down by trucks so that high
speed is possible. 1t is a land OF
fantastic mirages, of mountains that
swim in the air, of tree boarded
lakes that turn to dust.
Beware, Poison Well
From El Mayor TO San Felipe is
90 miles. There is not human hab
itation III that distance, no water
save ut tho poison we'll of the Al
ambiquc, where the skull of the last
victim of its waters is set tor ;
Imperial Valley press., 1925-09-19
SIGNAL ROC X EFT S
SEND GUARDS ON
WILD GOOSE HUNT

CHICAGO, sept. 10. r. Distress
rockets flaring into the early morn
ing darkuess on Lake Michigan sent
Evasion coast guards on what they
described as Il "wild goose chase
shortly before dawn today.
Nothing was seen Of the mystery
passenger steamer that was reported
by the Great Lakes naval training
station to be IN distress several
mics off Lake Forest .
. CoaH guard officials at Evanston
said they believed the signals were
hoax, probably sent up by rum
rinner. IL, IN attempt to throw au-
thoeities OFF their trail.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-09-19
Survey Rev eals
School Capacity
Is Not Adequate
Copyright. 1928, by United Pres
by United Press Leased Wire

by nited Press Leased WIRE
NEW YORK, Sept. 1S.-School
children throughout the nation art
deprived of proper facilities, build
ing programs having failed to keel
apace with ever-increasing enroll
mcnts.
This was revealed today by 4 sur
vey completed by the United Press
covering 2s widely scattered cities
In II Of these cities part time
schedules or double platoon sys-
TENS have been used to cope with
the problem of educating the coun-
try's young.
School authorities, working to
provide seating space for primary,
grade and high school students. at
times have crowded each class
room to 80 per cent more than
normal capacity, have begun the
school years in as yet unfinished
building and have reduced the
school day to as low as four hours.
Anticipating problems of the flu
turc which such tentative cxpcdi-
cnts will induce, municipal govern
mcnts have begun, often belatedlv.
the construction of new buildings.
But many cities find that as soon
as the structures are erected there
is IA necessitv for anucXes.
NJ v Over Crowded
New York is typical of this lat
ter development. This summer a
program Of 1913 new schools, seating
244.O00 pupils, was completed. In
spite of these new schools, the de-
partment Of education predicts that
g per cent of the enrolment will be
on part time schedules and that
OVer-,rowding of class r0omsl will
be prevalent in some sections of
the city.
Part time schedules prevail for
from ) to 3 per cent of the enroll
ment in Harrisburg, Pa, Cleveland,
Los Angeles and Detroit. In Wash
ington three high schools and 13O
elementary schools are operating on
such schedules.
Portland, Kansas City, Kan,
Philadelphia, Columbia and atlanta
have rcsorted to "doublc platoons y
and part time work to Il lesser cx-
tent. San Francisco, on account of
reconstruction work, is operating
two shifts.
Oklahoma City and other cities
in that state face "A critical prob
lem. Last year through the state
there were $4,000 pupils and this
number will be increased 10 pei
cent i'll 1925. Approximately 1000
! schools were closed before the END
Of their terms because of short
! age Of funds. Since nothing has
! beeA done to remedy the situation
! il is presumed the same condition
I viii prevail this year.
/ Many cities which have been able
! to house all of their students re
! port that the maximum has beer
! reached. IN New Orleans one temp
{ orary building is being used anc
| two unfinished bindings hell
house the school children in. De
! Moines. ,..-
Springfield, H., indianapolis ant
| Denver report that the maximum
| scatiDgs have been made.