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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-22
BANK TELLER HELD
ON FRAUD CHARGE
Accused Of Taking $4,000 Of Gus
toners Money After Sell
ing Mortgages.

Charged with embezzlement of ap-
proximately $4,000 from the Liberty
National Bank, where he was en-
ployed as a note teller. Rafael Carmen
Calvo, 26 years old, of 1904 Q street.
was arrested yesterday by Detectives
Tally and Weber of police headquar
tiers, and was arraigned today in
Police Court for preliminary
hearing.
A continuance of the case until
Monday was granted upon arraign-
ment. CalvO was released on $4,000
bond.
Calvo, who is the son of a former
Minister from Costa Rica. is alleged
by the police to have sold mortgages
to customers of the bank and to have
appropriated the proceeds to his own
use.
Police charge that he obtained the
money at six different times until
the total sum was $4,000 thus obtained
and converted.
According to the detectives, Calvo
made full confession. The allega
tions in the case place the time of
the first operation at September. 1925
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-22
Expect Cat Invasion.

SARATOGA, N. Y, July % OP.-
Saratogians are prepared for an in
vasion of domestic tabbies and more
5elligerent "cats" from the nearby
forest. Government cultivation Of
catnip, heretofore centered near
Washington, is to be concentrated at
the local biological survey farm. In
addition to its use as a perfume base
and for medicine, the oil is popular
among trappers as a lure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-22
WOOD DENIES RESIGNING.
Such Rumors Spread to Make His
Work Harder, He Says.

MANILA, July 22-"You may deny
absolutely that / have resigned or
have any thought of resigning."
Thus, Gov. Gen. Leonard Wood at
Malacanan Palace finished telling
this correspondent today that there
Is reason for believing rumors he VIII
resign are being started to make his
position more diff1cult.
AT midnight Thursday Col. Carmi
A. Thompson, special investigator for
President Coolidge, and his party will
begin q five-day voyage to the island
of Culion and other points south and
west. Culion Ia the seat Of Gov.
Gen. Woods leper colony, where
most modern treatment Is working
miracles.
Col. Thompson has been in the Phil
ippine Islands two weeks, but he has
yet to be introduced to the true ma
tives, the folk who constitute nine
tenth of the population. Living in
modern hotel on a magnificent
waterfront, he has Travelled in motor
and street cars over a system of
boulevards and parks designed by
Burnham OF Chicago, and has been
delighted by courteous intellectual
men and women encountered at con-
ferences, dinners, luncheons and
dances.
The mission is beginning to make
expeditions to points outside of Man
liza to discover what has been done
by the United States for the islanders,
and to get acquainted with the farm
err, who does the greater part of the
islands work.
Visits Farm College.
The mission saw some of the pos
sibilities of the islands during visit
to the agricultural, college of the Uni
versity of the Philippines at Los
Banos. The Colonel was especially In
terested In the Nipa Palm as a new
and undeveloped source OF sugar. The
islands have 100, 900 hectares about
247, 900 acres) of unused Nipa terri
tory. The plant requires no expen-
sive mills, as it can be boiled like
maple sugar and It requires no cult
walton. Nipa produces roofing for
thousands Of native houses as well as
alcohol and sugar.
Another possibility shown by Dean
Charles Fuller Baker, brother of Ray
Stanard Baker. was "m9guey," from
which Col. Thompson was told the
Philippines can produce all the binder
Irvine needed in the world. ThisNcan
be developed cheap1y with small mills
to the enrichment of the small farmer.
At the agricultural college there
was evidence that here as elsewhere
Filipinos are discouraging Americans
Only two American technical experts
are left on the staff. The institution
greatly needs money for agricultural
experiments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-22
Ia Sprinklers to Be Put in Operation
To Relieve Children From Heat

bia road between Georgia and Sher-
man avenues, N street between First
and Second southwest, Iowa avenue
between Varnum and Webster streets,
First street between New York ave.
nue. and N street, Otis street between
Warder and Georgia avenue, Long
Ninth streets, e street between First
Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets,
Third street between L and M streets
southeast, / street between First and
Second streets southwest, G street be.
tween Third and Fourth streets north
east, C street between Fifteenth and
Sixteenth streets southeast and o
street between Twenty.sixth and
TwentyssYsnth- strsetsA $500
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-22

Sympathizing with the children dur
ing the present heat wave, Commits
sioner Guno H. Rudolph today
ordered the District Fire Department
to put into operation as soon as pos
sible the IA sprinklers used last year
to drench the youngsters on hot days.
Fire Chief George s. Watson plans to
have the sprinklers in operation by to-
morrow afternoon and will continue
to run them throughout the warm
weather. The sprinklers will be
turned on every afternoon at o'clock
and will be turned off at o'clock.
They will be attached to fire hydrants
at the following places:
Livingston road between Thirty
ninth and Forty.frst streets Colum'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-22
TWO DIE AT DANvILLE.
Temperature Of 1922 Yesterday, Hot
test Of Year In Virginia City.

DANvILLE, Va, July % @.-Dan-
vile experienced the hottest day Of
the year yesterday when the mercury
climbed to 1922 degrees, reaching the
maximum at 6 o'clock. Two deaths
attributable to heat have been report
ed, George Walker. negro, dying last
night and Grover Thurman, father Of
nine children, collapsing at the Dan
River Mills and dying instantly.
Clayton Brantley, power superintend-
ent, reported five negroes were
knocked out" while working on a
Golfer dam in the river, but none Of
the prostrations proved fatal.
UNIVERSITY, Va, July 20 Op).--A
temperature of 105 degrees was re-
corded yesterday at the Mccormick
Observatory Of the University Of Vir-
ginia- This Is five degrees hotter than
ever before have been recorded, ac-
cording to the official record kept
since the observatory was established
in 1899.
0SA nm AR nEr ArEx
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-22
Warrants Are Due
For IA Proprietors
OfLOcal Fountains

While soft-drink emporiums were
crowded with parched-throat indi-
viduals last night sanitary inspec-
tors of the District Health Depart
ment began a drive to enforce OBJ
servance of the health regulations
requiring all public drinking
glasses to be sterilized. AS q re-
suit, warrants will be issued for
the arrest of the proprietors Of
IL establishments where violations
were observed.
Six of the violations were found
in confectionery stores, three in
drug stores and five in near-beer
saloons. The inspectors visited
lao establishments.
The campaign will be continued,
according to Health Offlcer VIII
liam C. Fowler, until all places
wrere soft drinks are dispensed
have been inspected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-22
FIL|P|NOS' COUNCIL
IGNORES THOMPSON
Will Not Try to Influence
Colonel in Economic
Study of Islands.
By the Associated Press.

MANILA, July 22.-The National
Supreme Council. composed of mem.
bers of both the Nationalist and Dem
ocratic parties. organized for the pur-
pose Of futhering the cause OF Phil
ippine independence, will maintain
complete reserve concerning the in
vestigation Of Carmi A Thompson
into economic conditions in the
islands. Mr.. Thompson is the per-
sonal representative Of President
Coolidge.
The position of the National Su-
preme Council was outlined in a
statement by Senator Juan sunni
long, one Of the leading Democratic
members of the council.
I'VE want to refrain from DOING
anything which might be interpreted
as designed to or tending to influence
Mr.. Thompson In the performance
Of his mission said Senator Sunni
long.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-22
Roundup of Stray, Unmuzzled Dogs
Under Way to Reduce Peril of Rabies

bitten by dogs since the first Of this
month and fearful that the hot
weather will develop cases Of rabies,
workers at the District Pound are
making determined attempt to
round up all the unmuzzled dogs
found straying about the streets.
Proof that the pound employees are
causing the dogs to lead real dogs
life was evidenced today when it was
found that on Tuesday alone they
captured % dogs. On the preceding
day they impounded IL dogs, while
during the six-day period ending July
II they got a total Qf u d0gA. This
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-22
ROBBERS KILL MAN
FLEE WITHOUT LOOT
Jeweler and Assistant Shot by
Band of Five Who Fight
Way Through Crowd.
By the Associated Press.

BY the As5OCIattU Fr6Bb.
NEW YORK, July 22.--One man
was killed and another wounded
when five robbers invaded Broad
way jeweIry store in a daylight hold
up today.
The robbers escaped> after fighting
their way through crowd that col
lected at the sound of the shots.
Although the robbers escaped they
did not obtain any loot. The man
killed was Aaron Rodack, proprietor
of the jewelry store at Broadway and
150th street. Sidney Freifeld, a clerk
in the store, was seriously wounded.
The shooting took place when Rodack
and Freifeld attempted TO protect the
stores supply of jewelry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-22

is considered a good record inasmuch
as only one wagon with three attend
ants is covering ali sections of tho
city.
This months sixty-second case was
recorded yesterday afternoon, when
police were notified that Charles
Leonard, 81 years old. 1900 Georgia
avenue. was bitten by dog in store
at "A Fenton street northeast. The
dog. according to the police report,
belonged to the proprietor of the
store. Leonard was treated by his
family physician.
Maj. Hesse has ordered the police
to enforce strictly tho muzzlinG law.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-22
$4,000 AT BEACH.
Record Heat Wave General All Over
Eastern Section.

NEW YORK, July % R.-The
East sweltered today in a heat wave
that came in from the Midwest TAX
ing toll of two.score lives and pros
trating hundreds in the cities ono its
course.
Temperature records were broken
here and elsewhere yesterday. Some
of the high marks were Baltimore, 102;
Cumberland, Nd, Philadelphia and
Jersey City, 100; Springfield, Mass,
90: New Haven, 1873; Albany. 98; New
York, s6. Buffalo, on Lake Erie, felt
cool with less than 80 degrees, but
further West, Chicago registered SO,
Milwaukee, 95.5, and Kansas City. So.
In New York 1t was the hottest
July day except one since 1885. In
Albany weather records for 80 years
were broken, factories had to close at
Lockport, N. Y; and it was the hot
test day in the history Of the New
Haven Weather Bureau.
Thousands sought relief at beaches
and resorts. There were 850,000 Wis.
itors to Coney Island. while Boston
and other cities had propcrtionate
crowds. A score OF heat deaths were
gspqEtad IN MichiGals z u NeN York
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-22
H. H. MORGAN TO RETIRE.

Henry H. Morgan, foreign service
officer Of class 1 who has Just re.
turned to this country from nearly
three years service as counsel general
at Buenos Aires, will be retired July
81 under the provisions of the act
approved May, "a, 1924. He is a
native of New Orleans and was edu-
Gated at Brussels, Belgium, and Bonn.
Germany. He entered the United
States diplomatic service in September.
1889, as secretary OF legation, Mexico
City. Since then he has served at
Lucerne, Stuttgart, Amsterdam. Bar
celona- Hamburg, Havana. Antwerp
and other places. He is visiting this
city on his way to New Orleans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-22
FRENCH R0UT REBELS
BESIEGING DAMASCUS
By the Associated Press.

by Ilt AstUClEIcU Ffctt.
DAMASCUS, Syria, July 22.-Da-
mascus, which has been in a state of
siege for the past months by Druse
tribesmen, will probably soon be re-
lieyed, IL official information reaching
the French government proves to be
correct.
French troops, executing a converg-
ing movement on Damascus, have
crossed the Kassivom Mountains, pro-
tecting the city from the north, and
also the Lebanon range to the west,
virtually surrounding the insurgents.
who have been holding the gardens
of Damascus since October, 1925.
A communique says the French
have cleared the gardens Of the rebels
capturing 70 hostages and 296 prison.
ers. The rebels left $50 dead.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-22
JUDGE LETS MORSE
WAIT UNTIL OCTOBER
Shipbuilder, Given Respite, Must
Face Fraud Trial in FAN
Unless Doctor Forbids.
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, July 22.-Federal
Judge Edwin r. Holmes today de-
clined to order Charles w. Morse,
shipbuilder, to appear in New York
10 plead to an indictment charging
him with mail fraud in the sale of
United States Steamship stock.
Judge Holmes. however. ordered
Morse to plead on the first Monday in
october unless physician to be
designated by the Government should
report that he is physically or men.
tally unable to stand the strain of
pleading or trial.
Morse is i'll at his Summer home
at Bath, Me. His wife died suddenly
recently, about the time word was re-
ceived that her husband had been
ordered to plead here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-22

Q In New York State, 4 in New Jer-
sey, 8 in New England and some else
where.
Crops were damaged throughout the
Midwest and there was serious dam
age from forest fires in Montana. At
ceremony in Philadelphia, where
he was presented with a sword,
Comdr. Richard E. Byrd expressed a
longing for North Pole temperatures.
On the other hand, mountain climb
srs ascending Mount Washington, in
New Hampshire, were forced to turn
aside by rs feet Of snow. Showers
and thunderstornns were forecast for
todaN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-22
GUSTAV GETS WELCOME.
Swedish Prince Will Speak Today
in Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES, Calf, July a.
The reception accorded Crown Prince
Gustaf Adolf and Princess Louise of
Sweden yesterday will be continued in
Los Angeles today.
After being rendered reception by
Mayor George E. Cryer and other city
officials this morning. the royal party
will proceed to the Shrine Auditorium,
where the Crown Prince will address
residents of Swedish extraction.
At the conclusion Of the Swedish pro.
gram the party will go to the home
Of Prince Erick of Denmark for lunch
con.
The Chamber OF Commerce will en-.
terrain the royal party at formal
dinner tonight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-22
TEN HELD IN TURK PLOT
LIBERATED IN ANGORA
Startling Disclosures Promised al
Trial Of Others Accused of
Attempt to Dust Renal.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CONSTANTINOPLE, July 22.-Ten
of the nearly 100 prisoners awaiting
trial at Angora on charges OF plotting
to overthrow the Mustapha Kemal
regime were liberated today.
Startling disclosures are promised
for the trial, which has been delayed
through the discovery by the police of
alleged discriminating evidence in docu-
men recently hanged at Smyrna. The
police are displaying great activity
throughout the country, and arrests
continue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-22
RITES FOR r. L. LYNCH.
Employe Of The Evening Star t
Be Buried in Fort Lincoln.

The funeral of Riddick Lee Lynch,
Is Sixteenth street southeast, for
nine years an employee in the COM
posing room of The Evening Star,
will take place at 8 o'clock this after
noon from Epworth Methodist
Church. Mr.. Lynch died after a
brief Illness Tuesday afternoon.
Rev. John p. Tyler, pastor Of the
church, will conduct the service and
interment will be in Fort Lincoln
Cemetery. Pallbearers will include
Charles Berner, M. K. Rightstine,
Harry Sauter, Edward j. Gardner,
John D. Perry and Leroy E. Kluege.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-22
BRITISH DENOUNCE
ATTACKS ON US.
Editors Hold Cries of "SFTy-
lock" Can Only Create In
ternationaI Animosity.
By the Associated Press.


LONDON, July 22.-The debate ia
the House Of Commons on Monday
regarding the British debt settlement
and dispatches from the United
States reporting irritation there at
the continued clamor Of section of
the British and French press with ref
erence to the attitude Of the United
States on the situation, has led to
extended editorial discussion of the
matter here. II is clear that there is
uneasiness in some quarters lest
what is considered the continual carp
Ing over the position of the United
States will lead to widespread i'll
feeling in Great Britain and America.
''The current controversy is causing
trouble and it may make mischief"
says the Daily Telegraph, which, while
criticizing the American stand, words
it's structures more mildly than some
of the other newspapers. The Daily
Telegraph deplores the fact that the
United States rejected Great Britain's
proposals for all-round cancellation OF
debts.
BIames L. S. for instability.
1.-THE rejection says the newspa-
per, was as much a calamity as It's
acceptance would have been the just
triumph of American disinterestedness
to the end of time. America
has not helped Europe as she might.
or as she ought or as eventually she
win when her public opinion takes a
more generous and less strictly mer-
camille view"
The Westminster Gazette, while be-
lieving 1t would have been better Tor
everybody, including the United States,
IL all war debts had been Cancelled,
deprecates violent attacks on the
american ShylOck' and says such at
tacks are worse than useless ana cal
culated to lessen whatever chance
there may be that the United States
will play a helpful part. The Daily
Mail, which for some days has pub
lished vehement attacks on the posi-
ton taken by the United States and
lampooned Uncle Sam as Uncle Shy
lock-" reiterates today the charge
that the disturbance in European
finances is due to the debt claims Of
the United States.
Puts Burden on Baldwin.
This journal welcomes the coming
to Europe Of Andrew w. Mellon, the
American Secretary of the Treasury.
whose presence in these critical hours
may be OF immense service to the
world"
The Daily Express, putting all the
blame on premier Baldwin's wild,
s!ngle-handed dash into the complex
financial political problem of debts and
making a settlement with unexampled
haste and provision" says the present
outcry is too late. IAN attempt TO
lick split milk off the carpet" the
newspaper adds, lis neither appetizing
nor likely to prove successful.
The error Of 1923 will not be retrieved
by violent denunciations in 1926"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-22

ilanent. Sne
was elected for
the Wallsend
division on the
LIaborite ticket
in the bye-elec-
ton to ill the
vacancy caused
by the retire
ment OF Sir
Patrick Hast
ings.
Miss Bond
fields return to
Parliament in
or ca ses the
n u m err of
woman men,
berS to six. 1t
will give Susan
Lawrence and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-22
Solidifes Helium.

4 LEYDEN, Holland, July % PJ.-
For the first time helium has been
solidified into a transparent mass by
Prof. w. III. Keeson of Leyden Uni
.Yersity. He has accomplished this
by melting liquid helium under high
pressure. drst In metal. then in glass
tubes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-22
1t May Be Hot Here,
But Read What Heat
Did at Other Points
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NORTH HALEDON. N. j., July
22.-So hot here that hens have
been laying in drinking troughs
and many have been drowned.
NEW YORK, July 22.-On the
hottest day of the year here Hill
year Straton. minister's son, who Is
to be ordained soon. came out
with the statement that the world
is going plumb to he'll.
PHILADELPHIA, July a.
With temperature recorded
which makes his newly presented
ornate sword almost too hot to
handle, Lieut.. Comdr. Byrd indi-
Gated he was open to any offer
for another polar flight if it
would start at once.
CHICAGO. July 22.-The hot
weather cost Harold Roscoe 81 ,234.
He started down town to buy an
automobile, decided he would
take a plunge in Lake Michigan
en- route, and when he emerged his
trousers containing the money
were gone,
MORGANFIELD, KY, July 22-
Extreme heat has Matched six eggs
in the Greenberg poultry house
here. The chicks are all normal
and active and will be sold with
those Matched by incubators and
hens
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-22

Ellen Wilkinson additional sup
port on the official Labor opposi-
ton side of the House and will
aid Lady Aston, the Duchess of
Atholl and Mrs. Hilton Philipson
in their efforts toward legislation
for women.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-22
Sixth Woman Gets
Seat in Commons
In British Election

LONDON. July 22.--Miss Mar
garet Blondfield, former chair
man of. the Trades Union Con-
gress, is again a member of Par
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-22

SUDBURY, Ontario, July % R).-
Three persons were injured, one prob
ably fatally, when Canadian forestry
plane carrying persons crashed into
Lake Ramsay, near here, yesterday
afternoon. Alexander Mcleod of Sud-
bury, his daughter Myrtle, and Mrs.
Clements of Chicago were injured.
The two pilots Of the plane escaped
unhurt. Mr.. Mcleod suffered internal
injuries. The women escaped with
cuts and bruises.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-22
FALLING PLANE CRUSHES
z CHILDREN TO DEATH
Three Persons Injured as Canadian
Forestry Plane Drops Into
Lake Ramsay.
Nv tha Asscciated Press,

VENICE, Calf, July 22.-Two girls
were crushed to death and boy prob
ably fatally injured when an airplane,
piloted by Jimmy Grassland, CONNER
cial aviator, fell on the beach here,
where a group of children were play
ing. The plane was not badly dam
aged.
Grassland was held on suspicion of
manslaughter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-22

Continued from First Page.)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-16
RIsREE sTORK BUSY

BISBEE, Oct 15-(P))-Dr. Stork's
cohorts outnumbered those of the grim
reaper by more than three to one here
during September, when IS births were
recorded to IA deaths. Of the new ara
rivals, "a are boys and 21 are girls.