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Evening star., 1927-06-02
GENERAL
OF ARMY TO RETIRE
President Approves Davis
Resignation-WahI Will
Succeed to Post.

President Coolidge has approved
the voluntary retirement of Maj. Gen.
Robert c. Davis, adjutant general of
the Army, July /, and Brig. Gen.
LutZ Wahl, assistant adjutant gen.
eral, will succeed him, with the rank
of major general.
Gen. Davis intends to go into buSi-
ness. He is retiring after more than
S3 years of service and is taking ad-
vantage of that provision of the law
which authorizes the retirement of a.
chief Of branch after four years serv-
ice in such position.
Bridges Gets Promotion.
The vacancy created by Gen. Wahl
due to his promotion will be filled by
Col. Charles H. Bridges, who will be-
come assistant adjutant general with
the rank of brigadier general.
simultaneously it was announced
that Brig. Gen. Arthur w. Yates, as
siStant to the QuartermaSter general
will retire, at his own request, on Au-
gust /, after SO years of service. Gen.
Yates on August l will be more than
62 years of age.
Horton to Succeed.
Brig. Gen. James c.. Rhea also will
retire at the end of the month, due to
physical disability.
Gen. Yates will be succeeded as as
sistant to the quartermaster general
by Col. William E. Horton, who will
be elevated to the rank of brigadier
general August 2.
Evening star., 1927-06-02
GRADUATION HELD
AT EASTMAN SCHOOL
Nine Pupils Receive Diplomas at
Commencement in Wash
ington Club.

Nine pupils of the Eastman School
1905 Seventeenth street, were award
ed certificates of graduation at COM
mencement exercises in the Washing
ton Club yesterday afternoon. The
graduates were:
Nina Craven Jones, Alice Beaure-
gard Diamond, Elizabeth du Pont
Bayard, Constance Ellen Tyler. Mary
Patrick Burt, Elizabeth Kathrine
Beury. Anne Ridout Tilghman Sling
luff, Margaret Evans Watkins and
Gwendolyn Mae Bailey.
The certificates were presented by
Rev. z. B. T. Phillips, rector of the
Curch of the Epiphany who also ad.
dressed the graduates. Benediction
was delivered by Rev. George w.
Atkinson of st. James Episcopal
Church.
Honors were conferred on gradu-
ates and undergraduates for special
accomplishments during the past
year as follows:
The alumnae scholarship for high
standing during the past year, award
ed to Alice G. Bowie; the Bliss prize,
given by Miss Elizabeth Bancroft
Bliss for the best essay on La Sale,
the French explorer, awarded to Miss
Margaret e. Moffett, while the Hobson
memorial prize for the second best es-
say went to Constance Ellen Tyler.
Others winning honors were: Sarah
Elizabeth Lloyd. best academic record:
Nina Craven Jones, best all-around
athletic record; Julia Armistead Yates.
tennis; Elizabeth du Pont Bayard, for
book review: Elizabeth Katherine
Beury, penmanship; Sarah l.. Mills,
spelling. and Ellen Lee Bayard, draw
ing, while Sareta Barreda was awarded
for high scholastic standing and school
spirit in the Intermediate department
OF the school. s...'-tf y s.'ss "saxs sGsssss
Evening star., 1927-06-02
SECOND DIVISION
VETERANS MEET
Opening Rally Will Be Held
Tonight at 8 O'Clock at
Raleigh Hotel.

With a peace time objective already
mapped out for them, Veterans of the
Cd Division, took over the Wash.
ington sector today for their ninth
annual reunion, which opens tonight
on the anniversary Of their Chateau
Thierry operations.
Erection of monument to the 5,137
comrades killed in action is the main
objective of the reunion, and the
Cd Division Association, which prides
itself on being the largest of any
single group of veterans emerging
from the A. f. F. With more than
5000 members, large proportion will
be On hand in Washington during the
two full days of the reunion.
Many Informal Reunions.
Headquarters for the various units
of the division were the scenes OF
many informal reunions during the
day, while Col. Hanford MacNider. AS
sistant Secretary of War, president OF
the association, and Maj. Gen. John
A. Lejeune, L. S. NJ. c., former divi'
sion commander. were busy receiving
incoming veterans.
Reunion headquarters are estab
lished in the Willard Hotel. while
separate headquarters for various
units of the division, where men may
easily look up former friends are
esta bIished as follows: I'd Field Artil-
1ery Brigade, Washington Hotel; Sd
Brigade, Willard Hotel, and 4th Bri
gade Marines, Raleigh Hotel.
At the opening rally tonight at 8
o'clock in the Raleigh, Col. MacNider
will preside and introduce a score of
former division, brigade regimental
and battalion officers who are here
for the reunion. Mrs. (Motherl D. H.
Dawson, sister of the late Charles
Frohan. who was a victim of the
I.usitania disaster, was one Of the
earliest arrivals today.
Will Elect Saturday.
Saturday is the big day of the re
union, beginning with the election OF
association officers and a visit TO the
White House at 80 o'clock
A feature OF this part of the pro
gram will be the presentation of the
2nd Division battle flags and colors
brought here from Fort Sam Houston
Tex; Quantico, Va, and Fort Bragg
n. {. After meeting President. Cool
idge, the veterans will depart for
a boat "trip down the Potomac River
aboard the L. s. s. Gen. ID. II. Ruck
ner and the L. s. s. Porpoise. Spe
cial airplane demonstrations will be
given at Boiling Field and the Naval
Air Station, and in the evening the re-
union will close with the annual ban
quet.
Evening star., 1927-06-02
FINDS TWO BODIES
OF SLAIN WOMEN
Watchman Near Pittston
Discovers Evidence of Strug-
g|e-Man Arrested.
By the Associated Press.


SCRANTON, Pa, June 1.-Two
young women were found slain today
in field at New Boston, near Pitts
ton, Pa. One body was unclothed and
the other fully clothed.
The women were about 10 and 90
years old and one had been shot and
strangled and the other choked to
death, the police said.
The bodies were discovered near an
abandoned mine working near Pitts.
ton by a watchman making his
rounds. He discovered a disabled au.
tomObile, and further investigation dis
closed the dead body of a fully clothed
girl of 20.
Seventy-five yards away was the
body of the other victim, unclothed.
1t was evident that there had. been
a. terrific struggle by the girls TO save
their lives.
In the clothing Of one was found a
pay envelope with the name f. Foncf.
The Pittston police made one arrest.
but declined TO make public the name
of the man in custody
Evening star., 1927-06-02

10000 Frogs Sail,
In Deep Mystery,
From U. S. to Japan
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, June 2.-Ten thousand
frogs sailed from Boston yesterday
for Japan. Occupying moss.lined
crates and paired as to male and
female they were placed aboard the
Hamburg rg-American liner Thurin.
gia just before she left her pier.
Except for a daily warm bath
they will not be fed until arrival
at Hamburg, where they will be
treated to feast of African
beetles before departure on another
ship for Japan.
The frogs. Louisiana "croakers"
gathered in the flood zone, were
shipped by John T. Benson. of
Hagenbach's American branch at
Nashua, n. Fl. To what use they
are to be put in Japan. ne was un-
able to say, except for possible
propagation of the species to COM
bat insect pests. The frogs have
seven sea lions. an American tim
ber wolf, and a half dozen wood
chucks as travelling companions.
Evening star., 1927-06-02
GROUP TO NOMINATE.
Better Business Bureau Committee
to Pick Trustee Candidates.

The nominating committee OF the
Better Business Bureau will meet at
3:30i o'clock this afternoon to NOM
mate members of the board of trus-
tees of the organization for the COM
ing year. The trustees are to be
elected at the annual meeting of mem =
bers of the bureau June "a.
The nominating committee is COM
posed of George B. Ostermayer, chair
man. B. B. Burgunder, Howard Moran,
H. l.. Rust, M. A. Leese and +. &.
Addison, jr.
officers of the board will be elect
ed at the organization meeting of the
newly constitute board of trustees,
to be held in July.
Evening star., 1927-06-02
Church to Hold Fair.

The annual benefit fair of the
TRANSPORTATION Episcopal Church
will be held today and tomorrow on
the lawn of the church, 1415 Gallatin
street, to raise funds for the rectory
guild.
The fair will be featured by athletic
games, baby show, dancing and NOV
ing pictures. as well as the Washing
ton Boys Independent Band under
the direction of Miss Ethel X. Brown
Supper will be served at o'clock
following which the baby show Will
take place.
Evening star., 1927-06-02
"a NURSES GRADUATED.
Exercises Held on Lawn of Gar
field Hospital.

Twenty-four nurses received their
diplomas at the graduation exercises
OF the Garfield Memorial Hospital
School for Nurses, held on the lawn
Of the institution last night. Henry
b. Spencer. president of the board of
directors Of the hospital. and William
Mather Lewis. president of George
Washington University, were the
principal speakers.
DIR. Deane c. Howard conferred the
diplomas while DIR. William Sinclair
Bowen presented the graduates, 81
Evening star., 1927-06-02
HENRY w. SZEGEDY DIES.
Retired Government Worker Is
Found Dead in Bed.

Henry w. szegedy, 6s years !, old,
was found dead in bed early this
morning in his room, at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. j. c. Lombard,
1435 Newton street. His death re-
suited from natural causes.
The deceased, a resident of this
city for the past so years, was fore
man of the plate printing section of
the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing for number of years. He was re-
tired about years ago.
Funeral services will be held at
the home of his daughter Saturday
afternoon. Rev. J. J. Muir. chaplain
of the Senate. will officiate, and inter-
msut will be in Rock Creek Cemetery.
Evening star., 1927-06-02
ROYAL WAITING ROOM
AT WINDSOR ITO LET"
Monarchs' Travel by Automobiles
Responsible for Decline from
Victorian Era.
By the Associated Press.

7
WINDSOR, England, June R.-The
royal waiting room of the Southern
Railway at Windsor Station is Ito
let
The automobile is responsible, be-
cause there are comparatively few
royal waiting rooms now throughout
the country, as much of the travelling
by the King and Queen is accom-
plished in motor cars.
The royal waiting room here has
not been used much since the days OF
Queen Victoria. She was never in the
Windsor waiting room more than
few minutes at time, but the quar-
ters were always ready for her. and
have been reserved for royalty all
these years.
The original decorations still exist,
and may remain If the new tenant so
desires.
Evening star., 1927-06-02
Y. w. C. A. FLANS BENEFIT
Program to Be Given to Support
Destitute Boy at Mission,

Plans have been completed for the
Louis Hamilton Bayly benefit at s
o'clock Monday night at the Y. w.
C. A. Building, Seventeenth and K
streets. for the support of a destitute
boy now at the Central Union Mis-
sion.
The program will include entertain
ment by Miss Helen Colhoun, ORA.
matte reader; Mrs. Hugh Brown, So
prano; Miss Evelyn Scott, violinist;
Burrus Williams, pianist, and Miss
Mary Roberts, accompanist.
The proceeds derived from the per.
formance-to be used for support of
a little boy now as the mission-will
be a memorial fund dedicated to
Lieut.. Louis Hamilton Bayly. who
died in France with the A. K. F. Mr..
Bayly was the son of Mrs. William
Hamilton Bayly, who was president
of the Y. w. c. A. for IA years.
Evening star., 1927-06-02
Club to View ReformatorY.

Members of the Caravan Club of
Almas Temple will be guests Of Capt.
M. NJ. Barnard, superintendent OF
penal institutions for the District of
Columbia, at the reformatory at Lor-
ton. Va. tomorrow afternoon at 1890
o'clock. About so members OF the
club have signified their intention of
attending. - 49,
Evening star., 1927-06-02
New Car Made Available for President
At Black Hills Is uplicate of His Own

driving here, he expects to use the
automobile to view the scenery Of his
surroundings this Summer as well as
for business, which will require him
to travel 81 miles from home whenever
he goes to the executive office. which
will be established in Rapid City.
Francis Robinson, who is always at
the wheel when the President goes
riding and who has driven every Pres
ident since Mr.. Taft started the use Of
an automobile at the White House,
will go West to guide Mr.. and Mrs.
Coolidge in their drives this summer
Evening star., 1927-06-02
xxx Ends Career.

HASTINGS, Nebr., June 2 R).-
Westinghouse radio station KEKX
was closed last night at midnight. The
order came as a complete surprise.
The station, in operation for three and
a half years, is now being dismantled.
For six months it has been operated
as one of the chain Of the National
Broadcasting Co. ~. ,se~, ssssia4 ssssse @5sf4'
Evening star., 1927-06-02
Rv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
President Coolidge will have a dupli-
cate of his regular limousine available
for his use when he arrives at his
Summer residence in the Black Hills
of South Dakota.
A new car, bearing the coat Of arms
and similar in alr details to the one
he uses here, has been arranged for
him in the West. The secret service
men, who always are right on the
Presidents heels, will have their tour
ing car driven out for the Summer.
While Mr.. Coolidge does very little
Evening star., 1927-06-02

Claiming that they could get no re.
suits when advertising for a hospital
nurse at the Omagh. Ireland, poor
farm. at a salary of only S4.25 week,
the poor directors voted that the me.
dunn must be wrong and that they
should try, another, newspaper in Bel.
east. Ass-sewas syRs ast " sasst~.-.'f:-. ~"
Evening star., 1927-06-02
OPPOSE "HEALTH HOME" "
Property Owners to Protest at Zon-
ing Hearing Tomorrow.

A protest against the removal Of a
private health home" from Takoma
Park to Thirty-eighth and Macomb
streets will be considered by the zon-
ing Commission at a special public
hearing in the boardroom of the Dis
trict Building tomorrow morning at
$50 o'clock.
The protest was made by Hugh NJ
Frampton and w. Gwynn Gardiner
representing property owners in the
vicinity of Thirty.eighth and Macomb
streets. who point out that the resi-
dental zoning restrictions in that sec
tion prevent the establishment of
private hospital or sanitarium.
Evening star., 1927-06-02
D. c. Man Commissioned.

Hugh Everett, jr., 1895 Spring road,
has been commissioned by the War
Department first lieutenant of En-
gineers in the Reserve Corps of the
Army as> sa:sdrass s sssss - xes-a..y
Evening star., 1927-06-02
Round Table to Meet.

The Washington Round Table will
hold a luncheon in the University
Club tomorrow afternoon at 1890
o'clock. "atSS'asr '"' 81 NagzssassA ,se seisskss'
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A New Gag.

Two enterprising bootleggers have
just been arrested in New York. That
Is, they were bootleggers more or less.
They appeared recently in a downtown
office building nattily attired in Pull
man porters' uniforms. Securing an
audience in one of the offices, they ex-
planned that they were just off the
Canadian run and, uncorking bottle,
asked the prospective customer to
sample 1t. He did so and liked 1t. An
order for three cases followed, to be
delivered the next day in a taxicab.
The price was about four hundred dol
lars. The three cases were delivered,
the money was paid, and the Pullman
porters" disappeared. The customer
opened the cases with parched throat
They contained simply bricks.
Now comes the moral. Any man 80
careless as to buy contraband liquor
in such an offhand manner and in
such way should consider himself
lucky to be alive. It is the kindest
thing the bootleggers could have done
to their victim, though they took his
four hundred dollars. They might
easily have sold him labeled and bot
tied poison, which he would have con-
sumed with relish, followed by regret.
In this case 1t would have been his
last earthly act. 1t will doubtless be a
good lesson to him and should serve
also as q lesson to those who buy the
stuff at the risk Of their lives.
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are instilled into those who take the
training that the Government fur
nishes to foster and encourage a finer
manhood and to prepare the youth of
the country for military service If the
need should arise.
1t has been interesting to note that
at Fort Monroe, Va, church service
was compulsory. and that of the six
hundred candidates only five had no
church affiliations. That. indeed. is a
splendid record for good citizenship.
Coupled with sound instruction,
straightforward and adequate reli-
gious training and military training
are character builders in themselves.
and no one can attend these camps
without the maximum benefit to him
self.
The young men who take the course
are the citizens. and the responsible
citizens, of tomorrow. Their training
will stand them in good stead in the
battles of business or the battles of
war. The peace of the land Is in good
hands If it is in those who are able to
look intelligently and clear-sightedly
into the problems of the future.
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The President and Geneva.

| The suggestion has been advanced
that President Coolidge's announce
ment that he does mot choose to run
for President in 1929 was induced
mainly by his chagrin at the failure
OF the Geneva naval limitations con-
ference This Is an absurd conclusion.
Its only justification is the coincidence
with the announcement practically
with the adjournment of the confer
ence without results.
The President chose the anniversary
of his accession to office in 1928 upon
the death Of Mr.. Harding as the occa-
sion for his statement about another
term. That was an appropriate time.
He had then completed four years of
office. Had he been seeking an APP
posite opportunity for declaration on
the score OF another term he could
not have chosen more wisely. The
date gave his statement significance
which it would probably not have had
at any other time.
For some time past suggestions have
been bruited that before the meeting
of the Republican convention the
President would make clear his posi-
ton regarding another elective term,
that he would not permit the conven-
ton to assemble without some defini-
ton of his state Of mind on the sub
&C.,
proved by the occurrence of last Tues
day. 1t merely happened that at that
time the Geneva conference was about
to end without fruit. Had there been
any connection between the failure of
the conference and the announcement
regarding 1928 the President would
surely have waited until the adjourn
ment was definite.
But in any case, there Is nothing to
justify the thought that the failure Of
the Geneva conference had anything
to do with the announcement Of a
Choice not to run in 1928. To be
sure the President would have been
greatly pleased with an accomplish
ment at Geneva along the line Of his
recommendation when the meeting
was called. But to pitch the question
of his candidacy upon the success or
failure Of the effort to obtain
further arms limitation agreement
would have been to put an altogether
artificial valuation upon the endeayor.
The President has not failed be-
cause the conference has failed. He
tried to get the powers together on the
continuation Of the Washington agree
ment, and owing to the peculiar naval
requirements of Great Britain, as
judged from the British point Of view,
the meeting deadlocked and adjourned
without results. Mr.. Coolidge has not
lost prestige nor has the United
States in consequence Of this failure.
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Sacco-Vanzetti Sentiment.

Organizations of workers sym
pathetic with Sacco and Vanzetti,
whose death sentences have just been
confirmed by Gov. Fuller, are agitat
ing for the calling of general strike
in this country next Tuesday on the
eve Of the execution. Their purpose is
to register protest against the action
Of the governor. which. save In the re-
mote contingency Of Intervention by
the Federal courts. Is final. Appeal
has been made to the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor for a general strike
call to all members Of AFFILIATED labor
bodies.
It is altogether unlikely that the
president of the American Federation
of Labor will heed this suggestion.
There is nothing to indicate a DISPOSE.
ton on his part to make an issue of
the case In the name of labor. 1t
would, indeed, be illogical and unwise
to align the American Federation of
Labor with the radicals who are the
chief Sacco-Vanzetti protestants.
A general strike, for whatever
period. half a day. a day. or longer,
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would be of no avail. 1t could not pos.
sibly change the course Of events or
save the lives Of the men now await
ing execution. 1t should not affect
public sentiment which has already
been formed 1t could not weaken the
force Of the governors decision or
convert to an adverse opinion those
who now believe that Gov. Fuller has
ruled in accordance with law and
fact Such strike would, on the
contrary, strengthen the feeling that
largely prevails in this country that
the defense of these men is inspired
chiefly by their utilization with radical
organizations rather than by the cir
cumstances; that they are being set
fication, by their fellows Of the Com
munist coterie.
There is little likelihood that the
Federal courts will intervene. The
case is one strictly for the State courts
of Massachusetts and for the governor
of that State. The crime was com.
mitted on the soil of the State and, as
the verdict stands, by citizens of that
State, against other citizens CT Massa-
chusetts. There is no conceivable
ground on which appeal can be taken
to the Federal courts or on which 1t
could be entertained by those courts.
The appointment of new attorneys to
represent Sacco and Vanzetti is an
nounced, for the purpose of endeaVor-
ing to establish such an appeal and
so effect a postponement of the execu-
ton. But even If an appeal was
taken and admitted, and stay of execu'
ton was granted, there is no reason
to look for a reversal, inasmuch as
the forms of law have been fully COM
nlied with in the State and executive
clemency has after exhaustive inquiry
been denied. The fact that Gov. Fuller
the inquiry behind closed
doors does not constitute ground for
appeal. That was his right. He could
have denied the petition without In
vestigation had he preferred. He
chose, however, to make a full
scrutiny of the case in his own way,
and there is no basis for complaint on
the score OF the privacy Of his pro-
ceeding.