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2 MISS F. L HENDLEY TOLEAVE jCHOOLS Supervising Principal Retir ing After Half Century of Service. Miss Flora 1... Hendley, supervising principal of the sixth division of the District public schools, after nearly 50 years of service in the public education system, has applied for re tirement. it was learned today. Action on her application is expected to be taken by the Board of Educa tion at Us first meeting of the new scholastic year this afternoon. Being graduated from the AA'ash- Ington Normal School in 1876, Miss Hendley began her teaching career, and was gradually promoted until she reached the position of supervis ing principal. From the principal ship of the Seaton School, she was advanced to the supervising princi palship of the sixth division, suc ceeding Stephen E. Kramer, who be came assistant superintendent of schools. Mr. Kramer is now principal of Central High School. Personnel Changes I p. The school board also will take ac tion this afternoon on numerous changes in personnel, recommended by Supt. Frank AV. Ballou. They in clude the appointment, transfer and reinstatement of teachers. If the regular routine of school business does not occupy all the board's time, several important mat ters. which have remained on the calender over the Summer, may be discussed. Among them are the pro posed new physical training course to be introduced in the high schools at the beginning of the new term on September 22. and the psychological tests conducted under the direction of Miss Jessie La. Salle. FIREPROOF ORDER AWAITSCONGRESS D. C. Counsel Says Commis sioners Lack Authority to Safeguard Hbspitals. The District Commissioners will have to seek additional authority from Congress to enact the proposed regulation recommended by Fire Chief AA'atson for the fireproofing of hos pitals, orphan asylums and similar institutions, in the opinion of Cor poration Counsel Stephens. Mnkr* Study of Regulation. Mr. Stephens said todav he had ex pressed that opinion after studying the proposed regulations. He point 'd out that ordinarily such regula tions would come within the pur view of the Commissioners' authority | under the general police power, but j that Congress, having once legislated ) <m the question of fire escapes and j similar safeguards, had taken juris diction over the question. The corporation counsel stated that he regarded the chief recommenda tions as desirable ones. Seen Broader Bowers Needed. Incidentally, Mr. Stephens _observed that this situation omiilhasizes the need for broadening ‘ the municipal powers of the Commissioners to han dle purely local questions as pro posed by members of Congress at the last session. Steps were taken last week by a committee of District offi cials to draft a general bill extend ing the authority of the Commission ers in many directions, but it has not yet been put in shape for approval by the city heads. RICH LANDS INVOLVED. Indian Titles in Oklahoma Sub mitted to Highest. Court. Title to rich lands in Oklahoma is involved in the case of John Hear tail and Louisa Beartail, full-blood Creek Indians, versus Pauline F. Halsell. which, the Supreme Court was asked today to review in a petition tor a writ of certiorari. The case goes back to the time when the Government sought to di vide land of the Creek Nation among the Indians. The petition sets forth that the full-blood Indians opposed the breaking up of the land and of fered no aid to the commission which made the allotments. 1-ater they sought to claim the land, the value of which had been increased by the lo cation of oil. The Supreme Court of Oklahoma decided in favor of the defendant. 4 HELD FOR ASSAULT. Colored Woman’s Charge Lands Quartet in Jail. Three white men are being held for Investigation at No. 4 precinct in connection with an alleged criminal assault committed on Alice Scellers, colored, 36 years, of 1068 Thirtieth street, after she had been taken into a sedan occupied by the men, while she was at Seventh street and A’irginia avenue southwest last night. The men gave their names and ad dresses as follows: Thomas D. Collins, 21, of 499 H street south west;. Daniel J. Curtin. 20, of 616 H street'south west; Milton Guthridge, 29, of 612 Seventh street southwest. They were arrested by police of the fourth precinct, who waited at the hiring agency listed as owners of the car from the license numbers taken by passersby. MAN HELD IN KILLING. Percy Short to Face Grand Jury in Death Case. Percy Short was held for the grand Jury by a coroner’s jury yesterday afternoon on a charge of having fatally assaulted Kichard Chase on August 27, during a fight near First and M streets southwest. Chase died at Emergency Hospital three days later from cerebral hemorrhage and shock. A coroner’s jury also investigated the death on Labor day of Leonard Gray, who was struck bv a taxicab operated by AA r . E. Murphy on Nichols avenue near Sheridan road southeast. A verdict of accidental death was rendered. ' Man’s Pocket Picked. While at C. Richards of 3349 Nichols avenue southeast was sitting on a bench Inside Union Station this morn ing, engrossed In watching the scurrying travelers, somebody reached into his pocket and removed a bill fold containing $92. he informed the police. Richards suspects a pair, of -white men who sat near him' and he claims ho can identify them it they »re apprehended. | Woman Evangelist Dies | MISS JENNIE SMITH. D. C. OWNERSHIP OF LAND PROBED , 1 Fire Brings Up Question of Jurisdiction Over Alex andria Shipyard. As the result of developments at a recent fire on the Alexandria water front. Commissioner Rudolph has di rected District Assessor Richards and Fire Chief AA'atson to ascertain whether the land occupied by the A’irglnia Shipbuilding Corporation at Alexandria is technically a part of the District of Columbia. At the office of Maj. O’Connor. War Department engineer for this district, it was stated today that the ship yard is filled ground and regarded as Federal Government property. The question of whether the Dis trict has any jurisdiction over it was brought to the attention of Commis sioner Rudolph by Fire Chief AA'atson. who said today he was told at the time of the recent fire that that por tion of the Alexandria waterfront was in the District of Columbia. The chief said today that he was interested to the extent of finding out whether he would have to f-egard the shipyard as part of the District in future. On August 2, the steamer Dell brook caught fire and in response to a call for aid Chief AA'atson sent the j fire boat to the scene at 3 o’clock I in the morning. The chief states that after the fire boat had been at work on the blaze for 15 hours Lieut. George AV. AVell.s, in charge, was) ready to return to AA'ashington. Ac cording to AA'atson. an official of the ! company that is salvaging the ship 1 requested that the fire boat remain j until the tire was completely out, j expressing the belief that the ship-! | yard was District territory. Chief AA'atson left the fire boat on I I the scene as a precaution, but he j J said he thought he should refer the j j question to the Commissioners to de- | termine definitely whether the Dis- | trict has any responsibility over the I land. THE. WEATHER District of Columbia, Maryland and A’irginia—Fair tonight and tomorrow, warmer tomorrow; moderate, possibly ! fresh north winds. AVest Virginia—Fair tonight and | tomorrow, warmer tomorrow. Record, for Twenty-Four Hoar*. | Thermometer— 4 p.rn., 68; 8 p.m., 66; 12 midnight, 62; 4 a.m., 09; 8 a.m., 58; noon, 69. Barometer—4 p.m., 29.75; 8 p.m., 29.82; 12 midnight, 29.90; 4 am., 29.94: 8. a.m.. 30.00; noon, 30.00. Highest temperature, 92, occurred at 2 p.m. yesterday. Lowest temperature, 57, occurred at 6 a.m. today. Temperature same date 'last year— Highest, 87; lowest, 65. Condition of the Water. Temperature and condition of the water at 8 a.m.; Great Falls —Tem- perature, 74; condition, very muddy. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today—Low tide, 5:05 a.m. and 5:20 p.m.; high tide, 10:45 a.m. and 11:09 p.m. Tomorrow —Low tide, 5:55 a.m.. and 6:08 p.m.; high tide. 11:32 a.m. The Sun and Moon. Today—Sun rose, 5:38 a.m.; sun sets, 6:36 p.m. Tomorrow—Sun rises, 5:39 a.m.; sun sets, 6:34 p.m. Moon rises 1Q;03 a.m., sets, 9:23 p.m. Automobile lamps to be lighted one-half hour after sunset. Weather In Vartooa Cities. SS Temperature. *5! E B = 1 S=s? % *s? „ Stations. 3 5f = 2 °" Weather. t Oc B e>9- _ . 1— : ; ; a Abilene,Tex. 30.08 74 62 (Cloudy Albany ....30.00 72 56 0.14 Pt.cloudy Atlanta 20.92 84 60 0.88 Cloody Atlantic City 211.02 80 62 0.20 Cloudy Baltimore ... 29.98 92 58 0.22 Pt.eloudy Birmingham. 29.98 86 58 0.16 Clear Bismarck ..29.80 82 50 ...'. Clear Boston .....'IO.OO 90 fat 0.40 Cloudy Buffalo 30.12 64 54 0.48 Clear Charleston ..29.82 88 74 .... Cloudy Chicago ....30.16 60 50 .... Clear Cincinnati .. 30.12 70 52 .... Clear Cleveland ... 30.14 00 60 0.02 Pt.cloudy Itenver 29.98 88 50 .... Clear Detroit ....30.18 68 54 .... Clear Kl Paso ... 29.94 90 ’7O Clear Galveston ..29.90 88 7 4 0.02 Clear Helena 29.94 8s no .... '/leaf Huron. B. D. 29 94 70 54 Clear Indianapolis. 30.14 *lB 50 0.01 Clear Jacksonville. 29.84 90 74 .... Cloudy Kansas City. 30.14 70 58 .... Clear la* Angeles 29.84 84 04 .... 4 leaf I>oui*vlllc ..30.10 70 52 .... Clear Miami. Pla.. 20.92 80 74 Pt.cloudy New Orleans 29.92 90 74 0.04 Cloudy New York.. 29.90 90 58 0.40 Cloudy Okla. City... 30.12 74 58 Clear Omaha 30.10 74 54 Clear Philadelphia. 29.98 92 60 0.36 Cloudy Phoenix 29.76 100 78 Clear Pittsburgh .. 30.12 72 52 0.20 Clear Portland,Me. 30.02 76 56 0.66 Cloudy Portland.Ore.3o.lo 86 58 .... Clear Kaleigh 29.92 90 62 0.26 Cloudy S. Bake City 29.90 90 <lO .... Cloudy | San Antonio. 30 00 90 72 0.01 (Tear San Uiego.. 29.84 74 04 Clear 8. Prancisco. 30.00 72 54 .... Cloudy St. Louis 30.10 70 50 .... Clear St. Paul .. .30.00 74 50 Clear Seattle ....30.10 .. 58 .... Clear Spokane ....29.96 88 56 Clear WASH.D.C. 30.00 92 57 0.40 Cloudy FOREIGN. • (8 a.m., Greenwich time, today.) Stations. Temperature. Weather.. London. Kngland 56 Part cloudy Paris, France 58 Part cloudy Berlin, Germany 54 Part cloudy Copenhagen. Denmark .... 56 Clear Stockholm. Sweden 56 Clear Horta (Fayal), A acres 74 Part cloudy I Hamilton, Bermuda 78 Bain Ban Juan. Porto Rico 82 Part cloudy Havana. Cuba 80 Clear Colon, Canal Zone 78 Cloudy Argentina. For week ending Monday, September 2, 1924. Mean Depart. Avg.Depart ' , , tempera- from pre- from toce. normal, elp. torn. Com and northern wheat area 55 +1 • —0.4 Southern wheat arev -60 0 0 rrrfiJJ, THE EVENING {STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C„ WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 3, 1924. MISS JENNIE SMITH, EVANGELIST, DEAD Noted Religious Worker on Railroads Was 82—Had National Acquaintances. Miss Jennie Smith, one*of the pio neer temperance workers in the United States, and known all over the country to thousands of railroad men as the “Railroad Evangelist,’’ died at her Itome, 319 E street north east, last night. Miss Smith, who was 82 years of age, devoted her life to temperance work and was one of the oldest evangelists in the country. Her story is one of great faith in the Christian religion. Stricken at the age of 15 with spinal trouble, which crippled her. she was confined to a cot until she was 31. During this time she conducted meetings to which she was carried, and in her railroad work she was lifted in- her cot from train to train, holding meet ings with the train crews during her travels. Cared By Prayer. Cured of her affliction after many years of lameness, by "faith and j prayer,” Miss Smith decided to eon- ' tinue her work and to devote the rest of her life to advancing the cause j of religion. | She was bom In Vienna, Ohio, and in that State met Francos AA’illard and Lady Henry Somerset and began temperance work with them. She traveled all over the United States, held meetings in roundhouses, rail road shops, on trains and in depots, and is said to have converted many thousands to temperance and re ligion. Hep work was largely carried out on the Baltimore and Ohio, and she established railroad reading rooms on that.system. She was en couraged in her work by the B. & O. officers. Not only did Miss Smith confine her activities to railroad work, but to street car men throughout the coun try, and in AA'ashington she was active on the Thirteenth and D streets northeast line of the Washing ton Railway and Electric Company. She was also well known for her work among the police and firemen, holding conferences in the station and engine houses. Dlrevtor in W. C. T. r. She was National director of the AA’. C. T. U. railroad work and was al ways cordially greeted by the men of the railroad lines wherever she went throughout the United States. Miss Smith made her home at 319 A street northeast for 25 years and nothing could induce her to move her residence because it is near the Union Station where site always was active in her work. She continued her meet- I ings and revivals up until six weeks ago when she was stricken ill. j Miss Smith was a great friend of j the late Cardinal Gibbons and al ) though she was a Methodist she took | particular pride in. the fact that I whenever she made a conversion she | always advised the person to go back : to their own church if they were pre j viously identified with one. Miss Smith will be buried at Oak j land, Md., where a number of her i relatives are buried. The date has not j been set. She is survived by a sister. ! Mrs. Adam Howell, and a brother. D. j AV. Smith, both of AA'ashington. Scores i of callers have expressed their sorrow I at the death of Miss Smith and ex : pressions of deep regret have been j given from many men at the Union | Station. SOLUTION REMOTE IN POLICE KILLING j Detectives on Hunt for Leisinger Slayers Report No Appre ciable Headway. Four headquarters detectives, spe cially assigned to run down every possible clue that might lead to the identity of the murderers of Policeman Raymond C. Leisinger. shot to death last week while trying to halt a sus pected bootleggers’ automobile, have failed so far to make any appreciable headway, it was stated today by In spector Clifford L. Grant, chief of detectives. Nine colored suspects still are be ing held by the police. Mary Nelson, ''the girl in the pink dress,” who was arrested recently in Alexandria in connection with the investigation, was ordered released today by In spector Grant. AA’hen arrested she wore a pink dress, similar to that worn by a colored woman seen in the murder car as it fled. No additional arrests have been made lately, the inspector declared. SHERIFF AND DEPUTY AT HERRIN ACCUSED f .t ' By the Associated Press. HERRIN, 111., September 3. —Sheriff George Galligan and his deputy. Ora Thomas, were charged with having fired the first shots in the encounter last Saturday between his force and a group of Ku Klux Klansmen in the early testimony given today at the in quest held Into the deaths of six men slain in front of the Smith garage. Dave Sisk, an employe of the garage, testified that the sheriff and his deputy fired the shots that killed Chester Reed, who has been generally described as a bystander. Sisk also testified that he saw Thomas holding Green Dunning, one of the three Klansmen slain, and that this was just a moment before Dun ning dropped from several bullet wounds. He added, however, that he did not actually see the shooting of Dunning, and that he could not say who fired the fatal shots at him. Griffs’ Shortstop , Roosevelt 9 s Aide, Victims of Thief Jewelry and cash totaling $215 were takeji Labor day from the home of Comdr. Robert L. Conn ley, aide to Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt, at 3305 Ma comb street, by a thief who is be lieved later to have entered the home of Roger Peckinpaugh, shortstop for the Washington base ball team, and feasted upon two roasted chickens and other delica cies. Report of the robberies was made to the police last night. The invasion of Pecklnpaugh’s residence took place, police be lieve, just about the time the Na tionals’ star shortstop -was help ing to ruin the Athletics at Amer ican League Park In the ninth In ning of the second 1 game of th’e Labor day exhibitions. The chick ens were removed to the basement, with other choice tidbits from the Icebox, and devoured there. Comdr. Gormley missed a S2OO solitaire diamond ring and three savings banks, containing $15.; ■ , Both families wars away at the II time. WHERE LISTENING-IN IS A REAL TREAT |||||||||^|^^ flUn Iff Jjjk pPPPP^ ' ' |P^r It’s brdtimr story hour at Will'. Srorm of yining- rad !o fans, confined in Children's Hospital want to llstrn in on PeitlTT Albion. There's only one net and little Maraaret in fortuntae rnooKh to draw thr httdphonn, Drtty. Klnlnc and PatUinr, and all thrlr little associates in brd in the wards are drnird Ihr plrtsnrr of IbtrninK to Mrs. Albion's flurry mnsaicr. Bat all the sick and crippled patients in Children’s Hospital, an well as other institutions In the District, will have a radio set at their bedside In a few months If 40,000 tickets for the concert of the combines! Army, Navy and Marine Bands at the American I/CatfUc Ball Park on September 14 are sold. Tickets are on sale at all Peoples Drag Stores at 91 each. The entire proceeds of the concert will be used to purchase radio receiving sets for the hospitals and chniitable institutions. REBELS BATTLING FORCESOFSOVIET Bloody Conflicts Reported in Georgia and Azerbijan. Territory Is Captured. Hy the Anwiited Pres*. GENEVA. September 3—All of Georgia and Azerbijan is declared to have been in active revolt against the Moscow Soviet regime for the last five days, and half the territory of Georgia already has been conquered by the insurgents, according to the representatives of Georgia here. The | sanguinary struggle is continuing and fighting is occurring in the streets of Batum. their advices state. Report Bloody ton a lets. By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 3.—The Geor gian representatives in London have received a dispatch from Constanti nople saying that Georgia and Azerbi jan were revolting against the Soviet occupation forces and that sanguinary conflicts have occurred, many being killed or wounded and railway and telegraphic communication btfng In terrupted. British official circles were unable today to confirm these reports. A dispatch from Tiflis, capital of the Georgian republic, received by way of Moscow. September 1, de clared an attempt to overthrow the ■ Soviet regime in Georgia, made last | Friday night in several towns and ! ' villages of the republic, had been put j down. An official communique issued j by the Georgia council of comruis- i sars declared the movement had been fully balked and the leaders captured. TWO SLIGHTLY HURT IN AUTO ACCIDENTS Woman, 28, and Man. 66, Knocked Down by Machines in Capital Streets. ! 1 Several persons were slightly in jured and a number of automobiles | damaged in traffic accidents which ; occurred overnight. Two pedestrians ' were taken to hospitals after being ! knocked down, but both were able to go to their homes later. ' Mrs. William Stilling, 28 years old, 1 of 1737 Church street, was struck and knocked down by an automobile said by the police to have been operated by Roy R. Oritchfleld of Clarendon, Va.. which he was driv ing on M street at Connecticut avenue | late last night. Critchfleld hurried her to Emergency Hospital, where she was treated for shock and slight bruises. Thomas W. Mudd, 66 years old, of '■ 1102 Eighth street southeast, was knocked down by an automobile ’ operated by Christopher C. Brooks ' of 1314 T street, while the latter was 1 driving on New Jersey avenue near i K street late yesterday afternoon. Brooks carried Mudd to Sibley Hospi- * tal, where it was found he had re • celved bruises about the face and ■ head. * Persons cut or bruised in several f other slight collisions refused hospi tal treatment, police reported. \ LA FOLLETTE LEADERS | TO CONSIDER FINANCE [ Pressing Problem of Funds to Be Topic at Committee Meeting Here. A meeting of the committee whit* is directing the La Pollette-Wheeler campaign has been called here to morrow to canvass the political slt f uation and map out procedure. John M. Nelson, campaign manager and chairman of the committee, is not expected to attend, but reports on various phases of campaign activi ties. forwarded from his Chicago headquarters, will be In the commit tee’s hands. Particular attention. It was said today, will be paid to the question of finances, which in the opinion of the committee, is the most pressing problem It faces. The task of rais ing a campaign fund has been placed in the hands of Attorney General Ekern of Wisconsin and William H. Johnston, president of the Interna tional Assoolatlon of Machinists, a member of the campaign committee. Free Factory Site Offered Ford. WARSAW, September 3. —The mu nicipal council of Bydgoszcz (Brom borg) in Polish Pomerania has sent a message to Henry Pord offering to give him a large factory site In the suburbs of the city should he decide to establish an eastern European fac tory and distrlbbutlqn center there, as baa been reported, , , j , PRESIDENT NOT MEMBER OF KLAN, SLEMP SAYS Tells Editor Coolidge Is Not in Sympathy With Order in Reply to Letter. By fhr A»foci«l«l Prr»?. NEW YORK, September 3.—Presi dent Coolidge is not a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and is not in sympa thy with the organization, his secre tary, C. Eascom Slemp, stated in a letter written to Joseph Branin, edi tor of a newspaper syndicate, and made public today by Mr. Branin. The letter from Mr. Slemp was in answer to one by Mr. Branin. "Concerning the Ku Klux Klan," wrote the secretary, "the President has repeatedly stated that he is not a member of the order and is not in sympathy with its aims and pur poses.” BALTIMORE PLANS 20,1 IN PARADE Holy Name Officials Make Provision for Marylanders in March Here. L’. J. Haltigan, archdiocesan presi dent. and Very Rev. M. J. Ripple. I O. P„ national supreme director of the Holy Name, attended a conference i of 400 representatives from 68 of the | Baltimore and nearby parishes in I western Maryland, in St. John’s Hall, Valley and Eager streets. Baltimore, last night. Representatives also were present from Annapolis, Westminster and Tayneytown. The Baltimore contingent has di vided their representation into 14 sections and pledges to have fully 20,000 men marching in the Holy Name parade here. Sunday, Septem ber 21. Special provision is being made by the railroads out of Baltimore to carry the families of the marchers on earlier trains on the morning of the parade. "There never has been anything in connection with Holy Name matters in the archdiocese that has aroused so much enthusiasm and interest as the Washington celebration,’’ said Mr. Haltigan today. At the conference last night each parish reported on the official dele gates who will sit in the business sessions of the convention- here, irre spective of the number of Holy Name members who will participate in the parade. Each parish reported from one to three delegates. Archbishop Is Host. Archbishop Curley, who is director of the Holy Name Society in the arch diocese and president of the Catholic University, is the official host of the convention. To be sure to be here for those duties the Archbishop is re turning from Europe on Friday, when reports will be made to him on the progress of the convention details. Bishop John J. Dunn, auxiliary bishop of New York and spiritual di rector of the archdiocesan union of Holy Name societies, is leaving Rome this week so as to be on hand to head the monster New York delegation In the parade. The comittees on stands, guests and finance met in the Holy Name con vention headquarters. 1314 Massa chusetts avenue, last night. The finance committee reported that funds are coming in slowly. The stands committee reported that ail matters in connection with the re viewing stand and for the religious exercises are fully under way. The guests committee will send out engraved invitations to the special guests this week. Colored Members Prepare. The colored Holy Name societies throughout the District are making plans to entertain their fellow Holy Name men who will come here to take part In the parade and rally. William J. Smith, president of the Holy Name Guild, a colored organiza tion, is arranging to have a dinner served to the colored marchers in the basement of St. Augustine’s Church. Word was received at the campaign headquarters today that a campaign is in progress in Columbus, Ohio, to muster a sufficient number of Holy Name marchers for a special train from that diocese. Special rates for the trip have been secured. QUAKE IN MINDANAO. Much Damage Caused on Coast of Island. By the Associated Press. MANILA, September 3. Strong earthquake shocks caused much dam age along the eastern coast of Min danao on Saturday, according to ad vices received by the Weather Bureau here. No loss of life has been re ported. Great cracks appeared in the earth near the town of Panpalan. The telegraph lines were broken in many places by falling trees. It Is believed the earthquake . centered in the .Philippine deep, Pacific Ocean, BONUSWORKNEEDS 400 MORE ON ROLL Applications Pouring into War and Navy Depart ments from Veterans. Approximately 400 stenographers, typists and clerical workers will be needed by the War and Navy Depart ments before the end of September to keep their forcee up to peak and en able them to keep pace with the steadily increasing number of appli cations for the soldiers' bonus, it was learned today. The War Department section of the adjusted compensation unit, headed by Adjt. Gen. Robert C. Davis, will need about 300 employes to fill vacancies caused by resigna tions and lapsing of temporary ap pointments, while the Navy section will need about 100 employes. Thousands of applications are pour ing into the War and Navy Depart ments daily for adjusted service com pensation certificates. These appli cations are being checked up and then certified to the Veterans* Bureau for final issue of the certificates. Seven thousand certified applications, the first batch issued, were sent by ( the Veterans' Bureau yesterday, and | will be followed from day to day by thousands more. The Navy Depart- I ment will send to the Veterans’ Bu- 1 reau its first batch of certifications on September 13. Get 1541.000 Applications. The War Department to date has received more than a million applica tions for certificates, with more coming in every day. The highest day 58.000 came in, wjiile on other days not more than a few thousand have been re ceived. At the Navy Department nearly 150,000 applications have been received for checking. Employes appointed to the temporary ; posts offered by the bonus work must 1 have passed a civil service examination | at some time during the past five years. Civil service rules for employ- ! ment of stenographers have been sus- j pended temporarily in so far as they ( apply to the bonus work, but the posi- ■ lions are only temporary. Neverthe- j less, the opportunities for employment, j according to officials, are expected to | absorb much of the surplus clerical help In Washington. DAVIS’ PLEA TO FARMERS. Will Hake Omaha Address Directly to Agriculture. John W. Davis, Democratic nominee, will make a direct appeal to the West ern farmers September 6 in an address at Omaha. Nebr. By means of a radio broadcasting station at Hastings the agricultural communities in that section will be able td hear his discussion of the farm problems of the country'. In his Omaha speech Mr. Davis will deal at length with the policies that the Democrats hold responsible for the gen eral depressive effects on the farmer. Interest in this speech lies in the fact that Mr. Davis stands committed to permanent relief to the American farther. • The Democratic position on the farm question Is that it is essential to re establish the farmer's export market by re-establishing the industrial bal ance in Europe and the normal flow of international trade by direct and posi tive official effort; to adjust the tariff so that the fanner can again buy in a competitive manufacturers’ to stimulate the co-operative marketing movement and establishment of export i marketing facilities for agricultural products. Mr. Davis’ Omaha speech will be fol , lowed by one at Denver September 11. THREE HELD IN RAID. ’ Young Woman and Two Men Ac cused on Statutory Charges. A raid last night on a double apart . ment over a store at 1742 L street by j members of the vice squad resulted in the arrest of a young woman and two [ men on statutory charges. , Arthur Simos, also known as Louis , Browny, 25 years old. charged with . conducting a disorderly house, was re j leased today on JSOO bond to await a . jury trial. The girl, who gave her name as Mary Henrietta Steward, 23, of the L street apartment, ie being held at the House of Detention on a statu tory charge. The other young man, who said he was Clement Bell Young, po address given, was released on bond ! on a similar charge. Woman Hurt in Fight. : Ella Hackley, colored, 30, of 1765 ■ Oregon avenue, received a fracture of • the skull last midnight during a fight • with Osie Sterns, also colored, 35. of i 1738 Oregon avenue, at Kalorama • road and Champlain street. Police > say that Sterns threw a stone at the s woman. Ella was taken home by ’ friends and later was removed to I Gallinger Hospital. Her condition is ) serious. Sterna, It is understood, will bp taken into custody. GLOWING REPORTS CHEEROOOLIDGE Encouraging Messages on Political Situation Received at White House. President Coolidge continued todav to receive encouraging reports from various sections of the country re garding the political situation and congratulations upon his Labor day speech defining his policies relating to organized labor in this country. The President made few engage ments for the day because of his desire to give his attention to an ac cumulation of routine business, and, in between times, to continue the preparation of the speech he is to deliver in Baltimore Saturday at the exercises incident to the unveiling of the statue in memory of Lafay ette. Indiana Situation Outlined. Indiana would go overwhelmingly Republican if the election were held today, according to the opinion of Representative Purnall of that State, who has just returned from an inten sive campaign trip and who was one of President Coolidge’s political call ers. He amplified his remarks by say ing that in all his years in politics he has never seen a national ticket so popular and that from the per sonal survey made throughout In diana by him during the past month he has every reason to believe, that the Coolidge sentiment is growing stronger all the time. Mianraota Outlook Held Ciood. C. Bascom Sletnp, secretary to President Coolidge, who is vice chair man of the advisory committee of the Republican national committee and who personally is In touch with many members of Congress engaged in the various States, has been re ceiving reports recently which would indicate that the Republican outlook in Minnesota is growing brighter and that Representative Thomas G. Schall of that State has Senator Magnus Johnson on the run. Mr. Slemp says the reports show clearly that the party in Minnesota is united on the national ticket as never before, and that Senator Johnson's inconsistency regarding the McNary-Haugen farm bill in the last session of Congress has hurt him, and it is asserted his statement that if the presidential election goes into the Senate he would j vote for Bryan will cost him his i seal in the Senate. Former Representative Good of lowa, who was in charge of the Western headquarters for Coolidge during the pre-convention campaign, was another who brought encourag ing campaign news to the White House today. He expects the Re publicans to carry the so-called doubtful States. Oklahoma, Tennes see. Missouri and Kentucky. Praiidtnl Receives Callers. President Coolidge today infor mally received Jean Coundouritis, brother of the President of Greece and' for many years a member of the legislative body of that country. He Was accompanied to the White House by the charge d'affaires and Representative Watson of Pennsyl vania. Mr. Coundouritis is making a tour of the United States in an i unofficial capacity. The President also received a dele gation representing the Universal Negro Improvement Association, who present ed a petition containing more than one million signatures asking for a friendly and "sympathetic consideration of the j plan of founding a nation in Africa for j the colored people and to encourage I them in assisting to develop already ] independent negro nations as a means | of helping to solve the conflicting prob lem of race." The delegation was head ed by G. Emonei Carter, secretary gen eral of the organization. Bearer of Defense Day Pledge. Col. Harley V. Speelman. register of the Treasury, past commander of the Sons of Veterans, brought to the Presi- I dent today a set of resolutions adopted by that patriotic body at its annual en campment in Boston, August 14, in i which it indorsed Defense day and j pledged the organization's support. There is a possibility of President 1 Coolidge's attending the ceremonies i incident to the unveiling of the mon- j ! uraent erected to the memory of ! I Francis Asbury in the triangle at j | Sixteenth street and Columbia road, j ! October 15. A formal invitation was ! ! extended to the President yesterday j j afternoon by Bishop McDowell of the ' 1 Methodist Episcopal Church of this ' 1 city. Bishop McDowell said afterward j that he did not ask the President to speak on this occasion, but merely to be present. Asks Tribute to California. D. B. Boley of San Francisco, Calif., who was one of President Coolidge's late callers yesterday afternoon, sug gested that it would be a fitting trib ute to California. September 9, the date upon which that State was ad mitted into the Union in 1849, if the State's flag were flown on the White House flagstaff beneath the American flag. Representative Frederick of Cali fornia. who has just returned from a visit to Europe, called to pay his respects to the President and to give him his impression of conditions upon the continent and to assure him he will from now until election day be busily engaged in campaigning for the success of the Republican party. RECEIVER is DOUBTFUL Court May Not Appoint Man at Teapot Dome. CHEYENNE, Wyo., September 3. Federal Judge T. Blake Kennedy de clared this morning that he may not appoint a receiver for Teapot Dome to replace Rear Admiral Joseph Strauss, resigned, even though appli cations may be handed him for a new appointment. This action, he de clared, was in view of the fact that the Bureau of Mines is on the ground at Teapot Dome and Is competent to handle the Government's Interest in the receivership. Enrollment Card of One-Day National Defense Volunteers—Ages of 18 Years to 45 Years Inclusive I hereby volunteer for the National Defense Test of September 12, 1924, and on that day agree to report in person for the public dem onstration when notice of time and place to report is sent to me. (a) I have no preference for assignment to a unit. or [■Regular Army (b) I prefer to serve for that day in -{National Guard (Cnit) [Organized Reserves (Indicate preference above.) Former service, if any —• •.<*.•• Occupation . (Signature and age.) • (Race, 'While or Colored.) _ (Residence Address.) . Mail or deliver to Room 306, District, Building, 14th and Pa. Ave, DR. CARMICHAEL DIESJN VIRGINIA Prominent Capital Physician. Is Victim of Paralysis. * Here 20 Years. Dr. Randolph B. Carmichael, 35 years old. prominent dermatologist ana physician of this city for th#* laj rt ■° Years, died at the old family home m Iredencksburg. V a „ early toda>. follow ing- a stroke of paralysis. Dr. Carmichael had been in good health until about a month ago, when he suffered a breakdown and went to Emergency Hospital. He went home last Friday and Saturday morning suffered a stroke of paralv sis, which affected his right side and rendered him unconscious. Dr. Ster ling Ruffin, Dr. Tom A. Williams and Dr. William B. Sims of this city and Dr. C. M. Smith of Fredericks burg were called there to attend him. Dr. Carmichael was the fifth doctor, in a regular line of descendants, in his immediate family. He was the son of Dr. Spottswood Wellford Car michael and Mrs. Fannie Tucker Bryan Carmichael. He received his early education at the old Panfop School, near Charlottes ville. Va., where many sons of well to-do Virginians formerly prepared for college. He later attended the University of Virginia, where he was graduated in medicine. Ihior to coming to Washington Dr. Carmichael practiced in New York several years. While in this city he was generally recognized as one of the best skin specialists in the country. Pr. Carmichael was a member of the Metropolitan Club here. He re sided at 818 Seventeenth street. He is survived by a brother. Colter B, Carmichael, and two sisters. Miss Ellen Spotls-wood Carmichael and Miss Fannie T. Carmichael. Funeral services will be conducted at St. George's Episcopal Church, Fred ericksburg, Va.. tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock. Rev. Dudley Boogher will officiate. Interment will lie in the family lot at Fredericksburg. MRS. EMMA C. PRATT DIES. Member of D. A. R. and Long-Time Resident Here. Mrs. Emma C. Pratt, member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and a resident of this city and vicinity since she was a young girl, died at her residence, 2820 Ord way street, Cleveland Park, yesterday after a lingering illness. Mrs. Pratt, who before her mar riage was a Miss Pond, was first married to William Hall Davidson of Boston, Mass., in ISS6. Mr. Davidson died in 1900 and in 1910 she was mar ried to Walter. Scott Pratt of the A. S. Pratt& Sons Banking Cor poration. They made their home in Forest Glen, Md., until Mr. Pratt s death in 1915, when Mrs. Bratt moved to her late residence in Cleveland Park. She was a member of the Episcopal Church. She is survived by one son. William F. Davidson of the Handley Motor Company. Funeral services will be conducted i at her late residence tomorrow after noon at 2:30 o'clock. Interment will be in Rock Creek Cemetery. MISSION MEETING OPENS. f V Colored Society Convenes in Second Baptist. Devotional and song service led by Rev. Dr. O. J. Alien, colored, pastor of First Calvary Baptist Church, Nor folk, Va., featured the opening ses sion of the seventh annual conven tion of the Scott Carey Baptist For eign Missior/ Society (colored) of the United States of America, in the Sec | ond Baptist Church on Third street between H and I streets, today. Addresses were also delivered as follows: On behalf of the General Baptist convention of the District of Columbia, Dr. W. H. JernagTn; on be half of the Baptist ministers’ confer ence. Dr. M. W. D. Norman; on behalf j of the denominations. Bishop E. W. • Jones; on behalf of the church, the I pastor, and response by Dr. R. W. I Jefferson. I Marriage Licenses. | Marriage Ureases have been issued to the i following: Mason A. Winston and Martha A. Harris. Oliver P. Hazard and Goldie L. Gunnell. Herbert -T. Scott and Until Morris. George I’. Yarborough aud Sadie S. Hade, both of Arlington, Va. William V. Hillard and Uuth M. Kaebo. both of Richmond. Va. John M. Sescure of Harrisburg, Pa., aud Ono llealy of this city, Robert T. Hueker and Gracie E. Dickerson, both of Lynchburg, Va. Larie S. llurkingbam and Maude H Windsor. Marbeih T. Tlalaguer and Vivian 11. Johu son. William A. Dyson and Ethel Watson. Elijah Payton aud Nora E. Samuel. Learnor R. Posey and Genevieve Tileson. William E. Moore and Josephine Eubank, both of Richmond. Va. Hubert McWilliams and Mary E. Hall, both of Leesburg. Va. Meyer Steinbach and Sophie Human, both of Baltimore. Md. Ralph Z. Miller and Nellie Perrett. Thomas K. Saunders and Lulu M. Ransdell. lamnard Garrish and Mary Leaf, both of Pikesville. Md. John H. lirown of Bcthesda, Md., and Viola V. Wood of this city. Randolph Parker and Ethel M. Johnson, both of South Washington, Va. William U. Smith and Madeline Mitchell. Anthony D. Cianeiatulo. jr., of Philadelphia. P»,. and Theresa M. Gerardi of this city. John S. Einnell of this etty, and Luella Miley of Woodstock. Va. James R. Hardy of Earmville, Va., and Ethel K. Yeatts of Danville. Va. A. Buford Lurk and Grace B. Kritker. both of Richmond. Va. Hezekiab It. Rudd of Brown Summit, N. C„ and Nan L. Seaweil of ( andor, N. C. Isador Zimberg and Rachael Wox. both of Richmond. Va. James A. Bailey and Mary Bair. George A. Teaie, jr.. of Brooklyn. X.. and Zelda M. Mahoney of this city. Eerrucio Pini of Boston. Mass., and Amalia Lemuchi of this city. Louis K. Raeder and Isabel Totin. Calvern D. Doggett and Helen E. Haliday. Louis Crowell of this city and Sarah Corr of Philadelphia. Pa. Paul H. Rhodes of XokesvlUe. Ta„ and Agnes P. Uurphy of Spencer, W. Va. 'l