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2 RUHR EVACUATION NOW IN FULL SWINE French Withdrawing Forces Today—“ Sanctions Cities” to Be Held. By the Associated Press. BERLIN. July IS.—The evacuation of the Ruhr appeared to be under way in full swine this morning. The 3’rench were departing from Reckling hausen. Tomorrow they will leave Gelsenkirchen and on Monday. Hat tingen will be evacuated. The “sanc tions cities" of Duesseldorf, Duisburg and Ruhrort will be evacuated early in August. See Full Evacuation TARTS, July In (AP).—lt is now taken for granted in French circles that the allied evacuation of Duesseldorf, Duis burg and Ruhrort will be completed by the end of this rhonth and that the Ruhr will be entirely evacuated con siderably before August 16, the date fixed by the London agreement of 1924, whi-h put the Dawes plan into effect. Duesseldorf, Duisburg and Ruhrort are called "sanctions cities and the London agreement made their evacua tion conditional upon Germany’s ful fillment of her Dawes plan obligations. Negotiations regarding the evacua tion of these cities have been under way for a month between the govern ments of Franca, Belgium and Great Britain. France and Belgium have agreed upon the evacuation of the “sanctions cities,” but the British gov ernment has not yet given a final answer. Its approval, however, is ex pected. and there is no doubt here of the evacuation occurring soon. (A Brussels dispatch yesterday said yte British-Frem h Belgium agreement lor early evacuation of the “sanctions cities” has already been completed.) BLANTON LAUNCHES WAR ON SHERRILL'S U. S. POLICE POWERS (Continued from First Page.) ernment property, treatment of World War veterans employed on the park police force and as guards of public buildings, and concentrated authority in this one public official, who, he says, has “too many irons in the fire.” Throughout, Representative Blanton repeatedly urges that hearings be held at which he may question witnesses, and warning that he will not stand for any punishment or loss of job in flicted upon an employe who may be suspected of having furnished infor mation that is the basis of the Blan ton document. Representative Blanton prefaces his charges with the statement that he is spending the entire nine months of congressional recess “in making a per sonal study of existing conditions in our Nation's Capital.” so that he “will be prepared to make recommendations when the District committee meets and be able to act with full knowl edge and intelligence in helping to solve its problems." Sees Czarist Control. He declares he has “evidence of great probative conclusiveness” that “no czar has ever been in more com plete control” than Col. Sherrill “of over one-seventh of the District of Columbia.” He says this evidence in dicates that Col. Sherrill “arrogantly and pompously presides as the sole and exclusive dictator, lawmaker, law enforcer, contract-letter, concession grantor, employe-hirer, employe-dis charger, money-disburser. Judge, jury and execution, from whose iron decree there is no way of escape.” Representative Blanton has found to his chagrin that in the new traffic code, which he helped to write, de signed to create a traffic director and provide laws for the entire District, co-extensive with its boundaries, a lit tle clause crept in on the last page by which Col. Sherrill is authorized and empowered to make and enforce all regulations for the control of ve hicle and traffic, and limiting the speed thereof on roads, highways and bridges within the public grounds of the District. He points out that the “voteless, voiceless, helpless 450,000 people here” come within eight separate, distinct, different police systems, each respon sible to a different head and controled hv different regulations: The House Office Building force; the Senate Office Building force; the police for the Capi tol Building and Grounds; police for the Zoological Park; police for the Agricultural grounds; a separate sys tem of 33 police for the White House grounds; a separate system of 61 park police, and the metropolitan police force. Hits Army Interference. Stressing that West Point training is to accomplish an objective regard less of expense, which is ali right in war. hut not conducive to economy in peace time. Representative Blanton advises that “just as the cobbler should stick to his last, so should Army officers stick to things mili tary and not attempt to run all of our Government’s civilian affairs in peace time.” To give this point he enumerates 11 commissions of which Col. Sherrill is executive and disbursing officer, be sides which he is director of public buildings and parks in the National Capital, and disburse! - of the big ap propriations for renovating public buildings, including $50,000 repairs on the White House and also the SOOO.- 000 for parks turned over the first of this month, with an authorization from Congress of $1,100,000 allowable every year hereafter for parks and having under control several hundred guards and other civilians employed in public buildings. Mr. Blanton charges that Col. Sher rill canceled a contract which had two years to run on which the Gov ernment would have received $1 ,"00 for the lease of concessions at the public golf grounds and gave the ex clusive privilege free gratis for five years to the same man, who “thus gets the East Potomac golf course with the Slot).000 clubhouses, the private speedway leading down to the same, the splendid body of Govern ment land running down to Hains Point, the West Potomac golf course with golf house, the colored golf course with golf house north of the Lincoln Memorial, with the exclusive privilege of selling golf clothes, bags, sticks, balls, paraphernalia, ice cream, cold drinks, cigars, cigarettes, tobac co. lunches, permits for playing on course, motor oils and gasoline and the exclusive privilege of operating live busses, all without any competi tion. Get Police Protection. Not only that, hut he quotes a spe cial order which requires park police “to give these three golf houses hour ly police protection throughout the night.” when the property therein is all the personal property of the man who gets these valuable concessions for five years without paying the Government one dollar.” Representative Blanton makes a similar explanation of conditions at the tourist camp, where Lhs -couces- SOPER WILL STUDY i CANCER GERM FIND i Head of Society Formed to War on Sarcoma Starts for London. By the Associated Press, l NEW YORK, July 18.—While warnings against liopo of an imme diate cure for cancer continue to be 1 made by New York authorities, never theless Dr. George A. Soper, managing director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer. Is going to Lon ; don to investigate the observation of - cancer virus by two British experts. Dr. Soper's chief. Dr. Francis Carter Wood, acting president of the society, compares the Gye-Barnard discoveries , in England with the Einstein theory of . relativity. “It will take 10 years at least to I prove or disprove the conclusions of . the British scientists,” said Dr. Wood. “just as it will take years Eo prove or . di. i rove the Einstein theory. We have learned nothing here to show that the . British experiments on the Rous chick en tumor have any relation'to cancer . in human 1 icings." . j Ah ut 15 years ago Dr. Peyton Rous. . j doing research work in the Rockefeller | Institute in New York, disco . >red that j tumors in chickens were due to small •; organisms. • i in cautioning the public not to at | tach undue importance to the work ■ | of the British scientists, Dr. yoper ■ j said: Much Yet to Be Hone. ; j “It is a long way from seeing, as Barnard saw, ultra-microscopic parti cles believed to be capable of causing 1 sarcoma In fowls, to the eradication of cancer in man. • “The most significant fact estab lished experimentally by the British researchers is that a micro-organism in combination with a distinctive liquid extract of a tumor‘is necessary and sufficient for the production of that type of tumor in other animals. “I am going to Europe because the society is eager to obtain first-hand knowledge of every useful fact that can he turned to account in the pre vention and cure for this scourge.” Dr. Soper is leaving today on the Yeendarrx Following the suggestion of the London Lancet that new meth ods developed in the recent British cancer research might cause other diseases to yield their secrets, comes from London a forecast of the results of an inquiry into smallpox conducted by the Medical Research Council. The London Daily Mail says the report elucidates the role of minute microbes. Dr. William B. Coley of New York, j whose theory as to the result of can cer has apparently been proved by the British development, says the latest discoveries should result in greater control of the disease. He does not believe an early cure is fore shadowed. , sion has been given to the Welfare Service, the receipts to be spent on public tennis courts and other play ground facilities. While a big busi ness is done in the Government tour ist house, amounting last month to over $4,000, Representative Blanton says there is no businesslike check or : record of these sales and receipts. He protests that the park police should not be compelled to give hourly police 1 protection throughout the night for the goods, wares and merchandise of the Welfare Service. Hits Taxi Concession. Col. Sherrill is also charged by Rep resentative Blanton with having “for the past three years, without charge therefor, granted to the New Taxi Service Company, operating the red top cabs, the exclusive right to main tain cab stands at the Washington Monument and Hains Point.” Then he goes on to explain that while "the general public of Washington and this Nation inherently own the streets and j thoroughfares of the District, and in- ] herently have the right of easement , into every public place, yet at the j Terminal * Station the general public is forced to ride in Black and White taxis, to get in and out of the depot, unless they dodge through them to an outside post, and a private com pany sells this franchise which be longs only to the people.” Pointing to other exclusive monop olies sold by hotels for particular taxi cab companies to occupy the streets adjacent to those hotels. Representa ■ tive Blanton said: “I am disgusted with these exclusive monopolies and I promise you that there is going to be a man’s fight in the next Congress to break it up. Taxi fares are higher I in Washington than in any other I comparable city in the United States, , and these growing monopolies cause . it. The people are entitled to have fair competition.” .Scores Guards’ Pay. Col. Sherrill is also charged by : Representatives Blanton with issuing orders “tending to Prussianize” the i several hundred guards of public buildings here in Washington. In one of these, he emphasizes, by the appointment of 59 of these guards as special policemen “at SBS per month you required them to do dangerous police duty worth about double their salary.” He calls attention that these ! men do not get one day off in seven in lieu of Sunday, “which every Gov ernment employe except yours gets.” Charges Raises Unfair. i How Col. Sherrill promoted 36l of his employes and raised their salaries for June, in order to consume an un expended appropriation, is charged by Representative Blanton, who quotes a series of orders, carrying SIOO in creases, retroactive, hut providing that the pay status of each employe promoted would revert back on July i I to that of May 31. He calls atten tion that of the 361 promotions only ’ 24 were SBS-a-month guards, or those i receiving as low as $1,020 per year, i “I have closely watched the pro l eeedings of Government officials for I years," wrote Representative Blanton, 1 "and I didn't even dream that an' - official would exercise such arbitrary preferment affecting such a great 1 number of employes. I promise you now that there is going to be a fight i in Congress against future issuance of ■ retroactive orders eating up unexjiend - ed balances of appropriations just be » fore the fiscal year ends.” ‘ I (Hfc* 111“ IIOV.XI JX” * ■*"**• ' Bandits , Bootleggers , Bums , Main Finds Os Evangelist Seeking a Samaritan f - f, ■ ■ -—■ ; i By the Associated Press times to the one time that such , NEWARK, July 18. —Harry W. help was accorded and he was . Butz, draftsman and itinerant offered six drinks of whisky to evangelist, who walked from one of coffee, i Newark to Cincinnati and return His itinernary included Phila -1 to determine what a penniless delphia, Wilmington. Baltimore, : Christian wayfarer might expect Washington, Cumberland, Pitts from his fellowman, has announced burgh, Wheeling and Dayton, re his findings and asserted that turning byway of Chillicothe and man's inhumanity to man had not Washington Court House, Ohio; changed much from the days of Parkersburg, W. Va.; Cumberland, the good Samaritan. . Baltimore and Philadelphia, s On his trip, which was con- Twelve different bootleggers of cluded last night, he said he was sered him employment and he met » given a lift by one of every 30 437 working men who said they 3 automobiles accosted. He was were driven to tramping for lack i held up once in every 118 miles, of work. s but one-third of the holdup men Five times, as an experiment, he ? gave up their own funds to him said, he lay down by the road as when they learned his mission. if injured. In all 232 automobiles i Clergymen, church officials, bust- passed him without stopping, an t ness and professional men apd so- average of nearly 60 before a car cial agencies refused, assistanqe 2$ slowed down to offer; assistance*^ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1925.' FIRST PHOTOGRAPH OF AMUNDSEN ON RETURN FROM POLAR FLIGHT The six explorers, haggard and unshaven, photographed a few minutes after their arrival at Kings Bay, Spitzbergen. Left to right: Omdahl, Dietrich* son, Ellsworth, Amundsen, Feucht and Riiser-Larsen. (Copyright 1025. by North American Newspaper Alliance.) AWARDED SIO.COO IN SLANDER SUIT Leland Gets Verdict in Dam age Action Against Church Trustee. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 18. —Damages of SIO,OOO were awarded by a jury last night to Albert R. Leland, who asked for $50,000 in a slander suit against E. L. Hartig. trustee of the Oak Park Church, to which Leland formerly be longed. Leland charged that Hartig had re ferred to him as the father of an illegitimate child, a rubber in a tur kish bath, guilty of fraud in a finan cial transaction and a medical prac titioner, without a license. The suit was an aftermath of a di vorce action brought by Leland, In which the Rev. Carl D. Cace, pastor of the church, was accused of misconduct by Leland’s wife, Charlotte. She tes tified for her husband in the divorce suit." Dr. Case intervened to clear his name and was given a vote of confi dence by his parishoners. The divorce, denied by the lower court, was granted by the Appellate Court and appealed by Dr. Case to the Supreme Court, where it is pending. Leland to Fight On. The statements attributed to Hartig ! and not denied, by him were made ! during an investigation of the divorce affair by a church committee of which Hartig was a member. Leland filed a similar suit against another church official, also on the committee. The charges of the divorce suit were revived in the trial of the slander action. Leland testified that Dr. Case’s wife had told him the min ister had “confesed all” to her, but Mrs. Case on the stand later said she had meant her husband had told her everything and denied the charges. Informed of the verdict. Leland de clared he was “not through lighting.” “I have been crucified, and/my fam ily also, by the interests which are ! trying to save the Rev. Carl D. Case,” he said. Hartig’s attorneys contended that as a church official Hartig was privi leged to Investigate reports concern ing the minister, and argued that Le land’s reputation was not injured by Hartig’s statements, hut by the scandal in connection with his divorce case. PERSIA PLANS MONOPOLY ON TEA AND SUGAR Proposed State Control of Staples Arouses Feeling Among Bagdad Merchants. Correspondence of the Associated Press. BAGDAD, June 20. —Decision of the Persian government to put through a bill to empower it to take over the import and sale of tea and sugar in Persia as a state monopoly has aroused considerable feeling in com mercial circles here. The seriousness of the matter from the local point of view may be gauged from the fact that, except for cotton piece goods, a very large proportin of the considerable rd-export trade from this country to Persia consists of tea and sugar. The buying ar rangements in Europe and India have until now remained in the hands of Bagdad middlemen, Persian merchants not as a rule buying further afield than this city. Presumably, the Persian government intends to make its own arrangements in Europe, and to cut out the Bagdad middleman VAST MASHER ARMY HERE LACKS NERVE PRESCRIBED BY CAVE MATS Reporter , Trailing Pretty Policewoman , in Profes sional Capacity , Tabs Ten Sheiks Who Use Eyes Instead of Clubs. ■Washington's streets are full of amateur mashers, but as for hist, bad men who boldly grab innocent women bv the arm and drag them into cur tained limousines or such as that, they ■ are conspicuously absent. In other words, a respectable worn l an may walk alone at night on any of the Capital's downtown thoroughfares : without fear of being insulted, touch - ed on the arm, annoyed with persistent attentions of strange men or kidnaped. . providing she doesn't carry a chip on i her shoulder and does mind her own . business. At least this is the conclusion • drawn by a reporter for The Star, who spent two hours last night trailing one of Lieut. Mina Van Winkle's most , comely policewomen in her nightly r rounds of the theater district. The reporter frankly was expecting - to see daring acts committed last > night. He was prepared to hear shrill screams of frightened women eeho , ing adown the narrow canyon of F . street, to see leering faces of brutal men lurking in dark hallways, to I glimpse high-powered motor cars mak- I ink ofT with their bobbed-haired prey. Flirts’ Methods Genteel. But he had to be satisfied, after long waiting, with tabbing half a doz , en so-called flirts on foot and four in | automobiles. Only one of the men went so far as to venture a remark to the policewoman, and he made a , harmless little query as to whether , she were out for a walk. One young man. more persistently interested than the others- followed the policewoman for five blocks, but suddenly terminat ed his innocent little chase when a "wise guy” tapped him on the arm and whispered, "She's a policewom j an.” All set for the excitement, the re porter began his rounds at Four teenth and F streets at 8 o'clock. Keeping a respectful distance behind the policewoman, he followed her as . she strolled nonchalantly along F ■ street, pausing now and then to look in the shop windows. She was dress ed conservatively, but attractively, in a small green hat, tan silk dress and white shoes, and swung a purse care lessly on her arm. At Thirteenth street there stood a , young man. He was evidently "look . ing 'em oveh” As our police lady meandered past he straightened his tie and started after her. For half a block he kept close behind, slowing up as she did and continuing his pursuit when she walked on. Be , tween Thirteenth and Twelfth streets I he doubled his speed and passed her, sneaking a curious glance at her face as he went by. Look Is Reassuring. Apparently reassured, he went ahead to the corner of Twelfth street and stopped ever so casually to await her approach, meantime occupying him »' self by reading the street sign on the i I lamp-post as though he never before , ! had seen one. ! “Aha,” mused the eager reporter, j i "Something is going to happen.” But nothing did. The policewoman kept looking right ahead as she came abreast of her pursuer, and her in } different manner seemed to flabber -1 gast the yoiing man so much that he 1 didn't have the courage to speak, if 1 he intended to do so. He did not let * this setback long deter him, however. 3 He went through exactly the same ' process again, and then again, and a ; fourth time, never mustering up suffl f cient nerve to venture a word. 3 Came Ninth street and the "villain” 1 still pursued her. By this time, albeit, J he was more determined than ever -! to make a catch, it was noted. The I j reporter believed he sensed this man's i feelings. Here was a young woman ' alone on the downtown streets with j undoubtedly no particular objective Jj in mind. Her very attitude bespoke j that. It was most singular. What j ever had been the young man’s orig l! inal intentions, his paramount im i pulse now was to find out just what j this young woman was doing down j town alone. Curiosity had taken pos ' session of him. She wouldn't be flirt ed with, she didn't seem to be going any place In particular and she ap peared to be absolutely unafraid and composed. He was going to find out what it was all about. Stranger Is Samaritan. He started forward with renewed determination effervescing at every stride. He had almost caught up with her, was taking his hat off in his most polite manner and was on the verge of blurting out "I beg pardon” when he felt a tap on the arm. He looked round quickly and saw a stranger at his elbow. The reporter ambled by in time to hear the stranger say: "Better lay off, brother. She’s a policewoman!” And to hear the startled, curious one ’ exclalmj _ ’ "Gosh! The devil she Is! Thanks, old man.” Well, that was that. Onward the policewoman toward Seventh street, and thence south toward the Avenue. A number of men, old and young, looked at her intently, hut got not a smile and made no further advances. Between K and D a middle-aged man with whiskers got interested to the point of giving chase. He passed her and halted to let her go by. As she walked past he lifted his hat as though to speak, but, getting no response, turned the ges ture into a casual head-scratching motion. Autoist Gets Under Way. About the same time a young man in an expensive touring car parked at the curb started his motor and cruised along beside the lone woman. The street was virtually deserted. He tooted his horn once or twice, but the woman was oblivious of the fact. The touring car continued on to C street, turned the corner and pulled up at the curb between Seventh and Eighth streets. As the girl approached, looking in the store windows with intense in terest, the driver sounded his signal again without success. Then he moved his car ahead and rounded the corner of Eighth street Just in time to cause the policewoman to halt to let him pass. He smiled and nodded his head at her, the while tooting his horn, but received no sign of recognition. He gave it up as a bad job. At the corner of Ninth street and Pennsylvania avenue stood a group of typical corner loafers. They all commented among themselves about the woman as she turned up Ninth street and the biggest one of the group, with a wink to his companion, started after her. He hurried ahead and stopped at the next corner to lean lazily against an iron post. As the stroller came opposite him he lifted his hat slightly and smilingly inquired: “Out for a walk?” She did not appear to hear him and walked on. The heavy one re mained leaning against the post for a while, then shook his head and returned to his friends. Man Narrowly Escapes. "I would have taken him in if he had spoken again," the policewoman confided later. "I believe in giving men the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he was talking to some one else. But if. after my rebuff, he had come for ward again and repeated his question, I would have felt it my duty to arrest him. That would have constituted annoyance in every sense of the word, and women should not be made to suf fer annoyance of that kind on Wash ington's streets.” As F street was reached again a shower fell, and the policewoman was forced to take shelter in a store en- I trance. No man molested her there. The rain over, she retraced F street again. By this time the automobile I flirts were out in full force, tooting at strange girls alone, but not going any further than that if the girls paid no attention. Tooting is no crime, it was pointed out. Three drivers tooted at the policewoman between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, but she con tinued on, unmindful. Thinks Strolling Safe. “I contend that the woman who, for one reason or another, wishes to stroll F street or Ninth street or the Avenue alone at night may do so in absolute safety, If she doesn't encourage the attentions of strange men,” the police woman declared after her rounds. "The mere fact that men may look at her closely and may manifest their interest In her to the extent of follow ing her, and perhaps attempting to speak, does not amount to an Insult. The woman should feel gratified that she is attractive enough to Interest men. Pity those who fail to attract men! Os course. If a man persists in his attentions when he knows they are not wanted, It Is high time he was hailed into court and fined. He is a public nuisance. "I believe there are very few men in Washington who will, deliberately force their attentions on strange women. “All In all, I think Washington Is as safe for women as any other city In the country.” Italo-Jugoslav Treaties Delayed. ROME, July 18 (4 s ).—The signing of 32 new treaties between Italy and Jugoslavia, scheduled for today, has ■ been postponed because the Jugoslav minister has not yet received authori zation from his government to sign. The treaties were concluded at a re cent conference at Vienna. They > dealt largely with the local commercial and boundary, question*, U. MERMAN POLE FLIGHT IS OPPOSED Wilbur Unwilling to Attempt Joint Flight—Navy Not Ready, He Says. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO. July 18.—It is inadvisable at the present time for the United States to join with Ger many in a dirigible expedition to the North Pole next Spring. Secretary of Navy Curtis D. Wilbur said here yes terday when informed such a project had been suggested by Dr. Hugo Eck ner. the German Zeppelin expert. The plan, as outlined to Mr. Wil bur, proposed that each country fly its own airship, the two keeping in constant touch with and supplement ing each other. "The opinion of Dr. Eckner, who brought our own naval dirigible Los Angeles from Germany to the United States, is entitled to great respect." ‘Secretary Wilbur said, "and there is no doubt that the use of two dirigi bles instead of one for such a project would be very desirable. Awaits .MacMillan Data. "However, at the present time the United States Navy has no intention of making any commitments toward a dirigible polar flight. We will first await the report of the present Mac- Millan expedition on Arctic condi tions before considering such a project.” "While inflated with helium the lifting power of the Navy's dirigibles Is lessened, and consequently the amount of gasoline carried is 'ess and the range of action is corresponding ly decreased," the Secretary said. An other complication, he pointed out, was that the accumulation of snow and ice on the ships would materially Increase their weight. "We would not be willing to risk a polar expedition with a lighter-than air machine until some of the prob lems presented have been satisfac torily solved.” he stated. # ! CONFESSES MURDER ON MARYLAND FARM Prisoner at Salisbury, 22, Held for Death of James Carey, Left on Railroad. By the Associated Press. SALISBURY, Md., July 18.—James Baker, 22 years old, has confessed to Wilmington detectives and Sheriff Wilmer Purnell of Worcester County to the murder and robbery of James Carey, aged well-to-do farmer, whose ! body was found lying along the rail road tracks east of Willards yesterday afternoon. FOUR MEN ARE CONVICTED IN SALISBURY RUM CASE Jury Disagrees on Charge Against Former Police Chief and Acquits 12 of Defendants. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, July 19.—Four of the 17 defendants in the Salisbury Beach rum-running case, on trial In Federal District Court, were convicted by a jury which reported today after near ly 19 hours’ deliberation. The Jury dis agreed in the case of one defendant and reported verdicts of not guilty in the cases of 12 others. The defendants, who include one woman, were indicted for violation of the tariff act of 3922. Those convicted were Herman L. Rich, Newburyport; Carl Voss, Newburyport; John Scrib ner. Portsmouth, N. H., and Herbert E. True, former policeman of Salis bury. All four were released on their original bail. The Jury reported a disagreement in the case of Harold F. Congdon, selectman and former police chief of Salisbury, and he also was admitted to bail on his former bonds. Those ac quitted included Mrs. Sarah Congdon, wife of the former police chief. CARDINAL BEGIN WORSE. QUEBEC, July 18 UP). —A turn for the worse was noted today in the condition of Cardinal Begin, aged Catholic primate of Canada, who has been partly paralyzed since he sus tained a stroke last Sunday. The morning bulletin issued by his physi cians said the cardinal’s condition was "not so satisfactory” and Indicated i renewed fears for hi* recovery. The Cardinal Is 88 years old. LEGION OPENS WAR ON 3 U. S. AGENCIES Will Push Fight for Merger of Federal Personnel Bodies. Determined to wage a finish fight on the three government agencies which It holdß to t>e unnecessary to the conduct of personnel affairs in the Government service, the veterans’ joint committee of the department of the District of Columbia and the American Legion have joined hands with the National Federation of Fed eral Employes to consolidate the Bu reau of Efficiency, the Personnel Clas sification Board and the United States. Employes' Compensation Commission I with the Civil Service Commission. Claiming that the latter organiza-, ■ tion should have complete supervision I over personnel and efficiency ratings i from the time an employe enters the j service until his discharge or retire ment, the legjon is planning to carry | the fight into the annual convention at Omaha in October, and to bring It before Congress when that body con-1 venes next December. A meeting of j the joint committee will be held with- : in two weeks at the District Build- i ing to concentrate the thought of all j veterans' organizations on the pro posed consolidation and line up the weight of the several or ganizations behind the consolidation movement. See Saving in Many. Leaders in the campaign to press for the consolidation believe such amalgamation will resu£ in actual money saving to the Government in j personnel administration and more efficient handling of personnel mat ters. From the viewpoint of the war veteran the administration of the var ious veterans' preference acts will he facilitated and the veteran will re ceive his just dues under the proposed consolidation. Complete authority should be given the Civil Service Commission under the program mapped out and by joint committee to rate employes for effi ciency, classification and to follow their Government service up to the date of discharge, even through the processes of discharge from injury and the compensation to be paid them for injury x-eceived in line of duty. The Joint committee is headed by Wil liam H. Carroll, department com mander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and a member of the American Legion. The fight will be carried into the Legion convention at Omaha by Har lan Wood, legal adviser to the joint committee and elected as a delegate to the national convention on a plat form in support of the veterans* pref erence acts. Mr. Wood holds the opin- ! ion that the executive order issued by President Ooolidge on June 4. transfer ring the right of jurisdiction over Fed eral employes from the bureau and division chiefs to the Personnel Classi fication Board, contravenes the vet erans' preference acts. Mr. Wood takes the view that a veteran either is or is not entitled to the benefits of the veterans’ prefer ment acts, and that the longevity pro visions of the executive order of June 4 indirectly keep veterans out of the benefits accruing to them as a lesult of the various acts. The campaign will be begun when Congress convenes, and will be carried into the various committees which have to do with veteran matters. The National Federation of Federal Employes, at a meeting earlier in the year, passed resolutions urging the consolidation of the various personnel organizations and recommending that the Government appoint a personnel riianager. REV. W. L. VAN HORN CLAIMED BY DEATH : Pastor of Wisconsin Avenue Bap tist Church Dies After Short Illness. Rev. William L. Van Horn, 76 years old, pastor of Wisconsin Avenue Bap tist Church, died at the home of hts friend, J. W. Rogers. Cherrydale. Va., yesterday after a short illness. He had been pastor of the church for the last two and a half years. Rev. Mr. Van Horn was a veteran of the Union Army, and had long been an active member of the Grand Army j of the Republic, being a member of the G. A. R. post of Fargo. N. D. He was also a thirty-third degree Mason. He was a member of the John R. Sin gleton Lodge of Friendship, D. C., and past patron of Unity Chapter. O. E. S. Rev. Mr. Van Horn was at one time an employe of the State Department here. Prior to accepting the pastorate of the local church he was for many rears pastor of the First Baptist Church of Fargo. N. Dak., and dur ing the early part of his career was pastor of several churches in West Virginia and Ohio. Rev. Mr. Van Horn was a native of Pennsylvania. He is survived by 1 four daughters. Miss Lillian E. Van ,T orn and Mrs. E. C. Flemming of Fargo, Mrs. D. O. Lofthouse of Bis mark. N. Dak., and Mrs. O. R. Butler 1 of Dover, N. H., and two sons. Frank 1 E. Van Horn of Fargo and Lieut. C. W. Van Horn of the United States Navy. Funeral services will be conducted at the Wisconsin Avenue Baptist Church tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock. Interment will be at Fargo, N. Dak. MARRIES ROYALTY. Charles H. Huberich Marries Prin cess Nina Mdivani Secretly. LONDON, July 19 OP).—The Daily Sketch says Charles Henry Huberich of New York was secretly married in the registrar’s office at Oxford to , Princess Nina Mdivani, daughter of Gen. Prince Zacharias Mdivani, aide to the late Czar Nicholas. The engagement of Mr. Huberich and Princess Nina was announced in , London in April. He is an interna • tlonal lawyer of prominence, maintain ing offices in Berlin and The H^rue, ; as well as New York. He is 48 years ! old and a graduate of Yale, ’99. He also attended the universities of Ber lin and Heidelberg. He was formerly • professor of law at the University of Texas, Leland Stanford and the University of Wisconsin. Princess Nina is 22. ARMY TRUCK HITS CAR. Following a collision between a United States Army truck and a Washington Railway and Electric street car on the Union Station Plaza today, James A. Murray, colored. • 1311 Corooran street, was arrested by > police of the sixth precinct on a I charge of operating a vehicle while i intoxicated. N After the collision with the car the > truck swerved and knocked down an - electric light pole. An additional ) charge of collision also was placed 1 against the driver. Neither the truck nor the street car was seriously damaged. 27 MILES AN HOUR SPEED LIMIT SEEN Traffic Director Eldridge Con sidering Regulations for Outlying Boulevards. A speed limit of 27 miles an hour for the outlying portions of boulevard streets on which cross-town traffic is required to stop is being considered by Traffic Director Eldridge and his aides. Although cross-town traffic is now being required to stop before crossing or entering Connecticut avenue at every corner north of S street, the . general speed limit of 22 miles an | hour has not been changed and the vehicles on Connecticut avenue must ! continue to adhere to the 22-mile | limit until a definite decision is I reached as to the speed for boulevard streets. Plans are now being made to paint j stop signs at intersections on other I through traffic lanes, but officials of the traffic office have indicated that they will not recommend any increases j in speed limit on those thoroughfares until motorists generally become ao | customer! to the rule i-equiring them j to stop before crossing or entering a boulevard street. When new speed limits are adopted for the outlying sections of main arteries the territory in which they are effective will be marked with signs. - - THREE TRY TO SAVE SCOTT FROM ROPE: BROTHER IS MISSING (Continued from First Page.i the Detroit Free Press. He said he was in the drug store, across the street from the Chicago City Build ing, when the Feott brothers entered. Robert spoke to Maurer and asked him for money the store owed them. Maurer denied the debt and heated words passed. Bail’s story continued. Maurer ordered them from the store and raised his hand in a striking po sition. "Robert Scott bent forward.” Ball related. "Several report* rang out. Maurer crumpled up. Russell, the eldest brother, was standing with his hands to his sides and could not have done it. Robert might have fired from his coat pocket or with the gun in his hand.” Ball did not discover the mistake in identities between the Scotts until Thursday, when he saw newspaper | photographs of the condemned man. He said his knowledge troubled him and that after he learned Scott had been reprieved he telegraphed him in the death cell, asking Scott to send his lawyer to Detroit. The two woman witnesses, Scott's attorneys said, are prepared to tell that they were in the drug store on the night of the killing as companions of the Scotts at a drinking party, during which Maurer and Robert Scott quarreled. The women did not see the shooting, the attorneys said. No Sign of Brother. Meanwhile, Robert Scott, who prom ised in the message to Gov. Small that he would surrender, has not put in an appearance. But other mes sages, purporting to give information which would save Scott from hanging were received by the authorities and by Scott's relatives. If the message is a hoax, it is the second time in Chicago's crime annals that a telegram has saved the life of a condemned man. The onl} - other was in 1870, in the case of Dan Walsh, who killed his sweetheart. After the governor had refused a reprieve of commutation and prepara tions for the execution were com plete. a telegram signed with the governor's name was delivered to the sheriff, ordering him to stop the execu tion. The telegram was a hoax. The governor did not learn of it until alter the hour set for the execution had passed. He was forced to commute Walsh’s sentence and the prisoner died in the penitentiary after serving 42 years. EX-ALDERMAN SLAIN. NEW YORK. July 18 OP).—Fred erick Smith, a former city alderman, was shot and fatally wounded in one of three attempted pay roll robberies which were staged almost simul taneously in widely separated districts of the city yesterday. In none of the robberies did the bandits succeed in getting the pay roll they sought, but in every instance they escaped arrest. Smith. who was employed as a salesman by Meier Oelhaf iron Works, was shot when three armed unmasked men held his employers' office while the pay roll was being made up. He died several hours later in a hospital. • DRASTIC U. S. ACTION COOLIDGE'S PLAN TO AVERT COAL CRISIS (Continued from First Page.i the President stopped, and. walking i alone to the rail, bared his head and stood for several moments in silent I revery. looking down at the slowly : moving stream below. He then called I members of his party to join him at , the rail and. much to the surprise of many, he announced that this spot would make a good setting for a group photograph. Talks to Little Girls. Mrs. Coolidge did not accompaut ' the President yesterday. The party was made up with Senators Butler and Gillett of Massachusetts. Secre ■ tary Sanders, Maj. J. F. Coupal. Capt Adolphus Andrews of the Mayflower 1 and Col. S. A. Cheney, chief mili , tary aide. Os course the party was ' increased when it reached Devens ; and throughout the review. Two other incidents of interest yes terday occurred near the old North ' Bridge. As the President's car came 1 to a stop Pauline Eveleth. S wars, stepped toward him and asked if she could give him someining. "Certainly, my child,” the President replied. 1 Whereupon Pauline with p-etty : blonde hair, in pig tails, presented a newly baked cake decorated with two small American flags. On the other side of the bridge the President re ceived a bunch of sweet peas from Elizabeth Wentworth. 7 years old. who was so nervous in his presence that she nearly lost half of the flow ers in the bouquet. She said after ward that the President had asked her name and where she lived and if she knew all about the Battle of Lexington and it was because of all this that she became so nervous. The President may have had a great day. but it was a far greater one for these two little girls. The fact that the President had • Senator Butler at his side through out yesterday's activities and that ha ■ has done the same thing twice be ; fore since coming here, did not pass I without comment. It has led many I obsex-vers to feel satisfied that the senatorial campaign of 1926 has be gun, that the President in his own peculiar own way. hag started It.