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ANTI-STRIKE PLEA
SCORED BY UNION
Operators’ Ad Is Declared
Costly Burden on Coal Buy
ing Public by Miners.
By the Associated Press.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., July 28.
Anthracite miners today criticized ad
vertisements inserted in newspapers
by the anthracite operators' confer-,
ence as a “waste of consumers’
money." The advertisements were
headed: “Why a Suspension of An
thracite Mining: Is Indefensible” and
broadcast the operators’ plea for ar
bitration and a mutual pledge to con
tinue work after September 1 if scale
differences had not been adjusted.
Philip Murray, Wee president of the
United Mine Workers of America and
spokesman of the anthracite miners’
scale subcommittee, shortly before en
tering the conference room with- the
mine owners today made the following
comment:
“Every dollar that operators spend
in such newspaper advertising is one
dollar more added on to the price of
hard coal to the consumers, just as
much as every dollar granted in a
wage increase to the men.
Better Spent in Wages,
“We suppose that the operators, in
preparing their cost sheets as they
affect production will add to them the
enormous sum they now are paying
for advertising in daily papers in an
thracite-consuming territory.
‘‘This money might well be divided
between the consumer and the mine
workers —to give the consumer cheap
er coal and to give the miner a more
livable wage."
Operators have no comment to
make on Mr. Murray’s statement
other than to say their plea was in
the public interest.
Hard coal miners date part of their
fundamental opposition to arbitra
tion as now proposed by operators
in event of a deadlock in the scale
negotiations to what they say hap
pened in Washington in i 920.
Discussed Before Conference.
Discussion of the matter was over
heard today in advance of resumption
of the conference this afternoon at
which operators were expected to re
new request for agreement to this
principle.
In 1920, records show, miners and
operators were about agreed on a re
newal of the term contract on the
basis of a 17 per cent wage increase
when rising cost of living caused the
men to change their demand to 27
per cent. Failing to reach an accord
on the new terms, the operators ac
cepted the offer of the miners to
arbitrate.
The proposal was tendered by union
leaders of the three anthracite dis
tricts against advice of some of the
international officers.
President Wilson appointed an ar
bitration tribunal of three —a miner,
a mine owner and a representative of
the public. Hearings at Scranton
were followed by adjournment to
Washington, where the commission '
took stock of itself and found the
miner favored the miners, the oper
ator the operators and that the third I
non-partisan member accordingly held i
the deciding vote.
The night before this third member ■
was to announce his personal deci
sion, -which would have the support of
one of the two dissenters, miners re
ceived reliable Information, they said,
that his recommendation would call
for the higher figure—the 27 per cent
wage increase.
Counted Victory Won.
Miners asserted they had even seen
the finished report.
The men went to bed jubilant over
the supposed victory, but they awoke
the next morning to find that during
the night the award had been shaved
down to the original, and lower, figure
of 17 per cent.
Whether the miners were misin
formed or whether, if correctly in
formed. what they had reported see
ing had been only a tentative finding,
has not been disclosed. Miners in
sist, however, that a passing operator :
the next day told them with a smile
that “some people abated their efforts ]
too soon, while others kept on plead- ;
mg."
At any rate, there is no doubt, they j
say, about their being opposed to leav
ing any questions to similar decision j
now.
WILBUR’S PLAN FOR
DIRIGIBLE CENTER
IN WEST OLD IDEA
(Continued from First Page.)
States Navy were announced yester
dav by Secretary of the Navy Wilbur.
The unexpected announcement came
voluntarily from the Secretary only a
few minutes before he sailed with the
congressional committee aboard the
transport Henderson for Hampton
Roads and Washington.
"San Diego is the only logical place
in the country where lighter-than-air
training and flight operations of till
kinds may be carried out under the
best possible conditions the year
round,” said Secretary Wilbur.
Opportunities Greater.
"It Is the intention of the Navy De
partment as soon as funds may be
come available, to transfer the entire
lighter-than-air activities of the Navy
to San Diego. The reason for tills is
that there is greater opportunity here
for training with the fleet.”
The Secretary’s decision Indicates
that it is the intention of the Govern
ment to centralize at San Diego all
flight-training activities of all types of
aircraft, developing San Diego into
one of the world's greatest air bases,
if not the greatest. If that is done,
lasge sums will have to be expended
here for great dirigible hangars, shops,
barracks and other buildings needed
for the proper development of a
lighter-than-air station.
Officers Not Informed.
LAKEHURST, N. J„ July 28 </P>.
Officers at the naval air station to
day said they had received no in
formation on reported plans of Sec
retary of the Navy Wilbur to make
San Diego the home airport of the
dirigibles Los Angeles and Shenan
doah, and the main operating base
of all rigid aircraft constructed by
the Navy.
The Lakehurst station was con
structed at an approximate cost of
$7,000,000, of which $3,500,000 was ex
pended for hangars and shops. In
addition the equipment includes a
plant for refining helium gas and a
mooring mast. At least three years
would be required for establishment
of a similar base.
Coolidge Not Told.
SWAMPSCOTT, July 28 GP).—Presi
dent Coolidge has not been advised of
any Intention by the Navy Depart
ment to make San Diego, Calif., the
home base of the dirigibles Los Angele 3
and Shenandoah. It was declared to
day at White Court, however, that if
Secretary Wilbur has such a plan he
could carry it into effect without ad
vising the President.
North Carolina was the first State to
provide a specific compulsory educa
tion law for the deaf.
Not to Enter Politics
p ' -
MRS. KOBhIUM LA FOLLFTTI .
MRS. LA FOLLETTE
NOT IN SENATE RACE,
SHE TELLS WOMEh
(Continued front First Page.)
are vested with great responsibility
and power. I need not suggest how
vitally the choice of Mr. La Follette’s
successor may affect the cause.
"When the Progressive voters of
Wisconsin perform the solemn duty
of choosing a candidate to fill out
the unexpired term, I would ask them
to think not only of the unswerving
devotion to the cause, capacity and
fitness, but also the iron resolution,
enthusiasm and faith necessary to
carry on the work Senator La Fol
lette has laid down.”
Declaring that Mr. La Follette’s
autobiography, issued in 1912, had
served as an inspiration to thou
sands of men and women, Mrs. La
Follette said it had been his inten
tion soon to publish a second volume
covering his experience and knowl
edge of the intervening years.
“The writing of the record of that
period, including the World War, of
fers a great opportunity for service,”
she added. "I undertake the work
humbly, but gladly.”
NATIONAL PARTY PLANNED.
Progressives to Continue Move Inau
gurated By La Follette.
Steps looking to the continuation of
the progressive movement represented
last Fa!! by the La Follette-Wheeler
independent ticket have been inaugu
rated here by a group of progressives.
Delegates to a recent meeting here,
said a statement last night from
national progressive headquarters,
were unanimously in favor of calling
a national gathering of progressives
this Fall for the formation of a new
national political party, but a final
decision was left to the executive com
mittee appointed in Chicago last
February, with William H. Johnson,
president of the International Associa
tion of Machinists, as chairman.
The meeting in Washington, which
was attended by progressives from
nearby States, voted to increase the
membership of the executive com
mittee from 5 to 15.
Besides Mr. Johnson, those attending
the meeting here included Dr. Mercer
G. Johnston and W. O. Feldmeyer.
Baltimore: Miss Florence Halsey, New
Jersey; Mrs. Gordon Norris, New
York; Robert H. O. Schultz and Mrs.
J. B. Dickson. Massachusetts; Charles
Kutz and Miss Cora Bixler, Pennsvl
vania: W. H. Allen and Arthur
Bentley, Indiana: Andrew A. Meyer,
Ohio: G. A. Meade, Illinois, and Ralph
G. Simerson, North Carolina.
(From the .V3O Edition of Tosterda.fs Star.)
WOMAN SHOOTS SELF.
Despondent Wife of Clarendon
Man Commits Suicide.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER. Va„ July 28.—Mrs.
Louise S. Harrison, 32 years old, wife
of Joseph Harrison, Clarendon, Arling
ton County, Va„ committed suicide
yesterday at the home of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. Davis Butler, near
Bluemont. Va., with a shotgun which
she exploded with her foot. She had
been melancholy for about 7 weeks,
relatives said, and had come to her
parents’ home in the hope the change
would benefit her. She was accom
panied here by her husband. She was
missed by her parents during the
night. Relatives found her body in
the front yard. She leaves her hus
band. a baby, her parents and two
brothers.
The funeral will be held tomorrow
near Bluemont.
Shipping News
Arrivals at and Sailings From
New York
Dayliffht Savin? Time.
ARRIVED YESTERDAY.
Ceit-o Kingston. July CO
And inia Hamburg, July 15
• onto Verde Naples. July 17
Ohio Hamburg. July Iff
D ul-chland Hamburg. July 17
Baltic Liverpool. July 18
Bogota ... Puerto Colombia. July 17
C . abobo . La Guayra. July CO
Fort St. George Hamilton. July 25
Santa Luisa Valparaiso, July N
Ponce San Juan. July 22
Monterey Progreso. July 21
Stockholm ...Gothenburg. July 1(5
Minnetonka London. July 18
DUE TODAY.
Vandyek Rio de Janeiro. July 12
Siboney Havana. July 24
Samaria Liverpool. July 18
DUE THURSDAY.
D? Grasse Havre. July 22
Fort Victoria Bermuda. July 28
Muramar Nassau. July 24
Silvia - St. John’s. July 25
<anta Marta Santa Marta.
President Polk ‘.Marseille. July 15
DUE. FRIDAY.
Berengaria Southampton. July 23
Gcorre Washington Bremen. July 22
Panama Christoba). July 23
OUTGOING STEAMERS.
SAILED YESTERDAY.
Sable I—St. Johns IX :00 P.M.
SAILING TODAY.
Bremen —Bremen 12 .00 M.
Resolute —Hamburg 1 :00 A M.
Halerie—Port Said 2:00P.M.
Aquitania—Southampton 12 :00 P.M.
SAILING WEDNESDAY.
La Savoie—Havre 10:00 A.M.
Olaneho —Puerto Cortez 10:00A.M.
Fort St. George—Bermuda 11:00 AM.
Trilillo— Sap Juan 11:00 A.M.
Duilio—Naples 12-00 M.
Carrillo—Kingston 12‘00M.
CaHiliian —Prince Trinidad 1:00 P.M.
Waiton Hall —Pert Said 2:00 P M.
Pc-ia —St. Thomas 2:00P.M.
Julia Luckcnbach—Cristobal 0:00 P.M.
SAILING THURSDAY.
Zeeland—Antwerp 10:00 AM.
Monterey—Havana II :O0 A.M.
Porto Rico—San Juan 11:00 A.M.
Mongolia—Cristobal 3:00 P.M.
City of St. Joseph—Naples 11:00 A.M.
SAILING FRIDAY.
Munamar —Nassau 12:00 M.
Heglevside—Buenos Aires 12:00 M.
Prins Fred’k Hend k—P t au Price 3:00 P.M.
Kentuckian —Cristobal 5:09 P.M.
SAILING SATURDAY.
Baltic —Liverpool 12.00 M.
Minnetonka —London 10:00 A M.
New Amsterdam—Rotterdam . . .10:00 A.M.
Pres. Roosevelt —Bremen 12 :00 M.
Stockholm—Gothenburg 12:00 M.
Conte VerJte—Genoa. 3:00P.M.
Samaria —Liverpool 10:00 A.M.
Andania—Hamburg 12:00 M.
Silvia —St. Johns 11:00 A.M.
Aconcagua—Cristobal 11:00 A.M.
Fort Victoria —Bermuda 11:00 A.M.
Siboney—Havana .11:00 A.M.
Linneil—Buenos Aires 12:00 M.
Ponce—San Juan 12:00 M.
Toloa—Port Lmion 12 :00 M.
Lcimpira—Puerto Cortez 12:00 M.
Bogota—-St. Vincent 12:00 M.
Sues—Monte Christi 12:00 M.
Iroquois—Turks Island 12:00 M.
Western World—Rio de Janeiro.. 1:00 P.M.
THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C„ TUESDAY, JULY 28. 1925.
RITCHIE TO PERMIT
D.C. POLICE WORK
Says If They Are Detailed as
Federal Dry Agents In
cursion Is Legal.
Discussion, of whether Washington
policemen should cross the line into
Maryland in pursuit of bootleggers
was characterized “a closed incident”
1 by Engineer Commissioner Bell today
after lie learned that Gov. Ritchie of
Maryland had stated he would not
request District authorities to stop
the practice.
The question was brought up sev
eral weeks ago when Representative
John Philip Hill of Maryland ad
dressed a letter of protest to Com
missioner Penning. Col. Bell, as act
ing president of the Board of Com
missioners, advised Representative
Hill Saturday that the practice would
not be discontinued unless the Mary
land authorities objected, in which
case the matter would be referred to
the Federal prohibition officials.
"My understanding of the situation
is that the police only cross the line
when they. In company with prohibi
tion agents, are pursuing violators,"
Col. Bell said. When told of the
statement of Gov. Ritchie, the Engi
neer Commissioner added: "That
would seem to close the incident.”
Only Cross in Pursuit.
Inspector Evans, acting police chief,
also stated a few days ago that the
Washington police never journey into
Maryland except when a car they are
pursuing crosses the line. He pointed
out that Maryland officers have the
same privilege of entering the Dis
trict when necessary.
“It would he foolish for me to take
a position which I could not defend,”.
Gov. Ritchie is quoted as saying in
reply to the suggestion of Representa
tive 11111 that he protest against “in
vasion” of Maryland by District po
lice. "I personally have yet to hear
of a single complaint of the actiqns
of the Washington police in Maryland
coming from any one other than Col.
Hill. If Federal officers choose to op
erate in Maryland there is nothing we
can do to stop them.
“I had no idea of entering into any
controversy with Col. Hill, although
I think he is mistaken in saying that
the authority of the District police
officers to act as Federal prohibition
agents would he withdrawn if the
Maryland officials requested it. Col. J.
Franklin Bell, acting president of the
District Board of Commissioners, dis
tinctly said that such a request would
he referred to the Federal prohibi
tion authorities.
“I do not think that Col. Hill Is any
more interested in the principles of
self-government than I am. I agree
with him entirely in not approving the
action of the Federal Government in
constituting the District of Columbia
police officers as Federal prohibition
agents. At the same time they have
done so. and as Maryland leaves en
forcement of the prohibition law to
the Federal Government, Maryland
authorities hardly have any standing
to protest because we may believe
that the Government ought to select
other agents than it does, or because
the particular agents the Government
chooses to select to enforce prohibi
tion in the District of Columbia now
and then cross the District line into
Maryland in doing so.”
Hill Answers Governor.
After Gov. Ritchie had made known
his views, Representative Hill issued
the following statement:
"The District of ColumblaM’ommis
sioners have specifically stat(*fl that if
they receive objections from the State
authorities they will stop the coming
of the District of Columbia police into
Maryland in their extra capacity of
Federal prohibition agents. The Fed
eral Government has every right to
send prohibition agents into the State
of Alary land to execute a Federal law.
To this there can be no possible ob
jections except the general objection
to the Volstead act itself, which is no
objection to its enforcement while it
is a law.
"The District of Columbia police
have a local prohibition law which is
totally different from the Vostead act,
and which applies exclusively in the
District of Columbia. To me it is fun
damental law that to enforce the Dis
trict of Columbia prohibition law they
have no right to go into the State of
Maryland. Their duties are exclusively
in and for the District of Columbia, in
addition to this, they are sworn in
as unpaid Federal prohibition agents.
In this capacity it is their dutv to
enforce the Volstead act. which is a
Federal law and not a District of Co
lumbia law, although it applies in
the District as throughout the whole
United States.
Practice Is Scored.
“If they come into Maryland as Fed
eral prohibition agents they are neg
lecting their local duties in Washing
ton. To me their presence in Mary
land is a plain violation of the local
police jurisdiction of Maryland. If a
man robs a hank in the' District of
Columbia the District police cannot
arrest him in Maryland; he must be
arrested by Maryland authorities and
returned by them to the District of
Columbia. So it is with any other
breach of law in the District of Co
lumbia. The District police have no
right to go into another State. This
is wise jurisdictional procedure.
"The Anti-Saloon League and the
prohibitionists are always attempting
to put the Volstead act on a different
basis from any other law. I stand
for putting all laws on the same basis.
In my opinion, it Is the duty of Gov.
Ritchie as a State authority to demand
the District of Columbia policemen to
remain in AA'ashington. Os course,
prohibition authorities can send into
Maryland all the dry agents in their
department if they desire, but they
should not be permitted to send
camouflaged AA'ashington police.
“State’s rights means local self-gov
ernment and local police control, and,
as an adherent of States’ rights, were
I representing the State authority, I
would certainly make the District of
Columbia police mind their own busi
ness and keep out of Maryland.
“There are Tight and wrong ways of
attempting to enforce laws. Obviously,
it would be wrong for New York po
licemen, sworn as unpaid dry agents,
to come into Maryland to attempt to
enforce the Volstead act. It is equally
improper for District of Columbia po
lice to do so.
“The District of Columbia Commis
sioners evidently recognize this, and
for this reason state that they will
keep their policemen at home if the
Maryland State authorities wish them
to. I have therefore made easy the
path for the Maryland State authori
ties, believing, as we all do, in State’s
rights. I am sure they will make the
proper objection which is invited by
the District Commissioners, and thus
put a ‘crimp’ in the Anti-Saloon
League."
RITES FOR F.’ H. PARSONS.
Funeral services for Francis Henry
Parsons, for many years assistant in
charge of the Smithsonian Division,
Library of Congress, w r ho died at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. Alice
James, in Purcellville, Va., Saturday,
were conducted at the Church of the
Reformation (Lutheran) today at 10
o’clock. Interment was in Rock Creek
Cemetery.
Mr. Parsons retired from his posi
tion at the Library of Congress the
22<1 of January, after serving as an
employe of the Government for 52
years.
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tion has taken place In the past two years.
ARLINGTON COUNTY IS LEADER
IN PUSHING FOR DEVELOPMENT
Legislation to Be Sought to Allow Area to Expand
Along l rban and Fit in Scheme for Great
Metropolitan Section.
,Editor's note. —An adequate pic
ture of the great development of
Maryland and Virginia suburbs
which are to be embraced in the
regional development of the Na
tional Capital and its environs
never hrts been presented. The
Star has made an extensive inves
tigation of the subject and this is
the third and last of three articles
prepared by Mr. 'Wheatley.
NO. 3.
BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY.
A’irginia. or that part of it adjacent
to AVashington in Arlington County,
is striving hard tb climb out of its
rural sphere, to which it has been
weighted by antiquated laws, into a
thriving urban community, to fit into
the scheme being planned for a met
ropolitan district developed around
the Capital City. Its progress is nota- ;
ble to close observers and to those
who live in this area, but functioning
as the county does, it provides no ac
curate figures on which to base a true
picture of its growth from year to
year, nor can any figures be found
there to indicate to the house and its
cost just where the development has
been. Those on whose shoulders now
rests the responsibility of modernizing
the county into a city are fully cogni
zant of the conditions. They see the
shadows cast already by AVafihington's
expansion, and are rushing to help it
spread.
Aided by Trinkle.
In fact, it was a little group of men
in the Arlington County Civic Federa
tion who foresaw the coming events
and who conceived the idea of regional
development now coming into being,
and which resulted in the formation
of the Greater Arlington County Com
mittee. They have met with support
on every hand, and Gov. E. Leo Trin
kle, the State’s chief executive, is
standing with them to give them sup
port in making Arlington County part
of a city.
AVithin the next year or two there
is going to be considerable smoke
raised in this section, and when it
subsides there will appear the nucleus
of a city, and the antiquated laws
which have impeded its progress, it is
freely predicted, will be cast into the
discard. Those responsible for the
county's affairs now assert that in the
next two years they "expect to cut a
swath that will put Arlington Coun
ty on the map.”
Rigid Building Code Planned.
Arlington County now does not have
the building permit system. Any one
can go in and build a house on a lot.
and whether it is good or bad the
county officials cannot say a thing.
Therefore, there is no accurate check
on building. But the officials realize
the seriousness of this haphazard
method and its effect on buyers who
go there if they should get a house
put up to sell quickly by some un
scrupulous builder. So there now is
being drawn up a rigid building code, i
fashioned somewhat after that in the
District of Columbia, which will re
quire a prospective builder to present
his plans in order to get a permit to
erect •&. structure, and it will be
watched by county inspectors. This
will go to the Legislature January
next.
The county now is divided into
three districts for the purposes of
assessment of taxes. The first. Jeffer
son district, follows the Potomac
River shore southward from Rosslyn
to its junction with the Alexandria
City line and then inland t«> a short
distance from, and taking in, the
Mount Vernon boulevard. The rail
road line from AA’ashington to Alex
andria runs through this district.
There is the Arlington district with
AA’ilson boulevard as Its main artery
leading from Rosslyn, and the AVash
ington district with the Lee highway
as its artery of communication lead
ing from the Highway Bridge at
Rosslyn.
Arlington District Figures.
The figures which were obtained
came from the county assessor's office
at the Arlington Court House and are
for the period from February, 1924,
to February, 1925. During this period
there were constructed in the Jeffer
son district 249 new houses, ranging
in value from SIOO to $20,000. The
average assessment on each was
$1,450, which is one-third of the ac
tual value. ’ In this district are the
subdivisions of Aurora Hills, Hume,
Del Ray, Mount Ida, Potomac, North
Braddoek and Braddock.
In the Arlington district there were
constructed 329 houses during this
period, the prices ranging from SIOO
to $20,000, with an average assess
ment of $1,360. This district includes
the subdivisions of Colonial, Arlington.
Lyon Village, Lyon Park, Clarendon
and Ballston.
In the Washington district 89 houses
were constructed, ranging in . value
from SSOO to s2s,(>io, with an average
assessment of $1,410. This district
includes Rosslyn, Park Lane, Thrif
ton, Maywood, Cherrydale, AA’est
Cherrydale and as far as East Falls
Church.
Increase Is Shown.
This shows a total of 657 houses
built in the entire area during the
period covered, while the previous
year, or from February, 1923, to Feb
ruary, 1924. 520 houses were built,
according to the county assessor's
figures, or a net increase of 137
houses. Those familiar with the
building in the District point out,
however, that since February, 1925,
there has been a notable increase in
building for which there are no ac
curate figures available. As the fig
ures indicate that the Arlington dis
trict experienced the greatest amount
of house building for the year enJßig
February 1. 1925, so observations have
shown that the greatest development
is in the Arlington district, following
generally the line of the AS'ilson
boulevard.
While the last decennial census
showed a population for the entire
county of 20.000 people, officials of
the county say that a conservative
estimate from those in close touch
with the development places th« pres
ent population at 35,000, or «n in
crease of 15,000 people in the last
five years, or 75 per cent.
Laws to Be Sought
Many matters affecting the develop
ment of this district will be presented
to the Legislature after it meets in
January. These will have for their
purpose the bringing of Arlington
County, so authority will he asked for
placing it in the city class, so that it
can be improved as a city. The State
law now provides only for 30-foot
streets. This will never do for a
city such as is planned of Arlington
county, so authority will be asked for
60-foot streets, to provide sidewalks
and ample room for modern traffic
conditions. Even now the effect of
30-foot streets on traffic is felt in this
territory.
Arlington County supervisors have
no direct authority to approve the
streets through subdivisions. Persons
opening property can put streets in
as they wish, and the supervisors can
not reject them because they will not
eventually connect up in straight lines
with other subdivisions as they all
grow and expand. But they have this
to hold over the subdividers’ heads,
and It has worked successfully In
many Instances: If the streets are
not laid out in accordance with devel
opment plans, the county supervisors
can refuse to take over their main
tenance, and thus leave them to the
property owners to keep in repair.
But this is another matter which is to
go to the Legislature this AA’inter.
Arlington County officials will seek
a law similar to that governing the
Washington suburban sanitary dis
trict in Maryland. There no subdivi
sion can be opened until its plan has
been approved by the sanitary com
mission and the plat recorded In the
land office of the county affected.
Sewer Plans Held Up.
Even efforts to put in sewage dis
posal for the towns and villages have
met with snags. A sanitary law was
passed, but it was declared unconsti
tutional. The trouble was this: The
magisterial districts were used as a
basis for the sanitary districts, thus
directing the taxing of all the people
of the district for a sewage disposal
plant from which they obtained no ad
vantage, for the reason that the natu
ral drainage areas did not conform to
the magisterial districts. In other
words, man-made laws did not follow
nature's work. However, a sewage
disposal system now is being con
structed in the Arlington district by
the people themselves—that is, the peo
ple are paying for it, using the county
engineering facilities for directing the
work. Those who tap the sewer pay
for it, and those who do not use it will
not have to pay. Thfc disposal plant
is’ to be erected at the junction of
Spout Run with the Potomac River,
just above Georgetown.
For the purpose of providing an ade
quate and safe water supply, two sur
veys now are being made, one by a
firm from New York and another by a
firm from Alexandria. Generally, the
plan, as so far developed, provides for
the erection of a waterworks at the
mouth of Plmmit Run, which empties
into the Potomac River right along
side the A r irginia end of the Chain
Bridge.
WOMAN KILLED WITH HOE.
CREEMORE, Ontario. July 28 GP).—
Mrs. Edward Dunseath, mother of two
children, was battered to death last
night with a hoe handle in the vege
table garden of her home while pick
ing berries.
Her assailant set fire to the barns,
and police believe he perished in the
flames. They are hunting Frank Dun
seath, a brother-in-law, who had quar
reled with the murdered woman.
GOULD’S WIDOW
WEDS EARL’S SON
Former Actress Becomes
Bride of Viscount Dunsford.
Heiress to Fortune.
B.v the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 28.—Mrs. Guine
vere Gotlld, widow of George
J. Gould, and heiress to a large part
of the Gould fortune, was married at
Montreal today to Viscount Dunsford,
son and heir of the Earl of Middleton.
They were married by the Rev. Dr.
Hanson of the American Presbyterian
Church, and it was announced that
they would make their home in Lon
don.
Viscount Dunsford is 37 years old,
was educated at Oxford and served
with the British forces during the
World War, .being twice decorated for
bravery.
Lady Dunsford came to the United
States in 1913 as Miss Vere Sinclair
with an English theatrical company
slated to produce "The Girl on the
Film." Nine years later, according to
official record filed in Trenton, N. J.,
she married George Jay Gould, 58-
year-old millionaire widower, giving
her own age as 29. Following her
husband's death she instituted a suit
in chancery against the trustees of
his estate for a trust fund of $1,000,000
claimed to have been set aside for
her three children, all of whom, she
testified, in the succeeding litigation,
were offspring of her relations with
Mr. Gould.
Acknowledged Children.
The marriage with Mr. Gould was
performed at Lakewood, N. J., May 1,
1922, or barely six months after the
sudden death of Mrs. Edith Kingdon
Gould, first wife of the financier, on
the golf links at Lakewood.
In the several court actions, which
have since ensued, it was brought out
that the second Mrs. Gould resided
under the name of Mrs. Guinevere
Sinclair on a SBOO,OOO estate at Ma
nursing Island, in Long Island Sound,
opposite Rye, N. Y.
Other heirs refused to recognize the
Sinclair-Gould offspring until the will
of George Jay Gould was probated
June 4, 1923. In that document Mr.
Gould publicly acknowledged the three
as his own. and placed them in the
division of the estate on a virtual
parity with the seven children born
to himself and Mrs. Edith Kingdom
Gould.
CAPITAL PREPARES
TO PAY FAREWELL
TRIBUTE TO BRYAN
(Continued from First Page.)
and William J. Bryan, jr.—reach
r Washington, and join the family cir
-1 cle with Mrs. Bryan. Both are en
route from California.
The services will be held at the
New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church, where Mr. Bryan was a con
stant attendant during the days of
his service in the cabinet. Mrs. Bryan
had expressed the wish that Rev.
Wallace Radcliffe, pastor emeritus of
the church, conduct the rites, but it
was said at the church today that he
is abroad and that the present min
ister, Rev. Joseph R. Sizoo, also is
out of the city.
Friends of Mr. Bryan literally del
uged the New York Avenue Church
with requests for tickets to the fu
neral as soon as the report circu
lated that it would be the scene of
the service. Those at the church,
however, have received no official
word that it had been selected.
The funeral car carrying the body
of Mr. Bryan, the widow and other
mourners is scheduled to arrive in
Washington, attached to a regular
Southern Railway train, Thursday
morning at 7:45 o'clock. According to
present arrangements, the body will
be removed to an undertaking estab
lishment, unless it is decided to have it
lie in state. It is doubtful whether
this final public tribute, if carried out,
will be paid in any public building.
Attorneys to Come.
Accompanying the body will be Mrs.
Bryan, W. E. Thompson, Mr. Bryan’s
personal secretary, and several resi
dents of Dayton became fond of
the Commoner during his visit there in
connection with the Scopes trial.
Among those expected in the party are
Sue Hicks, Ben Hicks, Ben G. Mc-
Kenzie, Gordon McKenzie and Gen. A.
T. Stuart.
Mr. Davis said today that he could
not continue with the funeral ar
rangements until Mrs. Bryan reaches
Washington. He has advised her
fully by wire of the preparations al
ready completed.
‘ Friends of Mr. Bryan already have
Size of Food Order
Gives Aivay Number
Os Coolidge Guests
By a Staff Correspondent.
SWAMPSCOTT. Mass.. July 28.
—Swampscott housewives have a
way all their own of determining
the number of guests at White
Court. Unable to observe the
activities on Patties Point, they
gather at the grocery and meat
market patronized by "the Cool
idges” at the hour that the order
for the Summer White House is
put up. If the basket contains a
12-pound roast, rather than one of
smaller size, if there is a bushel
of spinach instead of a peck, they
experience little difficulty in esti
mating the number of visitors be
ing entertained.
Incidentally they pay the First
Lady of the Land the compliment
of not having lost the cunning so
commonly attributed to the New
England housewife during the
• years she has spent in Washing
ton.
COOLIDGE OPPOSES
MOVE TO ABOLISH
TRADE COMMISSION
(Continued from First Page.)
tory. He is told that this country now
is making more woolen cloth than be
fore the war. Because of the changes
in styles, the worsted industry has suf
fered considerably during the past
year, the President is told, because the
public generally has been wearing
wool.
His latest reports, however, indicate
that the Fall fashions will shift Lack
more to worsted.
There was a report here today that
President Coolidge would be called
upon to designate some person to act
as arbiter in the building trades war
that is on in Boston. The President
said today that he has received no
such information and that he sees
no reason why this matter, which is
purely a local affair, should be brought
to him.
Will Entertain President.
The biggest Summer political event
in the country is scheduled for to
morrow, when the Essex County' Re
publican Club will entertain President
Coolidge and be addressed by impor
tant national Republicans at Centen
nial Park, 20 miles from here.
President Coolidge will be on hand
but will not speak. Senator Deneen
of Illinois is expected to discuss the
farm situation and the trend in pol
itics in the radical States. Former
Senator Beveridge of Indiana will be
another speaker. Gov. Fuller of Mas
sachusetts and Senator Butler of this
State also will be among those who
Will “say a few words."
The gatherings of this club are
the chief political events in Massa
chusetts, and this year it is expected
to have a bearing upon the senatorial
fight next year. Republican leaders
are hopeful that it will mark a har
mony deal between the Lodge and
Butler factions in this State.
TRUCK SIX MAKES
8-SECOND RECORD
ANSWERING ALARM
(Continued from First Page.>
Fought commanding. Pvt. TV. A.
Walker driving, 11 seconds: No. 2,
Capt. W. J. Garner commanding, Pvt.
H. L. Stout driving, 12 seconds: No.
8, Sergt. H. H. Harrison commanding,
Pvt. P. W. Burton driving, 12 sec
onds: No. 1, Capt. P. Cross command
ing, Pvt. N. O. Teates driving, 12 sec
onds; No. 4, Sergt. J. J. Liston com
manding, A. F. Gauvereau driving,
12 seconds; No. 10, Sergt. G. C. Weit
zel commanding. Pvt. C. J. Moffit driv
ing, 13 seconds; No. 9, Capt. O. C. Bas
ford commanding. Pvt. E. Davis driv
ing: No. 7, Lieut. C. A. Wells com
manding, Pvt. J. R. Ihrie driving, 33
seconds.
Because of the decision to give a
special cup to the truck companies,
the date for the presentation of the
trophies has been postponed until Sat
urday evening. The presentation cere
monies will be held separately at the
headquarters of the two winning com
panies, the first one at Engine 23, G
street between Twenty-first and Twen
ty-second streets, at 7 o’clock Satur
day evening, and the second at Truck
fi. Fourteenth street near Park Road
beginning about 7:30.
It was also decided to hold the
ceremonies in the evening so that the
large number of persons in the re
spective communities who have indi
cated a desire to attend may be pres
ent. The communities claiming the
winning companies are proud of their
firefighters and there is every indi
cation that a large number will be
present to applaud when the big lov
ing cups are formally turned over to
the. commanders of the companies, to
be retained at the company headquar
ters for a year.
Commissioner Fenning will deliver
the main address at each ceremony.
Col. C. Fred Cook will present The
Evening Star cup and an officer of
the Merchants and Manufacturers’ As
sociation will present the cup offered
by that association. All members of
the companies will be drawn up at
attention during the ceremonies and
high officials of the Fire Department
will attend both exercises.
BRYAN’S BODY DUE
HERE ON THURSDAY;
U. S. HONOR ORDERED
(Continued from First Page.)
remained on duty as the visitors
came and went.
Mrs. Bryan declined to accept a
military' guard to attend the body on
its last journey.
"We are simple people,” she said,
“and we want all arrangements sim
ply' made.”
Hundreds of telegrams have been
received by the widow, each bearing
another consolatory note; each add
ing a bit to the tribute to her hus
band.
From President Coolidge, from Sena
tors, Governors, ministers, church or
ganizations and othef institutions
notes of condolance arrived.
"The American people have sus
tained a tremendous loss in the death
of Mr. Bryan,” declared Judge John
T. Raulston, who presided in the evo
lution trial.
"He fought heroically for what he
conceived to be the interest of the
masses. He gave his talents unspar
ingly and in return received from the
people abundant love.
"His presence inspired confidence
and admiration. He was truly the
Commoner of America.”
From the Rev. Howard Gale Byrd,
who quit his pulpit here in the Meth
odist Episcopal Church because of dis
agreement with his congregation over
the evolution issue, came this tribute:
“A great man has fallen. The whole
country' is shocked by Mr. Bryan’s
death. While I did not agree with
some positions he maintained, I be
lieve Mr. Bryan has done great good
in the world.”
considered plans for a memorial to
stand over the noted peace crusader's
grave, but Mr. Davis indicated that
this is another detail which will have
to be approved by the widow and
children before it is carried out. A
fitting shaft of sqjpe kind is proposed.
WILL NOT CHEW
SCHOOL BUILDINGS
District Heads Ref'ise to
Lower Standard of Build
ings to “Cut Costs.”
The Commissioners will not lower
the standard of school building con
struction in order to begin work im
mediately in cases where the prices
quoted by contractors exceed available
appropriations.
This decision was announced by r En
gineer' Commissioner Bell to-lay, fol
lowing a lengthy conference between
himself and Commissioner Fenning
and members of the Board of Educa
tion. The question became serious
last week when it was found that all
bids on three new school buildings
were far in excess of the amounts
fixed by Congress, due. to increased
building costs since last year, and also
to the incorporation of several im
proved features in the plans.
"We decided,” Col. Bell said, ‘‘that
it would not be desirable or wise to
proceed with the erection of buildings
of an inferior type in order to keep
within the money we now have, when
the only purpose to be served by such
a course would be to finish the build
ing a few months before the next
school year closes.
“It was decided to ask Congress in
December for the additional amoun's
needed to put up the proper kinds of
school buildings. Os course, if wo
do not get the additional money' vc
will have to proceed with the best
possible ty'pe of building."
The Schools Affected.
Col. Bell said it was agreed in the
conference that in the cases of the
Manor Park School, the Brightwood
Park School and the building to be
erected at Fifth and Buchanan streets
the limit of $140,000 on each build
ing would not permit the erection of
a building that would even measure
up to schools that have been Imilt it
the past, much less provide for any
Improvements over older buildings.
He pointed out that it would be neces
sary to eliminate nearly $20,00c worth
of work from each building. This, he
said, would mean inferior heating
and plumbing and a curtailment <>f
many other important features of the
specifications.
Col. Bell said that when bids exceed
an appropriation by a few hundr* i
dollars it is practical to eliminate
some feature that will bring the >-t
within the bids, but when the price
exceeds the appropriations by thou
sands of dollars it is not desirable to
go forward.
The Commissioners also discussed
with the school hoard officials what
should be done in the case of the
Western High School athletic field, in
which the District Supreme Court,
a few days ago, dismissed a condemna
tion proceeding for the acquisition of
lands between Thirty-eighth and
Thirty-ninth, S street and Reservoir
road, on the ground that an athletic
field there would be inconsistent with
the zoning law.
Want Law Defined.
Col. Bell said he would have to con
fer with Corporation Counsel Stephens
before deciding whether to appeal
from that decision or turn attention
to the selection of some other site.
The Engineer Commissioner state !,
however, that the Zoning Commission,
in order to take care of future cases,
probably would consider clarifying the
zoning regulations to permit play
grounds adjoining schools. He ex
plained that a considerable amount of
playground space may be acquired
near school buildings in the next few
years, and that it was essentia! to
have this permitted.
AMBASSADOR BANCROFT
SUCCUMBS IN JAPAN
(Continued from First Page.)
report in favor of his Republican
client. Gen. Philip Sidney Post, whose
plurality was only 29 votes.
In 1892 he went to Chicago and be
came solicitor for Illinois of the Atchi
son, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
Co. When, in Juno. 1894, tl
strike and boycott tied up nearly all
the railroads entering Chicago, he se
cured the first injunction against the*
strikers acting under the leadership of
Debs, and afterward participated in
the contempt proceedings which re
sulted in six months’ imprisonment
for Debs and his fellow officials of the
American Railway Union. (U. S. v.
Debs, 64 Fed. Rep., 724. 738.) In 1595
he was made vice president and gen
eral solicitor of the Chicago and West
ern Indiana Railroad Co. and the Belt
Railway Co. of Chicago. He served in
this capacity' until June. 1904, when
he returned to general law practice in
Chicago, as a member of the firm of
Scott, Bancroft. Lord & Stephens.
While never seeking political office.
Mr. Bancroft had always been inter
ested in public matters, particularly in
laws to improve the civil service of
Chicago and of Illinois. He served a,s
a member of the city council of Gales
burg. and was a Republican presiden
tial elector In ISSB.
As a result of his work in the Debs
case.- he wrote an account of the great
railroad boycott, which was read be
fore the Illinois Bar Asociation in
1895, and was later privately publish
ed under the title of “The Chicago
Strike of 1894.”
Mr. Bancroft was president of the
Chicago Bar Association in 1905. of
the Chicago Law Club in 1907. and of
the Illinois Bar Association in 1909,
and was a member of the American
Bar Association. He was a member of
the following clubs: Union League
(president, 1903); Commercial. Uni
versity', Hamilton, Chicago, City, Cliff-
Dwellers and Onwentsia.
Married in 1896.
He was married. April IS, 1596, to
Margaret, daughter of Richard Healv
of Boston. Mass.—graduate of Vassal*
College—one of the organizers of Pratt
Institute, and founder of its settle
ment work, the Neighborhood Asso
ciation.
During the World War he was ac
tive in patriotic affairs as chairman
of the executive committee of the Chi
cago branch of the National Security
League, and speaking for the Liberty
ldhns. received the decoration of tho
Legion of Honor from France, of St.
Sava from Jugoslavia and of Leopold
II from Belgium. In 1923 he
and Mrs. Bancroft were among
eight Americans invited by the
French government to visit Morocco
and Algeria to inspect the French co
lonial administration.
He was chairman of the Chicago
race commission which investigated
the Chicago race riots of 1919.
Mr. Bancroft has written a number
of monographs, including "The Chi
cago Strike of 1894,” "The Moral Sen
timent of the People” and “Destruc
tion of Regulation ” Cos business com
binations) and “Marshal Foch
The death of Ambassador Bancroft
was unexpected at the State Depart
ment here, where the last advices re
ceived several days ago from Tokio
said he was convalescing from the ill
ness which had afflicted him.
The stay of Mr. Bancroft in Tokio
and in the diplomatic service had been
brief, his appointment having been
announced August 16, last year. He
succeeded Cyrus E. Woods.
The man who can Umpire a base
ball game and please both sides can
figure on a reserved seat in the front
row of the heavenly orchestra, ~