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20.000 ATTENDING ANNAPOLIS EVENT Secretary Adams and Other Notables at Graduation Week Exercises. JSprrial Dispatch to The 81 »r. ANNAPOLIS. .Tune I.—Tune week athletic <lav and ihe first of the series of June week hops whirh will be staged this evening in Dahlgren Hall, at the Naval Academy, brought a crowd of more than 20.000 persons from all parts of the country to Annapolis today. Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams and Mrs. Adams arrived at the Naval Academy shortly before noon to witness the athletic festival that will be staged this afternoon. The Secre tary’s visit was official and he was re ceived by the Naval Academv Band, a company of Marines and sailors, and was given a salute from the guns of the station ship, Reina Mercedes. Mr. Adams will return to Annapolis this evening and will return on Wednesday to present the prizes and awards to the midshipmen at the full dress parade at 5 o'clock (hat afternoon. He will re main as the guest of Rear Admiral S. S. Robison, superintendent of the Naval Academy, imtil after the graduation exercises at 10:30 o’clock Thursday morning. Mr. Adams will preside at the graduation exercises and present diplomas to the 242 graduates. Prizes to Be Awarded. Among the members of the graduat ing class who will receive prizes, ac cording to an announcement by Lieut. Comdr. Harry Patrick, secretary to the academic board, is Midshipman George Herrick Wales, son of George R. Wales. 3000 Norton place, Washington. He will be given a sword presented by the National Society. Daughters of the American Revolution, for excelling in seamanship. Midshipman John Bartholomew Webster will graduate at the top of the class. It also was announced. Webster will be given three prizes next Wed nesday. For graduating at the top of his class he will be given a gold watch, known as the Gardner L. Caskey Me morial Prize; he will receive navigating sextant presented by Col. Robert M. Thompson for being most proficient in practical navigation, and he will receive a wrist watch, presented by the Mili tary Order of Foreign Wars, for stand ing highest in mathematics. The sword presented by the class of 1897 to the midshipman who has con tributed most bv his officerlike and positive character to the development of naval spirit and loyalty in the regi ment. was won by Midshipman Charles E. Weakley of St. Joseph. Mo. The sword given by the class of 1871 to be presented to the midshipman most pro ficient in practical and theoretical ordnance and gunnery will be presented to Midshipman James M. Farrln. Chicago. 111. The gold watch presented by the class of 1924 for the midshipman standing first in engineering and aero nautics was won by Abraham Lincoln Baird, Cleveland, Ohio. Baird also gets the marine binoculars, known as the F. E Bunts Memorial Prize, for stand ing highest in order of merit during his four years at the academy. Gets Ordnance Honors. Midshipman Corben C. Shut* of ! Philadelphia will have his name in j scribed on the cup presented by the i General Society Sons of Revolution for | proficiency in ordnance and gunnery. The Maury Prize (United Daughters of the Confederacy), which is a set of marine binoculars for excellence In ! physics, will go to Tom Dopald Tyra of : St. Paul. Minn. A wrist watch pre sented by Mrs. James Edward Palmer I as a memorial to her husband. Comdr. ; James E. Palmer, will be given to Robert Bruce McCoy, for his proficiency In practical steam engineering. Midshipman Roderick Shanahan | Rooney of New York will get *IOO in cash, offered by the National Associa tion of Mutual Savings Banks for the best essay on thrift and savings. He also will get a prize of *l5O offered by the New York Times to the midshipman showing the broadest knowledge and most thorough understanding of current events. Ralph W. Elden, Portland, Oreg.. will get the second price of *75 and Ira Ellis McMlllian, Honey Grove, i Tex., the third prize of *25. * Commendatory letters will be given to Manly L. Curry, Mountain City, Ga.; George Hedwig Delter, Clintonville. Wis.: John H. Keatley, Davenport, Iowa; Leslie E. Richardson. Boulder. Colo.; I Claude V. Ricketts, McCune, Kans., and 1 \ Charles E. Trescott, Girard. Ohio. The sermon to the graduation class will be delivered by Capt. Sydney K. j Evans, chaplain of the Naval Academy. | Jp the chapel at 10; 45 o’clock tomorrow morning. Gymnasts Give Exhibition. Eight members of a model gymnastic team from Czechoslovakia, delegated to i attend the second congress of the Amer ican Sokol Association in Chicago June j 12, gave an exhibition of their skill nt the Naval Academy last night. The performers Included two world , champions in gymnastics, Ladislav Va ; cha, parallel bar artist, and Bedrlch Supcik, rigid pole expert. Both won their titles at the last Olympics. Oth er members of the team are Emanuel Loeffler, Josef Effenberger, Vaclav Ves- I cly, Jan Bruckner, Jan ‘ Karaflat and J Vladimir Pokomv. The gymnasts were guests of acad emy officials yesterday afternoon and were escorted on a sightseeing tour of ; the institution. Three officers of the Czechoslovakian Sokol Association ac companied the group. They were Dr. Rudolf Krovak, Dr. Miroslav Klinger ' and Vladimir Mueller. Today the athletes were to give a demonstration in Baltimore as guests of t the local branch of the American Sokol Association. Monday they will go to I Washington to perform before Govern ment officials assembled in the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium there. j MAN AND WOMAN HURT IN MARYLAND ACCIDENT | T. P- Whiting and Miss Margaret De Groot, Trained Nurse, In jured in Car Wreck. Br » Stuff Correspondent of The Star. BETHESDA. Md„ June I.—An auto | mobile said by police to have been driven by Frank P. Whiting, a guest at the home of Capt. E. S. Kellogg, V. S. N., went off the Brookeviile road i near the intersection of Jones Mill road i last night injuring Whiting and Miss Margaret De Groot, a trained nurse in ! ihe Kellogg home. Miss De Groot is in the Emergency Hospital in Wash -1 ington, where it was said today she | was suffering from a possible fracture of the skull and body injuries. The accident is said to have occurred at a dangerous curve, and was alleged i to have been caused by another ma chine forcing it off the road. It over turned, and the victims were taken out bv members of the Kensington and i Chew Chase Fire Departments. Whit ing is said to be suffering from bruises and shock. ,> ■ Radical Editor Jailed as Traitor. LEIPSIG, Germany, June 1 C4>).— Karl Schrader, editor of Rote Fahne ! (The Red FlagL radical Berlin news paper, was yesterday sentenced to a • year in prison and fined 100 marks (about *24> as a traitor. He was con ( virted of attacking the established form i of the German government and of sup | porting a movement to overthrow the I cohiUtuUQa tjy io^cs. L Honor Man ■ twZL* JOHN B. WEBSTER ' Os California, midshipman, who is the j honor man for the graduation class at i the Naval Academy next week. Mid- 1 ! shipman Webster has led his class every , 1 year since entering the Naval Academy. —P. & A. Photo. ALEXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA, Va„ June 1 (Special). ! —Three student nurses of the Alexan- i dria Hospital graduated last night at open-air exercises held in the yard of j the nurses’ home adjoining the hospi- j tal. Diplomas were presented to Miss j Frances Story Finks. Miss Myrtle Did- j lake and Miss Helen Muse Taylor by j Dr. S. B. Moore, senior member of the 1 hospital staff. , 1 The program was opened with invo- j cation by the Rev. Dr. Samuel A. Wallis. ' professor at the Episcopal Theological j Seminary of Virginia, followed by the address to (he graduates by Rev. P. L. i Vernon, pastor of the First Baptist j Church. Dr. Martin D. Delaney of the hospital, staff delivered a short talk welcoming the graduates Into the ranks of the profession, and the Florence Nightlngaleoath was administered by I Dr. H. A. Latane, Dr. Llewellyn Pow ! ell presented a $lO gold piece to Miss : Didlake for excellence in class standing. Talbott Haslett sang and violin se lections were rendered by Miss Grace Powell, daughter of Dr. Powell. The pulpit committee appointed to name a successor to Rev. P. L. Ver non, who preaches his last sermon at the First Baptist Church tomorrow and then leave to become pastor of the United Baptist Church at Lewiston, Me., has failed to fill the vacancy as yet and visiting ministers will conduct the services until an appointment can be made. Charles Lyons, 14. of Baltimore, who ran away from his home recently, was i arrested here yesterday and turned over j to his parents. F. L. Flynn of this city, newely elect- | ed grand warden of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, made an official visit■ to Potomac Lodge, No. 38. Independent Order of Odd Fellows, here last night. Funeral services for Mrs. Nellie Waters, wife of J. Benjamin Waters, who died Thursday at the Alexandria Hospital, will be held Monday after noon at 2 o’clock at the residence, 1008 Duke street, and interment will be in the Bethel Cemetery. The serv ices will be conducted by the Rev. Ed-, gar Carpenter, rector of Grace Episco pal Church. She is survived by her] husband and a son, Alfred Waters. | Mrs. Sarah Ellen Cradlin, 89. widow | of Andrew G. Cradlin, died yesterday at the Alexandria Hospital, where she had been confined with a hip injury caused by a fall. She is survived by two children. G. Nelson Cradlin and Mrs. Annie Davis. 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SATERTUT, .TT7NE T. TD2f>. FOUR DEAD, 12 HURT IN ELKTON BLAST Fireworks Plant Explosion Occurs While Chemicals Are Unloaded. i Bv the Associated Presi. ELKTON, Md., June L— Four men i were killed and a dozen other persons . slightly hurt yesterday afternoon bv an : explosion in one of the buildings of the ■ Victory Sparkler Co., fireworks manu ! facturers. near here. The dead are Harry’ Brown.* 58, ' truck driver: Vemice Jones. 38: John j Gilbert, 21, and Allen Dickinson, 24, la borers. A dozen girls employed at the i plant were slightly injured by flying ] glass. " Fire which followed the explosion was quckly extinguished after destroying a small building where the hlast occurred i ' and damaging the adjoining one. A fire | ; carllbr in the day damaged another of | | the small buildings, a number of which i comprise the factory, i The blast occurred while Brown rvas j I unloading chemical materials used in j the manufacture of fireworks. Officials ! did not know whether the blast was in 1 the truck or the building itself. Midget Beats “Strong Man.” NEW YORK. June 1 (A*).—' “The I strongest man in the world.” so billed : at Coney Island, 6 feet tall, weight j 225, bites railroad spikes and the like, ' has been beaten up by a little fellow, i Warren Lincoln Travis prosecuted Wil i iiam Pollock, 5 feet 2, weight 115, aged ! 60. for assault, They had a row over ! a deal, and William swung, un -1 daunted. A judge let him go. Ship Safe Stolen at Sea. ' SAN PEDRO. Calif.. June 1 UP).— Four passengers and 50 members of i the crew of the steamer Dorothy Alex- j ander were detained for investigation j when the ship docked here yesterday j after officers of the vessel reported the j theft of a safe containing $4,500 in ] cash. The officers said the safe was ( stolen May 28 while the ship was off i La Paz, Lower California. interment will be in the Presbyterian Cemetery. The rites will be conducted by Rev. Edgar Carpenter. Rev. Homer J. Councilor of the Cal vary Baptist Church. Washington, will deliver the address to the graduating class of Alevandria High School Jun 14 at the exercises to be held in Maury School Lightning struck the Elks’ Hall flag staff yesterday afternoon, splitting the ] staff and carrying the flag away. Forty hours' devotional services will be opened in the St. Mary s Catholic I Church tomorrow morning at 10:30 o’clock and will close Tuesday evening Rev. E. T. Hardin or Philadelphia will speak each night at 7:45 o’clock. William Shubert. 31, colored, was sen tenced to serve 60 days in jail this morning by Judge William S. Snow for cutting James Blue, also colored, with a penknife early today. Shubert was arrested by Police Sergt. George Everly and Patrolman Henry Qrimm. Funeral services for Courtland Har rison, who was fatally injured in a | j motor cycle accident Tuesday, were held 1 ] yesterday from the home of his parents, I at 1207 Duke street, by Rev. Edgar Carpenter, rector of Grace Episcopal Church. Burial was in the Bethel Cemetery. Funeral services for Joshua S. Har rington, who died at his home, in Wash ington. Wednesday, were held today from his father’s residence, 1616 Duke street. ! Heads Committee R. E. KENDRICK ] Os Falls Church, general chairman of ! the carnival to be held in August for j the benefit of the Arlington-Fairfax I Firemen's Association. ROCKVILLE. ROCKVILLE. Md, June 1 (Special). I —The will of Mrs. Effie Mullican Bean, j widow of Columbus G. Bean, who died i at her home near Lay Hill, this county, ! last week, leaving a substantial estate, j has been admitted to probate in the Orphans' Court at this place. It was I executed March 29, 1929, and names \ Mrs. Theresa B. Ballenger, daughter of ] the testatrix, executrix, to serve with out bond. The instrument bequeaths to Mrs. Ballenger SI,OOO and directs that the residue be equally divided between her j and William Lewis Bean, son of the testatrix. Licenses have been issued here for the marriage of Christian B. Hock man, 23, of Clarendon, Va, and Miss ! Hazel W. Jamison, 25, of Washington, j and Walter Y. Muir, 22. and Miss Vir- I ginia I. Mitchell, 18, both of Wash j ington. J The funeral of Mrs. Ethel L. Walker, | wife of Jesse W. Walker of Potomac, , who died in a Washington hospital, | aged 37 years, took place yesterday aft- j ernoon from the Methodist Church at i Potomac. The services were conducted ! by Rev. P. C. Helmintoller, pastor of j the church, assisted by Rev. Dr. Bru- ] ; baker, a former pastor, and burial was I in the church cemetery. Upon being found guilty in the Police i Court here on charges of assault and j disorderly conduct, Alfred Moore, col- ! oredi was fined $75 and costs by Judge 1 Samuel Riggs. In default of payment j he will have to serve 90 days in the j House of Correction. / For violations of motor vehicle regu- : lations. the following have paid fines or j forfeited collaterals in the Police Court 1 here: John Thurston, S2O; Joseph Erne, ] $27.50: John Parker and Jack Daven port, $12.50 each; James C. Trundle, I James Driver. A. J. Kohount. $7.50 each; ! William Russell Burroughs, $27.50; j George R. Burns and Ralph R. Staples, \ $3.50 each. Tucker G. Humphries of this county ] was before Judge Samuel Riggs in the Police Court here on complaint of his I wife. Mrs. Louise Humphries, who • charged him with failing to support her I and the couple s two children, aged 2‘/ 2 ] and 4 years. He was found guilty and | was required to post bond in the amount or SSOO to insure his paying $12.50 a week toward the suport of the chil dren. The following forfeited collaterals Si the Police Court here on charges of dis orderly conduct: Lloyd Hall, $12.50: Wesley Warner, sl2: Milford Warren and Almore Berry. $7.50 each. Because the evidence did not. in his j opinion, sustain the charge of cruelty < Woodward & Lothrop 10 tß tl TK FAXD G Streets I "' """ 1 11,1 ■ i. | | j Luggage— X | One will find luggage here that will stand the gaff of globe-trotting—by plane, r‘ J steamer, train or motor—whose conven- HUlfn iences and refinements add to the pleas- —tt j ~v“A 1 V ure of travel—and bears the stamp of A , -M Lined and covered with ecru linen, with regimental striping and russet jap leather binding. Essentially modern —amazingly convenient for fast .. Hat Box, $32-50 Suitcase, $39-50 You do not have to be “air minded” j! \f. to appreciate this light, compact, /ir j( two-tone morocco leather hanger yp | j case. 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Gaither, near Gaithersburg, where it was stated this morning he seemed none ' the worse for his experience aside from | being somewhat sore and short of cash. That he was sandbagged or struck with some padded instrument as he i was stooping alongside his automobile endeavoring to locate motor or other trouble, is the story the young man told j the police. When discovered by Joseph j N. Starkey of Rockville, who happened Ito be passing, he was prone on the ! ground alongside his machine and vir | tually unconscious. Starkey remained I with the injured youth while another j passerby hurried to Rockville and noti fied the police. It was some time after being brought I to Rockville before Cross regained his l senses sufficiently to give intelligent I I information as to what occurred. He ] was on his way, he said, from the home ! of his uncle to Sykesville, and as he ; was tinkering with his automobile an other car, containing, he thought, two men and a woman, drove up behind him. He was immediately struck by | one of the men, with whom he grap pled. The other man quickly dealt him i a blow, he stated, and he remembered nothing more. Cross’ empty pocketbook was found in his car and he had in his pockets less than a dollar in change. He was relieved, he thought, of about *25. The young man was unable to give the police anything like a description of his assailants or much information of any kind that might aid in their de tection. SURVEY FUND OFFERED. | GENEVA, June 1 (A>). —The Interna tional Labor Office decided yesterday to ! accept a gift of, $25,000 from E. A. 1 Filene of Boston in beltalf of the Twen i tieth Century fund of Boston. It would 'be devoted to an exhaustive inquiry ! into the comparative cost of living in I various countries to determine fair uni versal wages of all employes, Including | the salaried employes. This is an outgrowth of the request | of Henry Ford to the labor office to fix j \ a fair comparative wage scale for all ! j workmen in his European factories. ] contained in a bill for a limited divorce. ; filed in the Circuit Court here several i • months ago by Mrs. Virginia Perrell of Bethesda, against Leonard Perrell of ] the same locality, Judge Robert B. Peter j yesterday afternoon filed an opinion I dismissing the part of the petition re lating to a divorce. I The decree, how'ever, awarded Mrs. ] Perrell the custody of the couple's two : young children and directs the defend ant to pay her *4O a month toward their support. “Because of the tender age of the ] children, the mother seems the one to have their care and custody,” states the decree The plaintiff w’as represented by At- I torney Walter Dawson of Rockville. The couple were married at Gaithersburg. October 25, 1923, apd lived together 'until June, 1927, so the bill stated. 1 Prisoners’ Whoopee' Awakens Town With 1 False Fire Alarm Sped*! Wpnstrh to Tlie ?t»r. STAUNTON, Va.. .June I—The so-called making of “whoopee" prev alent in larger cities, made its way here last night in strenuous form, when two men lodged in jail for drunkenness gave vent to their woes and tribulations by shouting, “Fire." at the top of their lungs and excited residents turned in an alarm. What, is estimated as three fourths of the populace here, who confine their whoopee making to be low the midnight mark, were rudely disturbed from their slumbers bv the blaring sirens of the fire ap paratus. It. was a big night, for the vil lagers—nearly every one turned out. So with the help of firemen and citizens, a sheriff and his deputies finally persuaded the whoopee makers to withhold their nocturnal revelries until they had served their time. 275-YEAR-OLD COURTESY. Holland Navy to Pay Official Visit to Danish Port. COPENHAGEN t/P).—Holland will make use of a privilege she has enjoyed for 275 years when she sends a squad ron of warships here on an official visit this Summer. Holland is the only nation which can send men-of-war to a Danish port without notifying the local government. In 1659 King Frederick 111 of Denmark decreed that Dutch warships for all time should have the free use of Danish harbors. The privilege as in recognition of the Dutch fleet’s services in Denmark’s war with Sweden. 1928 Tornadoes Killed 1.939. NEW YORK. June 1 f>P).—Weather Bureau computations are that. 1.939 persons were killed by tornadoes and windstorms In the United States in 1928. The Department of Commerce has found that 7,702 persons were killed by automobiles In 78 cities during the year ended May 18 last. Mrs. Roosevelt to Fly. ALBANY, N. Y„ June 1 (/P).—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, w’ife of the gov ernor. is to have her first flight Tues day. Asked to sponsor a new plane, she wrote: “I am inclined to say no flight, no christening.’’ The hint was taken. Lack of Law Favors Drunken Driver in Trash Cart Collision Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA. Va.. June I.—Be cause there is no Virginia statute providing a penalty for a person driving a horse and w'agon while under the influence of liquor, How - ard Washington. 45, colored, of 815 Queen street, escaped with a fine of SI4 for drunkenness and $8 for col liding when arraigned in Police Court this morning before Judge William S. Snow'. Washington, who drives a cit trash cart, was arrested by Pvt Julian Rawlett yesterday when h • cart collided with an automobie driven bv Frank Sherer of Cameron. N. Y. He was charged with driving a horse and wagon while intoxicated and colliding, but Judge Snow ruled that there was no law' governing th» former charge and Washington w >< fined for drunkenness Instead. The city settled for damages to Slierer’s machine. 'lightning hits barn NEAR FALLS CHURCH Men Narrowly Escape Death When Second Bolt Barely Misses Dynamite. Speelst .Dispatch to The Star. FALLS CHURCH. V*.. June I. ! Lightning struck the barn of Lawrence I Westcott, florist, on the Masonville road J near Falls Church, yesterday and burned it to the ground. The Falls '< Church Fire Department responded and i kept the dwelling house and garage | prayed with chemicals. The lightning also split a large pop ! ler tree on the property. A wire fence i was fastened to the poplar tree by nails, and the lightning ran rapidly along this wire to the garage, coming within three inches of a large keg of dynamite. Touching off the dynamite would have ! meant instant destruction of the two | men working less than 12 feet away. 1 as well as dwelling house, garage and i other buildings. The electrical storm, which was un ; accompanied by rain or wind, struck a I tree in Mrs. Copelan's yard also, killing 1 a pig. {FLAMES SURROUND TOWN. i 1,000 Homes Isolated by Spread of Japanese Forest Fires. TOKIO, June 1 (A”). —The village of j Tomiai, on the east coast of the Isle of j Saghalien, was suvrounded today by the forest fire which has raged for the last week there. Its 1,000 houses were iso | la ted and conditions in the town were not known here. Elsewhere the forest fires have died j down, and the danger was considered past, with villagers meeting to consider i reconstruction. In Esotori alone damage was estimated at fi.000,000 yen (about ! 52.750.0001. 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A Valle Freres Technician in the Hair Dressing Section, Second Floor IN THE TOILETRIES SECTION. AISLE 1«. FIRST rLOOH. lr - - 5 CEMETERY ASSOCIATION | CHANGES MEETING DATE Frown’s Chapel Body Will Confer Next Year the Third Monday in May. Spfr:«l Dispatch *o Thf Star. COLVIN RUN, Va.. June !.—'The fifth annual meeting of the Brown’s Chapel j Cemetery Association was held in the church on Memorial day, and it was decided to change the date of the an- I nual meeting in the future to the third Monday in May at 8 o’clock ir tb» I church instead of May 30 in the morn ing. There will be memorial services in ■ the cemetery on the morning of Me morial day. Trustees decided to double the price | of lots in Section l of the cemetery. • | They accepted with thanks the two acre* plot on the Leesburg pike offered I to the association by Herbert Brown, i residing here. This will be known as i Plat No. 2 of Brown’s Chapel Cemetery. J. A. Wheelpr. Charles R. Matecr and | Howard Cunningham were appointed a ! committee to have it surveyed and di -1 vided into lots. It was formerly the i private burying ground of the Brown family. In return. Mr. Brown was made an honorary member of the association 1 and exempted from all dues during his lifetime. It was decided to repeat the home : coming festival at the church, which has been a popular feature for the past several years, and Herman Walker Wil liams was appointed chairman of a committee to arrange date and program. The annual election of officers re i suited in the election of C. R. Matecr of Park Lane as president, Herman I Williams of Washington as vice presi , i dent, Mrs. Alice Smith of Washington i as secretary and Joseph Wheeler of Colvin Run as treasurer. .| • Van Lear Black Continues Flight. SOFIA, Bulgaria, June 1 OP).—Van ■ Lear Black, Baltimore publisher, took i off this morning for Aleppo. Syria. In continuation of his flight from Croyden. England, to Tokio and return.