The Washington Post
July 23, 1926

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Ay Pe ne lat ie Oat atic® ob Another trouble about collecting ‘the European war debt is that it will cost us more than we’ get and then we won't get it. » Babe Ruth baseball dropped from an airplane going 100 miles an hour, but the story’s in- complete—it doesn’t say that he bat- ted it right back. /t is always dis- couraging to see a reporter fall down on an assignment. . » > s . ° catches a It is to be hoped that among the 10 KILLED, 56 HURT WHEN BUS PLUNGEO DOWN A STEEP HILL Brooklyn Excursionists Victims of Wild Ride as Brakes Fail. 20 BELIEVED DYING; PANIC AFTER CRASH Women and Children’ Run, Americans who were rescued by the | police, from an angry Paris mob. were none of the blatant type who | sit around the cafes telling every- | body in a loud voice how George Creel “‘sold the war to Europe.”’ University of Chicago student seeks his Ph. D. with a thesis on Coney Island’s Hot | dog! leading product. It begins to look as though the American Legion would have to go its reunion in Paris next to year with full field equipment, including gas masks. Owing to the inclemency of the weather it is understood that the author of the theory that this is the | “‘year without a summer” remained at home all day yesterday huddled over a cheerful blaze in the open. fireplace. a ¥ Now that Capt. been deposed as head of the flying | . * Burlingame has squadron the prohibition enfarcers won't need such loud sirens on their automobiles. “Ah, take one consideration with another— The policeman's lot is not a happy one— When done— constabulary duty’s to be The peoliceman’s lot is not a happy one.” Gen. pays a tribute to the real upholder Speaking of cops, Dawes of constitutional government whose service is far too frequently over- looked because it is so frequent. . a a . Red Grange didn’t last long at Hollywood but it must be admitted he remained long enough to get the. local atmosphere. — Now Secretary ’ » 7 Wilbur’s going, ‘rying 67 ‘this town. Screaming, Through the Streets of — POPULATION OF TOWN RUSHES TO AID INJURED ‘Some of the injured Taken to| Nyack; Skulls Fractured, Many Limbs Broken. | Spectal to The Washington Post. Sparkill,, N. persons were 99 ot tl 5. ean .—Ten killed outright and 56 injured when a tourist bus cat- persons en route Brooklyn to Bear Mountain, N. ‘overturned at the bottom of a steep | /hill in Sparkill]l tonight. of the pected to die, Twenty injured are ex- according to police reports from the scene of the wreck | late tonight. Those removed |'Nyack hospital unconscious are re- ported, in numerous instances, have sustained internal Kight are reported as skull ture cases. In several instances women had both legs broken. Nine women and one child were) instantly killed. They were sidacmengaig| after being hurled from the careen- ing machine as it turned over after | running wild down a half-mile hill out of control. Were Out for Holiday. The driver of the crowded bus, chartered in Brooklyn late this aft- erpoon, lost control of the lumber- ing with its freight, conveyance bent on a holiday, when it started down an incline leading into | After frantic attempts to check “the speed of the bus, and all the members of the Presi- | dent’s of ficial ready to hit the Citronella Trail. Already the Asbury Park drug stores | the report a scarcity of famous odoriferous lotion and the price will | ‘ : | whose family are getting | | chauffeur devoted himself to steer- brakes failed to hold, the | ‘ing so as to negotiate a sharp turn | lat the bottom of the incline. As vehicle reached a point the probably be prohibitive throughout | | outside the Clayton grocery store on the summer resort belt by the mid- dle of August. lt is understood that Gen. Hel- mick has installed a radio and is listening in for anything dodgasted from White Pine Camp. ” * 7. * If the ill-feeling over the debt settlements continues to estrange the peoples who shoulder-to-shoul- der fought the common enemy of the last war won't be settled by the time the democracy, the debt for world has another one to pay for. . ’ * s Massachusetts man fries an egg on the roof. It is this instinct which turns even a heat wave to the service of economy which has made the thrifty Yankee the bulwark of mod- ern civilization. e The farm bloc subjects members of Congress to the acid test of agri- cultural relief, assay economically sound and if any of ’em it'll go gol darn’hard with ’em in the cam- paign this year, by honk. Ten are killed as a runaway tourist bus in New York overturns onahill. Not every picnic turns out to be one. - We are encouraged by the report that there will be nothing permitted in the Capitol park extension be- tween the Cave of the Winds and the Union Station except trees and lawns, as the proximity of a lumber yard had led us to fear that the Fine Arts Commission might want to grab a site there for a government Department. The misguided and misled strik- ers of the New York subway throw up the sponge and are now looking for a big hole to crawl back into. And so, the members of one en- tire Coast Guard station voted to go into the rum-running business. There’s a flaw, somewhere, in the theory that people can be made . virtuous by Act of Congress. Carmi Thompson's discovery that vast quantities of sugar can be pro- duced by the nipa palms of the Philippines is calculated to make Senator Reed Smoot sorry they ever gent him over there. | attempted to make the turn. | accident, the driver The according to witnesses to the ran at terrific speed on two wheels for a distance of more than 75 yards. Then it plunged Into curb and _ rolled over. | Sparkill’s main street, | bus, the Many of the injured as well as those killed were caught beneath it. The entire population of Sparkill rallied to the aid of the injured. Ambulances were summoned from Nyack hospital and the most se- verely hurt were conveyed there Driver Leaps to Safety. The driver of the bus, Daniel J. Lasto, of Manhattan, who leaped clear as the bus turned over, told Sparkill police he had picked up most of his passengers in the vicin- ity of Gates avenue and Broadway, Brooklyn, between 6 and 7 p. m. tonight. He said the brakes worked well all along the route un- til he sought to use them on the steep incline approaching Sparkill. Then for the first time they refused to ‘‘take hold,” he said. According to police information, a majority of the tourists, most of (CONTINUED ON PAGE 5, COLUMN 3.) WOMAN FOUND HURT Wife Unable to Explain In- juries Received in Mat- : thews’ Court. | Found lying unconscious in Mat- _thews court early this morning, Mrs. Marie Ruff, 26 years old, was taken to Emergency hospital treated for head lacerations. After she had been revived Mrs Ruff said she had walked from he) home downtown to meet her hus band, who was working late, bu she didn't remember what had be« fallen her in Matthews court. Sh: was not robbed. Where Mrs. Ruff was found pb Policeman James Cross, of th: Third precinet, is near the autom bile repair shop at 1743 Rhod Island avenue northwest, conducte: by her husband, Joseph Ruff. anc 85, No Higher, Forecast from | ee 0 | to | injuries. | frac-| buman | hor Today; Heat Kills 2; 7 Prostrated Cooler Weather to Prevail Over Week-End, Says Bureau; Shower Likely Today; 82-Year-Old Cripple Dies in Rock Creek; One Mail Delivery Omitted. ee Drowns; A maximum temperature of 85 degrees is promised by the weather bureau today after the second day of the hottest July spell ever re- corded here took a toll of two more deaths and nine recorded prostra- tions. The relief will come whether the expected showers arrive or not, it was stated. | Forecaster degrees, and Asheville, 96 degrees. The death toll for the day was brought to three when Brooks Tur- ner, 82 years old, colored, of 112 L street northwest, was drowned in Rock Creek at Twenty-seventh street, where he had gone to seek relief. Brooks was a cripple and his body was discovered by a pas- | serby who observed a crutch pro- | jecting from the water. Police be-| lieve that he slipped in the creek. With the two deaths reported yes- terday, the total number of deaths due to the heat for the two days is four. The number of prostrations can not be determined, since only the more pronounced cases were carried to the hospitals. The temperature yesterday ran paralle] with the day before for the) most part, but the maximum tem-| perature recorded at the weather | bureau was 103 degrees at 3:30 o'clock, or 1 degree less than the, maximum of Wednesday. The kiosk | on Pennsylvania avenue registered N. C., with Mitchell said that | Washingtonians may expect comfort | not only today, but for several days to come. The week-end, he said, will be pleasant, and the mercury will not reach 90 degrees again until Monday at least. The heated blanket will be dis- | persed from the entire Atlantic sea- board by this afternoon, which Mr. | Mitchell expects will contrast with yesterday with a temperature 18 de- | grees less. | Washington was the hottest city 'east of the Rockies yesterday, with 'the exception of Charlotte, N. C., | where 104 degrees were recorded. 'This was a record there. Two other places established heat rec- |ords, New Haven, Conn., with 100 (CONTINUED ON PAGE 19, COLUMN 7.) TWO MEN OUAY A GUARD; BLAST IN QUARRY KILLS TAKE AWAY G CONVICTS: FOUR; TWO MORE DYING ‘Remainder of 143 at Texas Prison Farm Left in Bar- racks by the Raiders. Lightning Sets Off Dynamite | in Hole Abandoned 15 Years Ago. EIGHT ESCAPE nee eee THREE OTHERS AnE HURT | IN AUTO. | Special te The Washington Post. | Winchester, Va., July 22.—-Four'} men were killed, two others are dy- ing and three others were badly hurt | in an explosion in a stone quarry at Strasburg Junction, while a severe) |. electrical storm was raging today. The victims, some distance from the. scene of the actual explosion, were. struck by falling rock. The dead are George Hoffman, Jack Rainer |, and Cecil Rinker, white, and' ' Hunter Bord, colored. The injured are Lester and King Strosneider, | Oliver Cramer, Alvin Spinnard and '§ a man named Raimey. A bolt of lightning struck an old, |abandoned blast hole which ex-| | ploded. This hole had been drilled | |fifteen years ago and loaded with | dynamite which failed to explode at that time. Three of the men were killed out- right and when ambulances from Winchester were bringing the in- jured to Memorial hospital in this city another of them died on the way. Two of the injured admitted to the hospital here are dying. Four of tbe men are said to have taken shelter in a small house nearly a quarter of a mile from the quarryewhen the explosion occurred. A ro¢eé weighing several bundred pounds struck the house, demolish- ing it. Tarkington Burned 22 | Huntsville, Tex., July (By A. |P.).--Two men believed to have | [been former’ inmates, shot and | killed a guard at the Ferguson | prison farm near here early today }and freed six convicts, in one of 'the :most sensational prison deliy- 'eries in the history of Texas. The eight men escaped in a mo- ‘tor car under fire of other guards. |All had eluded capture tonight. After an investigation Warden |N. L. Speer of the Huntsville peni- | tontiary expressed the belief that the two men who engineered the |delivery were convicts who had es- | ‘caped recently from the farm. On | | information furnished by convicts he is seeking Havre Ennis, who es- caped 10 days ago, and Charles Frazier, also an escaped prisoner. The firs inkling of the raid came when three shots from an auto- matic shotgun were fired point- blank into the body of the picket guard Will Rader, 50 years old, the father of five children. Rader was killed instantly. When the shooting began the building tender, Pat McCoy, a trusty, switched off all lights in the prisoners’ quarters. The man who | (CONTINUED ON PAGE 5, COLUMN L, 3 Hold Up Mail Train; Captured in 2 Hours. Hankingon, N. Dak., July 22 (By A. P.).—Three unmasked men, who was | progress made, |consultations and conferences. | principle, held up the mail clerk on the Hank- inson-Bismarck Soo Line train here early today, were captured within two hours. All of the loot, except a package of registered mail, was re- covered. The missing package, thought to contain currency, is believed to have been hidden by one of the robbers. One registered mail package which contained $2,500 had been opened but was found in the trio’s automo- In Motorboat Fire Kennebunkport, Maine, July 22 (By A. P.).——Booth Tarkington, the author, was slightly burned when his motorboat caught fire and was swept to sea tonight by a heavy storm which ravaged the Maine coast. Other boaters, seeing the plight of Tarkington and his two com- panions, came to their aid and the NEAR HUSBAND'S SHOP three were taken off and their boat taken in tow. bile. They Tell The Prince of Wales! Washington Humorists Relieve the Royal Anxiety Here’s what Will Rogers would have said, As on the block he laid his head, And the big ax began to play Upon his spinal vertebrae. NEXT SUNDAY IN THE POST The Prince’s regret that the Tower of London is no longer doing business at the old stand, so that he can’t know what Will would say to the Lord High Executioner at the moment of decapitation, tickles the funny bones of the witty readers of The Washington Post. Why, the town’s just full of talent! (ret in on the Big Laugh—witticisms from folks you know—and maybe you’re one of the winners in the Will Rogers contest. Who knows? We don’t yet. IN THE SUNDAY POST. ILLUSTRATED! AMERICANS OAVED FROM PARIS MOBS T0 KEEP DANGEROUS BY RESERVE POLICE LUNATICS IN. ASYLUM ee Antiforeign Sentiment Breaks Out Again on the Boulevards. ee RISE OF FRANC LAID TO POINCARE’S WORK Results of His Efforts to Form a Ministry Will Be Told to President Today. Peris, July 22-—(S8y A: : P.) There was another outburst of anti- foreign sentiment in Paris tonight. Large crowds collected on the bou- levards near the point where the “seeing Paris’’ buses start. The demonstrators hooted and jeered and their attitude soon became so threatening that the occupants of two of the buses alighted. Two other buses, however, \started and attempted to force a | passage through the crowds which barred the street. Police reserves were summoned ‘and rescued severa] American and | English tourists, against whom the ‘mob was particularly aggressive. 'The police cleared the street, how- ‘ever, without making any arrests. Poincare Seeking Cabinet. Results of M. Poincare’s daylong efforts to constitute a national min- ‘istry will be reported tomorrow to President Doumergue. While no. official statement forthcoming tonight as _ to the bare fact that Poincare, last of the French stal- warts to tackle the financial prob- ‘lem, was at work was sufficient to cause an appreciable upward reac- \tion in exchange. Former Premiers Briand and Her- | | Tiot and former Foreign Minister De |'Selves were among the leaders con- 'sulted today, after which Poincare | things were | 'told correspondents ‘going well.” This evening he elab- orated to the extent of saying his ‘“‘consultations’’ were completed | assistant | bureau; | psychiatrist ' Blanton Winship, and there remained only a few ‘“‘con- | . ferences’’ | answer. The former president smilingly _told the newspaper correspondents that he did not have time to explain ‘the distinction in his mind between He accepted the undertaking only in which is taken to mean that his final answer will be in the affirmative only if he is successful in organizing the kind of ministry he wants and can come to an agree- ment with certain powerful influ- ences to support him. Ministers Believed Chosen. It is deduced from the circum- stances that M. Poincare already has recruited his ministers and will have no further consultations on the subject, but that a conference will be necessary with Albert Sar- raut, the new senator from Carcas- sonpe and part owner of the radical organ, La Depeche de Toulouse, which this morning declared that the radicals could not accept M. Poincare as head of the government. M. Sarraut will confer with M. Poincare in the presence of Louis Barthou, and the developments to- morrow may depend perhaps on the outcome of that interview. It is therefore possible that if the Depeche does not indicate a change (CONTINUED ON PAGE 5. COLUMN 6.) SUBWAY STRIKE LOST: WORKERS TO RETURN ee eee Lavin, Leader, Advises Men to March Back to Posts in a Body Today. New York, July 22 (By A. P.).— Edward P. Lavin, leader of the striking employes of the Interbor- ough Rapid Transit Co., advised the strikers tonight to seek their old jobs at their prestrike standing. The strike of the subway moior- men and switchmen had been lost, he said, ‘‘because of Mayor Walker’s failure to intervene and the steady desertion from the strikers’ ranks.’’ He urged the men to march in a body tomorrow morning to the In- terborough yards and ask to be taken back. The announcement of the propos- ed return of the strikers was made at the end of an all day conference of the general strike committee. Hope was given up, the committee said, after the announcement that Mayor Walker’s proposed confer- encé to settle the strike would not be held. Atlantic City’s Best Moderate Price Hotels. Elberon & New Iroquois.—Adyv, + before he would go to| the Elysee tomorrow with his final | | Oriental division. Jury Trials Planned for Those Released on Error Charges. GORDON CONFERENCE DISTRICT WILL ACT! DECIDES NEW MOVE: Score Have Been Freed by Court Without Regard. to Sanity. The menace of a wholesale re- lease of dangerous lunatics from St. Elizabeths hospital was removed | yesterday at a conference called in the courthouse by United States At- torney Peyton Gordon. | It was decided that the District | government hereafter will arrest all dangerous patients as soon as they are released on writs of habeas corpus. Efforts then will be made to have a jury commit them perma- nently. Since April 15, more than a score | ‘TWO MEN ARE SOUGHT | of mentally sick patients have been released from St. Elizabeths writs of habeas corpus. In the on cases of these patients, the question | of their sanity was never consider- | tery with intent to kill and robbery ed; merely the question of whether they were being held legally. Dangerous Releases. several of those so released were regarded as a menace to society, likely to break at any time and do! are being sought in connection with Many of the oth-| serious damage. ers were badly in need of hospital | treatment and are expected to suffer sorely without it. | Clawans, The conference yesterday was at-| tended by Dr. William A. superintendent of St. hospital; Dr. Arthur B. Noyes, as- sistant superintendent: O. W. director of J. O. C. Roberts, general counsel for the veterans’ bureau; Dr. Ord Everman, chief of the Col. of the judge ad- general’s office of the War Department; George Milling, of the judge advocate general's office of the Navy Department; E. 3. Patter- s0n, solicitor of the Interior Depart- ment; W. H. Wahly, bureau: vocate shaw, assistant torney. Service Men Freed. Most of those released on writs of habeas corpus have been officers and enlisted men sent to St. Eliza- beths by the heads of the War and Navy departments and the veter- ans’ bureau. were retired before being sent the hospital; in other cases they were retired after being sent there were being held they had not been properly judicated and because the heads of the various departments - no longer bad jurisdiction over them. The result of this decision was a flood of applications for writs of | which would give | habeas corpus, the patients their release. Hereafter, when a patient applies for White will notify Ma). Dr. and release, Gordon, 3.) (CONTIND ED | ON PAGE 5, Court Not to Close COLUMN Philadelphia, July 22 (By A. P.) The common pleas court late today position closed on Sundays. The in- junction was asked by members of the Methodist men’s commiitee of 100. All amusements and other exhib- its along the gladway in the exposi- tion will be free to the public be- ginning next Sunday. E~. L. Austin, director genera! of the exposition, testified to this effect in the hearing. The 50 cents ad- mission to the grounds will remain in force, he said. to | dangerous | White, | Elizabeths | Clark, | the veterans’ | acting | tion promoter. assistant cor-| poration counsel, and Neil Burkin- | Hyattsville, ' United States at-| -ito Justice Adolph Hoehling recently | decided that patients in this class | illegally because | ad- | SHIP SPEEDS TO AID |The steamship Maravi of the United | Fruit : . today to race to the rescue of the Sesqui on Sundays | (abled British | bla, on the rocks off Wattings 1s- | land, refused to grant an injunction aim- | ed to keep the Sesquicentennial ex- | Index to Today's | Issue. ee ee ate Ten Killed in Plunge of Bus. | Cooler Weather Now on Way. nye Saved from ote. | C. to Act on Lunacy Cases. mah a Loses Dry Post. —Colleges’ Faculties Changed. Trees and Lawns for Plaza. Business Men Hold Picnic. 3—-Chief Dwyer Witness in Jail. Link Parties With Dry Chief. GAPT. BURLINGAME. TO DEPOSED Ao HEAD DF LIQUOR SQUADRON Hesse Removes Fenning Coast Guard Crew Runs Rum. 4 ; 5-—Naval Court Told of Blast. §6—-Editorials. 7—Society. 8—-Weather and Vital Statistics. §—Surprise Looms in Grange Case. 11-12-17——Financial. 13-14-15—-Sports. 16—-Radio and Comics. 18-19-——Classified Advertisements. 19——-Daily Legal Record. 20—The News in Pictures. Ask Northeast Market Place. Citizens Protest Rezoning. TWO WOMEN ARRESTEC IN ROSENFIELD ATTAGK Ethel Claw ond Mary E. Warnke Accused of Robbery and sitet to Kill. Two women were arrested last night on charges of assault and bat- in connection with the attack Tues- day night on Mrs. Myrtle Rosen- field, in her home, 3905 Newton street, Mount Rainier, Md. They were taken to Hyattsville. Two men the attack. The women Miss 27 years old, who said she lived on the corner of Fifteenth and P streets northwest, and Mrs. Mary Ee. Warnke, 28 years old, 929 New York avenue northwest. Miss Claw- ans was arrested while at dinner in arestaurant. Mrs. Warnke was ar- rested at her home. Mrs. Rosenfield was Tuesday night, she told police, a number of assailants, said were men and women. assailants left her bound gagged to a bedpost and tried to drug They stole $14 after $5,000 in jewelry. George F. were attacked by The in her room, Rosenfield, Constable Thomas received Garrison, information, which led to the two arrests. Aided | |ing by Central Office Detectives Frank Varney and Stephen Brodie, Garri- son went to the dining room where Miss Clawans, in company man, was having dinner. The man | escaped as they entered the estab- with a | lishment and took the woman into | custody. In some cases they | A short time later, Gar- was informed that Mrs. | Warnke had returned to her home, | and he, Brodie and went | the New York avenue address | and arrested her. | Although both women denied the | attack on Mrs. Rosenfield, they| rison Varney ; (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2, COLUMN 3.) | OF 60 ON THE ROCKS Vessel Port Kembla Is Being Dashed to Pieces Off Bahama Island. New York, July 22 (By A. P.).— Line swerved from its course 60 members of the crew of the dis- freighter Port Kem- in the Bahamas. Capt. D. W. McLellan, of the Maravi, said in a message to the New York office of the United Fruit Line that he was turning from his course on reports that the Port Kembla was being dashed to pieces on the rocks, The Port Kembla, of the Com- monwealth & Dominion Line, went on the rocks a week ago while bound from London to New Zealand via the Panama canal. Twenty-five passengers were taken off immedi- ately, but the crew remained with its captain thinking that the vessel would be saved. National Museum Robbed Of Rare Jewel Specimens A dozen rare specimens of an- tique jewels yesterday were report- ed stolen from the National mu- seum. Smithsonian institution officials placed no value on the gems. The jewels were stolen from a cabinet on the second floor in the The glass case -Farmers Kept Tab on Congress. | Mellon Statement Contradicted. | Choice; Sergt. Little Given Charge. POLICE HEAD OPPOSES | 10—Magazine Page. | SPECTACULAR MOVES Says Precinct Commander Is Too Busy to Direct Pro- hibition Work. HOLD COMMISSIONER SANCTIONED CHANGE Capt. Wilson Will Go to the Eleventh Precinct, Instead of New Station. Capt. Guy E. Burlingame was de- Ethel | the | Anacostia, | win | Police, yesterday, ithe whom she | i and | her she said. | | of overlooking | goer gureriens Her husband, ane oficial dissatisfaction with his : | work is an avia- | jagainst } of | | knowledge | assigned ‘fore |has looked with disfavor, ling of police | hibition \‘*His other duties call for too much jenergy posed yesterday as head of the fly- ing squadron of the Metropolitan police force to suppress local traf- | fic in liquor. | The personnel of the squadron was materially reduced, of the reduction nounced. It also was decreed that it should henceforth be under direction of a police sergeant instead of a cap- tain. Sergt. G. M. Little, who has been a member of it under Burlin- fame was assigned to its command: Burlingame transferred from Eleventh police precinct, in the Second, in the not being an- Was to | north west section of the city. | This was the principal feature of |a@ general order issued by Maj. Ede | B. superintendent of the first day after departure of Commissioner | Frederick A. Fenning, one of the | major acts of whose Hesse, term as com- |missioner was creation of the “dry squad,’’ and the placing of Burlin- game in command. Kenning Favorite, Maj. Hesse said that the transfer Burlingame was not because of that it Commissioner However, it common that Capt. Burlingame stood in high favor with the retir- had him raiding be- of Maj. Hesse department. that Maj. Hesse ever since he has been chief of police, upon the spectacular nature of Burlin- game’s work, especially the shooting by policemen, and speed- automobiles that has pursuit rum-run- raiding of bootleggers. think command: in charge of a precinct should have active charge of pro- work,”’ Maj. Hesse and not done Fenning’s Was wishes is commissioner, who to prohibition the promotion to command of the it is also said on accompanbied ners and a oe ing officer of not the said and attention. Sergt. Little, as a private, assigned to the ninth precinct, supervised liquor law enforcement Bladensburg when the Dis- before the days of on Benning roads was ‘dry’ and trict ‘national prohibition. “About a year ago be was pro- moted to sergeant and assigned to aid Capt. Burlingame. Commis- sioner Fenning agreed with me that after he had been made a ser- gealt he should be placed in charge of the prohibition work of this de- partment.” Removal Delayed. Attention was called to the fact that the promotion year ago and this change was not made until Mr. Fenning had left his office, accompanied by reports that he would not return as com- missioner, took place a Other transfers were specified in Maj. Hesse’s order. Capt. J. BE. Wilson, promoted this week, will not go to the new Thirteenth precinct police station, but will supersede Capt. Burlingame at the Eleventh |precinet. Capt. C. P. M. Lord will command the new Thirteenth pre- cinect, being transferred there from the Tenth. Capt. F. N. Cornwell will go from the Second to the Tenth. Lieut. F. 5. W. Burke, also pro- was not broken. picked. Among the articles missing are | three silver perfume boxes, a sil-' ver and ivory box, an Egyptian | amulet and an Egyptian scarab. The theft was reported by J. S.' Goldsmith, an assistant curator, to Detectives O’Dea and Cullinane, The lock had been moted this week, will be attached to headquarters to succeed Capt, Wilson in investigations and civil | service work. He will still exer- cise supervision over the police school, of which he has been in command. Lieut. J. W. MecCore mack, newly promoted, will be sta- tioned in the new Thirteenth pre- cinct Sergt. O. S. Hunt will have active command of the police school, gue* ceeding Lieut. Burke. , the extent °