Evening Star Newspaper, July 30, 1921, Page 2

o L 2 ‘Wooden ships are as passe in New Mexico as the old time “schooner” of beer, and Chairman Lasker of ! the Shipping Board cannot do any business by way of selling his wooden ships in that arid country, according to a letter from the Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce, which amused officials in Washing- Alabama Executive Brands Statements as Untrue and Propaganda. ton today. The letter is In reply to a circular advertising the sale By the Associated Press. of wooden ships by the Shipping MONTGOMERY, Ala, July 30—| HQah, 0o atter Relative to the pellagra situation,| .15 follows. in part: “Tour letter Gov, Thomas E. Kilby gave out the following statemen “Some one has uttered a slander against the south by starting the report emanating from Washington that the southern states haye al plague of pellagra and that in many sections famine conditions exist which are partly responsible for the disease. Whether the starting of this report the sale of wooden ships. While you have us at ‘sea’ in this matter, still we cannot figure how to make use of a wooden ship in New Mexico. “Years ago when a six-gun was a piece of jewelry and still was a working model of the ‘safety first’ slogan, our forefathers croased the country and came to New Mexico in ships called prairie schooners. As there were no bridges these ships had to ford the silvery Rio & - was intended as a service to the south lf)rundg arll‘d I am creditably in- -ampaign of propaganda for | formed they always made the or as a campaign P! crossing if the current was not /-Iflme other section the people of the south capnot say, but whatever the motive a grave injustice has been *done which the people of the south should not longer permit to go un- challenged. No Famine In Alabama. “There iy no plague of pellagra in the south, at least in that part of the south in which Alabama is located There is no famine here. Citizens of Alabama do not call upon any other section for relief. This state is able to protect its own people and it will do_so. “Records of the Alabama board of health show that conditions regarding pellagra are better than they have ever been. It is true that there are cases, many more cases than we would have, but there is no such thing as an epidemic. _ “For one, I resent the false reports which have slandered this section. 1 shall lend no support to any move- ment to investigate the situation, be- cause there is no bad situation which demands attention.” too swift, the mules had sufficient kick and their brand o vocabulary had _the punch. “But, owing Jim Tawney to the fact made that a misstep, JUVENILE MEASURE REPORTED IN HOUSE Redrafted Bill Wins Commit- tee’s Favor—Provides Physicians. As a result of hearings before the House District committee on legis- lation providing for the examination of persons brought before the Juvenile Court, Representative Underhill of Massachusetts today introduced a re- drafted bill accompanied by a favor- able report from the committee. The new bill, embodying changes suggest- ed during the hearing, provides for the appointment by the judge of the Juvenile Court of a male physician. at a salary of $5,000 a year, who has had special training as psychiatrist in the diagnosis of insanity and mental diseases. It also provides for a psy- chiatric case worker at a salary of $1,800 and a psychologist at a salary of $2,000, all of whom shall devote their entire time to such work. Provides for Female Physician. The Underhill bill also provides for appointments by the judge of the court of a female physician at a salary of §1,000, who shall devote part time to such work for the purpose of gon- ducting a clinic under the supervision of the judge. The report says that the necessity for this law was fully outlined in the hearings before the vommittee. Chief Justice McCoy of the Supreme Court of the District and others, including a representative of the United States public health service, appeared before the committee and urged favorable action on this measure. Obliged to Close Clinie. Up to April 1, 1921, an experimen- tal clinic for the psychiatric study of delinquents was maintained in °the Juvenile Court by the United States Public health service, at the request of the judge of the court. OWwing to the large amount of work that had been assigned to the public health service by Congress, mainly the care of disabled soldiers, the surgeon gen- eral was obliged to close the clinic. A detailed report was filed during the hearing showing that between February 9, 1920, and April 1, 1921, approximately 1,024 children were ex- amined. The committee's attention was particularly invited to the large percentage of children afflicted with social diseases. A somewhat similar bill to that of Representative Underhill's was intro- duced in the Senate Monday by Sena- tor Ball. SAVED FROM DROWNING AFTER FALL FROM ROCK Senator Asks Faects. £ CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., July 30— Senator Kenneth D. McKellar of Tennessee has wired City Physician B. Wise for a statement as to the pellagra situation in this section. #=+ In reply Dr. Wise wired Senator = _McKellar that there were only.twen- | 7=ty cases of pellagra in the entire * county and that conditions were no: worse than in previous years. There has been no deaths from th. disease, and there is no semi-famine in evi- dence in this territory, Dr. \Vise said. KING’S. REPUDIATION LONDON SENSATION (Continued from First Page.) . . . ‘ ' : » H . whole affair may prove to have been ! a hoax, adds: “The lesson to be drawn will be simply the danger of semi-royal progress in foreign countries of peri- patetic potentates of undefined status. They not only are a jest in them- selves, but are an invitation to the practical joker, and a joke in these serious times may be exceedingly serious and exceedingly costly.” Assuming that a hoax is the ex- planation, this newspaper thinks that Lord Northcliffe deserves some sym- pathy, but adds that he should have chosen “some less irreverent country than America for his triumphal jour- ney. as the purposes of advertisement would have been served equally well by a voyage to the pole.” Attacked by Chronicle. The Chronicle says that Lord Northcliffe appears to have gone to America with the intention of doing ‘what he could to make Premier Lloyd George unpopular there and thus “queer the pitch” for the British gov- ernment in the coming disarmament negotiations in Washington. “In this country,” the Chronicle con- tinues. “it is so much a matter not merely of political etiquette but of common decency not to drag the king in the mud of political controversy, that we could only read Northcliffe's alleged statements with pained un- beliet.” Both Premier Lloyd George and _Lord Northcliffe are censured by the Herald. which says editorially: “It is a diverting piece of low com- edy. with two great demagogues as back-chat comedians. ¢ ¢ * The ‘whole silly squabble is just a music hall turn put on for two purposes, first, to gratify tBe vanity of these 1two worthies, and. secondly, to divert | the people's minds from things that | really matter.” . DOG STIRS UP JUSTICES. ‘Lively Mix-Up l)‘ver Authority in County in Virginia. Special Dispateh to The S i _ LYNCHBURG. V. July 30— Fronkb\ ll‘la mlnlnll‘rlnll district, ‘ampbell county, is involved in an- other mix-up in its police authority, | an effort to save herself pulled Mr. for Constable R. L. Childress and |Lavin into the water. Both were un- ate Game Warden Arthur have |able to swim, and in ten feet of water, been fined $25 by Justice W. H. Steel | they sank for the first time before because they put into effect an or- | those on the banks realized their der from Justice J. H. Rucker to kill | peril. a dog belonging to E. A. Reynolds. Powell diving for Miss Martin and Reynolds alleges that the dog wore | Hitching for Mr. Lavin, the young A& state license when it was ordered {by Justice Rucker to be killed, and | sinking for the second time. Reynolds went to Justice John W.|were in an unconscious state, Girl Slips Into Potomac and Causes Man to Lose Balance—Rescues Made by Two Others. Special Dispatch to The Star. FROSTBURG, Md., July 30.—But for the heroism of Thomas Powell and John Hitchins, Miss Agnes Martin and Bernard Lavin, both of Frost- burg, would probably have been drowned while bathing . in the Poto- at South Branch. Mifss Martin slipped from the rock on which she was standing and in Both but Fortune with the complaint and se. | were revived by first-ald method; cured a warrant. POLICE AND AGENTS TAKE 3. 1,245,000 FISH “PLANTED.” Three colored persons were arrested BALTIMORE. July 30.—The largest |last night by police of the sixth pre- aistribution on_record of trout, bass|cinct and internal revenue agents for ‘and catfish in the streams of western |alleged violations of the prohibition Maryland hs been completed by W. G. |enforcement law. charges of illegal Bell fish culturist of the state conser- | possession and selling being prefesred vation commission. A million brook against them. They registered as Wil- and rainbow trout. almost double the |liam G. Colston, 824 4th street; Lillla Washington, 21 Dingman place, and number distributed last year, were /placed in the streams, as well as'Victor Barker, 16 Jackson street 175,000 bzss and 70,000 catfii northeast. seaznzey Edison Says Americans Are Deteriorating Mentally BENEREEIRENY And he cites his famous questionnaire to prove his statement. His experiments with the test questions during the past few months $ Read this interview with the “Electrical Wizard” in Tomorrow’s Star One of the most remarkable stories of the great war is told in “The Escape of the U. S. S. Ponticus.” Was this the fate of the Cyclops? Another timely article of special interest: “Winners of the Congressional Medal of Honor” IN TOMORROW’S STAR ESBEESAAANNNARAEARANEEEASNEARSNARERNESRRNRNRRBRNRRRTNSRRRRNRRARNRARNLY’ man and woman were rescued after! Knute Nelson was not awake and Sydney Anderson too <cpnscien- tious, America was taken by Vol- stead, who proceeded to spell wreck and ruin to every schooner- building plant in this country. With the Rio Grande only boast- ing of six inches of water, we are schoonerless. Judging from the fact that members of Congress seem to have lost their good tasf we are afraid we will be schooner- less for some time to come:. t seems a pity, too, for the reason that our population here were all good sailors and weath- ered many a rough sea. But as good republicans we can only charge such piracy to the demo- crats, shake out our cambric, wipe our eyes and remember the day when every man jack of us had as many schooners as we wanted —and then some. “But_we laugh at Volstead be- cause he did not take into con- sideration the wonderful {ntoxi- cating qualities of the New Mexico climate. We defy him or the rest of the ‘world to regulate or pro- hibit it. “We are sorry we can't assist you In peddling those wooden schooners. The Rio Grande just won't float them, but we wish you luck—yes, the luck of Volstead in making the whole dern coun- try schoonerles: AIR NEEDS SHOWN BY CITY “BOMBING” Theoretical Destruction of Washington and New York Accomplished. Washington was theoretically re- duced to debris by a fleet of airplanes from Langley Field yesterday. While the National Capital w: being bombed — theoretically — imaginary bombs were being rained on New York by another fleet of planes, which made its way up the coast kfrcm Langley Field. Theoretical destruction of these tcities is but a part of a gigantic pro- |gram of the air service to educate the people .of the United States to the need of a large and eflicient air force for the country's defense. The bombing operatjons, v-nich the- |oretically reduced the mation's cap- ital and the metropolis to dcbris, prove conclusively. air service off. cials claimed today, that the entire Atlantic coast is at the mercy of air attacks from an enemy in time of war. At Philadelphin Monday. Philadelphia is scheduled for the theoretical bombing Monday. Within the next few weeks all the large cities along the entire Atlantic coast, and probably some inland cities such as Pittsburgh and Chicago, will be bombed—theoretically. _ The primary object of the theoret- ical bombing of Washington and New i i i | i i a large force of enemy planes could attack a coast city, establish a base {and extend operations all over the country. The attacks yesterday were carried out along that plan. The air flcets assembled at Roanoke Island, attacked and captured Langley Field —theoretically, of course—established rounding office buildings in Washing- ton and the skyecraners (f New: York, all within five hours. - After the theoretical enemy 'aerial base had been established at Langley | Field, three squadrons of seventeen Ihombers. led by Brig. Gen. William Mitchell, assistant chief of the air iservice, made their way up the coast |and destroyed New York—theoretical- ly. Another force of thirty-one planes, including twenty-two light bombers and nine pursuit, flew up to Wash- ington and rained their theoretical bombs over the city. In Battle Formation. When the planes reached Washing- ton they flew over the city in buttle formation and divided into “fights” [of six planes each. Each flight was Igiven a particular point of the city to “attack.” . H After attacking Philadelphia Mon- day, the three squadrons of plages in New York probably will retufn to their base at Langley Fleld, where the pilots will be Rivenga bri spite before continuing their Gpera- tions on other coast and inland cities. There will be no further attacks on ,\\'I-dshlnxlon for the present, it was said. PLAYGROUND FUND CONTINUES TO GAIN (Continued from First Page.) of the trust is neglected the public should at least have the use of the property until the beneficiary of the trust shows a dispesition to perform his obligations. I am not making this suggestion with reference to a lawsuit, but with reference to that moral appeal to the public conscience which always influences the law right, when it gets into the habit of going wrong. “Suggestions have been made that taxation while their lots are in use for playgrounds. Of course no con- cession of this kind should be made without an agreement for & fixed term of occupation. Otherwise the exemption from taxation would op- erate only as another premium on keeping bullding spaces out of use and thereby Increasing .e!r selling or renting value.” UTAH AT YACHT RACE. Battleship Arrives at Isle of Wight With Admiral Niblack. COWES, 1sle of Wight, July 23. ‘The United States battleship Utah, with Vice Admiral Albert P. Niblack aboard, arrived here today. Tonight the admiral and the American yachts- men who are here in connection with the small yacht races, the first of which was won by the British team at Ryde today, were given a banquet by the Royal Yacht Squadron. Th Duke of Leeds, commodore of the squadron, presided. —_— CONCERT PARTY HELD UP. Robbers Attempt to Get Receipts From Entertainment. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star, CUMBERLAND, Md., July 30.—An attempt to hold up members of the Jonathan Haw Concert Company, re- turning to Frostberg from Martins- burg, W. Va., where a concert was given.at the Apollo Theater, was made on the Bdltimore turnpike about 1 o'clock in the morning five Miles east of Hancock. Two bandits, with handkerchie! over their faces, ordered the party to halt and fired two shots. Walter Ccughenour of this city, who was driving the taxicab, speeded ahead, while the bandits fired four more shots, but none took effect. The party proceeded to Hancock and notified an officer, all returning to the scerie of the attempted hold-up with three pistols and a shotgun, but ther was no trace of the bandits. It is thought the hold-up was to the receipts of the concert. get | York, air officials contend, shows how | a base and then rained their theoret- | ical bombs on the Capitol and sur- ' THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. NEWMEXICO CAN’TBUY WOODENSHIPS | WHERE PRESIDENT HARDING WILL SPEND HIS :SUMMER VACATION SINCE VOLSTEAD RUINED SCH_OO]_VERS g o L . ' ' : View of Secretary Weekw’ bungalow on Mount Prospect, at Lancaster, N. H. of hix brief summer vacation. spend a xood P (., SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1921—PART 1. ~ Here President Harding plans to 'MORE SPEEDY" CALL 0 TARIFF HEARERS Chairman Penrose Says Bill May Be Beaten by i “Snow.” { Chairman Penrose of the Senate finance committee called for more speed today in hearings on tariff, if a new law was to be cnacted before winter. There were 132 requests for time to discuss the mea- sure when the Senate hearings opened. | he said, and this morning’s mail swell- ed it to 268. “Unless we make haste with this testimony,” Senator Penrose said. “there will be considerable snow on the ground before there is a new tar- if law,” he warned the committe Mr. Penrose then announced that {hereafter witnesses must their statements to the subjects in {which they are directly interested, and not “ramble” over other pr sions. He also urged committee members to be definite in their ques- tioning. es appeared on par- lcular rates and there was some d cussion of the proposed three-year embargo, killed by the House. Hearings Are Suspended. Chairman _Penrose of the Senate jfinance committee {hearings on the tariff bill will be sus- | pended_after Monday until it is deter- (mined by the committee whether to re- {tain or strike out the American valua- tion clause. At yesterday's meeting the committee levinced desire to have the hearings show more facts and fewer generalities. The first move to have the hearing record show only “facts” was made by Senator Reed, democrat, of Missouri He urged that testimony of A. G. Rosen- garton, a_Philadelphia_chemical 1nanu- fucturer, be omitted after the witness several witne: formation concerning his firm's produc- tion costs, taxes, earning: and other details’ which Mr. Reed de- clared was necessary to show whether tariff protection was required. tion was taken on Senator Reed's re- quest. EDWARD ). REDMOND DIES. Attorney Taken Ill at Office Suc- cumbs at Hospital. Edward J. Redmond, member of the local bar, died at Emergency Hospital last night of a complication of dis- eases, his death probably being has- tened by the heat. He was taken sick in his office. in the McGill building, 90% about G street, 2:30 o'clock in the vacant lot owners be exempt from | EDWAND J. REDMOND, afternoon, and when taken to the hos- pital, it is stated, his condition did not appear to be critical. Early in the night a change for the worse resulted in the patient losing consciousness, and he died shortly after 8 o'clock. The deceased, who was a native of this city, was forty-nine years old. He was a graduate of Georgetown Uni- versity Law School and had practiced his profession in this city since his graduation. While attending law chool he served as private secretary to Willlam Pitt Kellogg. former gov- ernor and senator from Louisiana. Mr. Redmond is survived by two sisters, Misses Alice and Elizabeth A. Redmond of this city, and two nieces, Mrs. Frank Coultry of Rldgewood, N. J.. and Mrs. Henry W. Driscoll of this city. Funeral services, arrangements for which have not been completed, probably will be held at the late home of the deceased, 2018 15th street, Tuesday morning. followed: by serv- ices at St. Paul's Church. SCHWIGERT MUST EXPLAIN. Justice Hoehling of the District Supreme Court has %wsued a rule on John A. Schwigert, a plumber, to show cause August 5 why he should not surrender to his wife, Helen T. Schwigert, possession of the apart- ment at 500 3d street northwest, which the wife says she was occupy- ing at_the time of the marriage. The order followed the filing of a suit for a limited divorce by the wife, through Attorneys Wampler & Wood. —— DETAILED TO PACIFIC DUTY. Commander Willlam R. Furlong of the Bureau of Ordnance, Navy De- partment, has been detailed to duty on the staff of the commander-in- chiet of the Pacific fleet, confine | The chemical schedule was up, and | has announced that had deciined to give the committee in-| dividends | No ac- | By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, July 30.—Announcing that even greater quantities of poison had been found in the body of Fred Kolze thap were discovered in his wife's, Peter Hoffman, coroner of Cook county, today said that the body of John Denner, who was a tenant of Kolze at Kolze, Iil, would be ex- humed at Colby, Wis., tomorrow. Denner’'s widow became house- keeper for Kolze after the death of the latter's wife. Kolze Is a village in the northwest corner of Cook county. | “The discovery of poison in the body {of Mrs. Kolze, as well as in that of her husband, is proof of a succession of murders,” said Mr. Hoffman. “Our investigation was the first step in the affair. “The next would naturally be a number of arrests.” Kolze's body was exhumed after sev- eral anonymous telephone calls to the coroner informed that official that the death on July 21 was not natural. The poison was distributed through out the system, proof that several doses had been taken or administered, according to the coroner. s Mrs. Kolze died eight years ago. A considerable quantity of the same poison was found in her body. Will Drain Auto Trap. RALEIGH, N. C—The state board {of public buildings and grounds, has {adopted a resolution authorizing the superintendent of buildings and | grounds to drain the abandoned rock jquarry, from which two automobiles {have been recovered, and where it is believed others are still to be found. Nexroes Wound Marshnl. PETERSBURG.—Sheriff's posses and members of the Petersburg police force, after @ search which lasted all yesterday afternoon and covered practi- cally every section of Surry county, have {abandoned their efforts to locate five |negro hoboes charged with having ishot and probably fatally wounded {Harry L. Harris, town marshal at { wakefield, early yesterday morning. | Harris was shot when he attempted to arrest the negroes after they had fired at D. P. Purcell, a few minutes previously. The marshal was shot in the abdo- men and was rushed to a Richmond hospital for an operation. Ship Line to Mexico. SAN FRANCISCO.—Regular steam- ship service between San Francisco and Mexico west coast ports will be {established August 15 by the Mexican | states line, a new British concern in- vading Pacific coast trade, it was an- nounced. The company will have eight 1,500-ton ships and they will be FRANCE WILL YIELD . TOGAIN HARMONY Britain Learns She Will Waive Dispatch of Troops to Silesia. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, July 30.—The tension be- tween Great Britain and France over the procedure to be followed in set- tling the Upper Silesian problem has materially lessened, British officials declared this morning. Convening of the allied supreme council on Thursday next has not been definite- ly ‘determined upon, it was stated, |but in well informed quarters here confidence was expressed that the meeting would be held on that date either in Paris or in Boulogne. Alleviation of the situation is un- dorstood to have come with intima tions by the French of their willing ness to walve the immediate dis patch of troops to Silesia. provided Great Britain associates herself with France in a demand on Germany for facilities for their passage, should the supreme council deem such movement necessary. The Berlin government has already declared its willingness to accede to such a demand by the supreme council. FRANCE REPLIES TO BRITAIN. —_— Declares Germany Should Be Shown Allles Are United. By the Associated Press. PARIS, July 29.—Premler Briand this evening handed tuv iLord Har- dinge, the British ambassador, the reply of France, approved by the binet this afternoon, to the latest ofl.fltlsh note dealing with the sending of reinforcements to the Upper Si- lesian :one.mwnw'}‘\l was p‘rolen!ed to ign office this morning. T kion. mote protested _against the action of France in seeking to troops ::'(‘fll' !ofluly with her other allies. It reminded France that President Millerand, after the invasion of Frankfort, gromised to consult with the allies in the future. The: note, which consisted of . & dozen pages, asked France for an ex- lanation of her intentions, consider- Fn' frankness necessary for a con- tinuation of allled co-operation. The Havas Agency adserts that France In answering the principal argument of the latest British note with regard to the Upper Silesian situation n{- Germany has declared that under the terms of the treaty the sending of reinforcements to Upper Silesia cannot take place without a previous understanding between the allies, and that France cannot allow the German government thus to try to separate her from her allies. It I8 a question of nstional dignity, and thus it is necessary to give Germany new proofs of unity on the Franco- British front, e | Series of Poison Murders Indicated by Exhumed Bodies ““All Well” Message From Mayflower A radiogram from Secretary tial yacht N President and Mrx. en route to mouth, satd, “All well, weather fi at 10110 e'clock today, when the vensel was at sen, north of the Virginia capes. A previous y Department meaxage snid the May destroyer ry, Cape Henry and headed I at 9 o'clock. RUSSIANS ACCEPT U. S. TERMS TO FREE PRISONERS FOR AID (Continued from First Page.) has been engaged in newspaper work. She was a correspondent in Paris dur- ing the peace conference and was credited with being the first American woman to enter Berlin after the ar- mistice. The offer of Herbert Hoover, as head of the American Relief Adminis- tration, to see that help was given Russian sick and starving, was made in a telegram addre to Maxim ky, in response to Gorky's recent appeal for aid. The prime condition was laid down that the Americans held prisoners in Russia must be im- mediately released. It was stipulated also that proper administrative con- ditions must be made by Soviet Rus- sia, including the full and free liberty of movement for the relief of admin- istration representatives. The reference in the Russian reply to “the million children and invalids” presumably refers to the passage in Mr. Hoover's telegram in which he stated that the relic{ administration RESTRAINT MARKS NORTHCLIFFEVISIT - Washington Officials, Taking Cue From British, Make Greetings Informal. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Lord Northcliffe has come and gone And all Washington has settled back to discuss the most unusual feud it has ever encountered, still wonder- ing how narrow the Atlantic ocean can be at times when criticisms of a newpaper publisher in a foreign country can touch official life in an- other capital and give it an uneasy twenty-four hours. 1f Lord Northcliffe had not been so free with his pen in writing about Prime Minister Lloyd George and Lord Curzon, the British foreign sec- retary, official Washington would have made a great social event of his {visit. As it was, officials who had planned openly to show their friend- ship for a distinguished foreign puh- lisher, took their cue from the actiorn of the British embassy, which made a last-minute cancellation of a din- ner that was to be given in honor of his lordship. Makes Informal Visits. Lord Northcliffe did spend an_hour and twenty minutes at the White House with President Harding and also _called on Secretary Hughet the State Department, but the v were at the executive offices and at the State Department buiiding. Both vere informal visits, such as might occur if any prominent publisher paid his respects. American “would be willing to furnish the! There was every evidence of cor- cican fi j¢ | necessary supplement of food, cloth- diality. Socially, however, the gov- operated under the Mexican flag, ing and medical supplies to a mil- |ernment took no part in any enter- was stated. lion children in Russia as rapidly as|tainment, might otherwise have organization could be effected.” been the case. Relations between At the present time, aceording to|EOvernments are too often strained by ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.—A pro- |latest advices reaching Washington, |mistakes of etiguette. It ie still in- posed wage reduction of 20 per cent |there are cight or ten Americans actu- {sisted in some quarters that one of for the electric bulb department has [ally in prison in Russia, while there are {the chief reasons why Viscount Ed- been refused by representatives of the men in conference with the Na- tional Association of Pressed and Blown Glass Manufacturers. About 800 workers are employed in that de- partment. A 25 per cent reduction for the punch tumbler and stem workers also was under con era- tion, but no decision was reached. Only one of a dozen groups of workers have accepted a wage cut since the conference opened about a week ago, and that was 10 instead of 25 per cent as proposed by the manufacturers. Alleged Mirderer Caught. KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—A five months' hunt for a man wanted in Concord, N. C.. on a charge of mur- der ended when Sid McDaniels was placed in the city jail and held for officials from Concord. The clues which they had to work on were that McDanicls had a miss- ing finger on the right hand and that he was a base ball player. Later they learned that he was employed in a textile mill in Knoxville and had played in a local game. Bank Bandit Convieted. NEW ORLEANS, La.—Robert Hol- land was found guilty by a jury in |the criminal district court of being | the leader of a gang of daylight ban- dits, who robbed a_branch of the Hi- bernia Bank and Trust Company of $8,500. ! “'Holland will be sentenced next Fri- day. The penalty is from one to four- teen years. The bank robbery was considered the most daring in the his- {tory of Louisiana. Nine Years for Embezzling. NEW YORK—Alfred J. Farrell, former teller of the XNew Utrecht branch of the Irving National Bank, iwas sentenced to nine years in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga.. {and fined $9.000 for embezzling the bank’s funds. He pleaded guiity to |using the money in a bootlegging | venture. Judge Garvin said Tarrell's { defalcation totaled between $120.000 iand $130,000. Auto Plant SPRINGFIELD, Mas: Royce Company of America has closed its plant in East Springfleld for five weeks. Approximately $00 employes have been at work in the factory, which has been_operating on a full- time schedule. Recent passing of di- dends by corporations has seriously affectsd prospective buyers of the cars, it was sald. LIMITING CHANGES IN BURIAL PLANS Arrangements for Hero Dead Reach Point Which Makes Fixing Date Necessary. Secretary Weeks has announced that arrangements for the return of sol- dier dead from Europe have reached a point which makes it necessary to fix a date after which they cannot be changed with respect to individual cases. In many cases relatives have canceled their applications for the re- turn of bodies, and in other caseg con- troversies have arisen among rela- tives as to the final d‘sposition of bodles, as to whether trsy remain abroad or be brought home August 16 has been fixed by the department as the limit of time in which reguests for changes in _instructions altsady given may be favorably consider?d. After that date no orders for the re turn of bodies will be canceled. Official figures show that 75,884 American patriots lost their lives in Europe during and since the world war. Of that number 30,242 bodies have been brought to the United States for burial at the request of the next of kin. About 10,000 more bodies whose return has been requested are in various stages of preparation for shipment home. With the expected completion of the work of returning these bodies to the United States within the next few months, the graves registration service will turn its attgntion to the concentration of the ho%ha of the hero dead which are to remain in the foreign ceme- teries. —_— DEMURRER IC SUSTAINED. Justice Bailey Rules in Alleged Conspiracy in Milk Contract. Holding that the United States Food Administration had not statutory right to regulate the purchase and ‘sale of milk during the war, Justice Bailey to Upper Silesia without | o the District Supreme Court has sus. | of” Rui tained a demurrer to the indictment for alleged conspiracy filed some months ago against Edward L. Witte- meyer, a broker of New York, and Bernard S. Weisberg, a former em- ploye of the Food Administration. The overnment is expected to appeal 'rom the decision to the Court of Ap- peals on the strength of the decision in the Supreme Court leak case, claim- ing that the accused interfered with the orderly conduct of the business of the government. The indictment charged that the men conspired to have Weisberg se- cure a permit for Wittemeyer to sell milk to the allied governments. It was also charged that Wittemeyer bribed the government employe and that Weisberg received a bri It was charged that September 16, 1918, as an overt act of the alleged con- spiracy 100,000 cases of milk were purchased for $800,000 and that the accused later contracted to sell the milk to the allies for $730,000, Rolls- | many others d. fines of the Russian frontiers. The more prominent of these are Capt. Emmet Kilpatrick of Uniontown. Ala., a Red Cross worker; Royal C. Keely, an_engi- neer; William Flick of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Dr. Weston B. Estes, both moving picture photographers, and X. B. Kala matiano of Racine, Wis. IMMEDIATE U. S. RELIEF. Could Send Aid 48 Hours After Acceptance of Terms. American relief for starving Rus- sian children could begin forty-eight hours after Americans imprisoned or out of Russia, Secretary Hoover sald today. There could be no assurance that’ the Americans had been re- leased, he added, until they were out of Russia Official word of a decision by soviet authorities to releas- the Americans had not been received in any official way today. Mr. Hoover was still awaiting a detailed reply to his offer of aid, transmitted through Maxim Gorky. and the State Department had recelved no answer to Secretary Hughes' recent demand _that the prisoners be released. Mr. Hoover in- dicated, however. that a reply such as that described in press advices to Riga, proposing negotiations for re- lief measures on the basis of a de- cision to release Americans. would be satisfactory under the condition he stipulated, that the Americans actu- ally were out of Russia. Would Send Representative. In that event, Mr. Hoover said, the American relief administration would be willing to send a representative to Riga to take up with the Russian au- thorities details of food distribution. In the event of a satisfactory reply from the soviet authorities complying with the conditions of the relief offer, Mr. Hoover said the machinery was ready for immediate operation. There re relief storehouses in Riga and Danzig and it would only be a question of transportation for the supplies to start rolling into the Russian famine are: The relief organization has been at work continuously in Europe so that a sufficient personnel could be mobilized at Riga to handle the work on short notice, he said. Food distribution could continue, I Mr. Hoover said, by replenishing the i European warehouses from this country as their stocks were de- pleted, using the same machinery for sending food overseas as has been operated in the past. Red Cross Co-Operation. Famine relief in Russia, Mr. Hoov- er said, could be handled directly by the American Relief Association, though the co-operation of the Red Cross and other organizations would be sought. Considerable funds are already available, he added, but the financial details of such an under- taking would be worked out after it was known to what extent other or- ganizations would aid. The principal difficulty would be en- countered. according to Mr. Hoover, through the breakdown in the Rus- sian transportation system. Food distribution among the children and the sick would be limited to those areas to which transportation facil- ities were available, he said. Actua) food distribution in Russia, it,is believed, would follow the gen- eral lines adopted by the relief ad- ministration in other countries, with administration workers in charge of stations where children would be fed daily. Distribution of food to the children would be thus insured, it was believed, as they would receive and eat their food at the huts and the! 'possibility of supplies being diverted to other purposes would be practically eliminated. Anawer to Mr. Hughes. At the State Department some offi- clals belleved it probable that the soviet authorities might regard the answer to Secretary Hoover as suffi- clent answer to Secretary Hughes. The State Department was said to be ready to facilitate any relief measures, although there are now no_indications that the department will have any direct part in _the ne- gotiations for which the Russians have asked. There was manifest a feeling at the department that the soviet gov- ernment might attempt to utilize the incident to obtain the release of rad- icals held prisoner in the United States. . The opinion more generally ex- pressed, however, was that the Rus- sians, in the full realization of the conditions wrought by famine and economic failures, have decided to release the Americans without stip- ulating conditions other than those offered by Secretary Hoover, to im- prove the opinion in which they are held in many countries. Hoover Ald Here. It was not expected that release of American prisoners would lead to any early negotiattons for recogni- tion of the soviet government by the United States. Edward Ricard of New York, chief aid to Mr. Hoover in the relief ad- ministration, was In conference to- day with the Secretary. Problems n food relief were und stood to have been discussed prelimi nary to am expected reply from the Russian authorities. —_— DIES OF HUNGER STRIKE. CHICAGO, July 30.—Preferring death by starvation to facing trial on a charge of having slain his wife, Andrew Brykajlo died in the county hospital as the result of a long hun- ger strike. He was taken to the hospital July 14 from the jail where he was await- ing trial when his condition became serious following his refusal to eat. “I will fool the hangman yet,” he said. PUT ON WAITING ORDERS. Capt. George A. Lung, Medical Corps, has been detached from duty at Newport, R. 1, and placed on waiting orders, ined within the con- | detained in Russia were released and } ward Grey was not received by Presi- dent Wilson during his special visit to the United States was the fact that Viscount Grey mingled socially with political opponents of Mr. Wilsen in the Senate. otwithstanding the obvious deli- cacies of the situation, lord North- cliffe had a very good time, and of- ficial Washington reished his visit especially because of the upusual <phere it created. The newspaper men of Washington. feeling no such restraints as affect the government in such a situation, gave his lordship perhaps the mios {distinctitve entertainment that awy foreigner ever received in the capitai. This may have been inspired by a pro- fessional admiration for a man who ousted one ministry and transformed the entire conduct of the war by Great Britain, or it may have been the result of the splendid impression which Lord Northcliffe had made among those who know that he never permits words of unfriendly criticism of the United States to be printed in any of the scores of {he newspapers which he owns and controls. Anyway, t seemed fitting that this visitor, whose sincerity as a friend of the United States has never been doubted, #hould receive some token of the widespread appreciation in which he is held here. It so happened that the only ones in Washington who were able to manifest openly their regard for Northcliffe were the newspaper- men. m Cause of Hostlility. Although Washington is not familiar with the niceties of English politics, the impression given by the North- cliffe party is that the recent outburst of hostility on the part of the British government grew out of a suggestion in one of the Northcliffe papers. that the British delegation to the forth- coming disarmament conference at Washington should be composed of men who understood the American people The Northcliffe editorials plainly disapproved of the idea that Lord Curzon, British forelgn secretary. [should be a member of the delega- tion, contending that he was of a British type not suited for such an important mission. Simiiarly, the Northcliffe press has argued against {the proposed departure of Prim. Minister Lioyd George from England and has used practically the sam« arguments against his coming to America as were employed in the effort to dissuade President Wilson from going to Europe at the time of the peace conference. The Northcliffe idea seems to he that home affairs are in much ton critical a condition to be handled by a leaderless cabinet. Lord North- cliffe himself thinks Viscount Bryce. iformer British ambassador to the United States and distinguished au- thor of books on American life, and Lord Robert Cecil, who worked in such close harmony with the Amer- ican delegation at Paris, would he better suited to present the view- point of the British people. Against Japanese Alllance. The visit of Lord Northcliffe to Washington, coupled with his severe criticisms of British policy, may be the forerunners of important events in British politics later on. when the ldisarmament conference is in prog- ress. Lord Northcliffe himself iz go- ing to the far east, and will be there while the diplomats are assembled in Washington. He has openly ex- pressed himself against the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese alliance, but. nevertheless, is a good friend of the Japanese people. It would not be surprising if Lord | Northcliffe played a prominent part through his newspapers in shaping British policy at the disarmament conference. Some observers think that with true Northeliffe skill the distinguished publisher has set the stage for a supreme effort to oust an- other British ministry. Although the invitation to dinner at the British embassy was with- drawn, Lord Northcliffe is under- 8t00d to have met the same guests at a dinner tendered by Mrs. E. B. McLean at her country home last night. The only difference was sald to have been u change of host nad place of the dinner. Lord Northcliffe, nevertheless. called on Sir Auckland Geddes, Brit- ish ambassador, vesterday, to pa his respects, and it is understeod tha Sir Auckland was one of the guests at the McLean home last night, al- though the list of those present was withheld. Lord Northcliffe left last night after the McLean dinner, arriving in New York early today. After spend- ing_ the day there his itinerary in- cludes Toronto and Vancouver, where he will board ship for his trip to Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, the Philippines and India. He had a busy day yesterday. At luncheon he was entertained by the overseas writers, a_body of American newspaper men who had worked abroad, and later he joined the group of newspaper writers at the Presi- dent's semidweekly conference. It was raining_in torrents when he journeyed up Pennsylvania avenue for his visit to the Capitol and Senate press gallery. He talked “shop” for a short time with correspondents. (Copyright, 1921.) —_— SON, SLAYER, IS FREED. Zimmerman’s Mother Brings Sobs as She Testifles. SPARTANBURG, 8. C., July 30.— The jury in the case against Mor- gan Zimmerman, on trial for killing his father, returned a verdict of not guilty last night. Zimmerman's defense was that he killed his father to protect his moth- er, whom the latter was alleged to lhave been mistreating. Mrs. W. R. Zimmerman, mother of the defendant and wife of the slain man, testified for the defense yesterda fternoon, and so touching were_ th tement: she made about the domestic life at the Zimmerman home that sobs were heard in every part of the courtroom, which was filled to capacity, =Y