Evening Star Newspaper, May 25, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair and slightly warmer tonight; tomorrow increasing cloudiness, prob- ably becorning unsettled. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 72, at noon today.; lowest, 45, at 5:30 a.m. today. Full report on page b. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 Entered as second-class matter No. post office_Washington, D. C. POINCARE TO INSIST SENATE AGAIN VOTE CONFIDENCE IN HIM Communists Hoot Premier as Deputics Give Him Rous- ing Reception. MILLERAND IS PRAISED FOR HIS FIRM STAND Threat to Lay Situation Before Nation Forces Poincare to Withdraw Resignation. By the Associated Press, PARIS, May 25.—The cabinet has becn summoned to meet this evening prior to the departure of President Millerand on a ten-day trip. The pur- pose of the meeting is to consider the procedure to be followed in the cases of Marcel Cachin and his fellow com- munists, charged with acts endanger- ing the safety of the republic. It was the refusal of the senate to try the commun high court that precipitated the resignation last night of Premier Poincare and his ministers, which the president re- fused to accept. The charges against the communists still stand, in spite | of the scnate's decision, which was | simply on the method of procedure, and the ministers tonight are to de- cide whether the case shall be brought before the assizes court or the action abandoned entirely. s as a @h WASHINGT:! WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 15 Princes and Nobles Slain By Reds for Plotting Revolt Kerensky and Other Anti-Soviet Leaders Sponsored Movement to Overthrow Bolsheviki, By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, May 25.—Fifteen persons, all of them princes, generals or no- blemen, have been executed as a re- sult of the discovery of an active counter revolutionary plot in the so- viet republic of Georgia, says a dis- patch from Tiflis to the Pravda today. The names of those executed are not glven, but it is sald all were active participants in the movement The counter revolutionary activities In Georgia are alleged to have been begun early in 1922 with a combina- tion of five non-bolshevik parties, the plans including a general upris- ing for last September. The conspi rators are asserted to have been in communication with M. Gordani, for- | FIGHTING RENEWED IN CHINESE BANDIT LAIR IN MOUNTAINS Mystery Attached to Re- sumption of Battle; Captives Describe Conditions. Hooted by Communists. The entire chamber of deputies Wwith the exception of the communists, gave Premier Poincare a great ova- | tlon when he entered the chamber to- day for the continuation of yester- day’s interpellations on the Ruhr. The | communists hooted the premier, but | this seemed only to increase the en- | thusiasm of the remainder of the dep- | uties. Continuance in office of the cabinet was definitely decided upon last night, it was said at the foreign office today, although there is feeling in politi- | cal circles that the situation cannot | remain as it_was left by the vote of the senate. M. Poincare's friends de- | clare the senate’s action cannot be interpreted as unfavorable to the cab- | inet, since only the day before the premier had been glven a vote of confidence on the questiom-ef-adopt- ing daylight saving time for the sum- | mer { Wants New Expression. { M. Poincare himself, however, con-| siders a new expression from the Eenate necessary to clear up his po-‘ sition, and will probably propose a auestion of confidence next week on | his domestic polic: | Thursday's ministerial crisis ended | as quickly as it arose; to be exact, it| lasted a half hour. The senate will take the first op-| portunity of giving unequivocal in-| dorsement to M. Polncare's general| policy and the premier, on his part, | will insist that this indorsement cov- er hi ion in repressing commu-| nist activitie: 1 Marcel Cachin _and the other de-| fendants charged with illegal act: against the state are to be tried by | the assize court as soon as the ex-[ amining magistrate has prepared the | case. | e of Confldence Vote. Premier Poincare’s position re- | mains unchanged, for he will un- doubtedly get another vote of cnnfi-! dence in the Senate and probably in| the Chamber of Deputies also. | The person who comes out of the| crisis_most advantageously is Presi- | dent Millerand, whose reputation for | “horse sense” has been greatly en-! nced by the energy and decision with which he handled the incident He informed M. Poincare that if the premier persisted in his determin: tion to resign the president would avail himself of a rarely used preroga- tive and send a message to parliament in order to give the country an ex- | planation of why a government, en- | joying the unswerving support of a ority of the citizens, should with- | draw «t a moment when the vital| Teparations question was approach- | ing a decisive stage. Premier Object of Critieiam. ! i Premier Poincare's attitude in yes- | terday’s situation called forth consid- | erable criticism. His opponents assert | that he made the government appear | ridiculous, and even some of his most grdent supporters hold that, although | the forelgn policy comes before every- | thing, the home policy ought not to be left merely to lobby plots and par- | liamentary traps. “Our foreign policy will be all the | stronger in forelgn eyes” observes the Echo ae Paris, “if our home policy is more stable and less abandoned to | the dangerous combines of which the | senate radicals have given so fine a . sample.” Yesterday’s crisis arose as soon as Premier Poincare had been informed | that the senate had decided that it was not competent to try the communists as a high court. A few minutes later | M. Poincare was at Elysee Palace with the resignation of the cabinet. Votes as Judicial Body. President Millerand took the posi- tion that the senate voted as a judi- cial body and that its decision, there- fore, should not be considered as a reflection on the government's gen- eral poiicy. The president refused to accept the resignations and the premier withdrew them. When M. Colrat learned of the vote in the senate he hastened to the for- eign office. where M. Poincare was ill working. and “told him that, aving, as minister of justice, urged . the trial of Cachin before the high court, the senate’s vote amounted to a disavowal of him and he was Lound_to resign. M. Poincare replied that in his opinion the senate’s decision involv- ed the entire cabinet, it having joint- 1y undertaken to repress communist activities. He added that he was about to summon the ministers to decide upon the course to adopt. After a brief discussion the ministers indorsed the premier's view and he went to Elysee and handed President Millerand the joint resignation of the cabinet. Declines to Accept Resignations. President Millerand argued that it was understood that the sen- e was sitting in a judicial ca- pacity, and that its votes must be ~ (Continued on Yage 4, Coluna 6.} | dugouts. ! By the Associated Press. TIE) 25.—Considerable mystery heard about six miles.north of Tsa- ochwang last night in the direction of the Paotzuku stronghold of the Suchow train bandits, according to advices recelved here. It is assumed that the brigands may have encountered government troope and are attempting to escape to the hills in the rear of Paotzuku or that more bandits have joined the outlaws who are holding the foreign captives in the mountains, and the combined forces are attempting to break the government cordon which is sup- posed to have surrounded the moun- tain retreat, the bandits themselves. Although mgssengers arriving from Paotzuku informed the relief workers t Tsaochwang that the captives had been removed two miles farther back in .the mountains, letters received from the bandit stronghold do not mention the removal. Demands Greater. A letter sent out by John B. Pow- ell, Shanghai newspaper man, stated that the bandits now demand that the Chinese government enroll 10,000 of their number in the arm. This would give them control of the south- ern part of the Shantung province. In addition it was stated the bri- gands ask a half years' pay which they claim as due for previous army service. A deputation of local gentry re- turned to Tsaochwang from the Paot- zuku stronghold with the information TSIN, May were + fighting | that the bandits had agreed to send a representative under escort, together | with a paroled captive, to treat with government officials for the release of the foreign prisoners. Previous cable dispatehes from Shanghai stated that John B. Powell had been paroled by the bandits to take part in new conferences for the release of the captives. Describes Mountain Lair. A further description of the sum- mit of Paotzuku mountain, where several Americans have been held by the Shantung bandits, was contained in a communication today from Maj. Roland W. Pinger to the Assoclated Press. ust how high the peak is we are unable to tell,” said Maj. Pinger, “but every morning fog and clouds are seen hundreds of feet below us, with mountain peaks sticking out here and there. Paotzuku top consists of two acres, pear-shaped, with a periphery surrounded by a line of trenches and Another line defends the inner part. Water is stored in three tanks, each of a thousand gallons, and there are many jars which are uncovered during rain. Food suffi- clent to withstand quite a slege is | stored in the dugouts. “The only entrance to the top is on the west side-®a sort of stairway out of the rocks—and it is guarded by three bandits! The prisoners are al- {lowed to wander, but at night guards sleep near them. The number of Chi- nese prisoners, I estimate, at forty- half of them children, aged from five to twelve. Several are but living skeletons, probably from disease and not from starvation. Their clothes indicate that they are from good families. Some have been in captivity for more is attached to heavy firing| Another theory is that | among is Charged. mer Georgian premier; M. Tseretelli, a Kerensky cabinet member, and oth- er anti-bolsheviks abroad, who prom- ised money and arms. The late Gen. Zulokedze and Prince Andronikoff are declared to have been among the leaders. The counter revolutionists employ- ed ‘the bandit leader, Chelokaeff, for their purposes, the accounts state, but the plot falled when his bands were liquidated with the ald of peas- ant forces and the ring leaders ar- rested it is that the in soviet quarters committee of the mensheviki, which is accused of par- ticipating 'In the movement. had a connection with an unnamed British colonel, who at the beginning of 1923 was in Georgla, but left shortly | afterward with the promise to send money and aid. charged central Learn to Support Husbands, Ferris’ Aduvice to Girls B the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 25.—Girls should not marry until able to support their husbands, United States Senator Fer- ris of Michigan advised the girls in the graduating class of the Packard Commercial School at commencement exercises last night. “You have all,” he said, “seen your mothers beg for money from your fathers to buy anything they want from a safety pin to a gown. If you have first learned to support yourself and_ vyour husband, you will never need to beg. You can just remind your husband that you can at any time go out and earn your own liv- ing, and he will get down on his knees to urge you to remain in the home.” FIGHT ON RAILROAD 'VALUATIONS OPENS {Progressives Organize to Protect Public From High Rates Expected. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, May 25.—Senator Robert | M. La Follette of Wisconsin, address- |ing a rallroad valuation conference | called by himself and other “progres- | sives” of the United States Senate | House of Representatives, and govern- | ors, declared today that the conference est, to take steps through the Inter- |state Commerce Commission, the |courts or elsewhere, to require the |commission to comply with the valua- { roads. The senator added that the confer- ence proposed to organize “in such way as may be necessary” to accomplish the foregoing aims. More than 300 persons, including the heads of virtuaily every railroad labor union, attended the conference, which | was opened in the city council cham- |ber in the ecity hall. Mayor Dever greeted the assemblage. On the speakers’ rostrum were Sen- ator La Follette, Mayor Hylan of New York cit: Mayor Dever of Chicago, ‘Warren one, grand president of the Brothterhood of Locomotive En- gineers, and Gov. Sweet of Colorado. Bryan to Speak. Others here for the conference in- clude Willilam Jennings Bryan, who is scheduled to speak_tomorrow; Basil Manly, in general charge of the meet- ing; B. M. Jewell, president of the railway employes’ department of the American Federation of Labor, and Donald R. Richberg, attorney for the shop crafts in the litigation connected with the shopmen'’s strike last year. Mayor Hylan said: “If the federal government permits the establish- ment by an official body of a basis of aluation of railroad property which will result in_an appraisal of over ten billion doMars in excess of what disinterested railroad appraisers have estimated, the inevitable consequence will be added rates of more than a half billion dollars annually, and a total burden of not leas than $1,500,- 000,000 a year, with all that this en- tails in throttling industry,’ stifling agriculture and imposing a higher cost of living upon the one hundred and ten millions of consuming Ameri- cans.” Fears High Prices. “If unwarrantably excessive rates produce equally high prices for com- modities,” Mayor Hylan asserted, “the people will then be faced with the al- (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) “Rid U. S. of Market Swindlers” N. Y. Stock Exchange Is Urged By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 25.—Representa- tives of New York Stock Exchange offices from all parts of the United States were urged to assist the ex- change in “ridding the country of those thinly disguised thieves who utilize the brokerage business for their own gain, and for the robbery of the people” in an address by Sey- mour L. Cromwell at a stock exchange conference this afternoon. More - than 800 representatives of stock exchange houses and branch offices attended the conference. Ad- dresses were made also by John G. Milburn, counsel for the exchange; E, H. H. Simmons, vice president, and Erastus T. Tefft, Walter L. Johnson and Richard Whitney, governors. “You are a part of this great insti- tution,” President Cromwell said, “and it is your duty to ablde not merely by its written rules and regulations but by those unwritten rules of higher ethics which it is_the Dgll,nv of the New York Stock Exchange alwaye to maintain. Meaning of Loyalty. “Loyalty to the exchange does not consist merely in abiding by its rules and regulations, but in serving to the fullest and greatest extent your clients for whom you transact busi- ness on the exchange. You must go a step further and participate in the movement, which is now well under ‘way, to rid the country of those thin- 1y disguised thieves who utilize the brokerage business for their own 'llln or for the robbery of the peo- ple.” Mr. Cromwell urged his hearers to support the better business bureaus in thelr respective communities and to co-operate with other citizens, where no bureaus are located, in sup- pressing bucket shops, stock swin- dlers and other “crooks who bring odium on all legitimate brokers by thelr utter disregard of the princi- Dles of common honesty,” was called to protect the public inter- | tion law in making valuations of the 2 DIE WHEN PLANE FALLS AND BURNS AT BOLLING FIELD Maj. Thomas Duncan and Irving H. Kroupp Killed in Crash. BODIES BADLY BURNED BEFORE EXTRICATED Machine, Taking Off on Practice Flight, Goes Into Spin 2C0 Feet Up. Maj. Thomas Duncan of the Army air service, and Irving H. Kroupp, clvilian, were killed today when an airplane In which they were flying in the vicinity of Bolling Field, near here, suddenly crashed and burst into flame. The plane dropped from the air and burst Into flame as it hit_ the ground. Both men were burned to death before they could be extricated from the wreckage. Maj. Duncan was a resident of ‘Washington. Mr. Kroupp, also a resident of Wash- ington, was an assistant finance clerk in the militia bureau, War Depart- ment. Maj). Duncan, with Kroupp as a passenger, was taking off for a prac- tice flight and had reached an alti- tude of about 200 feet when the Iplano went into a spin and crashed to earth. It burst into flames and both bodies were badly burned before they could be extricated. GERNANS ALARMED BY REPORTS OF RED ADVANGE ON ESSEN |Berlin Asks Permission of French to Rush Police to Trouble Area. 5 By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 25.—The government is alarmed at that armed communist bands are marching on Essen, says a Central { News dispatch from Berlin this after- noon. It has asked permlssion of the German | @erman police from the occupied dis- | tricts to Essen and Gelsenkirchen. i More Join Rubr Strikers. By the Assoclated I ress. | BERLIN, May 25.—Dispatches from the Ruhr this morning gave rise for la time to the belief that work had | ceased in all the Ruhr mines, the cor- respondents reporting a general walk-out with the assumption that a strike throughout the Ruhr had been declared in sympathy with the Dort- mund strikers. Later advices, how- ever, showed that the movement was confined to the Gelsenkirchen district. 50,000 QUIT WORK. Communists Still Control Town of Gelsenkirchen. By the Associated Press. | ESSEN, May 25.—The strike in the Ruhr, inaugurated by the commun- ists, is galning in numbers and now includes thousands of iron and steel workers, In addition to the miners previously out. The latest to join were 20,000 employes of the steel works at Remscseid, near Elberfeld, whose demand for a 50 per cent in- crease in pay was refused. It is estimated that 50,000 miners are sriking in the Gelsenkirchen dis- trict. ; ‘The communist commission of con- trol today was still holding the police headquarters at Gelsenkirchen, which it seized early yesterday. Plan Workers’ Police Force. Negotlations are continuing among the burgomasters and the French authorities for the establishment of a workers’ police force. Sericus damage.was inflicted upon the Rhine-Herne canal last night, according to German sources, by the explosian of a large mine sald to have been laid in Ruhrort harbor by German nationallsts. The damage, the Germans say, Is sutficient seriously to affect the transportation, as it is draining the water from the harbor, which holds many barges loaded with coal ready for the French to transport down the Rhine. Thousands of windows within a radius of 700 yards were broken by the explosion, which caused ex- citement througnout the Duisburg area. The French authorities mini- mize the damage, saying it is unim- portant. ALLIES AGREE TO PAY U. S. FOR RHINE ARMY Papers Signed in Paris by Repre- sentatives of U. §. and Other Nations. By the Associated Press. PARIS, May 25—The agreement between the Uniteq States govern- ment and the allled powers provid- ing for the repayment of the coste of the American Army in the Rhine- land was signed today, after a two- hour session of the delegates, during which certain alterations were made in the text as previously drawm up. reports | French authorities to send forces of | ON, D. C., FRIDAY, MAY 25 192 | { rupture ¢ Foening MOQVE e Go JoIN THE CHINK \ BANDITS! / BEADVAIS ACCLSED BY MRS, STLLNAN Guide, Named as Co-respond- | ent, Annoying Her, She Declares. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May Mrs. Anne Urquhart Stillman hopes that Mrs. Leeds will win in_her controversy with James A. Stillman for the sup- port of the son born to Mr. Stillman and Mrs. Leeds, says a dispatch to the New York Times from Grande Anse. Quebec, today. For Mrs. Leeds, | the dispatch adds, Mrs. Stillman has | “nothing more than pity. | Mre. Stillman added a sensatfonal angle to the case by charging that Fred K. Beauvals, the Indian guide named as co-respondent by Mr. Still- man and charged with the paternity of Guy Stiliman, had been annoying her. Her attorney has warned Beau- | vals to desist, she declared, and added that Fowler McCormick, son of Har- old McCormick of Chicago, a friend of the family, is remaining at the lodge with her and her children as a protector. Names Soclety Wom: Mrs. Stillman sald she knew that Mrs. Leeds was not the cause of her with her husband, and the divorce and other suits which grew out of it, but that another woman was responsible. She said Mrs. Leeds had been replaced in Mr. Stillman's attentions by a New York society woman, whom she has heard he may marry if he Is divorced. About a month ago, Mrs. Stillman explained, she was informed that | Mr. Stillman had broken with Mrs. Leeds and that the latter was con- templating a suit against the banker. Mrs. Stillman appeared far from her usual health. For two years during her court battle, she post- poned an operation to conserve her energy, but three weeks ago it was performed, she sald, and she had not tully recovered." “I really did not make a direct of- fer to Mrs. Leeds to adopt Jay (Mrs. Leeds’ son),” she sald, “but would be glad to make such an offer any day. Fe is my son’s half brother and If Mr. Stillman does not accept any responsibllity for him, we do. If Jay Leeds' father isn’t a gentleman, my sons are gentlemen, Mrs. Still sald that if Mrs. 3—FORTY- Leeds “had any sense at all she would fight like a tiger. I hope that above all else,” she added, “she will not sit still. 1 hope that she will not let things slide by, hoping that somehow, in some way, she and the boy, especially the boy, will be taken care of. That doesn’t galn anything with people like Stillman. Boy Has Nothi Juy Leeds, alleged illegitimate ‘son of James A. Stillman, today has a to- tal fortune of $1.90 deposited in a penny bank, according to his mother. The mother—Flo Leeds, former chorus girl—in a telegram from At- lantic City, addressed to the A: clated Press, challenged the state- ment of Mrs. Anne U. Stillman, 'the banker's wife, who has asserted her willingness to take Jay into her own nursery, that the former New York banker settled $500,000 on “the other womwan” and her son, in trust funds. This statement appeared in an af- fidavit submitted by Mrs. Stiliman in winning yesterday from the appellate division of the supreme court con- firmation of her award of $90,000 a year alimony and $15,000 counsel fees. Mrs, Leeds, in her telegram, said: “Just saw papers. Boy's wealth to- day comprises one dollar ninety cents nny bank. If records show what K sy 4 they are positively false.” St TWO PAGES. Convict Artist Of Outraging. Public Decency NEW YORK, May 25.—Abraham 8. Ballinson, secretary of the Soclety of Independent Artisis, today was con- victed of exhibiting a picture that outraged public decency in the much criticised painting. “Father, Forgive | Them,” depicting dry advocates raid- ing Christ as he turned water into wine at the wedding feast. — ONLY 17 AUTOISTS IN TRAFFIC “NET" Few Arrests Include Owner of Car Tagged “Out of Order; Gone for Tools.” With only seventeen arrests made in the first precinct up to noom, the motdrists of Washington today dis- ptayed a spirit of co-operation in cbeying the special traflic regulations tor the Shrine convention. One policeman found a machine parked on E street, bearing this sign: “Out of order—gone for tools.” According to Capt. E. W. Browne, the officer waited and when the driver returned he had no difficulty in' driving the car to the station, where he left $10 collateral. The third and sixth precincts, which cover sections of the no-park- ing area, did not find any violations this morning. Scores of motorists left their ma- chines tucked safely away in the ga- rages this morning and stretched their limbs as they reached for straps on the street cars. Others who live in far-distant suburbs drove to the edge of the forbidden zone and walked the remainder of the way to their offices. Motorists Wateh Arrows. Motorists driving through the downtown section had to proceed cautiously and keep their eyes peeled for the arrows on the lamp-posts which indicated the one-way streets. Police officlals expressed the belief at noon that the results obtained this morning were gratifying, considering the drastic nature of the regulations and the fact that scores of persons have been accustomed day after day to_park in a certain place, 'he no-parking area is bounded, roughly, by 6th and 20th, B and K streets, and within that territory there are more than a score of one-way streets. The police, however, have tacked a yellow arrow on practically every lamp-post, and if you keep going in the direction ‘of the ‘arrow you will not come to collateral grief. TRAFFIC RULES ISSUED. Col. Sherrill Announces Restric- tions Effective Till June 10. Automobile traffic and parking reg- ulations issued by Lieut. Col. C. O. Sherrill, officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, were placed in effect last night until June 10 as follows: No parking will be allowedeon West Executive avenue, the roadway south of the State, War and Navy bullding. any of the driveways within the park area bounded on the north by the White House grounds, on the east by 15th street, on the south by B street and on the west by 17th street, or on B street between 15th and 23d streets, Parallel parking for short periods of time will be permitted on the right side of the roadways extending through all other park areas, right (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) GERMAN FUND ARRIVES. NEW YORK, May 25.—The steam- ship Rellance arrived today with 30,000,000 German gold marks, of which 7,140,000 were consigned to the Inter- ‘who withdrew from the ipational Acceptance Bank to cover city after threatening to sue Stillman for non-support of her child, did not indicate whether she would follow the advice given her yesterday in Canada by Mrs. Stillman “to fight like a tiger.” | 'MINT SUSPECT HELD. Montreal Police Arrest Man for Denver. MONTREAL, May 25.—Detectives today arrested on the street a man believed to be one of the band in- voived-in the big Denver mint rob- bery several months ago. The sus- pect is_being held for identification by the Colorado authorities, ' reparation notes given by Germany to Belgium. It was announced that another ship- ment of 30,000,000 gold marks would arrive nmext Monday on the steamer Mount. Clay. ¢ “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. | . Yesterday's Net Circulation, 92,234 THOUSANDS TOLIVE N IS ON RALS Shrine Hosts to Find All Mod- ern Developments in Pull- man Towns. The genil of modern machinery 1s busy dragging to Washington from the four corners of the United States ,lnns strings of steel Pullman “home Which are to.rear overnight Aladdin cities housing from 30,000 to 40,000 {nhabitants each in Benning, Ecking- ton and Alexandria, Va., on the eve of Shrine week. When the sun sets one week from today it will behoid there nothing more Interesting than row after row of newly laid steel rails. But the next morning it will shine upon thriv- ing ctiles, complete in every clvic de- tail from playgrounds and public baths to well organized police and | fire departments. It will be, accord- ing to those who have seen the plans in advance, the triumph of American ratiroading. Shriners from the south and south- west may set up house in the Pull- man car that brought them here and call Alexandria “home” during the week of the conventlon. Similar_ar- rangements have been made at Ben- ning and Eckington for caravans from the north and northwest. And nothing has been spared to make these Pull- man cities as comfortable and safe as the best protected home in Wash- ington. by 500 in Alexandria. In Alexandria alone 500 Pullman “homes™ are to be parked. It is ex- pected they will house close to 30,000 men, women and children. New tracks have been laid to accommodate the un- have been lald out. There will be a special poiice force and a modern fire department to guard the visitors from those dangers and every convenience of home will be installed. . There will be playgrounds for the children when their parents think it best not to bring them over to Wash- ington, and trained attendants will care for them in the absence of their parents. Dining car restaurants will run full blast day and night. There the visitors may purchase anything from a ham sandwich to a welsh rarebit from sun-up to sun-up. Shut- tle trains will run direct from the Aladdin city to Union station and the station at 7th street and Virginia avenue every fifteen minutes. It will even be possible to buy necessary articles of clothing almost within the town limits. 700 Cars at Eckington. Another 700 cars of the Pennsyl- vania and Baltimore and Ohio rail- roads will occupy the yards at Eck- ington. It 1s expected that at least 40,000 persons will spend at least part of their time in them during the Shrine convention. The Baltimore and Ohio raflroad has cleared out one of its huge warehouses there and turned it inito an attractive and complete res- taurant for the ben=fit of the visitors. Just how many more cars will be di- Verted to Benning has not yet been determined. This plan will also relieve conges- tion nion station, where a capac- ity crowa is expected to pass into the city anyhow. No pains have been spared by the termiral authoritles, however, to keep the crowds moving in and out in an orderly fashion. Special guards will be on duty day and night and information booths will be placed in different sections of the big building, where strangers will be given directions how to reach any place or part of the city by the least expensive and quickest route. T-2 BEGINS LONG HOP ON WAY TO CAPITAL By the Assoclated Prees. SAN DIEGO, Calif., May 26.—Lieuts. Oakley Kelly and John A. MacReady, Army aviators who recently estab- lished a world's record by flying from New York to San Dlego without a stop, left Rockwell Field today in their famous monoplane T-2 for El Paso, where they are scheduled to ar- rive early this afternoon. Score of Second National-Boston Game At Boston— 1 3 2 WASHINGTON... [§} e - i OFf O BOSTON He 8 6 3-8 ncEEn 9 R. H. E mmlfl;m-flb«m. VA precedented traffic and regular streets | AL WHITE RETURNS, CLEARNG MYSTERY OF FOUR MONTHS Member of Electrical Firm Disappeared January 12 After Deserting Auto. DECIDED TO BREAK AWAY TO IMPROVE HIS HEALTH Had Traveled to Pacific Coast. Condition Much Improved, Statement Says. A. J. White, member of the firm of ‘White & Boyer, electrical contractors, who mysteriously disappeared Janu- ary 12 last from his home here, and for whom a country-wide search had been instituted, returned today as abruptly as he disappeared. He issued a written statement explaining his absence. Mr. White's automobile was found abandoned near the Aqueduct bridge in Georgetown with articles of his clothing piled in it. He left a note to his business associate, Willlam P. Boyer, stating that he was suffering from a nervous trouble and intimat- ing that he had decided to end his life. Mr. White's explanation, in the form of a statement, follows: Warned by Doctors. “Upon my return home I feel that some statzment from me is due to my friends concerning my absence from home and business for the past four months. “For weeks prior to January 11 I had been afflicted by extreme nervousness, accompanied by insomnia, and my con- ditlon had become such that I was warned by my physiclan that it was absolutely necessary that I leave busi- ness and its usual responsibilities for a time, under penalty of taking a per- manent departure. I felt that it would be absolutely impossible for me to cut myself off from my business by taking an ordinary vacation. Accordingly, as a measure of securing what seemed to me at the time to be the only remedy for a desperate case, I decided to leave for a time, in the effort to regain both p!:y!\('al and nervous strength. ‘During my absence I traveled and also worked in several cities and 8o improved in health that 1 had start- ed toward home from California when I became ill at Portland, Ore., Where I had secured employment, intending to remain there a short time. Destitute at No Time, “While I earned money by working from time to time, I was at no time destitute, as I found that my knowl- edge of the electrica] and hardware business opened the door of employ- ment at any place. “I have returned completely re- stored to heelth and, in view of the circumstances, I trust that my friends may pardon the concern which my unexplained absence may have occa- sioned them. For the consideration and kindress shown by them, both to my family and to myself, I am unable to express my deep apprecia- tion. The course which I took was rlanned when 1 was very il and when I felt that even another day iof delay might bring such a breal down as would place me past possi- bility of recover. BELIEVE RUM SHIPS PLY RIVER TRADE By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Md., May 25.—Selzure of 300 quarts of whisky on the Leon- ardtown pike, about eight miles from the District of Columbia line, today by general agents from Washington is leading to an investigation of the | case by the local district attorney's | office and agents, The liquor, it was thought, may have have been run up Chesapeake | Bay to the vicinity of Point Lookout, {Md., by rum ships reported to have been hovering off the Virginla capes recently. Two men were arrested. They are Joseph P. Mason, Bell Alton, St Mary's county, and Ambrose Becker of Washington and New York city. They will be arraigned befare Com- | missioner Supplee here on a charge of illegal possession and transportation. Yesterday general agents, following | their plan ‘to stop the enormous flow of liquor to Washington from Mar land, also raided a place between Si Mary's City and Leonardtown. They did not make any arrests, but de- stroyed what they claim to be one of the biggest moonshine plants in the state. SMUGGLING IS SCENTED. The Scotch whisky captured on the Leonardtown road early today bore evidence of being smuggled stuff, ac- cording to Edgar N. Read, divisional chiet of prohibition agents, but the prohibition office so far has no evi- dence to definitely connect the whisky with the activities of the rum fleet, ,whick js belleved to be man- euvering just off the Virginia capes, with probable connections in Ches- apeake bay. That bootleggers are making a big drive to get Tlicit liquor into Wash- ington In preparation for the big Shrine convention has been officially admitted by Prohibition Commis- sioner Haynes, himself, who has con- centrated an “especially organized and equipped force,” to stop such ac- tivities. There was some possibility, it was said in certain quarters, that the liguor might have been landed. at Point Lookout by smugglers, but no definite information as to where it came from was available today to prohibition authorities. ‘Admiral Reynolds of the coast guard today said he had received re- ports of the activities of the rum fleet oft the Virginia capes and that sev- eral vessels of the fleet formerly operating off New York had changed base to off Norfolk. The coast guard has three boats joned in the bay, said, the Apache, with headquar- ters at Baltimore; the Manning, with headquarters at Norfolk, and the Mascoutin, & heavy tug, at Norfolk, »