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2 FRANCE'S CAPACI TOPAYU. 5. RESTS WITHHER DEBTORS Can Meet Obligations of | $26,000,000,000 if Ger- many and Others Pay. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. By Cable to The Star. PARIS, July 20.—The debt ques- tlon between the United States and | Great Britdin having been settled. it is natural for Americans to ask what is the chance of an agreement | by France to pay something on the loan she secured from Washington | during the war, which amounted to | about $3.000,000,000 and uvon which no interest has as yet been pald. France's capacity to pay the United States is to a certain extent depend- ent upon the sums she will receive from Germany but an altogether misleading impression has been given to the American people about the capacity of all European peoples to pay their war debts, chiefly becayse foreign officers everywhere have thought that was the way to bring about a reduction, If not a cancel laticn, of those cebts Unfortunately the Buropeans have talked so much about their inability to pay ti war debts unless there is an ali-around cancollat that they have put up a poorer face than 13 warranted, eicher by an examina- tlon of the balance sheets or by the progress of the peoples in struction Related to Tak Syatem. The capacity of a ion to pay is 80 theoretical a subject that esti- mates are frequently colored by de- sire It is similarly true that the people’s paying power is related to the tax system used. Who, for jn- stance, would have thought it pos- sible in 1914 that America could swing @ war debt of twenty seven biliiuns or tha it could be reduced by four and a half billions five years atter the war?- Na there is a distinet differe America’s with milion raw lion e means perfec the Luropeans have | ted their tax a ministration to a point of collecting taxes from all people whose incomes are taxabie To understand what the French are a, the balance isi first be e 1l amount of nal debt, including the to the United States, | A Japan, s eight| To this should be ad- | 1 billion doliars of the ora total of amcunt Britain offset h ha ledger three liabilities the other side of the fon dollars owed them by Russi igium, Serbla. Rumania, Greece. Poland and Czechoslovakia. | To thi Le added appro ely | sove lions of reparations due fron rmany, or a total in assets of Tt labilities of v six billions is interesting that this deficit of six billion | dotlars is ximately what France used to carry as bonded debt before ! the war, =0 that if all countries owing | money to France would show signs of paving there would not be a serious questlon at issue today as to France's solvency | Russians Owe Billion. But of the sums owed to France from the allied countries about one bil- | Hon doilars is Russian debt, and who | can say what soviet Russia will do? | Similarly, the ventee billlons due | from Germany is more than half of | the German burden, and British and American financial experts say Ger- many cannot pay anything lke thirty- rwo billion doliars.” While Germany has lost Alsace-Lorraine, Upper Silesia and her colonies. she also has been re- | lieved of a large army and navy ex- pense. The French think, of course, | that ny can swing such a big| debt, that Is true, then France, ! with the acquisition of Alsace-Lor- | raine, the new colonies and the man- dated regions is potentially much rich- er than Germany was before the war. Argument Applies to France. Tn other words, the French argu- ments for Germany's paying to the limit apply equally as well to France. | But France would be willing to pay off her debts to America and other Quits as President of Philippine Senate in Row With Gen. Wood MANUEL QUEZON, President Harding. DAWN-DUSK FLIGHT ntinued from First Page.) Who left in general walk-out, in xe- ported cabiing report of situation to OFF FOR THIS YEAR, SINGAPORE NAVAL BASEPLANVOTED Commons Passes Bill to Fortify Port After Frank Talk on Japan’s War Aims. By the Assoclated Press, LONDON, July 20—Renewed frank discussion of the porsibility of & war with Japan in the future came to an end In the house of commons last night with the passage, under clos ture, by a vote of 217 to 130 of the naval estimates providing for strengthening the naval base at Singapore. Most of the opposition came from liberal and labor members, Who argued that the project was mot in spirit with the Washington confer- ence and that its completion would impel resumption of competition naval armament and sow the seeds of war. Some opponents conceded, nevertheless, that the spreal of Japa- nese immigration might be a source of Qifficuity between Great Britain and Japan a generation hence. These asscrtions were countered by Lieut. Col. L. S. Amery, the first lord of the admiralty, who contended that all delegates at Washington under- stood that Great Britain reserved the right to strengthen the Singapore base and that the merklian 110 was specified in the treaty lmiting the area of its application to exclude Singapore for the terms of the agree- ment 1 He described the fortifications as de- {tensive, pointing out that Japan was building yards and naval b extensions hich it had in mind at to continue and n Francisco—-before possible. He ightf swerved his and his wife at Heber City. Utah. Return to New York. After visiting them Lieut. Maughan probably will take off on a return Qight to Mitchel Field, via the route he took in attempting his transcon- tinental flight. Licut. Maughan discounted reports from the east that his failure might have been due to tampering with the oli tank before he started on his his- tory-making trip. “It was merely a case of the sol- dered part of the tank coming loose as the result of vibration, caused by steam.” he asserted. Carrying out his plan of conserving ts speed for the latter part of the journey, Lieut. Maughan hit the bor- der of ‘the Rocky Mountain region traveling at a tremendous rate. was estimated he reached a maximum of more than 200 miles an hour be- countries if she couvld depend upon getting substantial sums from Ger- many. The big point of interest to Amer- ica, however, is what is France's true | capacity if she does not realize from | Germany the amounts due her. Sup- | posing the French found it neces- | sary to accent only eight billions | from Germany. They would move | heaven and earth to get the British | to cancel three billions and America three billions to offset it. but the most that would probably result would be the reduction by the United States of interest charges and the | funding of the debt over a longer term of years than granted to the British. Although America is mor- ally bound not to give better terms to any nation than those given to| Great_ Britain, the chances are the | British would relieve America of that embarrassment in the hope of sat- istying the French. Reconstruction Cost Heavy. Prance has ahead of her another expenditure of three billion dollars for reconstruction, which is not cov- ered in the above balance sheet. Per- haps that estimate will ultimately be cut down, or a short-time loan floated to meet it, especially if payments be- gin to be made by the Germans. Potentially, France Is able to pa: her debts, and, indecd, 50 I8 Germany, All Europe has the capacity to pay. That's not the problem, but the crux ' of the matter is, will each nation let the other get strong enough to pay. Strong enough to pay means strong enough to fight. Natfonal security is at the bottom of the whole busi- ness. PLANE FALL KILLS TWO0 0. R. C. FLYERS Lieuts. McNab and Kinney of Il- linois Victims of ™zplain- ed Accident. By the Associated Press. CHANUTE FIELD, RANTOUL, IIL, July 20.—First Lieut. Harold R. Mec- Nab of Decatur, Iil, and First Lieut. Edward H. Kinney of Chicago were killed here today when their airplane muddenly fell to the ground as they ‘were making a landing. Both men were members of the Of- cers’ Reserve Corps, and were just finishing a practice flight. Lieut. Mc- Nab was the pilot and Lieut. Kinney was acting as passenger. The cause of the accident is not known, but an immediate investiga- tion was started by a board of in- quiry of officers at the fleld. Both manm ware twenty-nine years old. tween Cheyenne and Rock Springs. On the basis of the total elapsed time from Mitchel Field, Lieut. Maughan spanned the first 1.650 miles at an average speed of 135.6 miles an hour. Altogether he covered a total of 1,925 miles, For actual flying time it was estimated he averaged about 155 miles an hour. PRIDE OF HOME TOWN. LOGAN, Utah, July 20.—The little city of Logan, nestled near the foot of the great Wasatch range in Cache val- ley, today points with pardonable pride to the achlevements of her native son, Russell L. Maughan, The flight was the general topic of conversation here and groups of his friends waited impatiently for news of his flight at newspaper offices. Maughan was born in Logan twenty- nine years ago, a gandson of Peter Maughan, reputed to be the first per- manent settler of Cache valley, after he had driven an ox team to Utah through hundreds of miles of isolation. Russell Maughan had a humble and inconspicuous beginning. He is of a family of ten children. Seventeen years ago he delivered newspapers, riding horseback. His brothers also distributed newspapers. Later he was a student at the Utah Agricultural College here. He pursued his studies with persever- ance and industry, but many times had to work hard during the summer and far into the fall term. Only eight years ago, while he still was a student at the agricultural school, he worked his way through the college with the ald of a job at a country newspaper office. His du- ties were nothing more than those of a printer's devil. In 1917, while Maughan was a stu- dent at’ the first officers’ camp at the Presidio in San Fran- cisco, he was given his degree of bachelor of sclence by the agricul- tural college. He was sent to the R. O.T.C.camp with the first con- tingent sent by the college. assing the aviation test, he to France and brought down four enemy planes, missing by only one the number required to become an ace. Lieut. Maughan is married and has two children. —_— WESTERN ROAD BANKS MONEY FOR FARMERS Deposits $1,400,000 Along Route, Available for Agri- culture. DENVER, Col, July 20.—Announce- ment was made here last night that the Denver and Rio Grande Western railroad had deposited one million four hundred thousand dollars in various banks in towns along its system and that this money is immediately avail- able to farmers, ranchmen and others who are patrons of the respective banks. plane, 1t ! training fore the n conference utenant was forced to descend |that the Unite dl;uum also was :m;‘k vi ing to its fortifications east of the i ofl pouring from the plane's|zobeTiuged in the treaty. Other tank ih bucketfuls and nauseating | gpeakers asserted that Holland was fumes engulfing th machine and |increasing her fleet and fortifying weakening ts intrepid pilot. her East India bases. Lieut. Maughan had passed Roeck Springs and had covered about half S B St e onr et i< | PANCHO VILLA SLAIN four-stop flight, when he realized | BY OWN SECRETARY turned back toward Rock Springs St OrE Se o O MEXICAN RANCH at 5.08 p.m., just fifteen hours to the | = = minute after he took off from d from First Page.) Mitchell Ficld, N.Y T T A T e Weakened by Fumes. - his pursuers. lived in a Chihuahus Atter -a Siiciesstull fiight Tromine | MONNEIL CaveiIOr Bve MRS L0t eastern terminal ough the first| it LITCHIr which ross 150 feet two llem of the flight—from Mitchel [fron 4 brook on the level pla Fleld to Dayton, Uhiv, and on to St.iirom a b "this poin a Joseph, Mo Licut. Miughan encoun: 110" T A it his first trouble with the oilliroops, Many times he was reported cooler shortly after noon at North g T'pon the American army’ Platte, Neb. " By the time he had,yithdarawal from Mexico Villa re- 5;:‘{7' r-l-d'lhu, r;fyn., w \u_'mrm[v!-!'ln: newed his depredatic on April the third lec. he was so weakened bY 41416, he was indicted for first de- | {he escaping ofl fumes that he almost gree murder Deming, M., on 1L trom the cockpit i account of the Columbus raid. Rae ;;: valh lnd ’\v;'luall\' “They call e a bandit and the i-conscious ed while me-{worst man in Mexico,” declared Villa 'Il"-:r’t;‘fh.‘v\';r,.k[;'k‘_' sperately and £ol-| chen he was welcomed to San Pedro, ered the leaking tar Delayed for ! Couhuila, “but I would preserve our nearly an hour, Lieut Maughan hop- ty. 1 surrendered becaus Lol determined to make a suprem ighting in Mexico meant in ) 0 co he stretch of nearly n by the United Sta It is ;”n.n mlm-. that separated him from|time for peace.” In a e i 000 o m. to he P praised the “good faith, honor and ‘,‘{ixur.«.!|\; keen disappointment|patriotism” of Provisional President ! i noticeably discouraged the [de la Huerta, and declared it was his }':x f‘:vy.vlln""‘l:f u‘l (:;w wnw:!ull“nph with- {purpese to show the Mexican nation ten ays to cross the nation in a A 1d his men could “build a day, the lieutenant took heart in & |well s destropr o Could “build as moral victory and in the hope that| L he might still have another chance to Affected by Daughter's fulfill his lifetime ambition [ The former bandit went \n\l;w; was t 0il cooler,” Lieut. | family from San Pedro to Las Nievas, Maughan |lold an Associated Press|Durango. to “scttle dewn™ on his farm ’b H,u,"( ent, as he rested his tired lxh» e, and shortly after wrote to de n: against a bedpost in a hotel |{la Huerta for school books and sup here and told the story of his flight. | plies. Villa was said to have been :nl‘lfl‘u):xh: \A'l' had it fixed at Chey- | affected y the death of a enne DUt it became wo as I drove ! e S ntonio. Te it bexan to It bucketfuls and 1 were a % a numnbe hought it best to quit.” Perst and victed HH t i1 %04 % hing and convicted it Maughan's piane the | 5¢ various offenses, were pardoned by 1 d here today u Ng {the Governor New Mexico 1 I to have it ready for flying with. | he first real trageds in Viila‘s Test the aviator plans today to croxs | was executed as a revolutionist by he border of hix home state, Utah.|carranza troops in 1 r . t 5 X . Utah. | Carranza troops in 1519, Villa ad and visit his mother at Logan, Utah, |mired. angeles not only as s patriot 1d soldier. but regarded him almost a father. He wept bitterly {he received word that Angeles had been shot. He threatened reprisals and later aided in the overthrow of the Carranza regime. Real Name Doreteo Orango. Villa’s real name Doreteo !Orango. He was born in 1868 of peon parentage in the little mining town of La As a youth he follow- ed the trade of butcher until the death of his father and then he and mother and sister went to western Chihuahua. There he became a cow- jboy. Many stories have been told as to how he became an outlaw but the one most generally accepted is that it was because he killed a captain in jone of President Diaz' regiments. Diaz then placed a price on his head It was at this time that he changed his name to Villa. He organized a band of outlaws and became a terror to the rich land owners and mining men of northern Chihuahua, robbing them and sharing the spoils with his followers and the impoverished peons. ‘When the Madero revolution against Diaz occurred, in 1910, Villa became military leader in that movement. At one time he was arrested_and sent to Mexico City by Gen. Victoriano Huerta. He was condemned to death by a military court for insubordina- tion. Madero saved his life. Villa later escaped and fled across the Texas border. in ievas. Army of 35,000 Huerta became dictator after Ma- dero’s assassination in 1913, and when Carranza revolted against Huerta in Coahuila, Villa re-entered Mexico to fight for Carranza and organize a campaign against the man who had imprisoned him. Peons flocked to his standard and he is said to have gath- ered an army of 35,000 men. Villa's first great victory against the Huerta troops was at Ojinaga. After the battle 4,000 men and eight gen- erals of the federal army took refuge in the United States and were intern- ed. In other fights, including San Pedro de las Colonias, Paredon and Torreon, Villa was also triumphant. Then came an estrangement be- tween Villa and Carranza, and when !the latter made his triumphal entry into Mexico_City, following the re- tirement of Huerta, the bandit leader declared war upon the new presi- ! dent. Villa had been one of the in- {dependent chiefs who had made and formulated the plan of Guadalupe, which made Carranza first chief of the constitutionalist forces. Occupted Mexico City. Witk Emilio Zapata, another ban- dit chieftain opposed to Huerta, Villa made common cause. The two oc- cupied Mexico City with their troops. forcing Carranza’s retirement to Vera Crpz. Gen. "Alvaro_ Obregon, later successor to de la Huerta to the presidency and loyal to Carranza, led an army out to meet them. At Celaya, Irapuato and Cilao he de- feated the Villa-Zapata forces. In those battles Obregon lost an arm and Villa lost his prestige as a com- mander. The Villa and Zapata followers were dispersed One disaster followed an- other and Villa retreated across the mountains to Sonora, where he joined {'m;cg! with the Yaqul chieftain Ur- alejo. Agrees to Armistice. In the years that followed and up to the time of the Columbus, N. M., raid, Villa's influence as a military leader_steadily waned. Defections from Villa’s ranks continued, many of his generals leaving him and ac- cepting the amnesty of the Carranza government. Villa sent his wife across the border, and, with only a few hundred men, resumed the bandit raids for which in earller years he had been notorjous. Then came the overthrow of the Carranza regime, the rise of the De a Huerta provisional government and the election of Obregon. gon had proved Vill master in ti fleld. On May 27, 1920, three federal forces started out to capture Villa. and th~ foil ‘wo men in | when | his ; I Local elvie organization, depart; Yenterday. HANDBOOK ARRESTS DECLARED ILEGAL (Continued from First Page.) to whom the warrant was ad- ssed. As I think that the pro- ions of the espionage act covering the issuance and service of search {warrants should be construed {n parl materia with those of the District code, the service of this warrant was Iillegal and the property seized should ,be returned to the owner. I think !this court has jurisdiction of the {motion for the return of the prop- {erty, as an indictment could be based lupon the offense charged in the {search warrant. “In the Burrows case the service of {the warrant was fllegal for the same [reason and the warrant itself was de- ifective In failing to name Burrows. {The answer of the district attorney states that the service was made un- one dry der the warrant. The affidavit exhibit-| €d wwith the answer states that when the premises were searched certain parties were found therein apparently jengaged in making bets, that said {parties were placed under arrest and iwere then searched. It does not state | that the defendant was among those { engaged In making bets, { it set out facts to show { had reasonable nor does that grounds to believe that a felony was the officer g committe It is doubtful also whether when a search warrant has been unlawfully ued for searching premises, it can be used as a cloak to justify an of- ficer making an arrest for an offense committed in his presence where the ense is of the same nature as that rged in the warrant. For these reasons an order will be made directing a return of the property in each of these cases.” Fifteen Coses on Docke the docket of Assistant District At- torney David “A. Hart, the Police {Court prosecutor. In addition there are a number of cases, some dating back in to 1913 and others much older, which defendants were arrested and released on bond in which no in- {formations were made out by the ar- resting_officers. { _ Mr. Hart emphasized that former Judge Robert 1. Hardison ruled that all cases made on search warrants {issued by the clerks of the court, as { had been the practice In some in stances, were void because such | search warrants were a judiclal act, a power not possessed by clerk There may be some cases of this na ture in the files, he said, that will have to be thrown out. The decision of Justice Bailey, Mr. | Hart believes, may have some bearing | on the cases in his office. ~Until he sces an official copy of the decision Mr. Hart said he would be unable to State the effect. He pointed out, however, that the decision would have ino effect on cases that might come {up for trial in the Police Court as in i the event that appeals were taken they would go to the Court of Appeals and not to the Supreme Court. RUSSIA TO MARKET WHEAT BEFORE U. S. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1823 MOSCOW, July 20.—Russia will ex- port two or three milllon tons of grain to European marts this year, and will have it at its destination be- fore American grain can arrive, ac- cording to the statement of M. Kras- sin, foreign trade commissar of soviet Russia, today. Krassin's report was. “An average harvest is expected. This means the quantinty of grain for export wiil possibly amount to several hundred million poods. (One pood equals forty pounds.) Two or three million tons will be sent mainly through southern and Petrograd ports, directed to Germany, Scandi- navia, England, France and even Italy. “The export points: will be Kuban, the Ukrainia, the Don, the Volga and the governments of central Russia. “I don’t belleve the cost of pro- duction of grain in America is.any lower than the cost in Russia. Rus- sian grain will be marketable in Eu- rope earlier than the American, the distance being less. Consequently it will stand the American price. Transportation has “been fully pre- pared, the railroads being quite ready for the greater quantity.” ———m————————————— were closing In on him, he agreed to an armistice and surrendered to Gen. Eugenio Martinez at Sabinas, practi- cally on his own terms. SLAYER A COLONEL. Trillo Once Commanded Personal Guard of Villa. . EL PASO, Tex., July 20.—Miguel Trillo, secretary to Pancho Villa, slain bandit chieftain, and who is credited with having fired the death shots, held the rank of colonel in the Villa army prior to the surrender of the latter three years ago. Trillo commanded the so-called “golden guards” that acted as a per- sonal guard of Villa, and was impli- cated in the Villa raid of the Ojinago vicinity in 1917. Trillo was formerly an automobile driver and joined Villa when the for- mer rebel chief was in Chihuahua in 1916. *was about twent: years of age, and was a visitor in Juarez, just across the border from El Paso, about one month ago. A message from Chihuahua this morn- ing said _that Hipolito Villa, revolu- tionary figure and brother of Fran- cisco, had left Chihuahua immediat Iy after the report of the killing wit! the avowed. intention of killing Tril- lo. who. however. Fad already heoen kit 3 o he vil'a suprorters. with its guests of honor, the ent, being entertained by a jazs band on their There are fifteen handbook cases on | C. C. GLOVER RALLIES AFTER OPERATION Washington Banker Reported Rest- ing Well at Maine Sum- H mer Home. Charles G. Glover, chairman of the board of directors of the Riggs Na- tional Hank, was operated on this morning for gall stones at his sum- mer home in York Harbor, Me, a message to the bank from his son to- day spid. | Mr. Glover stood the operation “ex- | ceptionally well,” the message sald, which created an optimistic atmos- | phere here as to his recovery. Although seventy-six years old, Mr. Glover is physically strong and {the attending physiclans, while {doubtful for a long time as to an {operazion, decided finally on that step. or the past six months Mr. Glover has been suftering from the effects of the trouble. Mr. Glover and his family went to {the Maine resort several weeks ago ito spend the summer. On July 4 he | was critically ill, but since that time inis condition improved and the danger point long since has pass. SWEATBOX TAKES PLACE OF LASH IN CONVICT CAMPS (Continued from First Page.) ! The term “snowbirds” hers identifies northern youths and men without visible means of support who come uth every winter o escape the snow {and ice. Of course, there were a few {hardened criminals in the road gang, joid-timers doing long stretches, but the majority were “snowbirds” serv- ing sentences for vagrancy and petty larceny. One youth, hardly nineteen, who was doing his bit for vagrancy, f your mother was {ll in the next town and you were unknown in these parts, and there was no train for six hours, and you started to walk before you put a little money in your pocket, you could, and probably would, be a Tested for vagrancy and put in'a state camp. Then they'd send you out on the road. Changes in Prospect. With the abolition of the convict lease system, however, It 1s expected that not nearly so many arrests, as occurred in the past. will be made for petty offenses, and consequently only desperate and unruly convicts will have to undergo the tortures of the “sweat box” and the bareback mosquito sessions. Hard physical labor here is a ter- rific strain on the strongest men even under the most favorable possible conditions. Every Florida swamp is a “dismal” swamp. The sun drives back in a terrific glare from the white shell and coral roads and from the pools that gather in the live oak thickets. In addition to the mosquitoes and sand fleas, moccasins and other pols- onous snakes abound. In some sec- tions it is necessary to burn the un- derbrush before a gang of workers to clear the creeping reptiles from their path. (Copyright, 1928.) GRAND JURY FOR LASH. Reasonable Whipping Needed, Says Plea for Restored Law. MOULTRIE, Ga., July 20.—"Whip- ping within reason is necessary for discipline of Georgla convicts,” declared the Colquitt county grand jury in its general presentments submitted to- day, which Include a recommendation urging the county’'s delegation in the Georgla legislature to support a pend- ing measure designed to re-establish flogging in the state prison system. Several months ago Gov. Hardwick by proclamation banned use of the whip in Georgla prisons. STORMS SWEEP ITALY. Much Damage in North After Heat ‘Wave. BRESCIA, Italy, July 20.—The in- tense heat wave has culminated throughout northern Italy in terrific storms, which have caused widespread damage and several casualties. The aviation field here has been badly damaged. and the wireless station de- stroyed. —_— .RESIGNATION ACCEPTED. Mrs. Edna L. Johnston to Leave Post at House of Detention. The Commissioners in board session today_ accep! the resignation of Mrs. Edna L. Johnston, an attendant at_the house of detention. Miss Helen Schofield, who has act- ed as secretary and executive ald to Mrs. Mina C. Van Winkle, head of the bureau, also has submitted to return to her The Oregon state board Of health has promulgated a rule forbidding the use of the finger bowl except on re- quest, and when same is requested the bowl must be sterilized with steam after each use. | District Commissioners and ofiicial fdny, at the home of Adolph Loffler, on Benning re of the pollee 1. W. W. TO CALL OUT MARINE WORKERS (Continued from First Page.) held at New Orleans, he said. he pointed out, was to have Orlea New been the centralization point for the Port Arthur inva sion, ready a considerable and said al- number ik xs nonst owwen MERCHANTS REVEL Place Against Which Padlock In- Junction Is Asked Not Her Property, Says Officlal. Assistant United States Attorney Baker today admitted that a mistake was made in naming Mrs. Ellen T. Keane as the owner of premises 457 Armory court ~southwest, inst which a “padlock” injunction was re- quested by the United States under the Kenyon “red-light” law. The information was brought to his office by the police, Mr. Baker said, and the papers prepared. ” The procecdings in so far as it ap- piles to Mrs. Keane will be dismisse: The latest report from the police shows that the house belongs to the estate of Charles White. As there are seventeen heirs to this estate the proceeding may have to be dropped altogether, since it would be difficult to show gullty knowledge among all those owners, it is stated. LEGAL FIGHT SEEN INKEPNER MURDER Counsel for Both Sides Ready for War Over Methods of Grand Jury. By a Staff Correspondent. FREDERICK, Md, July 20—The greatest criminal legal battle in the ! history of western Maryland was get- ting under way here today, between counsel for B, Evard Kepner, wealthy architect and church trustee, and the county prosecutors office, over the manner in which the speclal grand jury is to conduct its investigation into the still unsolved murder of Mrs. Grace Simmons Kepner. Almost on the eve of the grand jury's assembly State's Attorney Aaron R. Anders asserted today that he would oppose, with every means in his power, any attempt to depart . ONSUNNY BEACH Dip in the Bay, Luncheon and * Entertainment Feature An- nual C. of C. Outing. By a Staff Correspondent. CHESAPEAKE BRACH, July With old King Sol beaming his brightest, several hundred business men played hookey from business, jcast aside their worries, when they embarked upon the . Washington Chamber of Commerce annual outing at Chesapeake Beach today. Led by the Navy Yard Ban merry crowd boarded the speclal cars awaiting them at Chesapeake Junc- tlon, eager to kick up their heels and go. The forty-mile strip of railroad between Washington and the bay echoed with lusty voices sing- ing “Yes, We Have No Bananas” snd “Mr. Gallagher.” The efforts of a few to sing “Barney Google” were drowned out. Rush for the Water. Arriving at the Beach at about 11 o'clock, the crowd left the train and lost no time changing the color of their immaculate white trousers by the brown sand of the beach. Soon the water was dotted with bobbing heads of Washington merchants and business men. Properly laheted with their names and wearing fancy caps, every one settled down and prepared to t over the small town. After the mor {ing's dip, with several sunburncd houlders and arms in evidence, the crowd made short work of the lunch provided for them at the Casino. They then prepared for the afternoon fea- tures of entertainment. Many of the members of the aggre- gation took the trip to the Beach in their automobiles, and those members of the chamber who could not leave their business during the day have planned to join their associates at the Beach late this afternoon and tonight. High Kicking Contest. are e rogram are a there from both Atlantlc and Pacific |from legal precedent and make of [, On the afternoon prograft 7t o coasts. that body a_ virtual trial jury. Mr.|BIEQ° e ontuer tennis, & check-writ- Anders sald he would merely lay be- est, fe ° e ddie c Divert Part ot Base Army. fore the Jurors what evidence he has, | InE contest. a pogo race, & WiGglr €47 Besides the flank of the army or- | Without calling upon, witnesses €08l ing race. top contest, a centipeds dered retained at New Orleans, an-|t, act accordingly. g :-nd‘ a :,:ml:- m"q‘.’“d !«Alx]xnx’)!e‘r“‘:; other flank, Terry declared, has been | Declaring that such a procedure | STTVOd about noon , An ordered to the New York sector, while | Would mean the el | ®“The Capital Male Quartet, George % S ey n less than ten minutes” | o008 SRR A . *“Tony the Bar- still other contingents from the west | Lo Weinburg, the husband’s chier | OConD, 'ml‘”"lnlx‘w.."n e TaaaA will be diverted from their journey |sttorney, said there is ample evidence | pef 80 SHTEEN G i e yp here to strategic points to awalit the |t0 prove that Mrs. Kepner commit-{ 4, Ngivy Yard Band in furnishing Szaro hour® I ted suicide and was not murd musie, £ 7 < the coroner’s jury found { F. A. Van Reuth is chal pex simultaneously the strikaiwill New Evidence Expected. {genéral arrangements comm B0 into effect over east, west and i ! Sisti him are the follc gulf coasts. The word may come in |, It was learned that in addition to} SR, LN “70, 100" 0 & short time, he sald laying before the grand jury all of | committee AL Going into effect at midnight April had but litt), the former I. W. w. effect on the gulf. marine strike While large numbers of men walked off Ameri- can vessels they were replaced, and agents declared no scheduled sailings were missed. The strike was called off in May after a slight increase in sea- men’ ping Board wages was ailowed by the Ship- To Stand Trial. Terry is here with William Green and Robert Bell, who, he sald, are 1. W. W. officials. He said they will all remain here to stand trial when thelr vagrancy cases are called and then remaln here for further orders. Alleged mistreatment land, also’an organizer, which was the beginning of the agitation among the marine transport workers® of John Hol- branch of the organization, comes up before the grand jury August 6. As reports from different points in the country from New York to San Francisco told of the oncoming cru- saders before the climax last night, ten- ders of support was received by Port Arthur officials from Ku Klux Klan, the American Austin, rangers were ready. POLICE ARE PREPARED. Legion, and word from the state capital, that Texas ‘Watch for Disorders in Movement of I. W. W. Ranks. NEW ORLEANS, July 20.—The po- lice department is preparing to take care of any situation that might arise from the reported concentration here of unemployed members of the Industrial Workers of the World, who, according the Port Arthur, Tex., dispatches, have been ordered turned back here on their way from various points in the country to the Texas city. Shipping officlals apparently are not concerned over the threatened general strike of marine workers of the organ- ization. The seamen’s strike last Ma, did not seriously affect shipping at thi port, all places vacated by the strikers having been filled immediately, accord- ing to steamship agents. COLLEGE WOMEN PUT UP $200,000 FOR CLUB Sum to Pay Debt on House in Washington Raised in Fifty- Nine Minutes. By the Associated Press, PORTLAND, Ore., July 20.—Fifty- nine minutes were required for the raising of $200,000 to complete the purchase of the national clubhouse ited at At- onal to ation if he uses it Mr. Anders had disappeared from Fred- erick today and it was said that he would not return before late Sunday night. He was fouml, however, Baltimore, closeted with Lieut tective Charle: his vestigator previo corone fnquest. On the other hand, Mr. the evide that was pres the cor '8 inquest, State torney Anders has obtained addi information which is ex cted create u sen in De- in- | Weinburg intimated that he had learned some- thing of the state attorney's plans. Should he put them into use, the lawyer declared, he was prepared to spring some sensations himself, pro vided the court gives him an oppor- tunity of having witnesses go hefor: the grand jury. If such permission is not granted. Mr. Weinburg con ceded that indictment of Mr, Kepner was inevitable. Willing to Stand Trial. “Mr. Kepner is reconciled to stand- ing trial,” he sald verything now tainly would not say that the cas sure to go to trial. " Should preced be strictly followed, however, an in- dictment might be expected, but we do not fear trial; we welcome it Mr. Weinburg hinted that still an- other woman is being brought into the case. He was invited to a dinner last night given by the management of the Francis Scott Key Hotel in honor of visiting newspaper men. After ac- cepting Mr. Weinburg was obliged to send his regrets at the last mo- ment and explained this morning that he had been forced in the interest of his client to leave Frederick to fn- terview a woman, who might be call- ed upon to throw more light on the home life of Grace Simons Kepner and her husband. Indications today were that Mr. Kepner would not appear before the grand jury. Attorney’s Plans Complete. In the event of an indictment, Mr Weinburg has his entire plans ready for action, He intends to institute habeas corpus proceedings immediate- 1y for the release of epner either on bail or in the custody of a court officer. Trial, he said, must begin without a single day's delay, and that It would take place right here in Frederick, before the three judges of the circuit court. Mr. Weinburg reiterated his previous statement that he would not ask change of venue. BIG COTTON BROKER FAILS IN GEORGIA Frank H. Barrett Headed One of Largest Concerns in South- ern States. of the American Assoclation of Uni- versity Women, situated in Wash- ington, D. C, at yesterday's session of the annual convention of that body. The sum will wipe out the debt sustained in connection with the house. The body adopted a recommenda- tion favoring co-operation with the plan of Edward W. Bok offering $100,000 for the best practicable plan whereby the United States may co- operate with other nations for chievement and preservation of world peace. POLICE OUTSPEED FUSE AND SAVE TENEMENT Six Pounds of Explosives in Bomb Discoveyed by Resident After Stranger’s Visit. By the Assoctated Pre CHICAGO, July 20.—Police won a “race” with the lighted fuse of a bomb in a tenement here early to- day, when they were summoned by Benjamin Angoni, a resident of the , Who told them he had been wakened by a man who placed the explosive near his door. After light- |ing the fuse the man fled, according to Angoni, who ran to a corner drug store and called the office: Upon rival, the police extinguished the fuse. The bomb contained six pounds of explosives. GOES TO BELLEAU WOO0D. Miss Edith A. Willlams of this city will represent the Order of the East- ern Star at the Belleau Wood ex- ercises held in France, July 22. She is already ‘in that country, having been appointed by Mrs. Tilley C. Chauncey, grand matron of the Order Eastern Star. By the Associated Pres NEW YORK, July 20—Frank H. ‘Barrett, cotton broker of Augusta, Ga., today notified the New York Cot- ton Exchange that he was unable to meet his obligations and requested that his seat on the exchange be sold. The announcement came as a com- plete surprise in cotton circles, where Barrett has been recognized as one of the most conservative traders. His failure, it was sald, would affect the entire southeast, where he has large cotton and bank holdings. The failure of Richard Willingham, a factor of Macon, Ga., three years ago, was reported to have caused Barrett heavy losses, but since then he was understood to have recouped. He was half owner of the Augusta base ball team with Ty Cobb. Creditors to Meet Today. AUGUSTA, Ga., July 20.—A meeting of creditors of Barrett & Co., cotton tactors, is scheduled to be held at noon, according to announcement here early today. The firm is re- puted to be one of the largest cotton concerns in the south. A shipment of $3,500,000 in cur- rency consigned to various Augusta banks was recelved here today through the Augusta post office from the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank to “prepare for eventualities,” de- clared J. C. McAuliffe, postmaster. Creditors and their attorneys from North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgla, Louisiana and New York were gathering here today. As an umpire of base ball games Miss Nina Belle Hurst has displayed such exceptional ability that she has been admitted to the staff of t Southern Callfornia Base Ball Manag- ers’ Assoclaffion. rests on the judge's charge to the jury. This is an unusual case a it § is possible that the court may take | unusual measures. If it does, I cer- Oehmler and Joseph D. Dreyfuss; ré= llium M. Dove and P. B. Fletc vitations—Isaac Gans {and A. E. Sevmour; reception—Allan Rodgers. Mary O'Toole Edna . ‘F]\c h: and Willla B. Hard music |-—Charles F. Roberts and W. C. Bal- erston; souvenirs and prizes—C. S. | Larimer and William 0. fts; pub- | Thomas it and W. Burd ! kets B. Sevinour and J F. Slaven; and woman's con entertainment—Mrs. Fra | Snell, Mary O'Toole, and | Sheehy. _— {REPARATIONS REPLY MODERATE IN TONE. TO BE SENT TODAY t+ Page.) Continued from general indications of the trend of the German note berations. Two mewspapers today make the assertion that they are able “to |atate definitely” what the British note will_contain despite the fact | that the British cabinet was not to { meet until 10 o'clock to decide upon the contents. The Daily Sketch sayvs that among The first others. it knows of three. is submission to an v'\u-rn:\!\':nn\ | ehmmission the question of Ger- { many capacity to pay; Sse crond, a lrequest to France to reduce the | scope of its occupation of the Ruhr 0 ts *January dimensions—the - |called “invisible occupation”—in re- ! farn for which Germany “will be ex- | pected” to abandon passive resis- tance: third, an offer by Great Britain to cancel the French, Italian and Belgian war debts due her. See Demands on Germany. The Daily Herald, piece, says that Great Britain “will demand” that Germany cease pas- sive resistance anl will suggest that France in return resume “invisiblo | occupation” and agree to the crea- |tion of an international commission {to consider reparations. it adds, will permit the labor mouth- The note, it the ! government to approve the French occupation. Tt Bays that there is every reason {to believe Germany will accede to the demand and terminate the pas- | sive resistance, and it attributes “this to a deal which it says has been made between Gern French capitalists governing and the Ruhr. In other words, says the putative agreement is = be- en Hugo Stinnes and some of the blg Paris banks. New Deal Predicted. This deal, the Herald adds, is speed- ily to be followed by another between French ironmasters in Lorraine and the big Ruhr industrialists. The Herald avers passive resistance {s strengthening greatly the power of | Ruhr workers, and that “the G bourgeoise would prefer French rule to workers' rule.’” DELAY PLEASES PARIS. French See British Thought and Care on Reparations Reply- | By the Assocated Press. TPARIS, July 20.—The delay in the preparmlon of the British note is producing & favorable impression in | the French foreign office for the rea- son that it indicates the care and thought with which the document i8 boing framed. This is regarded as 11 carranting hope that the note wi [ marr e ep toward a solution of : tion problem. e oeter Poineare's reply will be considered with equal care and it mmay, therefore, take several days to prepare it after the British com- munication is recelved. SEE RESISTANCE WEAKER. —— French Headquarters in Ruhr Say Say German Views Change. | By the Assoclated Press. DUESSELDORF, July 20.—French headquarters here expressed the con- viction today that the German re- sistance in the Ruhr was weakening. No sabotage incidents have been re- ported for the past six days. Yes- terday 572 trains were operated in the reglon, or something more than double_the number running up to days ago. e i ench military officials are watching closely the plans for the communist demonstration announced fn various parts of Germany for July 29, Gen. Degoutte, the French com- mander-in-chief, will forbid such demonstrations in the Ruhr, it is thought.