Evening Star Newspaper, August 2, 1923, Page 2

2 L MORSES ASSAILED “BY L. S. ATTORNEY Broke Promise After Prom- Ise, Says Allison, in Scath- ing Denunciation. Assistant Attornev General Alligon, addressing the jury for the prosecu- tion in the Morse conspiracy trial to- day before Justice Stafford, in Crim- inal Division 1, declared that Morse and his associates made promise after promise to the Flest Corporation only to break them like pie crust and with- out any intention of keeping them. He also hurled back on counsel for the defense the charge of unfairness, of which they had accused the Zov- ernment’s counsel. He asserted that the bank transactions in reference to the capitalization of tre Virzinia Shipbuilding Corporation were “check kitings, pure and simple." and could not be glossed over by such high sounding words as “check-washing and “check-equalization,” as used by Morse's lawers. Claims Morse and Poor Judgment. associates were re- garded as of finance,’ Allison said. but their action in £530.000 in the purc vidual notes would have to a directorate Jack Horne: L and Peter Pan & th er called for trat money i rials to £0 into shipbuilding Mr. Allison took up a made by Judge Rockwood for the de- fense that C. W. Morse & Co. had put §1.069,000 in the building of the plant at Alexandria. He asserted that very word and every svilable w untrue and pointed out that the rec- ord shows no such thing. The lawyer for defense had also spoken’ of the good ame of Charles W, and hiz credit on which materials were furnished. Mr. Allison ridiculed the statement and safid that the rec- ord does not disclose that a single dollar's worth of material was fur- nished on the credit of Charles W. Morse. He also pointed out that Much, in a letier to R. C. Dunn & Co., had failed to mention Morse's name among the offici of the Virginia corporation Scores Defendants. The lawyer scored the defendants on their criticism of the action of the government in commandeering ships When our boys ment_on the battiefields of France his indi- done credit composed Little tie Lord Fauntleroy When they were pu which the chasing mate- Morse | {Clayton. representing the Federation | an | needed food and equip- | 'Physical Culture Promised Wives Of U.S. Senators Wives of senators of the United States are to have the benefits of a physical culture class when Cen- gress assembles next December, according to Mrs. Roval 8. Cope- land. wife of the new senator from New York and former public health commissioner of that state, Senator and Mrs. Copeland were in Washington yesterday on their way to Charlottesville. Mrs. Cope- land said she had discussed plans for the class with wives of other senators and had found them en- thusiastic. Should Mrs. Copeland be chosen as director of the proposed class she will probably make use of the schedule of exercises prepared by her husband and recorded on phonograph records. Senator Copeland. for his part, will be active in the Senate gym- um and may show his col- leagues how to ecliminate exocess weight or to put on more flesh, HIGHER BUS FARE REQUEST ASSAILED Clayton, Trying to Stop Hear- ing, Calls Petition of Com- pany Audacious. Contending that the Public Utili- | ties Commission could not legally i der the application of the i hingten Rapid Transit Company {for a 10 cent fare on its bus lines {until its property had been appraised {and a valuation set, Willlam McK. Associations, made unsuccessful attempt today vent the commission from the scheduled hearing on s petition. ton's argument was spiked by Engineer Commissioner Bell, chair- man of the commission, who main- tained that no legal complications {of Citizens’ to pre- holding the bus could result from the holding of the | hearing under such circumstance: “The commission ig familiar with th points brought out by Mr. Clayton, #aid Chairman Bell. “There is no harm ing such information and THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST i i Thix pet of a well knc { identifying miscreant pe identity wasx secure. Detective Sergt. Snndbers, Bowsers one of these days. px that {CROWDER RETURN TO U. S.| ! MAY BE REBUKE TO CUBA i | (Continued from First Page.) Cuba in the United States was added evidence to that belief. | Since that time, however, there have | been numerous indications that the | course followed by the Cuban govern- once Bertillon expert rode roughi at police GREATER PARK SYSTEM ] FOR D. C. IS ADVOCATED | AT ANACOSTIA RITES | i | | the tandscape | artist and that the people of thel city were fortu v having Irwin | iy to the talent of NaTiovar ey vn local kennel wax xelected as the first vietim of the mew police experiment of | hod over law and order safe in the knowledge that their Believing that the noxe prints of dogs, like the finger printx of man, are all differe hcadguarters, may nose-print Here he is seen taking the firat impression, much to Brutus’ discomfort. all er Rudolph, addresses w Maj. Gen. Lansing H. Be engineers, U. S. A.; Maj. J. A nor. District engincer aree reclamat of the and Dr. George C. dent of the Anacostia sociation There was singing sembled of national was Army Music School Band under personal direction of W. J. Stannard director. Immediately after formal exercises, an de by ] 1 the Anacostia flats, Havenner, Citize A by of Washington’s hief of O'Con- jJine of questioning wa: presi- those as- airs, and there Inying of stirring music by the the these entertainment 2, - 1923, SHQTS WERE INTENDED FOR GARRETT, PIERCE HAD TOLD WOUNDED MAN (Continued from First Page) £y, the body of the minister after death. The revolver is an Iver-Johnson regulation .38 calibre. One chamber was empty. Careful examination of the revolver and comparison of bul- lets was made by defense counsel, who said they had been trying for two months to *“obtain a look at the weapon.” It was taken out by Chiet of_Police Talbot and unloaded. He reported there were four loaded cartridges and one empty shell in it. The serial number on the weapon was taken and a comparison was made by: the defense with Weapons used by the Garretts. A Priee "taken trdn. tho pistol of Mr. Plerce would not fit either of the Garretts’ guns. None of the shells from the Garrett revolvers would fit the Pierce weapon. Denies Pierce Fired. Sheppard, who was an cyewitness, s the, second state witness to tes- tify that L. C. Garrett fired at Mr. Pierce. ert, who fired several shots in rapid succession, the witness said. The minister did not fire a shot, Sheppard swore. Attorney L. O. Wendenberg of the defense established by cross-examina- tion that Sheppard was a considerable distance from the gate of the Pierce home when he saw what he testi- field to “How could you say that from where you were standing that Larkin rrett fired the first shot fired by the Garretts?' asked Mr. Wenden- berg, Because 1 eaw him raise the pistol and fire,” replied the witness To_other questions Sheppard re- sponded that he did not see Mr. Pierce fire at all “If he did would you know about it ‘“Ye f he did. I know nothing about Only One Shot. Sheppard said he did not see Lar- { kin Garrett fire but once; Mr. Pierce | fell at the shot and he fixed the place at which he fell as “a little more i than half-way between the porch and ; | the gate.” The defense's purpose along this “lits claim that Mr. Pierce walked a onsiderable distance with the shot gun after coming out of the house, ind that the Garretts were near the kate and were pursued with the weapons by the minister. Mr. Sheppard said he a foot and a half to two the fence of the Pierce house" .| he witnessed the tragedy The pistol, he said. was about eight or ten inches from the was “about feet from when the | The first shot he heard wns; fired by Larkin and the next by Rob- to establish | féund | would be called tha witness. “You don't speak to the Garrett's, do you?* “] have been speaking.” “When did you stop?” June 5. responded the | ITALY PLANS TOPAY WARDEBTTOU.S, { Mussolini Declares Obligation Will Be Met, But Seeks Favorable Terms. u head clerk of O. G. Flip- pen & Co.?" “Clerk or errand boy, or something. “What do you call yourself? “I am manager.’ “Didn't you tell B4 Anderson that you would” take no more meal ground at the Garrett mills?” “Yes, because I had had my flour ground there and they were slow in sending it to me and they wrote me that they would grind no more of it.” “Wasn't that because you and your wife had been going around slandering the Garrett's?” “No. Present at Meeting. “Weren't you at a meeting at which were ~ present Ollie Klippen, Eugene Davis, David Stewart, J. M. Sheppard, C. D. Flippen, E. P. Flip- pen, Donald McRae and Charlie Cor- son, at the home of Willie Gray, at which it was proposed to kill i O.| Garrett?" Yes. 2id you propose killing him?” “Did any one propose killing him?" Objection by prosecution that R. O. Garreti was not on ‘trial was over- ruled by the court. Yes,” anywered the witness. Who proposed it?" Well, do 1 have to tell do not want to.” Name Shielded. Court sustained the commonwealth's objections and the witness did not tell the name. “I know Mr. Flippen got up and sald if anything like that was going to be done he would leave the meet- ing at once,” said the witness. “Do you know that on May 4 or 5 an attempt was made to kill R. O. Garrett and that A shot from ambush by mistake?" asked Nr. Wendenberg. Strenuous obfections by the com- | monwealth was sustained and no an- swer given by the witness. Mr. that? I who runs a bus, that he could do ng business with him if he handled Gar- rett business. Attorney Byrd then brought out by questioning the witness that it was four years ago that the meeting was held at the Gray home. When recalled Sheppard was asked specifically by Mr. Byrd who had {made the suggestion at the home of Willie Gray to kill R. O. Garrett Witness demurred to answering, but, directed to do so by the court said David Stewart had made the re- mark “Mr. Stewart is now a friend of iMr. Garrett d_in business with him?" asked Mr. Byrd “Yes," responded Mr. Sheppard. “You wouldn't have minded saying who it was if he wasn't favorable to Mr. Garrett no | Mr. Wendenburg. | "It was confidential” said the w 4 M. Chandler was | heppard denied telling Mr. Clayville, | . would you?" asked | BY DAVID LAWRENCE, By Cuble to The Star. ROME, August 2.—Italy, unlike France, has promised to pay her war debts to America, irrespective of | Whether any reparations are forth- coming from the enemy powers, Italy iy weaker, from an economic view- point, than France, but she makes no conditions about her promise to pay “The Italian government.” said Pre mier Mussolini to the writer, “has de- clared it will meet the obligations completely because we have set our signature down and are not advo- cates of the ‘scrap-of-paper’ theory. Naturally, as the United States has Eiven relatively good terms to Great Britain, Italy expects to be given terms proportionate to her economic trength.” ‘Want Easler Terms In other words, the Italians wish to DAy, but they want the terms made so that the debt can be distributed over a period of years consistent with their ity to pay. They a t charges that are not simply because t period of payment may be lengthy. Several months ago the idea of Italy paying anything on her debt to Amer- fca was usuaily dismissed as fantas- tic. Overwhelmed with debtsand torn asunder by internal difficulties, the prospect of paying any foreign debt was not worth discussing. The Amer- fican government, in the last few months. however, has been able to settle its terms ith Great Britain and this has stimulated American am- bassadors els here to urge other jcountries to follow Great Brita example te want in- | burden- some n Massolini is Aided. Italy recognizes that first of all she must regain the confidence of Ameri- can capltalists and that a step in the direction of paying the debt would make a profound impression. As an instance of this policy of cur- war favor with America € » 1 jrying there has Defense Calls Trial |been a good deal of ing - and | “The prosecution rested its case njmrmz . of American Dbusiness men {11:30 o'clock, but reserved the right | Who might be presumed to exert their to call Dr. J. Shelton Horsley as its | influence when they get home from witness as soon as he could be |thelr travels. umberland. Words spoken by American se then put on the stand jEovernment through Ambassador witness Dr. A. 1. Podson, | Richard Washburn Child, supporting a physician at St. Elizabeth's Hux-"h'; Mli.\‘sfl]:n!lgvx\""\v]slmn come as a lotar w u with {natural sequel to the latter's promisas s a - | pital, who produced the bullet with qu he latter's promises by; the cOUEL (o{AREWCE ndid d, nam- | Lieh R, O, Garrett was shot in the | to pay her debts. There is no doubt ing David Stewart. The WItness |y, the morning of the tragedy. and | that Mussolini has profited internally id sipce that time & Garretts have become friends. Y The President and his cabinet would {1 have been subject for impeachment, he said, if they had not taken over all the cargo ships to rush things to Europe. “Does Mr. Morse think an! exception should have been made as to his ships,” inquired the prosecutor. Had Three Plans. Dwelling on_the capitalization of the Virginia company. which had been represented to the state authori- ties as £1.000.000 paid in cash and which had been shown_to be only doubtful securities. Mr. Allion pointed out that the Morses had three plans for effecting this “plain viola- tion of the statutes of a neighboring state.” One was the issuing of a note for $500.000 by C. W. Morse & Co., a corporation formed only threa months before with a capital of $100, 000. of which “not one dollar _has been paid in" This was abandoned be- cause some one conected with the concern must have seen its weakness. Another plan was shown in the evidence by a letter from Charles W. Morse to Colin H. Livingstone. pre dent of the Virginia company, an- nouncing that $1,000,000 was held by the New York company subject to the draft of the Virginia corporation. s plan was also abandoned and istening to what is presented. There can be uo legal complications in that.” | program, including athietic contests, { Water pageant, baby and automobile | pars n'air demonstration. all h is scheduled to run up until ck tonight, when the judges will prizes to the winners of the vents, was entered upon. errill. who in co-operation with the Anacostia Citizens' Associa- tion arranged the detalls of the cere- e said, is now encroached upon by vies, opened the cxercises and pre- i This #plendid are buld a4 throughout. Rev. E. E. Rich be turned over to the public of the pastor of Congress Heights capital as a “woodland park.” It|Baptist Church, gave the invocation} would be a civic calamity, he said, to |and Rev. Joseph V. Buckley. assistant lose this opportunity. pastor of St. Terema's Church, Ana- Several thousand persons gathered costia, pronounced benediction i near the south approach to the Ana-{ The val ground breaking was costia bridze to participate in the |done by Acting Secretary Davie, Gen : celebrating of the actual starting of |Beach, Col. Sherrill, Commissioner | the development of what to beRudolph, Dr. Havenner, Rev. Richard- | known as Anacostia Park, and which |son, Dr. B_T. Woodward and 1. P. will include all of that area along |Hazelton. The decorations were made the water from Glesboro point north |under the direction of Frederick D. ! beyond Benning to the District Owen, engineer, of the office of public i diftance of more than six miles. buildings and grounds. Many See Ceremony. Committee Personnel. The majority of those attending the| Members of the various committees ] exercises are citizens of Anacostia or | were: Reception, C. A. Barker, R. F.| ¢lso of ome of the nearby suburbs | pitl NI ET B Hazelton: ex right_hand of Mr. Pierce and lyving | W. Payne destg ostia Park, and parallei with the body {Col. €. O. Sherrill, officer in charge SEE CROWDER RECALL. ¢ public buildings and _grounds, ipervise the constructicn work | Commissioner Rudolph declared that the government should acquire !that beautiful forest between Penn- isylvania avenue cxtended and Ben- ning, and even as far east as Ala- bama avenuc, a large part of whic ment was giving some concern here. i w Anti-Garrett After leaving the stand Sheppard was recalled and asked by the state | to name the man who proposed :4l‘ the anti-Garrett meeting that R. O.|ag its first Garrett be killed. He was instructed Asxalls Company. | Meeting. Resolution Passed July 23 Over Zaya’s Veto Seen Cause. HAVANA, August 2—Rumors ema- nating from New York and quoted on the authority of the New York Times state that Gen. Crowder, ambassador of the United States to the Cuban government, is to be recalled, the Later Clayton unmercifully assailed the bus company, declaring that ity application for a ten-cent fare was “the most audacious petition ever pre. sented to the commission.” “The men who drew up that peti- tion must think that the comsmission- | ers are either fools or apes he de- clared. “Nero himself. whose motto Fi ! was -Audacity, audacity, audacity reason given being a rvmo}ullon pa: would never have had the nerve to|®d DY the Cuban congress on the oc- bring such a request before the com- | casion of congress passing the new mission.” | lott. 1 tes as its rea The. ten-cent fare, Clayton added, | oo™ A% 800 states a e would give the bus company @ return | Vet0- A translation of the text of {the resolution is as follows: of 40 per cent on its investment, and the fizures of the commission will| “The Cuban congress hereby passes over the veto of the president the bear out the statement. Clayton called the attention of the |lottery law and states as its reason | ifor so doing that the law has not. commi. on to a ruling made =oon after its creation to the effect that been duly considered by its eritics. no changes in rates could be made (This law has been unjustly attacked until the valuation of the utility jand insinuations have heen cast upon ! They had turmcd out in full force and . d | company had been established the soverelgnty of the Cuban re-| with great enthusiasm to celebrate|ecutive, C H. Weiss, Rev. George M. e Kk i ‘ntopets May Set Valae. rublgc.] Congress submits its action | the ground-breaking Cummings, Frank L. Earnshaw, Rev. e & lawy sserted. 5 g 4 to the judgmen lic a - | Elaborate ceremo e A - St “Nitison showed - the jury af Belief was expressed by some that, | ine' i {atEl Y Datriotle. Intantione. fbronicine. of Eround for thie Ereat|Erancis G. Iisley Rev. . H. Lambdin, check for $865.000 drawn by e e o Iy ton S S ontention®: | There i¢ a faction in the committes |park system, which, when completed, s 3 SO, e ek O o Cating Co. when it had | ssion may bt prpamm Sl "y 3 s | MeGrath, 1. W. Thompson and N. .| ™ e6.000 on deposit in the bank. | before it rules on the bus company's | that knowingly or unknowingly, isiprobably will be most beautiful | Healy: sports, Dr. R. K. Hollings- | award varfous Col. S the by Italian government also is playing a game. Originally ans were inclined to favor latin associates. Mussolini matic ewart and the | which was extracted at the Rich-|by the words of Child as well as by mond Hospital. He said that the bul- the words of President Harding. which In questioning the witnesses on | cross-examination, Mr. Wendenberg 14246 grains. __iboot to the other. Dr. Dodson described the wound in 2 ly th and that the witness was present at|pjs pack to the jury, which inspected ‘u:d‘("r-‘":‘f 1" o a meeting of a number of Garretts|the scar of the wound. Mussolini | Mr. Byrd asked if the doctor had not | R. 0. Garrett. Sheppard said he did |jmude an amdavic on the application |0 not make the suggestion, wnich was pital for three w . |as a socialist fleeing from the Italian Under. cross-examination Sheppard | ‘Il should like to see that affidavit,” i police, he needed an asvium. aid he did not sce Larkin supporting | madelonidune 28 !depriving _her “of coal. Moreover, not’'a fact. “Now. how long L e B e I Denies Tampering With Pistol. ve the! Jett was weighed by Coroner J. M. |were reproduced in every Italian Whitfield at Richmond, and it weighed [newspaper from one end of the Italian brought out that Sheppard and the | r 4 Gatretts were not on speaking terms, | Robert Garrett's back and the latter | Italy Veers to British E i = | was then brought forward and bared political enemies several years .ago,| The witness said that R O Garrett|s i*reu-fx dipl at which & proposal was made to kili | ¥as at the hospital about & month the I e A ot e Garrettn stating that |likes France for sentimental reasons, promptly vetoed. but was mot re-|R.O. Garrett could not leave the hos- [as that country harbored him when, Juized to tell who did | said Dr. Dodson. e e s 4 s faet " e AVt s : v nce’s Rubr policy has in Robert Garrett, following the trag- | The afidavit. said Mr. Byrd, wasj, DUt Jrances Tubr policy bas ine edy, say such wa that_afiidavit did nts to buy cheap and the virtual hospital?” asked ann of lsuppression of German trad Attorney To meet that check in the bank, he sajd, Much and Morse got their heads | together and drew checks of the Vir- Sinfa company on the same bank for 2 total of $530.000, and ~added two g60d checks from the Fleet Corpora- fion and deposited them in the bank, The argument for the government will be Assistant Attorney General Turner. Justice Stafford will probably defer the charge to the jury until tomor- row. Visit by Wilson. Mr. Allison noted that the defense had attached some importance to the fact that former President Wilson had visited the Virginia plant at the laying of the first keel. Of course,” he said, “the President didn't find men going about in over- alls with the word ‘fraud’ painted upon them in big letters. Of course, no one was going about the plant shouting, ‘We are conspirators, we are conspirators! " Throughout the fifteen weeks of the trial, Mr. Allison said, the defense has attémpted at every opportunity to link up the names of prominent men with those of the defendants. Tho jury’s attention was directed by Mr. Allison to evidence in the case showing that even after the Groton Iron Works had been awarded a con- tract for twelve steel ships, which was assigned to the Virginia Ship- building Corporation, the Morses at- tempted to obtain another contract for thirty-six ships. And this, he said, at a time when the corporation was in financial straits. He pointed out also Morses_said they could build the forty-eight ships'in two years. when, as a matter of fact, he said, the first ship built at Virginia was nineteen months overdue. CROWD GIVEN SLIP BY VICE PRESIDENT Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. PLYMOUTH, Vt, August 2.—Hun- dreds of motorists en route to the ‘White mountains and Canadian re- sorts are detouring so as to take in this tiny hamlet in the hope of get- ting a glimpse of Vice President Coolidge, but “Cal” Coolidge or “Red"” Coolidge. as the natives stiil call him, does not care to be a target for curious eyves and he has literally taken to the woods. The Vice Presi- dent finds his recreation in the deep forests that are within a few yards of his father's farmhouse. ‘When President Harding's that the illness made known the retreat of the Vice | President the news was a signal for an almost continuous cavalcade of motorists. At times today there was a line of automobiles climbing the long hill, near the top of which, and a short distance off the main road, stands the little white house in which Calvin Coolidge was born and where, with his wife and two boys, he is visiting and rusticating with - his father and an elderly aunt. Tintype Recalls School Days. This correspondent today wai shown a faded tintype of “Red" Cool- idge when he attended school here, and the possessor of this picture, a trim maiden lady, would not part with it for anything. ~She went to school with “Red” and played child- hood games with him and other youngsters of the neighborhood, and it was never thought in that far- off time that he would put Plymouth on the map to the extent that he has since he became prominent politically. ~ completed this afternoon by | Irate application to set a valuation on the company’s property’ | Conrad H.'Syme, counsel for the bus {company, pointed out that the appli- {cation for an imcrease is based on the| | fact that it is not earning an 8 per | cent return on its investment; that in { the two and one-hsalf years of opera- tion of the bus service only $12.900 {had been paid out in executive { rics, whereas the officials are entitied | to $16,000 a year. and that additional funds ‘are needed to replace worn-out and obsolete busses. Would Sell Tickets. Mr. Syme suggested that if the com- mission could not see its way clear to grant the 10-cent fare the company should be permitted to sell either five tickets for 40 cents or six tickets for 50 cents. The selling of tickets, the counsel emphasized, would obviate the nec | ity of the bus operators making I change and that the efficiency of the {service would be increased at least {10 _per cent. " “Patrons, Mr. Syme sald, have not {protested against the proposed 10- {cent rate. He advised the commission that it | would have a novel and difficult prob- {lem in setting a rate of depreciation fon the company's busses. The bus service as a public utility, he empha- sized, Is in its infancy and that there {had been a rapid development in the bus chassis and body since bus lines {were first established. Busses made two or three years ago, he said, are obsolete no: Value of Dusses. The value of a motor bus cannot be kept at par by a return of capital ap- plied to one particular bus, said Mr. Syme. A car that cost $5,000 and has been in the service five years. he said, has had spent at least that amount on it for repairs, and conse- quently does not have a market value of $1,000. “The market value of a motor bus jis not one-fourth the original cost,” said Mr. Syme. “Provision has got to be made for them if the bus compa- nies are going to continue to live.” The ordinary lfe of a commercial car, such as used in Washington, Mr. Syme stressed, is about four years, with an_average run of thirty-five miles a day. The rapid transit com- pany's busses, he said, average about | one-hundred and sixty miles a day. Between twelve and fifteen new and strictly up-to-date busses are now needed by the company to replace the obsolete equipment, Mr. Syme de- clared. Not a single city the United States where busses are operated {have a rate of fare under 10 cents, | Syme said. “If it be in the interest of the public to give the company additional returns on its investment and have {the service properly conducted,” Mr. {Syme concluded, “I hope the commis- ision will not hesitate to grant the increase.” A Robert H. Phillips, one of the wit- nesses, voiced himself in favor of the proposed increase in bus rates and also spoke favorably of higher fares on the electric lines. The commission concluded its hear- ing shortly before 1 o'clock. Among those in attendance were officlals of the bus company, representatives of trade bodies and civic assoclations and officials of the Capital Traction {and W. R. & E. companies. WIFE CHARGES DRINKING. Mrs. Sarah V. Grant in a netition for a limited divorce filed today In the District Supreme Court against her husband, Edgar F. Grant, a driver of a laundry wagon, charges that he has been drunk every Saturday night for eighteen months and has stayed away from his home.. On some occasions, she says, he came home and although having the key In his pocket would &nike her get out of bed to open the oor. They were married at Elkton, Md., April 24, 1915, and have one child. Mrs. Grant wants alimony and an in- junction to keep her husband from annoying her. She is represented by Attorney Harry A. Hegarty, in - country, ‘con- national principles and irights of self-government This | olicy if continued will become a menace to Cuban nationality unless all parties unite in order to impress upon the governments of Cuba and the United States that the Cuban peo- ple do not desire any outside inter- ference with their civil affairs. The {republic is meeting all its foreign | engakements as they become due, and | |any interference with its domestic-af- fairs could not be justified by an treaties or by the la of tions | and will cause such perturbation as! might end in the breaking of the| moral and historical ties which have | hitherto bound our country to the great republic of North America.’ | The resolution was passed by both | houses on July 23. | Gen. Crowder said today he had' no comment to make on the stor re-, lative to his recall. The ambas leaves Havana tomorrow on | Calamares. PRESIDENT’S FEVER ENDS, | BUT PULSE IS T0O HIGH {SLOWLY MAKES PROGRESS trary to all dor! the ; | | i | | (Continued from First Page.) ! Among those indications was a nor- {mal temperature, less labored and jmore regular breathing, and a pulse that, while still rather high, seemed |to show no indications of increasing ! "Gen. Sawyer had, shortly before |demonstrated his own confidence in | the favorablene; of the indicatio by going for an automobile ride. {The nurse, Miss Ruth Powderly, dur- {ing the evening left the hotel for the first time since the President was brought here Sunday. She was di- rected by Mrs. Harding to take a walk in the fresh air. Mrs. Harding herself, however. has not been out- side the hotel since she entered it Sunday morning immediately after arriving in San Francisco. Warns Against High Hopes. Warning was given by Gen. Sawyer last night, and repeated by one or! {two of the other doctors, that too| rapid recovery should not be ex- [pectea. Gen. Sawser asked that it| {be remembered that the President still was a “sick man,” and also that ! Ithere might be some ‘“ups and| {downs." For these reasons it appeared that the physisians would be reluctant to ! approve at this time any plan for | the future with respect either to| remaining in San Francisco or leav- ing the city for some nearby place of quiet, or to returning to Wash- ington. “We have got to feel our way along.” said Dr. Sawyer, and that secmed to epitomize the feeling of the jother physicians, Mrs. Harding and even the President himself, although |he asked Dr. Sawyer yesterday if he thought it would be possible to start for Washington Sunday. ~Whatever | lanswer the doctor made at the time, he left no doubt in telling about it later that he considered it out of the question. ‘ Takes Little Food. The amount of nourishment taken by the Chief Executive during the day still ‘was small, but as one of the physicians said, “quite sufficient.” It continued to consist of milk, soft boiled eggs, a little toast and fruit juices, Elimination was satisfactory and for the first time was described as “regular.” Another indication of progress was that he received his first visitor in two ! days, Mrs. E.'E. Remsberg of Santa Ana, Calif., his sister. She, with her daughters, Katherine and Nell Marie, arrived in San Francisco early in the | {of Mr. park in the District and one of the| largest waterside parks in the coun- try Be des Mr. Davis and Commission- eral minutes in_her brother's room, but was requested by the physicians not to talk to him, as it might tire him. She «aid there was indication that th President had been a “very sick man, but she left the sick room quite op- timistic. At the request of Mrs. Harding, she and her daughters took quarters in the hotel and were the guests of Mrs. Harding at Juncheon. Mrx. Harding Stands Strain. i | Mrs. Harding, Mrs. Remsberg said, | had stood the strain very w It was learned from other sources that| Brig. Gen. Sawyer, the President's! personal n, and Lieut. Com- mander Joel Boone, assistant to Dr. Sawyer, not unmindful that with the of the strain reac- tive effects of the President's illness | might be felt by Mrs. Harding, who' for the past year has been far from normal healtn Attorney General Daugherty also ar- rived during the day, having hurrie here from Seattle When the Presi- dent’s iliness became alarming. He spent some time in the presidential suite. and, although perhaps closer to | the Chief Executive than any person in San Francisco excepting members | Harding’'s family, he did noti the President. He took rooms at another hotel, as he has a number of matters of official business to take care of, but will call frequently to in- quire as to the progress of the ‘Presi- den physiciz e are lessen | campbel | (stone. Bevers. iubache decorations, Herbert, Dr. Ernesto R A samuel Marceron; D. Owen. J. T. ling bell; finance, Robert Thompson, C. arker, R. F. Bradbur . C. T. Graff, William F. M tin, Mrs, . G. ith, William ther and George A. Williams; parades, S. D. Frazier, Sergt. F. M. Dent, vin_F. Bury. F. Mutray, 8. W. Pumphrey and Capt Martin Rellly: judges, automobile parade, William F. de, E E. Thompson and W, Pearce Rayner baby parade, Rev. George M. Cum mings., Rev. Franeis G. Ilsley and Mrs. Joseph Peacock; aquatic pa and George R Puinam, of lighthouse: worth. Blakeslee, er | Redmond D. Stephen: stant to director of the budget Capt. R. L. coast and geodetic survey The land, water and@ contests are scheduled to at 4 o'clock, and are arranged in the following order parade, in front of the stand; donation of shrubs and flowers, by children from the se in Anacostia; foot rac the speakers’ toric stone, Dr. James from powder magazine, Anacostia): golf; tennls the planting of four his tion; A. Stanton, base ball; toric trees along proposed Riverside Drive. 4:30 p.m.— Air _exhibition Army aviators. Bolling Field, Capt Robert L. Walsh, commanding. p.m.—Motor boat parade. Canoe parade boat races. 7 S p.m.—Automobile parade. Awarding of prize p.m.—Baby parade. The baby parade will form on Min- H. | and sworth and S. R. Camp- A F. Tracy Wal- Ir- George Hanes, Thomas gene des Dl | commissioner of naviga- as- Faris. assistant director, | and ‘air pageants bhegin | 4 p.m.— Athletic | speakers’ | veral churches | s, in front of | tand: placing of his- Watson Fort 130 | 6 p.m.— | brace 6:30 p.m.—Canoe and |and “After you found the pistol didn't some one stick a plece of paper into | the barrel and twirl it around to see if it was wet. and it showed it had | recently been fired?” asked Mr. Wen- denburg. said the witaess. do not say it was not done, but you did not see it done?”" > “I'know it was not done then.” Wasn't it made at the coroner's inguest “I eould not see, as the room was crowded, but I believe it was. I saw man stick a piece of paper—a Mr. ! Crute, I believe—into the barrel of 1 | the gun.” Mr. Wendenburg read from the testimony of a witness at the coro- inquest, who testified that the had been placed in the barrel the man m ing the exam- had said: “It was recently Bl paper and that nation il fired.” % Denies Being Enemy. “You are an enemy of the Garrett's, " arent you?" asked Mr. Wendenburg. “No, not that T know of—I haven't done anything that I know of that I road—and will Hope road past the judge: large number of entrie iilisted for this feature of cises The automobile parade will form .| on Minnesota avenue, heed on Good Hope road. The route of the parade covers about six miles, and will em- Anacos! Congress Helghts Highlands. About 300 proceed down Good stand. A have been the exer- Randle . | machines mercial vehicles. Nearly all business houses in Washington will be repre- d on Good Hope sented. FATE OF LARKIN GARRETT IN THEIR HANDS Members of the jury sittin Va,, for which Larkin Garrett and R, progress. in the tris based on the death of Rev. E. S. Pierce at Cumberland Courthouse, ). Garrett, brothers, have been indicted. The trial of the former is in Interesting Virginia backwoods types are represented among the jurors, some of them having been sum- day and shortly before noon she spent moned from points forty-six miles from the courthouse, will be in line, equally di- | 9 p.m.— | vided between pleasure cars and com- ! state counsel “A few days responded the phy- n. “As'a matter of fact it was the fol- | g Friday, wasn't it? omewhere Chandler, farm implement | sale: was the second Witness { called . defense. Mr. Chandler { was shot from ambush on May 3 when i he got out of an automobile to remove | some obstructions in the road about 1llhr0v: miles from here. i Mrx. Pierce Testifies. | The testimony of Mrs. Pierce yes- | terday afternoon was the most dra- matic event of the case so far, since iit was brought up in the court befor Judge G. W. Hite last week. The widow sobbed through her story, and several times was 80 overcome with ‘emotion that she had to stop. At the | end, though &he was not questioned iby the defense counsel, she was near collapse and had to be assisted from { the courtroom. The witness described dramatically the arrival of the Garrett brothers at the Pierce home early in the morn- ing, before Mr. Pierce had arisen; told {of the fight; in which she said her husband was terribly beaten by Lar- i kin Qarrett; of her efforts to rescue her husband and of being twice {pushed away by R. O. Garrett, who | Stood by with a pistol in hand, and, finally, of tting on the ground cry ing out to her dead husband who lay with his blood-covered head in her lap. i lxn her fight with her husband’s as 1 saflants she was handicapped. she said, by having her two-months’-old baby girl in her arms A The testimony of Judge . Smith, though he was a state witness, was regarded by Garrett's friends as very {favorable to the defendant in trial and his brother, who is to go on trial when the present case is fin- ished. Mr. Smith made the positive statement that the minister fired the first shot, the one that wounded Rob- ert Garrett, and that Larkin Garrett did not fire at all LEGALITY OF WINE ' IMPORTS IN DOUBT Prohibition Unit Asks Ruling on Letting in Medicinal and Church Supplies. Still another question was added today to the long list of subjects on which the prohbition unit has sought expert legal advice in interpreting the eighteenth amendment, the Vol- stead act and the Willis-Campbell anti-beer law. The prohibition officials now want to know whether they have been cor- rect in virtually excluding from the United States all_imports of spirit- uous liquors and wines for medicinal and sacramental purposes. In order to get a final ruling, Chief Counsel Britt of the prohibition unit has pre- pared a memorandum on the subjsct which is to be placed before the De- partment of Justice with a query as to the department's legal authorities. Importers, especially of wines, re- cently have been demanding that the import bars be partially lifted to per- mit entrance of certain kinds of medicinal liquors and sacramental wines, of which, they say, there is a shortage. Counsel Britt takes the position that the Willis-Campbell act bars all spirituous imports and also wines, except possibly those for sacramental use. No questions re‘ln‘lig‘g beer im- ports are to be raised. These are re- garded as definitely barred by the Willis-Campbell law. s about the end of the; this | pelied Italy to from countries change is higher. today y is veering close Great Britain and even United States. Mus: Washington wiil unqu ian effect on the Kuropean situation and perhaps on American foreign {policy as well when the hour of reck- oning on German reparations finally {is reached BRITISH APPROVE ~ NEW AR POLICY | Steer Middle Course, Avoid- | ing Controversy Threatening i Admiralty Resignations. sntente with onably have | | By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 2.—Approval was given today by the government to {the report of the imperial defenso | committee on the relation of ths {air force to the navy 1 The committee says it does not {think that the present system can remain altogether unchanged, but neither Woes it believe that it is | possible to sever completely from {the air ministry the air organization ia hed to the flcet, which is respon- for home defense and co-opera- with the army The committee recommends a course somewhere between the two extremes represented by the admir- alty board and the air ministry. After announcement had been made o the press of the government's at- titude Premier Baldwin made a state- ment in the house of commons that the committee’s recommendations ! were acceptable to the government, which favored the principle of a sin gle air service subject to reserva- tions neceseary to meet detailed con- ditione as urged by the admiralty. The premier added that it was im- | possible without further experience | to pronounce final judgment upon the {committee’s recommendations _and that the government was confident both services would do their utmost to_make them successful. When the controversy over oontrol {of the navy's air force was at its helght a few days ago there were strong rumors that several resigna- tions “would occur on the admirality board if the navy lost its contention, but these have not materialized and evidently the malcontents have ac- cepted the recommendations which were known to them unofficially earlier in the week. TRAFFIC JUDGE FINES 3. Jury Trial Demanded by Manuel Butler on Drunk Charge. In the Trafc Court yesterday these cases were disposed = of: _ Samuel Cooper. colliding, $40; Samuel F. Massey, colliding, $30. and leaving without making his identity known $15; Joseph Towells, no operator's permit, $40. Manuel Butler, eharged with ope: ating his_automobile while ~drun when arraigned pleaded not guilty and demanded a jury trial. He is al- 80 charged with speeding, failure to obey the signal of a traflic officer and operating his machine the wrong way on a one-way street. These cases went over until the major case has been determined by a Jjury. Butler wag released on a $500 bond. ——— e About the only vacancy many a fel- low wants to fill lies in dead men's shoes. tion