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2 INGERMANGITES Communist Activities Bring Precarious Situation as Rioting Continues. By the ated Press. BERLIN, August 16.—Although the | communist strikes in Berlin have| ended, the situation elsewhere is pre- | carfous, according to reports reach- ing the capital. @The communists are said fo control | the town of Helmstedt, having dis-| armed the police. fi RED THREAT: GROWS, RICHEST BOOTLEG RING TRAPPED BY ARREST OF-84 IN SAVANNAH (Continued from First Page.) goods known to have been smuggled. Each of the "big four” has an or= ganization of his own, It is charged by the government. The King of them all, it is alleged, is William Haar, the son of a German grocer, and himself a grocer clerk until he embarked on the romantic and. spectacular career which has earned him the title of the wealthiest bootlesger. Father snd Drothers Arrested. Wjlliam Haar, his father, and brothers, together with all the lead- ers; have beem arrested and released on bond, according to advices from Savannah. Indictmests against all the leaders haye been returned by the grand jury and the far-reaching clean-up’ of the government is expect- ed to probe into places of high re- sponsibility in the city of Savannah. Many persons are reported to have boen injured in a clash between na- | tionalists and communists at Arn- | stadt | Leipzig is without gas or electricit in consequence of a strike of the mun 1 workerss | Eighty arrests were made at Halle | following a firht between nationalist { and _communist factions. and--on ! Tuesday the police at Herne were obliged to withdraw before a riotous nob. The forces of occupation re-| stored order. i A dispatch to the Deutsche Allge-| ajne Zcitung from Halle says a| op today stormed the jail at Zeitz ed the doors. opened the cells) nd liberated all the prisoners, most | of whom are declared by the dispatch to have been ordinary criminals Saxony Conditions Serio i The situation in the province of | ¥ is reported as threatening. | e labor and food situation in | Greater Berlin shows improvement | over previons days. This was due ta | 5 o of the genoral strike by | the communists, The attempts of the | veds to paralyze the city proved to be a flasvo, owing to the oppesition of the regular labor unions. The currency shortage continues, although there scems to be a plenti- ful supply of bills of large denomina- tions in circulation. N Communists today stormed the city hall at Datteln, nineteen miles. north- | c of red the police 1nd took possession of the town, s The Central News. Militia which was summoned from a neighboring town also w disurmed. Many casualties weeurred on both sides. SEE GREATER RESISTANCE. i Germans Believe Stresemann yvm Aid in Ruhr Activities. ated Ler SEN. August 16.—Germans along the Rhine and in the Ruhr are in- clined to view the advent of Strese- mann's coalition government as pres- \king Increased activities in passive and generally accept the ! ceilor’'s statements on the s wholly satisfactor: The ion on the legality of the s also hailed as a asset to the German By the Ass British op! Rubr invasion dectded moral ause. The creation of a new ministry de- voted to the affairs of the occupied arens is also viewed as an indication of the new government's purpose to | these areas special attention respect to improving food. labor conditions. Three the new cabinet hail the Ruhr or the Rhineland. Wilhelm Sollmann, minister of the in- terior 1s a well known socialist editor in Cologne; Dr. Hans Luther, food minister, is lord mayor of BEssen, while Dr. Johannes Fuchs, who heads the newly created ministry for occl pied areas, was first governor of the Rhne province, with headquarters at Cologne. = WILL LOCK MINERS OUT. Ruhr Owners Issue Threat to Idle ‘Workers. By the Associated Press. DUESSELDOR August 16.—The Mine Owners' Assoclation in the Ruhr, according to the German press, has issued an ultimatum saying that it the miners do not cease by tomor- | row their practice of reporting for duty without doing any work they all be loeked out. Simultaneously the communist or- ganizations are beginning a campaign 1o extend this form of sabotage to all classes of labor. The Belgian authorities, it was an- nounced today, have imposed a fine of 2,000,000,000 marks on the city of Duis- burg as'a penalty for the bomb explo- sion on a train near that city late in June, Ten Belgian soldiers were killed and twoscore others Injured in the out- rage. FRENCH SENTENCE EIGHT. By the Associated Press. LANDAU, Bavaria, August ght directors of a Badenese aniling soda factory at Ludwigshafen were sentenced yesterday to elght years' imprisonment and fined 150,000.000 marks each by a French military court. The convicted men include the entiravexecutive and professional staff of the huge chemical plant. The men were charged with refus- ing to assist in delivering nitrogen fertilizers requisitioned by the ‘rench DEFAULT BY GERMANY IS WILLFUL, POINCARE TO REPLY TO BRITISH (Continued from First Page.) France that she ®ants 715,000,000 pounds sterling from the allies and from Germany It {s hoped that Poin- care will be equally straightforward in telling Great Britaln defnitely about France's total financial expec- tations. If he would do this, taking as a basis several plans already sug- gested to him from French sources, | he would immediately clear the over- charged atmosphere. . ¥ Concessions. It is believed here that Poincare must recognize in Great Britain's lat- est offer great financial concessfons, 100 Iiberal to be refused without some recognition of their merit. Under the schedule of payments arranged in 1521 Great Britain is expected to re- e from Germany 1,500.000,000 Dounds, and from the allies 1,200,000, 000 pounds, which now have been scaled down by British experts to 715,000,000 pounds, or one-fourth of the previous total. Great Britaln expects the allies to pay only the difference between what she recovers from Germany and the total amount. If Polncare fails to produce a positive plan, then the British cabinet may take a deciston on three different plans: 1. Call for an international com- mission to reassess Germany's capac- ity to pay. 2. Bring 1 netal i s before the world court at The Hague vital questions of inter- preting France's right to- enter the Ruhr, as she claims, under paragraph 18 of the Versailles treaty. This Jingland has the undisputed right to Jdo. None could veto the measure. . Make an appeal for league inter- vention in the Ruhr dispute. This last method of bringing before the world the whole questicn of repara- tions und debts seems the least likely form of British action, as little faith is placed in the ability of the league council, or even in the complete a sembly, to reach an impartial de- ciston. Many hope t Poincare will avert Great Britain's separate action by in- jecting fn the next diplomatic docu- nent some definite figures. { sary. Already there has been taken into the toils of the law Johm I Powers, vice president and cashier of the BXx- change Bank, a man prominent in Savannah financial circles. 2 The career of Willlam Haar and his ompanions reads like an old-fashion- | »d dime novel, in his skyroeket flight to fgriune and notoriety, according to official records. He and each of the * 3 an business, it is alleged, at thel The city of Savannah, ig_Four] be- river, ' spreading out into numerous mouths and small tnlets, with swamps in many places. Owned Flotiila of Boatm The first operations were said to have taken place in small boats, from {the sea through the small inlets run- the backyards of the hootlegkers. From a small business at first, Hear is alleged to have branched out until he is now charged by the government with owhing a flotilla of boats, and being the active head of an organization importing from otland, Biminl, Nassau and Canada, and distributing to New York. Cleveland, Chicago. Philadelphia and as far west as St. Louls. One of the features of the Haar organization, which has made it dif- ficult to capture, it is said, has been an intelligence unit, which hitherto has apprised the whole ring of the activities of the federal agents of the prohibition unit. and of the secret rvice of the Treasury. This intelligence unit of the boot- ¥ up to [lesgers is allexed to be headed by a certain notorfous character, under- stood to have escaped from custody after operations in other parts of the country. Brought Out in Tax Case. The enormous extent of the Haar operations has been breught out al- ready in proceedings brought by the government agatnst him, charging violation of the income tax law. Mrs. Willebrandt, assistant attarney gen-~ eral, when she learned that Haar and hig companions had evaded wevery federal trap sent to catch them, went about it through their income tax records. Secarching the returns in the Treas- it was discovered that most o the ‘alleged bootleggers had made no return at all to the government of their income, and that the leaders had paid small sums comparatively. Working ou this angle, the intelli- gence unit of the Treasury went into the and built up evidence suf- ficiently strocng to bring indictments against William Haar and several others, charging they had falsified their returns, and owed the govern- ment large sums on their income. Haar himself is charged with owing the governmont, in addition to what he has already paid, a $1.00G000 in- come tax. Worked During Harding Rites. It was ostensibly to try these spe- cial income tax cases that she special {August term of court had been con- vened, a special assistant to the At- torney General sent to Savannah, and the grand jury called into speclal ses- sion. But the real purpose was to up the bootleg ring, and, If pos- convict them of conspiracy. h the case developing so rapidly and preparations coming to a head here in Washington, it was neces- Mrs. Willebrandt said, for a corps of lawyers and assistants to work much of the latter part of last week, evem while the body of President Harding was being laid away at Marion. “We thought,” said Mrs. Wille- brandt, “that in view of President Harding’'s Denver speech calling. for the strict enforcement of prohibition, on last Thursday and Friday we could testify to no better memorial to him than to spend the day, not as a holi- day, but in preparation of the indioe: ments against this ring of bootleggers.” Family Members Involved. The “big four,” according to the De- partment of Justice, consists of Wil. liam Haar, C. Graham Boughn, Rich- ard Bailey and Sam Goldberg.: Asso- clated with each of these were numer- ous others, forming. in effect, it is charged, the four great rings. Among the principal associates named by the Department of Justice were Sam Gold- berg’s brothers, Israel, now in jail at Atlanta; Harry Goldberg, and mem- bers of the Haar family, Carl, Fred, sr. and Fred, jr. One of the original “big four" was Dick Boughn, it i3 charged. who, upon his death recently, passed the mantel on down to his son. High tribute was paid by Mrs. Wille- brandt today to the effectiveness of William J. Burns, director of the bu- reau of investigation, and his men for their work, which has dated back to last May. MORE ARRESTS AWAITED. Banker and Scores of Others Held in Savannah. By the Associated Press. SAVANNAH, Ga., August 16.—Fed- eral and state officers still were ac- tive today after wholesale raids and arrests here late yesterday in which 2 banker, fawyer and scores of citi- zens were haled before Unlted States commissioners and released on tem- porary bonds, Officers sald other arrests were pending as an aftermath of the raids and actlon taken by a federal grand jury, which, in returning indictments against William Haar and others, charged in several counts with whole- sale conspiracy to violate the prohibi- tion laws, revealed allege plots to smuggle liquor from France, Great Britain and her possessions, and Cuba. The government further char {ntoxleaiing. beverages were. landed at Fernandina, Jacksonville, West Palm Beach and Miami, Fla; Wil- mington, N. C.; Charleston, 8. C, and divers other places, “consisting usy- ally of 500 cases, or 15,000 gallons." Accused of Transporting. Haar and others also were accused of transporting from storage and dis- tributing points, such as Loulsville, Chicago, St. Louls, Cincionati, Phila- delphia’ and New York oity, In like quantities. Haar was arrested and released on $10,000 bond. John J. Powers, vice president and cashier of the Exchange Bank and prominent in local financial circles, was among the first to be apprehend- ed. He was released on bond, after being arraigned on a charge of vio- lating the national prohibition act. Accorling to federal officlals, the evidence agalnst the alleged con- spirators was obtained in a, carefully planned campaign b; of dry enforcement nts, who are oaid to have contracted .with the men for large quantities of liquor. ' WALSH INDORSES McADOO. HELENA, Mont, August 16.—United States Senator T. J. Walsh, in a speech here last night, indorsed ' William G. McAdoo for the democratic nomination for president. mall army | ROUTIEBUSIESS President Takes Uy Mass of Minor Details._ With the coal strike clouds lifted, at least for the time being, and with no other matters of great moment gonfronting his attention at this time, President Coolidge has arrived at rock bottom, 50 to.speak, In the brief day turned his attention to the so- There is a mass of the latter which befere being disposed of will require many hours of thought each day. As ane of the President's assistants ex- | pressed it today, it is the volume of iroutinc and detail comstantly con- nis tusk a twenty-four hour job. No one realizes this any.more clear- "™1ly than does the President himself. During the short period he has been at the helm of the government he hos learned something of the bur- dens of his high office. He has been working early and late, and so far this week he has not left his desk e than an hour during the lunch od. He did not leave his office until 6 o'clock last night, and it was §:45 this morning when he arrived. Methodical Wars Please. Those who have watched him at work are greatly impressed with the easy and methodical manner in which he is taking up his Innumerable tasky. President Coolidge's first caller to- day was Senator Weller of Maryland. The senator said afterward that the call was merely one of courtesy, al- though he discussed a variety of sub- Jects. The senator hay known T Coolidge for a number of vears, and they have mauy things in common aside from those of an official nature. “The people of. the United States will be quick to discover that Calvin Coolidge is @ man of great character and ability,” Semator Weller said as he was leaving the White House. “He is not a political accident. He has had many years of public training, and the nation will not ba long in reaching the conclusion that the re- public is in safe and sane hands. Calls Coolidge Connervattve. “Mr. Coolidge is @ conservative. He is thoughtful and he is quick to catch on* Mr. Weller continued. “I am conservative myself, and at this time 1 see no reason why Mr. Coolidge, in the event he is a candidate for the republican nomination next year, should not have the support of the republicans of my state. The merchant marine policy of the late President Harding will be car- ried out $o far as is possidle by Presi- dent Coolidge. This was made known b him toda during a cunference with Edward P. Farley. chalrman of the United States Shipping Board. During this conference Mr. Fariey portant features of the general pro- gram dealing with shipping which ha: been in the process of formulation and which was approved by the late President. The President indicated to Mr. Farley not only his approval of this program, but bis desire thorough- Iy to famillarize himself with the de- talls of this agency of the govern- ment as rapidly as possible. Colored Doctors Protest. President Coolidge received a deleg: tion representing the Natiopal Medical Assoctation, which is composed of col- ored physicians, dentists and pharmacists Who presented hym a formal protest against the establishment of a mixed personnel in the staff of the Tuskegec. Hospital for colored veterans, at Tuske- gee, Ala. In the delegation were George E Cannon of Jersey City, N. J.: I M. O. Dumas of Washington, D. C and J. O. Plummer of. Raleigh, N. C. Dr. Camnon, who was the spokesman, informed the President that President Harding some months ago Ve assur- ance that an entlre colored personnel would be appointed at that hospital, but since then a white swperintendent and two white assistants have been placed on the staff. Dr. Cannon informed the President that unless the staff is entirely colored the members of his race desjire no recognition. The President is said to have assured his callers that he will take the matter under advisement with Gen. Hines, director of the Veterans' Bureau. % W. G. Bramahan, state chairman of the North Carolina republicans, accom- panied by Col. L N. Meckins, also of North Carolina, called on the President today and asked him to receive gation from that state ob Augu: te formally extend an invitation to him. to attend the dedication ceremony of the memorial to commemorate the sur- render of the Confederate Army com= mander, Gen. J. J. Johnston, at & point a few miles outside of Durham. KEPNER ACQUITTED OF CHARGE HE SHOT HIS WIFE TO DEATH (Continued from First Page.) ing his displeasure, Judge Urner sald: “Mr. Weinberg, it is unnecessary to become quite so violent. Please quiet yourseit.” The lawyer, breathing hard and apparently ashamed for the unexpected display, apologized. “But now let us consider Grace Kepner,” he said. “If ever a woman deserved the unbounded sympathy of the community it was Grace Kepner. Torn by her own melancholy nature, ravaged by iliness, she was not even left to sufter in her misery without being tormented by the suspicions of those who sowed in her mind the poisonous seed of jealousy." When Mr. Weinberg attempted to show that Kepner had been accused of his wife's murder to save the aristocratic Houck family from the stigma of a suicide Judge Urn stopped him abruptly. “I do not r call that any evidence was offered to that effect. You twill confine jour arsument to the evidence that s before the court.” n _Welnberg _ apologized. In closing he,asked the court to dis- ch on the ground that te had failed to prove a mur- der was committed, and that even had it accomplished that, it has not ! proved Kepner was the slaver. | Sayw Kepner Aroused Suspicions. State’'s Attorney Anders made the closing argument for the state. He pointed out that it was the sus- iclous statements of Mr. Kepner imself ti had first attracted at- tentlon to the -uniikelihood of Mrs, Kepner having committed sulcide. Further investigation. proved tha she could not have taken her own 1ife by means of the wound that kill- Mr. “Anders referred smilingly to Mr. ‘Weinberg's argument that Mrs. Kepner had committed suicide cause of her husband's infidelity, then read a passagg from Kepner’ own testimony, in which he swore that he was sure she knew nothing h ociations with other wome: pecially Lulu Ricketts. He polnted 1o the fact that the defense had car: fully ignored the bloodstaina on the bed, out of Mrs. Kepner's reach. kg PACIFIC PARLEY PLANNED. MELBOURNE, August 16.—The prime minister, Stanley M. Bruce, has informed Parliament that the Pan-Pacific Leagus had taken up his idea of a conference §€ the natlons bordering cn the Pacifc urpose Ing peace a creating better ing. He was unable, however, to say 8s yet. when action would be taken. Maior Problems Qut of Way, | course of his administeation amgd-to- | called routine business before him. ! explained to the President more fm- | i fronting the Exegutive which Anakes | CHARLES B. WABREN. ANTHRACITE. COAL CRISIS IS BELIEVED ELIMINATED IN U. S. OFFICIAL CIRCLES (Continued from First Page.) AUGUS JOHN BARTON PAYNE. AMERICAN ENVOYS SIGN PACT WITH MEXICANS, ENDING MANY DISPUTES (Contnued from First Page.) thracite should there be a shutdown of the hard coal mines. The United States Coal Commission, in its report made to the President a few weeks ago on the amthracite industry, pointed eut that certain dealers take advantage of the public by making the consumers pay prices built upon the high pyices paid by the dealers for small lots. of coal, when they are purchasing practically all of their coal at lower rates. This was one of the reasons ad- vanced by the commission in support of its recommendation that the fullest pub- licity of prices and costs be brought about in the anthracite industry. President Coolidge, it is expected, will send to Congfess the recommendations of the Coal Commission, not only for fuil publicity in the coal business, but also for authority for the President in time of emergency—a shutdown of the mines—to_take -over and operate the mines. The frequent recurrcnce of strikes and threats of strikes, with their influence on prices and the suffer- ing they bring In their trail, has made the demand for such legislation stronger and stronger. LEWIS RESERVES RIGHT OF MINERS TO STRIKE IF CONTRACT NOT MADE By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 18.—Miners' {union officials 4nd representatives of anthraclte coal operators went into conference again today with the Unitea States Coal Commission, equip- ped with a provisional agreement looking to a continuation of anthra- cite coal wining after September 1. That there were still obstacles to be overcome, however, before an assur- |ance of averting another interruption |in _anthracite production _appeared very early in the course of the dis- cussions. P John L. Lewis, a8 president of the United Mine Workers, notified the commission that the union was pre- pared to accept the operators’ agree- ment made last night to abandon the “check-off” system entirely, whether for collection of items of indebtedness held against the miners by their em- plovers, or for collection of union due the same time Mr. Lewis told the commission that in offering to resume wage negotiations for a new contract, which would fix wages and terms of employment in the anthra- cite regions. the wunion would net {agree to lot the mines operate after ‘Spnlen)ber 1 if a contract agreement had not been perfected by that date. Samuel D. Warriner, chairman ol | the anthracite operators’ policy com= i mittee, in notifying the commission of the operators’ readiness to abandon completoly the “check off” sy teok the position that the min would agree to end the threat of suspending anthracite operation Sep- tember 1 This difference in the atiltude of the two Eroups was presented fully to the coal commission. As on ye: terday, the federal agency met sepa- rately with the operators first and later with the union representatives. Both Mr. Warriner and President Lewis withheld any public statements concerning the negotiations. STANDARD OFFERS AID IN PRICE PROBE (Continued trom First Page.) i duced, loomed today with a meeting of the board of directors of the Stand- ard Oil Company of Indiana, called to consider the action of Gov. W. H. McMaster of South Dakota in raising gasoline prices in thut state from 16 to 20 cents, effective Saturday. Col. R. W. Stewart, chairman of the directorate, declared the action of the South Dakota executive proved the contention of the Standard Oil Com- pany of Indiapna that consequences had not been considered nor expert advice asked when the governor cut prices from 28 to 16 cents. He inti- mated that the company may take ad. vantage of Gov. McMaster's action, which came after a conference with independent producers yesterday, and set prices higher than 20 cents. Price Cuts Everywhere. With the exception of the extreme western states, every section of the Icountry had gasoline at reduced rates today. New England‘and the Atlantic seaboard Jjoined the midwest and south, and 1daho and Montana in the Rocky mountain section were added when reductions of 2 cents In each were made effective yesterday. Dealers in Boise, Idaho, were unable to account for the reduction. which put new prices of 23% and 27 cents on gasoline. The Standard Oil Com- pany In Ohio and independent pro- ducers in that state cut prices to 20% cents. 23 Cents in East. Cuts In eastern states brought the retall price to an average of 23 cents a gallon. Heavy sales of the motor fuel in Chicago, where automoblle owners are filling every available contalner ia their houses in ration for ad- vances in price, have caused fire d p.runle(llt o?hcl 1:‘ to issue 'lr:llnzl and city authorities are aring to &hforce” ordinaces prohibiting. © the storage of gasoline in. any but ap- proved containers. BURPLUS ON HAND. By the Aseociated Press. NEW YORK, August 16.~Further reductions in crude oil prices, if they come, may reasonably be expected to bring about a further downward re- vision in_gasoline prices, Walter C. Teagle, president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, declared to- day. ‘The present disrupted market, Mr. Teagle sald, resulted from the pre- senting for sale of & relatively small amount of “distress” gasoline. The e over-production\of cru recent months, together with the fac- tor of a higher naptha content and increased refinery eficlency, -ultokd I‘n plllll;l : stocks of gasoline for the year, and forced some holders regardless of cost. ! American claims for dam- ment of d 1920, ages suffered between 1910 and Mexican claims against the United States. as well as compensa- tion for losses suffered by Ameri through application of the Mes agrarian policy. The details of the suggested agree- ment on the oil and land questions, as well as of the claims conventions, will not be made public until they are presented to the senates of the United States and of Mexico. RECOGNITION IN MONTH. n U. S.-Mexico Adviser Predicts Culmination by Septembaer 15. By the Associated Press. DELMONTE, Calif, August 16— The United States will recognize the present Mexican goyernment before September 15, it was predicted here | yesterday by T. E. Campbell, former Governor of Arizona, and who for the past vear has been acting in an ad- visory capacity to both governments in matters preliminary to recognition. He' also predicted that the southern | republic was upon the eve of a period of great developmbent. Mr. Campbell sai® that credit for the initial steps in the recognition plan must be given to thq late Presi- dent Harding. He said it was the | late President's intentlon to issue the official upon trip. RECOGNITION IS NEARER. proclamation of recognition his refurn from his Alaskan Awaits on Guarantee That Subsoil Rights Will Be Protected. All necessary preliminaries for the | restoration of diplomatic intercourse between the United States and Mex- ico having been completed yesterday with the closing of the American- Mexican recognition commission ses- slons in Mexico City, the next stgp will be the presentation of the report to the governments by the two bodies. 'he State Department has full cognizance of the contents of the zeport, but the actual text of the document will be available only when the commissioners arrive here. Actual extension of recognition by the United States to the Mexican government, however, may not take place for some time, as the work of the commissioners was limited to preparing a report tive governments. The commission- ers were not accorded powers to sign any agreement between the two gov- | ernments of a binding character. Ambassador Not Up Yet. State Department officials been unwilling to indicate when they expected to reach the point of se- | lecting a new ambassador to Mexico City. It ts generally assumed, how ever, that recognmition will be grant- ed only when there is complete as- surance that Americans holding titles to subsoil resources in Mexico, ob- tained before adoption of the present Mexican constitution, have been res lieved “from the jeopardy in which they stood under article 27 of that comstitution, which was designed to nationalize all such resources. There are numerous other matters ; confer- | with which the Mexico Cit, ence dealt and which seem! be treated onl, tion of a spec] Theiy can Y, through the negotia- izl treaty with Mexico. UTAH MINERS BLAME OPERATORS IN STRIKE Union coal miners of Utah filed to- day with the commission & brief pre- pared by Samuel A. King, their coun- sel, discussing the causes which led to the strike in that state last year, and replying to a brief recently filed by the coal operators. The miners cribed the trouble to a “campaign of the coal operators | of Utah against Utah organized la- bor and the unionizing of the Utah coal fields,” They charged that the operators resorted “to armed force" in “their efforts to monopolize coal production, control prices, plunder the public and pauperize labor.” To accomplish this the operators, the brief asserted, found it neces- sary to “own and control public offi- clals and use the National Guard and the criminal courts to suppress free speech, destroy individual liberty and to emslave those who toil for the enrichment of the coal monopo- lists.” The statement in_the o brief that the United Mine Worker: of America had conduoted “a ocam paign of viglence to ald the nation- Wide strike” was denounced by the miners us “false in every particular.”” COOLIDGE CANCELS CABINET MEETING Members of the cabjnet were noti- fled today by President Coolidge that the state of public business was such that it would be considered unrieces- sary to hold the regular Friday cab- inet meeting this week. At Tuesday’s’ meeting the cabinet went over most of the nation's pending business in the various de- partments and White House officials erator: said it was to be presumed that no |, further meeting would be called until the President could study in detail the matters considered at the last session. Meantime he will continue to see the members of the cabinet from time to time individually. JAPANESE GOING TO BRAZIL By the Awsaciated Press. TOKIO, August 1,—The social at. fairs bureau of the home affairs de- partment has decided to send a large umber of Japanese emigrants to 31l this year. It is estimated the move will cost 220,000 yen. This will inolude the cost of advancing the project, > n [ing_ purpose iremoved from the White { fore tomorrow or next day. | for their respec- | have | 1923, NEIGHBORS OPPOSE APARTMENT HOUSE 16, Protest Erection of Building! at Georgia Avenue and Whittier Place. Protest against the erection of an apartment house cn the southeast corner of Georgla avenue and Whit- tier place, near Walter Reed Hospital, was voiced by residents of that sec- tion at a hearing hefore tac zoning commission at the District building today. E. E. Pabst, speaking for the pe- titloners, said that there was need for an apartment house at that point to accomodate ofiicers at’ the hos- {pital. Most of the protestants argued that {hope of cscaping apartment hous. |surroundings and that the erection of the proposed structure would in- jure their homes. . 3 Detends Army Men. apartment house 0 close to & military plying to this intimation, Mr. Pabst told the commission that he had such a regard for the men who make up the Army that he did not believe a building “in which they lived would become a nuisance. ¢ matter came before the com- mission in the form of a request that ithe rear portion of the lot be raised 0 a fifty-five-foot helght limit and hat permission be given to use a tage of the lot for build- Willlam McK. Clayton, a resident of that vicinity, opposed tle application on the ground that the commission should not change the height lmit on one lot in a residential community. Pla: Branch Bank. Plans of the American Security and Trust Cormnpany to build a new branch on the northwest corner of Tth and B Streets southwest were made known to the commission by Appleton P. Clark, |ir. Who asked that permission be granted tbe trust company to use a larger percentage of that corner for the building. Mr. Clark said it was de- lsired to make the structure an orna- mental one, which could not be done un- less the restrictions appl, ing to that jcorner are changed. The trust com pany’s southwest branch is nowfocated at 436 Tth street southwest. Lot other individual changes in propert, {in various localities and. win' render | decisions this afternoon. MRS. HARDING KEEPS STRONG_IN PACKING Duties Preparatory to Removal From White House May End Tomorrow. Despit= e fact that Mrs. Florence Kling Harding has been busily en- gaged during the week personally superintending isonal effects of her late husband and her own, she shows no signs of phy | sical discomfort, and, sccording to {her physicians. her health is as good as_could be expected. Mrs. Harding has been on her feot virtually ever since she returned | from " Marion, and altwough corsid- { erable progress has been made in the | packing of her-belongings, it is not {believed that all of them will sbe House be- A number of the larger pieces of furniture. some of which were used in the Harding home on Wfoming avenue of this city, will be stored temporarily in Washington. It is thought likely that Mrs. Hard- jing will spend her nights from now ton until she leaves “Friendship.” the suburban estate of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. McLean. | _In this event she will come to the White House each morning to com- plete packing, until the matter has been disposed of, and the White {House made ready for the occupancy of President and Mrs. Coolidge. { Mrs. Harding was greatly pleased |with the offer of President and Mrs. i Coolidge of the presidential yacht Mayfiower at time during her stay here. But-.she said today tht !she doubted if she would be able ty |accept it. | 1 CHILE BUYS BI6 HOME FOR EMBASSY Massachusetts Avenue Property Near Sheridan Circle Has Been Acquired. The Chilean government has pur- chased the handsome residence prop- erty 2303 Massachusetts * avenue | northwest for use as its embassy {here. The completion of the nego- ttations was announced today by the Wardman Construction Company, Inc., but the amount involved in the sale was withheld. | The new embassy is located amidst many beautiful homes in the Sheridan |Circle neighborhood. On the first floor there are a large reception hall, large cloakroom, library and tearoom, living room, dining room, breakfast room, kitchen, two pantries and serv- ants''dining room. It is ideally con- structed for entertalnment purposes. master bedrooms and three baths, one servants’ bedroom and large living and reading rooms. The third floor also has three bedrooms and one i bath, as well as a large living, and reading room, together with five serv. ants’ rooms and one bath.' There | also is a two-car garage on the prop- erty. The Chilean embassy now is located at 2223 R street northwest. PLEAD FOR GARVEY. Friends Seek Probe of Recent Con- viction of Conspiracy. The “Marcus Garvey Committee on | Justice™ renewed at the White Nouse today its pleas for a grand jury in- vestigation into the recent "convie- tion of Marcus Garvey on conspiracy charges in connection with his effort to establish a negro republic in Africa. v A petition lukln: for such an in- quiry, ‘originally addressed to Presi- dent Harding, was renewed with’ ad- ditional signatures. Attached was a plea by Garvey “to the considerate and thoughtful conscience of white America.” . H INTERRUPTS 'SURGEONS. Drunken Man Causes Stir During Operation. Edwin _Plowden, colored, drinking hair tonic, to the operating room of the Emer- gency Hospital last night, where surgeons at that time were operating on a patient who ' had been carved up iness fight on 4% street. His .ap- pearance, the surgeons say, was sud den and heralded by the noise a man usyally makes after drinking hair tonic. His presence in the operating room was as short as it was sweet. He went out head first, assisted by the-attendants, who had him arrested. “Ten dollars or thirty days." said the judge in Police Court today. “I thank you, Mr. Jedge, for them few kind words™ said Hdwin as he was led wiy to the wagon. | they had moved to that suburb in the | Several speakers suggested that an Post would become # nuisance. He- | The commission considered a number | packing of the per-| Washington at | On the second floor there are thres | MONGOLIA AFIRE. Firemen Battle Blaze on Liner Two Hours, NEW YORK, August 16,—Firemen fought a menacing blaze in the hold of the liner Mongolia of the Atlantic Transport Line for neariy two hours at her pler early today before con- trolling it.- The extent of the dam- age could not be learned. The liner was scheduled to sail late today for Plymouth and it was believed her departure would be de- layed. The Mongolia sprang into prominence during the war as the first American vessel to engage in| battle with a German submarine. Members of the crew fopght the blaze for half an hour beforo calling | out the city department. The fire | started among the cargo of bales of | jcow hides and cocoanut fiber. The | |origin has not been determined. CHINA NOW LIKELY i \Principal Source of Difference Lies in Management of Mongolian Railroad. BY CLIFFORD FOX. | By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. { Copyright, 1 PEKING, August 16.—A broad hint |that China is preparing to recognize isoviet Russia was given here by Dr. {C. T. Wang, director general of the forthcoming Sino-Russ negotiations. {Dr. Wang declared that while China { hay usually been guided by the poli- |cies of America and Great Britain, the recognition problem would be decided independently, and that if Russia was recognized by China other world pow- ! ers must not say that China is break- {ing away from the family of allied inations. " M. Karahan, a soviet envoy, lis now en route to Peking with in- | structions to make lavish concessions {at the Sino-Russ conference if China {will agree to recognize the Moscow government. |, China’s attitude is based on her be- Uef that the powers are withholding { recognition of the soviets because the | red government will not acknowledge |international debts ipcurred during the czarist regime. { the international debt problem is that | Russia does not owe her anything and | that there is no reason why regogni- { tion should be denied. | Wants Troops Moved.' When the conference opens here in ! September, China proposes to take | the initiative with Russia and demand evacuation of Mon- {golia Ly red troops, s move which | Russia repeatedly has promised. 1f jthe Russ agree to this demand, dis- cussions will start on questions in- ivolving recognition, trade agreements, | boundaries and the Chinese Eastern ‘ll’hll\\ i The Ired.x because, while it nominally fis controlled by Chinese, it iv under the {management of Ru . who are |affiliated with the White Guards. | This management, installed by French | bankers, Who are heavy investors in [ the railroad, has proved effiet uch to the chagrin of the reds who, ble to nues, overlook no opportunity to em- barrass the management. Only re- jcently they seized railway warehouses at Vladivostok, confiscating a vast amount of furs in storage there. ‘Wiil Keep Rallroad. | Dr. Wang declares emphatically | that China will not relinquish control |Of the railway. sayipg that such a move is vigorously opposed by the| { Chinese people. |~ Before leaving Moscow M. Karahan, |soviet envoy, ~announced that { prime object of the Sino-Russ confer- {ence was discussion of Chinese East- {ern railway control and that soviet | Russia would insist upon expulsion iuf the present management. Chinese officialdom_expects him to yield on this point it soviet recognition is fa- vorably considered. MISS BALDWIN WEDS. New York Banker’s Daughter Bride of Dr. George Harris. LONDON, August 16.—Dr, Harris, New York stock broker, and iMiss Lucille Baldwin, daughter of Leroy Wilbur Baldwin, president of the “Empire Trust company, New York, were married todav by Canon jCarnegie, in the churca of St. Mar- saret, Westminster. The' couple arrived at Shuthampron Monday on the Maurstxnia from Newv York. Desiring to married by Canon Carn e, who sails for the United States tomorrow, they secured approval from the Archbishop of Can- terbury, waiving the ususl prowsion requiring establishment of a resi- [dence before the cercmomny The archbishop is n” Scotland, and to obtain his sanction for ihe wed- ding a megsenger made the six-hun- dred-mile journey to Sutherlandshire by fast train, the permission later coming by telegraph FIRE IN POOLESVILLE, MD., DESTROYS THE BUSINESS SECTION; LOSS, $70,000 (Continued_from First Page.) i | George were awakened by an explosion. The entire town was quickly in the streets and bucket brigades were forined to combat the flames. but ome building after the other was destroyed. Fire Department Called. The Rockville Fire Department was immediately called, but there was a delay of meary three-quarters of an hour to_ establish telephone connec- tions. When finally informed of the fire the department made a record run of eighteen miles to this place and was plaving on the flames 'in thirty-five minutes’ time. Howeve: their arrival was too late and effo: { | | rounding the fire area. The Rockville property from being consumed. The fire fighters were handicapped by lack of water facilities. There are no fire gluss in the town and water had to be pumped from wells. Just what caused the explosion in the Hoskinson store is not known, although it likely was the result of some combustible material. Rector Saves U. S. Mail. Rev. Dr. Berkeley Griffith, rector of the Episcopal Church here, proved a hero in saving overy piece of mail in the destroyed post office. When the flames crept toward the building he rushed in and carried the sacks safely to the street. o : Elkins Brothers' store is the only business establishment left in this town, and even their place was dam- aged to the extent of $1,500. Albert Wootton was the only mer- chant able to save a considerable portion of his stock from the rapidly spreading flames. He succeeded in saving a large amount before his building was destroyed. His loss in stock amounts to about $1,000. The fire loss will be heavy. Al- though fairly well insured the prop- erty destroyed had been insured on 2 valuation baged on some years ago and therefore will not cover the many extensive improvements made in the meantime. LEATHER DEALERS ELECT. OMAHA, Neb., August 16.—Wil- flam Mohlenkamp of Louisville, Ky.. was re-elected president of the Na- tional Leather Dealers' Association at the close of their annual con vention yesterday. Sioux City was named as the next meeting place. 3 H | { Bramham of Durham, N. C.. China’s version of | tter is a sore point with the | the | was directed to saving property sur- | department is given credit for saving | at least one-half of the remaining | TALKS and TALES With and About CAPITAL’S GUESTS If the ears of those responaible for nomMmating Calvin Coolidge for the vice presidency at the republican na- tional convention three years ago Rot burning these days, then a phys clan should be consulted, for the faste | representative men drop into Washing- ton the more general are the expres- sions of gratitude that the United States bad such a man to step into the office made vacant by the late lamented President. Nor 1s this senfiment confined men of any particular section. From east, west, north and south they come, all wearing the look of satis- faction and all vieing with each other to tell how confident they feel that thg government is in safe hands. “The more I think of it, the more convinced 1 am that America is still W. G. repub- can state chairman of that state, as ;Be looked from a seventh-floor win- lfluv\' of the Hotel LaFayette out over the hills of Virginia, | 5 was in the office of one of N { York's greatest financiers when th dbfl‘remung n of Pre dent Hard ing's death reached me, and the first thoughtto come to my mind was how fortunate we were that Calvi Coolidge was Vice President. I said to my friend, ‘Jusi suppose some rat tle-braimed radical had bee nam: on the ticket. Judge Bramham, who is in Wa ington on law business with th ernment, is firmly convin {showdown between radicalism | conservatism is bound | saia t that nev i 1 party better pre, to gov t and rw e re- ared to face could have handled w | President Hardin at th heln \4 feel just as stroug, if not stro: under the leadership of his suc ‘On, on, McDuff, @nd damned be first cries, hold, enough!'’ | claimed, as he drew his chair o tell how pleased the southern ¢ l(‘:’lu \glllh the appointment of C. Ba em, cre o P dl::l.t. D as secretary to the Presi- “It's the nicest courtesy shown our people for many a long moon,” sald the North Carolinian, and rising to close the door 50 nobody would hear, added: “And there's many a sc { called southern democrat throwing his chest out today R 1000 republicans voted in Nor |lina last clection. It has taken S {tan courage to retain the faith |these years, but the silver is showing.” ex- ver to “It is the psychological attitude of the country. Calvin Coolidge will write a new story, and write 1t right.” Thus spake Henry Lane W Indianapolis, former amba; Mexico in the Taft and W istrations, to C. B. Zabr of New York. as the two friends discussed conditions in the New Willard Hote ‘I agree with you absolutely” re- plied Mr. Zabriskie. “We in New York are unanimous in the opinion that America was blessed in having suc a man as President Coolidge to take hold at such a time.” “The same feeling prev. iout Indiana,” continued to ison admin- Is through- diplom who, by the way. knows someth about writing stories, havin much of his youth on the La F Ind., Journal, and newspaper: the 'Pacific coast, where John S. Wilson, has had in making the Seattle ligencer what it Is today. Asked for an_opinion conditions in Mexico, Mr. waved his hands and said business to express an opinion on count condition when one is n even in that.country.” i { | i | | Thoroughly convinced that many folks of the country were extremely happy that President Coolidge is sit- |ting in the White House today, the | writer slipped down to the Raleigh, land the first man encountered in the lobby was Representative William | Vare of the first district of Philadel- phia, who was on his way to the White House for an interview with the President. “Can’'t say more, my boy than Philadelphia is highly elated over the progress aiready made by our new Chief Executive. He is a strong man, and will prove his worth in short order. Pennsylvania is back of him to a man, as the people shiver when they think of what might have hap- pened had not President Harding h: such a safe and sane republican for a running mate. Wo are pleased be- {¥ond words.” “Just make that ditto for the peopls of California,” exclaimed C. Mulliron, a prominent lawyer of Los Angeles. who overheard the conversation, and {¥ho is in Washington on b with the government. “I have just lcnma from the coast and everybody feels that President Coolidge is the right man in the right place.” * Despite the oft-repeated claim that the usefulness of man's greatest triend, the horse, is fast fading into oblivion, horseflesh—or at least thor- oughbred horseflesh—is _worth - much today, if not more than, at any time in the past. Fresh from Saratoga, where he tended the August sales at the famous resort, Reid Riley, proprietor of Mon- tana Hall, one of the great stock- breeding farms in Clark county, Va., stopped off for a day in Washington on his way home, and when seen at the Shoreham Hotel was most entha- siastic over the outlook of the indus- try. “Enormous prices are being paid for worth-while stock at Saratoga this season,” said Mr. Riley. “some of the atars_bringing record prices, while any fair yearling colt or filly will fetch an average of $3,500 a head.” The breeder was also highly elated over the wonderful get in Clark county this year, declaring that the section now possesses as good blood- jed stock as any area in the United | States, Kentucky not excepted. Race lovers will doubtless be pleased to know that many of their old favorites are heading studs down in Virginia. The well remembered |Superman is the star at Kenneth Gil- {pin's Kentmear place, while Traprock the famous son of Rock Sand and full brother to Tracery, leading sire of England, is holding court at Capt R: M. Walker's beautiful Page Brook tfarm. Over at Orderly farm, tho_estate of the Jones brothers, old Sir Barton, who ran the memorable race with Man-O'-War and finished a dead heat with Gnome, Mr. Riley’s great horse, at Saratoga three years ago, lowering the world record for a mile and a sixteenth, s being petted and pam- pered by all in the county. Mr. Riley is the son of the late well known Washingtonian, William R. Riley, and is considered one of the best judges of horseflesh in Virginia. Much perturbed that such a great city as Washington is without a gulde bureau for visiting salesmen, Mrs. Ruby E. Marett of Columbia, . C.. dusted into town in her comfort- able coupe on @& commercial mission and is stopping at the Hotel Harring- ton. seareh for After a fruitle: me of her clients, the South Carolina busi- ness woman finally drifted into the newsroom of The Star and remained long enough to explain “how fright- fully dificult” it was for a stranger to get used to our “puszling streets.” “Why don't some enterprising busi- pess man open a ide bureau for commercial peopled” asked Mrs. Marett, much their thoughtlessness, ‘Pu ed at 'm sure hundreds of salesmen come here every day and would gladly pay $3 or $4 to have some one familiar with the city to direct them to the varioys business houses.” Mrs, Marett covers the souther: states for a certain seft drink col and, besi her coupe, a trugty shooter” is ber sole L‘_;m g‘lon.