Evening Star Newspaper, August 20, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair tonight and Tuesda; cooler tonight. Temperatur ty-four hours ended at Highest, 88, at 3:30 p.m, Jowest, 68, at 3 a.m. today. Full report on page 7. p.m. today y: slightly e for twen- yesterday; B e No. 28,965, . Phcohie Wes Entered as second-class matter hington, D. C. MEXICAN PARLEY REPORT IS LAID BEFORE HUGHES Upon Coolidge—Details of Conference Withheld. WAY BELIEVED OPEN NOW FOR RECOGNITION Appointment of~Two Commissions to Settle’ Claims Would Fol- | low Restored Relations. | Charles B, Warren and John Bar- fon Payne, .the American commis- mioners conducting the negotiations Jocking toward resumption of diplo- matic relations with Mexico, present- ed thelr report today to Secretary Itughes and later called on President Cooliage. The report was in two large vol- rmes, one in English and the other in Spanish. It is a transeript of the ecdings between the American Mexican commissioners at Mex ivo City, and proposes, with other| things, two conventions, one to settle | clains growing out of the revolution | #nd anothor to settle mixed claims. | The conventions are subject to ratifi- eation by the United States Senate snd the Mexican congress. Gives Basis for Recognition. | Mr. Warren, after presenting the Dort of the proceedings to Secretary Hughes, declined to discuss it in any way, except to say that it presented is for consideracion of whether the United States is to resume giplo- matic relations with Mexico. He add- ed that the decision. of course, would be made ary Hughes and | President 5 ey We were in three months Warren. “and azreed on a b found accentable to the Mesican gov. ernment. We hope, of course, that it | will be acceptable to Gur own.” Details to be Withheld. The best informed judgment of | those who have followed the nego-| tHlations is that if diplomatic rela-| tons are resumed they will fol- | lowed by setting up the machinery of | the two claims commissions provided | in the report of the proceadings. | which also are to contain the ports of conversations hetween the | xican-and American commissioners | , clarifying the points at issue between | the two governments respecting the so-éalled confiscatory features of | Mexican Jlaws relating to private property rights, The details of the proceedings} probably will not become public until § President Coolidge and retary Hughes have fully considered them and they have been presented to the Mexican congress next month. Mr. Warren will remain in Washington with Mr. Payne for several days go- | ing over the report with Secretary | Hughes, { it a ba said Mr. have mutuall we is which has bee i | | be Recognition to Be Delayed. ) Tn the event restoration of diplomatic idns befween the two governments the outcome., actual extension of recognition, it was reiterated today, probably will not take place for some- time. Not only will time be needed | for officials concerned with the Mexican | problem to digest the formal report sub- mitted by the American commissione but they are expected to obtain add! al information regarding various es of the situation in conferences h Mr, Warren and Mr. F The Mexican City negoti tending over more than thirteen weeks were concluded last Wednesday. At | that fime confidence was expre: in | the Mexican capital that in- terpretation of its petroleum legislation and agrarian law v:r)nlnin-; cd in the conference record, would prove | acceptable to the United States and | lead to resupmtion of diplomatic rC-I lations. & & voyx Well Treated. The vroceedings of the conference also will be available for the infor- mation of foreign governments which have delayed resumption of diplo- matic relations with Mexico awaiting sction by the United States. Both Mr. Payne and Mr. Warren expressed themselves as much pleased with the treatment accorded them by by the Mexico City officials during their stay there and on the return trip to the United States. 1t was indicated at the State De- partment that examination of the re- port by Mr. Hughes and his advisers n affairs would require pos- ¢ two weeks or more before the next e is made by the American gov- ernment. BRITISH DRAFTING | DRY NOTE FOR To Oppose 12-Mile Limit, But| Offer Measures to Cut - Liquor Traffic. _ By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 20.—Officials of the{ foreign office, treasury and board of trade are now at work on the British | ‘reply to the American note concerning enforcement of liquor prohibition within international maritime limits, and it is roped to dispatch the doeument within a fortnight. < The reply is described as “construc- tive,” and as offering an advance on provious motes. It is based upon the| 1indings of the intgrdepartmental com- mittee, headed by Ronald McNeill, un- iersecretary for foreign affairs, and will point out the British government’s de- sire to meet the American viewpoint wherever possible. The reply is expected to offer cgrtain measures intended to reduce or do'away with illicit traffic in alcohol within the prescribed coastal limits by vessels fly- ing the Britisn flag, but, as already re-. ported, it will reject the twelve-mile limit proposal as constituting too radi- ,al a departure from present interna- tional ctice and the British'laws and 1egulations bearing on sea boundaries, | #md rights of vessels in foreign water, | eblige successors of Pr { which {th i come Mrs. Fuller. ; came’ PROMISE OF OBREGON ALL U. S. CAN WIN NOW ! WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. —ee e The Star’ every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” s carrier system covers Saturday’s Net Circulation, 80,536 Sunday’s Circulation, 93,324 WASHINGTON, D. C.,. MONDAY, AUGUST 20, ]923—-’1‘H}fi'1'§( PAGES. | i | Coolidge Must Decide Whether Pledgei Without Treaty Is Sufficienily Binding to Warrant Extending Recognition. BY DAVID LAWRENC The negotiations between Mexico and the United States have reached the point where President Coolidge and Secretary Hughes must make up their minds whether a promise by President Obregon is of sufficient validity to bind subsequent administrations below the Rio Grande to respect American rights and property. e Months of conference have not got- ten beyond' that essential. Original the American government started out | to get from Mexico- something of a treaty or proctocol nature which would to guarantee Americans the same legal treatment as was being promised now when it is to the interest of Mexico to win formal recognition of its govern- ment by the United States government. The Mexican authorities balked at the idea of any treaty -and insisted that they could not placate their own public opinion if recognition was to Do bought at the price of a treaty They siid treatics could be negotiated later after recognition had come. The American government took the posi- at the making of the treaty it- self was automatically a process of recognition. A deadlock ‘ensued, after Charles B. Warren and John larton Payne were sent to Mexico City BUCKETEERS WIVES GVE . S, FVDENCE Hope of Lightening Punish- ment of Fuller and McGee Is Their Motive. By the Associated Press. SW YORK, August Groody McGee and Florence Ely Ful- ler. Broadway musical-comedy star}, were revealed by United States At- tornex. Hayward today as his active agents in running down evidence against thelr husbands, Edward M. Fuller and W. Frank McGee, prin- cipals in the most sensational of cur- rent bucket-shop prosecutions. “They are furnishing testimony and profucing witnesses that are invalu- able to the government's case” he said. “They are unquestionably do- ing it out of loyalty to their hus- bands. They believe that by doing this they will he lightening the pun- hment that faces their husbands, even though they seem to be incrim- inating them.” Emerging from the seclusion in which they have sought refuge ever since the spectacular fall of the bucket shop with its $6,000.000 losses to 4,000 investors, Mrs. McGee and Mrs. Fuller talked to newspaper men ouise !in the offices of their husbands’ coun- 1 Denies Lavish Gifts Rumor. “All the published stories about me having been were absurd,” began Mrs. McGee. wspapers had told of a trousseau including priceless jewels and a splendid wardrobe, with automobiles bearing the crest of foreign makers, a mansion or two and other gifts. Frank was in no position to lavish ngs on me,” she said. “Anyway T was satisfied with just him. He hasn't given e any of the firm’'s asgets, cither. I'm really a creditor of E. M. Fuller' & Co. 1 lost $25,000 I invested in the firm and $25,000 loaned to Frnk, ! which he sunk in the business.” Weekly Salary of $1,500. She pointed out that as star of a musical comedy she had enjoved a weekly salary of $1,800 for eighty weeks. She was married in February, 1922, The following June the firm closed its doors. She was in Paris studying voice when the news and a cable from Charles Dillingham urging that she reach Broadway August 1. to begin a new engagement brought her hurrying home, she said. Her husband she found at Ludlow street jail for contempt of court in having~ failed to produce missing records and assets of his business, He also waited sentence for bucket- ing and since has been indicted for conspiracy to conceal and destroy records and assets belonging to the trustee in bankruptcy. Mrs, McGee told of her childhood at Waco, Texas, her 'teens in Phila- delphia and her dancing in the “kid- die clagses” on Young's Million Dollar Pier at Atlantic <ity, where Dilling- ham discovered her. She never has lived extravagantly, 'she declared. Her present home “a modest little apartment uptown,” in which she is Tehearsing for her mext revue and doing _errands for Prosecutor Hay- ward in her epare moments. Instead of returning in an $1,800 suite on an ocean liner she had a “modest” one which cost $650, she said. ved in Two Rooms. Mrs. Fuller made hers a short story. A New York girl, she left the Midnight Frolic sit years ago to be- Until “this trouble she lived in a two-room Kkitchenette-bath -apartment,: without servants, she said. Recently she went to make her home with relatives until her hus- band is freed. “I didn’t know about Mr. Fuller's business,” ghe sald. “Once he showed me some figures and laughed. saying, “They've got us failing for $6,000,000, and it's only $1,806,000."" Mr. Hayward .does not expect to nave the bucketeers’ wives before the grand jury. He predicted, how- ever, that they would figure more prominently at the trials of “certain igher-ups” reported to have been in- olved in confessions of Fuller and MeGee. LLOYD GEORGE TO COME 'HERE LATE NEXT MONTH LONDON, August 20.—Former Pre- mier David Lioyd George, in arrang- ing his social engagements in Eng- land for September, informed the American embassy today that he Dplanned to leave on his American trip at the end of next month, dent Obregon | TROOPS OFFERED ‘a million-dollar bride’ | the matter in person. Could Be Set Aside Messrs. Warren and Payne are here with a record of their conversations with the Mexican commissioners. In substance they have elicited state- ments from the Mexicans which, if the American government chooses to look at them that way, can be re- garded as a _satisfactory basis for recognition. The Wilson administra- tion tried to get something more sub- stantial than that from the Mexie: 3 didn't succeed finally de. cided to recognize the Carranza regime. Now, while the American | commissioners have brought k ex- plicit understandings, these are not in treaty form and they do not bind any future Mexican administration except as good will and international comity require nations to keep their governmental policles consistent. If the Obregon administration were overthrown tomorrow, the agreements it had made could be discarded as scraps | of paper on the favorite ground that the agreements were not in conformity with | the Mexican constitution, whose am- Dblguous articles are the center of the present controversy, anyhow, But the American government is faced | with the necessity of viewing a_hird in the hand as worth two in the bush. | If the Obregon administration did fur- | nish a soleyn treaty covering the points (Contiued on Page 2, Column 1. Coolidges Ready ToTake UpHome| In White House | President Coolidge and Mrs. | Coolldge intend to move into the White House, it is believed, to- morrow or Wednesday night. The President and Mrs. Coolilge went about the rooms of the White House early today and directed the attaches of building re- garding arrangements for the moving in of their personal effects, i | | by Mr. Harding in an effort to adjust | i | but and 1 | | | i | - TOEND FLOGEING |Georgia Governor Ready to! Men Arrested in Macon. | By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, August 20.—Gov. Walker has offered to call out the National Guard to check lawlessness in Bibb | county whenever the local officials | feel that additional forces are needed, and has received assurances from | Sherifi James Hicks, in Macon, that| grgency develops, it was announced | at the executive department today |ment after & conference with Adjt.| Gen. Charles H. Cox, who returned | this®morning from Macon, where he| made an_ investigation of the situa-| tion there developing from a keries ! of floggin The adjutant general | told the governor that the sheriff ha: orgenized a “very efiicient force, con- | sisting of fourteen deputies and a ! number of other citizens subject to | emergency call THREE MEN ARRESTED. Officials Say Prisoners Were Flog- ging Two Negroes. MACON, Ga. August 20.— county officials today planned to round up- all automobiles not carry- ing state license tags in an effort to get at the bottom of the facts sur- rounding a eeries of floggings which have taken place here in recent weeks. In mnearly all cases where HidnaperS have borne away their vic- tims in motor cars their automobiles have carried no_tags. Sheriffs’ forces last night capt: three alleged kidnapers and Aogsrrs while in the act of flogging two negroes. Two automobiles which were found near the scene of the flogging and said by officials to have been used by the floggers contained masks, & small sledge hammer and a eavy, w cars bore no)l!cenesle.te't S Men Refuse to Talk. The capture of the three m gave their names as S. K. Hudson: F. Hudson and J. C. Hudson, brothers, and all residents of East Macon, mads the first arrests to be made in cone Dectlon with the recent ' floggings. n questiones E foas Juestioned last night they re. Smery Roberts, one of th vietims, Is credited by officials with the capture of the trio. One of the al- leged floggers, it was sald, jumped onto the running board of Roberts' automobile and commanded him to stop. Instead, he increased the speed of his car. When the man on the running board whistled for his broth- ers to join him Roberts plunged his c’a[’h“:o an embankment, T persons passin, ti phened the sherift and the entirs city ounty anti-flogging squad wi rushed out to answor the cajl " ° Officers are still investigating to learn whether there were more than three in the flogging party. Their theory at presentts that the {Hudson brothers are not attached to any or- ganization, but were operating on their own 'initiative. Officials report- | ence !and officers | was delayed three hours today. | tion_all other disputed points. | mines The governor made this announce- | | for ed that the Hudsons have been in trouble before. A‘:jli\ Gen, s(.'hlrles H, Cox, who was sent here Saturday night by Gov. Clifford Walker to investigate thé advisabliity of declaring martial law, returned to Atlanta yesterday with his report, which it is “expected he will tender to the governor today. It was understood here that his re- port would be that no martial law be declared in Macon for the present. VICTIM RETURNS TO JAIL, EAUGALIE, Fla. August 20.—G. A. Davis, who Was removed from the county jail last night by five masked and robed men, who had obtained keys to thhe jail when they over- powered a deputy sheriff on the street, returned to the jail this morn- ing. Jail officials did mot issue any. statement beyond saying Davis was uninjured. Davis had been arrested on a-charge of non-supporty S RN e THE THIRD COAL WAGE PARLEY RESUMED TODAY for Delegates to Arrive. U. S. Watches Moves. By the Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.. August 20. The opening of the wage confer- between anthracite operators the miners’ unifon The of conference was scheduled to- at 11 o'clock this morning. Failure of some participants to arrive in time was said to be the reason for the negotiatiops were through the intervention of the United States Coal Commission %#d|opportunity to accept 3r. Coolidge’s Order Out Guard——Three | i be conducted under a closer téd- | invitation to remain in his cabinet. eral scrutiny than heretofore Included in the demands of the men are a 20 per e union recognition, including check-off, and a universal eight-hour work day. The operators have agreed to abolish the twelve-hour day, where it prevails, and to submit to arbitra- Arbi- tration previously was refused by the . who also declined to remain at work after September 1 in case of failure to reach a_prior agreement. Operators of the West Virginia non- | INWAR, LEGION AIM such a call will be-made if an em- | Unlon coal mines were challenged by | John L. Lewis, president of the Mine Workers, to test the attachment of their employes to the non-union system. His offer was made in re- sponse to a brief presented by the non-union operators to the United States Coal Commission at Washing- ton vesterday. “These non-uriion operators sa this brief, as they have sai times previously, that the nited unorgan- ized miners employed in that field are | so happy and contented with their conditions that they do not want the union to come there,” Mr. Lewis said. “Qur. proposition is this: “We challenge the non-union oper- ators of southern West Virginia to remove all restrictions and restraint and permit their employes to join the uinon if they so desire. The will present its case to these men in a lawful, peacqable and orderly man- ner. Of course, it will be necessary these non-union operators inate all’of their gunmen, hired thugs and drmed guards during the time this test is in progres: CALL MASS MEETING TO CLEAN UP TOWN Citizens of Pocomoke, Md., In- censed at Burning of Home of Pastor, Plan Action. By the Associated Press. POCOMOKE, Md.. August 20.—A mass meeting of citizens has been called for this morning to consider means of ridding Pocomoke of “its undesirable élement,” following the burning Saturday night of the Meth- odist parsonage and the narrow es- cape of Rev. J. R. Bickings, his wife and two sons. Mrs. Bickings, who has been ill for several months, was reported today to be in an ex- tremely critical condition as the re- sult of shock and fright. The fire at the Bickings home is alleged to have been of. incendiary origin, and is charged to bootleggers, against whom the minister has been waging an active campaign during’ the past several months. Mr. Bick- ings boat was sunk recently, and friends attributed that to an attempt on his life. —_— POLICE ROUT SPIES NEAR STRESEMANN RESIDENCE Believe Attempt to Steal Diplo- \ matic Papers Was Frus- trated. the Associated Press. LONDON, August 20.—Berlin police guards last night found two men hid- ing in the shrubbery near the resi- dence of Chancello™ Stresemann, says a Central News dispatch from Berlin today. The guards opened fire, but the suspects ran and succeeded (n es caping. gt The police, says the. message, are conyinced that the object of the lurk- ing individuals was not to attempt to take the chancellor's 1ife, but only to _ steal diplomatic papers. PARTY 1 | i % f7s. // LY ATE AT THE ATL. NTIC CI1 "N i i TY CONFERENCE. Mellon Tells Coolidge Europe 1 mproves; to Stay in Cabinet |Secretary Recounts Results of Survey resumed | grpation in the larger European eouu- nt wage increase, full jcontinue as a part of the administra the | tion. | | union : the national headquarters of the le- to [ will conduct a national referendur® to agree in advance that they will elim-| oyeain the views of prominent Amer- . impossible aqn the land and sea.” facceptance from every member of the | |Meeting Delayed Three Hours| Abroad and Sees Conditions as Better. Business Leaders Meet President. President Coolidge today devoted his | ference the President listened to a | attention to the business and economic | delegution of official rflprc!ontau\'pSl questions of his country and their re- lationship to the problems being faced | now by the larger nations of Europe. | For more than an hour the Executive | was closeted with Andrew W. Mellon, | Secretary of the Treasury, who has| just returned from Europe, where he | spent his vacation studying conditions. During his conference at the White House the Treasury head gave to the President first-hand impressions of the tries, and at the same time he took | President Coolidge has now received late President Harding's cabinet to Previous to Secretary Mellon's con- LIMIT ON AIRPLANE Parley in Washington to End Building Rivalry Sought by Veterans. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., August 20— A world conference for the limitation of airplane construction for war pur- poses is proposed by the American Legion in an announcement made at gion here Ttoday. Ia furtherance of the proposal the legion, it was stated, jcans in regard to fhe advisability of holding such a conference in Wash- ington. All members of Congress, all gov- ernors, 1,000 editors, 100 college presi- dents and many others will be asked by the legion to express an opinion on the proposal. . It the opinion of the national lead- ers is favorable to the legion's proj- ect, President Coolidge will be asked to call an international conference, it was announced. French Armament Leads. Statistics gathered by the Ieglon1 show that France has 140 squadrons of military flying machines and in- tends to have 220 squadrons by the end of 1925, aecording to Commander Owsley. Included in the armament are planes which carry 75-milimeter cannon, planes which can tramsport six machine guns and their crews, enormous bombers, special fighting ships armored with battleship steel and actual troop ships of the air. England, according to the legion, is France's nearest competitor, and has voted an extra $27,600,000 to enlarge its air armada. The statement calls attention to the fact that naval and land forces have been reduced materially by interna- tional agreement and tHat the leglon proposes to attempt to obtain simi- lar measures In regard to air arma- ment. Calls Peace Coming Need. “The crying nesd of the world to- day is peace—industrial, commercial, economi® peace, a restoration from the ravages and horrors of war, a set- tling down and getting back to pur- suits of sane industry, quietude of heart and mind, to live'at safety se- cure_from_.the covetousness of the invader,” the statement read. “The = Washington _limitations of armament conference went a long way to persuade-.the world’s mind to record peace on the waters. Land forces, too, are being reduced™ But what of the air forces to wage war? “I propose to the world prepared- ness for peace—a coming together’'in a great world conference far the limitation ‘of airplanes for war in- stead of war to destruction. Adr- planes have a useful purpose to carry on the commerce of the world, a passenger service that is useful and un!que. 1 challenge the right of any nation to prepare any instrument of destruction .and claim the. name. of defender of the world peace. P “America is ready to lead thé way to secire peace in the air, andshe has gone far by example to make war of organized business, who gave their views on the economic situation in this country and Europe. Conditions in this country, they said, are gen- erally good, but there is need for certain legislation to make improve- ments. With fbut_one or two excep- tions, those in the delegation were officers of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. Secretary Mellon did not appear dis- | turbed over reported conditions in Europe. Nor did he look with any great alarm at the reparations prob- lem. He sald the latter is an open book at this time and that he is of thie opinion that a solution would be reached. He said that the subjects cussed with the President were of a general nature and mereiy with the dea of giving the la he benefit Column 5. (Continued on Page 2, MEREDITH 10 SUE SMITH BROOKHART Former Agriculture Secretary‘ Places Damages at 30 Cents for Attack. By the Associat DES MO! Towa, August 20.— Charges by Senator Smith W. Brook- hart of Iowa that E. T. Meredith, while occupying the office of Secre- tary of Agriculture, “sat-in the Wall street game and helped produce the greatest panic in farm prices in the kistory of agriculture,” prompted Mr. Meredith to instruct his attorneys to file suit against the senator for libel and damages of 30 cents, Mr. Mere- dith declared in a statement to the Associated Press today. Senator Brookhart’s charge, made in an address at Radcliffe, Towa, last Wednesday, Mr. Meredith said, ' “in- volved my integrity and honor and was without basis in fact.” . “But few people give any credence to Brookhart's statements, ith declared, “and while the damage of his statements might be more, I estimate his effectiveness at about 30 cents, s0 I have instructed my at- torneys to sue Mr. Brookhart for libel and damages in this amount— the real compensation being in get- ting Mr. Brookhart on record under oath. “The public will now have an op- portunity to see how nearly he can ccme to proving even one of his many mouthings.” Calls Argument Futile. “It is futile to argue with a man who is so careless with his state- ments as Senator Brookhart,” Mr. Meredith continued, recalling that the senator had declared the slump in agricultural prices had cost the farm- ers of the country $32,000,000,000, or elght. billions more than the whole cost of the war. “The issue betweet Brookhart and myself was whether the American farmers’ financial condition is worse this -year than last, as Brookhart claims. 1 pointed out in a recent statement that the grain farmer would recelve five hundred million dollars more for his grain this year than last vear, in spite of the slump in the price of wheat. I note that he admits this in his last outburst. “Since my statement was given out the Department of Agriculture has announced the agricultural price in- dex figures as of August 1. This in- Qex figure includes all the principal farm products and shows that the American farmer was 15% per cent better off on August 1 than he was a year ago, and 25.2 per cent better off than two vears ago on August 1. The War Finance Corporation fig- ures show that the farmers of Iowa, whom Brookhart has fancied were ruined long ago, borrowed approxi- | mately $24,000,000 two years ago, and that $17,000,000 of that principal sum, with Interest, has already been paid. In Nebraska the farmers have already repaid eleven-twelfths of the money they. borrowed, and in Iilinois they have repaid four-fifths of the money they_borrowed. “Can’ Brookhart convince any one, in the face of these facts, that the farmer is ruined. when he has, re- . covered' like -this?” + dis- | Mr. Mere- | TWO CENTS. 346 Lose Lives In Tidal Waves; 1,000 Missing (By the Associated Press. TOKIO, August 20.—Advices re- ceived here today from Seoul said that 346 persons are dead and more than a thousand missing as a re- sult of the recent tidal waves and storm in the four western prov- inces of Korea. The damage to houses and other property also was * great, The $form was heaviest along the Yalu river on the west coast of Korea. The first report of the storm, received here on August 15, said tidal waves submerged 25,000 houses along this river. VENUEFGHT TP R0, CARRET CASE IShower of Affidavits by Both Sides to Show Mind of Townspeople. By the Associated Press. CUMBERLAND COURT HOUSE, Va., August 20.—With the calling today of the trial of Robert O. Garrett, clerk of the Cumberland county circuit court, who is charged jointly with his brother, Larkin C. Garrett, murder last June 5 of the Rev. Ed- ward Sylvester Pierce, Baptist minis- ter, Virginia’s most noted criminal caso in recent years entered its sec- ond pHase, with indications that de- velopments will rival, if not surpass, the history-making mistrial of Lar- kin Garrett three weeks ago. That all the’ ground covering con- stitutional rights, change of venue d other legal technicalities that | featured that trial’ would be fought r again w forec: weeks ago, the first of thesc—that of a iange of venue—stiil was the storm center around which legal bat- te, renewed today, wage. : Scores of afidavits bearing on the | contention of the state that it can- i not obtain a fair and impartial trial in Cumberland county have been se- | cured since the last trial and were | held ready for introduction to sup- plement those presented when the case was originally called last July To offset these the defense also has obtained many, thus indicating another long-drawn-out battle of af- the case can be tried i ! i } | | ov H Judge's Three Alternatives Judge B. D. White of Princ Anne, who is presiding in the local court in !the absence of the regular circuit judge, George J. Hundley, who was disqualified by illness, has three av nues open to him in d osing of the case. He can grant the common- wealth's plea for a change of venue; " (Continued on Page = 21 PLANES FLYING UP COAST T0 MAINE Protection of Cities From At- tacks by Enemy Ships Is Object of Drill. | By the Associated Press. MITCHEL FIELD, N. Y. August 20.—Twenty-one Army bombing arl observation alrplanes, fiying in squad- ron formation, left Langley Hampton, Va., at 6 am. today, east- ern standard time, maneuvering their way up the Atlantic coast to Bangor, Me., according to wireless messages received by the commanding- officer here. Twenty of the planes reached here during the forenoon and stopped to refuel. One of the seventeen Martin bomb- ers in the squadron, piloted by Capt. Lioyd L. Harvey, was compelled to return to Langley Field because of motor trouble which developed soon after the take-off. Start Heavily Laden. The squadron as it started from Langley Feld included seventeen Martin bombers, heavily laden with dummy bombs, smoke screen appa- ratus, machine guns and wireless ap- paratus, and four De Haviland ob- servatton planes, also fully equipped. Maj. Reynolds of Laungley Field is in command. Brig. Gen. William Mitchell, sistant chief of the air service, supposed to be directing the move ments of the fleet from land by wire- less, although the exact whereabouts of his “war headquarters” is unknown to the fleet or to officers at this post. a: is Me., but before flying there from Mlitchel Field he indicated he might take the alr in this direction, meet- ing the battle squadron here or di- recting its maneuvers while in flight. Plans call for theoretical demon- strations along the route of the air squadron as an arm of defenee against attack upon coastal citles by enemy navies. Enemy navy fleet in Chesapeake bay” would be the wireless message to Maj. Reynolds, or “attack enemy cruisers off Ambrose channel,” with details of the position and strength of the objective. New York city may be prepared for a demonstration of the aerial smoke screen as a curtain of protection from the eyes and guns of an attacking navy, officers at this fleld report. The smoke would also hide the move- ments of the air fleet as it deployed to attack the enemy’s ships. Proceeding to Bangor, the bombers and observers are scheduled to start southward from there tomorrow, in detached units. to give aerial demon- strations of defense over numerous cities that have requested exhibitions. Philadelphia, Trenton and Baltimore are in _the contemplated &chedule. This will be the beginning of a series of such maneuvers which will cul- minate next month in an attack by the air service upon, two batfleships off the Virginia capes. The estab- lishment of routes and bases for a mobile defense of the coastal cities by air' is the object, 4 H Determined Stand. with the | Field, | He is believed to be at York Harbor, ENGLAND DESPAIRS OF ANY AGREEMENT IN NEW PARIS NOTE. Reply to British Statement on Reparations Issues Expected Tomorrow. EARLY SETTLEMENT HELD DOOMED BY FRENCH VIEW Foreign Office Discouraged by Poincare Reiteration of By the Ansociated Press August 20.—Downing = was in an expectant but pe mood today while awalting France's latest note on the reparation question. due shortly. The inflexible tone of Premier Polncare’s speech yesterday, to- gether with prophecies that the forth- coming note would show no alteration in his sttitude, struck a cord of die- couragement among those identified with the foreign office. The officials there feel that if the document is as con- tentious and uncompromising as the {pr forecasts say, there is little hope of bringing the interminable reparation problem any nearer a solution, and a turther exchange of ponderous and dis- cursive notes is foreseen. One official expressed the hope that the French premier’s note would at least indicate France's willingness to reduce the occupation of the Ruhr to “invisible” proporticns in return for the abandonment of passive resist- ance b Germany, and also that the document; might pave the way for a \ meeting 'between Premier Poincare ind Prime Minister Baldwin when the latter passes through FParis on his way to his vacation stay at Aix Les Baines It was admitted. however, that these hopes were rather in the na- ture of the wish heing father to the thought, and most British officials make no attempt to conceal the fact that they despair of reaching an early settlement. They foresee noth- ing “but independent action on the t of t Britain in dealing with ermany but are not prepared to say what forn any separate measures woutd be likely to take. | _The expectation was that the French note would be handed to the British embhassy in Parls today and be dispatched 1o London by courier, arriving tomorrow. 1f the forecasts prove accurate the document seems likely to be as lengthy as the last iote’indited by Lord Curgon. i POINCARE IS FIRM. Hopes for Agreement, But Dis- putes British Contention. By the Associated Press. PARISsAugust 20.—The impreSsion {drawn from Premier Poincare's ad- | dress at Charleville is that France | does not desire to see an end of the entente and that she hopes a way to | an agreement with Great Britain can { be found. | Refuting many of the statements ‘fm»\dfl in the recent note of Marquis Curzon—especially the argument that the Rulr occupation was fillegal-~ he referred to the alliance of the world war, and . pointed out that “friendships which remain sacred through hurricanes become neglected when the tempest has abated.” He added: “As far as we are conccrned, we should consider as criminal any act {or word which would tend to dis- i turb or weaken this alliance. We have jmade and will continue to make all efforts to draw our policy closer to that of our allies and will always be prepared to s-ek Wwith them such al- leviations ax concerted action may bring to their sufferings.” Turning to the question of British trade and the effect of the Ruhr oc- cupation upon it, the premier said | British statistics showed an increase in the tonnage value of exports and imports during the first months of | this year as compared with 1922. | Denies Ruhr Hurts Britain. “I do not conclude that England has profited by the Rubr occupation as I should have wished and as she might have profited if she had been by our side in the Ruhr, but I have the right to say tha if there are too many unemployed in England Gen. De- goutte has nothing to do with it,” he added. The Rubr occupation, he asserted, is not illegal, inasmuch as the Ver- sailles treaty and collective allied declarations recognize the right of the allies to occupy additional ter- ritory as securfty for reparations payments. “Peace,” he £ald, “entails the loyal execution of treaties signed, and jus- tice exacts complete reparation ~for dumages caused. France demands nothing else, and England_cannot desire anything different. Surely a way of agreeing together must be found.” It is understood that the French reply to Lord Curzon's note will be sent to London tomorrow. ONE DEAD, ONE DYING IN LOVE TRIANGLE Man Found Slain, Woman's Throat Slashed, Husband of Latter Suspected. By the Associated Press. HAMONTON, N. J., August 20.— Andrea Ordille, fifty - years old, was found dead at his home today with two bullets in his body and his wife was found in another room with her throat so badly cut with a hatchet that she may die, as the résult of a love triangle, the state police belleved. The police declared Ordille was the man who last night dynamited the bakeshop and home, of Peter Thomasino and that Ordille then tried to kill his wife and committed sulcide in anger. The police claim to have knowiedge of an affair be- tween Mrs. Oriille and Thomasino. The dynamiting of Thomasino's home about midnight injured two persons who were passing the house. Three of Thomasino’s children were cut by flying glass. =