Evening Star Newspaper, August 21, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. \ Increasing cloudiness, showers late tenight or Wednesday; cooler Wednes- day afternoon or night. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 83, at noon today; lowest, 63, at 4 a.m.’ today. Full report on page 7. ' 3 Closing N._Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page Zi No. 28,966. post office Wa: Entered as second-class matter shington, D. C. ALPS BUS PLUNGE . KILLS D.C. WOMAN, INIURES ANOTHER Mrs. D. S. White Falls to Death With 5 Others—Mrs. W. W. Spaid Hurt. MRS. META MOONEY LONE ONE OF 22 TO ESCAPE V' Big Motor Car Dashes Across Bridge Into Precipice When Bi.kes Fail to Work. B the Assoclated Dre: NICE, August 21.—Five American tourists and one Frenchman were killed and fifteen persons injured, some perhaps fatally, when a sight- &eeing motor bus crashed through a parapet on the mountain road be- tween Nice and Evian yesterday, plunging over a 100-foot precipice into the River Var. Eighteen of the twenty-two pas- Eengers were Americans. The dead are: The Rev. Hiram Grant Person u«nd Mrs. Person of Newton, Mass.; Mrs. Alexander Sondheimer, Mrs. D. K. White of Washington, D. C.; Charles H. Gray of Gardiner, Me., and the French chauffeur, Louis Vallerino. Alexander Sondheimer, a native of Louls, was in a critical condition today. Another of those hurt was Mrs. Spaid of Washington, ®. C. Bus Jumps Parapet. At the point where occurred the mountain road runs « close to the precipice. The driver of the bus was apparently unable to straighten out his car after making @ sharp turn and the machine jumped the parapet, turning a somersault be- fore landing in the torrent far below. The only passenger unfiurt was Mrs. Meta Mooney of Washington, D. C. The accident occurred near the vil- lage of Guillames, about forty miles + from Nice, the accident List of Injured. The list of injured follows: Alexander Sondheimer, left fractured in two places. Isaac Strayhorn, compound fracture of the left arm, wounds in the head. Mrs. Isaac Strayhorn, left arm brok- en, internal injurles, left ankle brok- en, condition serious, - ritron G. Person, lower and upper \ Jaws broken. - Robert T. Person,sslight wounds fn the head. B. Miller, Teft arm Russell fractured knee, wounds in the head. Mrs, W. A, Hocker, jaw broken, in- ternal injuries, condition serjous. (o Miss W, H. Beaumont, deep wound two places. W. R. Coffey, wounds in the chest, serious wound in the forehead. Mrs. W. R. Coffey, superficial wounds. no hones broken. Mrs. W. W. Spaid of Washington, D. C., left coliar bone broken. F. W. Rugg. official photographer of the Temple Tours, internal injuries. Rene Moreau of Brussels and Jean Paul of Nice, slightly hurt. Led By Professor. The American tourists, led-by*Prof. | Russell B. Miller of Ohio Weslyan University, arrived -in Nice Sunday, . after a tour through Italy. They left here, accompanfed by Photographer Rugg, vesterday morning in great spirits. They stopped for luncheon in the village of Guillaumes, perch ed high in the French Alps, and on Jeaving for Brlancon, made room for dean Paul of Nice, who wanted a lift to Barcellonette, Paul escaped with The car, he says, proce light injuries. »d at normal less its incline dropping 100 feet in than 1,000 yards, . . Brakes Fail (o Respond. The car gathered speed descending the bill, the chauffeur, according to Paul, apparently losing control, as speed over dangerous | left bank of the R ranging | from 300 to 900 feet above the Tevel | of the river bed | About two and one | of Gufilaumes th o | of the small torre | vicinity. The bridge over this stream | is reached by a hair-pin turn down | the de of the mountain, the road il|i | | the brakes did not respond. He nego- | tiated the bridge safely, but was un- able to take the sharp turn at the opposite end, the crashing into a parapet and going over at full speed. The Frenchman, seated on the side of the car opposite the chasm, was thrown Into the road and stunned. As he fell he heard shrieks from other passengers who were flung away from the open seats, as it from a catapult, into the river bed, the ear turning a somersault. Paul says the fact that the car was completely overturned probably saved the lives of many of the passengers, some of whom fell twenty to forty feet away from the machine. The passengers outright were crushed heavy vehicle. \ Sees Terrifying Scen Insensible only momentarily, Paul dragged himself to the parapet and gave one look.into the chasm. “I never saw and I never expect to see a more terrifying scene,” he told friends today, “and I have been through four years of war.” A passing automobile reached the spot shortly after the disaster and summoned relief parties. With diffi- culty the wounded, who were scat- tered over a radius of fifty feet from the car, which had burst into flames, were gathered together. Some of them were lying in the water, and two of*them were found hanging from projecting rocks. The two sons of the Rev. and Mrs. Person, Carlton and Robert, were among the injured, but were able to assist in the caring for the bodles of their father and mother. Mrs. White Diey in Hospital Mrs. Sondheimer and Mrs. White were so seriously injured that they were left in the hospital at Puget- Theniers, where ‘they dled shortly afterward. The others were taken to hospitals in Nice. Six bodles reached Nice this morn- « ing and were placed in the special room in the railroad station which during the war was reserved for the who were killed under the 4Coptinued on Page 4, Column 3.) - tles, left afm broken in | MRS, D. §. WHITE. BULLET! By the Assoclated Press. | ATLANTIC CITY, N. J,, August 21. i—The parley between anthracite |operators and miners over a new | wage designed to prevent a cessation of work in the hard coal fields, Sep- tember 1, broke up today. Adjourn- | ment was taken subject to call of | the secretary of the joint conference. John L. Lewls, president of the United Mine Workers of America, {declared this afternoon that unless FRENCH RUHR NOT HANDED TO BRITISH; | Paris Unyielding on Main Is- | Will Avoid Break. By the Assoclated Press. August 21.—The French | of Marquis Curzon, the British for- jeign secretary. on the reparations situation, was handed to the British {embassy at 9 o'clock today. | The feeling in French official cir- |cles is that this note, dictated b | Premier Poincare, will prevent a rup- | ture of the entente. {fidence is expressed that the British {cabinet wil find it conciliatory and isee In it a basis for continued dis- | cussion of the Ruhr occupation and ithe reparation problem generally. There is no concealment of the fact ! that the reply is largely conversa- tional, that Premlier Poincare is un- |vielding on the outstanding features Jof the situation and that it is not | expected Prime Minister Baldwin will find the reply conclusive. It is considered almost certain, how- ‘ever,that he will regard it asien- | couraging. and will withhold any ;D!anfil for separate action toward {Germany until the points In dispute are further elucidated. The French reply takes up fifty pages of a yellow book, which will be -issued tomorrow, together with a summary in both English and French. AWAIT NOTE LISTLESSLY. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. TLONDON, August It there is any interest in the expected receipt in | London of Premier Poincare's latest | addition to a long. series of notes on reparation and the Ruhr, it exists out- | slde of official quarters. Stanley Bald- | win is completely tired out by his first Ifew months as prime minister. He i remains in retirement in the country. | However he will éome to London tomor- | row, Wednesday, to read ‘the French note, expected:to reach London tonight. ‘Whether Premier Poincare's message is couched in friendly or most abusive | terms_arouses little or no excitement. | His exposition of views is considered merely the fag end-of a fruitless debate. | nt Définite Proposals. | The few"diplomats who are remain- |ing jn London during the holiday sea- son declaré that Poincare intends for {nis note to create an atmosphere of good will, but unless he makes some startling concessions he will fall short of his objective. The British govern- ment- wants to see.in his note a de- sire upon the part of the French to | modify the Ruhr occupation and an (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) A certain group of employes at the Washington city post office to- day refused to sit for the photo- graphs which Postmaster Mooney has requested for office files. - The objection being brought to the attenition of the postmaster, he called a conference of supervisory officials and asked for full detalls. Postmaster Mooney then told the supervisors to tell 'the objecting employes that they were at full liberty to refrain ‘from having their photographs taken, as that fact was made plain in. his original announcement Saturday. Sitting for thie photographs is entirely optional with the em- ployes, Postmaster Mooney pointed °'Thie cotncldence of the announe: ment of the~beginning of the file of photographa with the srest:of 7 | sues; But Hopeful London Considerable con- | IFALL 100 FEET OVER PRECIPICE | | | MAY SAVE ENVENTE government's reply to the recent note ! WASHINGTON, we MRS. W. W. SPAID. COAL PARLEY BREAKS UP; . STRIKE SEEN BY LEWIS something unforseen intervened, the miners would - consider themselves out of employment on September 1. It seemed generally agreed by rep- es of both sides that only it intervention could avert of the mines. Today’s break came when the oper- ators definitely refused to grant the wage increase demanded by tig miners. Notice of the break was im- mediately sent to the United States Cosl Commission at Washington. The commission had induced the parties to renew wage negotlations after a serles of conferences in New York last week. Stinnes and Cuno Going to London, Newspaper Says By the Assoclated Press LONDON, August Stinnes and Dr. Wilhelm Cuno, the former chancellor, are coming to London this week, says the Daily Sketch. The newspaper adds that the nature of their mission Is a mystery. KILLER SONIN:LAW AS SIX WATCHED Father’s Confession Blames Execution on Cruelty to Daughter, Say Police. By the Associated Press. NEWNAN, Ga. August2l.—How six members of a famHy were called upon to witness the execution of their brother-in-law” was revealed to the police here by John W. Minter, who confessed, the: police sald, that he shot Millard Trouton near herea fort- night ago and then threw his bedy into a shallow creek. Minter, head of a large family of boys and girls and having four sons- in-law, one of whom was Troutan, told that to avenge alleged mistreat- ment of his daughter, the wife of Trouton, and prevent him from mak- ling further overtgres to get her to come back to live with him, he de- cided to “get rid of -him “It preyed on my mind: I could net forget it,” Minter is quoted by the police in his confession. He was re- ferring, they said, to a whipping which Trouton gave his wife, causing her to leave him and return to her parents. Mrs. Trouton told her father, brothers and brothers-in-law of other mistreatment. Then came a note to her from Trou- ton, Minter sald, seeking a reconcil- iation. The father called bis sons and sons-in-law Into councfl and it was then decided, that:to prevent any chance of Mrs. Trouton-leaving- the Minter home again to live with her ‘husband” they would kidnap him and \get him out of the way. g The father takes all the blame for the klilling, the police said. Has sons, John, Jeff, Benjamin and Grady, and his sons-in-law, L. L. Goodrum, B. F. Weldon and Claude Washington, and a friend W. M. Feltman, are impli- cated in the plot. Ben Freeman, also being held, was not implicated in the confession. & Trouton’s body was found floating in the shallow stream about nfne miles below the place where the al- leged killing took place. His arms and legs were tied, Examination of the: body, according to the police, revealed that the skull had been crushed. ‘ Group of Post Office Workers | Refuse to Sit for Photographs a mail clerk for taking money from letters, both of which occur- red last Saturday, seems to have made sqme of the employes feel that the photographs were being secured for the purpose of detect- ing criminals. Postmaster Mooney sald today that nothing could be further from his thoughts in ordering the tak- ing of the photographs. As a mat- ter of fact, his idea ‘in securing the photographs is to have a complete record of his employes, both for his- own use, in becoming better acquainted with the 2,000 workers under him, and ‘in ‘protecting the employes themselves. Supervisory officers ' took - the word back from the postmaster to the employes who had objected, telling them that there is no.com: ulsion whatever in regard to hav- - ng thelr photographs taken, and thet they are to feel perfectly free, either to sit for the photographs, which' cost each'employe "2 or mot to ‘sit, just - about :the -matter.- . - cen s -they feel RS 2].—“uso~] ~ WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION @he Foening D. C, BIG STADIUM HERE TO HANDLE 20,000 READY BY AUTUMN Clark Griffith to Enlarge League Park for Big Sporting Events. HOPE TO BRING SPORT FEATURES TO CAPITAL New Concrete Stand to Seat 13,- 000 Chief Feature—Work Starts at Once. BY DENMAN THOMPSON. An athletic field capable of accom- modating upward of 50,000 spectators will be available for Washington this fall. President C. C. Griffith of the Washington Base Ball Club, today an- nounced that plans for additions to the stands at the Georgla avenue in- closure have been perfected which will give the Capital a plant ex- celling in size and modern appoint- ments that boasted by any city in the south, and hopes by this means to make the seat of the national gov- ernment a real center for athletic events of all descriptions, The immediate cause for the re- | modeling of American League Park on such an extensive scale as that planned is for the purpose of pro- | viding accommodations for the huge throng expected to attend the Army- Marine foot ball game to be played [here Saturday, December 1, but the ultingate purpose is to assure for this city a site adequate to care for mon- ster assemblages that may be at- tracted in future vears. Heretofore Washington has been handicapped in bidding for sporting events of major importance owing to the~fact that it had no fitting place to stage them, but with the facilities made possible by the project now to be undertaken this drawback will be eliminated. The gridiron clash of the soldiers ,and ‘marines, an event which an- nually is assuming more and more j Importance, will be the chief attrac- tion of the autumn this year, but it will be supplemented by numerous games listed by Georgetown Univer- sity, which has designated the park as its home fleld. These include en- gagements with elevens representing | George Washington University. the 3d_Army Corps, Boston College. Buc nell University and_ the Univer- sity of Oklahoma. Ultimately it Is hoped that the foot ball battle of Un- cle Sam's service schools at Annapolis and West Point, the prize of the entire gridiron season, may be staged here, at least every other season. No assur- rances ta-this effect have beeh receiv- ed, but inthnations given indfcate that with an adequate plant available, a [ bid for the classic would receive se- rious consideration. Fhe enlarged park, when completed, it known as the Clark Grifith déums. The principal addition will Dbe the construction of a new concrete stand designed to seat approximately 13,000.. The contract already has been 1let to the George A. Fuller Company {on a cost-plus basis. with the stipu- lation that it-be completed by Novem- ber 1 mext. Actual operations are to be started tomorrow. It is estimated that the enterprise will involve the outlay. of about $110,000. New Stand at East End. The new stand will be situated { starting from a point east of the end of the present left-field pavilion and. paralleling the wall, extend south- ward to the extreme corner in center field, where it will run obliquely to the 'far end of the ‘present score- board in right center. It will be thirty-seven rows deep and have a total length of 400 feet, with numer- ous aisles and spaces for the en- trance and exit of spectators. In ad- dition to_the present gateways on Georgia avenue and Bohrer street | there will be three openings on the |5th street side for the ingress and egress of the publle, with two broad exit lanes on the east ,designed make possible the emptying of a ca- pacity crowd in a short space of time and with a minimum of discomfort. For the purpose of providing places of vantage for many hundreds of spectators in addition to those In the permanent stands the new structure will nearest the pldying field, and in front of it, for its entire length, will be placed temporary seats of the type used for foot bail games at the park last fall 3 Wooden seats will be installed to run from the far end of ti present permanent box seats in front of the left-field pavilion and temporary seats also will be placed In the open space in front of the wire screen in the center of the grandstand back of the home plate. The entire fleld will be sodded for foot ball, less than sixty-two feet In depth the distance from the home plate to the limits in left fleld will be approximately 400 feet, which will provide a playing space for base ball considerably more extensive than a majority of ball parks in the major leagues. Grid Scor¢board Planned. Gridiron enthusiasts will be assured an unobstructed view of the field from every seat and efforts will be made to rovide every facility for their en- Joyment of the games. Plans include the erection of a modern scoreboard on which the number of downs, iden- tity of the player carrying the ball, {distance gained, yards to go, etc., will be depicted and a press box to accom- modate 100 newspaper men will be erected opposite the center of the gridiron, which will be laid off as formerly, with the goal posts at the eastern and western ends of the park. Tickets for the Army-Marine game already have been ordered and now are being printed. The scale of prices for the contest will be determined within a few days at a conference be- tween the heads of the two branches of the military service. Applications\ for reservations already received in- dicate widespread interest in the con- test. 2 KILLED, 2 HURT WHEN Young People Returning From Party Struck by Pitts- burgh Flyer. DUNKIRK, N. Y., August 21.—Two persons were killed and two serfously injured when the Pittsburgh fiyer crashed into & light coupe at a cross- ing of the Pennsylvania rajlroad here early today. The dead: Herber Ro- loft, twenty-one, Fredonia; Miss Mar- tha Rosthowskl. seventeen, Dunkirk. The injured: Walter Orcutt, twenty- one, Dunkirk, lég broken and bryise: Miss Martha Bettrowskl, eighteen, Dunkirk, lacerated scalp and possible internal injuries. The young people were returning from & party.in the country. Their machine was directly on the tracks ..+ when the locomotive.struck ity . ., > to | be nine feet high at the point | and with the new stand | TRAIN HITS AUTOMOBILE To Bring U. S. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. President Coolidge and Secretary Hughes have approved the findings| of the American-Mexican commis- sloners who have evolved a basis for the resumption’ of diplomatic rela- tions at once between the United States and Mexico. Just as soon as diplomatic rela- tions have been renewed there will be signed by ‘the governments at Washington and Mexico City two conventions covering general claims |as well as claims growing out of the revolution. These pacts niust be {ratified by the Senate of each coun- ;lry. No difficulty is anticipated in obtaining their approval, as they sim- | SPRINGS SENSATION IN GARRETT TRIAL Prosecutor in Murder Case Charges Effort Made to i Intimidate Him. By the Associated Press. CUMBERLAND COURTHOUSE, Au- gust 21.—Another sensation was eprun | in the Garrett case this morning when as court .opened Acting Commonwealth's Attorney Bonifant addressed the court | with the statement that effors had been made to intimidate him. Mr. Bonifant told the court that after adjourment of court yesterday he was approached by J. E. D. Garrett, who he said was no kin of the Garretts on trial, and who called him to one side jand began “telling him some things |about the Garrett trial” Attorney H. M. Smith, of the defense counsel, ob- jected to Mr. Bonifant stating what | Garrett had told him and an argument ensued. After considerable talk in which no little feeling was shown is was decided to have Garrett brought into court and interrogated as to what he’told Mr. Bonifant and “what he meant.” Mr. Bonifant insisted that one of the city police be sent for Garrett 56 that he would have no opportunity to talk to any one before he got to court. 'Mr. Smith then asked if he was to understand that the Garrett trial had reached 2 stage where the regular officers of the court could not be trusted to ‘even summon a witness fram another county. ' R. E. Byrd of the prosecution promptiy replled that “It had.” Further argument was ended by Judge White, who directed that arguments on the change of ventie proceed while the court awalted the arrival of Mr. Garrett. Motion Delayed. With five more attorneys to be heard in arguments when court re- convened this morning, a half hour earller than usual, indications were that a decision on the state's motion for a change of venue in the trial of Robert O. Garrett would not come be- fore late in the day. Robert Garrett! stands jointly indicted with his brother, Larkin C. Garrett, for first degree murder in connection with the] shooting _to death last June 5 of thel Rev. E. S. Plerce, Baptist minister. The motion for a change of venue was made yesterday for the third time since the Garrett case was first called more than three weeks ago and was followed by the reading of up- ward of 200 affidavits from both the commonwealth and defense bearing on the question of whether a fair-and unblased trial could be had in the Jocal county court. William M. Justi was the only one of the seven attor- neys engaged in the case who spoke yesterday and it is expected five of the others will be given opportunity to argue today. Attorney Richard Evelyn Byrd of} state counsel was the first speaker to-: day and R. H. Mann the second. Mil- ton P. Bonifant, acting commonwealth attorney, and George B. White, also of the prosecution, probably will cipse the argument for the state, and Attorney L. O. Wedenberg for the defense. ‘Whatever the decision of Judge B. D. (Continued on Page 4, Column 6.) Coolidge and Hughes O. K. Plan New Era of Friendship Foreseen as Basis Is Found for Removal of Friction and Restoring of Relations. | Rodriguez servea his sentence from! ! against a house in which he knew Star. TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1923—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. AT ROCKVILLE. -Mexican Amity ply set up a machinery for the ad- Justment of claims which is eminent- 1y satisfactory to both governments. All the troublesome oil and agrarian questions will be handled by properly constituted .tribunals. Mexico has in no sense compromised herself to.ob- tain recognition and the United States on its part has become convinced of the sincerity and good falth of the Mexican authorities. - Era of Friendnah! Indeed, an era of” friendship and good will between the United States and Mexito now may be predicted. There was for & time during the con- versatigns between the American and Mexicah commisplonérs considerable difficulty In arriving ata formula that | (Continued Page_1, Column 1. GABLES WOOD GAVE EX-CONVICT OFFICE Seen. Quezon Tells Weeks Mayor of Manila Served Year for Abduction. By the ASsociated Press. MANILA, August 21.—Political circles were jarred this afternoon when . Manuel Quezon, who recently resigned as president of the Philip-| pirie senate because of his differences with the American executive admin- istration, announced he had cabled the Secretary of War that Mayor Rodriguez of Manila, lately appointed | to that post by Gov. Gen. Leonard ! Wood, was an ex-convict from Bilibid prison. The Herald Issued an extra edition, demanding editorially that the Bov ernor general request Mayor Rod- riguea’ resignation. Quezon charged that Mayor Rod- riguez served one year for procuring the abduction of a woman by a band of bandits.” Rodriguez also was con- | victed, according to Quezon's cable, of being an accomplice to the murder of J. P. Berry of the 27th United States Infantry. Cites Alleged Sentence. In his message to the Secretary of War, Quezon asserted that Rod- riguez was-“a former inmate of Bili- bid penitentiary.. Crime for which | Rodriguez was duly convicted and sentenced to one year and fined 1,000 Ppesos was that of procuring the forcible abduction of a woman against her will by a band of bandits. June, 1900, to June, 1901. He twice| applied for a panlon, but both times it was denled. The cable declared further that Rodrigues was convicted of being an accomplice to the murder of J. P. Berry of the 27th United States Intan- try. Rodriguez was alleged to have led a detachment of ‘American troops bandits were concealed. Berry was “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 88,872. TWO CENTS. COASTTO.COAST AL FLYERS OF Planes Leave New York and San Francisce on 28-Hour Schedule This Morning. By the Associated P HEMSTEAD, N. Y., August 21.— With one mail plane winging its way from San Francisco to New York, anther took off from Hazlehurst Field on Long Island for the pacific coast today in the first of five days' tests inaugurated by the gevernment to demonstrate one exhibition of pers manent transcontinental air mall service. ' The start was made at 11:01, eastern standard time, unofficially clocked. Pllot C. Eugene Johnson ‘carried only eighty-four pounds of mail, con- sisting of 3,444 letters from New York and a few papers and officlal communi.- cations. More than 26,000 special delivery letters had been received at the New York post office for this trip but it was found Impracticable o carry all of them. Other batches of letters will be picked up at various points along the route. One of the letters was. written by Johnson to his mother in San Francis- | co. There were several communica- tions for the.mayor of San Francisco, but it was not announced who they were from. PILOT ILL, BUT GAME. Johnson, Running High Fever, Goes on With Flight. By the Assoelated Press. NEW YORK, August 21.—Loaded with special dellvery letters bearing jcomplimentary stamps and a few first- | | edition afternoon newspapers, one of | five airplanes was ready today to in- augurate a five-day test aerial mail express transcontinental mail serv- ice, the success of which will deter- mine its permanency. Regardless of weather conditions, a plane will hop off daily from New York to San Francisco from now un- tl Saturday. At 11 a.m., Pilot C. Eu- gene Johnson, in spite of the fact that late last night he suffered from a se- vere bronchial attack, with high tem- | perature, will take flight from Hazel- | hurst Field, L. I. on the first west- ward flight of the test The mail plane leaving here tomor- row will be piloted by Shirley J. Short; that on Thursday by W. L. Smith; Friday, P. F. Collins, and Sat- urday, Brooke H. Pearson. WILL PASS NEAR OMAHA. Mail Flyers Expected to Complete Trips Tomorrow Afternoon. By the Assoclated Pres: OMAHA, Neb, August 21.—Some- where between Omabha .and Grand Island, Neb., the two alrcraft which started today, one from San Francis- co, the other from. New York, in- augurating the thirty-hour trans-con- tinental alr mail service, will pass each other.'One started from San Francisco at 5:59 a.m., and the one (Continued on Page 4, Column.6.) RETURN OF GEDDES ASENVOY DOUBTED killed in the fight that followed, ac- cording to the cablegram. No mention ‘was made of a pen- alty having been inflicted in this case. Although there had been a gradual- Iy widening split between the legls- lative leaders and Gov. Gen. Wood, the immediate cause of the resigna- tions was the governor general's ac- tion In reinstating a secret service official who had been dismissed for Condition of Eyes, Sight of One Being Lost, Revives Re- ports of Embassy Change. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, August 21.—Reports that Sir Auckland Geddes, British ambas- ,of the United States.” - alleged bribery but later exonerated. |Sador to'the United States, will not The cabinet members in resigning [return to Washington have been re- charged the governor general with |vived because of the precarious con. seeking “to intervene and control, 5 even to the smallest details, our gov- |dition of his eves. While the govern- ernment, both insular and local, in|ment will not concede, the likelihood | utter digregard of the authority and |of his retirement, the impression pre- respons ity o e lepartmen F ot other officials conaerned |vailes in well informed political cir- COOLIDGE TO HOLD U. S, 70 PRESENT EUROPEAN POLICY Convinced After Many Con- ferences That No Change Is Advisable Now. RESUMED RELATIONS WITH MEXICO AT HAND President to Move Into White House Tonight After Final Dinner at Hotel. President Coolidge has no inten- tlons of changing this government's European policy. In making this em- phatic statement today a spokesman for the President sald the latter has been convinced that the course fol- lowed by the late President Harding In dealing with the nations of Europe not only denotes wisdom, but has proven entirely satisfactory and that unless subsequent developments make it necessary there will be no change. Within the past few days President Coolidge has received a number of officlals and citizens at the White House who have reported their ob- servations of existing conditions in Europe, but nothing reported by these callers has led the President to con- sider any alteration in this country's attitude as being necessary. It is ex- plained further that these reports have on the other hand assured the Executive of the wisdom of the policy adopted by President Harding and executed by Secretary of State Hughes. The President is of the opinfon from the great abundance of information furnished him from all quarters that there is nothing for the United States to do to relicve some of the difficul- ties being experienced by European nations other than what it has al- ready done and is now being at- tempted. Pleased Over Mexico. It was intimated at the White House today that resumption of dip- lomatic relations between this coun- try and Mexico is now only a mat- ter of short time. President Coolidge is known to be highly pleased with the reports made to him yesterday afternoon by Charles B. Warren and John Barton Payne, who have —bgen negotiating with Mexico. It wa§ stated authoritative- 1y that the “complete report and recommendations .of these two com- missfoners is now. peing digested by Secretary of State Hughes and will jbe_in the hands of the President in & very short time. The first step to be taken by this government wiil be {the assignment of a chatge d'affaires | in Mexico City, to be followed shortly jafterward by an ambassador and the 'rerel\'inl of one in thid country. President and Mrs. Coolidge expect to sleep in the White House tonight. |In making this known at the White | House today 1t was cxplained that it is the President's Intentions to come to the White House with his wife after dinmer at the Willard | Hotel. but it {s Mrs. Coolidge's wish i that this event be attended by gulet and simplicity, and with as little | ostentation as possible. Against Tariff Honrd. Recent conversations with Tariff Commission members and other stu- dents of the tariff question have failed thus far to convince President | Cooltdge of the practicability of = { tariff adjustment board. Indications were given at the White House today that while Mr. Coolidge had not given mature consideration ! to the subject, he felt at this time | that the powers accorded the com- misgion were sufficiently broad to en- compass such work as proponents of | the separate adjustment board would | have that agency perform. | ‘The President was represented as {having seen many objections to the | proposal and only a few advantage: The general question of a tariff policy was sald to remain as it was under | tne administration of President Hard- ng. A conference of state governors | called by President Coolidge to con- | sider methods for strict enforcement of the prohibition laws was forecast today at the White House. No final decision to assemble such a confer- ence, however, has been reached. President Harding had made plans to confer with the state executives on the subject last spring, but the late sessions of the state legislatures made It inadvisable to request the governors to come to Washington. ‘When he departed on his Alaskan trip he announced that the conference would be called soon after he return- ed, and White House officials today said there had been no change {n that plan. Arrangements for the conference probably will be worked out as soon as Prohibition Commissioner Haynes returns to Washington. CHARWOMAN LOSES JOB, CAME TO WORK IN AUTO By the Associated Press. DETROIT, August 21.—Because she came to work in an automobile ohe of the charwomen at the municipal courts building has been discharged, Joseph A. Martin, commissioner of public works and custodian of public buildings, informed the common council here last night. Martin told the council it was the policy of his { department to give cleaning work to needy women. Members of the common council decided that while councilmen might ! own automobiles scrub women with motor cars were quite another mat- commissioner. FRENCH SEIZE 3 MORE COAL MINES IN RUHR By the Associated Press. DUESSELDORF, August 21.—Three more coal mines in the Gelsenkirchen district .have been seized by the French, it was announced at occu- Gov. Gen. Wood denled there was|cles that the government aufnorities | any basis for such charges and ac-|are casting about for a suitable suc- cused the leaders of “an organized |cessor. and preconcerted attack * * * upon| Ambassador Geddes has lost the the authority of the governor gen-|slght of one eve, which entails a| eral under the organic act and as the |great strain upon’ the other,-and in | representative of the sovereign power |addition his general physical condi- | Y tion is' impaired. pational headquarters here today, and 35,000,000,000 marks have been con- fiscated in this city. Herr Rudert, editor of the com- munist organ Refhit, who fled after making an _inflammatory speech against the French on May 1, has n arrested. ter, and upheld the decision of the & ¥ Fi