Evening Star Newspaper, August 25, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair tonight and tomorrow; moder- ate temperature; gentle winds, mostly westerly. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 7 b p.m. yesterday; lowest, 59, at 6 a.m. tod Fuil report on page 4. Elosing»N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 10 @h Entercd as se postoftice Was No. 98,970. ond-class matter hington, D. C. MINE ~ TOACCEPT PINGHOT CONFERENCE PLAN Pennsylvania Official Sum- mons Both Sides to Parley Monday at Harrishurg. UNION DRAWS UP RULES FOR CONDUCT OF STRIKE! Plans Made to Tie-Up Industry September 1—Willing to Accept New Peace Movement. | B the Assoctated Press. ATLANTIC CITY. —Representatives of anthracite mine operators and officials of the miners’ union will accept Gov. Pinchot's invi- tation for a conference at Harrisburg Monday on the threatened anthracite suspension Members of both groups, who are!| still in Atlantic City, said the Invi- tation would be accepted as soon received HARRISBURG, Pa, Augus Invitations to meet him in Harrisburg next Monday noon were sent by Gov. Tinchot today to the four represent, tives of the anthracite miners and the four members of the operators’ pulicy committee, who have been taking part_in the recent negotiations. as the first step in his efforts to adjust | differences between the two fac 4 uvert a suspension of the mine ptember 1 ! Text of Invitations. 1 Pinchot's invitation said: | you meet me at the capitol | yurg on Monday, August to consider how the L interest of the miners, the operat wnd_general public, both in Penns nia and in other States, can be pro- ted, by insuring the continued lings of anthracite? 1 do not b licve the last werd Las yet been said. he safety and weltare of the peo- of Pennsylvania and the other | Lracite-using states make it of | vital Importance that mining shall | £o on. That is my_justification for | asking you to come. 1 The message was addressed to John Lewis, sident of the United | w Rinaldo Cappellini istrict No. 1; Thomas Kennedy, president of distriet No. 7. and C. J. Golden, president of dis- 9. as representatives of the miners, and to 8. D. W man, and W. J. Richards, W. lish and A. B. Jessup, membe operators’ policy committee. details of the plans for | s have not been completed | y were ranidiy taking form today. | governor did not vome to his at the capitol, but remained at | executive mansion, devoting his | attention entirely to the coal situa- tion . J. August 25. Gov “Wi in Harri at 12 noot L rriner, chair- | W. Ing- s of tr Resumes Conferences. He resumed conferences early in the day with Secretary Joseph J. Walsh of the state department of mines, and ail available reports and data bear- ing on the situation were taken up. Monday's meeting here, it was in- dicated after the invitations had been | sunt out, will open at the capitol as| conference, probably with | v, Pinchot, as special mediator, | presiding. At that time it is believed tiae zovernor will outline in greater | detail the reasons for calling the Jieeting. Later separate conferences | may be arranged, and if @ common Dbasts of understanding can be evoived from these meetings the two factions | probably will be asked to resume Joint conferences. STRIKE AUTHORIZED. Union Draws Up Plans for Walk-| out September 1. i B the Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., August 25. Anthracite mine workers' representa- tives yesterday took the last step necessary to shut down the mines September 1. Though news came to them from Washington that Gov Pinchot of Pennsylvania, with Pre: [address i | with ROW LEADERS URGES BIR KENHEAD SPEECH BE BARRED FORWILSON ATTACK Breckenridge Asks Bar As- sociation Cancel Talk écheduled by British Lord. DECLARES REMARKS ARE INTOLERABLE TO AMERICA Former Lord Chancellor Said World Not Ready for Former President’s Views. By the Associated I'ress, NEW YORK, August .—Charac- ((:x'lz(ng the references to Woodrow Wiison by Viscount Birkenhead, for- mer lord chancellor of England, in his address before the Williamstown Institute of Politics, as “impudent,” Henry Breckenridge, assistant secre- tary of war under Wilson, todav pro- tested in a letter to John W. Davis, president of the American Bar Asso- ciation, agalnst the viscount belng permitted speak at the associa- tion's annual convention. . Mr. Breckenridge urged that if it proved nocessary” for Viscount Birkenhea ]“l make the scheduled t “be intimated to him that the expression of such opinions con- “TRINE 4 great American statesman N' asteful and intolerable to any self-respecting American audionce.- Text of Letter, The text of Mr. Breckinridge's let- ter to Mr. Davis follows: “Permit me to refer to the impu- dent references to ex-Pr sldent Wil- on in Lord Birkenhead's speech b fore the Institute of Politivs, at Wil- liamstown. “As a member of the American Bar ociation, I regret that an With =0 little sens- of propriety has been invited to address its annual convention. If it proves necessary for him to fuifill his engagement to speak, I hope it may be intimated to him that the expression of such opin- ions concern « great American sl-tleux\vln is distasteful and intoler- able to ny self-respecting Americas audience. Mr. Davis, former ambassador under ”f" Wilson regime to Great Britain, could not be reached this afternoon At his otfices it was stated that Mr. Breckinridge's letter had been receiv- €d and wouid be delivered to Mr. Davis as soon as he could be reached. Reference to Wilson, The high spot of Viscount Birken- head’s comments of the former I'resi- dent czmne when, in an uddress In which he developed the thecry that self-interest alone and not altruism should determine America's attitude toward European problems, he said: “And therefore, while it scems to me that while the name of President Wilson must always be revered by those who render homag: to purposes almost superhuman, pursued with zeal almost as superhuman, yet must none the less be recognized that Lis judgment of his countrymen was wrong and that by the error of that judgment he became, parodoxically enough, the agent of all those post- war developments from which his altruistic mind would most especially have recoiled.” At another point he declared “President Wilson. indeed, came a noble message of hope; but unhappily in the sequel hope proved to be his principal equipment.” “It is a fascinating speculation whether, had he been given health to {and strength to pursue the campaign which he contemplated, his idealism and personality could have affected the forces of the world. 1 am bold enough, even at the moment when 1 pay the highest tribute to hiy un- selfish motives. to doubt it.” ASSAILS WILSON VIEW. Birkenhead Says World Not Ready for Idealism. Dy the Associated Press. WILLIAMSTOW "} office in Buckingham Pal aj it | Mass., August 2. WASHINGTON, D. By tie Assoct LONDON, August —Maj. Gen, Peyton C. March, former chief of staff of the American army, and Miss jCora Virginia McEntee of New York | city were marricd today at the registry ce road. s witnessed A., retired, | | i The brlef ceremony w by Col. J. M. Cabell, U, S. iMaj. Stewart O. Elting and Maj iDouglas H. Gillett. The latter two assistant mill attaches at the | American embassy. March and Miss McEntee ar- rived at the registry office In ta jicab, but had to wait several mi | utes while & number of other couples i BAKERTOADVOLATE LEAGUE OF MATIONS {Ex-War Secretary Also to Plead World Court in Demo- cratic Convention. ~ 1 Gen. BAKER By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, August 25.—Newton !D. Baker, Secretary of War under | President Wilson, announced today before sailing on the Homeric to {enter his daughter in school at Lau- | sanne, that he would go before the jnext democratic convention and ad- | vocate the league of nations and world court, two measures dear to { the heart of his former chief. Mr. Baker added that whenever he {could spare the time from his pri- {vate law practice he spoke in advo- cacy of these two measures. Says He Hax No Hat. Asked if he meant that he might be a candidate for the prestdency, and whether his hat is in the ring, he replied crisply: ! “I have no hat.” “I shall go before the next demo- cratie convention, however, and ad- WITH SUNDAY MARNING EDITION e, PINCH-HITTER PINCHOT. ‘Maj. Gen. Peyton C. March Weds Miss Cora V. McEntee in London | who had reached th lof them were married ahead bride registry The i I | |Wore a lace-trimmed brown silk gown | nd a I the general clothes On the marriage register Miss Me- | Entee gave her father's name Arthur Daniel Mck director of | woolen company {on the register | axed twenty-six Gen. March said he met his bride in | Rome three years ago, where she was | studying lang and music After the ceremony the couple pro. d to the American eml leavin soon_after for Folkestone emba for Pa PROBE AS USED BY POSTAL TRUGKS hat, while morning brown picture veus attired in can spinster, to Motor Fuel of U. S. Depart- | ment Said to Be Inferior. | ‘Oils Also Studied. | Investigation of the quality of gas | being used in government trucks and motor cars here was begun today | by Postmaster Mooney, following al- sations made to him that the gas | line being used to run the post oftice trucks is of poor quality t gas.” The postmaster also was informed that the oil used in the postal trucks “is thin as water,” and fs insufficient to properly lubmicate the machines. Gas being used by the city post of- fice will be sent to the bureau of | standards for testing. | It is understood that the gas and oil used in the Washington ¢ office is purchased upon authorization of the general supply committee of “seventeen- tablishment, which purchases for all the government departments. According to the word coming to as | | s described ¢ Foening St “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 ar. as fast as the papers are printed. | Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 88,543 SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1923—TWENTY-SIX PAGES. NIGHT AIR POSTAL TEST IN EAST ENDS Last Flyer With Pacific Mail Reaches New York Behind Record. ® Associated Press. MPSTEAD, N Y., August last eastbound flight in the pres- ent transcontinental relay mail test wis completed at 11:17 o'clock, east- ern standard time, today when Pilot C. H. Ames arrived’ from Cleveland. The entire distance from San Fran- clsco, in relays, was covered in twenty-six hours and seventeen min- utes, three minutes behind the re. ord established yesterday. RECORD IS BROKEN. Eastbound Pilots Set New Time for Cross-Country Flight. By the Assoctated Pross. CHICAGO, August 25.—Pilot W. C Hopson arrived with the castbound air mail plane from Omaha at 2:28 am., making a record verlod flights of four hours and five minutes for the trip. e Pilot W. D. Willlams hopped off for | Cleveland at 4:25 a.m., central time. | Over the 885 miles of lighted air- W two mall planes sped last night in the last of four fIghts to test the feasibility of establish- ing day and night eontinuous fights across the continent for mail plancs. Six times during the week their predecessors spanned the continent in a little more than a day, three times from east to west and three from west to east, and have, accord- ing to the officlals in charge. demon- strated the possibility of coast-to- post | coast mall service on a definite sched- ule in hours. While post office officials have an- approximately twenty-four the government, an independent es-|nounced that the six flights have as. ured transcontinental mail service. the last flight was being watched with interest because each of the preceding ones had clipped time from for the test| between Cheyenne and Chicago, | transcontinental | the for- | Will Continue His Hospitalization Work Also. Comdr. J. T. Boone Will Continue As Assistant. Brig. Gen. Charles E. Sawyer, who was private physician to the late President Harding and Mrs. Harding, will continue as the White House physician. Commander Joel T. Boone, | medical officer of the Mayflower, who | was assistadt physician at the White House, for Presldent Harding, will lalso continue in that post under | President Coolidge. In announcing this officially at the White House today it was explained that Dr. Suwyer will be free to serve Mrs. Harding. It i understood that Dr. Sawyer will continue also as the head of the Federal Board of Hospitalization and ag the directing head of the activities at the Perryville, Md., Hospital and supply depot. However, Lis dutles in connection with the latter are tem- porary. Native of Marion. Dr. Sawyer, a native of Marion, Ohlo, was not only the Harding's family physician for many years, but was a close and Intimate friend. He came to Washington with the Presi- dent when he assumed office and was 1Dead, 1 Hurt As| Turks FireonU.S.| '\Flag on Launch ! By the Associnted | ATHENS, August 25.—A telegram from the Isiand of Imbros reports |that a naptha launch flying the | American flag and carrying ten | refugees was fired upon by Turkish soldlers at Gallipoli, one man being | killed and a woman badly wounded. The exact circumstances of the af- | {fair are lacking but it appears that | the boat had left Maitos, on the Galli- i poli Peninsula, for Kavala, a Greek i seaport, when, owing to the failure of | the engine, the craft drifted helpless- 11y toward the town of Gallipoli where | 1it drew the fire of the Turks. “ress. | Lewis CHIDA SUCCEEDS KATO AD INTERIM Death of Premier Came onf Eve of Elevation to Rank | of Viscount. | | By the Associated Press. | TOKIO, August 2 | Japan’s late premier, T. Kato, who dled vesterday, will| take place Tuesday, August 28, ac- cording to announcement made today. | The late statesman will receive all the naval honors due to an admiral of the fleet. Baron Kato formerly was nder of the first squadron and er of the navy. The American ambassador, E. Woods. this morning delivered | Secretary of State Hughes' cablegram | {of condolence to the foreign offi | Ambassador Woods later called at ,the Kato residence to express his! personal regrets. i - Viscount Yasuya Uchida, minister | of foreign affairs, has been appointed | Premier ad interim, and will serve 5.—The funeral of | Premier Baron | comn: | minist. Gen. Sawyer to Retain Post Of White House Physician BRIG. GEN, CHARLES E. SAWYER. shortly afterward made general in the United States Army Reserve Corps, assigned as the White House physician. Later when Presi- dent Harding was called upon to ap- point the Federal Hospitalization Board to work in conjunction with the Veterans' Bureau, he placed Dr. Sawyer at the head. During_Mrs. Harding's (Continued on | a brigadier long. _serious olumn 4.) FINDLIEUT. LEWIS APHASIA VICTIM Navy Officer Who Disappear- ed on Eve of Wedding Is Improving Today. Aphasia—that defection of the brain which blankets the memory—was of- cially cited today as the cause for the strange actions of Lieut. Frank . pay corps, United States Navy, dropped out of sight for two last Tuesday, the eve of his wedding to Mrs. Dorothy R. Bayliss of the Cairo Apartments. Capt. Lownds, commandant of the Naval Hospital, where Lieut. Lewis was taken Thursday evening following who days his discovery in Alexandria in a dazed | and semi-comatose state, declared to- day that while it had not vet been definitely established, physicians held the opinion that the patient was suf- fering on b vears of strenuous service in the Navy, and that aphasia was one of the develpoments of this breakdown. Lieut. Lewis was placed psychopathic ward for observation of his mental condition. Officers at the hospital made it clear that place- ment in that ward did not necessarily mean that a patlent's mind was al- ecte in the Unable to Remember. TWO CENTS. TWO RESIGN POSTS AS MEMBERS (OF UARDIANS BOARD Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall and Mrs. G. H. Grosvenor Send Resignations. STATEMENTS INDICATE THEIR DISSATISFACTION Former Declares She Has No In- fluence—Latter That She Is Against Recent Conditions. Mrs. Thomas Gllbert M as membe guardians In a letter addressed to the Com- missioners from Nova Scotla, Mr Grosvenor indicated that she has been out of eympathy with recent developments on the board Although Mrs. Marshall gave no reasons in her brief letter to the Commissioners, she stated in answer to queries: ‘L thought I was wasting my time on a board where I had no influence tand ed to devote my time to {other child welfare activities.” | Will Ald Child Welfare. Mrs. Marshall said she is extremely interested in the work of the Chiid { Welfare Society, which now operates in close co-operation with the health jdepartment, through neighborhood Jdirt stations, and will devote her Ispare time to that organization. Mrs. Grosvenor's letter fgllow find I shall not be able to ret ‘Washington 8 soon as I ha ex- pected, and, as 1 cannot accept re- | sponsibility for conditions that have [developed in the work of the board of children's guardians since Mrs, West's enforced resignation, I beg that you will accept my resignation as a member of the board, to take effect with the receipt of this letter.” Mrs. Marshall merely told the Com missioners that “I hereby tender my resignation a member of the board of chiidren’s guardians, to take effect at once.” ‘Temporary Agent Named. Mrs. Ella H. West, referred to in Mrs. Grosvenor's letter, was executive agent of the board for several years | prior to last June | _When she_left office the board gave sident W. W. Millan power to name a temporary agent pending se- lection of a permanent successor to Mrs. West. Acting on that authority, Mr. Mil- R. Marshall and Mrs. Grosvenor resigned today of the board of children's dec! 41 rn to nervous breakdown brought | tropical | lan a few days ago selected James E. | Stuart, a probation officer of the Ju- | venile Court, to serve as agent until September 26, when the board Is ¢chieduled to take up agaln the ques- tion of appointing a permunent agent Appointment of successors to Mrs. Marshall and Mrs. Grosvenor will not be taken up by the board of Com- miesioners until Commissioner Ru- dolph returns from his vacation. Mr. Rudolph supervises the work of the board %of guardian SEARCH FOR MISSING MINISTER STARTED Capt. Lownds said that the patient ! had not been able to remember his whereabouts, actions or assoclations on Tuesday evening, when he disap- peared, or on Wednesday or Thur: up to the time he was found by Kenneth Ogden, real estate man, Alexandria. Optimism as to Lieut. Lewis' con dition apparently pervades the home of his flancee in the Calro apart ments, where it was stated today that all indications point to a speedy recovery. He is not yet allowed to see friends, it was learned, but this be permitted tomorrow. Mrs liss_received word today that Lieut. Lewis passed an comfortable night. extremely | | Toledo, Ohio, Pastor Thought to | Be Somewhere in ! Chicago. in By the Associnted Pross. | CHICAGO, March Search for Rev. Andrew MeMahen, fifty-eight rs old, of Whytefogd road, Toledo, Ohjo, was begun by the police today on request of his wife, who declared ! he disappeared two weeks ago Mrs. McMahen. who in her munication to the police gave her ad- com- { the postmaster today, the gas being | until & new cabinet is formed. The theory that he had been dent Coolidge's support, would seck a lust word before the impending strug- gie in the anthracite region, scale committees from the three union dis- tricts authorized by unanimous vote the issuance of “work-suspension™ ards 1d walked out of their meet- ing to take the trains which Yast carricd most of them to their homes. Their officials, however. said that request which Gov. Pinchot might extend for further conference prob- ably would be accepted. In this view membere of the operators' policy committee, which was still held in the city, though S. D. Warriner, its chair- man, left temporarily, also joined. The employers would refuse nho re- quest for discussion, it was said, Jowever slight might be the prospect ( for a settlement, | Philip Murray, vice president of the United Mine Workers, and Thomas Jennedy, C. J. Golden and Rinaldo Cappellini, presidents of the anthra- | cite districts, met with the union kcale committees and reported upon the fruitless negotiations. There were | cighteen “miners from the pit’ as| prescribed by union law, delegates for their fellow workers, on hand to Jisten. John L. Lewis, president of | #he union, was confined to his bed wll day by a slight cold. At the end \f three hours of executive session, e miners, most of them men of lature years, trooped silently away. | Write Strike Rules. | “We are writing tonight a set of | rules which will govern the suspen- sion of work on the part of our mem- | bers that automatically comes about | Eeptember 1,*° Mr. Murray sald. “It| will be printed on Monday morning, | and will be mailed out Tuesday from , some point in the anthracite region in order to reach all of our locals by ! August 31. “For the first time the rules will also call for all of our members who are employed as firemen, pumpmen, engineers and maintenance men to cease work when the miners go out. These men have hitherto been left in gervice in order to keep the mines from flooding and caving in. The scale committee, however, authorized the international and district officials 10 complete any satisfactory arrange- ment with the operators, If the oper- ators desire to continue the employ- ment of our members in such capac- ity. which will have that result.” The mention of the continuance in service of enough anthracite workers to prevent the incalculable damage that would result to the mines from flooding and cave-in covered a point to which observers attached great importance and about which oper- ators and the union appeared to be staging an entirely new controversy. A. B. Jessup, for the operators' policy committee, said that past re. (Continued on Fage 4, Column 7.) —In an appeal to America to join the allles In winning the peace. the Earl | of Birkenhead, former lord chancellor of Great Britain, emphasized in the final lecture of the Institute of Poli- | tics last night that self-interest alone should determine this country's course. He asserted the world was not yet ready for the Woodrow Wilson. Lord Birkenhead declared the world probably would not survive if ideal- ism were given a completely free reign; no nation in democratic condi- tions ever would become the knight errant of the world. He said Mr. Wilson's judgment of his countrymen was wrong, and through this error he became the agent of all post-war developments, from which his altru- istic mind would have recoiled. Insists Germany Pay. He insisted that Germany should be made to pay, as a Warning to others, declaring that a dozen unscrupulous but powerful men, deliberating pri- vately in Berlin, had decided upon the world war. “It is no use abusing the treaty of Versailles,” he said. “That treaty was the creature of the victorious mood of the victorious allies. * * ¢ It is a fascinating speculation whether had President Wilson been given health and strength to pursue the campaign which Le contemplated his idealism and personality could have affected the forces of the world. “I am bold enough to doubt it. For the real truth is that while the whole (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) idealism of | ! vocate before my party the league of |nations and the world court”™ Mr. Baker continued. “I shall do this } with my party’s consent, if possible, 1and without it, if necessary.” | Beltevex Wilvon Hale and Strong. Mr. Baker is fecretary of the Non- Partisan Association for the League of { Nations for Cuyahoga county, Ohio. | Speaking of the former Presiment, Mr. | Baker said: i “He is hale and strong. I saw him | not long ago. He is lame, but he is | vigorous and his brain is as alert as it ever was.” {SAYRE ACCEPTS POST AS SIAMESE ADVISER Woodrow Wilson’s Son-in-Law Ob- tains Year’s Leave From Chair at Harvard. By the Associated Press. SANTA BARBARA, Calif., August 25.—Francis B. Sayre, son-in-law ot Woodrow Wilson, said yesterday that he had accepted the appointment of legal adviser to the King of Stam. Mr. Sayre, who is spending the summer here with his family, has ob- tained a leave of absence from Har- ber of the faculty, for one year. He purposes to devote this year to the service of the Slamese king. He will leave Cambridge on his orfental mis- on about October 1 Flyer Races Death Over Night | By the Associated Press. BUCHANAN, Mich., August 25.— Jack Knight, veteran alr mail pilot, flying through the night, won a race against an unseen competitor—death—when he landed here about 7:30 o'clock this morn- ing in what Is believed to be the longest single night flight in the history of aviation. Racing from Cheyenne, Wyo., nearly a thousand miles from here, Knight reached home in time to find his aged father, Dr. M. M. Knight, alive. Handed a telegram last night informing him that his father was seriously 11l of bronchial pne monia, air mail officials gave Pilot | Mail Route Setting New Record, Knight permission to make the flight in a post office plane, and he hopped off there at 6:02 pm. mountain time. He covered 460 miles to Omaha in four hours and forty-three minutes, arriving there at 11:45 p.m., central time. He reached Chicago, 426 miles from Omaha, at 4:42 a.m., central time, having flown the 885 miles of lighted airway between Cheyenne and Chicago In nine hours and forty minutes. Buchanan is ap- proximately 75 miles from Chicago. Knight landed here In a fiel the nearest one to his father's home, he said, and hurried to the house. His father, who has prac- ticed medicine here for man years and is sixty-nine years olx has been ill four days and yester- day suffered a relapse. t vard University, where he is a mem- | |used in the trucks is of a quality to | eat into metal. Postmaster Mooney will fake up the n committee. | It may be that investigation will |be made in several of the depart- ments of the quality of liquid soap used. TIGER CAT TERRORIZES HOTEL BELLHOP STAFF Unregistered Guest Creates Sensa- tion in New Orleans—To Be Given to City Zoo. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, August 25—A full-fledged. though not full-grown Honduran tiger. being entertained at a local hotel, was the innocent cause vesterday of terrorism spread among its corps of belihops. First Intimation received by the hotel authorities that there was a guest in one of the rooms whose name was not on the register came when one of the belihops, three full shades paler than his usual dusky {complexion, came loping down from {the second floor several steps at a time to announce that there was “a fightin’ ‘wil’ cat, room 254." Investigation disclosed that the {room was occupied by Charles A. Toce and William C. Miller of Lake Charles, La., who returned from Honduras yesterday. and the three-weeks-old {two men during a hunt for big game in the jungles near San.Perdo Sula. The animal will be presented to the New Orleans zog. DRUNK GIVES HIMSELF 27-DAY JAIL SENTENCE Judge’s Dilemma About Disposition of Case Is Ended by Obliging Baltimore Prisoner. BALTIMORE, Md., August 25— Jullus Cernak. had the distinction of sentencing himself to jail today and will remain behind bars for twenty- seven ‘days on his own prescription. Julius was picked up Intoxicated late last night by & patrolman. This morning _when arraigned in police court, Judge Potee asked him: “What in the world can I do with you?" “Give me twenty-seven days in Jail, our honor,” said Cernak. 2 “Done,” sald I-I Judge. H | { ! mer schedules Make Fastest Time. The third flight ended yesterday ter with the general supply|with the mail plane from San Fran clseo landing at New York a.m., eastern time, making a cross-country record of 26 hours and 14 minutes elapsed time. clipped 36 minutes from the record set last May in a non-stop flight from New York to San Diego. The best previous time in the present test ilights was 27 hours and 21 minutes. The time for the Kelly-MacReady non-stop flight from New York to San Diego was 26 hours and 50 minutes. The mail fllers covered 2,680 miles while the Army aviators traveled bu! 560 miles. Suffers from Cold. To Pilot Smith goes the credit for | achleving one of the most notable jumps of the test flights thus far. He winged the 435 miles from Cleveland to New York in 3 hours and 26 min- utes, averaging 125 miles_an hour. Flying 10,000 feet up he suffered con- siderably 'from the cold. _Although he has written his name high among airmen, Smith's most cherished ambitions do not lie in that_direction. ‘Not for me,” sald the pilot when congratulated on his feat and pros- pects for a bright future in the serv- ice. “I mean to be a singer. My ambition is all in the direction of grand opera. 1t may not be so thril- ling, but it Is what I want.” Wil Tral Volce. Smith has a baritone voice which he is training. He has been in_the air mail service for five years. Hav- ing arranged a schedule aliowing thirty hours and fifteen minutes for kitten, which was captured by theithe test flighte from San Francisco (Continued on page 2, Coumn 5.) Lowly Trolley Forces ‘Retreat’ Of British Navy By the Assoctated Press. GREENWICH, England, August 25.—The lords of the admiralty, much disturbed, are transferring the admiralty bullding to a spot in the Surrey hills, miles away from any electrical disturbance and far from the influence of civi- lization. The reason—the electric. railways here are interfering with the. science of navigation. ‘The current used by the roads puts the ships’ compasses, which are adjusted in the admiralty building, so much out of gear that they cannot distinguish between the pole and the live rail, which points southeast. Hence the removal. This flight | With the knowkledge on the part | of the government t the retire- ment of Premier Kato was imminent, it is understood plans had been made to promote him from a baron to a viscount and also make him a fleet {admiral. These honors were to have been accorded him in recognition of | his_services | and Russian-Japanese wars, and also | for his work at the Washington con- ference. Messengers from the imperial house- hold arrived at the premier's resi- dence this afternoon to pay the offi- cial respects to the late statesman nd express condolences to the widow. ! While it is customary for the for- mal announcement of the death of a high Japanese official to be withheld temporarily, it is understood this, to- gether with the funeral arrange- | ments, will be made public tomorrow. WEALTHY MAN SHOT; | POLICE ARREST THREE Wholesale Oyster Dealer Killed While Sitting on Porch, | | | MOBILE, Ala., August 25.—Stephen Lossing, eighty-nine, wealthy whole- sale oyster: grower, was shot and killed last night as he sat on his porch at his home twenty-five miles south of here. Tom W. Cleveland, thirty-one, is held on the charge of ! murder, and his father, John G. Cleve- land, county commissioner Jor Mobile i county, and 8. J. Cleveland, a brother, lare held in connection with the af- |fray. The killing followed a fight with Willlam Henderson, grandson of Lossing. The home of Mr. Lossing on West- {fowl river is an architectural curi- osity, being bullt of oyster shells, |DIVERS LOST IN EFFORT TO RAISE SUBMARINE By the Associated Press. TOKIO, August 24—Divers today attached hawsers to the sunken Jap- anese submarine N 70, which went down off Awaji Island last Tuesday with_elghty-three men, and salvage steamships started to tow the wrecked craft shoreward, but the hawsers parted. Three divers are reported missing. in the Chinese-Japanese | iiberation by Mrs. Bayli: The statement yesterday i Bayliss i{s a widow wa i study of records in the marriage li- icense bureau, where the application {listed the husband of Mrs. ! Bayliss as { that Mrs. made after {OMAHA WATER SUPPLY Break Repaired; City Looks For- ward to 100 Per Cent i Pure Water. By the Associated Press. { OMAHA, Neb. August being pumped into city mains from Florenco pumping station yesterday I and the supply downtown was rapid- v clearing. The public has been ad- vised by city officials, |to use it for drinking purposes until it has been analyzed by health au- thorities. The break in the which has deprived Omaha of pure water since Monday, has been re- i paired, water works officials said. i They said it will be three weeks be- fore the system is free from impuri- ties caused when the Missouri, swol- len by heavy rains, dumped soft mud into the intakes. BANK OF LABOR CLOSED. 2 MILAN, August 25.—The Bank of Labor closed its doors here yester- day. It was established in 1919 and had a branch in Rome, which also was closed pending an officlal investi- gation. Rat Trap Key Enables Pair to Flee From Cell By the Associated Press, MIAMI, Fla., August 25.—A key cut from a rat trap with a safety razor blade, was used by J. O. Sparkman and S. E. Murphy, held in the city jail here in connéction with a number of automobile thefts, to escape, authorities an- nounced, following the finding of parts of the trap, shavings and a nicked razor blade. Policemen, it was sald, were within a few feet of the men when they escaped. Walking out through the city hall. | drugged has been dropped upon de- | IS RAPIDLY CLEARING 25 —Water | {was pronounced 100 per cent clean, { however, not | supply system, | dress as 639 Main street, Lima, Ohio. husband had been in ill she believed he may sit a semi mentioned said her health and that have come to Chicago to nary. At the semin there was no information concerning him. The gray-haired minister w described as weighing about 200 Younds, SCHOOLMASTER IS FIRST TO CLIMB MT. WILBUR i | Norman Clyde Spends Hours on Summit to Build Memorial to Famous Dr. Wynn. By the Associated Press GLACIER PARK, Mont., August 25 Norman Clyde, thirty-eight years old 1w rvi Calif,, schoolmaster and | mountain climber, yesterday com- pleted the ascent of Mount Wilbur, 9,203 feet high, In Glacler National {Park. He is a native of P’hiladelphia, jand his mother now lives in Beaver Falls, Pa. His hob-nailed boots made the first {human tracks upon the 100-yard square summit of this mountain. Clyde remained on the summit sev- eral hours, in order to build a monu- ment to the late Dr. Wynn, nationally known mountain climber, who lost his life two vears ago_while climbing Mount Siveh. Dr. Wynn had made unsuccessful attempts to climb Mount Wilbur. The monument is visible through binoculars from the veran- idas of many Glacler hotels on the shore of Lake McDermott. It is built of red argillite rocks, in pyramid form, six feet square at the base and seven feet high, e {TARRED AND FEATHERED, | THEN TAKEN TO CHURCH | By the Assoclated Press. | BEAUMONT, Tex., August i Covered with tar and feathers and wearing only a sheet, a Honey Is- land, Tex. man was dumped In a church there while services were I being held, according to a report re- {celved here. His name was not | ascertained. : { The man was seized while driving to Saratoga. an oil town, by six unmasked men, all unknown to him, he said, according to the report. He sald his captors charged him with failing to provide for his wife, and warned him to leave the community,