Evening Star Newspaper, August 25, 1923, Page 2

U. 5. STANDS READY TOBACK PINGHOT Lacking Fower to Seize . Mines, Government Will Aid if State Takes Step. BY DAVID LAWRE) The federal government in to the rospon. tting coal the rove Fecling that authority Is lacking to scize mincs and ite them, the administration here will attempt to Jut into operation & plan that was Yiscussed and avproved @ vear when the soft coal strike was afcet. Secietaty Hoover is believed to be the suthor of the plan. It is that the states, which plenty of and authority, shall take the Attve and the mines it pary in order to get fuel, the government lending hand ever possible Faith In Pinchot. The fact that the anthracite Genters in Peansylv, Gov. Pinchot Is the kind ixecutive who can be rell act courageously, makes the ficld for the experiment much more favor: than it was a year ago, when man governors of v Doliticai faitis and economic be d to be taken into consultatior rort, the fod- eral govern not_feel that it had the per e influence then which It new has with the Pennsylvania. but should ti ment succeed it |8 hoped other avould be inclined to follow t smple of Gov. Pinchot. The formal description of the si tion which one obtains at the W House is as follows There is one word that will indicate the situat in Pennsylvania and that word is “co-operation” between the Governor of Pennsylvania and the United States authorities. The Tnited States Coal Commission will furnish Gov. Pinchot all the informa- tion that he¢ may desire and he will co-operate with the federal govern- ment in undertaking to further nego- tiations and help in trying to reach a settlement. He haw jurisdiction that is more int'mate and over the property s the are er in the m ithracite conl than that v beld by the United States authorities. U. & Rendy (o Co-operate. foregolng enough of what s e a by sovernment of 4 to what's coming. The pressure either by is ity ftor 1 states. Dass to ago in have taw, initi neee federal wher- a strike that state upon to 1 Is us efs b in states Dersons of 1 The h e tive stat of a fed- execu- gives the show trying | - ldication that the old party will col complete | ) CODLIDGE CONFERS WITHG. 0.P.LEADER {Receives Lockwood, Who Reoorts Boom in Party Prospects for 1924. President (" aid a visit to that jington known to old-timers as sy Bottom.” He had no objective, and his invasion of that {famous old section west of 20th street and south of Pennsylvania avenue was merely incidental to his cusion morning’s stroll. Accompanied by two secret service men the President feft the White liouse ut 6:30. He walked briskly out Pennsylvania avenue until 25th i street was reached when he turned south, sie within the borders | of the tom.” He returned to! | the White House forty minutes later. | President Coolidge's first confer- ience of the day was with George Lockwood. secretary of the republican national committee, who is in charge of the committee’s headquarters here during the absence in Maine of John IT. Adams, the chairman. Mr. Lock- iwood sald afterwards that he called | o pay his respects, but admitted that ‘KII\-‘ conversation took a political turn and that the situation In general was discussed. . Says G. O, soltdge early today ection of Wash- og- particular ". Stock Booms. ! Mr Lockwond said he has reason | to know that :hc republican party stock has taken a declded jump {throughout the country during the past few weeks and that there is in !tinue to gain from now on. Ha seemed | to think th was no doubt as to | President Coolidge being the party's standard bearer in 1 He was most com {refevences to Mr. Coolidge’s” ability. {There fx no doubt fn his mind abou he people ut the country |beginning to reilize the accomplish- menis of the administration, and for thut reason the republican’ chan for another administration are Ipecially promising Prosident viidge today received lan interesting desiiption of condi- {tions in Furope. cspecially in Russia, [from Representative James B. Aswell {of Louisiana, who was the travelir, anion of Secretary of Labor 3 el Tt was p ex Revolt Looms. : cted Representative {Aswell that there will be a general In Germ within the next x months, when the present govern- nt will be overthrown. and that within the vear a monarchy will be set up again with a kaiser on the throne. He declared that there is revolt i PACIFIC s | CATEANT Thix photograph—the o of the actunl arrest of F Valern—shows the troops State, bayonets drawn, » the platform in the square at Enni County Clare, Ireland, while De Va lera steps down (Indicated by arrow), hin bare head bowed, to be taken un- der arrest. <. monn De | By the Associated Press LONDO; 2500 passengers for the Beren- mpton. This tions, ;American T.'ourists J(}m Ships, : g’flfimN REWARD 15,000 Begin Homeward Voy ag,e% FUR MlSSING B ABE . GERMAN FIGURES | ' DISPUTED IN PARIS | Reparations Body Thinks| Stresemann Calculated on Wrong Basis. By tie Associated Press. PARIS, August taken here to the rep siven by Chancellor Stresemann Germany In his speech yesterday, {bused on an estimate Ly the Wash- |ington Institute of Economice, when ih 1id that Germany had ready | paid total indemmity of between jtwenty-five and twenty-six billion |gold marks. It was declared at the inr:ulqu.‘r!rr': of the reparation com- {mission today that the institute’s {¢stimate undoubtedly was based on an erroneous interpretation of the treaty of Versailles _The difference between the repara {tion conimission’s credits to Germany | of about eight billlon gold marks, in Iround figures, and the forty-two hil- |h'rn gold marks which Dr. Strese- jtann claims as the total value of the de- | {liverles in kind and payments in jeash largely of ‘“restitu- { tions 8 sald, which under the {treaty are regarded ximply as off- “tting articles and products carried out “of allied territories by the Ger- | mans during the war. These restitutios a hi € commission assertes ¢ btedly been charged to the reps rations account at RBerlin, but they enter into the total received the allies. There is a big differ- nce also in the amount credited by l!nl‘ allies and the amount claimed by Germany for the merchant fleet, ag- gregating 3,000,000 tons. which wa: turned over to the victorious powers. No Official Protes » commission, added the official | always granted a hearing to the Ger- mans before fin fixing the amounts credited, and whenever there a doubt in the minds of the members as to exact value the esti- 'S were raised rather than low- as every one on commis- sion’ belleved the full 1 00,000 £old marks would never forth- coming in any case, and that the de- liveries consequently might as well he credited generou The Ger- ns, it is declared, h never made ial protest against the amounts iited to them by smmission The accounting dep: nent of the ommission is of t lief that the ns must included the paid for occupa- ion in their repar: order to arrive at the figur .000,000 | i gold marke also a stimates of 26— Exception P2 is ion figures of ofticial of , had un- be i rt eat difference city has be | men i self an at Dundon, o Shoreham Hotel, and opinion emphatic the to run their gov or |sides can go 1o work to { }other TALKS and TALES w ‘ith and About CAPITAL’S GUESTS 1t all coal operators whose business has called them to Washington in the last two wecks had only thousht be fore leaving home to slip a or two of the precious pockets there would be little bt ug K their to worry over capacity supply hereabouts ti winter. ry hotel register en crowded with name prominently identitied industry, some summoned President, some by their org tions, while not a few have dr in “just to x waus doir Looking in ti of condit G. Bradley, of Virginia Co, ope in t s of W. Vi sftuation ing that people decid nment, constituted au arguments will ceas of in Americ the the all 11, continued who only blunt ‘statement at the merey elm ie clear controversy key Mr last that of the then the the ker In the to the situation is learn to adjust its stitutes, for at present serious. Referri the miners, the operato compared with those workers in other lines BeTS were getting “The trouble is. the tween miners and industr Bradle vear the union to the present the said large h coal squabble tween the miners and o nothing could farther fact. The fight is between every’ working man while, doubtiess, desiro coal workers re: their if he understood would be willin sidy, for in t} thal to gra | that has to pa ir. Bradley s a big factor situation. but that the ficlds could be relied upon its output, as it did in war times, {rov the present delivery of more tha 10,500,000 tons a weck to us high 14,000,000 tons ever The al 3 well know grandson meron of grandson of served in t Keystone statc War in President ¥or the b of th thoug th terics at the might be weli to t solute fearlessness dfspl bitumino: to run merd . D. Walz, a youn with nc August ~The eleventh |garia satling from South great distress and unrest in that r a record number of passengers for public today and that when the and making i the men or actually n S value of Gi detached territories. Property | yg b . he hour homeward rush of globe trotting | !5 by o do the same. ¢d at the White distribution of coal ed by the states after A th deral government Lterstate the necessary conl could he exped wtate railroads to the « tribution Naturally the tho new pl ment by the feders wital interest oxvcutive offie ment that it would r federal government turn this problem Ernment of each statc #isted that Gov chot, for instance, voluntecred to come in and help. In fact, the President would like to have he impression ccnveyud that the federal government isn't abandoning Anything to the states and the states are not abandoning anything to the Federal government May Have 1924 Dearing. : But the truth is members of Con- gress and constitu 1 wuthorities who were consulted 2 year ago came to the conclusion that the federal governme wiihout sufficient law to act in : emerad and hat only tie states could do what the American people had come to helieve the tederal g ment could do. The President hopes for peace by agree- ®ent rather than by any form of co- ercion or force. but he stands ready te co-operate with any state that takes drastic measures. All eyes are now and althoush polities actor on the surfa people here who Vinchot may win out of the coal situ come the cand! dent on the C ituation gave the fame that prompted can_convention of 1820 to for the vice presidency the same for l'inchot. WIFE SUES VOGUE FOR PRINTING NUDE Seeks $50,000 Damages When Picture of Statue Estranges Husband. rs of com- ir for the to undertake to over the gov- and it W fyie Pinchot, been there are ma believe that Gov nitional prestige tion s0 on Gor. has “« strike . himself, republi- My By the Assoclated Press NEW YORK, Ther Lind. youthful who recently engaged counsel to hring suit for $200,000 against her former instructpr, A. Stirling Calder, Mrs. student August art ssa sculptor, because of an alleged exhi- | Lition of a nude fizure having a com- vosite liken of her head, after which her husband left her, yester- iny began suit in the supremeo court for $50,000 against the Vogue com- pany and Conde Nast, publisher of Vogue. a fashion magazine Publication in February of a pho- rograph _of the sculptored figure, The Last Dryad,” the complaint de- clared, wa hor husband's separation and held her up to public ridicule and hu- miliation because of the undignified and objectionable posture” In which the statue was wiought. Her_ hus- band is Charles U. Lind of Mont- clair, N, J. Two years ago, prior to her mar- riage, the twenty-one-ylear-old art tudent posed for a bust cast, which was completed in September, 192 nd_ exhibited under the title, “A Little Sister of Tragedy.” While admitting “The Last Dryad” has the head likeness posed by her, Mrs. Lind denies that she ever posed Tor the body of the figure and ‘never authorized suverimposing her head iikeness on the posed body of an- other.' THINK GOLD RECOVERED FROM LAURENTIC HERE Dy the Associated Press. LONDON, August on what has become of the gold salvaged from the Laurentic, tha Westminister Gazette assumes that 1he bullion has probably.zone to the Vnited States, to which it was orig- inally consigned. However, the nowspaper falls to find anv con- firmation of its supposition in any published figures of gold stocks, “Tther in the Bank of England or ex- ported. From a general financial stand- yoint, the paper continues, the treas- ure reccvered from the Laurentic is of little practical account when one considers the vast amounts that now fizure in the world’s transactions. 25.—Speculating House | dis- | a contributing’ cause for{ of cold w omes the commu i the a b revolution and will temporarily up a communist form of government Ho said \ stop it. Tha Fiench, te him. realize it ehensive. Its com ar of the Fr ch vasior tha opinion that it tlon before Russia 1 suitable for the tes to even consider recog- He said that the United States not enter into any trade r ‘L'I‘l{il\\ with Russia until the sovi {government can give some guarantee | to American business men and capital. | Mr. Asweil said that th cultural prosperity throug rope. and because of this there is Ue or no chance for the Amerlcan xriculturalist to dispose of his sur- | pius in Europe this vear. i Before leaving the President Mr. Aswell forma invited him to tend the boll weevll convention, to be | ‘held in New Orleans October 16-17. The President said he would like to accept, but he feared the pressure of business at this time would prevent {MRS. ANNIE R. KASPAR CLAIMED BY DEATH Professional Vocalist and Teacher of Vocal Culture Succumbs Fol- lowing Protracted Illness. ists t a set in their Mr: Any witl will he United ¢ nition, shos | 1 MME. ANNIE R. KASPAR, Mrs. fessional Annie Roemer Kaspar, vocalist and teacher Ivocal culture, the wife of Prof. Josef { Kaspar, a violinist, died yesterday at {the family home, 1217 M street north- west, followlng an illness of more than twenty months. The funeral will be held at the home Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. | Mrs. Kaspar for twenty years was tat the head of the musical faculty of Mount Vernon Seminary for young ladies, and for twenty-seven years held a similar position at the Na- tional Park Seminary. She was not {only known as an instructor in vocal culture but as an accomplished singer in operatic and church eircles. Her daughter, formerly Miss_Franceska Kaspar, now Mrs. Huron W. Lawson, is a well known soprano soloist, concert and oritorio singer, and her son, Henry Roemer Kaspar, is an accomplished pianist. 1 Mrs. Kaspar was a native of Darm- | stadt, Germany, and all her ancestors | were musiclans. Her mother dled when she was a child. She came to the United States unaccompanied at the age of elght years. to make her home with her brother, Prof. Henry B. Roomer of Baltimore. She studied music_with her brother and at the lage of sixteen she was sent to Ger- many to perfect her musical studies. She was a pupll of Mme. Yeide, the court prima donna. She returned to America for her professional debut land made her initial public_appear- lance professionally in “Electric Light” by William Furst, While playing in “Electric Ligh she met Josef Kaspar, orchestra con- ductor and violin soloist of Prague, who then was located in Washington, They were married in 1882, Mrs Kaspar_had engagements in Balti- more, Philadelphia, *New York city, Boston, Chicago and the other large cities. 'She created the leading role in John Philip Sousa's opera, the “Queen of Hearts.” Mrs. Kaspar is survived by her pro- of | { i i D.C. NAVY RESERVE WINS HIGH PRAISE | Burope. Unit Recently on Cruise Re- turns, Reporting Profitable Training Period. the U. S zagle No. 56 into her dock at the foot of er and O streets southwest early today, completing a training cruise of two weeks during which she was manned by officers and men of the United States naval res of the District Columbia, it brought re- ports of one of the most profitaple and educational cruises in the history of the local reserve battalion. Capt. John A. Schofield, commanding the s {ship, and Licut. H. J. Nichols, execu- tive and gunnery officer, both were high in their praise of the manner in which the men seized the opportunity to fit themselves for service with the battle flect in time of war. Glven Thorough Drill, The men were inatructed thorough- Iy in every naval duty which they would be expected to perform should they be cailed into active service in time of war, and when the vessel completed her run today, after round- ing the Chesapeake bay and its trio- utaries, including the Potomac, York and Patuxent rivers, she was runnin in true battleship form, fit to take her position among the fieet auxil farles immediately. according to officers who had charge of the train- ing. Excellent scores were mad t tar- get practice with the ship's guns and ashore on the rifle range al the ma- rine base, at Quantico, Va., where the sailormen were landed yesterday. the time they were on the Quantico, fifteen men of the ere qualified as sharpshooters 1s marksmen, all under the and direction of Lieut. Nichol During the voyage efforts were made to swing ship for the compensation of the compasser, but several heavy blows in the bay and overcast sky pre- erow and fiv guldance {vented completion of this duty. Men Speak Highly of Ofiicers. The men ail spoke highly of the work of the officers, and especially of the fair treatment they were given at all times, including plenty of lib: erty and recreation when the day's drill was over. Defore the men were Jismissed at the armory today, fol- lowing their physical examinations, Capt. Schofield addressed them. He complimented them highly on the showing made and told them of the importance of each one in making the crulse the Ereat success that it was from a naval training stand- point CONVICT PAROLED, TO START SCHOOL Work Among Prisoners Wins Him Freedom and $250-a- Month Job. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, August 25.—But- ler R. Storke, thirty-one, convicted Toledo, Ohio, forger, donned civilian clothes this ‘morning preparatory to | stepping out of the Ohio into a position which w! §250 a month. Sentenced to serve two years, Storke, after twenty-one months be- hind the bleak walls, has been grant- ed a conditional parole by Gov. Dona- hey, effective today. The condition is ‘that he follow the work he insti- tuted among hlis fellow prisoners, and in which more than 1,800 now are in- terested. Storke, a college graduate and former Army captain, is the origina- tor of a correspondence - school, in which penitentiary convicts have been given an opportunity to educate themselves. His position, beginning today, will be to try to install the same system in other state prisons, the movement Penllentllr)’ 11 pay him being financed by Napoleon Hill, New |sula. York magazine editor. 17 ESCAPE LISBON JAIL. LISBON, August 25.—Seventeen per- sons accused of bomb throwing, es- caped from a prison here yesterday. That his wife attended the theater husband, a_son, Honry Roemer, and a daughter, Mrs. Huron W. Lawson of ‘Washi on, and a sister-in-law, Mrs. Henry R. Koemer of Baltimore. to see her favorite Alm stars 220 times in one year is the reason set forth by a Los Angel¢s man: for wanting a divorce. the | | Yankees continues apace, and this weck end will see some 15,000 Amer- ns with lightened pockethooks ired cight big liners for tk United States *rom all parts of tizens of the states” are rushing into London pell mell to catch homeward bound steamers, all of which are booked full for many weeks ahead. This morning, at the Waterloo sta- i BRIG. GEN. SAWYER STAYS AS WHITE HOUSE DOCTOR (Continued from First Page.) iany vessel leaving England in the present year, nd officials had a hard ask in coping with the crowd. Paggage accumulated into a bul- wark 100 yards long and ten feet | wide The first-class passengers stood in a long line five abreast out- <ide the railings to the train pl forms for n hour before they were admi s the baggage oc- cupied so much space that there no room for passengers | Similar scenes de t of the boat |NIGHT AIR MAIL TEST | ENDS AT EAST TERMINAL trains. illness a year ago Dr. Sawyer was the | pal attending physiclan and the ‘short fatal iliness of Mr. Harding he served in a llke capacity He continues his private sanitarium in the suburbs of Marion, which is i in charge of his son, Dr. Carl Bawyer, ! | | i pl i i i {the fri in his absence. Coolidge Seldom Il Tt has long been an axiom among ds of Mr. Coolidge that he never suffers from serious physical ills. Such minor medical attention s his family has needed since they came to Washington has been given them by Maj. J. F. Couptl of the Army Medical Corps, who is stationed here and would be avallabl for any emergency in Dr. Sawyer's absence. Should the general decide later to resign, it is probable that Maj. Cou- pal would succeed to the title of physician to the President Besides his White House duties Dr. Sawyer presumably will continue with the work mapped out for him by President Harding in connection with the Veterans' Bureau Hospital ns. The burcau's building program nearing completion, however, and some of Dr. Sawyer's friends would not be surprised if he decited before long to retire to his Drivate practioe | { in Marion. HINTS POISON RUM SOLD T0 LABORERS “Sinister Motives” Charged in Deaths of Building Union Men. By the Associated Pre: BOSTON, August 25.—Charges that poisonous liquor has been sold to union buiiding laborers in this city, resulting in several deaths, and that the dispens- ers were actuated by “sinister mo- tives,” are made in a petition filed in the superior court by Ernest A. John- son, mecretary-treasurer of the United Building Trades Council. The petition asks that William Me- ! Donough, Joseph King, James Donovan and Henry Heyes be enjoined from in- terfering with the functioning of the council and that they be restrained from carrying liquor into its meetings or on its property. In addition to the death of several members of the council, the petition alleges that others have been malmed and incapacitated for life by the liquor. “Your plaintiff,” the petition say: “helleves and avers that there is a sinister motive behind such machina- tions of the respondents; that they are trying the disrupt the Building Trades Council by their actions, particularly in soliciting and selling vile, poisonous, deleterious intoxicating liquor. FORD AND EDISON VISIT MINE ON INSPECTION TRIP By the Associated Press. ot CALUMET, MICH., August 25.—The Ford-Edison-Firestone camping party spent yesterday here inspecting the mining machinery at Calumet, Hecla Mining Company. The party motored early from Lanse on the last lap of their vacation visit in the uper penin- The glant Leavitt hoist here was minutely inspected by hoth Mr. }ord and Mr. Edison. The inventor of the hoist, now dead, was known per- sonally by both men. Mr. Edison de- scribed the machinery as “a marvel of its time.” Despite cold weather, Mr. Edison, who was clothed in heavy woolen garments, said he was enjoying the trip, Mr. Ford took occasion to again deny that any one of the i AR ill. They have toured 3,000 miles so far, it was sald. is | | (Continued from Fis | to New Yerk mir mail officials hera k made. The flights have been formly successful that they brought forth the congratula {the postal depactment and ins are afoot to make the nanent. The tests will flichts which were {Saturday and ended Sunday have b canceled. Supt. Egge of the ma service #aid the flight had been prov- ed practicable and aothing could be | accomplished by carrying mail that | could not be delivercd Sunday. | Leaves for New York. CLEVELAND, Ohio, ~Ougust {Warren D, Williams, piloting the east- | bound coast-to-coast air mail fyer in {the tast flight, arrived here at 8:10 this morning, eastern stundard time. T Ames left here on the last leg {for New York two minutes later. | Head Rapldly West. CHEYENNE, Wyo., August 25.—J. F. {Moore, fiying with the westbound mail from Omaha to Cheyenne, landed here at 3:40 o'clock, mountain time, this morning. | Pilot H end The to today have b . Boonstra hopped off for Rock Springs, Wyo., on a continuation of the wesiward fliht, at 4:10 am., { mountain time. Pilot H. A. Collison, Who will follow him to Rock Spring took off at 4:17 a.m. SEES OTHER ROUTES. | Henderson Believes Night Flying Has Great Possibilities. By the Associated Press OMAHA, Neb., August 25.—Col. Paul Henderson, second assistant postmas- ter general, here directing the aerial mail experimental flights, declared that, in his opinion. commercial and {ndustrial centers soon will be con- | nected by lighted airways. over which mall and express will be transported at night. He was speaking at a | chamber of commerce dinner in his honor last night, and made the state- ment in connection ith the an- nouncement that a flight had been made from San Francisco to New York in 26 hours 14 minute \ “There are in the United Statey | scores of potential overnight routes, Ihe said. “the outstanding probably being New York and Chicago. “Other poxsible combinations of | tremini are Chicago-Boston, Chicago- Philadelphia, Chicago - Washington, New York-Minneapolls, New York, Milwaukee, New York-St. Louls, New York-Memphis, New York Louisville, New York-Columbus, New York-Cleve- land, New YorkDetroit-Toledo." |SHOE STORE DAMAGED BY FIRE DURING NIGHT Damage amounting probably to $5,000 was caused by fire in the stock- room, rear of the Bootery, a shoe store at 928 F street, last midnight. I1saac Peyton, an employe in the Atlantic bullding in which the store is located, discovered the blaze. Sev- eral companies of firemen responded to an alarm sounded from box 194 by Policeman McCutcheon. reaching there before the fire had gained much headway. It was impossible for firemen to de- termine the origin of the fire. Much damage was done loose stock on dis- play, and boxes on the shelves were scorched. The upper portion of the building, occupied by the Department of Agri- culture, was not damaged. Harry Cohen, proprietor of the store, was in New York last night. Damage to the stock could not be definitely estimat- ed by the manager of the store today. THOMAS BIRNEY IS DEAD. Thomas Birney of Washington died at the home of his daughter in Phoebus, Va., Thursday last, aged seventy-nine years. Funeral services will be held Mon- i ! 0 o'clock, following which requeim mi will be said at St. Pat. rick's Church. The jnterment will b in Mount Olivet cemetery.~ Mr. Bi was well known In ?shlnltan. Sons at 8:3 wera enacted at the| service | un ! day from the chapel of Frank Geier's! Newspapers Campaigning for| Recovery of Infant Kid- naped a Week Ago. was | August te reward offered for t 1 0 to today the $4.000 already offe Polic adquar into a turmoil phone messa, man had f an infant in a subway exit. But {stead of the emaciatéd girl bal three months the officers found sieep ing therc a husky boy of six months. | . admitted that huudreas of tips had pou parss of this whre Wi ab My “was thrown tivity by ghter of | ed from her go covered doecl] be 110,000 AT CONCERT i AT GENTRAL SCHOOL Third Music and Dance Fest Un- der the Auspices of Com- munity Association. | Nearly 10,000 persons attended [third music and dance fete heid i {the Central High School stadium t sht, under (he s of the Com- | munity Mus on. ' The con- | jcert opened with the singing of | | “America,” and closed with -’?‘hcgsmr | Spangled Banner.” § T led crowd stood at at- tention ¢ peated the allegiance to the flag. The Army Band furnished instrumental musie, while the chorus of the band sang. The | nupity singing was led by Robert | wrees i The fine night and the jcombined to add impressiveness the evening. The words of the v rious sones were flashed upon a soreen, 0 that the thousands had no difficulty in following them, An artistic dance program sented by Louise Duffy {Little. Lillian Behrens | Benrens drew applause with th ting. Aubrey Sicber won applause with | her numbers | . Sergt. Hummell, trombonist, and | Sergt. Dufresne, cornatist, played sev- leral solos, accompanied by the Army Band \TAXICAB RIDES FREE large crowd | i s pre-f amille i Companies in Charleston Will Not Charge Until New System Order- A . ! | ed by City Is in Effect. | CHARLESTON, W, Va., August 25— “Free taxi services to all parts of the | city” was offered in heavy black type | in a large advertisement in Charles- | ton papers today by one taxicab com- pany. which declared this service would be glven “owing o the meter controversy up for adjustment before the city commission.” The advertise- ment continued that free service would be continued until meters were installed on the company’s cars. Taxicab rates had been computed under a zone system until a week ago, when a new ordinance requiring the installation of meters to fix the charges wernt into effect. The ordi- nance imposes a fine for operating a taxicab without the meter service. GIRL CAMPERS ANSWER MRS. FORD’S CRITICISM By the Associated Press. MARQUETTE. Miel 2 The costumes worn by girls at Camp | Cha-ton-ka, Michigamme, are “for com- not style, camp directors sald today, in replylng to Mrs. Henry \Ford, who rebuked the campers last week who were clad in cut-off over- alls and rolled stockings. The gir sked Mrs. Ford to write her signa- ture on postcards for them, but she refused, declaring that she resented their ' costumes. “We do not wish to enter any controversy with Mrs, Ford or any one else,” the camp directors asserted. “We have the confidence of the girls’ parents as to our ability to properly chaperone their daughters and also their approval of the girls' dress. It is a vety amusing little incident, but we prefer no publicit; | i { cation 1 i situation. |1and, while the [ tinet progress in that it makes clear | Price of Coal. The remainder of the difference is supposed to be made up by the appli- / the Germans of the export | price on all coal delivered | allies, although the treaty | ment provide by smmission 1 estimates value of the hant shipping d cther deliveries in kind made to | allies, but is still Keeping them Cret. It is understood, however, to | considering publication of the full table next week. SPEECH PLEASES FRANCE. worid e Clange From Attitude of Cune} Marked. tiie Assovtated Press. ARIS, August resemann’s address terday, ich he renewed his pred- | ccessor’s pledge of material securitie: for the payment of reparations, has idded to the slight, though general, optimism_felt here over the whole 25.—Chancellor | in Berlin yes-| Although the spapers regret hat Herr Streser made substan- t:ally the same off¢r as did Dr. Cuno, they nevertheless mark the tone of his specch showed a change for the Letter. Le Petit Parisien say. “The chancellor doe ecessary to pronounce imprecations cainst France. He speaks like a| van prepared to talk business, and!| has the good e to advise his mpatriots not to count on interal- «d dissensions to pull Germany out f her present diff Premier Poinc: n, also fin speech “a change in remark.” PRESS BACKS STAND. ne i 5 not think it s organ, Le Ma- the chancellor's tone worthy of Address Wins proval in Berlin. By the Assoctated Press. BERLIN, August 25.—Approval Chancellor §'resemann's latest ex- pression on the reparation issues is voiced today by the press of all par- ties. The nationalist editors lay stress | upon the emphatic manner in which the chancellor rejected any compro- mise with regard to Germany's sov- ereignty over the Ruhr and the Rhine- socialist organs think the chancellor displayed a laudable| sincerity in dealing with the issue. Chancellor resemann’'s speech, ‘s the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, rzan of Hugo Stinnes, marks dis Stresemann Ap- of | to the world the points of difference existing in the way Germany and France look at the question. It goes straight to the crux of the whole is- | sue, says the newspaper—does France want reparations or the Rhine? The German offer to pledge part of the nation's productive energles as | security for reparations goes far be- vond the letter of the Versailles treaty the Tageblatt, and affords concrete = evidence of Germany's readiness to come to an understand- ing, If the present government is Ger- many's last card, it Is also the last card in the gamé Europe is playing, i the Socialist Vorwierts says. The present German government, it de- clares, has shown a sincere and hon- orable desire to arrive at an under- standing with France, and if the path %o a settlement is not found now there Is no knowing how much mis- ery and sorrow the people of Europe must yet suffer before the inevitable reconcilation. Germany has spoken, adds the so- clalist organ, and France now has the floor. STANLEY BRUCE COMING. Prime Minister to Accept Invita- tion to Visit U. S. By_the Assoclated Press. MELBOURNE, August 25.—Stanley M. Bruce, prime minister of the Aus- | tralian commonwealth, announced to- | day that he had received an invita- tion from the American government | to visit the United States, and that he probably would accept. GODOWSKY IN HOSPITAL. | NEW YORK, August 35.—Leopold Godowsky, well known pianist, was taken to a hospital last night to be operated on for appendicitis. The pianist is reported to be well pre- pared for the operation and does not fear the outcome. He has made ar- rangements to travel through Europe, South Africa and Australia after he recovers. jman service in the you at the Hote rest before Westport, Co: her husband ned should be tal “nothing at W how tered my mind. N tained in Connect wished to_take a woods of Maine 1 clded to go to ¥ motorist nced fear country =o long ws business and drive.” The comeiy tourist cstacies over the on her trip, which nal highway, v one should < what was 1 that 1 I stopped at the W for a bit of a could go on_for thrilled was 1 o ery.” Persistar the fact tha naturally a woms then beautics throug! motor car driver with 1 8he was detailed at different pe the states of Wisc for weeks during was known throug devotion to motorist s tle boy, and along, how cou'd you “I can se America, £aid Carl of the Munich New York, as he sut or Hotel La Fayette Inbby friend, Judge I i the insurance de property custodia Mr. Schreiner e of the mos widely known in the United States, having ped th, company that Teinsures « con panies, declared that nothing could din the ahen | the country’s bright out “With the simplest E a firm stand by th istration petty difficulties will be overe America will go onward.” The New Yorker, when pressed tor an opinion s to conditions in many, was far from optimistic. many is doomed, I am afraid, despirs the ‘many cheerful reports brous! back to this country can bear up much longer ers are golng ahead ally she might pear to the visitor prosperous, but her production is not within 50 per cent of what Is needed and with the best part of her ri lands cut off, 1 can not possibly s how she will survive. Mr. Schreiner is stopp at th New Willard Hotel, and said that the insurance business is good all the country right now precaution suid rue, and it Never in highway coast the histor, between the river and the Atlantic motorists enjoyed better fewer detours than this summer, ac cording to H. S. Melton of Puduca Ky, who with his family are at th Hotel Washington after i continuo motor trip from his home to Detroit to New York and thence to Was ington. Mr. Melton i one of the best know automobile distributors in the south. with headquarters at Paducah, and was enthusiastic over business cor ditions in that section, which he said ‘were abnormal right now “Paducah is the livest pt tucky,” he said. “Everyboc ing. The Cadillac Iotel Cc Detroit has just purchased the old Palmer House, and we are looking for a hotel shortly that will rival in the country. The Lincoln, L and ‘Jefl” Davis highways are « enough to bring us into touch with the world, and as f railroads enter the town ‘and the Ohio and Ten- nessee rivers fork there, it won't he long before we are really on the map.” THE MIXER. MAY RECOVER $50,000,000; LOCATE SUNKEN LINER By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, August 25.—Salvage ex- perts have at last succeeled in lo cating the whereabouts of the wreck of the P. and O. liner Egypt, which went down May 21, 1922, after havin been in collision with the French steamer Seine off Ushaht. The wre has been found six miles from the scene of the acelident, at a depth of sixty-four fathoms The underwriters will attempt to recover gold ingots which the Egypt was carrying and which at present rates are estimated to be worth £10.- 000,000. Later an attempt may be made to refloat the vessel itself. ce in K s wor pany ¢