Evening Star Newspaper, September 19, 1923, Page 2

DYNAMITE RUINS OF BERKELEY FIRE Reconstruction - Begun as '2,500 Refugees Are Pro- vided With Shelter. By the Associated Press. BERKELEY, Calif., September 19.— The first step in:the reconstruction of the districts razed Monday in the most disastrous'firé in Berkeley's his- tory will be taken today, when work- ers will attack the fame-charred ruins with dynamite and wrecking tools. While the thirty-five blocks or more over which the fire raged still lay blanketed with- smouldering ruins, surrounded by a cordon of police and Army sentries, victims of the blaze surveyed the extent of the disaster and immediately began preparations for rebuilding. The real and personal property loss in the blaze was: estimated at $10, 000,000 late yesterday by C. C, Emslee, president of the Berkefey board of fire underwriters, to -whom seventy- five insurance adjusters reported after a survey of thé Wre zone. Not more than $4,000.000 was covered by insur- ance, he sald. One hundred companies are sharing the loss and claims'will be paid promptly, he declared. helter 2,500 Homelexs. 00 homeless victims of the fire have found shelter with friends or in homes thrown open to them fmmediately after the conflagration. Among the number. were 1,200 stu- dents of the University of California and 300 familtes'of. faculty members, it was officially announced. The list of injured either by flames or in minor accidehts result- ing from frantic efforts to save their homes or remove household goods has reached, 10, between fifty and.one hun- dred, afthough none was seriously hurt. The fire, of undetermined origin, started in Contra,Costa county early Monday, and swept over the hills north of Berkeley into the populous and prosperous residential district Monday afternoon. Cragmont, an exclusive residence section; the equally exclusive Euclid avenue, with its rows of university fraternities and sororities, and the great hilly sweep from this street to Shattuck avenue, the main busin street, were a dreary waste tonight, with _searchers hurrying evérywhere The Red Cross maintained many sta- tions on the edge of the district to The care for refugees and workers alike. ! Hundreds of university Students alded in the patrol. The fire apparatus re- mained, pouring many streams onto the glowing carpets of sparks here and there. Arc Hghts were being rigged up and attempts were being made to clear out the dangling Hght and power wires and restore some sort of telephonic communication. Tt is reported that the priceless libraries of Prof. Alexis Lange, na- tionally known authority on educa- tion, and Prof. C. E. Chapman, prom- inent American history scholar, had been destroyed. Both are members of the faculty of the University of California. THREE OTHER TOWNS HIT. SAN FRANCISCO, September 19.— In addition to Berkeley, which was swept in part by a fire, three smaller towns In northern and central Cali- fornia were wiped out by forest and brush fires. The other places were Boyes Springs and Markhams,'in So- nora county, and - Eldorado,- in- Eldo- rado county Boyes Springs is a_summer resort, and, in addition to the hotel and a theater, the depot, post office, general store and approximately fifty other bulldings, mostly cottages, were des- troyed i At Markhams she ‘hotel, two stores and a number of homes were burned. Thirty summer cottages in_Sonoma Vista also were destroyed. Only two business buildings and six residences were left standing in Eldorado. The fire in Eldorado county fs re- ported to be burning the 2,000-acre University of California stock farm. 1t also had spread to the Eldorado national forest, where it was sald to be_beyond control Reports were received that it was expected the fires would be under control soon in central California, as the wind had subsided to some ex- tent. In Santa Barbara county the forest fire that has been burning for three weeks in the watershed of the Santa Ynez river still was beyond con- trol. P. J. RAINEY, FAMED AS EXPLORER, DIES (Continued from First Page.) corroborated late by moving pic- tures, of hunting forays in which Rainey killed as many as five lions in three days. He killed twenty- seven lions from a single camp near Kapiti, preserving the skins to be mounted for museums here and in Enpgland. From then until 1916 his career was a successive round of hunting and exploration tours through Brit- ish Africa, mostly, and in India. Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford Joined one such expedition he headed, Finally the British government de- creed he must not kill more than six lons in one district of East Africa. After the war Rainey. established a ranch, where he.intended making his future home, in the heart of what had been his most happy hunting grounds, the tropical zoo, near Nai- robi, which still is looked upon as the most densely populated by fero- cious jungle beases of all the regions in the world. He was bound for this ranch when he died. He was un- married. SEES SURPLUS IN 1925 EXCEEDING $200,000,000 (Continued from First Page. trimmed to come within the limits of the administration’s economy cam- paign, Mr. Green said the tax program for 1925 would depend largely upon what Congress would authorize. “"Should no further expenditures be authorized than those at present in prospect in the estimates, Mr. Green sald he thought there would be no need whatever for aditional taxes. May Need More Taxes. Should Congress, however, enact the soldiers’ bonus, or the omnibus bullding bill, which is certain to be prepared in the House committes on public buildings' and grourids, Mr. Green pointed out, a complete survey of the government's income would have to be made to determine 1f ad- ditional taxes would be necessary. He would not go so far as to say that either of these bills would necessi- tate higher taxes. A soldlers’ bonus bill, for instanee, which Senator Smoot, chairman of the Senate committee on finance, has confidently predicted will be enadted, 18 yet, in the opinion of Representa- tive Green, an uncertaln factor as regards the necessity for revenues. ‘What actual cash outlay a soldiers’ bonus would demand, Mr. Green said, would depend on the bill as finally passed. It could not be said at this time that a soldiers’ bonus positively would require higher taxes. The report of the tax simplification board had not yet been completed, h said. The board, he understood, . is doing good work in a complete survey of the revenue laws, with & view to E recommendations for '%}‘n&u Teaks;” ‘prevent and equalizing the tax b b 2 the’| The| PLANE TAKES STARS TO SOLDIERS IN CAMP ‘Aviator Drops Newspapers for Fort Washington Infantrymen. It required less than fifteen minutes for an Army airplane to search oiit several companies of Fort Washing- ton infantrymen in camp “somewhere in Maryland” yesterday afternoon and deposit at the tent door of the com- manding officer of the troops a bundle of Evening Star newspapers. Returning to their base from Camp Meade, Md., where they had spent the summer, the troops anticipated their location would be such that the regu- lar number of Stars would not be able to Teach them by ordinary means of the circulation department. So jthe commanding officer requested iLieut. Lester J. Maitland, operations officer of Bolling Field, to take aboard an airplane a bundle of twenty-five papers and drop them on his “front porch.” ! Carrying a reporter of The Star, Lieut. Maitland left the field at 4:10 o'clock and flew in a southeastrly di- rection. At a low altitude he soon sighted -the “pup” tents on a grass fleld and, after circling for position, raced across the camp at 100 miles an hour and at an altitude of 200 feet. The bundle was thrown overboard, the men on the ground picked it up and the pilot waved a farewell. The soldiers were in camp near Silver Hill. Returning to Washington, Lieut. Maitland entertained a crowd of mo- torists on Hains' point with an ex- [ hibition of acrobatics, which included three barref rolls. three loops, a tail spin and an Immelmann turn. He also flew close to the water and sea wall, to the delight of the spectators. * IPOLOGY ALY Naval Salute Given Roman morial Service Held. | By the Assoctated Press. ATHENS, September 19.—Greece today discharged the measures of apology. prescribed by the allies for the Janina murders. The incident, which for a time threatened the peace of the Balkans, is regarded as closed. An allied squadron, led by the Ital- {ian warship Conte a1 Cavour, steamed through the haze into Phaleron har- bor, where the waiting Greek ships rendered a salute of twenty-one guns to each flag. At the same hour memorial serv- ices were celebrated at the Roman Catholic cathedral in Athens in the presence of the Greek cabinet ard the allled diplomats, while a Preveza the bodies of the murdered Itallan boun- dary commissioners were embarked for Ttaly with military, naval and civil honors. EXAMINE CRIME REPORT. Allied Commissioners at Janina Also Attend Memorial. By the Associated Press. { JANINA, Albania, September 19— The commission appolnted by the interallied council of ambassadors to investigate the massacre of the Ital- ian mission spent today in examining the full report of the investigation undertaken by the Greek government immediately after the assassinations poccurrea. The Greek report was the first evi- dence submitted. It Includes the testimony of two witnesses now in custody, one of whom swore that the assassins wore the Albanian national dress. Before beginning the hearing, which i3 being held at the Greek military headquarters, members of the commission paid honors to the Italian dead. attending a memorial service at which the highest Greek civil and military _authorities at Janina were present. The repre- sentatives of the powers also saw the dispatch of the bodies to Prevesa. Later the commissioners will go to the scene of the crime, Cavakia Forest, about thirty-five miles from Janina. ROME TO HONOR DEAD. ! State Funeral Planned for Victims of Assassins in Greece. By the Associated Press. ROME, September 19.—Solemn hon- ors are to be rendered the Italian members of the Greco-Albanian boun- dary commission who were killed re- cently near Janina when thelr bodies arrive at Taranto on Saturday morn- ing, aboard the battleship San Marco. From “Taranto the bodles will taken to Rome for final burial. Premler Mussolini has ordered all the troops along the route over which the funeral train passes to be at the railway station, even during the night, to pay tribute to their mur- dered comrades. o The arrival of the bodies in Rome Wwill be the occasion for an unprece- dented demonstration of mourning. ‘There will be a funeral procession through the principal thoroughfares of the city and thousands of persons are expected to view the cortege. King May Not Attend. It is possible that King Victor Em- manuel will not be able to come to Rome, owing to .the illness of his daughters, Princess Mafalda and Prin- cess Glovanna. Should he not be able to be present at the obsequies he will be represented by the crown prince or the Duke of Acosta. The Messagero, commenting on the closing of the Italo-Greek incident with the league of nations, says that Italy has emerged from the con- troversy with full success for her case, while the thesis supported by Lord Robert Cecil and MM. Brantin; Nansen and Hymans failed complete- 1y. . Regarding the last named, the |mewspaper asks whether M. Hyman: really represented the feeling of government, as, according to a & ment made by the Beigian ambassa- dor in Rome, the Brussels govern- ment sided with Italy. MAY JUNK RAILROAD. T. C. C. Grants Milwaukee's Plea ' | to Abandon Branches. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul rallway was authorized by the Interstate Commerce Commission yes- terday to abandon portions of its branch lines in Sargent county, N. D. In- cluded In the property to be junked are five miles of road between Cogs- ‘well and Harlem, and a portion of the branch line between Hastings and Andover. Fallure of the lines involved to earn -maintenance costs given as the reason for the and Allied Warships and Me- 1 GREECE PAYS FINAL| .G, VOTE ASSURED Maj. Gen. Masen M. Puirick, chief of the Army air service, flew his first seaplane this morning to Mount Ver- non and return. The plane is the first all-metal seacraft to be bullt in this country. The picture shows the g adjusting his leather helmit preparatery to fiight. Money Washington has subscribed to the Japanese relief fund of the American Red Cross today totaled $122,090.27. 'The national fund is $8,893,200. Two leading contributions received by Victor B. Deyber, chairman of the local Red Cross Japanese relief fund, were from the Saturday perfofmance of “Scaramouche” at the Belasco Theater, $1,687, and $304 from the Japanese embassy. Other outstanding contributions were: Officers and employes of the !bureau of engraving and printing (additional), $528.44; employes of the Post Office Department, $468.46; Sun- day school of the Centrzl! Presby. terian Church, $230; Frank R. Jellefr, Inc, $150, and Underwriters' Asso- clation of the District of Columbla, #10he total in the hands of the com- mittee today was $93,922.67: the amount collected by the Washington Post was $11.768.92, and The Even- ing Star's relief fund stood at $16,398.78. Vi i Latest Tabulations. following contributions have in the last twenty- ‘The been tabulated four hours: Mrs. Mae Crandall......... Employes of the Post Office Department ... = W TR Park View Christian Church Additional contributfons from officers and em- ployes of bureau of en- graving and printing Adaitional from the Wash- ington Hebrew Congrega- ! tion . 3 The following Riggs National Bank Conrad H. Young Dr. Edwin B. Beh: Omega _Chapter, Theta Pi Sorority. M. R. George. Richard Herman , 8. E. Hart... Ella A. Moseley Grace Mangum . Walter and Sweet Sundry anonymous Sixteenth. Street H Club : Underwrjtery” Association Sig Elizabeth cights Dr. Fieser Mr. Swift. Miss Sale R. CI Colin_Herrle. iMiss Erickson ... Miss 8. Heitmueller. Edwin Dice Mrs. Annie S. Smith. Elinor L. Dunn.. Frances M. Henderson. L. B. Bowman. G. A. Judson. G. R. Wilhelm. - Bessie L. Schafer. : Members of the staff, Pan- American Union. Cynthia Dye.... Emma_Bosworth. Lois Summers 2.00 2.00 2.00 10.00. 804.00 650.00 25.00 1 10.00 .00 Japanese Embassy. Maude Harpe Col. J. A. Hull. {E. Butler Mills Arthur L. Ward. Alice Collins: Francis J. Grimke Miss Oder. Mrs. M. A. Eastman. Mrs. L. C. Jones Isabelle M. Hopkin: George W. Levy & Bro; through Standard Nat- tional Bank. cen Anonymous .... Through the Washington Loan and Trust Company: D. Alfred Manson..$3.00 L. T. Bolsseau 10.00 Arthur B. Heaton..10.00 M. L F. 2.00 Cash . 3.00 Strauss Memorial Christian Church, Benning, D. C. Senlor Christian _Endeav Soclety of the Park View Christian Church. Sewing circle, throug Hyman Levy..: Memorial Lutheran Ch Additional from the West- ern Presbyterian -Church Sunday School of Central Presbyterlan Church. Frank R. Jelleff, Inc. Union Trust Compan; Proceeds from the Theater, -Satirda; formance of .00 .00 15.00 25.00 28.00 43 6.00 10.00 6.00 150.00 2.00 iasco per- 1,687.00 Previously reportedas Total in hands of mittee . Collected ton Post 3 11,768.92 Collected by Th ton Star......,. 16,398.78 Grand total for Washing- / ton . $122,090.27 The vestibule where & jar of alleged corn liquor was smashed, the police say, by Norman Bassell, when they attempted to arrest him Saturday night, was not at 1465 Chapin street, as reported by the police, but was the vestibule of a structure on the ' D. C. JAPANESE FUND $122,090, “WITH $8,893,200 U. S. TOTAL Star Relief Fund Now Totals $16,398.78; " Late Contributors Cont¥ibytions to the fund, when sent {0 The Star, should be made payable .to “Japancse Rellef Fund,” and mot The Evening Star. All con- will be acknowledged in the columns of The Star, Greyiously acknowledged...$16,261.78 e 5.00 in memo A Friend muel J. Cash . Founta Church Margarethe F. Hanby. iJennie Snyder. E M H i{Z. D. Gilman {Cash ... |A. W. Pope 'X;.)!il SERBS MASS FORCE ON BULGAR FRONT (Continued from First Page.) ed that Marshal Franchet d'Esperey has been negotiating @ three or four million French contract there, in which it is stipulated that the money advanced be spent solely for muni- tions in France. It is stated in Rome that the situ- ation at Fiume remains the same; that the presence of an Italian gov- ernor nierély adds one more soldier to the number already occupylng the city, although full military control can be interpreted as an Italian move to convince Jugoslavia that present conditions will no longer be tolerated at Fiame. Whether it has military significance is seriously doubted. but at any rate slavs may be forced to abandon the policy of delay which has marked Rappallo and the agreement of Santa Margherita. It is belleved here the installation of an Itallan governor will at least convince the Jugoslavs that Mussolini is serious and is going to keep his word. The fact that he called off his trip to Turin, where a great celebration was planned, is in- dicative of the premier's intention to ‘watch the situation closely instead of reaping the harvest of personal glory which awaits him in Turin. BULGARIAN PLOT BARED. Communist Club Documents Show Aim to Overthrow Rule. By the Associated Press. i SOFIA, September 19.—M. Roussef?, minister of the interior, announces that documents seized In recent raids on communist clubs show that these organizations planned a coup d'etat to overthrow_“.the government. The movement WAS to have begun with a general strike involying the rail- Toads, the postal systerh and the tele- ‘graph and. telephone line More than fifty communist leaders have beén put in jall and all their ‘clubs have been closed, DESTROYER RAMMED BY U. S. S. ARKANSAS Collision Between MoFarland and Battleship Occurs Off New- port Early Today. Collision between the battleship Ark- gnsas and the destroyer McFarland off Newport early today was reported In a dispatch received by the Navy De- partment. The destroyer, struck on the .|port side forward of her bridge, was said to have been seriously damaged and to be proceeding “under escort” to SANDWICH, Mass, September 19.— The United States destroyer McFarland was rammed in the bow by the battle- snip Arkansas in maneuvers near the entrance of the Cape Cod canal here today. ¢ The McFarland was engaged in maneuvers with twelve other destrogers, battieships Florida and e o Arkansas _Conveyed to Hostom, BOSTON, _September 19.—A: radio Rome is of the cpinfon that the Jugo- | their activities during the last three| Iyears, particularly since the treaty of | ral GEN. PATRICK FLIES NAVAL AIRSHIP Takes All-Metal Craft With Six Passengers for Spin - Over River. Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chief of the Army air service, today invaded the naval air station at Anacostla, D. C, and for the first time flew an aeromarine all-metal flylng boat. The general recently qualified as an air- plane pilot at the age of sixty. The new boat-seaplane was built by the Aeoromarine corporation, and has been on exhibition here for several days. Secretary of the Navy Denby and Rear Admiral Willlam A. Moffett were among those who made flights earlfer in the week. 1In addition vir- tuaily the entire woman personnel of the burcau of aeronautics have been given “hops.” Gen. Patrick this morning had as his i passengers Maj. Willlam H. Garrison, jr. commanding officer of Bolllng Field; t. W. D. Thomas, commander of the alr station; Maj. R. L. Walsh, mcting commandant of the Army field here; C. J. Zimmerman, the designer; Bream Patrick, his son, and P. J. Zim- merman, the pilot, who turned the ship over to the general after taking it off the water. The all-metal air express i flown to Mount Vernon and re- urn, PREMIERS DECLARE NO ISSUE IS THREATENING FRIENDSHIP OF NATIONS (Continued from First Page.) quently may not be allowed to share in the spoils thereof. Mr. Baldwin may have wished to know about this. Also, he suddenly may have decided to change his opinions about the Ruhr. On the other hand, M. Poin- care may hava declded to eonciliate England at any cost. Premier Baldwin and his nation came to the interview as the weaker parties. The personal prestige of the British premier has suffered through his long absence from London, while the nation's prestige has suffered through the government's fallure to make good its threat to “negotiate separately with Germany” voiced af- ter the Franco-British diplomatic set- to last July. Great Britain has prac- tically no means of forcing France into line, having tried without suc- cess financial pressure, diplomatic pressure and every other sort of pres- sure. Premier Poincare. on his side, h increased greatly the prestige both of himself and of his government. He has forced Germany to her knees, as he said he would—or has almost done so. He has kept public opinion at home ostensibly behind him. He not only has maintained, but he has strengthened the bonds of friendship between France, Poland, Czecho- slovakia and other nations of the little entente, which enables him to dominate the politics of central Eu- rope. In other words, he has made France temporarily the strongest na- tion on the continent. BEARS REPARATION DATA. Tyrrell Takes All Documents to Prime Minister in Paris. By the Aswoclated Press. s LONDON, Septemoer 19.—Sir Wil- liam Tyrrell, who went to Paris post- haste at a summons from Prime Min- " BY CONSTTUTION F. S. Perry Tells Petworth Citizens ‘Congress Could Make State Here. That there s no clause in the Con- stitution of the United States pro- hibiting its amendment so as to give the right of suffrage to residents of the District of Columbia was brought out in an address by F. S. Perry, chairman of the committee of the District Bar Association for Consti- tution week, at a meeting of the Pet- worth Citizens' Assoclation, in the Petworth School last night. Congress can change any state into a territory, and there is no reason why the District of Columbia could not be changed into the stats of Co- lumbia, he explained. Mr. Perry previously gave an out- Iine of the history of the Constitution. One of the wonders of the document, he explained, was the fact that it had been drawn up with no model to go by. Every democracy up to that time had been a fallure, he asserted. He upheld the ‘power of the Su- preme Court of the United States to declare an act of Congress void. He advised that people study more thor- oughly the form of government and to go slowly in making any radical changes in it. Coal by Weight Favored. The efforts ofthe Coal Consumers® League to have coal sold entirely by welght, instead of by the bushel mea- sure, was indorsed The assoclation also Indorsed the appointment of Stephen E. Kramer as principal of Central High School and the appointment of Robert Hay- cock as assistant superintendent of schools. X It was also recommended that four portable schools on Allison street near lowa avenue be painted. A resolution requested the Federa- tion of Citizens' Associations to in- struct 1ts educational committes to call a conferencse of the school com- mittees of the various citizens asso- ciations to discuss policies of school betterment. The question of financing civic bet- terment through a bond issue was re- ferred to the committee on economy and taxation, and the advisability of licensing - builders was referred to the committee on law and legislation for a report at the next meeting. The following were nominated: Timothy - S. Tincher and Horace J. Phelps, for president; Joe L. Carr, president for six years, _d clined renomination; for vice pres dent, Capt. J. F. Newport and Wil- llam L. Rhoads; for secretary, Gilbert 1. Jackson; financial secretary, R. J. F. McEiroy and A. D. Sartwell; for treasurer, Alban.B. Caldwell, and for delegates to the federation, James G. Yaden, Horace J. Phelps, Joe L. Carr and Willlam L. Rhoads. | GERMAN CIVIL WAR LOOMS IN RUHR DELAY (Continued from First Page.) cafes were permitted to Tetaln their American money upon presentation of their ‘passport or other. evidence, showing that they were enroute through Germany. : At the ministry of findnce it was stated that the first day's enforced drive for gold-basis currencies <was gatisfactory despite the wide assort- ment of money gathered in, which tanged from the American dollar to the Japanese yen and ‘the Polish mark. At one leading cafe, Which had been long under suspiclon as head guarters for currency manipulato: $2,500 was rounded up by the official gearchers. The owners will be relm- bursed with paper marks unless they are able to prove that their American gurrency was to be used for legiti- mate purposes. : % One hundred and fifty detectives, un- der guidance of officlals of the min- Btry_of finance, conducted the raids, which were carried out simultaneous- ly In various parts of the city. The demonstration is considered to have had a salutory effect toward the curbing of the street speculation in dollars, which up to that time was be- ing openly carried on in defiance of the government's regulations. MONEY RAIDERS ACTIVE. Confiscation of Foreign Currency Begun in Earnest. By Wireless to The Star and Philadelphia Public Ledger. Copyright, 1923. BERLIN, September 19.—Confisca- tlon of foreign currency began in earnest yesterday when efght hotel cafes were ralded by squads of po- lice with rifies in hand. They seized al},_foreign money the patrons car- rled, foreigners as well as Germans. The raid was directed against the exchange speculators, but the large hotels the heart of Berlin were included, where not all the patrons were of that class. The polide de- scended unexpectedly, when the cafes were most crowded, formed a cordon about the exits and proceeded to search every one inside. Recelpts for Money Selsed. Recelpts were given for the money selzed and the victims told it would be kept for them safely at police headquarters. No explanations were made, save when one could prove that he 'was just passing through Berlin and needed the money for, Im- mediate travel. In such cases Ger- mans, as well as foreigners, were permitted to keep their money. The appearance of the searchers in Friedrichstrasse and Unter-Den- Linden added to the general panic of the day with the dollar, the basis ister Baldwin, took with him all the of every individual's economic life, data bearing upor the reparation problem, interallied debts .and con- nected questions. In view, however, of Premier Poln- care's reiterated. declarations that France remained as adamant on the question of the continued occupation of Germany’s industrial centers, the cessation of passive resistance and the rejection of an international com- mission to determine Germany's ca- pacity to pay, diplomatic circles here fear that nothing having the char- acter of a concrete solution of the European troubles will result from the discussions. ¢ These observers feel nevertheless that today's meeting at Paris will least be productive of & more inti- mate understanding between the pre- miers, together with a more sympa- thetic appreciation of the problems and difficulties confronting = each country, and the removal of some, of the constraint which was observable in the recent formal diplomatic doc ments. One diplmat summed up the | British expectationn of the meeting by saying: 2 s “If it results only in a geperal clearing of the present befoy - mosphere between London .ang. Paria and the filling up of the isures which exist in the entente cordiale it ‘will have proved well worth while.” SAW FISH ON TREES. Relates Tale of Swollen River and Salmon. SEATTLE, Wash., September 19.— Hal Gramm, a mining man of this city, 'who has just returned from visiting gold fes at the foot of Salmon Glacter B‘Hfllg"columbll‘ twenty miles north of ler, Alaska, relates that he saw fish ‘on trees. The Miner bobbing up and down in 100 per cent movements. Foreigners showed passports stamp- ed by the police and protested In vain. Unless their papers showed they had just arrived or were just leaving they were obliged to give up all forelgn currency in their wallets or concealed about their person. Two \Tapaness were among those searched and relieved of their dollars. Speculators Hard Hit. Speculators who had reaped a profit with today's vacillations were hard hit, except those who had taken the precaution to put their dividends in a place of safety. They had warning when the new regulations were pul lished some days ago, but the foreigners thought they would be safe. Yesterday's profits in dollar specula- tion were enormous. The dollar open- ed at 320,000,000 marks and closed at 160,000,000 marks, but it was very vely between times. Toward noon when the dollar was worth 375,000,000 marks the Reichsbank sold a trivial $5,000 at the official rate of 150,000, The effect of this charm ‘soon off and after a brief drap the dollar mounted to 280,000,000. Toward the close, some mysterious operation of the Reichsbank brought it down to 160,000,000. There were heavy losses as well as gains for non-speculators and all “business as a result. Even the nimble index cai fiot follow such movements safely. Another Hectic Day Ahead. Today may prove an even more Rectic day to which a steady drop would be preferred by business. All the evening papers rather obviously feature news to the effect that the new Reichsgeld is coming soon—as has been repor(nidt bllor.i Progress sa finance, it will no longer issue state treasury certificates, and thus will be yin a tion to fuldll functions ‘bank Tor Industrial Premier Rivera : Uses Iron Hand 4 GEN. MIGUEL PRIMO RIVER ien. Miguel Primo Rivera, the Mar- tionary movement, w dictating Spanish policies. The “Mussolini” of Spain is taking a high hand in affairs and political leaders of all parties are being ex- peiled from the country or forced into retirement, CIVIL COURT FREES 5 HELD BY MILITARY IN OKLAHOMA KLAN WAR (Continued from First Page.) Broken Arrow, who are under sen- tence of two years each for con- fessed implication in the flogging of Ben Waggoner, farmer, several weeks ago. pplications for writs of heabeas corpus were filed Saturday by counsel for wives of the prisoners, the men are being held by the milifary board of inquiry, undér suspended sentences, as possible ‘witnesses in the further investigation of numerous _recent whippings charged by Gov. Walton to the XKu Klux Klan. The wives seek the surrender of their husbands to- the civil authorities, contending that Tulsa couaty convictions for ‘Waggoner county offenses are illegal. Continuation of the local military inquiry under the direction of Judge Advocate Capt. Joseph C. Looney, as- surance from a' spokesman for the absent adjutant general that no fur- ther, troop movements were planned and the direct suggestion of Capt. Looney, who is also a member of the state senate, that the federal government might be called upon “to insure a republican form of gov- TALKS sind TALES With and About CAPITAL’S GUESTS Perceptibly relleved from shoulder- Ing responsibilities of a national legislator, Miss Alice Robertson, former representative from Oklahoma, smiled benignly on a bright-faced bellboy in the lobby of the Shoreham Hotel as the young attendant figured aver a time table for the best sched- uled train to take the noted welfare worker back to that dear Muskoges and her 200 maimed veterans at thy great Soldfers’ Memorial IHospital just erected in that place. “Don't bother your head too much, son,” laughed the sweet-voiced wom- an, who is beloved by every lad in the great southwest. “I've seen the day when Oklahoma was a territory and to catch a train one had to sit on a log for five or six hours and burn newspapers to stop it or be left in.the cold. A little delay here and there won't bother me much.” After a strenuous year at state-built hospital for soldiers who fought in the great war where she presides as welfare direc- and is _known Dy every patient Mother,” the white-haired south- sterner_ slippéd up .to Cresson prings, Pa. to_spend a brief vaca- tion with Mrs. Willlam Thaw, 8nd is now on her way back to the sur- roundings she loves so well “It is a wonderful building, this new Oklahoma Hospital,” she sald, as her eyes danced with joy. “One of the best in the country. It cost a ha million dollars and can actommodat. 300 beds. We have about 200 boys there now, and they are still coming in from ali sections of the country.” “Any from Walter Reed, Miss Al “Oh, yes, but the trouble with those from your town is they have beer pampered so much up here that it hard for them to get used to our ple ways. And now that you asked, let me make a plea Tig to have some good souls send t the daily papers of the Everybody in the institution is in ested in what is going on Lere, and while we get several of the Sunday editions, It would make many a poor lad happy .to keep np with your ac- tivitles.” The former woman memiber, whose father and mother. were missionaries among the Cherokee and Creek In- dians ‘for many years, then told of her three blind charges, one of them a Choctaw, who 10st both ey Francé. *“We call him ‘Chiet, said, “and always having had & spot in my heart for the Indian, C is my pet. I gave him & rocking chalr that belonged to my mother, and his appreciation is indescribable how some of those boys suffer, she brushed back & tear. While refusing to comment on pres- ent conditions in her state, Miss Ro ertson said that aside from crops be- ing poor and prices low, the boil new wounded and ernment in Oklahoma, as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States,” were the principal develop- ments in the military phase here ves- terday. CLIMAX SEEN NEAR. | Military Leaders Ordered Into Court for Test Case. By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., September 19.—Martial rule over Oklahoma ap- pearea rapidly to be approaching a climax today, with attention mo- mentarily focussed on Tulsa, where Gov. Walton's authority to suspend the right of recourse to habeas cor- pus will be tested.. -There, Adjutant Gefi. B..T. Markham, commanding the military forces, has been ordered into district court to .show cause why three men held as witnesses by the military should .not be released Whether the adjutant general would obey the summons, remained in doubt. Meanwhile, state . legislators are gathering hers to perfect plans for an_ extraordinary session of the asy sembly in deflance of Gov. Walton®| No secret is made of the fact that if the legielature convenes jmpeach- ment -praceedings will be instituted inst the governor ghould sufficient basis for charges be found. Despite the executive's threat to pmprison all law-makers who at- tempt to hold a special session of the | legislature, “because it would inter- | fere with the prosecution of his fight | | against the Ku Klux Klan,” assembly- | men leading the movement declare they are within their rights and that the session will be called as soon as the, signatures of a majority of members of both houses can be ob- tafned. -Announced plans are for the legislature to meet as an inquisi- torlal body to. “investigate condi- tions in the state” No effort is Dbeing magde to. convene for legis- lative purhoses, for which a call from the governor i necessary, it was sald. Military courts of inquiry here and at Tulsa investigating, acts of mob violence throughout the state con- tinued in session toudy with no in- dication as to when the work would be completed. HAVRE DE GRACE ENTRIES ST RACE—Purse, $1,300: claiming; r?‘by.wldl: five and ome-half furlongs. Sarko us .10 Belie K. . s No Zady 107 *Cogvent . 11 Trafalgar Leons Dare antherwood iyton .. ‘Chooo LAY S Cowdon sntry: 150.%. Sainon"and ‘Wilson entry. ECOND RACE—Purse, $1,800; olaiming;’ S aeyear-aids gad np;‘ six furlongs. 140 Gleush Jerdan for T. J. Pendergast,. Round Robin b THIRD RACE—Purse, three-yearolds and up; six Tidings . TAtniste ewat onRolth; ohe e 120 Ton Minutes ..... Gen. Thatcher .. TouR: purse, 31,400; for Betting B mh;‘ - FIFCH RACE—Purss, three-year-olds; mile 300; claiming; three-yesr-olds and up; SEVENTH RAOE—Purse, $1,800; three.year-olds and up; mils and ST. PAUL, Septémber 18.— The Northern. Pacific Railway Company will maintain its 5 per cent arnual dividend by voting a quarterly divi- dend of 13 per cent at its directors’ meeting in New York tomorrow, it authoritative 230 weevil had raised havoc throughout the state. “The people are restless,” and she got up to go. With thoughts of blight still fresh in mind, Charles Lathrop Pack, pres- ident of the American Tree Associa- tion, who is stopping at the Hotel La Fayette with Maj. Stanley Wash- burn of North Dakota, preparatory to a conference with President Cool idge on agricultural matters, was en- countered in the lobby of that hotel. It took but a minute to learn from him that idle land is as great a men- ace to the prosperity of the country as idle men. He held in his hand all the while a copy of the report of the British forestry commission. “This report is one of the most im- portant findings ever made public,” sald Mr. Pack. “Gen. Lord Lovat, the head of the commission, is now in this country studying conditions both in Canada and the United States. Great Britain is awake to this situa- tion and over there idle men are be- ing absorbed In reforestation projects that Lord Lovat i3 difecting. The expert on trees then gave sta- tistics to show that there are In this country about 51,000,000 acres of idle 1and fit for nothing but growing trees “This land must be put to work, for great part of east of the Mis- sissippi river,” continued Mr. Pack, “and therefore comparatively close to our great manufacturing centers. These centers are now paying mil- lions of dollars in freight every year on forest products that should be much closer to the factory door than they are. “Look at New England, Michigan, Wisconsin and New York. Those states once produced all the lumber they could use, and exported it. Now they are importers of lumber, for the center of the industry is fast ap- proaching the Pacific coast. Here is a situation that business men_are most vitally interested in. The Brit- ish reports warn of a world timber famine, and this warning is a direct result of the great drain on forest resources during the great war.” Palpably worried over the situation, Mr. Pack concluded by saying that few people realize that five million trees are cut down every year to provide poles for wires that carry the busi- ness meSsages of the country. “In mining and quarrying two hundred million _cubic feet “of wood are used every year,” he exclaified. “The indus- try is now turning to Alaska, and that means longer hauls and higher freight rates. The idle land in this country must be put to work.” Asked his opinion of the political situation, Mr. Pack looked askance. “Why, man, 1 am not a politician! But 1 ‘will say that everywhere I go the trend of opinion is to give President Coolidge a good, fair chance.” Another preserver, but along Qif- ferent lines than those followed by Mr. Pack, stopping at the La Fayette, is Dr. Clara F. Hayes of Waubay, S. D.. a member of the stato board of health of that commonwealth, and director of child hygiene, who is here for a conference, called by the United States children’s bureau, with repre- Sentatives from all the states in uts tendance. Dr. Hayes reports splendid prog} ress for child welfare work in -ths northwest, and says that while South Dakota is free from the congested districts, which cause so much suf- fering to the little omes, the tate does have its problems, but( effort is being made for the it privileged of the sectlon. Wk The physician, who is a nativé/o! Tllinols, and & graduate of the medi- cal school of the University of Ii- linois, said that. crops in her. part of the country were & bit better this year, but that prices were still low. "Asked how South Dakofa regarded the new President, the pretty health officer smiled and said: “Mr. Cooliugé is quite all right” A quick_trip down to the New Wil- lard Hotel found Frank W. tSearns, Boston merchant prince, and life- jong friend and advisor of President Coolldge, holding conversation with the office force of that houi Mr, Stearns usually makes the Wil- lard his headquarters, but is stopping at the-White House on this visit. He Was most pleased when advised that reports from all sections of the coun- try showed utmost faith and satis- faotion in the successor:to President ding. Hhe “longer the American people know Mr. Coolidge the bettér they { will tke him—I found it s0," and thea he passed the cigars. The:smokes had hardly been lighted when big Parke Davis, noted lawyer on, Pa., and.democrat of many ‘;’efi:‘“flnndmx. brushed through the jobby to catch a taxi for the station in much the same fashion he used to mow down all opposition when one of the foot ball stars at Princeton University. Mr. Davis is a close personal friend of President Coolidge, having coached the Amherst team the year the Chief Executlve was a senior at that in- stitution. A close friendship sprang up then which has lasted since. Mr. Davis had time enough to say, however, that those who picked the President for a cold, undemonstrative person, had another guess. “You bave got to know. him, but once you do—well god-bye,” M;& By