Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair tonight and tomorrow; mild temperature; temperature for twenty- four hours ended at 2 p.m. todsy: Highest, 84, at 3:50 p.m. yesterday; The Star’s carrier system' covers every city block and the regular edi- . . tion is delivered to Washington homes . 1owest, 69, at 4 a.m. today. Cloing N. Y. Stocks aad Bonds, Page 18 Enteteq secor AMERICAN AIRMEN DIEWHENLIGHTNING - DESTROYS BALLOON Lieuts. Olmsted and Shop- taw Lose Lives With Three Others in Bennett Race. PILOTS OF ARMY ENTRY SWEPT INTO BIG STORM Ten Balloonists Still Missing—U.S. Navy Bag Forced to Land, But Crew Saved. By the Assaciated Press, BRUSSELS, September 24.—Five | airmen, including two United States Army lieutenants, lost théir lives, an- other was seriously injured and five balloons were smashed on the ground or destroyed by lightning In the James < Gordon Bennett cup race; started yesterday under the most ad- verse weather conditions ever expe- rieneed in the history of the competi- tion. 'The dead are: Lieut. Olmstead and Lieut. Choptaw Lieut. Olmsted and Lieut. Shoptaw 8-6. Lieut. von Gruningen and Lieut Wehren of the Swiss balloon Geneva. Penaranda Barca of the Spanish balloon Polar. Gomez Guillamon, Barca in the polar hurt assistant to was seriously Navy Balloon Safe. The United States Navy A-6699 and the Fernande III, a French entry piloted by G. Blanchet, were the only balloons reported up to noon today as having landed safely. In view of the terrific storm which broke out half an hour after the last balloon took off and which was rag- ing over northern Belgium and Hol- land and the neighboring North sea ‘waters until 10 o'clock last night, | fears are entertained for the safety of the ten balloonists not yet heard from. These are Bienaime and Ra- vaine, balloon Picardy, France; De- muyter 1 Weenstra, balloon Bel- gica, Belgium: Dunville and Spencer, Engiand; Armbruster and Pieard, Switzerland; Delasierra and Magda- Iena, Spain. The officials of the Brussels Aero Club, appalled by the catastrophe, point out that they had advocated post- ponement of the race, but found that the rules were absolutely inflexible, They will propose changes to ovar- come this difficulty in future. Many members, however, -favor canceling the competition altagether. Third U. 8. Bhtrant Bursts. The third American entrant in the race, the balloon Saint Louis, never took the air, burating before the start from the pressure of her anchor rope, The S-6 was caught in the vortex of a terrific southwesterly gale in crose- ing the Belgian frontler about 7 o'clock last evening, the rainstorm forcing the balloonists to unload all their ballast. When the balloon crashed at Nistelrode both men’ were dead. Lieut, Olmsted was killed outright when iighting struck the balloon, while Lieut. Choptaw suffered death when the §-6 fell, In the opinion of Dr. van Binbergen of Nistelrode, who examined the bodies. Lieut. Olmsted's body was found under the bag in the basket, while that of his companion was about twenty-five feet away, as if the victim had jumped. $ The disqualification of the United States Army balloon S-6 had just been decided upon because of “her ramming the Belgian entry, Ville de Bruxelles, at the start of the race, when news of the disaster to the American balloon reached the Aero Club. The families of the victims are here in ‘Brussels. King Sends Sympathy. Xing Albert this afternoon sent a staff officer to the United States and Spanish embassies and the Swiss le- gation to express his majesty's con- dolences over the loss of lives in the cup race. The ballon - Prince Leopold, a Bel- glan entry, met with a considerable mishap shortly after the start. She was beaten down by the rain squall and fouled the chimney in_the I’n'dun- trial suburb of Woluwe. Pilot Veen- stra was obliged to dump the entire ballast, including the scientific in- struments, before the balloon again dscended, thus greatly handicapping the aeronauts for their flight. Seventeen In Line-up. Seventeen balloong lined up for the race. The United States, Belgium, Franee, Spain and Switzerland were represented by three entries, and England by two. The three Itallan entriés withdrew, as well as one ocarrying the colors of Poland. A torrential rain fell as the bags (Continued on Pagé 2, Column 1.) UP §1 IN DISTRICT Dealers Say Increase Is Due to Mine Raise Following Strike Settlement. phe retail price of hard coal in Washington will increase an average of approximately $1 as a result of the incressed cost at the mines brought about by the strike settle- ment, it was learned from a number of the largest dealers today. According to one concern some of the larger mines have gone up 86 cents per ton, while others have ad- vanced the mine price to $1 and $1.15 per ton, It was explained by local coal mer- chants that most of the dealers get their total supply of anthracite from different mines and for that reason Wwill not be ablé to get all of it at the lowest figure. ua-cluss mutter post_office Washington, D. Licut. Robert S. Olmsted (left) U.S.Navy Plane, Entrant in Race, | Wrecked in Fall| BY the Associated Press. LONDON, September 24.—The Amerlcan seaplane entered for the seventh annual competition for the Schneider cup on September 28 fell into the sea near Portsmouth during a trlal flight today and was totally wrecked. The occupants were picked up unhurt Lieut. A. Worthington Gorton of Providence, R. I, was_piloting the seaplane when it fell. Lieut. Gorton oke the speed record for fiight in a seaplane twice in one day at Philadelphia on August 9 last, at- taining an average speed of 180.8 miles an hour in his final test. a Three naval airplane pilots from the naval air station at Anacos- tia—Lieuts. Rutledge Irvine, David Rittenhouse and A. W. Gorton— are the United States entrants in the Schneider international sea- plane races which begin off the Isle of Wight September 28. Four planes were taken to England, so the loss of the plane reported above may not greatly affect the position of the Navy in the race. BULGARIAN REVOLT BEATEN BY TROOPS Order Restored in _Vmages 'Where Communist Regime Was Declared. By the Associated Press. SOFIA, September 24.—The general situation in Bulgaria shows a mark- ed improvement. A few isolated cases of rebellion are still being re- ported, but these are regarded as un- important. Troops supported by the popula- tion have restored order in certain villages of the Kazanlyk region, where a soviet regime was declared. A band of fifty communists which had been formed at Rosovo, South Kazanlyk, fled into the mountains where it finally surrendered. The two - chiefs committed suicide and | their men gave up their arms. i BULGAR REDS MASSACRED. Two Hundred Shot Down in Cold Blood in One City. By Cable to The Star and Philadelphia Public | Ledger. Copyright, 1923, VIENNA, September 24.—Whether| or not there has been a counter revo- lution by the peasant party in Bul-; garia, there is no doubt that a white terror has been in progress under Gen. Lazaroff, the war minister. This is even more severe than the | notorious movement following the collapse of . bolshevism - in Hungary and the so-called communist revolu- | tionaries, together with numbers of ! former Premier Stambulivsky's fol- lowers, really have been defending themselyes against & campaign of ‘wholesale extermination. 1 The Zankov government has tried vainly to represent a middle-of-the-way | policy without adherents. Lazaroff, sup- ported by Home Minister Russeff and Smiloff, who is one of the most in- transigeant Bulgars, has virtually ‘es- tablished a military’ dictatorship. With other Balkan problems diverting, as he thought, international attention frem | Bulgaria’s internal affairs, he launched a campalgn designedly against the com- munists, but also against dissatisfied ! persons in other groups, breaking up even legal communist ' organizations. Where the slightest defense was en- | countered arms were used. A massacre occurred at Stara Zagora sych as central Europe has never seen before, when 200 communists were killed.” At Lompalanka, where the mili- tary again used guns, scores more were slain. ~About 200 others have been ar- rested. The situation of the Zankov govern- ment, however, is very unsound. Dur- ing the last few days the social, demo- crat and . bourgeols parties, which are participating in_government, have be- come alarmed at the course of events and are demanding the resignation of Smiloff. i i —_— ARRESTS EXPECTED IN SCHOOLGIRL DEATH — By the Associated Press. - MILLVILLE, N. J., September 24.— Arrests In connection with the slay- ing of fifteen-year-old Emma Dick- son, the high school girl whose body, with the skull crushed, was found Saturday in a woods near her home at Brickboro, were expected today by county authorities. A married man and a former suitor are said to be among the suspects. One theory is that the girl was slain in resisting an attack by a man with whom she was riding In an automobile. - Coroner Carroll, however, taid that he had found 7. Maury Dove, jr., vice president of the Dove company, stated today that his company would be compelled to advance the price 95 cenis per ton. He sald that this represents the exact amount of increase to his company and. that not one cent of the advance #ouldbensfii: fhe- CompsaYs o nothing to indicate she had -been aftacked before being beaten to death. A blood-stained motor car hub cap was found near the body an® some of the authorities believed that this was the instrument used to crush her:skully /. ;. Che Fy Lrno TH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1923—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. FLYERS KILLED IN RACE. and Lieut. John W. Shoptow, 1 RS, WARD WEERS ON WITNESS STAND Wife of Man Accused in Death of Peters Tells Events on Night of Slaying. killed S. Army - Air Service photo. By the Associated Press WHITE PLAINS, N: Y., September 24—Mrs. Walter' S. Ward was called to the witness stand today by the prosecution as a witness in the case in which her husband is charged with murder in the first degree of Clarence Peters of Haverhill, Mass. The ‘staff of defense attorneys rose to their feet when Attorney General Sherman first summoned Mrs. Ward to the chair, but they interposed no objection. Her husband, the defend- ant, also got to his feet and assisting his wife from her chair, accompanied her around behind the jury box and to the witness stand, where he gently helped her to her seat. Muffied Her Sobs. With an air of pathos she squirmed about a minute, muffled her sobs in her handkerchief. leaned forward and stared straight ahead in a reso- lute gaze. Her slight figure barely fitted the huge chair on whose broad arms she vegted her elbows. Attorney General Sherman was the first to question her, but his interro- gations were brief and were mad ohi¥iblisly. for the sltaple purpoke of having her on the stand that the proseécution might question her after the defense had. After Jnquiring about the nurse- maid for the Ward children, Mr. Sherman turned her over to the de- fense for cross-examiriation. The at- torney general asked her if Lulu Beryl, the nursemaid, was putside of New York state but ‘still in her em- ploy, and she answered yes. After Mrs. Ward had said that Mrs. Beryl was a nurse for her children, Mr. Campbell held up a picture of a boy and a girl and asked: “Are these the children?” Identifies Photograph. Mrs. Ward identified' the photo- graph and then it was passed among the jury. She said that the first she saw of | { her husband on the night of the kill- ing was between 4 and 5 o'clock In the morning when he entered her room and awakened her. Answering her husband’s attorneys, she testified that it was possible for her husband to have been home earller and for her not to have heard him until he came into her room. Asked if. he offered any explana- tion why he visited her so late, Mrs. | |'Ward replied that he did. V. Justice Wagner upheld the contention of the defense that Mrs. Ward could not be called upon to testify what her hus- band had said to her. “Was his ‘explanation satisfac- ?" asked the prosecutor. she replied. Voice Is Very Low. Mrs. Ward was apparently composed as she parried the interrogation, but her volce was so soft that her an- swers were aimost inaudible to the spectators, who leaned forward in their chalrs to catch every word. At times her answers were so low when she was questioned by Attorney .Gen- era] Sherman that the court clerk had to repeat them for the records and the jury. Still suppressing her sobs, Mrs. Ward testified that when the first grand jury began' the investigation of the kiliing of Peters, after it had been announced her husband was im- plicated, she went to Bermuda.' After she had been there some weeks, she said, she cabled her husband to know if she could not come home to get her children and go to some other resort. This was arranged, she added, and she took the Ehildren to Atlantic City. Stayed Out of New York. To the . questions of the attorney general she answered that she re- mained there, out of the jurisdiction of New York state, while the last grand jury was reinvestigating the killing and preparing -the indictment under which her husband now is be- ing tried. Mrs. Ward remained on the witness stand fifteen minutes and when she returned to her seat behind her hus- band she was shaking nervously. Be- fore she sat down she looked fixedly into his eyes and then suddenly burfed her face in her handkerchief -and sobbed audibly. In a moment sym- pathetic sobs could be heard from women scattered all over the court- room. QUAKE KILLS 123 IN PERSIAN TOWNS By the Associated Press. TEHERAN, Persia, September 24.— Several villages in the vicinity of Bujnurd are reported to have been destroyed, with casualties, as far as known, of 123 dead and about 100 injured, in the earthquake which shook the reglon last Thursday, say dispatches reaching here. The shocks are continuin, COMPULSORY RAIL MERGER PROPOSALS ABANDONED BY L., Firm Opposition in Congress Causes Cummins to Drop Fight for New Law. VOLUNTARY MERGER ACT MAY BE SOUGHT NOW Commission, at Work Two Years, May Not Complete Survey for Government. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Compulsory . consolidation of the railroads of the United States into a limited number of systems, but pre- serving competition as far as prac- ticable, as contemplated in the rail- road act of 1920, has been abandoned —for many years, at least. That ‘the incoming Congress be- lieves railroad legislation one of.the principal issues on which the people demand action is shown by a canvas of the entire membership of the new Congress. A large number of sen- ators and representatives have re- ported serious dissatistaction among thelr constituents ‘over the provision which Senator Albert W. Cummins of Towa had inserted In the railway act of which he was one of the authors, directing the Interstate Commerce Commission to prepare a plan for consolidation of the rallroad prop- erties. Cummins Drops Plan, With the Interstate Commerce Com- mission opening hearings in Boston today on raflroad consolidation plans affecting the New England carriers, it became known that Senator Cum- mins, who is chalrman of the Senate committee on interstate commerce, which has jurisdiction over railroad legislation, and who has becen a ploneer worker in Congress for rail- road consolidation, has abandoned his plan to ask the next Congress to give the commission power .to put into ef- fect whatever program of consolida- tion it finally agrees upon as best. Senator Cummins now intends to | Introduce a measure which would es- {tablish a period of years during which voluntary consolidation could be ef- fected by railroads, subject to the approval of the commission. He says jhe will agk Congregs to provide that duping- this period ‘no. definite rlcgl for consolidation throughout the country shall be required or promul- gated. This means that the work of the commission on consolidation lank, on which it Has been at wark or tWo years, may fot be published or even finished. It is probable, how- ever, that the commission will ha its plans drafted for publication be- fore Congress can act upon the new Cummins’ proposal. In any event, the time and expense that the com- mission has put into this work will not be entirely wasted, as the knowl- edge obtained would be of value in passing upon voluntary consolidations as now proposed by Senator Cummins. Coolidge Without Plan. The fact that President Coolldge said recently that his attitude on rallroad legislation would be gulded largely by the advice of Senator Cummins adds to the importance of this new decision by Senator Cum- mins. | Not long before the death of Pres- | 1dent Harding. Senator Cummins said | he would ask the next Congress to | give the Interstate Commerco Com- mission power to put its consolida- tion plans into effect. President Harding announced his readiness to support Senator Cummins, who then | intended to have hearings before his committee, even before the next Con- gress assembled, Compulsory consolidation, however, has. not caught popular favor. Aside | from the legal questions and problems involved, it is such a complicated proposition that the general public! has_displayed ' little interest in_it, while railroad officials, bankers, ship- | ! pers and others who have studied the | question closely are not, for the most | part, enthusiastic about it as a gen- | | eral ‘proposition. | Consolidation Voluntary. | The change of mind by Senator | Cummins means that no compulsory raflroad consolidation legislation will | be attempted in the next Congress, or. for a long time ahead, makes it pretty certain that any consolidation in the next few years will be volun- tary, ~ Even it Senator Cummins should support a measure in the next Congress to give the Interstate Com- merce Commission power to-enforce a consolidation program, as he until recently planned, it 'is extremely doubtful if such’ legislation would pass, so strong is the sentiment in Congress against such” a course, as shown by the survey just made. Replying to a direct guestion as to whether he believes the Interstate Commerce Commission should be giv- en power by Congress to put into ef- fect its consolidation plans, Senator Cummins said: “I sayfrankly that I intendto in- troduce a bill for the amendment of that part of the transportation act of 1920 which relates to the consolida- tion of rallroad. properties. One of the_featurés of that amendment will probably be that during the period allowed for voluntary consolidation no, definite plan for consolidations throughout the country ‘shall be re- quired or promulgated, but that dur- ing that period all 'consolidations proposed by the rallroads shall be subject to the approval of the Inter- state Commerce Commission.” TURKS ASK REMOVAL OF U. S. WARSHIPS Angora Presses for Withdrawal of Torpedo Boats From Straits. | Anna V. PLAN DRIVE TO STIR SCHOOL INTEREST Association Proposes Thirty- Day Agitation on Needs of Local System. A thirty-day campaign to stir up the District citizens to the needs of the public schools probably will bel |started soon by the District of Co-} lumbia Public School Association. Such a movement was approved at-a recent meeting of the exocutive com- mittee of the organization. The mat- ter will be laid before the full mem- bership at the first fall session at; {the Franklin School on October 3. Mags meetings in every section of the eoity were proposed “by David Babp, chairman of the committee on school exvansion. It also is planned to inform President Coolidge in re- gard to the lacal school situation. Conference With Lord. A report on conferences betweéen the organization's committee on ap- propriations and the board of edu- cation, the District Commissioners and representatives of the budget bureau was made by Brig. Gen. S8amuel T. Ansell. Another confer- ence, Gen. Ansell announced, would be held with Gen. H. M. Lord of the bureau of the budget and his as- sistants relative to the school ap- propriations for the next fiscal year. Gen. Ansell sald Gen. Lord desires views of parents as to the school needs. The committee will arrange a con- ference with Maj. J. Franklin Bell, District - Engineer Commissioner, to discuss the proposed city bond Issue. Greenwood to Speak. Ernest Greenwood, vice president of the school board, will address the association soon, it was announced. The committee voiced its appreciation of Mr. Greenwood's plan to consult parents in regards to the needs of their children. Announcement was made that Walter Irey, secretary of the associa- tion, had assisted in the: formation of the ‘Home and School Association of the Takoma School. Officers of this organization are: E. W. James, president; Mrs. Mary Cady Lee, first vice president; Mrs. Thomas W. Mar- shall, second vice president; Miss Bowden, secretary, and Dr., J. Dantzlc, treasurer. The xecutive committee is composed of Dr. W. A, Hocker., Miss Harrlet M. Bugbee, Mrs. A. filler and Mrs. H. M. Phillips. DESTROYER CHIEF TOTELL OF WRECK Capt. Watson Expected to Give “Whole Story” of Dis- regarded Signals. Samuel By the Assoclated Press. SAN DIEGO, Calif., September Capt. Edward H. Watson, chief of the destroyer squadron which was hurled on the rocks September 8, was ex- pected today to tell the naval court of inquiry investigating the wreck the “whole story” of how seven ships, disregarding signals from the wive- less compase station at Point Arguel- lo, steered head-on into the California coast. Capt. Watson and twelve other naval officers, named defendants by the court, upset proceedings Saturday by declaring their desire to take the witness stand and aid in clearing’ up the mystery of the wreck, an - act which drew praise from Admiral Pratt, presiding member of the court, who characterized the conduct of the defendants as orthy of the best traditions of the Navy.” sterday the thirteen defendant: all officers of the ill-fated 11th Squad- ron, participated with more than 9,000 other officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps in impressive memorial services honoring the twen-. LONDON, September 24.—An Ex- change telegraph dispatch from Con- stantinople quotes an Angora message as stating that the Turkish government has decided to press for the withdrawal from the straits of the flotilla of Ameri- e~ hat Ao Bey. the natio representative in Constanti- nople, has made to the United, States i ty-three men who perished in the dis. aster. Especial Interest, therefore, centered in Capt. Watson's scheduled assump- tion of the witness stand at toda: hearing. He was to be preceded by IR l WHIT fast as the papers are printed. Saturday’s Circulat Sunday’s 'Clrcululon. 95,876 E HOUSE President Coolidge's address open- ing the annual meeting of the Red Cross follows in full: “The American Red Cross is a mod- ern appiication of an anclent prin- ciple. The idea of charity is very cld. It is included in the teachings of the earliest philosophers. It is one of the fundamental doctrines of our Bible. It is a spiritual concep- | tion of human relationship. It is life in obedience to the things that are unseen. “Throughout history men have been prone to put their trust in other things and have failed. They have sought for power through material resources alone. They have thought it might be gained by the accumula- tion of great riches. They have at- tempted to rely upon the naked force of armies and navies, conquering by the might of the sword. But these forces are. uot ithe uitimate rulers of SEENOHOPETOEND| SHIP BOARD LOSSES Offigials Find ‘No Plan to Avert Deficit in Fed- eral Operation. President Coolldge has been advised by members of the Shipping Board that a thorough canvass of the situa- tion has fafled to develop any sug- gested plan of operating the govern- ment's merchant fleet ' which ‘offers hope of escaping a definite and con- jtinued deficit. Computation of the various factors which enter into marine transporta- tion place “a fixed differential” of $5 a ton against American ships, the President was informed, and this handicap will be met regardless of the method of operation devised by the board. Hope to Cut Los The best to be hoped, Mr. Coolidge was told, is that the board in carry- ing out the behest of existing laws can hold losses as near as possible to the irreducible minimum. Work is being rushed at the board on the compromise plan designing to take the place of that declared ille- gal by Attorney General Daugherty. The plan will be considered by the board finally, it was predicted, at its regular meeting tomorrow and pre- sented to Presldent Coolidge at a conference later in the week. Use Same Basfc Features. As now drawn, the new plan pro- poses to use some basic features of the present operating system with modifications designed to assist such operating agents as are retained in building up a permanent business. At the same time the board would retain a' measure of supervision which it feels would prevent the ob- jection ralsed by the Attorney Gen- eral concerning the delégation of a trustee’s authority. Reduction of guarantees. to the lowest point per- missible under the Jones act was said to be a permanent feature of fhe proposed compromise. Prot against adoption of any operating system entailing more di- rect government operation. than now in effect was made at the White House today by the middle west for- eign” trade committ: Members of the committee said President Cool- idge had expressed sympathy Wwith its views while stating he had no plan of operation in mind, and had wel- comed the co-operation of the com- mittee. DR. M. F. EGAN IS STILL CRITICALLY IL.L AT HOME Former Envoy to Denmark Suffer- ing From Acute Ggjtro-Enteritis " Last Two Weeks. By the Associated Press. BEACH HAVEN, N. 24—The condition of Dr. Maurice Francis Egan, former minister to Denmark, who has been seriously ill at his summer home here since September 9, continues critical. Dr. Paul Traub, attending physician, in a 3. September Lieut. Commander Leslie Bratton, judge advocate of the court of in- uiry, who planned to take the stand or the purpose of offering in evi-' dence such records and documents from the wrecked ships as were sal- statement, declared that if there had been any change it was for the better. Taken , ill. with acute gastro- enteritis two weeks ago, Dr. Egan suffered a collapse and has not em- R e . a > ; ed Cross Idealism Needed In World, President Asserts movrkind. Thev ava n-censar: for security, s oolico and _criminal courts and bolts and bars are neces- sary. They are adjuncts of peace. But they are negative forces. They do not create, they resist. They are not the ultimate force in the world. They do not make the final deter- minations among men. Over them all is a higher power. “Mankind has not vet, can not yet, discard the use of these forces. It is significant, however, that the great nations have at last agreed upon their limitation. But it is even more significant that civilization is coming to rely more and more upon moral force. It is because the Red Cross has been a practical application of that principle that it has been such a tremendous success. It makes its appeal for support directly to.the conscience of mankind. It does mot attempt to function through the di- rect action of organized government, It does not have in it any element of compulsion. It is the voluntary of- fering of the people themselves. Whenever gnd wherever an emer (m n Page 3, Column 2.) Mark 400 Times More- Valuable ‘As Waste Paper By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, September - 24— One million German marks.were ‘worth seven-tenths of 1 cent as currency In New York, but one million’of the old one-mark notes sold as waste paper here would bring . about $4. Thousands of these old mark notes still are held in this country as souvenirs, -but - they are valuéless so far as pur- chasing power is concerned. Germany's outstanding note cir- culation has ngw exceeded a quadrillion paper marks, the latest weekly increase being mo: 515,000,000,000,000 marks. " PLOT IS CHARGED N PATENTS SALE Consplracy charges in the sale of German dye patents to the Chemical Foundation, -Incorporated, were made in a brief filed today by the Depart- ment of Justice in the federal court at Wilmington, Del., ‘in the govern- ment's suit to set aside the sale of the patents. Violation of the law providing for custody of enemy alien property was charged in the brief. and former At- torney General A. Mitchell Palmer, Francis P. Garvan, former aljen prop- erty custodian, and others were criti- cized severely.' Attorney, General 'Daugherty and his aides, signing the brief, a bulky volume of. nearly 800 printed pages, declared that the sale to the Chemieal Foundation.was void because private sales of alien property were not au- thorized ‘and because government of- ficials acted both for the government and the buying corporation in the ehl. The brief charged that there was a “combination, scheme and consniracy to induce, cayse to he made, and make the sale’of engmy properties in an unlawful manner and for an unlaw- ful purpose The brief detlared that charges of actual fraud were avoided, but that the conspiracy charges were sustain- ed by the evidence given in the re- cent long _trial before the federal court at Wilmington, together with records of other government depart- ments, Charges were made in the brief that there was ‘a- clear scheme of conspiracy on the part of the mem- bers of the committee of the (Amer: ican) Dyes Institute and of the Man. ufacturing ~ Chemists' Assoclatiol who participated in the negotlation: und. the officers and agents of the alien property - custodian, who, .as officers and agents of the United States and also officers and agents of the Chemical Foundation, conduct- ed these transactions and alleged les, to induce, bring about nd ‘put over—to use pressivé ~ phrase of Mr. a sale of this property which ha been placed in the hands of the cus- todian as a sgcred trust by the United States.” That only a nominal $290,000, was- realized for the pat- ents, was emphasized in the brief, which recited the testimony of a German witness that the patents sold were worth not 1 than $17,000,000. An ofter from the French govern- ment to pay about 59,000,000 francs for French rights to only a part of the patents algo. was detailed,” price, about | tion, 87887, C * TWO CENTS.: PRESIDENT PRAISES RED CROSS SPIRIT, OPENS CONVENTION Makes First Formal Address Since Taking - Office - at National Meeting Here. JAPANESE ENVOY AMONG - SPEAKERS:ON' PROGRAM 1,000 Delegates - Register—Recent Earthquake Work Lauded by Mr. Coolidge. Definition ‘of -the “practical®ideal ism” of America was given by Presi- dent Coolidge . in' his first . formal addrese’ since he took the;oath of office in delivering the principab speech at the annual convéntion. of the American Red Cross, which opened here today in Memorial Continental Hall and over which he presided. This “prastical idealiem,” he said, is a deep fajth' in_ spiritual things, tempered by a hard common sense adapted to the needs of the world, and the people of the United States are not likely to' adopt auy other course. This . “practical . idealis the President said, was illustrated by the men Who went to the rescus of Europe when their own liberty and the liberty of the world was in poril, but, who, after victory was cecured, retired from the fleld “uli- incumbere, Chief among the qualities that have made the American Red Cross so suc- cesstul, and it has just completed one of the most important relief cam- paigns in its history, has been this "p'rdautlcll idealism,” the President said. President Coolldge was accompanied to the Memorial Continental Hall by his miliary aide, Col. Sherrill, and his naval aide, Capt. Andrews, and by the secretary to the President, Mr. Slemp. His entrance into the hall was the sig- nal for applause, the convention rising. The President’s address was listened to with close attention, and was inter- rupted several times by applause.. He spoke clearly and distinctly, with few gestures. 1,000 Delegates Here, Nearly 1,000 delegates assembled to hear President Coolidge's first public speech as Chief Executive. Ambassador Hanthara of Japan, for Whoge earthquake, ‘.va gp: ufi;od & as :I“d thto :mtrlun onducted a stupendous drive, and Col. William' N. ell, dirsctor of American relief {n Rygels and Greace. Soeakers, wh "ifcluded ‘Amny eng Navy officers and welfars workers of national and internationdl recogmi- on. Reglstration of delegat gressing rapldly today, and the at- tendance was 8o large that ajrange. ments had to be made for using Me- morial Continnental Hall for the gathering today and for most of the principal sessions. The various group conferences during the four davs of the conventian will -be held in the Red Cross national headquarters. Public Is Invited. In urging the attendance of the public generally at the open meetings John Barton ‘Payne, chairman of the American Red Cross, emphasized that it is the dependable stand of the American people behind the American Red Cross that has made it possible for that organization to bring relief to all quarters of the world in ameli- oration of the distress of all peoples in any emergency. “The Amerclan Red Cross is the American people,” said Chalrman Payne. “All who can attend-the ses- sfons should do so, for the work the Red Cross is doing is supported stanchly by every one. No better demonstration of this could be had than the recent immediate and full response of America in the sending of practical ald to the stricken people of Japen through the Red Cross. The value of the American Red Cross as_a moral force was emphasized by John Barton Payne, chairman of the national organization, as well as by President Coolidge. $9,500,000 in Quake Fund. Chatrman Payne announced that the American fund for relief inJapan amounts to approximately $9,600,000, of which $5,000,000 was on the way to the stricken area in the form of cloth- ing, food and medical supplies. Chalr- man Payne laid stress on the poliey of the society in applying every dollar raised for the purposes of rellef itself and none used even to pay the.over- head expenses for administration. Judge Payne read a cablegram re- ceived this morning from Ambassedor Woods h Tokio to the effect that fogt rovinces had been devastated,. that ,000,000 people were destitute 'and homeless, 600,000 homes had been de- "stroyed and 1,500,000 persons were in sore need of shelter from the winter. “he vapanese people themselves, he aid, have raised a_relief fund of §15.600.000. Chairman Payne took occasion te geny assertions which he said had been made by certain persoms that was bro- | the Red Cross had retired from relj work in Greece before its work wi completed. The society is an emer- gency organization, he said, and as soon as the first emergency is met it is the function of the organizat! to leave the field. - Judge Hubert Utterback of Iowa was selected as chairman of the cop- vention and Dr. Taoms L. Green sec- retary. President Introduces Eberle, President Coojidge introduced 'Ad- miral Edward W. Eberle, chiet operations of the Navy, who review: the activities of the naval establish- ment in co-operating with Red.Cross relief work for many years. emphasized particularly that a Unj States Navy fleet' was first to rendé: usslstance 1n the great calamity that befell Japan, and quoted the official commendations from the highest of- ficers of the Japanese government which expressed the utmost apprec tion of the works of merey by American Navy. . & - .o ¢ (o Hanthara to Speak, Masanao Hanthara, the Japan: ambassador, s on the program tonight's session. Other speakers w) |include_Col. Haskell, American Red | Cross commiissioner to Greece taty of Labor Davis, Dr. L. 8. Row director general of the Pan-Am, Union, and Col. Ernest P. Bickn vice chairman of the Red Cross 7 (Continued on.. charge of foreign operations. ‘The central committes, heéaded Judge Payne, met this morning bee fore the formal opening of the con. 2,