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REPORT FIVE MORE BALLOONS LANDED! Swiss, French, British, Bel- gian and Spanish Entrants End Flights Far Apart. By the Associated Press. R BRUSSELS, September Swiss balloon Helvetla, competitor in the James Gordon Bennett cup race, has landed in northern Schlgswig, 25.~The | TROOPS ARE MOBILIZING TO ENFORCE ORDER TO BAN OKLAHOMA SESSION (Continued from First Page.) order and to protect the llves and Propercy of the citizens of Oklahoma who.aro ot alding and abettiis said rétended assembly or otherwise giv- ng aid _and tomfort to the sald ‘In- visible Empire’ or Ku Klux Klan. (Signed) “J. C. WALTON, “Governor of the State of Oklahoma and Commander-in-chief of the Milltary Forces of the State of Oklahoma.’ PRAY FIRST, THEN FLOG. |Masked Band Lashed Man After Church. near the Danish. frontier, according |n. i acsociated Press. today. Armbruster. to Word received here Helvetia was piloted by The French balloon Pieardy, piloted ! by Bienalmes, has landed near Osna- bruck, in Hanover. The report that she was seen over Norway last evea- ing seems to have been erroneous. Only one of the five carrier pigeons which Pilot Venstra had aboard the Belgian Prince Liopold has come back, and this s taken us a good sign Disqualify Brit'sh Balleon. The British balloon Margaret, wkic! fell into the s kagen, De mark, wiil be disqualiiied, in con- formity with the rule forbidding the contestants to alight' on the sea. Pilots Allen and Berry, in the Mar- garet's car, were saved of Lieuts. Robert §, W. Shoptaw, Amer: who were killéd in the wreck of the ball been given into the po American ambassador who wiil take charze o direct to the United Dutch port. A King Albert sent his a to the American and Spanish em- bassies and to the Swiss lezation to expiess his sorrow at the death of the five aeronauts. Plen Militery Honors. Military honors will be accorded to the victims of the accidents. funerals will be held either Wednes- day or Thursday. A telephone message from Amster- dam today revealed another accident in the race. Maj. Baldwin, piloting the sh balloon Banshee III, and his aide, Capt. Dunville, were badly injured on_ thol: heads and .legs in making a difficult landing at Eersel, Holland, Sunday evening. The basket of the balloon caught on the roof of a building, throwing the to the ground BELGICA IN SWEDEN. DA Stockholm Reports Balloon With Pilot Demuyter Landed. By the Associated Press. STOCKHOLM, September 25.—The balloon Belgica. one of the entrants in the James Gordon Bennett cup races, plioted by the Belgian Demuyter, landed vesterday at a point in cen- tral Sweden, according to advices recelved here today. SPANISH PILOTS HURT. h t The Hague, cending them e-de-camp Rallnonists Touch Live Wire in Making Landing. By the Associated Pres: AMSTERDAM, September 25.—The Spanish balloon Espheria, one of the recers for the James Gordon Bennett cup, landed Bunday night at Wolden- dorp, Province of Groningen. Guillen and Delalieuy, the aeronauts, were injured when the .balleon touched a lwe electric wire in landing. SPOKANE ELECTION TEST FOR COOLIDGE The | States from &| The occupants TULSA, Okla., September 25.—The whipping of Norman Clesher, & {young married man of Mounds, Tulsa {county, by masked men, who fifteen minutes before had attended church services in a body, was described in | testtmony before the military court | of inguiry here, which was made pub- !lic by an officer of the tribunal, | "Mrs. Chesher, wife of the victin, ! testified she did not witness the ab- duction, but learned of his experience “when he returned home late at night { with hie clothes torn and his back a mase of bruises” She sald he did {not identify any of his assailants. “‘His nealth was broken by the flog- ging and other mistreatment he re- ceived that night” she sald. “He never has been well since then and now is in Hot Bprings, Ark. under a doctor's care. He told me that he had been hit about twenty-five times with what he thought to be a harness tug.’ CIVIL WAR FEARED. Oklahomans Tense as “Zero Hour” Approaches. Special Dispatch to The Star, OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Septem- ber 25.—Oklahoma foday approached zero hour in it history with misgiv- ng. Gov. Jack Walton's “shoot-to-kill” order and his proclamation calling on all male citizens of the state between the ages of twenty-one and forty-five “to hold themeelves in readiness with {what arms they may possess or can obtain” to carry out the order was & complete surprise to all but his closest political advisers. It carried a shock not only to the fifty or more legislators already here, but also to the public. The legislators, tersely and grimly, reiterated they will meet tomorrow. Fear Civil War. ‘Where theré has been more or less apathy In the situation there was to- day a tenseness that reminded one strongly of the days just preceding America's entrance into the world war. On nearly every one's lips was the { statement: “That means civil war in the state.” After the first amazement of the public passed there was very appar- ent a crystallization of feeling that Walton had overstepped himself in this latest act. Even some of his friends and advisers so expressed themselves. and by the time the news had been flashed to all parts of the state telegrams began pouring into legisiators, local newspapers and civic organizations condemning the act as unjustified. Anti-Klan Jan Leads Fight. There is no question that Walton's drastic announcement threw a scare into some of the members of the leg- islature, and for a time there was a dlscussion of not going through with the meeting program. But such proposals were few and brief. And it was former Judge James R. Tolbert of Hobart, with a record of being violently anti-Klan, a lifelong demo- crat, but now opposed to Walton, who whipped the one or two milder mem- bers into line and brought the best semblance of organization and syi tem et shown by the Walton oppo- sition. TORN BY REVOLUTION, BULGARIA SEES THREAT IN FOREIGN MOBILIZATION (Continued from First Page.) | i 1 G. 0. P. Candidate for House Stands as Supporter of National Administration. By the Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash., September 25.— Natlonal issues figure in the election in the fifth Washington district to- day to choose a successor to Fed- eral Judge J. Stanley Webster as United States representative. This is the first congressional election to be held since the advent of Calvin Coolidge to the Presidency. State Senator Charles E. Myers of Davenport, republican, based his can- didacy on the administration record of President Harding and his prom- ised support of the policies of Presi- dent Coolidge. The republicans ex- pect a straight republican vote. The democrats count on a scatter- ing support from the independent voters for their candidate, Superior Judge Sam M. Hill of Waterville, who has declared his advocacy of a spe- clal session of Congress, a govern- ment-fixed price on $1.75 fof wheat and cited his adherence to democratic principles. A close contest is predicted by both parties. Democratic leaders as- sert their candidate will be elected by a majority of 2,000 to 5,000 votes. Republicans ‘estimate a majority of 1,500 to 2,000 votes for Senator Myers. ‘While the republicans point out that Spokane county generally has shown republican majorities in the past, the victory of Senator-elect C. C. Dill, democrat, over former Sengtor Miles Poindexter, republicin, is cited as an exception to the rule. Both candidates have received the indorsement of national political leaders in their campaign. KING BENJAMIN TRAIL LOST IN AUSTRALIA Melbourne Officials Plan No Aec- tion on Reports of Fugitive. By the Assoclated Press. MELBOURNE, September 25.—The authorities here say no request has come for the apprehension of “King’ Benjamin Purnell of the House of Da- vid colony in Michigan, who is reported to have come to Melbourne as a fugitive from justice. The chief of the criminal investiga- tion department here says Purnell is unknown to him and that no search is being made for him here or elsewhere in Victorla. Further inquiries are be- ing made at Sydney, where there is sald to be a branch of the House of David. : Purnell visited "Melbourne in 1904 and then . oceeded to America with about ninety Australian converts. These in- cluded Leslie Paice and members of his family, who later returned and now Te- side here. . The Melbourne Herald and the Even- ing Sun_have published lengthy ac- counts of Purnell's operations in this coumtry and America, but there is noth- ing known as to his présent «boyts or clues to his movements. v (former premier) belonged, 18 no longer represented in the minfstry.” The official version of the situation in Bulgaria, as set forth in dispatches received by the Bulgarian legation here today, is as follows: The soviet movement Is scattered, being confined to small settlements among which there is no cohesion and which have little power of resistance. The work of repression is very diffi- cult because the movement is most general in the mountainous regions and the small Bulgarian army has insufficlent strength to deal with such scattered uprisings over a widespread area. ‘When troops are able to reach the scene of an outbreak the communists surrender immediately, and -generally it is not necessary for the troops to use violence. The life of the soviet regime in the localities where it has been established has been between two and fourteen hours in length. Northern Bulgaria is now the region most affected. The soviets in the south appear to have been dis- ed by the prompt action of thorities. Their last attempt at asserting power was when they cut the communications between Sofia and Constantinople, but these lines have been re-established and order has been restored. FEEL LACK OF TROOPS. Bulgaria Crippled by Small Army in Fighting Revolt. By the Associated Press. SOFIA, September 23 (delayed in transmission) «—~The government an- nounced tonight (Sunday) that the situation createq by the communist uprising, both in northern and south- ern Bugaria, Is in control of the mili- tary forces, aided by civilian volun- teers. Sporadfc outbreaks are con- tinulng, however, and the commu- nists made an attempt last night to cripple the telephone and telegraph services by cutting the wires leading from the central office at Sofia and from the artillery barracks. The authorities have discovered doc- umentary evidence - Indicating that the design of the turbulent com- munists is to exhaust Bulgaria's small military force by constant alarms in this city and various parts of the country with the idea of leading the volunteers - to refuse duty on the ‘grnund that the work will be unavail- ng. ‘The government, it is stated, is im- pressed with the inadequacy of the presgnt volunteer army to cope with any situation menacing order on national rcalo. It, therefore, h broached to the allied authorities the question of modifying the provisions of the treaty under which Bulgaria has been able to raise an armed force of only 7,200 men. Her desire is to obtain permission to strengthen the seven regiments by the enlistment of 1,000 additional men for each by the regular method. 3 507 TRAFFIC DEATHS CAUSE CHICAGO ALARM By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 25.—A spe- cial session of the Ilfinols legislature to enact a law to provide for a com- pulsory mental and physical exami- nation of motorists, was advocated today by members of the mayor's gafety commission and others arous- utomoblle fatalities in Chics : list of deaths since m?:-g 1 had reached 507 today. BEFORE REDCROSS Convention Discusses Prob- lems of Administration. Work in Japan Reviewed. e o Encouraged by President Coolidges commendation of its purposes gnd by the gratitude of stricken ‘Japan us volced by Ambassador Hanihara, the more than 1,000 delegatés< to annual convention of the American Red Cross today turned their atten- tion with renewed zeal to.problems of administration and fleld work. Plans for the annual roll call of the organization on Thursday also oc- oupled an Important place on today's program. . Striking illustration of the prompt- ness with which the American Red Cross was able to give magnitude relief to engulfed Japan through the organization and co-operation of all the units represented by the dele- gates attending the annual confl ence was given by James L. Fle vice chairman in charge of domestic operations. He summarized the won- derful growth and development of the American Red Cross. Thirty-six hours after the first meager reports of the great Japanese earthquake had reached the outside world from a lonely radio station in northern Japan Cross was prepared to President, we are ready.” Chapter Preparedness Clted. This prompt mobilization for, serv- ice was due to the preparedness of the 3,000 Red Cross chapters in vari- gus parts of the country, declared Mr. jeser. He pointed out that only ten years ago there were but fifty chapters and 11,000 Red Cross members fn the United States. Today there is a string of over 3,000 chapters trom one end of the country to the other. Mr. Fieser traced the history of Red Cross participation in domestic disasters, stating that increascd effi- ciency acquired through experience cnabled the organization to render more and more prompt and ample re- lef. More than 1,000 counties in the forty-eight states are now employing Red Cross public health nurses. This service, Mr. Fieser said, had grown to its huge proportions within the last five years 8000 Quality as Nurxes. In ome month alone - more than 8,000 American women and girls had satisfactorily qualified in Red Cross courses in home hygiene and care of the sick. “This_means that annually almost as many women as we have men in our standing Army equip themselves in Red Cross classes so that they may successfully fight iliness and disease in their own homes” Mr. Fleser added. In “giving soul to the day's work In the American schools,” the Junior Red Cross. With its enrollment of 4,500,000 children, is planting the high' ideals of service in countless thousands of young minds, stated Mr. Fleser. “Membership in the American Red Croes is proving an increasingly val- uable investment, which will substi- tute generosity for selfishness, friend- liness for suspicion, service for com- munity and country, as opposed to self-aggrandizement,” concluded Mr. Fieser. say: “Mr. Gratitude of Japan, America’s open-handed sympathy in Japan's sorest need will forever drive trom the Japanese mind all thoughts of “American aggressivenegs In the far east.” Ambassador Hanihara said in an address last night. & .. “It will henceforth bs difffcdft, | deed,” said the Japanese ambassador, “for ‘professional jingoes to terrorize an Ignorant public opinion to the point where it will countenance poll- cies of military aggrandizement, on the ground of preparedneds against fancied American threats. The natu- ral reaction of a Japanese to mention of America will be a thrill of grati- tude and_warm friendliness.’ . 4 Dr. L. 8. Rowe, director general of the Pan-American Union, said -in his travels in South America he had found that everywhere the American Red Cross typified the idealiem and the spirit of service of the people of the United States, and ' “was doing more than any oné influence to coun- teract the tendency, so marked in many portions of the world, to regard the American people as material and self-seeking.” Work for Veterans. John Barton Payne, chairman of the society; Dr. W. F. Lorens, direc- tor of the Wisconsin Psychiatric In- stitute; Director Hines of the Vet- erans' Bureau and Joe Sparks of the rehabilitation committee of the American Legion also addressed the meeting last night. Mr. Payne spoke particularly of the ! success of the organization’s rellef work in Japan, but the other speak- ers devoted a large part of their time to a discussion of the welfare of world wi veterans. Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, director of the Veterans' Bureau, speaking yesterday afternoon, paid a tribute to the work the Red Cioss is doing to ro-establish the disabled service man and his family in normal modes of ife. “The Mentally Incompetent Ex- seryice Man” was discussed by Dr. W. F. Lorenz, director of the Wisconsin Psychiatric Institute. Director Robert E. Bondy of the war service of the Red Cross cited the work done by the organization during the past year in helping to re- habilitate the disabled soldier at gov- ernment institutions. More than $5,- 000,000 has been spent by the Red Cross in this work during the past year, Director Bondy stated. MAY CALL GOVERNOR AS LASH CASE WITNESS Alabama Attorney to Press Probe Despite Opposition of Executive. By the Associated Press. BIRMINGHAM, Ala, September 25. —Gov. W. W. Brandon may be called to testify before the Jefferson county grand jury Investigating alleged bru- ‘talities to convicts at the Banner coal mine, near here, according to James Davis, circuit court solicitor. The chief executive has expressed himself against the grand jury inve tigating, but Davis has laid the re- ported flogging of a number of con- victs before the county grand jury. The governor elso has obtained -a restraining order preventing the so- Hcitor from calling four convicts at the Banner mines as witnesses. Mr. Davis has taken a stand that he will not be bluffed by the executive's attitude, and that he intends to air what the governor and others are at- tempting to keep a secret. CALLS G. 0. P. MEETING. Chairman John T. Adams of the republican national committee has called a reglonal conference of the members of the national committee and the chaiemen of stats committses 'or the icky mountain s S 0 meet at_the Brown Palace Hotel, Denver, October 11. REUNION AT LAW SCHOOL. An informal reunion of the alumni| and students will feature the Dfellll,ll tomorrow evening of the Washington College of Law for its twenty-eighth coll year. . . THE RVENING STAR, WASHINGT IFIELD AGTIVITIES the American Red | |14 Nations Ask Loan of Visiting Morgan'Partner By the Awsoctated Press, NEW YORK, September 25.—E. T. Stotesbury of J. P. Morgan & Co., returning today on the Levii than after several months in Bu- . Tope, sald that in fourteen coun- ad been approached by government officials in regard to ed to discuss any -4 with them. LIFE TERM UPHELD - FOR MAL COART Georgia Supreme COuft De- nies New Murder Trial, But Reappeal Is Planned. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, September 26.-—Counsel for Maj. Lee H. Coart, retired Army oficer, today were preparing to file a motion for rehearing by the Geor- £la supreme court, following an opin- ion handed down by that tribunal late yesterday denying Maj. Coart a new trial on a charge of murder Erowing out of the death of A. B. McNieee, county school superintend- ent, at Talbotton, Ga., in October, 1921, Maj. Coart was convicted ani sen- tenced to serve life following one of tho most sensational trials in Geor- gla history. It became national in prominence because the defense was contending. that Coart killed McNiece over Coart's wife, while the state charged that the ' defendant killed McNiece over MeN wife. Alleged He Was Infatunted. The former Army officer, married to a member of a nrominent Georgia family, according “to evidence, shot and killed the school official in the latter's office. The prosecution con- tended Coart took McNiece's life “be- ¢ause of an abandomed Infatuation for Celeste McNiece, going the length even of murder when Mrs. McNiece told him that ‘nothing but death could part her from her husband.” That wae why Coart Kkilled, the state said, claiming that he was in- fatuated enough to belleve that with McNiece out of the way he could win {his wife. "Coart, in an unsworn state- {ment to the jury, declared he had been to McNicce three times |his notorious conduct in regard to Mrs. Coart,” on the last of which vis- its he said McNiece, taunting him, your wife; we love each other, and we are going together as much as we pleas: Claimed He Was Menaced. Coart declared McNiece approached him in a menacing attitude and he shot in self-defense. Mrs. McNlece, a daughter of a prominent Georgla minister, told how Maj. Coart had forced attentions upon her in his home, “from which attack she was able to free herself only by a struggle.” She testified she re- trained from telling her husband “be- cause she knew he would dye his hands in Coart's blood.” The opinion is said to be one of the most voluminous issued in many years. Coart's defense in the lower courts had been based, for the most part, on the “unwritten law.” MID-CITY CITZENS FAVOR COAL PROBE Vote to Refer Bond Issue to Executive Committee for Further Study. i At a bueiness session of the Mid- city Citizens' Association in Frank- lin School last night the efforts of the Coal Consumers’ League to se- cure ‘cheaper coal for thé District was. indorsed. It was voted to refer the matter of the proposed bond issue for the Digtrict to the executive com- mittee in order that it might make a study of what the money, thus raised, woulil be spent for. This com- mittee is to report at the next meeting. A resolution was adopted approv- ing one-way Streets now in force. A. 1. Driscoll, president of the as- gociation, notified the members that the paving of Georgia avenue.from Fairmont to W street would begin next week. The following new members were installed: W, BE. Miller, J. Willard Green, Delina Pulver, Peter Zainls and Gen. Deedils. That the small group of men who at- tended the constitutional convention in Philadelphia were scholars, and employed a vast knowledge of h tory in framing the Constitution, was brought out by D. W. O'Donoghue of the Washington Bar Assoclation in an address. IDOW OF GEN. CAMPBELL DIES AT HOME HERE Lincoln During Civil ‘War Days. Mrs. 1sabella W. Campbell, wife of the late Gen. John Allen Campbell, died Sunday, September 23, at 1741 N street northwest. Mrs. Campbell, who was born in New Berlin, Pa., came to ‘Washington in the civil war days, and aside from a brief period had continually made her residence in | this city. ~Her husband was the first territorial_governor of Wyoming. Mrs. Campbell was a member of the Church of the Covenant and contin- ued in the active work of the church until the time of her death. Among the many distingulshed personal friends gained by her long residence in Washington Mrs. Campbell named Abraham Lincoln as the foremost. She is survived by a daughter, Mis: Tsabel Campbell. Funeral services were held this afternoon at 2 o’clock at Arlington national cemetery. MISSIONARIES AND SAGES SAY END OF WORLD IS DUE By Cable to The Star and Philadelphia Publie Ledger. Copyright, 1923. SHANGHAI, September 25.—The end of the world Is.due, according to some foreign missionaries, backed by vari- ous Chinese sages: The missionaMes base their pro- nouncement on the Book of Daniel, while Chinese superstition regards this year as one of tremendous calamities, Dbeing the terminus of a cycle in Cathay. ‘The, Christian phecies and the earthquakes and landslides have cre- aty fear among the populace. aad yuro. -needordln: o the cm:n"u:: endar, n February thunder u;r'rllnmu. conf 'r'%m opinion of those believing in tu- ral intervention. “about | said: “T'll tell you right now I love | Was Personal Friend of Abraham LEAGUE REIECTS - ARTICLE X CHANGE Interpretation Designed to Attract U. S. Is Blocked by Persia’s Vote. By the Assoctated Press. GENEVA, September-25.—The pro- posed. resolution for the interpreta- |tion of article X -of the league of league assembly in plenary sesion to- day. Persia alone voted against the resolution byt a unanimous vote was necessary to obtain the assembly's approval. The resolution provided that the constitutionai authoritie ofs each state alone should have the right to | determine to what extent military as- sistance should be accorded other na- tions If ‘thelr Integrity were threat- ened. In the debate before the vote the representatives of both Persla and Panama spoke against the resolution. The Persian delegate, however, said his country was willing to have the reso- lution submitted to the permanent court lof industrial justice for an advisory | committee. The Canadian spokesman favored the resolution and the French repre- sentative, Prof. Joseph Barthelemy, in an eloquent address also approved it. The Frenchman remarked that the | impression exlsted among some of the delégates that with Article X thus interpreted - entrance of the United fitatea Inty 'he leagne might be hastened. 1. s0, he added, it was so much the better. “Negative” and “meladc the words employed by delegates the meeting of the league commission on disarmament in referring to a re- cent communichtion from the United States government explaining the reasons why it cannot adhere to the convention for the control of traffic in arms. This convention, known as the treaty of St. Germain, has been rati- {fied by many countries, and the league {asked the United States whether it | could also subscribe. When the ques- tion was raised Lord Robert Cecil re- government which, he was sorry to say, was negative in character. POLIGE WEED OUT RUNLWAR JOINTS Revocation of Soft Drink L: censes in Chicago—Slay- ings Being Investigated. i | By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September —Federal and city authorities have combined to put out of business by injunction and revocation of license all saloons where investigation of an alleged beer runners’ war has revealed evidence of law violation. Mayor Dever has revoked morc than 100 licenses of soft drink parlors within & week and it is announced the federal officers will institute 100 injunétions a week until the situstion here has been cleared up. Charges of accessories after the seph Larson and William Dickman when they failed to disclose informa- tion yesterday to the grand jury in- vestigating alleged beer war slayings. Larson also was charged with con- tempt for fallure to answer questions. At Jeast three men—Jerry O'Connor, George Meegan and George Bucher— have been kiiled in beer runners’ clashes, according to the polic Each week realty valued at $1,000,- 000 will be thrown out of use for a year if the injunctions go through. Bawin A. Olson, federal district at- torney, said. An assertion by Mayor Dever that police connivance was responsible for operation of one law-violating eafe and that police guards at one of the breweries under suveillance gave safe conduct of illicit beer is being in- vestigated by police department offi- cials. FAILS TOIMPEACK MEDICAL WITNESS Prosecutic:: in Army Doctor’s o Trial 3prings Surprise by Attempt. The prosecution sprung a surprise today in the general court-martial trial of Maj. George \W. Cook, Medi- cal Corps, by making an unsuccesstul attempt to “impeach” its own witness, Capt. James R. Bibighaus, Medical Corps. Maj. Cook is charged by the gov- ernment with malpractice in the case of Private Guy Pendleton, who lost both legs by amputation after an ac- cldent at Fort Eustis, Va., and follow- ing treatment at the station hospital of which Maj. Cook w officer. The prosecuting witness, Capt..Bi- bighau, who since Saturday had been the only witness before the court, had about completed his testi- mony when the trial judge advocate, Humpry Biddle, started a line of ques- tioning which, he told the court, was for the avowcd purposé of “impeac ing" his own witness. Defense Is Sustained. He asked the witness if he had been questioned by the inspector general and had made answers to those ques- tions. Capt. Bidd)e read what he asked the Witnces to SIELHEY &N Rk qHAStIbuN and answers, in an attempt to show a variance between Capt. Bibighaus' tes- timony before the court and his previ- ous answers to the Inspector general. On objection by the defense counsel, however, that the questions should not be answered by the witness as 10 whe! he could identify the matter read by the trial judge advocate, the court sustained the objection of the de- fense and the witness did not answer. An attempt to make a statement before tHe court toncerning the m: ter by Capt. Bibighaus was prevented by ruling of the court. Nurwe Is Witness. The answers which the trial judge advocate attempted to have the wit- s identify concerned the treatment of_Private Pendleton. Miss Pauline A. Furminger of the y Nurse Corps, a ward nurse at rt Eustis Station Hospital whe) Pendleton was a patient there, .t the -.z::d ner‘t‘l‘;; hbch(or-‘um and £ en hypodermic in. Teitions € ‘the” patient "Dut only orders from the nbiliclln. nations covenant was rejécted by the marked that the commission had re- ! ceived a letter from the United States fact of murder were placed against | Walter O'Donnell, Joseph Bucher, Jo- | {only Full Meeting of Allies Will| commanding |. ON, D. C., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 1923. SOUTHAMPTON JURY -FOR GARRETT TRIAL Men to Be Drawn Far From Scene of Slaying of Pastor. pecial Dispaten to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., ‘September 25— Decision of Judge B. D. White, sit- ting fn the eircuit court for Cumber- land county for thé trial of Robert O. and Larkin ‘C. Garrett, charged with the murder of Rev. E. 8. Plerce of that county, June 5, to have the jury summoned from Bouthampton county, was announced by the judge today. Southampton is far removed from Cumberland. There iy nothing in common between the people, and | there is no way whereby the “atmos- | phere” of Cumberiand can affect the | men who will be brought in to try the case at-the seene of the crime. The casé has been definitely set for October {6 It is expected that the case wil] consume a week when it | gets under way, and that Judge | White again will be designated to MATCH TOMORROW Big Event of National Tour- nament Draws More Than Seventy Teams. Dy the Associated Press. CAMP PERRY, Ohio, Septembér 25. —The riflemen spent today in their final training for the national rifle team match—the big event on the National Rifle Association program-— which will be firea Wednesday and Thursdey, bringing this year's tour- nament tv an end. More than seventy teams of ten men each are entered. The match is open to any organiza- tion of voterans, as well as to the various mervice teams. National guards, various state troops, colleges, univereities and civilian military training camps and corps areas of the United States will be represented. The United States Marines won the match the last two years. In 1920 it was won by the United States In- fantry. There was also practice shoot- ing on the smal~bore ranges and the shotgun ranges today, but no matches were scheduled Trophies which have been won up to this time will be presented to- night. The United States Marine Corps rifle team with a score of 4,632 wi nounced as the winner of the Service match, which w fired Sun- jday. The United States Army team | wae =econd, with 4,441; the M. 8. n team, third, with 4,374, and v of the rifiemen who took part in the individual matches are leaving fter having finished their work firing line. The teams will fter the close of the big match Thursda BERLIN SURRENDER BRINGS NEW CRISIS Satisfy British Demand - for Facts. BY HAL O'FLAHERTY. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1923. LONDON, September 25.—Germany's impending surrender strengthens the oft-repeated conmviction that the French policy is bringing middie Eu- rope to ruin and rendering more | difficult the collection of reparations. The British cabinet will assemble { Weanesday to receive Premier Bald- win's report on his recent conversa- tion with Premler Poincare, but im- pending events will quickly over- shadow the Parls conver: to the signing of Nothing but a full allies will satisfy Great Britain's de- sire to get down to the hard facts. Firsc comes the question of a mor: toriun. Last year Great Britain pro- degree of normality. That period prob- four ye.rs. At ‘the moment, England is the only country capable of floating such a loan as Germany -must have, and it Is doubtful wheéther Premier Baldwin could take such a. proposition success- fully to the people. - France must seek British_financial co-operation in deal- ing with a thoroughly docile Germany, but to succeed she must give way be- fore British demands for moderation. England will not_pledge her credit to help Germany unless France gives up further raids on middle European sta- bility. BROKER LEAPS TO DEATH John L, Cochran Had Been in Il Health for Year. CHICAGO, September — John Lewis Cochran, sixty-five years old, {a prominent real estate broker, {fumped from a seventh-floor window of a Lake Shore drive apartment ho- tel and was killed today. He had Been In ill health Yor the last year. A nurse entered the room in ‘time to see him plunge from the window. He was born in Sacramento., Calif., and in 1892 married Alice Vanuxam of Philadelphia, who, with two sons, Star Relief Fund Now Totals $16,625: Late Contributors butions to the American Red nese relief fund received by urday, which 5.48, follow ..$16,486.21 . 3.00 (xm«;l ross Ja o star since last S | bring the total up to $16,62 jPreviously acknowledged Cash eorge M. Bond. e gfi:’nm’l ‘Guild, Mount Pleas- *ant O-n;r"-uml Chureh, - ‘additional . v irls’ Club. ‘l‘m'i alnu(.m eteenth Stree tist Charch. .. t Moose t Mot Eloasan v'“ 1. Churen tions and bring the public face to face with a { political erisis in Europe comparable the armistice. meeting of the Pose {Wwh YEars as a reasonable period 10 4.0/ Germany for regaining some abiy wil have to be increased now to (STATE RESTS CASE INTRIAL OF WARD Action by Prosecution Comes -as Surprise—Will Hear Argument to Dismiss. By the Awhociated Press. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., September 25—Shortly’ after the opening of court today the state rested its case in the prosecution of Walter 8. Ward, charged with murdering Clarence Peters of Haverhill, Mass. and the court adjourned until 10 o'clock to- morrow morning. The action on the part of the prose- cution came unexpectedly. It had been thought that presentation of the state’s case would take at least! several days more. The announce- ment was made following a confer- ence in Justice Wagner's chambers, at which Ralph Ward, brother of the accused man, was present. Only one witness was called today. | {He was Walter E. Ferris, an assist- ant_district attorney of Westchester county, who testified regarding some county records In connection wits the Ward case. Supreme Court Justice Wagner to- day denfed a motion made by Isaac N. Mills, chief defense counsel in the trial, for dismissal of the first degree murder Indictment against the son of the millionafre baker. The extraordinary grand jury or- @ered by Gov. Smith te investigate the death of Peters reconvened this morning and continued in session, de- £pite adjournment of the trial. TURKS AND GREEKS TOBEGIN EXCHANGE U. S. to Have Unofficial Mem- bers on Body Supervising Movement of 600,000. By the Associated Press GENEVA, September 25.—The ex- change of 600,000 Greeks in Turkey. and Turks in Greece will begin next week under the guldance of a mixed commission of eleven members, ap- pointed jointly by Greece, Turkey and the league of nations. The United States cannot be offi- clally represented on the commission, but at the suggestion of the league of nations and the Turkish govern- ment the near east relief has agreed to place several experienced Ameri- cans on its staff at the disposal of the commission to represent the com- mission at the ports of embarkation. The Americans will Include James A. Crutcher, Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Miller Davidson, 'Ashland, Ky.; Thomas Hart, Brooklyn, N. Y., and Christo- pher Thurber, Los Angeles, Calif. The work of the commission will occupy two years, although It is hoped the actual transfer of the Greeks and Turks will be completed in four months. VIRGINIA GIRL IN CAR WITH NORRIE INJURED Condition of Miss Ryan, Hurt With Princeton Star, Reported Improved. | Dy the Associated Press. L LONG BRANCH, N. J.; September 25. {—Miss Jane Scales of Richmond, Vi it became known yesterday, was one {ot the persons injured yesterday in | lan autorhobile collision, in which {1ewls Gordon Norrie, Princeton star |athlete, was fatally hurt. Miss Scales | was discharged from the hospital after receiving treatment for minor injuries. Another of these whose names had been withheld by the hospital authorities was L. 8. Preston, who had been visiting at the home of Mrs. Lewls S. Thompson, Lincroft, N. J.. an aunt of Norrie and republican pational committee-woman from New Jersey. He, too, was discharged after minor treatment. The condition of Miss Adele Ryan, daughter of John Barry Ryan and granddaughter of Thomas Fortune Ryan, was reported as improved. She cident County detectives are endeavoring to ascertain the nature of an leged party which was sald to have taken Place at a roadhouse near Asbury | Park and from which Norrle, with i his party. was said to have been fe- turning at the time of the accldent. Chief of police White said that liquor mobiles. HAVRE DE GRACE ENTRIES ST RACE—Purse, $1,300: for maiden tvpyear-olds Allios; Ave and ons-balf Turlons. d Yellow. 114 114 Antiquity 14 ity Whetstone cllnlinrn i Leona Da SECOND RACE—Purse, $3.000; olaiming; steeplechase; for three-year-olds and w two mile: Gold Foyle . 150 Distant Shore Infidel 146 Henry Dattaer, Nonus 138 Mount Defiance. *Beck 1140 _THIRD RACE—The Onward ; 1,600; for two-year-olds; five and one-half 1 utiongs. Dromara . :rlflhl . nayr . Sin eise Lissio. 108 Colonsl West ... 110 Donaghee 2 FOURTH RACE~Purse. thres-year-olds; six furlongs. Ly B Faith 100 Madel K . FIFTH RACE—The Autumn claiming handi- cap; purse. $1,500; for thres-year-oids and up; one mile and seventy yards. Pig Heart . 116 John Fisn ... . 108 Ethel Clayton ... 100 Tippity Witchet.. 110 *Thimble 108 SIXTH RACE--Pures, §1,500; claiming; for three-year-o.ds snd up: ome mile and an ighth. 17 Silent Royal Duck Bel 13 Doy T e e R . Trevelyan Vitamin South Breets ENTH RACE--Purse, $1,300; claiming: for ihtes yorroids and up: one mile. Westwood . . m Frus 03 Brice $1,300; claiming; -1 - 10%{with the Red 1] 108 ] suffered a fractured skull in the ae- | trad been found in one of the auto- | TALKS and TALES With and About CAPITAL’S GUESTS John Greenway! ‘What memories the name brings back to those Wash- ingtonians who remember the famous Yale athlets, Rough Rider, world ‘War veteran #ad mining man, who, ss a youth down at the Episcopal High Scheol, in Alexandriag was the idol of every oo} ball and base ball as- pirant ia this section of the country, John, or, rather, Gen. John Camp- bell Greenway, for that is the mili- tary rank of the big fighting south- westerner . since the recent conflict, where twice he was nearly counted out from gas, is in town und at the Hotel Washington as part of a deles gatlon from Arizona, liéaded by Gov, W. P. Hunt, here to present to the government 'their state’s reasons for not signing & certain pact with six of its sister states which has 1o do with the distribtition of watérs of the Col- orado river. Time has been most generous John Greepway, for, aside from a tle tinge of silver around.his hair, few changes have come over the lithc, powerful frame that in its day made the greatest athletes In Am ica tremble. It seems but yesterday when play- ers from Bmerson Institute and the old Columblan University “prep” school would journey to Alexandria o pit their best against the “Epis- copal” lads, only to be turned back disheartened because of the prowess of the Greenway boys, Big Ad, John and “Gil" the first named one of the University of Virginia's grehtest stars and the youngest a famous pitcher for the Blue of old Eii ‘They were the happy, happy days, senator.” extlaimed one of President Roosevelt's closest friends, as he turned to Senator Ashurst of Arizona, ere to greet his fellow statesmen. nd how is Phil King. Godwin Ord- Tank Hagner, Clarence Wilson, Brooke, Frank Butterworth and the rest of the boys who used to come down?" asked the big miner ay his face wreathed in smiles. Assured that all were doing weil Gen. John heaved a sigh of regret and shoving out his big paw said "Gee, I wish 1 had it all o go over Gen. Greenway is the general man- ager and part owner of the Galumet and Arizona Mining Company, one (:f t)lle big copper concerns h ountry, and is up here particularly to 100k after the Interents of his vare ner, James B. Girand, both men be- ing of Warren, Ariz.’ Others in the party besides Gov. Hunt are A. T. Kilcrease of Cdsa Grande, A. G. M Gregor. Warren: Thomas Maddox, Phoenix; George F. Wilson, Globe: 1. W. Douglas. Jerome; H. ‘A iof, Clifton: C. M. Roberts, Wilcox, and C. W. Hincheliffe, Tucson Messrs. Kilerease and Douglas are members of the lower house of Ari- zona;, while Mr.-Elliott is a st senator. ith it- | With mind still dwelling on feats of the great catcher, end rush and San Juan Hill hero, entrance to the Hotel Lafayette had scarcely been made when a glance over in the cor- rer of the lobby found Secretary of War John W. Weeks -talking most earnestly with a little group of friends. “the principal one . of whom was Eugene Carroil of Butte, Mont., mine owner and vice president and general manager of the Butte Water Company. Secretary Weeks and Mr. Carroll ":ers members of tie famous closs of | 81" at Annapolis, and the eaguge- {ment had been made that tue two could renew old friendships. Roth men had cruised the orient in 1881- 1888 after their graduation, and many were the stories retold at the meeting. Owing to the prevailing law at that time. only the number to flll vacancies were retained by the Navy, and -i{n consequenge _many graduates entered other lines of work. Admiral Baron Uriu of Jgpart was also a memdbier of "the class’ and at the reunion.banquet held two vears 2g0 invited his_classmales to dipe with him in Tokio. At first the invitation was taken as n joke, but never ‘was the hero of the Russian war more serfous. The jden was. not permitted to grow cold, and as a result many “f17 men dla 'safl with Secretary Denby on the Henderson, the @inn was held at Toklo, nd what ha pened at the time is stlll being talk- ed of. Mr. Carroll, a_republican, said th-t Montana was highly pleased with President Coolidge, * #nd that great majority of those in the were strongly in-favor of giving a fair chance. | And the same sentiment prevails in | Colorado, for, according to Clyde C. iDawson, well known awyer,of that {commonwealth, who is making n {short stay at the Hotel Arlington, the people of Colorado highly im- pressed with the way the Chief { Executive has taken hold so qu |, “We think it exceptional,” said {Dawson. “I was here when Pr ident Harding was buried. and weil {remember the fecling of uncertainty {that prevailed among manx as to just what kind of official President C: idge would make. That has all van- ished now. Throughout our section the people are determined he be given full opportunity to prove his capabill- ties.” The Dedver man said that condi- tions In his state were very prospe ous at present. “We have, like many others, euffered, from low prices for crops, but thinks are bracing up now.” he sald. “Our climate permits the di- versifying of crops, and the sugar beet crop is the greatest yet growa. When I left I saw train loads being shipped to the factories. Another product, made possible by the high altitude, is.the solid neads of lettuce These are now being shipped to all scctions of the country. All of which recalls that Pueblo, Col., and other sectlons supplied with electrical and water power by the Byllesby Bublic Utllitles Corpora- tion are enjoying a boom, for, en- countering, F. C. Shanegan, vice presi- dent and general engineer manager of the huge concern, just as ‘he was checking out of the New Willard Ho- {tel, it was learned that mever since the inception of the company had business been so great. { %Ot course” said Mr. Shanehan, { “public utilities never realize tremen- dous dividends, but, like bread. peo- ple must have them. We are enjoy- ng an exceptional year, and repor from all communities where we a established show substantial gains 1 | 1 | i { i 1 i California_has_passed the million mark in automobiles registered and is now second only to New York in this respect. This was learned from E. D. Woodruff of San Francisco, well known land engineer of the Southern Pacific rallroad, who is_spending a brief vacation at the Lee House. “We are far ahead of the Empire | stte in so far.as automobiles per cap- ita is concerned,” declared the Golden Gate man, as he threw out his chest “There is now about one car Lo evers ithree persons, while the best New | York can boast is one to every eight or nine.” Asked about the intense rivalry isupposed to prevall between the {north _and south sections of Califor- nia, Mr. Woodruft merely smiled and ald:_“It is there, but mostly felend- ly. The Southern Pacific is the great pacifier. We love botk sections and; moreover, are proud of both. What the north galns in early crops the south makeg up for in quantity of production. They might josh each other about thelr respective advan: tagos, yet it would be foolhardy for an outsider to roast either in hear- ing distance-of the other. It is a great state.” With several important conventions in session during the week all hotels are having their quotas of delegates and many badges are beaing display- ed in the various lobbies. 1In at the La Fayette Hotel Mrs. W. K. Draper of New York. prominentlv idéntified Cross, rushed through the lobby te inguire for Mrs. August Belmont, who s exnected hourly at the_house, while Bishons L. 8. Walsh of Portland. Me.. and William Hickey of Providence. here to atténd a con- ference of the Catholio hisrgrehy, rtapped ‘aeide tg make room for e orker. . energetfo New THE MIXER.