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WEATHER. Fair and colder tonight, with frost, probably heavy: tomorrow fair and slightly warmer. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 74, at terday; lowest, 45, at 7 a. Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 27 Enteres as secot No. 29,037. 12-MILE LIIT PAGT - CONFERS BROADEST POWERS UPONU.S. Absolute Right to Search Rum Ships of Britain Given by Treaty. REQUIRES U. S. TO AFFIRM 3-MILE LIMIT PRINCIPLE| English Ships May Bring Liquor Into American Forts Under Seal. i | By the Associated Press. LONDON, October 31.—The final{ terms which will form the basis for! an Anglo-American treaty to cope with rum-running along the Amer- fean coast were formally presented to the imperial conference by Lord Curzon, the foreign secretary, this afternoon. Ambassador Harvey and Lord Curzon agreed to the terms at an hour's conference in the forcign! office yesterday. The terms laid before the confer- enco waere: First, the United States authorities will' have the right to search any British ship within the twelve-mile | limit suspected of carrying liauor for| smuggling purposes. Second, the United States will formally affirm by treaty the prin- ciple of the three-mile limit for ter- ritorial waters. Third, British ships will have the ! Tight to carry liquor under seal into | Lhe territorial waters of the Unitad ates. U. S. AGREEMENT SEEN. British Treaty Will Lead to Others, Believed Here. There is every expectation here that the agreement to curb rum run- ning as worked out in London on the basis of suggestions made by Secre- tary Hughes will meet with the ap- proval of the Washington govern- ment and that similar agreements will be made later with the other mari- | time powers, Lacking official advices regarding the exact terms of the treaty draft as it has been modified during the Lon- don discussions, officials are withhold- ing formal comment. although they appear to believe on the basis of news dispatches that Mr. Hughes' propo- sals virtually have been accepted without any change in principle. As a result of the Anglo-American treaty and others of a similar char- acter, which the administration hopes 10 have ready for Senate approval at| the coming session of Congress, “rum Tow,” along the Atlantic c 18 be- lleved certain to disappear, or at least to be pushed back to a distance that will make communication with the shore very difficult. The other maratime nations were approached on the subject at the same time that the proposal went forward to Great Britain and there have been inti- mations that several foreign govern- ments at least would follow whatever course of action was decided on at London. MEXICAN DEPUTY IS KILLED IN RIOT Leader of Callistas Taken in Cus- tody for Killing—Session Is Suspended. By the Associated Press, MEXICO CITY, October 31.—Onme deputy was killed when rioting broke out in the chamber of deputies late yesterday when the Huertista and Callista factions clashed in the lob-; bies. Guillermo Zetina, a supporter of Francisco de la Huerta, former| secretary of the treasury, was killed. The session had been suspended be- cause of a lack of a quorum. The Bpectators were emptying the gal- leries amid the usual cries and. the brandishing of revolvers, some of' which were thrown to deputies below when the police attempted to disarm ! the principal rioters, ‘When the factions met at the main entrance to the lobby, furious fight- ing, in which fists and canes were usged, followed. There also was some shooting before the police came up and ended the disturbance. Jose German, leader of the Callista fac- tion, was taken into custody charged with having shot and killed Zetina. s HUNGER STRIKE ENDING. DUBLIN, October 31.—The hunger strike in the jails is rapidly coming to an end. It is officially announced | that 3.200 prisoners have ceased to fast during the last five days. :30 p.m. yes- m. today. nd-class matter post office Washington D C. a ¢ Foenit . WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every and o Star. WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1923 —FIFTY-TWO PAGES. Gen, Allen Bares Plan to Feed 2,000,000 German Children Former Rhine Commander Heads Com- | mittee of Friends’ Society in Huge Winter Relief Program. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO. October 31.—Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen, who commanded the American forces on the Rhine, an- nounced today on his arrival from Washington that plans were being dren this winter through the medium of the American Society of Friends. Gen. Allen, who- returned from a visit, to Germany last July, declared that *a very grave situation and one with which Germany itself is not able to cope” exists in the former enemy country. manship of the American committee in charge of the campalgn, which he sald had been indorsed by Secretary of Commerce Hoover, and is being participated in by many nationally known individuals. Needs Seen on Rhine. “Four years service on the Rhine acquainted me with the growing problem of undernourishment among the children of Germany,” Gen. Allen said. v recent Vi there con- vinced me of the necessity of im- medlate action to prevent wholesale RHINE RECOGNITION REFUSED BY BRITAIN SAXONY MORE QUIET Dr. A. Fellisch Chosen Pre- mier by Dresden Diet; Heinze to Leave Soon. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, October 31.—Great Brit- ain has formally advised France and Belgium that it cannot recognize the separatist movement in the Rhineland or the establishment of an indlvidual state in Cologne or other rarts of the occupled area. British Ald Asked. By the Assaclated Press. AIX-LA-CHAPELLE, October 30.— An appeal for British ald on behalf | the Rhineland | i coutry, or his accredited represent. of the city, where separatists hold the government head- quartérs, has been sent to For’elgfl} Secretary Curzon by the municipal of- ficials on behalf of “the entire popula- tion.” The appeal asserts that if the police were given permission to use firearms they could soon oust the separatists. FELLISCH HEADS SAXONS. By the Associated Press. DRESDEN, Saxony, October 31.— The Saxon diet early today elected Dr. A. Felllsch as premier by a vote of 46 to 18. Seventy-one deputles were present, but the German na- tionals left the hall before the vote was taken. The communists cast no ballots. After the election the house adjourned until November 6. Dr. Fellisch, a socialist, was minis- ter of economics before the recently deposed socialist-communist gévern- ment was established. The cabinet is composed entirely of soclalists, but the democrats undertook to support it. The following ministers were named by Dr. Fellisch: Herr Lieb, minister of the interior; Herr Held, minister of finance; Herr Graupe. minister of labor; Herr Neu, minister of justice; Herr Fleissner, minister of education. Dr. Carl Heinze, who was named tederal commissioner for _Saxony after the socialist-communist gov- ernment of Dr. Zeigner had been de- posed by the Berlin government, which informed 'the Saxon diet yesterday that his mission in Dresden consisted in the formation of a new cabinet, and that as soon as that had been accom- plished he would leave the city. COMPLETE ACCORD SEEN. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Dally News. Copyright, 1023. PARIS, October 31.—Following agreements with the Krupps and the Otto Wolff interests, the French 'au- thorities are expected to make a similar agreement with the Stinnes interests today, thereby settling the terms of resumption of Ruhr produc- (Continued on Page 2, Column 6. McMillan Resigned to Long Night As Arctic Winter Settles Down Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. CALGARY, Alta, October 31.—Al- though working through unfavorable ‘weather conditions, Donald Mix, radio operator with the MacMillan polar expedition, managed to send another message through the ether early Tuesday morning, which was picked up by the Calgary Herald's radio station here. The message, which is somewhat fragmentary, due to fading, came from the schooner Bowdoin, locked in the polar ice pack, approximately 706 miles from the North Pole, and was received at 8:16 a.m., Calgary time, on a wave length of 220 meters. By CAPT. DONALD B. MacMILLAN. The sun left us for good a few nights ago and we have resigned ourselves to the perpetual darkness of the winter days. A wind of from twenty-five to thirty miles an hour has been blowing steadlly here for the past forty-eight hours. The ice in Smith sound is continually forming, but big sheets of it break off ever pow and then and are drifted soutl into Baffin bay. Although the long arctic night has set in, there will be sufficlent light to enable us to carry » om our sclentifio-investigations, Y A Our bear and caribou hunters are back from their short trek north, but did not have much luck. We may cook some of our foxes, which are really good in a pile, as we tried |them last year in Baffin Land. You can picture us seated around the fire eating this tasty but rather crude imitation of clvilized cooking. Dur- ing the winter the moon is bright, and we may_then discover bears at any time. We have already met, from the south, a man and woman who had killed two caribou en route. These animals are becoming com- paratively scarce, but we hope to get a few, as they lend a pleasing variety to the usual arctic fare. Qur Eskimo visitors listened to the voices from home over the radio, we do frequently during the week, and were delighted not only with the uncanny radio, but also by the startling nov- elty of our moving pletures. Naturally they cannot understand how such marvels are possible and gometimes we wonder at it ourselves. Here, in the most northern settlement in thé world, on board the little eighty-eight-foot schooner Bowdoin, radio.and motion picture concerts are available any time of the day or night. We hope this message gets through O.K. (Coprright, 1928, in United States and Great ritain by North AmericAn Newspnper Alllance. All Tights reserved.) He has accepted the chair- starvation among German children.” Gen. Allen came to Chicago at the invitation of Brig. Gen. Charles G. | Dawes, former director of the bud- | get, to outline plans for the national | campaign at a luncheon conference of | made to feed 2,000,000 German chil- | prominent citizens of the middle west | Who are identified with the relief en- ‘dx-uvor. “This committee launches its ap- | peal on the same principle of humani- tarianism that prompted the Quakers (the American Society of Friends) to | feed more than 1,000,000 German chil- | dren daily during the winter of 1920- 1921, Gen. Allen said. “It Is the same | spirit that prompted our relief work | in Russia, Japan and elsewhere.” Allen Heads Committee. The campaign will be conducted by | the American committee for relief of chairman. - President Harvey D. son of the New York Trust Com- | pany is treasurer and also a member | of the natlonal executive committee. The other members of the executive committee are Newcomb Carlton, | president of the Western Union Tele- | graph Company; William C. Biddle of New. York, representing the Quakers, and R. J ew York. 20000 TO ATTEND ALEXANDRIA RITES ATMASONIC SHRINE {Parade to Precede Laying of Corner Stone of Wash- ington Memorial. | is On the heights above Alexandria, the dream of a century will come true | tomorrow afternoon when Free Ma- | sons from every grand jurisdiction cornerstone of a great national Ma- sonic temple dedicated to the mem- ory of George Washington, one of the foremost Masons of his time. The occasion probably will mark the greatest gathering of biue lodge Masons in the history of the frater- city. Every grand master Inthe tive,swill Do, present, and it g ex- pected that between 20,000 and 30,000 members of the craft will participate. President Coolidge, high government ofticials and several score distinguish- ed guests will be interested specta- tors. Use Washington’s Trowel. The corner stone will be lald about noon by the Grand Lodge of Virginia assisted by all of the grand masters of the several states. Right Worship- master of Virginia, will preside in the absence of James H. Price, su- preme head of Masonry in Virginia. He will spread the cement with the same trowel that Washington used when he helped lay the corner stone of the United States Capitol, accord- ing to Masonic rites, The chairs of the various officers of the Grand Lodge will be occupied at some time during the ceremonies by the visiting grand masters. The {service will be strictly Masonic in character, all members of the craft who participate wearing their lamb- skin aprons and white gloves. Before the stone is sealed, a relic trom every jurisdiction in the coun- try will be deposited in it, in addi- tion to the usual articles, such as an American flag, a Bible and literature describing the origin of the memorial. Soldlers and Satlors Ald. Joining the Masons in their tribute to America’s continental leader and first President, the Army, Navy and Marine Corps will participate. The giant crulser Richmond will salute the memorial and sailors from her crew will march in the parade imme- diately preceding the dedicatory cere- monies. Soldiers from Fort Hum- phreys, Fort Myer and Fort Wash-| ington, and a battalion of marines from Quantico, will also appear in line, while a squadron of airplanes offer their tribute from high in the heavens. The parade will move through ! Alexandria to the site of the memo- {rial ‘on Shooters hill promptly at 10:30 o'clock. Fifteen thousand men, including more than twenty bands. will be in line. The first division will be wholly military, the units com- prising_three companies of infantry from Fort Washington, three com- panies of engineers from Fort Humphreys, a battalion of marines {from Quantico, three troops of cav- jalry and .two batteries of artillery from Fort Myers and 500 bluejackets trom the Richmond. Governor to March. ! 'Gov. Trinkle of Virginia, his en- tire staff, the mayor of Alexandria and members of the cltizens’ commit- tee will make up the second division. The third division will be headed by the Knights Templar in full uniform, |followed - immediately by visiting { Blue Lodge Masons, who will occupy the fourth division. The District of Columbia and Vir- ginla Masons will be in the fifth di- vision. Almas Temple Band will lead the sixth division, in which the mem- bers of Alexandria-Washington Lodge, over which Washington pre- sided as master, and Fredericksb: Lodge, No. 4, where he was raised & Master Mason, will march, Potomac Lodge, No. 6, of this oity, also will be In the sixth division. e temple the Grand Lod, Virginis, assisted by the Grand mag. ters of 'tl veral states, will be convened in due form when the grand marshal arises and proclaims: “By authority of the most worshipful grand master, and in obedience to his order, I do now command and require all here assembled to preserve silence and to observe due order and de- corum during_the ceremonles. This proclamation I make to the south, to the west and to the east” The grand master will then communicate to the (Continued on Pag: lumn 2.) | German children, of which Gen. Allen in the United States meet to lay the | ful Charles H. Callahan, deputy grand | NEW TRAFFIC CODE FOR CITY IS VITAL, PRESIDENT HOLDS Executive Convinced Present System Is Wrong, He Tells Senator Ball. METHOD MODELED ON NEW YORK’S IS HINTED Other Local Needs Laid Before Executive by Senate Com- mittee Head. President Coolidge is displeased with traffic conditions in the District of Columbia, and was represented to- day as being willing to indorse any practical attempt to make a complete change in the present method of han- dling street traffic here. This was learned today from Sena- tor Ball of Delaware, chairman of the | Senate District committee, following a conference of more than a half hour with President Coolidge, during which the District trafic problem. as well as affairs generally in the Capi- tal were discussed. Senator Ball believes that within the next six or eight months a com- plete change In the trafic code and in the local government machinery ' for handling traffic will be effected.' He declared that besides the Presi- ident of the United States, other high officials and members of Congress {have made known to him their dis- | pleasure at the apparently unsuccess- | ful manner in which automobile | traflic on the streets of the Capital is managed. He aserted that the local system is wrong without a doubt, and that, from his personal observation, { there is a noticeable necd of a change | in the present regulations and there | should be no difficulty in obtaining | the services of one or more trafic experts to formulate a new code and provide a more efficient machinery for handling the traffic. Tells of Other Systems. Senator Ball told the President of the efficient manner in which auto-; mobile traffic is handled in New York and In other cities larger than Wash- ington in which he has investigated traffic conditions, and that he was going to devote his energies very shortly to bringing about the neces-| sary relief here. Senator Ball also said that from talk he had with District citizens, both pedestrians and automobilists. he (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) D.C. PENAL HEAD Assistant Superintendent ati Lorton Understood to Succeed Moyer. The District Commissioners have virtually decided to appoint M. M. Barnard, new assistant superintend- ent of the Lorton reformatory, to the position of superintendent of all Dis- trict penal institutions, succeeding William H. Moyer, who died last week. It was reliably learned at the Dis- trict building that the appointment would be made late this afternoon or tomorrow. It is understood that the selection of Mr. Barnard was recommended to Commissioner Rudolph by the Board of Charitles following a meeting at the District building today. The intention of the Commissioners to elevate to the superintendency a man already in the service is expect- ed to meet with general approval. 1t is known that the closest co-oper- ation has always prevailed between Mr. Barnard and the police depart- ment, in dealing with prisoners. It is_understood that when Mr. Barnard I elevated his present posi- tion of assistant superintendent in charge of the reformatory will not be filled immediately. Mr. Barnard has been in the Dis- trict service since 1916, and has the distinction of having aided in the establishment at Lorton of the first “open prison” for long termers in the United States. At Lorton there is no wall, and the convicts sleep in dormitories, there being only a few cells at the institution . for extreme disciplinary cases. The operation of the reforma- tory under this plan has been,gener- ally recognized as a success. Mr: Barnard's present position pays $2,040. His new salary will be $3,500. Mr. Barnard_came to Washington from Indiana. He was at one time con- nected with the Michigan City Prison and Jeffersonville Reformatory, serving nineteen years at these two institu- tions. PRINCESS PRAISES GIFT OF AMERICAN “FRIEND” By the Associated Prees. PARIS, October 31.—Princess Louise of Belgium, in an interview in Le Matin, said that she had many kindly f help at the time of the 3’&‘:{; ?)f her consort, Count Mat- tachich, but that the most touching was from an American. Py i bl L 1 M M BARNARUNEW“’h 3o iriean by i A 3 r. report that Evelyn Brent, Mr. Fair- FARBANKS TOSUE ONSEANDAL RUMOR Resents Film Magazine Story He and Mary Pickford Are Near Break Over Actress. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, Calif., October 31.— A court battle to stop alleged mal clous and unfounded stories about men and women in the motion picture in- dustry is expected to be strated in New | Yerk today as the result of instruc- tions Mary Pickford, motion picture actress, and her actor-husband, Doug- las Fairbanks, they had telegraphed to attorneys in that city. . Thelr eastern attorneys, they ssid, were ordered to begin suit imme- diately against a film magazine had Miss bank’s former leading lady, caused the estrangement of Pickford and her husband. Miss Brent Joins Fight. Miss Brent jolned with Mr. and Mrs. Fairbanks in denouncing the al- leged libelous articles as “ridiculously untrue,” and her husband, B. P. Fine- man, confirmed the Fairbanks' an- nouncement that she would join witb them in the bringing of the suit. “That was a nasty story, an unjust story,” was the way Miss Pickford characterized the article on which the proposed libel sult was to be based. “We are bringing this suit to pro- tect not only ourselves, but all others who are attacked by such stories.” Referring to the supposed “rumors that a separation from Mr. Fair- banks was Imminent,” Miss Pickford cited the fact that her husband “fol- lows along whenever I go on location, even if he has to stop work on his own pictures. Fairbanks described rumors of a separation as about what one might expect from those “who have been talking about me for yvears.” He added that his acquaintance with Miss Brent was purely professional that he “never talked with her more than twenty minutes at a time.” Confirmed by Miss Brent. His statements were confirmed by Miss Brentawho sald: “The only relations I have had with Mr. Fairbanks were business rela- tions. Since leaving his studio I have seen him only twice.” She left the Fairbanks studio, she added, ‘because she felt that new pro- ductions contemplated. there offered her no suitable role, and for no other reason. “The maliclous stories that Miss Brent caused difficulties between my self and Mr. Fairbanks are extremely unfalr to her,” said Miss Pickford. “I think she is a beautiful girl and I love to see beautiful women in Mr. Fairbanks' plctures. They are like flowers and other beautiful things. I helped select Miss Brent for the plc- ture in which she appeared with my husband; I am always looking over chorus girls and women for him.” “Why,” she added, “Douglas and I have not been separated one night since we have been married, and we don't intend to be.” “Mental perverts have been talking about me for years,” Fairbanks said. “As a matter of fact, Mary and I were never 80 happy in our lives.” PORTUGUESE CABINET OUT Ministry, Headed by Silva, Resigns Posts. By the Associated Press. LISBON, October-31.— The Portu- guese cabinet, headed by Antonio Maria Silva as premier, resigned to- day. Honest Advertising its readers, The Star, for years, has carefully censored all advertising submitted for . publication and barred all false and fraudulent statements wherever found. For the protection of Readers are requested to assist The Star in protect- ing the public and all legitimate advertisers by bringing to the attention of the paper any statement that they might find to bé untrue or misleading in any advertise- ment-at any time. last night announced | and | 191 and 88 Wed; So Feeble They | Sit During Rites| By the Associated Press. LONDON, October 31.—Robert Broom. ninety-one, and a widower, 2nd Elizabeth Bolt, eighty-eight, and a spinster, were married yes- terday at Foret Gate, East London. Eoth were so fecble that they were obliged to sit during the ceremony, which was curtailed in consideration of their weakness. They signed the register with trembling hand BANKERS I WARW DEBATE N REPORT Recommengations of Realty Securities Committee Are Adopted. | Following the first spirited differ- | ence of opinion which has appeared | at the Investment Bankers' A: cia- tion convention at the New Willard Hotel today, the majority report of the real estate securities committee, differing In four Yarticulars from the minority report was adopted. The real estate issue had split the committee, with H. N. Gottlieb of I Chicago dissenting from the majority report on the percentage of loan, the impounding of construction funds, the utilization of a trust company trustee and the matter of publicity of se- | crities presented to the public. Mr. Gottlieb defended his minority report on the floor of the convention, explaining that he was “the only member of the committee represent- ing an institution which deals exclu- sively in real estate mortgage bonds, and whose main concern and experi- ence are in relation to the various subjects under discussion.” The convention occupied the morn- ing Session listening to reports of committees. Committee Is Split. Difference of opinion split the com- mittee on real estate securities, re- sulting in a majority and minority re- purt on loans on city property. It was the only dlvided committee report. The . majority report, signed by Frank J. Parsons, Charies H. Deppe, Willlam L. Davis and Morris F. Fox, concurred ir. by Townley Culbertson, Henry T. Ferriss and Walter A. Graff, recommended the offering circular should contain “a full statement of values showing land, buildings, and equipment, each separately and stat- ing whether the appraisal was made by an officer of the issuing house or by an independent appraiser, and in | the latter case giving the name or names.” The minority report, signed by H. Gottlieb of Chicago, objected to this point, among others, declaring that such'data would be “readily abused. The minority report also dissented from those portions of the majority report which “fixed as the criterion for the. percentage of loan the sav- ings banks and trust fund basis of 50 ver cent with 60 per cent as a maxi- mum; also from the insistence upon impounding of construction funds and the company ‘Want All Facts Given. Concerning circulars, the majority report gaid: “Your committee is most emphatic in urging that all essential| facts be clearly stated in circulars;| that there be no evasion or.silence on " (Continued on Page 12, Column 2.) WALKOUT IS VOTED FOR'10,000 MINERS Bq;rmntntiveu of Mine Collieries| Take Action, Alleging Griev- ances Are Unheeded. i SCRANTON, Pa., October 31.—Rep- | resentatives of 10,000 Pennsylvania ' coal migers, at fine collieries in the | Pittaton region voted last night to! walk - out .Thursday in .a general strike protesting against the alieged fallure of the company to settle a dozen grievances. The action was taken at a meeting of the general grievance committee in Pittston. . Today the No, 9 colllery and the Sibley colliery of the same company will be idle, union leaders said, due to strikes called at local union meet- ings last night. About 3,000 men will be affected. Alleged refusal of the company to consider grievances deal- ing with rates of pay was given as the cause for the strikes, 60 cents LIQUOR KNOWLEDGE DENIED BY DAVIS Lieutenant Tells Trial Board He Sent Officer to Watch One Agent. Sensational charges that Lieut. O. T. Davis of thé vice squad knew of illicit liquor traffic violations by two prohibition agents, but took no action at the time, were made public today in the hearings of the police trial board, engaged in probing allega- tions of irregular prohibition en- forcement by Davis, Sergt. J. D. Mc- Quade and Private Harry G. Bauer. Davis dcnied ever making state- to former Dry Agent Tilton— Davis said, was called “Hop he.' Davis, knew that Agents Ralph E. Ruby and George Fowler, jr., had engaged in _allow- ing liquor to come into the District by so disposing of agents to faoili- tate rum running. Dry Agent “Covered.” He denied having such knowledge. During examination, however, Davis sald that he had detailed Private Bauer “to cover” Agent Fowler in an investigation into reports coming to Davis that Fowler was “tipping off” stills in nearby communities to save them from raiders. “Did you file charges Ruby?” Davis was asked. “I_did.” “Were the charges substantially that Ruby was a bootlegger?” “They were not.” Did you assign Bauer to watch as well as Fowler?" against know whether he (Ruby) was a bootlegger before he went into prohibition work?" “I_do mot.” id you have knowledge before the 15th of June of Fowler bringing d car into the District?” ou never had any knowledge of Fowler bringing into the District a con- fiscated car with liquor in it that he falled to turn over to the proper au- thorities?” “I did not.”” Davis said that the reports which Bauer gave him regarding Fowler had (Continued on Page 12, Column 4.) AVENGER SLAYS FORMER BULGAR CABINET MEMBER By the Associated Press. SOFIA, October 31.—Nikola Guen- adieff, a former cabinet minister, was assassinated at his_own _doorstep last nighd, and M. Gueshoff, former Bulgarian minister at antinople, who was with him, seriously wounded. The police ascribe _the crime to private vengeance. There is no sign of unrest in the city. M. Guenadieff was chief and founder of the national liberal party. S e e SUN SUFFERS DEFEAT. SHANGHAL China, October 31.—It is reported from Canton that Sun Yat Sen's troops were badly defeated near {Waichow, while four gunboats pre- viously supporting him suddenly de- clared their neutrality last Sunday and left for an unknown destination. One loyal gunboat remains at Can- to! Sunday morning to Washington homes at per month. Telephone Main 5000 and service will start immediately. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 93,410 TWO CENTS. U. 5. LOST §37.000 ONHOSPITAL NEVER BUILT, SAYS HINES Architect Paid Additional $33,000 for Revising Plans Without Success. VETERANS’ BUREAU HEAD SAYS PROTESTS FAILED Controller McCarl 0. K.'d Bill De- spite Director's Refusal to Pay It. Payment of an additional $33,000 to Matthew O'Brien, a San Francisco architect, for a revision of his plans for a government hospital at Liver- more, Calif,, to make them accord to the terms of his original contract, was disclosed today before the Senate veterans’ committee. Director Frank T. Hihes of the Veterans’ Bureau testified that the payment had been made by Controller General McCarl over his protest. This sum brought the total to approx- imately $97,000 O'Brien has received for his plans, which never have been used. The original contract with O'Brien, Gen. Hines said, provided for plans for a hospital to cost not in excess of $1,600,000. Upon the completion of those plans bids were invited and the lowest tender was $2,100,000. Be- tween July 21, 1922, and January 23. 1923, O'Brien was pald a total of $64,416, representing, Gen. Hines said, a fee of 3 per cent on the lowest bid received. Hines Protested Payment. All bids were rejected, the director testified, and O'Brien undertook to alter his plans so as to bring the cost within the original $1,600,000. For this work he submitted a claim of $33,000, which Gen. Hines disap- proved. The matter then was re- ferred to the controller general's of- fice, and on October 8 payment of the full amount of the claim was au- thorized. Gen. Hines read into the record a letter which he subsequently wrote Mr. McCarl protesting against the payment and asking that steps be taken to recover from O'Brien the sum paid. He said he had received no acknowledgment of receipt of this letter. E. J. Boughton, associate general (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) ENGLAND ACCEPTS KELLOGG AS ENVOY Both King and Curzon Ex- press Pleasure Over U. S. Appointment. By the Associated Press. LONDON, October 31.—The appoint- ment of Frank B, Kellogg as United States ambassador to Great Britain has been formally accepted by the British government, it was officially announced this afternoon. Mr. Kellogg's name was presented by Ambassador Harvey to King George and Foreign Secretary Curzon yesterday and both expressed “most cordial acceptance” of President Cool- idge's appointee. NAZIMOVA DIVORCE PLAY IS WITHDRAWN Keith’s Theater Acts on Protest of Catholic Priest—Star Gets $15,000. By the Associated Press. . NEW YORK, October 31.—George iddleton's dramatic sketch, “The Unknown Lady,” starring Alla Naz- imova, has been withdrawn from the bill at Keith's Palace Theater, at the request of Father John B. Kelly, chaplain of the Catholic Writers' Gulld, It was learned today. The playlet, which Mme. Nazimova had played in the west for eight weeks before bringing ‘it to York, concérns the efforts of a h s band to provide grounds for his wife's divorce to permit her to marry an- other man. Mme. Nazimova, whosa contracy called for a $3,000 weekly salary, was paid $15,000, the full amount of the contract, after only two New York performances; Turks Make All Amends Asked For Insult to Dead U. S. Soldier Final settlement in the case of Pri- vate George Dilboy of Massachusetts, whose body was reported to have been esecrated by Turkish soldiers at Ala- hata, Turkey, while it rested In a casket covered by an American flag, was announced today by the State Department. The settlement made by the Turk- ish government, the department an- nounced, “gave every evidence of their desire to meet this government's wishes, . and that they had made amends'in a public and officlal man- ner without having obtained through their own investigation or from Amer- ican sources full confirmation of the original reports.” Private Dilboy was killed in action in France near Belleau wood, and was awarded posthumously a con- gressional medal of honor. American | representatives In Turkey, at the time the desecration charges were made in September, 1922, investigated - - the case, and this action was followed by an_ independent inquiry by the Turkish authorities, which resuited in the recovery of the body and coffin at Alachata. According to records of the investi- gation made by the Turkish author- ities, they were unable to verify the report that Private Dilboy's casket was covered with an American flag or to ascertain the identity of those re- sponsible-for the alleged desecration. They consented, however, to make | such amends as ‘would have been due if the charges in the case had been | fully established. Parents of the soldier. residing on the Island of Chios, Turkey, have re- questéd that their son’s ‘body be in- terred in the Arlington national cemetery. The casket has arrived in New York and will be sent to Wash- ington for burial, in accordance with the desire expressed. The body was disembarked at Smyrna in the presence of an Amer- ican detachment and was saluted by a Turkish guard of honor. Full mili- tary honors were rendered by both the Turkish and American soldiers.