Evening Star Newspaper, May 16, 1924, Page 22

“o "m0 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGT! WILBUR SEES NEED | FOR PREPAREDNESS Navy Secretary Says Reasonable Readiness for War Emergency Vital to All Nations. { ' { SAYS PEACE NOT YET WON Palmer Speaks on Merchant Fleet at Marine Congress. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 16—A plea for “adequate and reasonable preparedness | s against war by preparing for war” w made by Secretary Wilbur of the Department here last night, speaking before tho American Marine Congres The nation cannot surrender achiey ments of its honored dead “to a plea of pusillanimous pacifism,” he said. The world has learned again in the great war *that war is not a paying business,” Secretary Wilbur continued. “Germany, disarmed, disheartened, dis- couraged and well-nigh bankrupt, is a living example that war does not pay, and yet men do not always regulaie their ‘actions along the line of financial profits. We are not culating and deliber slon sweeps us off our feet. “The war began 2,000 vears ago. oldier died on the o been notably wholly won. We . no right to expect that war was ended for time and eternity on November 11, 1918." Sees Merchant Fleet Need. Secretary Wilbur sald that the great war had demonstrated the necessity of a merchant marine as a measure s transports she woul o ered England and won the war,” ould keep it t seas and would insist that its ships receive an equitable share mentally owned,” hi services as.a whole & losing, on the average, cann chant marine, ar keep in mind that that is our def objective. present the differential with re- to foreign-owned lines is suc that we are at a vantage with- out some aid overcome tha f- ferential. I a tes that will f-sustaining.” BANDITS KILL GROCER. Man, Eight Times Victor Over Hold-Up Men, Finally Slain. OMAHA, Neb., May 16.—J. S. Spell- man, sixty-five, grocer, who eight times faced the guns of hold-up men in his shop and each time emerged victorious, once wounding his man and routing his assailants on the other occasions, last night waged last fight against robbery. He was found dead behind the counter of his store, shot three times. His own gun, two chambers exploded, was at his feet. The cash till had been emptied y|in the timber regions of western Mon- of the HUNDREDS BATTLE MANY FOREST FIRES Timber Regions of Montana and Idaho Scene of Struggle as Flames Spread. U. S. TOLD SITUATION SERIOUS At Least 10,000 Acres of National Lands Burning. Bs the Associated Press. MISSOULA, Mont, May 16.—Forest officers today continued to in- crease the number of men fighting fires tana and northern Idaho. 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No. 7 $1.20. by time. 74. 7 Since 184 Get them at the Cutlery Counter the fire there from eating its way into the Flathead Forest of Montana. The flames at present are confined to the Mud Lake district nearby, and cover seventy acres. Although this blaze still is burning in an old slashing it con- tinued to spread yesterday in spite of the efforts of forest workers. In the Kaniksu Forest in northern Tdaho the Soldler Creek fire is threaten- ing the national foresws, but fighters ex- pected to have this and two other con- flagrations under control today. 20 FIRES IN PROGRESS. Northwestern Montana Situation Reported Serious. Forest fires are assuming serious proportions in northwestern Montana, iefi‘ocel'u Sociely Sto it was indicated today in reports to the forest service. Twenty separate fires, covering an aggregate of at least 10,000 acres, it was estimated, are burning in the Kootenal, Kaniksu, Pend Orielle, Cab- Inet and Flathead national forests. Several hundred fire fighters, includ- ing forest service men, emergency employes and_the forces of private concerns, are fighting to prevent their spread and extinguish the flames, which are raging in heavy stands of northern pine. Forest fires at this time of the before campers have gone on the national forests, are described as very unusual, although the weather has been hot 'and windy and there is no prospect of rain in the affected re- fon. In the Klamath national forest, in N\ INCORPORATED ON, sive fire is burning, and more than seventy-five other fires, started by 1ightning, have been reported In that territory. WOMAN WHO FORGED SCHWAB’S NAME FREED By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 16.—Mrs. Myrtle B. Hayes, who recehtly pleaded guil- ty to attempted forgery of the name of Charles M. Schwab as indorsement to a $25,000 note, today was given a suspended sentence of from one year and three months to two years and one half in state’s prison. } D.G.S. 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