Evening Star Newspaper, June 25, 1924, Page 2

MUSSOLINI STANDS FIRM ON POLICIES Fascist Government Not Scared by ‘Alarm Over Socialist Murder. Says REFORMS DECLARED LIKELY R — | Party Ready for Housecleaning, Premier Believes. By the Associated Pres i ROME, June 23.—Benito Mussolini | and his Fascist government are go- | 1% to stand pat. Discussing the mysterious kidnaping and murder of | the wealthy Socialist deputy, Matte- | ,ottl, he told the Senats yesterday that the government would not be forced out. He said that the beginnings of all such social movements as Fascismo must necessarily mean the bringing together of “the good and the bad, esthetes and ruffians, idealists and profiteers, but that the time had come for the process of selection Sometimes.” he continued, ch &clection is hastened and rendered more obviously necessary by the alarm clock of a sudden tragedy." Contrast of Feeling. Tn contrast with the horror ex- pressed by all the Fascisti over the Matteotti crime, he declared an al- most diametrically opposite attitude shown by the opposition Eroup over the bombing of the Diana Thea- ter in Milan three years ago, and over the murder of the Fas Buonser- vizio in a Paris restaurant last March He took task for trying t ital out of the A scribing the pri the opposition press to make political cap- | teott! murder. de- | campaign of the | past fortnight as a sort of * WSPd- per lynchin He pleaded that the nation's judges be left unhampered in doing their duty Failure of Communists. He said that the Communists’ ef- forts to excite the masses by a gen- eral strike and establish a dictator- £hip of the proletariat had failed. “My reply to the opposition,” said the premier, “is that the overnment stand firm But that does not mean it may not be reconstructed, 1o enable it better to achieve the goal gf national pacification.” Mussolini warmly denied that Fas- ¢ism had been crushed, saying it was frue it had reccived a4 blow, but would profit thereby 0DD STUNTS HATCHED “FOR ENTERTAINMENT Steamship Reception and ‘“Mer- maid” Fishing Contest on % Program for Delegates. By the Asociated Press ,NEW YORK, June 25.—The fertile finds of prominent New Yorkers, Republican and Democratic, who head welcoming delegations for the na-| tional Democratic convention, are atching novel stunts so rapidly that program directors have forsaken the | idea of compiling a fixed schedule of | events. Thus, mass functions instead of a fist of imposing for the 2,600 dele- | tes, alternates und their families and friends, there have been ar- wmnged scorés of lass ponderous en- tertainments. These will be of an| sformal nature, so planned that they need not be disrupted by a change of | the convention business program, but can be sandwiched into the visitors’ schedule whenever opportunity for a little frolic:is presented. “1t is intended, for instance. to hold a reception and dance aboard one of the largest American ocean liners gome night during the convention. Tnasmuch as the Leviathan will reach | port on the sixth day of the session, the party probably will be held aboard her at her pier in the Hudson River. Pilgrimage to Tilden Home. . There will be pilgrimages to the former home of one of the Democratic party’s most historic characters, Sam- uel J. Tilden. His famous estate, Greystone, I8 now possessed by Samuel Untermeyer. who has offered 1o throw open the beautiful grounds o authorized delegations of conven- tion visitors. thousand private omobiles have been volunteered for the transportation of pilgrims pvar the scenic highway bordering he Hudson o Greystone. L0t is expected that few of the 90,000 or more visitors to New York < during the convention period #ill return home without having at act one picture of themselves taken Bere, but it has remained for the braska delegations’ reception com- Aiittee to assure its guests that they Wil be caricatured by famous car- oonists. United States District At- torney Havward, a Republican, heads the Nebraska entertainers. On his eommittee are John Cassel of the Eiening World and Claire Briggs of 1When a Feller Needs a Friend” fame. They have been pledged to earicature every Nebraskan who will Pose for them. . Will Fish for “Mermaids.” Another spectacle in which all the @elegates may participate will be a “mermaid fishing -contest” at - the Briarcliffte Manor pools. Visitors are asked to bring casting rods and fish- ing tackle. The mermaids, who will be nationally known swimming. and diving beauties, will be the fish. The Zame will be to hook and land them. Prizes will be awarded the most suc- ecssful anglers. Although most of the spontaneous .entertainment to be furnished by clcoming committees for state and erritories will be without program, the city will lavish part of the $200. @00 it has appropriated upon hug formal functions. There was a _reception 5,000 persons in Washington _ Square rat least one grand ball in <which all may participate; a mass { festival at Coney Island; an excur- \dion to. the Military Academy, West Point, and numerous other large- @cale entertainments. - BIG VIENNA BANK CLOSES. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daty News. Copyright, 1924, { VIENNA, June 25.—Although it had ‘been advanced 35,000,000 by five of ! ¢he biggest banks of Vienna, the im- ‘gortant Allgemeine Depositen Bank osed its doors today after am un- duccessful struggle to survive the qeonomic crisis. Clesing the stock exchange was donsidered, but it was decided un- ecessary to prevent a panic. There were excited scenes before any of the banks, depositors weep- g and exclaiming that they were eing ruined. The crisis is due to the bursting of E“ inflation bubble and socialist re- for istanee of the government and in- ustrial economies. FALL FATAL TO BROEER. SEACLIFF, N. Y., June 25.—Charles / B. Berner, head of a New York stock brokerage firm bearing his nam died today from {njuries suffere wnn‘-&'ne fell do;;\ nsggm of uulmh & night. % er_was the 1a in-law of W. 8. Silkworth, former president of the New York sonsolidated Stock Exchange, Sean Denied Day to See Nationals Play, He| Puts Pistol to Head Jake Wolf, the intrepid driver of the police headquarters automobile that sends terrified motorists scampering to the protection of the nearest curb as it goes serecch- ing past at sixty miles an hour, wanted to see the Nationals when they meet Philadelphia tomorrow. So Jake dutifully applied for “leave of absence.” Back came a flat refusal, with & notation that every other chauffeur in Washing- .on had already been granted a .oliday, and the department would liave to keep one for emergency. Disappointed, Jake went to Inspec- tor Shelby and pleaded again for leave. When it was declined, the police speed king whipped: a pistol from his pocket, placed the muzzle against his temple and fell to the floor as a report crashed throush the halls of the Dtetrict building. | Inspector Shelby lcaped from his | chalr, Maj. Sulllvan rushed from his office and sergeants walore rushed to the fallen chauffeur. Just as half a dozen blanched faces peered into the eyes of Jake he grinned sheepishly, admitted the pistol he used was only a toy affair and started to walk from the | Toom. Major, inspector, sergeants | and startled spectators heaved Sigh of relief when, suddenly. In- Spector Shelby called out: “Wait a minute. You can go to that game. To sce you alive is worth something to ‘me.” | D. . PRISONER FACES | CALIFORNIA CHARGES Dr. d'Villier Accused of Theft Here, Said to Have Obtained $50,000 by Fraud on Coast. Copies of a likeness of a young man known in this city as Dr. Joseph Francis d'Villier, English physician or French count, arrested in Ventnor, N. J.. ten days ago and brought here to answer charges of having robbed a house belonging to Brig. Gen. D. L. Brainard, brought a response from Sheriff W. A. Shay of San Bernardino, Calif. Sheriff Shay informed Inspector Clifford L. Grant, chief of detectives, that the prisoner was known in California as Dr. Charles F. Marten, and that he is wanted there on charges: of obtaining $50,000 from Tesidents of two counties by fraud. While in this city, according to the police, the prisoner obtained several thousand dollars' worth of mer- chandise, food, wearing apparel and other property. He is specifically charged with the theft of books and household furnishing® from the house he leased from Bri® Gen. Brainard. In Ventnor he was known as Dr. aorr. Police say he was trying to effect his escape from his home, 21 North Buffalo streat, Ventnor. when detectives appeared at his home to arrest him. Detectives Sweeney and Waldron corducted the investigation that resulted in hie capture, and he was returned here by Detective Paul Jones. Witnesses have not yet appeared before the grand jury to tell of the prisoner’s alleged wrongdoings in this city. - They soon will be summoned unless the police decide to surrender him to the Califorria authorities. — FUNDS LACK THREATENS AMUNDSEN POLE FLIGHT Cannot Get -Planess Unless He| Raise 14,000 Pounds—Will Not Join Italian Expedition. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1924 CHRISTIANIA, June 25.— Roald | Amundsen, interviewed today in con- | nection with the statement from Pisa that his airplanes for the polar flight would not be delivered until the money due on them had been paid, declared: "It is quite true about the money.” “I am about £14,000 short,” he added, “but I earnestly hope to get it soon. If I don't I will have to abandon the flight. Not in any case will 1 receive the Italian invitation to participate in an Italian expedi- ton as second in command. If I am not leader of the expedition I will not go at all. However, I intend o try every means before giving in.” ALLIES INVITE U. S. TO LONDON PARLEY ON ITS OWN TERMS (Continued from First Page.) principle by the German government with certain reserves. Germans will permit allied officers to visit fac- tories. etc., but will probably en- deavor to avoid inspection of bar- racks and troop centers which would be likely to bring allied officers into direct contact with the German tary. Such contact, the Germans think, would be unbearable for the proud spirits of the German military. Nat- urally it is false that Gen. von Seeckt and other officers threaten to resign if control should be resumed. Look te League Comtrol. The German government probably will ask also that the present visit be the last and that control then be given over to the league of nations as foreseen by the treaty of Var- sailles. It is feared that although the Germans will not hinder applica- tion of the Dawes report, the reser- vations made will be of such a seri- ous character that it will prevent final liguidation of allied military control in Germany. It is always possible that the Ger- man cabinet by an eleventh-hour de- cision will alter the situation, but this is considered unlikely. SECURITY PLEA REJECTED. MacDonald Reported Firm in Atti- tude Toward Herriot's Plan. By the Associated Press. PARIS, June 25—Prime Minister MacDonald refused point-blank __the plan of Premier Herriot for Great Britain to give the signed and sealed pledge to guarantee French security, according to the L'Intransigeant. Mr. MacDonald, it said, refused to accept the French view that fifteen years of occupation of the Rhineland, under the Versailles treaty, would be- g only when Germany began to meet her reparations payments. It was Premier Herriot's failure to get this much desired guarantee of security, the newspaper adds, that resuited in the two premiers agree- ing to go to Geneva in the hope that the league of nations members might join_in _defensive alliances which ‘would adequately protect France. Advices from London stated that, following the Pranco-British note on disarmament which was sent to Ger- many from Chequers Court last week, the German government has decided to accept the conditions laid down in the last note of the council of ambassadors regarding military con- trol of the reich. Gérmany will offi- cially potify the council of the ae- geptanee of the military control con- itions bofore June 30, the advices id. BUDGET MEETING SET FOR MONDAY NIGHT President Coolidge and General Lord to Address Fiscal Officers of Government. 1924 ECONOMY TO BE CITED Assembly Recalls Dawes’ Famous “Two-Broom™ Speech. The seventh regular meeting of the business organization of the govern- ment has been changed from the afternoon to the evening of next Monday, June 30, at Memorial Conti- nental Hall. The proceedings, in- cluding music by the Marine Band and addresses by President Coolidge and Director of the Budget Lord, may be radlocast. This will be the first time since the inauguration of the bureau of the budget and the regular meetings that the occasion has been held at night. All previous six sessions have been hold "in the afterncon at Memorial Continental Hall. The first meeting was held on the specially constructed floor, where the arms conferonce had assembled Brig. Gene. Charles G. Dawes, Re- publican vice presidentiai nominee and _first director of the budget, at that time delivered his famous | economy and efficiency address flour- ishing two brooms and stamping the arms_conference floor with resound- ing thumps: Coolidge to Speak. The meeting Monday night will open at § o'clock, when the Marine Band will begin a half-hour concert of patriotic music. The addresses will start at 8:30. Official announce- ments to this effect were sent out ay by the bureau of budget, and tickets were being distributed. | All admittance will be by ticket. President Coolidge has invited all departmental heads, assistant heads, and chief clerks authorized to act in expenditure of moneys. Emphasis was placed by budget officials in making the announcement today that the occasion will call for informal dress, not formal dress. Final decision had not been reached today as to whether the program will bo radiocast. WCAP, the Chesapeake & Potamac Telephone Company's radio station will be ‘“‘on the air” Monday night. No previous regular mocting of the business organization of the government has been radio- cast. President Coolidge and Gen. Lord will review the fiscal year 1924, which draws to a close that night, discuss the administration’s fiscal program for 1825, and touch on estimates for 1926, which soon will be requested. ASHER HERE TO TESTIFY. Dry Agent Has Been in New York on Convention Work. Dry enforcement at the Democratic national convention at New York lagged somewhat today while James L. Asher, known as the “Lone Wolf’ of the prohibition force, returmed to Washington to testify at a hearing before Justice Stafford in Equity Court, where contempt of court pro- ceedings are in progress against Jo- seph Graves, colored. Graves is charged with failing to respect a “padlock” injunction granted against his place of business at 16-18 G street northwest. ‘Asher has been in New York lend- ing his assistance in an effort to pre- vent thirsty delegates to the conven- tion from ~quenching their thirst One of the New York journals her- alded the advent of Asher with hia Dicture on its front page and a word of warning to the thirsty and those {nclined to violate the eighteenth amendment to watch out for him. U. S. SUES TO BREAK GASOLINE ‘COMBINE’; 50 CONCERNS NAMED (Continued from First Page.) eta, into the molecules of the Iight- er hydrocarbon known as gasoline.” The Attorney General charges that “though disclosures of this process were made in patents issued sixty years ago and long since expired, and that while there now are no valid patents covering broadly the basic features of the process, the primary defendants have pooled a number of patents covering an im- portant improvement relating there- to and are seeking to extort huge sums from the manufacturers of gasoline in the guise of royalties and, by means of certain restrictive cove- nants contained in license agree- ments, to restrain and monopolize the interstate and foreign commerce in so-called ‘cracked’ gasoline and other commodities produced by the cracking process.” oo Artorney Gereral, in line with the decision of the Supreme Court in the so-called “bathtub case” (226 U. S. 20) charges, it was explained in the statement, “that the provisions of the various license agroements go bevond what is necessary to protect any legitimate rights of the defend- ants, even assuming the validity of their asserted patent rights. But the petition does not concede the validity of such rights, and alleges that the procuring and treating of such pat- ents as valld ‘is but a dgvice to lend color of legality to the combination, conspiracy and monopoly.’ Mr. Stone charges further that the defenda:ts alleged patent rights relate to ‘minor improvements so insignificant as to afford no conmsideration for contracts in restraint of trade.’ 79 Agreements Cited. “Seventy-nine license agreements are sét up as constituting and evidencing the combination, conspiracy and monopoly. These agreements contained numerous provisions affect- ing adversely the production, trans- portation and sale of gasoiine, kero- sene, naphtha and other yroducts in interstate_and foreign commerce. “The effect of these agreements,” the Attorney General declares, “has been to pool a large number of patents and alleged patent rights re- lating to minor improvement in a long practiced art; to estop all parties to the plan, both primary and secondary, from in any manner con- testing the validity of said asserted patent rights; to burden the inter- state and foreign trade and commerce in gasoline, kerosene and other com- modities by levying thereon heavy charges in the guise of royalties; to provide for the perpetuation of the plan beyond the life of any of their exist- ing patents by providing for the pool- ing of after-acquired patents; to re- strain many of the licensees in the amount of gasoline they may produce by fixing a limitation on produetion or by imposing a graduated seale of royalties which penalizes production over a in amount and makes it unprofitdble to restrain interstate and foreign trade and commerce by pro- hibiting directly the movement of large lies of gasoline and other unpatented commodities in such com- merce; and to secure te the defend- ants, the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, a virtnal monopely of trade and commerce in gasoline in the fif- teen states defined in the agreements as_‘Indiana company territory.” The petition in_equity was filed by Edwin A. Olson, United States attor- ney for the morthern district of Illi- nois, by direction of Attorney General Harlan F. Stone. other Department of J signing the petition a A. T. Sey- mour, assistant to the Attorney Gen- eral; J. A. Fowler, Abram F. Myers and Stanley W. Finch, special assist- ants to the Attorney General. STAR, WASHINGTON, RADIO D. €, WEDNESDAY “SHUT-IN> FUND LEAPS TO $684 AS STORE FOLK GIVE Two Crystal Sets Donated by-“A Nurse,” $60 by W oodward and Lothrop Employes and $12 by Peolice to Cheer D. €..Lonely. With cash contributions totaling $38 in the last twenty-four hours— the largest single day’s donation since the inception of The Star's campaign. to install a crystal receiving set at the bedside of every deserving in- valid in the District—the- “radio shut- in fund” today reached a total $684.75. Two crystal sels also were added to the equipment fund by “a. nurse,” bringing the total to date to 164 sets, in addition to 39 pairs of headphones, 60 aerial posts, crystals, pipe for 30 ground connections, an- tenna and lead-in wire and other ap- paratus for instalkation. Bmployes of Woodward & Lothrop contributed $60 of the amount re- ceived since yesterday afternoon. This is the second contribution the em- ployes of this department store have made to the fund. Capt. E. W. Brown of the first precinct police station per— sonally brought to The Star $12, rep- resenting the contributions of the of- ficers of that precinct and Officers Rainey and Sheedy of the United tates park police. Inclosed with the donation of these officers was the following letter, signed by Capt. Brown: "I take great pleasure im enclosing herewith $12 in cash, the amount contributed by the officers of the first precinct. metropoiitan _police, District of Columbia, and Officers Rainey and Sheedy of the United States park police, to be applied to the very worthy cause of prbviding radio sets for the ‘shut-ins’ of Wash- ington and vicinity, and with the wish that this small contribution may help to brighten the life of some less fortunate.’ Georgis Robertson, apartment 64, the Kenesaw, contributed $15 to the fund, with the following comment: “Allow me to express my apprecia- tion of the splendid work you are doing in this matter, and also for-the heroic labors of our Boy Scouts.” Contributions Denired. It is hoped that sufficient funds will be contributed within the next few days to assure every unfortu- nate “shut-in” in the District a crys- tal recelving set. The money will be used to purchase headphones and other apparatus necessary, in addi- tion to receiving sets which may be needed to make up a possible deficit in the equipment fund. MARIE ZALIPSKY’S FIRST U. S. APPEARANCE HERE Russian Singer Is on Program To- night at Women's Clubs Headquarters. Marie Zalipsky, Russian singer and musician, will give her first_recital in America at the General Federa- tion of Women’s Club’s headquarters. 1734 N street northwest, tonight at| 8 o'clock. Rachmaninoff, Mme. Zalip- sky's famous compatriot. is said to have called her “Russia’s best au- thority on voecal art.” Mme. Zalipsky ' studied piano and voice in Petrograd and later went to Paris, where she received in- struction from Mathilde Marchesi. Both Saint-Saens and Massenet were present at her debut in Paris and are said to have complimented her. She sang operatic roles in Brussels and sang with her husband in the Russian opera in St. Petersburg for ten years. Later she sang at the Im- perial Theater of Tifis and taught in the Conservatory there. After her husband’s death from typhus in Con- stantinople en route to America, Mme. Zalipsky and her daughter finally landed in this country. She has been as- sociated prominently with the work of teaching music in the Americanization Scha®l in Washington. inciude: Chorus, (Bellak), Rose Phillips Lillian Feldman; ara from “Mignon" (Thomas), Fva Gordon: "Il Trova- tore’ (Verdi) and “Duosde Norma™ (Bellini), Dorothy Heyl; “Caro mio ben” (Giordani), Virginia Gittelman: aria from ‘The Barber of Seville” (Rogsini), Pauline Grossberg: “Two Grenadiers” (Schumann). Nathan Bachrach: waltz from “Romgo and Juliet” (Gounod), Katherine Hertz- berg: aria from ‘Tosea” (Puccini), Joseph Di Meglio: ‘“Vissi d'Arte’ from “Tosca” and “A Little Bit o Honey” (Bond), Helen Barbee; of{Georgia Robertson, Radio Fund Receipts Cash contributions to The Star's “radio shut-in fund” received during the last twenty-four hours follow: Previously acknowledged.... $596.75 64, The " 15.01 60.00 1.00 Kenesaw ...... Employes of Wood Lothrop Anonymous ..... i Officers of the First Precinct. Metropolitan Police Depart- ment, and Officers Rainey and, Sheedy of the United - States Park Police. ward & Total 368478 COrystal Sets and Equipment. Crystal sets and equipment received 'during the last twenty-four hours follow: Previously acknowledged—162 sets, 39 pairs of head phones, 60 aerial posts, crystals, pipe for 30 ground connections, antenna and lead-in wire and other equipment for installation. A nurse. two crystal sets. Total—164 sets, 39 pairs of head phones, 80 aerial posts, crystals, pipe for 30 ground connections, antenna and lead-in wire and other equip- ment for installation. HELEN WILLS WINS AT WIMBLEDON NETS (Enters Third Round; Mrs. Mallory Defeated; Wijliams and ‘Washburn Win. By the Associated Press. —Miss Helen American woman champion, defeated Miss P. H. Dransfleld in the speond round of the women's singles ©of the Wimbledon lawn tenmis tour- nament this afternoon, 6—0, 6—2. Miss Dransfield took Mrs. Walter Mallory's measure at Stamford Hill early this month, defeating the for- mer American champion, 6—3, 3—8, 6—3. Mrs. Mallory was eliminated today by Miss Kathleen McKane, the rank- ing British woman player, 6—1, 6—0 Susanne Wins Easily. Mile. Susanne Lenglen. woman world champion, defeated Miss E. R. Clarke, England, 6—0, 6—. Carl Fischer of Penndylvania was eliminated by F. G. Lowe, the Eng- lish internationlist, who defeated the | American, 6—1, 6—3, 6—3. ‘Watson M. Washburn, America, de- feated F. R. Leighton Crawford, England, 6—4. 6—4, 4—8, 6—2. Norman E. Brooks of Australia, de- feated D. R. Rutnam of Ceylon, 6—2, —2, 2—8, 6—1. Mrs. Edgington, England, defeated Mra Jackson Fleking, Engiand, 63, Mrs. Marion Z. Jessup, America, de- feated Mrs. Barrett, England, 6—9, 6—: R. Norris Williams, 2d, America, de. feated P. Feret, France, 6—4, 1—b, .8—6, 6—4. - Mrs. George Wightman, America, . defeated Mrs. J. Saunders Taylor, 6—0. 6—2. PLANES CRASH, 2 DEAD. French Student Aviators Meet in Head-On Collision. ISTRES, France. June —Two young French army student aviators were instantly killed today when their airplanes, in which they were practicing 700 feet above the fiying field. met in a head-on collision and crashed to the earth. U. S. SAILORS IN ROW. Reported to Have Clashed With Filipino Crew. By the Associated Press LONDON, June 25.—A free-for-all fight between American and Filipino “Pieta, Signore” (Stradella), Jascha Hoifets ; duet from “Forza del Destino” (Verdi), Joseph Di Meglio and Nathan Bachrach. ASKS AMERICANS TO STAY. Japanese Christians Want Mission- aries to Continue Work. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, June 25.—In a conference with American missionaries, Japa- nese Christian leaders urged the mi sionaries to continue their work in Japan and pledged them their co- operation. sailors from American warships at Torquay last night was reported to- day by the Press Association. The Filipinos are reported to have used knives, wounding two Yankee sailors, The fight started in a dance hall, Fined $5 for Each Fish Canght. The nine shad Arehie C. Phillij caught in the Potomac River vm:’: dip net, cost him $45 in Police Court today, when Judge Gus A. Schuidt fined him 35 for each fish. The arrest was made on a warrant by Policeman H. T. and G. B. Cornwall :.: ‘S:b-‘l‘ station. Phillipps aceording e warrant was fishing on t - inia side of the Potomac. oo World War Tragedies Revealed . Through Applications for Bonus Thousands of American Lives Involved in Stories of Veterans Who Disappeared—Uncounted Num.- bers of Boys Listed as Missing. Post-war tragedies involving hun- dreds of thousands of American lives —the stories of boys who bave dis- appeared and whose families are vainly seeking them—have been brought to light by the granting of soldier bonus. Uncounted numbers of veterans of the world war are today listed en the Army and Navy departments’ rolls as miseing. and more are being listed daily. They do mot lie un- identified in French graves. They were not 108t in action. They came home safe from service. But they have disappeared since returning to this country, leaving wives, mothers and sweethearts behind them without 2 hint as to their whereabouts “"n’a n‘:\uln:.s‘ v&:\;fl;yn nb.:" will be paid. Unl proved desd, their dependents undoubtedly will go without added compensation for the services of their fighting strength during the late war. 7 Rulisg by Department. The ruling which has held sinee the close of the war has been that “a dependent appiying for the adjusted compensation due & veteran must submit with the applieation a cer- tificate of the veteran's death.” This rule is being applied o the cases in- volving veterans' disappearances. The legal committes of the adjusted com- ommtion oficss ol (he’ War, and vy d ‘whether or not to Ppelicy to give the bonus to families of those soMiers who have disappeared since fighting. But a negative decision is by Army and Navy authorities and officials of the National Veterans' Bureau. Strange are the cases the efforts to collect the bonus have brought to light. Stories of wanderlust. trage dies ‘of human besrts, disappeinted hopes and lives made al useless are invelved. Thousands of fighting men, resticss {n the quiet of peace and the return to humdrum business life after the constant _excitement and thril dangers of the trenches, have ll!wun y to newer scenes, buryiug their ntities, shuttin® dehind them the doors of 'their eartier lives. Others, recovered after horrfdle, disfiguring ‘wounds and suffering overmuch from sensitiveness, have preferred to ob. literate themselves from the lives of those they had loved rather than face constaat pity and sympathy. One mother has just arrived from Seattle, Wash.,, to see if the bonus officials could not help her find her boy. He had served in the Navy throughout the war. After the armistice he came home, but he was restless. The sea called and he signed up With @ steamer sailing the Atlan- tic Ocean. Ome morning, when the ship was off the coast of France, he was gone. His shoes and outer gar- ments were found on an upper deck. No one had seen him go. His per- sonal ects were undisturbed. The mother has not heard of or from him since—but she still believes him alive and roving, perhas in Franace. Sad Omse Instamced. A young girl came to headquart Her fiance had returned from France, His appsarasce. his face d beyond recognition, had shocked her. He knew it, and leaving her the night after their first reunion, disappeared. He haa rot been heard from sinca sxcept for o letter which said he could not ask her to marry a man who looked as he did. She has tried in_vain te find him. The pelice and consular forces of a seore of nations have been engaged the last fe ears in following up ight lead to the location anderers. But these men 00 former service men, In the” eyes of the. Vetermem: Tecetve them. - ? (Copyright, 1924.) JUNE 1924. ARMY-NAVY GAME DECISION LIKELY SOON Maj. Gen. Muir Expected to Set- tle Location of Match by July 10. 23, - WASHINGTOR IS FAVORED Playing of Wut Point-Navy Game in Baltimere Aids Capital Plea. By July 10 it is expected that Wash- ington will know the decision of the army as to whether or not the Army- Marine football game will be played here December 6. The decision this year resis with the Army and the man to decide is Maj. Gen. Charles A. Muir, commandant of the Army Third Corps area with headquarters in Baltimore. Gen. Muir will retire on July 10 and his decision will be made priof to that date. Because of his knowledge of the situation in respect to the game, he has been urged to decide before he retires than have someone who is not so famillar with the situation make a decision later Baltimore, the home town of the 3d Corps Area, is waging a hot fight to get the foot ball classic this year. A number of derogatory statements in regard to the way the game was handled in Washington last year are vh‘elng made in the Baltimore press. Contrary to these statements, nothing but the utmost satisfaction has been expressed by officials. 1 Both Make Money. Contrary to many statements, the Army 3d Corps Area made enough money out of the game last year to run the athletics for the ensuing year and Maj. Gen. Lejeune, com- mandant. of the Marine Corps, has declared that the Marine Corps did very well financially. Maj. Gen. Muir | denied this morning, over the tele- phone, to a Star representative that | he had ever expressed any dissatis- | faction over the way the game was run in Washington. “I feel that Washington did all it possibly eould for the promotion of the game and the entertainment of the visitors,” he stated. Last year the Marines chose Wash- ington because they refused to “play second fiddle” to the Army-Navy game played prior to their contest in Baitimore, and because of that came to Washington. Precisely the same situation exists this vear. The Army-Navy game will be played in Baltimors on November 30. Argue Crowd Insue. Baltimoreans contend that 10,000 Washingtonians will go to see the Army-Marine game if played in Bal- timore. Those interested in bringing | the game to the Nation's Capital point out that many Washingtonians, offi- cials, cabinet officers and, most likely, the President, will go to Baltimore to | see the Army-Navy contest Novem- ber 30. and it is very improbable that they would make the same trip to Baltimore a week later to see the Army-Marine game in any large num- bers. The presence of the President. cabinet and other officials would be | much more likely assured at the Clark Griffith Stadium than if they had to take another trip to Balt more. Secretary Seymour of the Wash- Ington Chamber of Commerce, ac- companied by Martin Leese, Clark Griffith and J. Dreyfus, visited the 3d Corps Area Office in Baltimore last week and saw Col. Cocheu, chief of staff to Maj. Gen. Muir, and iaid before him Washington's arguments for the game. Col. Cocheu did not give any intimation as to what the outcome would be, as Baltimore is to be given a hearing, but, in response to in- QIIIYI:’B, hl‘ declared “that he knew of no objection to the game being play- ed in Washington.” s Revised seating arrangements, it is declared. will provide many more seats if the game is played in Wash- | ington. The entertainments and other promotion features will be carried even further this year if the contest to Isaac Gans, president of the Wash- ington Chamber of Commerce. 1. MONTGOMERY FLAGG HELD UP BY SHERIFF| | Artist, on Honeymoon, Resembles Bad Check Passer, He Is Told by Kansas Officer. By the Associated Prese. NEW YORK, June 25 — James Montgomery Flagg, the artist, who is now on a honeymoon trip to the Pa- cific coast by automobile, has tele- graphed to the New York Times an account of how he was detained by Sheriff Zook of Larned, Kan., because he answered the description of a man | who had passed a worthless chec Mrs. Flagg was Miss Dorothy Vir- ginia Wadman. who had posed as a model for many of Mr. Flagg's maga- zine cover illustrations. They were married here on May 10, Mr. Flagg's telegram follows “I was_held by Sheriff Zook of Larned, Kan., because I answered de- scription of man who uttered worth- less cBeck at Great Bend evening be- fore. I was mortified because he had never heard of me, but Zook looked exactly like old Irv Cobb, which I told him, and 1 was mollified by his en- tire’ ignorance of the ‘pride of Pa- ducah.’ Had a letter in pocket from Bill Hart. Sheriff grudgingly admit- ted having heard of him. Zook tele- phoned Great Bend, but found out T was about four or five inches too tall, S0 he let me go, and we parted with handclasp of perfect amity. This is not an idle yarn, but gospel. Driv- ing on to Los Angeles.” E WOMAN DEFIES BANDIT. | Dares Hold-Up Men to Shoot and | Saves Diamond Rings. NEW YORK, June 25—Defying’ five armde hold-up men with the challenge. if you dare.’ Mrs. G. C. Moorehardt, wife of a mem. ber of the Columbia University fac- ulty, prevented robbers from taking her two diamond ringe in a drug store hold-up near the university campus carly today. Ignoring the command of the robbers to put up Ber hands, Mrs Moorehardt removed Dboth rings and hid them beneath her veaistband. Mr. Moorehardt, the owner of the arugstore, and two clerks were rob- bed of all their jewelry and money. Mrs, Moorehardt lost only her wrist wateh, which the robbers noticed when she finally put up her hands after removing the rings. The hold- up men also took $320 from the cash vegister. The Moorehardis were in the drugstore making purchases when the robbers eatered. TWO DEAD IN TORNADO. Storm Brings Destruction to Lee County, S. C. ATLANTA, Ga.,, June 25.—Two per- sons were killed, thirty-two negroes made homeless @nd six other homes damaged and crops laid waste by a tornado that struck Lee County, South Carolina, last evening, accord- ing to a telegram received by south- ern division headquarters of the Red Cross here today from a relief worker at Bishopville, S. C.. —_——— SENATOR REED BETTER. KANSAS CITY, June 25.—Continued improvement in the coadition of Sen- ator James A. Reed was reported to- $a3 Boea ! Dere for ihe Past weor, ere ‘weel from an” tadumms. on ot e oimta > % | is brought to the Capital, according | " EpMONSTON, MAX SASANOKFB. SASANOFF TO PAINT COOLIDGE PORTRAIT Task for Noted Artist Whot Won Pardon From Prison by Masterful Production. WORK ALREADY UNDER WAY President Has Had One Sitting, Second Arranged. \ Max Sasanoff, the artist and opera singer, whose masterful painting of Christ administering to the needy, executed in the Catholic chapel at- tached to the federal penitentary at Atlanta, won him a pardon from that institution, has been engaged to paint a portrait of President Coolidge. Mr. Sasanoff has been here for several weeks and the President has already had one sitting. The second, and probably the last, has been ar- ranged for Dext week. Mr. Sasanoff has done & number of portraits here. | including cne of Heber H. Votaw brother-in-law of President Harding hopes to paint a portrait of Secre- Hughes and other prominent persons. Gifted With Two Arts. Of Rusian-Italian birth, Mr. Sasan- off was gifted with two art§—paint- ing and singing. As a singer he was highly _successful and numbered among his intimate friends Caruso and Chaliapin. His concerts in Lon- capitals were tremendous successes. ‘While in New york he fell in with a number of counterfeiters, one whom stood over him with a revolver while he made a plate with which to counterfeit money. He was arrested, tried and sentenc to three vears in the prison at While there he painted his masterpiece—a work connoisseurs have pronounced com- parable to any chureh paintings in America and to most of those in Eu- rope. ed Atlanta. greatest His Innocence Discovered. The painting immediately attracted such wide attention that officials be- came interested in Sasanofl's career. discovered his apparent innocence of wrongdoing in the counterfeiting plot and succeeded in persuading President Harding to pardon him. Immediately upon being Peleased Sasanoft opened a studio in Atlanta. POISON GAS ANTIDOTE REACHES U. S. FOR TEST By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 25.—F. N. Pickett of London, the man who bought up and destroyed surplus war materials on a great tract of land near Bou- logne, France, arrived on the steam- ship Majestic yesterday with the form- ula of a gas which he claims would counteract the deadly effects of war gases. He said he would go diréctly to Washington to present the formula to the government, already having given it to the British and French. He said he also intended giving it to several governments, including y. Mr. Pickett said he also brought an arsenic formula which he believes will _successfully combat the boll weevil. He plans to visit Alabama and make tests in conjunction with officials of the Department of Agri- culture. Officials of the War and Agrici Departments interested in*Sascs. and | they bad not been informed about the weevil exterminators toda: visit of Mr. Pickett. oariee MISS FARRELL WEDDED. NORWALK, Conn., Jume 25.—Miss| Catherine B. Farrell, daughter 3 Jv mes A. Farrell, president of the anled States Steel Corporation, of P.ock' Ledge.” Norwalk, and Brook- lyn. N. Y.. and Lake D. Stapieton, jr., of Brooklyn, were married today in ?Ln.litz:upk’yh's'(.‘mmtjhen. Mgr. David 3 o P yn performed the Mrs. Joseph Bradley Murra: . Brooklyn, sister of Miss )-‘u'mll.yw:.; matron of honor. The bridesmalds were Miss Rosamund Farrell and Mrs. Robert E. Lee. sister of the bride- mm. Robert E. Lee was the best HAYWARD S SUMMONED. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 25—An order was served on District Attorney Hay- Wwood today directing‘him to appear before Federal Judge Knox this afternoon to show cause hy he Should ot seize all liguors: absard the Cunard liner Berengaria, .sched- uled to sail for England today. Street Car Needs Stay Adoptior: of New Traffic Plan in a letter addressed to E. L. Gror of 700 10th strest, the Commissten- ers today revealed that the propoeal to install a co-ordinated trafic sigual system on north and south thorough- fares is being delayed because of a m, \:uvn in th, ensively to deaf studen don, Paris, Rome and other Eyropean | of | | original | has ALUMNI TO PROTEST LAWS AGAINST DEAF ‘Will Take Question of Auto Driy- ing Before Governors of Two States. PLANS - FOR MEMORIAT, Seek $50.000 to Honor Work of Gallaudet. The Alumni Association of det College will protest the Maryland and New Jersev in automobile licenses to those hard of hearing. This act decided upon at the final the “sixtieth anniversary of the association Ker today, The resolution pros | governors be asked to ability of deaf persons ¢ | safely. “ia wh ded Memorial to Gallandet It was announced that $ been raised toward the ere $50,000 memorial to Edwa Gallaudet, the first presider laudet College. and a resc adopted to propor of the amount nec ferent states—the state-to make the the funds there The memorial wil rooms, administration « sembly hall and library Drake, president of the and a member of the f. laudet, is treasurer of the fund Asks Memorial Chapel Another resolution was create a memorial in ihe the memory of Amos G class of 1872. The went on record as favor: attention to the use alphabet.” or making the hands. They voted ethod be used general ollege irraper \are prepared to enter o Formal dedication of t athletic field at Kendall Green f2a tured the beginning of the f of 1he sixtieth anniversary reun verzion of the Alumni Asso dectication address was deliver S. Runde of the class of 1901 from ghe home plate on diamond. The field is a & and has on it ample roon gridirom, base ball diamon The association &nn tive plams to raise f erection af a clubhouse to the mamory of Dr Hotchkiss. From Yesterday™ BLANKEY RENT INJUNGTION DENIED | Justice Stafford, However. Refuses to Dismiss. Linkins’ Complzint. e WILL CONSIDER .EACH CASL | Holds Board May Stil.Have Neces- sary Work.. ustice Stafford in Distryt Supreme Court yesterday afternoon \efused to ! grant a temporary blanket unjunc | against the Rent Commissian. askes by George W. Linkins. taxpuyer and | realty operator |~ The court. dismiss the bill because, in hiswopin ion, it 8 sufficient to enables the plaintiff on final hearing to introduce evidence of the matters generally\al- leged in the bill. his opinion Justice Stafford said Body Still Has Power. “A rule is pending to show cause why a temporary injunction should not issue to prevent the commission taking any further proceedings against an one. This rule presents the question whether the plaintiff, as a mere property owner and taxpayer. car maintain such a general bill. His right to maintain the bill in thi aspect is, # say the least. (00 doubtfu to justify the court in issuing blanket injunction pending final dete mination of the case. If he were pr ceeding by quo wamranto instead of U a bill in equity his interest would no be suffieient to entitic him to proceed It seems improbable that he can do by a bill for an inj'nction what b could not do by quo warranto. nameiy practically oust the ccmmission ““Moreover, even thcugh ihe gency which was held to justify creation of tie commi ceased to_exist, as declared Supreme Court in the Chastletor ase, it may well be taat there are still things to be dome hy the com mission in respect to its old pro ceedings which may be found to have been taken before the emergency h Indeed. the plaintiff do the pr declimed 1¢ I cme the by ceased. seriously contend that in & situation there can be an injunciic absolutely for! ding any furth steps by the commission, or the pa ment to them of their gadaries, b desires that the court fmit their powers, and this not with respect (o the plaintiff alone. or his property, but_with respect theis pro’ ceedings. Takes Each Case Arising.' “This we are not inclined to ‘at- tempt, but are disposed to deal wigh each case as it arises, adhering t3 to all felt constramed to follow the Chas- tleton case, those cases being essen- tiaily the same as that “To lawyers it is not necessary to explain that the court has nothing ta do with the wisdom or policy of the Rent Commission law, but is abso- tutely bound to follow the decisions of sthe Supreme Court touching the Constitutionality of the law. ~The Totion to dismiss the bill will be overruled and the rule to show cause against the commission discharged.” ‘Coumsel for the plaintiff expressed satisfaction at the decision, whicl although it does not give all thes asked, makes possible the obtaining of tnjunctions in specific cases relat- ing to his property on simplc metion without being put to the expamse and trouble of instituting sepamitc suits for injunction. FRANKS IS THREATENED. Three Youths Arrested in New Kidnaping Plot. fear that it would slow up service o the many car lines running east and ‘west. . Writing to Mr. Groff, the Com- missioners said: “The project of a co-ordinated traffic system for north and south streets in the downtown area has not been adopted, principally due to the fact that the important street car lines of the city traverse -this section in an east and west direction. It bas been found Lt great delay in stroet car traffic would result if an effort were made to require traffic on east and west Stfeets to move simultane- ously. While automobiles can stop and 0 at a signal, street cars are not always ready to start when the Zo signal is given. As a majority of the people uge the street cars, it is felt that anw-step which might tend to delay or congest street car traffic ! should be avoided.” "Rranks, CHICAGO, June 25.—Three boye, each about eighteen years old, who A ttempted to extort $8,000 from Jacob father of Robert Franks, ahoolboy recemtly kidnaped and sMin by Nathan Leopeld and Richard Laoab, were arrested when they called forwhe money. Tiw boys, Walter Boryca, Walter Erus and Ite Thomas, admitted, polise said, ,Jhaving sent a death threat to Mr. Fanks in a letter he received yesterday morning. Kidnaping and death 1o Franks' daughter were threaten ed. When \Mr. Franks, at the direction of @etect'ves, lefi & dummy package at the pA'ace designated, the three Boys plckad it up and were surrounded by the ofoers, who had concealed themselvesgin the vicinity. our previous deeisions. in which we'