Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1924, Page 2

2 * HOWELL PLEDGES AID T0 COOLIDGE Nebraska Progressive De- clares He Will Campaign for President. PREDICTS PARTY SUCCESS Believes Ticket Will Carry His State, But Warns That Hard Fight Impends. Senator Howell of Nebraska, mem- ber of the so-called p ve group of Re the Senate and also men nate farm bloe, Coolidge at the ablicans i a of the called President White Houd, and not only sured him of his loval support, but told him that he expects to campaign actively throughout Nebraska and the idle West This is looked publ upon as significant “an leaders here, inasmuch Howell, while not of the tte or Brookhart type, has certain extent frequently ition he mpaign derable Repub- ressive (0 a gularity Just what pe in the coming been of co T his regular that questi would has con lican was tx Hard hat well President, that Fight. snid, after seeing he told the latter conditions in iska. He be- Coolidge and Dawes will state in November. He ad- owever, that the contest will and that Republican leaders must necessarily spend they expect the ticket ot he denied, he said, irable La Follette the State, particularly agricultural population, believe that La Fol- lette will draw enough vetes from the Republican ranks to cause Cool- lge to lose that The dent ftics also with the of carry th mitted, be close, L th every « to win tate ort 1t that there entiment imong the but he does not if in state today i discussed pol- an in- formerly therhood of Rail- and Joseph Gormle spector of the Commission Giated with the also an who was Brother- ot t Ty men. wh activities Pos tion or not eng beeaus: ne in their Federd are in a pc neral attitude th whom they 4 the comin they told the their observa- ns amonz the n Republicans, Democrats have sig- voting of the n substanc that from s<e Republi y will rem; pany of the railroad men intentions of tions raitroad olidge s gathering information on the po West Virginia, th hn W. Davis, his rival in the November West Virginia. s on_the Virginia have been sident within the past was promise toda of more similar conferences. Those Ave ussed party affairs in <t Virginia with Mr. Coolidge were Goff. until recently As- sistant ey General and now the Repub enatorial candidate; for- mer Senator Howard Sutherland and Tra Robinson, former chief justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court and Republican nominee for gov- ernor in 1516 All of these Davis is highly folks aut he bilities in Whether Dot on ven Three sftuation i held by the F week, and ther said that Mr. among the would not the possi- plainly regarded ne, but they vthing when November were discussed Mr. Coolidze has formed lusions at this stage has not sclos: ' 1 leaders generally Virginia one of the of the mpaign_ be- Mr. Davis' home State. Hughes carried the State by about 000 against Wilson in 1916 and had a ot about vears ago. continues to devote ends of his time to ance speech. He dictation ot engaged in as- and in draft- hopes to have advance ot . on Aug- re- gard West battlegrounds cause it i §0,050 A the w (00! odds on not addr ing his ing the outiine completed ten notification 4 dee i< material He days in ceremonie the ust ALLIES TO INVITE GERMANS MONDAY, EXPECTATION NOW tinued from First Page.) ted in an_ inspired Die Zeit, which of the invitation to to the difficulty in nd say sential that an Germany should be on the basis of negotiations would make possible the rep- of our wishes.’ e becomes German N put “an that sta his organ, is clearly article in puts the quest rmany, points nference absolutel ment with S g nude which resentati This s sharp sinee Wednesday Germany to don confercnce _other power new state which they is particularly nal on invitation to participate in the Lon- on equal basis with as the first point in a nt of the basis upon ure willing to ;\r‘l‘vnl_lhc Dawes report. In all other particu- lars this platform practically c(lll!- with the German government's ated interpretation of what the s report means. Given, therefore, a settlement of the invitation question, the outlook for winning Nationalist votes for the liecessary laws is better than for- merly, but on the invitation question all negotiations with the Nationalists may founder, and with negotiations, the government. Socinl Democrats Alert. Social Democrats, in case the form of the invitation puts the government in an embarrassing position, would undoubtediy advantage of the Situation and force a vote of confi- dence. They believe that new elec- tions on the clear-cut issues of the Dawes report, the eight-hour day and protection would return the Left parties more heavily. The government has made conces- sions to the junkers in granting them agricultural protection in an effort to win them to a more moderate at- titude on the Dawes report. The Socialists believe this gives an ex- cellent handle for the election cam- - palzn’ on the cwst of living issue. Present this Coupon and 15c at The Star Busi- ness Office—or the newsstand of any of the leading hotels—for a copy of— ‘ The Star’s Auto Route Distance Atlas If to be sent by mail, add 3c for postage | win Interstate | for | D. C. to Make Test Case of Broken Glass in Bottles Health Officer Fowler announced today that he has decided to take a test case into Police Court on the question of broken glass found in a soft-drink bottle. The health officer exhibited a bottle containing several pieces of glass, which, he said, was obtained at a retail establishment. Several weeks azo Dr. Fowler is- sued an appeal to all persons hznaling soft drinks to exercise care to prevent chipped giass from zetting into containers in which drinks are sold. Recently a girl nearly lost her life by eating chipped glass in ice cream. GIRL GIVEN COAT TAR AND FEATHERS Fosse Action and Subsequent Disappearance Cause Ex- citement at Meyersville. Special Dispateh to The Sta MEYERSVILLE, Md., July —Ex- citement runs high here today while a search is being made for Miss Dorothy Grandon, who was tarred and feathered last night, and then vanished. The girl, whose home is at Martins- burg, W. Va. was taken in hand by | a party of sixty citizens, many of them prominent, after she and Miss Mabel Walls were found in company a married man and a United States Marine from Quantico, Va., following several days' sleuthing on | the part of the married man's wife The four were taken trom the home of Mrs. Viola Kennedy, according to the police, and while the married man escaped, the marine and Miss Walls were allowed to go, upon their prom- ise to leave town at once. Miss irandon was stripped by the irate wife and given a coat of tar and feathers, the posse having made preparations for the ceremony. According to the police the two girls had been arrested at Hagers- town and came here for refuge. Miss Walls' home Is said to be at Waynes- boro, Pa. Meyersville is a town of 300 citizens, between Frederick and Hagerstown, Md Tt GEORGIA AVENUE PAVING CONTRACT IS AWARDED Asphalt to Be Laid From Military Road to Fern Street for $112,000. Paving of Georgia avenue with asphalt from Military road to Fern street was authorized by the Commis- sioners today as the second project to be carried out under the new gaso- line tax law. The Georgia avenue paving. which is estimated to cost $112,000, was awarded to the Cranford Paving Company The laying of a new floor on the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge, South- east. and the surfacing of that floor with “asphalt, which was the first gasoline tax project, is about to be undertaken. Other streets listed in the appro- priation act will be paved from time to time during the year as the gas: line tax money comes in. o FRANK GILLMORE ILL. NEW YORK, July 25.—Frank Gill- more, actor and executive secretary of the Actors’ Equity Association, is seriously ill at a hospital today fol- lowing his collapse yvesterday, when he suffered a hemorrhage of the nose. Physicians had been unable this morning to completely relieve the hemorrhage. Mr. Gillmore's collapse was attri- buted to overwork as a result of the controversy between the theatrical managers and the Equity Association. FIRPO SEES PRESIDENT THEN ASKS WHO HE WAS (Continued from First Page.) with the ambassador at the embassy, 1600 New Hampshire avenue, and then lounged about for a while preliminary to taking the 3 o'clock train back to New York. His primary reason for the trip to Washington was to visit the ambas- sador. The visit, it was emphasized, had nothing to do_with the episode attendant upon Firpo’s arrival in New York when a woman who landed with him was held by immigration authorities and later sent back to Cuba, for which place her passports were issued. Firpo stated today, according to his interpreter, that the woman was ab- solutely not in his party, but merely happened to be on the same ship. PLEA TO OUST FIRPO LOST. TU. S. Attorney Declares No Action for Deportation Likely. NEW YORK, July 25.—United States District Attorney Hayward said today it was unlikely that any steps would be taken to deport Luis Angel Firpo, Argentine boxer, as was requested yesterday by Canon . Chase of Brooklyn, as head of the New York Civic League. Canon Chase demanded the deportation of Firpo “in the interests of clean sports and morals.” S “I am, of course, taking cognizance of the complaints received,” said Mr. Hayward, “but there is little that can be done in the present case. The arrival of Blanca Lourdes, a South American woman, on the steamship on which Firpo arrived on Monday caused the immigration au- thorities to question both of them. Firpo subsequently was allowed to land but Miss Lourdes later sailed for Cuba- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., BUTLER TO REMAIN UNTIL *ICKED OUT General Says: He Will Not Be Licked Without Red- Hot Scrap. e By the Associnted Press. PHILADELPHIA, July 25 — Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, in his weekly talk to police inspectiors and lieu- tenants yesterday, declared that he had been appointed director of pub- lic safety for four years and that he would not quit unless heswas “kicked out.” i His remarks were regarded by his subordinates as significart, because of recent reports that he would not be retained after the expiration of his leave of absence from the Marine Corps next Januar; These reports said that such strong pressure had been brought to bear on Mayor Ken- drick by certain local political lead- ers, who oppose some of the direc- tor’s methods, the mayor would not ask President Coolidge for an ex- tension of the general's leave. The mayor has declined to confirm or deny the reports. Promises Hot Serap. “Don’t be deceived or influenced by the idea I am going to quit,” Direc- tor Butler told police officlals, “I am not going to quit unless 1 am kicked out. I am not going to be licked except after a red-hot scrap. “Remember, I was appointed for four years. I am not going to say any more, but just let it filter through your he: that when the assistant director, Mr. Elliot, and myself go over the top you want to be sure you're on the band wagon. “The drive against law-breakers is the policy of this administration, and it is what Mayor Kendrick desires. He won't stop, he hasn’t stopped and 1 know that Kind of a man won't stop. “E am still director of public safety, I haven't moved out yet, and I ad- vise no one to gamble on my moving out. Every day I put in on this Job there is less likelihood of my going down, and it is harder to put me out I haven't moticed any intention on the part of the mayor to put me out Warns Police to Work. “This police force has to do real work—clean up the town. Remem- ber you've nothing to do with politics. If you want to hang on to your jobs you'd better keep this band going. Keep knocking harder and harder, and get the big fellows. My tenure of office depends on how long you men keep going.” Discussing plans for redistrict- ing the police stations, Director But- ler sald there was “no better way of taking the police out of politics than by scrambling the eggs.” “They have a dickens of a time,” he added, “getting six ward leaders to agree who is going to control the police in those districts. Further- more, they'll have an awful time tak- Jng the districts apart if they try to Put them back into politics.” Pastors of all the Protestant Churches in the city were urged by the Philadelphia Federation of Churches yvesterday to have their con- gregations request the retention of Gen. Butler. . 3 LOCAL DEPUTIES, 4 POLICE INDICTED IN HUGE RUM PLOT (Continued fro; First Page.) not only of riding on the @liman trains and in Pullman berths, but also of transporting all the liquor that could be smuggled through with the aid of Pullman porters who were in on the scheme. Station Policeman Named. This consideration in some instances was alleged to have been as low as $20. Indicted red caps at both ends of the line also were in on the deal, it was charged, and in one instance a police- man, William Haller, located at Union Station here was alleged to have been a party to the conspiracy. Practically all of the liquor was trans- ported in suit cases and in grips, with the assistance, of course, of the several paid aides stationed along the lines of transportation. e THREE CITIES’ POLICE SEEK BODY’S IDENTITY Vaudeville Performer Turns Up in New York to Deny That Corpse Is He. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 25.—Police of Chi- cago, Cleveland and New York are en- deavoring to identify the body of a man, sent Tuesday to New York by Charles Peterson, chief petty officer at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, who thought it was his brother Herman, since found here alive and well. Last Sunday Charles Peterson was notified by telephone from Cleveland that his brother Herman was dead and the body was being sent to Chi- cago. When the coffin arrived here he reconsigned it to his parents in New York, where it arrived yester- day. The relatives were about to remove it from the station when a young woman, cousin of the supposedly dead Herman, telephoned a hotel here where Herman and a vaudeville partner were registered to inquire regarding the manner of Herman’s death. Herman himself answered the call. One theory of police working on the mystery is that the body is that of a highwayman who held up Her- man several months ago in Cleveland and took from him a letter written to him by his brother at the Naval Training Station. They believe that the body was erroneously identified through the stolen lettér. —_— FALLON JURY FILLED. Five Days Used in Picking Men to Try Accused Attorney. NEW YORK, July 25.—After five days of examining talesmen, the jury which is to try William J. Fallon, at- torney, for jury bribing, was com- pleted shortly before noon today. A new panel of 50 talesmen, sum- moned by Federal Judge McClintic, of West Virginia, was nearly exhausted before the twelfth man was chosen, The Prince of Wales, photographed last year with “the boy: Albert Aw “Riaron Renfrew,” hix rambling highness will stop ranch, the “EP.” near High River, again in September. over on Long Ixland to watch the international polo match. photo, is Pete Vandermeyer, [ vz ewobr e, JNDER WD . Canadn, which he will vixit At the left, in ‘anndian champion hronchobuster, to whom the Prince presented the Prince of Wales trophy, a silver statuette of a broncho- tampede” at Calgary last yea Former Chum Vam ps City Lover; Country Girl Qut for Revenge Detectives Take Irate Lassie to Detention Home While They Seek Record—Says She’ll “Get Her Yet.”” Headquarters Detectives O'Brien and Livingston were spending a quiet afternoon yesterday sleuthing along lower Pennsylvania avenue. Detective- like, they wanted action. In one of the small hotels that advertize a room with steam heat for 50 cents, O'Brien overheard a robust, athletically built young woman swearinz vengeance sainst a former roommate who had vamped"” her city lover. The girl talked in impassioned tones “I'll black both her eves and beat her within an inch of her life, and it won't be, maybe, either,” declared the girl, rolling up the sleeva of a khaki blouse to display a powerful right arm O'Brien thought the girl talked like she meant it, and took her to the House of Detention with the hope that some of the members of the women's bureau of the Folice Department could change her mind. All Set for Action. The young woman confided in the detectives that her home was in North Carolina and that her name was Mar- garet Williford. She was prepared for the proposed combat, ghe said, and had donned a pair of knickers, the PLAN HEAVY FINE FOR SMOKE SCREEN Officials Favor $500 Fine to Curb Use in Effort to Foil Pursuing Police. Commissioner Oyster will take steps immediately to have a clause inserted in the police regulations fixing a more stringent penalty for the use of smoke- screens on automobiles to foil pursuing policemen. The Commissioner made this state- ment today, discussing the most recent case of yesterday morning, in which two members of the force were in- jured while chasing a car from which dense clouds of smoke were issuing. T am in favor of anything that will help to eliminate the bootlegger,” Capt. Oyster declared. The menace to the lives of policemen and others by the uee of the smoke- | screen as a method of escape for law violators was discussed by city officials a year ago. 0ld Regulation Cited. In reporting on the question at that time Corporation Counsel Stephens pointed out that there is an old sec- tion in the traffic regulations forbid- ding the emission of dense smoke or vapor from automobile exhausts. This was intended, however, to cover the ordinary smoke emissions caused by the operation of the gasoline engine. The collateral for a violation of the old regulation s only $40. The corporation counsel advised the Commissioners that if they deemed a special regulation desirable he would recommend a new clause fixing a penalty of $500 for using a smoke screen for the purpose of thwarting police pursuit. Commissioner Oyster said this morning that he would have the rec- ords searched and if this was not ap- proved at the time he would take prompt steps to have such a regula- tion enacted by the Board of Commis- sioners now. Wilbur Revokes Order. Secretary Wilbur has revoked the order of two years' standing requiring candidates for appointment to the An- napolis Naval Academy to have a work- ing knowledge of French and Spanish, on the ground that they can study those languages after admission. Seemed Improbable. From the Kansas City Star. After several vain attempts to fol- low the light conversation of the young person he bad taken in at din- ner, Prof. Parker struck out for his natural level, and explained to her carefully and elaborately that a re- cent discovery showed that life can be produced in sterilized bouillon by the action of radium. “A very wonderful discovery,” he continued. “And what trains of thought it gives rise to! Why, this may have happened in this world of ours millions of years ago!” ‘Really!” she said, visibly im- pressed, but a little incredulous. “Of course. 1 understand that there may have been radium then, but where did they get the beef tea?” | Women's | tory town in North Carolina Khaki blouse and had her hair bobbed “I've had some experience in boxing, and 1 didn't get my lessons from Georges Carpentier, eithel she ad- monished the detectives. “And when 1 clinch with that country girl it won't he hair-pulling affair.” i Investigation by operatives of the Women's Bureau disclosesl that the girl whom Margaret intended to make | her target had formerlv roomed with her in a downtown boarding house, but had gone to her home near Uppe Marlboro, Md.. after a previous clas with the North Carolina girl, in whic Margaret had emergéd the proud vie- tor. Both of the girls, a rding to the Women's Bureau operatives. about 20 years old, and evenly mat ed physically May Go Back Home. Margaret was still confined House of Detention today, while the Bureau is endeavoring to check up on the detai's of her career in ‘Washington. If her story is verified, she will be sent to her home in a little Margaret, however, said that her arrest would not change her plans to get vengeance for her broken love episode other than to defer the beating she maintains stoutly £he will give the girl in Upper Marlboro. GUN MANUFACTURE TAKEN UP IN HOLLAND | Twelve German Foremen Direct Construction of Battery of Field Howitzers. By Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1024. AMSTERDAD, July 24—Dutch newspapers report with pride that for the first time Dutch industry has undertaken the manufacture of guns. A few days ago the first battery, con- | sisting of four fleld howitzers, was completed by the Dutch Industrial Commercial Company. The guns were constructed in a Rotterdam shipyard with the assistance of twelve skilled German foremen of the Ehrhardt works, in Germany. ‘The first trials made at the Dutch proving grounds were highly satis- factory and it is hoped that Holland will be able to make herself inde- pendent of foreign countries with re- gard to the gun industry. The new battery will not be sold either to the Dutch or to foreign governments, but will merely be tried by the Dutch army to see whether the experiment is crowned with durable success. FUND TO EXPLOIT LEAGUE. Massachusetts Woman's Gift to Be Used in Publicity Work. NEW YORK. July 25.—A fund for the assistance of résearch dealing with the work of the League of Na- tions and for the information of the American public as to the league's accomplishments has been founded by Miss Margaret Christina Peabody of Cambridge, Mass., it _is announced. She has created the League of Na- tions Trust to administer the fund. Similar gifts have been made by re- search foundations and other societies for use in special branches of the league’s actlvities, but Miss Peabody's is the first to advance the league in general. Should the Unfted States join the league, the fund would be devoted to extending the scope of the Permanent Court of International Justice and the international labor organization of the league. The amount of the fund was not made public. \ Dr. Manley O. Hudson of the Har- vard Law School is named trustee for the fund. at the —— Tug Sinks; Crew Saved. NEWPORT, R. I, July 25.—The tug Mabel Barton sank off Block Island early today, The members of the crew were picked up by the steamer S(lephen A. Boyle and brought to this city. — Hog Prices Set Record. CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 25.—Hog prices today reached $10 a hundred- weight at the stock yards here, the highest mark in the last two years. ‘The advance reflects high corn prices, it was sald. FRIDAY, JULY 25, Florence Nightingale. | Florence Nightingale, a British army nurse, was born in Florence in 1829, in May. She early exhibited an intense devotion to the alleviation of suffering, which, in 1844, led her to Eive her attention to hospitals. In 1854 war was declared with Russia and on November 4 she arrived at Constantinople with thirty-four nurses. At the close of the Crimean war a fund of $250,000 was subscribed for the purpose of enabling her to form an_ institution for the ing of nurses. Too Much Water. From Life. . Pastor—I've been wanting to see you in regard to the quality of milk you are serving me. Milkman—TYes, sir. Pastor—I only wanted to say that T use the milk for drinking purmflu ‘exclusively, and not for ‘christen! 1924. PROGRESSIVE LABEL FOR INDEPENDENTS| La Follette Committee Adopts Designation for Use Where States Require It. Adopting “Progressive” ag the uni- form designation of the La Follette- Wheeler candidates for election to the electoral college in_ the States where the election laws require a political designation, the joint execu- tive committee in charge of the La Follette campaign, at its first meeting today in the Machinists’ Building, got down to work on the practical prob- lems which confront the Independent Progressive ticket. The joint committee determined to recommend also that in States in which, under the election law the names of the candidates for President and Vice President do not appear on the ballot, the designation include the words “La Follette-Wheeler”; or where both words cannot be used, the word “La Follette” be included, Th committee recommended that in states in which no designation is required by the election laws the presidential electors shall appear un- der such designation as will be ap- proved by the joint executive com- mittee. The Liberty Bell was decided upon as the emblem of the Independent Progressive ticket, to be used where it is required. The committee at its meeting today elected Robert M. La Follette, jr., vice chairman and Mrs. Edward P. Costi- gan secretary. Nelson Expected Tomorrow. Representative Nelson of Minnesota, chairman of the committee, was not present today, but is expecetd to at- tend the meeting tomorrow. Those attending today's meeting were Mr. La Follette, Mrs. Costigan, Senator Frazier of North Dakota, William H. Johnston, Morris Hillquit of New York and Basil Manly. The committee is in session this afternoon and probably will discuss various matters relating to publicity. The joint executive committee, to which Senator La Follette yesterday delegated practically complete au- thoriyt to marshal the organization of his supporters, cope with the tech- nical details of his nation-wide can- didacy and finance a brisk campaign, was summoned for the meeting, which promised to be prolonged. Rep- resentative John M. Nelson of Wis consin, the national campaign man- ager and chairman of the committes was asked to come from Chicago to preside at the session. The committee was authorized to Introduce a measure of discipline into the La Follette campaign, though a strict political party organization was still avoided. Among its principal problems of this kind were questions affecting the selection of presidential electors, and findorsement of candi- dates seeking'to run with the general La Follette indorsement for offices in several States, Plans for financing the campaign also are before the committee. | Though stories of a large campaign fund—$3,000,000 or $5,000,000—were decried by leaders in the movement, it was declared money was needed and being sought. Indientes $500,000 Needed. “We might agree to stop solicita- tion if we got $500,000 now,” said Basil M. Manly, one of the executive committee members, “even though we shall have to do much in creating a new organization, by sending agents into States, that old political parties have accomplished by local organiza- tions.” Labor organizations {dentified with the movement have been the most active thus far in raising funds, and the new committee is expected to name a treasurer and stabilize this work. Alexander Kahn, publisher of a Jewish newspaper in New York City, has taken over the task of ap- pealing to the needle trades unions, while the national officials of the railroad unions concerned have cir- cularized their locals for money. Sub- stantial amounts are reckoned on from these sources, to be supple- mented by a more general appeal, at the direction of the committee. In addition to the expenditures in- dicated by Mr. Manly, Senator La Follette is expected to address radio audiences several times during the campaign, and every speech of this kind, with employment of several broadcasting stations, will cost in the neighborhood of $10,000. Senator Wheeler, as vice presidential candi- date, also is to make onme of the “swings around the circle,” in which transportation expenses and meeting place rentals mount up. —_— FIGHTS LIVING COSTS. French Interior Minister Plans National Action. PARIS, July 25.—in pursuance of a campaign against the high cost of living, Camille Chautemps, minister of the interior, after conferences with some mayors, has evolved a plan which it is hoped will be effective. This plan includes the organiza- tion of economic surveillance throughout the country, administra- tive action by prefects and mayors in regard to both the wholesale and re- tail trade, and fresh legislation per- mitting mayors to take any initiative deemed necessary in the question of food supply. British Steel Mill Closes. SYDNEY, N. 8, July 25.—A 90-day tie-up of the British Empire Steel Corporation's steel plant at Sydney was announced by President R. M. Wolvin in an official statement given out yesterday. The shut-down of op- erations will be effective from Au- gust 9. 30,000 Strike in Silesia. WARSAW, July 25.—More than 30,- 000 factory workers of Silesia have struck because of the introduction of the 10-hour day. The government is trying to obtain concessions from the employers. e British Fleet Leaves Canal PANAMA, July 25.—The British bat- tleship squadron left today for Ja- maica. No official calls were made here by the ships’ officers. The only formality was the exchange of salutes and the dipping of flags. | pape YACHT TRAILS VIKINGS. Vessel Reaches Iceland Port on Journey From Norway. NEW YORK, July 25.—The 40-foot yacht Leif Ericson, which, with four men aboard, is following from Nor- way the trail taken to the New World by the Vikings, has arrived at Vest- manaey jart, Iceland, according to a cablegram ' recéived today by the newspaper Norgespost. The yacht will proceed to Green- land, thence to Labrador and then down the Atlantic coast to New York, | (where it is expected late in Septem- er. ‘SHODTING' NIAGARA IS VIEWED AS HOAX Some Doubt Leach Intends to Make Announced Trip in Rubber Ball. By Consolidated Press. NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., July 25.— Bobby Leach, veteran daredevil, who in 1911 went over Niagara Falls in a steel barrel, is surrounding himself with mystery as the day draws near for his boasted second attempt to ride the cataract, this time in a huge rub- ber ball. Speculation is now current as to whether the man actually is prepar- ing to make another death-defying plunge, or is merely trying to revive interest in himself. Some persons intimately associated with him doubt that the big rubber ball, which Leach insists is all ready for the perilous undertaking, really exists. Scoffsx at Disbelievers. Whenever these rumors are brought to him, Bobby smiles cynically and out with an air of aloofn he challenges. “Just wait— you'll see!” Then, with the air of imparting a big secret, he whispers in your ear: “In less than two weeks now, I'm telling you- 1 An eleventh-hour change in plans was announced today by Leach. Some morning before the end of this week he will send the rubber ball over the falls alone on a trial trip. he_said. “Oh, 1 know it's going to work all right, but I just want to see how iUl behave in the water below the falls. 1 will load the ball with ballast to equal my own weight, of about 145 pounds.” Plans Are Changed. Leach had previously declared he would do no experimenting with his rubber ball before he climbed in- side himself. Attempts have been made by news- correspondents and others to get a glimpse of Leach's reputed man-carrying _rubber ball. The have all been futile Last week Leach was cock-sure in his announcement that he would make his second trip over the kalls cither on July 26 or August 5. He refuses now to set any definite day, but declares it will be some day between thoSe two dates. The authorities are wise to me- ‘ve got to be careful,” he argues. “But you'll know it in time. MURDER STUMPS POLICE. Unable to Get Clue in Strangula- tion of Boy. NEW YORK, July 25.—The murder - strangulation of seven-vear-old Francis McDonnell at Port Rich- mond, Staten Island, last night was | classed by police as an unsolvable mystery. The boy's body was found ten days ago in a woods near his home. irom the start the police have been vir- tually without a clue, and -although several arrests have been made they have led nowhere. Only the vaguest description of the man_who followed the lad into the woods, where he assaulted and killed him, was available. Achiilo Esposito, the last of the suspects, will be arraigned tomorrow on a manslaughter charge, but officials expect he will be exonerated. - MOOSE COUNCIL MEETS. Fraternal Order Prepares for N. tional Convention Next Week. NEW YORK, July 25.—Members of the supreme council of the Loyal Order of Moose today made final prep- arations for the orders thirty-sixth annual convention which opens here Monday. Secretary of Labor James 3. Davis, director general of the order, called the council into session to complete the convention plans. Selection of next year's convemtion city, it was stated, will be stubborn- ly contested. San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston and Philadelphia have entered bids. AT ORPHANS’ EXPULSION HIT. Near East Relief Protests Greek Order Affecting 50,000. ATHENS, July 25.—The Near East Relief has protested the action of the Greek authorities in_including sev- eral thousand Armenian orphans un- der the care of the Near East Relief in its orders for the removal of 50,- 000 Armenians from Greece. The protest has been sent to the United States Government. _Greece has asked the league of nations to ar- range for asylums for the Armenians in some foreign country, preferably south Russia. LONG FIGHT SEEN TO CRUSH REBELS (Continued from First Page.) the efficiency of the action of the artillery of the government troops. During the night there was light firing on the right wing. The gov- ernment troops continue to progress along the whole front.” Communique, midnight, day: “The government troops are prose- cuting the advance which they have been making continuously. Today there was a greater advance in the center and on the right wing. Our aviators have bombarded the rebels’ points of concentration. Another rebel aeroplane was destroyed.” o Wife Charges Misconduct. Mrs. Elsile Watson Ahmay lodlyl filed suit in the District Supreme Court for an absolute divorce from Melville Ahmay on charges of mis- t, cruelty and desertion. They O tarsied &t Alexandria, Va., Jan. uary 1, 1920, and have no children. Attorneys Simon, Koenigsberger & Young and Thomas F. Cullen appear for the wife. Husband Asks Divorce. Absolute divorce {s asked in a suit filed in the District Supreme Court by John A. Swan against Mary J. Swan. #They were married June 7, 1811, and Wednes- —_— True goodness s like the glow- worm_ in this, that it shines mest 'when no eyes are upon' it SEEKS T0 BOARD AUV ROW SHPS U. S. Seizes Letter Indicating Traffic in Narcotics and Aliens Off Coast. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, July o board vessels of rum row to sea 25.—Permission rch for narcotics and aliens to be smug- gled into the country will be sought by agents of the Treasury Depart- ment, it was announced today, fol- lowing the seizure of a letter on a prisoner indicating their presence on vessels anchored off shore. The letter, written by a man on one of the boats, to be mailed to Europe, stated that Chinese and other foreigners were aboard the boats and also that an airplane has been mak six trips daily from the fleet wit illicit cargoes of liquor. The letter bearing this information fell into the hands of the officials through the capture of a power boat carrying 200 cases of liquor. A special agent of the Treasury Department said" special authority would be sought to board the vessels by the Coast Guard. Such a search of the ships anchored about 12 miles off the New Jersey ( might result, it was said, in officia tests to the governments the vessels carried. The letter said: “Dear Parents: Just a 1 you know all is well and dandy write any more, empty and shall soon be we have left about which we will discharge in two days if all's well. “Well, parents, this a very exciting life out here. There are two boa loads of Chinese, Italians, Greeks and 50 forth, all waiting to be smuggled into the United States. There are also a couple of steamers loaded with cocaine, opium and morphine, all of which is being smuggled in day. We have a seaplane out every day and cases each trip. Tt makes of six trips a day From Yesterday's 5:30 Edition of The S HINES' ASSAILANT WINS PLEA FOR AID Veteran, Suffering From Tu- berculosis, to Be Given Further Hospital Care. ast ne to let Don't home. ANl ¢ 2,000 cases, as we every which takes 19 averag comes n Thomas M. Deaver of Texas, the vet- eran who attacked Director Hines of the Veterans' Bureaw in the director's office some time ago, will be given further hospitalization, increased com- pensation, and vocational training the Government, if he desires the lat- ter. This was decided yesterday, when Director Hines approved the find- ings of the central board of appeals in Deaver's appeal as a disabled veteran, suffering from tuberculosis. Director Hines had xplained Deaver, when the veteran appealed to him personally in his private office, that a new examination could be made here in Washington, or the results of previ- ous examinations would have to_ be used in determining the case Upon making this remark closing the inter- view, the director was assailed by the Texan, who inflicted painful injuries. Apologizes for Attack. Jlogized for his . in_a reply, de- finally to Later the veteran attack, and Gen. H clared that the attack would have no bearing whatever on the merits of Deaver's appeal for assistance from the bureau. ‘The findings of the bureau, by Director Hines, were explained an official statement made public follows: “Because of of opinion as suffering from or quiescent tuberculosis, the bureau ruled that he be permitted to return to a Veterans' Bureau hospital in the vicinity of his home for further treatment and for the study of his case. Rated 75 Per Cent Disabled. “Until such time as Deaver returns to the hospital he das rating of 75 per cent temporar 1al d ability. Upon his rehospitalization will be rated temporary total. “It ‘was also deciged that in further observation of Deaver's an outside tuberculosis specia called in as consultant “Deaver was also held to have a vo- cational handicap which makes possibl his training for new employment at the expense of the government.’ P FRENCH COLLEGE WINS. New York Court Rules Against Executor in Will Case. NEW YORK, July 2 urrogate Foley vesterday ordered Iidgerton I. Winthrop, Jr. executor of the estate of Evelyn Bostwick Voronoff, to turn over to the College de France, in Parls, 601 shares of Standarq Oil Company of California stock at a par value of $100, and 2,204 shares at a ar value of $25. P he stock was bequeathed to ths college in Mme. Voronoff's will, which Wwas disputed by the executor én the ground that the institution had not complied with certain conditions and that the gift was not in accordance vith French law. B e Voronoff was the daughter of Jabez A. Bostwick, Standard Oil mag- nate, and the wife of Prof. Serge Voronoff, the Paris gland specialist. yier American estate was valued at more than, $5.000.000. approved in as an to ac existing difference s Deaver is he the c Swat the Fly For assistance in the campaign against the fly, The Star has for distribution a quantity of wire-handle fy swatters. . Ask for One at the STAR OFFICE or Any of Its lived together until August, 1916. There are no children. A co-respond- ent is named. Attorney John C. Fos- ter- appears for the Branch OECCS