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WEATHER. Showers tod tom moderate temperature. Temperature for 24 h at 10 p.m. last night: Hi 4 p.m. vesterday; lowest, vesterday. Full report on No. 20,5328, DAWES' PROTOCOL SIGNED WITH PACT PROMISING RUHR | EVACUATIONINYEAR “First Real Treaty of Peace | Signed Since War,” Says MacDonald, Praising Re- sults of Parley. 1012— 0. REICH AND DEPUTIES STILL BIG OBSTACLES| ! Marx and Herriot Actions Must Be Ratified Before Fiscal Program Becomes Opemtiv&—nawes‘ Wires Congratulations to Ger- ! jr 1‘ mans. Br the Associated Press LLONDON. August 16.—Peace be-| tween France and Germany came| one step ncarer tonight when the representatives of the allied pow- | ers and Germany assembled in Pre-! micr MacDonald’s room in the for- | cign office and signed or initialed | a protocol providing the means for putting into cffect the Dawes plan, designed to settle the perplexing | reparations problem | The London conference afier 30 try ing days has thus been brought to a successful conclusion. All eves now turn to Berlin and Paris. anxiously | watching to see if the German Reichs- | tag and the French Parliament will support CRancellor Marx and Premier | Herriot in the bold step thev have | taken I Both these premiers belong to mi- nority governments. which are none 100 stable, and the reaction of the | German and French peoples will be | watch with some apprehension | until their legislative hodies approve | d make it poss'ble for German and French representatives to meet with | the representatives of the other in- | ierested powers at Paris on August | tach thir formal signatures ! documents. Meeting Not Speet mier MacDona conference pre at tonight mectmg, which was attended by | out 200 delegates and experts from various countries. The session i strictly inform . dacked Epectacular feat as did the entire | contere It was a4 business meeting in a business office and.more like a direc- tors’ conference than dinlomatic function. The British prime min- ister and Premiers Herriot and Theunis. Chancellor Marx, Ambase | ador Kellokg, Baron Hayashi, Japan, | @nd Prof. D Stefani. ltaly, all made hrief addresses expressing their sat- | fsfaction over the successful ciusion of the conference. M rotr waid “We sce the dawn and hope ylight.” Marx Thanks WacDonald. Chancellor Marx thanked P'remier MacDonald especially for the “human understanding” with which he had' Gealt with the delicate problems. Ambassador Kellogg expressed the ! opinion that the delegates were all of the mind that the Dawe plan was “the greatest piece of constructive work of modern times” and added that he desired to extend his incere ! congratulations to Gen. Dawes, i The German, Freneh and Belgian | delegates and Premier MacDonald | had be. through such a strain in} the last 48 hours i effecting a set-| tiement of the French and German | differences about the Ruhr evacua- | tion, which was blocking the entire | conference, that they rushed from the foreign oflice in great relief im- mediately after signature. Mr. Mac- Donald started at once for Scotland. Many of the French and Belgian offi- cials’ took the night boats homeward, ' 2nd the Germans are leaving for Herlin early tomorrow to take up their battle with the Reichstag for ratification of the protocol. cular. as president to see d Ratification Seen. Neither the Germans nor the French were fully satisfied with the compromise agreement on the Ruhr| cvacuation, but both delegations | scored many points which they be- lieve will appeal to their publics and ! ease the way in obtaining ratifica- tion. The specific promise of the French| to evacuate the Ruhr absolutely within one vear from August 15 and to evacuate Dortmund immediately are great prizes for the German dele- gates, although they had hoped that the period would be narrowed to six months Premier MacDonald won the ad- miration of all the delegates by the fearless and dashing manner in which he handled the tangled Ruhr situa- tion, speaking with equal frankness to both M. Herriot and Chancellor Marx, and doing much to keep war- time animositics down. The French and German delegates had many long conversations during the confer- ence concerning their future tariff arrangemtent, and at times this com- mercial feature threatened to -be a serious handicap to the Ruhr settle- ment. But they finally agreed to meet October 1 in Paris to befin ne- gotiations for a commercial treaty. The German delegation insists that it made no trade on tariff arrange- ments to gain the Ruhr evacuation decision, and that it will begin ne- gotiations in Paris untrammeled by any pledge to admit Alsatian iron ore or other French products free. MacDonald Speaks. Premier MacDonald in addressing the delegates characterized the re- sults -of the London conferences as the first really negotiated agreement since the war. It was more than words printed on paper, for it was in fact the first. peace treaty, inasmuch as the delegates at this conference had turned their backs on war and thoughts of war, he said. Addressing Chancellor Marx, Mr. MacDonald spoke of the difficulties the German ministers face. He knew their burdens were heavy, he said, and their people might not be too happy at the results achieved, but he commendéd to German study the sys- tem ef arbitration agreed upon, " (Continued on Page 3, Column 7.) jdent informed the representatives John ing from Ludlow, the nearest point a I railroad could carry from orrow fair; ours ending ighest, 81, at 55, at 6 a.m. Page 5. Entered as second class matter post office Washington, D. C. he WASHINGTON, D. Protocol and Annexes Provide For All War Fiscal Disputes Agreements Mutually Interdependent. 'Three Documents tions in Case of Default. By the Associated Prexs, LONDON. August 16.—The agree- ments concluded tonight by the Lon- don conference take the form of a final protocol with four annexes. The final protocol is a brief document in French and English. It is signed by Ramsay MacDonald, as Secretary Gen. Sir Maurice Hankey, the allied secretaries, the German secretary, and a representative of the reparations commission. The American secretary does not sign. The protocol states that the presi- of the powers of the reparations com- mission assembled at the foreign Of-l fice that all the governments con- cerned and the reparations commission have confirmed their acceptance of the Dawes plan, and by means of the conference certain agreements an- nexed to the protocol have been signed or initialed by the parties con- cerned. Agreements Interdependen: These agreements are mutually in- terdependent and cannot be except that the dates will vanced, as the original dates presup- posed that the first steps would be taken on August 15. The parties concerned will meet later in London to attach formal signatures to the documents which have not been COOLIDGE RESTING IN BOYHOOD HOME Spends Afternoon in Swing on Porch and Goes to Bed Early in Evening. By the Associated Press. PLYMOUTH, Vt. August 16.~In his boyhood home here President Cool- idge started his vacation today— again with his father and in the com- pany only of members of his family. Laying ide government cares and political problems, at least so far as D! ical actualities were concerned, Mr. Coolidge spent the first day of his visit here as he had planned— resting. With Mrs. Coolidge and their son he drove here early this morn- the party, ar- riving just in time for breakfast with the President's father. The family stopped on the way here at the ceme- tery just outside the town. where a month ago C s buried and where also the President’s mother and his sister are buried. Visit Cemetery Agnl Another visit to the cemetery about noon, when flowers were placed on the graves, was their only other trip the homestead. Later in the morning the President made a brief inspection of the farm yard in the rear of the house. It stretches on into the wooded slopes of the foot- hills which overlook the premises and \vhich border both sides of the ham- et. This afternoon Mr. Coolidge assisted father in erecting a swing on the small front porch, and he spent much of the remainder of the afternoon jresting in it. Mrs. Coolidge sat on the front steps for a while as the President's father picked weeds from the lawn. With Mrs. Coolidge, the President took a short stroll about dusk. Early to- night the lights from the lamps in the little white painted home were blown out. Lane it Off. From early this morning tourists stopped at the lane leading from Ply- mouth’s other road, and on which the Coolidke home is located, but it was shut off to visitors, for the first time, and except for a few neighbors Mr. Coolidge received no one. Above the general store just across the road from the Coolidge house offices were set up and C. Bascom Slemp, the President’s secretary, ar- ranged to carry on such business as is necessary during the vacation pe- riod. but Mr. Coolidge did not put in an appearance there, Welcomed by Father. John Coolidge, the President's father, welcomed the family on their arrival at the home. He clasped the hand of each as they left the automo- bile and kissed each member. Mr. Coolidge has welcomed his son home every summer but three since he left as a boy. “The three times he missed,” the father reminisced today, “were just after he started law practice. He pretended to have too much business then, but T suspect he didn’t have the money to get here.” Last vacation Mr. Coolidge admin- istered the oath of President to his son in the home here. President Harding died last August while in San Francisco. : Plans for Chureh. After getting the President and Mrs. Coolidge settled the father came down to the general store and busied himself directing newspaper men and photographers, who had accompanied the party from Washington, to quar- ters. There are but few houses here and almost all of those who came with the President made headquarters in some of the nearby cities. Tomorrow afternoon {n the Union Church, directly across the road from the house, the Prefident plans to attend services. Just next to the church and in a house attached to the general store Mr. Coolidge was born. Nearby on the side of one of the foothills bordering the Green Mountains the President’s father and his father were born. Ex-King Won’t Act in U. 8. By Cable to The Star and New York World. Copyright, 1924. CANNES, August 16.— Ex-King George of Greece says, he will not play the knight in “The Miracle” in America. “I don’t need money that badly,” the ex-king sald when asked whether he would accept the offer of Morris Gest, American Hroducer. “True,” he said, “my fortune is gone, but acting is not in my line.” 4 president, by | Deal With Sanc- agreements as concluded between the allles will be communicated to Ger- many. Annex T of the protocol is the agreement of August 9 between the reparations commission and Germany, whereby Germany agrees to take nec- essary measures to promulgate and enforce the laws required to carry out the Dawes plan in the form ap- proved by the reparations commission, especially relating to the bank of i sue, the railways and Industrial de bentures, and to apply certain provi- sions regarding control of the rev- enues assigned as security for the annuities. The reparations commission under- takes to do its best to carry out the Dawes plan, particularly in the way of facllitating a loan, and both th reparations commission and Germany agree to help to carry out any add tional agreements, including arranie- ments for modifying the Dawes plan. If there is a disagreement on the in- terpretation of the provisions, the dispute shall be submitted to arbitra- tion. Sanctions Invelved. Three of the annexes to the pro- tocol embody agreements which the | conference reached for dealing with | sanctions to be applied by the allies | to Germany in the event of her pos- | sible default under the Dawes plan, | restoration_of Germanys economic | | signed, and 2 certificate copy of the| ~ (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) MARINE GABARET - PUZZLES OFFICIALS Federal Authorities Seek Identity of Floating | Booze Emporium. | | By the Assogiated Press. NEW YORK. August 16.—Federal | | authorities tonight moved to learn| the identity of the 17,000-ton Roing booze palace” which was re- | ported today by the Herald-Tribune to be cruising off the 12-mile limit| dispensing pre-prohibition concoc- | tions to wealthy land lubbers. | Little stock was taken, however, in| the newspaper reporter's evidence! that the huge passenger ship on} whikh he told of having spent a night | in the company of gay and liberal | drinkers—men and women—w the former North German Lloyd liner Friederich der Grosse. The description of the vessel. her dimensions and equipment. tallied more closely, said the authoritie: with that of the North German Lioyd- built liner Kronprinz Wilhelm, which was interned during the war, became | an American transport, was renamed | the Von Steuben and disappeared | from official records last March 14, when the Shipping Board sold her at| Baltimore for scrapping purposes. | Plenty of time has Intervened since | March for the undisclosed owners of the Von Steuben to have overhauled her and installed the glimmering bar, | cabaret and hotel accommodations | described by the news reporter, au- | thorities pointed out. At the same | time they declared there w ample | evidence that the Friederich der, Grosse, a smaller vessel, was burned in the Pacific last year while sailing | under the post-war name, City of Honolulu. Officials disagreed as to| the extent of the Government's juris- diction over the floating saloon. or those wealthy visitors from shore | who went by power boat, rum runner | or private vacht to partake of the, mystery ship's conviviality. Would Appeal to Geverament, | Capt. W. V. E. Jacobs, commander | of the Coast Guard, New York dis- | trict, announced he had started an | investigation to establish the iden-: tity of the craft. Then, he said, the| Government under whose flag she is| registered—the news reporter said | the British flag—would be called upon to suppress the vessel's activities. | Furthermore, said Capt. Jacobs, the | Coast Guard could arrest, fine and | reprimand on charges of “going for- eign” the crew and passengers of any small boat that crossed the 1Z-mile| limit in the direction of the mystery ship. Should the small boat be picked up in the vicinity of the “deep-sea emporium,” said Capt. Jacobs, its oc- cupants could be more heavily fined and more severely reprimanded for being in communication with rum smugglers, Romaine Q. Merrick, divisional pro- hibition chief for New York and northern New Jersey, held an opposite view of the Government's jurisdiction over the doings of a vessel outside the 12-mile limit. He held, in fact, that the Government held no juris- diction, either over the cabaret ship or those persons who braved the bounding billows in quest of its booze dispensary. Doubts Part of Story. Although Capt. Jacobs took steps to learn the identity of the unknown craft aboard which the newspaper man got his thrills, he continued to disbelieve that such a craft actually had been serenely entertaining guests off Fire Is- land for more than a month, as report- ed. Coast guardsmen, patroling from Cape Cod to Cape May had never seen or encountered euch a salt.water oasis, he declared. The captain advanced a theory that the vessel described was a member of the permanent Jersey coast rum fleet, and that its skipper, bored by dull times on the row, might have held occasional receptions off Fire Island for rum- running patrons, bootleggers and their guests. Such parties were becoming common among vessels of rum row, said Capt. Jacobs. The news reporter’s description, how- ever, wak not of a bootleggers’ party. He told of engaging passage, with sev- eral other men with feminine com- panions, on a high-powered launch bound for the nameless ship whose huge bulk by day and maze of glimmering lights by night had mystified the resi- dents of Long Island. The reporter told how the speedboat was disabled in deep water, how she floated helplessly for hours, and how, finally, her pas- sengers were rescued by another speed- ster, which, with a merry party of wealthy ones, also was bound toward the “floating cabaret” He told of boarding the huge craft at last, of pay- ing a 35 cover charge and $5 for a (Continued oa Page 2, Column 3.) . ,influen | his general found | new { tioning by Monday m WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION g MORNING, AUGUST 17, C., SUNDAY QUERY BY DARROW REVEALS ~ ALIENIST NEVER TESTED BOYS Formed Opinion Merely by' Observation, Not Examina- tion, Expert Declares. DEFENSE CLAIMS GAIN IN DAY’S TESTIMONY | Finding, Entered in Record, Shows No Minor in Like Case Hanged in Decade. i | By the Associated Iress | CHICAGO, August 16.—Testimony | of Dr. H. Douglas Singer, fourth alienist for the prosecution, that Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, jr. were entirely normal when they kidnaped and killed 14-year-old Rob- ert Franks last May 21, was sub- |Jected today to the expert cross-cx- amination of Clarence chief defense counsel. The hearing to determine whether Judge John R. Caverly shall inflict | the death penalty on the youths on their plea of guilty, or shall impose penitentiary sentences upon the plea for mitigation of punishment, was enlivened by frequent clashes of Mr. Darrow with the witness and again with Robert E. Crowe, Darrow, | ney. Defense Claims At adjournment the defense claimed these were net gains Admission by Dr. . ind not examination: that a split personul scribed by defense alienists isting in ‘migh evidence toward a mental disorder”; thit the present ages of both Loeb and Leopold is the critical time for developing “‘mental ness” and that a dream life persol Singer did not Singer that he sick- might | Dr. deviate from declaration that he had no evidence in his observa- tions nor in the testimony of defense experts to sway him from clusions that there was “no evidence to indicate a discased mind in either youth,” and that they had displayed his con-| teotti, who disappeared on June 10. a | few day State’s attor- | ached conclusions by observa- ! both boys. | i normal emotions and that their phan- | tasy- lives contained nothing abnor- The other leg of the triangular of the defense—functional dis- of the enocrine gland sy tems—was not touched upon today Mr. Darrow was gratified by get- James Quinla: cial of e at one time an offi- tate penitentiary, but now a wyer, that 340 persons had | pleaded guilty to murder in Illinois in the last ten vears and that only one, Thomas Fitzgerald, nearly 40 years old, had been hanged. Mr. Dar- row’s point was to bring out that no youths of the ages of Leopold and Loeb had paid the supreme penalty upon pleas of guilty, and that Mr. Crowe, who has termed the Franks case a “perfect hanging case,” sen- tenced Fitzgerald Accusations Fly. Once during today’s short was trying to cheat the law. Mr. Darrow countered by accusing Mr. Crowe of having held Loeb and Leo pold illegally while he forced con fessions from them. the two argued hdutedly Crowe referred to the “eriminals.” “You are not trying to fool me, are you, doctor?” presaged one of Mr. Darrow's tilts with the witness. and “you are mot trying to avoid us, are you?" heralded another. The doc tor, retaining his calm under the in quisition by Mr. Darrow, each time shot back invitations to try and find out. “What other names do they use for ‘split personality’?” asked Mr. Dar- row. “Phantasies, delusions, illusions, mannerisms, etc., they are all evi- dences of a split personality.” replied Dr. Singer. The “schizophrenic person” was a comer in the hearing. He was introduced by Dr. Singer in a book in which he had sought to define more definitely persons with split person- alities, Mr. Darrow reading extensive- ly from the work. when vouths Mr. as Wins Admission from Singer. It was in that connection that the defense counsel obtained the admis- sion from Dr. Singer that schizo- phrenia, the inclination of parts of the personality to split off, is more likely to develop into insanity in in- telligent persons of the approximate ages of Locb and Leopold than in others. Cross-examination of Dr. Singer was unfinished when the hearing was adjourned until Monday. It was indi- cated the defense would end its ques- noon. There is only one remaining witness, Dr. W. O. Krohn of Chicago, veteran expert wit- ness in murder trials, and regarded as the prosecution’s “ace.” Attorneys estimated that a day and a half would suffice for hearing his testimony, per- mitting arguments in the hearing to be started possibly Wednesday morn- ing. Loeb and Leopold found much cause for merriment in the heated ex- changes between counsel and witness today. WOMAN MOTHERS BEAR CUB WITH OWN BABY “Extraordinary Act of Devotion’” Shown by Wife of Maine Lum- berjack Wins Medal. By the Associatéd Press. NEW YORK, August 16.—A gold medal for “extraordinary acts of motherly devotlon,” the suckling of a bear cub left motherless by the hunt- er's gun, was awarded today to Mr: Kffie H. Beal of Newburyport, Mas: by the American Society for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals. According to the soclety, this “ex- traordinary deed of humanity” took place in the Maine woods, where Mr: Beal kept house for her husband, a lumberjack, in a log cabin. Her hus- band shot the mother bear and the cub, no larger than a large kitten, was found clasp in the paws. Mrs. Bed] took it home and it joined a nursing baby at her breast and lived. | recognized a specially treated gold i tooth and the shape of his head and ! high cheek bones. ! given an opportunity to identify session | | Mr. Crowe charged that the defense ting into the record a statement by | foW miles from Rome, and whiie of- ! terday of pieces of a coat of a texture At another point | | day MATTEOTTI'S BODY BELIEVEDLOCATED Corpse Almost Identified as| That of Murdered Socialist Deputy Dug Up. | By the Assaciated Pres | ROME, August 16.—Two arch for the body of Gix months’ | como Mat- before he was to make an anti-Fascist speech in the Chamber of Deputies, apparently has bnrnvl fruit in the finding of a body this | morning which is believed to be that | of the Socialist deputy. | The body was unearthed in a cul- vert near the village of Scrofanos. ! announcement covery still is lacking and although official Stefani agency issued a communique tending to discredit the report. all the afternoon newspapers state flatly that Matteotti’s body has been found and definitely identified. Family Not Called. Identification, according to the newspapers, was made by persons well acquainted with the deputy, who concerning the Members of Mat- have not yet been the hody, because the investigation of the police and judicial authorities is not et complete. The authorities are said to attach great significance to the finding yves- teotti's family «imilar to that worn by Matteotti the he disappeared. This garment was discovered near the spot where the body was found today. Dogs Show Excitement. Although the body is in such con- dition as to lead medical specialists to the belief that death occurred about two months ago, a small file was found still sticking in the breast. Another bit of evidence pointing strongly toward definite Identification is the fact that police dogs which had been given the scent through the deputy’s discarded clothing showed much excitement the moment they entered the vicinity where the body was found. he announcement of the discovery by the newspapers found the streets of the capital virtually empty, most of the population being away to cele-, brate the annual mid-August holiday, but those left in the city bought the afternoon editions with greater ex- citement than has been seen since the first_report of the disappearance of the deputy. Some of the late evening editions contained editorial comment varying according to the political views. Those journals sympathetic with the Fascisti government pointed to the finding of the body as further proof that the government has been doing its utmost from the very first to bring the guilty to justice, while the oppo- sition papers say the discovery now makes it more imperative to carry out punitive measures, no matter who may be hit. Plans are being made for trans porting the body, probably tomor row, to Rome. Later it will be taken to the Verano cemetery, where an official autopsy will be heid. SHENANDOAH _FINISHES SERVICE WITH FLEET Dirigible Reports All Well and Is Returning to Lakehurst Station. By the Associated Press. LAKEHURST, N. J., August 16.— Wireless messages received at the naval air station tonight from the dirigible Shenandoah, which today cngaged in maneuvers with the At- lantlc fleet, 500 miles off the New gngland coast, stated that all was well with the ship and that she ex- pected to reach Lakehurst shortly after midnight. The position of the ship was not given. The Shenandoah left her mooring mast yesterday before noon and after cruising over the Jersey coast put out to sea around 6. p.m. When the ship left here she was not expected to return until late Sunday. Navy Men Replace Strikers. HAVRE, . France, August 16— Manned by a crew of Krench naval seamen, the French Line steamer France salled tonight for New York. The special seamen were brougnt to Havre from Cherbourg to take the places of the regular crew of the France, who went on strike - with other employes of the Frenoh Lins. | - Star, 1924 —EIGHTY-FOUR PAGES. 2 =7 RRERIN EN- | o 05N / TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—28 PAGES. General News—Local, National Foreign. National Politics—Pages 4 and 5. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 14. D. C. Nationai Guard—Page 19. Financial News—Pages 24 and 25. Radio News—Page 26. Veterans of the Great War—Paae 25. Serial, “White Fang"—Page 26. PART TWO—14 PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Features. Washington and Other Society. and | Tales of Well-Known Folk—Page 7. Around the City—Page 10. The Civilian Army—Page 11. Boy Scout News—Pase 11. Fraternities—Page 13. PART THREE—10 PAGES. Amusements — Theaters and Photoplay. Music in Washinston—Page 4. Army and Navy News—Page 4. Spanish War Veterans—Page 4. Motors and Motoring—Pages 5 to 9. PART FOUR—I PAG Pink Sheet Section. PART FIVE—8 PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and Features. The Rambler—Page 3. PART SIX—8 PAG! Classified Advertising. Review of New Books—Page 8. APHIC SECTION—S PAGES. World Events in Pictures. COMIC SECTION—4 PAGES, Mr. Straphanger; Reg'lar Fellers; and Mrs.; Mutt and Jeff. the Mr. FOLLIES GIARL DIES IN TUB Succumbs to Weak Heart—Foul Play First Suspected. NEW VORK. August 16.—The body of Miss Julia Warnock, 28 vears old, of the Ziegfeld Follies, was found today in a bathtub in her apart- ment. She had died of heart disease. The presence of slight bruises on her body gave rise to the suspicion that she had met with foul play, but further investigation showed Miss Wainock had succumbed to a weak heart. She was a college girl, and came here from Independence, Mo., and joined the Follies two vears ago. Film Operators May Strike. NEW YORK, August 16.—The dark- ening of the motion picture houses of New York, through a strike of the Moving Picture Machine Operators’ Union on September 1. was threatened tonight by the executive board of the organization. It announced the Theater Owners’ Chamber of Com- merce had refused to arbitrate a new wage scale for the ensuing vear and that, unless the owners do so, a walk- out of the operators may take place. Start Carolina Paper. HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., August 16.—The first issue of the Henderson- ville Dally News, to be published here, will appear tomorrow morning with John Temple Graves as editor and Morris A. Bealle as managing editor. Publishers of the paper announce that the paper will be published every morning except Monday. | ana that | “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washiigton homes at 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 and sefvice will start immediately. MCOY SEALS MIND 10 PSYCHIATRISTS Fighter Held in Slaying Re- fuses to Permit Mental Examination. By the Assoriated Pross. LOS ANGELES, August 16.—The McCoy-Mors case, which resulted in the unexplained death of Theresa Mors, divorced wife of a wealthy antique dealer sometime Tuesday night with a bullet hole in her head, the arrest of Kid McCoy, ex- pugilist, had no marked development today. The affair, which has becn described by District Attorney Asa Keves as the most tangled one he has ever han- dled. did, however, produce a few new angles. The district attorney sent three alienists into McCoy's cell to ex- amine him mentally and physically. Refuses to Talk. The former prize ring idol willingly bared his body to the trio, but his mind and his heart remained covered under the seal of silence put on his lips by his attorney McCoy's legal advisers also an- nounced that they were preparing to read the tortuous trail of psvchiatric testimony with reports of alienists of their own choosing. Prior to today’s lull in the develop- ment of contradictory phases of the case, the police revealed late last night that they had found a woman whogheard Mrs. Mors’ last words and the shot that cut her down, as well as the footsteps of two men—not one —running from the apartment where the body was found. Heard Woman Protest. Mrs. Iva Martin, neighbor of the dead woman, told of hearing Mrs. Mors cry: “Oh, my God, don't do Then there was the sound of the thud of a falling said Mrs. apartment. Martin, ran from One of these the she saw clearly in the moonlight, and ! he was not McCoy. The second man she could not describe. Through the maze of evidence, re- port and rumor, the district attorney has his eve on what he says he has established as a fact. namely, that McCoy killed Mrs. Mors. He declares that the county grand jury will indict the ex-fighter on a murder charge early next week, when the case is laid before that body. Singles Out Mors. Late today Mors was one of the three men brought before Mrs. Martin as a part of a further investigation by police of her statement that she saw one man and heard the footsteps of another who ran from the building shortly after a shot was fired in the Mors apartment. None of the men was identified by Mrs. Martin, but singling out Mors she said that he was about the general build of the man whom she saw fleeing from the apartment. U. S. Contracts for 3,000 Armored Cars Designed to Repulse Mail Bandits By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 16.—In an effort to prevent railway mail robberies, the United States Post Office’ Department, it was learned today, has contracted for = the building of 3.000 specially de- signed cars, armored so heavily and equipped with such protec- tive devices as’ to defeat attacks by armed desperadoes. A spokes- man of the department said that one of the cars has already been delivered to the railroad yards at Melrose, N. Y., and if it meets the tests to which it will be subjected the others will be rushed to com- pletion. The armored car, designed un- der Government supervision, it is understood, is the result of the Post Office Department’'s reaction to the railway holdup near Chi- cago on June 12, in which $2,075,- 000 in money and bonds was stolen. Nine robbers at that time attacked a special mail train at Randoul, Ills, using gas bombs, and took 40 pouches of mail. The armored car has many fea- ‘tures reminiscent of the armored tanks used in the World War. It is_equipped with slits through which its occupants can thrust rifles and revolvers. In addition, it was stated by the department's spokesman, the car is safeguarded with a system of specially con- trived locks, which make it impos- sible for any one to gain entrance without the co-operation of some one on the inside. Although no comment was made regarding the provisions against poison gas, it is understood that it will be equip- ped with devices to counteract also this mode of attack. Some of the ideas used in the construction of the test car are said to have been obtained thropgh study of the new type of steel express boxes which are placed on flat cars in such a position that they cannot be tampered with without being removed. These are heavily plated and have proved immune to rifle fire. Representatives of the Post Of- fice Department returned to Wash- ington today after conferring with officials here in charge of the rail way mail service. They sald they would return for further confer- ences next week, and would at that time probably make detailed announcements of the new Gov- ernment plan of mail protection. They said that for some time the Government has been appre- hensive regarding train mail rob- beries, and that losses incurred in this way have run as high as $6,000,000 in one year. y FIVE CENTS. POLITICAL BATTLE OES ON DESPITE COOLIDGE VACATION Davis and Wheeler Expected Here This Week for Cam- paign Conferences. 3 CANDIDATES CLARIFY ISSUES IN ADDRESSES | | Speeches of Dawes and Bryan, | Scheduled This Week, Eagerly Awaited. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The political pot will continue | boil in the National Capital this week notwithstanding the fuct that one of |the principal contenders for the presidency—President Coolidge—will be away from the White House, rest- ing in the Vermont hills. John W. Davis, Democra is expected to come to Washington Tuesday for his first visit of anv duration since his nomination. His previous visits have been only for @ few minutes. on his way {o or from | his home in Clarksburg. ®hile here | Mr. Davis will visit the Democrat | nationa} headquarters and confer with party leaders who will be here to meet him. George White of Ohio, former national chairman. and Dani«l Roper will Le among them. Cler Shaver, the national chairman. will { be in Lincoln, Nebr.. Monday night for ! the notification of Gov. Bryan of Lis | nomination for the vice presidency ! and it is doubtful that he will be abie to be in Washington during Mr. Davis | visit here. it was said last night at headquarter. Wheeler Due Thursdas. | Senator Burton K. Wheeler. v, { presidential candidate on the Inde | pendent Progressive ticket. will come to Washington Thursday from Massa- chusetts, where he has been jfor the last two or thr | preparatory to beginning an act | campaign. In conference with Senu- | tor La_Follette, head of the tick {ana with Director Niles of the { Follette-Wheeler Chicago speakers' Lureau. Senator Wheeler is expected | to map out his speaking campaizn It is likely that plans will be made also | for Senator La Follette to get into jaction during these conferences. It | is expected that the Wisconsin Senator | will first address the American people | Via the radio. though this is not vet settled. If the plan works weli Senator La Follette may remain here for some time longer. using the radio | from time to time. before beginning a speaking tour through the couniry i | | ic nominee, we La Interest in Tickets. | The week will ses the pronou ! ments of the two vice presidential | rominees of the old parties deliver: and out of the way. n. Charles . Dawes will make his Tuesday night !in Chicago, the night following Gov ! Bryan, Not a little interest centers in both these speeches. For it has been understood that both Gov. Brvan and Gen. Dawes were 1o carry a good | part of the burden of campaigning for their respective ticket President Coolidge, in his address acceptance Thursday night. set the pace for the campaign—and apparently thes campaign is to be one of steadiness and ommon sense—a kind of safety fire: campaign instead of fire cracke and firework. Since th nomination of ‘Hln. Dawes the common report ha [been that he is to furnish the “pep.’ I that he is to “jazz it up.” But if ke follows the lead of his chief, it | difficult to see how there is to be much jazz from the Republican corner of the triangular contest | Compaign Insues Joined. | The statements of President Coolidg |and Johin W. | acceptance | week, taken ment made contained in thes delivered together with the st by Senator La Foll | when he told the Confercnce for I'ro- gressive Political Action that he would |run as an independent candidate for President. have helped further to join | the issues of the campaign President Coolidge ix ssing par- | ticularly cconomy in government. If he | follows the advice of ‘Senator Borah of Idaho, he will make this the paramount issue of the campaign. In the opinion of Senator Borah. cconomy in govern ment, and the reduction of taxes made { possible thereby, will be very appealing to the voters throughout the country And the array of fizures showing re- ductions in governmental expenditures and reductions in taxes sct forth by | President Coolidge in his address of lacceptance cannot be swept aside lightly by his opponents. The promise of further cconomies and tax reductions which he made will have their weight, it is believed. League Issue Again Another issuc—the League of Nations has been joined more closely, be- tween the Republicans and the La Follette ticket on the one hand, and the Democrats on the other. Senator La Follette was one of the “irreconcilables who helped to defeat the ratification of the Versailles treaty and the league covenant. His position is well known. President Coolidge has again declared the United States is not going into the League of Nations. Mr. Davis on the other hand, while following the platform of the Democratic party which declared for a referendum on the subject of the league, declared his personal belief in the league. And so the league issue is not as dead as some might desire. As between the La Follette ticket and the Republican, issues are clearly drawn on the subject of Government owner- ship and the judiciary. The La Follette ticket stands for Government ownership of the railroads. It stands for curtail; ing the power of the courts—particu- {larly in the matter of passfng upon the constitutionality of laws enacted by Congre: President Coolidge _would leave the Constitution alone; Senator La Follette would amend it. Fight Over Labor Vote. The Democrats and the La Kollette | ticket are fighting over the labor vote, with former Secretary Wilson of the De- partment of Labor championing Davis and Samuel Gompers and other mem- bers of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor cham- pioning La Follette, while the Repub- } licans have so far contented themselves with watching the struggle. But the Re- publicans admit they are hopeful of getting some of the labor vote. President Coolidge's failure to dis- cuss more in detail the activities of former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall, former Attorney General Daugherty, former Secretary of the (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) Davis, speeches t te- tte