Evening Star Newspaper, September 4, 1924, Page 2

WINDING UP PLANS FOR DEFENSE DAY Backers Completing Details Today—Invocation to Be by Bishop Freeman. Tlans for the Defense day cere- monics on the Ellipse are being com- pleted today under the direction of Js@ac Gars, chairman of the program committee, who has completed ar- rangements for the two reviewing stands and for amplifiers, that the audience may, hear every word from the speakers. Bighop Freeman' will deliver the in- ®ocation. while Commissioner Ru- dolph will deliver the introductory £peech retary Weeks of the War Department will be the principal speaker. Twenty-one in Reviewing Stand. Provision has been made by the committee for -the erection of a re- viewing stand at the Zero Milestone to accommodate 21 persons. On this stand will be President Coolidge, | members of his cabinet, Gen. John J. | I’ershing. Commissioner Rudolph, who | will presid, Commissioner Bell. Ro: T Andrews and Mr. Gans. On one side of this stand will be the Army 3and and on the other the Marine Hand. which will alternate in play- ng during the passing of the treops | and the one-day volunteers | After the passage of the procession those in the reviewing stand will face about toward the Ellipse, where th troops and the one-day volunteers will then be massed. Another stand | il be erected on the Ellipse to ac- ~omodate approximately 500 persons to be occupied by prominent Wash ingtonians. The amplifiers will b “rected by the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. The Defense day com mitiee met yesterday in the office of | klin Bell, Engineer Com- and went over the plans| n detail, and, for the most part, ap- proved them Yo Decorations Asked. was decided not to make a re for citizens specially to de orate their homes on that day, but the hope was expressed that hote business houses and office building: in the downtown section will orate. Residents. however, will asked to display the national emblem George S. Nyce, 1100 Sth street, an Tt quest | pubiicity Army Racks Brain Feor Tactics to End Bug Army Advance About to embark upon another sanguinary campaign, the War Department is badly in need of the services of a generalissimo who Knows everything about “bugs, roaches, the skillful mixing and distribution of poisonous com- pounds, the use of poison gas and the placing of traps.” The idea is that many legged pests of the insect world have boldly invaded the State, War and Navy Department Building in such numbers that they likely to crowd the workers of that busy place out. So the War Depart- ment has decided to “exterminate them and wants a grizzled veteran of previous roach campaigns to command its legions, to hold sort of defense day, as it were, In a war on bugs. Just what the general staff that prepared for the campaign hopes to do with “traps’ is not quite clear, but it is assumed that some of the u irping pests have thrived well upc the department’s wood- work. 1 u generalissimo is lo- cated he is to be paid $1,500 a vear to start. Should he prove himself a veritable bug Napoleon he can even hope for $1,860 a little later on. FLAHERTY ASSAILS COOLIDGE SPEECH P. 0. Clerks’ Federation Head | Sees Previous Assertions Contradicted. Coolidge's Labor duy ad- today by Thomas of the National Office Clerks, as residemt’s OWn pre- his veto message postal salary increase bill atement issued through the department_of the American Federation of Labor Mr. Fiaherty said “The ¥ ices that wages in private industry Kept pace with living costs, yet he, by his veto President dress was attacked Flaherty, secreta Federation of F g th 5 ations i the In a on employe of the United States Veter- | ans’ Bureau, is the first man to enlist | with the 40th United States Infantry | r onc day, in connection with De- | nuse day, according to Lieut. Col rank A. Awl. regimental commander The entire 1st Battalion of the regi- | ment, commanded by Maj. Byron R. Patton. will be recruited from the Veterans' Bureau. Brig. Gen. Frank | T. Hines, director of the bureau, has indorsed the plan Students and former students of St. John's College of this city will be enlisted for the day. Lieut. M Stone, Company M. 40th United States In- | fantry, will enlist them. High School cadets will also be enlisted for Com- pany M. Recruits may reach Lieut lon June 7 of the postal pay bill, p pd workers from receiving a pay increase that would have meant a moré equitable adjust- sent of Government wage standards to living costs,” said Mr. Flah- vented 300,000 or il that living now only per cent above the level of 1913 Apply his figures to postal pay standards and the in- justice of his veto is apparent. The major portions of the rical and letter carrier forces w ving an annial wege s 1913, They are w iving £1,800 a vear—or ney se of 50 per cent President of rec a m incre. Stone cither at St. John's College, Main 4, or at the Soldiers, Sailors | and Marines' Club. 1015 L street, | Franklin 4760. where he the | manager | 140 Officers Assigned. 1 A total of 140 reserve infantry offi- | cers have been assigned to the 40th Infantry for the Defense day parade, wccording to Col. Awl. Officers who | have not received their company as- slgnments, should get in touch with Col. Awl, at the United States Vet-| erans’ Bureau, room 312, or Main 6680, | branch 672, without delay. mental flag, of blue bunting, trimmed with gold fringe, and lettered “40th u. ntry” in 1-foot white letters, g made for the regiment. The | 40th Infantry will be the second organ- | ization in the first division of the| procession. | Sixteen one-day volunteers have been | enrolled for Company C, 40th Infant according to Maj. Patton. Officer: Company C are: Captains, D. E. S th | and P. O. Tucker; first lieutenants, W. B. Hoover and A. D. Hiller; second lieutenants, Dewey Zirkin, J. High- tower, Kirchner, W. Lake and B. E. Lancaster. The one-day volun- | teers are: Thomas D. N. Alien, Lloyd | H. Dittrich, Lewis H Russell, Albert | F. Mitchell, Alfred R. J. Capice, Julian M. Bowie, Elias Nadelman, R. E. Guard, A. Frank Rosendorm, Peter Koetz, C. | D. Smalling, John B. Everts, Morris R. | Grane, L. A. Warren and Florian A. iott. Men between the ages of 1§ and 45! wishing to enroll with the 1st Bat- talion should see Maj. Patton, Room 117, Veterans' Bureau, Vermont ave- nue and H street i MUSSOLINI NOT FIRED ON, SAYS ROME NEWSPAPER Report of Attempted Assassination Laid to Shots at New Cars Following Premier’s. e By the Associated Press. ROME, September 4.—Denial ‘was made here today of a report circu- lated last night that an unsuccessful attempt had been made to assassinate Premier Mussolini while he was | motoring from Acquapendente Rome Sunday night. The Tribuna today explains the report as having originated in a con- fugion of the premier's motor car | pagty with two other automobiles which passed along the same road an hour after the head of the govern- ment had passed. The report, it says, was widely circulated in finan- cial circles and caused alarm on the stock exchange with consequent fluctuations in stock quotations. According to the newspaper's ex- planation, two new motor cars, irgveling from Brescia to Rome to bé numbered and licensed by their .new owners, were fired upon by an unknown person when they were passing a sharp curve in the road between Radicofani and _Acqua- pendente. One bullet passed through the second car at the height of a man's head, but injured no one since the car was empty except for the driver. The bullet later was found lodged between rocks at the road- eide. to] DRY PARTY CANDIDATES PLAN EASTERN CAMPAIGN Faris and Miss Brehm to Invade Atlantic States in Appeal for Support. By the Associated Press. HARRISBURG, Pa, September 4.— Prohibition party candidates for President and Vice President, Herman P. Faris and Miss Marie C. Brehm, will campaign in the East beginping the latter part of this month, Dr. B, E. P. Prugh, national chairmap, an- nounced here today. Miss Brehm, the vice presidential nominee, will campaign in Wisconsin, beginning at Racine and ending at Madison, September 16. From there, Dr. Prugh said, she will go Into indiana for a week’s tour and on September 23 will go to Ohio, where she will be joined by Mr. Faris. Mias Brehm i8 to address the Ohio State ‘Women'’s Christian Temperancs Unies. convention at Clncinnatl, A regi-| | gent | mental extravagance or i proval Cites Living Cost Gain. “But, according to the President’s own figures, living gosts since 1913 have advancad 69 per cent. Conse quently the real wages of these work- s, measured in the purchasing value of the dollar, is lower today than in 1913, “Congress and the publi ployers of the postal work the injustice of the situation and wanted it corrected. President Cool- idge blocked the way with a veto in which he said ‘Government extr gance must stop.” “The President now approv in private industry of wages to living costs that he con- demned in his veto message when ap- plied to the lower-paid postal em- ploves “The that postal President’s veto argument revenues should first be ed before the postal workers granted pay raise would come with better grace if he voiced it when the bill increasing the pay of the higher postal officials was before him on April 4 “The four assistants of his master General, all political ap| tees, were raised from $5,600 to § Thes increases are pa postal revenues. Apparently the ur- necessity of stopping govern- making the postal service self-sustaining did not occur to the President until Congress endeavored to raise the pay of the non-political workers in the postal ervice. Then came the sharp denial to these workers in the presidential veto of June 7.” Post- n- 0. from EX-ARMY OFFICER CITES HOOVER IN HIS DEFENSE Capt. Paxton Hibben Says Report on Russia, Now Criticized, Had Secretary’s Approval. NEW YORK, September 4.—A re- port concerning Russian relief con- ditions gpbmitted by Capt. Paxton Hibben, urder investigation by an Army inquiry board appointed to re- port on his fitness to continue in the ©fficers’ Reserve Corps, had the ap- of Herbert Hoover when he headed American relief in Russia, the accused officer testified today. Capt. Hibben denied the truth of interpretations placed upon his re- port by Col. C. F. Cox. Letters from Col. Cox to the board of inquiry, sub- mitted yesterday, accused Capt. Hib- ben of having uttered semtiments in- imical to the interests of the United States Government. The report had been submitted to Secretary Hoover, Capt. Hibben sald, and he in his ca- pacity as head of the American Rus- sian relief forces had approved it. QUEEN PICKS KNIT SUITS. Models in Silk and Wool Selected by British Royalty. LONDON, September 4.—The knitted suit, already popular with women, will become more in demand than ever now that Queen Mary has de- cided to take several with her to Balmoral during the Fall. Those the Queen has chosen are modeled and woven in silk and wool, edged with silk binding. One is a dinard suit of softest blue on simple lines) another is of mignonette green with a roll collar. The skirts are straight and perfectly plain; one coat narrows a little at the waist and another has a belt. | Silk jumpers, in the same colors as the binding, will be worn with the costumes. HOLY NAME CHIEFS SHAPING PROGRAM 350 Men From St. Pauls Parish Here to March in Big Parade. St. Paul'seParish will have at least 350 men marching in the Holy Name procession here on Sunday, September 21, led by the venerable Mgr. Maokin. his was made known at a rally in St. Paul's new parochial hall, Fif- teenth and V streets, last night, with Harry S. O 1, president of the St. Paul's branch of the Holy Name, pre- siding. Rev. James T. Coen; spiritual di- rector of this branch, addressed the rally in a stirring appeal to the men to have the parish notably represent- ed as it leads the Washington Holy Name section in the parade. Mgr. Mackin also spoke and assured the | kathering that he intends to be on | foot with the men in the parade. P. J. Haltigan, president of the archdiocesan union, told of the gen- eral plans being made at the con- vention headquarters, 1314 Massa- i chusetts avenue, to care for the | tremendous crowd that is coming | here for the four days of the con- vention and especially for the demon- stration v. e described | the enthusiasm shown at a rally he | and Mgr. Ripple, the supreme di | tor of the society, attended in Halti- | more the previous night and challenged | the Washington men not to let the ! Baltimore contingent outdo in interest them Will Invite Visitors. 1t was decided to get out a card inviting all Holy Name men who be- long in other cities and who are here temporarily and attending St. Paul's { Church to join with the men of that | parish in the parade. Mr. O'Neill is | arranging today to send out these cards, principally to many fraternity houses, Arrangements were also made at the rally last night to hold the quar- terly convention of the Washingten section of the archdiocesan union of the Holy Name on October 320, in St. Paul's Parochial Hall. Archbishop Curley will be present on that occa- sion Very M. J. Ripple, O. P.. the supreme director of the Holy Name Society, »w York today at a special of the New York, Brook and New Jersey officals, ing arrangements for the record-breaking delegation from the metropolis which is coming here in so many special trains that the num- ber has been lost at the convention headquarters. meetin, To Confer With Archbishop. Tomorrow Mgr. Ripple and Archdi- President Haltigan wiil be at holic University in conference with Archbishop Curley and other | officials regarding the convention pro- | gram and arrangements. Arrangements have boen completed for the installation of a special Holy | Name Convention post office and tele- | phone "and telegraph stations in the Catholic University gymnasium, which will be the meeting place of the convention and the rallying place for the more than 100,000 visitors. | Signs have been erccted around the university campus so that the vari- ous buildings may be readily distin- guished by the visitors. A large sign, “Catholic University of Amer- . has just been erected on the campus west of Gibbons Hall. At the convention headquarters, 1314 Massachusetts avenue, Mgr. Ripple and P. J. Haltigan with their corps of clerical assistants and committee chairmen are kept busy daily from 10 to 16 hours. Back of Mr. Halti- gan's desk he has tacked up a sign “Everybody Hustle” and under this slogan 15 committees, comprising more than 500 men, are working en- thusiastically for the success of the convention. The 15 committees are— Union Station reception, stands and guests, auditorium, hotels, music, | transportation, press, hospitality, me: al and hospital, finance, auto- | mobiles, badges, ceremonies, parade, public comfort, executive and print- ing. 100 Bands In Parmde. A check-up at the headquarters to- day showefl that there will be more than 100 bands in the parade, accord- ing to the most cateful estimate by Edward F. McCarthy. chairman of the music committee. Twenty bands in the Distreit of Columbia have been booked, and Baltimore is bringing 25, and New York is bringing more than Wilmington Holy Name officers have notified headquarters that 2,500 are coming from that center, and Cin- cinnati has sent word that city will be represented by 500. Bishop Turner is to head a_delegation of 1,200 from Buffalo, N. Y. Pittsburgh pledges it will have 2,000 in the parade. It was announced at the convention headquarters that a large. delega- tion from New Orleans, will come in a specially chartered train and has asked for reservations. Large dele- gations from Louisville, Ky sonville, Fla., and St. Louis, Mo., have also requisitioned reservations. Ham- ilton and Cornwall, Ontario,.Canada, also asked for reservations for large delegations. Arrangements will be completed to- morrow for accommodating some 30,000 persons at the solemn pontifical mass, which will open the conven- tion on September 18. An aMtar will be erected in the new stadium at the Catholic University, and work is being rushed on the stadium so as to have it in shape for that oceasion. it is expected that at least twe of the American cardinals will officiate at that ceremony and that most of the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in this country will be present. The male choir of the cathedral in Pitts- burgh will sing. LEEDS HERO iN BLAZE. e Puts Out Flames Threatening Wife in Speedboat. PAUL SMITH'S, N. Y., September 4. —William B. Leeds of New York, who, with his wife, formerly Princess Xenia, is spending a vacation here, late yesterday extinguished a gas- oline fire which threatened to destroy his palatial speedboat, Wild Cat, in which his wife was seated. A lighted match tossed int8 the lower Stregis Lake, at the dock near the Leeds Summer home, ignited a quantity of gasoline floating on the water, which blaged up about the Wild Cat. Mr. Leeds,-without a mo- ment’'s hesitation, leaped into the boat .from the dock where he had been standing talking to friends, and, seizing his coat from the driver's seat, succeeded in beating out the flames. 2,000 Couples From America Wed In London in By the Associated Press. LONDON, Sgptember 4.—A registrar furnishes the information that more than 2.000 couples from the United States have been married in London during the past three months. The archbishop of Canterbury’s fac- ity office in Doctors’ Commons, E. C., issued many of the licenses, some of them special ones, for which ££5 Past Three ‘Months have been paid. At one marriage the bridegroom was from @ collese in Greece and the ‘bride from a college in Philadelphia. A The two churches favored most are St. George's, Hanover Square, where President Roosevelt was married in 1886, and St. Margaret's, Westminster, the official church of the House of{bhy the President in the Commons of historigal imterest as the burial place of Sir Walter Ralejghy: { beve—Left to right: Detective H. K. Brodie, Theodore Holmes (the prixomer), Detective Arthur B. Scrivener. Lower—Detectiven Bredie, Scrivener and Cullizane examining bullet holes in what ix believed to be the car in which Leisinger's murderers escaped. DEPORTING OF ‘EMIR’ SOON TO BE DECIDED| Labor Department Board of Re-| view to Consider Case at Baltimore Tomorrow. The last stand of the self-styled Emir of Kurdestan will be made be- fore the Board -of Review of the Labor Department tomorrow. With deportation of the alleged royal visitor recommended more than a month ago and the “emir” out on bond for the past three weeks, the assistant commissioner of immigra- tion at Baltimore, reopening the case, has again recommended deportation of Said Zerdecheno, who declares him- seif to be the Emir of Kurdestan. Zerdecheno will appear before the board at 10:30 tomorrow morning, and out of the hearing will come a definite recommendation, on which the Secretary of Labor will act. The defendant will be represented by Ab- ner Siegal. Zerdecheno, who now claims, ac- cording to the Immigration Bureau, that he is not the man the Labor De- partment is seeking, has been at lib- erty for three weeks after sojourning for a month in the District jail and in the third precinct station bouse. Additional evidence was taken in the case two weeks ago, and the recom- mendation for deportation repeated yesterday. SUMMON CANON CHASE FOR FIRPO HEARING] Commissioner Curran Says Clergy- man Is Concealing Evidence From Officials. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 4.—Canon William 8. Chase, leader in the move- ment to have Luis Angel Firpo de- ported on the ground that the Ar- gentine boxer made false statements in entering this country, was sum- moned to Ellis Island today by Im- migration Commissioner Henry Curran, who is investigating Firpo case. g Commissioner Curran asserted that he discovered yesterday that Camon Chase, who was then in Washington, had new evidence which he was con- cealing from the authorities. “I sent word to Washington that he must give me whatever he has,” Mr. Curran said, adding that the prelate’s appearance at the isiand this mor: ing was in response to the commis- sioner’s summons. DAWES PLANS TO SPEAK IN PACIFIC COAST. CITIES Butler to Assist in Arranging Itin- erary—Coolidge. to Leave ‘White House Seldom. By the Assaciated Press. NEW YORK, September 4.—Charles G. Dawes, Republican eandidate for the vice presidency, may extend his speaking tour to the Pacific Coast, it indicated today by William M. Butler, chairman of the lican national committee. The an, after conferring with party leaders, said he would leave for Chicago Mo: day to assist in rearrangement of the Dawes itinerary. Mr. Butler reitorated that despite an increasing demand for e Cdolidge would leave tho White House oily ocoaslonslly, POLICE SEIZE NEGRO ACCUSED OF HAVING | KILLED POLICEMAN | (Continued from First Page.) on a $2,000 bond awaiting sentence | for robbery. He was held for the ac-| tion of the grand jury for robbery | January 18, and was indicted on June 26 of this year. Detectives Praised. Credit for solving the mystery is given by Chief Grant to the following detectives: Brodie, Waldron, Sweeney, Strivener, Kelly. Cullinane and Li ingston, together with Policeman Mec- Kimmie, who is detailed to clerical duty at police headguarters. These men had been working virtually night and day on the case, which, by reason of its coldbloodedness, had aroused to in- dignation the entire city. Policeman Leisinger's widow is blind and ehe was left the sole support of two children. A fund of several thousand dollars has been raised for her benefit. A reward of $200, offered by the Police Department for the clearing up of the tangle, in addition to several hundred dollars offered from private sources, will g0 to the man or meq eventually eredited with solving the case. DANCE TO SWELL FUND. Arlington Roof Arranges Benefit for Leisinger's Widow. Samuel J. Steinberger,. proprietor of the Arlington Hotel, has arranged three dances at his house for the benefit of Mra Raymond Leisinger. blind widow of the Washington po- liceman murdered in the performance of his duty last week. The Steinberger dances will be held the evenings of September 16, 17 and 18 pn the Arlington roof, or, if the weather is wet, in the ballroom. “Tickets will be a dollar each, and every cent of the proceeds will go to the widow. All the help will con- tribute their services. Tickets for the affair will be handled by Kann's, Lansburgh's, Goldenberg's and Hecht's department stores, and they can also be had at the Arlingtom. BIGGEST WARSHIP LEAVES U. §. S. West Virginia Off for Southern ‘Waters After Tests. ROCKVILLE, Me., September 4— The U. S. §, West Virginia, last ship of the superdreadnaught class to. be built until the end of the ten-year naval holiday, leaves for soutbern waters today, having completed sat- isfactorily the last of her week's standardization trials on the Rock- land course yesterday. - Members of the trial board, on their departure for Washington, declared the performance highly satisfactory. Yesterday’s heaviest draft, with dis- placement approximating 37,000 tons, the meximum speed was only short four points of the 31.66 kuots an Bour developed under mormal draft. The board said that the electrical drive was a marvelous piece of ma- chinery, operating perfectly under the most severe tests. 5 Corrected figures furhished by ‘the trial board showed that the West Virginia made a mile at the rate of 22.16_knots when trimmed down by the head five feet. Today's fastest mile at heavy displacement was 21.4. TEXARKANA, Ark., September 4.— George W. Bottoms, 76, financier and philanthropist, who recently gave ap- prozimately $200.000 to Baptist de- aominational enterprises. dl;‘- l.t. hl.. e Kol 29 e B TR -0 D.C.BUDGET HEARINGS T0 BEGIN OCTOBER 11 | Commissioners Near End of Task| nf Reducing Figures to Limit Fixed by Bureau. Hearings at the Budget Bureau on the District estimates for next vear will begin October 11, Commissioner Rudolph was advised today. The city heads have practically completed the task of reducing their figures from the original total of $36,500.000 to the limit of $31,551,505, fixed by the budget office. 5 It is understood that the list of urgent supplemental requests to ac- company the revised estimates will aggregate close to the $5,000.000 that has been cut from the original budget. The individual items comprising the supplementals, however, will differ in some respects from the original esti- mates. This is because some of the projects asked for originally have been dropped until next vear and other needs put in their place. it is expected the Commissioners will endeavor at the budget hearings to have as much of the supplemental list as .possible approved for trans- mission to Congress. . NEW APPEALS PLANNED FOR FRANKS SLAYERS Counsel Considers Last Resort Ef- forts to Prove Leopold and Loeb Insane. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 4.—In the event of a hanging decision by Judge John R. Caverly in the murder and kidnaping case of Nathan F. Leo- pold, jr. and Richard Loeb, defense attormeys are understood to have un- der consideration two surprise moves by which they hope to carry on the battle to save the lives of the two boys. The first would be the filing of a petition’ in & court of equal jurisdic- tion, setting forth that the boys have become insane since the trial. This Petition would ask that a jury be cal ed to determine their mental con- dition. The other move, it is understood, would involve two steps, one before and the other after sentence is pro- nounced. The first step would be the presentation of a motion asking Judge Caverly to withdraw the plea of gulilty now entered and change to & plea of not guilty. The second step would be a trial by jury. —— SEES PEACEFUL EUROPE. Senator McCormick Says Peace & Sesitiment Is Genuine. BOULOGN E-SUR-MER, France, September 4.—Senator Medill McCor- mick of Illinots, sailing for home to- day on the Rotterdam after having toured throngh France. England, Germany and Central Europe, d clared that he had found a real lon; ing for peace in Europe. He ex- pressed the opinion that Premier Herriot of France had done mo:e than any other person in Europe to lead the Old World on the way to peace. i T Salvador Is Quarantined. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, September 4—Costa Rica an® Guatemala have declared a quaraatine. against the Republic of Salvador because of the prevalence of yellow fever theTe, say THREE IN A ROW Wales for Third Day in Suc- cession Reaches Home Around 5 AM. e | By the Amsociated Proms. SYOSSET, N. Y., September 4.— The Prince of Wales spent another night ®ut last night—his third in a row. e returned to his holiday home at the James A. Burden estate shortly after 5 o'clock WYAis morning and tumbled into a bed which he did not leave until nogn. That his rest might be unbroken State troopers stationed at the Bur- den gates requested all motorists en- tering the grounds to use = back drive. When the prince arose, an- nouncing he was well refreshed, he took a few turns at Polo, putting in a few extra hard licks to make up for the exercise he did not take yester- day. ¢ Leaving the Piping Rock Country Club at about midnight the royal vis- itor went with his cousin, Lord Louis Mountbatten, and Lady Mountbatten, and Lord and Lady Milford Haven to the home of J. S. Cosden at Sands Point, where a jolly and small house party kept the fun going until day- light. Then the prince went home. Declines Invitations. Capt. A. F. Lascelles of the prince’s party sald the prince had declined an invitation to participate in the reception to the American globe- girdling fiyers at Mitchel Field Sun- day. He would not attend, he told Chairman F. Trubee Davidson of the citizens' committee in charge of the Teception, because he considered the occasion as being of a semi-official kind, which he has rigidly excluded from his holiday visit. Nor will the prince accept an invi- tation of a group of English actors now in -New York to see a special benefit performance for the mayor's milk fund on Sunday. Capt. Las- celles said the prince had refused many invitations to theatrical per- formances and added that it was ex tremely improbable that he would visit New York City at all. Inspector Carlson of Scotiand Yard; one of the prince’s attendants, said he was surprised at the crowds which had followed the roval visitor since his arrival. He had seen the prince the object of much public attention in England and the colonies, he added, but observed that “an English crowd never breaks a cordon.” 5 The prince prepared for a more active day today, after indulging in 24 hours of almost complete rest, so far as ath- letic exertions were concerned. He watched others knock the polo ball around yesterday and last might at- tended his first formal stag party since he landed. As guest of the Pip- ing Rock Club, at Locust Valley, he shared honors with the British and American polo teams. for whom the dinner on the eve of the interna- tional match has become a custom. The prince, when attending two polo games late yesterday, eluded the ma- jor portion of two audiences that were @as much intent upon seeing the fu- ture King as upon seeing the prac- tice games of members of the British | and American teams that will battle for the cup, beginning Saturday. | At the Meadowbrook Club, where | he sat alone, and while only a few were conseious of his presence, he escaped by conceding no more than a few snapshots. But at the W. R. Grace grounds, where the Americans played, he was discovered and fol- lowed by & crowd. that, though small, was persistent enough to cling to him until he had stepped into his motor car after climbing a rail fence. Crewds Courteous Before. His royal highness had appeared on the Grace field twice before in the preceding four days, on those occa- sions not merely as an observer, but as a player, without being disturbed by crowds at all. Crowds were there, but they left him politely alone, save perhaps for a few curious glances, when he dismounted and stood at the paddock end of the grounds mopping the perspiration from his face and smoking an American cigarette. The crowd that pursued this time was respectful. There were no cries of “take off your hat, prince, and let us see you,” such as came from an obdurate throng that almost car- ried the young man off his feet at Belmont Park when he sought quietly to see the international sweepstakes. The prince paid a call at thé home of John W. Davis, Democratic nomi- nee for President, on his way to the polo ground. Mr. Davis was not there, being engaged in making ad- dresses in the West, so the royal cal was received by Mrs. Davis. The suit the prince wor yesterday, a light gray check, was only the third that he has worn on semi-public oc- " T0 RHINELANDERS People Now Allowed to Move Freely in German Occu- pied Territory. By the Asociated Press. COBLENZ, September 4. —The inter- allied high commission for the Rhineland adopted today, in con- formity with the London agreement for a reparation settlement, five ordinances relieving the population of the Rhineland® from various re- strictions. The first measure abol- ishes the collection of customs on the eastern border of the territory after September 5. The sccond and third, which become effective im- mediately, restore freedom of move- ment to persons and vehicles between the cccupied and unoocupied regions The fourth ordinance annuls the regulation of boat traffic on the Rhine, and the fifth abrogatés va- rious provisions regarding the cir- culation of the emergency paper money in the occupied territory. DISCHARGE COMMUNISTS. Court-Martial Acquiesces to Agree- ment Against Political Prosecution By the Associated Press. WEISBADEN, Hesse-Nassau. Sep- tember $.—A group of communist and anti-militarist propagandists, when the prisoners appeared for trial today before a French court-martial, were discharged under the terms of the London agreement prohibiting prose- cutions for polltical offenses. The spokesman for the communist, before the discharge was announced, read a declaration on behalf of him- seif and his comrades declaring they were and would remain communists. BELGIAN TROOPS RETIRE. | Evacuation Begins Tonight With Artillery's Withdrawal. By the Associated Press. BRUSSELS, September 4.-~The Belgian military evacuation of the Ruhr begins tonight with the with- drawal of a battalion of the 16th Ar- tillery, which will rejoin the garrison at Tillemont. Other units will be taken out from time‘to time. Orders for the movement of special branches, such as the heavy artillery, tanks and aviation, have already been Issued. The retirement of these arms constitute the first stage of the evac- uation. The second stage will be the removal of the infantry, which will be brought back by entire regiments instead of by battalions. COMMISSION IN SESSION. Reparations Body Considers Vari tions in Coal Prices. By the Associated Press. PARIS. September tion commission met toda: cupied itself with the question of selling Austrian works of art, the appointmeht of members of the com- mittee of control for Hungary and in considering variations in reparation coal prices, but did not touch upon further arrangements for Ccarrying out the Dawes plan. Nothing really remains to be done regarding the London program at present, as the arrangements to cover the transitory period are about com- pleted. “Suggestions for further ac- tion are likely to be received from the temporary agent-general, Owen D. Young, after he has had time to for- mulate ideas. He is due to arrive in Berlin_today. 4.—The repara- casions since he took up his holiday residence on Long lsland. The others were a blue serge and a double- breasted light gray with a smail white stripe. His hats, save an In- éian polo helmet of tan, have been a light gray felt and a Panama turned down at the brim. Feted at Country Club. .The Piping Rock Club dinner was strictly a stag affair. On the wall behind the Prince's place at the table was his coat of arms, flanked on one side by the British royal standard and on the other by the Stars and Stripes. The red British ensign was draped over the entrance of the dining room. There were toasts to the President of the United States. King George and the prince himself. 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