Evening Star Newspaper, November 26, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER. Tair and $lightly warm minkmum temperature aby grees: tomorrow increast vesterday; lo ; ress and warmer. Temperature for 24 Jours cnded at 2 p.n. toda; er tonight; out 30 de- ng cloudl, Highest, rest, 26, at Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 18 29,429, post office Wasl ntered as second class matter hington, D. €. @h WASHINGTON, . 3 ¢ Foen )3 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, WEDNESDAY, ny Sfar. NOVEMBER 26, 1924—TWENTY-SIX PAGES. The S ar’s every city block and the regular edi- tion “From Press to Home. Within the Hour” carrier system covers s delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday's Circulation, 97,699 : * TWO CENTS. ECHPTAN PROTEST LEAVES LEAGUE N RASTOACTION Telegram States Condition and Asks Intervention of Geneva in Dispute. ! PARLIAMENT AUTHOR OF NOTE OF OBJECTION i Adds Further t» Confnsion—Al- { lenby Reports Cairo Situa- tion Easier. & Associated Press. ENEVA, November 26— tel 1 of protest against the Briti: in Egypt following the assas- sination of the sirdar, Sir Lee Stack, was received today by the secretariat of the League of Natlons from the! Egyptlan Parliament, under the sig- mature of the presldent of that body. | The league offictals seem in doubt &3 to what to do with the comm tion, coming as it does frc Parllament and not from ian zovernment. | Whether it shall be ai ! ficlally to the members of the league council, which is meeting shortly n| Rome, has not vet been determined, | but offictals this morning expressed | the opinion that the most likely! ‘ourse was that the document would | be transmitted to all the members| of the league for their information. Text of Protest. “Confronted with the recent ageres- slons committed by the British govern- | ment,” the protest s: the Egyptl Chamber of Deputi proclaims: “F its insistence upun the com- plete ependence of Eg and the Sudan, which constitutes country, one and indivisible; that despite the satisfaction he Egyptian goven the assossination of S chzmber regrets to note that tie British | ent has seen fit to exploit this | sad incident fo e benefit of its fm- | perialistic ain vengeatce can only right of 1 L encroa jindependence, and Egyptian ymstitution motives the elvilized of much Ipe 7 “The c r goliclts also the jn-} tervention of the League of Nations for the defense of the rights of an | innocent nation which asked rothing | more than to livé Independent.” i i CONSERVATJVES WEAKEN. enormt the Party Members Advocate Leagus | Action in Dispute. ! BY HAL O'FLAHERTY. ®y Cable to The Star and LONDON, November 26.—Disap- proval of the British goverument's | recent demands of Egypt in connece- | tion with the murder of Sirdar Lee ! stack has visibly shaken the confi- | hicago Daily News. dence of many Conservatives and led e to suggest an immedlate in- quiry by the League of Nuations as to th Dbest means o to the ! world that the Britlsh case is sound lav and fair tu the interests of‘ <rpt. | While the governmeut shows no | slgns of abating to any degres ita| program of enforcing all its demands, | it is felt that sthing could be lost by a really impartial inquiry. Gilbert Murray. in a letter to the ! Ttmes today, urges the government to | aceept Egypt's plea for an inquiry by he League of Natlous, first. because | t weuld be & poor thing to refuse, on [ technical grounds, & petition which | ght command wide sympathy and bas at least the appearance of jus ! proving Fear New Suspicions. e declares that not afford to rekindie the suspiclons | which were prevalent four or five cears ago and which were greatly | Great Britain can- | ellayed recently by Great Britain's straightforward foreign policy. Nor can this country allow the rest of the world to question its loyal support of | the League of Nations. 1 ption crisls, he says, sup- | fon for u conclusive | Eritain's good falth. position as chalrman tlons Unlon col- but his appeal | considerable weight with the | vatives of | Reports from ¢ | porary lull foll. £ the adjourn- | ment of Parliament, but apparently | | | of the League of ors this carrie: boiat of view British military authorities ing no_ chances on surprise ments by the extreme Natlonallats. | | All available space on the outgoing liners has been commendeered for the ot officers hurriedly ordered to Egypt (Copyright, 1924, by Chicago Daily News Co.) SITUATION EASIER. | Allenby Sees Acceptance of All British Terms. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, November 26. shal Viscount Allenby commissioner in Egypt, informed the | British government In a message to- | day that the situation in Egypt was| much easier as the result of the| respite since the resignation of the| Egyptian cabinet. The possibllity of | serfous riots in Cairo and other cen-| ters he sald, was greatly reduced. | —Tield Mar- British high | Lord Allenby, it Is said in official | quarters, believes the Ziwar Pasha | -abinet will accept the remaining British demands or open direct nego- tjations with Great Britain for set- flement of the differences existing be- tween the governments. Official dispatches assert the popu- iation seems to have become recon-| ciled to the new state of affairs, and {t 1s belisved In government quarters that if the Ziwar cabinet pts the temands they will be tolerated by sven the extremists, at least for the present. British Expreas Hope. British officials’ here express the hope that the Ziwar government, if v gets a smooth start, will be able | to 'strengthen its .foothold o as to| TContinued on Page 2, Column 10 | ! nis de: ! would come Flight to Panama Held Feasible| For New Zeppelin Los Angeles Tests May Include Trip to England. Landing Problem Met Here ! to Be Overcome. perience they hoke had with the Plan 4 flight to Panama by per e el the Navy Zeppelln Los Angeles, dis- | Ship, necessary modifications ans ! closed last night by Rear Admiral| Will be made. Officers at the depart | Moffett, chief of the Navy Alr Serv- Department is aware, The questlon of the use to he made of the big alrship after she lLad been formally corimisstoned In the naval service was u by a speclal board in the department some time 220 and the Panama trip was one of the flights suggested by that board The board's report merely sketched a suggested serle: fiights, o ot which it seemed to members of the| board, would be practicable and at the same time have value in deter- mining the ultimate peaceful use to be made of the Los Angeles ploring the commercial possibllities of Zeppelin alr routes from the Unit- ed States. Other trips suggested were that to England, also mentioned by Admiral Moftett. Plans Subject to The bLoard’s report is now hands of the officers of the Angeles and of the Lakehurst station for study and comment. It may be that from the practical ex- nge. in the COOLIDGE T0 GRANT! POINT TO DAWES i Will Not Ask Vice PresidenIECoolidge Likely to Advocate U. S. Membership as Con- dition of Disarmament. to Sit In on Cabinet Sessions. B. DAVID LAWRENCE. rles G. Dawes, Vice President- olect, has stirred up the political :ri ity of the Natfonal Capital e not to attend cabi ings, as did his predecessor. Mr. Dawes did wait for tion to come to that concl toid Mr. Coolidge of his t Summer when the two nferred at Plymouth. The pre- sumption here is that Mr. Daw me tloned the subject Lecause he did not wish to see Mr. Coolidge make a special point of it In his campalgn addresses as did Mr. Harding four years ago. The latter used it as an argument against one-man Govern- ment and as an {llustration of what he intended to do In the management of executive affalrs Mr. Coolldg> himself attanded many cabinet meetings as Vice President, and while he rarely took part in the discuslons, facling more or less like an “unofficial observer,” nevertheles: the fact that he di not press Mr. Ilawes to change his viewpoint Is taken to mean that on reflectlon he is not sure that the attendance of the Vice Dresldent at cabt ings is altogethor advantageo o Provision in Law. There is no provisten of law or the Constitutis which makes the attend- ance of a Vice Dresident at cabinet meetings necessary, Ip fact the Presi- dent could call any person from private life into the meetings for consultation or advice. But the position of the Vice President is not only s a prospective member of the executive branch of the Government but an_sctual member of the legis!ative branch. wvers in the ¢xact separation utive and legistative parts of ment have not ed upon £ the Vice President ut 5 us in line with the ideas of the fathers of the Constitution. The Vice President not ouly presides over the debates of the Senate, and in- terprets the rules of that body, but he reference ninecs is permitted to cast a vote in case of a | tie. It might easily happen that a mat- ter discussed at the Cabinet table up for a vote in the Senate and that the deciding vote might be cast by the Vice President. The real purpose of Mr. Harding was to famillarize his prospective successor with the details of the administration. Mr. Coolidge, how- ever, as Vice President was unable to attend all the meetings; in faci he accepted several Invitations (Continued on Page 4, Column 2. PRINCESS DIEg IN LAKE. Falls Into Pool in Italy While Picking Flowers. to BRES 1A, Italy, November 26— Princess Sciplone Dorgnese is be- leved to have been drowned in Lake Garda. She fell into the lake while picking flowers yesterday, and a scarch for her body is being car- ried on. Puccini Tries Radium Cure. BRUSSELS, November 26.—The fa- mous Italian composer, Giacomo Puc- cini, yesterday underwent a threec- hour ‘application of radium for the removal of two small tumors from his throat. The operation, performed in a clinic here, is said to have been successful. Pure Bred Holsteins Die in Fire. LOWVILLE, N. Y., November 26.— Fifty-three head of pure bred Hol- stein cattle perished when a large dairy barn on the stock farm of Al- son D. Weller was burned early to- day. Among the cattle lost was Wellsland Sadle Pontlac, a State Fair prize-winning Holsteln cow, valued | at $1,000. NO 5:30 EDITION OF THE EVENING STAR Will Be Issued Tomorrow (Thanksgiving Day) ce, on hls arrival at Lakehurst, N. J., | {wboard the Los Angeles, are still in| a tentative stage so far as the Navy| in ex-| | Los | alr | et meet- | ment do not feel, however, that there is any obstacle to making use of the Los Angeles for the Panama flight, although to establish any xort; of a regular Zeppelin route south- | | ward would require an extensive! | hangar bullding program at the ter-| minal points selected in Panama ot elgewhere. For the singie flight to Panama. which Admiral Moffett Indicated would be n some time next there would be no necessity to install even a moor- ing mast, as the ship could be landed | at a Panama wir fleld, as she was yes- Washington, with the as- | of a large ground crew,| | which hauled her down by drag ropes | and held her In place on the ground| until she was ready to take the airl {ag uch a program would con- ! | template, however, only keeplng thel {ship on the ground for a few hours tanks were replen-| ished and necessary stores replaced. | She would then take the air again| and return to the Lakehurst hangar! without stopping. i In the course of a journey of this| kind, however, and with the extra-| l ordinary cruising radlus the Zeppe- '~ (Continued on Page 8, Column 2 COURTENTRYPUT BEFORE ARMS CUT ar, it i entry inte tha World precede any further action iitcd States in the direction ament. Men in the closest of Prestdent Coolidge hold | that our adhesion to the Peri Court of International Justice {ba o conditlon precedent to reduction of Amerlea’s defe tablishment, eftier naval or military | That oplnion has been expressed {within the past few days by author- Court iby the U anent must another e es- with whom the President has | ulted on the forefgn relations section of his fmpending message ‘to Congress.” It fs not at all unlike- {ly that Mr. Cooltdge will identify | |himself with such views on that oe- | casion. The basis of the argument is that security Is thing the ! !United States, like other nations, | jmust safeguard at all costs. | If security agafnst sudden attack| by a fureign power can be guaran-: teed, or reasovably assured, by arl- | Ihitral machiner \ America helps to run, then America could safaly | consider a further limitation or arm- {ament. Will Appeal to Court. - The President promised the World Court non-partisan delegation that called at the White House on Novem- ber 22 that he would renew his recommendation for American entry when he communicates with Congress on December 1 or 2. As judlcial set- tlement of international disputes is so interwover with armament guestions, the wey will ba open for Mr. Cool- idge to lnk the two lssues of the | World Court and & disarmament con- | ference. The P’resident is neither a pacifist | nor & prepared fanatic. He does not helieve in reducing the Army and Navy bslow “the danger point.” His position on that ore, first voiced In his maiden message to Congress last | December, has not changed. He safd: * ¢ * “Further reductions should not be made. The Army is a guar- antee of the security of our cltizens at home; the Navy is a guarantee of the security of our citizens abroad. | Both of these services should be | | strengthened rather than weakened. We want no more competitive arma- ments. We want no more war. But' | we want no weakness that invites | | lmposition. A people who neglect | their national defense are putting in | Jeopa#dy thefr national honor.” Security Was Emphasized. | It will be noted that Mr. Coolidge | | placed emphasis on the “security”| | which the Army affords at homs and | | the “security” which the Navy pro- vides abroad. It is security in which the President is mainly Interested. { If it can be achieved at a less cost | to the American taxpaver than big {land and sea armaments cost—name. 1y, by such machinery as the World Court sets up—there 1s not the, slightest doubt that Calvin Coolidge ! will be among the first to espouse | another international effort to reduce armies and navies. But without the safeguard of genuine arbitral proc- | esses, the President is not likely to| advocate cutting the American Army | and Navy below what his first mes- | sage to Congress termed “the danger | point.” Thers is another project on which Mr. Coolidge may | | have something more to say to Con- | gress next week. That is the ques- tion of a codification of international law. International law, as it exists today, is a loose-jointed affair, sub- ject to as many constructions as | there are constructlonists. When the | "founding fathers” established the American Constitution at Phiia- delphia in 1787 they provided for « Supreme Court that had “something to go on.” Néed of Codified Law. It was assigned the specific task ! of interpreting and safeguarding the | Constitution. On every issue that | omes hefore the Supreme Court| |there is theoretically a constitu- | | tional point on which decision or in- | international | terpretation is based. The World | Court at The Hague has nothing )Ikn] ;an International constitution, whiech | |15 another name for codified inter- | national law, to lean upon. It may | | well be that Calvin Coolidge, lawyer- President that he is, will urge that untll world law is codified, no ef- fective world court can function. Senator Borah, the new chairman of the Senate foreign relations commit- (Continued on Page 4, Coldmn 1) | J Radio Programs—Page 10.| { correspondents WRITER FROMD.C. BEATEN IN MEXICO JAIL, NEAR DEATH | Harry L. Rogers Victim of Re- puted Drug Addict in Juarez Cell. IRON BAR WAS WEAPON; BATTERED OVER HEAD Another American Also Attacked by Countryman, But Will Recover. By the Associated Pres EL PASO, Tex.. Novemb Harry L. Rogers, newspaper Washington, D. €\, was unconsciousness and his skull frac tured by an iron bar while fn a cell in the Juarez Jall yesterday. He re- galned consciousness today and was removed to El Paso Masonic Hospital. His condition was reported to be im- proved, but still critical. Another American, unconsclous and ! unidentified, who was in the cell with Rogers, recover. A third American, nanme of John Doble, is accused of wielding the fron bar fn a rag: Blamed on Drug Addiet. was badly but w beaten, 1 who gave the rez police say Doble is a nar- cotic addict Rogers came hers vesterday to nt- tend the Anerican Federation of La- bor convention and to go to M City to attend President-elect Ca inauguration. Mexicun ofic arrested L until this n warned him Rogers wa held i The judge, they suid, about getting toxicated and released h A fe hours later police rearrested hin ROGERS IS PROMINENT. Writer Well Versed in Interna- tional Affairs. Rogers has be work ears. He authorities in nd forcign affalrs he: has cond Fairs News Service State Department activiti papers throughout this e foreign count g charga of this serv- s repres the 1In ce at the Stat runents. Dur- 1 campaign he Harry 1 in newspaper for a number of as one of th try 3. Prior to tak Mr. Rog national Ne War and Navy ing the 1820 nat accompanied James Democratic presidential the day of the latter's San Francisco until elcction nigat. Before eutering newspaper work Mr. Rogers was a telegraph operator, and his knowledge of telegraphy fre- uently benefited is was espe- clully true during b gnment. On more than one he able personally to send his over the wire le other gor were required & ‘ox special was wrecked s located & place to send £tory, not far distant from the sce and perso of_thls a Mr. Rogers fou e, from nation in ents the when {n his ‘tesns listed in the Navy, and while serving before the mast was enabled to see a good portion of the world. He ob- tained a commission s cuptaln of Infantry during the World War and served overseus. Mr. Rogers a4 member Shrine and is married RELED is of the BRANDEGEE OWED $160.000 IN CAPITAL Secretary of Late Senator Asks Court to Name Him Administrator. Senator rank B. Brandegee of' + Connecticut, who committed sufcide October 14 last, owed debts in Wash ington totaling $150,000, according to a petition filed today In the Dis- trict Supreme Court by . Don Lundy, former secretary of the Sen- ator, and one of the administrators of his estate under appointment by the court at New London, Conn. Mr. Lundy asks that ancillary let- ters of administration be granted to him here so that he may wind up the Senator's affairs in the District of Columbia. He owned no real estate in this city, but had household effects, four automobiles and a small bank account, which the petition esti- mates were worth $20,000 in all. Mr. Lundry and the National Bank of Commerce at New London were pointed administrators in Connecticut, the will of Senator Brandegee having named his father Augustus as execu- tor. The father dicd 15 years ago. At torneys Kenyon peared for the petitioner. FIRST MOVE IS MADE TO0 CHECK PUBLICIT The first concrete move to prevent publication, of income tax returns was made today by Representative Watson of Pennsylvania, a Republican member of the House ways and means cominittee, who announced he would Introduce a bill to eliminate from the present tax law that portion carry- ing the publication of the amount of tax pald by each person. Under - the proposed bill, he ex- plained, the law would authorize the | publication of the name and addresses of income tax payers and prevent any one from finding out the amount of the tax pald except certain commit- tees of Congress, governors of the va- rious States and stockholders of cor- porations holding 1 per cent or more | of the company’s outstanding stock. Stockholders, however, securing such information would be restrained from making public the amount of the tax. beaten into | the ! ap- | and MacFarland ap- | | | | Senator Copeland of New Yo rk says | by the multitude, but he is not a leader. | AL Smith is a Venus de Milo in a room-—much admired | RADIDFANSHEAR STATIONS ABROAD Capital and Nearby Listen-{ ers-In Report Success of | Atlantic Test. Acel ed “phenomienal =u by radlo engineers, the the series of casting of ernational miar a new epoch in radiv's brief | but sensational history and paved the for the linking up of the n tions of the world through the med- fum of the cther. Thousands of radio acrica have heard these experiments ot broad- | a feature week, have tosts, radio distinctly during the signals of Buropean broadcasting ! statfons after they had been hurled across the vast expanse of the At-| lantic, 1 Because of a more favorable loca- | tion, radio listeners along the Atlan- | tic seaboard huve been more suc-! cessful in pieking up the programs of tie coutinental stations. Hamper- | ed by atmospheric and other unfav-| orahle conditions, the radio fans in| Washington and contignous country. met with little success during t first inte: tional test Monda: i but scores of them reported hearing stations in England, Scotland, France and Spaln last night during the s ond experiment Many of the fans who picked up the forcign statlons were able | positively to. identify them hecause | neements were made nguage. They are satls- 1s heard the the st fled, however, that the sign emanated from station on anno a some other side of the Atlantie Hears Aberdeen Station. i Carlton B. Lowe of Maywood, Va.{ reported that he heard clearly and! distinetly the programs of stations 5NO in Newcastle and 2DD in Aber- Qeen. A soprano £0lo was one of the numbers he heard. Another, he sald, sounded like a selection on the X; t phone. Mr. Lowe's feat was all more remarkable because he used a three-tube regenerative set, while a { majority of other fans who heard the forelgn stations own the more power- | ! ful sets of the neutrodyne and super- ! hetrodyne type. Dr. J. Harris Rogers of Hyattsville, | Ma., inventor of underground and undersea wireless, was unable to pick Yup any of the continental stations {last night, although he heard one in London Monday night. The noted in- vVentor, however, picked up station CYL in Mexico ity during the inter- national tests last night, using a| cage antenna, extended in a well which was covéred and surrounded by galvanized iron. The Mexican station, he reported, me in with sufficlent volume to operate & loud speaker. ‘Among other radio fans in Wash- ington and vicinity who heard the| { forelsn stations ure Willfam WW. Bride lof Bethesda, Md.; L. A. Zirkle of | Bdinburg, Va.; John F. Dryden, J. . YVates and Jesse M. Grove. Mr. | Bride reported hearing station PTT, in Madrid, from 11:35 to 11:48 and 5IT, in Birmingham, from 11:48 to 12 midnight. The program at PTT in- {cluded a selection from the opera “Faust,” by a string orchestra, while ! that of the English station was plano | | selections. Il Gets Spanish Stationm. Mr, Yates believes the station he {heard was in Spain. A selection, | “How Fickle Women Are,” was play !ed on a mandolin, he said. He heard |4nts station at 11:40 o'cloc Using a superheterodyne set, Mr. | Dryden heard clearly and with suf- !ficient volume to operate a loud speaker, piano solos and selections by | @ mandolin quartet. He believes it |was 2DD, in Aberdeen. The station {Mr. ZIrkl sald he heard was 2LO, in |London. Mr. Grove heard a plano | vecital, followed by a vocal solo by !a woman, about 11:15 o'clock, but icould mot catch the call letters of |the station. This same station, he |sald, broadcast orchestra music at| 111:30. i | "R. E. Lee of Kensington Heights, Md., algo reported hearing an Eng- lish station last night. About 11:15: { o'clock, he sald, he picked up a sta- | tion on a wave band close to 492 | meters, and held it until 11:55 when it signed off, with the announcement that “All Americans have been listen- |ing to this program.” At the begin- | | ning of the program several plano | solos were played, followed by a concert by a string ensemble. Mr. | Lee sald he heard the announcer say | distinctly, “England,” but did not| catch the city. He belleves it was in | Birmingham. Mrs. Robert L. Balley, 2001 Six-| |teenth street, picked up CYL, - in | Mexico City, last night shortly be- { formal {all heen cmployed In tha tests made | |deterse. | greatly Local Scientist To Get Sorbonne Honorary Degree Yy the ated Press i PARIS. November ! of the Sorb honorary doetors’ deg | foreign scholars at a coremony i Sat- urday marking the beginning of the university vear. Among those will be honored are Charles 10 whe , and Prof | tdal and Ramon y | University of Madr | mon Menendez jal of th VITAL DATA GAINED FROM SINKING SHP Secretary Wilbur Says Les-| sons Learned Will Be Kept Secret by U. S. | = | Secretary Wilbur disclosed in a| statement today. that tor- pedoes, aertal hombs and gunfirc had oft the Virginia Capes on the hull| of the uncompleted battleship Wash- ington, which was sent to the bottom yesterday. nal tests were made by gunfire. The cxact results of the experimen were declared by the Secretary to be| of great military value, a not be revealed. Ile statement: ‘The exact results of the experi-| ment on the hull of the ship popularly | referred to as the Washington were of great military value, and will be immediately considered by the spe- clal board dealing with the relative value of the various arms of the service, including the air force, with view to determining the most ad- vantageous dispositfon of the avail- able appropriations for national d they will issued this ‘Will Not Enlighten World. { “To state with any detail the na- ture and character of the experiments conducted upon the hull of this ship would not only be to give to foreign nations the advantages of the experi- ments invoived on our part, but give the advantages of informetion which could only be obtained at a cost in excess of that expended by our Government, and thus sur- render one of the advantages aceord- ed to us by the treaty for the limita- tion of armaments, which reguired this vessel to be permanently sunk or broken up, but permitted its use as a target before actual sinking. “The expectations of our naval con- structors concerning the resisting power of the ship against gunfire, bomb and torpedo explosions, have been fully justified. and the detailed | examination of the lull after the, various explosions will be of ines. timable value In the development of our national defense. “It may also be stated that tor- pedo, aerfal homb and gunfire experi- ments were used in the tests. The final tests yesterday morning were by gunfire. |of the | hana D.C. COUNSEL HITS TAGTICS OF KELLY Accuses Assistant U. S. At- torney of “Butting In Gillan Traffic Case. ' An open rupture between the Dis- trict attorney’s office and the cor- poration counsel's office developed today when Assistant rporation Counsel Garragh Kelly, assistar States at- torner, of “burting in" on tha case mbia vs. trial to- Charges of unduc pressure being brought about in efforts of forestalling | trial proceedings against Gillan, col- Six- ored chauffeur Arthur wmith, private sacrecary to Treasury Mellon, ously been made by the corporation unsel’s office, causing Assistant orporation Counsel Thomas to state several days ago that hie would prosecute the case with every available means in his power. Today the case was continued until December 3 because the defense law- E. yer told the court that Policeman R. I Williams was not in court. The same $340 cash bond was held for| collateral. Tt developed that Po- liceman Williams had been informed by Frank Kelly that he should not appear in court today. as t plaining witne were not i to prosecute. Policem 1d: “I thought this message was authoritative and so complied w I did not know that the District attorney’s office had nothing to do! with the ca Denfes Kelly in Right. Mr. Glarraghy was informed of th development by the policeman In per- i He declared the case would go on and would mot {n any event be held up or nolle prossed. “Even if Mr. Kelly is going to be an attorne for the defen at the pre: has entered 5 is not so time, for J. I. Hughes appearance, he h ver to give the order! to the policemar “The case now has been continued juntil December 3, and as all the wit- nesses have left the court with that| instruction that date will have to re- main fixed. However, unless the de- fendant forfeits his collateral the c will be heard, cven {f the two con: ing witnesses do not want to testify against him. Summons will be served upon them, and if they do not answer them T will have attachments sent out by the court. Gillan was arrested by Policeman Williams Tuesday morning, November 18, and charged with reckless driv ing #nd colllding. According to e witnesses, he was speeding along the Connecticut Avenue Bridge at an ex cesstve rate cf speeq and falling to round the turn at Ashmead place truck, injuring two men who were in | side and was thrown into a truck injuring two men who were in it. Mr. Sixsmith was in the machine at the time of the accident. biain- | ‘Warned, Foliceman Says. According to Policeman Williams the defendant had been warned cn, several different occasions before to slow down, as he was imperiling the | lives of school children who crossed “The ship -was sunk and the ex- periments. condutted were even more valuable than anticipated.” Mr. Wilbur issued hls statement after a conference with Admiral| Eberle, chief of naval operations, and | Rear Admiral ¢, F. Hughes, president ! of the special board which conducted ' the tests on the Washington hull Admiral Hughes came from Norfolk last night with complete data from the experiment: G SLIDE CUTS OFF GAS; SUFFERING IN TOWNS' Special Dispatch to The Sta: CUMBERLAND, Md., November |A break in the National gas main. | due to a 300-foot landslide near Elgarden, W. Va., late vesterday, has| I shut off the entire supply for Cumber- land and_the Georges Creek mining | reglon. Fifteen joints of pipe are; covered by hundreds of tons of earth | and debris. It is hoped to have serv- | ice restored late this afternoon. | In the meantime many homes and | business places dependant upon gas| have been put to great inconvenience. | Some restaurants which use gas sole- | 1y for cvoking were obliged to suspend {fore midnight and expressed the be- | —¢Contimued on Page 3, Column 63 business. Much suffering from cold is reported from homes which de- pend upon gam for heating. the Intersectlon daily. When taken to the eighth precinct, efforts were | made also to press charges of dead tags. | On the police record book the license | number was listed in the name of | Andrew Mellon. It later turned out] that Mr. Mellon had sold the car to Mr. Sixsmith and had requested the Traffic Burcau to transfer the tags. Although this was not done, charge Wwere no further pressed. TWO SISTERS SLAIN; UNGLE IS ARRESTED By tlie Associated Press. HOULTON, Me., November A Cynthia and Neotia Foster, sisters, 14 | and 10 vears old, were found dead | last night in a shack occupied by Har- | I'ry Willtams, in Fosterville, N. B, 18! miles from this town, according to & | report to the police here today., Wil- | llams, who was arrested after an all night search, is being held by the| townspeople pending arrival of the sheriff from Fredericton. The girls went to the shack ves- terday to do some cooking for Wil- " liams, their uncle. When they failed to return last night, their father went | In search, and found the bodies. The girle’ hands had been tied bshind thelr backs and they had been shot! through thé head, gether the merchant { operation, never {side of the shield. howeve U. 5. SHIPS ASSET, NOT A LIABILITY; FINAL PROFIT SEEN Lines to South America Are Making Good Showing by Superior Speed. VESSELS TO FAR EAST ALSO WINNING LAURELS Bulk Freight Generally Ignored as Being Too Cheap for Gov- ernment Craft. Hdito ote—This is the last sevies of three articles by Mr. Li coln on the American Merchant Mo- ine BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The American overse merc! marine is today an asset to the ecun- try—not a llability, calamity howler to the contrary notwithstanding. am referring particularly to the Gov crnment-owned merchant fleet, wk after all titutes the great our overseas merchant outside of the so-called Ir owned by tha Standard Ofl, Tnited States Stesl Corporatlo Tnited Fruit Company. and cer lumber interests, The overseas fleet is an asce cause of its aid in the development of American trade abroad and he causs of value for national de- fense. It is i1 to remember in the latter connection that it cost the people about $£2,000,000,000 to g last Those who lock on the side because the fact that in t tion of fleet the Government ex- ends some $20.000,000 a over . recelpts, Loss Is Being Reduced. The Government fleet—operated to every corner of the earth and i many services- i ness of ap A considerabl put up by ti year goes into o anization branches of the to do materials. account verhead expenses oY in Washington, into service have s and ng of And it must be taken into hat under the management of the Fleet Corporation this ex- cess expenditure is constantly being reduced and reduced further. Against great odds, gdverse differ- entials in cost of construetion, oper- ation, repair, a surplus of world ton nage and the keenest kind of com titlon from old, established foreign lines. the Shipping Board and the Fleet Corporation ve “carried on.’ The Fleet Corporation today is operating the greatest shipping en- terprise in the world. It is d g €0 except in the rase of the United States lines which are operated di- rect t the Government, throuxh or 30 m ging ope 1t operating through a contra ~the so- called M. O, 4 contract—which h dencunced practically eve: 1 ¢ the Government who has me {nte con t with. it as waste- But it sticks. It has been modi it s tr contract st ent, with the loses and 11 gross operators. been on T. S. Developes Business. Against such cdds, the business being developed. Roughly, it is di- vided into four trades. the Buropean, the Mediterranean, Amer!- can and the Far ) hips are in oper engers and freight. in the European trades, and 130 can and Far ses to Furope ast trades d the Mediterran meet the keenest competition in the world's carrying trade. Yet the American ships are getting their Share of the business. And while they ara losing money on the whole theless they are not lure to appear on the the ledger. Shipping generally the world over has been hard hit since the war. g The brighter and more encouraging is found in the successes e by the Ameri- can merchant lines to South Ameriea, to the Far Fast, and to the s developed trade of the gr Coast of Afric nd South and East- ern Africa What the Amer] mer chant fleat is too often lost cussion ts pro Holds Record fo Jast is the Munson f alone in th right side ¢ actually accomplishi ight of In a dis: oper £ South n America Steamship a look the ¥ Pake ated to Americ There Line, run by the Line, managing operators. Four combination passenger and carge vessles of the American Leglon class are in htis service. They hold the record for speed against their Br ish competitors, and they get the major portion of the traveling public Trecause of eed and service rendered There is a sailing every 14 days out of New York to Rio, Montevideo Alres. The Munson Line also American Dispatch Line, from the Gu ports except New Orleans, to East Coast of South America, ing from Mobile and Tampa. w Orleans, the Mississippi Shippi another of the managing opera- tors, handles the American Delta Lins for the Fleet Corporation to the East Coast of South America. The Amer- ican Republican Line, frelghters of medium tonnuge, is operated for the Government by the International Freighting Line from New York Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk and Jucksonville to the East Coast of operates the the sail ¥ron South America. One of the most encouraging fea- tures of the servicek to the East Coust of South America is that the Government vessels not only carry large cargoes to the foreign ports, but they rcturn well jaden. Tha | trade b 1 this country and thp South n republics Is being constantly fostered hy these trans- portation services. Return Cargoes Smaller. One of the disadvantages of the Government trades to Europe, for ex- ample, lies in the fact that the ex- ports of the United States to Europe are almost three and onc-half times as great as the imports from that sec- tion of the world, in bulk. That be- T {Continued on Page 12, Colums 1) 2