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PLOT AGAINST CZAR AMAZES MOSCOW Okladski, Accused of Be- trayirg Alexander’s Slayers, Faces Death Sentence. By the Associated Press. : MOSCOW, January —Aibazing revelations of assassinations, plots, intrigues and terroristic acts against Alexander 1T and his ministers were made today at the trial of Ivan Okladski, who, after nearly 45 years, 1s,charged with having turned traitor and betrayed his accomplices In that notorious murder which shocked two continents The prisoncr, who is 83 years old, appeared in court guarded by four armed soldlers. He was infirm and dressed In rags The Bolshevik government accuses Okladski of assisting the czarist police in the extermination of the notorious organization known . us Naarodnaya Vollo (People’s Freedom), which set out to win the lberation of the Russian people from the czar- ist oligarchy. He is held partly re- sponsible for the, failure of the rev- olutionists to accomplish their pur- pose until the Bolshevik upheaval in 1917 Protests Being Filmed. Today when the court asked the prisoncr to stand up, a battery of dazzling. moving picture spotlights confronted him. “I am not a great tested. I don't wish I am not a hero” But the camera did not his plea, for the cummunists des the pictures for propaganda pUrposes. The trial is being held in the largest hall in Moscow, the same building in which Lenin’s body lay in state. The judge's bench, the pris- oners’ enclosure and the attorneys tables are arranged on a huge thea- trical stage draped in the revolution- ary red Nikolai Krylenko, Soviet Russia’s most ruthless prosecutor and the ter- ror of all who offend agalnst revolu- tionary principles, will demand the forfeiture of Okladski's life. It is sald that the prisoner undoubtedly will be sentenced to death, but that this sentence nrobably will later be commuted, owing to his age. Radicals Prexent. Among the thousands of spectators who are attending the trial are a d or more white-haired revolu- tionlsts. and anarchists of the. 1580 period who tried, with Okladski, to »ssassinate the czar and who were ter betrayed by the prisoner. They are principal witnesses against him. skladskl, it is sald, was personally -esponsible for several attempts upon the lifc of Alexander 1. He admitted having mined the Winter palace in 75 when an explosion destroyed the crar'y dining room, but did not harm the czar. He also confessed to hav- ing mined the raiiroad track at Ckaterinoulay where the czar's train was scheduled to pass. In this in- stance the emperor's life was saved because of a defect in the eclectric wirtng of the bomb. Undaunted by two failures, Okladeki ls declared to have placed a huge quan- tty of dynamite under one of the Petro- grade bridges over which the Czar passed en route to a military parade. This attempt proved cqually abortive. The prisoner then is said to have under- raken the manufacture of high explosive bombs and dynamite, a quantity of Wwhich was used a year later in the as- sassination of Alexander IT. Confessed His Guilt. When arrested and tried for this ne, the government charges, Okiad- ki confessed his gullt and betrayed his ccomplices, most of whom were exccut- ed or exiled. This led to the collapse of the terroristic organization, which in turn led to the cstablishment of the blackest revolutionary period in Rus- sian history. According to the prisoner, it was un- der the threat of torture and death that he was forced to give the authorities formation regarding the anarchistic organization and his assoclates. So sreat were Okladski's services regarded by the czarist government, it is claimed, that it not only pardoned him, but gave him a large salary and elevated him from the rank of an ordinary peasant to that af hereditary noble. For near- ars he is sald to have worked for the czarist regime, operat- ng under various names. Krylenko is trylng to establish the act that the prisoner, all the time that iie was supposed to be a leading revo- utionist and anarchist, was really act- ng as an agent of the czarist police, and for this reason many of the plots sninst a SPECIAL NOTICES. { WILL XOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY iobts contracted by any other than mywelf. it. A. PETERS. Pallston 14% FOR YOUR €HO ONS, urkeys. day-old eggs. driv n or phone. DALE Your Corners, Md. ROTT TR allkinds of RELL, garde SPECIAL Monad rea nitary flat oia’ Soid rezuiari LOTIS HART! NOTICE OF & N The annaal meetiog of the stockholders of A. . 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Special Dispatch to The Stai NEW YORK, January 12—Chug. chug, chug—ten men in a tug, went to sea, and—— Twenty-two miles off the New Jer- sey .coast late Saturday night the Coast Guard cutter Patterson, slip- ping out to sea under darkened lights, saw the black hull of a boat ahead. Across the stlll waters went the Coast Guard skipper's hafl: “What're you guys doing?" “Pleasure trip;* came back a voice. “Tut, tut,” said the skipper,”“at such an hour. You ought to be ashamed.” The Coast Guard cutter drew along- side. With a flashilght the “skipper read the name of the tug, Sea Gull. “Board, men,” hve called hoarsely. Qver the rall went the Coast Guardsmen, armed to the teeth. “Search her from deck to keel came the order. The Coast Guards- men searched. They found nothing except 10 grinning men. 3 “Ten men on a boat whose license only provides for six, or something like that,” said the skipper. “Naugh- ey He escorted the Sea Gull into port. Last night the 10 men were locked up at the barge office to awalt interroga- tion by Edward Barnes, assistant-so- licitor of the port. They insisted still it was only a pleasure trip. SHANGHAI LOOTED AFTER RECAPTURE BY TROOPS OF CHI (Continued from First Page.) governorship and renew the fighting. A Reuter aispatch from Shanghal says that Gen. Sun Chun Fang, gov- ernor of the Province of Cheklang, fs advancing toward Shanghal with the supposed intention of assisting Gen. Chi in expelling Chang Yuen Ming, the military governor of Shanghai who was appointed by the Peking government. Fighting was in progress yesterday morning in the vicinity of Lung-Hua, and Gen. Chang’s forces retired to the boundary of the French settlement. French Force Landed. The dispatch adds that French ma- rines have been landed, but that as yet there is not cause for anxiety for the safety of forelgners. The attack was almed particularly to prevent the return to power of Lu Yung-Hslang, former tuchun of Cheklang Province, who was report- ed procecding from Nanking toward Shanghai with Fengtlen Manchurian troops. The soldiers of Chi and Sun made a surprise attack yesterday morniig. By night they were in complete con trol of the region surrounding the foreign settlements. Fighting in the Lungwha district had subsided, leavy ing Sun in undisputed possession of Lungwha and the arsenal there Chang Yung-Min, the defense com- missioner appointed by Peking, has taken refuge with his subordinate commanders {n the forelgn settle- ments. Chang’s troops made an un- settlements. Foreign defense units were guard- ing the barricaded approaches to the settlements tonight. Chi Hsieh-Yuan was military gov- ernor of Klangsu Province, in which Shanghal is situated, and a Peking mandate was Issued December 12 dis- | missing him trom that position and appointing Lu Yung-Hslang, “pacifi- cation commissioner” for Kilangsu and Anhwel Provinces. Sun Chuan- Fang was an adherent of Gen. Wu Pei-Fu, the outsted commander of the Peking military forces. Both Chi and Sun were active In besieging Shanghal last Fall. At that time they were allled with the Peking regime of President Tsao Kun. Lu Yung-Hslang, defending Shanghai, was defcated and fled to Nagasa, after his political friends into power. had come Rum Kills 239 in 1924. CHICAGO, January 12.—Pr. Her- man N. Bundesen, city health com- missioner, yesterday made public fig- ures showing 29 deaths from poison liquor in Chicago last year. 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Surprising as the announce- ment may have been to the general public, it was not to the many close friends of Mr. Hughes, to whom he had confided his earnest wish to leave office March 4. He talked it over with President Coolidge just after election, and the word was passed around that Mr. Hughes had agreed to stay at least another year. Sees Work Finished. Why did he resign now? Because the Secretary found that foreign re- lations were in such a status as would permit him to leave March 4, whereas if-he stayed longer he might become so wrapped up in big ques- tions of forelgn policy as to prevent his resignation altogether, even at the end of a year. Mr. Hughes has had every honor that can come in public service, ex- cept the presidency of the United States, and he came near that in 1916. He reached the highest honor In his profession us assoclate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was Governor of New York State and now has served four Years as premler of the cabinet. Being 62 years old, Mr. Hughes has only a few years left in which he can actively engage in law practice. He never was a rich man. When he left the bench in 1916, he was not wealthy, In the next four years he amassed a comfortable sum in private practice, but in March, 1921, he was called to the cabinet, and the chances are he has dug deeply into his prin- cipal in the last four years. From now on he can recoup the losses of the last four vears. which would have been extraordinarily profitable to him. Having given 20 years to public serv- ice, he naturally thinks now of pro- viding a continued fncome for his tanily. While Mr. Hughes' reasons for re- signing may be understood, there is no doubt that the appointment of his successor, Frank B. Kellogg, the Am- bassador to Great Britaln, Is causing even more gossip and inguiry.. How did it come about? Probably this way: Hecommended Kellogs. Mr. Hughes had been urging the President to accept his resignation. Mr. Coolldge was reluctant-—almest unwilling, for he regards Mr. Hughes very highly—and all talk about minor or ‘major disagreements may be set down as utterly unfounded. “What shall we do for a successor?” the President might have asked. “Well, there's Frank Kcellogg at London,” was Mr. Hughes' natural re- ply. “He is alrcady familiar with the big questions we are now dealing with, He has had experience in deal- ing first-hand with European states- men and he can take things over without difficulty.” To all of this Mr. Coolidge readily could have agreed and the appoint- ment was announced. It is interest- ing also to pofnt out in this connec- tion that Mr. Hughes originally recommended Mr. Kellogg for the post at London. He has the highest regard for Mr. Kellogg's ablifty. And Mr. Coolidge has the same regard for Mr. Hughes' advice. May Win Over Foes. Congress is particularly interested now in the man who shall be ap- pointed Ambassador to Great Britain. The man most talked of is Senator Medlll McCormick, who is not only a close friend of the new Secretary of State, but an Intimate associate of Senator Borah of Idaho, chairman of the Senate foreigh relations commit- tee. Having picked for Secretary of State a man who favored the League of Nations, Mr. Coolidge :aight turn to the “irreconcilable” group to select an Ambassador to London. The late President Harding did the same thing when he named Mr. Hughes as Secre- tary and George Harvey as Ambassa- dor to Great Britain. The “irreconcil- able” element in Congress would be likely to attach more weight to sug- gestions and recommendations of co- operation with Europe sent by ona of thelr own number from London than from one who was predisposed to “get too close” to the league. In selecting a man for London there is also the expense of the post for the | individual. Few men can take care of it. Senator MeCormick is well able to finance an American Ambassador's dutles in & soclal way. He speaks French and knows intimately many of the leading European statesmen. | That's why he is being recommended for the place by some of the fluential men in Congress. (Copyright, 1925.) LAWAIS HELD INVALID. Court Sets Aside Michigan Statute on Public Motor Service. Sections of the Michigan 1923 making those engaged law of in motor { vehlcle transportation for hire over public highways common carriers, and requiring them to carry insur- ance to protect persons and property transported, were declared invalid, so far as applied to the Duke Carriage Co., by the Supreme Court today, in a case against the Duke Carriage Co., appealed by the State. Officer’s Dismissal Approved. Sentence of dismissal imposed by a general court-martial in the case of Second Lieut. Clement A. McCal- ley, Army Air Service, has been ap- proved by the President. The officer was tried at Fort Sam Houston, Tex., on the charge of violating the eighty-fifth and ninety-fifth Articles of War, (Continued from First Page.) ican Navy remain as far behind the British navy as it is now, while the Dawes plan may benefit Great Britain more than thé United States.” (Copyright, 1925, by Chicago Dally News Co.) ACCEPTS GREAT HONOR. Kellogg Sees Big Task Following Man Like Hughes. By the Associated Press. PARIS, January 12.—Frank B. Kel- logg, the American Ambassador to the Court of St. James, will accept the post of Secretary of State tendered him by President Coolidge on the resignation of Charles Evans Hughes. “I read the news in the morning papers announcing that the President had declded to appoint me Secretary of State, which I accept and appre- ciate very deeply as a great honor,” said Ambassador Kellogg, who is here attending the international financial conference. “I am not unmindful of the difficul- ties and responsibllities of this great office,” Mr. Kellogg continued. “fol- lowing especially such a distin- guished and eminent lawyer and statesman as Mr. Hughes. There s nothing more that I can say at this time.” Tired From Parley Work. Mr. Kellogg, tired from his four days of arduous work as chief dele- gate to the conferencé of the allted finance ministers, retired at 11 o'clock Saturday night without being offi- clally aware that he would awake as President Coolidge's appointee to be the next Secretary of State. Ambassador Kellogg vesterday visited the office of James A. Logan of the American delegation and draft- ed a long cable dispatch for the State Department in Washington contain- ing the solutions reached between the British and Americans on questions of war damage claims, which he prob- ably wil be called to pass upon as Secretary of State when the protocol comes up for approval by the Wash- ington Government some months hence. French OMcials Call. The ~ ¥rench government was prompt ni realizing the importance of having the future American Secretaty of State “in their midst.” Finanee Minister Clementel und Minister of Commerce Raynaldy called at Ambas- sador Herrick’s home and left cards for Mr. Keilogg, while Premier Her- riot sent M Bergery, his chief of cabinet, to congratulate the new ap- pointee. None of them saw Mr. Kel- logg, however, as he was engaged with Mr. Logan in preparing the cablegram. Most of the evening newspapers print sketches of Mr. Kellogg. In their articles they introduce a para- graph to the effect that “he is & par- tisan for ratification by the United States of the League of Nations pact with reservations, it is true. but less radical than the reservations pro- posed by the late Senator Lodge.’ The government organ remarks: “The nomination of Mr. Kellogg will facilitate discussions between France and the United States.” Pertinax of the Echo de Parls be- lieves Mr. Hughes is resigning be- cause he does not see eye to eve with President Coolidge. The writer says that the President, “domipated by the Senate,” designs a policy of Isolation, while Secretary Hughes, “who has spent his life among the half-Euro- pean soclety of New York,” {3 inclined to intervene in Old World controver- sles. LONDON REGRETS CHANGE. But Hearty Congratulations Are * Extended to Mr. Kellogg. By the Associated Press LONDON, January 12. — General hearty regret at the retirement of Charles E. Hughes, as American Sec- retary of State, is cxpressed by the London morning papers, accompanied by cordlal wishes for Ambassador Kel- logg in his new office. The Daily Telegraph says: “In the brief space of four years Mr. Hughes has made a place for himself In his- tory—In the eyes of all the clvilized world a place of honor."” The paper’ dwells lengthily and with admiration on his initiation of the Washington arms conference and his aid toward solving the repara- tions problem, and adds: “He has done work that leaves an immense increment of prestige to be enjoyed by his successor—work for which the world is deeply and gratefully in his debt.” The ‘Morning Post say: “Great Britain will deeply deplore the resig- nation of Mr. Hughes. He was a good friend of this country and a fine type of courteous, cultured, well Informed American.” ITALY WANTS NEW DEAL. | Emigration and War Debt Issue: Especially Stress | B the Associated Press. ROME, Janvary 12.—The news of the resignation of Secretary of State Hughes arrived in Rome too late Sat- | urday night to permit of extensive comment by the Sunday newspapers, but in political circles the impression prevails that his retirement from the leadership of America’s forelgn pol- icy may bring about a different viewpoint concerning Itallan emigra- tion. This question, together with the settlement of war debts, repre- sents the only Important pending issue between the Rome and Wash- ington governments. Premier Mussolini for the first time has made it understood that Italy does not intend to shrink from ful- 23 Years of Successful Dentistry” Dr. Vaughan 303 7th St. N.W. Phone Main 1281 [B[c——=[olc——|o|l———al——2n| CO Different AL Coals for Different Plants Get the most out of your plant. There is an individuality about heating plants that is surprising. Consult us about the suitable _fuel for your most Expert advice from us will save you money. entailed. R.J.& M. 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On the subject of Russtan recognition they are at daggers drawn. Barah {3 the arch proponent of recog- n|rll‘un. Hughes 1s the arch opponent of it The other day Borah had read into the Record of the Senate statistics | showing that Soviet Russia was buy- ing six times as much In the United States. as imperial Russiu ever did That was a sly but significant dig at the Secretary of State On the World Court, as immediate and concrete a forelgn program as the administration now has, Borah is as hostile to the Hughes position as he is on Russia President Coolidge, with Hughes' approval, opposes any Amerfcan attempt to call another disarmament confeérence untHl the European powers abandon their plans {for a conference under the Genev protocol. Borah wants to go ahead with a conference without delay. It is plain that Mr. Hughes cannot thoroughly relish working with Chairman Borah, from time to time, in the matter of the United States Senate’s “advice amnd consent”-—so Capitol HIll points out. If it de- velops that “the Borah angle” was somewhere at the bottom of Secre- tary Hughes' decision to leave office, 1t can at least be said that many of the latter's friends will understand it Exclusion Law Hit Work. There are other suppositions in circulation besides any thus far here- in mentioned. One of those promi- nently uttered is that Mr. Hughes has never recovered from his disap- polntment that his Japanese immigra- tion policy was overridden roughshod by Congress last May. Hughes want- ed to bring about exclusion by diplomacy: Congress preferred to ef- fact it by law. Thereupon ecnsued that era of renewed ant!-Americanism {n Japan which some authorities fear has largely undermined the work which Charles Evans Hughes con- siders to have been his supreme achlevement—the ~establishment at the Washington conference of peace- ful foundations in the Far East. One thing is acknowledged on all hands and looms crystal clear above tle confusing clouds of speculation. That is that the country will lose the services of a Secretary of State of extraordinary distinction, and the Coolidge administration one of the pillars which gave it, next personality of the President himself, its principal prestige. (Copyright, 1925.) Postponement Regarded Likely in Defamation Case. CHICAGO, January 12.—Trial of W. E. D. Stokes, wealthy New York hotel man; Danlel Nugent, his New York attorney, and several others charged with conspiracy to defame the char- connection with Stokes’ action for di- vorce in New York was set for today. A continuance was in prospect, how ever, as Mrs. Stokes had asked that charges against Stokes be dropped, although the State’s attorney indi- cated he was disposed to proceed with the prosecution. The Best 'Small Houscs” Northeast Open Daily for Inspection 1407 West Va. Ave. N.E. 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BERLIN, January 12.—The Clerical party, aftér a heated conference last- ing five hours, adopted a resolution last night of conditional opposition to the party entering a bourgeois cabinet as tentatively planned by Dr. Hans Luther, after the latter negotiations with the German Nation- alists. The reservations made by the Murx party are directed against the Nationalists' demand for four seats in the new ministry, which the Cleri- cals fear will insure them predomi- nance,-us Count Kanitz, the present food " controller and non-partisan member of the cabinet, is nominally affillated with the Nationalists. This would glve them flve minjsters. The Clerical party's fight against Nationalist control of the new gov- ernment wus led by former Chan- cellor Wirth. The action taken, how- ever, strictly Interpreted, indicates that the Clerigals are inclined to tolerate a non-soclalist cabinet, pro- vided the balance of power does not revert to the German Peoples’ party. Dr. of the bourgeols parties to attend a final' conference with him today, when it will be definitely decided whether he will be commissioned by President Ebert to form a new cabi- net. In political circles it is believed that he will succeed in reconciling interparty divergencies. JUDGE SELECTS JURY Former Department of Agent Brought Into New York Court on Bench Warrant. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, January 12.—A judg: picked jury will hear the testimony mer Department of Justice agent, and his one-time attorney, Thomas K. Felder, on charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice The trial began today after many delayes, with Means in court as the re- sult of & bench warrant served on him in his Concord, N. C., home, when he pleaded. he was too i to appear in court. Federal Judge Walter E. Lind- ley of Danville, 111, refused to permit prospective jurors, undertaking er' Ku Klux Klan. ago. ing organization Michigan U. Official Dies. | ANN ARBOR, Mich, January 12. 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At the request of Feld- | attorneys, he asked the talesmen concerning their attitude toward the It was sald that the star Govern- | ment witness would be Mecans' former secretary, Elmer W. Jarnecke, a co- defendant, who pledded guilty a week The three were charged with having accepted $65,000 from memb- ers of the Crager system, a stock sell- on the representa- tion that they would bribe former At- torney General Daugherty and other Government officials to prevent their prosecution for alleged stock frauds. Dr Arthur G. Hall, registrar of the 1208, died at his home here early yester- six He was at one time presi- dent of the National Association of Coolidge—bawes Officially Elected To High Posts Electors Meet in Various States, Canvass Votes And Cast Ballots. Calvip, Coolldge’ and Charles G Dawes were elected President and Vice President, respectively, today. The electors for whom the Ameri can voters directly Cast their ballots| last November, in the respective | States, canvassed the popular vote, and fn accordance with the constitu- | tion cast their ballots for President | and Vice President. | This vote of the electors will be | certified to the President of the s»n-] ate and by each of the 48 State meet- ings. and will be opened at a joint sessfon of the Senate and House, Feb- | ruary 18. | The eclectors in cach State also selected today one of their number to bring the vote to Washington. An | appropriation of 312,500 for the ex- | pense of these electorial messengers | now is pending, although an attempt | was made recently in the Senate m\ legalize transmission of the vote by | mail. | Bl GlAGLTTe. JACKSON TAKES OFFICE AS INDIANA GOVERNOR | Believed to Have Solid Klan Sup- port—Succeeds Branch, Also Republican. By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, January Jackson, Republican, became: Tn- diana's thirty-first governor today He wlill serve four vears. The new executive succeeded Em- mett F. Branch, also a Republican who assumed the new governorship of the State last Many when Warren T. McCray resigned after having been convicted of using tho malls to de- fraud. The new governor went into office accredited with having had the solid support of the Ku Klux Klan. him In any of his up by campaign he favored religious and civil Iiberty race or creed Capt. Sullivan Shifted. Capt States Infantry, at Baltimore, has been detalled to the Adjutant Gen eral's Department and assigned to duty at the War Department Cards Folders; Guides.etc. 12—Fd | The ! Klan tssue, however, was not brouzhl~ speeches, in all of which he declared | for every citizen, regardless of color, | A. Pledger Sullivan, United | FLAT TIRE? 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