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WEATHER. (U. S. Wealher Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight, possibly light frost; tomorrow fair, slightly warmer. Temperatures: Highest, 56, at noon today; lowest, 44, at 5:15 a.m. today. Full report on page Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. HOPE OF ANUNDSEN otz Faors RETURN REVNED AS WEATHER CLEARS Springlike Warmth of Air in| Polar Region Dispels Gloom of Watchers. CONVOY GIVES FLYERS FULL WEEK TO GET BACK e No. 29,610. Is Justified—Dirig Governmental relfef for the Amund- sen expedition to the North Pole is fa- | vored by President Coolidge, but he is not certain that the situation has | reached the point where such aid | would be justified. | " The President has given no particu- llar thought to proposals to send one of the big Navy dirigibles on a_relief expedition. He considers that the de- cision on any such project should lie vith Secretary Wilbur, who said ¢ that the Navy had given no offi- consideration to it either was any question of send- ing the Los Angeles or Shenandoah Lo the rescue of the Amundsen party liscussed at today's cabinet meeting. Secretary Wilbur said that any | such expectation could be authorized {only after the most thorough con- | sideration and on the basis of a plan jof procedure which was manifestly | sound and practical in every way. iwould be absurd, he said, to send air- | ships into the Arctic in a haphazard way to search for six men over | thousands of square miles of frozen aste. The Haakon Hammer Planning Dash| Into Arctic Zone to Rescue Men Thought Stranded. BY JAMES Bpecial Correspondent of erican Newspaper KINGS BAY, s @io from the ste; rm).—Hopes ©f a safe return for the polar fiyers ler Amundsen and Ellsworth were revived today by a t improve- | ment in weather conditions Bright sunshine this morning dis- yelled the gloom of the past two days. The temperature rose again 1o the warmth of Spring. The some- ‘what threatening winds of vesterday had died down and balloons sent up by our meteorologists showed upper «ir currents blowing from the east- southeast, which is considered a fa- varable direction. Give Flyers Week. The area of low barometric pres B. WHARTON, Star and North Alliance. n (By ra- henandoah and THINKS SEGURITY EUROPE'S PROBLEM | Burs '\‘\hlr‘rh was moving northw rdvcoondge AgaInSt U' S' Being vesterday from Russia and Sibe 1 H H now pressing clowe againee the tote;, Party to Discussion on German Pact. Los Angeles At a conference of the members of our b this morn it unfavorable weather indica- s we should give the flyers a full | S week before we began to entertain| President Coolidge does not think | serious fears [ the United States should become a | SEaich party to the present discussion among | HAMMER TO RESCU | European nations, directed toward ne- Ana = = 2 { gotiation of a security pact. waits Word From Nansen of Fund| 1\hile no such proposal has come | for Relief Party. [before the President in any’ oficial N ANGe et __|way, it can be said_definitely he has M GELES, May 26 (. |not changed his opinion that the se- Haakon who led an ex-| ich E Dedition to the relief of Roald Amund. | CUrity matter is a problem which Eu- i itself must handle. sen in 1923, today awaited word from | FoF San Diego that would start him on! The administration Is anxious to see another Arctic dash in aid of the Nor-|the security question worked out sat- Wwegian explorer. In Hammer's opinion | isfactorily, and always ready to be the age of a_fifth day without |helpful if a practical method of help- word from Amundsen is almost cer-!fulness can be found, but it does not tain proof that the explorer’s airplanes | care to begin political participation in @re stranded somewhere north of | European questions. Spitzbergen, and that outside relief is| The President has been much in- necessar He has laid tentative ! terested in some American proposals plans for an airplane dash from Spitz. [for promoting German industry. He bergen in search of the missing party | considers the matter largely a busi- and awaits only notification from | ness affair, but belleves the American }ans Hansen of San Diego that | Government can be depended upon to the necessary funds have been rai ed. | facilitate trade and commerce 'hel; > | eve Dossible to ald the recovery of 4 uuseln Ruising Funds. | German prosperity. ansen, who is a nephew of the | SEN noted explorer, Fritjor I.\'znm@n. :me.‘ SPLIT ON NOTE SEEN. nounced in & Diego vesterday that | he was raising funds to finance the re- | Britai 3 Ve ‘om- " and France Will Have to Com: lief flight and was confident no nuuw[“"""' F cial obstacle would delay Hammer" promise to Agree. eparture from Los Angeles on the | o 3 he Associatéd Press. first leg of his long journey. Hammer | ®* (X SO MO0 1y octmin- siid he understood nsen himself | > v was putting up the gres fisteciCazatia saysithe Mrench repiy 1o the money for the expedition. the British inguiries concerning Should the - expected authorization ' France's attitude toward German dis- come from Nansen Hammer | armament and the proposed security plans to charter a plane | pace shows a great divergence be- ;‘,’,’,‘Ih hr it available in Switzer- | ‘L oon the French and British views. and and which would be in readine: “Unless some compromise is reach-! for the polar dash by the time he ar - rives overseas. He counts on Amund. |ed,” the paper remarks, “it looks as sen’s 30-day supply of emergency ra-|if Great Britain and France will have tion to give him the necessary mar-|to pursue separate paths.” gn of time for successful relief. Nothing has been learned officially Plane in Switzerland. egarding the reply, but It is under- g | stood that it will be discussed by the Hammer Saturday telegraphed | w. Admiral W. H. Moffett, chief of the|C2Pinet tomorrow. Naval Bureau of Aeronautics at|_ The greate Washington, D. C., asking for the| (Cont services of Lieut. Ralph Davidson, | U. S. N.. as navigator for the air. | plane relief party. Davidso at | avidson is ! FOUR DIE IN ., Column present on duty on the airplane | B A ARMS RIOT. rier Langley in Hawalian waters. ch For Amundsen’s Polar Party iNot Certain Situation at Point W here Aid in MacMillan Emergency. | demotions WASHING WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION TON, D. C. U. S. Relief ibles’ Use Planned have been under instructions for sev- eral weeks to look over the project of | a trip into the Arctic this Summer in connection with the MacMillan expe- dition, in case their services should be required in an emergency, but even this proposition still is entirely tentative. If either of the big dirigi- bles were to be used on such an ex- pedition they would require the serv- ices of the Patoka as a base ship, with adequate gasoline and other supplies. The distance to which the Patoka could penetrate Into the North is problematical on account of the ice. In so far as the use of relief planes is_concerned, it is the view of officers that nothing can be déne w out a thoroughly organized expedition to support them. It is felt generally that the planes could do little ex tensive scouting bevond that already planned by MacMillan and the N: section of his expedition. It is the view of Navy Department | officials that Amundsen, so far as evi-| dence now goes, is by no means lost, and that it is not vet time to give up hope of hearing word from him. WARN U. 5. CLERKS BEFORE DISCHARGE: Government Will Tell of In- efficiency Ratings 30 Days in Advance. i Government employes slated for | dismissal or demotion on account of | inefficiency are given additional pro- tection under provisions of a circul issued today by the Personnel Classi-| fication Board. 1 The two principal features of the| circular are that the employe will be | given an opportunity to present his| side of the case, and the department | <hould motify the persons concerned | at least 30 days in advance. Many Affected. A large number of Government em- | ployes in the various branches of the Government service are understood to | be affected, as any person, under the rules of the classification boara, who falls below a grade of 65 per cent is subject efther to demotion or dismis- sal from the service. approaching end of the fiscal vear, June 30, and the smaller budget in most departments for the next vear| |it is anticlpated that action will be| taken soon by the departments and | establishments in the case of all em- | ployes whose efficiency is o low as to! require officlal notice. i Departments under the circular approved today may not dismiss or! demote employes, however, without | first obtaining approval of the board. | The circular on this point says: “All! and dismissals required | under the efficiency rating rules| should be reported to the board for consideration, and fdrther action de- ! ferred, until the board's approval is | formally given.” Inquire Into Case. The circular in explaining further | the board's new regulation says: “the board will inquire into each case of proposed demotion or dismissal on ac- count of inefficiency to determine whether or not the efficiency rating has been made in accordance with the rules and regulations approved by the board. “In copnection with this inquiry. the employe will be given opportunity to present such information as may be pertinent thereto. “The board will formally act on each case presented and inform the | The board | {'nounced today, | south of the Ouergha River. P have invaded the French zone. I big forts on the new Ouergha front ! the Ouergha FRENCH EVACUATE JSOHLE AREA N MORDCCO RETREAT Suffer Casualties in Falling Back to New and Stronger Position. ABD-EL-KRIM PREPARES TO USE ARMY OF 30,000 e T Painleve Scores Victory in Cham- ber Over Policy in African Strife. By the Associated Press RABAT, French Morocec ~About 50 French soldiers, officers, were killed and about native troops fighting with the! French were wounded, it was an during the fighting| French retirement, ' continuing to a line| No es- timate was available of the losses to the Riffians under Abd-el-Krim who including 100! preceding the which is still The French are establishing two to replace the thirty or so small blockhouse posts abandoned in the evacuation of the territory north of the Ouergha River. These two well garrisoned forts will| be situated at Taounat and Bibane, ! at the east and west ends respectively | of the newly established line along ch will hav gar- | rison approximating a regiment in| force with plenty of artillery and| other equipment | 150 Square Miles Surrendered. The withdrawal of French forces| from the territory north of the Ouergha River has evacuated about! 150 square miles of territory and re- lieved 30 companies of French in-| fantry from garrison duty and made them available for field operations. The withdrawal also was of a_politi-| cal character, intended, the French! said, to show the world France was| not conducting an offensive campaign in Morocco, but merely was defend- ing the protectorate zone allotted France. ! The new French line. experts said, | will be impregnable fo Riffian at.| tacks and will effectively block the | road to Fez, even if Abd-el-Krim | should be able to double his present | fighting force. i Tt was announced that modern| fortresses will be built at Taounat and | Bibane, thereby commanding the two| In view of the|main roads by which the enemy might | Southard and Detective to reach Fez. believed that will agree to attempt It was autnorities Spanish | French | " (Continued on Page . FORTUNE IN GEMS | TAKEN IN HOLDP | A[)aring Chicago Bandits Get" $100,000 to $150,000 in Loan Bank. . May 26.—Diamonds and | jewelry of an estimated value of be- tween $100,000 and $150,000 were taken by three robbers who held up three employes in the Adolph Gast- man Loan Bank, in the heart of the downtown district, today The vaults had been apened and TUESDAY, | By the Assoc MAY 26, 1925— FORTY PAGES. ¢ Foening Star. * HRBY 15 SMUGGLED INTO COONTY . Violence Feared in Murder| Case—Wife Tells of Strangulation. ted Prese AU A, Me., May Kirby, arrested vesterday in Newbury port, Mass., charged with the murder Miss Aida Hayward, the attempted murder of her aunt, Mrs. Emma M Towns, and the burning of their cot tage on Lake Maranacook, in Win- throp, one week ago, w: into the Kennebec County jail here this morning to await arraignment in Winthrop. He was brought here from Portland in the custody of Deputy Sheriff Wi liam Cole, County Attorney Frank F James R. The party reached two automobiles at 4:08 6.—Harry Wood of Boston. the jail in o'clock. Violence Was Feared. Sheriff Henry F. Cummings arrived last evening from Portland, where Kirby was being held in the Cumber- land County jail, and announced that the prisoner could not be brought here for at least a day or two. The crowd s smuggled | | | of several thousand, which had been | waiting Kirby's arrival, and from which the officers feared violence if Kirby arrived, quietly dispersed. Word was immediately flashed Portland that the coast was clear and the officials took advantage of the opportunity to bring in their man. Kirby's wife, found at Saco, was questioned for more than eight hours by F. E. Sanborn, chief of the State | highway department. Although she said that Kirby had always treated her and her baby well, she asserted that she was thoroughly disgusted with him and never wanted to see him again. Tells of Strangling Case. She told of their meeting when both were attendants in the State Hospital at Nyack, N. , the chief said, and of her marriage to Kirby under the | name of Crawford. She told of a strangulation case in that vicinity § JusT CAME To SEE Bolsheviks Display Czar’s Crown Gems Before Diplomats By the Associated Pres MOSCOW. May Foreign ministers and ambassadors sta tioned here today saw the Russian crown jewels. In order.to remove the belief abroad that the crown jewels had disappeared or been reduced in number, the Soviet governmen vited all foreign diplomats to visit the state vault, where these treas ures are stored The display was dazzling estimated value of the was given as the equivalent $50,000,000 The " Soviet authorities, it is said, intend preserving the jewels as evidence of the lavishness and extravagance of the preceding im- perial regimes Included in today’s exhibit were the crowns of the former rulers of Russia for generations, as well as scepters, necklaces, bracelets, piece: of Jjewelry and precious stones of many varieties. Some of the diamonds weigh more than 100 carats, it was said. The collection of LAW NOT T0 STOP A.A.U. RING BOUTS to|Gordon Assured That Any Rules He Lays Down Will Be Met at Barracks. Following a long conference today with Maj. Pevton Gordon, United States district attorney, officials of the Amateur Athletic Union an- nounced that the boxing tournament to decide the championship of the South Atlantic division of the A. A. U. will be held ‘heduled on June 2 and 3 at Washington Barracks. In view of the fact that Maj. Gordon announced after the confer- ence that he had not altered his “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation 99,417 5 TWO CENTS. COOLIDGE MAY ASK IORE: LATITUDE IN NAMING CITY HEADS JRegrets Loss of Good Men Barred as Only Part-Time Residents of Capital. (#) Means Associated Pres: VACANCY TO BE FILLED SOON; FIELD INCREASES Senator King Discusses Appointee: Sees Room to Improve Police Department. | | Secretary Work Tells Sky- land “Wonder Route” Can Be Realized Soon. King Discusses Appointec ppoint a t. Oyster administer government ed by hine, William of nate s with the Presi n half an hour to- of which time ussion of filin nership and Di wi the bu P in the H. King the District y President Coolidge intim t the White House today tha |1aw upon the eligibility of appointees 1o the board of District Commission- Congress ask for modification that part of the law. The Presiden self to the effect that he has been con siderably hampered in looking about |to select as a successor to the late Commissioner James F. Oyster. {or four men, either one of whom would be admirable appointments and all of one sense of the word and yet are in- {eligible for appointment because tI of the District Proposed Change Outlined. | the President discussed this that it is jpot his intention to have the law i a President to select some one from v of the States for Commissioner | ever lived in the District or not. 1 is believed that President Coolidge the office part time, or 50-50 residents BY H. K. PHILIPS, President Coolidge let it be know o % % & he intends to 1 the Staff Correspondent of The Sta: on. He sees no necessity for a Park, Va., May 26.—A chain of State | than two score of names of persons parks spanning the Nation and linking | Suggested for the place, and is unde i 5 ce | @bout 10 or 12 of these, bul it is no West with the proposed national parks i & e of the East over a model highway of | LHOUsht he has reached any conclu pretentious plan for the future con-| ceived today at the fifth national con-! The President should its sion here with delegates from |is not only able to every State in the Union present Xairs of the local 2> s , % _On€ |litical or business % and possibly two great national parks | o5 VT PRCTRES | tains before next Spring was predigted | committee of the on all sides by the men who are lead- | Senator King creation of vast outdoor recreational|day the greater pa centers throughout the country and |\\2S devoied to a dis r 3 & | trict matters generally. He explained the Natlonal Conference on State|that he has more than an ordinary | Parks. There is little doubt, {because of the restriction placed b that he may at the next sessio was represented as expressing him for the right type of man he is anxious The President has had in mind three | Whom are residents of the District ir EUNT'NENT URGEB have legal or voting residences outside { It is thought by those with whon { changed so as to make it possible for rdless of the fact whether he had would like to see made eligible for at 1 vacancy SKYLAND, Shenandoah National | great dela He has received up the existing national parks of the [Stood to have made some inquir: i sion unbroken natural wonderland is the | | ference on State parks, which resumed | to succeed the Jate ( The establishment of at least one |)1O cannot be cont in the southern Appalachian Moun-|of Trtah. a memb ing the Nation-wide movement for the | dent for more th; | who are here attending the sessions of | f€ Vacant Commi it_was | interest in the welfare of the District stated, that Congress will take definite | and hopes the President gives serious action next Winter with the full ap- | thought to the selection proval of President Coolidge. Scattered [ *\Washington should have the serv between these preserved bits of primi- | ices of a man who is more interested tive mountain fastnesses, speakers |in the development and managemen pointed out, are hundreds of smaller. | of the city itself than he is in politics but equally beautiful, stretches of un- | or any business or financial interests, blemished woodland which should be | Senator King said he told the Pres: taken over by the States as parks and | dent. “I hope Mr. Coolidge selects held intact, so that tourists crossing | man of broad vision and with business the continent a few years hence might | experience, and who at the same time ride from the Atlantic coast to the | is young and vigorous and has cour Pacific slope through an incessant | to act as he deems best for the wel stretch of primeval nature. | fare of the city and not at the dicta A Park Every 100 Miles | tion of any selfish interests Such a plan would bring to fruiticn | Offers’ No Candlates. at last the slogan with which the Na.| e said it was a matter of indiffer- tional Conference on State Parks came | N€ce to him whether the President into belng five vears ago: “A State | finally selected a Republican or Dem park eevry hundred miles.” The pos. | ocrat. Politics should not count, he sibility of its realization so soon was |Stated, so long as a man of the de- first suggested to this conference last | Sired high standard can be lunded night when Secretary of the Interfor | While he indorsed no one for the Hubert Work and Stephen T. Mather, | Place, or had any one to urge for the director of the National Parks Service, | Place, he did say to the President in so0n after her marriage, in connection | department of its action. with which Kirby was questioned. She | Hammer said that there Is a plane | Mexican Agrarians Resist Edict department of lts action The board | gave virtual assuranc a s he way of explanation that men o available in Switzerland for a dash | e e e e ; nd an that the proposad national parks of | the type of John Hays Hammond and ves were arranging the win- ys when the | the empl, stand against prize fighting in the dow and showcase disy & P! ghting | by air to the relief of Amundsen and | and Kill Mayor. that he can obtain it fully equipped | on two weeks’ notice. ALGARSSON MEXICO CITY, May ). —A fight in which four persons were killed | and several wounded during an at- | tempt to carry out a government de- | cree ordering disarmament of agra- Blimp | rians is reported from Zempoala, in ! the State of Hidalgo. The mayor of | the town, Ascensio Cruz, was fatally May Fly to itzbergen in Following His Ship. LONDON, May 26 (®).—Grettir Al- garsson, the oung JIcelander, who | planned to race Capt. Roald Amund-| ren’s expedition to the North Pole, using a “blimp” or non-rigid airship, | is quoted by the Dally Express today | 6s saying that the polar question had | been entirely changed by Amundsen's | continued absence. | It was not now a question of who was to be the first to reach the pole | by air, but who would be the first to | reach Amunds The competitors in! this race, he said, would be the Amer ican explorer. Comdr. Donald Mac. millan, and himself. Ship Almost Ready. He confirmed the report from Liver- | pool vesterday that his supply ship, the Iceland, might leave Liverpooll for Spitzbergen without the biimp | within two weeks, with the idea of | yeaching — the archipelago in time to be of possible ance to Amund.| sen. When his airship was ready, ,Algarsson would fly from Liverpool | to Spitzbergen, join his ship there| and then undertake his polar flight. | If it becomes apparent that Amund- | gen is in trouble, ‘the Icelander be- lieves that by flying direct to Spitz- bergen he can save 10 days, which might be vital in a rescue. Algarsson's plan would be to make | straight for the pole from Spitzhergen and proceed thence to Cape Columbia, | keeping a continuous lookout for | Amundsen’s siedges. He does not be- | lieve he would be able to pick up the | Amundsen party if he found them,| 28 the blimp would have lost consider- mble gas after a long flight, but he | could supply them with food and other | Btores. | Increasing anxiety was felt here to- | flay_regarding the fate of the expedi- tion. Optimism Prevails. Optimism continued to prevail in many quarters and some felt that the Jack of news from him merely h\-’ dicated that he is waiting favorable wweather conditions for his return to| Epitzbergen. | Nevertheless the general feeling’, cas less confident and more fears | were felt that some mishap had left Amundsen and his companions with- ng boats some- out the use of their fl | ‘olumn 5.} (Continued om Page 3, wounded, Troops were sent from Pachuca to maintain order and sev- eral agrarian leaders were arrested. The disarmament order was issued hy the department of the interior, which said that armed groups other than the army were illegal. ARY IS 58. _ QUEEN M Felicitated Messages Throughout Empire. LONDON, May 26 (#).—Queen Mary today quietly celebrated her 58th birthday. She received countless con- gratulations from all parts of the coun- try and the most distant domain of the empire, Including message from the Prince of Wales, who now isin South Africa, and Prince George, who is on his way to join the British squadron in Chinese waters. Tonight there will be a family din- ner at Buckingham Palace. in From Broadcasters Seek Tennessee Evolution Trial on Air By Consolidated Pres: Broadcasters, ever on the look- out for new fields in which to demonstrate their public service, have turned their eyes to the courthouse at Dayton, Tenn., and the legal battle that will take place over the Tennessee law against teaching_evolution. Inquiries have been made by several broadcasting stations as to the possibility of arranging a chain tie-up that would permit simulta- neous broadcasting of the trial by a group of high-powered plants’ in several sections of the country. The broadcasting, if it is ar- ranged, would be as unprecedented as the trjal itself. (n its four years of popular service the microphone has entered practically every place of importance except the court: room, and its right to admission there js a vital point which will communicate the decision to the em- ploye 30 days in advance of the date of demotion or separation from the | service.” \ This afternoon the board planned to take up another matter—proposed reg- | ulations for reducing the force of em- | ployes. | Under these regulations, which were | prepared by the Bureau of Efficiency | and were said to have received the ap- | proval of most of the departments, an | employe who would be in line for dis- missal on account of reduction in force | would be given the benefit of his length of service in the Government and also of the number of depend-| ents upon him at home. According to ! prospects at noon, there was no hope | of the board reaching a conclusion on | the reduction in force proposals today. | RUMANIA TO REPLY. ‘Will Send Answer to Debt Note of U. S. This Week. BUCHAREST, Rumania, May 26 (#).—An answer to the American debt | note is promised by the Rumanian government for this week. The note was received a month ago and was followed recently by a re-| minder from Washington. Right to Put gestion that the Loeb-Leopold murder trial be put on the air met with violent disapproval from re- liglous and _educational leaders throughout the country and was dropped before the right to broad- cast from a courtroom was de- cided. 1t is doubtful, however, in view of the importance of the subject to be debated in the Scopes trial and the educational and religious questions at issue, that any great opposition would be made to in- stalling microphones to pick-up the brilliant debate looked for in the arguments. Although there is no high-pow- eréd station in_the State of Ten- nessee except WMC, at Memphis, it has been suggested that land wires could connect the Dayton courtroom to a Chicago or Cincin- nati station and releyed from there to other cities in the East and 1 | need to be cleared up If the broad- cast is lo come to pass. A sug- West. 1928, ~ (Copyright, { tional conference to discuss the pre- ! chemicals and disease germs in war | was recommended today by the mili- | tions conference on the limitation of jon the seismograph at Leyola Unl- i versity today, their re- robbers entered, drawing volvers. They tied up the employes | in a rear room, helped themselves to | the diamonds and jewelry and escaped. | MAY FORBID GERM USE | AS WEAPONS OF WAR Poison Gas Ban Also to Be Subject! of New Conference at Geneva. | | | By the Associated Press GENEVA, May 26—An interna- vention or limitation of the use of tary committee of the League of Na- traffice in arms and munitions. The proposal was inspired largely by Germany’s announcement yester- day of willingness to sign a conven- tion forbidding the use of poison gas in war. The American delegates represented on the military committee voted to call the proposed new conference. The resolution proposing it was offered by delegates from Great Britain, Italy and Poland. | The resolution said that chemical and bacteriological warfare has been unanimously condemned by the civil- ized world. It declared that prohibition of such methofls of making war must be incorporated in international law and every possible effort made at the carliest possible moment {o adopt an internatiopal convefftion on the sub- Ject. Report Quake in Far South. NEW ORLEANS, May 26 (#).—An earth disturbance 1,000 miles south of here lasting 37 minutes was recorded it was announced by Father Abell. The time was 2:23 a.m. 40 3 am. Eight Killed in Election Riots. ¥ORT DE FRANCE, Martinique, | May 26 UP).—Reports reaching here today said 8 persons were killed and 13 were wounded in disorders in sev- eral towns during yesterday's mu- nicipal clections. P sald that thefts from pocketbooks in the dormitories occurred a sh later and that Kirby left N. that time. Chief Sanborn sald that her infor- mation was given voluntarily. MAY START PROBE. Woman's Story Held Likely to Re- open Old Case. NYACK, N. Y., May 26 (#). arrest in Newburyport, Mass day of a man who said he is Harry A. Kirby, in connection with the mur- {der of Aida Hayward of Winthrop, Me., may reopen investigation into | the murder here of Miss Lillian White {in 1922, { cording to the Maine authorities, that Kirby’s wife has sald, ac- she married him in name of James J. Crawford. Crawford was employed as a_male attendant in the Letchworth Village Home for the Feeble-Minded, in which Miss White was an inmate. He was Qquestioned by the authorities after the discovery of the girl’s skeleton on a mountaln top near Nyack. The girl's skull had been crushed with a stone and her clothing stripped from her and burned. There was no one here last night who could identify Crawford with Kirby. ROYALIST IN FRANCE SHOT THROUGH HEAD Treasurer of League of Action May . Die of Wound—Assailant Escapes in Subway. Nyack under the { By the Associated Press. PARIS, May 26.—M. Berger, treas- urer of the French Royalist League of Action, was today shot through the head, perhaps fatally, in a subway station by an unknown assailant, who escaped. A group of men had followed Ber- ger from the Royalist League office and one of them shot him in the head as he was entering a_subway station. Royalist leaders said they believed anarchists or Communists attempted the assassination. The Royalist leaders explained their theory by recalling the assassination in January, 1922, of Marius Plateau, of the French Royalist League of Ac- tion, who was shot by a woman a- archist. | District of Columbia as outlined at the East would become realities soon. the time of calling off the bouts at the Washington Auditorium last week to have been staged by the National Capital Sporting Club, it was assumed from the A. A. U. an- nouncement that the tournament will be conducted so as not to conflict with the law. The conference was held between | Under plans outlined by those two | leaders in the National Parks Service, | that branch of the Government serv ice may soon undergo extensive changes whereby small areas mnow under their control would revert back to State jurisdiction as the nucleus of this idealistic program. Today their | | Frederic A. Delano had in mind. Senator King said, after seeing the President, that in his opinion there is room for much improvement in re the ones he | the management of the affairs of the District government, particular! local police system. he declared, in Charles L. Orenstein, president of the South Atlantic Divis Capt. J. R. D. CI at Washington Barracks, and Nor- man B. Landreau, commissioner for lhel District of Columbia of the A. Must Enforce Law. enforce the law to the let- . Gordon told the sport of- ficials. “It is very specific and plain. Regardless of the fact that your tournament is to be purely an ama- teur affair, I have no choice in the matter, so long as an admission fee is charged or other provisions of the law violated.” “And we most assuredly do not want to conflict with the law or em- barrass your office,” Capt. Cleland in- terjected, “and we will comply with any edict or decision you may mak While the above statements sum- marize the situation that existed as utterances found thelr reaction in the expressed determination of the dele. gates at this conference, who officially represent their respecitve States, to put the program through without more delay. Dr.-Work declared that the move- mnet for out-of-door recreation is sweeping the country, and the estab- city-bound populations might retire for recreation in body and mind. is fast becoming one of the foremost problems of the Federal Government. To meet this increasing demand for restrictec reas, the Secretary of the Interior ). ‘nted out, the States and even the municipalities must lend Congress every possible assistance. Crave Outdoor Life. “We have graduaily established an artificial life dependent upon the in- doors until now to complete the cycle we are turning back to the simpler (Continued on Page 4, Column 3. ( tinued on Page Column 1.) \Harry Thaw Reported on Broadway Again, Giving Large Tips in Cabaret By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 26.—Two New York papers today say that Harry K. Thaw has appeared on Broadway again lavishing tips in a cabaret. “Somewhere,” says the New York American, “he had found champagne and had shared sev- eral bottles of it with a man com- panion and with pretty little Fawn Gray, a dancer, who graced his table. The New York World says the male companion was a former po liceman who now acts as Thaw's secretary. Texas Guinan's new club in the Roaring Forties is given as the scene of Thaw's appearance for the first time since the quashing of kidnaping indictments removed an obstacle to his visiting New York. Recently he has been a ntleman farmer at Winchester. ., having been released from un asylum in Pennsylvania after a series of sensational legal battles that began when he killed Stan- ford White in Madison Square Garden 19 years a%o. Every pretty woman received a costly corsage bouquet at the club late last Sunday night, the stories relate. A $500 tip went to the or- chestra. Tens, twenties, fifties and even hundreds went to walters. The cost of his_evening is esti- mated as at least $1,500, and invita- tions to future entertainments are sald to have been extended. He is said to have marveled at changes in_the style of chorus raiment. Thaw danced every dance with Fawn Gray and once gave an ex- hibition of the Charleston, it is set forth. When Monday morning was well under way he disappeared in a taxicab. Inquiry at the hotel where he was staying elicited no information. He is sald to have _uscd the name of Eliot. lishment of suitable centers to which | pleasures found in the woods in con | | pointing to him and others in Con ss to see the lack of improvement in the local police system in view of the increased appropriations for this branch of the government. Increas ing the salary of those in the Police Department and enlarging the force have not brought about the efficiency he would like to see. While Senator King did not propose the appointment of either Mr. Ham mond or Mr. Delano, it so happens { that both already have been suggested to the Presideni. The White House has since been informed, however, that neither would consider accepting the appointment. Field Increases Daily. | With each day the field of candi {dates and aspirants for the vacant commissionership increases. Since ves | terday the White House list of names | has been enlarged considerably. Prom !inent among the newcomers are Maj. Gen. George Barnett, U. S. M. C,, re- tired: Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, head of the District National Guard, and Isaac Gans, former president of the Chamber of Commerce. George C. Havenner, the Anacostia Citizens' Association land a member of the Citizens' Ad | visory Council, has already been in- dorsed formally for the commissioner ship by four citizens' associations, | namely, the Anacostia, Randle High lands, Barry Farm and East Wash ington Heights. | The Jackson Democratic Associa | tion, meeting last night at tbe Shore {ham Hotel, went on record favoring the appointment of a ‘“bona fide” | Democrat to succeed Commissioner { Oyster. It was stated in a resolution adopted which will be forwarded to President Coolidge that it has been the | custom since the establishment of the present form of local government in 1878 to appoint a non-partisan Board of Commissioners. = Although no Individual was indorsed by the association, it was generally understood by those present that the members would like to see William McK. Clayton, chairman of the public utllities committee of the Federation of Citizens' Associationsand a member (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.)_ Radio Programs—Page %2 A, president of