Evening Star Newspaper, May 27, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. [ Fair tonight and tomorrow; slightly warmer tomorrow. Temperatures Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Highest. 65, at noon today: lowest, 44, at 5 a.m. today. @h s ¢ Foening WITH SUNDAY 'MOB;NIHG EDITION “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 Yesterday's as fast as the papers are printed. Circulation, 99,931 No. - 29,611 Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. 50 MEN ENTOMBED IN MINE GAS BLAST: DENSE FUMES STOP WORK OF RESCUERS Six Bodies Recovered Shaft at Sanford. N. C. Explosion Reported Lo- cated Far in Lower Levels. HUGE CLOUDS OF SMOKE POURING FROM SHAFT Full Crew Underground When Ac- cident Occurs—Governor, Told of Disaster, Prepares to Send From Federal Government. By the Associated Press RALEIGH, N. C., May More than men are entombed in the mine of the Carolina Coal Co., 8 - s | miles from Sanford, N. C., as the re- )« It of an cxplosion there today. an in| | ¢ | | | | | { border prohibition enforcement agents, | ' told the Associated Press today that |that the flyers have had a success official of the company stated over | long distance to the Associated Press here shortly after 1 o'clock this afternoon. Six bodies been recovered. The fate. of the men, he added. was undetermined, and grave fears were felt for their safety. ‘A ma- jority of the men arc said to be white. A later report from the'mine offi- cials stated that two men had gone into the mine equipped with gas masks, but had been unable to pene- trate very far. Another attempt was made by several men shortly after noon to enter the wrecked shaft, bu the result of their attempt was not known. At 1:30 o'clock the n those estimated been en tombed ranged from 5, and it was stated none had come out of the mine since the explosion occurred. Believed Due to Gas. Reports received here indicated that the explosion was of the gas variety, and its cause had not vet been de. termined. It was said t after 10 o'cloc! of the mine it occurred shortly when the full crew was on duty. Dense | rangement between the United States | continent. s mber of | i Fastest Rum Boat, Sought for Year, Finally Is Taken By the Associated Pres BOSTON, May 27.—The motor boat Peg II, said to be one of the two fastest vessels of the type on the Atlantic seaboard, was cap- tured by a Coast Guard picket boat off Sandwich ecrly today and is be- ing brought here, according to a report received at Coast Guard headquarters. The vessel, having a liquor cargo valued at $111,000, Coast Guard of- ficers said, is equipped with two 400-horsepower Liberty airplane motors, capable of developing a speed of 45 knots an hour. Y¥or more than a year the Coast Guard patrol has sought the Peg 11, which is owned in East Boston. but the speed of the craft has en- abled her to distance the best sent against her. hundred bags, containing Scotch whisky, gin and champagne were seized. 'BORDER DRY CHIEF FEARS PAGT BARS State Aid to Scene—Asks Helpf BLOCKADE ONLAKES Has No Word of Plans to Use Fleet to Prevent Rum- Running. have ! By the Associated Press DETROIT, Mich., 2 e R. Brereton, new £ of the local sector of the United States-Canadian he has received no information that the Federal authorities intend to arm 5 : i boats to be placed in commission soon |in chasing rum cinity nless there has been a secret ar- runners in this v and Canadian authorities whereby h a thing would be permissible,” he said. “we would be violating what I understand to be an agreement be- tween this Nation and the Dominion.” The present agreement between the ‘nited States and the Dominion of ‘anada, it is understood, allows each government four boats armed with small-caliber guns for use by the cus WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, AMUNDSEN AIDES WILL DELAY ASKING HELP UNTIL FRIDAY | Hopeful Absence Means Ex-| plorer Has Made Brilliant Territorial Discovery. BASE PARTY IS CHEERED AS WEATHER CLEARS UP Parallel for Present Situation Seen in Long Stop Made at South Pole. BY JAMES B. WHARTON. Special to The Star and the North American Newspaper Alliance. KINGS BAY, Spitzbergen (by radio from the steamer Farm). May 27.~| No appeal for a rescue expedition for the Amundsen-Ellsworth polar flyers will be made by his lieutenants at the Spitzbergen base before Friday, a con- ference of all the members of our base party has decided. With an almost miratulous clear-| ing-away of all adverse weather, it| was agreed that we should glve the fiyers a full week before we begin to entertain serious fears. The continued absence of the ex- plorers is puzzling, but there is no rea- et for abandoning hope of suc This was the consensus of opin ! Hopeful of rinfint Success. : | In fact, to these men familiar with | | Amundsep’s personality and career, e delay holds some brilliant possi- | bilities. 1t may mean, they declared, | it { greater than has been hitherto imag-| | ined. The most veloped is that considerable land may have been discovered around the pole, {perhaps an archipelago or group i of islands, rather than a continuou In order to lay valid claim {to this land for Norway, the discov ierer must actually stand upon it. ! When Amundsen visited the South { Pole he spent three days there to | complete his observations. Why there- | fore, it is pointed out, should he not | spend fully as much or more time |in the vicinity of the North Pole? So ! anxious was he to make certain he | had reached the southern extremity of | the globe that he scattered his party | toms department. ~ No limit is placed | of five and had each man take open on the number of unarmed boats. “The last thing we are desirous of doing is to get into entanglements | tainly be equally painstaking now, his | with Canada for violating a treaty clouds of vellow smoke and-danger- due to overzealousness in enforcement ous fumes emanating from the mouth of the mine prevented early attempts at rescue work An inquiry as to whether outside needed was replied to in the tive, at least for the present. »v. McLean was apprised of the ster and was in close touch with the situation. He stated he would ex- tend the aid of the State if it appeared needed. After getting in touch with the situ ation Gov. McLean requested a corps of engineers headed by Chief High- way Commissjoner Paige to proceed to the scene of the disaster. At the same time he dispatched Adjt. Gen. Metts to the scene and long-distanced an appeal to the Bu- reau of Mines at Washington for Federal aid in what was described to him as a “serious emergency.” RESCUE CAR RUSHED. Bureau of Mines Orders Experts to Hurry to Scene of Tragedy. The Bureau of Mines today ordered a mine rescue car from Thomas, W. Va., to Sanford, N. C.. to aid in mine rescue work at the Carolina Coal Co.’s mine. : The rescue car from W Virginia wiil travel by way of Washington and will reach the scene some time tomorrow. In addition, 1. J. FForbes. in charge of the s Birmingham station, and C. £ nother mine ex pert, are proceeding to the scene from Birmingham LIEUT. HILL CONVICTED IN NAVY LIQUOR TRIAL Norfolk Court-Martial Convicts Of- of the prohibition law,” Mr. Brereton | sata. | present_this consists of four in opera- | pleted data He also denled knowledge of a fleet of 15 armed rum chasers, 75 feet long, which were finished two weeks ago at Bay City and which supposedly were to be assigned to the Detroit district. Since his arrival here a few day ago Brereton has been inspecting the Government craft at his disposal. At tion. Two of these are owned by the Government and two are borrowed. Brereton intimated that boats are be | observations at various spots. 1f he | was so careful then, he would cer- aides declare. Ellsworth, the American member ! of the expedition, is more interested | { than any of the others in the sclen- ! tific results of the flight. He would | wish to spend all possible time col- | lecting data of geographic, meteoro- {logical, natural and economic value. | Holds Weather Is Good. ! Prof. Bjerknes, our chief meteorolo- | gist, says that on a basis of his com- regarding wind and | weather he is able to state positively that the weather over the polar cap !has been favorable ever since the | ing bullt at other points in the State |hop.off, in spite of several periods of |and out of the State for use by tI\:|mild unpleasantness local division, but refused to say how many or when they would be deliv- | ered. I | i i BLOCKADE BAN DOUBTED. Officials Here Think Unlimited Num- ber of Ships Allowed. By the Associated Press. onvention between the United States and Canada regarding arma- ments on the Great Lakes do not limit the number of craft which may be maintained by either nation for “(Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) GERMAN GFFGERS 10 LEAD RFFIANS 147 Reported on Way to Di-: rect - Tribal War on French Forces. ficer of Two Charges, While Third Is Dismissed. E | l | p | By the Associated Press. By ineiAsocialed Bre | PARIS ¢ 27.—Abd-el-Krim, the NORFOLK. Va. May 27.-Lieut,| Rifian leader, ctively recruiting | }"lnhm'i D-m““”“ i o “?‘““ !k“l“fl supporters among the tribesmen in- charges and was acquitted on another | Babiting the zone north of the Ouergha harge growing out of the finding of | River, which has just been abandoned liquor aboard the naval transportby the French. Beaufort, when she docked here Feb-| Hard fighting is continuing, with | ruary 24 from the West Indies. { neither side making any appreciable MAINE MURDERVSUSPECT TO FACE SANITY INQUIRY By the Associated Pres WINTHROP. Me., May 27.—Harry | A. Kirby, charged with the murder of Miss Aida Hayward, whose body was found last ¥ in a cottage which Kirby had occupied at Lake Maranacoak, was held without bail for the September grand jury, when ar- ratgned today in Municipal Court. Kirby, whose real name is now known to be Louis Blunt, entered a plea of not guilty and waived a hear- He was not represented by coun- remanded to jail at Au- gusta to await grand jury action. At the brief arraignment no question was rafsed as to his mental condition, al- though it had been said that he would be placed under observation at a State hospital. R U. S. PAY DAY ADVANCED. Workers Will Get Checks Friday, Because of Holiday. Government clerks will be paid their salaries for the last half.of May next Friday. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon today authorized the disbursing rlerks of the various Government de- partments to make the payments. This was done because Saturday is a national holjday and the st day of the menth comes on Sunday. | i | | gains. Information from sources which the French consider unimpeachable is to the effect that 147 young Germans, trained in various semi-military ath- letic organizations, have left Germany for Morocco by the way of Spain to join Abd-el-Krim's troops. Some, it is said, will receive commissions, while the others will serve.as non-commis- sloned officers. Abd-el-Krim's immediate aim is to | get food supplies, latest reports from Fez state. His concentration of the | Riffians for action against the French has brought certain regions of the Riff almost to the point of famine, it is reported. Accordingly Abd-el- Krim's idea is believed to be to ad- vance into the rich fields of the tribes in the Ouergha valley, seize all the food that can be carried and get these supplies back to his bases. Big Attack Delayed. Latest advices indicate that Abd-el! Krim, the Riffian leader, is not yet prepared for his big push against the French. The whole Moroccan question is being threshed out in the Chamber of Deputies this afternoon. _Political circles believe the debate will end in a substantial vote of confidence. A report from Tetuan, in the Spanish zone of Morocco, last night said reliable advices reported the presence at Tangier of a French colonel to negotiate with Abd-el-Krim with a view to ending the Riffian offensive in the French zone. The same advice asserted that the French had lost more than 2,000 killed in the recent fighting. around Spitz. bergen. Bjerknes adds: “It is unbe. |lievable that any irremediable catas- trophe has happened to both planes. Either everything has gone through gloriously, or the expedition has met with complete disaster.” Roused by False Alarm. Two false alarms today roused mo- mentary hopes among the base party and served as indication of the frayed Ipens?. Early this morning, while we were | cruising slowly north along the Spitz- {bergen coast, one of the deckhands " (Continued on Page 3, Column 'BANDITS HOLD TOWN AT BAY, LOOT BANK | Escape After Leisurely Blowing | Safe in Home Town of George { Ade in Indiana. y the Associated Press. KENTLAND, Ind, May 27.—Auto- mobile bandits, estimated to number between 8 and 12, early today besieged the town of Brook, home of George | Ade, huniorist, blew open the vault approximately $2,500. Telephone and telegraph wires lead- ing out of the town were cut and the men proceeded in a leisurely and ef ficient manner to dynamite their way to the money. Frightened citizens | were held at bay ‘and were eye-wit- nesses to the robbery. Members of the band patroled the various corners in -the town, stop| ping at the point of weapons all citi- zens who ventured from their homes | plosions that shook the place. Their Pjob completed, the men clambered !into two automobiles and made their ! escape. - | ON TERMS FOR GERMANY Note Concerning Disarmament Will Be Sent to Berlin After Con- ference Friday. By the Associated Press. . LONDON, May 27—It was under- stood here today that British and French governments have reached an | agreement regarding Germany concerning her disarma- | soon after the meeting at Paris Fri- day of the reparations commission. It is reported this meeting will formally signify that Germany has carried out her financial obligations under the Dawes plan. o Belgian Cabinet Unformed. BRUSSELS, May 27 (#).—Burgo- master Max has abandoned his efforts to form a cabinet and is expected to inform the King to this effect today. 1 interesting theory de-| nerves caused by the protracted sus-| of the State Bank and escaped with | to investigate the five dynamite ex-| PARIS AND LONDON AGREE | the demands | they will incorporate in the note to| ment under the treaty of Versailles, | The note may be sent to Germany | MACKSLEADNATS 30, 30 NN iBryan Harriss, Jinx of Champs, Is Opposing Johnson on Mound. l | WASHINGTON. Line-Up. PHILADELPHIA. Bishop, 2b. Dykes, 3b. Lamar, If. Simmons, cf. Miller, rf. Poole, 1b Dineen and BY JOHN B. KELLER. SHIBE PARK, Philadelphia, May 27.-—The Athletics lead Washington in the third inning of the opening game of the series here today. The score was 3 to 0. More than 15,000 Philadelphian fans turned out to welcome the Ath- letics home from a most successful Western tour. It has been some time | since rooters of the Quaker City have had an American League ciub so promising and the folks here are | making the most of it. Warmer weather than they had at Washington vesterday greeted the clubs. Manager Harris started the veteran, Walter Johnson, against the Mackmen and he was opposed by the | Washington club’s pet jinx, Bryan | Harriss. Among the many fans present were Kenesaw Mountain Landis, high com- issioner of base ball, and John Heyd- ler, president of the National Leagu Prior to the game they, with Presi- dents Thomas Shibe of the Athletics and Clark Griffith of the Nationals, paraded with the opposing teams and a band to center field to participate in flag-raising ceremonies. FIRST INNING. WASHI — Rice bounded a single over Harriss' head, hitting the first ball pitched. S. Harris forced Rice, Harriss to Bishop. J. Harri: rolled to Bishop, who touched out ! Harris on the line, then pegged wildl | over first letting J. Harris reach sec- ! ond. Goslin fanned. No runs. PHILADELPHIA — Bishop popped | to Ruel in front of the plate. Johnson ! hit Dykes. Lamar fouled to Judge. | simmons fanned. No runs SECOND INNIN WASHINGTON — Judge walked. Bluege whiffed. Judge died stealing, Cochrane to Galloway. Galloway toss: ed out Peck. No runs. PHILADELPHIA — Miller Rice. Poole popped to Judge. got Galloway's foul. No runs. THIRD INNING. WASHINGTON—Ruel lifted to Mil- ler. Dykes threw out Johnson. Rice went out,-Galloway to Poole. No runs. PHILADELPHIA—Cochrane got a single past Johnspn. Harriss bounded a single over Bluege's head, Cochrane stopping at second. Both runners ad- vanced as Harris threw out Bishop. With a three and. two count Dykes singled to left, scoring Cochrane and putting Slim Harriss on third. Dykes stole second on the first pitch to La- mar. Lamar fouled to Judge. Sim- mons singled to left, scoring Harriss |and Dykes. Miller doubled to left | center, Simmons stopping_at third. Poole grounded to Judge. Three runs. URGES HEALTH OFFICIAL IN PRESIDENT’S CABINET ' Tuberculosis Associaton Puts Ques- tion Before Conyention of | Physicians. | ! By the Associated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., May 27.— Creation of a secretary of ~public | health, with a seat in the President's | cabinet, was advocated today by Dr. | Linsley R. Williams, New York, direc- tor of the National Tuberculosis | Association, in addressing the section jon preventive and. industrial medicine |of the American Medical Assoclation {in convention here. N AIR MAIL HEAD QUITS. Paul Henderson, Second Assistant Postmaster - General, was relieved to- day, at his own request, of his as- signment as head of the Air Mail Serv- ice. Postmaster General New dele- gated W. Irving Glover, Third Assist- {ant Postmaster General, to succeed him. Mr. Henderson resigned from the | Government service, effective August |1, to become general manager of the { National Air Transnort, Inc., recently organized at Chicago to develop com- mercial aviation. | lined to Bluege MAY 27, “BUNDLI Will Carry Jazz To Head Hunters of Peru’s Border DAY By the Associated Press LIVERPOOL, England, May 27. ~—Jazz records and radio are to be introduced to the head hunters on the Columbian-Peruvian border in South America. These modern de- vices will be part of the equipment of an expedition headed by Dr. William Montgomery McGovern, who plans this Summer to pene- trate the unmapped plateau be- tween the Andes and the Amazon Valley and make friends with the savages. Little is known to scientists of these head hunters except that they have Maku pigmy slaves and shrink the headg of their victims by a secret process to the size of an_apple. Dr. McGovern has left for Brazil to organize his party. In addi- tion to the noise-making devices, he will take with him into the Jjungle mirrors, colored beads, scis- Sofs. knives, artificial eves and other articles. He will also give demonstrations of the action of certain chemicals to impress the natives with his powers. He ex- pects to be gone a yea VIRGINIA 0 1SSUE BUYANACRE CALL Warned of Hot-Dog Stand Invasion, State Plans Park System Along Lee Highway. BY H. K. PHILIPS, Staff Correspondent of The Ster. CRESCENT CLIFF, Shenandoah National Park, Va., May ~—THe fth national conference on State parks moved its seat of activities to- day from the snug shelter of Sk land to this natural amphitheater in the heart of one of the forest wilder- nesses it is seeking to preserve as a playground for the city-bound people of the East. With nothing but the blue sky and towering hemlocks as their roofs and rare mountain flora as the carpet of their earthen floor the delegates sat facing speakers whose stage was a great barren cliff that drops straight down 2,000 feet to the figor of a can- von that rolls on down gnother 1,000 feet to the floor of the Shenandoah Valley, which spreads itself out in the distance like a huge modeled map. John Barton Payne, president of the conference, introduced Harris A. Rey- nolds of the Massachusetts Forestry Association as the chairman of the meeting and the afternoon was given over to short addresses by representa- tives from some of the States repre- sented here. State parks was the or- der of the day and nothing was con- sidered but that problem, despite the enthusiasm in favor of the proposed Eastern national parks that has domi- nated the conference since its opening last Monday. Among those to be heard this after- noon were H. W. Applegate of Arkan- sas, M. P. Phillips of Alabama, A. M. Turner of Connecticut, Mrs. Katherine B. Trippetts of Florida, Richard Lie- ber of Indiana, Charles H. Diggs of Towa, J. R. Jilison of Kentucky, Maj. J. G. Lee of Loulsiana, Karl E. Pfeiffer of Maryland, Willlam A. L. Bazeley of Massachusetts, Howard B. Bloomer of Michigan, Charles F. Hal field of Missouri, C. P. Wilber of New Jersey, J. S. Holmes of North Caro- lina, Edward Secrist of Ohio, R. Y. Stuart of Pennsylvania, Wilbur A. Nelson of Tennessee, Robert M. Ross of Vermont, Dr. D. P. Wine of Vir- ginia and Nat T. Frame of West Vir- ginia. ‘Warns of Hot-Dog Stands. Stephen T. Mather, director of the national parks service, told the con- ference that Texas -now-leads the Nation in the establishment of State parks with 53 such reservations. Mr. Lieber corrected him to say that In- diana has the same number. Address- ing himself directly to Goy. Trinkle of Virginia, Mr, Mather declared that unless Virginia acquires tracts along the Lee Highway between Washing- ton and the Shenandoah National Park and converts them into camping and picnic grounds before next Spring T (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) Radio Programs—Page 33. 1925—-FORTY PAGES. * BOARD WILL SCRAP | | Sale to Be Ordered—Hopes Ford Will Buy Nine of Re- frigerator Type. | | By the Associated Prese. The Shipping Board voted today offer for sale 200 ships for scrapping. In what numbers the ships would be but this is expected to be determined when the scrapping committee, com- prising airman O'Connor and Com- missioners Benson and Plummer, sub- mits for approval an advertisement for the sale. A number of bids are expected, among them probably one from Henry Ford. Chairman O'Connor today is- sued a statement in regard to the proposed Ford bid as follows: Say Ford Is Interested. “One of the classes of vessels Mr. Ford became interested in was the refrigerator ships. Mr. O'Connor told Mr. Ford that of the 11 refrigerator ships owned by the board 2 were for sale. . “Mr. O'Connor believes that if Mr. Ford buys these vessels he will Diesel- ize them and so recondition them as to carry Ford products South and bring fruit North as return cargo. | | Mr. Mayo (Ford chief engineer), it is ‘hoped, wilt hasten an offer on the part of Mr. Ford to buy refrigerator ships, which the board will be glad to consider. These ships have been idle for several years.” Only One Opposes. with Commissioner Thompson absent and not voting. Commissioner Liss- ner is understood to have been the member voting “no” today. The 200 vessels to be scrapped have a total tonnage of 817,130 deadweight tons, and include coal burners, oil burners and tube-type ships. “This matter of scrapping ships as of necessity claimed a great deal of our time' Mr. O'Connor said. “Now that this scrapping of useless ships is definitely under way, we shall turn our attention to useful, active ships. and make every possible effort to get bids for them from private American citizens, who will make the ships more useful. The Dieselizing of a ship is very expensive, but it is economy. Induéements Promised. “It private operators make bids for American ships and guarantee to Dieselize them and to operate them under the American flag for a period ©of vears they should receive extreme- +1y favorable consideration as to price | and terms of payment. We have talked for some time about getting a private- ly owned American merchant marine. The thing to do now is to.go out and (Continued on Page 5, Column 4.) ASKS U S. TO PUNISH WAR DEBT APOLOGIST Representative Fish Charges New York Banker Criticized Demand That France Pay Up. By the Associated Press. The activities of certain Americans | with regard to the war .debt prob- lem. today led Representative Fish of New York, a Républican member of the House -foreign affairs committee, to ask President Coolidge to enforce a section of the criminal code which provides fine and imprisonment for Americans, who misrepresent the views of the Government to officlals of foreign nations. Mr. Fish called_attention to a enacted while: Benifamin Franklin :‘a:; Ambassador to France which stipu- tates that any American who, with out authority, communicates directly or indirectly with any foreign official ywith an intent to influence or defeat prisoned not more than three years. The New York Representative urged that a test case be made ternational banker for apologizing for the United: States for having asked France to recognize and fund the war obligations.” He did not name the banker : TWOHUNDREDSHPS The proposed trip East next week of | The vote in the board was 5 to 1,/ (P) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. SINCLAIR, DOHENY ’ AND FALL INDICTED ANEW IN OIL CASE Conspiracy to Defraud m Teapot and Elk Hills Leas- | ing Is Charged. | DOHENY’S SON IS CLEARED | IN GRAND JURY REPORT ! | Alleged Bribery Action May Be! Voided Under Three-Year l Statute of Limitations. { The new grand jury oil inquiry | | terminated today with the reporting | lof two indictments alleging con-| | spiracy to defraud the United States | |in connection with the leasing and | | operating of the naval ofl reserves,| i known as Teapot Dome and Elk Hills. | {One indictment charges a conspiracy | between Albert B. Fall of New Mexico, | former Secretary of the Interior, and | Harry F. Sinclair, oil New York, to get the lease to Teapot | Dome without competitive bidding. The other indictment charges a sim- ilar conspiracy in relation to the Elk | Hills reserve between former Secre- |tary Fall and Edward L. Doheny, oil | | magnate of Los Angeles. { The grand jurors exonerated ! ! ward L. Doheny, jr., son of the Cali-| !fornia magnate, of any connection | Twith the alleged conspiracy. The| { younger Doheny was included in the | -onspiracy indictment reported against | Ihis father and Fall last June and, ! which was quashed by Chief Justice { McCoy last month. | No Bribery Indictments. No new indictments for bribery were | secured today by Atlee Pomerene and | Owen J. Roberts, special counsel for | the Government in the ofl prosecution. | Counsel take the position, it is under- | | stood, that if the act of Congress set- | magnate of | to| ting a limitation of six years In the I'epresentative honors to which he s { prosecution of governmental defraud- | { ing applies to the bribery cases there | W disposed of at first was not decided, | will be time enough to get new in-|by the Board of I2d. | dictments. Should the ' statute not which figured in the Senate hearing i further prosecution is barred by the fact ‘that more than three vears have already elapsed since the alleged bribery. ; New Indictments Broader. {are more comprehensive in character. |While the old indictments merely |charged a conspiracy to obtain the leases to the lands included in the Inaval reserves, the new ones allege |that the conspiracy embraced {sale of ol to the Government without | competitive bidding, the purchase of istorage facilities, the buying of ker- osene, lubricating oil and petroleum land the adoption of a credit sale Imethod of purchase by which no !cash passed to the United States. Among the overt acts charged in the Doheny indictment is the al- eged payment of $100,000 by the jelder Doheny to the former Secre- {tary. |in ‘that indictment relates to con- {tracts of April 25, 1922, and Decem- ber 11, 1822, and the setting out of !the lease of the naval reserve execut- jed December 11, 1922. | Added Charges Made. The Sinclair indictment charges new overt acts in addition to those set forth in the indictment of last vear. Chief among these s the al- leged passage of $230,500 in Liberty bonds from Sinclair to Fall through 1Ltd., a Canadian corporation. The execution of the lease of April 7, 19 {to Teapot Dome, and the execution of a construction contract, dated Feb- ruary 9, 1923. Counsel for the Government have | noted an_appeal from the decision { of Chiet Justice McCoy quashing the two previous conspiracy indictments as well as the two bribery charges. The new indictments were secured, of the lower court. { reach the transfer of the Sl(\fl.OOOi The new indictments for conspiracy | the | The only new overt act listed | i means of the Continental Trading Co. ' FRATSRUNMORALE AND FISTER CAST BOARD TELLSCOURT Discipline Thwarted by Se- cret Bodies, Says Reply to Test Case. WESTERN HIGH PUPILS’ ACTION DISMISSAL ASKED School Officials Say Annoyance of 25 Years Was Curbed by Ban on Societies. Asserting that secret organ hamper school discipline, lov morale of pupils and ‘“foster sn: bery,” the Board of Education today filed its answer in the District preme Court to the petition brought by a student for a writ of man to test the school board's rule agains fraternity membership. Through Corporation Counsel Fran- s H. Stephens the school board mem- bers ask the court to dismiss the peti- tion of Chester Ward, a We hool student, on the ground adoption of the rules “was a valid ex ercise of the discretion and authority vested in them by the law.” The substance of the school board s anti-traternity rule is that if a stude: joins a secret organization that approved by the Board of Educat he shall be deprived of hoiding any of fice of honor in the cadet brigade school publications, competitive a letics or similar school activities Asks Reinstatement. The_specific plea High School student compel the school b him in these activities, from w was barred because of membership ir a fraternity. The answer of the board reads, in part, “Respondents. however deny that the relator h prived of any position legally entitled wer or that the said rule unlawfully adopted. or that any abuse of discretion exe tion in the adop cised tion of the said ru { “Further answe rule herein, responde | various Boards of | superintendents of have becr | harassed and annoyed for a quarter of {a century by the activities of certa | secret organizations, fraternities ar sororities existin , in the high schaols of the city whose influences tended i« hamper the discipline of the schools {lower the morale of the pupils and in | terfere seriously with the education {and accompiishiments of the memt ducation and | of such organizations, and (o create and foster a spirit of snobbery and exclusiveness highly detrimental tc the welfare of all pupils in the s ‘A rule upon the subject aimed a fraternities was passed by the Boa of Education in 1900, Rule 19, as fo lows: ‘There shall be no organizatior | of any society or association among pupils, as such.’ This rule was modi { fled in 1907 and became Rule 61. I | the rules of 1911 it is Rule 64. as fo! lows: ** “There shall be no organization of |any society or association among pu | pils as such. except that musi Tit | erary and athletic societies or clubs of | open membership, whose boards governors shall be composed of equ: members of teachers and pupils an | senfor class organizations in high schools, may be permitted on the writ ten order of the superintendent schools, the same to be reported to Board of Education. Further Changes Made. “That thereafter there were va |ous muodifications of the rule unt the adoption of the present rule set forth in paragraph 6 herein: that | the superintendent of the said schools has had very numerous conferences with both the teachers and principals | in the public school system in { District and has found an almost unanimous desire and demand on the part of the teachers, principuls and parents that the Board of Education jit is understood, as a matter of pre-|devise some method to destroy or caution in the event that the Court|curb the existence of such organiz: of Appeals should sustain the ruling|tions: that the superintendents | schools have over a period of man vears corresponded with other school i HOGAN HITS CHARGE: authorities throughout the country Xisce s | to_ascertain their views as o such i itihe g ... | organizations, . their influence upon | U S. Would Not Call Logical Wit-| ypils and the methods used to curb ! scx Hie Ascie such organizations: that the supe: lizs intendent of schools made a_report Commenting on the new indictment|(; the Board of Education for the {returned today charging comspiracy |year 1921.22, fully Setting out ihe against former Secretary of the In-ijsition of the schools authoritics | terior Albert B. Fall and Edward L. | ? | 5 4 L=| upon the supervision of high school .PD“el"e‘l‘eL h""f,m‘;‘f alr:i "“;;'?“‘f("“_;‘,rrmernixies and sororities and their | g ‘ehiet comreet for M. Doneny, | ifluence upon pupils in the schools |the policies of the United States shall | be fined not more thuan $5,000 and im- | “against a prominent New York in- | ! made the following statement: | ““The first striking thing about this | new oil case indictment is the absence |of the name of Edward L. Doheny, {dr., from it. Last year the prosecution |in” these case obtained an indictment charging a couspiracy among former | " (Continued on Page 2, Column 5) CUT IN RAIL MILEAGE CHARGE IS REVOKED I C. C. Orders Lines to Continue Present Rate—Had Directed 20 Per Cent Slash. | By the Associated Pre | The long-fought mileage book case was finally disposed of by the Inter- state Commerce Commission today { in the issue of an order directing rail- roads to continue their present prac- tice of selling interchangeable scrip coupons at the regular passenger rates. An earlier decision ordered most of the class one roads to join in a plan for interchangeable mileage books at a reduction of 20 per cent under the regular passenger fare rates, but this was overthrown in the courts. On rehearing the present method, by which passengers.are not required to buy a ticket for each trip, but by which théy must pay the full rate, was upheld. Commissioner Cox dissented, hold- ing the 20 per cent reduction should heve been allowed. | tember, The members of the school board jdeny in their answer that the hoard {ever knowingly permitted or allowed | students in secret societies to hold any | of the offices or positions mentioned in the rules. They tell the court that { whenever information has come to them that students were members of such organizations they have endeav jored to ascertain the truth of the in { formation and have then taken proper action. Deny Injustice Charge. The board further ‘declares that it |have never knowingly displayed any favoritism in the matter of approved organization, but has endeavored to treat such organizations with equal justice. The answer adds the states ments that whether such favoritism has or has not been displayed is im- meterial and irrelevant, in that it does | not prove the legal rights of the rela- | tor the writ sought. The answer points out that in Sep. 1921, the superintendent of schools prepared a pamphlet dealing with membership in unapproved or ganizations and distributed copies to parents of all pupils in the high | schools and junior high schools. MARSHALL MUCH BETTER. Former Vice President Suffering From a Severe Cold. Former Vice President Thomas R Marshall, who is ill here at the New Willard Hotel, passed a good night and was described today as being much improved. Mr. Marshall is suffering from a severe cold attended by exhaustion. which set in upon his arrival here yesterday from Indianapolis.