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WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Fe Unsettled tonight, possibly orecast.) ocea- sional light showers; not much change in temperature. Highest, 73, yesterday; lowest, a.m. today Temperatures— occurred at 5:15 p.m. 57, occurred at 3 Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 18 No. 29,613, post_office, Entered as second class matter Washington, D. C. NAVYSTAYSON O LAND, WITH VODING OF DOHENY LEASE Wilbur Says Court Action Was Expected—Receivers Due to Remain. PEARL HARBOR PROJECT ALSO ORDERED CANCELED Doheny to Appeal Verdict Brand- ing Him “Trespasser,” and Charging Fraud. Tombstone’s Fall ' ‘Kills Child Near His Father’s Grave By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, Pa. Clarence Hall, three years old, is dead today from injuries he suf- fered when he was pinned under a falling tombstone in a local ceme- tery. His mother had taken him to the cemetery to decorate his father's grave for Memorial day. ‘While she was arranging flowers on the grave she heard a cry and saw her son pinned underneath the stone, about which he had been CERMANY FATHRLL | IN PAYING PLEDGES he Zh WASHINGTON, D. 263 INDICTMENTS CHARGE GIGANTIC FURNITURE TRUST Manufacturers of Household Equipment, Refrigerators, Radio Cabinets Accused. CONDITION HAS EXISTED SINCE 1913, U. S. HOLDS Violations of Law, However, Specified as Occurring During Last Three Years. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION C., S N — e ———————— —— e ——— — —— S S ———————— ==t FRIDAY, MAY 29, ,“ D C-TAYE?ST'IUST ¥ BE PAID BEFORE | JUNE |. 1925 —-TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. ening Star. * The Star’s tion is delivers as fast as the Yesterday’s “From Press to Home Within the Hour” carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- ed to Washington homes papers are printed. Circulation, 99,223 (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. CIVIL WAR IMMINENT IN SOUTHERN ALBANIA Government Prepares for Wide- spread Revolt of Supporters of Former Regime. By the Associated Press. BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, May 29.— | Trouble again is brewing in southern | Albania, say dispatches from Tirana, the capital. Insurgents gradually are forming groups and attacking the regular forces, it is asserted, and the capital itself is in danger. Premier Ahmed Zogu's authority, the dispatches say, seems badly shak-| en in the region where the movement | is proceeding. He has returned to the | capital from Durazzo and is preparing for operations on a large scale. The insurgent leader is said to be Kemal Beg Vrioni, who is in touch with the members of the former regime, now outside the country. He is understood to have the support of Bulgarian and Macedonian organiza tions in Vienna. NATION WILL BOW DISTRIT SURVEY OF HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM NEARER Commissioners Expected to Ask Necessary Funds in New Budget. FIRST PRACTICAL STEP FOR FIRE PROTECTION Committee of Three Proposed. Expense Estimated at About $3,000. 0 AVOID PewaiTY The District Commissioners virtual- have decided ask for a mod erate sum in the new District budget 1o defray the cost of a careful study By the Ascociated Press. CHICAGO, May and sixty-nine indictments against manufacturers and individuals concern By the Associated Prese Adminis of naval oil reserve in Iy to UNDER DAWESPLAN Elk Hills hundred California prob- | the HEAD TOMORROW ably will continue as at pr t under the decision of the Federal court at Los Angeles vesterday holding the Doheny Jease of the property invalid. In anticipation of such a ruling the Naty has been goin plans to con ue the present arrange- ment, and alt cretary Wilbur will confer with the special Govern- ment oil counsel shorily there is no indication of an impending change. Rear Admiral H Rousseau and J. C. Anderson. president of the Pan- American Petrol m Co., a year ago ivers for the prop- ‘s decision points nce in office until been taken hy the . and yesterd to their continy final action has Supreme Court Pearl Harbor Status Doubtful. Whether action can be taken toward preserving the empty oil tanks at Pearl Harbor, which are to be with royvalty oil from the Elk Hills, s a question on which no Navy De. partment official now in will express an opinion. Secretary Wilbur and Owen Robe: counsel are out of The litigation the agreement tanks were con before they were completed, and Sec- retary Wilbur, following the advice of Not only the city. over the validity of under which these the special oil counsel, has refused to | take them over or have them filled with oil because of the possibility that such action mi on the court proceedings. It recently developed, however, that the bottoms of these were de- terjorating U n, could be stopped if oil were put them, and it w id in responsible circles then that, although action could be taken unless the Doheny interests wished to do so on their own responsibility and without | obligation or charge to the Govern- | ment_a different course might be per missible after the Los Angeles court had announced its deci: Production is_continu Hills reserve. but no being drilled unless fi ites have given 140.- 000,000 barrels of oil originally at Elk Hills, of which it is| sald about 12,000,000 had been removed to date. new wells are Teapot Dome Case Next. One other important case i pending in the civil oil litigation. that involving the lease of the Teapot Dome reserve to the Mammoth Oil subsidiar: A decision on_that le been challenged broadly grounds as the Doheny lease, at Elk Hills, is awaited from the Federal dis- strict courts at Cheyenne. An appeal will he taken from the Tos Angeles decision. it was an- nounced by Frank J. Hogan of coun- sel for 1. L. Doheny. The following statement was issued by Mr. Hogan. “Judge McCormick’s decision ' is only preliminary to a_hearing of the case before the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in San and an ultimate hearing before the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington. We look upon this as only the first step in the litigation and not by any means as a decisive one. On the hearing before the Cir- cuit Court of App 1 of the facts and law in the ¢ ill he reviewed by the three circuit zes. The ap- peal will be noted about the middle of June, when counsel for ernment and the companies meel in mrick’s court in be argued in Fall. ACTION WAS FORESEEN. Judge Mot It will next Wilbur Says Navy Had Gone Ahead With Plans. NEWPORT, R. L. May 29 (£).—The Navy Department already has made plans to administer the naval oil re- serves in view of such decision as was rendered by the Federal Court in Los Angeles yesterday, declaring void the Elk Hills leases and contracts to the Doheny oil interests, etary of tne Navy Wilbur id today. We are very much pleases decision of the court,” Se bur said. “We have been p! administer the oil such a decision. " Sec with the ary Wil nnin:s to reserves in view of Secretary Wilbur came to Newport | today to ateend the gmduating exer- cises at the Noval War College. FRAUD IS CHARGED. of $100,000 to Fall. Calif., May 29 (@). —Branded by a Federal court tresspassers on the oil lands of the United States, the Doheny oil interests today prepared to carry to a higher tribunal the decision made here ves- terday by Judge Paul J. McCormick, ordering them to give up for cancella® tion of their leases in naval oil reserve No. 1, ‘alifornia, and their contracts for the -onstruction of ol storage fa- cilitles at Pearl Harbor, Hawali. Two reasons for declaring the Elk Hills leases and contracts void are cited by Judge McCormick in his de- cision: First, the “fraud upon the United States” involved in E. L. Do- heny’s payment of $100,000 to Albert B. Fall, then Secretary of the Interior, and second. the transfer by President Harding of naval oil roserve control to the Interior Department in excess of his executive authority as Presi- dent. The decision points out that Fall was ‘“very active in procuring the transfer of the naval oil reserves to his department, but did not resort to any “false, fraddulent or untrue repre- (Continued on Page 4, Column 6.) Court Hits ment by Doheny LOS ANGEL] i forward with filled | Washington | but Atlee Pomerene | < of the special oil | tructed was instituted | > come bearing | which | in | no such | { ment’s the Elk | - necessary off-| s in the ground ! Co., a Sinclair | . which has | on the same | Francisco | the Gov- | Pan-American | “or- Reparations Commission Answers Allied Query. Evacuation Note Ready. Br the Associated Press. PARIS, May 29.—The reparations commission officially announced today that Germany is- faithfully fulfilling her reparations engagements under the Dawes plan. This decision will be communicated to the Council of Am- bassadors tomorrow. The meeting of the Council of Am- bassadors tomorrow is expected to con- | sider the note of the allies to Ger. many regarding the latter's disarma- ment under the Versailles peace treat It is understood this note will in- form Germany that inasmuch as all conditions of that treaty have not been faithfuily executed, the allied oc- cupation of the Cologne zone must continue. Opinion here is that the note will be sent to Germany some time next week. The reparations commission con- sidered all documents dealing with the execution of the Dawes plan up to May 1. It had a letter dated May 2 from the Council of Ambassadors as ng “up to the present, has Germany acquitted faithfully her obligations for reparations as fixed under the Dawes iplan?’ The commission, after a short e change of views among its member: replied: “The answer is in the af. firmative.” ‘ i SCURITY VIEWS GIVE British Note Regarding Pact Is Sent te France. LONDON. May 29 (#).—A commun- cation outlining the. British govern- views regarding Germany proposal for a western European s curity pact was sent to the French government today. This followed con- | sideration Ly the Baldwin cabinet of the note- trom Foreign Minister Briand of France elucidating as the | British government had requested, the { French reply to Germany regarding the proposed pact. | Official circles expressed the hope | that as a result of British suggestions | it would soon be possible for France 0 send to Berlin a note representing | a Franco-British agreement on the se- i curity question. It is understood the British com- munication clearly . specifies that Britain continues to maintain a posi- tion of not entering any widespread or indefintie scheme of security but favors definite and limited undertak- ings. Only a pact to which Britain and France mutually agree and which is limited to the security of western Eu- rope, will be acceptable both to Lon- don and to the British Dominions, the communication says, acording to the understanding here. | Apparently the French have shown a tendency for reasonable conciliations regarding details of security of her frontiers and British officials are thereby led to the belief that Paris may accept London’s views, i AT R |TWO CHILD MURDERS %Glsnd War Veteran Is Charged With Crushing Skulls of Boy and Girl. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, Pa., May mond Winters, a street car conductor, today was formally charged with the | murder of Alexander Sabo, 8, and his sister, Helen, 6, whose bodies, with the skulls crushed, were found late v erday in a shallow creek near Castle Shannon, a suburb. Winters was arrested before the bodies were {found. The police said they had mot been informed that he was with the th'hl!'en late Wednesday 1f I harmed the children I don't remember,” Winters told the authori- | tiex. Dr. W. J. Winters, father of the | accused, told detectives that his son had moi been normal since he was assed during the war. {Old War Cry BY JOHN B. GUNTHER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily New PARIS, May 29.—The scores of_] thousands of Americans who are pouring into Paris as the tourTst season approaches its climax have been delighted with the news com- ing from the Chamber of Deputies that identity cards for foreigners will cost only 50 francs instead of the 200 franes proposed. Paris is flooded with Americans. in some quarters of the city it ‘is | difficult to find places where French | is being spoken. The boulevards and cafes are jammed with college boys, millinery buvers. school teach- ers, students and millionaire tiav- elers, all agape. all wide-eved and mirroring “'So this is Paric,, in ex- cited curiosity. The Americanization of Paris has progressed to such an extent that it is possible here to rent a flat, | ed in the manufacture of refrigerators, furniture and case goods, such as din- ing rooms sets, bedroom equipment. radio cabinets and clock cases, whose plants are located all over the coun- try, were returned in the Federal Court today by the grand jury. The indictments were divided into three classes, 190 manufacturers and two individuals being indicted in the case goods cases: manufacturers 2 individuals in the furniture cases, and 18 manufacturers and 2 individ- vals in the refrigerator cases. Condition Long Existent. All were charged with being engaged in w combination in restraint of trade and commerce and while the indict ments mention #n unlawful condition existing since as far back as 1913, ve they specifically note that the viola tions of th the last three vears, “The indictments set forth that the refrigerator companies named have done an aggregate business of $15,000, 000 annually; the chair companies, £15,000,000 and the case goods manu- facturers, $80,000,000. Among the manufacturers indicted in’ the case goods, such as dining room and bedroom furniture, radio cabinets and clock cases, are: Alliance Furniture Co.. Inc., James- town, N. Y. . Allfed Furniture Co., American Furniture Co., Batesville, | Ind. Aulsbrook & Sturgis, Mich. Aurora Furniture Co.. Aurora, Ind. Baker & Co., Inc.. Allegan, Mich. Balkwill & Patch Co., Chicago. Batesville Cabinet Co., Batesville, Ind. Berkey & Gay Co., Mich. Bethlehem hem, Pa. The Retts Street Furniture Co., Cin- cinnati, Ohio. Midwest Firms Indicted. The Biz Rapids Furniture Manufac- turing Co.. Big Rapids, Mich. The Blanchard—Hamilton ture Co., Shelbyville, Ind. The Bogardus-McDanell Co., Warsaw, Ky. The Brickwede Bros. ¢ Ohio. The Brookville Brookville, Ind. Burrows Brothers Rocks, Pa. Burt Brothers, Pa. Cabinet apolis, Ind. The Cardinal Cabinet Co., Ind. The Carrollion Furnitu: facturing Co.. Carrollton, (Continued on Page 4, Column 2) Jones Furniture « Grand Rapids, Furniture Co., Bethle- Furni- Furniture 0., Marietta, Furniture Co., Co., Picture Tnc., Philadelphia, Makers’ Union, Indian- Wabash, Manu- — o SEEK JOHN W. DAVIS AS SCOPES COUNSEL Evolutionist's Attorney to Ask Noted Lawyer to Serve in Final Appeal. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May'29.—A special dis- patch to the Chicago Tribune from Dayton, Tenn. says that John R. Neal, counsel for J. T. Scopes, in- dicted tezcher of evolution, announc- ed that John W. Davis, presidential candidate in the last election, would be sought as one of the constitutional lawyers to take the case to the Su- preme Court. Lawyers from Chicago, Detroit, Sa- vannah, Washington, D. C., and the Pacific coast have offered advice and services in the defense, Mr. Neal said. NEW YORK, May 29 (P).—Advised of a dispatch printed in the Chicago Tribune saying that he would be sought as a constitutional lawyer to carry the case of J. T. Scopes, teach- er, of Dayton, Tenn. indicted for teaching evolutlon, to the Supreme Court, John W. Davis sald today he had not heard that his services were being_sought. “I_have received no word from either Mr. Scopes or his counsel,” Mr. Davis said. He declined to make further com- ment. “Americans Are Coming,” | Sounds as Tourists Flood France eat meals, read newspapers, buy clothes, hire taxis, attend theaters, visit the art galleries and pursue the regular daily routine of life without knowing a word of French. All Paris is playing up to Ameri- can tastes in such matters as cock- tails, American clothes, waffles and maple sirup and cheap American cigarettes, movies with subtitles in English and as a last touch ice cream sodas, which, with other muggy soft drinks, are replacing the apertifs in many cafes. The battle cry, ‘The Americans are coming,” s ressounding throughout Paris, but the invasion is welcomed with open arms. Four great steamships, the Leviathan, America, Majestic and Pittsburgh, arriving at Cherbourg today, dumped a new flood of American thousands. (Copyright. 1926, by Chieago Daily News Co.) law have taken place in| Jamestown, COOLIDGE FAVORS | * FEDERAL “BUYER Approves Naming of Official | . { to Do All Purchasing for ! United States. | SR By the Associated Press. President Coolidge’'s pro; “economy and more economy pected by the White House not only to bring about substantial cuts in the ordinary expenses of all Govern- ment departments, but a reorganiza- tion as well of the whole system of {Government buying. Director Lord of the budget today |received Mr. Coolidge’s approval of {a plan to put all purchases under the | I supervision of one central authority, i\\'ith a view to standardization and jconsequent reduction of the total cost of Govérnment supplies. Such an offi- cfal, Mr. Lord said, probably will be I namea soon. | Although ram of is ex- the War Department. | ostensibly at the direction of the White House, is inquiring what can | |be done to redu s expenditures i}u‘n:rensl\'?l_\ aver period of years officials of other departments insisted today that they had received no in- | | structions to attempt to carry their figuring beyond the end of the next | | fimcal year. Budzet bureau officials !likewise declared they were not vet ready. to undertake compulations ex { tending beyond that period. { ~At the Janu budget meeting | {ofcials organized a “Two Per Cent | Cut Club." designed to clip off one- | fiftieth of the Government's expenses | for next vear's budgel. Since that | time the various departments have been bending their energies toward such a reduction. But many officials, notably those held responsible for the national defense, are convinced that to carry the 2 per cent a yvear idea for- ward year by vear would be quite | another question. Army on Peace Basis. With the Regular Army already down to approximately pre-war ‘strength, and with the Air Service and various other new branches of | defense just approaching the period when large increases are favored, Aymy officers generally take the view that continuing cuts soon would lead the military establishment into the | field of false economy. White House | officials themselves appear to he still | some doubt about the qui ion. ! but they decline lo make any state: ment. Director Lord told the President to- | day that the co-ordination system of | Government.buying. tried out in some departments aiready, would show a huge saving. An official of the Budget | Bureau probably will be designated as co-ordinator, and at the same time will serve as chairman of the board which will lay down specifications for supplies. : During the last year the Govern- ment outlay for supplies and equip- | ment totaled $168,000,000, much of the I material needed being purchased on a plece-meal and retail basis. ! Another feature of the Govern- ment economy program wiil be the speeding up of payment for supplies in order to obtain discounts. The War | Department alone has saved $1,500,000 by promptly discounting its bills. {ARGENTINE WORLD FLYER | MAY ABANDON ATTEMPT | Buenos Aires Committee Expected | to Call Flight Off—Osaka Fall Blamed. [ ‘B.\ the Associated Press. ! BUENOS AIRES, May 20.—Maj. | Pedro Zanni's attempted world flight is considered here to have ended, and it 15 understood the organizing com- mit:ee will adopt a definite resolution to this effect within a few days. A message received by the commit- tee from the Argentine aviafor in | Japan said the repairs necessitated by his recent accident at Osaka could { not be completed until July. By that time the flight would have o be post- poned until September, when: the char- ter of the vessels engaged to patrol the route expires. Zanni hopped off from Amsterdam, Holland, on July 26, 1924. After a journey beset with difficulties he ar- { rived in Japan last October. i Icebound harbors forced him to post- pone his Pacific hop until this spring, { but_his machine was overturned and | badly damaged while rising at Osaka on May 14. E' Chcrs WILL BE AC WEEKS HAS QUIET NIGHT; CONDITION FAVORABLE War Is Comfortable After Operation in Boston for Secretary Gallstones. By the Associated Press ON. May 29. John W. Weeks. who was oper- »n yesterday at Massachusetts Hospital for gallstones, passed a comfortable night and his condition this morning was sataisfac- tory, a bulletin issued by his phy clans said. Secretary Weeks had a comfort- able night and is comfortable this morning,” the bulletin said. ‘“‘Pulse and temperature are normal. His condition is tisfactol T The report was signed by Drs. Dan iel Fiske Jones and Gorham Brigham, who performed the operation. Present plans for Secretary Weeks call for a two-week stay at the hos- pital, after which he will go to Coles land, West Gloucester, to spend the Summer PAINLEVE UPHELD INMOROCCAN WAR Chamber, Except for Reds, Unanimously Behind African Policy. Secretary of the Associated Pre R May The French Cham- ber of Deputies, with the exception of Communist members, unanimously stood behind the government's Moroc- can policy today, and gave Premier Painleve and his associates in the cabi- net a vote of confidence of 537 against 29. The government's bill for special Morocean war credits asks for 700,000 francs until the snd of June, but states it is impossible to estimate the real expense of the campaign, and that a revision of the Moroccan ex- penses will be asked in the budget later. War Held Defensive. The vote was obtained after it was reiterated that the Moroccan war was purely defensive, and that the French government was willing to entertain peace overtures if approached in the proper manner. Louis Malvy, former minister of the interior, explained to the chamber his recent mission to Spain, where he ne- zotiated with Gen. Primo de Rivera, the Spanish military dictator, report edly with regard to joint Franco-Span- ish action agzinst the rebel tribesmen in Morocco. M. Malvy saji, however, that his discussions with Gen. de Rivera tend- ed toward peace. He sald Abd-el- Krim repeatedly had made peace over- tures to Spain, but that De Rivera suspected Abd-el-Krim's sincerity and believed he only sought a more fa- vorable opportunity to make war on France. Marcel Cachin, Communist deputy, offered a resolution for immediate ces- sation of French military activities in Morocco_and for French evacuation of the Riff. The Communist deputy quoted the speech of former Presi- dent Woodrow Wilson in the French Chamber defending the principle of self-determination of peoples. M. Cachin demanded the application of that principle to the peoples of Mo- roceo. Pledges Peace Parley. Foreign_Minister Briand told the Chamber France would open peace ne- gotiations with Abd-el-Krim whenever such a course became possible, “but !there must be real guarantees to pre- vent future aggressions™ in the French | zone by the Moroccan tribesmen.” “How many hundreds of millions have you thrown into Morocco?" de- manded Cachin. “Do you think America and England look approy- ingly upon your wastefulness and this tosing away of millions when they demand what you owe them?” “That is why the pound is at 100 trancs and the dollar at 20," sald Cachin. Continuing his Briand declared: “France doed ot seek an inch of territory, but will maintain sover- elgnty over that which she has.” He admitted accord. with Spain would facilitate negotfations with Abd-el- Krim. [France never had refused to treat with him, Briand said, and con- versations with the Moroccan leader were not impossible. Continuing his statement, M. Briand said the French would detend Fez, but would not attack. On the vote of confidence, the sup. port of the Right and Center parti statement, M. Radio Programs—Page 10. which heretofore have opposed the government, was given whole-heart- (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) MAILED 1N May CEPTED ND SIGNS OF POLAR FLYERS, LT DAYS Alaska Suggests U. S. Cutter Bear Comb Its Shores for Amundsen. BY JAMES B. WHARTON. Special Correspondent of The Star and North American Newspaper Alliance. KINGS BAY, Spitzbergen (by radio from steamer Farm), May 29.—A steady snowfall blotted out the Arctic today from the sight of the watchers at the Amundsen-Ellsworth base here. But our meteorologists assured us the storm was “local and without signifi- cance. M was not accompanied by any violence of wind or temperature. The passing of the seventh day of our fiyers' absence was accompanied by am impressive incident yesterday afternoon. ~ Superstition brought us all out on deck at the exact hour of 5:15, thé time at which the planes hopped off a week before. We gazed utilely northwards along the star- board rail. Perhaps some of us hoped that the hour would be marked by a sign of hope. A rainbow would have suited our mood exacth Quorer Glint in Air. No rainbow appeared, but just as the minute hand of our watches passed | the mark of 5:15, a slight snowfall be- gan, and the sun's color changed to a | curious silvery white. The sun con- | tinued to shine brightly through the snowfall, but with this curious metal- lic glint which was unfamiliar to most of us, although quite a common phe- nomenon in the Arctic. The snow flurry passed after a few minutes. Then our meterologists sent up a test balloon for their regular eve- ning observations. At 4,500 feet the balloon changed color and became hazy, indicating that snow was still falling at that altitude, but evaporat- ing under the action of warm wind currents as it came closer to the earth. (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) WOMAN MURDERED ON WAY FROM SHOW Gagged and Skull Crushed—Body Is Found at Scene of Similar Crime. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 29.—The body of Florence Kane, 30, with the cloth- ing virtually torn off and the skull crushed, was found in a vacant lot half a block from her home in Brook- lyn by a milkman early today. Two diamond rings remained on the girl's hands, indicating robbery was not the motive for the killing. Miss Kane had been to the theater last night with a party of girls and soon after midnight telephoned her mother she would be home in half an hour. Nothing was heard further of her until the body was found. A cotton gag was in her mouth and the hands were tied together behind her back with strips of her silk dress. A pair of heavy chauffeur's gloves were found nearby. Miss Kane's home was in East New York avenue. In the same ot several years ago was found the body of Mrs. Elizabeth McDonald, who had been attacked and slain. A negro later was arrested, {convicted and executed for her mur- der. HONGRIG TS DEAD Memorial Day Services Cen-| ter at Arlington—Coolidge Tribute to Be Broadcast. The Nation, led by ite Capital. will pause once again tomorrow to pay homage to its heroic dead and their devotion to that cause for which they | 80 nobly gave their lives. Bright gar-| lands wil be laid at the bivouac of | these honored heroes, orators will re call their brave deeds and painful sac- | rifices in touching eulogies and bugles | will resound taps over their eternal camping grounds. Arlington Cemetery, past | as in | vears, will be the scene of the princi- pal Memorial day ceremonies, for here President Coolidge will give national| significance through his presence and | a speech in tribute to the dead. These! services, however, will only be sym- bolic of the hundreds of others to be held over the country wherever sleep the heroes of past wars. - { The Arlington ceremonies will be held in the beautiful amphitheater— itself a lasting monument to the vet erans beneath the cemetery's verdant slopes. A chain of high-powered ra dio stations will ¢ every word of praise, every prayer and every reso- nant beat of the muffled drums to the thousands within their homes in scores of cities, towns and hamlets throughout the East At Tomb of Unknown. As a prelude to the chief exer- cises, a procession comprising mem- bers of the Grand Army. Woman's Relief Corps, Daughters of Veterans Ladies of the G. A. R. and all aux iaries, will form in front the Ar | lington Mansion at 11:30 o'clock and | march to the Tomb of America’s Un- | known soldier, where flowers will be placed and brief and impressive cere- monies held. The chiel exercises in the amphitheater are scheduled to start at 1 o'clock and the President Is expected to begin his address a half hour later. The shrill notes of a bugle will sig- | nal the start of the Arlington cere- | monies, after which the United | States Marine Band will play an ap- propriate overture. Comdr. H. B Moulton of the department of the Potomac of the G. A. R., will then issue the call to order. The custo- | mary presentation of colors will be made by John Middleton, and- the | Washington Quartet, accompanied by the Marine Band, will close these | ceremonies. Right Rev. William F. McDowell, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Washington, will offer the | invocation, and Rev. Dr. R. F. Me-| Bride, chaplain of the G. A. R., the benediction. The salient features of | the program. however, include the reading of Gen. Logan's order | tablishing Memorial day. by Osborn | H. Oldroyd; the Presidet’s speech, a | recitation of Lincoin's immortal “Get- | tysburg Address.” and an addr v | Senator Porter H. Dale of Vermont Tribute to Nurses. | The Jane A. Delano Post of the American Legion also will hold brief | services at Arlington at 11:30 o'clock tomorrow morning in the nurse’s sec- | tion. Miss Bowman, chief of the Navy | Nursing Corps, will eulogize those | women who gave their lives in the| service of the Nation, and Harlan Randall. prominent Washington solo- ist, will sing. A bugler from Fort| Myer will sound taps. In other cemeteries throughout the | District, where lie the revered dead, | services will be held. These include the Natlonal Cemete: Soldiers’ | Home, the Battleground National | Cemetery, Congressional Cemetery, | Holy Rood Cemetery, Oak Hill Ceme: | tery, Glenwood Cemetery, Prospect Hill Cemetery, St. Mary's’ Cemetery. Mount Oiivet Cemetery, Harmony Cemetery, Northeast Cemetery, Wood- lawn Cemetery, the National Ceme tery, in Alexandria, Va., and St. Elizabeth's Hospital. | Georgetown University has planned | to honor its 27 war dead, with speeches | by Rev. Charles J. Lyons, S. J., presi- dent of the institution, and students | representing the various classes. The | exercises wil be held at the law school | at noon. i Services at the National Cemetery | in Soldiers’ ‘Home will be under the | direction of F. E. Archibald, vice department commander D. A. R.: C. O. Howard, national senior | of the | Miss Kane was a sister of Detective James Kane. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, Mo.. May 2 After 21 years in the United States Postal Service Max Rope, 40, faces a possible prison sentence because of nine sticks of rhubarb, valued at_perhaps 25 cents. Rope is on trial in Federal Court here charged with the theft of the rhubarb from a package of mail. The Government completed its case against the veteran em- ploye late yesterday and today the defense begins. “Office polities,” it was indi- _cated, will be the basis of the defense. Defense attorneys, on Clerk 21 Years, Faces Five-Year Term For Alleged 25-Cent Rhubarb Theft junior_vice co nder of the A (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) cross-examination, questioned wit- nesses about 'office politics.” Co-workers of Rope's testified | yesterday as to his taking the | rhubarb ~ from a package at a post office substation. is not the value of the | but the principle in. | J*' C. . Madison, United States district attorney, told the | jury in his opening “statement. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five vears' imprison- ment, or a fine of $5,000, or both. One unofficial estimate placed the | cost to the Government of prose- | cuting Rope as high as $10,000. | cense yesterday. of the need for high-pressure fire pro- tection in Washington While this move will possible to begin the project in the scal year 1926-27, it will represent the most definite step vet taken in connection with this long lvocated municipal improvement It is understood to be the plan of ngineer Commissioner Bell to create a committee composed of several rep- resentatives of the District govern- ment, one icial of the bureau of the budget and one man to be desig nated by Secretary of Commerece Hoover to undertake a thorough in- quiry into the question of high pressure fire hydrants and how ex tensive the system should be in Wash ington not make it Il Vi Fire Chief George Daniel Garges. Board of Commissioners, be pr. members of the tuml‘mlwe of in- quiry. The exact amount of money be requested for carrying out the sur- vey has not been decided upon, but it is likely to be $2,000 or $3,000. The committee will visit other cities that have high pressure, gather data as 'to cost and the area of each city covered by the system, and then com- pare the information obtained with the conditions in ‘Washington Several vears ago J. S rland. su- perintendent of the Water Depart- ment, made a rough estimate of $1,- 500.000 as the cost of erecting a cen- tral pumping station on the river front at the foot of Thirteenth street and constructing a gridiron of high-pres- re mains through the area bounded First, ghteenth, B and I streets. It apparently is the desire of the Commissioners, however, to have the ject studied in greater detail before pIving to Congress for the money to begin installation. 5 Other Needs Paramount. re Chief George Watson, in con ng with the Citizens' Advisory by ferr ! Council a few davs ago, stated in an- swer to questions of the councilmen that he is an advocate of the high- pressure system, but added that the fire department is more urgently -in need this vear of two new engine houses and half a dozen additional pieces of apparatus for the protection of rapidly developing outlying resi dential areas. Chief Watson emphasized the point in his talk with the council that high- pressure mains constitute the only effective weanon against a confla- sration, should one ever start in the hi of any city. E: ery fire chief, Watson said, ward to having a higl tem placed at his d tection against big fires spreading One of the points which the Com- missioners want to determine in the proposed inquiry is whether ti:e high- pressure mains are necessary in s large an area as that covered by ‘he previous report of Supt. Garland. System Is Efficient. A high-pressure system is one in which special large mains laid from a central pumping station and water made available for fire-fignting purposes at a pressure running s high as 300 pounds. should that amount become necessar: Through a method of signal appa ratus, the pumps at the station are put into action as soon as an alarm of fire is sounded, and by the time the fire- men reach’the scene the desired pres- | sure is available in the mains. Any de- sired increase or decrease in the force at which the water is being delivered to the firemen can be obtaind by tele phonic communication with the pump- ing station. The Washington Board of Trade and other civic bodies long have advocated high pressure necessary added flr]e protection for the National Capi- tal. SUSPECT HANGS éELF. Doctor Accused of Murdering Wife Takes Own Life. PUEBLO. Colo.,, May 29 (®.—Dr. Caleb W. Presnall of Trinidad, who was charged with the murder of his wife near Trinidad last July, hanged himself at Woodecroft Sanitarium here early this morning. Presnall recently was examined as to his mentality by physicians at Johns Hopkins Univer sity Hospital, Baltimore. Marie Nordstrom to Wed. NEW YORK, May 23 () —Marie Nordstrom, actress, is to. be marsied {Monday at her home here to Elliott Robert Brown, a manufacturer of ma- rine machinery. They obtained a li Miss Nordstrom, who is 41 years old, has had leading parts on Broad- way ‘or a quarter century. For 11 years she was the wife of Henry E. Dixey, who owned a stock company in which she played leads. She obtained a divorce five years ago. Carnarvon Must Sell Lands. LONDON, May 23 (®).—The Daily Mail says that the Earl of Carnarvon, hose countess is the former Cathe: ine Wendell of New York, has been compelled by “absolute necessity" to sell many thousands of acres of hi inherited estate. to the heavy death duties on hi: property. Deny Germans Lead Moroccans. BERLIN, May 20 (P).—Officlal cir- cles today categorically denied the re- cent report from P: that several voung Germans were en route to Morocco to become officers under Abd- el-Krim in his war against the Fremch.