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3 WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Generally fair and continued warm tonight and tomorrow. Temperatures: Highest, 94, at 6 p.n. yesterday; low- est, 65, at 5 a.m. today. Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 ch 7 90 (17 Entered as second class matter No. 29,617. T omés Washington, b. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, CHINESE RIOTERS WOUND AMERICAN President Objects to N STREET ATTACK mercial Film at Students Open Fire on U. S.| Volunteer Corps From Shanghai Roofs. Plans to have Ramon Novarro, mo- tion picture actor, protographed re- {ceiving a “dummy” diploma from | President Coolidge at the annual com- mencement exercises of the Naval Academy were modified today by Sec- retary Wilbur. Secretary Wilbur, however, is de- jtermined to have a similar scene en- }m‘lsd at the academy without the |presence of Mr. Coolidge. After (he! formal exercises the superintendent of | the academy will take the place orig- | |inally intended for the President and [ the picture will proceed. | | _Since news of the plan to have the FOREIGNERS MENACED BY SHORTAGE OF FOOD Long-Drawn-Out Struggle for Con- trol of City Seen in Pr’p.}xldem appear in a film became | & 5 ! public considerable pressure has been | Youths' Strike. brought o bear to have the scenes | o 3 modified. Those in close touch with | S e | the White House have predicted, In R+ the Associated s chiness sty | VIEW of previous unpleasant experi. | SHANGHAL, June 2.—Chinese StU-|onceq with pleture advertising. he | dent riot participants today fired from housetops in three directions into ! ment. Shanghai streets upon a unit of the | It was Secretary Wilbur's thought at fi st that ;Coolidge Declines to Be Actor, Wilbur Modifies Movie Plans Annapolis Superintendent to “Sub.” Appearing in Com-i Naval Academy showing Novarro receiving a diploma in line with the other graduates would be of use as publicity for the play. President Coolidge took the position that while he is ready to ald legiti- mate business he does not feel the presidential office should be used in any way for advertising purposes. He does not object to the making of pictures of himself at the Academy, but feels they should be available for use by all. MIDSHIPMEN DISAPPROVE. Believe Graduation Is Their Day and | Should Not Be Commercialized. | Special Dispateh to The Star ANNAPOLIS, Md., June 2.—A pro. gram of special interest is being pre- | would not consent to. the arrange. | sented for the last offering of June | Weglan Government has decided fo| week at the Naval Academy. Tomor row the one incident will be the gradu American Volunteer?Corps, shooting a_commercial picture (Canttouition Tase s Gl ) Thomas G. Mart Ameri den tist, in the back, and killing the horse i American and other foreign units \ urned the fire of the Chinese with y! y carbine rifles and pistols. Machine zuns were mounted quickly in the streets and sent shots in the direction of the structures from which the Chi started firing. The number of casualties was not estimated. Marks First Use of The shooting of the American den-| tist, who is a corporal in the volun- organization, attempting with foreign units to restore order in | Shanghai, marked the first use of rifles by the Chinese since demonstrations started Saturday as a protest against the conviction of 17 Chinese strikers! who left Japanese-owned spinning mills | near Shanghai. ! trained their shots| ADE TO LI BANKS BY MORGAN Credit Is Granted to Enabieg nese s, Rome to Stabilize The Chinese Exchange. | against the Americans when the patrol | — units turned a _corner from Nanking | By the Associated Prees. into Thibet road in the vicinity of the | ROME, June 2—Finance Minister .?Q“&Fi‘.;r?é"?’“ amusement resort, | ge Stefani announced to the Cham- | While tho!students were attaoking | ber of Deputies today that the bank- the patrol units shots also were fired D& firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. had into the Louza police station from ad- | sranted a credit of $50,000,000 to a | Joining houses. The first outbreak in | consortium of Italian banks to be the riots occurred at the entrance to|used to stabilize exchange. | the station Saturday, when police fired | It was also announced that the ! on rioters, killing six and injuring | Bank of Italy's rediscount rate had eight. Traffic on the Nanking road | been increased from 6 to 6% west from the Honan road was sus- | cent. pended tonight. | Signor de Stefani said the director | Sailors Guard Waterworks. | | the consortium of Italian banks American bluejackets are guarding | which the Morgan the waterworks. has been granted. Several lesser affrays were develop- Lnx; tonight in other sections of Shang-| Reports have heen current both in 2| < {Rome and New York during the last | The Sikh police guarded the streets|two months that negotiations were un In the vicinity of the hall while a spe- | der way for a loan by American bank. clal meeting of “rate payers” was at-iers to Ita The sums mentioned iempted. The meeting proved inef-|sometimes ran as high as $100,000, ;nrn\@. lacking a_ quorum, although | oo e 00 persons assembled to witness the | Thomas W, proceedings. The American forces |y “p. Morgan E&om\-l‘z!{tel;ng;:z = Zuarded the main entrance and door-\upril ‘and talked with Premier Mus.| way approaching the hall. Failure of |solinj and Finance Minister de Stefani Japanese laxpayers (o, AUend (he|This caused a renewal of reports that quorum. The purpose of the proposed jo iomnime s ReinE et (ed: meeting wasg to recommend remedial | legislation to deal with the present riot | to | 50,000,000 credit Guaranteed by Government. The credit, which has the guaran- itee of the Italian government, is to be utilized, if occasion arises, for ex: situation. Italian, American and British marine forces landed in Shanghai this after- | Yukon territo: CLAMTOALL LAND UPTONORTH POLE | Concedes Little Territory to Others—Commission ! Studies Title. | | | By the Associated Press. OTTAWA, June 2 —Canada claims| all lands north of the Dominion be- tween Alaska apd Greenland, even up | to the North Pole, Charles Stewart, minister of the interior, indicated be- fore the House of Commons last night. | A commission now is investigating | Canada’s title to the lands, and is en. | gaged in establishing the Dominion's | per |right to them, Canada, it is stated, is willing to concede the claims of other countries | of the Bank of Italy will preside over |to territory directly north of Alaska I8t into the and Greenland, and therefore does not claim Wrangel Island. COVERS MACMILLAN OBJECT. Harris Land or Crocker Land, the theoretical continental mass in the Arctic Ocean which the MacMillan ex- pedition will try to locate and explore this Summer, liés clearly within the limits claimed by Canada, according to the outline computed by the late Dr. R. A. Harrls of the Coast and Geodetic urvey. Its extreme western border might lie north of eastern Alaska. or might fall into the zone extending from the | to the North Pole In a conference with Washington | newspaper correspondents last week. Mr. MacMillan made clear his firm in- tention of putting the United States sendl two seaplanes to the Aretic preparatory to a search for the | Amundsen-Ellsworth flving expedi ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION TUESDAY, JUNE 2, bt 1925 —FORTY-TWO PAGES. ny Star. The “From Press to Home Within the Hour” 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, 99,014 w) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. NORWAY WILL RUSH 2 PLANES T0 ARGTIC 0 SEEK AMUNDSEN Aircraft Made Ready for Start This Week From Spitzbergen. EXPLORER IS BELIEVED ON WAY AFOOT TO BASE Intimate of Missing Party Leader Certain Relief Is Impera- tive Now. By the Associated Preas OSLO, Norway, June 2.—The Nor tion to the North Pole from Spitzbergen May 21 It was announced today that the | government has selected the ship In- gertre to transport two seaplanes to- ward the Arctic, whence they will undertake a search for the explorers The Ingertre, a 4,700-ton ship fitted | with wireless, is expected to reach which started Horten, Norw: the Christiania | jord, 32 miles south of Oslo, today. | She probably will sail for Spitz- | bergen Friday | The Inge built in Balti- | more in 1320 by the Union Shipbuild- | ing Co., according to records here Official announcement of the Noi weglan Government' decision to| send two seaplanes in search of Amundsen was made this afternoon. | The general opinion was expressed | here that Amundsen was unable to return by alr, and that he would pro- ceed afoot to Cape Columbia or Spit bergen. THINK! AID IMPERATIVE. | Intimate of Amundsen Urges Relief Start at Once. LOS ANGELES Years of close Roald Amundsen June t (P.— association with missing Nerwegian polar explorer; familiarity with his methods of operation and an inti- mate knowledge of his plans for the Arctic, which started May 21, prompted Haakon H. Ham. mer, who led the Amundsen relief | dash of 1923, to express the opinion | here that the Amundsen-Ellsvorth | party is marooned in North. { lammer has been here and has almost completely re- covered from a serlous which at one time threatened to ren- | he der him blind Amundsen has made a landing and cannot get up, because either he has smashed his fiving boats or because the ice is too rough for a take-off with his heavy plane, or else he is in Alaska. The latter is barely possible,” he asserted Thinks He's Marooned. “My opinion is that he rooned, unable to use his is_ma- | |change stabilization purposes. The flag on this territory and claiming it | equipment and almost certainly un-‘ noon and are quartered ashore tonight. stationed at the | measure is largely a protective one, it is understood, and it is considered | possible that the Italian financial au- | thorities will not find it necessary to draw upon the fund. | The Italian credit is the third major | banking credit which J. P. Morgan & Co. has arranged for a foreign gov- |ernment to stabilize exchange within the last vear or so. The first loan, |of $100,000,000, was made to France in March, 1924, checking a drastic de- cline in the franc which was under way at that time. Another $100,000,- 000 credit was granted to Great Brit- |ain to aid in the stabilization of ster ling following the re-establishment of the gold basis, a little more than a month ago. | The Morgan firm announced that | various other banks would be asso-| ‘The Italians are Japanese Club. The foreign forces were sent ashore today in anticipation of an extension of the strike that may close markets in the foreign concessions and affect lighting and other public services. The telephone service here is already crip- pled on account of a strike and one municipal power station is affected also. veral of the lesser industrial plants may be drawn into th= trouble. PEKING SENDS PROTEST. Objects to Violence Used in Quelling Shanghai Riots. PEKING, June 2 (#).—The Chinese sovernment, through its foreign office here, today protested in a note to | ciated with it in extending credit. other powers against the violence sed in suppressing student demon.; LAMONT CONFIRMS REPORT. strations at Shanghai i ST e ! The protest, sent through Italian| NEW YORK, June 2 (f).—Thomas Minister Cerruti, chief of the foreign | W. Lamont of J. P. Morsan & Co. ministers at Peking, declares that the | today confirmed the cable announce- students are young men of good | ments from Rome that the Morgan | families, unarmed and full of patriot- | firm had arranged a revolving credit | ism, and should not be treated as|of $50,000,000 for one year to a bank- common_malefactors. {ing group headed by the Bank of Italy | The Chinese foreign office reserves and consisting of the three Italian the right to make claims on behalf banks of issue, the Bank of ltaly, of the student victims of violence at |the Bank of Naples and the Bank of hanghai, demands immediate release | Sicily. of students under arrest and asks| A sharp rally in Italian exchange that measures be taken by the foreign | followed the announcement of the powers to prevent a recurrence of |credit. The lira, which earlier in the similar affairs. {day was selllng under 4 cents, quickly S umped more than 10 points to 4.06 Lo STRUG cents. French frances also moved up several points from their extreme Foreign and Local Groups Firm in |low level, but were still several points . below last night's cl . War for Control. | sabobm s o By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. | FEARED. Cuban Envoy Recovering. SHANGHAI, June 2.—Shanghai is| s now settling down to a long struggle | HAVANA, Cuba, June 2 (®).— as the firmness of the Chinese is|Rafael Sanchez Aballl, Cuban Am- realized. All evidence shows that the | bassador to the United States, and student trouble will be overshadowed |his wife, injured in an automobile ac- Py a contest between Chinese and |cldent about a week ago, are recov. foreign influence in the foreign | ering. settlement here. | The Ambassador suffered a broken A majority of Chinese opinion sup- | leg and his wife two broken ribs. The ports the students since the shooting, | fractures are knitting properly and although the Chinese General Cham- N0 complications have arisen, physi- her of Commerce, mouthpiece of the | cians say Chinese mercantile interests, which | e T —>e. Stinnes Under Knife. first sanctioned their action, has now | withdrawn its support. Z MEXICO CITY, June 2 (£).—Otto 00 Workers Out. | Stinnes, son of the late Hugo Stinnes, This morning Shanghai began to | German industrial magnate, who re- fecl the first effects of general ac- | cently arrived here on a business trip, tion in the development of the strike. | was operated upon today for appen- Twenty-five thousand workers are | dicitis. He was said to be doing well out, affecting the municipal electric | after the operation. plants, tramways, telephone and four | Chinese cotton spinning mills. It is expected that the workers in all the Japanese mills will be out tonight, as the strike is spreading. The tele- phone service is operated under for- eign supervisors. The tramways are running on restricted service. The electric plant still is operating. ! The food situation is causing con- cern, as the foreign communities rely on the Chinese for food. All| shops are closed. Foreigners are un- able to buy meat. The markets were closed today, while no killing has heen done at the slaughter house for two days. A shortage of fresh meat is feared, many persons having no meat toda The municipal council, realizing the urgency of the situation, today appointed a food controller, with vowers _to_reguisition all food. 4| (Continued em Page 4, Column 5.) By the Associated Press. YUCAIPA, Calif., June 2.—Dawn breaking over the San Bernardino Mountains today found a group of worshipers inthe First Metho- dist Church of Yucaipa entering on the last lap of their ‘“Bible marathon,” a relay reading of the Scriptures which bégan at mid- night Saturday and was expected to end some time tonight. In the early hours today the Book of Daniel joined the list of Old Testa- ment writings covered by the 65 volunteer readers who had taken part to that point, n,j those wait- | livery. by right of discovery, if it turns out to | be really a land mass instead of a | mirage. will back his claims is indicated by, the fact that the expedition itself is| partly under Government control | companying ft. The land, it is expected, might prove | a valuable airplane station if routes over the top of the world ever become | practical, and might prove by no means a place of perpetual ice, but a count with great grazing pastures| eral depost NOTE TO GERMANY WILL GO THURSDAY Disarmament Epistle Not to Be! Made Public Until Saturday. By the Associated Press. 1 PARIS, June 2.—The interallied note on the subject of Germany's vio- , lations of the disarmament provisions of the Versailles treaty will be pre-| sented to the German foreign mini; ter, Dr. Stresemann, by the allied am- | bassadors at noon. Thursday. | The note, with its annexes, will( probably not be made public until| Saturday, as Germany has objected to | its publication immediately after de- WEEKS NOT IMPROVING | AS DOCTORS EXPECTED| BOSTON, June 2 (#.—A bulletin. signed by three physicians, was issued | shortly Weeks. It said: “Secretary Weel has had a restful | morning, which is reflected in his con- dition. While his condition has been | critical since the operation, no compli- | cations have occurred nor has the ex- | pected improvement which usually | occurs at this time taken place in the | last two days. His temperature is normal and his heart is in good condi- tion. (Signed) “D. F. JONES, “ROGER 1. LEE, “F. G. BRIGHAM."” Bible-Reading Marathon, Far Behind, Reaches New Testament; Nearing End ing to take up the text looked for- ward with relief to the approach of the New Testament. Three hours behind schedule, they hoped to make up time on the New Ttestament. The Rev. E. D. Raley, pastor of the church and sponsor of the marathon, believes the experiment of reading the Bible aloud from cover to cover while the rest of the world is arguing about the book’s infallibility will foster love for the Scriptures and encourage a | say | been placed on the edge of the plat:| able to hike out of his predicament. The ice starts to break at this sea-| consider positively out of the ques- tion “I also am just as firmly of the be an expedition to his relief. been missing 11 days now. If Amundsen could have to his Spitzbergen base w planes he certainly would have done s v for game and possibly with vast min. |not return without aid. with his planes | Beveridge of Indiana, Semator Wat- of breaking | son over hundreds of miles ice Of the five men with him, not one : the Navy The services, the Will Hotel, will be conducted by Charles Wood, of the Covenant, which !he is spending his time taking obser-|attended during his has had any previous polar experi- ence. When Amundsen flew into the north he voluntarily assumed respon- sibility, In so far as he was able, for the safety of these men. To say that in vations, tempting Providence, bling with weather conditions, that Amundsen is gam- voluntarily or he is in Alaska,” cluded. BOMB OUTRAGE ON L’ | IN NEW YORK FOILED| | Two Infernal Machines Placed in| Path of Trains Are Destroyed by Police. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June blow up elevated trains apparently was | two stations. into the East River. Owe box was found hy agent at the Eight a dish wood, 8 inches by 5 by form in such a manner that a train entering the station would strike it.| The other box, about the same size, but covered with black leather, was in a similar position on the Ninty-ninth street station. Detectives felt certain that the boxes. contained high explosives. Bomb ex-| perts agreed it would be highly danger-| ous to open the boxes, and they were| taken from the stations in buckets of water to the river and sunk far out. Search of all subway and elevated platforms failed to reveal similar | boxes. Pani Slated for Ambassadorship. MEXICO CITY, June 2 friends of Finance Secretary Pani say MARSHALL RTES HERETOBESIUPLE s Seveney o Coolidge and All National‘ Simplicity, this afternoon | Leaders in the Nation's affairs, in cluding the President of President, the frozen | following a week's illness. Two hours recuperating | peen completed the body of M { shall will be taken back to his home affection | in Indianapoli held o'clock suggested to Mrs. Marsnali, widow of | the former Vice President and Gov ernor of Indian: lowed to lie in state in the Capitol at Indianapol approved of the plan. will Marshall home, under the auspices of | the Scottish Mr. Marshall was a prominent mem- Aving | ber. 2 The love and esteem with which Mr. son in the Arctic and a tramp over |y (hai) wa That the United States Government | the churning floes to Greenland 1|men. including his politi as well | denced in the mass of telegrams which : ame to Mrs with naval airships and personnel ac.lief that the time has come ;(l‘ s;mi of the country today, from individuals e has|and tribute to the memory of the former turned | Vice President. | his | received were those from John W. Da- | | vis and James M. Cox. ; therefore I am convinced that the |standard bearers during the last two Arctic has him in its grip, for he can | national From the Nebraska plateaus to of dndiana. former Secretary of |Ohio. the heat was general. In several War Baker and former Secretary of | Places it set records for the vear| Josephus Daniel |and for Junme 1sts of all recorded | service in Washington as Vice P is to | dent. Wood will risking the lives of his party, and any | passage person who knows Amundsen Knows which Mr. Mar: that he would follow no such course. “He is down, in urgent need of help, | chapter of St. Hammer con-/able of the s | sus to His disciples. one of Mr. Marshall's favorite biblical stori ““With what measure ye mete it shall ! be measured to you.” | he died. Selections from the Psalms, which | Mr. Marshall was accustomed to read | |each morning before taking up the New Testament, will also have a place in the services, Dr. Wood said. | The casket of steel ! gray broadcloth, and with dull silver | | handles and mountings, will be closed | during which have been semt in great num bers by friends and admirers of Mr. | | Marshall, —A plot to]anq jater will be taken to Indfanapolis r | On the train bearing the body of Mr. after 2 o'clock this afternoon | frustrated early today with the find-| Marshall tonight will be Mrs regarding the condition of Secretary | ing of two boxes, helieved to contain|shall, John H..Cowles of the Scottish bombs, projecting over the tracks nt‘JRite M‘t:’mg:i( Snmh('rtn .!m’-lsgk‘(smn, ames M. er, secretary of the Sen- Police threw the boxes . ."While Mr. Marshall, as Vice Presi. ticket | Sent ninth street sta- city and Mark Thistlewaite, Mr. Mar- |grees of the all-time June 1 mark. | | tion of the Third avenue line. Of red |shall's secretary during his service as 4. it had Vice President. After the services Thursday morning in Indianapolis Mr. Marshall's body )of a few weeks that retarsed crops. will be placed in_a vault at Crown Hill Cemetery and interment will be made later. The funeral here at 6:30 o'clock tonight on the Pennsylvania Railroad, will arrive in Indianapolis at 11: Dr. here, said of him today: “Mr. Marshall was both a regular pnd indefatigable attendant at church, e spoke many times to our various |socleties and Sunday school and was | ST |always ready to accept at once of every | Chicago Expedition Arrives Safely invitation to co-operate in the exten- | P).—Close \flun orhcm-m's ‘lidngdom 1He was the | sympathetic and energetic cl rman he intends to leave the cabinet early 'o¥ u!’, advl:ory commufee of the Pr:x- LIZZIE *YsuB" )/ SERVICE. = N NN N N e | Girl Crosses Ocean ! | Twice and Spend By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, June 2.—Dorothy Reilly, 16, of Englewood, N. J., ar- | rived today on the liner Drotting . | heolm, after an involuntary round Leaders to Pay Tribute | iy from New York to Stockholm | She s greeted at the dock by her overjoyed parents. The girl went aboard the Drot tingholm May 9 with a companion, | Segfried Handel, to bid bon voyage to friends. They failed to hear the This Afternoon. i which marked Thomas | Riley Marsha oughout his cz ! - ‘:: ?"I,I s i [s cacesy irning whistle and when she | ate and national leader, Will| (ame on deck they were at sea. | characterize the funeral services for| (wupt, anderberg communicated by | him at the Willard Hotel at 4 o'clock | wireless (o the girl's parents. Miss was told to visit relatives | | in Stockh but Dorothy's par- | ents asked the captain to bring her | the United States, members of the cabinet, mem.| Vack on the return trip. Finan- | bers of the Supreme Court and Sena.| Gl Dorothy's trip was a success | > S ol as she started with $1 and re- | tors and Representatives, will pay| turned with ents. their homage to the former Vice| i Dorothy declared. “I was homesick all the time.” Passengers suid she had cried al- most continually who died here yesterday | ter these services have Mar- | 77 DEATHS IS TOLL therefore, in the| , where services are to Thursday morning at 10 Gov. Jackson of Indiana had . that the body be al but Mrs. be conducted, Rite Masons of which East and West Hard Hit by Hot Wave Followed by | his country Gales and Rain. i 1 opponents | | was evi-| | | Many Pay Tribute. regarded b: as his supporters, By the Associated Press CHICAGO, June Twenty persons dead and nearly a score injured was the toll today of a heat wave and en- ing - wind and electrical storms which hit the Middle West. The re- gion welcomed the promise of cooler weather. Marshall from all parts| > from organizations, all paving Among the messages | . the Democratic campaigns; former Senator time. Then the humidity was pierced here and there by thunder-showers and terrific gales. which are to be \]P]I"l! d room of the Willard Rev. Dr. of the Church Mr. Marshall eight vears of| esi- music. Dr. include in_his services a St. Mark's gospel, 1 was reading when He had turned to the fourth Mark, in which the par- er was related by Je- This, which was pastor Ninety Mile Gale. Sioux City, Iowa, was the center of a violent windstorm yvesterday which extended to eastern uth Dakota and | southwestern Minnesota. Seven per- sons were injured, two probably fatal- ly, in the Towa city, and more than dozen houses. The wind reached a velocity of almost 90 miles. The dam- age at Sioux City was estimated at $100,000. Eastern Iowa from Water- loo to Dubuque was visited by a less violent wind and electrical storm, but no serious damage was reported. A farmer was killed at Dike. Two persons were killed during an Pelectrical storm at Des Moines, and [two men were reported killed near ‘Wayland, Mo., when the car in which they wer riding was swept from the | road by a high wind. Another wind-| storm swept over the mining district | of southeast Kansas and southwest Missouri, causing injury to several persons 'and considerable property The flowers, | damage. There will be no from concludes: Flowers Stay With Body. covered with the _services. Four Die in Chicago. I Chicago reported four |Cleveland one due to heat prostra-| | tion. Eight persons in Wisconsin who | sought relief by swimming and boat- ing were drowned Sunday and Mon- day. i Heat records for June 1 were broken | |in Chicago and Cleveland, with tem-| |peratures of 92 and 91, respectively | Detroit, with 92, came within 2 de will surround the casket, deaths and Mar- was the presiding officer of that Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh of this Minnesota, South Dakota and Ne-| |braska reported that yesterday’s late | rains brought relief from a drought Last month was the driest of any in Nebraska since weather records were first made in 1870. An aged woman was killed near Florence, Nebr., in a storm which de- molished her home. Ancther person was injured. In contrast with the heat and thun- dershowers in the Middle West, Rock (Continued on Page 4, Column 3) | ROOSEVELTS REACH LEH. party, which leaves 2 a’m. tomorrow. Pastor’s Eulogy. Wood, Mr. Marshall’s pastor in Valley of the Indus. $ SIMLA, India, June 2 (#).—Col. | presided. MRS.COOLIDGE SEES TRIBUTE PAID SON Portrait of Late Calvin, Jr.,, at Mercershurg Academy, Is Unveiled. By the Associated Prees. MERCERSBURG, Pa., June William Mann Irvine, headmaster of Mercersburg Academy. in an addry of the late Calvin Coolidge, jr., paid a beautiful tribute to youth and to the memory of the departed boy Mrs. Coolidge arrived from ington by motor at 11 a.m The unveiling was part of commencement week activities. vounger son of President and Mrs. Coolidge, who died in Washington July 7 last vear, would have been graduated from Mercersburg tomor- row. The students gathered to welcome Mrs. Coolidge and to pay the respect due a classmate’s mother and the First Lady of the Land. who was there, as she and Mr. Coolidge were a vear ago when their eldest son, John, was graduated. Ceremony Simple. It was a simple ceremony—the un veiling of the portrait—but to the Wash a T | | CHOICE OF FENNING AS SUCCESSOR OF OYSTER INDICATED Attorney and G. 0. P. Official Declared to Head List Coolidge Considers. CONFERS AT WHITE HOUSE AT BEHEST OF PRESIDENT | Candidate Won Executive's Re- | spect While Serving as Secre- tary of Inaugural Group. Of the ti fo seriously considered by President Cool- idge for appoiniment to the vacancy caused by the death of Commissioner James F. Oyster, Frederick A Fen ning, well knowr al attorney and secretary the Repu n | committee for the District, is under- stood to stand at the top of the list. President Coolidge is represented as baving intimated that he is inclined very favorably toward Mr. Fenning gave ation that he would |today at the unveiling of a portrait | | and | District, and | | make up his mir initely within the next d Mr. Fenning first came to the Presi dent’s attention wt retary to the Jaugural com mittee and the President is under- stood to have told those who dis ed the appointment with him to that he b very high regard Mr. Fenning The fact t President Coolidge for Mr. Fi to confer with at the White House last night ngth. the belief that Mr inally will be selected by the sident. It »wn also that Mr Fenning has the full support of Samuel J. Prescott, chairman of the ate committee for the many other party lead ers in this city, and that the Presi dent has received favorable comment Republican and indorsement fron in various other acti in Wash {ngton. Others on List. Among the several other names to which the President is known to have given serious consideration are those of Maj. Gen. H. P. McCain, former adjutant general of the United States Army, and Arthur Carr, secretary to | the Washington Board of Trade, and the | The | | suggestions i several hundred young men who knew | him, not as a President’s son, but as a schoolmate, it meant much. It was a picture of Calvin Coolidge, jr.. ““Mer- cersburg, '25,”" not of Calvin Cool- idge, jr., son of President Calvin Cool- idge. Upon the walls of the school a year ago, three portraits were hung, those | of three representative Mercersburg boys. One is of Dr. Joel Boone, Presi. dent Coolidge's physician, who attend- ed today's ceremony. The portrait of Calvin took its place with that of Boone and the others, to be joined in later years by those of other boys who made an impression on the life of the school. Former Gov. William C. Sproul, whose son John attended the school and who is a member of the board On the program was an ad- dress by Robert Bridges, editor of Scribner’'s Magazine. Later. Mrs. Coolidge was to be the guest of honor at a luncheon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Irvine Dr. Irvine's Speech. “Today,” said Dr. Irvine, ““we honor vouth—beautiful vouth, consecrated outh, ideal youth, youth that won our_admiration and deepest love. “This hour might be colored by re gret and sorrow, but our spirits rise in joy and exaltation because this, our dear boy whom we delight to honor, although only in his teens, glorified many of the most noble qualities of the human soul. By his life, so eager, so faithful, so beautiful, he showed that youth is not a prelude; it is as much a part of life as manhood or old age. “A “good boy is a true interpreter of life. What he lives what he says. I am glad that the artist painted our dear Calvin thoughtful mood, confident because he /had caught the vision, calm, self-con- rolled, as was his wont. “Calvin Coolidge, jr., had a superb idea of moral and spiritual value: with a record that could not be sur His life was filled with t which he had taught in an ideal Ameri Even as a boy he knew th. passed. fine sense of humor been home. the world's greatest need is a true manhood. “To us in Mercersburg Calvin Cool- idge, jr.. will always be, in Shake- speare’s phrase, ‘a boy eternal.’ About this portrait will gather the story of ofty motives and good deeds by Mer cersburg boys all over the worid. As generations of boys look at his calm, true, manly face, they will form hizh resolve to ‘live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King.'" TRAGEDY TRAILS THRILL. High-Wire Walker, Scared by Flash of Lightning, Falls. NEWARK, N. J., June 2 (A).—Mrs. Edna Brock, a_high-wire performer, was in a hospital today, apparently mortally injured by a fall from her husband’s shoulders as he was walking a wire 40 feet above the ground. A flash of lightning unnerved her and she lost her hold, giving a crowd at Dreamland Park last night a view of a | tragedy instead of a thrill over acro- in September to become Mexican Am- |bytery on church extension, and in his ‘Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt, head- batics. ing the James Simpson-Field Museum bassador to France. The legation in t visit to Washington, some months | In her fall she struck one of the up- of Chicago expedition to Central Asia, rights supporting the wire. Her hus- Paris is to be raised to an embassy at ago, he said, with much enthusiasm, have arrived safely at Leh, in the band had kept his footing, and when that time. The change will be made, it is sald, after the central bank of issue is inaugurated on September 1. return to the custom of the Bible aloud in the home. Radio Programs—Page 26.' that he hoped very soon to take an tive part in the work of that com- ittee. aré “His_example in reserving Sunday | Turkestam, 1 (Continued on Page 5, Column 3.) Valley of the Indus, dispatches re- ceived here today announced. They pr to Kashgar, Eastern members of the party the messages sald. are Mrs, Brock fell he slid down a pole to her aid. With many broken bones, she has little chance of recovery, it is be- lieved. She is 20 years old, and her home is in Huntington, W. Va. 12 Merritt O. Chan of Washington. In the event the President decides to appoint a Democrat, it is thought by White House authorities that Mr. Chance will be his selection. It is be- lieved, though, by these same authori ties that the President several days ago made up his mind to find a man of his choice, regaradless of his poli ties, and that in carrying out his in tentions it is the opinion his choice has descended upon Mr. Fenning. The White House is still receiving regarding the filling of this place and each day new names are being added to the long list which has already been received by the President. Among those who have advocated the appointment of Gen. McCain is Senator Fletcher of Florida, who call ed at the White House today. Senator Fletcher said afterward that while adding his indorsement to Gen. Mc Cain, he also indorsed the candidacy of A. Leitwich Sinclair, former member of the District Rent Commission. A delegation representing the delegates to the Federation of Citizens’ Associa- tions called at the White House and left a resolution setting fortn the qual- ifications of Charles A. Baker, former e, former postmaster | president of the federation and now s more than| in | | purely Egy | | | i | | | pying a member of the Citizens’ Adviso: Council, who has been prominently mentioned in connection with this ap- pointment NINE FOUND GUILTY OF KILLING SIRDAR Assassins of Sir Lee Stack Will Be Sentenced Next Sunday. By the Associated Press CAIRO, Egypt, June 2.—All the defendants in the trial growing out of the assassination last November of Sir Lee Stack, sirdar of the Egyp- tian army, were found guilty today of murder. Sentence will be ed next Sunda; Sir Lee Stack, governor general of Sudan and the British commander- in-chief, or sirdar, of the Egyptian army, was mortally wounded on No- vember 19, last, while motoring in the streets of Cairo, the assassins using bombs and pistols. The sirdar died the next day. Coming on top of pronounced agita tion in Egyptian nationalist circles for the complete withdrawal of the Brit ish from Egypt and the Sudan, the affair caused a_great sensation. The British delivered a note accus ing the Egyptian government under Premier Zagloul Pasha of direct re sponsibility for the crime, and laying down an ultimatum which called for “an ample apology,” prosecution of the assassins, payment of $2,500,000 indemnity, withdrawal from the Sudan of all Egyptian military officers and ptian units, increase of the irrigation area in the Sudan and sup- pression of all political demonstra- tions. Egypt protested the severity of the terms; the British countered by occu- the Alexandria customs, an cabinet crisis followed and gyptian ie British terms were finally accept- ed only after the formation of the Ziwar Pasha minist Many suspects were arrested, ques- tioned and released, but nine men were finally brought to trial, most of them Nationalist students and railway workers. BABY GUY LEGIT_IIV-IATE. ALBANY, N , June 2 (#).—The Court of Appeals today handed down a decision holding that baby Guy Still- man is the legitimate son of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Stiliman. The decision was in favor of Mrs, Stillman in the appeal brought by her husband, former New York t banker. e .