Evening Star Newspaper, June 20, 1925, Page 2

CHINESE ASK BREAK WITH THE BRITISH Delegates From 48 Colleges Insist Relations Be Severed. Rioting Continues. Rr the Amociated Press PEKING. June 20.- Chinese zates representing 18 colleges today sent a deputation of to the minister war and the foreign minister duinand ing that the Chinese sovernment im mediately sever relatfons with Great Britain WORKERS ARE apanese Fi Stay Away. 20 (). The de Chamber of the Chinese during re. BEATEN. Employes of to SHANGHAI cisfon of the Commerce 1o reopen hanks of Shanghal, closed cent disturhanres, fs favorably affect Ing the weneral situation here. The city {8 quiet, but there is no ceskation of anti-foreign propagind and <hipping strike. & strong anti-foreizn weapon of disalfectcd (hinese, shows no_sign of wealkening The Chinese strikers now are meneing to kidnap Chinese who employed hy Jupanese They taken outside the city, robbed heaten and are only released if mive ransom and promise to working for Japanese. A wireless message king, where a grave situarion was veported vesterday. savs siriliers have vesolved to prevent the selling of coal to British and Japanese Dispatches from inking xer is apprehended there, sages from Swate A ¥ demonstrations are advices received here spreading of holshevist nist influences at Canton AYS PEKING June Chinese are and they ceuase from Chung sav ind mes nti-foreign continuing. Other tndicated ind commu AIDS, Observer Reports Central Government Supports Strikers. LONDONX, June 20 (#).—The Shang- hai correspondent of ihe Post says that the central government at Peking hes officially taken sides with the agitators, contributing $100.- 000 to the strike funds and ordering all government employes to contribute | & month's pay Referring to the decision of the chamber of commerce 10 reopen Chi nese shops and banks, the correspond- ent says they have been instrueted 10 boycott British and Jupanese goods. The shipping and industrial strike i | 10 continue Growing neasiness over nese situation is manifested published comments and news here, due partly to the i the Shanghai conference 1o the attitute of the ce ment at Peking, which is «al given monetary ald to th elgn strikers. The Times sees in the iatte ground for increased anxiet its edltorlal comment charicter the general situation as di The editorial epxressions oi papers are similar in tone Crisis Is Acute. The Morning Post correspondent Tientsin telegraphs his paper lows: The foreigners are convinced the crisis is at its acutest stagze. nese passion has been inflamed to a mosat menacing pitch by the orgy o anti-foreign propagands throughou the country which seems to he wholiy in the hands of the agitators It is strongly suspected that movement will take revolntion complexion, and that the will ride into power on & wave of an forelgn psychosix. Attempts are be- ing made to seduce the troop: these hitherto have been without much success “Unless the feeling calms. it be Impossible to arrive at an asreed settlement on the immediate issue since the Chinese commissioners arve not_likely to accept responsibility in view of the attitude of the mob. ““The position is such that it he hooves the powers to lose no time in préparing for an extreme emergency . TO WOMEN. the in Chi the the will APP| Peasants Urge Assembly. (P).—The Peas whose offices a Moscow Revolutionary MORCOW ants’ in Moscow, today appealed (o the wom an peasants of China to “overthrow the imperialistic powers,” demand the abolition of foreign jurisdiction summon u Chinese revolutionary sembly. The appeal asked Chinese (0 join the ‘Peasants’ Communist International and to observe the covemants of the Iate Dr. Sun Yatsen, liberal leader of South China. It urged the formation of soldier committees for the defense Tune 20 International a as of (*hina and urzed Chinese women to | form vigilance commitiees. The appeal suggested 1 posed Chinese revolutionary should organize a central national gov ernment. “in place of the present for- eign regime.” and demand the of Chinese land to the Chinese prople CANTELLI SAILS FOR U. S. Italian Treasury Official Believed Coming to Discuss Debt. NAPLES, June 20 (). -Francisco Cantelli, division head of the ltalian treasury, sailed for New York vester day on the sieamer Gullo Cesare. on » special mission intrusted 1o him by Finance Minister de Stefani. I is generally believed that the mission is connected either with the war debt ttlement quesiion or ITtalian eredit in the American market, or both Signor Cantelli stated he wonld remain the United States only a week WHITMAN CROSS HONORED Degree of Doctor of Science Con- ferred by Amherst College. the commencement exercises of Amherst College, Wednesday, the honorary degree of doctor of science was_ conferred upon of this city, a graduate of the clasx of 1875, in recognition of his miner alogical and geological attainments Mr. Cross, who is connecied with the Geological Survey, resides Chevy Chase. Degrees were also con- ferred. among others, upon Senator Rutler of Massachusetts and Ray Stannard Raker. the assembly in Hospital Drive Opens. Special Dispatch to The Star WINCHESTER, Va.. June 2 Rev. Dr. Frank T. Mckaden, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, was today unanimously chosen chairman of an executive committee of about 60 men and women in charge of raising a fund of $150,000 for enlargement of Memorial Hospital. The committee is composed of residents of Winchester and the counties of Frederick, Clarke, Warren, Rappahannock and Shenan doah, in Virginia, and Hardy County, w. 1e Forced | the | | are dan- | the | Morning | extremists | but | Caling of | and | 1 7l SEhe 1 i Whitman Cross | THE EVENING MACMILLAN ABOARD THE PEARY Lieut. with Mr: Comdr. Donald MacMillan Marie Peary Stafford, the daughter of Robert E. Peary, disc of the North Pole. Mra. Staflord and her mother, Mrs. Peary, went to Wiscas- set to bid farewell to the explorer, whe sails today. ELLSWORTH, WHO SAVED MATES’ \LIVES. C ALlel) HERO BY AMU on the deck of his ship, The Peary, erer 'DSEN American F.\‘ph)r:'r Risked Death Pulling Comrades Dietrichson and Omdahl From Hole in Ice—Lead- Says It Was High suieting. | RY JAMES tal Corrrsnondent o American BAY B. WHARTON, The Star a per Allinnee June 2 the sole KINGS 0 Spitzbergen coln " Ellsworih member of the Amundsen polar fiizhi parts. belongss for a hierole exploit which lives of iwo of his comps Amundsen today Mz, Bllsworth. in the dispatch which €nt today to The Star and its as ociated newspapers. modesily save of this incideni: “Dietrichson and Om faak! al but lost their lives one day when tell auddenly throush a hole in the ice up to their necks. and almost drazged undes some current undeinenth.” (Diet- and Omdahl were the Ameri companions on the airplane laworti ! the ) |ean's tha thei chievement Fllsworth's lives was the of the dsen oism in thigheat individua INDUSTRIAL OUTPU 0F DISTRICTJUNPS Total of Manufactures for | Year Is $73,108,000. Publications Lead. value of products of manufs establishmenis in the Diatriet aggregates $72.108.000. the Commerce announced | today basinz its figures fac. 1 tory prices and on dain collecied ai the biennial census of manufactures of The value of the products for 1923 showed increase of X1 per cent over the figures of 1521, which were 367.540.000. Measured by the total value of prod {ucts, the department found the print- | ing and publishing of newspapers und periodicals to be “the most important | industry in the District.” while from | the standpoint of number of wage | |earners ihe bread and other bakery | products industry “is the leading on In announcing the figures the de. | partment said they relate to manufac- | | turing establishments whose output during the vear was valued at $5,000 or more. The elimination of data for ! the smaller establishments has only a | slight effect on the totals, it was fldd-\‘ ed | The average number of “wage earn | ers emploved during 1923 was 9.823. or |an increase of 13.7 per cent over the {number reported for 1921. and the to tal wage payvments in 1923, 14 6,000, showed an increase of 14.2 per cent as compared with $13.955.000 in 1921, the departmens said. | "The printing and publishing indua- {try. the announcement said. reported a total output valued at $18,277,000 in 1923, an increase of 20.1 per cent| over' the 1921 total of $15,220,000, while | the leading industry. measured by | number of employes, had 1,308 on the rolls in 1923 and 1,532 In 1821, ROAD SUIT IS OPENED. Residents Would Stop Payment for | Maryland Work. Special Dispateh to The Star BALTIMORE, June 20.—Hearing on for an injunction, asked County residents to strain State Roads Commissioner John all from paying H. 8. Swann, a road contractor, for work on a road trom Pomonkey to the Prince Georges County line. opened in Circuit Court. The contract, which was for 2 mile: of gravel road to cost $18,000. was let by Mr. Mackall without calling for competitive hids. Mr. Mackall con- tends that -this was justifiable, as Swann was laying a gravel surface on the connecting 2 miles of the same road on which he had submitted the lowest bid. turinz |0f_Columbia | Tepartment o at an in | shore. Achievement. entice expedition. The two men were making their way across the ice (o ward the Amundsen plane when they fell togethier into a crevasse which suddenly opened right under their faet. Amundsen and Rifser-Larsen rushed io aid them. but found themeelves on the wrong side of @ widening lane in the ice. They tried to launch their canvas boal, but were prevented by the masses of drifi ice. Meanwhile Ellsworth rushed to the other the lead and risked his own life. hang ing precariously to the rim of the ice himself half submerged by the cur rent while he pulled up first one and then the other of his exhausted com rades. in 1 by S Canada. South North American (Copyright. 19 America and Japsn Newspaper Alliance: in News: in Germans by Ullen Verlag: in France he Petit Parisienne: in Italv by Cor re della Sera: in all Scandinavian coun tries by the Norwegian Aero Club. Al righte reserved ) Hold Your Breath And Be Healthy Doctor Advises ny h M1 Assorinied P NEAPOLIS -Hold vour the latest cal front The length of time vou can hold vour breath is a_measure of your phrsical fitness. Dr. F. W. Wittich, of the University of Minnesota declared before the Natfonal Tu. herculosis Association. “The simple method s practical diagnosis value that can be classified with taking the tem- el pulse and respiration rates.’ Wittich said. Minn.. Inne 20 Dbreath and be healthy word from the medi of a Dr. INDUST-RIAL SCHOOL BOY SAVES LIFE OF FRIEND| | Lad of 14 mv‘u in Deep Pool to Prevent Drowning of Companion. Srecial Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND. Va.. June 20, | Marks, a l4.year-old boy. inmate of the who is an Industrial School ior | Boys, has demonstrated that he is | hero. He was swimming with several companions when one of them. Paul Dameson, was seized with cramps and went to the hottom in 20 feet of water. Others ran to the office to give the alarm. but the Marks boy dived and succeeded in bringing Dameson to Dameson was much larger than Marks. and when help arrived he had gotten the helpless lad to the banks and was rolling him to get the water ont of hi= lungs. Officers of |.the Institution have taken cognizance of the action of Marks and will pre. sent the facts to .the Carnegle Foun- dation. with the belief that he will be given a medal. AMUNDSEN PARTY TO BE WELCOMED ROYALLY IN OSLO (Continued_from First Page.) succeeded in hauling them to safety. Capt. Otto Sverdrup, Norwegian ex- plorer, in an interview published here, sympathizes with Amundsen’s disap- pointment at his faflure to reach the Pole, but declares that “as a sport- Ing performance the journey was unique.” Capi. Sverdrup i not enamored of the idea of fiying to the North Pole, which he says is evidently more aiffi cult to reach than the South Pole, and still believes the best way to get there is with dogs and sledges. It people will try to fly there they will have to gain greater experience than they possess now.' he says. Dr. Skattum, president of the Geo- graphical Society, believes Amund- sen's depth soundings “confirm Dr. Fridtjof Nansen's view that there is no land at the Pole. 4 side of | Fngland by Central | Graham | STAR, WASHI PARIS DEBT MOVE IS EXPECTED SOON Czechoslovakia Held Likely Also to Institute Nego- tiations Shortly. | Further France and indications that Czechoslovakia parinz to make formal moves toward | nezotiation of war debi refunding {agreements have reached the Wash ington Government through official channels. The advices are reported as too in definite to permit formal announce ment. The messages, received sumably from the American diplomats at the two capitals, were said. how- ever. to contain information justifvin the bellef that both countriex would #oon set in motion debt settlement ne. gotiations, LADD'S CONDITION BROWING SERIOUS Complications Arise Causing Alarm—Physicians Decline to Reveal Facts. are | Senator Ladd of X der treatment in u I for neuritis and rheumatism. has d veloped kidney trouble and his condi tion ix considered serious. Since he was taken il of his condition have heen and the silence of th has added 1o the anx | He quietly entered days ago, ostensibly for treatment of & minor ailment. and both his physi cians there and his office in Washing ton have declined to reveal the exact extent of the ensuing complications. Senator Ladd is in his 66th and is regarded as one of the hardest workera in the Senate. His long hours of application have caused members of his family to fear that there mizht be serious effects upon his physical | strength Intimate of 1 Follette. A follower of the late Nenator Follette and his intimate friend. he is one of the Republicin Senators re cently shorn of committes rank by the Republican Senate organization. Prior to that time he served ax chairman of the public lands committee during | A part of the Teapot Dome investiga tion Douglas H secretary hag started automaobile forced to Cleveland | ditions. He went where for months thorough the resuit th Dakota, un timore hospital divulged attendance his friends the hospital MeArthur. the Senator's d today rthat the for North Dakota two weeke ago. but was turn back upon reaching becanse of rheumatic con- enator in his directly to Baltimore, the third time in recent he wax subjected to @ physical examination. with that he was advised to have some teeth extracted | Yesterduy his kidneys | function properly. Thes | Rome extent 1o treatment. but attend {ing physicians believe that until a more marked improvement is shown his condition must be considered seri conned vielded to to HITS MATE’S PLEDGES. | Spacial Dispatch 10 The Star | WINCHESTER. Va.. June |claring that she has given band. Alfred Henry (his promises 1o treat her better {that “it_got worse each time Bessie Dellinger Henry of Clarke | County brought suit today for di vorce from Henry. She sald the first break occurred aboul &0 davs after |their marriage. Henry having failed {to provide her with n kitchen stove [tuble, bed ind other necensities ‘a)lhouzh he made good wages She went back to him three times on his promises 10 do better. but declares it IgoL “worse and worse.” 20 her three trials upon Mrs Alleged Kiknapers Arraigned. 1.LOR ANGELES, .June 20 (#). Three |men accused of plotting to kidnap IMary Pickford. fim star. several weeks ago pleaded not guilty yester. ‘dn\' and their trial date was set for ,.lul\ 22. 'The three are (‘harles Stev lens, Adrian Wood and Claude Hol comb. | ADMIRAL ROBISON, OIL STORM CENTER, rst Page.) (Continned from Fi annulment suit. The Government charged that the trading company, be- | sidex” being used for a huge oll re |sale project, wax the agency by which Sinclair passad $230,500 in Liberty bonds to Fall. In making the decision Judge Ken of unpopularity with received.” | Counsel which it will be for the Government an nounced that the case will be taken at once 1o the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. Congress deprived itself of the priv- ilege of participating in any direction | of “the manner in which the Nav reserves, because it omitted a comma from a phrase of the act of June 4, 1920, Judge Kennedy ruled. The phrase referred to directed the Navy Secretary to “conserve, develop, use and operate the same (naval oil re serves) in his discretion.” The omis- sion of a comma after the word ‘“same.” Judge Kennedy decided. pre- vented anv construction being placed on the phrase that would enable Con- gress o participate in directing the manner in which the law was to be administered. He ruled that when the Navy Secretary was direct- ed to “‘conserve. develop, use and op- erate the same in his discretion,” the omission of the comma made it plain that the intent of Congress was to allow unrestricted handling of the ri serve by the Navy Secretary. The in- ertion of a comma after.the word ‘same” would have divided the phrase and would have made optional with the Secretary the manner of develop- ing the leases, Judge Kennedy held. This. he declared. would have given manner of administration. In the statement issued by counsel for Pan-American Petroleum and Mr. Doheny, who loat a similar case when the Elk Hills naval reserve lease was held invalld, it was asserted that “on every legal point common to both the Pan-American and Sinclair cases Judge Kennedy upholds our conten- tion.” ‘The statement pointed out that the same officials absolved in Judge Ken- nedy's decision were “the men who negotiated the Pan-American con- tracts and leases.” “Their motives in the Sinclair case were précisely the same as the mo- tves in the Pan-American case,” the statement said. G'T'ON details | 101 vear ! De. | hus- | and | ASKS RETIREMENT nedy said he fullv realized the “degree | Secretary was to handle the naval oil t Congress the privilege of dictating the | ATURDAY JUNE 20, 192 WILL STRIVE TO CHECK both ! pre- | JAMES T. LLOYD. OYLE GASE IS PUT EFORE PRESIDENT Veterans’ Joint Committee Asks Coolidge to Act in ‘Printing Office Controversy. President_ Coolidge i pealed 1o by th, [ mittee to save from discharge W. Dovle, who under suspension I from the Government Printing Office n charges preferred against him by Public Printer Carter The veterams’ joint committee in closed with its appeal to the Presi dent, copiex of letters exchanged he {tween Dovle and the public printer Dovle is charged. according to the | public printer’s letter. with having | made statements reflecting upon the | management of the printing office cafeteria, and with having written |letter o President Coolidge “com | posed lurgely of malicious falsehoods. ! particularly as to the statements ! which vou allege 1 have made con | cerning union officials, and v mem { bership in the local unfon today was veterans' joint ap Burton Charges Personal Bias. Doyle, In his letter. protests the stalements he made | the cafeteria were but a | ossiy the truth of Ishould not be called upon to sub stantiate. He repliex to the public printer's other charges by saving that ','| repeat and he chargzes I {mgde In my letter the President lunder date of June What 1 stated to the President Is fri Doyle further states he | service man. and that the {made by the public printer {of “matters entirely bevond the {of my employment Final actlon ording My 10 be taken todav. “when {tlon will be siven all the {then on file in this office { At the Government Printing | this morning, =« repr ntutive of | who asked (o see My jwas told that the public printes in a conference and “we | atne see him t0day that concerning bit of office which he alone is an ex charg consist scope on the lett o arier's was nsidera- evidence Oftice The arter [ | Declare Charges joint committee ite letter the President. declared that “Comrade Doyle is a moral man and no charges of misconduct, in or ont of the office. have been preferred him which relate to his work las an emplove of the Government Printing Office. The sole offense, if any, pretended and preferred by the | public printer against Comrade Doyle ix the fact thal he communicaied |« fellow workman, during the fhour, « rumor which was current | the Government Printing Office 15 i The veterans | against o neh in ertain charges were contemplaied against w former employe official in the cafeteria of the | Printing Office. “He wax not the author of the | charge. nor is he xponsor for the truth of it. This fact is undenied. Certainly the whole affair is trivial. unless it is the purpose of the public printer to satisfy his personal vanity and v dictiveness by discharging Comrade | Dovle because of his connection with a union 1 When Comrade Dovle was rep manded for the above alleged offense,’ {continued the appeal to e President, | “he was admonished by the public {printer not to repeat the rumor. He idvises that he has obeyed that ad monlition and only repeated it in his { communication to the President | “ls he now to be penalized for ad vising of & situation which he savs existe and is true, and which he is willing to substantiate before any impartial tribunal? “We do not believe that permit his discharge in this {and under these circumst we earnestly appéal to von | behalf.” The correspondence hetween the { public printer and Doyle is acrimo- I nious in many places. charges and { countercharges concerning the union i being flung back and forth. ' MUSSOLINI IN DRIVE ON POLITICAL FOES Deputies Pass Law Aimed at Pnb. lic Servants Not in Accorl With Administration. vou will manner es. and in his | By the Associated Pre ROME, June 20— The meas ure giving the authority until the end of 1926, to discharge civil serv- ants holding political opinfons con- trary to those of the regime in power. was passed by the Chamber of Depu- tles last night. Luigl Gasparotto opposed the meas- ure, saying that as officials are paid by the State it could not suppress the political personalities of persons employed by the government. Amid frequent interruptions by the Fascisti, Deputy Viola declared !the measure aimed at the discharge not only of anti-Fascist officials., but even neutrals. - The civil servants numbered half a million, he added, and the government wished them to | vote as it wanted them to, thus exer- | cising violence against liberty, in order to insure the election of cist majorit Deputy Soleri stated that the bill marked exactly the conflict bepween Liberal and Fascist conceptions. “In- |deed;” he said. “the bill comes from the extreme lines of Fascism. Premier Mussolinl interrupted with the words: “It comes from me." To this Deputy Soleri replied: “I have never said you are not among the extreme lines of Fascism.” Continuing, the deputy described the measure as another atep in Fas. cism aimed at the transformation of the constitutional principle of a state, enabling it to absorb all powers. so that for the opponents of Fascism there would be no individual liberty. nor would there be liberty of the press. that | nment | Fas- | JESSE (. SUTER. BROWN. ! Washington’s Increase in “SMUT” MAGAZINES IN WASHINGTON € 1. U | Prohibition l { none ARAH E. SIMMONS, | delegates from for Hittle English | | | there | DARBY. |AUTO DEATH RATE IN DISTRICT FAR ABOVE AVERAGE OF ATION |« Still Below Other Big Cities, Department of Com- merce Figures Show—108 Killed in Year. fatality except motor The vehicles from motor cycles. increas ed more rapidly in Washington dur ing the vear 1924 than it did in the “veraze of 58 principal citfes through iut the country. according to Depart ment of Commerce figures published today. The capital. however. was far below the highest rate While the average cities was rising from population in 1923, to rate in Washington rupidly from 18.1 to population | The number of deaths in Washing ton in 1923 was 86 and 105 in 1924, int S8 principal cities. including Washington. there were 4908 deaths in 1423, and 5.030 deaths in 1924. The itte has shown a ve increase from 14.6 in 1920 7 in 1921 rate rate for these 188 per 100,000 19 in 1924, the increased more 222 per 100,000 progres: with 1 Akron E Albany Atlanta Altimore rmir »xton Rridgeport Ruffalo Cambridge «amden cago Cincinnati Cleveland Columbux Dallas Dayton Denver Des Moines Detroft .. all River rt Worth Grand Rapids Hartford Houston Indianapolis lersey Citv Kansas Ci Kansas City Los Angeles Louisville Lowell Memphis Milwaukee Minneapolis Nashville ew Bedford ew Haven . ew Orleans ew York . ewark, N. J. orfolk ... Oakland Omaha Paterson ... Philadelphia Pittsburgh Portland. Oreg. Providence Reading . Richmond Rochester St. Louis St. Paul Salt Lake Cit San Antonio an Francisco Scranton Seattle Spokane . Springfield, Syracuse Toledo ...... Trenton .. Washington, Wilmington Wercester Yonkers Youngstown KILLING SUSPECT HELD. Maine Youth Jailed on Technical | Charge of Robbery. Vondell Vernon Grant, 24, of Cherryfield, Me!, arrested at his home | a few days ago and brought here ns‘ a suspect in the case of J. F. Helmer.v manager of the Big Four Candy Co. 608 E street, three months ago. was | committed to jail yesterday afternoon {by United ~States Commissioner | | Turnage. Detectives Keck and Weber filed a technical charge of attempted rob- | berv against Grant. in order that he | might be taken to jail and given ac- |rommodations more comfortable than those in a police statfon. Hearing j was postponed for a week to give the { detectives additional time to continue | their investigation. Bond was fixed at $15,000. Ka Mo Mass D. 39 | Explosion Wrecks Home. | Special Dispatch to The Star. FROSTBURG, Md., June 20.—Mem- bers of the family of Albert Raven- craft narrowly escaped with their lives at Meyersdale early vesterday when fire, caused by the explosion of an oil lamp, swept their frame dwelling. They were aroused by the explosion and oblized to rlee in their night clothing over a porch roof to escape the flames. None of the family was injured. | parative ani While New York had the number of deaths. 1.001. the highest rate. 345 was reported for Paterson N. J. and 45 cities exceeded the New York rate of 16.6. The second highest rate, 296 was shown for Pittsburgh and the third highest, 255, for Cam den. N. I Bedford. Mass. had the S, while the second lowest reported for San Antonio third. 11.7. for Des Moines Avallable figures for 6% made public by the department though reports and estimates were lacking for some these and their figures were not included in the com Vs west 1.5 and rate, the 9 al Comparative figures on total deaths and the rate per 100.000 of population for the last two vears were given as follows Futality rate” 10 No estimate 236 No estimate 16.4 274 18.3 estimate 20.7 1 Fatality rate. 19728 No estim 23.0 Deatna N o 10 24.. No estimate No estimate 16.6 23.3 No estin 19.8 130 348 nate 5 20.6 17.0 estimate No Hot-Water Boiler Explodes. The hot-wéter boiler in the heating plant of Argenne apartments, 167 | Columbia road. exploded last night | About 10:30 o'clock. None of the p‘er sons, employed in the heating plant was hurt. No. 21 engine company sponded to a “still” alarm They found the boiler had been ruined and window panes shattered. | the bullding was qugnl Rcugns fram Army The resignation of Second Lieut Russell H. Swartzwelder, U. 8. In fantry. stationed in the Panama Canal Zone, has been accepted by the Prasi. | Jennings | dent. 5 Sent to Houpml Maj. John N. Robinson, 1 n | fantry, at the Pennsvivania Military | College. Chester. Pa., has been ordered |to treatment at Waiter Reed General | Hospital this cit Poet's Home in Danger. Longfellow’s early home at Port. land, Me., will be preserved and main- tained permanently if sufficient money is raised by members of the Interna- tional Longfellow Society. The home stands at Fore and Hancock streets in Portland. It is in danger of being lost through foréclosure of mortgage, and FEdwin Markham is active in raising the money to prevent the fore closure. J p largest | } | i | Accidents During 1924 | | | citiex were | { tiring ! of the Standard Ol Co | port i ean | Damage to,| th | of big business from every LADY ASTOR'S TALK BY RADIO BARRED Prohibition Theme “Too Controversial for Broadcasting.” B the Asso EDINRL 120 Prose TRGH Scotland. June 20 is ten “acutely contrn versial” a subject in Se in the opinion of postmaster general., who refused per mission for the broadcasting by British company of the speech 1o he made tomorrow night by lLady Astor at the convention ¢ the World's Women's Christian Temperance Union. Consequently it is understood the proceedinz®®of the con tion will be nd for radin dissemination the ve broadeast Official Tempera Temperance iage of the its first JLangu, officis wh was but they all speak ter perance—the American me a prohibition twang and Scotch representsi government control acce is much differer brand of temperance ix between Oxford Yale slang, the avowed every one of the dele; eventual death without of John Barleycorn the 400 with W hetwe Englis b the here resurrection Opens With Devotional Se The 1al Mise ican tary Short st ion opened ti service Agnes delegation in tha chi speeches Africa. Denmark Austris. the and Australis Miss Anna Adams Gordor ton, 1. pregident of the W COT. U, presided at the sion in the afternoon an. prograss of the movem the world U. S. BILLIONAIRES” HAILED IN BELGIUM Delegates to International Chamber of Commerce Seen as Europe's Saviors By the Acaociate RRUSS billionaires come bankruptey was 1he by members of the commitiee 16 arriving ve: the Conar Chamber in session P of Commerce here from which will be eci of the con ration of normal « and the importar the members of the tion has stimulated Representatives nnance from shou Lezun this evening the sessions h day An hix Seen saders The American " and finance are looked saders by Europeans has been tried in waiting ticians te bring abou restoration of Europe glad fo see the Americans over in such numbers to what the application of methods can do in the The American pariy tamilies of the deleg 300 strong. i included ing men who will tah in the congress: W president of Chamber of Comrerce the pal who coming situan he he an acti lix 11. Booth he Internativ AL of New the New Yo Ame B Ashev Bedford lerse H. L. Ferguson. president of News Shiphuilding Albert Parker Grant. president Chamber of A. I.. Filene of MacCarthy, e These men will sentatives from nearly R of New the " Roston rer and E. N. mayor « he aidec repre importa States 1v in center in the United Great Britain proba the second delegation numbers and prestige nental countries. although have a smaller showing in strength, are sending their & financlers and economisis will have $5,000,000 IS GIVEN EIGHT FIRST COUSINS Court Orders Equal Division of Es- tate of E. B. Jennings. Ec- centric Recluse. nr the Associated Press CHICAGO, June legal batile over tate of Edwin B. Jenning: millionaire recluse, ended vesterday when Probate Horner ruled hould among eight consins. the A $5.000.000 es eccent: tempora Judge Her be divide: re it first once | moved. A few months ago Judge refused to admit probate a will,” alleged to have heen drawn Mr. Jennings. which left a large part of his estate to Frederick W Hall, a friend: John A. Jennings. a second cousin, and the remainder for “the education of young people.” Jennings died in 1922, apparently leaving no will to dispose of his vast wealth, but a vear later a will wax mailed to the Northern Trust Co. of Chicago, which purported to distribute e estate. : On this document the signatures of Jennings and the two witnesses were by | almost illegible. Three of the eight cousins who will share the estate are residents of Chi. cago. These are: Florence E. Bradv Charies R. Jennings and John A A fourth, George Jennings, lives in Glen Ellyn, a suburb, and tha other four are: Sarah O'Carr of Sicos, Ontario; Norman G. Brizse of New York City: Cassie Bogar of Elyria, Ohio, and Sarah E. Guest of Louis: ville, Ky The court’s ruling calls for an equal division of the estate. Col Slyre Rem-e:. Col.” Farrand Sayre, U. S. Cavalry, at headquarters, 1st Corps Area, Boston, has been placed on the retired list of the Army on account of age. He is from Missouri, and was gradu- ated from the Military Academy in June, 1884. He reached the grade of colonel in the Cavalry arm in July, 1916, and served as a brigadier gen- eral in the National Army during the World War, ~