Evening Star Newspaper, June 26, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER o Partly row; night. Temperatures—Highest, p.m. yesterday; lowest, 64, today. Full report on pag s cloudy tonight cooler tomorrow Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 26 No. 29,641 post_office, Wa: CROWE DENDUNGES SHEPHERD COUNSEL N HS FINAL PEA Defendant Is Branded as “New Kind of Murderer” and Liar. SCORES HIS OPPONENTS FOR LEVITY IN TRIAL Germ Murder Case Nears End, With Attorneys for Both Sides Confident. = = | Br the Assoc Prese CHICAGO wd of the dmission 1 June 26. The atest weeks fought the courtroom today ate's at plea in | fe to hear six 1 tohert F torney. make the closing the Shepherd trial Prosecutor Crowe, Ing in Crowe jury who began talk conversational tone.| led with denunciation of W. 8./ Stewart and W. W. O'Brien, the de. attornevs. for thelr spirit of | throughout the trial. | defended himself, Judge Hurl’\. ind Alexander F. Reichmann from the defense’s allegation that the accusation against Shepherd and his trial were steps in a vicious conspir- against Shepherd to prevent him inheriting the $1,000,000 estate willed to him by the boy he is charged with using typhold germs to slay. His Sacred Dut am here because it is my sacred to be here,” Crowe shouted. ‘e introduced a new kind of murder here, and because of that it is the most important murder trial in the history of Iilinols. { “Yet, Stewart and O'Brien would| have vou believe I am so vile, venal| and corrupt that I would be forced to hecome a party to a consplracy to st an innocent man.” Prosecutor Crowe's face reddened and his eves narrowed as he turned and glared at Shepherd when he ar- raizned the defendant as “‘perpetrator of # new species of murder.” Stewart and O'Brien were on their feet with a half dozen objections as Prosecutor Crowe talked, and O'Brien made numerous sarcastic comments from his seat They wanted to laugh this case out of court,” Crowe forced between clenched teeth. “They wanted to call it a comedy, make a burlesque our of it, using the laughter of the hired claquers they brought here.” Crowe said the reason he put Judge Olson on the stand was to give Stewart and O'Brien an opportunity to make good their jury-choosing statement that “we will show this case is a frame-up; Harry Olson has a financial interest in it.” Attacks Opponents. “What do vou think of tactics of that sort””’ demanded Crowe as he ac- cused Stewart and O'Brien. “What do vou think of the method with an easy fense Tevity He Olson ey “p duty “They ha Weathor Bureau Forecast.) afternoon or BRITISH GOLF TITLE {and had he kept this pace would have and tomor- 90, at 2:10 at 6:30 a.m. e 7. Entered as second class matter shington, D. C. Wins Golf Classic | LONG JIM BARNES, American, scores 300 for 72 holes of medal play to bring British open championship to United States for second successive year. Walter Ha. gen, another Yankee, won last season. SWONBY RS American Takes Classic With 300, as Smith Fails on Final Round. By the Associated Press PRESTWICK, Scotland, June 2 Jim Barnes, American professional, won the British open golf champion- ship today with 300 for the 72 holes. Macdonald Smith, who led Barnes by 5 points at the start of today’s play, broke badly in the final round and failed to make the 78 necessary to win. Barnes took a but shot a fine His two rounds and 77. Smith, who led Barnes, 145 to 147, yesterday, got a 76 this morning for his morning, 74 in the afternoon. sterday were 70 won. However, he took for the first nine this afternoon, making it necessary for him to shoot 36, one under par, coming in to gain the title. He ‘'was not equal to the task taking 40 to finish, with a total of 303. Barnes’ morning card: 44653445540 62544535 5—39—79 Barnes’ final round card: Out ..53 542346436 In ...6 444444433874 Barnes Finishes Well. Barnes was several times in difi- culty In the morning, and ended with a five on the eighteenth, where his drive was so badly bunkered that he needed two to get out. Long Jim played beautiful, steady golf in the final round, with the ex- ception of two 6s, due to three putts on the tenth and driving into difficult le on the eighth. Otherwise his game | which this case has been defended. Shakespeare has said that the apparel | oft proclaims the man.' You can| often tell whether or not the de-| fendant is guilty by the kind of de- | fense he presents to a jury. i The prosecutor criticized Shepherd | for living 16 vears in a millionaire home in a fashionable suburb, ticing law and not having a host of influential friends to rush to his res- and for waiting until the last| moment to deny the charges against him. ] The defense objected that by in- sinuating that Shepherd should have | called character witnesses the prose- cution was committing a reversible error. H Mr. Crowe dilated upon his charge | that Shepherd was a shiftless ‘“pan. | handler,” who had been content to| live 16 wars in plenty provided by | another. | “My only purpose in cross-examining | this man was to prove he was a liar,’ Prosecutor Crowe declared, as he | pointed a finger at Shepherd. { “I had him branding himself a liar with his own he left the witness stand was the only purpose in goi into records of the Probate Court and cross-exam- ining him as to what he Shepherd was doubly ¢ sald, when I and denied he m tock, but did not tions State wit with him Calls Shepherd Liar. | prac- | i dered Billy McCl deny the conversa esses d they Stewart wanted me to denials. 1 am not ask him for Shepherd's lawver Why did he not have Shepherd deny them? Something had happened when | Shepherd wrote to Miss Stella Gahling that he had been pauperized and that | he was « ring closing his office | and drift ay from it all” the| prosecutor “He was a liar when | he swore he was lylng when he said | nothing had happened. Something had | happened.’ | Crowe held defense tactics of | Stewart and on responsible for | the difficult controlling the Chi-| cago sftuation Mrs. Julie fendant, wa ed w « the O'Bri in epherd, wife of the de- | not in the courtroom. en Mr. Crowe's first as- n. was mak plea and did | not _return f ternoon session, while Gorman was ta Shepherd heard the ney’s plea without visible en: did not glance at Mr. Crowe. None of the State’s attorney wonld entertain of Shepherd's indicated t tion. 17 the present trial does not resuit conviction Shepherd probably never would bz forced to ! trial for either of two other deaths in | connection with which he has been | accused of murder 1 Was Best Case. | Judge Harry Olson openly accused | Shepherd of the murder of Mrs. Emma | McClintock and Dr. Oscar Olson. The same coroner’'s jury which rec- ommended Shepherd be held for Billy's murder recommended that Shepherd be indicted for Mrs. McClintock's mur- der. The death of Dr. Olson was rec- ommended left open for investigation. “This was our best case,” said a member of the State's attorney's staff. “We are nfident of conviction in it. however, we had cases in the other | instances we thought we could obtain convictions upon we would have had indictments already Prosecutor Crowe had not concluded when court recessed for lunch. | position to the death penalty. was flawless. He had 2 birdies to his credit during the last 18 holes. Arthur Compston of England failed to tie Barnes’ 300 by missing a 10-vard putt on the last green. The North Manchester pro made a valiant at- tempt, but his ball ran just by the edge of the cup. At that, Compston got a in his last trip around, fin ishing with four 4s. JUGOSLAVIA REFUSES PASSAGE TO BULGARIANS Declines to Vise Passports Through Fear of Refugees’ Attempt to Return. By the Associated Press. SOFIA, Bulgaria, June 26—Jugo- lavia has refused since yesterday to admi. the passage of Bulgarian sub- jects through Jugoslavia, by declining to vise their passports. Government quarters are informed that several Jugoslavian subjects re- cently took refuge in Bulgaria and hat the Jugoslavian government is refusing the visas through fear that these refugees may attempt to return on Bulgarian passports. The court-martial here has con icted 14 more persons of participa- jon in the Sveti Kral Cathedral bomb plot, sentencing seven of them to death. The number of those con- demned is piling up, but it is generally helieved many of the sentences wiil be commuted owing to King Boris’ op- | FORTY-YEAR SENTENCE FOR KIDNAPING CHILD By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 26.—Mrs. Mary Jones, convicted Tuesday of kidnaping three-year-old Raimonde von Maluski on March 29, was sentenced to from 20 to 40 years in Sing Sing prison by Judge Coliins in General Court today. The boy still is missing. Judge Col- lins had given Mrs. Jones until today to tell what she knew of the boy's fate, but she remained silent. Eight Bulgarian Bandits Killed. SOFIA, Bulgaria, June 26 (#).—A bandit named Ganeff and seven of his men were Kkilled, one was wounded and another captured, when soldiers surrounded the band near the village of Sougamet Rancher Wins Race Saves His Family From Certain Death By the Aseociated Press. JACKSON, Wyo., June 26.—Rac- ing ahead of an avalanche with his life and the safety of his family and home at stake and winning by a matter of minutes, was the expe- rience of Gil Huff, rancher, whose story of seeing the north side of Sheep Mountain crumble and fall across the Gros Ventre River Val- ley, near here, Tuesday, became known today. Huff said he was riding on horse- back at the foot of the mountain ‘when it began to move, carrying on its back a section of the dense Te- ton National Forest, He began a * ch appeal to all Chinese students through- WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1925—FORTY-TWO PAGES. BRITAIN PROTESTS CANTON SHOOTING: | RIOTS IN SHANGHAI Strikers and Rowdies Are Dispersed After Invading International Settlement. U. S. GETS PEKING NOTE ON ARMS PACT ISSUE Fears Felt for Safety of Mission- aries—Chinese Blamed for Canton Trouble. Associated Press | 1 June 2. The British | Minister is handing a note 1o the Chinese foreign office today. formally | protesting inst the action of the | Chinese Canton last Tuesday ‘n firing upon the Rritish concession and | wounding British subjects. RIOT IN SHAN Strikers and Rowdies Invade Forelgn | Quarter. | { SHANGHAIL June 26 UP).—Several crowds of Chinese strikers and row: dies entered the international settle- | ment today and stoned and held up street cars. Later they were dlis persed by the police. The general strike has term.nated. All the larger stores are reopening, but shipping continues paralyzed, and | the Japanese and British cotton mills are still closed. The radical elements, supporting the general strike and boy- | cott of foreigners, are striving by in-| timidation to frighten the workers away from many establishments. Calls for Reopening. 1 uan, commissioner for foreign ion of 20 automo- | Al Hsu- affairs, led a procy biles through the streets of the for eign settlement this morning with the city magistrate and other officials | bearing banners inscribed “All shops should reopen. The government takes | full responsibility for the negotia- | tons.” The general strike in Shanghai was| declared following the Killing of a| number of demonstrators who were; protesting against the prosecution of ! strikers in Japanese cotton mills. Hsu- Yuan represented the Peking govern-| ment at the conference last week with | representatives of the diplomatic corps at Peking, who went to Shanghai in an effort to arrange a settlement of the situation following the strike. Called to Arms. A meeting of the Shanghai Students’ Union yesterday decided to issue a E out the country to ‘“learn the art of war and be ready to fight for their country.” It was resolved to petition the military chiefs to select lecturers to “arouse the patriotism of the peo- ple and soldiers.” The program for students’ demon- strations in many parts of China yes- terday was largely a fiasco, owing to official prohibition of meetings. The precautions taken at Shanghai com- pletely frustrated the students’ activi- ties here. Many volunteers have been with- drawn from the Shanghai streets, which are resuming a normal appear- ance. ! Two additional Japanese destroyers have gone to Amoy and Canton. LOOKS FOR WAR. Bombay Believes Japan is Preparing for Trouble. London, June 26 (#).—Dispatches from Bombay to the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph assert that the belief prevails in Bombay that Japan is preparing for war with China. The belief is based mainly on the unusual dealings in the cotton market. Japa- nese exporters, it is asserted, are buy- ing cotton very extensively. The fact that Japan is reported also as making large purchases in the United States strengthens the belief of her war-like intentions. A further statement that Japan is steadily buy- ing manganese is held to show that she contemplates the manufacture of | considerable munitions. NOTE GIVEN | Peking Wants Commission Named on | Judicial Systems. | The Peking provisional gn\"rnmenll has transmitted to the State Depart-| ment a duplicate copy of its latest communication to the diplomatic rep- | resentatives in China, requesting, among other things, action which would pave the way for relinquish- ment by foreign nationals of extra- territorial rights there. Minister Sze handed the communi- cation to the department, although the note had been cabled to Wash- ington previously by American Charge Mayer at Peking. It Is urged that the nine powers signatory to the Washington con- ference traties and resolutions af- tecting China again take up the ques- tion covered by resolution No. 5 adopted by the conference, providing for the creation of an international commission to study Chinese judicial systems for the purpose of construc- tive measures to make possible the abolishment of the conditions objected to by the Chinese. The resolution provided that the commissjon should assemble within three months after the adjournment of the Washington conference. t of the Chinese ued on Page 4, Colu With Avalanche; i desperate ride for safety. The ava- lanche with a roar bore down to- ward him in the form of a moving wall of boulders, trees and earth a hundred feet high. His frenzied horse reached higher ground at one side, and the big landslide missed him by only a few feet. Huff then raced to his home, near- by, rushed his wife and daughter to a point of safety and returned to save as many of his belongings as possible. Huff said many of his cattle were killed. Two ranches above his were wiped out. His home is under many feet of water. | Athletics took the field today for the ‘- ¢ Foerin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION BRITISH CAPITAL INVITED TO AID; IN SMUGGLING LIQUOR INTO U. S. Huge Profits BY JOHN GUNTHER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News LONDON. June 26.—A prospectus | issued here by the “Bahamas Interna. tional Trading Company” indicates that a new attempt is being made by disreputable and irresponsible British interests to smuggle liquor into the United States. The Bahamas com pany admits that its business is rais- ing money from unwary British in- vestors to equip a smuggling chain | from England and from the Bahamas | to_the United States. The prospectus boasts that the company has a fine strategic position, in that it has a warehouse and pri- vate dock in the Bahamas which ‘is only an hour’s cruise to the Ameriecan coast just outside the prohibition area.”” "It also states the highly un- savory fact that thrée of the direc- tors of the company are also members of the Bahamas legislative assembly, who promise to influence legislation in the colony toward the smuggling interests. British investors, remembering the Hartwell debacle, are likely to be cau tious of any such venture. However. 9510 SEENATS BATILE ACKVEN Athletics Get One-Run Lead | in First, Bunching Hits With Two Out. Line-up. WASHINGTON. PHI LADELPHIA. A Drkes, 2b. Umpires—Nallin and Mfl-n-ln: BY JOHN B. KELLI PHILADELPHIA, Pa.. June 26.— More than 25,000 fans were in Greater Shibe Park when the Nationals and first game of a series in which the world champions hope to earn first place in the American League. Ideal base ball weather prevailed as the teams swung into action. Robert Moses Groves, Connie Mack's expen- sive southpaw, who has been resting since last Saturday, when he was withdrawn from the slab while the Browns were on a batting rampage, ‘was on the slab for the locals. Walter Perry Johnson was named as starting hurler for the Nationals. FIRST INNING. WASHINGTON — McNeely fanned. Groves hit S. Harris after pitching two strikes. Rice fouled to Lamar. Goslin singled to right center, sending S. Harris to third. Goslin stole sec- ond. J. Harris fanned. No runs. PHILADELPHIA — Johnson threw out Dykes. Hale fouled to Ruel. Lamar lined a single to right, run- ning to 26 the consecutive games in which he has hit safely. Simmons sent a Texas leaguer to left, putting Lamar on third. Welch singled to left, scoring Lamar and putting Sim- mons on third. Simmons and Welch attempted a double steal. Ruel bluffed a throw to second, then heaved toward third, and Simmons, returning to the bag, blocked the ball with his shoul- der and it rolled beyond Bluege. Sim- ‘mons came home and Welch continued to third, but Umpire Nallin ruled that Simmons had interferred with the play and called him out. One run. SLAYERS’ WOMAN AIDE GETS FIVE TO TEN YEARS By the Associated Press. BUFFALO, June 26.—Stella Nac- kowska, 20 vears old, charged with first degree murder in connection with the shooting of Rufus Eller, a jewelry store clerk, in May, 1924, today was sentenced. by Supreme Court Justice A. G. Hinckley to not less than § nor more than 10 years in Auburn Promised English Investors ‘““Bahamas Company” That Boasts It Has “Pull’ With Colonial Legislature. |have had some degree of success in | who prison. The girl was permitted to plead gullty to first degree mur- slaughter. SITTING PR by the Bahamas Company agents already raising funds by promising huge in- terest. | According to the company’s pro-| spectus, the directors of the company are members of the Bahamas | Legislature procured a monopoly of | the liquor trade for the company by | the trick of first freezing out com- petitors by high taxation. second by | cutting down taxes when the other companies had gone, and third by refusing to grant licenses to any new companies. Responsible British opinion is in dignant over the project. The Man- chester Guardian, heading an editorl: “Dirty Work in the Bahamas,” says: “Unwary English investors are ob- viously being invited to finance an at- tempt by some extremely undesirable colonial subjects of King George to turn a dirty penny by helping disloyal citizens of a foreign state to break its law The Guardian asks for criminal prosecution of officers of the Bahamas Company and invites intervention by CAPTAL TRACTION VALUATION FOUEAT Hoehling Puts Figure at $30,906,880, and City Notes Appeal. The Public Utilities Commission to- day noted an appeal to the District Court of Appeals from a decree of Justice Adolph A. Hoehling of the District Supreme Court, fixing a val fation of the property of the Capital Traction Co. at $30,906,880 as of Jan- uary 1, 1925. In his_decree. tice Hoehling, after uvation, holds that no deduction should me made by the commission from the figures for depreciation, be- cause the company, wtih the approval and under the supervision of the com- mission, is maintaining a sinking fund for the protection of its property from deprectation. For this purpose a portion of the earnings of the company. the court points out, is annually set aside by the company. The court also vacates order No. 338 of the Public Utilities Commission pur- porting to be a valuation of, the com- pany’s property, in so far as it is in- consistent with the opinion of the court. The court finds that the valua- tion therein attempted to be made by the commission is inadequate, unrea- sonable, unlawful and confiscatory and the commission is directed to mo ity its order to conform with the views of the court. Figures reached by the court in its valuation are composed as follows: Physical property, $17,937.419; land, interest, taxes, $748,182; Grace street buildings and equipment, $114,333; pre- organization expense, $309,000; prelim- inary operation expense. $30,000; cer- | tain right-of-way expenditures, $1,94 281; additions to physical property be- tween July 1, 1914, and December 31, 1924, $4,289,826; actual value of ma- terials and supplies on hand Decem- ber 31, 1924, $125,688; working capital, $256,151: cost of the intangible prop- erties of the old Washington and Georgetown Railroad Co., $5.150,000. today. Jus. fixing the val signed British Have Road Laboratory. ‘Whenever the British ministry of labor requires information about new road materials a 2-foot road is built at the national physical laboratory and is tested by a revolving machine which combines the action of many kinds of vehicle: Honduran Rebels Watched. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, June 26 (#).—Nicaraguan forces have been sent to the frontier to guard against incursions by Honduran revglution- ists. It is reported that the revolu- tionists are gaining strength. Radio Programs—Page 34. BELIEVE MANY DIED INTHEATER BLAST Searchers Comb Smolder- ing Wreckage for Bodies of Victims. By the Associated Press K AS CITY. Mo.. June 26— Search in the smoldering ruins of the Gillis Theater were under way today | for the bodies of persona believed to have perished when a fire and an ex- plosion wrecked the theater and more than a dozen stores here late last night. Several hours after the search start- ed no bodies had been recovered. John Hogan, fireman, is the only man known to have been killed. His death accurred when a fire truck overturned. Alex Henderson, fire chief, said he believed that not more then six or eight bodies would be found. A cook in a restaurant adjoining the theater is the only person known to be unaccounted for. It was estimated that approximately a hundred persons were in the house at the time of the blast. How many escaped was not known. Blast in Restaurant. Police believe the blast occurred in a restaurant located in the Gillis Build- ing. Fire Chief Henderson estimated that it would require at least two days to clear away the wreckage. Early reports said an indefinite num. ber of persons, probably 35, were killed and scores were injured in the ex- plosion, followed by fire. The explosion came at 11 o'clock Flames enveloped the structure almost immediately following the blast and the roof and floors of the ancient building, constructed 42 yvears ago as the city’s finest playhouse, collapsed. Those who were able to make their way out of the building did so miraculously, according to eve-wit- nesses. Only Few Exits. EXits of the theater, which was on the second floor, were few. A main entrance and a rear exit both led down a confusing arrangement of hallways and stairs of wood, which crumbled in a moment under the falling building. Stories gathered from survivors in- dicated the front exit must have been cut off by the collapse of the theater floor, but none of those who reached safety by that avenue could tell clear- Iy how he got out. Fire Chief Alex Henderson declared that 30 or 35 persons must have been trapped in the building, basing his opinion on the facts that shrieks were heard from the wreckage after the col- lapse of the building and also the be- lief that it would have been impos- sible for all to escape in the short in- terval hetween the explosion and the collapse of the roof. The midnight show had just started and a love scene was playing on the screen when the blast rocked the building, bringing down the balcony as the floor gave way, according to survivors Players Accounted For. Only a few members of the bur- lesque company were in the theater, the rest being in nearby restaurants. James Smith, manager of the theater, said he had accounted for all the show people. Miss Merle Fletcher, a chorus girl, who was seated in the orchestra box, ‘was rescued by two men after she had fainted. She said the “whole floor seemed to puff up.” Miss Fletcher estimated the number of persons in the audience at 15 _or 20. When the entire center section of the building collapsed it sent bricks and debris Into surrounding streets and broke windows in buildings nearly, a block away, Thirty minutes after the " (Continued on Page 4, C “From Pr. The Star’s every city bl ess to Home Within the Hour” carrier system covers ock and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s UP) Means Associated Pr Rich Youth Sought As Burglar Found | Working as‘Target’| 1 By the Associated Press VENICE, Calif.. June plece of silver one can throws with a base ball at a bull's eve in the amusement concession district here which, when squarely hit, causes a negro to drop from his high perch into a pool of water. Some one hit the bull's-eye last night and the *‘negro” fell into the arms of three detectives who peeled off his black-face make-up and re- vealed him as Jack Durand, adopt- ed son of a Chicago millionaire and wanted by police of that city in connection with a series of bur- glaries. Durand admitted his identity, but denfed complicity in the bur- glaries. “I didn't do anything in Chi- cago,” he said. ‘‘Somebody, just COOLIDGE MAY BUY WHITE COURT SOON | “Summer White House” a! | Bargain at $125,000, North | Shore Land Experts Say. 26.—For a buy three BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. - Staft Correspondent of The Star. MMER WHITE HOU SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., June 26 White Court, where President and Mrs. Coolidge are spending the Sum- mer, is to become the permanent | “Summer White House,” at least dur-| ing the remainder of the Coolidge ! term of office, providing they find the | place and its environs thoroughly to| their liking. Thus far the Executive and the| “first lady” are fairly comfortably es. tablished in their Summer seat. and from all appearances are enjoying | themselves fully and are having a “fine time." as Mrs. Coolidge worded her answer to a question along this line today. | Alreadv the matter of purchasing | this handsome estate with its big| house and six acres of shore property | and large garage is under considera- | tion, and it is thought by several close | friends of the President that negotia- | tions to buy the place will be opened before the Summer is over. Just how | much all of this is going to cost is dif- | ficult to guess. Some local men, who are judges of land and property values in this section, say if the place could | be bought for $125,000 the President | would be getting a bargain. Shoes and woolen socks and clothes may be cheap in these parts, but net North Shore property, especially prop- erty of the nature of White Court. However, intimates of the President who are known to have discussed the subject with him are not worrying about the price. With them it is just a matter of Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge be- ing suited sufficlently to want it as their permanent Summer home. May Ask Nation to Ruy. From time to time for many vears back movements have been started at | the Capltal to obtain the necessary ap- propriation with which to purchase a sultable Summer home for the Na- tion's Presidents. This movement to- day {8 no farther advanced than it was when it was first brought up. It is thought, though, by some of those in- terested in seeing President Coolidge comfortable during the Summers he is to be President and who also favor the | Nation buying its Executive a Summer home that the Massachusetts delega- tion in Congress will propose legisla tion to this effect when Congress next | assembles, unless President Coolidge becomes the owner of White Court in the meantime. | The President's day was featured | today with a motor ride to Marble- | head Neck, a distance of a trifle over two miles, accompanied by Mrs. Cool- idge and Capt. Andrews, commander of the Mayflower. They stopped at | the slip in front of the Corinthian | Yacht Club and from there saw where the Mayflower is anchored about a mile out in the Little Cove. The President s understood to have inti. | mated that he intends to go aboard | the trim vessel very shortly for a cruise, but it is not thought he will desire to go any distance out on the ocean. | E.| | Tackles Task at Desk. President Coolidge was back at White Court at 9:45, and while Mrs. Coolidge walked about the ounds and among the flowers with Mrs Stearns the President went to hi study and applied himself to a bundle of papers which in a pile measured nearly eight inches. He was engaged in this business up until 11 o’clock, when he received Mavor Quinn of Cambridge, his firet official caller since establishing the Summer White House at White Court. There was no importance attached to this conference except for the fact that it was the first one to appear on pointments. The Cambridge mayor merely wanted to discuss some of the details of the celebration to be held in his city on July 3, commemorating the th anniversary of George Washington's assuming command of the Continental Army, on which occa- sion President Coolidge is to make the principal oration. This address has been completed and is now in printed form ready for release. Rises Before 7 A.M. The President o'clock toda: could hustle into some clothes was out in the open for a walk about the rocks along the shore in front of White Cou: 1o (Continued on Page 18,543 Vehicles Park Out All Night, 17,461 Are Pleasu In the still hours before dawn to- day the police department conduct- ed a city-wide survey of the all- night parking situation and found that 18,643 vehicles were using the streets as a garage. The results of the count, arrang- ed by precincts and specifying the number of pleasure, commercial and horse-drawn vehicles noted, ‘were turned over this afternoon to the office of the engineer commie- sion of the District for its informa- _tion. Just what it is planned to do about the matter was not made . known. re Cars, Police Find Of the grand total, 17,461 were pleasure vehicles, 997 commercial vehicles and 85 horse-drawn vehi- cles, to which, however, steeds were not attached. Precinct No. 10, on Park road, re- ported the greatest number of parked cars, namely, 3,007. The eleventh precinct, in Anacostia, re- gy‘rted the smallest number, with The totals, by precincts, follow: One, 485; two, 2,713; three, 2,21. four, 1,134; five, 1,545; six, 1,05 seven, 938; Sub-T, 719; eight, 2,391; nine, 1,761; ten, 3,007; eleven, 104, and 12, 384.. | tey {attention of the President's schedule of daily ap.| was up before 7/ . and just as soon as he | Circulation, 96,950 TWO CENTS. HEADLEY DEMOTION WIDELY PROTESTED; HEARING PROBABLE Civic Bodies Take Up Cudge! for Former Inspector of Police. BUCK PASSED TO FENNING BY RUDOLPH AND BELL Two District Commissioners Say Matter Rests With Colleague, Now Away on Vacation. Reconsideration of the the District Commissioners in demot- inz Albert J. Headley capain 1 hearing ; It being action Inspector withe from the felt at the indicated may re- tide of protests Buildi reliabl su District it was today in circles It is understood the of the fire and police committee of the Chamber of Commerce and of other civic interests in denouncing the summary reduction in rank of Head- ¥ is having its effect in high ad- ministration circles of the District is action | government, where certain rumblings |of dis: isfaction ovi order alread Commission r the demotion are said to be audible. rs Rudolph and Bell refused today to comment on the Headley case for publication, ex- plaining the matter was “out of their province” at present. It was stated that any change in administration or of policy in the Police Department comes under the supervision of Po- lice Commissioner Frederick Fenning, who is on vacation. With the expected return of the new Commissioner a week hence it is considered as highly probable that the protests being made by certain citizens and civic bodies interested in the Police Department and its welfare will come formally to the the full board of Com- missioners for “study Action Rocked Whole Force. It is reported that the protests may have weight enough to cause the Com missioners to call the demoted spector before them for a hearing. act calculated of itself to indicate a sympathetic attitude on the part of at least a majority of the three Com missioners. The demotion of Headley exploded like a bombshell in the Police Depart ment a week ago, shakinz the force from top to bottom. It was the first time in the history of the department that an inspector of police had been summarily reduced in rank without the opportunity of presenting his side to_his superiors. Police regulations provide that de- motions of officers below the rank of inspector must be predicated on the findings at a special trial or hearing. | Because of the fact that the office of inspector is not a civil service rank, but was created by the Commission- ers for administrative purposes, the holders of that office have no legal right to a hearing, it is said. Definitely Off Traffic Work. It is known the Commissioners will not be swerved from their decision shifting Headley from the Traffic Bu- reau tc a precinct, as they feel Capt Headley was “not the man” for that oftice. If a hearing is granted the demoted official and it results in revocation of the order reducing him in rank, it is likely he will be assigned to police headquarters as_inspector of a pre- cinct division especially created for the purpose. ONE MORE NATION SOON TO TALK DEBT Kellogg Opens Negotiations With Jugloslav Minister for Formal Discussion. Coincident with the heginning of | negotiations here for funding the Ital- ian debt to the United States Secre- jtary Kellogg has entered into pre- |liminary conferences with the Jugo- |stavian Minister on the question of that nation’s obligations Administration officials expect fund- ing_negotiations with the Jugoslavs to he opened at a reasonably date. The debt amounts 000 | The conferences between the Ital }1an representatives and the American | debt commission, which began ves {terday, will be resumed on Tu; { Secretary Kellogg has dis |debt refunding plan with the Minister, it was announced State Department today. A further discussion will next week with the hope definite basis will be found posing of the debt issue. PARIS mlL STRIKE OFF; NEW MOVEMENT LOOMS Postal Federation Orders Carriers Back, Pending Better Time for Action. Associated Pre PAR June 26.—Mail service in Paris s resumed today after yes- | terday's walkout, which was marked by an invasion of the main post office by a number of carriers, who held the place for two hours, until driven out by the police. The carriers returned to work upon an order from the postal federation. It was announced that the resump. tion order was given not because the men, were satisfied with the govern- ment's agreement to pay_their over- due bonus, but because ‘“there is a much bigger movement in view. and the federation wishes to choose its own time for action.” | | By the Girl Communists Sentenced. SOFIA, Bugaria, June 26 (#).— Thirty young Communists, including a number of girls, arrested during re- cent police roundups of agitators, have been sentenced to prison terms of from 1 to 15 years. However, the court has asked the King to reduce the penalties.