Evening Star Newspaper, July 3, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) F: tonight; tomorrow fair and warmer, except for possibility of thundershowers in Temperatures—Highest, pam. vesterday; lowest, § Full report on page 7. late afternoon. 87, at 6 at am. | e Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 14 ¢h Entered as seco post office, Wa: . 29,648, nd class matter shington, D. C. * - FOUR NEW QUAKES AT SANTA BARBARA: OTHER CITES HT Buildings of Devastated City Shake Violently for - Five Seconds. LITTLE DAMAGE FOUND | SHOCKS CAUSE TERROR Streets Again Lighted—Reconstruction E Goes Ahead Rapidly. | Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA sharp earthguake 39 o' Calif. shock July 3—{ ocenrred ock this morning and The vibra- bricks A here lastec seconds. few in tions ysened a widened the cracks some wrecked chim- ground, but no wttered walls. A few toppled to the damage resulted hard jolt nevs came 10:21 did not help the nerves of the | residents, but did no damage. A third{ ht shake was felt at 10:41, followed | hy a more prolonged shock at 10:46 The people have a feeling that will not be sorry when old. moth irth settles back to normal. A second which at they er e Survey Shows Little Damage. Santa Barbara hasty survey of thel ound only nominal damage. e old mission shed | more pounds of stone and and the walls were racked a| » more, but the old structure still; d atter the heavy quake b Anthony's College Francis Hospital, which wrecked in last Monday's| suffered little additional | h e still standing. In| one wo plumbing was wrenched and broken, but the power | and pipes that had been| d were not disturbed ing the nock this were wild rumors concerning | nage, but they proved to be without foundation or exag-| & 1. One report said that the! mansion of C. K. G. Billings of Chi-| c which is located in Montecito, had been destroyed. City Hall Suffers, A detail of police and a man visited the place and found the ! ildings of the estate in practically | the sume condition as they were after | the quake of Monday. Some additional plaster fell, but the employes say that | he building did not suffer to any serious extent today. A few persons who were working in | wrecked or dumaged buildings were bruised in their scramble to get out, | but a visit to the cottage hospitall where the quake sufferers are cared| for shows that not a person has been | added to the injured list up to 19:15 am City eporters the News made city and f 15t ¢ of Monday. the and St were badly earthquak places morning | here the ¢ he newspaper officials Hall,” which esc damaged in the first shock Monday suffered a little in this morning quake. Several large cracks appeared in the 1. but the damage is not rezarded as serious. | City Manager Hurt. The reconstruction committee was session in the City Hall at the time f the shock and in the rush to get from the building City Manager Her. hert Nunn fell on the stairway. He taken home. but is not thought e badly hurt. | An exhibition of 1 furnished by the Associated Press| operator in the office of the Daily | News. When the building began m‘ | | report that the City| ved 1 practically Gn te cool nerve was rock he opened the key and announc ed the quake to the outside world wnd took out his watch to time the duration of the shock as he watched the buildings roll and rock. The vibration, consist wks, appeared to be from t. and swaved the buildings per-| more severely than any of the following the major disturb. last Monday morning 0 ted no damage resulted upants of buildings rushed into the afety Barbara_citizens of “digging out earthquake del Most of the city streets were zhted last night and efforts were e made today to restore electrical ind poss : the of two east to went about from un- | s, | r work completed ined on for demned. Repairs Five motor were from Los Angeles today to street cars the street car_com- rehabilitated Power | from hydro-electric mountains and ire testing connections. As the circuits all places will not will then be x con de. expected take the untdl the | | gas and | i busses zhis plants nvailable in nearby is at the Engineers i tual dam- | tion at Having estimated :|])—] the .-,.mmn-1 the tely husiness $11,000,000, expert engineers Wl points in chairmanship of C. B. the Stanford Univer- School, planned to ! nspection work, pa: «ctures that must assembled California tee of from under the Marx, head sity Engineerin its of wtinue upon th Mail deliveries 1in normal wd some bakeries are operating, but | still shipped in from hnsl Augeles. Trains ain on time Telezraph service nple and less | th 1000 of the %,000 telephones in when the enrthquake struck Monday are unserviceable ng | come | e a ity oday Free distribution of food continues nd will be ne on the present ze scale until ind elect, is The food all being furnished boring California towns. )unty supervisors planned to meet this morning t» order construction of 1 new county courthouse of steel und concrete Felt in Pasadena. PASADENA, Calif, July 3 (®).—A | slight earthquake occurred here at | $:38 am. The movement was ap- parently north and south. A second slight earthquake was felt at 10:19 o'clock this morning. No damage. | { | 1 servic practically 16 by e Los Angeles Shaken. LOS ANGELES, Calif.. July 3 (®). | \n earth tremor of fair intensity was felt here at about 30:22 a.m. }Quick Leap Saves By the Associated Press SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., July 3 Mrs. Coolidge barely escaped being run down by a motor cycle this morning during w walk about | Swampscott, a leap to the side of the road saving her. She was returning to White Court and had just turned into the | private driveway when four mem- bers of the State constabulary on motor cycles turned into the lane behind her. Driving at a fast clip according to witnesses, the motor cycle officers were behind her al- most before any one was aware. The grinding of brakes and a yell by James Haley, her secret service man, gave Mrs. Coolidge her only warning, and as she jumped to one side of the road the leading ma- chine shot between her and Haley The motor cycle detachment, which was coming to White Court to escort the President to Cam- bridge, proceeded to the Summer White House wit)#at stopping Slightly shake up by the inc dent, Mrs. Coolidge ~ continue home WISCONSIN CHAOTIC UNTIL BLAINE ACTS Governor’s Own Ambitions Said to Be Cause of Delay in Calling Election. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Staff Correspondent of The Star MADISON, Wis., July 3.—Chaos is the only word to describe the political and senatorial situation in Wisconsin that has been left by the death of Robert Marion La Follette. It applies in particular to the matter of filling the Senate seat now vacant. Two ele. ments of complete uncertainty exist One is whether Mrs. La Follette, the late leader's widow, or her son, “Young Bob,” is to be a candidate at the special election which the: Wi: consin law provides for. The other is when Gov. John J. Blaine will call a special election, or whether he will call it at all. The law is permissive, not mandatory. The governor, if he wishes, can let things go over until the general con gressional election of 1926. In event, Wisconsin would ve but United States Senator, Irvine L. root, in ths Sixty-ninth Congress. Un til Mrs. La Follette and “Young Bob™ are back from Washington, in a week or so, their end of the situation will not be cleared up. Meantime Gov. Blaine is preserving a silence that not even his most intimate political asso- ciates have been able to penetrate. His detractors say it is characteristic of his indecision and procrastinating habits. At any rate, he has political Wisconsin plunged into the biggest guessing contest on record. Movement at Stake. There are as many angles to the posthumous La Follette crisis as can be counted on the fingers of two hands. As far as Wisconsin Progres- one Len- Progressive | sive forces themselves are -concerned, the whole future of ‘the “‘movement’ is involved, with personal ambitions briskly at work. Gov. Blaine has long bent his energies in the direc- tion of La Follette’s successorship, both in the Senate and in the leader- ship of Wisconsin Progressivelsm He would undoubtedly be an avowed candidate for the place now but for the fact that the La Follette family has not vet relinquished its claim upon it. Blaine’s chances for the senator ship, and all that goes with it, would undoubtedly be better if he could put them to the test at once than if he walts, as he otherwise will do, to run agalnst Senator Lenroot in the Re publican primaries and at the gen eral election of 1926. Lenroot strength, bulwarked by of the Coolidge administration, 1is fully recognized by the La Foliette | party. What deters Gov. Blaine from entering the race for the un | expired La Follette term is the fear {of offending the La Follette family | charge of the firm's two sets of offices | parade and histori and the tremendous La Follette fol iowing in the State. It would be tal to any Progressive to do that “Bob’ he general expectation is that “Young Bob, and not his mother, presently will be an avowed candidate for -his father's seat at au special election to be called by Gov. Biaine later in the year. obody in Wisconsin questions Mrs. La Follette's consummate abil- ity. As the lifetime political partner of her husband, she is credited, de- spite her vears, with the talent and capacity to represent the State the United States Senate. But the consensus hereabouts is that the son, despite his vouth, would on the whole perhaps be of more effective service to Wisconsin and to the Progressive cause generally. Mr: La Follette is thought to share th: view. Though Expected to Run. La Follette leaders fecl (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) Post O%fic; Smoke Causes Conviction Of Chief Clerk Robert S. Regar, chief clerk the Office Department. found guilty by Judge John P. Mc- Mahon in Police Court today of violating the District smoke law. The case was continued until July 17, when the judge will pass sen- tence. The decision has been pending for a year. Mr. Regar was held on three charges of allowing unnecessary quantities of smoke to escape from the Post Office Building, of which he had charge, and of allowing this smoke to become a public nui- sance. Mr. Regar said that the unusual amount of smoke was due to the inferior quality of the coal furnished him and that under the circumstances the smoke was un- avoidable. of Post was | Radio Programs—Page 9. 1 g Mrs. Coolidge From Motor Cycle Crash that | the support | in | SO0000FRM OF BROKERS FAILS: HAD OFFICES HERE | Crash of Dean Onativia & Co. | | Laid to Unmarketahle [ Grain Holdings. CONCERN COUL[iI’T MEET i LOAN CALLED TODAY | Capital Financial District Is Shock- ed by Closing of Local | | Branch. | X By the Associated Press | NEW YORK. July 3.—The failure of {the New York Stock Exchange firm of {Dean Onativia & Co. was announced {today by the president of the ex-| | change | The firm. which was organized in 1922, has branch offices in Chicago. | Plainfield, N. J., and Washington - B o An involuntary petition in bank. | ruptey was later filed against the | firm on the petition of three em |ployes. Liabilities may reach $3,000, 000. and the assets are estimated at $4,000,000, the petition states. Receiver Appointed. The petitioners, Harold A. Chandor | of Glen Ridge, N. Y.; John C. A. Har |vey of East Orange, N. J.. and John | Breitbach of Brooklyn, alleged that | the firm committed acts of bankrupt | “by transfers of pr creditors to them perty to certain thereby showing preference bove other creditors.” Chandor claims $565 due him—$1 of which is for salary unpaid. Harvey claims $100 and Breitbach $75, both for salaries due. { Judge Bondy appointed William M | Cannon recefver under a bond of | $50,000. Liabilities, $35,000,000. Liabilities of the insolvent house | were estimated at slightly more than | $35,000,000, with assets of between | $30,000,000 and $35,000,000, in a_state. ! ment issued by Gilman and Unger, | New York counsel for the firm. | “The difficulties arose,’ d the lawyers, “from the fact t in the | accounts of customers, Dean Onativia & Co. were carrying 45,000 shares of i stock of a_company which was a sub- | sidiary of the Grain Marketing Corpo- ration of Chicago. This stock has ! been quoted and carried by the bank around $30 a share Unable to Meet Loan. i “Under the requirement of the Il | nois law it was necessary for 51 Iper cent of the stock of the Grain| |Marketing Corporation to be sold by | {Julv 1 because it was a co-opefative | {association. It is sald that it would be necessary to unscramble the Grain | { Marketing Corporation and its subsid- Hiaries. | *“A Chicago bank called the lof Dean, Onativia & Co. and it H sible for them to meet thei~| tions this morning." brokerage firm held member in the New York Stock Ex-! |change, New York Cotton Exchange,| INew York Produce Exchange, New ! |York Curb Market, Chicago ~Stock ! change, Chicago Board of Trade nd the Minneapolis Chamber of !Commerce. Resident partners of the | firm include Emanuel F. Rosenbaum and Edward S. Rosenbaum. long |prominent in the grain trade, and 1J. €. Clark, dean GRAIN loan ARKET HIT. | | Brokers Placed in FHands of Receiver | in Chicago. CHICAGO, July 3 (#).—Dean, Ona- | tivia & C brokers was placed in {the hands of a receiver, {Title and Trust Co. annonuced today. The firm, with headquarters in New ! York, has been well known in stock | !and grain circles. Unconfirmed reporis were that fallure involved $30,000,000. | | The receiver was appointed by Fed | eral Judge Carpenter at the ovening {of court and representatives of the | Title and Trust Co. immediately took | the Chicago the {in Chicago ! Assets Pledged. | The petition in involuntary bank-! | ruptey placed the liabilities of th firm at approximately $29.000,000 and {alleged that its assets were almost | wholly the property of its customers and were pledged to varfous banks. | Stromberg. Allen Co.. the 20th Cen tury Press and Harold Pickett were the petitioning creditors who sought the recefvership and also asked that | | the matter be placed in the hands of | a referee. Only small claims were | | filed by the three creditors, i It was alleged in the petition that | |the company committed an act of | bankruptcy by the payment of $22,000 | to Charles J. Trottman on July 1. | The failure was reflected in the grain market, where it was esumaudl‘ that about 2,000,000 bushels supposed | to have been held for the accounts of | Dean Onativia & Co., were sold out in | the pits, depressing prices somewhat. | Held Unmarketable Stock. | | A statement issued by Winston, | | Strawn and Shaw, attorneys for Dean, | Onativia & Co., said: | | *“The failure of Dean, Onativia & Co. is not attributed to any unusual | market condition or to the deprecia tion In value of any of the listed se- | | curities traded in by that firm, but | for some time the firm has been carry- |ing on its books the stocks of some | corporations which are not actively | | traded in on the stock exchange and | for which the market is slow. | “Recent developments in connec- tion with these stocks have further | limited their value as quick assets. Thus, the firm found itself with slow assets in which too much of its work- ing capital was tied up. | “Liabilitles to banks are in excess! { of $20,000,000, all of which are said to be fully protected by collateral. With the present market, ti is not.antici- pated that there will be any loss to the banks or to the customers of the firm.” i Connection Denied. Advices to the grain trade on the Board of Trade stated that trading in the stock of the J. Rosenbaum Grain Co. had been suspended on the New York Curb Exchange. Emanuel F. Rosenbaum was president of that company. which went into the mer- xer of four big grain companies that (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) WASHINGTON, | tension of the present WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening D. C., FRIDAY, N\ JULY 3, Star. | 1925—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. The “From Press to Home ar’s carrier every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the pap: Within the Hour” system covers are printed. Yesterday's Circulation, 96,493 (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. By AR (W) WO\ N «& \ \\\ g} CAMPAIGN ) \\\Q\\\\ (S D Architects Oppose Furnishing % White House in Colonial Style Institute Secretary Appeals to President. Roosevelt and Former Mrs. | Mr Cleveland Asked to Lend Aid. of the White House and its furnish- ings and decorations to conform to the colonial period, as developed by a commission of experts, headed by Robert W. De Forest, head of the Metropolitan Museum of Fine Art and vice chairman of the American Federation of Arts, are opposed by the American Institute of Architects, who urge that the work be continued along the line of the French empire scheme adopted during the Roos velt administration. when the Ia extensive decoration of the Inter! of the Executive Mansion was made. President Coolidge. who is under- stood to have given his approval to tire program for making the House truly “colonial mansion,” has been urged in a letter signed by E. C. Kemper, execative secretary” of | the American Insiitute of Architects,;the institute, a copy of which I take to have the improvements now con- COOLIDGE TOLEAD MEMORIAL TRIBUTE President to Make Address on Washington and Review Parade. the Associated Press SWAMPSCOTT, Ma July 3.— Presdient Coolidge today will join in a national tribute to George Washing- ton The Executive has given over to a v pate in the celebration of the 150th an niversary of Washington's assuming command of the Continental Army His part In the ceremony calls for him not only to deliver an address at the spot_where the Washington elm once stood. but to head and later review a 1 pageant. White House automobiles were to call for President and Mrs. Coolidge and their party in time for a departure from White Court shortly after noon. Their route was along the coast through suburbs of Boston that fig- ared prominently in the early history »f this Nation. First Vacation Address. The President has reserved for this occasion his first address since the start of his vacation and probably one of the few speeches he will deliver during the Summer. % At its conclusion Mr. Coolidge plans to return -to the Summer White House, where, since his return from Plymouth, he has remained virtually in seclusion. Just what his plans are for the Fourth of July, which is his fifty-third birthday, have not been dis- closed. 1t is probable, however, that he will take a week end cruise on the Mayflower, anchored at Marblehead. Greetings from all paris of the world, and from men, women and chil- dren in all stations of life are flooding the mails received at White Court. One of the first to send his felicita- tions was Gov. Fuller of Massachu- setts, who struck off a bit of poetry for the occasion. Girls Present 25,000 Cards. Among the first to extend birthday greetings were the Camp Fire Girls, the day | a delegation of whom called at White Court today to present 25,000 birth- day cards from members. Virginia Anderson of Brooklyn, N. . made the presentation to the resident on the lawn of the Summer White House. She was accompanied by representatives of the organization from Boston and nearby towns. An elaborate birthday cake also was left at the Executive mansion by Mrs. Harriet McAdoo of Saugs, Mass. St BRITISH MINERS TO FIGHT. Will Insist on Present Wage Scale and Seven-Hour Day. LONDON, July 3 (P).—Miners' dele- gates from all the coal fields in the country, meeting at a private confer- ence of the Miners' Federation today, decided to resist the mine owners pro- posals for lower wages and for ex- i-hour day to an 8-hour day. White | it to Cambridge to partici- | The | carry out the program started during the Roosevelt occu- {pancy, when $300,000 was spent on | | the French empire scheme under the direction of Charles F. McKim. Th letter, dated June 11 and made public for the first time, fol- as v Dear Mr: President | Naturally enough, the American | | | Institute of Architects has had a deep inter ven st in the White House since the 1857, his interest was intensified at the time the White House was renovated under the divection of Charles Follen cKim. architect. of the firm of Me- | | Kim. Mead & White, and during the | dminisiration of President Roose- | velr s AL the completion of the work {"Président Roosevelt wrote a letter to (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) INPETUS CIVEN RECIONAL PLAN Gigantic Meeting Planned to | 1 Further Movement in | Development. | Regional development of a great metropolitan district with the | National Capital as a center received another step in the direction of real ity this afternoon, when representa- tives of Maryland and Virginia and the Federal Government met at a luncheon at the City Club and planned zigantic meeting to mobilize pub- | sentiment behind the movement. lic | There were present at the confer |ence, which was arranged by the | committee of the Arlington County |Civie Federation, Maj. E. Brooke Lee, secretary of state of Maryland; I Howard Duckett, chairman of the | Washington Suburban Sanitary Com- don of Maryland: Robert B. . chief engineer, and Vinton D. v, department engineer of this commission: Lieut. Col Clarence O. Sherrill, executive officer of the Na- tional Capital Park Commission; R. E Plymale and Arthur Orr, members of the committee of the Arlington County Civic Federation, and Mayor Harry Fellows of Falls Church, Va. Meeting Is Planned. After considerable discussion, in which all of the parties present gave their entire support to this great movement, it was voted on motion of Mr. Duckett to have a meeting at the Interior Department auditorium here at which action would be taken to suggest to the National Legislature and the Legislatures of the two States the legislation necessary to give the three communities authority to co- operate in the development of the metropolitan District. ‘This committee will consist of Maj. Lee and Messrs. Duckett, Plymale and Orr, as representatives of the two States who are most intensely inter- ested in the planning for the great city which is to grow beyond the pres- ent bounds of the District of Colum- bia. This committee has full author- ity to make the arrangements and plans, which will include an invitation to attend and participate in the meet- ing of Gov. Ritchie of Maryland, Gov. Trinkle of Virginia and the Senators and Representatives of these two States in the National Congress. Chairmen Chosen. It was tentatively decided to have Representative R. Walton Moore of Virginia and Representative Zihlman of Maryland, chairman of the House District committee, to take charge of the meeting, one to act as temporary chairman and open the meeting and the other to preside for the remainder of the meeting. Col. Sherrill pointed out that when the idea is developed the regional committee could get the advice of the best city planners of the country to come here and assist in the move- ment, and he expressed the belief that when the three geographical subdivisions are united on the plan Congress ~ would provide the funds with which to make the plans and then the States could carry thenf out. History was made yesterday in the development of the Droposed metro- | (Continued on Page 2, Column 5y NATIONALS LEAD BOSTON IN SECOND Four-Run Rally Gives Cham- pions Margin in Third of Series. BY JOHN B. KELLER FENWAY PARK, Boston, July 3.— The Nationals were leading the Red Sox, 4 to 0, in the second inning here toda Coveleskie, the veteran spithall pitcher, was assigned to the pitching box by Manager Harris in the third game of the series. Opposing him was Paul Zahniser, a former National FIRST 1) G. WASHINGTON — McNeely struck out. S. Harris singled to deep short. Rice singled to right, S. Harris go- ing to third. Goslin singled to right, scoring S. Harris and putting Rice on third. J. Harris lifted the ball over the left field fence for a home run, scoring Rice and Goslin ahead of him. Prothro threw out Bluege. Peck went out the same way. Four runs. BOSTON—Peck tossed out stead. Peck caught Prothro's low liner. Boone was safe when his grounder was fumbled by Bluege Carlyle sinz'ed to left, Boone stopping at second. Todt filed to Goslin. No runs. Flag- SECOND WASHINGTO; NING. —Ruel singled to center. Coveleskie sacrificed to Todt. | McNeely walked. Lee threw out S. Harris, Ruel and McNeely advanc- ing. Lee threw out Rice. No runs. BOSTON—Rogell Lee forced Rogell, § Marris to Peck. Picinich drove into a double play, Peck | Harris to J to S. Harris. No runs. “ANGEL,” FREED, FAINTS. Mrs. Holleran's Sentence on Bad Check Charge Suspended. 1.OS ANGELES, July 3 (#).—When Judge Charles S. Crail 1-to-14-year penitentiary sentence yes- terday for Mrs. Mary Holleran, former wife of a wealthy Boston banker, she fainted. . | Mrs. Holleran was said (o have been | known in Boston as the “white angel of the slums.” She was convicted recently of passing worthless checks in several department stores here. ITALY TO SEND VOLPI. Ex-Governor of Tripoli Selected for Financial Mission. ROME, July 1 (#).—The newspaper L'Impero savs it learns from a reliable source that Count Volpl, former gov- ernor of Tripoli, is about to leave for Washington on a special mission to the American Government, connected with the present financial situation in | Ttaly. Fireworks for Children. Plans were completed today for the staging of a display of fireworks for the children at the Industrial Home School, 2525 Wisconsin avenue, tomor- row night. The Commissioners, in board session today, issued the per- mit for the celebration. ingled to center. | suspended a | | | 1 { Cutter Bringing 3 Captive Liquor Craft Into Port By the Associated Press MOBILE, July 3.—The Coast Guard cutter Comanche is en route to Mobile with a schooner and two motor boats captured in the Guif of Mexico with 2,000 cases of liquor cording 1o wireless Mobile cus- tom aboard, 2 dispatch officials today. No details of the seizure were given in the dispatch and the identity of the schooner was not made known in the wireless mes- age which asked custom officials to make plans to store the liquors on arrival of the cutter here. FRANGE APPROVES 1., DEBT MISSION Will Send Experts Here This Summer to Speed Set- tlement. 1o By the Associated Press PARIS, July 3.—The council of min. isters today approved a plan to send a | French debt commission to the United States this Summer. The plan will be submitted to a full meeting of the French cabinet to. morrow, with President Doumergue in the chair, for final action. There is no indication who will head CAPITALIS READY FOR CALL T0 ARMS - IN DEFENSE TEST |Plans Completed Today for Nation-Wide Muster of Potential Force. 17 MAJOR GENERALS HERE FOR CONFERENCE TODAY 21,000 Expected to “Enlist” for Day in District—Participa- tion Simplified. Washington and the Nation com- pleted plans today for the dual ob- servance of the 4th of July and Na- tional Defense Test dav tomorrow. The War Department’s prepara tions for the Nation-wide muster end ed this morning with a conference of the heads of all branches and sections qu the department. This meeting was called by Maj. Gen. John L. Hines, | chiet of staff, to examine tomorrow's | program, and it was described by its | sponsors as a preliminary muster of the War Department itself. Seventeen major generals were in- { cluded among the 23 officers summon- |ed to the conference, a similar depart- mental muster having been held by | the mission, but if Finance Minister | Gen. Pershing’s direction just prior to | Caillaux is unable to go to Washing. ton, as seems probable, it has been suggested in unofficial quarters that former Premier Poincare be selected. | Other suggestions name MM. Loucher, Barthou and Clementel, each of whom has held important cabinet positions and government offices in the past. Would Speed Parley. The prevailing view in France is |that negotiations for settlement of France's debts to the United States {include | devote | for and Great Britain should be initlated with the least possible delay. At the same time it is recognized that formu- lation of a plan at present is beset with difficulties which will only be re- moved when the finances of the coun- | try are again placed on a sound basis. The Ambassador in Washington hav- ing been instructed to inform the American Government that France is disposed to send a commission for dis- cussion of the question, tentative plans for the composition of this body are already under way. It is also realized that speedy fund- ing is the only way to obtain favorable terms. In this connection the Petit Parisien says France is entitled to hope to obtain from America a maximum rate of 2 per cent, moratorium of several vears and a time limit of 70 or 80 years in which to extinguish the debt. NEED FOR SPEED SEEN. Caillaux Wants Action to Prevent Increase in Debts. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. PARIS, July 3—With the passing of the financial law by the Chamber of Deputies today, the French budget is not only of $500,000. The government now can breathe freely, and it is expected to be able to carry on at least until next Fall, when Parlicment meets again. Although the government asked the Chamber to in the business returns, it did not put a ques tion of confidence, which might have | imperiled its existence. . Finance Minister Caillavx now will his entire attention to allied debts. es Need for Haste. M. Caillaux told the writer recently that the settlement of that question in his opinion, more important for France than the United States, be- cause the debts will increase continu- ally by adding a heavy rate of in- terest unless adequate arrangements are made at once. Consequently, un- less France knows e: Iy what facili- ties she may to establish indebtedness, she will to finance her budget nor much-needed credits abroad. The finance minister pointed out that when peace was signed France's political debts to the United States did not exceed $£2,900,000,000, and with- out obtaining other loans from Amer- ica, the amount today is almost $4.000,000,000. To that sum must be added $27,000, 000 which France uses in the treasury war stock purchased after the armistice from the American Army. All these sums bear 5 per cent interest which, if allowed to accumulate, will soon reach such @ fantastic figure that France never will be able to re- a expect, and thus is able the exact of her be able to obtain figure never fund the debt. regardless of how pros- | perous she may be in the future. Will Not Waste Time. Consequently M. Caillaux is firmly determined not to waste more time, and either he will go himself or wiil send a delegation of experts to Wash- ington before September to submit to the Treasury a funding plan which may be acceptable to the United States and France. M. Caillaux is convoinced that the American Debt Funding Commission, taking into con- (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) Most of Us Are Twins in Single Body With Dual Nature, Scientist Finds By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 3.—1f we feel cordial one minute and grouchy the next we are twins, says Prof. H. H. Newman, University of Chicago zoo- ologist. Most of us are altsrnately a Dr. Jekyll and a Mr. Hyde—a pair of twins that have combined in the process of development, but who still retains separate nervous systems, he believes. “Identical twins, or those that look. exactly alike, coming from the same cell, are really right and left hand components of a single individual,” Prof, Newman said. “In one-third of the cases of twins that have been under scientific ob- servation, one of the twins has been right handed and the other left handed. The fact that some of you are left handed and that others of side may indicate that you are vyou part your hair on the right one of a set of twins, the other of which has died before you wers born. — 4 “The normal individual is he who has been joined together success- fully. But none has right and left sides that are exactly alike. Bilat- eral symmetry, the condition pres- ent in normal human beigns, is merely one step in the process of twinning. “Twinning is a pathological and not a normal condition. We think that it occurs when embryonic de- velopment has been arrested in some way. “Whzc causes this arrested velopment we have not yet curately discovered. It is my be- lief that it is concerned with the lowering of the metabolic rate or rate of living that prevents the two halves of the embryonic indi- vidual from co-operating. The ‘whole question of twins sheds new light on the controversy between de- ac- heredity and environment and shows us bevond doubt that the hereditary factor is the most im- portant one. al considered balanced, but | shows, at least theoretically, a surplus new budget a tax on | the first defense test last September. {In a statement explaining the reason i for the conference Gen. Hines pointed out that the department’s plans un. |der the national defense act really | constituted a scheme for putting the | country into a complete state of dé- |fense against any enemies whatso- ever. Plans Here Important. Naturally, among the most impor. tant unit plans are those of the Bev- eral sections of the general staff and of the several branches of the War Department in Washington,” Gen Hines said. “These offices will have to administer the expansion of our [national forces. To do this they will, | of course, have to expand themselve: Unless their unit plans are carefull land logically drawn the offices cannot {expand with rapidity and efficienc { Unless they are able to so expand the expansion of all other units of the Army will be deficient. | “The progress in planning has been | gener al! satisfactory. While the plans have not vet been completed, they have been carried sufficiently far | to permit their functioning on the out- break of an emergency. In fact, we have now reached the siage when the {seneral basis of the plans has been stabilized, and what is now wanted is {suggestions for improvements in | specific details, | “The inspection and muster of a |company. held periodically, exercises | beneficial effects alike on the com- ipany commander, the individual mem- bers of his company and the morale of his organization. Today's confer- ence is a muster of the War Depart. | ment.” D. C. Expected to Lead. The Army is looking to Washing- ton to lead the country in the de- fensive muster. Brig. Gen. Samuel D. Rockenbach, commander of the Dis. trict of Washington, announced today that enlistments in the District of Columbla for the test should exceed 21,000. Gen. Rockenbach's office will | 1 | | |remain open throughout the day to receive reports from headquarters of the Organized Reserve and District | National Guard, both of which are ex- pected to receive large quotas of one- day recruits. Participation in National Defense Test day has been considerably’ simpli fied. Those wishing to take a really {active part may attend any of the meetings that are to be held at the Na- tional Guard Armory, the Washington Auditorium and reserve headquarters, the latter locate at Fourteenth street |and Pennsylvania avenue. Officers of the Organized Reserve will attend the meeting at the Washington Audi torium cannot devote several | | | } Those who hours to one of these meetings, but w h to indicate their willingness to esist the \War Department in test- ing out the Nation's defensive ma chine need only go to the fire engine house or police station nearest their homes and there register. Signing of the roster obligates the one-day re- cruits in no manner, but simply gives the Army chiefs some idea of the man-power that could be raised over- night should an emergency arise. In the meantime, every section of Washington is prepared to welcome the Fourth of July once more. As usual, the programs for the day will be “safe and sane,” although carry ing out the spirit of America’ birthday, separate programs having been planned in different parts of the city. The Air Service exhibition at Bcil | ing Field, beginning at 2 o'clock, will | prove one of the most attractive fea tures of the day. It will enable the people to watch that important branch of the service in action under assumed war-time conditions, and be- sides providing a liberal education on the conquest of the air, it probably will provide more thrills in five min- utes than could be found elsewhere in a day. 400 New Citizens. Four hundred new citizens are ex- pected to take the oath of allegiance to the flag of the United States at the celebration at & o'clock tomorrow eve- ning in the stadium of Central High Community Center. These young men and women have been registering dur- ing the past two weeks. | In this impressive ceremony they will be led by Brig. Gen. Geoige Rich- lards, U. S. M. C., who has been offi- clally designated by the Board of Com- missioners of the District to administer the oath. Following the oath each inew citizen will be presented with a | copy of the Constitution of the United {States by Jesse C. Suter, president of jthe Federation of Citizens' Assocla- | tions, | The program for the celebration at Central High School will be one of the most pretentious ever offered here. Swearing in of the new citizens will represent but one phase of it, and the full list of events to be presented fol- lows: Program of Exercises. The program for the exercises at |Central High Community Center to- morrow night at 8 o'clock follows: PART I 8 to 5:30—Special concert by the iUnited States Marine Band, Taylor Branson leading. 3330 10 9—Patriotic_message to_the “(Continued on Page 5, Colusma L %