Evening Star Newspaper, July 6, 1925, Page 2

2 POLITICS CENTER 'HE EVEN “Two-Gun Man” ! Flees Policeman, ON'NORTH SHORE, =2 *72 Betent Butler and Mulvane, Settled Near Coolidge, Working to Reclaim West. BY J. RUSSELL YOU) Staff Correspondent of The Star SUMMER WHITE HOUSE SWAMPSCOTT. Mass., July 6.—With the establishment of Senator William M. Butler at Marhlehead Neck than 2 miles away from the Summer White House, the ce of national Republican politics woon north shore of Massachusetts Politicians are expected to pay only ®ocial calls on the President. The real politics that will concentrate here duy ing the President’s stay will he con ducted through Chairman Butler Many political leaders of the West. who during this time of the vea usually come East on thelr vacations are scheduled to drop in on the north shore and ¢ ‘er with Chairman But ler at his Marblehead Summer head quarter Political gossip b already with Senator Butler's presence and the frequent consultations h® has held with President Coolidze and Frank W. Stearns, the personal politi cal adviser of Mr. Coolidge. Believes Third Term Possible. The arrival of David W. Mulvane the Republican national committeeman from Kansas and one of the real party leaders in the Midwest, brought to the fore the discussion that President ‘ool idge may seek another term in 1928 Mr. Mulvane. who is a far-seeing and astute politician. said that the opposi tion that has heretofore existed in the annals of American politics against a third term for a President would not hold if Mr. Coolidge should elect to encceed himself. In the opinion of Mr ident Coolidge is now begun here Pres. and Mulvane so popular so strongly intrenched with the people, | because of his tax-reduction efforts and his financial policies. that they would not consider the third-term bugaboo in his case. Mr. Coolidge, he said, did | not serve so long as did Col. Roosevelt whose succession to President MeKin ley is paralell to Mr. Coolidge’s succes sion to President Harding. The Amer- ican people want such a man as head of the Nation, Mr. Mulvane contends, because they believe that he is not only able to apply business methods to government. but has succeeded in do ing so much more successfully than many of his predecessors “If the present prosperity exists” Mr. Mulvane said. “‘when the time for the next national convention ap. proaches President Coolidge will be| in a positign to break down the third- term tradition and land the nomina tion without much of a contest™” Coolidge Working for Party. President Coolidge. giving this matter any is devoting himself strictly duties as head of the Nation. intent upon getting further tax reduction and in winning back to the Republi can party the revolters of the Middle West. It is argued by his close political friends that if he can bring about a econdition which will elect conservative Republicans in those States in the Middle West which have bheen sending radicals to the Senate and House. the Republican party will increase its strength in the House and have a working majority in the next Senate President Coolidge must become the actual leader of the party in the 1926 elections. and if he comes through these with a Republican Congress which will carry out his policies it declared that he will be in a pesition to claim another term if he so desires. Senator Butler will devote himself in the next six weeks to conferring with politicians who will come to this section and to strengzthening himeelt | for his re-election mext vear. Follow- | ing the departure of President Cool- idge shortly after Labor day. Senator | Butler will make a tour of the West to study the political situation there, S0 as to be prepared to advise intel- ligently the President upon legislation and matters politically All the while the President’s mate friend, Frank Stearns, tinue his political customary place scenes will The only set engagements the Presi dent has thus far for this week is one at 11 o'clock tomorrow with Mr: John Jacob Rogers, who was elected last Tuesday to succeed her late husband in the House from the fifth district of this State and on next Nat urday when he will participate in the annual gathering of the Essex County Press Association near here. Senator Butler will also attend this gathering and his candidacy re-election for the Senate is expected to be formally announced on this oceassion Mrs. Rog os “The Angel of course thought is not He to his inti will eon- activities in his well behind the Join Press Meeting. known in Washington of Walter Reed” be. cause of her great interest of the soldier patients at that hospital, en joys the distinction of breaking down the New England tradition women in public life. She will he the t of her sex New England in the Representa tives W. W. Lufkin collector of the port in Boston and well known in Washington, where he the Jate Gussie Gardner in Congress having been his secretary for many years, is seeking reappointment is a Lodge man and has enc the opposition of Thoma of the Coolidge State latter is a candidate himself. If Mr. Lufkin is refused another term, it is pointed out that the breach between the Lodge and Butler fol lowers will he widened. Every effort is now being made by Senator Butler to heal the wounds so that harmeny may prevail next vear when he comes < up for election. This condition expected weigh in favor of Lufkin’s reappointment Attend Church President and Mrs. Coolidge atiend ed church yesterday. They had plan nad to worship here last Sunday. hut were called away the bedside of Col. Coolidge at Plvmouth. Insiead of going to a small church pot far from their Summer home. they mo tored to em for divine services in the Tabernacle Congregational Church. This one of the oldest church organizations in this section Jt was established in 1736 and the present edifice, a modern stone struc ture with a spire modeled after the original one, stands on the site of its three predecessors destroyed by fire. The decision to worship here was made only a short time in advance and Secret Service were sent ahead 1o inform the pastor and make arrangements. President Mrs. Coolldge arrived ahout utes before the services hegam. At that time there were few people about. Within a_short time the j was jammed. The President and Mrs. Coolidge sat in the fourth seat from the front in the center aisle. There were a few worshipers in the seats ahead. Frank W. Stearns. who accompanied them. sat in the pew hind the President and Mrs. Coolidze The sermon was preached by Rev. C. H. Beale. a retired minister of Milwau! He is spendinz the Sum mer here and serving as pastor dur ing the vacation of the regular min- ister, w W, H. Spence, to represent House of succeeded one The for the place Mr in Salem h against | min- | be- | Policeman Ostenso of the eighth precinct was mystified last night at finding a colored man armed with two pistols, which he held in either hand as if ready for instant action, seated in an automobile parked in front of 1707 Seaton street. The officer, approaching the car, commanded the man to sit still but the latter leaped from the machine and fled Ostenso fired several the man, apparently caped through an alley. Retur 1o the car, the officer found § the front seat he car and money were taken to the eighth precinet n. The machine, it was had been hired from a drive it-yoursell antomobile concern. Po. lice are endeavoring to establish the identity the heavily armed man and locate the owner of the money shots unhurt, but ox. sta found FUTURE OF DEFENSE TEST STILL IN AIR Full Reports of Results Will Determine New Policy. by *zeneral study the defense 1est ely zuide the War deciding on a and seeking Congress reached ned July 4 Conclusions staff officers ass results of the muster will lar Department in defense test policy anthorization by With complete reports on the second nation-wide defense test expected I be in hand within twe months, experts will then begin their analy- sis of the results with particular at i tention the question whether fu ture tests shonld be held on a fixed date for the country a whole or | whether they should be split up both to time and military areas. value of an annual national | fense inventory of some nature has {been fully demeonstrated by the two {tesis thus far held. Army authori ties are fully agreed | Result Generally Good. | The results of the test muster | Saturday, taking into account the handicaps of short preparation. the non-participation of the National Guard in several es and other ad verse factors, are regarded by | Gen. Hines. chief of siaff, a erally satisfactory.” He summa {incomplete reports as showing that the { response of civilians and of the three Army components “more than I two-thirds as great as last vear. with an estimated total of 15,000.0 persons participating. Gen. Hines helieves the results show conclusively {is on the right track as to national | defense policy. but that the Army { also is proceeding on a correct theorv {in planning in emergency for mobiliza tion by communiti “This reduction due to varlons Several Governors they could require the participation |of the National Guards of several | States. The fact that the Fourth of | July was a Saturday naturally reduc- | ed the total participation. The weath jer was an important factor | the | de- was Gen. Hines said adverse factors did not feel th: | Check-Up Improved. | _“On the whole. however. considering | the manifold difficulties under which the test was conducted, it is believed | that the results are generally satis- factory. Especially is it that the official lmnre complete than last vear's. They show that the country is on the right | track in regard to the policy of nation. al defense, that is, the one fixed by | | the national defense act. They show that the Army is on the rizht in its decision to mobilize hy com munities in case of another unfortu nate emergency “The Army desires tn thanks the National and reserve officers, sands of patriotic sisted =0 larzely express its Guardsme and to the thou civilians who as in the test exercises ENGRAVING BUREAU T0 BE REORGANIZED Twyman Reslgnution Leaves Of- fice With Two Assistants Provided by Law Administration of the Engraving and Trinting is 1o be reorganized following the resignation of Paul Twyman, an assistant direc tor. it was learned today Under an aci of Congress the num her of assistant directors for the burean was cut down from three two, for this fiscal year. Paul Twyman voung former soldier. who had been with Maj Wallace W. Kirby in the Engineer Reproduction Plant a1 Washington Barracks, and who had served under Maj. Kirby while the iatier tor ai the bureau during has resigned Bureau of an interim, and Jeft the burean. Mr. Twyman., it is understood, has return- ed the plant where he formerly was located. and is again assoeiated with Maj. Kirby Held High Post, Mr. Twyman was one of the youngast men ever . hold the responsible posi tion of assistant director and acting ldirector. During a period of time when Controller General McCarl held that Maj. Kirby could not continue to hold his civilian post without spacial act of Congress Twyman was actin the big money-making director plant The departure of Mr. Twyman and his return Washington Barracks leaves the with one director, Alvin W and two assistants John J. Deviny and Clark R. Long Dr. Deviny has been in the bureau for many vears and was one of those | reinstated following dismissal by Pres. |ident Harding more than twoe years ago. Mr. Leng was a member of the special committee which weni over the affairs of the bureau following the Harding dismissals. The present di | rector was head of that committee. Big Program Launched. Just how the activities which had heen handled by Mr. Twyman will he divided among the other men in charge at the bureau has not us yet heen decided, it wus said today by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Dewey. The rearransement. however, expected 1o be completed tew The launche gram of Nation. to hureau Hall is wes as the upon its much enlarged pro- issuing paper money The Man of Integrity. so delightful There ix nothing | the hearing or the speaking Isays Plato. For this reason there is conversation se agreeable as that of the n of integrity who hears without any intention to hetray and speaks without any intention to de- ceive. By future | That | not only that the country | to be nowd‘ check-up of plans is| track | “ 1 “Classes to| was direc- | within | bureau to the | of truth, | WAR ON SOVIETISM - BEGINS AT GENEVA “Internatlonal Entente" Asks CoHective Action to Combat “Peril.” Br the Amsociated Press FENEVA, July 6.—A petition ask- ing collective international action lagainst communism has been sent to (all governments by the “international entente against the Third Interna-| tional.” This organization, with head- quarters at Geneva, represents anti bolshevist groups in 21 nations. The petition presents communism As “a grave peril threatening 1o en ulf all conntries,” and pleads for in- ternational co-operation against that menace. It urges prompt action “be- fore communism has further oppor- tunity to grip the vitals of national life. ‘national security and national institutions,” and proposes agree- ments among the various govern- ments to prevent preparation in one country for revolutionary aggressions in another. Warns Against Diplomats. It also suggests that Soviet em- bassies, legations and Red Cross mis- sions be “prevented from abusing diplomatic privileges or hospitality | by secretly propagating communism in the countries where they are re- ceived."” The document Proofs of situation are says the seriousness of the that revelutinnary at | tempts or achievements already | evident in many countries, China be ing the latest example. ‘America s amonz the countries where communism propaganda is dis- seminated. Fighting Against Leagu ““The Third International is an en 1 emy of the League of Nations. It has | |commanded communists 10 oppose the | application of the Dawes plan. 11 has| endeavored to wreck the league's pro. gram for the financia! reconstruction of Austria and Hungary. It is sisting the campaign to prevent Ger | many entering the league.’ The petition is signed by Theodore Aubert as president of the permanent bureau of the “International l-'nl,]nvr gainst the Third International.” Au- bert is a Geneva lawver, who defended Maurice Conradi. Swiss engineer, who shot and killed Vaslav Vorovaky. Soviet envoy to the second Lausanne conference at Lausanne, Switzerland, May 10, 1923, Conradi was acquitted by a Lausanne court He admitted he fired the shot that killed Vorovsky but pleaded provocation because hia uncle and other relatives had been | killed by the bolsheviki msch CHILDREN WILL HAVE PRIORITY | Given Preference Over Out-of-Town Pupils in School Enrollment Next Fall. District children will be ziven priority over out-of-town pupils when {applving for enrollment in the public | schools at the beginning of the new |term in September. it was announced In a circular letter issued today at | the Franklin School. The letter bore |the signature of Supt. Frank W. Ballou and called the attention of | the supervising principals to the new I policy of the Board of Education re {garding the non-resident pupils. l} “‘After the enrollment of any class | | has reached a total of 42 pupils no { additional pupil shall be enrolled in said class unless he is a resident of the District of Columbia,” said the | letter. “After the enrollment of a ‘I‘ll.ts has reached a total of 48 pupils ! | seats must he provided for applicants | | who reside In the District of Colum-| {bia by transferrinz from one class an | equal number of enralled puplls who I reside in Marvland. (Compulsory edu- | {catfon laws make it incumbent upon [the school authorities tn provide for the District pupils.) that now have an enroll i ment of more than 42 pupils will not be reduced in size by the transfer of Maryviand ildren nlrur]' enrolled.” 'BANDIT ADMITS CRIME | AS HIS MOTHER PLEADS IB-Yenr-Old Former Convict Con- fesses Aiding Hold-Up Which In- volved Policeman’s Death. i { | | By 1 the Associated Press ST. LOUIS, July L3 Maurice O'Flaherty, 15.vear-old former con vict, broke down before the pleas of his mother last night and made a signed confession in which he men- tioned his confederates in the bandit quintet that held up a printing com. pany here Fridayv. culminating ir the slaying of a policeman and fatal wounding of a bystander. | O'Flatherty was found with & hullet | wound in his shoulder. during a raid Saturday night on a residential dis- trict resort. | Three of his alleged confederates ! were under arrest and the fourth still | was at large. The three, all minors, | denied his ‘charges | Patrolman John Grogan w {and Harvey Hammeti. Humane So- i ciety officer, was fatally wounded in | an encounter with the fleeing robbers. The oot amounted to little more than $100. ,CORPORATIOPJ HEADS GET 5 TO 10 YEARS ‘Thres Reiter Brothers Given Terms slain at Sing Sing in Larceny Case. By the Associated Press W YORK. July er and his brother, hoth of Brooklyn. officers of the Fed. | eral Food Stores, Inc.. which recently falled for $2,000,000, today were sen tenced to serve from 5 to 10 vears in| Sing Sing by Supreme Court Justice Haggerty. | Both were convicted of grand lar- | ceny last week. The speeific charge was the unlawful securing of a_ $25,. 600 loan from the Brookland Trust Co. Joseph Reiter, another brother, and former vice president of the company, | was convicied on similar charge and sentenced for the same term last week. The Reiters were charged with heing involved in larcentes amount ing to $2,300.000 Samuel Reit puis W. Reiter. 3 { | | Total of $1,110 Paid in Dry Fines One hundred and eleven toilers who imade the week end holidays ton moist were arraigned in Police Court today on charges of intoxication, and left be- |hind an aggregate of $1,110 in fines. All of the prisoners were men, and alt ugh the number did not set a new record it kept Judge Hitt busy all |morning and part of the afternoon. IThe fine in each case was $10, and ali [of the prisoners either had that amount en the spot or found some means of raising it befors being Y manded to jail in defauit, NG STAR, | today senatorial | ator | Gov. ibe CEREMONY AT JOHN of the Navy of the naval hero’s monument today at PINCHOT BELIEVED Attack on Mellon Viewed as, Part of Campaign for Pepper’s Seat. Gov Mellon land. Oreg. prohibition tives of Mr as a politic nia governor v. Pinchot is bhelieved asperations. and the nomination seat now oceupied by Pepper, who must come up re-election nexi year. Mr. Pepper understood to have the support Seeretary Mellon There may be another political angle 1o the speech of Gov. Pinchot. it was {said here. The death of Senator La Follette hax left the Progressives largely without a recognized leader. Pinchot, an old “Bull Mooser and follower of Roosevelt averse to attaching the sive support to himself. it Pinchot’s attack on Secretary delivered Saturday in Port . charging faliure to enforce and impugning the mo. Mellon, was regarded here I move by the Penn- sylv 1o have to have designs on for senatorial of Progres- ix said Reply Is Doubtful. At the Treasury it was said that Mr. Mellon is in Southampton. It is extremely doubt- ful that Mr. Mellon will make any re- ply to the speech of Gov. Pinchot. The governor made no specific charges of wrongdoing on the part of Mr lon, and Mr. Mellon is inclined to let the public judge for itself in the mat- ter of the generalities which fell from Gov. Pinchot’s lips. An official tement issued last week by the Treasury Department de clares the plans of the Treasury to make prohibition enforcement effec tive were “rapidly approaching con. summation ‘as a result of its experience and de velopment. the Treasury is better or- ganized and equipped to make the Volstead act effective.” Many Boats on Job. ecreMary connection: The Coast Guard two vears ago worked out & bullding program. which was submitted to Congress and au thorized by it in April. 1924 Work was promptly begun, and on June 30 last 216 patrol hoats and 100 picket | boats were built or building. Twenty ! destroyers belonging to the Navy have been rehabilltated and the required | personnel was enlisted and trained. ANl but 23 of the patrol hoats and all of the picket boats are now ice. The last three of the destrovers went into commission vesterda The plan of operation had been carefully prepared, and in May, Department today Mellon said in the same the plan was successfully put inte ef | fect on the Atlantic coast.” LASH FOR BOOTLEGGER URGED BY DRY LEADER W. Crabbe, Anti-Saloon Thinks Whipping Post Would Curb Maryland Violations. Special Dispateh to The Star BALTIMORE, July tablish- ment of the whipping post in Mary- land f bootleggers is advocated George W. Crabbe uperintendent of the Anti-Saloon League certain _instances George League, several Mr. Crabbe said he minutes at to repentane believed a few ping post might produce good results. | might be a good idea to try then they have so little respect, it might not have any effect on them. I know one man who bhas served two jail sentences for sell- ing liquor and who now is back at It | again. He would be a good one to start with. A hard lashing couldn't make him any worse.” T'se of the whipping post has been a_legal penalty in Maryiand since 1776, 1882 the practice was re- stricted to men convicted of wife beating. in 'HUGE CAR ORDER PLACED Pennsy to Spend $6,000.000 on New Equipment. PHILADELPHIA, July § (#).—The Pennsylvania Rallroad System today announced it had placed orders for 7 passenger and baggage steel cars ! to be delivered as soon as the equip- ment companies can build them. The total cost will be $6.000.000. The order consists of baggage cars, 105 passenger and 15 combined passenger and baggage, 10 baggage and mail and 5 combined passenger, baggagze and WASHINGTON, the | would not | Mel- | * and voiced the belief that | in serv-| when the boats | and trained personnei were available. | jail | ms have failed to bring bootleggers | the whip- | D. C, MONDAY, PAUL JONES STATUE Robinson laying a wreath at the base | services of the Sons of the Revolution. JOHN PAUL JONES' AIMING FOR SENATE MEMORY HONORED Sons of .tevolution Hold Services on 178th Anni- versary of Death. The 178th anniversary of the hirth of John Paul Jones, American naval hero. was commemorated by the Sons of the Revolution in the District of Columbia at exercises held at the .J Faul Jones statue at the foot of Sev enteeth street today. Acting Secre ltary of the vy Theodore Douglas Robinson placed a wreath at the foot of the statue during the exercises an W. Scott. Chaplain Corps, delivered the invocation Flags. furnishing an appropriate set ting to the exercises They included the roval Bourbon | flag of France. colors of the Revolu | tlonary period, a copy of the first flag of the Continental Navy, which was | flown from the masthead of the John Paul Jones flagship Alfred. and flags of the Sons of the Revolution. The committee in charge ceremonies included Brig Willlams, U. 8. M. C Comdr, William C. 1 Lieut. ~ Comdr. Charles €. Copp. U. S. N. Lieut. Comdrs. Lewis Clephane and G. Beale Bloomer and | Ensign Chester W. Lockwood of the naval reserve force: Maj. Charles R | Sanderson. Capt. Lee W. Wright and | Lieut. William ¢. Hall of the Marine Corps. They were accompanied by the color guard of the society. under Col. Henry May. and by members of the board managers, headed by Brig en. George Richards, 1. S. M. ( president of the society, and Charles P. Light. secretary. RUIN OF HAWAIIAN OIL TANKS IS DENIED of n. Dion chairman Stiles and BY HOUSE Memasns‘ | something which can only be guessed | |at, in which case they simply import | (Continued from First Page.) | half a dozen disabled ships. Sea walls are also needed around the submarine | base, whose quarters for officers and | men also merit improvement. Later the committee may recom- mend additional development of |naval aviation field on Ford Island With the exception of straightening the harbor channel. the above are nor- mal developments. and are not indica tive of a bad situation. Chalrman Stephens over the machine shops, and hospitals Will Require Money. ‘hese improvements will require considerable expenditure,” he said |but they are inevitable. because we must keep this key to Pacific defenses {In a perpetual state of preparedness in any eventuality. Second-best defenses !are worse than none. So long as we Irely on the defenses, the United States \must have the best. Personally, I hope for further world-wide reduction of armaments, enabling nations to use tunds for more conservative ends. European nations are struggling with war debts and the burden of huge | military machines. They especiall need reduction to assist rehabilitation. {The United States would co-operate | cheerfully in reduction. but until then we must make hPA\\ expenditures.” Rear Admiral L. E. Gregory, a mem {ber of the party, said plans for im provement are already prepared against an appropriation of Congress. A stronger naval base here is a ce tainty, he said. Representative Roy 0. Woodruff of Michigan, Spanish and World War veteran, who was overseas 11 months enthusiastic storehouses | | specting Army defenses in addition to those of the Navy. “The terrain of Oahu makes defense by troops very simple,” he said to the correspondent, |“and the Government should spare no {expense in making Oahu, in fact, a second Gibraltar.” -('onyrum 1925, by (‘hlvaxfl Daily News Co.) OYSTER FROBE LAUNCHED Alleged Price Fixing Subject of Tn- quiry at Norfolk. NORFOLK, Va. July § (®.—an investigation of alleged price fixing in the fish and oyster industries was started here today by a Federal grand jury. Announcement that the grand jury was to inquire into charges of | Violations' of the Sherman antl-trust law Instead of sanitary and health | conditions in the industries was made Iby Paul W. Kear, United States dis- Ptrict attorney, just before the Investi- gation was gotten under way. He refused, however to elaborate on how the alleged combinations fix prices. He likewise was non-commit- tal as to the extent of the alleged fl- legal operations or the number of dealers or ornnhnl'nl involved. | ohn | | were placed on the statue prior | the | the | and attained the rank of major, is in-| JULY 6, 1925. TRADE BOARD ASKS GOAL COMPETITION Combmatnon Broken, But Rivalry Needed to Assure | Supply, Commission Says. A move to restore the anthracite in dustry to a “normal competitive ba sis” and thus assure an adequate sup ply at reasonable prices is asked of Congress in a report by the Federal Trade Commission today. | The report, dealing with high prices {of the fuel. of the Department of Justice to dis- | integrate the ant ,racite combination” | ax successful to a large degree and suggested similar action by Congress | {to obviate high premium prices in |age. Complete restoration of com | petition in the industry, in the view |of the commission, would be prefar able to price regulation Of the $8,000.000 tons of anthracite mined annually. 70 per cent was sald to have been produced by eight large companies, now or recently owned by or affiliated with rallroads, and the remainder was produced by 100 inde. pendent companies. The commission reported that the railroad-coal com- but that they failed to reflect current changes in supply and demand, while {the independents simply took the highest prica obtainable Statistics Bureau Asked. Development of a public statist organization to publish information regularly regarding the industry and coal prices was recommended. along | reductic Spring s be effected and Summer in the to encourage earlier buying hp private consumers. The commission credited the high coal prices in 1922 to an actual short | age. but similar top prices charged late { by independent operators in 1923 were | | held due | to an anticipated shortage. A wide range of prices at the mine in | the Fall of 1923 also were declared of that vear m among wholesaler the commission to have fig | September Speculat ‘h eld by ured in passed through two or more whole salers before reaching the retailers. As additional measures to prevent nequ-m recurring anthracite short ages the report recommended educa tion of the consumer in possible use of economical substitutes, development of earlier tional buying by municipalities, in | creased storage equipment at mines and distributing agencies and enlarge ment of mine capacity to meet periods of unusual demand \COOLIDGE'S SPEECH | | | Such Addresses Do No Good ! U.S. and Hurt Europe, Lon- | don News Says. in { By the Associated Press. | LONDON, July 6.—The Daily itoday takes issue with | Coolidge's Cambridge address. Such | { speeches do not serve the cause of | peace and can do no good in Amer- ica, while in Europe they do positive | hnnn it says adding: News | exclusively that {of peace is almost American virtue and mities distracting roots in a savage passion for itself. “These enmities rise from no such thing, but from jealousies and fears, from which America ix free—if is free—not owing to her own s perior righteousne: but simply through historical and geographical accidents. The paper contends that any Am jican statesman prescribing for | rope ought first to master the fact and the symptoms of her case. “There is not a word in Mr. Cool- {1dge’'s speech.” it continubs, “which | | suggests that he has even Wied to ldo this. * * '+ Such speeches are | worse than useless. They are either exasperating platitudes or else mean | | another element of darkness and un- certalnty into a situation which is dark enough already.” Attacks. Foreign Policy. The Daily Telegraph finds a bone to pick with the United States on an- other ground. It assumes that American Government is | the extraterritorial rights and argues therefrom “Washington has !more an unwillingness or | grasp the larger {Oriental question. * * * By mak., ing this demand at this hazardous moment she (the United assuredly be regarded in Japan as hav- ing at iast_thrown down the glove, for it is obvious that Japan would not merely suffer the most by such modi- fication, but in the present mood of the Chinese she would be so patently menaced that, pacific as her inten- tions are, she would he pe the mere instinct of self- to take immediate action. TR TOPICS TONIGHT in betraved inability aspects of reservation i Purchases and “Police Speeders.” Financing purchases of automobiles will be discussed before the July meet- ing of the Washington Automotive Trade Association tonight at the City Club. E. S. Hare, vice president of Hare & Chase, will be the principal speaker. Discussion of high speeds on ecity streets by police cars also will come before the meeting. It is anticipated that the association will go on record | vigorously protesting against this practice. |ESTATE EXCEEDS $IOO 000 Probate. Louis Beyer, jr., a member of the firm of M. M. Parker & Co., realtors, who died May 29, left an estate in | excess of $100,000 according to the | petition of his son. Brooke V. Bevers, for the probate of his will. The de. ceased had Insurance of $15,000, se- curities of $8980, notes of $8,778.36; proceeds of realty sales, $9,800; syndi cate interest of $6.000, cash, $5,401.31. in addition to his interest in the busi- ness. Mr. Bever also owned real estate in Florida valued at Besides the son, he left a wife, Mrs, Pauline Velati Beyer. One Way Out. From the Philadeiphia Bulletin. Father—A wedding lke you want, my dear, will cost more than I can afford. Daughter—What is to be done? Father—You will have to ried without my consent. viewed “persistent efforts | i i times of actual or anticipated shor- | panles published prices periodically, | Soviet Governmpnt oiet Gorersment ST PRISONERS Private Capital: By the Assoviated Press MOSCOW, July abundant harvest the authorities as the moblilization of of state funds for gathering it. An ticlpating a shortage in capital, a conference of Soviet bank directors has been held, at which it was de. cided to attract private capital for realizing the grain harvest. Rec ommendations were sent fo the government that it create normal conditions for private contractors The conference also recommend- ed increased importation of certain articles. which, It was pointed out, are badly m»dod by the peasantry. GRAIN FIRM STOPS STOCK SALE DRIVE 6.—Such an is expected by 1o necessitate large amounts Concern Ind!rectly Involvedi in Dean-Onativia Crash Abandons Policy. ! By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 6. ain Marketing Co. Officers of the the $26.000.000 al | with the suggestion that greater price | [ have enabled wholesalers to exact | |large profits after the brief strike in | was | the high price of anthracite | in 1923, much coal being said to have ! systematic | and more ra- | SCORED IN ENGLAND| President | “The implication in this and sim- | |llar speeches appears to be that love | an | the en- | Europe have their | in she | the | “insisting | sedulously upon immediate reform of | China,” | once | to | the! States) will | uaded by | Members Will Disuss Financing | Louis Beyer, Jr., wm Is Filed for e met Ponce and followed him to $69,000. | Nuxl rporation launched a year ago to facilitate the merger of four large Midwestern grain firms in a project | designed eventually come under producer control. announced today the stock-selling campalgn among farmers hadsbeen definitely abandoned John W. Coverdale secretary treas urer of the company. =ald the promo tion work of the holding organization had not been pushed as vigorously originally planned for the last 30 days and that the firm must find other means of meeting $4.000.000 in obligations falling due July 28 Seek Other Plans. Officers and directors of the com pany assembled early today for a special meeting to consider the future | course of the enterprise. An advance | $4,000,000 for operating expenses made | by the merging firms must be repaid | {July 28, under the original contract | terms. 'Officers of the company now {are working on other plans to meet the obligation. but. prior to the meet | inz. none would discuss the proposals in hand Gray Silver, | | ! president “of the com pany. reiterated that the company's {involvement in the $35.000.000 bank ruptey proceedings against the Dean Onativia Co.. inaugurated Friday. was | only indirect and such as would not | weaken the financial position of the marketing enterprise. Firm's Staff Redue Although the normal force did no rt for work this morning in the offices of the promotion department of the company. officers indicated that letters to emploves of the de- partment mailed week notifying them of a sharp reduction in the staff ihad no connection with the status of the company resultant the brokerage house failure The normal function of the promo- tion department was handle the stock - selling campaign through which, under the plan announced at the Inception of the merger, grain producers were to purchase the prop- erties of the consolidating firms for { $17,000,000. | While recent financial statements {of the company showed stock sales {had not been up to expectation dur- ing the first 10 months of operation profits of £1,500,000 on more than { 200,000,000 bushels of grain handled placed the organization in a position which officers interpreted as assur- ing prompt settlement of $4,000.000 in advance obligations falling due July 28 | rei Rosenbaum Attending. Emmanuel S. Rosenhaum, president of the Rosenhaum Grain Corporation, a $7.000000 firm which was a party to the grain merger, was a majority holder of Dean. Onativia stock He will participate in today's meeting - | of the grain company officials as di- rector of export sales of the Grain Marketing Co. H. S. Ballard. general counsel for the company, arrived this morning from Columbus, Ohio. to attend the meeting FRENCH SELECTING DEBT COMMISSION Group to Come to Washington Will | Be Named Today—Caillaux May Be Included. i | By the Associated Prese | PARIS, July 6.—The cabinet proh.| ably will name this evening the com mission to he sent to Washington to { discuss funding the French war debt. | Among those thought likely to be Included are M. Franklin-Bouillon. chairman of the foreign affairs com miitee of the Chamber of Deputies, | and Deputies Henri Auriol and Daniel | Vincent of the Left groups and active in financial questions in the Chamber. | Tt is said the entire commission will be composed of members of Parlia ment with some experts from the | | finance ministry attached. Finance | | Minister Caillaux may not be included in the mission, but may be sent to | Washington as a special enwoy. PIMLICO ROMANCE ENDS IN ARREST OF TWO GIRLS. By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK. July § romance which began at the Pimlico race track brought two young Baltimore girls to | the General Sessions bar today on | charges of shoplifting. Mrs. Alice Grebs Ponce, oveday bride of Joe Ponce, a jockey, was placed on proba- tion, and her chum. Esther Lerner, re- ived a suspended sentence and was iparoled in custody of the Florence v(*rnmmm League. Mrs. Ponce is the daughter of Clar- ence Grebs, a detective for the Balt |more and Ohio Railroad. While with |the Lerner girl at the Maryland track | | New York, where they were married yesterday. The girls said they were initiated into the technique of shoplifting by {two chance acquaintances. who de- scribed themselves as actresses, but | were caught when they attempted (o | {put the lessons in practice. | BANK CASHIER DROWNS. Wife and Child Throw Rope in Vain Effort to Rescue Marylander. Special Dispatch to The Stas HARPERS FERRY, W. Va. July | $.—Maurice Scott Starr of Liberty Town, Md., was drowned at Goodharts | Rock, abotit one mile west of Harpers | Ferry, on the Maryland side, July 4 about 4 p.m. He was 2% vears old and a bank cashier. His wife and little girl, on the bank of the stream, threw him a rope, which he grabbed, but the | rope broke and e went under. The body was found & short while later. | Sheriff | hegan an\ mvestigs told veterina | atteged | prohibition heen | taineer handcuffed um J:-d to a tree | serious condition experience. driving along were set | having | gravity tio! | Allen 'Daily . CHAINED 70 TREE ‘Two Lost in Wilds 10 Days Say They Were Kidnaped by Moonshiners. Aysociated Pross CHARTANOOG A 4 5 YTom Tenn this ion into D. Mason Lawrence Bowman aide Federa! that they Mountain kept cap davs. The men, who disappeared on June without trace. were found morning by Jim Thomas who was hunting stray July Selman morni the story by D W Toeal 0., and fendisg and officers, Kidnajed and e for monn wilds about tanooza Bowman miles from and Mason were #s a result of \hav Bownwan said that while the road at night they upon by five men wearing sacks over thefr head and taken into' the tow overpe Lured by Fakev Message wman lured to the phone and Mawn mountain Wby a attacked. -, Their discovered the when Mason's cim was on the mountain with blgndsts the running hoard and corgainin hats of the vanished men Posses immediately search and combed including the place and Mason were found the statement of they had been mov tree each night of their A reward of $1.000 was offerad the discovery the dead alive. and a large number nay't of the mountain joined in the qnes The theory of the officers " the men had heen made victims hy band of feudists and moonshinen: the Bowmans having heen outy with what is known the clan for several months. the its climax when Tke was killed by Sam Godsey ago. Sam Godsey, a deputv sheriff of Sequatchie County, in a statemen issued last night said the whole affair was a frame-up designefl to him. and that Bowman and had plotted to make it appear tha they were dead in order 1o ens n whisky making without interference from the law Godsey also said that W Federal prohibition officer shot by Benton Godsev a Ao, was also engaged in ning. and notice « ernment’s a that he clear the mountains of <heriff Selman ihis clared that whaole Kidnaping appeared absurc he intended at the the case. BRITISH CABINET MOVES TO HALT LABOR DISPUTE Ministers Ready to Act as Media- home when pearance ing day jisap follow nd took, up the the where {Bowman heawing vieti that a M ferent captiw'ty men, was troubles x Bowman some gim: Mason F. Grubt vho liquor he Ge ents moonsh morning de hat and to m P bott tors as Meeting of Ministry Is Called. By the LONDON of Associated Press 6 the steps July the British ation the government to obtain complete garding the positions the disputing elements sider the whole questior meeting tomorrow Meanwhile first of admiralty, W. C. Bridzeman. and Labor Minister Sir Arthur Steele-Maitland are readw to act as medis in the dispute beiween coal miners and em plovers if the necessity ar IH Thomas. former home minister in the MacDenald Labor government. has urged the railway autho to con sider the situatlon well before takinz any action W. Dobbie, president of the National Union of Railway Men the con gress of the organization South port today declared he could see reason why members of the union should sacrifice an iota of the condi they have secured WILL REVISE.PROCéDURE IN HANDLING APPEALS Board In view of industrial is tak information maintained and will cabine by ors Personnel Classification Plans Meeting to Consider Prob- lem Up for Solution. Board The Personnel Classification planned to hold a meeting today to go over the problem of revising pro cedure of handiing appeals. There was a hare prospect, according to Chairman Guy F. Allen, that the new procedure might be agreed to by the board today. It is more probable however, he said. that the new form may not be adopted for a few days vet Under the present system. Mr pointed out, Government em send up their appeals to the in various different forms often with some of the most perti nent facts missing. There are now ahout ppeal before the b ployes board 1.100 d cases n June Circulation 95,023 ‘Sunday > 102,111 TEROY WIRERRON. Adverusine Man st RO pRRRON, AdRAgE AR Ty Ew ar ot the Actual number DAILY. pies 323sssezescees S Somaen] vy 2 Sone Tess adjustments.. Total daily net_circulatio Total average net paid Daily average number of co service Total Sunday Averaze net Average Sunday net Iation 107111 LEROY W. HERRON Adsertising Managar auipmcrited and weorn o' hefore "me this (Seal.) * "TELMER F. YO Noiars Pumle.