Evening Star Newspaper, July 11, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy tonight and tc Temperatures: Highest, p.m. yesterday: lowest, . at today. Full report on page Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 20 N antered as second class matter AN O. post office, Washington, D. C. 16 DARING DRIVERS TUNE UP 70 START . INBIGLAUREL RAGE Lightning Track and Perfect Weather to Make Trip Fast. and continued warm orrow at 12:15 5 am. ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ch WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JULY 11, FRANCE SIMPLIFIES COOLIDGE PROGRAM e o HEAVILY PRUNED N ESTIVIATE FOR 1927 i S —Two children were killed, half a ~ N dozen or more homes were destroy- , d and o r prop wiped out Gen. Lord Is Expected ing camp, 70 miles south of here shortly before midnight, when a Make Few Further Reductions. “From Press to Home 5 - Within the Hour” T'he Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes s as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 95,126 29,656. > WENTY-EIGHT PAGES. T™WO (#) Means Associated Press. CENTS. \Bursting Dam Kills e o o ALL BUDGET ITEMS E40—Slory Garage Plan for Chicago Is Found Legal By the Associated Press CHICAGO, July 11.—Skyscraper garages to solve Chicago’s down- town parking problem may result from an opinion of Francis X. Busch, city attorney, legalizing con- struction of the Jewelers' Building, 40 stories tall, as a combination ga- rage and office building. The building will be 557 feet tall and have a storage capacity of 572 automobiles. Twenty-seven per cent of all floors up to and includ- ing the twenty-third would be de- voted to car space. SPANANDFRANCE JON N REF WAR e | United Armies to Face Abd- Treaty 0. K. Lifts Obstacle to Solving Nation’s Internal Ills. dam at the Silver Dyke Mine gave | way and precipitated a 15-foot wall .| of water, mud and tailings down | a coulee leading into Carpenter | creek. This information was r ceived in a_telepho y the eat Falls Tribune from Ray Porter, proprietor of a Neihart store. to message KELLOGG AND PRESIDENT CONFER ON U. S. POLICY SHATTUC AND DEVORE ELIMINATED IN TRIALS End of 250-Mile Grueling Test of | Man and Machine Is Ex- pected in Two Houts. | TOTAL NOT REVEALED: IS ABOUT $38,500,000 Deeply to Avoid Necessity of Raising Tax Rate in the District. America Must Take Lead in Call- Commissioners Cut 'FORD FILES OFFER | ‘ Customs. FOR200U.S. SHIPS | T ; Al — Bid Is “Way Over’”” Those Re- == BY DAVID LAWRENC appropriation of approxi A L M auty| “elKrim—Frenchilse Ruhr Troops. | titanic test of merve and steel, 1§ of the world’s most daring drivers waited at their marks today the drop of | he fag that will send them away on SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., July 11.— Action by France in ratifying at last | the customs treaty adopted by the| nine powers in conference at Wash- | ington early in 1922 has made possible {a forward step, which both President 1y $38,300,000 for uintenance ational Cap- 1 vear 1927 is ex amended by the they ke their eau of the Bud cently Opened, Chairman 0’Connor Declares. develg durin pected be r issioners v port to t he ie B @ mad race of 250 miles for the in ngural championship of new Bal timore-Washington The track lightning fa er perfect for the racing dash. a hot blinding sun turning the boarded into an oval glistening white- the drivers expected to complete their 4 journey within two hours. oolidge and Secretary of State Kel- week logg hope will assist in solving the internal troubles of China. | Nothing could be done for three years because of the delay in France By the Henry the bidding for the 200 s offered | for sale by the Shipping Board with affer degcribed b O'Connor_as &z Boston Iron & Metal the best previous By the Associaled Press. PARIS, July 11.--The French and Spanish governments have arranged to co-ordinate their military operations g but now, with the ratification accom against Abd-el-Krim's Riffian tribes. | bu | plished, the next move must be taken men. he Spanis ffort w b on | - 3 el e i 'i” stooq |DY the United States in summoning small scale, it is understood, e Ut ateina < a conference to t: but nevertheless it is expected with the Citizens’ District Build 1 ed that 1 the larg n, lo few' davs the revised report, which the Budge 0 re Wednesday. - The council, after weeks of consid- tion of the needs of all depart ments. recommended a budget of §38,. 908,000. While the Commissioners reve figures, they have deci it is understood, upon a budget ting $38.500.000 Will Not Raise Tax Rate. Although more than priating in = e uilding th; 3 the | coulg turning it | gay o 18 ne-| ance to the ! apie O'Connor | 4t entered Speedway . the weath- | for | serapping Chairman f the of Baltimore submitte The Detroit manufacturer's tender L eiise. G e Doseiiinsi rejected the rotommendation of Presl. i ‘g ove need a add up Director Lord on or bef rena Co bid Atmosphere Is Tense. Banked high in the huge grand stand that stretches along the entire morth side of the track, thousands of | men and women waited with| pulses for the call—| e off"—that will start the Ereatest ever seen in this parti the country. It was a scene of | tense, nervous anxiety, and perhaps the only persons in the whole arenai who did not feel the taut strain of the last hour were those in the pits, There mechanicians and _drivers were calm and ful. smiling and joking and even calling threats to one | nother from pit to pit. But in the grandstand, and around the arena | where thousands of cars were Da ed. nervous spectators anxiously twist- «d handkerchiefs and tore up bits of paper to relieve their jumpy nerves One or two were politely asked not to throw paper around for it might blow down on the track and interfere with the racers. A band, spread out in front of the ‘s indges’ stand, tried in vain to take Propaganda he minds of the throng off the! cannot decided o Claim to Corn Islands. h the & Metal ordered furth ale. The latter ¢ 0 bidders whose tenc {June 30, and f Ford announced from Detro While aled Soston 1 Co. and on the s one of ned MANAGUA, Nicaragu: ‘onsiderable here, coast Islands. 11 ®) = feeling has been by Colombia’s claim Nicaragua July race o negotiations e of =3 CTOBEBULTSON for acceptance of the $1,370.000 bid of and the | = aroused the east Corn this would be considerably Congress has been recent years for the Di at the District get of that amount e of on the present making allow increase in tax e to building oper- onsidering also that the of its old surplus e report, which must go to the et Bureau next week, will not in clude the detailed estimates, but will be the summary of department totals, The city heads will then lay aside consideration the needs until Gen icates the Buc should ren of appro. he I which not re Ford over President gotiating all ship sa There has been n ne tion of a claim by Colombia as out-| lined in this dispatch. The two coun- tries are separated by Costa Rica and | Panama, icaragua recently the Colombian that the is Farmers Chosen. Lawyers Draw Lines for Big Battle. previous muma-| New $1,000,000 Company unse fore Contracts for Site note in Capital. board’s approval insisting aid it provided . Provi and other _ship dencia and Santa Catalina in the junk. The provi Caribbean sea, now occupied by Tron & Metal Cc | Colombia, are Nicaraguan possessions. equipment for second-hand use was Great Corn and Little Corn Islands not regarded desirable by the lie closer to the Nicaraguan shore, be- chairman and some other board mem | ing roughly 70 miles off the coast and bers 280 miles northwest of the Atlantic President F entrance to the Panama Canal bid at a conference nor, but said he did not what it contained. and that it would not be opened until the renewed negotiations are concluded July 16 to " hai or Peking within three months, at have real effect. which arrangements for administer- The French war ministry has de-|ing the tariff will be made. cided to transfer three divisions of | One of the chief obstacles to unity | colonial troops, now in the Ruhr and |in China has been the right of vari-| France. to Morocco. Gen. Stanislas | 9U8 provinclal governors and f: 5 : 4 tional chiefs to collect customs Naulln, newly appointed commander |tornaily. The abolition of the internal | n chief of the French Moroccan |tax now is sought and the strength-| forces, will have about 100,000 men |ening of the central government at at his disposal when he takes charge | Peking by increasing its revenues is July 18 | perhaps the most important of ail. | Reports circulated among the vari There have been various inequali ous Moroccan tribes that Abd-el.|ties in the application of tarims be.|JUrY Of Krim’s contemplated offensive against |tween China and various countries, so | Fez would be successful, caused a|the Washington conference attempt-| panic among tribes friendly to the|ed to harmonize the whole situation | French. They began to flee to the by making all the interested powers | real estate, du. south with their cattle, their horses |agree to a 5 per cent ad valorem | sent e and all their possessions. They are|duty. now moving back to their old terri tory, reassured by the news of Abd el-Krim'’s reverses in his attacks upon | the French. covernment nds of San Andr a Boston esale of | By Will Increase Revenue. = This rate has theoretically been in! effect before, but in actual cash it has ' 4, amounted only to 313 per cent. The| | powers now are to arrange to make it reach 5 per cent, and this will mean at least §156,000,000 in silver added to the revenues of China. Senator Un-iiha mext move. No vession of comet A : wood of Alabama, as 7 L P < cars ‘and themselves, but the thou.| Many From French. [aavood orddiabams Tk fienmpifin?f:rffetl}‘,.“:h;’”"“fiif," Jor today, the defense pands refused to be quiet, Swaying| FEZ, French Morocco, July 11 UP.— | the tariff treaty, and may be asked to | Lavins asKed for a day to consider back and forth. they eagerly followed| The situation along the front, where [assist in the first conference on ad. | “"Hha jury 1o comiposed of nine farm. | the paths of mac e Gl Jor Lest!the French forces are holding the | ministration, thought it Is Primarily a! ers, one school teacher and farmer Lo order all eavs from the. teack gut i Rifian invaders in check, appears task for United States Treasury offi-| combined, one fruit grower and b el = cited | calm for the moment clals. 3 shipping clerk. Only one Is e m'!?im."‘i-’fil‘fl"mi"nfififd e;nx;leliv‘ Abd-el-Krim's principal activities are | This is not the only phase of the | church member. s 4 ) s | of & political nature. These, however, | Clinese problem which the Secretary With indications of a battle in the | ook thelr seats. Some ate lunches|of a political nature. : S |of State had to lay before Coolidge | offing, the defense intended to de. they had brought with them. others are almost as dangerous as military | on hig visit here. The customs tarif | onine e, Jgfense intended to de | wig-wagged frantic signals to over-|action, as they aim at weakening or | treaty was adopted at the same time | bage their plea mr" Rimiteing #ito - the'} worked hot-dog venders. apd cold | destroying the loyalty of the tribes|that the famous nine-power pact wasisvidence the testimons of experts | drink carrlers, and a few declded to|hitherto friendly {o the French. The | signed, and this, too, has been ratified | along scientific and religious lincs to seek a few minutes' relief from (he|natives in the Quezzan reglon, on the | by’ the United States, Belglum, Great | atrompt to show ihat tho. thomcy of terrific heat that smothered every-| western French wing, are showing | pritain, France, the Netherlands, | evolution does t conflict with th body, and disappeared to the shade|signs of succumbing to this intensified ? ¥ 3 g S i snal the Associated Prese E DAYTON, Tenn.. July 11.—With e first preliminary steps made, in cluding the selection of a jur counsel for both defense and prosecu- | tion In the Scopes evolutlon case to- day planned conferences to consider A central freight terminal covering about e ht acres to handle all pe ishable freight that comes to Wash- ington is to be established immed {ately by the newly formed Potomac Freight Terminal Co. of this cit | This company, which is compos number of the leading EF R men of the city. has just been in- {corporated for $1,000,000 under the laws of the District of Columbia and will proceed to develop the terminal MURDER TRACED =% one | A not a | | Railway for the | etght-acre tract T0 THRILL CRAVING .= bid SITUATION NOW CALM. & er discussed the Ford with Mr. O'Con. Abd-el-Krim's d of business Swings £ hopeful that the will not cut the total re being recommended, fter consulta with the .Southern purchase of the bounded by Mary- !1and Twelfth street and | Water street southwest has already | been drawn and a conveyance is ex- | Pected soon 7 This land is accessible to the trac Youth Finds Love, Boofleg.;age of practically all of the railroads |that enter Washington and tra | will be run onto the Terminal 'ECUADOR RULE UPSET s i i ¢l and with the Board of Trade, as BY BLOODLESS GOUP ch st i e 55 = | ommended by Ihdrvidus) depnemen: Gen. De la Torre Hgafis New Mili- emd s Hos tary Regime—Civil Officials | C2nnot reveal items they have agreed to in revising and cutting down the beneath the grandstand propaganda. y 5 At the same time the enemy is con- Mot Tauet tinky. |tinuing his military preparations, Motors were tuned up early. and |potably around the Tafrant post. almost since the first streaks of dawn The ferocity of the Moorish attacks mechanicians and drivers have been | against the French lines at night may giving their roaring little steeds of | be accounted for, in part, at least, by steel and aluminum their final test. |the part the tribeswomen play in Now everything is ready for the get- | them nway | These amazons, hands smeared with iteen drivers originally qualified | henna, race after the raiders, shriek- the contest but it was essential | ing hysterically and grasping at any that two should be dropped. Referee | warrior who for a moment falls back 4 Wagner stipulated that track |from the onward rush. onditions warranted the starting of | In the morning those raiders whose only 16 and Earl Devore and Dr.|clothes are found to be daubed with *William E. Shattuc were eliminated. | henna are summarily This left the quota stipulated by the : judges and they appeared on the BRITISH A track in the following order Earl Cooper. junior eight Bennie HIill, Miller special Milton, Miller special; Fred Comer, | Miller special; Harry Hartz, Miller | special; Ralph De Palma, Miller spe- | cial: Phil Shafer, Duesenberg special; | Jerry Wonderlich Miller special: | Peter De Paolo, Duesenberg special: tobert McDonough, Miller special Reginald Johnson, R and J special; | rank Elliott, Miller special; Leon Duray, Miller special; Pete Krieds, | Duesenberg special; Ralph Hepburn, | Miller special WER special; | e Tommy late Deprecate Action That Might V Tangier Pact. LONDON. July 11 (P).—It is learned authoritatively that the British reply to the Spanish suggestion for its co- operation in Morocco deprecates any action which might be Interpreted as violating the neutrality of the Tangler | zone. The British reply this zone does not seem to be in any immediate says | Italy, Japan, Portugal and China. ! Biblcal mecount of creation This embodies what are known as the| . “Root principles,” because they were | sponsored by Elihu Root as a member | of the American delegation appointed by the late President Harding. Guarantee China Freedom. Prosecution Preparing. | time | lines | tack. Indications were that the would attempt to have this testimony |introduced as a matter for the in- | formation of the presiding judge, to were drawing to withstand up their the expected at Two of the principles were the fol powers agree to provide fullest and most unembarrassed op-|be dealt with portunity to China to develop and|fit. While it maintain for herself an effective and|several weeks stable government. | would be the ba: “Whenever a situation arises which, | for the submission of such evidence, in the opinion of any one of them, in- | they still were seeking other grounds volves the application of the stipula- | upon which to base their contentions. tions of the present treaty and ren-| Prosecution attorney ders desirable discussion of such ap-|hand. consider the c: plication, there shall be full and frank | which only the question the ha ‘that this probably se one in ing powers concerned.” | descended from lower Under these two clauses the United | animal life is involved. States and the other powers are obli- | contentions upon this view, they have form of | zated to consult each other on vital jannounced their intention of making One of these is the prob-|a supreme effort to prevent the trial | questions lem of extraterritorial rights. The |from leaving the purely legal course Chinese delegation at the Washing-|and trailing into a religious and ton conference submitted 10 points, | scientific controversy one of which was as follows i sue in Teaching. “Tmmediately, or as soon as circum. | stances will permit, existing limita tions upon China’s political. jurisdic. The Stewart on ue, Attorney id last night, is whether Prosecution attorneys in the mean- battle defense afterward as he sees been known for | of their arguments on the other of whether | communication between the contract-|John Thomas Scopes taught that man | Basing their General | ging and Aviation Dull, l Note Says. By the Associat ML JOLA July 11— | Having committed murder to get the | super-thrill of his hectic career, in the opinion of the authorities, Phillip . Knapp, vear-old ex-college beau brummel, deserter from the Army | Aviation Corps and ‘rm"h’fiv of wom. en’s hearts, is being Sought by the ke the murder of Bohby. Franks in Chicago, in which the finding of a pair of glasses in a swamp led to the intellectual slayers' capture, Knapp' carelessness started the hunt for him. Knapp s used of picking for his victim a modest, trusting man YTouis Panella Hempstead taxicab driver and father of two children. Searchers stumbled over foot pro truding from the ruins of the old Camp Mills_base hospital near here July 4. Panella disappeared the previous night. That same day Knapp had obtained a threeday leave. The body might not have been found for weeks, if at all, had Knapp heaped over it a little |erty |ance | Bowie @ | directo.s | president prop- where the freight terminal build ings will be erected. Cold-storage f cilities will be provided and the entire | undertaking will take the form of a | large wholesale center for perishable eight. The Brown, A incorporators are Wrisley Frederic D. McKenney, Clar- Aspinwall, W. Worthington nd George L. Starkey. The| of the new company are Charles J. Bell. Harry Wardman, W. Worthington Bowie, Wrisley Brown, Thomas W. lulme, Henry H. Lee, | Frederic D. McKenney, Clarence F Norment and George M. Smith. i At the first meeting of the board|jdent of directors Wrisley Brown was elect ed president, Thomas W. Hulme, vice Henry H. Lee tre nd Worthington Bowie tary In the plans of the Fine Arts Com-| w. and Cable d officials assumed of mi sume full Thrown Into Prison. By the Associated NEW YORK Prese July The g military resime Francisco Gomez head The coup was accomplished qu without bloodshed, the Guayaquil 1 Quito .appa dly hind the patches say at Quito, the capital, oned. These included Dr. onzalo S. Cordova e last A t 31 of foreign a Dr with Torre set de up la as at being . 50 impr ter A Larr A military junta was formed to control pending the titution of a new civil mission for the development of Wash-|%he movement is described a< de ington recommendation is made the commission that a freight ter- minal should- be located at this sec- tion of the city. i | aims bYied to end a regime of m tion, but the precise given vern ment of Ecuador has been overthrown the civil authorities imprisoned and a Gen. its kly movement the zovernment | were the Pres and his B con zovernment and | of the revolutionists are “"“SOVIET-POI;IéH BOEDER departmental recommen Heavy Cuts Made. That a severe pruning all along line was necessary, even leaving idget at more than $38,000,000, is indicated by the tement that if recommended by depart- had been granted the {budget would have totaled $47,000,000 largest zle item in the for the public school sys- ginal recommendation rpose was in round num- 00,000. It reported the heads found it necessary to re- duce this fizure to about $12,500,000. In draf liminary report 1 the 1 understood, the omm ote much time to on of the fiscal rela- | tions, believ that this is a ques. tion to be taken up and given serious censideration when the hearing on | the budget begins at the Capitol next | Winter rather than at this time. ions. the the 18 RUSSIAN COMMUNITIES BOY IS SHOT iN RACE RioT, 'NCIDENTS BRING NOTES DETROIT’S 3D IN MONTH | Permanent Arbitration Bodies on | more of the wreckage |tional and administrative freedom of | Scopes taught that man descended driving a Wade Morton, Duesen berg special \ danger and that British co-operation with Spain might have a provocative effect. The British government ex presses willingness to continue to as t in policing territorial waters, but cannot undertake any more extensive operations ‘This British note replies to a Span ish communication which reached Dr. Shattuc the millionaire sports-|London late in June and never ‘;fl! man who became “converted” to the|Ppublished, but in which 1t 1s under speed game while serving as track |Stood the Spanish government m} u: physician at a number of big races, |joint action by France, Great Bri t_ar; gave the early arrivals in the stands |and Spain to insure the neutrality of a thrill by zipping his car close to|Tangier and to police the waters of the guard rail at the rim of the bowl |the Tangler zone. Foreign Secretary for several laps. | Chamberlain told the House of Com It seemed that the man-operated|mons recently that the British gov- bullet actually was scraping the rail | ernment had received an invitation «as it roared over the far from smooth | from Spain to join in “Moroccan meas. ures,” but went into no details othe than to say there was no question of Great Britain participating in a Mo- roccan blockade. 'housand Pour In Gates. The track was taken over by several of the drivers as early s 8 o'clock for| azzling practice spins. Only a scat-| tering crowd was on hand to watch | the rs tune up, but thousands of| men and women began pouring in the | gates before noon boards. By 11 o'clock the grandstand had | begun to get filled with gaily dressed | women and shirtsleeved men. Out- side the bowl scores of policemen and | soldiers were perspiringly trying tol Singer Killed in Auto. park the hundreds of automobiles tha filed in a long winding line from the | BINGHAMTON, N. Y., July 11 (). \Washington-Baltimore boulevard to|—Mrs. Marie Fancher, a singer, was the grounds, hal mile to the east.| killed near here early today when an One of the greatest traffic problems ! automobile she was driving went over ever facing the Maryland authorities an embankment. R. A. Weller, oil sradually assumed full proportions as ! salesman of New York, owner of the noon hour approached. The cars from | car, who was riding with her, was Washington were piling up far down |held by the police for examination. the highs awaiting an_opportunity | » turn into the narrow, dirt roadway | that was the sole means of approach. | Qualifications were completed th morning shortly before 11 o'clock. alph De Palma, winner of many a| motor classic_out West, stepped his | | OFFICIAL Driver Position No, Peter de Paolo Leon Duray Phil Shafer Peter Kriess Earl Cooper Fred Comer Wade Morton Harry Hartz Benny Hill Tommy Milton Frank Elliott Robert ‘McDonough Jerry Wonderlich Earl Devore (driv- ing Ralph Hep- burn’s car) Ralph de Palma Jimmy Hill little Mille Special around the pine vard oval to the tune of better than miles an hour Comer, also Milier Special, did the lap | 129 even 1 Leon Duray, in another Miller Spe- | «1, reached the maximum speed of 4 8-10 per hour Benny Hili, lh"! fourth qualifier today, will probably drive Reginald Johnson's R and J| Special. The time for his test trial| around the track could not be accur- | ately obtained Eight Qualified Yesterday Yesterday eight other drivers quali-| fied. as follows: Peter Kriese, 109 8-10! miles Wade Morton, 128. Phil Shafer, §; Earl Devore, 119.1; Frank Elliott, 126.6; Dr. Willlam Shat- tuck, 117.1, and J. Hill, driving Ralph Hepnurn's car, {n 121.4 miles an hour. Things began to hum in the bowl| 4at noon when the drivers, completing minute adjustmenst in the pit (Continued on Page 2, i Column §) |action are 1o be removed.” | s0 President Coolidge gave callers the | RACE LINE-UP from a lower form of animal. i K& i stand in the matter is not a change Camnisslon Tnastive: of any previously announced plans, it The treaty finally signed took note |is pointed out, since they have not of China’s plea only in general pledge | previously announced any l‘flurfie‘:f e to provide China with the “fullest and |action. The administration of most unembarrassed opportunity to|oath to the jury Monday, followed by develop and maintain an effective and | the reading of the indictment and the stable government.” A commission | arralgnment of the defendant, will was appointed to study all the questlons involved in extraterritoriality including the mat ter of consular courts. Nothing ha | been done since by way of action. The anti-foreign movement in China is at- | tributed to some extent to the 1ndfi-4}')urr0w very | jurors. {;fi;w of the powers to this very | ™ Stewart, both~at a brief ex The United States Government, in-|change of views of opposing attorney fluenced by Senator Borah, chairman and during the selection of the jur for their first real clash in the trial. Symptons of such a clash were re- objections of Mr. Stewart to he man in examining ations com. | objected, strenuously to the injection | of the Senate foreign relations com- | objected, strenuously to the, tnjection | indicate that it would develop into an | attempt to reconcile the theory of mittee, has taken the lead in asking | thbiowers, {p el onsiner o ference, but Great Britain does not think the time is ripe for a conference, | evolution with the Bible. In a statement impression today that he didn’t think | Press last night he declared: the party would be held. Informal | % consultations will be continued, how-|its position concerning the competen ever, through diplomatic channels of the proposed evidence of and there will be further meetings of | the diplomatic corps at Peking, which | will be of greater value now that the appointed American Minister, " (Continued on Page 4, Column 6.) the Bible, 1 think it but right {as vigorously as we know how. Scopes May Admit Teaching. Seconds per Lap Name of Car Duesenberg Miller Duesenberg Duesenberg Junior Eight Miller Duesenberg S aE AR Miller | Miller Miller Miller Miller Miller | dents that |lower order of animal. i “If this be true,” he said, his reach cannot save him. man descended from a | ence, declaring the cannot be taught. Production of expert wit both sides would lead to j ending end be but a babble of tongues.” Miller Miller Junior Eight ~ (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) Their investigate and |bring the opposing counsel together vealed several times yesterday in the ner of questioning pursued by Clarence prospective to the Associated “'Since the defense has made known the scientists tending to show that there is no conflict between evolution and that our position should also be definitely | stated and that it might be understood that we intend to back our position | | ] | Continuing, he declared it to be his | understanding that Scopes would not deny he taught to high school stu- man descended from a “he is | guilty of the violation of the law and all the evidence of scientists within The law |itself says that it shall not be taught |to the students in the public schools ! that man descended from a lower or- | ‘Whether scientists might be brought |into court to expound the helief that lower order of animal instead of by the process of God. he felt would make no difler«‘ law says such ses by ‘a never- proposition and would in the The statement of the attorney gen- eral came last night at the conclusion of the first day’s proceedings, during which he had appeared before the Letter Reveals Plan. The desire for a super-thrill revealed in a letter which Knapp left in his locker at Mitchel Field, ad- dressed to his father, William Knapp, an engineer of Syracuse, N. Y., and to the commandant of his squadron. The letter, in Army correspondence vle, dated June 26, was headed, Subject: Disappearance of Philip Knapp” and referred to the writer as the third person. “Anything was welcome dangered his life,” the letter said. “Frank the thought of self-de- struction has been considered. but in that, although the result was de- irable, the excitement. the utter en- joyment of facing death, was absent And now he finds that the life in the Army is entirely too humid to satisfy that insatiable longing. What would be done next will be done un- known to all, absolutely. A different name will be used and in this large that en- tection is evident” The letter said merly his wife and at present most distasteful to him, had been trying to locate him. “Flying was about the only occu- pation untried |letter continued. seeking after thr | of his escapade: i Bootlegging Too Tame. Another sentence said “Bootlegging proved too tame." “This condition of mind is ad- mitted to be raost abnormal,” the let- ter added, citing as extenuating cir- cumstances z fractured skull, sus- tained some yvears back. Intercepted letters showed he had been writing to a Miss Peggy Parker in New York and had made arrange- ments to visit her up State this month. At Syracuse Knapp was known as the black sheep of a respected family. He boasted he had been kicked out of Cornell and Syracuse universities (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) “Perhaps it was a 1s that French Artist Hangs Self. PARIS, July 11 (#).—Lucien Jusse- aume, France’s leading decorative and scenic artist, was found dead, hanging from a piece of scenery in his studio, by puplls arriving yesterday for their daily lessons. M. Jesseaume had threatened suicide several times. He designed many notable operatic set- tings. was that a certaln voung woman, for-| so he enlisted.” the| led to all| WAR ON BUBONIC PLAGUEI Moscow Mobilizes Medical Detach-iMcving of Negro Family Into ments to Aid—43 Deaths Are Reported. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, July 11.—Forty-three | deaths from the bubonic plague have |time in three weeks, | whites been reported in southeast Russia | since the outbreak of the epidemic |ClUsive white residenti: last month. have been affected thus far. | The commissariat of health mobilized 10 medical detachments to assist in believed to have been carried by field marmots. RUM BRIBE PROBE ENDS. | | Grand Jury at Baltimore, However, world the utter impossibility 8t de- | Subject to Recall. Special Dispatch to The BALTIMORE, Md., trary to expectations, July 11.—Con- | no indictments | eral grand jury investigating alleged | corruption in connection with the en- forcement of the Volstead act in Balti- | more, and the body adjourned subject |details of police, however, maintain | to recall by Judge Sopher. As a result of the three-day inquest | nine persons have been indicted on | charges of accepting or offering bribes | —one deputy marshal, two members of the Washington prohibition squad ! operating in Baltimore and six al- leged owners or attaches of hotels and cafes. e $50,000 IN DRUGS SEIZED. Narcotic Agents Arrest Three Men in Raids at New York. { NEW YORK, July 11 (®). narcotic agents, led by Col. L. G.]| Nutt, chlef narcotic agent of the ! United States, and Ralph H. Oyler, | chief agent for New York, made a | series of raids last night and early today, resulting in the arrest of three men and the selzure of drugs es.| timated to be worth about $50,000. | Col. Nutt, who also is secretary of the National Narcotics Control Board, composed of the Secretaries of State, Treasury and Commerce, is in New | York working s on in?rmatls:’:ecelved' rom abroa ugh the rtmentl of State. “ederal | has | NeEro roomers moved into a the local sanitary authorities River avenues, and last combating . the disease. which is | dreds of whites gathered and stormed | skr the their on the crowd and seriously white boy table soon after, mas: on July white people in the same distric were returned last night by the Fed.|had prot order. Frontier Is Warsaw Plan to Settle Trouble. White Neighborhood Starts War. | gy the Associated Press Klan Meeting Called. | WARSAW, Poland, July 11.—The | recent Russo-Polish frontier incidents | have given rise to a considerable ex- change of notes between Warsaw and and | Moscow. n ex-| The Soviet government, °t in|munication to the Polish By the Associated Pres: DETROIT, July 11.—For the negroes night in distr third clashed last in a com- minister in Eighteen communities in |the Grand River Avenue section on!the Russian capital, suggested the for- the upper and lower Volga regions|the West Side mation of a mixed commission to in- two | vestigate the burning of a Soviet bor- house | der guard station by Polish soldiers. Grand M. Moraws! acting Polish foreign hun- | minister, durinz the absence of M ynski, demanded the return of a place. barricading the negroes in| Polish officer, Lieut. Rondomanski, home. The latter opened fire|seized by Russian soldiers near the wounded a | frontier, and the punishment of Soviet The police, using all avail-| troopers who assaulted another officer, reserve officers and detectives, | Lieut. Tenerowicz. took the negroes -into custody for| 1In a further note to the Soviet lega- questioning. ~The crowds dispersed|tion, M. Morawski called attention to but posters were found |the assassination of a Polish corporal the district calling for a|by Soviet border guard of the Ku Klux Klan| In the absence ¢ leading to frequent ingidents of this character, Poland now is proposing the establishment of permanent arbitra- tion commissions along the border, em powered to settle cases without ealling upon the diplomatic services A family of five negroes and esterday near Livernois and night throughout meeting natural frontier Three nights ago. negroes fired on t, who ed against a negro moving into that neighborhood. minor dis- turbances between the whites and negroes there have followed. Strong s WILBUR ADMITS PEACE CLUB OWNERS INDICTED. BODIES !RRITATE HIM . !Often Is Annoyed by Suggestions Returned in : SR AT | of Uninformed That United States < Lead BOSTON, July 11 (®).~ A number of secret indictments have been re Associated Press LOS ANGELES, Calif.. July 11 turned by the county grand jury in| if., connection with the collapse of the| Peace-promoting organizations some- Pickwick Club Bullding July 4. in.times nettle him with their disarma- which 44 persons lost their lives. ment suggestions, Secretary of the el i Navy Wilbur admitted in an address n vesterday before the Southern Cali- Broker Killed by Fall. | fornia Council of International Re- NEW YORK, July 11 (). Robert | lations. a world peace organization, Rathbun Paret, member of the Yale | in annual conclave here. - foot ball team of 1916 and connected| ‘‘When I contemplate the great With the brokerage firm of Robert L. | Sacrifices made by our Government Paret, founded by his late father, was | and by our people in the interest of killed today by a fall from a window | World peace,” he said; “When I think of his fourth-floor apartment in East | 0f the great ships destroved and the Sorty.elghth street. Police believe his | idle shipyards eloguently testifying to Qeath was accldental. Paret was a|our desire to promote world peace, I captain of artillery during the World | MUSt confess to some degree of irri- ar. | Relatives live at Lakehurst,|tation at those ~American citizens e *! who know so little of current events S L that they offer suggestions to the Secret Documents in Disarmament. By the Radio ProgramsW—Pagerw.l Government that we make the ‘first move toward disarmament.’”