Evening Star Newspaper, July 11, 1925, Page 3

BRITAINIS SEEKING. CHIVA ACREEMENT ‘Working Plan With Japan on Leaseholds Seen as Goal of Negotiations. By th TOKIO, connection 3 with ted Press. 11 the ly Negotiations in ha 1 agreement ch well that an un- reached soon in to be adopted are in feve 1t Great ance in the word, but formulate a * Britain the the Brit are the nchuri and it present be- wing to the Chinese na. Isolation in Scored. commenting on ction with the more con reat Brit to the time of nce, when ain the w W which she did and_pick . Great n con > future it Bri- > herself Will s seen that The Britain moment’s ng regret.” territory in the was > Chinese October tish the Russian a after peace between the two outh in 1905 and of South been con: ment itesmen tion FLOOD RUINS 34 BRIDGES. Many Homes Washed Away by West Virginia Stream. WHE . Va., July 11 (®). ptying into the Ohio eavy ainfall. y bridges, including automobiles and zes were carried r of homes in the destroved. 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N e b 72 Requ Enerey 1 D reno vice ghten the Corner Where You BY Jor Let Live League To focus community {oodwfll ve and-lek e Gnny. £opduitl i Riraat:” g S the Oihr TooH Swhiat 10 o, e L T Bationy % SioTiea FREE ar i OETON. Argo. Il * —about the planning and execution of your printing needs. HIGH GRADE. BUT NOT HIGH PRICED 'EYR(iN S, il) AMS, F r.\l‘fi‘m 4GET OUR ESTIMATES! THE MILLION-DOLLAR PRINTING PLANT. he National Capital Press K mw‘uxz D 8T. N.W. proposed Anglo- | rCoolidge Peace BY FRANK H. SIMONDS. first r_comment upon sident s Fourth of July speech to indicate how important the deciaration of American views as to the proposed guarantee pact is considered on the other side of the Atlantic. Not since Mr. Hughes made his now celebrated New Haven speech on the eve of the occupa tion of the Ruhr has there been any American pronouncement of sim. flar foreign significance. The President’s comment, too, comes at a critical moment. It is clear that while France and Great Britain have arrtved at a point which marks more substantial agreement than has ex- ed since the end of the war, the French response to the German note has at best met with a divided recep tion in Berlin. While there is no ound yvet for complete pessimism, all agree that the proposed pact will have 2 difficult road to travel and the Stresemann-Luther cabinet real labor in getting it accepted. Germany Dissatisfled. From the German point of view the French note totally changes the character of the proposed pact. Ger many saw in it the method of sing the French mortgage, of arriving at a final settlement with France which would as a consequence lead France to abandon her guarantees of the in tegrity of Poland and Czechoslovakia her vote to German annexation In resigning all claim ne, in accepting all frontiers as definite, in_agree a demilitarized Rhineland, conceived that she would satisfy France completely, particularly s Great Britain was to underwrite the guarantee. France, however, has declined rccept the German thesis that French security can be established in _the west and France remain free from all danger, no matter what is the German policy in the east. Above all, France declined to permit the guarantee pact to be made in such form as to constitute an_impassable Chinese wall separating France from her eastern allies and allowing France no approach to them in case the assailed. France Wants Guarantees. Speaking broadly ception was an mendment of the treaty of Versailles, a_ substitute ar- rangement which, while it preserved the western decisions of the treaty, provided a way to reopen the easter The French conception is of an ex tension of the Paris eements by which the whole settlement of 1919 recelves a new guarantee. Thus, ile not insisting that German shall ve the sam fo of comm ment with respect to eastern western frontiers, France does insist that Germany shall make arbitration treaties with her stern neighbors 1 that France shall be permitted to guarantee them as Britain guarantees the western pact. Thus Germany would gain im- munity from invasion through the Rhineland only on condition that she refrained from all att upon her stern neighbors. -If she did not, ince would be free to enter the Rhineland and cross the Rhine with- out doing violence to the iwestern pact or automatically bringing Ger many the aid of Britain. Since Ger- many would*also be required to join the League of Nations as a condition to the making of the pact, she would in reality be compelled to give new assent to all the decisions of the Paris settlement—that Is, all the ter- ritorial settlements. this defeat WORK TO KEEP POST. Resignation Rumor Not Credited at Interior Department. Although current rumors have it that Secretary Hubert Work of the | Interior Department is to resign dur- dell, Interior Department officials do ing the Summer, to be succeeded by former Representative Frank W. Mon- dell, Interfor Department officlals do not know that the present Interior Secretary contemplates leaving the cabinet. Secretary Work is on his way from the Far West, where he has been for more than a month inspecting recla- mation_projects and viewing other work of the Interior Department. He will be back in Washington next Friday. The pronouncement of President Coolidge yesterday in which the Pres- ident indicated he expected no change in his official family during the Sum- mer was taken in Washington as an assurance that there will be no change in the Interior Department portfolio. PLATE PRINTER DIES. E. W. McRae, 67, Former Engrav- ing Worker, Expires in Seattle. Edward W. McRae, 67 years old, formerly a plate printer at the Bu- reau of Engraving and Printing for 38 years, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Gertrude McRae Nash, at Seattle, Wash. vesterday, ac- cording to word received here. Mr. McRae was retired from the Govern. ment service three vears ago and left this city to visit his daughter in Seattle only last February. A native of New York, Mr. McRae learned his trade in a printing estab- lishment owned by his father, the late ohn McRae. i ir. McRae was a member of the late Printers’ Union and the Na- tional Union. He is survived by his daughter, Mrs. Nash, and three sons, Kenneth D. McRae and Edward W. McRae, Jr., both of this city, and John C. McRae of Denver. Funeral services will be conducted at Glenwood cemetery Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, with interment following. e Claims $5,000 for Injuries. Sult to recover $5,000 damages has been filed in the District Supreme Court by Charles P. Fletcher against the Rosslyn Steel and Cement Com- pany for alleged personal injuries. A truck of the defendant is said to have collided with an automobile belonging to Fletcher May 22, and Fletcher was pinned under the wreckage of his car. Attorney Godfrey L. Munter appears for the plaintiff. National Union Outing. More than 200 members and friends of McKinley Council, No. 992, Na- tional Union, are holding their an- nual outing today at Chesapeake Beach. The committee in charge is composed of Jesse B. K. Lee, chair- man; Willlam J.-O'Brien, Henry J. Stahl, Richard J. Jones, William G. Betts, Charles S. Harris, Thomas P. Ryan, R. H. Arnold, R. H. Gulick, W. J. Carey, W. L. Dant and E. C. Walker. ing to Germa the main tof are | the German con- | | as of | THE EVENING Pact Speech Stirs Up Comment in Europe Makes American Refusal to Enter Di- rectly Into Agreement Clear, While France and Germany Still Argue. objective of German diplomacy in making the proposal, since it denies her a free hand on any frontler. It does not do her any injury, it does not change the existing situation to her disadvantage, it only preserves it and makes it more difficult for her to obtain any modification in the | east. But the prospect of eastarn | modification was, as I have said, the real attragtion of the pact, aside from the possibility of hastening as well as assuring allied evacuation of oc- cupled Germany. What remains to be seen now is whether this latter prospect, the re- tirement from the Ruhr, which the French have already announced as imminent; the evacuation of the Co- logne area, which will not be delayed long if the pact is made, and, finally, some acceleration of the evacuation of the other two zones will in the end satisfy Germany’s cénceptions of what she should have in the bargain. Warning to France. The fact that the French note had a bad reception in Berlin, and that the opposition to the pact, particularly in Nationalist circles, has intensified, doubtless explains measurably the President’s own comment. It must be regarded not so much as an ad- monition to Germany as an effort to aid the Luther-Stresemann cabinet in its present critical situation. It may also be falrly interpreted as car- ryving a certain warning to France not to insist too much upon extreme rights. But it is a fair assumption that France will not on any condition re- sign the right to go to the aid of Poland or_Czechoslovakia, now that she has obtained the unqualified ap- proval of her contention in this re- gard from the British. Nor will she consent to any pact which in any fashion envisages or permits any amendment of the territorial settle ments of Paris to the benefit of Ger- many and at the expepse of her Polish and Czech allies. The area for bargaining must be found within that portion of the treaty which deals with occupied and possibly with the Sarre te. Germany may well hope both a hastening of the of lied troops and an of the provision for a te in the Sarre Basin, since it w clear even to Frenchmen that ote would be ~overwhelmingly France. In addition Germany ceed in obtaining some guar- | antee against further sanctions based lupon her failure to disarm and a transfer of control of her armaments to the League of Nations. Coolidge Demands Pact. In a word, while Germany will not n any ascent, actual or im- any project to_change fron- she can well and successfully demand relief which will make her again mistress within her own fron- tiers and free her from the intolerable circumstances of foreign occupation. | And it may yet prove that this at- | traction will be adequate, although | not before there has been sharp bar- gaining and protracted negotiations. |~ Meantime Mr. Coolidge has met the German proposal that America should participgte directly in the pact by a double declaration, a definite refusal {to share in the pact in any manner and a clear indication that the Ameri- | can Government, while not able to | participate, regards the pact as the | single hopeful possibility for a Euro- | pean adjustment. Such a declaration | must have considerable influence in a | Europe which has many material rea- | sons for desiring to have American | approbation and therefore American | financial assistance at this time. | (Copyright. 1 SLAYER’S BODY TO STATE. Virginia Youth Without Even a Friend When He Goes to Death. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., July 11—The State anatomical board will get the body of Rodney Hoke, the young Alleghany County murderer. No relatives have clafmed it. The young man went to his death in the peni- tentiary yesterday, not even a friend appeared. Gov. Trinkle refused to stay the sentence, saying there was not a word said in_extenuation of the crime. Hoke killed and robbed a peddler. From Judge. “Does your wife enjoy the radio?"” She can't talk over it, nor answer it back. i Homes, Clubs, Schools, Office . Buildings, Apartment Houses £ 2333 18th St. N.W. Col. 1077 g i Up to date—Fully Bflulxp@d with rolling cot, stretch blankets an illoy ~_ HOME. Col. 432 The Home of F YOU are secking of these * Homes Irving St Bet. 13th and Built high on a terraced hill with vast oak trees rooms, bath, porch and many special features, 10% Cash—$55 Monthly Troll via Rhode Island to Irving St. N.E. M&R’B’ 925 Fifteenth St. Phone M. 9770. Evening No Pleasure to Her. “Certainly not! Why should she? g Painfing--?aperhmgingm“a Harry W. Taylor AMBULANCES, $4.00 CHAMBER! HK;_)“'N."']? l':;..\"lm Contentment regret choosing one Bungalow 14th Sts. N.E. above . them, they have 5 $6,500 Ave. to 13th St. north on 13th Phones, Col. 5335, Clev. 1933 STAR, WASHINGTON HUGHES IS RETAINED IN $40,000,000 CASE Will Conduct Fight Against Illi- nois Tax Upon Insurance Com- panies’ Gross Receipts. By the Assoclated Press. SPRINGFIELD, I, July 11— Charles Evans Hughes has been re- tained by the insurance companies of the United States to be chief coun- sel in the appeal of the National Un- derwriters' Association from the State Supreme Court decision that non- resident insurance companies operat- ing in the State must pay a gross receipt tax. The case is being ap- pealed to the United States Supreme Court. Announcement that Mr. Hughes would be chief counsel in the appeal was made here last night by C. J Doyle, general counsel for the under- writers. More than $40,000,000 is in- volved in the suit. Mr. Doyle stated that because of the important tax issues involved he believed that arguments in the case would be set for an early term of the court. In the decision of the State Supreme Court against the appealing companies three justices dissented. AUGUST A. SPECHT, 40, CATHOLIC LEADER, DIES Was Prominent in Many Church Societies—Lifelong Capital Resident. August A. Specht, 40 years old, an electrical engineer for the American Railway & Express Co., native Wash- ingtonian and a lifelong resident here, died at his home, No. 2 S street | northeast, Thursday, after an illness of about three months. He was the son of the late Charles Specht, who was the owner of a bakery business here. Mr. Specht had long been promi nent in several Catholic societies and other organizations. He was a mem- ber of the Windthorst Club, the Third unday Brigade of St. Aloysius par- sh, the Holy Name Society, St Joseph’s Soclety and Washington Lodge, No. 15, B. P. 0. E. He had also long been an active worker in St. Mary’s Catholic Church He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary P. Specht; two sons. August and Charles Specht; three brothers, Joseph, Antone and Charles Specht, and thr sisters, Mrs. Andrew Brown, M Joseph Zegowitz and Mrs. Julius Wenig. Funeral services will be conducted St. Mary's Catholic Church, Mon day morning at 9:30 o'clock. Solemn high mass will be celebrated. Inte ment will be in St. Mary’s Cemeter Active pallbearers will be Charles Achstetter, George Nolte, John Auth Anton Ostman, Lawrence J. Mills a Albert Hammer. Honorary pallbear ers will include members of the var ous organizations of which Mr. Specht was a member da: Jo ee | ne. 1 |on ARRESTED AS SPEEDER| Member of Prominent Family Gets Continuance of Case in Traffic Court.~ on an, lvanus Stokes, j Capital soclety circles, was arrested last night on Pennsylvania avenue | on a charge of speeding by Police- | man H. L. Anderson of the first pre- cinct. He deposited $25 for his ap pearance in court tod: Mr. Stokes also was charged with failing to show an operator’s permit after he had been stopped by the officer. He gave his address as 1913 Fifteenth_street, instead of that of the pink house at 2520 Massachusetts | avenue, which is one of the show | places of Washington. | He did not appear when the case | was called in Judge Macdonald's court this morning, but was repre- sented by Attorney Harry Whalen. | Mr. Whalen said he had received a note from his client stating that he had gone on an important yatching trip and requesting that a continu- ance be asked Judge Macdonald ordered the case postponed until next Tuesday. prominent in de Sinking Steamer Saved. NEW YORK, July 11 (®).—The Munson Line freighter Thomas P. Beal, which went on a reef in the East River Thursday night with a lumber | cargo valued at $500,000, was pulled free late yesterday and was towed to Brooklyn. ATURDAY. JULY 11, 1925 Edison Will Make Annual Pilgrimage To Girly Show Tonight With Friends Inventor’s Flunking of Questionnaire, Loss of Gar- ter W hile Posing for Picture and Receipt of Auto Trunk Mark Celebration of Associates. for with ° New By the Associated Press. WEST ORANGE, N. J., July 11.— Business associates of Thomas A. Edi- son are taking him to a girly show to- night, continuing a celebration which had among its first day’'s features the flunking of a questionnaire by the in- ventor, his accidental proof of the law of gravity and the presentation to him of a wonderful trunk. Celebrating the forty-eighth birth- of the device that utilizes the invention usiness purposes began a two-day convention yester plant and the Essex County Country Club. For his forthcoming vacation trip Henry Ford and Harvey Fire- stone, a trunk was presented to Edi- son board of the car. are the inventor's own ideas. spaces for blankets, thermos bottles, cooking utensils and other articles. to her husband, said tha: “this wi extra piece of clothing attached the blessed man in front’ be d Joe's flight back to ments | his master's h Jersey gathered i and del Mor > m w help d i e d T, A Scopes-Darrow monkey tria ton were shouted by the crowd as to the proper w lia precinct, of stalwart policemen They endeavored to shoo the | | erowa char relations crowd that. Williams then ‘o monkey W retri dozen boy youth climbed within ibut he leaped onto the boy’s shoul- | and swung to another tree chattering in | derision hy be SAVED THEIR FIRST THOUSAND DOLLARS LAST YEAR— AND LIVED BETTER. This little family had struggled with Rent Paying for canned speech, distributors of at the Edison be attached to the running Some of its features It has dison, accepting the gift for in hot weather onderful trunk” would prevent being Monkey Outwits Throng of 300 And Saucily Achieves Liberty Mere monkey outwitted, fofled and made ridiculous his master, a. crowd of 300 men, women and children and squad of policemen gathering assembled to help Edward ‘Williams, southwest had tired of man’s compan: to the treetops in New Jersey avenue nes Chattering in derision at the futile | frorts last night—a colored, of 4 street | capture his pet, Joe, who and fled | street of the excited human species, rned all peace overtures and defeated all attempts to take him by | force. did Joe, hungry from his night spent | Not until early this morning | jve man, permit himself to be | down. | his native ele- | > wild 1 when it passed e oak in front of 1Z avenue. A great crowd no time, filling the street ying traffic theories than are bewildering | nds of the jurors in the Bryan- at Day- vas made in on L lar ¥ to capture Joe. Asks Aid ams called 1d Lieut of Police, on the police for Fred Cornwall, sec- sent patrol wagon to lend their away and give Williams a to cajole his pet into friendly again. But neither the nor the monkey approved of offered $10 to any would demonstrate his propensities, climb the tree ve the furry animal. A hinned up the oak. One by the spectators, arm’s reach of Joe, cheered opped to another limb produced _an_air_rifle and Streets Are Being Cut But NOT the Trees IN Hedges & Middleton, Inc. REALTORS 1412 Eye St. Frank. 9503 YEARS. Then they came to see these b UR HOMES thrown back on overheated persons in the tonneau. One of the speakers at a luncheon asked what were the seven qualifica- tions necessary for a leader of men beginning with “C.” Everybody flunk- ed, including the inventor. The an- swer was charm, conscientiousnes: character, competence, courage, celer- ity and caution. As the deaf inventor was posing for a plcture, his gartered hosiery prov- ed the Newtonian law, and the throng was startled and amused by the shout “Pull_up your sock!” It came from Mrs. Edison. One has to speak loudly for the inventor to hear at all. He obeyed quickly. Asked to play golf the inventor re- fused because he said it was going to rain. He proved a good prophet. Then he had a big laugh when passed | a clipping telling of a physician's in- | forming a rich patient: “You are in a badly run down condi. | tion. You will have to give up golf and have a good rest at your office.” | Mr. Edison’s eyes are good not with- | standing his 78 years and every year he goes to the same Broadway musi- cal comedy with his associates. stung Joe with a few shot, but that only served to make him angrier with man. Use of Fire Hose Suggested. A policeman proposed getting a fire hose and throwing water on the re calictrant pet until he was driven to earth. “Monkeys don't like water,” | he said, s Forwith, No. 4 En-| gine Company was called, but the fire. | men, having had previous trying ex- | periences in getting cats out of trees when they were at “outs” with their | masters, gracefully declined The Animal Rescue League next was tried, but that association report- | ed it had no equipment for catching monkeys. ! The District of Columbia dog pound was appealed to and the suggestion made that some one shake the | monkey from his limb and catch him | in a net. This morning about 7 o'clock, how- ever, when only a 5-vear-old boy and Williams were watching, an unknown man coaxed Joe to come down from his perch and return to his civilized home! ut THE MAYFAIR 1 2115 C Street N.W. New, Modern Fireproof APARTMENT Ready for Occupancy Resident Manager 1 Room, Kitchen and Bath | 2 Rooms, Kitchen and Bath ! Situated within a block and a half of the Potomac River and | the Lincoln Memorial, and ad- jacent to the public recreation grounds for all outdoor sports, Away from the hustle and bustie of the downtown section of the city'to be quiet and peace- ful, yet within fifteen minutes’ | walk of the Shops, Clubs, The- aters and Business District. Convenient to Bus and Car lines and all Government Build- ings. Perfect service will be our alm, and an inspection by you will mean a reservation. See Resident Manager on the Premises or Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey Co. 727 Fifteenth St. NNW. Main 378 FIVE LONG EITH At 36th and R Sts. N.W. —and bought one that day. This, by the way, is the true story of a prominent news- YOU CAN DO THIS paper man. And here you have backing your judgm ent the FACT that over 250 other intelligent families HAVE LOOKED WASHINGTON OVER AND BOUGHT HOMES HERE. Why Put Off? Prices, $8,500 Up On Our Safe and Sane Terms To Inspect: Take the New Burleith Bus HANNON: & LUCH 713-15 14th St. N.W. Members of Operative Builders' Association of D. C. Main 2345 [oe—a|e——ne———a a0 —] g days. Pending a decision the law will not be enforced. During his argument, Mr. Shipman, in answer to a ques‘ion put by Judge Goddard, said that the censorship clause of the law, which says that a permit to show a film may be revoked and the tax confiscated hout a hear- ing if the film is found to be objec- tionable, might be unconstitutional “if the clause stood alone.” He argued, however, that since the law had been passed and the governor had signed it it should be enforced WICKERSHAM OPENS FiGHT ON MOVIE LAW Infringes Interstate Commerce Act, He Tells Court, in New York. 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