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WEATHER. (U Thutdershowe. tonight and co Temperatures—Highest, today: lowest, 73, at 5 Full report on page S. Weather Bureau Fo s this afternoon and slightly cooler; tomorrow fair n. orecaat.) 87, at noon today. Late N. Y. Stocks and Bo nds, Page 28 —_— Entered post office, No. 29,661. W nd class matter shington, D. C. STATE OPENS FIGHT TO BAN EXPERTS AS * SCOPES WITNESSES Would Permit Dangerous| Abuse, W. J. Bryan, Jr., Says in Debate. VITAL TO INFORM JURY, DEFENSE REITERATES Judge Admits Question One That He Cannot Decide Without Some Study. By the Associated Press COURTROOM, DAYTON, Tenn, July 16.—The of “Tenessee to- day made motion at the 1r k charged with | violation of blution law 1o exclude testimony of scientists The defense prepared to put up a determined fight to get testi- mony into the record from qualified experts the subject of evolution and its relation to the Bible. William Jennings Bryan, jr., opened the ar ment for the State. He was | followed by Arthur G. Hays for the| defense, with Attorney General Stew- | art_closing for the State. The jury, excluded from the court- | room vesterday during the testimony | Dr. Maynard M. Metca t witness,” still was out of the room Dr. Metealf, a zoologist, gave testi- | mony of evolution yesterday to show | the nature of the evidence the de-| fense would insist on } Bryan, Jr., Enters Debate. | w State formal Scop e anti- was ir. | before | d the ex- | The argument by marked his_first the court. He c pert testimony fense as the “weakest, the mosticapa- | ble of abuse and the most dunger- | ous.” He said that Clarence Darrow, de- fense attorney in the Loeb-Legpold | trial, characterized experts “pur- | veyors of perjury During his son E speech, William | Jennings Bryan just behind him | and listened intently to every word, leaning forward at intervals to hear. Finally the Florida man moved his chair and took a seat severalfeet | nearer In support of his contention that| testimony should be confined to the facts, yo Bgvan cited numerous | authorities | The defendant, seated with his counsel, listened with his elbows on ® table and apparently followed the argument closely. The only issue thi cide is whether or no Scopes violated the law,” Bryan said. | “To permit testimony by experts| would be to substitute trial by experts for trial by jury.” | Among the authorities cited by Mr. Bryan during the cougse of his brief ! Were many decisions by the Supreme | Court of Tennessee. ] Hays Makes Reply. Arthur Garfield Hays replied for the | defense “First,” he said, “the prosecution insisted upon the jury’s mot hearing the law: now they insist upon its not | hearing the facts! | We admit that Mr. Scopes taught | the State witnesses said he | taught; not that he violated the law by doing so. I, for one, must be shown that there is variance between what he taught and the Bit “Our scientists are not here to give opinions. They are here to state the facts of science ne of them are paid experts. They come here in the | interest of science “Does your honor any one else know what evolution is without hear- ing the evidenc | ‘If your honor that opinion evidence may produced, not evidence of the be duced?”" he continued He contended that had taught that mar from monk he 1aught that he was lower order of man and m the same ord mater. He argued that 1 the law any thing was relevant as evidence that | tended to throw light upon the subject | in question Jury must @€ John Thomas w may facts intrc- | even if Scopes had descended | would not h: lescended from since both classified in imals, as pri- Asks to Explain Evolution. | The ed they be tion is defense attorney ed to show nd what th that | wh Bible is. argued, “this evidence should be ad- | mitted as information for the court.” | During Mr. Havs' argument Judge | Raulston questioned the attorney z to his understanding as'to Mr. White testimony veste in regard to the expiration of a contract authorizing | text books { John R. Neal interposed to say that the contract had expired, but no sub- stitute had been provided, leaving the | books in full force. | W. J. Bryan spoke in the case for | the second time, r to suggest that | the passage of the statute prohibiting se teaching of evolution theories sus. | pended all text books in conflict with | the law | Another bit of side play came u when My. Hays spoke of “Mr. Bryan,” suggesting that perhaps he should say | “the disinguished leader of the prose- cution The court remarked Br that William | Jennings an, sr., had mnot yet made an argument in the case and anything he might have said outside | the courtroom would not be compe- tent discussion in argument. Mr. | Bryan called attention to the fact that he was not the leader of the prosecution, but merely associate | counsel, and that Attorney General| Stewart was in charge of the State’s | case. | Stewart Exolains Status. ’ Mr. Stewart announced that he| *bowed” to Mr. Bryan. Mr. Hays 10,000 German Farmers Awaited In Mexico Colony By the Associated Press. NOGALES, Ariz., July 16.—Ten thousand German farmers are ex- pected to arrive in the states of Sonara and Sinaloa, Mexico, dur- ing the next few months. semi official advices received here from Mexico City say. It is stated that the Mexican central government has arranged for the German colonization project and that it will be the greatest ever attempted by Mexico. Some of " the richest farming country in Mexico lies in the states of Sonora and Sinaloa. 3 COOLIDRE PLANNING CAMP DEVENS VISIT Secretary Davis Expected to Discuss Coal Strike With President. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Staff Correspondent of The Star. SUMMER WHITE HOUSE, SWAMPSCOTT, Mass.,, July 16.— Early tomorrow morning President and Mrs. Coolidge will motor from White Court to Camp Devens, at Ayer, N . about 40 miles. where the Ex- cutive will inspect the camp and will officially review the 26th Division (Yankee Division) of the Massachu- setts Natlonal Guard. This trip, which will be made by automobile, was decided upon sudden- Iy this morning. The President had inte but was awaiting the arrival of his son John, who will be a member of the citizens' military training camp there within the next two or three weeks. The presidential party ex .sted by the de- |Pects to be back at White Court in | time for supper. Getting “Tour Bug.” The frequency with which the Pres- | |ident’s little side trips are looming "e he has come to Swampscott caused some of the newspaper up sin | correspondents who have been follow- ing Presidents for many convinced that Presiden getting the ‘“‘tour bu, vears to be Coolidge is so popular ors in office while on vacations. President Coolidge only smiled when reminded of this today. Some of his intimates say that it is only nat; that he should become a trifle restive taying around White Court and it immediate grounds all the time. The second cabinet officer to visit the President on his vacation is ex- pected to be Secretary of Labor Davis. It was announced at the executive office here today that Mr. Davis has sent word that he will ar- rive at White Court tonight or to- morrow. It was stated that there is no significance to this visit, that it is merely one of a serles of similar visits to be made by members of the cabinet to take up with their chief the more important matters respect- ing their respective departments. It is_intimated, however, that besides | talking shop with the President, Sec- | retary Davis will go over very thor- ! | oughiy the coal situation in the coun- | jiop gva” try generally and the possibilities of a coal strike in the Fall. Gets Hammond's Views. The President was afforded an op- portunity to obtain briefly today the views of John Hays Hammond re- | garding the threatened strike and the | has a Summer home near here and | LoWer Co. sftuation. Mr. Hammond, who was a luncheon guest at White Court today, was chairman of the United States Fact-Finding Coal Commission two years ago. The others who were at today's luncheon were Count Alex Sczynski, Polish _foreign _ minister: _ Hipolit “(Continued on Page 5, Column 6.) CHANNEL TIDES AGAIN FOIL GIRL SWIMMER Argentine Woman Gets Within Five Miles of Dover in Her Third Attempt. By the Associated Prese CAPE GRIS NEZ, France, July 5@ miles from Dover, on the English side. The tug Alsace, which accompanied swimmer to Boulogne. Miss Harrison began her third at- tempt to swim the channel at 4:29 a.m. today. The swimmer's parents and a band of mnewspaper correspondents em- barked at Boulogne on the Tug Alsace, which accompanied her. Miss Harrison’s two previous at- tempts were both made last year. The first she was forced to abandon when she injured a leg on a_ sharp rock. In the second she gave up because of | adverse currents after being in the | ter elght hours. She first achieved international no- tice in 1923 when she swam for 21 hours down the River Parana in Bra- zil. In the same year she swam the Estuary of the River Plata, a notable feat. % W MENACING FIRES RAGE IN NATIONAL FORESTS Scores of Blazes Sweeping Through Montana; Denver Reports Conflagration. By the Associated Press. MISSOULA, Mont., July 16.—Scores <h ded to go to the Devens camp, | resumed, and the argument went on. Herbert E. Hicks followed with a | of dangerous forest fires are burning speech stressing the State's position |in the Kootenai, Kaniksu and Pend that Sclentific testimony has no place | O'Reille national forests. Forest Serv- in the case |ice officials say the situation is the Mr. Hicks stated that the State|most menacing in vears, and fear the would resist any effort to convert the ! heavy wind may drive the flames courtroom into a high school or col- | into villages. ege. The proposed scientific testi. % ln)iny el e jury into| DENVER, Colo., July 16.—A forest the case, he said. He suggested that | fire raging in Coal Creek Canon near the State should have a right to chal- | Fire Clay, northwest of Denver, -has Ceha i e witholtt ind the | burned over 1,000 acres of timber, but whole bunch? fo- cau volunteer fighters report it temporar Ben T. McKenzie, former attorney checked. general, spoke in 5 (Continued on Page 5, Column 23~ M‘Q&Qflm WASHINGTON, FORD'S SHIP BID, OPENED TODAY, I§ HIGH; STARTS ROW Previously Leading Firm De- mands Entirely New Deal in Case. $1,706,000 IS OFFERED BY AUTO MANUFACTURER Exceeds Others'by $336,000—Pal- mer to Make Recommendation Within Week. By the Associated Press Henry Ford has offered $1,706,000 for the 200 Shipping Board vessels set aside for scrapping. His bid was opened with others today by the Fleet Cor- poration ares with $1, ,000 offered by ston Iron & Metal Co. of Baltimore when the original bids were opened June 30. The Balti- more company’s tender w by President Palmer of the Fleet Cor- poration, but rejected by the Shipping Board, which called for new proposals. As soon as the Ford bid was opened by the Fleet Corporation today, the Boston Iron and Metal Co. entered formal protest against receipt of any new bids. It held that such a course was in violation of the original ad- vertisement for offers, which called for negotiations only with the original bidders of June 30, if outright ac ceptance or complete rejection of bids then opened was voted. Ask Entirely New Deal. The Boston Iron and_Metal Co. | withdrew its original offer after it | had been rejected and it demanded to- {day that all proposals now be rejected and new offe) alled for under a new jadvertisement ‘and entirely new pro- ceedings. A similar position was taken by the Waterside Salvage Corporation of New | York, which also was among the orig !inal bidders. | President Palmer will submit to the { board, probably early next week, a new recommendation on the basis of the bids. The board, under the law, has the authority finally to approve or {disapprove his recommendations, and President Coolidge has indicated that | With some of his immediate predeces-|he does not question this authority although it was at his suggestion that | the power for negotiating all sales was i placed exclusively in the hands of the { Vleet Corporation. Executive will seek a change in this situation by legislation when Congress | meets has not been indicated | _The board’s procedure was defend- |ed by its legal counsel. | Mr. Ford, who made the highest | spot cash offer, said he would retain |some of the hulls for conversion to | Diesel engine propulsion for salt water operation. His purpose previ- ously has been described as con- | templating use of refrigerator ships, | taking automobile supplies to Latin {America and returning with “Yruit. { Discarded boilers and engines he | would use in his own plants | Other Bids Announced. Other bids besides the original i bids which stodo or were amended | Frank Harris Sons, Inc |offered " to guarantee $1.250,000 for {the 200 vessels, and to share on an | equal basis with the board whatever is obtained for the ships by scrapping from their disposal | A. G. Wilson of Bar Harbor, Me., | representing, he said, the Ocean Inc., submitted an offer of |$2,444.000 for the 200 vessels, but did | not submit a check with his offer, so that it had no legal standing. The Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., in an amended offer, | bid §808,800 for 139 vessels. An amend- | ed bid was also receive from the | General Metal Supply Co. of San Francisco' in three alternative offers | along the lines of its original offer | Another new offer was from August | A” Wesser and Dan Robbins of Buf- | taly Y., of $650,000 for the 200 vessels. Other bids received were from |J. T. Knight & Son of Columbus, Ga., | of $5,500 each for vessels; the Sun | Shipbuilding and " Drydock Co. | of Chicago, Chester, Pa., of from $5.800 to $6,800 each for 10 ships; N. Block & Co. of { Norfolk, Va., $114.000 for vessels; | Hickman, Williams & Co. of Phila- | delphia, $94.860 for 12 vessels; Union | Shipbuilding Co. of Baltimore, $3.100 each for 50 vessels; B. L. Stafford |of New York, §20.000 for two ships. | The Hart Electrical Enterprise Co. of { New Orleans made an offer for three at evolu- | 16.—Miss Lilllan Harrison, Arzem:ne}\'emel; but transmitted no check, so | swimmer, was forced to abandon her | the offer Even if on no other ground,” he|aitempt to swim the English Channel | did not stand. SEEK CHILD SNATCHERS |~ OPERATING IN MEXICO | Miss Harrison, is returning with the | | Gang Said to Be Smuggling Cap- | i tives Abroad Under Chinese | Passports. | By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. | MEXICO CITY, July 16.—According to the newspaper Excelsior, six of the police are searching for a gang of |child snatchers. Tuesday four chil- dren disappeared after leaving school. In May and June no less than 40 Me ican_children left the country by the | southern ports, documents ~showing them to be the nephews, nieces or off- spring of Chinese. | The police are convinced that they {have to deal with a thoroughly well the children are smuggled abroad. The ages of the children taken range from 7 to 12 vears. (Copyright. 1925, by Chicago Daily News Co.) r“U. S. OUSTS SQUATTERS. Evicts 400 From Military Reserva- tion in Philippines. MANILA, July 16 (#).—Some of the | 400 ‘squatters who for several years | have been living on the United States | military reservation around Camp | Stotsenburg, 60 miles north of Manila, have been evicted by the military au’ thorities. ese people have - con- tinued to live on the reservation and to cultivate the land despite repeated warnings from the Army that such practice was illegal. The military authorities state that the lawyers and others who have been receiving money from the squatters i for protection will be prosecuted in the civil courts and that the cases are now in the hands of the Philippine de- ent of justice, . . s favored | Whether the Chiet | of | best members of the Mexican secret | |organized gang, probably composed of | foreigners, and that the majority of | WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION i 0., INFORMS PARIS ONCHINESE PARLEY | Clarifies Intention in Formal i i Note—Expected to i Clear Air. By the Associated Press | An official communication giving a | clear and complete statement of the | Washington Government's attitude re- | garding China has been cabled to | Paris for the information of French foreign officials. Disclosure of the contents of the | communication was withheld. It con- tained information, however, which Washington officials hope will remove any possible misunderstanding be- | tween the American and French gov- ernments. To that end, it deals specifically with the proposal to hold a customs conference in China under the nine- power treaty, and to bring about cre- ation of an extraterritorial commis- sion under resolution No. 5 of the Washington arms conference. It is | the hope of the administration that | both of these bodies will begin to | tunction as soon as circumstances per- | mit. Communication Is First. The communication is the first re. | garding China to be sent directly from ! Washington to any of the European | capitals_since the present situation | arose. The method of approach to the arious governments heretofore has led to Europe by way of Peking, | where Minister MacMurray already has taken up with representatives of | the other powers the proposal for a | meeting of the customs conference |and the extraterritorial commission. | The decision to send a dispatch di- irect to Paris was reached only after unofficial reports had reached Wash- | ington that the French did not con- | sider this a propitious time for nego- | tiations for revision of foreign extra- | territorial_privileges.® It is believed | that the French already are entirely | willing to participate in the customs | conference and they will be more fully ! and more “accurately informed as to | the extraterritoriality ~commission { project as a result of the new Ameri- can communication. | PARIS MODIFIES VIEW. | R iy | Sees Misunders ling of Coolidge | Aim Bringing Differences. | By the Associated Press. | PARIS, July 16.—A misunderstand- ing seems to have arisen here con corning the attitude of the United | States Government toward a Chinese | conference. It had been understood in | Paris that President Coolidge had in | mind a conference distinct from that provided for in the Washington nine- | (Continued on Page 2, Column 8. 'GERMANY IS READY T ENTER LEAGUE | Will Outline Conditions in Note to Be Made Public Next Tuesday. | By the Associated Press. | BERLIN, July 16.—Although the de- | tails of Germany’s reply to the French ! note regarding the proposed western | European security pact are kgpt se- | cret, Berlin newspapers say they are informed Germany will express readi- ness to join the League of Nations upon certain conditions, among them being completion of the allied evacua- tion of occupied areas. It was announced yesterday that the German cabinet has completed the tentative draft of its reply to the French note. This draft will be con- sidered tomorrow at a conference of the cabinet, the Reichstag foreign re- lations committee and the premiers of the Federated States of Germany. In February Germany proposed a security pact protecting the frontiers of western Europe. A French reply, representing an Anglo-French agree- ment, was made June 18. man note nows. under consideration will be an answer to this French note. The German note will be made pub- lic simultaneously Tuesday in Paris and Berlin. It will be debated in the Relchstag Wednesday. - - In authoritative quarters here it is believed the German reply will lead to a mew exchange of views among London, Paris and Berlin, and that | only after these additional exchanges will it become apparent whether a | conference can be called to discuss the proposed security pact or whether Jmore notes will be required before The Ger- ¢ Foening PO s = NOYNO!/Z2 1 ‘DONT § a THINK 'T \WAS DONE BY, Y OF MY $100,000 IN GEMS TAKEN IN N. Y. BANDIT RAID Robbers Shackle Three Employes of Store and Escape in Auto After Theft. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, July 16.—Five robbers today held up the Stanley Jewelry Store, in West One-hundred-and-twen- ty-fifth street, handcuffed three em. ployes and escaped with jewelry val ued by the proprietor at $100,000. The robbers fled in an automobile driven by a sixth man. The robbers entered the store shortly after the safe had been opened and while the employes were carrying trays of jewelry from the safe to show- cases Police found the three employes shackled with handcuffs of an old type | and required 20 minutes to saw them free. LAWYER ATTACKED, HE INFORMS COURT fets Warrant for Narcotic Agent, Alleging Assault on Courthouse Steps. Smarting under a scathing denun- ciation by Attorney Abner Siegal be- fore Justice Bailey and jury in Criminal Divisian 2 at the trial ves- terday afternoon of Willlam Henry Eva, Samuel L. Rakusin, chief nar- cotic agent of the Internal Revenue Bureau, today attacked the lawyer on the steps of the courthouse, accord- ing to statements of bystanders. Siegal says he was struck in the back of the head as he turned from a con- versation with the Government agent and again in the jaw. The attorney made no attempt to return the blows, it is stated. His client, Eva, was acquitted late yvesterday Siegal went at once to Police Court | a warrant for assault | and swore out against Rakusin. The warrant was placed in the hands of Headquarters Detective Springmann for service on the Government agent. Complains to Judge. ‘The lawyer also reported to Jus- | tice Bailey the alleged attack on him and was told by the court to make |an affidavit concerning the affair and file it with the court. The action of Justice Bailey is taken to mean that a rule in contempt of court may be issued against Rakusin. The narcotic_agent was a witness at the trial of Eva yesterday and his testimony was ridiculed by Siegal, it is said. As the lawyer was entering the courthouse this morning, accord- ing to his statement, Rakusin ac- costed him and warned him against a repetition of the scathing denounci- ation, clalming that Siegal had called him a “thief.” *Siegal says he denied using that appellation and remarked that he had only declared Rakusin “much mistaken” in his testimony. As he turned away, the lawver de- clares, Rakusin struck him a blow from behind and followed it up with one to the jaw, CHARGE MILLIONAIRE STARVED FIVE CHILDREN Buenos Aires Authorities Guard Details of Case Against Prom- inent Manufacturer. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. BUENOS AIRES, July judicial authorities are guarding carefully developments in the inves- Star. THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1925 -FORTY-FOUR PAGES. | i [ | { every city bl tion is delive as fast as th The Star's ! carrier “From Press to Home Within« the Hour” || system covers lock and the regular edi- red to Washington homes he papers are printed Yesterday’ s Circulation, 94,953 P) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. KNAPP WAS HERE, SEVERAL ARE SURE Six Washingtonians Sa; They’ve Seen Alleged Thrill Murderer. A few Washingtonians saw either Philip Knox Knapp, New York murderer for a thrill, or his double here during the last few days, and as soon as a bit of publicity was spread about, police began to be flooded with detailed descriptions of his where- abouts. The latest information given the police came from a man who saw “him” in a speeding automobile near Marlboro, burning up the road, but the car was hitting such a hot pace that this observer could not tell whether another person was in the machine with him or not. Detective Arthur Scrivener, investi- gating the case, and Inspector Grant were inclined to discount the fr reports which indicated the man was here. Inspector Grant belleves this man would not come to Washington with the whole country gunning for him. Knapp may have come here and taken desperate chances, it is pointed out, for the sake of a thrill, but the cards, in the belief of the police, are stacked against this pos- sibility. Pursuit Nation-Wide. There's a report that a reward of $£1,000 will be paid to the person re- sponsible for bringing Knapp to_jus- tice. Pictures of the young man have been scattered up ‘and down the country in the Nation-wide pursuit in- stituted after the murder of a Long Island taxicab driver. H. R. Edwards, manager of a gaso- line station on Connecticut avenue bove Klingle Bridge, is positive he saw the wanted man Tuesday morn- ing. Edwards was passing or a street car in front of Cathedral Man- sions. He glanced to the right and there, in a low cut red racer, re- sembling a camouflaged flivver, he saw this man in the very same clothes he was wearing in the photo- graph—a khaki uniform with a shirt open at the neck. And only yesterday this man’s machine came into the filling station for gasoline, the man stepping about and appearing ner- vous, but Edwards gave no thought to it until he was shown a photo- | graph of Knapp, when he immediately remembered having seen him, he said. ‘The photograph gave the manager of Copley Courts, 1514 Seventeenth street, quite a turn. She was abso- lutely sure she had seen the man last night in the lobby waiting for a girl who resides in the apartment and— her: one of the first coincidences th. smacks of something more than conjecture—the telephone girl remem- bered the name he gave. He went out at_about 9 o'clock. This dovetaiis nicely with the in- formation which Robert H. Stover, a chauffeur, residing at the Mount Ver- non Hotel, 487 Pennsylvania avenue, juncovered at Fourteenth street and | (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) MINERS’ LEADER JAILED. West Virginian Accused of Plot " to Blow Up Shaft. WELLSBURG, W. Va., July 18 (®). —Pearl Dooley, president of the Wells- | burg local of the United Mine Work- | ers, was arrested today, charged with ! Gazzam. representing conspiracy to dynamite the Gilchrist mine of the West Virginia-Pittsburgh Coal Co., a non-union operation. Guards found 165 sticks of dynamite with fuses attached in buildings at the mine property yesterday. Dooley is also charged with alding in the escape of George Johnson, | negro, who is being sought by police 16.—The | in connection with the alleged plot. Johnson's brother, Jess Johnson, a striking miner, was arrested as a sus- tigation of charges that a multi- .pect shortly after the dynamite was millionaire _cigarette manufacturer and his wife caused the death of four children from starvation and that a fifth is in a hospital suffer- ing from serious malnutrition. Reports from the preliminary ex- amination showed indications that the mother was unbalanced, but the judge grilled the father and also the attending physician for an explana- tion as to why they did not notify the authorities. Because of the prominence of the family the Buenos Alres newspapers hesitate to print developments in the case and appear satisfied to await the outcome of the judicial investi- gations. “Copyright. 1025. by Chicago Daily News Co.) —_— Chinese Lead Java Riot. BATAVIA, Java, July 16 (#).—Hun- dreds of Chinese were -involved i riot today at the opening of a circls at Medandeli. The crowd threw stones, injuring the owner of the circus and | State. ._..the canterennlun is reached,, ., a policeman. Two arrests were made. ment | ! discovered. SEVEN HURT IN BUS CRASH Charabanc Skids Into Building on Sightseeing Trip. OAKHAM, Rutlandshire, England. July 16 (#).—Six women and the chauffeur of a charabane, sightseeing automobile, in which a number of American tourists were riding, were injured today, apparently not seriously, when the car skidded into a building at Langham, near here. All the injured persons proceeded to London after requesting the local po- lice not to divulge their names. CRen Polish-U. S. Agreement Passed. WARSAW, Poland, July 16 (#).— The Senate vesterday ratified the com- mercial modus vivendi with the United The Diet passed the agree- J& 1. = &N or large Fumes Kill Three In Tank Car; Two | Go to Hospitals By the Associated Press NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., July 16.—Three employes of the Mathie- son Alkali Co. are dead and two others in a serious condition in a hospital here today as a result of being overcome by fumes while coating the interior of a tank car with a rubberized solution The dead are Joseph Gervin, Fred Laubert and Aleck Nevin Those in a serious condition are Cecil Lambert and Albert Paratt The car is used in shipping bleach- ing liquid from the company's plant. Company officers said the men had used too much of the solution and were overcome by the vapor which arose from it. WORLD PLOT SEEN 10 0USTMUSSOLINI | International Bankers Spend Huge Sums to Down Fas- cist, London Hears. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 16—The Dalily| Telegraph reports the existence of an energetic international campaign to overthrow Mussolini and the Fascist regime in Italy. “Occult international forces, Wall Street to Vienna and from Milan to Moscow,” it says, are wosking to {this end and they have adopted methods akin to those practiced by ! the bolsheviki in introducing their lown sect against the foreign trade| junions. That is to emissaries | |of the forces in question have been | { enrolled in the ranks of the cist | |for the purpose of sowing dissension |and demoralization | The paper adds that vast sums of { money are being s pose by the anti-Fascists and their financial backers, domestic and for- | jelsn. | Minority Activity Noted. ! Although there have been no dis- { patches from Italy bearing on the charge of an international combine against Mussolini and the Fascisti, the | minority there has been fairly active | since the assassination of the Socialist deputy, Matteotti, a year ago. 1 | The Rome newspaper ca, hither- | | to mildly pro-Facist, ¥ pub- {lished a document drawn up by the | Aventine opposition in the Chamber | of Deputies alleging that Matteotti's | | murder and aggressions against other | opposition deputies were carried out with the knowledge of Premier Mus- solini and the Fascist government. | The Senate, it was declared, were in | possession of sufficient evidence to show that crimes were organized under the auspices of the premier to punish those opposing the Fascist regime. | 'NEW DRY CHIEFS’ ‘ SELECTION LAGS Andrews, Besieged by Politicians, Has Made No Choices. from | With only two weeks remaining in which to make selections, Assistant Secretary Andrews of the Treasury has been unable to determine definitely on a single one of the 22 prohibition administrators who will take office nt for the pur- | 0.5.COLDTOMOVE INBELGIUM TO PASS DEBTS TO GERMANY Belgians Say Treaty Pro- vides Their War Costs Must Be Paid by Berlin. MEMBERS OF MISSION COUNT ON EXEMPTION Officials Here Feel Attitude Against Substitution Is Well Known. By the Associated Press The Washington Government 1s expected to look coldly upon any pro- posal that Germany should held responsible for payment of any of the 3 ian war debt to the United States. . in the Bel n Chamber of Deputies yesterda: former Foreign Minister Hymans ting that the Belgian debt mis soon to arrive in Washington would raise the contenton that Bel gium was relieved of responsibility for her war debt by reason of a spe- cial provisions of the Versailles treaty | providing Germany should reimburse Belgium for that obligation. The Washington Government, how- jever, has previously taken the posi i tion "that it could not assent to sub | stitution of German liability and | there is no reason to believe a change in sentiment had occurred. Treaty Clause Cited. The suggestion that Belgium would plead the Versailles treaty provision was first made in ) in press dis- patches from Paris. The treaty clause provides that in addition to other ob. ligations undertaken and because of her violation of the treaty of 1839 guaranteeing Belgium against aggres- sion, Germany agreed “to make reim bursement of all sums which Belgium has borrowed from the allied and as. sociated governme ' up to the armi stice, together with 5 per cent inter. st on those sums This stipulation is viewed by the ashington Government as an addi tional claim which Belgium may c lect from Germany as reimbursement, but not requiring the United States to look to Germany for payment of the war debt. It has been understood here that during the Paris conference for alioca tion of annuities under the Dawes plan_the question of this special claim by Belgium was fully discussed and that the Belgian representative fully understood the attitude of the Wash ington Government at.that time. Belgium’s Share Specified. A stipulation of the Paris agree- ment provides that pending final set tlement of accounts for the allocation of amounts to be received from Ger- many France should receive 48 per cent and Great Britain per cent of the reparations, “and Belgium (by reason of her debt to the United States of America) 12 per cent.” This stipulation is pointed to as conclusive evidence that the Wash ington Government at that time re- iterated the position it has always taken in declining to accept any pro. posal under which the responsibility of the associated powers for debts to he United States would be passed on Girectly to Germany. ENVOY TO HEAD MISSION. be de Belgian Debt Body to Sail an July 30 for United States. August 1 under the reorganized en- forcement plans. | A conference with cubordinates will | be held by the Assistant Secretary here | | next Wednesday, at which he hopes to larrive at definite conclusions. |nied today that certain officials had | been removed from consideration or | that there were to be changes in the {administrative districts previously an-| | nounced. Liguor smuggling conditlons along the Canadlan border of Vermont and New York will be investigated by Mr. Andrews over the week end. He will visit _customs officials at Albans and Rouses Point and interview pro- | hibition patrol leaders. { With his return to Washington early | next week he probably will face new complications in the assembling of his {and more members of Congress and other interested persons are arriving in Washington daily and most of them are picking out the impending prohi- bitiop reorganization as a target t ward which they can direct their | pent-up energies. Without mentioning any names, Representative Summers, Republican, Washington, for years a supporter of pwohibition, enforcement from ‘“weak-kneed, half- | hearted, wishy-washy officials | inwardly opposed to the law He | was growing tired, he said, of *‘pseudo- prohibition with political leaders giv- ing the last word to the country as to the possibility of law enforcement At the same time Mrs. Joseph M the woman's | committee for law enforcement for | Philadelphia, was warmly assuring Mr. Andrews, Attorney General Sar. gent and all other available officia | that the new prohibition arrange- ment was a wonderful step forward. She told them, however, that the one weak spot in dry enforcement was “politics.” Since he set out to select the new administrators, Mr. Andrews repeat- edly has been called into long and ear. nest conference by various members of Congress, and most of them have told their friends afterward that they were doing their best to secure the appointment of a man from their own State. But Mr. Andrews said today that no political pressure had been brought to bear on him, and that he still proposed to keep the appoint- ments on a merit basis. 16 HURT IN.MINE RIOT. 5,000 Strikers Engage Police at ‘Welsh Colliery. CARDIFF, Wales, July 16 (#).— Sixteen men were injured today in a fight between striking miners and po- lice at a rock colliery at Glynneath. Five thousand strikers surrounded the pits, where 700 mirlers still struck to their work. One hundred police I were called to disperse them, and the clash ensued. After the trouble the remalni ‘miners quit and the collierywas cls He de- | new enforcement machinery, for more | declared in a statement | today that no one could expect real| BRUSSELS, July 16 (#).—The Bel- gian mission which will go to Wash- ington for the purpose of negotiating a settlement of the Belgian debt to { the United States will sail on the liner { Olympie from Cherbourg on July 30 | Baron Cartier de Marchienne, Belgian | Ambassador to the United States, will | head the mission Paul Hymans, the former Belgian | foreign minister, who signed the Ver. | sailles treaty for Belgium, gave the | Chamber last night a complete account lof the circumstances and spirit in | which the treaty was signed and has | been adhered to by Belgium. His con- | clusion . was that priority and libera- tion from war debts were conceded to | Belgium owing to Germany's violation of the 1839 treaty: that they were a | condition to Belgium's signing the Ver. rilles treaty, and that they were part |of a contract and constitute a synal | lagmatic engagement toward Belgium. | M. Hymans quoted statements made ! by the American delegate, Thomas W Lamont, author of the reparation | chapter of the history of the peacs conference written by the American | delegates and published by Col. E. M | House and Prof. Charles Seymour. | Remarks Draw Applause. M. Hymans was applauded by the | entire assemblage. He was followed by Foreign Minister Vandervelde, who said that this account was strictly ac curate. M. Vandervelde said in con- clusion: “I am convinced that the Belgian *| delegates going to Washington will be {in a position to bring forward moral engagements which a great people cannot refuse to recognize without | suffering diminution and loss of | esteem.” | “*The first section of M. Hyman's speech dealt with Belgium's special situation created by Germany’s vio- lations of neutrality, which entitled Belgium to special treatment at the conclusion of peace. He read two let- ters, one signed by Lloyd George and | Clemenceau and the other by the late President Wilson, dated June 15, 1919, | which is part of the treaty. But the | Unitea States refused to ratify the treaty, he added, and considered void the signature of the man “who went to Europe with the nimbus of a Christ” to act in the name of the United States. ““As the United States consider themselves liberated from the engage- ments contracted by their plenipo- | tentiary in their name,” continued M. | Hymans, “our delegates will have to argue again the case which was pleaded and won by me in Paris.” Says Clalm Admitted. He recalled that the Belgian dele- gates, after threatening not to adhere to the peace treaty if not liberated from the war debts, at last received the satisfaction of having the Belgian claims admitted. It was necessary to remind the American people of the origin and character of the concessions made to Belgium in 1919 and disavowed today. The American people had given the world admirable proofs of their great ness of and generosity, especially AContinued on Page -5, Column 54