Evening Star Newspaper, July 19, 1925, Page 2

BLANTON DENANDS' * SHERRILL HEARING Challenges Director to De- fend *Czaristic * Regime” Instead of “Hollow Laugh.” “I quote specific iving dates, names, number of orders and details, to which Col. Sherrill replies with a statement which is virtually a and a hollow laugh,” said Represent: tive Blant X night after re: Col. Sherrill’s o ment upon the 27-page pamphlet Rep Blan ton compiled and made yes- terday in exposure of Col. Sherrill's aristic regin He says I am misinformed,” con- tinued Mr. Blanton. “Isn't it possi ble that he is the one who is misin-| formec I challenge him to] hold a if b 1 allow me t xamine 12 wit nesses to leave the de cision tc 't of three rep- hington news Attacks Engineer Corps. intends “to w busine: . quotes the Republican and Secre- of t he ernme ) Represe: Blanton Democratic party, the over in accumulating ruction hiring 000,000 equipment day 1 commissions of was executive and \d_expresses a the $14.750,000 1 Bridge “is subject he that much of ington Memo: On this the §14,750,000 Arling- ton Memorial Bridge which is to span the Potomac from the District of Co Jumbix to the State of Virginia, if any one worked harder for this meas ure than the Virginia Representative into whose district it is to be built, it was you, and you were finally suc- cessful and able to overcome the fight 1 made nst it for three years. This should have been called “The Sherrill Bill” When it was pushed through in th closing days of Con gress with practically no debate I then called attention to the elaborate, expensive propaganda hooklets that were opportunely distributed to each member on the floor. I would like to know just how much they cost and who paid for it? Assails Bridge Work. “If your Army Corps of Engineers are so economical, why didn't you have them build this bridge? Why did you take it away from them? How does your Government equip- ment compare with their $30,000,000 construction facilities? You did pro vide in the act that when you deemed their services necessary the President could detail such of sald engineers as were considered necessary. And this peculiar act further provides that you are ‘hereby authorized to employ the services of such engineer: hitects, sculptors, artists and other personnel as shall be determined to be necessary ‘withou reference to civil service requirements.’ Why employ private engineers at big salaries when we already have our big Army Corps of Engineers on the pay roll with $50.000,000 construction facilities? With reference to the Vir- ginta shore this act provided that you were only authorized to buy ap- proaches. Yet the press reports that You have already contracted for a body of land on the Virginia side which you intend to make into a park. Neither our Constitution nor our statute laws have ever contemplated that the District of Columbia should be further extended over into Vir- ginia. Yet the press reports that Svithin the past week vou have dined with Virginia and Maryland repre- sentatives discussing further plans of extension. am afraid that much of this $14, 50,000 is to be wasted in huge galaries to ‘engineers, architects, | sculptors and artists,’ and in the in- Qifferent service most day laborers render when they are being paid with Government money. When I r‘Pnu-m- H ber that the magnificent Franci Scott Key Bridge was finally finished at a total cost of $2,350,000, T am won- dering just how all of thi s to be spent. Congress already ¥ beeliminary appropriation of $25,000 several vears ago for plans. Man's Fight.” >romising man’s fight” in the Oo;’xllr ¢ Congress to retain the white bathing beach in its present location, Representative Blanton said: % “By the act of June 1922, Con- gress appropriated $25,000 to con- Struct 2 bathing beach for the col- ored people. It did not direct you Where to put it. And you spent §14, $19 attempting to put it in the same idal Basin pool with the white peo- ple's and you asked Congress to give You an additional §50,000, which it did in the deficiency act of December 5, 1 not knowing of your plan to thus mix up the two races. When I yemember that during your work on tnis colored bathing beach you did not remov ny of the cherry trees, but merely boxed them up to prevent injury by the workers, and let them | continue to grow in the ground right where they were, I cannot escape the conclusion that you expected Con- gress to stop you. And Congress did Stop you, and gave you to understand that it did not want a colored bathing beach in the same pool with the white bathing beach, and in the contro versy that ensued the chairman of the appropriations committee suc ceeded in passing an item of $10,000 to remove both beaches. Notwith- | standing the fact that you have until June 30, 1926 to remove the white bathing beach, and members of the legi ive District committee have assured you that they will push legis- Jation to retain the white beach where it is and to suthorized you to build on adequate colored beach wholly commensurate with the white one in every detail somewhere else, you are threatening in the press to remove it Bt once and thus waste almost $200,- 000 the Government has spent on same, and you are proposing to ask Congress for 000 more to build new beaches somewhere else. That §s not Coolidge economy, and I prom- ise vou a man's fight against your plans.’ In Promises abstantiation of his claims that al consideration was shown by ark police under Ccl. Sherrill to brother Army 2nd Navy officers, Representative Blanton quotes a num- bar sevitic cases. He also includes In his pamphlet afidavits of two park yolicemen, both of whom served hon- orally in the Navy. One of these dis- cusses the K. K. K.-Catholic friction on the park police force and the questionnaire circulated to find out the fraternal affiliations of the mem- bers of the force. Auto Tourist Is Killed. COLORADO SPRING I8 (A).—J. S. Helm, , of Warren, Pa., was killed and six other persons dn a large automobile were injured when the car went off the road and overturned in Ute Pass, west of Colo- ¥ado Springs on the Pikes Peak Ocean-to-Ocean highway last night. . The art of lace finishing is being taught to Australians by a number »f experts from England. Colo., July - D€ Upper, left to right: A. W. Frye, supreme commander; Renne P. Kuntz, chairman, general convention com- mittee; S. W. Hall, supervi g deputy in charge of Washington District. Center, left to right: J. B. Sawtell, great commander of Texas and mem- ber of supreme board of trustees; A. J. Primeaux, chairman of the decorating committee; E. L. Young, great com- mander of Ohio and member of the supreme board of trustees. Lower: Harry FEisenbise, known throughout the fraternal world as a past master of degree work, who has personally drilled the team of 100 picked men who will initiate the convention class of 5,000 candidates. 10000 MACCABEES COMING HERE TODAY FOR ! IX-DAY CONVENTION Hotels and Tourist Camps Are Filling With Members Of Order Attending What Promises to Be Biggest Meeting in History of Ojganization. ready to lez points in all points of the compass, by train and | automobile, from every important in the United States, 10,000 mem- bers of the Maccabees will be in Wash- ington by nightfall today, prepared to begin the business sessions and join in the incidental features of a Six-day convention, which is expected to be the largest gathering of the fraternal order ever held in the United States. One twenty-fifth of the 250.- 000 membership of the order will gather in Washington this week, ac- cording to conservative estimates from Maccabee headquarters. The more anguine members of the order place the number in the Capital at from 20,000 to 25,000. Virtually all the delegates have ar- rived and will arrive during the day in automobiles. Parties were reported ready to leave points in Western Maryland and _southwestern Penn- sylvania, traveling from the Middle West early today, to be in Washington before nightfall. Others were com- ing from the South and from New England and New York State points. Every hotel in the city will be throng- ed with members of the order tonight, while thousands more will establish headquarters in the tourist camps about the city. 2,000 Autos Registered. Preparations for the caravan trek of Maccabees to Washington have been in progress for more than a year, and more than 2,000 automobiles have been registered, with half as many more that have not registered expected. They will all take part in a parade on Pennsylvania avenue tomorrow aft- ernoon, which, with its allegorical floats and bands in motor cars, is ex- pected to be the largest automobile parade ever known. Although fewer in number than the members of the Shrine or members of the Holy Name Society who held conventions in Washington in 1923 and 1924, the Maccabeesawill take pos- session of the city as completely as did members of those other organiza- tions, scheduling varfous functions ranging from the automobile parade, through an initiation of the largest group of candidates ever taken into a fraternal organization, to boat trips on the Potomac and, as a finale, a trip by automobile to Chatham, Pa., to inspect the International Home and Relief Association for orphans and aged members of the order. ‘As the automobile caravans drew near the city vesterday they were met by official automobiles with members of the reception committee and taken direct to headquarters in the Raleigh Hotel, where most of the business ses- sions of the quadrennial convention will be held. ¥rom the Raleigh guides conducted them to the hotels where reservations had been made for them or to the auto tourist camp where space had been reserved for them. The same procedure is being follow- ed today. The convention will open formally tomorrow with the automobile parade at 2 o'clock, which wiil form on Mary- land avenue northeast and intersect- ing streets from First to Third streets. The route will be over First street northeast to B street, to First street northwest, to Pennsylvania Avenue; down Pennsylvania Avenue to Treas- ury place, to east Executive Avenue, to Pennsylvania Avenue, to Nine- teenth street, to the Washington Au- ditorium, at Nineteenth and E streets, where it will disband. The reviewing stand will be located at the Treasury. facing down Pennsylvania Avenue to- ward the Capitol. It will be preceded, at 11 o'clock, by a concert by the Caravan Entertainers, and a meeting of the Supreme Review committee. The outstanding event of the con- vention, the initiation of 5,000 candi- dates into the order, will be held at the auditorium Monday night, when such notables as Gov. E. Lee Trinkle of Virginia, Gov. A. M. Ritchie of Maryland and other Government of- ficials will be initiated. Secretary of Labor Davis, one of the Initiates, is on his way to Europe. The first business session of the con- vention will be held Tuesday in the ballroom of the Raleigh, to be opened with an address of welcome by Com- missioner Fenning, with the opening prayer by Rev. G. S. Johnson b western | Metropolitan M. E of the ! Church. Supreme Commander A. W. Frye will preside, and reports will be made by him and Supreme Record Keeper Thomas Watson. A sight-seeing tour about Washing ton is scheduled for Tuesday after- noon, with the supreme review at 2 o'clock at the Raleigh. An informal dance, reception and entertainment will be held at the Raleigh Tuesday evening. Program Until Friday. The program from tWednesday Friday follows Wednesday morning, July 22— 9 to 12—Pay off trip winners, Mac cabee offices, 503 Commercial Na- tional Bank building, Fourteenth and G streets. 9 to 10—Concert, Caravan Enter- tainers, Hotel Raleigh. 10—Supreme Review, Hotel Raleigh. 10—Sightseeing, Zoological Gardens and Rock Creek Park. Wednesday afternoon— 12 to 1—Concert, Caravan Enter- tainers, Hotel Raleigh. 1—Sightseeing, Alexandria, visiting Masonic Lodge and Christ Church, and to Mount Vernon. Trip winners and visitors. Supreme Review, Hotel Raleigh. Wednesday evening—Concert, Cara- van Entertainers. 7:15—Maccabee St. Johns, leave street. The Maccabee Entertainers broadcast over station WCAP. Thursday Morning—9 to 10—Con. cert, Caravan Entertainers, Hotel Raleigh. 9 to 12—Pay off trip winners Mac- cabee offices. 10—Supreme Hotel Raleigh. 10—Sightsee!ng, Arlington National Cemetery, Washington Monument and Lincoln ‘Memorial. Thursday Afternoon—12 to 1:30— Concert, Caravan Entertainers, Hotel Raleigh 1:30—Sightseeing, New National Mu- seum, Smithsonian’ Institution, Botan- ical Gardens, Corcoran Art Gallery, Freer Art Gallery and others. 2—S8upreme Review, ballroom, Hotel Raleigh. Thursday ening — Maccabee theater pa Sarle Theater, Thir- teenth and E streets. Caravan Enter- tainers included on the bill as a spe- cial attraction. riday Morning—Auto caravan trip to Maccabee home, Chatham, Pa. As- semble at Maryland avenue northeast, between First and Third streets. The District Commissioners, Su- preme Comdr. Frye and the national officers will review the parade tomor- row afternoon from the stand near the south end of the Treasury Building. A squadron of motor cycle police will head the: parade, which will be fol- lowed by ficats from all the camps of the Maccabees. The Maccabees is a fraternal or- ganization, founded 47 years ago, now numbering 250,000 persons. It has insurance benefits, maintaining its own insurance organization, and a home for aged and indigent members at Chatham, Pa. Homes for orphan children of members of the order are maintained in various places all over the country! The order has upward, of 5,000 members in the District of Columbia. National officers of the organization follow: Supreme officers — Supreme past commander, D. P. Markey, Detroit; su- preme past commander, D. D. Altken, Flint, Mich.; supreme past commander, L. E. Sisler, Akron; suvreme com. mander, A. W. Frye, Detroit; supreme lieutenant commander, 8. C. C. Ward, Portland, Me.; supreme record keeper, Thomas Watson, Detroit: supreme chaplain, W. F. Trader, Chicago: su- preme sergeant, R. P. Kuntz, Atchi. son, Kans.; supreme M. at A, J. W. Sherwood, Portland, Oreg.; su- preme first M. of G J. E. Turner, Norfolk; supreme second M. of G., F. O. Croy, Birmingham, Ala.; supreme sentinel, J. C. Bartram, Little Rock, Ark.; supreme picket, Hugo H. A. Becker, Rochester. Supreme board of trustees—Edward L. Young, Norwalk, Conn.; John J. Volk, Buffalo; W. E. Blaney, Pitts- burgh; J. B. Sawtell, Waco, Tex.; Ed- win H. Haas, St. Paul, and E. W. Thompson, Port Huron, M.l*. to moonlight, steamer foot of Seventh wil Review, ballroom, Formation System Of Maccabee March The big Maccabee parade moving tomorrow from Peace Monument to the Washington Auditorium via Pennsylvania avenue, will start promptly at 2 o'clock. The head of the parade will form at First and B streets northeast at 1:30 p.m. and move off in single file through B street to First street to Peace Monument, and will consist of Squad of motor eycle police. Ohlo Band. National float. Supreme Commander and the national officers. Each of the elght divisions of the parade will be headed by division commander and offi- cers, and will include floats, automobiles and degree teams from various States and Canada, and also floats from local business houses, as fol- lows: FIRST DIVISION. Head of column on First street north of B street north- Frye nd cars from Mich- ., New York, Ohio, Pennsyl- , Hlinois; float by Lans- burgh & Brothers and first section of degree team. OND DIVISION. Head of column on street south of B Floats and cars from Cali- fornia, Ontario, Missouri, Indi- ana. First THIRD DIVISION. Head of column of B street at First street northeast. Caravan Ente ners’ Band, floats and cars from Jowa, Minnesot. West Virginia, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Maine; second section degree team and Woodward & Lothrop float. FOURTH DIVISION. Head of column on Maryland avenue at First street north- east Floats and cars from Quebec, Tennesee, Washington, Oregon, Mississippl, Colorado, Loulsi- ana, Kansas. FIFTH DIVISION. Head of column on Maryland avenue at A street northeast. Annapolis_Band, floats and cars from Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas, New Jersey, Connec- ticut. SIXTH DIVISION. Head of column on Second street and Maryland avenue north. Floats and cars from North Dakota, Delaware, Rhode sland, District of Columbia, ew Hampshire, Utah, South Dakota; S. Kann Sons Co. float, and degree team, third section. SEVENTH DIVISION. Head of column—resting on Second street and Maryland avenue south. Floats and cars from Georgia, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Montana, Manitoba; Saks Com- pany and Palais Roval floats. EIGHTH DIVISION. Head of column on Maryland avenue at Second street. Harmony Band, Maryland. Floats and cars from Wyom- ing, Vermont, Nevada, Florida, ldaho; degree team, fourth sec- ‘ tion; Peoples Drug Store float. FIRE-GIRT ISLAND EMPTY. Inhabitants Circled by Xootenay Forest Blaze Believed Rescued. NELSON, B. C., July 18 (#)—Forest fires in various districts of the Koote- nay and boundary regions continued unabated today after a period of ris- ing winds and low humidity. In the lower Arrow Lakes region and toward the boundary the situa- tion was reported dangerous, one fire creeping to within four miles of the town of New Denver. An unconfirmed report said that six persons were marooned on an island in Summitt Lake, surrounded by fire, but other dispatches said it was be- lieved a Canadian Pacific train crew rescued all inhabitants of the island. The situation in the Slocan district was said today to be improved. A pe’.; Des.cendant Found in Paris by His Own Confession By the Associated Press. PARIS, July 18.—“I'm the man that descended from the monkey,” chattered a man walking on all fours in a crowded business street of Paris today when a policeman questioned him. He refused to walk normally and was taken in a taxicab to a police station, where it was found he was the chief administrative officer of an insane asylum In the Orne department. Too close association with his charges and not the reading of the daily reports from the evolution trial at Dayton, Tenn, is believed to be the cause of his condition. JULY 19, 1925—PART 1. PANACEAFORCHNA SEEN N RS PACT U. S. Policy Is Enforcement of Washington Treaty Terms at Early Date. By the Associated Press. Re-examination of the Washington conference commitments regarding China in the light of present condi- tlons in that country and the continu- ing efforts of the Washington admin- fstratfon to give effect to those com- mitments through inauguration of the customs commission and the extra- territorial inquiry, throws into sharp relief the broad basis worked out here in 1921 upon which to found a per- manent solution of the Chinese problem for all signatory or adhering powers. The Washington policy turns on the effort to convince other governments that recent disturbances in China are merely symptomatic of the same gen- erally unsatisfactory - relationships with that country which the Wash ington conference recognized and pro- posed to remedy. Desirability of Pact It is held here that the Shanghal, Canton and similar inciden only serve to impress upon officals the desirabllity of getting the Washing- ton conference machinery to work as 800n as possible to assist China in the establishment of a strong central gov ernment to which foreign national could look with assurance of prote: tion in their legitimate commercial| and other entefprises there. Recent developments in London and | Paris as well as Tokio have indicated that there is substantial agreement to set up with little delay the custom commission provided for by the nin power treaty. The American pro- posal to inaugurate simultaneously the extra-territorial inguiry commis- sion still awalts a definite answer from any of the 12 powers to which it has been communicated. At the moment difficulties in the way of working out a_program for settlement of the local Shanghal case and the Canton matter appear to be holding up final answers from London and Paris on the wider and more far- reaching policy President Coolidge has indorsed and is pressing The China commitments were all in the form of conference resolutions when adopted. It was recognized and carefully explained by Secretary | Hughes, as chairman of the confer- ence, however, that the customs re- visfon program required legislative sanction by each government involved, as the revision commission would ha plenary powers to work out details within the provisions adopted by the conference. The costoms resolutions were therefore drafted in treaty form and that treaty now has been ratified by all signatory powers. Provides Import Duty. It is the keystone of the Chinese re- adjustment planned by the conference, because It affords the method by which revenues would be provided with which a strong central government might be set up and maintained. It provides that the Peking governraent ultimately receive a 5 per cent ad valorem duty on imports, the customs collections to remain in the hands of the International commission which now receives and turns over at Peking funds derived from import duties. At present the customs duties are the only revenues to which it is entitled by the Chinese constitution that reach the Peking government on a 100 per cent basts, and even these funds are obligated in advance against such claims by foreigners or foreign gov- ernments as the Boxer indemnities. It was realized, however, that the establishment of the 5 per cent rate as a measure of financial relief for the | Chinese government would take co! siderable time in the adjustment of specific duties. For that reason the Washington conference included in the treaty a provision for an emergency special conference, to meet in China within three months after the coming into force of the treaty, and to pave the way for the speedy abolishment of “likin,” the vexatious Chinese provi- sional transit tax system and the real fzation of other customs duty treaty commitments with China on the part of the United States, and Japan Readjustment Plans. This special conference designed to consider “interim provisions to be applied prior to the abolition of likin,” | to authorize the levying of surtaxes on dutiable imports at a uniform 2% per cent rate, or even up to the 5 per cent limit luxury, which the conference believed “can bear a greater increase without unduly impeding trade.” A further step to assist the Pekin government financially through the in- crease of custom levies lay in the treaty stipulation that revisions of | rates should take place, after comple- tion of the first revision, at 7 vear intervals instead of the 10.year intervals previously provided for. | To round out this primary step in the Chinese readjustment the confer- ence adopted 10 separate resolutions, the most important of which provides for the constitution of a commission of inquiry into Chinese judicial prac- tices with a view to recommending to the powers steps to be taken toward relinquishment of extra-territorial rights in China. It is based on the ex- isting treaty agreement with China on the part of the United States, Great Britain and Japan separately; that each nation is prepared to surrender its special rights when warranted in doing so by necessary changes in Chinese legal practices to make them suitable for application to foreigners, The inquiry commission would be authorized also to assist the Chinese government in getting through a ju- dicial reform program to this end. The resolution, known as No. 5, pro- vides, that the commission shall report its recommendations to the powers within a year after it is set up and each signatory power, including China, specifically resarved the right to ac- cept or reject any of the recommenda- tions. Study of Evacuation. Another of the resolutions author- ized the diplomats of the signatory powers in Pekin to begin a joint study with the Chinese government of the practicability of withdrawal of all for- aign troops stationed in China as rail- way guards or otherwise, some of them without treaty sanction or other authority from the Pekin government, Still another dealt with the grad. ual relinquishment by the four pow- ers maintaining postal agencles in China of these services when an effi- cient and adequate Chinese postal service should have been set up; one had to do with the unification-of Chi- nese railwa: into a single system under Chinese control; another ex- pressed the view of the conference that China should take steps to reduce the uncoordinated military forces maintained by the provincial military chieftains as a move toward Chinese unity and financial rehabflitation, A sixth_provided for complete pub- Heity of all treaties and other interna- tional obligations affecting China, the signatory powers other than China to file all such documents, including notes and treaties they regarded as in effect with China, with the secretariat of the conference, and another is in the form of an ‘“open door” declara- tion regarding establishment and maintenance of radio communication in China. The others would create a board of reference, sitting {n China, to which questlons arising out of the customs eat Britain | in' the case of articles of | ture in venturesome Frances Sullivan's 18 years of life probably came yester- day afternoon, when just a week after she had disappeared from Washing- ton leaving 10 suicide notes behind, she bobbed up at Jacksonville, Fla., after a “hike” through all the South ern States en route. Word of Frances' discovery arrived here in the form of a telegram from the Y. W. C. A. at Jacksonville, to L. A. Bennett, her stepfather at 3922 Tenth street northeast, which stated: “Frances Sullivan here without funds. Hiked to Jacksonville.” It was signed by an official of the » O A Thus, within a week, and with less than $2 in her pocket when she started | Frances made her way through the South to Jacksonville, by walking and BORGLUMPLANNING | EAGUE MEMORIAL Wilson to Be Dominating Fig- ure on Chimney Rock Cliff, According to Plan. By the Associated Press. ASHEVILLE, N. C. Asheville Citizen will morning that it ha ficials of Chimney Rock, Inc., that Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor, plans to carve on Chimney Rock an inter- national memorial with the League of Natfons as a background and an heroic figure of Woodrow Wilson will be engraved on the sheer granite wall of the mountain. Officials expressed surprise .at the report from Raleigh of a Confederate memorial. During the past three months Mr. Borglum and friends have visited Chimney Rock several times and re- cently have spent several days at the mountain. They have been in frequent consultation with the owners of the mountain and officials of the com- pany had expected to make their full plans known within the next 30 days. Premature publication of the plans brought forth a statement from the publicity agent of the concern tonight. WILL CARVE MOUNTAIN. July 18.—The say tomorrow learned from of- Chimney Rock to Be Similar to Project Started in Georgia. RALEIGH, C., July 18 (®).— The Raleigh News and Observer to. morrow will say that a memorial to the Confederacy along the lines of the memorial started on Stone Mountain, ia., by Borglum has been planned for the granite cliffs over- looking Chimney Rock gorge in Ruth- erford County, N. C. The paper will state that the plans are well under way and have the backing of a num- ber of influential men. Gutzon Borg lum, who was deposed as sculptor of the original memorial at Stone Moun- tain, is to carve the North Carolina memorial, says the LIFER FACES NEW TRIAL. Man Sentenced in Theft Now Ac- cused of Murder. JOLIET, 1., July 18 (#).—Otto Malm, 30, serving a life sentence in the penitantiary here, will face an- other murder charge for the killing of Jack Mack, 27, negro, who died today in the prison hospital, after being struck on the head with a wrench. Malm, husband of “Blond Kittie Malm,” ‘who is also serving a life sen tence, quarreled with Mack. Malm and his wife were convicted for robbing a warehouse in Chicago, at which time they killed the night watchman. Mack was serving a sen- | tence of 3 to 20 years for robbery. Pk g Ve Airplanes Transport Gold. Correspondence of the Associated Press. LONDON, July 3. — Britain's air transportation company, the Imperial Airways, which came into existence May, 1924, recently completed 1,000,- 000 miles of flying. During the past 12 months airplanes carrying $10,- {000,000 worth of bullion, 15,000 pas- sengers and 1,000 tons of freight have flown across the channel at 100 miles 3 could go for examina. the board being given rather wide powers of investigation with re- {gard to all efforts to “stabilize condi- tions in the Far East”; provide for diplomatic negotiations to select per- sonnel for operation of the Chinese Eastern Railway with greater care, and reserve the right to insist that China accept responsibility for her obligations toward foreign stockhold- ers in the road. While the effort of the Washington Government has been centered thus far on the customs revision and ex- traterritorial inquiry phases of the general Chinese program. it appears certain that all aspects of Chinese re- lations covered by the treaty or resolu- tions must be touched upon sooner or later, if that policy finally wins the approval of other powers and the two commissions are set up. It would cause no surprise in some informed quarters if the ultimate re- sult, after a customs revision program had been worked out and recommenda- tions of the inquiry commission been submitted as to extraterritorial relin- quishment, would be the calling to- gether of a general Chinese confer- ence with full plenary powers to iron out disagreements and give effect to all phases of the readjustments pro- posed. When, where or under what circumstanges this might be done, however, is a matter now of pure speculation and no offictal will hazard even a guess. DIPLOMATS IN CLASH. Confusion in China Laid to Row of Envoys and City Officials. PARIS, July 18 (#).—Most of the confusion over the situation at Shang- hai, it was said in official circles to- day, comes not from the conflict be- tween Chinese and foreigners, but from a clash between the interna- tional municipal authorities at Shang- hai and the diplomatic corps. The commission sent from Peking to investigate the situation in Shang- hal found the municipal police in de- fault and made a report to that ef- fect, which was to have been com- municated to the Chinese government with a statement of the penalties de- cided upon. The penalties which the aiplomatic corps recommended were communicated to the international municipal authorities, who refused to accept them. Before they could be communicated to the Chinese govern- ment, as intended, the British govern- ment intervened to prevent their de- livery. This conflict of authority between the consuls, composing the interna- tional municipality of Shanghai, and the diplomatic corps still is subject to negotiations, and it is hoped here that it will be settled shortly, as there now seems to be an agreement that the superior authority of the diplomatic corps over the international munici- pality should be recognized. Frances Sullivan Is Found in Florida; Suicide Note Girl Made Trip With $2 The climax of the greatest adven- obtaining rides in automobiles and other vehicles, her mother, Mrs. Ben nett stated as her belief last night. Mrs. Bennett immediately wired H. L. Tycer, her brother afi Frances’ uncle at West Palm Beach, to g0 to Jacksonville and look out for the girl. She also wired the Y. W, C. A. authorities at Jacksonville to detain Frances pending the arrival of her uncle. If it can be arranged, Frances will reside in West Palm Beach with her uncle for the immediate future. The Jacksonville Y. W. C. A. of ficials are keeping Frances under close guard, and last night refused admittance to anyone to see her, ac- cording to a message received here, until they had questioned her closely her run-away trip. D. . UTILITIES PAY §2,136,143.68 TAXES District Got $1,397,718.09 This Year; Government, $738,025.59. The public utllity companies of the District paid a total of $2,135743.68 in taxes to the District and Federal jovernments last vear, according to a statement made public yesterday by Maj. W. E. R. Covell, assistant to the utilities commission Of this total, $1,397,718.09 went to the District government and $738, 025.59 was in Federal taxes. “Few people realize the large amount of taxes paid by the public of Washington through their public utilities,” Maj. Covell said in the statement. He explained that the commission allows the utility com- panies to charge taxes to operating expenses. All From Consumer. “The more taxes paid, the higher the rate, 5o that in the last analysis practically every cent comes out of the pocket of the consumer,” the statement continued. “This ot quite true, however, of the street car companies, because they are by no means earning a fair return on their fair value. With the other com- panfes a substantial reduction in taxes paid would mean a reduction in charges to the consumer. With the two street car companles, however, a reduction in taxes would mean that the companfes would come a little bit closer to getting a fair return on their fair value. Tt {s these two latter companies who can least afford high taxes that are charged the most. In addition to paying the usual taxes charged the other companies, the Capital Traction Company pays $45,003.95 a year for crossing policemen to regulate auto- mobile traffic on certain corners while the Washington Railwa d Electric Company pays $71496.05 a vear for the same purpose. Th amounts to $116,500 for the two com- panies. These two companies also paid $59,448.07 for the Capital Trac tion Company and $128,064.32 for the Washington Raflway and Electric Company last year for city paving, making & total of $187,512.39 for this purpose. “The Washington Rapld Transit Company fares best in the matter of taxes, because, under the law, they are not required to pay the 4 per cent tax on gross earnings. Thefr largest tax {s for gasoline and amounted to $3.251.86 in 1924, and the second was is very much less than this. ““The amount of District and Fed eral taxes pald by the companies was as follows: Capital Traction..., Wash. Rwy. & Eiec C. & P. Teiephone. Potomac Elee. Pow. Wash. Gas Licht. Georgetown Gas Lt. Wash. Rap. Transit MOTHER JONES ILL IN POWDERLY HOME Vigorous Advocate of Labor Cause for Many Years Suffers From Rheumatism. Mrs. Mary Jones, known through- out the industrial world as Mother Jones, vigorous advocate of the cause of labor, is ill here of inflammatory rheumatism. She is 92 years old. Friends of Mother Jones had felt considerable concern over her illness but were told yesterday that her pain had been considerably alleviated. Mother Jones is at the home of Mrs T. V. Powderly, Col. 2496, widow of a former commissioner general of im- migration. She sustained an attack of pneumonia last Winter and the process of regaining strength has been a slow one. 11 MINERS ARE KILLED. Drop to Death in Shaft—Fellows May Strike Over Indemnity. MEXICO CITY, July 18 (#).—Eleven miners were killed when a shaft rope parted sending their cage to destruc. tion at the bottom of the pit in the Cinco Minas mine in Jalisco, Thurs. day. The General Confederation of Workers made demands for indemni- ties for the victims' families, but these were. refused by the mine operators. It is reported that a strike is con- templated. . Officers Ordered He;& Capt. Eli E. Brown, Medical Corps, at Dalias, Tex., has been ordered to this city for duty at the Army Medi- cal School, and First Lieut. Harold L. George, Air Service, at Phillips Field. Aberdeen, Md., has been or- dered here for duty in the office of the chief of Air Service, War De- partment. CuckoTETg_g_r in Can Hatches Bird Too Large to Get Out By the Associated Press. BERLIN, July 18.—An unusual bird’s nest has been found by a forester near Altona, in the vicinity of Hamburg, consisting of a tin can in which a cuckoo was imprisoned. He believes that the can was selected by a pair of firetails for their nest and that & cuckoo, in accordance with the usual practice of depositing its eggs in another bird's nest, also laid an egg in the can. When' the birds were hatched, the firetails discovered to their dismay that they had a steb- son in the form of a voung cuckoo, which, naturally, they reared with the rest of their family. ‘When flying time came the foster parents discovered that the cuckoo was too large to leave by the opening in the can. So they continued to feed the imprisoned bird, who for lack of exercise soon became so fattened that he filled the entire can. Not until the forester opened the can could the bird's misery be ended. and investigated the circumstances of | their Federal income tax which was | WITNESSES OFFER AID TO SAVE ScoTT Three Say Missing Brother, Not Man in Death Cell, Killed Drug Clerk. By the Associated Pres CHICAGO, July 18. telegrams and_witness to save Russell Scott from the gallows. All of them were charac terized as “fakes” by the State's at torneys office while Scott's lawyers continued to investigate the various tips, mostly anoymous. Scott, sentenced to hang yesterday morning for the murder of Joseph More letters, s appeared to | rer, drug clerk, during a hold-up s ago, was given a week's ; before the time set for his execution. A telegram from Detroft, signed “Robert Scott,” Rus |sell's brother, and stating that Rob ert was the slayer und would sur render, was received at the governor's office. and led to the reprieve. Robert was indicted with Russell, former Ca nadian financler, but was never ap prehended. Today another message purporting to be from Robert and addressed to attorneys for Scott, was made public It was mailed in Chicago Thursda night and read Indorsed by Woman. “I hereby swear that Russell Scott is innocent of murder, and that I, his brother, am the guilty party. You want to hang him because you think some one should pay for the murder, but why hang the wrong party? As {God is my judge, you will be murder- ers, hanging an innocent man, if you ang my brother. May your souls rot in hell.” The note was typewritten and signed “Robert Scott” in ink while beneath the signature was 2 postscript signed “Mrs. H. C. R.,” and reading "'The above was dictated to me by Mr. Scott, who is apparently near death. I believe it to be the truth from what 1 have seen. As sogn as he is able he promises to give himself up. If this jetter is not a fraud, at torneys said, then the message from { Detrolt is, for the letter was written {and mailed in Chicago the same night {the telegram, also purporting to be ott, was sent from Detroit. Three New Witnesses. Scott’s attorneys were pinning most of their hopes for a cnmmulangun 00". laffidavits they said they had from two |women whose identities were careful ily concealed. The women were in the drug store at the time of the slaying and both said Robert and not Russel', {was the killer, and that the killing was the result of a liquor party and not a hold-up. His attorneys also were looking into a statement made in De. troit last night James Ball, tele graph operator, that he was present when Maurer was shot and that Rob ert Scott shot him after an argument over te payment of a bill tt's wife and fath Scott, continued their efforts his behalf today. Detroit authorities, in vestigating at the request of Chicago officials said that a Dr. Frank Staf. ford, who had wired a local attorney |asking if he would accept a retainer to work for a commutation, did not know the condemned man, but had acted when his sympathies had been aroused. FORMER MRS. NIVEN ACCUSED OF THEFT Doctor's Widow Accuses Predeces- sor of Stealing in Fight for Estate. six hours Thomas | By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 18.—The issuance {of a warrant today for Mrs. Elizabeth | Niven Volbers, named in the will of | the late Dr. Maxim Niven, inventor |and manufacturer, as one of the prin | cipal heirs of $100,000 estate, is | the latest development in the fight for the estate be! waged by his widow, the former Countess Zicha { Poland. The warrant charges larc ot alcohol and household goods v ued at more than $40,000 The fight over the doctor's estate has unearthed alleged scandals dat ing to his school days in the Uni- versity of Heidelberg, Germany. The countess asserts that he was in re- |ality Dr. on Suth, scion of a | prominent family of Cologne, who i came to Chicago and engaged in the | manufacture of perfumes following |an affair with the wife of his head |master. Mrs. Volbers, savs the | countess, posed as the doctor's sister for mar nicago, following a meeting with him in London, {1and, during his wanderings after be- |ing ‘disinherited by his il | before settling her Mrs. Volbers was married i | to Willlam Volber man raider who was DE MONZIE WINS HOLIDAY “IN MEMORY OF BRACES” Gallantry in Lending Painleve His Own Suspenders Wins Minister’s Gratitude. By the Associatea Press. PARIS, July 18.—The gallantry of Anatole de Monzie, French minister of public instruction, is just coming to light. Recently he asked Premier Painleve for permission to visit his constituency, Cahors, for besides being a Senator he is the mayor of Cahors, and a very active one. Pain- leve, while loath to allow ministers | o absent themselves before the par- liamentary session was over, agreed on this occasion. | “You deserve the favor in memory of the suspenders,” he told de Manies. It appears that when Premier Pain- leve landed at Toulouse late one evening in_June from his air trip to Morocco, De Monzie was there to meet him. The premier's first words after an affectionate greeting were “Are the shops still open?” De Monzie at first believed he mi understood his chief; then as the I ter repeated the query he began to wonder whether the journey had af- fected the premier's mental equili- brium, but Painleve explained that a sudden swoop of the plane had broken his suspenders and he wished merely to buy another pair. With true gallantry of old France and without a moment's delay de Monzie slid his hand under his walst- coat and with gestures worthy of 2 stage prestidigitator undid his_6wn suspenders and laid them in Pain- leve's hands. “My dear friend I shall never forget this,’ said the great man gratefully. England Plans Long Range Radio. (Correspondence of the Associated Press. LONDON, July 1.—In addition to the big radio staton now being bujit at Rugby, the postmaster.general is planning to erect another high-pow- er station at Winthorpe, near Skeg- ness, on the east coast. This station, when completed, 18 expected to be used for communication with Aus- tralia- and Indla.