Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. (37 Part] S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) v cloudy tonight and tomorrow, ™ probably showers tomorrow afternoon or night; temperature un —Highest, changed. 86, at 5 p.m. ; lowest, 71, at 5 a.m. today. “ull report on page 7. | Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 12 No. 29,670. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening WASHINGTON, D. C, Star. SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1925—TH IRTY PAGES. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as t he papers are printed. Yesterday’. s Circulation, 93,962 (#) Means Associated Pres: TWO CENTS. - NI IV REORGANEZATON * 1 HOHN COOLIDEE Curtis Plan Would-Allow Cut of $500,000,000 From Taxes, Senator Predicts. “HANDS OFF”” COAL POLICY UNTIL STRIKE IMPENDS Miners’ Row Will Be Pinchot Opposing Pepper for Issue for Seat in Senate. SUMMER WHI scott, Mass., July of the executive depar Government may affe more than any other it Curtis of Kansas at W mated that a thoroughgoing reform in the Government departments, in cluding an elimination of overlapping of activities and duplication of effort, might bring about a saving of $250, 000,000. The Senator includes this saving along with the surplus of 000,000 in his prediction that the next tax reduction can be made to the amount of $500,000,000. . President Coolidge is anxious that the tax reduction should be carried to the lowest possible fizure. He has had no estimate made of the possible sav- ing through reorganization, and al- though admitting yesterday afternoon at White Court that he did not agree with Senator Curtis that the economy could reach such a high figure, he is now making a further inves determine what the saving w if reorganization in the departments is carried out along strictly efficient lines. svision enator Asks for Estimate. It is understood here that asked the proper officlals t Washington to make an esti the reduction possible under the re- organization bill pending in Congress and which the President hopes to get enacted early during the next session. Taxation revision will form the chief argument in President idge’s next message to Cong one of the salient feature: an argument will be the pa of expenses In the conduct of execu- tive departments. The estimate, which he hs ked to be sent to him as soon he has ck in of such It also will be used for reorganization ge. s an ument 5 leg tion to get this legislation written upon the statute hooks not only because of | GUECTETHNNE for the Department of Agricul- the saving it will bring about, is convinced that it will greatly in crease the efficiency of the conduct of the Government’s business by the various departments and bureaus. In his conference yesterday at White Court President Coolidge de- fined the administration’s position on the coal strike, opposition to tariff re- vision by the next Congress and pro- hibition "enforcegnent unhampered by political influenCe in a decisive and forcible manner. Conservative Methods. This conference, in the opinion of those who have followed the course of Mr. Coolidge, showed evidence that he is carefully ing out the questions before him is prepared to take an aggressive stand when required, but believes that generally speaking most can complished by the adoption of servatlve methods. President jdge, who favors the trance into the World Court, declared his acceptance of the general pro- posal advaneed by Senator Borah that the United States shall not interfere in the affairs of Latin republics. The coal situation, the most far- reaching problem before him, is one that contains economic and political angles. He indicated today that he was giving it ecarnest consideration, but did not intend to interfere in the miners and oper dispute at this juncture, but w; the pressure of repres con Cool deral Government, nting public opinion, when the efforts of the disputants were ex- hausted. He feels that if the Govern- ment stepped in now before the miners and operators had come to an abso- lute deadlock in their negotiations it would do more harm than good The imminent coal strike not only has an important bearing upon interests of the public, but is now injecting itself into politics. It feared by the Pennsylvania politicians that Gov. Pinchot may take a stand in the situation before the Fe proves suc the Republican may have the e cting Gov. Pinchot United States Senator from Pennsylvania next vear to succeed Senator Pepper. The latter anxious to see the Federal Govern- ment become active, as soon as con- ditions demand, so as to forestall the proposed action Gov. Pinchot is now considering. adminis , will w party n ect of el ration and gh against tionally and Pinchot to Oppose Pepper. Reports received here from Penn- Ivania are to the effect that Gov. Pinchot intends entering the primary against Senator Pepper, and that his issue will be settlement of the coal strike. Such a development and the possibility that Senator Pepper may have opposition from the regular fac- tion in his party might bring about a duplication of the gubernatorial con- test when Mr. Pinchot was elected in a_three-cornered fight against the ma- chine. Senator Pepper is scheduled to come here on August 1 to present the polit- ical and economical aspects of the strike to President Coolidge and ad- vise him to be ready to act by the middle of August, by which time, if the Government hopes to prevent the miners stopping work on September 1, an effective plan must be put in operation. The coal question and the World Court will be discussed, but President Coolidge, it is understood, has summoned him chiefly to get his advice on the plans of the Federal Government to prevent a coal strike. As to prohibition enforcement Presi- dent Coolidge reiterated that Gen. Andrews, assistant of the Treasury in charge of prohibition enforcement, should have a free hand, unhampered by political pressure, in the reorgani- zation of the Goyernment prohibition forces. President Coolidge had noted the troublec encountered by Gen. An- drews in his reorganization plans, and {Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) ate of | ing down | possible, will be placed in his | The President is very determined | be ac-| prepared to exert | the | I8 | most respectfully the memory of if it is taken | is very | Bandits’ Prisonér 10 OPEN BOOKS T0 LS INSPECTION | | Government Wins Suit Start- 1 ed by Late Secretary ‘ Wallace. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 25.—The Govern- ment today won its suit begun by the {late Henry C. Wallace, as Secretary of Agriculture, when District Judge Cliffe granted a writ of mandamus di- recting some of the principal packing { companies, Swift & Co., Wilson & Co. | and Cudahy & Co.,-to open their books to the Department of Agriculture. The defendants, however, obtained a | | supersedeas pending an appeal. The late Secretary Wallace main- tained that in the packers and stock vards act it ssary to go through the books. The objecting com- panies held that the Government was to supervise {ts inter- and that their inter- state and intrastate business were so mingled on the books that it would | not be possible to separate them for | Government inspection. The Depart- ment of Agriculture held it was neces- sary to inspect all of the business as shown by the books to determine whether or not the packers and stock- | vards administration was being | evaded. Judge Cliffe held it just and reason- | ture to inspect all of the books of | the packers and that it was not in | violation of the constitutional rights | of the defendants. RIFFIANS HURLED " BACK BY FRENCH unmistakable | think- | and | Flee After Heavy Losses as Ouergha River Valley Is Cleared. American en- | By the Associated Press. FEZ, French Morocco, July 25.—An | offic Ouergha River valley of Abd-el-Krim's Riffian invaders. The enemy tribes- men are fleeing, after heavy losses. The French also captured a num! of prisoners. A French relief force reached Bad Maroudj with provisions | and munitions after a brilllant ad- | vance. | A message of cheer has been given the French forces in Morocco in the | first general order issued by Gen. Stanislas Naulin, new commander in chief. | “Have courage and confidence,” his | order says. “The hour is approaching when we will be able to utilize our forces to the utmost. I bow before | your flags and standards and salute vour | brave ones who have fallen gloricusly {on the field of honor. We will avenge ithem soon."” | FRENCH STRIKE SNAG. | Move to Reorganize Forces Develops | Differences. | PARIS, July 25 UP).—The French 25 | high command in Morocco has not yet | | found a suitable an of organiza- ;tlnn, the Matin s: today. In the view of Marshal Petain the paper asserts, military action against the dissident tribes of Ahd-el-Krim and | the political propaganda among those | that have not yet thrown Sultan of Morocco umn 5) | SHENANDOAH RETURNS; i {Lansdowne Says Dirigible Will Leave Lakehurst Again Tuesday or Wednesday. By the Associated Press LAKEHURST, N. J., July 25.—Re- turning from Virginia, the dirigible Shenandoah landed on the the Naval Air Station at 11:55 o'clock last night and was walked into her hangar. Comdr. Zachary Lansdowne, com- manding, the airship, said that good weather ‘prevailed through the flight. He refused to discuss the results of the anti-aireraft maneuvers of the Shenandoah and the battleship Texas off_the Virginia capes. On Tuesday or Wednesday, he said, the dirigible will make another flight. Because of an aircraft war ove Trenton, N. J., in which 10 planes participated, the Shenandoah was or- dered by wireless to del her return a little Tast nigiit when she ed the territory vl s i e order to administer al communique says the French | have cleared the western part of the | T in their | NEW FLIGHT PLANNED| fleld at| BRIGAND CAPTORS 4 OF AMERICAN FOIL SEARCH IN CHINA Chang Expected to Avenge Palmer Murder and Kid- naping of Three: CONSUL GOES TO SCENE TO AID HUNT FOR HOWARD | Rockefeller Hospital Head Also to, Join Group Seeking Dr. | H. J. Howard. 1‘ R e N { | i PEKING, July been heard concerning the where- abouts of Dr. Harvey J. Howard of | the Rockefeller Hospital at Peking, | who was taken prisoner by brigands | on July 20, while visiting at the ranch | of Morgan Palmer, a native of New | York State, on the Surgarl River, in| Manchuria. Mr. Palmer was killed by | the bandits, but his mother son of Dr. Howard and Harold Baldwin, formerly of Derby, Conn., and his wife | and child escaped. | Because of the isolated location of | the ranch, details of the affair are| | slow in arriving. There is reason to| believe, however, that Gen. Chang| | Tso-Lin, the Manchurian war lord, will | | be stirred to action against the slay-| lers, since Palmer was personall | known to and highly regarded by him. | The American consul at Mukden,| | Samuel Sokobin, is expected to reach | {the scene of the attack at any mo-| | ment. Roger Green, business director | | for the Rockefeller Hospital, has gone | | to the north to assist in the search. | ‘Went to China in 1910. { Mr. Palmer came to China in 1910 and served with the Chihli Provincial | Normal School, at Paotingfu.- He was then 23 vears of age. “The following | year, during the revolution, he went to Shensi to bring out foreigners; whose lives were endangered. Two ars lated he joined the salt tax serv- | lice. In 1918-19 he served with the! legation in Manchuria, where his fa- miliarity with the Chinese language proved very valuable. He was active in famine relief work in 1920-31, and was appointed by the Red Cross to ad- minister its fund for aiding Russian! refugees in Manchuria | Mr. Palmer acquired his ranch on| the Sungari River, some thousands of | acres in extent, In 1923. It orig- | inally part of the development project | in which Charles R. Crane, former minister to China, and —Nothing has | was interrupted by the war. WASHINGTON ‘CHARMING,” | MME. DAESCHNER FINDS| Envoy's Wife Thinks Intellectual | Life Is Not Fully De- veloped, However. | By the Associated Press. | HAVRE, France, July 25.—Mme. | Daeschner, wife of the French Ambas. | sador to the United States, and their daughters arrived here on the liner Paris today to spend three months in | France. ! Mme. Daeschner, speaking of her experiences in the United States, said | that any one going there for the first | time was struck by so much to see | and study. She was impressed by the | great elegance of American women, | notably in New York, and by the women's quest for culture, especially | in urt. | “Life in Washington seemed charm- | ing and quiet after Paris, London and | New York, but politics dominated ! evervthing, and the intellectual and | artistic centers were not as well de- | | veloped as in other cities, perhaps be- cause of the absence of great wealth, which is necessary for much develop- ment. Mme. Daeschner expressed great | pleasure at the Kindness of her recep- | tion when she accompanied Ambas. | { sador Daeschner on visits to American | | cittes and towns. Both greatly en- | joved these trips and welcomed the | opportunity of getting acquainted with the people among whom they were {living in the United States. | SOVIET PROPAGANDIZING BIG CENTERS OF WORLD | Main Efforts Confined Now to Morocco, India and China, Swedish Paper Says. | blows on Monday | made it possible for the laboring folk | By the Associated Press. STOCKHOLM, Sweden, July 25.— The Russian Communist executive is| establishing propaganda centers at| Constantinople, ~Alexandria, Buenos | Aires, Teheran, Chita and Tangier, | |says ‘the Stockholm Tidningen. The | main efforts for the present, the paper | asserts, will be centéred in Morocco, India and China. The Constantinople office, which is| | already” functioning, has received 40,- 000,000 gold rubles for propaganda | purposes. Two agents are sald to have gone to Berlin, Vienna and Con- stantinople with instructions to sup- port the belligerent tribes of Northern | Africa against the European powers. |ASSERTS WEST BEATEN ON RIVER IMPROVEMENT | Senator Googling Declares He Will Vote Against Future Discrim- inatory Bills, By the Associated Press. McCALL, Idaho, July 25.—Speaking before the Idaho State Editorial Asso- clation last night, Senator Frank R. Gooding, Republican, Idaho, declared that he would never vote for another rivers and harbors appropriation un- less the movement indicated the de- velopment, of water transportation in {the West and the prevention of viola- i tion of the fourth section of the inter- i state commerce act. He said the Government was not giv- !ing the West. fair deal, but was per- | mitting_disetiminations that make it impossible”to build up manufacturing blishruents in this part of the OURETY. L % i S P WEST IS SATISFIED WITH PROMIBITION S i States Unanimous, But it Is Still an Issue to Be Reckoned With. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Staft Correspondent of The Star. ATTLE, Wash., July 25.—Prohi bition, undefiled, is a fixture, as far as the Northwest is concerned. There is fair unanimity on that point, even in quarters where there is extensive sentiment in favor of modification or repeal. These assertions are based upon four weeks of persistent inquiry in six States stretching from Lake Michigan to the Pacific Ocean. In all of these States, especially in such conters of population as Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolls and Seattle. Wellara | Wets can be counted by the tens of Straight were interested, but wh gthousands. Their dissatisfaction with the Volsteéad act is avowed and bitter. They are violating the law with un- disguised impugnity. In many of these communities the bootlegging industry is flourishing. But even the classes that are flagrantly flouting the eight- eenth amendment, and clamoring that it can never be enforced because of its ‘“unpopularity,” concede that prohibitiou is undoubtedly here to ay. They admit, in accents of de r, that the drys on a show-down have the votes- to overwhelm any serious attemhpt to restore the good old days. Had Local Laws. Many Western States were ac quainted with prohibition, under local laws, before it became a national statute. They have had a larger ex perience with the difficulties of enforc- | ing it than Eastern regions which have been dry only since 1 The dif- ficulties of enforcement are correspond- ingly more familiar to the West. they have never undermined the West's faith in prohibition, nor its conviction that the benefits, moral and economic, tremendously outweigh the arguments brought forward in behalf of “loosening™ the law. Ask the aver- age town or city man anywhere be- tween Chicago and the coast—and in lat least seven cases out of ten he is a wet or a semi-wet—what has been the effect of prohibition, apart from his own inconvenience, and he freely admits that the effect in his com- munity is altogether to the good. It has piled up deposits in the vings banks. It has improved the appearance of the streets by ridding them of public drunkenness. It has | made it the exception, instead of the rule, for workmen in numbers to be on account of a week end mornings. It has nearly evervwhere to enjoy comforts, and even luxuries, unknown a few vears ago. Money that used to find its way into the hands of saloon- keepers is now buying silk dresses and silk stockings for wives and daughters and good-looking clothes for fathers and sons. The myriad of automobiles owned by work peo- | ple is accounted on all hands a direct result of prohibition. Not so long ago the cost of a car and. its upkeep would have been squandered over the bhar by many a motoring wage earner of toda It Ts Being Enforced. Prohibition is not only considered 2 fixture in the West, but, by every external sign, is being enforced. That not_to say that a drink is not to be had west of Chicago. Any num- ber of so-called best people are serv- ing drinks in their homes and at their country clubs. The silver flask is carried by plenty of men who would resent the imputation that they are not law-abiding citizens. On a good many occasions that have come under my personal notice since invading the West in June liquor has flowed pretty freely. The dispensers of it are.tam- pletely and strangely ngnchalant about the illegality of thek convivial procedure, to which they are habitual- ly addicted. Their supplies appear to be unlimited, thanks to reliable boots " (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) HEIR TO MILLIONS KILLED. Inheritor of Fortune Dies From Motor-Crash Injuries. WHEELING, W. Va., July 25 (#).— Clark Fulton, who in a few years would have come into an inheritance of several million dollars left him by his grandmother, Mrs. A. J. Clark was killed instantly, and Thoma: Bloch, son of Jesse Bloch, wealthy Wheeling tobacco manufacturer, was slightly injured when their automobile left_the road and overturned in a fog at Brownsville, Pa., early today, b5 . 1~ (. WISH THEYD CONFINE THEIR. ACTIVITIES TO THOSE OVERTIME ~ PARXING PESTS Income Tax Nets Experts More Than U. S., Hoover Says By the Associated Press ~ AN FRANCISCO, July Lawyers and income tax experts | collect five times what the Govern- ment collects from the income tax hecause of the necessity of explain- ing the tax laws to the public and because of the.complicated struc- ture of the governing Federal bu- reaus, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover said yesterday in an address to the Commonwealth | Club. i “Congress should be made to re- organize the Goyernment's sys- tems and combine the various | | overlapping and confiicting groups,” | | he said. | “There are too many govern mental agencies overlapping each other and conflicting with each other, with a consequent loss of time by the Government and the public. Had the Veterans' Bureau been in one department with a single cabinet officer at its head, I doubt if we would have had the scandals that have marked the progress of that bureau. #'Mamy- of the functions which the Fedsral Government now per- forms should be performed by the WATOSHALTED FORNOT‘STOPPING' Police Make Drivers “Try It Over” to Convince Them “Stop Signs” Mandatory. | A stop in time saves nine or so| | minutes, more than a score of motor- ists learned to their Yorrow today, when they fell victims of the Traffic Bureau's, campaign to enforce obey: ance of the “boulevard stop” regula- tions recently promuigated. The nine or so minutes they would ve saved by heeding the ‘'stop” nted on the street paving along Eighteenth street were used up in complying with the advice of traf- flc officers, stationed at important in- tersections, that they drive around the block and try it again. It was a case either of retracing their path and pulling off an approved stop to the satisfaction of the officers | or taking the alternative caurse of meeting the policeman in Traffic Court this afternoon to explain everything to the judge. None, however, selected the latter course. R Campaign Is Educational. The campaign launched today by | Inspector Brown's force was mapped out along purely™ educational lines. Nobody was arrested and hauled into |court, but lots of good sound advice was meted out in a courteous tone by | Sergt. B. A. Lamb and Motor Cycle| Officer Milton D. Smith, who super-| vised the drive. The officers stationed themselves first at the intersection of Bighteenth and Q Streets, near the New Hamp- shire avenue crossing. This was ad- mitted to be a particularly dangerous point, due to the convergence of traffic from nearly all directions. Despite the fact that Sefgf. Lamb and Private Smith did fiot try any | hiding tactics, but stood, plainly in view of drivers approaefing Eight- | eenth street, appréxipately 20 motor- | ists had to W€ flagged for failing to | halt on @ stf¥et before proceeding across-the intersection. Mest of them had that all-powerful _gilty 1ook on their faces, as though a great light had just dawned with the blast of the police whistle sig- naling them to pull into the curb. Some did not know what it was all about until they were shown the stop sign, and one or two didn't realize even then that the sign meant ‘emuy what it said. Marylander Pleads Ignorance. “I hadn’t heard a thing about this business,” one Maryland motorist ex4 plained, somewhat indignantly, indi- cating his secret belief that the of- ficers had just played a mean trick on him. Sergt. Lamb told him the newspapers had been printing col- umns about boulevard stops’ for weeks, but he said he hadn't read anything about them. He was still mumbling when he started complying with Lamb’s suggestion that he drive around the block and see how love- lan ocath from which the pre CHAMPS’ GAME OFF: ATHEISM MAY COST WITINER U. . POST Deletion of ““So Heln Me God” From Oath Laid Be- fore Officials. The case of Loren H. Wittner, Treasury clerk, who three times tered the Treasury employ by taking | cribed | en- | words “so help me God" were strick- | en with a pen was unofficially before | | the office of the controller general of | | the Treasury today. | It has not been brought before the | { controller offictally for an opinion. An | unofficial stated, opinion was given, it was | but the nature of this advice was not divulged. It was admitted, | however, that the Federal statute prescribing the oath to be taken by | all Government employes seemed to | admit no change. Hence, Wittner | probably will be obliged to take the prescribed oath or leave the service. | The pay he already has received | will not be affected, it was stated, since he has actually rendered the | services for which he has received compensation. Angther issue which was under dis cussion at the controller's office this | morning was the legal right of an em- | ploye of the United States to institute such proceedings against the United States Government as Wittner has started in his anti-evolution suit Corporation Counsel Francis H. Ste- | phens today stated that when the se_comes to the District Supreme | Court for a preliminary hearing, he will file a brief answer in addition to making a_ motion to dismiss. The | answer probably-will be filed Tuesday. The case also will be before United | States Attorney Peyton Gordon this | afternoon for consideration. Mr. Gor- don is to represent the interests of the | Federal Government. it PLAY TWO TOMORROW Rain Prevents Second of Series With Yankees in New York. Special Dispatch to The Sta YANKEE STADIUM, N. Y., July 5, 1925, in today prevented the play- ing of the second game of the series between the Nationals and Yankees. A double header will be played to- morrow, the first game starting at 2 o’clock. MILLION TO CHARITY. DENVER. Colo., July 25 (#): rs. Verner Z. Reed of Denver has given $1,000,000 to charity in the name of her daughter, Margery Reed Mayo, who died here recently. The income from the fund will be applied to chari- ties to be naméd later. Mrs. Mayo's death resulted from illness contracted at Lima, Peru, where Mr. Mayo is an attache to the Ameriean embassv 28 Drown on Ferries. SHANGHAL July 25 (P).—Twenty eight persons were drowned here to- day when a sudden rain squall cap- sized two ferry launches crossing the Whangpoo River for Pootung Thirty-one pesons were rescued ” Amazing Total of I ¥ |Banks Face Strike In France; Paris Men Already Out By the Aseociated Press PARIS, July 25.—France is faced with the possibility of a general bank strike by the end of next week. Taking advantage of the creased business caused by the new 4 per cent guaranteed loan, the em ployes of one of the largest Paris banks have gone on strike because the management refused to grant in creases in pay, and the employes of other banks have called meetings to decide whether to join the move ment. Bank employes in Marseille are already on strfke and the move ment shows signs of gaining in Avignon, Toulor and other cities. The strike committee in Paris has offered Minister of Fiance Cail- laux the services of clerks in con- nection with the new loan, so that the registering of subscriptions will not suffer. The condition is made, however, that the men be provided with suitable premises. 155 ARE INDICTED IN FURNITURE CASE: in IALING 15 SOUEHT Terms for Individuals and! Fines for Concerns Aim in “Trust” Suit. By the Associat Press. CHICAGO,July 25.—New indictment against 135 corporations and individ- uals in the furniture cases in which the Government charges violations of the Sherman anti-tryst act were turned today in Federal Court The add on of many individuals connected with the associations of fur niture manufacturers and the rein- dictment of many corporation: permit imposition of jail upon conviction of the indi ntences well as assessment of fine on the com- | panies, It was explained by Roger le, special assistant to the United States Attorney General The corporations named indictments were those manufactur- ing dining room and bedroom furni ture, who were named in the orig indictments returned Al weeks ago and fafled to appear and ente pleas of guilty. Mr e sald that approximately one-half of the mem bers of the Natlonal Alliance of Fur- niture Manufacturers have already entered pleas of guilty and paid fines in excess of $200,000. For the other cases he promised every effort would be made to bring ‘them to an early trial. stern Concerns Named. Among the corporations and indi viduals named in the dining room fur niture division were Burrows Bros. Co., Picture Rocks, Pa.; Crandall Ben nett-Porter Co., Montoursville, Pa. Co., Warren, Pa Manufacturing Co. Hem Souderton, 0., York, Pa of Williams Talbot County. sing Manufacturi Home Furnit Keystone Furniture Co. South Williamspe . Pa.: Henry n Furniture Co., Inc., Philadel phia, Pa; Long Furniture Co., Han over, Pa Pa.; Mount Co., Mount Wolf Furniture Co., Wolf, Pa.; Muncy Furniture Muncy, Pa.; Penn irniture | Manufacturing Co., Montgémery, Pa Furniture Cow of Baltimore Md.; Shrewsbury Furniture and Manufacturing Co., Shrewsbury, Pa.; Standard Table Co . Jamestown, N. Y.; Henry C. Steuland Sons, Inc., Buffalo, N. Y. Individuals Indicted. Ingdividuals Ernest Bro dent C Reliable City, Baltimore, (dining room , president Burrow E. Bennett, pri anda d- S man ager, Cron-Kills' Co.; William H. Kemp, secretary-tregsurer, Easton Furniture Co. of Talbot County Hintsa secretary, Faribault Furniture William §. Hemsing, president, sing Manufacturing Co.; J. L. Gerber, president, Home Furniture C ¢ entine C. Luppert, president, Keystone Furniture Co. of Willilamsport; John R. Creely, president, Henry Kraan Furni- ture Co., Inc.: Harry C. cretary Long Furniture Co.; Benjamin Al Harris, treasurer, Montour Furniture Co.; 1. Park Wogan, manager, Mt. Wolf Furniture Co., Inc.; Harry P. Rogers, president, Muncy Furniture Co.; Willlam,A. Smith, president, Penn Furniture Manufacturing Co.; John G. Mohlenrich, president, Reliable Furniture Manufacturing Co. of Bal- timore City; John E. Keller, secretary treasury, Shrewsbury Furniture and Manufacturing Co.; John E. Boher, co- partner, Boher & Hosfeld; John Henry Heilman, co-partner, H. Heilman & Co.: Richard sole owner, Keppel & Co.; George W Schutte, sole owner, George W Schutte’ Furniture Co.; Arthur Brown, secretary, National Alliance of Furniture Manufacturers; William H. Coye, agent, National Alliance of Furniture Manufacturer: $730,000 Realized A At Auction of Sargent’s Paintings By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 25.—Amazement is too feeble a word to describe the attitude of art critics and the newspapers toward the prices re- alized at yesterday's ‘“Thousand Pounds a Minute” sale of the ‘works of the late John Singer Sar- gent. Nobody seems to have thought the prices would prove so over- ‘whelmingly sensational in view of the fact that many of the works Wwere more or less sketchy. Ferther- more, some of them were 50 slight and unimportant, that the great painter himself never contemplat- ed their passing into other hands. Once the high bidding started, there seemed to be no controlling the enthusiasm, and values rose 1y the sign worked, now that he knew about it. __An_ice truck, driven by a your (Continued on Page 8, Column 4. as the sale advanced. ‘The eagerness of professional deal to do with the spread of en- thusiasm. One American buyer, un- der the l‘sumed name of “Mr. Marshall,’”” got red in the face from making repeated bids. Some critics, however, are doubt- ful whether the prices paid repre- sent the real value of the pictures, and suggest that if resold a decade hence it is not likely they would bring anything like yesterday's prices. The total realized by was £145,948, or about $730,000, representing one of the largest ever recorded in the famous auc tion rooms of Christie's in a single day for one artist's work. “San Vigilo, a Boat with Golden Sail,"” brought the highest price, 7,000 gulneas. the ' sale and amateur buyers from the United States seems to have had a > [-ladio Pr(;gy;ams—Page 23, re- would | the new group)— | (RUBBER EMBARGO - PROTEST FILED BY U. 5. AMBASSADOR Curtailing of Exports Might Close American Plants, Houghton Says. ‘iBRAZILIAN PRODUCERS, LONG IDLE, NOW BUSY ‘Saanng Price of Crude Revives Activity in South American Trade. | Loxpox Houghton to £ | structions from th | has presented | Chamberlain the rubber ma v restr | tion in th Bs ted Press July United Gre | consideration. ItJs doubtf i office can reach 1. as the i | This is the date of a new qu ction of |st rubber Fear Unemployment Here. P to the pr tation of prote: Ambassador Houg representatives of Amerfcan and explained their of State Kel d the British he there, understood th »n outlined to & in the extent try in the United phasized the unel | m further output ilm nerica. LARGER QUOTA IS ASKED. com It is zh Ambassador ¥ Cham e tire United States Factories Want Fifth of ! Crop Exported. bassador cretary Kel bled Ho: his_information, difficulties manufactt cently by i 2 eric Hood. president Rubbe: of New Yo |same time the London been advised by F es here of American rubber The delegation Secretary to legis Am “for the ber m re- by Fred- f the Hood the rnment sy of the res nufactu ch called t week W upon ted tion enforc ed M y Sta and in Settlements. and in Ceylon which regulate crude rubber exports. ! Modification of the laws so as to per. mit an exportatic per cent of rubber product her than 10 t. the prev ota, was asked by the American rubber men to be made effective August 1. Propose Sliding Scale. It quota was suggested, also, tutes might be m Jorts from those producing e regulated by the demand conditions, i in that American users a more t Houghton formed in order that he might under- the situation from the an viewpoint report to its ntinued {MEXICO COMPELS OWNERS | TO TAKE BONDS FOR LAND was in Is Resisted—1,500,000 Acres Are Appropriated by | Decree the Government. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily Newe. MEXTICO CITY, July 25.—A govern- ment decree haspbeen issued to com- pel land owners to accept the $25,000, 000 debt bonds issued a | month_a These the owners have | refused | ment fo ent Mexic rector of ational Federation of Land Owners has issued a statement in which he attacks the government’s policy. | “The government,” he says, “by adopting a policy of compulsion is de- | preciating the value of the bonds and | also its system of indemnification. We are unable to Gnderstand its anxiety to force the bonds on us, as they do I not constitute a payment, but only an jacknowledgment. We have compfled | figures showing that the land expro- ed ostensibly for the public good {from January 1 to July 22 was 600,- | 999 hectares (one hectare is equal to | about two and Alf acres). From July 15 to July 22 the amount taken was upwar 000 hectares. Al { lowing for and other non- | working day vear's expropria- | tions ven and one-half hec- | tares per minute.” (Copyright, i A | SUICIDE IN DINING ROGM. | Unidentified Young Man Kills Self in Fashionable Hotel. NEW YORK, July 25 (#).—A young | man in evening clothes which had for- {eign trademarks shot and killed him- | self in the dining room of the fash- }ionable Hotel Plaza, on Fifth avenue near Central Park, early today, after | ordering a dinner for two, | He entered the hotel hatless and had the waiter change his order for food several times. When the waiter went out to fill the order the man drew a | revolver and shot himself through the heart. Several guests were seated nearby on the promenade. His coat bore the trademark of a dealer in Hamburg, Germany, and his collar that of an English haberdasher. An investigation was started as to his_identity. His pocket contained a dime and a package of cigarettes. Two German societies had meetings in the hotel last night. |