Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1925, Page 2

T2 » ’ j THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1925. . NISS VANDERBILT { T0.BE BRIDE TODAY Newport in Gala Garb for Heiress” Marriage to F. C. Church. By the Associated Press. NEWPORT, R. I, July 25.—New- haven for America’s socially was in gala attire toda for the wedding at 4 o'clock this after- noon of Miss Muriel Vanderbilt, daughter of one of the country’s| wealthiest families, and Frederick Cameron Church, Boston insurance broker Airplane, yacht, motor and train| Brought guests for the reception that | will be h at Beachmound after | the ceremony a the palatial villa] that stands at the end of Bellevu avenue and looks out over the har-| bor that sparkies with the color « flag-bedecked craft. The number of guests that will attend this reception could not be definitely learned, as all{ details are being withhell by Mrs.| W Vanderbilt, 2d, the bride’s mother. It was first reported that 200 invitations had been sent, and later it was heard that this number had been increased to 500. A small numher were invited to the | ceremony itself, the guests being limited to immediate members of the Vanderbilt and Church families and a few immediate friends. There wese reports that A Vanderbilt would be given away by her father, William K. Vanderbilt, 2d, who was in New port as the guest of Willlam Goadby Lioew, and that her sister, Miss Constelo Vanderbilt, would be maid of honor ther of these could be contirme e the iceremony, how- ever n Made in Pari; Miss Vanderbilt's wedding gown was selected by her mother in Pa recently. will be white, the bride’s favorite shade and the one she is me ithough vesterday- she an rch entertained at lunch- eon and e appeared in a trim green su and carpenters who have the past several days ound for the weddi the final touches to. day, placing of flowers, the chief motif in the decorations was delayed until today in order that the plants and ssoms might be fresh as the bride and bridegroom walk to the altar presided over by Right Rev. Herbert Shipman, Suffra. gan Bishop of New York, and Rev. Stanley C. Hughes, rector of Trinity Church, Newport Mr. Church’s best man came all the way from Japan to attend the wedding and arrived in Newport only veste fle is Robert G. Payne of Boston, a classmate of the bride- groom at Harvard. He was in the Orient when he received word from his friend, found he had barely time to make the return trip of 11,000} miles and reached New York onl two s ago. He made no stops on his way back. Howard S. Van- derbilt, the bride’s uncle, and Her- man Oel her cousin, who came!| from Fra attend the wedding, are among the ushers Bride Miss Vander! Is Heiress. , who is vears old, is the heiress to a large fortune on each side of the family. She is great-great-granddaughter of the famous Commodore Vanderbilt and the granddaughter of James Graham Fair, who, after emigrating from Ire. Jand to Chicago, went to California in 1849 and later removed to Nevada where he amassed wealth in mining and became United States Senator Recently sited California and expr delight over the AYest. She even rode bronchos in chaps. As a society girl she is ex ceptional, her friends say, in that she does not drink, smoke nor use rouge. Her father and mother have been estranged for some vears. Mr. Church is of a well-to-do fam. 1ly, the ealth of which does not compare with the Vanderbilt riches. He is 27 years old and was graduated years ago from 7 ¥ Harvard, where he plaved foot ball. RUBBER EI‘I:BAR—GEV PROTEST FILED BY U. S. AMBASSADOR (Continued from transmitted as a matter of informa- tion, and officials of the State Depart- ment, as well as the embassy, said today no indication of what the Lon- don government might decide to do in the case presented it had been received here Brazil Sees Opening. High prices for rubber are turning | a high tide of prosperity upon north- ern Brazil, reports to the Commerce Department show. In Para and the Amazon Basin, where wild rubber was once wrung from the®orests or pre- pared for export, but where the en-| tire trade has since fallen off from plantation competition, there is now life and activ unthought of for| vears. st estates that have been given #p n past years are being reopened, the reports say, and forces of rubber hunter: hastily assembled, | now that rubber has gone above $1| per pou Shipments of rubber are increasing r but stocks at the are almost non-existent, having | en s demand Rubber since the war h as low as 7 cents per pound, but after | steady rise during recent | touched $1.20 per pound. U. S. CHARGES DENIED. ped out in the first flu s sold down | a has Ship Company Disputes Alleged $11,000,000 Excess Payment. PHILADELPHIA, July 25 (®).— Compl ial of Government charges that it had received an excess of upward of $11,000,000 in wartime contracts was filed in the Federal District Court today by the Bethlehem Ship Corporation, Ltd. INDUSTRY TO SHIFT. MONTREAL, July 25 (#).—The Gazette says that the aluminum in- dustry will remove its headquarters from the United States to Canada fol- lowing a eement between James | B. Duke, United States capitalist, and the Aluminum Co. of America. A huge plant will be constructed on the Saguenay River in'Quebec, which will mean an investment of more than $100,000,000 and the construction of a city of 50,000 inhabitants. Shipping Chief Killed. HALMSTAD, Sweden, July 25 (#).— M. Bronstroem, former managing di- Yector of the Swedish-American Line and a former minister of marine, was Parents Beat Death RODY P. MARSHALL JR., Son of a prominent Pittsburgh attor- ney, who is believed awaiting death from a broken neck while diving at Narragansett. Hi: parents raced across the Atlantic on a ship to reach his side. Mr. Marshall, sr., is known throughout the country and is a per- sonal friend of Secretary Melloi DEBT ABROGATION DENIED BY MEXICO Treasury Official Says Na- tion Seeks Modification of Its Obligations. By the Associated Press ICO CITY, July J. ni, secretary of the Mexican treasury, has issued a signed state- ment denying an announcement at- tributed to him that the treasury contemplated abrogation on August 1 MEX ¥ 25.—Alberto of the Lamont-de la Huerta agree- ment for payment of the outstanding deb of Mexico. What he did say, he points out, was that negotiations were in progress be- tween the Mexican gover international bankers with a resuming debt payments by Mexico in a way that would be satisfactory to the parties concerned. D Secretary Pani's statement says: El Universal cagried prominently a story saying the Mexican government would abrogate the Lamont-de la Huerta agreement on August 1. Fri day it carried a similar story quoting me as confirming such repert. I must declare both reports are untrue. The Mexican government does not contemplate abrogation of the agree- ment. I stated that the Mexican gov- ernment and international bankers are negotiating for a resumption of nies Two Reports. the debt service in such manner that both contracting parties will be sat isfied. In connection with press comment in the United States, which has reach- ed here, on the Mexican claims for damages agalnst the United States, the foreign secretary, Aaron J. Saenz, declared today that no_foundation ex- s for stattting that Mexican claims had been unduly inflated. Follows U. 8. Lead. Mexico had done exactly what the es had done, he said, as both governments had been obliged to 1 the attention of their respective i: to the fact that they should their claims within the time speci- It was not necessary to make nown how the Mexican agents pro- ceeded in acceptance of the registra- tion of claims, as the commission must judge the legality of the claims. He stated it was useless to speak of the probable amount of the claims at present. fed Members of the international com- mittee of bankers on Mexico, com- menting Friday in New York on the reports from Mexico City that the Mexican treasury intended to abro- gate the Lamont-de la Huerta agree- ment on August 1, safd informal sug- gestions for a modification of the agreement had been made by Mexico. They added, however, that the idea of repudiation by Mexico of an agree- ment signed and ratified by its Presi- dent and Congress could not for a moment be entertained. DR. ALBERT J. OCHSNER, NOTED SURGEON, DIES Chicagoan, Member of Many Hon- orary Societies, Victim of Angina Pectoris. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 25.—Dr. Albert John Gchsner, famous surgeon, died here early toda; Death was due to angina pectoris. A widow survives Dr. Ochsner, who was 67 vears of age, was the author of numerous sur- gical atsies and text books and a | contributor to the medical press. Since 1898 he had been chief surgeon of Au- gustana Hospital and St. Mary's Hos- pital here. He held a major's commission in the Meaical Reserve Corps of the Arm: and memberships in the American Col- lege of Surgeons, Royal College of Surgeons (Ireland), Roval Microscopi- cal Soclety (England) and a fellowship in the American Surgical Association. Dr. Ochsner was born in Baraboo, Wis., and was graduated from the University of Wisconsin and Rush Medieal College of Chicago. He later studied in the universities of Vienna and Berlin, He was the author of works on ap- pendicitis, clinical surgery and organi- zation, management and construction of hospitals. A daughter, Bertha, was present when he died. A son, Albert, is in Vir- ginia. —_ STABBED BY STRANGER. An unidentified colored man made an unprovoked attack upon Lewis Furr, 23, 307 E street, at Fourth and K streets early last night while Furr was in that neighborhood lgoking for laborers wanted in construction work. The attack was similar to that made upon James Hickey, Berwyn, Md., at Ninth street and New York avenue Wednesday night. In neither affair were words passed between assailant and victim, accord- ing to police reports, and neither vic- tim was seriously wounded. In each instance the attack was made by a man who alighted from an automobile in which other colored men were seated. Hickey was dealt a blow on the head with a blunt instrument, pre- sumably an iron bar, while Furr was stabbed in the upper lip with a knife. Police investigated last night's affair and reported that the assailant, prob- killed yesterday in an automobile acci- dent at Troenninge. His wife and daughter had a narrow escape from. dnjury. ably mistook Furr for a revenue officer or police bootleg agent. Hickey was treated at Emergency Hospital, but Furr refused treatmant, ’ . rent and | view to | |from other companies | Truck 2 FIRE TRUCK SPEE TEST CUP OFFERED M. and M. Acts to End In- equality in Contest Just Closed. Recognizing the futility of the Fire Department’s huge trucks attempting to compete in a speed contest against the lighter engine companies, the Merchants and Manufacturers' Asso- clation today announced, through its president, Ross P. Andrews, the foun- dation of an annual cup to be pre- sented to the Washington fire truck company that establishes the best time record in answering an alarm. ‘This matches the cup offered by The Evening Star recently to the fastest company in Washington irrespective of its class, which was won Friday morning by Engine Company 23, located on G street between Twenty- first and Twenty-second streets. It also necessitates a retesting of the truck companies to determine the winner of the Merchants and Manu- facturers’ Association cup. When Battalion Chief O'Connor and others started out early in the week to test the entire Fire Department to determine the winner of The Evening Star cup, eve hing was done to give the truck companies an even chance with the engine and rescue companies. It was agreed that a line should be placed in the big hook and ladds apparatus 39 feet from the door of the engine house and its time taken when t point crossed the sill Trucks Handicapped. This made it certain that the trucks would not have to travel a longer distance than the engines, at least, for it was agreed that each engine should be so placed that its rear tip should rest on a line measured exactly 39 feet from the front sill.” It was soon recognized, however, that the trucks were still handicapped by their tremendous weight and that nothing could be done to give them a fair chance against the fast littie engines. Despite the handicap, however, many of the truck companies made remark able time, some outstripping a num- ber of the engine companies. Four were found_ to be tied for first place among the trucks with 10 seconds each when the test of the entire department had been completed. They are: Truck 5, Dent place .near -Thirty-fourth street; Truck 12, Wisconsin avenue and Warren street; Truck 9, Lanier | place and Ontario road, and Truck 3, Fourteenth street and Ohio avenue When these amazing records came known to Mr. Andrews and| Charles J. Columbus, president and secretary, respectively, of the Mer- chants' and Manufacturers’ Associa- tion, it was agreed that the truck com- panies deserved a special cup, for} which they could compete among ! themselves. With the consent of other icers of the soclation, Mr. An- drews authorized the foundation of a handsome loving cup to be won an- nually by the fastest truck company in Washington. All Willi Be Tested. It was first thought that only the four trucks with records of 10 sec- onds each should be permitted to run oft the tie to decide the winner of the rewly-offered cup. Officers of the Fire Department and the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association both agreed, however, that it would be better to test all of the truck com panies over again, and this will be done, beginning at 9 o'clock Monday { morning. The same judges will officlate—Bat- talion Chief ‘O’Connor, W. W. Dean, fire prevention engineer of the War Departnent, and a representative of ‘The Evening Star. Exactly the same rules will be used in this test, as the time is too short for the department headquarters to acquaint each com- pany with any changes. It is recognized, however, that next year some changes probably will be made, and that the tests will in- clude more difficult_evolutions in ad- dition to the speed element. Engine Company 23 is being del- uged with congratulations not onl in Washing- but from other cities as well. One Complaint Made. There also one complaint— from a citizen of Georgetown. It was received in the form of a let- ter, addressed to The Evening Star, and pointed out that Engine Com: pany 5 had been handicapped in be- ing “obliged to use the quarters of for its test. Number 5 is located at Wisconsin avenue and M street and the thoroughfare in front of its station is torn up for recon struction. If anything, the -fact that > 5 was permitted to transfer benefited it. As a matter of fact, the judges were dubious about permitting the engine to be tested while its motor was still warm for fear other com- panies might claim a warm motor is easier to start than a cold one, and that it will develop more speed in less time. No. 5 was given every ad- vantage accorded the other companies and the judges agreed after reading the letter that the test is over, so far as the engine companies are con- cerned. Officials of the Merchants and,Manu- facturers’ Assoclation paid the highest tribute to the Fire Department ang the Police Department alkie, when they announced the foundation of the cup. “We are glad we have this op- portunity of expressing our gratitude to the firemen, small though the gift may be,” said an officer of the asso- ciation. “The men of both the Police and the Fire Departments are close to:| our hearts—they are always on the job, ready to protect our interests by night or by day—and we are proud of every one of them.” 25 SPIDER BITE KILLS BOY. 12-Year-Old Son of New Jersey Evangelist Is Victim. BRIDGETON, N. J., July 25 (®).— The bite of a spider caused the death yesterday of 12-year-old Leroy Letts of this city.” The boy was bitten under the left eye while at a boys’ camp last week. A swelling developed and a surgeon operated on it, but the boy succumbed in a hospital. He was the son of Rev. Clarence L. Letts, well known evangelist. At the boy's request the father administered baptism to him at the bedside. N WAGES TO BE CUT. Pacific Mills to Extend Reduction to Two More Departments. LAWRENCE, Mass., July 25 (#).— An announcement that the wages of 2,000 employes of the Pacific Mills print works will be readjusted on Au. gust 3 was posted in the plant here last night. At the same time the me- chanics in all of the mills' depart- ments were notified that their wages would be reduced 10. per cent on Juiy 27. ‘A 10 per cent wage reduction in the company’s worsted department - was announced on July 20. Notices of a 10 per cent wage cut were also posted yesterday in the Brightwood mill In North Andover, the Bolton mill in Methuen and in the machine shop of J. W. Bolton & Son ton, in this city, all effective on July 27. S Fur-bearing animals of Siberla are decreasing in number, E Indian Comes to U. S. to Shoot Our Golf " As We Go to India to Kill Elephants Former Is Far More Thrilling, Says the Zamindar of Palayampatti, Whose Gold Sport Shoes Are Sensation on Ship. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 25.—A rose- turbaned potentate, with gold sport shoes, is going to chase a little white ball with various sticks on cross- country walks through fairways, jungle’ rough, desertlike sand traps and velvety greens from the Atlantic to the Pacific shores of these United States and back. The Zamindar of Palayampatti and Paladanathan—take it from the pas- senger list—came in on the Aquitania vesterday. “You Americans come to India-to shoot tigers in our jungles,’ he re- marked. " *'I come to America to shoot golf on your courses.” He added that there was a bigger thrill fn making a lower score on the links than in shooting an elephant. He s going to Chicago and San Francisco and return to New York by way of Canada on the way home, and on the way he will play his favorite game as much as he can. The Zamindar wore an Occidental blue serge suit, in addition to the rose-colored silk turban and gold sport shoes. He attracted more attention on the vessel than sundry other notables, such as Jim Barnes, back with the British Open_ Cup, or Jack Plckford and Marilyn Miller, returning happler than ever, they safd. He has a private course of his own and has heard a lot about Gene Sara- zen, whom he wants to meet. The Zamindar vanished somewhere in the Broadway canyons before all curiosity could be satisfied about him, such as how good his game is, whether the rose turban and gold sport shoes are part of his costume on the links, and just where he rates in India, a subject on which available material is meager. DCALEDINL.S. LQUOR NG PROBE Alleged Capital Buyer Is Sum- moned in Unusual Case. NEW YORK, July Twenty buyers of liquor in 12 citles have been subpoenaed by mail to appear here before a Federal grand jury investi- gating a liquor ring that supplied 0,000 Americans by trunk shipments. Federal Attorney Buckner would not reveal the names of those sub- ponaed. They will come from Wash- ington, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, Columbus, St. Louis, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Des Moines, Sioux City, Oklahoma City and Fairfax, Okla. Most of them will appear before the grand jury next Wednesday. Others have been eited to appear Monday. Those summoned will be allowed 10 jcents a mile for traveling_expenses one Once in New York they wiil have to pay their own hotel and board bills. If they are unable to pay, District Attorney Buckner suggested the Government might have to put them up at the Tombs. Appearance before the grand jury will render the mune from prosecution. They receive the customary fee of $1.50 per day while actually testifying 40 Salesmen Sought. This actlon, said to be unprecedent ed, was taken vesterday by Mr. Buckner in an effort to round up and indict 40 salesmen of the bootlegging ring. In addition ummonses will be served on 50 New Yorkers to learn what they know of the ring, which was broken up last week with' the ar- rest of a woman and seven men The liquor was shipped by the trunkful to customers all over the country. Upon receipt of payment keys were forwarded to' unlock the trunks. There are no women among those summoned. However, Miss Irene Griffin, a cigar clerk at an apartment hotel in Sioux City, already has testi- fled before the grand jury. She re- mained in the jury room a long time and it was believed that she threw considerable light on the ramifications of the hootleg ring.. While here she stayed at the Hotel Astor. If any of the liquor salesmen are apprehended they will not be offered fmmunity, Mr. Buckner declared. Only in rare instances, where a_per- son might be little known as a boot- legger, will he be allowed to tell his stor: with immunity to_ the grand FRANCO-GERMAN PACT RIFT ALARMS British See Deadlock in Wide Divergepce of Secur- ity Treaty. . By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 25.—Considerable concern is expressed by some news- papers over the divergencies between the French and German views as re- vealed by the preliminary comment of the French foreign minister, M. Briand, on the German reply to the French note concerning Germany's proposals for a security pact. The diplomatic writer of the Daily Telegraph savs the latest develop- ments have aroused much disappoint- ment among the British ministers, and some apprehension régarding the future of the existing pourparlers aimed at bringing about a pact guaran- teeing Germany's western frontiers. The trenchant nature of M. Briand's counter demands, however mildly framed, threaten, in the opinion of the writer, a_veritable deadlock. He belleves the British government will make a very firm stand against any excessive or dangerous stipulations by either France or Germany, and declares their respective _attitudes must be changed if Great Britain is to give practical effect to her desire to quiet the fears and suspicions of both. Fears are voiced by the diplomatic correspondent of the Westminster Gazette that it will test all of the skill and diplomacy of Austen Cham- berlain, the British foreign secretary, to bridge the Franco-German dif- ferences. Therefore, he thinks it all the more necessary that the proposal for direct conversations between the foreign secretaries at Geneva in Sep- tember should materialize. The West- minister Gazette thinks it possible that the German foreign secretary, Dr. Stresemann, will be invited in join the discussion. E. F. ANDREWS ARRESTED. Son of D. C. Society Woman Charged With “Shooting” Home. Speclal Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 25— Charged with disorderly conduct after he is alleged to have “shot up” a negro residence near here last night, 2. F. Andrews, son of Mrs. Minnige- rode Andrews, who is socially promi- nent in Washington, is under a $500 bond for his appearance at Falls Church tonight for trial. According to the police, Andrews was passing the home of Vanderbilt Shackleford, colored, when attacked by a dog. In the altercation that fol- lowed he is said to have fired several shots from a rifle. He was arrested and taken to Fairfax, where bail was supplied. Several months ago Andrews was fined in Alexandria on a charge of driving an auto while under the in- fluence of liquor. He is 27 years old, and lives on Seminary Hill, near here. liquor customers im- | will | AUTOISTS WARNED OF CROSSING RULES Eldridge Threatens Arrests Unless Rights of Pedes- trians Are Respected. instructed to be motorists gen- from driving through ilks, indicated by white lines, pedestrians. declared today, in appealing to both while they are occupied by Traffic Director Eldridge drivers and walkers to respect the rights of each other at intersections. The motorist must remember, said Mr. Eldridge, “that the pedes- trian has the right of way in crossing a street between the white lines, but the pedestrian also has a duty to perform at intersections. He should cross the street as expeditiously as possible and not move across the in- tersection so. slowly as to impede traffic. The pedestrian also should observe the movement of traffic and not start across at the wrong time.” Co-Operation Is Asked. | Mr. Eldridge said the public can | bring about the conditions desired |at intersections if all who use the streets—both motorists and pede trians—will consider their respective rights. K. W. Mackall, representative of the company which is manufacturing | :=s automatic signal lights for Six- | teenth streetyadvised Mr. Eldridge to- {day that the“lights should be erected 3nd in operation on that thoroughfare by September 15 Mr. Mackall discussed with Director Eldridge today the timing schedule on which the lights will operate. The interval between the red and green signals will vary at different times of the day to cope with the changing flow of traffic, but the amber light which will serve to warn all traffic of a change in direction, will always burn for five seconds. This will serve to clear the intersection before traffic begins to move in the opposite direc- tion. OFFERS LIFE TO SAVE SCOTT FROM CHAIR Man, Who Asked District to Elec- trocute Him, Writes to Illinois Governor. G. P. McGraws, who recently in- formed District officials he wanted to be electrocuted as a protest against capital punishment, has written to Gov. Len Small of Illinots, offering to die in the place of Russell Scott. The letter was believed to have been writ- ten prior to the stay of execution granted Scott McGraws' offer to die in the place of Scott, however, is impinged on two conditions—that Scott's sentence to hang for the murder of a Chicago drug clerk be commuted to life imprison- ment, and that he will withdraw his offer to die in Scott’s place if the Dis- trict authorities permit him to die as a martyr here in Washington. McGraws said he was once sentenced to die by an Ohio court, but that he was later cleared and ‘“the man who committed the crime caught—so I am naturally opposed to capital punish- ment.” * This statement, however, brought a_denial from Warden P. E. Thomas of the Ohio Penitentiary. He declared no one ever had been sen- tenced to the electric chair there and later cleared when the man who com- mitted the crime was caught. He could recall no man by the name of McGraws ever having been sentenced to die in Ohio. E. E. Dudding, presi- dent of the Prisoners’ Relief Soclety, has declared that McGraws is an as. sumed name and that he knows the correct name of the man In question. HUCKSTER IS HELD UP. Robbed of $26 Early Today—Other Thefts Reported. Three colored men held up and robbed Winfield Shumate, colored, 919 T street, a huckstey of $26 early to- day at Barry place and Eighth street, while he was on his way to his stable to get his horses for the day's work. He says he will be able to identify the men. Lawrence Chambers, 2232 Pennsyl- vania avenue, manager of a gasoline station, reported last night some one had stolen $108 from a waste paper box, which he had been using as a hiding place for his money. Mrs. Minnie Shélby, 704 C street southeast, told police a diamond locket had been stolen from her home. J. C. Davis of the same address reported the theft of a diamond setting valued at $50. WORK AIDS PARK. Buys First Acre for Shenandoah National Reservation. Secretary Work of the Interior to- day took- the initial step in the cam- paign to establish the Shenandoah Na- tional Park in Virginia when he bought the first acre in the “buy-an- acre” drive to raise funds for pur- chase of the site of the proposed park in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Each citizen of Virginia will be asked to purchase one or more acres. The price fixed for an acre is $6, and a public appeal is to be made in support of the campalgn. It is the hope of the Shenandoah National Park Association to have ample funds for the purchase in hand by Decem- ber 1. — e Jugoslavia is trying to attract in- ventors, from other countries by offer- ing cuts’in taxes. 'VIRGINIA PLACED INNEW DRY ZONE Will Be Under West Virginia Chief in Shake-Up Be- gun Today. In a reorganization of the Treas- ury’s new 22 districts for the enforce- ment of prohibition announced today, the State of Virginia has been taken from the district with headquarters at Baltimore, and placed with West Virginia in a separate division, with headquarters at Roanoke. This was only one of the shifts made by the Treasury, as anfounced to- day, in a realignment of the districts for the new prohibition reorganization, which has now been delayed in its ef- fective date to “on or about Septem- er 1.7 The new district, including W ington,» will have its headquarters at Baltimore, as arranged under the first reorganization plans, and will in- clude Maryland, District ‘of Columbia and Delaware. This will take the headquarters of the local district from Washington, where for years it has been administered. The first reorgan- ization included as the local district Maryland, District of Columbla, Vir ginia and Delaware. In an official statement today Act ing Secretary of the Treasury Win ston outlined the changes in districts and made public instructions to field officers of the prohibition unit, plaining in some detail the methods to be used in making the changes. Although it had first been planned to put the new organization into ef- fect August 1, Mr. Winston said, “it has been found more desirable to put the prohibition reorganization plan previously announced into effect as a whole through the country instead of one djstrict at a time. This modifics tion of plan requires a brief exten- sion of the August 1 date,” Mr. Win- ston continued, explaining that the additional time would permit the de- partment to complete the adminis- trative details, so that the machinery would operate smoothly from the start sh- Best Men Selected. “The selection of the 24 administra- tors (including Hawali and Porto Rico) 18 a matter of the gravest im- portance,” said Mr. Winston. “The department is giving all recommenda- tions earnest consideration and is making a thorough survey of the field with a view to the selection of the best available material It is proposed to announce the names of the new administrators when all, or nearly all, have been se- lected. There will be a group head, where practicable, in every judicial district and located in the same city as the United States attorney with whom he will co-operate in enforce ment of the law. Under his adminis trator the group head will be responsi- ble for enforcement in his district.” Under the first plan of reorganiza- tion the dist had been laid out with the same boundaries as judicial districts. Under the plan announced today this has been changed, with group heads “where practicable” oper- ating been planned for the administ to function. s had originall, ator Andrew: In the orders s cers of the prohibi atement. 1t out to field offi- on unit, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Andrews {chief of the dry forces, said: “The i present appointment of all unclassified employes will be terminated not later than October 15, 1925, and unless re- appointed will end their connection with the service. In the case of pro- hibition agents and inspectors who | m: not have been selected for re- imman any leave which may be them on October 15, 1925, must have been taken before that date.” Appointments to the new positions. Gen. Andrews said, might include some of those now in the service, but explained that such appointments would be made “on merit only” and on distinet understanding that the appointee will hold office so long, and only so long, as his services are satis- factory LIGUOR CASE JURORS ACCUSED IN COURT ‘Friends of Acquitted Defendants,’ U. S. Prosecutor Says, in Ask- ing a Retrial. Dissatisfied with the jury in Crim- inal Court No. 1, which sat in the case of George P. Rock, Willlam F. Rock and Harry Henderson, who were charged with illegal possession of in- toxicants, Assistant United States At- torney David Hart has requested Jus- tice Hhz to impanel a new jury to retry the case. The men were adcused of operating a near-bear saloon at Eleventh and G streets southwest, when they were ar- rested May 9. Eighteen pints of whis- ky, it was alleged, were found in their possession, police charged. A verdict of not gullty was re- turned vesterday by the jury after being out less than 10 minutes. Mr. Hart asked a new trial on the grounds that he believed, he said, that mem- bers of the jury were acquaintances of the accused. PASTOR PLEADS GUILTY TO TAKING KLAN FUNDS Former Oficial Jailed in Default of $10,000 Bond—Girl Com- panion Not Held. By the Associated Pres LONG BRANCH, N. J, July 25.— Rev. R. Carl Zjegler of Trenton, brought back from El Paso, Tex., pleaded guilty before Justice E. C. ‘Wainwright of Red Bank to charges of embezzlement of funds from_ the Ku Klux Klan of New Jersey. Miss Margaret Roberts, also of Trenton, likewise arrested in El Paso, was not held. The pair were traced to Texas by Willlam Chamberlain, Miss Rob- erts’ flance. Ziegler, in default of $10,000 bail, was committed to jail. The girl went with Chamberlain to Elkwood Park, the New Jersey Klan headquarters, where a reconciliation was said to have been effected. Chamberlain - undertook (the search for the pair when Arthur Bell, king kleagle of the New Jersey Klan, re- ported that Ziegler, a former Klan official, had fled with $1,000 to $1,600 of the Klan’s tunds and various Klan Tecords, at the same time the Roberts girl was reported missing. The Klan records were recovered. Ziegler’s parents are said to have made Testitution of the money he took. Assigned to Regular Army. First Lieuts. Otis B. Schreuder, at Seattle, Wash.; Clifton E. High, at Denver, Colo.; Henry A. Roust, at San Francisco, and Douglas S. Kellogg, at Seattle, Wash., all of the Medical Re- serve Corps, have been appointed as ) first lieutenants in the Medical Corps, Regular Army, and ordered to this Jeity for instruction at the Army. Medi- cal School. Motor Cycle Policeman Foster Rowen of No. 11 police precinet, with smoke screen apparatus, the first one caught since the device was declared illegal. PLANE PHOTOGRAPHS AUTO SMOKE SCREEN Picture to Be Used as Evidence When First Case Is Called to Trial. William Plummer and George Kelly, the first to face trial for employment of a smoke screen apparatus on an automobile since the drastic law against the practice became effective in May, will be confronted with an airplane photograph of the screen in operation when the case, postponed yesterday, is heard by Judge Mac donald Tuesday. Conviction carries one to five years' imprisonment. They were released on $1,000 bonds each The men were arrested Wednes night on Pennsylvania avenue by Motor Cycle Policeman Foster Rowen | Under the new code, mere posses- sion of an apparatus which produces a smoke screen is an offense In an earlier arrest under the new law the sole evidence in the case, the smoke screen apparatus, was stolen from the station house, police say. LIQUOR STILL RAIDED NEAR 16TH STREET 160 Gallons of Product of Plant in Bathroom Is Captured by Police. A 50-gallon still, 23 barrels of mash and 160 gallons of the finished product were seized at 1621 Church street, just off Sixteenth street, when Michael Ready of the third pr led a raiding squad into the premis today. 3 A ‘note_stating, “Have gone for walk to Dupont Circle, will be bac shortly,” was the only evidence of an occupant about the place that the police found. After reading the note, Lieut. Ready stationed a policeman behind the front door to await the return of the tenant, but the latter evidently had been warned by friends, for he stayed away. The still was in operation when po- lice entered the house. It was a huge copper container placed over a gas stove, and the cooling apparatus con- sted of a coil and a_condenser in a tank which was kept full of water by a hose connected with a bathroom spigot Accompanying Lieut. Ready on the raid were Sergt. Lee, Detectives Bill- man and Casey and Policemen Agnew and Slogel, all of the third precinct. 96 CENTS SPENT TO GET Education Sessions to Bring 13,600 Delegates, ficial Declares. Bureau Of- The convention here next February of the department of superintendence of the National Educational Associa- tion, which will bring 13,000 persons, was obtained by the new Washington convention bureau on an expenditure of 96 cents in cash it was declared I C. E. La Vigne, executive director of the bureau, in an address before the Cosmopolitan Club yesterday at the Franklin Square Hotel. Mr. La Vigne outlined the attrac- tions of the National Capital, which he said should make it known to the country and to the world as the nat- ural convention city of America. He outlined the lines that the bu- reau will work along and declared that through the co-operation of the 25 hotels, members of the bureau, nor- mal rates for rooms to visitors on all occasions have been guaranteed as far ahead as 1927. The bureau will dispel any idea that Washington wants to fleece its visitors, the speaker am- plified. “Washington is the Mecca of the American people and the soul of the Natlon,” declared Mr. La Vigne in out lining the ways in which the bureau will endeavor to make the Capital the premier convention city of the coun- try. ‘Announcement was made by Paul Brandstedt, president of the Cosmo- politan Club that the monthly meeting and initiations would be held at the Franklin Square Hotel next Tuesday night. The annual garden party wiil be held August 4 at the home of Michael Heister, one of the members, near Rock Creek Park. . ACTRESS ACCUSES MAN. Former Star of ‘“White Cargo” Brings Statutory. Charge. SAN FRANCISCO, July 25 (@).— Willard I Ledoiyt, 45, treasurer of an Fastern radio company, surren- dered yesterday on a statutory warrant sworn to by Miss Edith Randolph, known also as Edith Ransofn, late star of the play “White Cargo.” Miss Randolph said that the conduct ex- cepted to came during a party in a downtown hotel Tuesday night. Le- doiyt was released on $2,500 cash bail, and directed to appear in police court tomorrow. Recently Miss Randolph brought a damage suit for $120,000 against Thomas Wilkes, theatrical magnate, of the eleventh precinct, who stopped their car to examine a defective re light he approached, Rowen r ported, one of the men hasti putting ect under the rear sea i Examir brought to light the smoke screen apparatus, Rowen said Ca G E. Burlingame and Rowen took the smoke screen ma- chine to Bolling Field yesterday There pictures were taken from an alrplane while the smoke screen was in operation. HUGE CONVENTION HERE; | | the western powes SOVIETISM LOSING GROUND IN EUROPE Chinese Crisis Hastens Slump of Communist Policies in Western Part. BY WILLIAM RUFUS SCOTT. Special Correspondence of The Star. LONDON, July 7.—Sovietism has last immense ground in western Eu rope recently, and stands to lose much, if not all, the gains made toward rec. ognition—in the form of trade agree ments or fill diplomatic relations. The Chinese crisis has accelerated this slump, though it is not entirely the cause. Having failed in frontal attacks to dislodge traditional regimes in other European nations, Moscow turned to the flank. Before this maneuver the governmental and economic ideas em- anating from Russia had attained suffi- cient momentum in England and France to impel both nations into ex- periments with Labor or Socfallst cabinets. In Italy the pressure of new concepts produced the reaction under Mussolini as a counter-stroke The swing back to traditionalism now is strong, taking form Eng- land in the Baldwin Conservati ministry and in France in a modifica- tion of the Socialist policy in much more important ways than the Social ists themselves care to admit, though nominally still retaining power. The Morocean crisis has done much to re. vi the nationalistic opposed to the class spirit in France, and had not the Soclalists hedged on their opposi tion to accepting the Riff challenge they would have been dislodged cor pletely from offictal control Germany Free From Peril. Germany today Soviet influence than the war. There ne ¥ basis for thinking Germany any real alliance with the So the reason that Germany still has a wholesome fear of Russia should that mighty nation ever become organized fully for war. Germany, of course. flirted with Russia to annoy the allies. is intended et, for Germany used the threat of an alli. ance with Russia to try to compel ncessions from the allles, parti y France. But Germany, while ving all the trade advantages pos sible, never will assist Russia in any- thing like . thoroughgoing military | preparations. An engine thus created could as readily turn and smash Ger many as any other nation, and more y since they are next-door neig! bors. The flank movement in China has Moscow hoped created antago- a and England, But it also has large section of British Soviet sympathies, since thrown out of work a result of the Chinese bo cott on British cotton and other man ufactures. England already is so hard pressed industria new wound of this kind gives the ldwin minis. try additional courage to defy both the communistic tendencies in England and the activities of Moscow accomplished what that is to say, has nisms between Chi France and Japan. ated labor many British workmen ar Americans in Pit. From this location it that many Americans hav the Soviet pit. The obvious exception the Chinese have made to Americans in their attacks on foreigners in China doubtless has some basis in the old friendship between the Chinese and Americans and the fact that the United States has less territorial rights than cems likely fallen into England or Japan in China. But th Soviet policy of adding fuel to the flames by plaving off the United States against the other powers also is mani- fest, and the peril to America lies in the assumption that the Soviet feels more kindly to the Americans than to e other powers Gen. Leonard Wood probably could tell some tales of communistic propa- ganda and plots thwarted in the Phil- ippines that would show a different pect to Soviet feelings. The recent Kellogg warning to Mexico was di- rectly aimed at communistic move ments which confiscate property with out compensation. There are radical tivities within the United States of a similar nature, some directly in- spired by Russia, others just the re- percussion of new ideas in American mentalities. All of this proves that the immunity given to Americans in the present Chinese situation is due to strategy rather than to affection, for if the Soviet sees any advantage in manipulating China against the United States the strings will be pulled. Hence the need of a wary policy by Washington in not allowing the United States to be made a cat’s- paw in the crisis Moderation in the British-Japanese tion to Chinese assaults has been dictated so far by a full realization of the manipulation to which China being subjected. If you know that <ome one is attacking vou from false and alien impuls: you can be more restrained in meeting the blow. This is not to discount the natural and legitimate aspirations of the Chinese, but they will make the most progress in those lines when the remainder of is the world is sure that their actions are wholly prompted by their own convictions—not suggested by another which has its own axes to grind. China will do well to dismiss all alien military leaders and instruc- tors and go it alone in its efforts to complete sovereignty Tchitcherin's bellicose intimation that Britain was heading toward war nation in resisting Soviet aims has not aroused fear here. Rather, the events in China have at last convinced enough of the British people that Mos. cow is impossible, as at present con- stituted, to give the government assur- ance in taking the bold position it has taken. The raw fact has sunk in that Russia_is as definitely making war on Great Britain in China and India as it Russian troops were thundering at the gates of London. Britishers are aying in outlying possessions as the result of Soviet intrigues. That is war under cover. England has reached a mood where it might as well come into the open. Pact Brought Nearer. The consummation of the security pact is brought nearer s the result of consolidation un- der common resistance to Sovietism. Moscow takes the view that Germany in entering such a pact will be lost in any schemes that Moscow has for its own aggrandizement, and Moscow is working desperately to keep Germany out of the pact, or at least to modify its terms vitally. But the present trend unmistakably is for Germany to enter, and President Coolidge’s pro- nouncement for some such agreement is a powerful stimulus for German participation. And so Sovietism today stands more isolated, in fact, even if trade or diplo- matic connections still seem intact, than at any time since it achieved power in Russia in 1917. The ventu alities are not definable now, though they may be momentous. The war Tchitcherin so flamboyantly intimated may indeed fructify from the situa- tion. It certainly will, unless Moscow ends the intolerable practice of stir- ring up strife on the frontiers of civili- zation as a way of hitting foes she dares not attack frontally. The dispo- sition to let Russia be anything, or have any form of government de- sired, still exists in western Europe. But tossing firebrands in neighbors on the ground that he violated a con- | hayricks, if persisted in, will cause tract and insulted her in dismissing |some severe hitting back ultimately, her from the cast of “White Cargo.” [y i not now, ~