Evening Star Newspaper, July 29, 1925, Page 1

WEATH o Fair and tomorrow. Temper: pm. y today. tures—ighes ¥ull report on page 7. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) continued cool tonight and day; lowest, 64, at Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 24 No. 29:674. Tricrsass Entered as second class matter Washington, D: -G WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. W 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 the papers are printed Yesterday’s Circulation, 94,880 HIRTY-SIX PAGES. T (P) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. BRYANPAID HONOR 'Radio to Carry ASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1925— PRESIDENT T0 HAVE ~ SPEEDS TO CAPITAL AS FUNERAL TRAIN 1,500 View Body in Chatta- néoga—Widow Maintains Composure. MEMORIAL SERVICES PLANNED GENERALLY Will Be Held Concurrently With Rites Here Friday—Family to Meet in D. C. By the Associated Press. CHATTANOOGA The Bivan fune Tenn.. July 29.— party arrived in 5. The public was Pullman, where ewed the remains wdmitted to the spec in single file they v noner 1,500 persons pressed ogainst the iron barrier of the station When the train arrived. In single file, men and women, with few children, passed into the car Where the dead statesman lay. They moved on without halting. F| s, the tributes of patriotic and organizations were placed within the compartment with the body. Space was lacking to hold them civie Widow Shows Strain. The widow the remained in her seat in rear section of the Pullman part the car. Her face showed the in of the sorrowful burden which she has resolutely sustained During the trip from Dayton Mrs. Bryan maintained her composure so remarked upon by her assoclates since the death of her husband h flowers Dayton in addition to which filled the funeral carringe. Employes of the Southern Railway along the route of the funeral train suspended work as it j and The funeral was transferred here to the fast Southern train which reaches Washington e: Thursday after stops in Knoxv Bristol, Roanoke and Lynchburg In Bryan Bible Class. Conductor G. W. Mitchell of Knox- ville was in charge of the train. For four Winters he has been a member of Mr. Bryan's Sunday school class in the First Presbyterian Church Miam I Mr. E re of ymmoner A truck load the train at the wreaths had bee ssed v te, flag 1an, has known r arg, He said he had member of the Com- auoner’s Sunday school class. H. H. Weaver was the engineer and the was Frank Booker. Rogers, host to the great his last days, joined the funeral party at Chattanooga. From the where he was Xnown and admired as the fundamen- talist leader, the remains of the Com- moner were taken to the city where he once was Democratic chieftain, Congressman and Secr v of State. In life he threw aside the political cloak for the pla less assuming raiment of the religious leader. In death the hody passed from the scenes of his last fight for fundamen- talism to those of his earlier political strife. iner, Paid Simple Tribute. In Dayton, tribute was paid the fund- | Rmentalist. Here he received the hom- mge of the hills, in the simple fashion of those who dwell among them. In Washington will come the lauda- | tions of the politil statesman. As the funeral car headed toward Washington, news came from different sections of the country of the homage 10 bhe paid the memor: tongued orator of the past Pledges of his comrades in the fight azainst evolutlor came from far corners of the land. Opponents of the evolut tax-supported v said flood ton, bri Plans f Washi early vesterc held in the terian Church, Rev. Wal chosen by Dr. From Washi word that htough absent in Europe, Rev. Dr. Joseph recalled frof funeral. In North Carolina Gov n issued a proclam flags on State nicipal buildings in half-staff Friday, while the people of the State laid aside their activities for 30 minutes during the funeral. This was supplemented by addi- tional instructions from mayors of different In Charlotte, N. C. 2 request was made by the mayor to the pastors of the city churches to toll their bells for five minutes at the hour of the funeral From other sections announcements came of memorial services to be con- ducted at the hour of the funeral. Chief among these was the announce. ment of a meeting fo be held in Royal Palm Park at Miami, Fla., where the voice of the Commoner had been heard so many times in Bible clz DAYTON SAYS FAREWELL. e who knew leader, the him best as al orator, the schools of the nd letters continued to 1 the little home at Day the widow notes of the funeral 1d not bedn Mrs. Bryan the service York whose services in completed announced would be Avenue Presby- >astor emeritus, had been her izoo Will Act. on last t came Dr. Radcliffe was its present pastor, R. Si would be his vacation for the Angus Mc- ordering and mu- ite to fly tion county Te cities. Scene of Bryan's Greatest Fight Pays -- | newspaper, 1 theory will drive it from the | nation, | Bryan Rites EIRMAL APPROVAL ' To Thousands Throughout U.S. m: g_P[]WER PA[}T AP ot 0 or 4T . ik to Broadcast Services Generally, W hile WRC Will Serve Local Public. AT : State Department Fixes Date for Exchange of Rati- fications. | charge of the preliminary arrange: ments for the funeral, and officials nfl the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church gave their consent. Two micro- phones will be installed in the church, one to serve WRC and the other sta- tions in its distant link, and the other the Chesapeake and Potomac Tele- phone Company station. Although WCAP will not broadcast the services | because of potential interference with WRC, it will relay them to WEAF in New York and transmit to those ! stations which may be connected with it under an arrangement similar to |that used during the broadcasting of the Inaugural ceremonies for Presi- dent Coolidge. | The general Through the medium of radio thousands of admirers of William {Jennings Bryan in the Fastern sec- tion of the country will hear the fu- neral services for the Commoner at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, Friday afternoon, at 3 o'clock. Two chains of high-powered sta- |tions will carry- the final rites to |scores of cities, towns and hamlets east of the Mississippi River, while WRC | will broadeast the ceremonies for Washington and other. cities within {the daytime range of its signals. One chain will include WCAP, the Chesa- |veake & Potomac Telephone Co. sta- 5 |tion, and others on its relay circuit, | public in Washington L el \tin. | Will have to depend entirely on WRC for the services, for it is doubtful if | neapolis. The other will be composed 3 § 1 |the church will accommodate more |of WRC. WJZ in New York, and pro- | than the mntimate friends of the F bably WGY in Schenect v. mily and high Government officials | Preparations for broadcasting the |and members of the diplomatic corps. services went forward with rapidity |The church will seat 1,000 persons, and {loday as soon as Ben G. Davis, con- (it is expected that more than that !fidential clerk to Mr. Bryan in the | number who count themselves among | ¢ b (s nber themselves among |of the Washington Arms Conference. | State Department, wh has had | "(Continued on Page 2, Column Notification been received that | — " |the necessary documents from Paris ‘PUPE WARNS I'I'AI-Y NEW R showing the French action in ratify { ing the treaty would reach Washing i the last of the nine powers to ratity. Igovernment with a 5 per cent ad i So valorem duty on Imports. American | 3 2 policy contemplates the assembling of Must Punish Lawbreakers, |Raids Are Believed Forerun-L”‘ commission as the first essential ‘ ner of Concerted Drive | i i CUSTOMS COMMISSION PROVIDED IN TREATY Also Calls for Discussion of Ex- traterritorial Rights—Par- ley Date Uncertain. By the Associated Press Arrangements are being the State Department for th exchange on August 5 of rati of the nine-power treaty relating China, which was signed at the time nade at formal tection of foreigners. In connection with the resolution also adopted by the Washington con terence calling for the creation of a commission of inquiry into extrater ritorial questions in China, it wa learned today that virtually all coun tries concerned have indicated in some way the intention to name their repre- sentatives for such a commission Date Not Yet Agreed. There has been as yet, however, agreement as the date upon the commission would meet, nor far as known any final determination s to the scope to be given to the liscussion. Under the commission to revise Chinese cu China in order to insure adequate bro | Catholic Clubs Attacked. | | By the Associated Press. i ROME, July 28.—A Fascist riot has | occurred in Palermo while the Vat-|The period of relative calm which has | ican was issuing at Rome a warning | existed the last few days along the | to the government against violence.|Franco-Riffian battlefront is showing The Osservatore Romano, organ of | signs of coming to an end. The the Vatican, printed an editorial on|enemy now appears to have com- the political situation, saying that if | pleted regrouping of his forces and is the Fascist regime were to go for-|beginning to renew his activities. | ward it would have to punish all vio- | Thus far these have only taken the lators of the law, no matter to what | shape of raids on the villages of faction they belonged. Meanwhile, | tribes friendly to the Sultan of | former Premier Orlando, long an op-| Morocco and the French, which have | | ponent of the Fascist government, re- | been burned, and attacks on French | |iterated at Palermo his dissatisfac-| convoys. | | tion with the way affairs in Italy | There seems to be no doubt that | were conducted. His word precipl-|the Riffian leader, Abd-el-Krim, in-| tated a riot, which required the in- | tends to try fo make up for the'lack | terventlon of a detachment of troops. | 0f Shccess Df his drive toward Fes | [T PR €4 2ty provides that the The editorial said that the govern- | [y 3, WU, VIREER £ A A chi And | commission shull meet in China with { ment must insist on respect for the ), . 0 " a1l against Ouezzan before | in three months from the coming into law on the part of all citizens, includ- | & 50 100 ¢ ARG G e | furce of the treaty, which will be jing those “who with their criminall, oo TAugust 5, and that it shall meet on excesses compromise the government a day and at a place in China to be ‘as well as the Fascist party.” French Getting Aid. |designated by the Chinese government \ A At the same time the Riffians are| The American membership for the } is Aftacked By Mob. strengthening certain points along the | commission has already been an Orlando asserted that he preferred | center, notably at Djebel and Amer-|nounced. Silas Strawn_of Chicago an absolute autocracy to the Musso-|gou, in the Fez-el-Bali region. The and American Minister John Van A |lini government, ing that ‘“‘even| Bouaissa post is closely pressed b at Peking, will represent autocracies have written luminous | the tribesmen, so that it has to be|the Washington G pages in the history of peoples.” supplied with provisions and muni- | He enraged the Fascisti further by | tions by airplanes. On the east mili- | announcing that there would be a|tary activities are at a standstill. | | ticket in opposition to the govern-| The Tsouls and Branes tribes, | ment in the forthcoming municipal | which recently displayed an inclina- | election, and a group of Fascisti, elud- ling the police, attacked his automo- bile, badly damaging it. | The rioting that followed on the Corso Ruggero continued until long | after Signor Orlando was driven from the scene in his automobile. CATHOLIC CLUBS RAIDED. The treaty is that providing for a step in stabilization of conditions in | Vatican Editorial Says. on Ouezzan. By the Associated Press. ¥ , ¥French Morocco, July 29. no nine-power treaty the customs revision conference is re. quired to meet and begin its labor within three months after the ex- change of ratifications. The treaty will become effective only after the formal ceremony scheduled for August hen the ratifications are received and deposited with the State Depart by the skillful propaganda of Abd-el- | Krim. | Marshal Petain, who for more than | a week has been Investigating the ! position of the French army in| Morocco, is now iIn Tetuan, Spanish | Moroceco, where before his return to | France he will engage in discussions | with Gen. Primo de Rivera, head of | Fascist Mobs Wreck Furniture, News- | the Spanish military directorate, con- | cerning Franco-Spanish collaboration papers Are Threatened. e Mo | BY HIRAM K. MODERWELL. " i T T i re 3 5| JAPANESE CABINET | CRISIS IMMINENT| Foreign Attitude Keeping Nation From Progressing and Maintain- ing Order, He Declares. By the Assoclated Press. BOISE, Idaho, July 29.—The Chi nese situation will be brought before the Senate at the next session of Con- gress, Senator Borah of Idaho de. clared in an address vesterday. “I will do so not because I want trouble, but because I believe that it is the only way to prevent trou ble,” the chairman of the foreign relations committee said. “The alti- Resignation of Three Ministers | tude of the foreign powers toward i China is keeping that nation from pro- Forecast at Session Thursday. gressing and maintaining order. Un- < the foreign governments conform Tax Causes Rift. A recrudescence of Fascist violence is feared by the pro-Fascist Catholic Corriere d'Italia, which ! comments on the numerous instances of clubbing and burnings perpetrated by the Fascisti cotemporaneously with the official demand that the cor- respondent of the Chicago Tribune leave Italy. | Some fear that an intensified regime i of intimidation and suppression of {the truth is indicated by these in-| | cidents. The official organ of the Vati- | Osservatore Romano, says: fortunately the bellicose dis- | courses of Farinacci (secretary of the { Fascist party) coincide with a vigorous | recrudescence of violence. Besides an attack. on deputy Amendola, we are | informed of other similar attacks in | which Catholic groups were the vic- | tims. new conditions, respect the terri- torial rights of China, treat Chinese labor with justice, and give the gov | ernment revenue upon which she can {live, we are going to have a condi- |tion in the Orlent which every one who loves peace will regret.” By the Associated Press. TOKIO, July 29 UP).—Tt is under- stood that a crisis is imminent in the Japanese cabinet. An extraordinary session of the cabniet has been ordered to convene on Thursday, at which, it is understood, the premier intends to settle the question of a coalition gov- ernment before the Prince Regent leaves for Saghalien. The resignation of three Seiyukai party ministers was considered prob- ! ble today because of differences with Kensiekai party ministers over tax adjustments questions. BELGIAN DEBT MIéSION IS ON ITS WAY TO U. S.| Theunis and de Cartler Head| Delegation, Which Sails Tomorrow. [PRINCE OF WALES ENDS Clubs Wrecked. “In Alife, in Piedmont, a Fascist parade, unprovoked, invaded the Cath- lolic club, God and Fatherland, | smashing the furniture, pictures and | windows. The under-prefect upon re- ceiving protests expressed surprise |that these facts were not known to | him. This is not surprising, inasmuch las the commissary of public safety, |\ho reported to the under-prefect, was | the leader of this Fascist expedition. | Cape Town’s Harbor Is Gayly Dec- orated as Royal Visitor Sails for South America. iated Press Union By the Ase CAPE Africa, July 2 and his party departed today for South America aboard H. M. S. Re- pulse. The last ceremonial act of the Prince of Wales before he left Cape Town was to dedicate a memorial to nurses who were Kkilled during the World War. Simons Town was gayly decorated when the prince arrived. The Brit- ish African squadron was assembled to escort the Repulse out of the har- bor. The blue the assemblage of ships with flutter. Olympic tomorrow. |ing flags and the background of ormer Premier Theunis and Baron | hilisides and mountains covered with de Cartier de Marchienne, Belgian Am- | wildflowers made a beautiful picture bassador to the United States, head as the prince boarded the ship upon i eenubn which he will go to South America. Gold Embossed Menus List Viands of “On the 21st, the clubrooms of the | Saint Marius Club were invaded and everything smashed. The same thing | happened at the Saint Domino Club, where the door was broken in and the | furniture and pictures were smashed. | This {nvasion was preceded by a num- {ber of revolver shots to intimldate the | population. “The following night, Fascist squad- rons at Speiza devastated the Catho- !lic club Silvio Pellico, burning the fur- niture and also burning a crucifix, | picture of the Sacred Heart and a por- | trait of the Holy Father. “When will this sad chronicle end?” Similar_incidents have occurred in Column 8.) By_the Associated Pres BRUSSELS, July 29.—The mis- sion to Washington to discuss settle- ment of Belgium’s debt ‘to the United States left this morning for Cherbourg to sall for New York on the steamer tions | tol France | which | Foemch, oo’ o pame,ot win the | CASE BEFORE SENATE| HIS SOUTH AFRICAN VISIT| he Prince of Wales | waters of the bay,! LICEN [ BUREQ 1S ANDREWS' AIM | Motorized Patrol Appeals as Best Method of Shutting | Out Liquor. Owner Worries Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md., July 2 How a profitable dairy business at Rock Ferry, on the Shenandoah River, just over the line in West Virginia, was ruined may sound fishy, but two prominent citizens eye-witness testimony Samuel Boyd, owner, had pected neighbors of milking cows and decided to keep a watch in order to secure evidence. But the watch was futile and it seemed there was nothing to do but sell out, when along came Samuel Wil muth and Charles Brown, who said were fishing in the river when y saw the cows wade into the stream to drink and a school of bass, deceived by the appearance of the bovine udders “Enough,” said Boyd. It must be true.” And the cows have -been yielding their old averages since being kept out of the wa sus. his | { | By the Associated Press. | In furtherance of his basic plan to| choke off the liquor supply at its irce, Assistant Secretary Andrews of the Treasury proposes to erect a line of defense on the north and south borders that will dovetafl in with the interior prohibition organi- fon. The Assistant Secretary began con sideration today of a plan to reinforce the customs service border patrol to take care of the new defense areas.| He had on his desk reports from all bhorder collection officials, each giving | suggestions and recommendations for | meeting their particular problems. | Mr. Andrews apparently is committed to a completely motorized border pa- trol system. | Treasury officials have estimated | that the Government loses between $10,000.000 and $15,000,000 a year through smuggling, and the plans are intended to prevent the illegal entry not only of liquor, but of many ar- ticles of merchandise on which tariff duties are levied, as well as the smug- | gling of narcotics and alie: 1 Long Stretches Unguarded. Long stretches of the American bor- der now are unguarded, because of the | slim number of custotms agents who can be assigned to the Dakota, Mon- Idaho and Washington areas, as | ‘Enough OPERATORS ASSERT 20 Per Cent of Entire Output Sacrificed Since April, Conference Claims. By the Associated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, July 29— COAL SOLD AT LOSS, The anthracite operators’ conference disclosed today that 18,000,000 tons of ard coal, 20 per cent of the entire annual production, had been sold at a | loss of 50 to 55 cents a ton since the price drop in April. Operators quoted the figures to substantiate their con- | tention that they cannot afford to| grant a 10 per cent increase to the miners this year. | When Gov. Pinchot negotiated set tlement of the 1923 controversy on the basis of a similar increase for two | well as along the Rio Grande and | | southern Californta districts. | On the north, the smuggling of | wheat and,cattle has in the past been | a serfous problem. | While Mr. Andréws was engaged in | his study, the board of temperance, | prohibition and public morals of the | Methodist Episcopal Church issued a | | statement declaring the Assistant Sec- retary was a “friend of prohibition be- | lcause he is the enemy of lawbreak- Hing The board held that “every United States official, whether connected With | vears, ho incrensed the price of coal fte """‘,‘,"i‘e‘;i"." sl 1:;1?9‘:,[‘-“"" 90 cents to §1 a ton, operators | prosecuting _ attorney, every|Said. The Pinchot estimate at the | United States commissioner, every |time, however, was 60 cents. | United States marshal, should be a| UD to the end of 1824, it was said | supporter of the American policy of | today, operators had been able to get liquor suppression.” this advance out of the coal by in + o creasing the price to the public. Mellon Attitude Liked. 3 X Now, however, the extri is coming Although declar secretary Mel- |out of the operators’ own pockets, they | lon, “because of his associations and asserted, because the public is not his interest in the whisky business in paving higher prices, and to a certain | ot o was not considered by | degree s not even taking some of the | the board as the proper person to be coal in charge of enforcement, the board Defends Advertising. | said there was ‘circumstantial evi-| The operators asserted that they | dence” that he was following a policy | spent only about $15,000 on newspaper | of “absolute non-interference and of sympathetic support of his subordi- advertising to advise the public that | 1y suspension in the hard coal fields nates charged with enforcement of the Volstead act. after September 1 would be “Inde- The assertion t fensible.” i The conference said the expense having its last trial” was scouted by | the board, which said prohibitionists would amount to only three-tenths of one mill in the price of coal per would fight on_until satistactory en- forcement was” obtained. i S HAWAIIAN IMMIGRATION 1S REDUCED 50 PER CENT “‘prohibition is The reply w { protest filed yesterday by { ray, miners’ international vice pres; dent, who called the advertising drive “a waste of consumers’ money.” better have saved the outlay to de- | vote it to reducing of the market price | more | of coal and to making livable. An unfilled clause in the 1923 agree- ment, the question of uniformity and equalization of all day rates in the hard coal fleld: miners yesterday Under the pact of two years the anthracite board was directed to by which men receiving lower another colliery under identically simi lar conditions. to wages | Japanese Admissions Only One-| | Fifth of Number Let in i During 1924. i By the Associated Pres | HONOLULU, July 20.—The effects | of the immigration act of 1924 onl! Hawail has been a cut of more than 50 {per cent in the number of aliens ad- mitted. N United States immigration officials announced today that during the first 12 months in which the act was effec- tive, the fiscal vear ended June 30, ! of conciliation in one colliery I be ton. | made in_answer to| Philip Mur- | Mr. Murray said the operators would was reviewed by the |disturbances ago | Bla ASSORTMENT ONL$SREQUI-‘I;EM ENT SIX-VOTE MAJORITY FOR WORLD COURT Secret Senate Poll Takes in Proponents of Plan From Both Parties. MARGIN MAY BE SHAVED TO FOUR, ADVISERS SAY Coolidge Anticipates Hard Fight. Pepper Is Reported Wavering on United States Membership. RUSSELL YOUNG BY Staff Correspondent o st SUMMER SWAMPS le WHITE OTT, Mass rned from an today that been confide HOUSE July 20Tt authoritative President Coolidge ally advised.of the le line-up of the United States when the question of Ameri adhere; to the Permanent rt of International Justice comes e that body for action next De | cember. BUDGET PRUNING TOBEGIN HONDAY Lord to Return From Maine for Task of Cutting Estimates. | contest over the court Director Lord of the Bureau of Budgzet will return from his vacation in Maine Monday to buckle to the big task of allocating the Federal budget, closely allied to | x reduction the Summ possiblities of ta Preliminary estimates for that fiscal | ar_are now in the hands of the| reau of the Budget, it was learned ¥. but the total, as always, is be- ing kept a dark secret by officials of the budget until President Coolidge sends it to Congress in completed form Gen. Lord and his advisers and ex- | perts will go over the whole matter | first from a bird" | take the preliminary estimates a time and fix the maximum nt below which the regular estimates for the department or establishment must be fixed to come within President Coolidge's plans for the next fiscal ¥ s-eye view,and will then it Time of Task Varies. This job of allocation is expected to take anywhere from 10 days to 3 weeks, after which it is expected Gen Lord will return to Maine for another brief time at his Summer place near Martinsville. The re lar estimates, however, detail, will be due from Septembe to September 15, based on the maxi mum figures to be determined shortly by the Bureau of the Budget The first of these to be completed probably will be the smaller establish- ments with small personnel and opera tions. Upon tk Gen. Lord and his bureau of expert pruners and blue pencilers will descend and make their scientific analysis with a view to ng out President Coolidge's avowed principles of retrenchment ir Government expenditure, and redu tion in the burden of The total appr quested of Congre 1927 President Coolide " (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) has D. C. SUIT APPEAL URGED. Stephens Asks Action in Effort to Acquire Athletic Field. 1 Corporation CounsSel Stephens to recommended to Engineer Com missioner Bell that an appeal be taken from the recent decision in the Dis trict Supreme Court, dismissing a con demnation proceeding for the acquisi tion of land lying between Thirty- eighth, Thirty-ninth, S streets and Reservoir road for an athletic field for Western High School. The court held the location of an athletic field would inconsistent with the zoning of | that are: Another conference be held, however, between Col. Bell nd Assistant Corporation Counsel Wilkes, who is in direct charge of the probably will STRIKE PPONENT; SHOT. Two Prominent Chinese in Amoy AMOY, China, July 29.—Two promi nent local Chinese actively engaged in attempting to prevent strikes and were shot tod: one fatally The been crimes are committed by reported a man to have endeavor- investigate conditions |ing to incite the public and intimidate were |the conservatives. pay for work done in|uation here remains quiet. Otherwise the sit- The bd cott is effective against British and Japanese shipping firms only. | tima | | Victims—One Killed. 1 | | | tion | New This information has been received White Court within the past 24 hours in the form of a secret poll According to the information furnish ed the writer tc ol shows that the Preside e nothing re than a 1 advantage when the fight opens. x-Vote Margin. is shown the poll President confident votes for debate studying the figures Executive's intimates more in clined to figure that the total is more likely to be four instead of six These figures include all the Demo s as well as Republicans who are known to be favorable to the court proposal, evidencing the accuracy of predictions previously made that the be one of waged in branch of Congress since r the League of Nations President and his intimates are represented as not reading defeat in these figur On the contrary, it is thought that the administration has better than a fair chance of winning providing a vote can be forced, but they readily recognize the necessity of an agreement the propo nents of the court prior to the open ing up of debate. It is feared that nce of opinion which cannot be reconciled will materially interfere with the program of those favorable to American participation in the World Court. President Deeply Concerned. President Coolidge is known to be giving considerable thought while on s vacation here to the coming fight > international problem, not even a second Washington disarmament conference, is commanding more of his attention. He. however, has said very little about the subject since ar riving at White Court, but some of those who are close to him in his moments of study and meditation in e that he has been turning it over in his mind. Also he has been sounding out certain of his callers, in his characteristic, informal and adroit manner. It is t it that he has been giving thought to the matter preparatory to a number of confer ences which he will hold with Senate leaders and other advisers and party leaders before the ng of the Senate. pper Reported “Wabbling." esident Just to Republic tennial t will ha rical It by an 1 that the start, and some of the the only time since six spare whe comes w the been the the hardest 1pper ht o3 that has among assemb with who came Essex County outing in Cen presented him with an opportunity take up the question. Mr. Deneen is understood to be favorable to the court, in con trast with his predecessor, the late Senator Medill McCormick, who was opposed to it. An even better oppor- tunity will be presented next Satur day, it is thought, when Senator Pep- per Pennsylvania, of the committee _on foreign jons, will arrive at White Court to spend the week end. The Pennsylvanian is rep resented as “wabbling” over the court notwithstanding that he is the author the Pepper plan. now before the e, to tl 1 inde pendent body rather than an adjunct of the League of Nations. All_information that has been re ceived since the Senate adjourned has been to the effect that the lines will be tightly drawn. Late advices, sup- plemented by the count, which has just been completed, stress the diffi culty that may be experienced in forcing a vote. The administration, it apy . cannot depend upon the Re- publican Senators for undivided sup. port. It must keep as many of these Senators in line as possible and de. pend upon the Democrats for assist Coolidge's meeting Deneen of Illinois the n Club at i Grove, Essex address | ance. Among Democrats. tic party as represented will vote strongly for the court, only a few of the minority members being opposed to it. But among the opponents are men of the type of Senator Reed of Missouri who not only will speak at length against the court, but will do their utmost Opposition The Democr in the Senate | to prevent a vote. The defection in the Republican ranks of a leader of the tvpe of Sena Pepper would be serious, for it is that Senator Borah 1s chalrman of the tions would ht for the tor yparent already of Idaho, who. committee on foreizn rel: be expected to lead the fi dministration, will lead the opposi instead. Moreover, he is likely be assisted by Senator Moses of Hampshire, another member of to ! the committee and the President pro tempore of the Senate. The most in. [HOLD 7 FOR COUNTERFEIT| teresting question at the moment fs High Tribute. DAYTON, Tenn., July 23 (P).—Quit ting forever the little Southern town where friends made his lust happy. the body of William Jennings : n early today began its long train journey from Dayton to Washington, Where the Natlon will pay the final tribute to his memory before urial ¥riday in Arlington National tery. The special Pullman, attached to a regular Southern Railway t out of Dayton at 9:03 Rryan, with members of her house- hold, occupied the forward cnd of the « The b i} caske »n - he coach Citizens of Dayton, where the for- (Continued ox Page 2, Column 8.) o'clock. Mrs. Ceme- | i, drew | 2,272 enterex e Territory, compared At Banquet of Push-Cart Peddlers) ‘ ey p diamond-studded diadem and a white dress embellished with lace. The menu was gold embossed and a 48-page souvenir program was distributed. | Morris Loopseko, the king, and | Mrs. Barasch were presented with 4-foot-squa gilt-framed testimo- nials attesting to their aid in pro motion of the welfare of peddiers | The gang is thought to have issued of the city. Messages from Mayor |a series of bogus $20 bills. TheAh“ls Hylan and other city officials were |taken by the authorities are said to read. = be almost perfect facsimiles of th At 2 magistrate ederal Reserve note. ly the king has figured in testi- to Rod: oy’ gint pedicr"hive 0 my_| Radio Programs—Page 22, ! Caught in Chicago. DETROIT, July 29 ().—Five men and two women, alleged leaders of | amcounterfeiting gang believed to have | been responsible for flooding Chicago, Detroit and other cities in the Middle West with counterfeit bills, were ar- | rested today In a raid on an apart- | ment. NEW YORK. July 29.—Peddlers of the East Side, who vend from push carts everything from pickles to fur coats, evidently have thelr periods of affluence, for 250 of them attended a $5 o plate testimonial Qinner last night at which the king and queen crowned. In response to gold-inscribed in- under - ed by cr of the peddiers were vitations, guests colored lights conc Dendants about the king's dais, l the center of which an electricially l at By the Associated Press { | inguiry recent- lighted fountain played. The queen, Mrs. Molly Barasch, wore a real Ash Wagon Distances Rum Squad Auto; | Leaders of Western Gang Believed | | with 5,256 the previous year. i \With Japanese the difference is |even more marked. For the vear end- led June 30, 1924, 4,059 Japanese were {admitted, approximately five times the number of entries for the vear just| closed. No picture brides were admit- | |ted this last vear, while there were 501 the year before. Evading pursuing officers, who were in an automobile, Isaac Smallwood, colored, 324 Broad al- ley southwest, driving a coal black horse hitched to a dilapidated ash wagon, was captured today only after the officers abandoned their machine and continued the chase on foot. When overtaken in Ma rion court, he was found to have 40 half-gallon jars of alleged liquor in the wagon and was charged with transporting and possession. Officers_J. D. McQuade, N. O. Holmes, W. J. Barbee and N. G. s Heat Wreaks Havoc in Sweden. | MALMO, Sweden, July 29 UP).—An unprecedented heat wave has swept |over Sweden the past week, causing | several deaths, many fires in factories, arms and forests through lightning, ownings, sailing accidents and dam- jage to crops by hailstorms. The damage is estimated at several mil- lion kroner. Thayer, comprising the liquor | sqaud, said that the man left them far behind and that they were able to capture him only by fol- | lowing the trail of liquor from the | broken jats which had jolted off | the wagon in its wild dash. Police of No. 2 precinct are hav ing a heated controversy over the question of confiscating the horse. Officer Thayer is in favor of -the proposition.” as it reminds him of home, he says.; However, the other officers object on the grounds that it will be necessury to feed the beast. | how long the debate will last and { whether an agreement for a vote can Jolting Breaks Jars and Points Trail be reached. \While the date for the beginning of the debate has been set by the decision reached before the last Congress adjourned to make the sub. ject the unfinished business of the Senate, December 17, no limit upon the discussion has been placed. The opposition, led by some of the most skilled parliamentarians in the Senate, may be expected to employ all possible tactics to prevent a vote, unless shifts in the next few months indicate that it has the advantage, in which event the Senate might be willing to take action after only a perfunctory dis- cussion. In such circumstances, how. ever, the court proponents would be expected to play for time. Whatever the conditions may be a protracted de- bate is in prospect. N