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STAR. WASHINGTON TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, Paul A. Chase of Brattleboro, Vi. appointed special assistant to the Attorney General. photographed at his desk in the Department. of Jus- tiee yesterday. Canvrizht by Harris & Ewing HONORING THE MEMORY OF BARRY. RearAdmiral William S. Benson, in behalf of the Sons of the Revolution. speaking at the statne of John Barry, American naval officer, in Franklin Park. Yesterdav was the patriot’s birthday anni Copsrizht hy Harris & Fwing Be Santa BEACH PAJAMAS A LA CALIFORNIA. Rose Doner of the “Lady Good™ musical comedy, on the sands at the Edgewater Cluh. Monica. Calif.. where her filmy silk, ribbons and lace startled the blase beach “cops.” Wide World Photo COL. COOLIDGE SMILES THROUGH HIS CONVA L first picture afier recovery from’recent serious illness CENCE. The father of the President posing for his The colonel wears his characteristic smile. With on the porch of hic home at Plymouth Notch. Vi, is his nurse. Miss Johnson. Wide WotkaRhoto: After several grueling contes Bovee of Philadelph his roque championship. The cham- pionship events in the ( Roy reta Mlle. heanty Vanda and protege of Mme. Sem- in the aperatic world of Paris. Her hig “The Barber of Wide Warld Photo. Nomicos, Circassian JAPANESE TENNIS STAR IN ACTION. displaying his “powerful reach”™ on ane of the Monument courts yester- day afternoon. He is developingz into one of the hest plavers in the Capital. and mag become a championship contender. PARADIS, BROKE M. Yoshikawa of Washington A SEWIN CIRCLE FOR THE PRESIDENT. Women of the Cl Executive’s home town doing their hit on an afghan which will he pre- sented 1o the President and Mrs. Coolidge on their next visit 1o Plymouth. (For the benefit of younger readers: An afghan is a sort of worsted blan- ket or wrap.) Wil Word P, { Seville™ recently. Eastern Distriet ;\»n:i:‘li‘:?v_“ T8 TERRORISM IN SOVIET CLASS WARR",'HANS RUUIEU ‘%l),laaf;l::ld)é:’,-g";zr SAYS SCHWARTZ - "incrEASING UNDER covmuntsTs | BY FRENCH TANKS Presidens visi WEDDING WAS A SURPRISE. and his bride. formerly Edith Campbell. ker City brich, who sensation William Faversham. well known actor. were held under the auspices of the i a The picture was taken at the The wedding cel snceess came in actor’s home in Huntington, Long Island. Pmony iz re ported 1o have taken place Saturday. Auvgust 1 . PLEBISCITARY BODY | ¢ | By the Associated P Czarist Finance Minister Boasting of Receiving i By the Asociated Press 3 PLYMOUTH Vit KANSAS August 4 Edward Ric car vacer, World now presid manufacturing company, delved the future of air travel in an address yesterday before the Adwertising Club the he 500-Mile Speed in Air Is Predicted Last of Liquor Gone, Money Goes—People, Saddened, Refuse to Work. War 1t vice of @ motor are some ¢ things Airships 2000 feet long, t on a trade wind 50,000 feet ah earth at 300 miles an hour wweling e the By the Associatec NASSAT Rimini and huk Rah: which 1 ¥ mas. August 4 wealth the hecome the nd ont of ex Ri has K row Bi 1sland e 10 th Ocea day service from crossing dirigibles giving one New York to Paris. rying freight and pas- across the Inited regularly fame when prohibition in Vnited States eatised it 1o o planes fivin a day senzers, es in Dirigibles with Air ates. hootleggers The American wn = I whisky Americar placed which there a eruising period of mini from and to - find lines criss-crossing the ['nited withdrawn te w Tnited s into the States via rum and afier ¢ plenty many min “1 regret te year ¢ ns face poverty tha very miracle can INSTRUCTED ACQUITTAL » ASKED IN PICKFORD CASEi on - rec the the prospects t gloomy indeed, and revive this port | writes Commissioner W. T. Cleare of ) Kidnaping Plot Discussed, But Not, Rimini in his report to the colonial it government. “For the pasi four vears w Bimini has been the front owing to the fact that large quantities of liquor were honded and disposed of At this ind that ft was to some extent by tourists “The of whisky has been taken out of bond and the tourists do not The hotel hax proved white elephant. and the port of North Bimini is practically dead to all com merce dustrfes, The zlory of Bimini departed. As years ago. it Is today Worse along some lines for the five vears easy dolla now ths has developed when veally for d. as Rimini only Attempted, Defense Attorneys 1o Tell Court. B By the Associated Press NGE @ defens | LOS ments o August 4 Argu motion for an in structed verdict of acquittal were to be heard In Superic Court today in the case of | les Stephens, (laude Holeomb and Adrian Wood, charged with plotting to Kidnap Mary Plek ford and hold her for $200,600 ran- som The motion was presented imme- diately after the prosecution closed its late vesterday and was based on a section of the California erimi- nal code. which states that “no agree- ment amounts tp a conspiracy un less some act beside such agreement patronize Pa has it was and even The peopie have made the it dollar must D o he worked some to he Population Is “"Fhe population of Bimini is about 500, These not eare ahout work, and the situation is depressing and hopeless. For several to abnormal conditions. the dollar has heen easily but this s and the the people thix the better it will be “The revenue for trom all appeara amall. The revenue for 1924 all pr tically came from bonded liquors, but every case has been removed from Bimini. The trade that North Bimini enjoved has been diverted to Gun Cay, and this port from on will be as dead us a door nail. “We have excellent possibilities famous fishing grounds. beautiful white beaches and excellent climate, Our close proximity o Florida (45 lines a W he done within this State to effect the thereof.’ the contention of that, while Stephens, Holcomb and Wood may have exchanged views among themselves, particularly while under the influence of liquor, as to the possibility of kidnaping a screen celebrity. they did not make a single definite’ move toward consummating their so-called “plot ohject A peaple do is defense owing Americ earned an over realize it the coming nces, will be very a |MEXICO PLANS RAILWAYS. | 2 | Will Spend 5.000.000 Pesos to 1 Unite Sections. w now MEXICO.CITY, August 4 (P).—The { depurtment of communications has an- miles across the Gulf Stream) should | NoUnced that 5000000 pesos will be Amother great atiraction. and|SPent in the construction of branch e Boing | rajlway® connecting Tuxtla Gutierez, s et |in the state of Chiapas. with the pan. Al e, | Ameriean Railway at Arriaga Station, | n the same state. It also was an- nounced that Arriaga would he the tarting point of a_new highway run- | latch keys for zirls are a|ning to Comitan near the border of | tu of a Londnn shepkseper. ' Guatemala. w prove as that with pany some day the Riminis. tonrists, a Dainty specialty Police Captain Tells Death| dence found in the ruins of the plgsion official of the concern insured person who had heen slain and placed | there to indicate that the chemist had | met death in an explosion. recognition. explosion and fire the laboratory Jast Thursday. had evolved a formula through which expected dustry. l'as the body | allow | legal | lished. | defendant in a for $7 | of Oakland. | authorities of | pol . Capt. Lee said the chemist had made vears and ested hide traces of their crimes.” terest in American police methods for catching cri ing persons, give the impression that he worked as asked him apout his experiences he are endeavoring to clear up appearance of Joe Rodriguez | Portuguese farm h been missing since the day of the ex- plosion. | W | lish tdentification. graphs of the hody, Dr. V BY F. A. MacK By Cable to The Star RIGA, August of the writer in | cent developments economic importance. ous increase f war “ommunists The government’s ions of its economic policy and after an ex-| jewed encouragement of private ek was not that of | tradge are having marked effects. In Schwartz, chemist and | many citfes iderahle much-need- oncern. whose life was |pd housing reform ix under wa s 0. eir theory | Leningrad has taken immense was the hodyv of another | girides forward since the inundation {1ast Antumn. Moscow is enjoving an k. | orgY of repainting and whitewashing 0 A recluse | Introduction of taxicabs has_quick- ened Moscow life. The people look better dressed and more prosperous than six months ago Zinoviev, as the writer INZIE. 0d Chicago Daily News 4 Probers of Chemist’s In- } terest in Murders. ‘ Correspondents eport two re- considerable ¥ the Associated Press MARTINEZ. ( horities today which they rengthens their but also report terrorists’ meth by the . August 4 accumuls helieved mater theory that a body Pacific Cel class eveloped recent maodifica- re- Jlose Co.’s laboratory last week harles Henry for as that it heen missing from nce the explosion. The body, charred almost bevond was found following the which destroved At first | was believed to be that of Schwartz ell known as a chemist and who anticipated, power, though he is blamed for the two recent mass executions at Len- lingrad, when sixty odd members of the Imperial Alexandrovsky Lycee were arrested and slain following |a very foolish speech in Paris Sued By Woman Although identified by Mew. sehwartz | BRIAND TOO OCCUPIED of her husband, District | ttorney A. B. Tinning refused to | the woman custody of it until identification had been estab- Schwa was recently made reach of promise suit Miss Elizabeth Adams e artificial cutting of silk fiber was to revolutionize the silk in Will Go Later to Confer With e Chamberlain on Proposed Security Pact. PARIS. Augnst 4. —Forelgn Minister | Briand finds hiz time so oceupied in { Paris for the present that he probably | will be unable to zo to London for the tWO | next few days or two weeks, it was seemed particularly inter- | learned today. It is understood that the failure of criminals to |the government already has decided that he shall make the trip to Eng- The officer declaied that Schwartz |jand, where he is expected to confer One plece of evidence hefore the today was the statement D. Lee of the Berkeley who said that Schwartz of “perfect crime.” Capt. . lice force. as_a student study of murders for the past in | had dropped into police headquariers | with Foreign Secretary Chamberlain regularly to discuss crimes in the most minute detalils. Jon the propos with | Germany. His departure only awaits ““Schwartz also professed especial In- | o favorable occasion for the absence | of the minister of foreign affairs from Paris, Meanwhile riegotiations continue be- tween Paris and London with a view to agreeing on the terms of an answer to Germany's second note regarding the proposed pact, which was deliver- ed_to the allies on_July 20, sustained fractures of the arm, hip {and left leg about six months ago. Authorities were holding to the the- ory that Rodriguez had been siain and hisx body placed in the laboratory to indicate Schwartz had been burned tc death. < Despite the report of Sheriff Veale expressed that the body was that of Redriguez. The sheriff safd he had been informed Hoepital, announced that no frac- | that a fracturs of the bone, after a ires of the hones were disclosed. certain length of time, would not nec- 1t was known that Rodriguez had essarily be visible. d security pact inals and tracing miss- Lee said. “He tried to detective in Furope, but when ‘I as always vague in his answers.” One phase of the case which officials s the dis- itinerant worker, who has In the belief that Rodriguez as murdered and his body placed in friends of the. man ere sought in an attempt to estab- Dr. the Hough. After taking several X-ray photo- opinion . H. Hough, uperintendent of fhe Martinez Coun still contiues to exercise considerable | News of Internal Conditions From Whites in Rus by ter the former Russlan czarist minis- ¢ finance. This minister boasted Paris that Whites there were re- cefving news concerning Russiah in- ternal conditions through old pupils of this Lycee. The Bolshevists re- torted wholesale arrests and exe- entions. Améng the victims were Prince Galitzin. the last czarist pre- mier, who recently had earned his living as a shoemaker Arrests at Moscow some weeks ago numbered 1,000, the Rolshevist leaders making no secret of the fact that, while not serfously fearing any ris. ing. they Intended to break up and scatter the old intelligenzia and arl tocrats who were even passively un- sympathetic with the new regime Older residents of Leningrad are cowering under the recent threats of arrest ana execution. Stalin and Dzjerzinsky now share | supreme influence: Kaminev's author- ity is declining. Tchitcherin has little influence over the general policy. Zin oviev. holds stubbornly on. Trotsky has sunk to quite the second rank. | The main power is the political police, | the G. P. U., which today is stronger and more absolute than e | (Copyright. 1925, by Chicago Daily News Co.) OFFICIALS IN ARLINGTON TO MAKE LONDON TRIP| GET DELAY ON JAIL ISSUE | Judge Brent Allows Supervisors Until September to Decide | on Course. ] Special Dispateh to The Star. CLARENDON, Va.. August | Judge Samuel G. Brent of the Arling. ton County Circuit Court yesterday granted the board.of supervisors an extension of time to reply to hix rule | |asking the board to show cause why {a new jail should not be erected in the | | county. The court's order gave the board until yesterday to answer. The board |met at the courthouse yesterday to { consider the matier, but failed to ar- rive at any conclusions. Judge Brent, ;fl(lpr stating that he wanted to give the board ample time, continued the {rule until September. | ‘The meeting adjourned with the un- |derstanding that: the Jjail question would be the leading topic for consid- | eration at the regular meeting of the board Monday. Supervisor Edward { Duncan suggested the appointment of |an-architect to prepare a report as to { whether it is feasible to erect a new {3ail or remodel the present one, and | this phase of the question will be care. | fully considered Monday, it was de- | cided. | | -The E. H. Harriman «Memorial medals for the hest record in accident prevention among American railroads will be awarded this year for the first time since 1918, Tribes Cleared Up | by Attacks. | By Associated Pre | French Morocco, August 4.— veral French flving columns, well supplied with tanks, have carried out operations on a large scale with the | object of cleaning up the northern and northwestern regions of the battle |area. where the Riffian tribesmen have been filtering through in large num- bers recently and making ralds on isolated villages and farms The enemy attacked in the | Asejen Range. where he was strongly intrenched. Completely taken aback {by the tanks. the Riffians abandoned | the position-and fled in disorder, leav- {ing 60 dead on the ground. These operations have had a salu. tary effect throughout the Ouezzan jregion to the northwest of Fez Else- {where there is little activity. Brilliant Officer Wounded. Col. Giraud, who played a distin- | guished role in the fighting in the {Taza region. has been wounded by a {bullet in the spine, and taken to the |Taza Hospital. His condition is sat ‘ factory. | AbdelKrim, who is directing the operations of the rebellious Riffians, 'has made good his promise that he would be in possession of air- |planes for service against the French. Several planes re reported to have landed at Riffian headquarters, it iz believed by the French that {some little time must elapse before [they can be put into action. Tt is said that a German aviator, a veteran |of the World War, will be in com- {mand of the Riffian planes. was heen i but Italian Cruisers on W Avgust 4 (P). the Ferruccio Two Italian and Pisa, of | ROME. | eruisers. |the training division for the ipstruc-| |tlon of cadets, ‘have safled from Gi- |braltar for Tangler, Morocco, for a three-day visit which is said in of- ficial circles here to he free from any political consideration. The cruiser Vespucci also sailed from Gibraltar, but Tangier is not included in its itin’ erary and it will join the other two after they leave the Moroccan port. It is stated here that the itinerary of the training division was fixed be- fore the Morocean question assumed its present acute state. Fish Dealers Fight Suit. NEW YORK. August 4 (#).—Per- mission to file pleas in abatement was | granted vesterday to counsel for the {18 wholesale and 11 retail fish dealers recently indicted for violation of the Sherman anti-trusi law through an alleged conspiracy to control the bulk of the fresh water fish trade in New York. The Government will file re- plies to the new pleas by tomorrow. Sections Recently Raided byl | Charies | Brazilian © Ambassador: —¢ol. John C. Cool father of the President, tack 1 pile of shingles in his yard in order that the place might look tidy when his sun arrives a few weeks hence. The shingles, left scattered abont the place by carpenters who re paired the roof of the house recent- Iy, have been a source of concern for most of the colonel's family. They were there shortly before he was taken ill, more than a month ago. and his grandson. John, piled some of them away. Mrs. Cool idge. the President’s wife, helped her son while she there and the President was seen to give them a few directions Col. Coolidge feels that recovered from his illness clently to do the joh himself. he has suffi- BANCROFT’S BODY TO LIE IN CATHEDRAL IN TOKI0 Remains of Ambassador Will Ar- rive in Capital From Karui- zawa Tomorrow. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, August 4—The body of Edgar A Bancroft, American Am bassador to Japan, who died in Karul zawa last week, will arrive In Tokio temorrow afternoon on a special gov ernment car, escorted by mmittee from the foreign office From the station a military guard of honor will accompany the body to St.- Andrew’s Procathedral, where It will e in state until the departure for the United States The honorary pallbearers will be Baron Shidehara. foreigxn minister; Sir Eliot, British Ambassador: Albert de Bassompiere, Relgihin Am bassador; R. de Lima de Silva Dr William Solf, German Ambassador, and Nathaniel B. Stewart, American con sul general. Prince and Princess Nashimoto will represent the Emperor and Empress | The cruiser Tama, on which the holly is to be taken to America, from Yokohama Thurse at Honolulu August Francisco on August 22 The Emperor and Empress have sent a wreath and hundreds of mes- sages of condolence have been received from all parts of Japan. to will sail arriving 16" and San Enrolls Child in College. DURHAM, N. C., August 4 (®).—An application for admission to the fresh- ! man class of 1940 of Duke University Thomas for his son, The boy is has been made by James of White Plains, N. Y James A. Thomas, j jnst 2 years old. and is a nephew of Robert Lansing, former Secretary of State. The application has heen duly fAled. pickers run by cut Cranberry are used fo fruit. tractors the loss of spoiled Pershing Optimistic on Eve of Opening of Tacna-Arica Conference. [ By the Aseocia Press, ARICA. Chile informal ‘meeting the Tacna-Arica vesterday a cha and It was decided official meeting of commi Wednesday morning instead Gen. John Pershing the commis: n. which is supervise a plehiscite 1o the disposition of the ¢ inces of Tacna and A Chile and Peru, was after vesterday's meeting scribed it as most cordial and =aid that despite its informality it a red for the success of the commis sion’s lahors | Gen. Pershing opening address tomorrow expected that Augustin Edwards and Manuel Freyre v Santander, respec | tively the chlef Chilean and Peruvian | delegates. will reply The American | proposals and rules of procedure, al- ready worked out by experts, will then be submitted for discussion and approval Augnst 4 At an of the memhers of plebisei in pla to ade ns he the the of today president of to plan and determina puted prov 15 hetween optimistie He de most will deliver a short and it is Peruvians Arrive. is understood that the Peruvian delegates, who arrived t Ariea aboard the Peruvian transport Ucay |ali yesterday. will disembark as soon |as they can rent an office and living | quarters. | Gen. Pershing and the others of tha American delegation hoarded the Ucayali vesterday afternoon to repas { the call which Senor Freyre had made {on the Americans earlier in Alberto Salomon, former foreign affair€ of Peru And {the legal experts with the Peruvian delegation. declared to newspaper men that Peru’s present intentions to participate in the plehiscite, that such participation was | nated to the formulation of guaran- | tees insuring perfect equality for hoth | sides. i But was unwilling | whether the Peruvian would request further vond those stipulated award of President Coolidge or lwhether it would merely demand strict observance in every way of the regulations as announced by the American President. Tt the ¢ minister were but subordi- | { 1 he to state deiegation | guarantees he i in’ the arbitral | Fall From Wagon Fatal. | Special Dispatch to The Star FREDERICKSBURG {4.—Julian D. McWhirt, aged 64, prom. |inent Spotavivania farmer, died at a | hospital here vesterday as a vesult nf 1A fractured neck xustained a few davs | ago while at work on his farm. iie | was driving a wazon which striock a stump, causing him to fall to the ground. one wheel passing over his Va., August

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