Evening Star Newspaper, August 8, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Showers and probably thunder- storms ton'ght and tomorrow; little change in temperacure. Temperatures—Highest, 86, at noon today: lowest, 66, at 6 a.m. today. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 20 684. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. 50,000 WHITE-ROBED KLANSMEN ASSEMBLE FOR COLORFUL MARCH Hooded Host, Without Masks, in Line for Parade, to Start at 3 P.M. KEEP EYES AHEAD, NEVER FALTER, MARCHERS WARNED IN ADVANCE No. Women and Children Part of Gigantic Throng Pouring Into Capital for Vivid Demonstration. A great throng of hooded but unmasked men, women and chil- dren, in the regalia of the knights of the Ku Klux Klan, assembled today within the shadow of the United States Capitol, ready for the signal that will send them marching down Pennsylvania avenue in the strangest procession the Nation's Capital has ever witnessed. Thousands of these white-robed figures, old and young, had congregated east of the Capitol, flaunting American flags and ban- ners emblazoned with the mystic symbols of the Klan in a mild Summer’s breeze, long before t unique parade. the kleagles, dragons, kligrapps rious State uni Others wore they were the rank and file of he hour set for the start of the There were men in white satin robes; they were and other high officers in the va- garments of a cheaper material; the “invisible empire.” Mingling with them, in countless numbers, were the families of the Klans- men—women and children who will swell the ranks of the hooded knights in their march from the the foot of the Washington Monu andwiched between almost Capitol to the Sylvan Theater, at iment. every delegation was a Ku Klux band, its members garbed in natty white and blue fringed uniforms. These bands have a difficult mission. to keep in step the vast untrain topped Klansmen, who compose also were sprinkled among the t formation. Begin Forming Early. The head of the procession began forming at First and B streets north- east shortly after 1 o'clock. By that | time many delegations had been mar- shaled on virtually every corner as far east as Fifteenth street northeast, waiting impatiently to fall into line, Other contingents moved slowly up Capitol Hill toward the end of the for- mation as late as 1:30°5'clock. A District Klangman with a chart stood on the base of the Peace Monu- ent, giving instructions to the dele- gations as they arrived to learn thelr point of formation. These details had been guarded secretly until the last moment, and even after the contigents had taken thelr designated positions behind the parade route, Klan officlals verused to make public_the formation points of the different Klan bodies. Visible signs of fatigue manifested themselves in the Klansmen several hours before the start of the parade. Small groups lounged about on curb- stones and grassy lawns. Many spent the hours preceding the parade in the fce cream and soft drink stores around their concentration points. Pennsylvania and New Jersey del- egations seemed to predominate in the formations behind the head of the procession. _Ohio, also, had a number of delegations. Parade to Start at 3. Promptly at 3 o'clock this afternoon the vanguard of the Klansmen, head- ed by Acting Supt. of Police Charles Evans, will swing around Peace Mon- ument into the Avenue. From that time until about 9:30 tonight the white-robed Klansmen are expected to form a continuous procession to the Sylvan Theater. a final conference with Klan Acting Superintendent of Po- s stated today that the last of the marchers should be in the Monu- ment Grounds by 9:30 o'clock. This means that close to 50,000 are expect- ed to march. A spectacular feature of the parade, Klan leaders announced at the last moment, would be a great display of American flags. Four hundred stands of large flags on metal by American eagle ornaments, said, will be carried by the District unit of the will be arranged In mas: The flags were provide rangements made by rl Silvern, kligrapp of the Dallae, Tex., Klan, as a contribution to the success of the arrangements made by the Washing- ton Klan for today atration 50,000 Expected to March. Klan. They through ar- Klan leaders clung today to their timate of 50,000 marchers, as thou- sands of strangers poured into the city by special trains and motor cara- vans. The vast majority of them were Klansmen. The 50,000 estimate, however, is conservative, according to the Klan officials. They confidently many of those who had not originally planned to participate in the parade to don their robes and fall in line as the procession gets under way. Sixteen abreast the Klansmen will march down the Avenue. Six hours and a half will be required, it was es- timated, for the procession to pass a given point. If more than 50,000 should fall in line, the Klan leaders predict that the parade may continue into the early hours of Sunday morn- ing. L. A District, jem Mueller, grand kleagle of the who arranged the unusual nstration for the Capital, would not estimate today the number of Klan visitors who have come here either to march or view the parade. Heads of the various State units have been requested to report the strength of their delegations to him this after- noon, and until then he declines to venture a_guess. The crowds on the streets, the continuous stream of motor caravans coming into the city over all the principal highways, indicate a throng comparable to the Shrine visitors in June, 1923, Streets Are Thronged. Streets bordering the Willard Hotel, the general Klan parade headquarters, were virtually impassable for the throngs of Kiansmen. Pennsylvania avenue was almost as crowded with the visitors, some in regalia and others staffs, topped | they | members of unique demon- | expect | It is their duty to endeavor ed multitude of marchers. Fezz- the crack drill units of the order, hrongs at the numerous points of carrying K. k. K. banners and other insignia. The men whe donned their white outfits this morning and sauntered through the streets gave the more | or less mystified public an idea of the | spectacle they will witness this after- | noon when thousands of these figures pass along the Avenue in mass for- mation. It was probably the first time that a Klansman in regalia had ever been seen on the streets of the Capital. | The women, too, were equally as | bold in revealing their affillation with | the hooded order. Some wore red, |white and blue costumes; others three K's around their heads. Many | of the men who wore their robes be- fore the parade, had paper skull caps in lleu of the visors which have been banned. Those who did not remove the visors from their uniforms nad | them raised. Headquarters Seething. Klan headquarters at the Willard were seething with activity from an early hour this morning until noon. Belated Klansmen and wives jammed the two rooms assigned to the major kleagle of the District, seeking in- formation. King Kleagle mixed freely among them, passing words of greeting and giving final in- structions to the marchers. .. "Regardless of what happens, what is said to you from the sidewalk, keep your eyes directly on the man in front of you,” was the parting message to the marchers. “Never falter.” Hundreds of the travel-worn visi- tors arrived to find the hotels and rooming houses in the downtown sec- tion filled to capacity, forcing them into the public parks to rest. Men |and women were observed sleeping on benches in many of the parks as late as 9 o'clock this morning.’ Room Is Scarce. Itinerant men and women, some with heavy suit cases and others with brief cases, containing presumably-the fiery crossed uniform- of the Klan, wandered aimlessly through the streets, looking vainly for houses dis- playing “Furnished Rooms” signs. There seemed to be none, even in the rooming house sections. These stran- gers were in_evidence, especially in the vicinity of the Union Station. As the motor caravans drew into the numerous Klan camps about the city, the 44 special trains from every sec- tion east of the Mississippi pulled into (the Union Station intermittently, and i noured forth thousands of additional { Klansmen. All night long and up until noon today these Klansmen came by train from every point of the com- pass. Many changed from civilian clothes to their regalia in the station | concourse. | Washington Terminal officials esti- | mate that 15,000 came by train, the | majority on the specials, but a large | number on the regular fare trains as well. Those who came in late this | morning lingered about the station, | exchanging greetings and resting be. fore the long march. From Every Walk. A cross section of American citi- zenry was represented by these Klans. men—they reflected every walk of our national life. As bent on a holiday they whooped and yelled and clapped their hands as the Klans gathered in the station. Miners and farmers, steel workers from the mills of Penn. sylvania, rubbed elbows with Phila. | delphia 'bankers, and tall rangers | from Texas wearing five-gallon som. |brero hats fraternized with moun- | taineers from Virginia. Special details of police from the fourth, sixth and many other pre. | cincts augmented the regular Union | Station police force. Their presence, { however, took on the role of traffic di. rector and station master, for their services as guardians of the peace were not needed in the face of the holldav atmosphere which permeated the station. The Klansmen were law unco thmselves, overrunning the con- course with their assembled thousands, | thronging the waiting rooms and gath- ering by the hundreds on the Plaza in Irone ol the stauon. From early morn- ing until past noon ‘he great crowd, some in Klan regalia and others car- rying their robes in leather cases, wung up North Capitol street toward the points assigned for the formation of the parade. Two dozen epeclal trains from as far West_as St. Louis and western Ohio, " (Continued on Page z Column X3 merely tied blue®bands bearing the. Mueller | Che WASHINGTON, D. C, bening Star. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION AGAIN HIS MASTERS' VOICE “From The St as fast as Press to Home Within the Hour” ar's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes the papers are printed. Yesterd ay’s Circulation, 93,796 SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1925—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. g (#) Means Associ ted Press. TWO CENTS. BRYAN LED PARTY FROM GOD, CHAMP CLARK'’S WIDOW ASSERTS ScoresCommoner’s Switch to Wilson in Baltimore. Resents State Plan Erect Shrine in Bow] ing Green. to By the Associated Press. BOWLING GREE) 0., August 8. —Mrs. Champ Clark, widow of the late Speaker of the House of Repre- publication today, refers to the Demo- cratic convention at Baltimore in 1912, in which her husband was defeated for the presidential nomination by Woodrow Wilson, when William Jen- nings Bryan threw his strength to the latter. Mrs. Clark asserted that the great Commoner caused “many faithtul Democrats to lose communion with | God” as a result of his efforts to de- feat Clark, “instead of keeping true to his promise to use all honorable means to nominate Champ Clark for President.” Mrs. Clark closed the reference to this episode with a quotation from | the Public Ledger saying Clark dis- |liked Bryan to the da. | souri politics since 1912, and would AUTO CRASHILS THLHURTSTHREE Cumberiand Party on Way to Klan Parade Meets Dis- aster Near Rockville. Two dead and three injured is the toll of an automobile wreck at Hal- pine, two miles east of Rockville, {about 5:30 o'clock this morning. The touring car of Howard France, bound from Cumberland for the Klan | ceremony in Washington, with seven | occupants, while running, police say, {at a high rate of speed, somersaulted iand pinioned France and three of his | companions. | Clarence Lyons was instantly killed. | France suffered a fractured skull |and other injurfes and was taken to the Georgetown University Hogpital, | where he died at 10:10 o'ciook. Grant Gordon was slightly injured. Rackney Robenett suffered cuts and bruises and was taken to the Sandy 8pring Hospital. « George Hickle suffered bruises and probable internal injuries and was taken to the Sandy Spring Hospital. D. N. Brant and George Ebly, the other occupants, escaped injury. Lyons lived at Cumberland, as do the others of the party. Brant is a mid- dle-aged man, while Lyons was and the others are in their twentles. The highway was crowded, and first ald was offered by a number of motor- |ists, the crowd that gathered practi- cally tying up traffic for a time. From a store nearby the Rockville police were telephoned. Deputy _Sheriff Clifford Howard and Policeman George Windham hurried to the scene. The bodies of Lyons and | France were removed to Rockville |and their relatives notified. while the relatives of other victims were reached by Brant, Ebly and Gordon. FRENCH FLYERS IN AIR MORE THAN 24 HOURS Still Flying Today in Effort to ! Break Duration and Long- Distance Records. By the Associated Press. | “ETAMPES, France, August 8.—The |French aviators Drouhin and Landry {had been aloft for 24 hours at 6 a.m. {today in an attempt to break the {world’s flight records for duration and distance flown. They took off yester- Iday morning over a 100-kilometer |course from Chartres to Etampes and |by 6 o'clock this morning had cov- |ered 3,000 kilometers (1,863 miles). Flying a Farman Goliath 500-horse- power 12-cylinder motor plane, they carried about 1,050 gallons of gasoline and 50 gallons of ofl. It was believed this was sufficient to keep them in |the air for 50 hours. They aimed at the distance record | of 4,000 kilometers (2,485 miles, made by Lieuts. Kelly and Macready in a United States Army plane at Dayton, {Ohlo, in 1923, and at Drouhin’s own |duration record of 37 hours 59 min- lutes and 10 seconds, made last year. Somiee VICTIM OF QUAKE. Body Taken From Ruins of Build- ing—Others Are Sought. MEXICO CITY, August 8 (P).— The body of a man was removed from the debris of a building which collapsed yesterday in the Avenida Madero, the main avenue of the capi- tal. Search was being made for sev- eral other persons believed buried in the rulns. The building was under repair and several workmen were inside when the walls crumbled. A sharp earth- quake shook the city at 1:15 p.m., and is believed to have displaced the props holding up the bullding. MRS Kellogg’s Aid Sought. EL PASO, Tex., August 8 (#).—The city council and county commissioners of El Paso yesterday telegraphed Sec- retary of State Kellogg asking early approval of plans, recommended by the International Boundary Commission, for the dredging and straightening of the Rio Grande to afford flood protec- tion. San Diego Feels Quake. SAN DIEGO, Calif., August 8 (#).— A slight earth shock was felt here shortly before 3 o'clock this morning. Earthquakes were reported at San Jacinto and Hemet, according to word received here. No damage was done. Shepherd’s Wrist Broken in Mouth Of Enraged Bears‘ | By the Associated Press. | DEL NORTE, Colo., August 8.— | Manuel Gallegos, & sheep herder, | met a grizzly bear in a hand-to- | hand encounter last Sunday and lives to tell the tale. Gallegos limped into town yesterday with a broken wrist, severe body bruises and a fractured cheekbone. While searching for a stray sheep Gallegos stumbled on a sleep- ing female grizzly. He was severely cuffed by the enraged animal before his dog dis- tracted the bear’s attention long enough to allow his master to es- cape. Gallegos’ wrist was broken when he plunged his hand into the bear’s mouth in attempting to ward off the attack. et | “CINDERELLA” GRL SWALLOWS POISON Is Miffed at “Nasty Things”“ Said of Browning—Condi- tion Not Serious, By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 8.—Mary Louise Browning, newly adopted daughter of Edward W. Browning, ‘wealthy real estate operator, ad- mitted today that she drank poison this morning because of the “nasty things” which had been said about Mr. Browning's adopting her. NEW YORK, August 8.—Visions of | the Cinderella wealth and happiness of Mary Louise Spas as the adopted daughter of Edward W. Browning, wealthy real estate operator, began to dim today as District Attorney Newcombe of Queens County, investi- gating to learn the girl's age, was told by the mother that her daughter was 21 years old. This would make her adoption null and void under the law. “Mary was 21 on July 31,” Mrs.| Mary Spas, the mother, told District Attorney Newcombe. “I am sick in the head about the whole thing.” “I want my daughter ba girl's father said today. place is right here ip this house and I am going to see that she comes back. I never wanted her to go.” Adoption Believed Void. Francis C. Dale, attorney for Mr. Browning, said the first thing would be to determine Mary's age. “If she was 21 on July 31, she was 21 on August 3, when the adoption papers were signed,” he said. “In the event she was 21, legal proceed- ings are rendered null and void.” ! “If the girl refuses to sign a dis- |. claimer to the Browning fortune, the | case will probably have to be taken to court.” The Ellis Island authorities were asked to look up_the records of the (Continued on Page §, Column 1.) LEWIS WILL HOLD SOFT COAL PARLEYS Will Go Into Local and District Matters With Union Leaders and Mine Owners. I By the Associated Pre ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.,, August 8.— Appointments with operators and union representatives from the soft coal fields will likely keep John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine ‘Workers of America, here until the ‘middle of next week. The discussions are having to do only with local and district matters, it was officially announced last night, and the status of ‘the Jacksonville agreement has not been touched upon. Van A. Bittner, chief union organ- izer in West Virginia, has received no Teply to the telegram he had gent to Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Com- merce. Mr. Bittner appealed to both Mr. Hoover and Secretary of Labor Davis to take some official stand against large bituminous coal oper- ators, who, he =aid. were repudiating existing wage contracts. |two vears. His indisposition did not | COL CRAVES DIES ENDVRASEXPECTED Noted Editor, Writer and| Orator. Had Been an In- valid for Two Years. { | John Temple Graves, widely known newspaper man, author and lecturer and of later years an ardent worker | for the cause of world peace, died at | his home here, 1730 P street, early this | morning. For several days Col. Graves | had been sinking rapldly, and the | end was not unexpected. Col. Graves, who was 69 years old, | had been a virtual invalid for the past | assume its fatal phase, however, until about three weeks ago. since when he had been falling rapidly. His three sons-and iwo daughters Were at the bedside When the end came. The death of Col. Graves removes from the fast-fading journalistic horl- zon of the previous century another figure of outstanding prominence. In some ways he was compared to Col. Henry Watterson, whose death about & year ago took away one of the most dominant personalities of the news- | paper world. - Famous as Orator. As an orator, Col. Graves was gen- erally classed with Henry W. Grady, famous leader of progressive and patriotic sentiment in the South. Per- haps his best known speech was made at Chattanooga, Tenn., in 1907, dur. | ing a dinner in honor of the late William Jennings Bryan, who then was the accepted leader of the Demo- cratic party. In his address Col. Graves urged | upon the great commoner, present as the official representative of his| party, that he nominate Theodore | Roosevelt as the candidate of both ! big parties to carry to a successful | conclusion the fight in behalf of the people against predatory wealth. That was the beginning, too, of Col. Graves’ “Eera of Good Feeling” movement. Col. Graves was best known as an author for his historical and patrio tic works. Among his better known books were “A History of Florida of Today,” “History of Colleton, S. C.”; “Twelve Standard Lectures,” ‘“The Platform of Today,” “Speeches and Selections for Schools.” and “The (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) FIVE OF FAMILY DIE WHEN HOUSE BURNS;, Father and 20-Year-Old Son, Only Survivors, Unable to Save Others. ! By the Associated Press. 1 CENTRAL VALLEY, N. Y. Au- gust 8.—Five members of a family were burned to death early today in | a fire which destroyed their home on | a farm one mile from here. | Harry Hall, a farmer and head of the family, and his son, Russell, 20, escaped. ‘The dead: Mrs. Clara Hall, 39; Harold Hall, 17; Gladys Hall, 19; Viola Hall, 2; Evelyn Hall, 6 months. The fire broke out from an unde- termined cause in the Hall farm. house shortly after 6 o'clock this morning. The farmer was awakened at that time by smoke and jumped to the ground from the first floor of the home. Once outside the house he was unable to gain entrance. The flames spread rapidly. WIDOW OF PLAYRIGHT PENNILESS IN DEATH Rose Potter in Poverty Despite $500,000 Made by One of Husband’s Plays. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 8.—Rose Pot- ter, wife of the late Paul Potter, jour- nalist and playwright, who dramatized Du Maurler's “Trilby,” died penniless at St. Luke’'s Hospital Thursday night. Although the play was said to have brought $500,000 in author's royalties, means now are lacking for burial next to her husband in Woodlawn Ceme- tery. Mrs. Potter, who was 55 years old, ! has faced poverty since the death of her husband, three years ago. De- prived of the luxuries that were once hers, she has been nurse, writer, a school teacher and secretary in the face of failing health. An appeal has been made to the Actors’ Fund and the Playwrights’ gub. of which she was once a mem- r. | for a generation. | the, Asserting that at present time the Republicans “own Missouri,” Mrs. Clark said: “Listen, friends of Champ Clark, Mis. sourl, by legislative enactment has ap. propriated $25,000 to put a statue of Champ Clark in the courthouse square at Bowling Green. sentatives, In an article prepared for of his death | |and that the feud had colored Mis- | MRS. CHAMP CLARK. “Why should $25,000 of the State Green? of queries from ail parts of the worl which have been received here. you ask me, Champ Clark’s widow, have no answer ready, only thi: can say to the State of Miss $25,000 which vou gave to Green on Champ Clark’s security. has no need of it “Bowling Green hitched its wagon to the star of either Wilson or Bryan, both of them moneyed men, and let Champ Clark and his posterity hustle for a place in the sun or go down unwept, unhonored and unknown.” It Nurse Fined $40 For Hurling Ink At Wales Movie By the Associated Press. DUBLIN, August 8.—When films of the Prince of Wales on his tour of South Africa were being shown in a motion picture theater Thurs- day, a nurse, Dora Maguire, threw a bottle of ink at the screen, ruin- ing it. She was fined 8 in police court yesterday and ordered to compensate a girl musician, whose clothes were ruined. The nurse told the police when she was ar- rested that she had no personal objection to the prince, but could not stand people cheering those who had helped the “Black and Tans.” The “Black and Tans" served as an auxillary police force in Ireland during the disturbed period preced- ing the establishment of the Irish Free State. 20 FRENCH KILLED IN'SYRIA, IS REPORT Troops Declared to Have Been Surprised by Rebels. Equipment Is Captured. By the Associated Press. BEIRUT, Syria, August 8.—Au- | thoritative information reaching here concerning the incidents in the Jebel Druz region, where French forces are reported to have been compelled by an attack by Syrian rebels to aban- don the city of Suediah, sustaining many casualties, is that the French company was taken by surprise. Fur- ther trouble developed, it is added, when a French punitive column was | obliged to turn back because of the non-arrival of a supply train. This train was held up by an attack on Syrian troops accompanying it. Perfect calm prevailed everywhere yesterday, according to this informa- tion, and Teinforcements are arriving. Suediah, the principal city in the Jebel Druz district, was reported cap- tured by Syrian rebels in a dispatch from Amman, Transjordania, Thurs- day, it being said that the rebels suc. ceeded with the use of guns and am- munition which they had captured in a previous engagements with a French | detachment. ‘When questioned on Friday about the fighting in Syria, the French for- elgn minister, M. Briand, declared his information was not yet complete, but that it appeared one French column had been surprised by the Syrian rebels. He believed, however, that the French high commissioner to Syria, Gen. Sarrail, had sufficient troops to deal with the rebels. Reports of the Suediah fighting re- ceived by way of Jerusalem said the French casualties aggregated 200 killed and 600 wounded and that much French equipment was ecaptured by the tribesmen. | Who actually picks the pocket: PCKPOGKET HOBS FLEECENLANSHEN One Arrest Follows Many Reports of Operations by Crooks. of the cleverest pickpocket “mobs” from the metropolitan district of New York City are believed by the police to have descended upon Wash- ington with' plans for widespread fleecing of visitors and participants in the crowded Klan celebration today. of pickpocket operations began drift- ing into police headquarters, but the climax was not reached until near noon, when, after eight reports of losses in the vicinity of the Washing- ton Hotel had reached headquarters detectives, Detective Thompson ar- rested Sol Bauman, alias Belinsky, al- leged “wire” man of a pickpocket squad. Bauman's arrest was dramatic. Wil- llam Fairlee of Gilberton, Pa., grabbed Bauman's hand while it was inserted in his pocket. He made an outcry, leged pickpocket, House Detective Jewell Simpson of the Washington and Detective Thompson simulta- neously placed him under arrest. Police are holding him on a techni- cal charge of investigation while a search is made for two or three other members of Bauman's alleged gang. Police explained that the pick- pocket “mob” operates generally with three to four members—"wire man ‘a pass,” who takes the loot from him as soon as feasible and passes i on to a third member of the mob, who makes a get-away with it Some mobs also have a fourth man called a “stall” who attempts to throw a monkey wrench into the in- vestigation by giving police statements or allowing himself to be arrested, secure in the knowledge h can prove an alibi. Detectives skilled in anti-pickpocket work have been switched to Fifteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue in an effort to round up other members of the groups believed to be operating there. Bauman'’s record in the identifica- tion bureau at police headquarters shows previous arrests on this charge. His arrest today resulted in the dragnet already thrown out for pick- pockets being reinforced at several points along Pennsylvania avenue and F street. G. M. Adams of Beaconsburg, Pa., reported that his pocket was picked while he was at the Union Station and that $95 in cash, his return rail- road ticket and identification papers taken. Hayes A. Fedler of Newport, Pa., was another victim of light-fingered operators, sustaining the loss. of $30 in cash, his Klan receipt card and his raflroad ticket home on a street car between the Union Station and the Annapolis Hotel, at Eleventh and H Streets. George Drake, 24, of Middletown, N. Y., reported the first pickpocket loes today, when he told Detective Tally his pocketbook, with $125 in it, was lifted while he was on a Penn: sylvania avenue street car. Dry Agent Seizes Bootlegger’s Auto; Nervy Bootlegger Seizes It Back | About two hours after Prohibi- tion Enforcement Agent Ogle had nextly carved two more notches in the handle of his pistol by way of recording the elimination of as many rum-running automobiles from Washington's busy fleet, the bootleggers came right back and rubbed one off by reclaiming their car and cargo from in front of the third precinct police station. ‘The whole tragedy really started in Brown court, when Ogle, Sergt. Hellmuth and Policeman Burke spied two cars, both in the act of unloading contraband beverage. Before he could escape, & man who described himself as Adolph Ole- ‘wack, 1014 Tenth street, was ar- rested, and little later George King of the same address was taken into custody: The car, said to have contained 48 gallons of ‘whisky, was aiso seized. In the meantime the other car had darted out of the court, rip- ping off a side door in its hurry to leave the scene of actlvity. A little later it was found, bottom- side-up, just off Washington Cirele. Spepding at 50 miles an hour, the 2 bootlegger driver had endeavored to save time by cutting straight through the circle, only to come to complete grief. Before the officers reached the scene, however, the bootlegger and his cronies had escaped and what was left of the machine was right- ed and towed down to the third precinct station. There it was parked in front of the station, the police never dreaming it would ever again be able to move of its own motlvity. The unbroken rem- nants of its former cargo of 150 gallons of whisky were stowed in its tonneau. It was just about 6 o'clock this morning, however, when some- body in the third precinct saw a strange sight. There, at the wheel of that demolished car, sat a sleepy-eved white man and the wreck itselt was actually moving. And before any one could stop it it had moved so rapidly that it was never again seen by a police- man, at least, after it had turned east out Rhode Island avenue, its cargo alo Radio Progr;ms—.Page 28. money be expended upon Bowling | ““This is the substance of thousands Early this morning isolated reports | and as the crowd closed in on the al- | false | 1.5, NOW INSISTS LOANS T0 NATION [GNCRING DEBT END Dilatory Tactics Bring Re- quest to Bankers to With- hold Advances. DRASTIC ACTION TAKEN WHEN DIPLOMACY FAILS ;Administratmn Forced to TUse ! Pressure as Obligations Remain Unacknowledged. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., August §.— America’s effort to obtain a settlement a, | of war debts has reached such an im- 1f | portant stage that what has hitherto 1ibeen a vague appeal to New York 1|bankers to cease extending credits to | s | 0 uri, in | Buropean governments now has be which I was born, ‘Take back thelcome a definite and unmistakable re- Bowling quest. | The American Government has not enjoyed its role of creditor during tF |last eight years since the armistice, |but the tendency in some countries | postpone even a formal recognition of the existence of the war debt, together | with other indiffere has | made it necessary to take a decided |stand and exercise a leve which |would be felt abroad more than the | polite interchanges of official diplo- macy. | It was under the Hardi {administration that a circu {sent to all international L | America to refrain from extending | credits which in any way were to be | used for armament or other unproduc | tive purposes. Bankers were asked tc {keep the Department of State zavi In almost every instance since. |ever, the department has not |posed objection. In most c department’s advice and opinion was | not asked until the negotiations were | well under way, and frequently, it is {said, the Government did not feel that it should interfere in business trans- actions that were almost mated. signs of ce, | { consum- Frowned on Loan. But lately bankers who have sulted the Department of been told plain | the American Government. case a banking firm was asked t make any further loans to a small jcountry with which the United States | was having difficulties In securing a settlement. l The insistence of the Washington | authorities left no doubt in the minds | of bankers concerned that the policy {of the United States Government | henceforth is to exercise energetical- |1y the influence it can command in H loans to certain countries con- { stopping | which may not make a debt sett { ment | _President Coolidge and Secretary { Kellogg have been loath to use this | weapon, but have been forced into it by the dilatory tactics by some of the | debtors, and ‘even now there is no disposition to make any public state- ment about it or to say anything mc | than can be read between |of the circular letter ad | bankers three vears a Secretary Hughes. The repeated reference in | recent weeks, however, to that letter, {coupled with informal comment as to | the importance of close co-operation etween bankers and the Department | of State is significant enough. and it |is expected will have the desired ef | fect. ! Hope for Settlement. | With the Belgian commission now n Washington and a French commis- | sion coming in the Autumin, definite | steps will be taken to obtain from both governments proposals which can be submitted to Congress in De- | cember. liam Phillips, the Ameri- | can_Ambasssador to Belgium, as well as Myron T. Herrick, the American Ambassador to France, are both in | this country as advisers to the Ameri- can Debt Funding Commission. The | plan is to persuade Belgium and then | France to make an offer that can be | used as a basis for a settlement, and |if France and Belgium reach that stage in their negotiations with the United States the hope is held that Italy and other countries will fall in line. If will be government | noted that the French is discussing at present a settlement with Great Britain, as the latter has insisted that the | French should begin payment to Lon- on simultaneously with any pay- | ment to Washington. There is other { reason to believe that the French gov- iernmen\ is in earnest in its present | negotiations and out of them will | come a proposal of value and not | another indefinite postponement. The | uusual arguments are expected to be heard about the necessity for reduc- |ing the debt, but thus far there is | not the slightest indication the Amer- lican Debt Funding Commission will |recede at all on the principal. Leniency in terms will be confined to a cancellation of interest charges for | the eight years that have elapsed since the armistice and possibly for another two years. Also a lower rate of interest than was granted Great ut will That | Britain is expected to be given. the amount actually borrowed have to be paid by the allies. is the outlook at the rhoment. (Copyright. 1925.) 1,800 Disabled Ex-Service Men on Movie Studio Pay Rolls. LOS ANGELES, Calif, August 8 () —Eighteen hundred jobs as mo- tion picture extras have been obtain- ed in studios here by disabled former service men incapacitated for ordi- nary work, and last week $£3,000 of filmdom’s pay roll went to this type of screen talent. How the “odd jobs” of acting were held open for disabled men through the co-operation of Will Hays, direc- tor general of the producers and dis- tributors, was described by Maj John A. J. Darrah at a meeting of the veterans. The former service men usually are cast as soldlers, Maj. Darrah ex- plained, and squads of them are mobilized for screen duty at shert notice under a semi-military system. -