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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Generally fair tonight ruw; little change in tem Temperatures—Highest vesterday; lowest, 68, at Full report on page 7. Forecast.) and tomor- perature. . 87.at 3 p.m. 6 a.m. today. R : Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 16 ch Entered as second class matter post office, "Wa shington, D. C. WASHINGTON, Foening Star. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C., MONDAY, .AUGUST 10, 1925—-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Saturday’s Circulation, 89,619 Sunday's Circulation, 103,211 TWO CENTS. ns Associated Press. ILITARY T0 BEAR BIG BUDGET SLASH; D.C.FIGUR STANDS Estimates to Be Below Total of $3,080,000,000 Set by President. BOTH AIR SERVICES TREATED GENEROUSLY New Chain Bridge and High-Pres-| sure Water System Survey Likely for District. ELL YOUNG. tent of The Star SUMMER WHITE HOUSE, SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., August 10.— Following a conference with President Coolidge at White Court today, Brig. Gen. Herbert M Budget, gave every assurance that the estimates to recommended to the next Congress will be below the $3,- 080,000,000, set by the the annual business meeting Government in Washington last June. He said also that there is no reason why there should not be a surplus of at least §300,000,000 in the Treasury at the end of the next fiscal year, which make it possible for the ministration to proceed generously in its ideas for further tax reduction Without caring to discuss any of the details of the tentative estimates for the District of Columbia, Gen. Lord intimated that the estimates prepared Commissioners ap pear at fi ce to be fairly re sonal that he doubted very much juld be necessary to do any amount of slashing. Chain Bridge. he realized BY Staft Correspo W r stated that that Wa gton and also that it has been neglected somewhat in the matter of appropria- tions in the last decade. Therefore, the budget director made it clear that he is to @ ee to any- th wson that the District id that he is inclined that there is an urgent need ch dge and that he why the Commist an_appropriation to con- | 1 additional high pressure watér system should not be included in the final estimat Gen. Lord stated that he di: budget matters with the President and that in doing 8o he found the,Presi- dent especially well versed in the mater of details concerning the vari- to believe for a new sees no r request for duct a su Lord, Director of the | President at | of the} is growing rapidly | oners’ | ‘I'M A FOOL, BROWNING ADMITS; Charges Cinderella Girl Double-Crossed Him for Mone: | | Declares Mary Spas Can| Be Swayed Easily by a $50 Bill By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 10.—While Mary Louise Spas, 21-year-old Bohe- mian actress, was in hiding today, Ed- {ward W. Browning, wealthy real | estate operator, who wished to adopt | her, frankly admitted he “dsmn | tool.” Before entering a District Attorney | Queens regarding annulment ot { Mary’s adoption Browning issued a | statement dealing with the girl's a | sertion that she intended “to pun him. Mary double-crossed me,” stated | | Browning. *I have been a damn fool, | | but I have not done anything I need | jbe ashamed of. T have forestalled | Commissioners Coler and Newcombe | by demanding a physical examination | | of the girl be made.” | In his statement Browning told of |a visit Sunday paper man { Who offered Mary $500 for a series of | conference with Newcombe of Lower: MARY LOUISE ‘THROUGH TRYING TO DO GOOD’ Upper: EDWARD W. BROWNING. | WEIRD INITIATION CLIMAX OF KLAN'S CAPITAL CRUSADE | Thousands Take Part Spectacular Ceremony at Horse Show Park. in |GREATNESS OF PRINCIPLE ™ PROCLAIMED BY ORATORS Bryan Honored—Traffic Jam at| Bridge Greatest in His- | tory of City. | | 1 | Swept by the flickering shadows of a glgantic flaming cross reared high | }ah()\e the heads of an immense throng | | of spectators in the Arlington horse show grounds, unnumbered unmask | | ed hosts of the Knights of the Kul Klux Klan brought their two-day | Washington “crusade” to a spectacu- | lar close last night with a welird in- | articles “1 am very sorry to say I am con- vinced that a $30 bill can sway her very largely,” Browning sald. ‘Here- ter it 1 have anything to do with girls they will be Americans.” Browning concluded his statement with an assertion that he was through | with philanthropy forever. “I wanted to give her an education,” he said, “but I started wrong. The story that I knew the girl before adoption is ab- solutely false.” Efforts to annul Mary’s adoption on the ground that she had decei Browning in giving her age as 16 stead of 21 were postponed until morrow when arrogate Noble Queens Coun®r, who xigned the o inal adoption papers, at_his office today. s Newcombe waited an poning the conference. Tomorrow. howeve said. he will present (Continued on Page Mr. e _evidence . Column 6 failed to appear | Mr. Browning and District Attorney | 10ur before post Newcombe itiation ceremonial. Kneeling, with bared heads, before in-|a smaller electrically lighted cross, to. | the candidates for “citizenship” in| now unveiled Invisible Empire, | ved Tt [ EPIDEMIC THIS IKE AN ) IE BOOTLEG TRAFFIC SIGNS. BELGIUM PLEDGES 10 HONOR DEBT, BUT ASKS FOR LENIENCY De Cartier Says War and Post-War Conditions Should Be Considered. U. S. TO BE REASONABLE, MELLON TELLS ENVOYS 2 Ambassador Cites Two-Billion Loss Through German Occupation Dur- ing “Unjust” Conflict. & | Br the Associated Press | _Belsium will honor all her just obli- | gations, but will ask her creditors to {take into consideration exceptional | war and post-ward conditions, Baron !de Cartier, the Belgian Ambassad {declared today in presenting the Pel- gian debt comr to the Amer- ican commissic Replying, Secretary Mellon |man of the American {said the United States w {Belgium to do the impos that the funding of the debt w {a recognition of the inte ssion: of | the rig- | some thirty in number, dedicated themselves “in body, in mind, in spirit and in life” to serve faithfully “country, home and the Ku Klux | Klan.” { An eerie silence fell over the great | | assemblage as the sacred Klan oath | | was administered to the unrobed in | inftates by King Kleagle L. A. Mueller | () he ) CHEMIST, SLAYER, | TARES OWN LIFE | Schwartz, Hunted in Death ! Mystery, Kills Self on Eve of Arrest. Attributed to Pay Bill New—Rate Increase Effective Late. By the Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif., August 10.—All | means of escape cut off, Charles| Henry Schwartz shot himself to death vesterday while police were battering in the door of his apartment to arrest him for killing a man whose charred By the Associated Press. A cash deficit of $37,149,000 for fiscal year of 1 June 30, was announced today by Post Office Department 37149000 POSTAL DEFICT REPORTED . which closed last after a pre- liminary compilation of receipts and|ors by motor, street car, bus and on | | of the District of Columbia Klan. As| he pronounced the mystic words that | | bound the new members to the *100! | per cent American” prineiples of the | order. the kleagle, with open Bible | before him, held up a cup of water. the “God-given fluld symbolic of the transparency of the lives, the clear ness of the motives and the useful- ness to humanity” of the The proposed new home of the Na- i L tional Press Club may be erected on i Sl Knights | the southeast corner of Fourteenth jieritie En Knux ilan !and F streets, on the sites now oc- ! Climaxes Strange Rites. {cupied by the defunct Ebbitt Hotel b | The acceptance into the organization {and the Hooe Building. Y| of the new “citizens,” all of whom | An option already has been placed | were residents of nearby points. came | o1 this valuable property in the jam e A e an e e et |heart of the business district, and | specttul, spectators from Washington, | the committee charged with plans | Virginia and Maryland ever have had | for the new clubhouse will recom | the opportunjty to spend | mend to the board of governors at { The thrill of witnessing a monster | o meeting Wednesday night that it | Ku Kiux Klan initiation in which the |3 Toe 08 eCRSaeer WL N m- the | mask of secrecy was to be entirely dis- | % ST P08 CUe b carded, and with an 80-foot flery cross, | g o0 GOMPEEE O Pl said to be the largest ever erected in | i1 » | this part of the country, as an added | James Willlam Bryan. has included attraction, brought thousands of visit-:!n its recommendations # {ous other details connected with the oject. the '$9,000,000 PRESS CLUB ON SITE ption Obtained on Land—Theater to Seat 3,200 Main Feature—Building to Be Shrine ) to Profession Here. and | faced with marble or white limestone | | the committee’s recommendations | | are approved The property contains 42,600 square feet. It has a frontage on F street of 269 feet from the corner to the alley in about the center of the block. | On Fourteenth street it extends from the corner 16615 feet to the Willard Buflding. A Juxuriously appointed theater with | a seating capacity of 3,200 will occupy | the ground floor of the building. It will have its entrance on F street near the alley. The Lasky-Famous Play- ers Corporation, it is =aid, will be vear lease to the theater. | tions and equipment for the theater alone, it is estimated, would cost $300.000 It is planned to have the club's TWO IN AUTO FLEE OF EBBITT HOUSE IS PLANNED| | ternantional obligat tlement of a ques | disturb the long | two nations.” | The exchanges took place | first meeting of the two comv which will attem formula for settlement of Hopes to Pay All Ambasadors de Cartier adoption and normal func the Dawes plan, although give to Belgium “only a sm 1of what we are entitled to. gradual curtailment of government expepnditures gave Belgium reason to hope that she would succeed in iher persevering efforts to place her finances on a sound basis Belgium would have taken up ear Mistaken for a police agent detailed | lier with the United States the fund- to spot Maryland moonshiners, J. N. | ing of her debt, she contended, “but Becker of Takoma Park and Miss|for the non-fulfillment of many sol Nola Spencer, 1421 Ives place South.|emn Pledges given to her people dur. east, missed death by inches last night | P&, the war S ¥ = | “The situation so created,” he add- when six negroes opened fire on their | oq “was made even more eritical by automobile as it sped down the La|the fact that, during the four vears Plata road about eight miles from the | of occupation, Belgium was forced to District line. pay Germany, under t of war Five bullets whistled through one of | levies in cash, and as a result of the the opened side windows of the sedan, | imposed use of German currency. a passed within an inch or two of their| A O L = heads, and cut holes in the windshield | °f P€aTly $2.000,000,000. of the car as ihey hummed on ouz‘[ Cites Nature of Debt. into the night. Both Becker and Miss | “You are also aware of the sums a RAIN OF BULLETS Narrowly Escape Death When Negroes Open Fire on Wrong Man. l and expenditures made at the request of | foot across the Potomac River to the | PT e ey iy g st a An ilstory buflding to stand |quarters on the top flcor of the bulld- ous departments and their wants and beca of this it possible for him to dispose of this preliminary re- | view of the tentative estimates in a| very short time. ! According to Gen. Lord. the esti- mates which will be submitted to Con- ess will be at least $20,000,000 less than the estimate of the preceding vear, and, without saying so directly, he inferred that the greater part of the slash would be borne by the Army and Navy. He would not state just what activities of these Government departments would *suffer the most, but he indicated that after the budget had set a total amount for national defense it would be up to those in charge of the national defense to ap- portion the money according to their best judgment. Generous to Air Service. Gen. Lord made it very plain, how- ever, that the Army and Navy air services would be treated generously. The inference was drawn that the Budget Bureau will make no reduc- tions in this branch of national de- fense, but, on the contrary, will prob- ab it Gen. Lord calls attention to the fact that between $18,000,000 and $19,000,- 000 is available during the current yvear for new airplanes for the Army and Navy and that the construction of these planes has absorbed the en- tire capacity of the manufacturing plants engaged in airplane building. nion the administration must rything possible to en- courage private idustry if the capacity for airplane manufacture is to be increased. Now that Gen. Lord has discussed with President the complete tenta- tive ¢ es. he will prepare to con- durt ©s with the heads of the various partments of the Govern- ment rela € to changes in the pres- ent fizures. While Gen. cate of the building p: Columbia, will at | | ti | | | i i | | | Lord is a strong advo- administration's public ram for the District of | nd hopes that Congress the next session enact legis lation t will make it possible to en- ter upon this program. he declined to | say today whether or not there is any | reason to feel hopetul at this time. | i Gen. Lord said that he had not been | able to figure just where there will be | any great saving in money by a gen-| eral reorganization of the executive departments, as has been |)rnpuset|.| He believes in the proposal and he | sizcerely hopes that Congress will see | to pass the reorganization bill which has the stamp of approval of | the President, but he cannot make | himself believe that in the matter of dollars and cents the savings will be | at all important. In his opinion the saving will be in the matter of pro- moting the efficiency of the Govern- ments working departments, and there is not the slightest doubt in his 'mind | that this saving will be gigantic. He| pointed out that there is a tremendous | waste of time and duplication of effort in the Government departments, and that while it might possibly be a sav- ing of $5,000,000 or $10,000,000 an- nually if ‘the reorganization bill is enacted, the increase in efficiency would be far greater than the amount of money thus mentioned. TImpressed With Economy. Gen. Lord said that the department heads have long since learned that the administration is in earnest in the matter of governmental economy, and that the varfous heads with whom he has to deal in arriving at conclusions | have acted splendidly. In this con nection, he explained, that there is a| likelihood that he has been ungen- erous in the matter of certain neces- | sary appropriations for activitles | which are absolutely essential, and to | rectity these possible errors of judg- ment he will again hear the heads of the departmenis in question, and if they furnish him with sufficlent proof in favor of their claims, he will see to Column 3.) Efficiency Increase. 2, (Continued on Page | capture | been wrecked and whisky found in it. body was found in the plant of the | Pacific Cellulose Co., after an explo- | sion had wrecked the building. ¢ The victim of the explosion, which occurred at Martinez, near here, was at first believed to be Schwartz. who was manager of the chemical labora tory. Police, however, insisted on fur- ther investization, prompted by the fact that wartz carried more than $100.000 insurance, some of the type | which pays double indemnity in case | of accidential or violent death. Although Schwartz's wife and the family physician and attorney were | positive the body was that of the | chemist, authorities became convinced s that of Warren Barbe, itinerant vangelist and son of the Rev. John arbe of Jersey Shore, Pa. Schwartz's was brought about by iden- | tification of a newspaper photograph. C. W. Hayward, proprietor of the Oakland Apartment Building, where Schwartz took refuge, happened to mention at a dinner party that one of Bis lodgers Was in hiding. The lodger told hini his automobile had | Police Surround House. Conversation turned to the Schwartz | mystery and some one showed Hay- ward the photograph, which he recog- nized, although Schwartz had later grown a mustache. Police were noti- fled and soon surrounded the apart- ment house. No answer was heard to a_demand to open the door of the Schwartz apartment, but as the police were bat- | tering their way in, a shot rang out., Schwartz was found with a pistol | wound in his forehead and he died on the way to a_ hospital. In a letter left to his wife, Schwartz admitted he had slain a_man, but in self-defense. He said the man had entered the laboratory and demanded work or money. Denied both, Schwartz said the stranger attacked | him and Schwartz was forced to| strike out to protect himself. “Now, 1 wish to tell you, my dear little girl, I do not know the man, never looked how he was dressed, never touched him after that. The only thing I did_was to try to burn him up, to wipe him out and go—go, I do not know where.” In Schwartz’'s pocket was a ticket to Barstow, in southern California, and | folded around the ticket was a map of Mexico. He had $572 in money. Schwartz never left the apartment, Which he rented July 30, before the ex- sion. PO e night of July 30, Schwartz telephoned his wife that he was through work and would be home { subject to some readjustments, place | The The converging of so great a gather- ing at the narrow Highway Bridge and on the Military road, bordering preliminary figures, which are estimated receipts at $600,600,000 and | 4 A {the horse show grounds,resulted in obligations and expenditures at $649.- one of the most serious traffic jams 371,000, leaving an operating deficit | {n the memory of military and civilian of $48,771,000, from which is deducted | police. both prior to and immediately $11,622,000 for outstanding liabilities | after the rites. and for civil service retirement trans-| _Although the fer. | shortly after 10 o'cloc The cash deficit closely approaches | the estimate made by Postmaster Gen. | eral New several weeks ago when he | placed the probable deficit around $40,- | Fiery Sermon Delivered. 000.000. ve .. : The whole afternoon and evening The amount of the deficit for the|qere fraught with activities for the fiscal vear of 1 is attributed, not| Klansmen. The program began at entirely but to a great extent, to the | he" (ot grounds at 3 o'clock, when postal pay bill. which, enacted this|,' “Klan spiritual” was held, during Spring. was made retroactive to Jan-|\hich the Rev. Dr. A. H. Gulledge of uary 1 so that the department hascolumbus, Ohio, “national speaker of been paying increased salaries to its|yo" Tnyvigible Fmpire,” delivered a army of some 350,000 employes for the | got gl 0Pl non last six months of the fiscal vear,” a| “\yithout ostentation, and almost un- postal service statement sald. “ON|ynown even to newspaper nen, the the other hand, the increase In postage | robed knights also journeyed to Ar- rates established to meet the raises )i cton Cemetery and laid floral trib- in salaries did not become effective!yeq on the tomb of the Unknown Sol- untll April 13, and was in operation|gier and on the grave of the late Wil. gnly two and a half months of the|jay Jennings Bryan. The Common. QiRcA R e ler has been referred to by member: lof the order as “the greatest Klans { man.” | With nightfall the | of the horse show grounds took on an TRUCK RUNS OVER CHILD. |extremely animated appearance. Ear- Girl in Hospital Seriously Injured. 1y arrivals among the spectators saw Driver Is Held. lenacted before their eves a picture 3 they have seen heretofore only in the Run over by an_automobile truck Mmovies or have read about in books near her home at 55 @ street north.|It Was the “gathering of the Klans east, today, ear-old Jean P. Miller | The White-robed figures came mys- Was' serfously injured. She was hur. | teriously from all directions, mostly by red to Sibley Hospital, a few blocks |automobile, and, forming distinc away. Physicians at that institution | ETOUPS, took up their various stations were unable to tell at noon today the |about the fleld. extenu of her injuries. | Around the towering, somber cross, Police say the truck was operated | &S Vet unlighted, they formed a great by Theodore Robinson, colored. awho | circular guard of honor, each sentinel is at the second precinct police sta-| Placing on a standing beside him a tion awaiting the outcome of the|6:foot American flag. Inside this child’s injury. circle no person was allowed. Vantage Places Lost. Those who had thought the initia- tion was to take place inside this cor- don, at the foot of the flaming cross, were forced to abandon the places of vantage they had selected in favor of other stations in the vicinity of the grandstand, in front actual rites were conducted. Through the courtesy of Klan offi- a_ Star reporter was permitted ceremony was over k. it was after biles carrying Klansmen or spectators were free of the congestion CALL IRISH PARLIAMENT. Special Session to Deal With Un- employment Situation. BELFAST, Northern Ireland, August 10 (#).—Owing to the gravity of the unemployment _situation in northern | Ireland the Ulster Parliament has | been specially summoned to convene | September 1. colorful proceedings, and record the The necessity of early action to L ey moeer cope with unemployment, to aumunze'f::hs;.m"’,;ffi‘mnan_,. SHler phEssasor further borrowing and to give the! tyhen the hooded and robed knights | cials, major kleagles on the judges’ pavil- fon, which served as the dais for the soon. Twenty minutes later an explo- (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) government additional power to deal| haq formed a second cordon to Kee s Ve i 2 with the situation is given as the|the milling crowds from approaching reason for the summons. too close to the platform Kleagle Monument to Bryan Planned in Nation-Wide Campaign By the Associated Press. Although little less than a week has elapsed since he was laid to rest, friends of Willlam Jennings Bryan are considering the erection of a suitable monument to replace the wooden slab that now marks his grave in Arlington National Cemetery. The will of the Commoner, pro- bated Saturday In Miami, Fla., made a brief provision for “the use of such sum as my wife and chil- dren may deem proper for the purchase of a monument to mark my grave.” That this request, however, will be supplemented by the contribu- tions from his many friends and admirers seems most probable, es- pecially in view of the announce- ment In Chicago vesterday of the launching of a Natfon-wide move- ment to obtain funds for the erection of a memorial. The will of the Commoner, filed Mueller called for silence and then opened the rites with a prayer, in which Divine guidance was invoked for the President, his cabinet and the Government in_general. The first speaker, whose name was (Canllnl.lid- on Page 2, f,'o_lumn 4.) LEAVES TWO WIDOWS. ‘Women Plan Burial of Aviator Killed in Crash. LOS ANGELES, August 10 (P).— As an aftermath to an airplane crash Friday, in which Willlam R. Coe, ‘World War aviator, lost his life, two women, each of whom supposed she was Coe’s lawful wife, met today and concurred in funeral arrangements for the dead airman. As a result of their conference the body will be turned over to Coe's father, who will take it for burial to Alma, Nebr. After the conference the two wid- in Arlington with characteristic Bryan phrases and idealisms, by requesting that the monument be placed at his grave, leads friends here to think that the funds collected in a Na- tion-wide campaign will be added to the memorial to be erected eventually in or near Arlington Cemetery. Miss Dionessa Bryan Evans, god- daughter of the Commoner, in making the announcement in Chi- cago, said a site had been donated for the monument at Clewiston, Fla., but it was the bellef here that this plan might be changed or another move started to aid in the erection of a shrine to Mr. Bryan In the Capital City of the Nation in_ whose affairs he was interested for so many years. The will, covering largely in de- tail the distribution of his estate, held but one brief sentence as to the memorial. andio Programs—Page 14. 4 midnight before many of the automo- | i | wide expanses {to stand with the kleagles, titans and | as a monument to the newspaper pro- fession is suggested by the committee. {1t is estimated that the entire project | would cost $9,000,000, and arrange- | ments have been made to finance it through P. W. Chapman & Co. | of New York and Chicago, F. R. Sawyer & Co. of Boston, and Love Macomber Co. of New York The building will be Gothic in design and ing. with stores on the ground floor. Other parts of the building will be de- signed as offices for Washington news- paper correspondents and magazine representatives C. W. & George L. Rupp have |been selected as the architects. The contract for construction of the build- ing has been tendered to the George A. Fuller Co MINERS PUT STRIKE 1P T0 OPERATOR | End Efforts Pending Accept- ance of Check-0ff and Wage Boost. | By the Associated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., | 10.—Suspension of work by | men in the hard coal fields September i1 appeared more centain today fol- lowing publication of a reply from | John L. Lew president of the | United Mine Workers of Americu, to | the letter recently addressed him by | samuel D. Warriner, chairman of the nthracite operators’ conference. | 26 Warciner's deter, made publio {1ast Thursday, denied that the op- {erators’ committee was under in- | structions to refuse concessions to the | miners regardless of the merit or | logic of their demands, and expressad {hope that “means will be found to { compose the differences between us and avold a suspension of operations.” Mr. Lewis in his_reply said the Warriner letter merely confirmed the | previous position taken by the op- | erators’ scale committee in the con- | ferences hére. He said both Mr. Warriner and the negotiators were August of which the committed against granting the min-, | ers wasge increases and the check-off. Issues Ultimatum. “Be it so,” Mr. Lewis said. “We do inot have any inclination to further argue when judgment has been given. {1 will be glad to hear from you when | you abandon this position.” | " Hope ot averting a hard coal tie-up | apparently rests today almost wholly ! upon two slim chances. | One, according to observers, would be for the Government to intervene in advance of September 1, which Sec- retary of Commerce Hoover and others have said officially the Gov- ernment will not do. The other, it was said, would be for the anthracite mine owners to “abandon” their position, as Mr. Lewis suggested. Those who have tested the temper of the operators the most deeply pronounced this im- possible. There has been no intimation of any peace overtures coming from the miners themselves. PLOT TO KILL KING SEEN. Spanish Police Jail Anarchist Leader on Suspicion. PARIS, August 10 (P).—Hendaye, an anarchist, was arrested recently in Spain on suspicion of plotting to kill King Alfonso during the King's visit to the royal Summer residence at San Sebastian, according to reports re- cefved here today from Spain. Hendaye has been taken to Madrid and after investigation several other arrests have been made at various places throughout Spain. 158,000 | AL THES AGAI TOSHIN CHANNEL Lillian Harrison Makesl Fourth Attempt, Starting This Time by Daylight. By the Associated Press BOULO France, August 10.— Miss Lillian Harrison, Argentine girl swimmer, began her fourth attempt |to swim the English Channel, starting from Cape Gris Nez at 12:12 this afternoon. Miss Harrison struck out firmly, swimming with a strong breast stroke at a gait of about 25 to the minute, which she expects to maintain throughout. The weather was becoming cloudy and there was a slight breeze from the north when she started. The sea, however, was very calm. When Miss Harrison was a little more than a mile from shore a storm +broke, with heavy rain falling. The wind was increasing with some white eaps showing. Conditions were stead- ily growing worse. Before the start Miss Harrison went through the usual process of greasing her body, her trainer, T. W. Burgess, |laying on an extra heavy coat of fat, in view of the fact that the swim may last throughout the night when the water becomes cooler. The Argentine girl was in splendid | physical condition and high spirits. ! “I'will do it this time or never,” she declared. Miss Gertrude Ederle, the American girl, who will attempt the channel swim next week, and Miss Viet of the American Women's Swimming As- sociation watched Miss Harrison start from the cliffs under the lighthouse at Griz-Nez, but did not accompany the swimmer on the tus. “It will be my turn next week,” i Spencer were slightly cut by glass, but otherwise escaped injury. The couple had gone out for a &hort spin. Taking the La Plata road to southern Maryland, they had run about & miles when Becker's attention was attracted by three negroes stand. ing just off the side of the road. A econd later his headlights picked up the forms of three more negroes on the same side of the highway, but about 10 vards ahead of the first trio. Volley of Shots Fired. Just as the sedan passed the sec ond three a volley of shots rang out, of passing bullets rang in the ears of the terrified couple and immediately the sound of the crashing windshield. Fortunately, however, the windshield did not completely shatter, only a sec- tion near the base flying back into the faces of the occupants of the car. Enraged by the attack, Becker opped his car and, forgetting the risk he incurred, turned back. As he approached the spot he again saw the negroes and heard one say, with an oath: “If he's not satisfied with that we’ll give him some more.” Then Becker realized the danger he had un- wittingly placed Miss Spencer in and top_speed. Upon reaching the District police booth on Good Hope road Becker stopped and reported the affair to the officer on duty. A second man, who later proved to be the agent, was also in the place. The Washington author- tles declared they could not do any thing since the affair had occurred in Maryland. BOY LEPERS REMOVED. Two Who Caused Furore Newark Sent to Colony. NEWARK, N. J.. August 10 (P).— Hale and Frank George, 11 and 13 years old, respectively, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Francis George, of this city, who have been under treatment for leprosy at Soho Isolation Hospital since June 15, have been removed to the United States leper colony at Carville, La. Early in June the boys were remov- ed from Avon Avenue School, suffer- ing from a peculiar skin disease, and when the case was pronounced to be leprosy it aroused considerable agita- tion. Many of the school books were destroyed by the Board of Education. in Gasoline Price Cut 2 Cents. NEW YORK, August 10 (#).—Gas- oline was reduced 2 cents a gallon by the Standard O# Co. of New York to. day In New York and New England, making the tank wagon price 20 cents a gallon. (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) cent in May. Toppers of Colored As Klan Car Bre High dignitaries of the colored Elks were" stattered in all direc- tions last . evening, their silk top hats sent spinning across the street and ‘their ‘émblems tossed into the air, when a machine tore through their parade ranks and continued up the street with Ku Klux pennants flying in the breeze. As a result, Arthur M. Wilson, son of Police Lieut. James E. Wilson of 804 Kennedy street, al- leged -driver of the machine, was pursued by Policeman W. H. Brauning of the second precinct and after a long chase arrested and charged with reckless driving. He put up $50 collateral. Today in Police Court a contin- uance was granted by Judse Isaac R. Hitt until tomorrow evening at Elks Go Spinning aks Up Big Parade 8 o'clock. - The collateral was held for his appearance. According to Policeman Braun- ing, Wilson knocked down several of ‘the marchers and narrowly missed injuring them severely. The paraders numbered about 100. At the station house Wilson and three companions who were with him in the car refused to make any comment. The defendant told the policemen it was a borrowed machine and that he had nothing o do with the Klan insignia with which it was decorated. Lieut. Wilson, father of the boy and in charge of police recruiting and assistant at the Traffic Bureau in giving out permits, is said to have refused to aid his son In any, way. 3 for a fraction of a second the whistle | shot past the waiting ambushers at | The previous price change | by this company was an advance of 1| which we had to spend to rebuild our | devastated regions and to restore our | wantonly destroyved factories. | Calling attention that ‘“crushing | post-war taxes” had heen levied upon the Belgian people, the Ambassador | said that, relying on the sence of jus. {tice of which the American Natio | had given them so many proofs | Belgian people sought funding of debt “inspired by the re: lect | the nature and history as well as by the just co; | of our economic and fi | ties created by an unj of 1 which we were the innocent victims. Secretary Mellon in his reply sai Belgians could rest assured that the position “will have the most symp: thetic and friendly consideration b our commission.” Mellon Pledges Fairness. “The funding of your debt to us within your capacity to pay,” he added { “means far more than the mere pay- | ment by vou and the receipt by us {of a certain number of dollars each | vear. 1t is a recognition of the in- | tegrity of international obligations and | the settlement of a question which ! might disturb the long friendship of | our two nations. To accomplish these | results is worthy or our every effort “The question before us is of narrow compass. There are but two parties {to our negotiation. Politics, local or | international, are not in involved. We {sit here reasonable men around & |table. Under such conditions we will | soon learn each other’s viewpoints, de- | termine the true facts governing the | situation, and should reach an agree | ment fair to your country and ours.” SOCIETY GIRL MISSING, MENTAL ILLNESS SEEN Evelyn J. Hobbs, 18, Wanders From New York Home Clad in Boy's Clothing. | By the Associated Prese NEW YORK, August 10—Palice of Ithe metropolitan area and parts of |New England were pressing their search today for Evelyn Jacquelin | Hobbs, 18-year-old society girl. who { vanished two days ago from her par- ents’ Park avenue apartment clad in | boy’s clothes. | Weakened by recent operation for the removal of Jer tonsils, it is feared | that she wandered off with $25 in her Ipockets during a period of mental | aberration. | Her father, Elon S. Hobbs, lawyer {and president of the Iron and Steel {Board of Trade. refused to coun tenance the thought of an elopement | or kidnaping. Evelyn, he said, was fond | of outdoors and cared little for men. She had no quarrels with her family, Mr. Hobbs declared. Mrs. Hobbs, who was Miss Anne Smith of Hackwood Park, Va., is on the verge of a nerv- ous breakdown. Evelyn, in her brother's hiking suit, looks much like a slim, dark-haired, dark-eyed vouth. She left the apart- ment Saturday morning. She formerly attended a private school in Washing- ton and the Ogontz School near Phila- delphia. TRANSEUROPE FLIGHT ON. Frenchman Begins Three-Day Trip to Moscow and Back. PARIS, August 10 UP)—The French aviator Capt. Arrachart, left the Vil- lacoublay alrk-ome at 4:45 o'clock this morning in an attempt to make a fiying tour of Europe in three days. He expects to arrive at Constaninople after a nonstop flight today. His plans call for a flight from Con- stantinople to Moscow on the second day and from Moscow to Paris on the third day. He is accompanied by an engineer. The plane is fitted with a 450 hoas- power engine. ehen ion