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WEATHER. (U.'S. Weather Bureau Mostly cloudy tonigh row, probably showe much change in tempx Temperaturs lowest, Full report t S tomorrow; on page orecast.) and tomor- not at 4 p.m. ) p.m. ves- Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 20 ¢ eHin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 991657, & tered as post_office, second class matter Washington, D C WASHINGTON D. C, TUESDAY, UG AGENT CHIEF ILED AS HEAD OF ATION-WIDE RING Aides Taken After Chi- cago Exposure. SOURCE OF U. S. SUPPLY IS BELIEVED REVEALED Leads Raids—Officials Are Charged With Trading Dope for Stolen Goods. Trey v 11.—Col. Will chief of the narcotic Internal Revenue De the Chicago district, his trusted istants been arrested the charge of for the loot of robbe rrests, agents he three of as Coincident with the the special intel unit of the Revenue Bureau, reinforced e than 100 detectives, raided f opium joints in Chinatown and the South de \rrested with Beach were Dennis J. O'Brien, Alonso Baxter and Harry Die Other arrests will be made, said federal agents, as part of a na tion-wide inquiry and clean-up of al leged afting conditions in the Fed eral narcotic service After three hour » led Federal ag warehot ad stored con i telligenc on questioning, ¥ ents to a North he He ide rol t ' quantity of marcotics. welry and sal rcotics for the valuables. e told examiners he had bought the ¢ “to help the poor devils along.” He valued his cache at $250,000. Leads Raiders to Cache. | | | | i e in which he confessed | BY. ownership to a quantity | —Si able merchandise | today the loot of numerous; Kian meeting had been broken up in series, but denied he had given |n shooting affra AUGUST *“From Press to Home The Star Within the Hour” 's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 93,911 * ) Means Associated Pr TWO CENTS. ARMY OF PRIVATE GUARDS HIRED | TO RESIST NEW YORK BANDITS Mounting Insurance Rates Make Firms of All Types Act for Own Protection in Light of Alleged Inadequaie Police. By the Associsted Press. NEW YORK, August 11.—While the National Crime Commission is arous- ing public opinion to the end that New York may be made sufer for New Yorkers and their possessions and the Pifth Avenue Association is clamor- ing for 2,000 additional police, there is an economic factor that i working overtime to the same end. This is the mounting rate for burglary insur- ance. A The immediate resuit has been to cause many financial houses and mer- chandising_establishments to set up defenses of their own. Ior obvious reasons not much ix said publicly sbout this private protection, but a tour through that part of Manhattun south of Times Squure reveals an ex- traordinary situation and Suggest that the business of robbery and bur glary in the future may be as h ardous ri; for crimi; s as it has been for the insurance companies. The most notable departure has been that on the part of the Furriers’ 1 curity Aliance, the members of | which have been ‘especially hard hit. Two recent robberies each netted the |thieves loot of $150,000. Insurance | |companies have in some cases canceled | policles on fur stocks. | | The alllance has organized a squad | | of sharpshooters, composed of ex {service men, and these supplement the | | patrol of the whole fur district, ly- ing generally in the vieinity of the | | Penn: vania station. i S{lk and velvet dealers occupying a | f mile along Madison and Fourth | ivenues have added to the number of thetr private watchmen, and, in addl-| tion. almost without exception, have connected their establishments by el tric ‘alarm signals with private agen- | cies who maintain automobile patrols to respond to signals, Elsewhere, where storerooms and anlts are crowded with merchandise of inestimable value. the same el “m'ule precautions have been taken Private detective azencies are reaping (Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) 15 KLANSMEN HELD IN SHOOTING FRAY Five Spectators Wounded. 75 of Hooded Band Taken After Riot Call. the Associated Press. FRAMINGHAM, Mass., August 11. ty of the 75 men taken into cus- last night after a Ku Klux in which five men were wounded, were released today. The other 15 were held in $200 bail for appearance August 19 on charges of assault with dangerous weapons. Two of the wounded, Alonso Foley and Thomas Sliney, both of Saxon- Elmer L. Irey, chief of the special| yijle, are at the Framingham Hospi- who came from shington to work with Patrick Roche, special agent here, disclosed the raids, and arrests were ordered by David H. Blair, commissioner of telligence ~unit, | | | tal. Foley, shot through the left temple with buckshot, is in a serfous condition. Sliney has two facial wounds. The others, Willlam Brad itnernal revenue, and Lincoln C. An-{ley and Edmund Purcell of Framing- ecently was given a free cement matters by Sec. drews who hand in enfc retary Mellon Search of the apartments of Beach and O'Brien Irey said, uncovered readily salible goods identified as stelen and worth more than $30,000. were wearing apparel, jewelry, curios, radio sets, guns and cameras, search- lights, fans, arc lamps gnd a viglet ray machine uesd in beauty parlors. Beach came here four from Philadelphia and had acquired a reputation as a lecturer on_drugs and their evils. He brought Baxter and Dietrich with him. They became, with O'Brien, an ace of long service here, the most feared of narcotic raiding squads. Five weeks ago a corps of special investigators, some of them Chinese, reported to Rochy They found that Col. Beach possessed a beautiful Chi- nese green jade vase, worth $5,000, and a green jade oplum smoking out: fit which was considered one of the finest in the world. A fortnight ago r: largest seizure in confiscated opium iders made their ears when they and drugs valuec at nearly a quarter of a million dol- {men Wwho were hiding inside. Jars in the a Gil- hooley, called dai lists of name: that indicatec extent existed here The Chinatown raids were timed to take place simultaneously. Oplum outfits were seized and negroes and Chinese addicts found in places were sted. today more arrests Giant Ring Seen Broken Chief Ire gation leading to the arrests and ds, said that 20 special agents from ¢ cities came here vesterday and 1 a few hours had been able to purchases of narcotics in Chi artment of Kitty “Queen a ring of Nation-wide with oth with make est exposure of a dope de in the United States Chicago has been the of supply for the entire coun All the biz men in the dope in their headquarters here. brot to the States and Mexico. © was no question that estigators had sufficlent infor to convict Beach and his al- confederates. Warrants for arrest issued by Federal Ada Cliffe hours before raids were started Police inquiry to determine whether th Side cemen were acting as rotectors he Chinese drug ped- e irted at once, officlals clared dustry make stuft Canz te said th The tion their vere T s will be id Successor Is Named. I = \ trivial circumstance furnished the clue in the igation of Beach his con Roche said. After agents had arrested a drug whose bonds were set at Baxter intervened and obtain- L reduction in the bonds to $1,000 fore the vender's trial the arrest- ing agents were sent out of Chicago. Baxter appealed for the prisoner, who was given a 60-day sentence as an ad- dic and not as a peddler. he said his investigators had d certain stolen articles which used in the bartering deals and ter were found in the homes - arrested agents, ipt. John Stege bureau estimated the value of nar- cotic drugs seized in the raids last night and early today with smoking layouts at §50,000. The police squads were held in read- iness for further raids upon request by Government agents Ulmer, in temp in Indiar charge of narcotic olis, has been take Beach's iads ed tic which OFFICIALS. Beach, Who Rose From Ranks, Was Trusted by Chiefs. Arrest in Chicago of Col. Will Gray Beach, head of that division in charge of enforcing the narcotic act, evi- dently came as a great shock to nar- cotlc chiefs in Washington. Nutt, chief of the nar- of the prohibition unit. olumn 6.) Page 3, Column Included | ears ago | in detailing the investi- | of the detective | i | | | | of the Dope |others In addition, they found |bushes. and telephone numbers | they said, two shotguns, a rifie and | several | police Raids pianned | Framingham police station. were expeectd to net 200 or|sald to |on from ambush as they stood in the | perior and begged to be accepted for {highway in front of the Libbey farm. | the novitiate. | | { | am and Francis Maguire of Saxon- ville, were able to go home after their wounds were dressed. The riot, one of the most serious Klan disorders ever staged in New England, started last night when a crowd of hostile spectators gathered outside of a field of the farm of Pearly W. Libbey, where 100 Klans- men intended to hold their fifth meet- ing in as many weeks. Taunts Followed by Shot. A few taunts and rocks hurled at the Klansmen by the outsiders were followed by six charges of buckshot fired from the darkness near a hen- house beside the Libbey house. As the five men fell the outsiders dis- persed, pausing long enough to pick up the wounded and carry them to the nearby office of Dr. C. J. Carr, who dressed their wounds and then notified the State police. Lieut. Charles T. Beaupre and four other State troopers rushed to the cene. He Immediately called troopers rom the Concord, Holden and Read- ing stations. The police. then Libbey - farmhouse surrounded the and arrested 45 A search 22 more and 8 were found hiding in the State troopers also found, of the barn revealed two belts of ammunition on the Klan headquarters meeting place. A jammed rifle, it was | sald, was fovnd in an automobile. 10 Others Slightly Hurt. The 75 men were loaded on State trucks and removed to the Ten men, have heen members of the anti-Klan crowd, had minor injurles dressed. As many more, injured by rocks and clubs, did not require medi- cal _treatment. Early today hundreds of men from surrounding towns came here and joined the throngs of town folk which milled about the streets in the vicinity of the police station where the 75 alleged Klansmen were locked up. A large detail of State and town police was on hand to prevent further disorders. Capt. Parker, head of the State con- stabulary, led the investigation. He ordered every ome of the prisoners held until he had questioned them The stories told by the two fac in the riot_differ widely. The Klanners claim that they were fired The Klansmen claim that rocks had been hurled at them from the high- way. This was denied by spectators who said that they were not molested. FRENCH CUTS OFF I;AMILY. Field Marshal Leaves His Entire Estate to Lawyer. LONDON, August 11 () —What the newspapers term ‘“‘the strange will” of the late fleld marshal, the Earl of Ypres, a document of eight lines, in which his entire estate of £25,161 is left to Edward Geoffrey Cox, the field marshal’s solicitor, was filed for probate today. The will does not mention the earl's widow nor his two sons and daughter. It is recalled that in 1918 the House of Commons made the earl a grant of £50,000 as a testimonial of his serv- ices to the nation. ADOPTION OF SPAS " ORLIS ANNULLED Court Considers Only Age Is-| g sue—Cinderella Would Enter Convent. | | | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 11.—The adop- tion of Mary Louise Spas by Edward | W. Browning, millionaire real estate operator, was annulled today by Sur- rogate Noble of Queens County on the ground that the girl had misrep. resented her age. The age issue 1.as the only one pre- sented by District Attorney New combe, who entered the motion for | revocation. Mary was present, as was also her foster father, when the surrogate’s de. cision was announced. The girl show ed little emotion. Mary and her parents agreed to the | annullment, the text of the agreement containing a provision that the gi was not to participate in any right as heir to the fortune of Mr. Browning. | Her relatives also bound themselve. not to bring suits of any nature against Mr. Browning or his helirs Apparently abandoning her efforts! to enter a convent, Mary returned to her home, in Astoria, when she left the courthouse. A large crowd of curious persons { waited in the little building and crowd- ed the square outside from an early hour this morning to witness the final act in the “Cinderella” romance. Still Writing Story. Mary Louise today continued to capitalize her brief experience by writing her story for syndicate publi- | cation. t i | l _Mary was assailed by Mr. Newcombe as “designing and unscru- pulous.” “She sought to obtain ease and luxury regardless of everything else,” he said. “It’s the same old story of money—of trying to get some- thing for nothing.” The Bohemian girl also was termed la fraud by Dr. Joseph F. C. Luhan, |friend of “Browning, who was with |him when Mary Louise was reported to have attempted suiclde last Friday | night. | “It was a déliberate bluff,” Dr.| Luhan sald. “She merely smeared | her lips with poison and then locked | herself in the bathroom crying, ‘I want to die!’ When I threatened to| have her locked up as an attempted | suicide, she screamed. ‘No, no, I didn't | want to commit suicide.” ™ TRIES TO BECOME NUN. | | | i “Everything Is Ashes,” Says Girl; Priest Advises Her to Wait. NEWARK, N. J.. August 11 (®).— The Newark Star Eagle in a copy- right story today will announce that Mary Louise Spas, the 21-year-old Bo- hemian girl, who unsuccessfully tried to become a modern Cinderella, spent the night and this morning in New- ark in a vain effort to enter a convent and become a nun. “If T cannot become a nun,” sobbed the young woman, “I'm going to mar- ry a poor boy and we'll work and have | a nice home.” At the convent of St. John the Bap tist, 17- Amity place, the girl threw herkelf at the feet of the mother su- “Oh, I'm so tired of everything!" she sobbed. ‘“Please také me, sister; everything is ashes.” A later appeal to the Dominican Fathers, at 337 South Orange avenue, | also failed. Advised to Drop Plan. “I don't think you are capable of making a judgment now,” a father of the order told her. “If you insist you can go to the convent station near Summit or to the House of the Good Shepherd, near here, but I advise against it. Go home with your father {and mother; I give you my biessing.” | Accompanied by ~her father and | mother, the girl who for a day or two had been the adopted daughter of | Edward W. Browning, wealthy real | estate operator, arrived in Newark | | shortly after midnight. | “Take me to this place.” she told James O'Neill, a taxi driver, as he pointed to a newspaper story telling | (Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) Bryan With Bible Is Plan for Florida Memorial Statue: By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 11.—Clew- iston, Fla., has been definitely se- lected as the site for the national monument _to the late Willlam Jennings Bryan. Announcement to this effect was made today by Miss Dionessa Bryan Evans, his goddaughter. The monument will stand on a site on the south shore of Lake Okcechobee. Florida was the Com- moner’s adopted State, said Miss Evans, adding: “I feel that it is the place the memorial should be. He was not primarily a politician, but- a crusader, and he believed that there is a future for indus- wrial fulk & Flerida.™” - < Amidst - Children | | The site of the monument was | donated by one of Mr. Bryan's firmest friends, Miss Evans said, and contributions of several thou- sand dollars already have been re- celved toward the cost of erection. Miss Evans' idea of the monu- ment embraces a heroic statue of Bryan, Bible in hand, surrounded by children. The committee launch- ing the plan expects to add inter- est by offering prizes for a suitable epitaph. In choosing Clewiston rather than Arlington Cemetery, Miss Evans said she was guided by her knowledge that Mr. Bryan was “‘a home lover.” Mrs. Bryan has ap- . broved the selection, she said. ] | great | expueriment | day PRESIDENT FAVORS LEASING DIRIGIBLES F0 Supports Offer of Group to Use Los Angeles for Pas- senger Experiment. TRANSATLANTIC SERVICE MAY RESULT FROM PLAN | Coolidge Would Encourage Work by Putting Shenandoah at Concern’s Disposal. BY 2. RUSSELL YOUNG, Staft Correspondent of The sumvek waHIT SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., President Coolidge expansion of the Air Service, com mercially, and intends to encourage private concerns to develop air navi- zation This position was expressed today as the result of the proposals made by John H Hammond, jr. Gen Clarence R. Edwar and Herbert Satterlee for « lease of the Los An- geles for experimental purposes. This company proposes to use the Los An- st Hou August 11 in the 1 believes igeles in an air dirigible line from New York to Chicago, and if it proves profitable the company will build air dirigibles twice the carrying capacit. and extend the line to Omaha Louis, Detroit, Pittsburgh and ton Another plan sion of the service lanta and the Panama Canal Zone. If the service in the United States succeeds, these engineers aud finan- clers, who expect Owen D. Young to head’the company, will build a trans- atlantic line. contemplates exten- to F Treaty Prevents Army Use. Under treaty, by obtained gible purposes. decided the terms of vhich the Los cannot be The to lease the Versailles the United States Angeles, the diri used for militaristic overnment has already it for commerc experiments, in the hope of fostering commer fon ial development of air navi- S0 as to havga reserve air in time of w The next some experts say, is going to be &ht in the air, and if commercial aviation developed here to any cegree the Government be able to call upon the commercial aviators and dirigibles in time of war. President Coolidge made it clear today that he favored the use of not only the Los Angeles but the Shenan doah as well for experimental com mercial purposes. He is not certain whether aviation can be best develop- | ging | ed ky the Government encour private concerns in this way or by a combination. He wants to see the done in a big way. His is to help business fn every way and so far as possible to keep the Government out of busines: Therefore, these dirigibles, or at least the Los Angeles, will be leased to private concerns policy Leaves Postal Rates Alone. The President has no idea what can | be done in the postal rates. He in- tends to leave the decision to the sub- | committee now holding hearings and will abide by its decision. It is un- derstood that this commission « will recommend some modifications of the present rates, to be effective July I, 1926. President Coolidge intends to leave White Court either Thursday or Fri- day to spend three or four days with his father, Col. John Cooiidge, at Plymouth, 'Vt., his birthplace. He has not decided whether to make the trip by motor or train. If the weather is good indications are that the party will go to Vermont by mo. tor, otherwise the President will take the train from Boston about noon and arrive five hours later at Ludlow whence he must motor 12 miles to Plymouth. It is the present inten- tion of the President to remain at White Court until some time after Labor day, and probably beyond the 15th of the month, so as to give his son John a real vacation after his soldiering at Camp Devens before the lad returns to college. However, de- velopments such as the coal strike or other public affairs may call the President back to Washngton early in_September. Postmaster General New is expected to come here some time this week to take up with the President the routine of his department and discuss the working out of the new postal rates. | Charles R. Crane, a Summer resident at Woods Hole, who was appointed Ambassador to China in the Taft ad- ministration and recalled before he could set sail because of an unfortu- nate speech, was a luncheon guest to- at White Court. The President spent the morning posing for his por- trzit, which is being painted by E. Tarbell, and is now approaching com- pletion. No decision has been made as yet by the President for the ambassa- dorship to Japan. Several names are under consideration, but have not veen made public. . RIFFS TORTURE CAPTIVES BY BURNING STOMACHS French Flyers Try to Prevent Be. ing Taken Alive—Casual- ties Are Great. By the Assciated Press. CASABLANCA, Morocco, August 11. —One of the forms of torture to which | the rebellious Riffin tribesmen subject jico during the last vear for which| their prisoners is burning out of the stomach. Consequently, the French fiyers try always to prevent being captured alive. The casualties among them, however, are heavy, for the Rif- flans are excellent marksmen. As the bombing planes frequently drop as low as 50 feet from the ground, to use machine guns against the enemy after loosing a cargo of bombs, the Riffian snipers are given good op- portunities, which they rarely neslect. e Bankrupt Owes $307,504. SAN FRANCISCO, August 11 (P).— Claiming Habilities of $307,504 and list- ing his assets at $255, Theodore New of this city, formerly of New York, today filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in Federal Court. New listed as his principal creditor Alex- ander New of New York City, to whom he owes $260,000, RPRIVATELINES would ! MIDSUMMER MUSIC UNIONS PLAN DRIVE ONLATIN-AMERICA Federation Backs Intensive Campaign—Mexican Immi- gration Curb Also Sought. By the Associated Press Plans for an int organize wage Latin America w by the Labor. A statement outlining the purposes of the movement, which to take more definite form at a conference at | American Federation Labor head- | rters here on August 27, has been out for circulation in all Latin American countries. The proposed con ference aiso will consider immigration campaign to throughout | announced today Pan-American Federation of earners Santiago Iglesi secretary of the eration. anncunced plan after including American Feq sultation with . Spanish-language an-American Fed- | the organization he and other labor leaders, rsident Green of the ration, had been in con. representatives from several sections of this and other coun tries, notably lahor union officials along the United States-Mexican bor- der. In these conferences there was much disc fon of the problem of im- migration from Mexico, and of the status of Mexican laborers who have been brought in from time to time to relieve past labor shortages in this country. i Plan Curb on Immigrants. TFor the consideration of this sub- iJ!\‘t Edwardo Moneda, general secre- tary of the Mexican Regional Federa. Ition of Labor, is expected to attend | the August 27 conference here. If a satisfactory plan to deal with border | immigration can be worked out, it | | will be presented to the United States land Mexican governments for ap- | proval. | This discussion, however, will be but {a part of the general purposes of the | movement. | “The Pan-American Federation of i Labor,” said Mr. Iglesias today. “in- | tends to use every possible proper ef- { fort to bring about rapid orgunization of all the great masses of workers in the Latin American republi The question of immigration from Mexico has assumed aspects which President Green and other American Federation officials regard as seriou: Iy requiring attention. They have been told that last November 35,000 Mexican laborers were brought in un- der a permit given by Government of- ficials to help out in the Southern cot- ton fields, but that two weeks later all but 200 of them were out of employ- ment and all were left eventually to shift for themselves on this side-of | the border. i Immigrant Tide Growing. Department of Labor statistics show | that in the five fiscal years ending in 11924 a total of 238,774 immigrants en- | tered the United States from Mexico, | compared with only 96,976 for the five {vears preceding. The emigrants to | Mexico from the United States during {the 10-vear period were 68,692. From {July 1, 1924, to April 30, 1925, immi- Erants numbering 25,077 came in from | Mexico, while 2,599 were crossing the | border in the opposite direction. ‘American _Federation officials have been advised that the situation already has received the active attention of the Mesican government, and that it has taken steps to stop the flow of Mexican labor northward from Tor- Teon toward the border. Luis N. Mo-; rones, the Mexican labor leader, who | is vice chairman of the Pan-American | Federation, has made a study of pos- sible remedies, and is expected to at- tend the Washington conference. Quota Plan Urged. Secretary Davis of the Labor De- partment advised the federation in a recent letter than 98 per cent of the | immigrant aliens admitted from Mex- i ! statistics are available—the year end- ;Ing June 30, 1924—were of the Mexi- ran race. Ninety-four per cent of the total signified an intention to reside 1in the three border States of Texas, | California and Arizona. The number | admitted in that year was 87,648, of which 36,950 said they had no occu- pation, while 41,249 were laborers and 15,227 were skilled laborers. The situation has led to a revival | of ugitation in some quarters that all | Latin American countries and Canada ! be placed under the quota law, from which they now are exempt. One labor leader has computed that if countries in this hemisphere were given quota allowances on the same basis as Eu- ropean countries, only 1,557 Mexicans and 19,618 Canadians could be admit ted annually B0 |#nd one at Moon Prairie. 1 sixteen Death for Dry Law Violators Is Urged By Bible Class Men | iated Press MADISONVILLE, Ky.. August 11.—A man's Bible class mude recommendations that, if put into efiect by the State Legislature as proposed, would result in every person in Kentucky paying with his life for the conviction of manu- facturing, selling or buying liquor. The recommendations were made by the business men’s Bible cla. at the Baptist Church, fol- lowing the killing from ambush of John Allen, county patrolman, who had been active in running down liquor law violators. Candidates for the legislature from this district will be petitioned to introduce the bill, members of the Bible class said today. CRES HIT BY FOREST FIRE By the Ass 11,500 Men Fighting Unsuc- cessfully to Control Blaze in Northwest. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, August 11— Scores of forest fires in the Pacific Northwest, which have burned over more than 30,000 acres of timber and stump land, continued blazing today. spite the efforts of more than 1,500 men to bring them under control. A fire near Scappoose, Oreg. burned over 15.000 land, it was estimated early today. but the fire's progress was then at a standstill. This fire also destroyed had | mucn valuable logging equipment, in- cluding a railroad trestle and an entire logping camp. Seven hundred acres were burned by a fire on Green Mountain, in Oregon The plant of a paper company in the district was ved from destruction lonly after a stremuous fight. A sawmitt was burned at Trails, Oreg., but the fire which destroyed it was reported under control today. Eight other fires in the same region also were reported under control. Lightning Causes Fires. Two serious fires resuited from lightning, one at Butte Falls, Oreg., - the Crater s threatened. in Commercial timber in ke National Forest w Twenty-one fires were reported or near Crater Lake National Forest. being on Government land and five on State land. Planes trying to patrol area_were forced to land because of inability to get above the smoke. In the Kootenai Forest, in Montana, the 17-mile fire is the largest blaze of the season. Fifteen thousand acres have been burned over, and the fight- ers have made no appreciable head- way in attempts to combat the flames. moke from hundreds of fires near Seattle made navigation difficult, the maximum visibility on Puget Sound being 200 yards. Men were dispatched to combat the fire in the Olympic Na- tional Forest, which destroyed the Quilcene watershed, 30 miles from Se- attle. The weather bureau saw no re- lief from the present dangerous fire weather for at least two weeks, Forestland in Idaho is threatened by a fire which is sweeping south from Canada. The fire is near the border and is expected momentarily to sweep across the line into northern Idaho. The extent of this fire is not known. wcres of logged-off | forest fire | | | desires | about three months' to the American charge d'affaires at | ACTION, NOTTALK, ASKED OF RUMANIA U. S. Wants Debt Settlement, Culbertson Tells Govern- ment at Bucharest. August 11.—It is under- stood well informed circles here that William S. Culbertson, the new American Minister to Rumania, who arrived at Bucharest two weeks ago has made it known plainly to the Ru- manian government that Washington tion, not words, in respect o Rumania’s war debt to the United States. It is understood that Rumanian foreign min delay, G. Duca, er, after intimated Bucharest before Mr. Culbertson’s ar- rival that the Rumanian government would send a commission of “finan cial experts” to Washington to dis cuss a preliminary basis for funding | the debt | United | but preferred a | I | conclude | without The State Department replied in effect, it is learned here, that the States would not be particu erested in a preliminary fund discussion with financial experts visit from fully em- esentatives of the Ru authorized to larly ing powered manian rey government an agreement COOLIDGE FOR BONDS T0 SAVE U. S. RENT Favors Issue to Buy Buildings if Cost Is Less Than Is Paid at Present. By a Staff Correspondent SUMMER WHITE HO! SCOTT, Mass.. August 11.—With the government expending approximately $28,000,000 annually in rent, President Coolidge is now seriously thinking of the desirability of a bond issue to pur chase buildings and save money for the Government The proposal has been made by Representative Madden of the House appropriations committee andalthough the President has not yet decided to support the plan. indications are that he will recommend it if it i shown to him that the Government can float bonds and erect buildings any extra costs beyond the present rental. He thinks that a bond issue might be feasible, but will E. SWAMP- not approve it unless it can be shown ! to him that it will not be an added ex- pense to the Government. BANDIT GETS $6,000. Ticket Agents at B. & 0. Station in Cumberland Are Held Up. CUMBERLAND, Md., August 11 (#).—A lone bandit held up two ticket agents at the local Ohfo ticket office shortly after night ard escaped with $6,000. According to J. F. Taylor and Lem mid- Moore, the two men on duty, the ban- | dit was standing at the door leading to the ticket office and when Taylor opened it to go out, the hold-up man covered both men with a revolver and backed them agalnst the wall. He then rifled the cash drawer and the safe. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, August 11.—A countess for a day with claims to the whole city of Lemberg, Po- land, and 11 barreis of gold and Jjewels, Victoria Augnstynowicz, 23- year-old bobbed-hair stenographer, has seen her childhood dream fade after partial attainment. The Polish consulate general yesterday recognized her conten- tion that she was the descendant of a titled Polish family, but ruled that there is no longer a Polish nobility, the country now being a republic. “Countess” Victoria's claims to Lemberg and the treasure also Radio Programs—Page 24. have no basis which Poland can recognize, as they are merely $ounded on a family legend, ac- | Stenographer, Countess for a Day Denied Title in Polish Republic cording to G, L. Sawicki, secre- tary of the consulate general. Victoria says, however, that the gold, jewels and land were seized from her great-great-grandfather by the Polish King in 183% and that she verified the story at the public library before presenting her claims. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Felix Augustyno- wicz, who settled in Chicago 35 years ago and both of whom are dead. “If T can't be a Polish countess I'll be an Austrian one,” she says. “The Austro-Hungarian govern ment recognized the title in 179; 1 guess the Polish government will have to recognize my rights when T present my proofs in . sourt.” Baltimore and | ADDITION OF “SLOW T0°STOP' DEEPENS - TRAFFIC MYSTERY Modification of Dead Halt Considered on Plea of Traction Lines. HAM AND HANNA VOICE OBJECTIONS TO SYSTEM Officials Will Study Intersections to Determine Those Merit- ing Change { “Toist not to stop {that has been cau: among Washinzton the advent of arterial paled insigni it became known ths pose or —a question confusion mot highy officials 1 rists since when v im ito cance a more complicated prol not to slow dow sibility in the today bet d repre companies admitted that the “stopping | prot had them ed Out of the wide variety proposed and discussed ing came an indicati rs will be allo the boulevards tersections, followed by hesitating, bu not halting, automobiles At other points, however, the street s will have to come to a complete {stop, along with other vehicular t {fic. For more than two hours toda) the officials of botn companies fand of the Utilities Commission ar the traffic department debated boulevard stop system in the bo: room of the District Building Will Study Specific Needs. The trend of th |that the com decide to study slow down or The il traffic complic la conferen { utility off i the street railway | frankly 1 new pe way loped at e een als a es of who had of at the 1 that the street dash ideas { o | across at in fea | | | i i discussion indicate ion probably woul the peculiar condi jtions at each intersection where car {tracks cross a boulevard and decide { what the street cal should do each of these points in accordance with the conditions prevailing. William F. Ham. president | Washington Railway and Elec and John H. Hanna, vice | »f the Capital Traction Co.. bo the commission to consider reet car lines transport 190.000.000 passen; a year and that this large number people should not be un | necessarily delayed | ngineer Commissioner Bell indi cated what wmight be done when he asked Acting Traffic Director Molle how it would do to require the street cars to stop at all houlevards where stopping would be in the interest of safety and by painting a_“Slow” on the bo: ard for vehicles all intersections where street cars would not be required to stop. 1. Moller replied willing to nsider would solve the p possible delay toid Col. Bell of ric esident that the he any plan with the to car serv he thought tion should be treated and added that he would lik time to go over the intersections befc {answering the Commissioner’s ques | tion definitely i« was that Objects to Present Sign Mr. | thought Hanna told the commis: that, aside from w | street cars are required to do. {stop rule for vehicles should be marked {in some more conspicuous way than by | painting the word “Stop” on the pave ment. He said lighted signs should be erected Commissioner Fenning said that was recognized by the commission and in dicated it would be accomplished later Reference was made during the | hearing to cises in which an automo | bile stopping suddenly on a “Stop | sign had been in collision with a street { car behind it. Mr. Hanna said that as jan automobile driver he had narrowly averted rear-end collisions with othe machines because the machine in |front did not see the sign until the {last minute and came to a sudden halt | President Ham, who more than a | week agzo sed the objection to | street cars stopping at boulevards opened the conference today by st ing that while his company wa sirous of co-operating with the Traf | fic Department, he felt it was the company’s duty to be spokesman for the millions car riders, who, he id. would be deluyed by the stop signs de- Questions Eldridge’s Power. | Mr. Ham questioned the right of ithe traflic director to regulate street | cars, but said he recognized the right lof the Utilities Commission to order { sucl as would be necessary in ! the interest of safety. Mr. Ham said the stopping of a street car at a boulevard crossing {and at the same time giving vehicles lon the boulevard the right of way | over the street car was striking at a { long-established principle that street cars have the right of way over ve ! hicles. Commissioner Fenning asked Mr [ Ham If it was not a fact that street | cars lose the automatic right-of-way { rule wherever a policeman is on duty Mr. Ham replied that he had no ob | Jection to the street car losing right | of-way where all trafiic is regulated | by an officer. Bell Issues Statement. Following adjournment of the con ference Col. Bell stated that each of the boulevard intersections ecrossed by street cars would be studied as to { particular conditions, after which the { Utilities Commission_will prepare [ list of imrse boulevard intersection | which street cars should stop interest of safety | Col. Bell stated that under the util ties law it would be necessary to hold |a formal public hearing before orde: | ing the car companies to stop ai those the points, The meeting today was re garded as an informal conference Col. Bell said that if it was decided not to stop street cars at some of the intersections, a slow sign might be painted both on the boulevard and on the street having car tracks. French Mountain Afire. MONTPELLIER, France, August 11 (®).—The forest of Verdieres, atop one of the Cevennes Mountains, near Montpellier, in the Department of Herault, is afire. The flames rolling up lighted up the entire region last night like a gigantic torch. 4