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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and not quite so tomorrow, fair and warms Temperatures: Highest, yesterda lowest, 55, at Full report on page 7. cool tonight; er. 75, at 3 p.m. 6 a.m. today Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 12 No.: 29,698, Buwates sy Washington, nd class matter e, ch WASHINGTON, D. C, . NEW DEBT OFFER TACKLED IN PARIS AFTER FIRST FAILS Officials See Belgian Terms as Sweeping Away Hope for Concession. FRANCE KNOWS TERMS AMERICA WILL GRANT| Vacillation End Seen in Apparent Growing Impatience of United States Officials. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News PARIS, August Reports re- | ceived by the finance ministry from the French embassy at Washington regarding the settlement of war debts are of 1 disheartening nature that Finance Minister Caillaux has decided to abandon, for the time at| least, his intention of going to the such Editor Held in Killing CARL C. MAGEE. PRESIDENT VISITE BY NEW FOR STUD United States, as head of the French | delegation i It appears that the French basic! propo have been received so| frigidly at Washington that M. Cail- | laux fs even contemplating postpon- | Ing the departure of the mission, | which was fixed for September 16, to await further developments, such as; the progress of the Anglo-French! debt discussion, the end of the Moroc- | can campaign and the results of the gold loan, which will close the| middle of September. If all these problems satistactorily, then M. Caillaux con- templates making unofficial! new proposals, which might be con- sidered more acceptable by the United States Treasury. (Copyrizht by Chicazo Daily News Co.) | i e solved again | BRU: = SELS, Belgium, August UP).—It has bee: - n decided not to call special session of Parliament for rati- fication of the Belgian debt funding | agreement reached in Washington, but to postpone the discussion untii | the Parliamentary reopening in No-| vember FRANCE KNOWS TERMS. May Be Dilatory, But U. S. Has Made | Views Plain. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Cablegrams_from France reveal an | extraordinary” chaffgé In the attitude | of the government there toward the | payment of war debts. Not that the | United States Government has been | in any doubt that France ultimately would cease talking cancellation and begin talking payment, but the in-| ferences that may be drawn from the few semi-official expressions that have | come out of Paris bear out the pre- | diction of an early settlement. Members of the American World | War Debt Commission have known | for some time that France would ! scrutinize the Belgian settlement and | then shape her own policy. They | have known, also, that if Joseph Cail- | laux, finance minister, did not come | in person to the parleys in Washing- | ton in September it would mean there | was little chance of an agreement. It is therefore regarded as very sig- | nificant that immediately after the | terms of the Belgian settlement were announced the dispatches from Paris told of M. Caillaux's pective de- parture. It was reasoned in Wash- ington that if the French finance minister saw a real chance of making | a setflement he would go to America, but if he thought the opportunity to settle was doubtful he would not risk the political consequences of failure. M. Caillaux still is undecided about coming, according to latest press re- ports And there isn't any question about the economic as well as the political | effects of any postponement of pay- ment The American Government has reached the point where it is somewhat impatient with delay and Ellh all _the hackneyved arguments (Continued on Page 4, Column Grows Impatient. GUARD IS SET AGAINST | | ! 1 as l Zetgler, Ill, Shaft Reopened, Roads Are Patrolled to Fore- stall Agitators. Br the Associated Press. R, 11l ' 4 August 22.—County office were embled here today as guards inst_arepetition of | vesterday's clash between workersand | strikers at Bell and Soller Coal Mine | No. 1. About 250 men have resumed | work since a “wild cat” strike of | August 8. | To prevent an influx of agitators all highways into the city were patrolled | by deputies and constables last night. Palmer Pritchfield, miner, inadvert- ently ran down one of several woman pickets, as he drove an automobile toward the minin property. The | woman was slightly injured and a miner, F. Kendrich, also suffered a minor injury when sticks and stones ! were thrown at Pritchfield's car.| Pritchfield escaped unhurt. Tran. quillity returned upon arrival of the officers. ESCAPED KILLER TAKEN. Convict Lured to Hotel on Pretext of Planning Robbery. CENTRALIA, Wash.,, August 22 () —Tom Murray, escaped killer from the Oregon prison at Salem, was captured through a ruse today in a hotel here. Philip Carson of Portland recognized Murray in Vancouver, Wash., last night and persuaded the convict to accompany him to Centralia, where he pretended they would rob a road- house. Murray had separated, at White Sal- mon, Wash., from James Willos and Ellsworth Kelley, convicts associated with him in the escape, and had agreed to meet them in the East. After taking Murray to a hotel} room, Carson called policemen and Murray submitted to arrest without resistance. | paer men at White | not OF POSTAL DEFIC Post Office Head Plans No _Recommendations to Con- gress on Rates. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG Staft Correspondent of The Star. S MER WHITE HOUSE, Swamp- scott, Mass August 22.—Postmaster General New came to White Court today to discuss the $37,000,000 post office deficit with President Coolidge. also conferred with Senator Wadsworth of New York. Mr. New made it very plain to rews- ‘ourt that he did come to discuss legislation to modify the new postal rates, and de- clared that he no intention of making any recommendations regard- ing rates to Congress when it next assembles. Neither does he propose | to offer any suggestions to Congress when it starts to work upon changes in the rates. Will Give Opinion. “If Congress wants the opinion of the Post Office Department as to rates I will be very happy to furnish it,” Mr. New said, however. When asked what particular feature of the Post Office Department's fi- i nances he came to discuss with the President, Mr. New replied that it was the 1925 deficit. Routine matters also will be taken up. “This big deficit,” Mr. New sald, “is due principally to the increase in the postal salaries and the failure of the increased postal rates to go into effect until April, while the increase pay became effective in January.” Says Country Is Prosperous. In the opinion of Postmaster Gen- eral New, postal receipts to date are clearly indicative of good business generally throughout the country. He contends this prosperity speaks well for the administration and the politi- | cal party it represents. He thinks this prosperity will con- tinue for some time. The official said he hases his opinion on figures re- ceived by the department from 50 of the leading cities and 50 industrial cities, representing 52 per cent of the postal receipts. These figures, taken in July, show a gain in business gen- erally of 13 to 14 per cent in 99 of the 106 cities over the corresponding period of 1924. Boise, Idaho, was the only city of the 100 considered to show | & loss. Sees Jersey Leaders. Another of the President's confer- | ences was flavored entirely with poli- tics—New Jersey politics. Senator Edge, upon whom the administration has always looked as the Republican | leader in’ that State, along with for- mer Gov. Stokes and State Senator | Whitney, the Republican nominee for | governor, came to tell the President of the situation in New Jersey. Then followed a long talk, during which a variety of subjects were touched upon, with Col. George Har- vey, former Ambassador to Great | Britain. __Following _his_conference, Senator (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) —— e SUES FOR $14,000,000. Trustee Seeks Huge Damages for Selznick Creditors. NEW YORK, August 22 (#).—Suit to recover $14,000,000 alleged damages was filed in the State Supreme Court today by Arthur Y. Dalzlel, trustee in bankruptcy for the Selznick Distribut- ing Corporation, in behalf of creditors of that and other motion picture en- terprises of Louls J. Selznick. i . & Reds Capture Missionary. PEKI China, August ). — The Italian consul at Canton has transmitted to the legatipn here a re- ‘port that “red” volunteers at Ahifung have captured Father Bianchi, an Italian missionary. He was taken [ by the “reds” July 17. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening SATURDAY , AUGUST 99 22, “From Press to Home The Star’ every city b Within the Hour” s carrier system covers lock and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as th he papers are printed Yesterday’ ’s Circulation, 92,778 * P) Means Associated Pres: TWO CENTS. MURDER WARRANT SERVED ON MAGEE LYING HURT IN BED Eight Witnesses Say Ex- Judge Kicked Editor Before Bystander Was Shot. FORMER JURIST WOUNDED BY HIS WRITER ENEMY Slayer Was Storm Center of New Mexico and Bared Part of 0il Scandal. By the Associated Press EAST LAS VEGAS, N. Mex., gust 22.—Carl C. Magee, Albuquerque editor, today was faced with first-de. gree murder charges in the New Mexico courts in which he gained na tional prominence as defendant in the “Magee Jibel and contempt cases.” The charge was filed by the district attorney last night and a criminal warrant served on the editor as he lay from an encounter last night in the hotel lobby with former Judge David J. Leahy, during which John B. Las- setter of Santa Fe was shot to death and Leahy wounded in the upper left arm. Eight eyewitnesses told practically the same story. They declared Magee was seated on a divan in the lobby, conversing with newspaper reporters when W. S. Patterson, a former em- ploye of Magee, began talking to him. Magee, Patterson and a newspaper woman noted Leahy's entrance with the remark: “There's Leahy." Leahy Kicks Magee. Witnesses declared Magee dropped continued his conversation with woman as Patterson backed away. Leahy then approached the divan, witnesses said, and struck Magee on the cheek, knocking him from the seat. As Magee struggled to his feet, witnesses declare, Leahy kicked him in_the ribs. Magee then drew a pistol and fired the A second shot struck Leahy's arm, shattering the upper bone. lobby unassisted. Magee fell, sobbing, on the divan and Lassetter, lying on the floor near- by, died within a few minutes. the assistant “district attorney, ad- journed until today, when Magee was expected to be present with his attor- neys. Magee Grief-Stricken. “1 regret more than anything this terrible occurrence, and am grief stricken over it," Magee told news- paper men after the fight. He re. celved several bruises about the face and body, and Leahy’s upper left arm was shattered by the second bullet. other chapter in the high-tension career of Magee. In July, 1923, he was convicted of libel by a jury in Judge Leahy's court in connection with the publication of editorial at- tacks on Chief Justice J. W. Parker of the New Mexico Supreme Court. Sentenced to prison by Leahy, he was pardoned by James F. Hinkle, who was then governor, before being taken to the penitentiary. A year later he was haled into court by Leahy for editorfally criticiz- ing the court while other charges in connection with the libel case were (Continued on Page 4, Column 7.) AMERICAN AIRMAN HURT IN MOROCCO Lieut. Col. Charles W. Kerwood, With French, Falls During Training Flight. By the Associated Press. Casablanca, French Morocco, August 22.—The American flying squadron volunteering for service with the, French against the Riffians suffered its first casualty yesterday when Lieut. Col. Charles W. Kerwood of Philadelphia fell during a training flight. He was painfully but not dan. serously injured. Col. Kerwood was making his first flight alone for some years. He landed at excessive speed and his plane over- turned, throwing him some distance. Comrades hurried him to the hos- pital, where his injuries were said to consist of severe cuts about the face and a broken arm. The airplane was wrecked. Lieut. Col. Kerwood was a member of the original Lafayette escadrille, serving on the western front in 1916- 1917. He was shot down in an aerial fight early in 1918 and captured by the Germans. After the armistice he became a lieutenant colonel in the air forces of Greece, continuing in that position until the fall of the monarchy. He was one of the first organizers of the volunteer squadron now in Morocco. |\He arrived at Casablanca to begin | training last Monday. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August Cedric, the pet turtle of Mrs. Ed- ward Raynor of Brookhaven, L. L., who came to her door Summer and Spring for four yeard to eat pan- cakes made from a family recipe 200 years old, has been kidnaped. Mrs, Raynor advertised her loss as ollows: “Lost—If this notice comes to the man who took the turtle will he please return him to Mrs. Ed- ward Raynor, who fears he will miss +his pancakes, and also will never be able to find his way back to his Winter location?” “I want only to know that the turtle is well off,” Mrs. Ravnor said. “If the man dpesn’t want to gl4d to send him return him, T’ be ‘Cedric, Pet Turtle, Lover of Famous | Ancestral Pancakes, Is Kidnaped' a recipe for the pancakes. I'm afraid the turtle will miss them and be unhappy.” Mrs. Raynor, like many others in Brookhaven, has made pets of turtles, especially those with ini- tials of their ancestors carved on their shells. When Cedric came to her house with the initial “B” on his back, Mrs. Raynor spotted him immediately as the pet of the Bartow family, her ancestors, who settled in Brookhaven two cen- turies ago. Every morning except during strawberry time and in Winter when he hibernated, Cedric would waddle up to the porch for a breakfast of ancestral pancakes. A few days ago, Mrs. Raynor said, a man picked up the turtle just’ after breakfast and drove off with him in an automobile, Au- in bedin the Meados Hotel, bruised | his left hand into his coat pocket and | as Lassetter seized Leahy's arms. The'| shot struck Lassetter in the throat. | The former judge walked from the | A coroner’s jury, at the request of | The fight and shooting closed an- | . William C. DAD BE . gt G ;INS HIS SUMM ‘R FISHIN’ TRIPS PERSHING I]EMANUSE PERWRIGHIS} i Protests Attack on Paper| Vendors by Chileans Armed i With Potatoes. | | By the Associated Press { RIACA, Chile, August 22.—If the| | view of Gen. John J. Pershing pre- { vails, there will be no further demon. | | strations- of hostility, such as oc | curred yesterday when Chileans pur- | sued Peruvians selling newspapers | | printed by the Peruvian delegation | {to the plebiscite commission to the | doorstep of Gen. Pershing, throwing | | potatoes and otherwise maltreating | |them. Gen. Pershing, immediately |after the incident, in conversation with Agustine Edwards, head of the | Chilean delegation, demanded that im- mediate steps be taken to insure the protection and free movement of Peruvians inside the plebiscite area. Senor Edwards promised that such steps would be taken. He is under- | stood to have asked Gen. Pershing to notify the Peruvians that the Chileans were ready to guarantee full | safety to the Peruvian paper sellers, | provided the Peruvians informed the police of the time and place where they would offer the paper for sale. The Peruvian newspaper is being published aboard the Peruvian trans. port Ucayall. Its circulation has in- creased daily sinve it first appeared on August 10. Chileans generally have opposed the circulation of the | journal. The anger of the crowd yes- terday apparently was aroused over the fact that the two Peruviar paper | sellers, who later were chased, were accompanied ashore by Sarah Wam- | baugh, an American author, and Prof. | Albert A. Giesecke, director general | of education in Peru, both of whom | are members of the Peruvian plebis- | clte delegation. Vendors Are Threatened. | They stationed themselves on the | opposite side of the road from where | the Peruvians were selling the news- | | paper, having with them cameras, | | ready to photograph any incident. The | crowd is said to have thought this a | provocation to hostility. They com- mented warmly on the situation, and |then began threatening the sellers, | Wwho hustled down the street to the door of Pershing’s residence, where | they stopped. The Chileans here, in the sight of Maj. John G. Quekemeyer, Bennis and Raymond C. | Cox of the American plebiscite delega- |tion, hurled potatoes at the Peruvians. | After some sharp persuasion on |the part of the police guarding the | Pershing abode, both the Chileans and the Peruvians were ordered to move on. The Americans, however, demanded that the Peruvians be per- mitted to remain where they were, land then aided the police to disperse | the disturbers of the peace. Eve witnesses say that during the | trouble the Peruvians were manhan- | dled by the crowd, and that later, on {resuming the sale of their newspaper, jone of them, Jorge Garcia, was knocked down. The Americans, de- fending the Peruvians, were also in- volved In fights In two cases, but were not injured. A police hearing was started yes- terday afternoon to obtain evidence against Chileans of the attacking party for presentation to the public prosecutor for action. Mr. Cox was present in court for the Americans. The Peruvians were represented by Miss Wambaugh and Prof. Giesecke. About 20 Chileans are said to have taken part in the disturbances. | CRUSHED BODY OF BABY FOUND ON BENNING ROAD Believed to Have Been Hurled From Auto or Abandoned and Run Over. The dead body of a new born child, its legs crushed as though the infant had been run over by an automobile, was found early today on Benning road near Benning bridge. John W. Robinson, of.315 Fifteenth street southeast, saw a bundle wrap- ped in newspapers at the side of the road and, investigating, discovered the body, he reported to police. The body was taken to the ninth precinct sta- tion and later will be turned over to the coroner for an inquest. Police are seeking the mother, be- {lievins the . child had either been | thrown from an automobile as it passed the gardens bordering the roadway, or had been abandoned on the road and later run over by an automobile, | othe MIDWEST AS GAS W N. MOTORISTS HAPPY AR SHATTERS PRICES ational Concerns Attempting to Drive Independents | Out of Business Have Slashed Rates as Low as 15 Cents a Gallon—Some Have Succumbed. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, Au are wearing broad grin chariots are chugging mer: sections of the Midwest toda between rival dealers have brought tobogganin: line prices. The hilarity is highest in Decatur, I, where prices’ are the lowest. Three national concerns attempting to drive out independent ve trimmed prices from 23 cents a gallon to nd 17 cents. Several of the s tations have succumbed, other suspended until the war is over and continue to fight Kans., where the fight has raged for months, appro tions are selling at 13.8 and 13.9 cents, —Motorists and their Iy in four | In Wichita, | mately half of the sta- | plus State tax of The larger compani 18.8 and 20.8, plus quotations of the Indiana, which has remained aloof. Two rivals in Woonsocket, S. D.. started it and neutrals were compelled to follow suit for awhile, and then suspended to let them fight it out. After six days the Lakeside Gara was down to 17 cents and the Te: representative to 15. The neutrals say | they will resume when the “battlers” | o broke or sign an armistice. In- dependent dealers in Kansas City, Mo., have started making price cuts in efforts to cut down competition, h_resultant p anges from 1 (Continued on Page 4, Column 8.) cents a gallon. prices are 17.8, 1x, the latter being tandard Oil Co. of SCENTIS FGHTS CHURCH EXPULSION Dr. Henry Fox Says Baptists Let Individual Fix Own Beliefs. ciated Press. RTON. N. J., August 22.—Dr. Fox, Government biologist here, who was dropped last vear from the faculty of Mercer University, Macon, Ga., for teaching evolution, and who has been asked by the Tattnall Square Baptist Church there to quit the de- nomination for alleged unorthodoxy, today said he would go voluntarily on one condition. Quoting from terms he said he sent this week to Dr. H. M. Fugate, the pastor, Dr. Fox said he stood ready to withdraw provided the Tattnall Square deacons and congregation officially went on record as denying the right of an individual Baptist to be the sole Jjudge of the soundness of his doctrinal views. Dr. Fox said this right had al- ready been erted and won by Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick in accepting the pastorate of the Park Avenue Bap- tist Church, the “Rockefeller Church,” in New York City. He cited Dr. Fos- dick’s stipulation that baptism by im- mersion there was to be optional. It was on assurance of this right by a Baptist clergyman, Dr. Fox said, that he himself was persuaded to enter the denomination in Clarksville, Tenn., in 1918, Doing Research Work. After his troubles at Mercer Uni- versity last Fall Dr. Fox came here as an entomologist to do research work in the fight the United States Department of Agriculture is making upon the fruit-feeding Japanese beetle. When he applied to the Tattnall Square Church several weeks ago to transfer his membership to a New Jersey congregation the usual form letter to such effect was refused him, he said, on the ground that his public utterances were not consistent with Baptist_belief. H. D. 'Chapman, Macon church clerk, in a letter of July 13, which Dr. Fox revealed today, asked him on behalf of the church specifically to affirm or deny belief in the vir- gin- birth and the divinity of Jesus Christ. Dr. Fox answered on July 23 that the church authorities had failed to acknowledge a_previous_question he (Continued on Page 8, Column Shirley, British Dramatist, Dies. LONDON, August 22 ().—Arthur Shirley, one of the most noteworthy of the elder British dramatists, author of “My Old Dutch,” “Two Little Vagabonds™ and other favorites, died today aged 72. l Follow Nationals ‘ ‘ Tomorrow The Star’s Scoreboard will be operated tomorrow afternoon, giving a playby-play account of the game between the Champions and Detroit, which will begin at 3 o'clock. EXCESS OF RULES FOR AUTOS SCORED Local Motorists Indorse Star’s Views on Traffic Code. BY WILLIAM ULLMAN, Automobile Editor of The Star. Virtually all Washington seems to be of one mind regarding local traffic regulations, and that unanimity of opinion is that the National Capital is being overregulated. From evéry side and from every phase of District citizenship have come during the past 24 hours written and oral expressions of approval of the traffic views set forth in The Star of Thursday and Frida “That's just what we've been think- Ing!" was the figurative shout of a vast army of motorists and pedes- trians who for several weeks, as com- positely expressed, have had an ear- nest desire to be good traffic citizens and made an honest effort to read, memorize and observe the multiplicity of local traffic injunctions. Local traffic regulations are too complex, in the opinion of Ernest N. Smith, general manager of the Ameri- can Automobile Association, who says that Washington is being precipitated into a traffic muddle that may seri- ously handicap motor-vehicle ~trans- portation in our city streets. Simple Regulation Needed. “Traffic control does not imply nec- essarily the multiplication of regula- tions to the confusion of both motor- ists and pedestrians,” Mr. Smith said. “On the contrary, it should be the function of the traffic force to simplify regulations to the end that motor ve- hicle traffic may move more smoothly and with less likelihood of danger to pedestrians. . “In the last three months there has been an incessant stream of regula- tions, some of which, no doubt, have operated to relieve congestion in cer- tain sections. Many of the other reg- ulations promulgated, however, have done little or nothing to expedite traf- fic, but have resulted rather in con- fusion worse confounded. Traffic fatalities in Washington are as num- erous as they were before the motor- ists and pedestrians.in the District were overregulated. “Apparently the solution of the problem demands something more than the multiplication of traffic laws. The view expressed in The Star with respect to the elimiation of the unfit, the irresponsible and the criminally negligent driver seems to strike at the crux of the situation. The law-abiding citizen resents being hounded and watched just because he drives an au- (Continued on Page 4, Column 6.) Religious Fanatics Kill 50 Natives to Force Conversions| By the Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Au gust 22.—A dispatch from Eliza- bethville, Belgian Congo, says that religious fanatics in the neighbor- hood of Sakania, #ttempting to make forcible conversions, tered 50 natives in one village. A small patrol of native police was driven off, with a number kill- ed or wounded. Troops have been sent from Elizabethville to quell the rising. PLAN GREAT SLASH | | | Total of 1,000 Likely to Be Cut Off, With Personnel Here Dropping to 200. Personnel at prohibition headquar- ters here will be cut half, at least and may even be reduced from its present size of 500 to 200, under the wholesale decentralization program announced vesterday by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Andrews, transferring authority to 24 adminis trators. Total reduction in prohibi- tion forces may be 1,000 Already the headquarter’s force | has begun to decline in numbers. under a program of co-operation with the Civil Service Commission, revealed today for the first time. Knowing that the big change was coming on, lessening the neces such a large force here in Washing- ton, the Treasury made arrangement with the Civil Service Commission for notification of v neies occurring in other departments and branches of | the Government service. | Under this program already more than 50 persons, mostly stenographers and typist: of the declining prohibition headquar- ters to other posts, thus saving em- ployes from dismissal. Will Seek to Provide Jobs. This policy will continue to provide jobs for as many persons at prohibi- tion headquarters as possible before down to the minimum. out as to how the headquarters here will function, but it Ts fully expected that all the principal officials will re- main, including Prohibition Commis- sioner Roy A. Haynes, Assistant Com- missioner James E. Jones, General Counsel James J. Britt, Chief Chemist Doran and others. Under the decentralization program, however, as explained by Gen. An- drews, the power and authority vested in Gen. Andrews himself will be trans- terred in full to each of the adminis- trators in the 22 administrators’ of- fices in the continental United States, and the two insular, Porto Rico and Hawaii. reduce the authority headquarters. Budnitz to Pick Aide. Much interest here centered to- day in the appointment of a deputy administrator _to have charge of prohibition enforcement in the Na- tional Capital, under direction of the new administrator, Edmund Budnitz, named vesterday for this local dis- trict, including Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia. Reached by telephone at his Balti- more office today Mr. Budnitz said he had not yet chosen the man who will be his deputy administrator for the District of Columbia, but intend ed to take it up among other prob- lems of reorganization the first thing next week. Mr. Budnitz has already chosen two men as counsel in his office, Jacob G France and J. Craig McLanahan, at- torneys of Baltimore. These men, it was explained, are not to appear in court, but are to advise in the prepa- of prohibition “{Continued on Page 2, Column 1) BIG-GUN TARGET PRACTICE BREAKS UP AN EXCURSION Shell-Shocked Veterans on Steamer Go Into Hysterics When Boston Fort Fires Cannon. By the Ascociated Press. BOSTON, Terrifying memories of, France came back to six shell-shocked World War veterans when the big guns at Fort Andrews went into action for target practice while an excursion steamer carrying nearly 300 veterans on a harbor outing passed the fort vesterday. Six of the men became hysterical. Nurses and attendants quieted them, and reassured other veterans who were less seriously upset by the firing. Ambulances from the United States Veteruns' Bureau and Fire Depart- ment automobiles were called to the dock to take the seriously affected men back to their hospitals. Danc- ing and singing by theatrical stars who were on board the vessel to en- tertain the veterans helped to quiet the men. GOVE—RNOR WOUNDED. Assassin’s Bullet Fails to Xill Martinique Island Ruler. August 22 (P).—An attempt was made vesterday to assassinate Gov, Richard of the Island of Martinique as he was embarking on the steamer Pellegrin De Latouche. Four shots were fired at him. Seriously wounded, the gov- ernor was taken to a hospital here. By the Associated Press. PARIS, August 22.—A story re- calling the rtan mother who gave and gave again of her sons for her country is related in a story sent by the correspondent of the Temps in Fez. A young sheik belonging to the Zaer tribe, which is a partisan of the French, was killed during the recent advance. The news of the son’s death was broken to the her as as was ckly she went out to meet the Mother of Sheik Killed by Riffs Offers Two Sons “to Replace Him” homecoming body, _taking two younger sons with her. Without stopping for more than a minute beside the stretcher on which her first-born lay, she threw herself be- fore the officer who enlists tribes- men for action against Abd-el- Krim. “The enemy has killed one of my sons,” she said to the officer. T give thee two to replace him.” Rikie T rogpmne Tage 6. IN HAYNES' FORCES have been transferred out| the final reduction brings the number | Details have not as yet been worked | This naturally will greatly! FORT DE FRANCE, Martinique, | “STOPS” REDUCTION MAY END AT BY STREET CARLINES | Moller Announces Ban on Many “Halt Signs” in Congested Area. BELL PROPOSES DELAY ON NEW BOULEVARDS Twenty-Two Will Not Be Put in Effect Now—Present Seven to Be Partly Retained | | It traffic announced stop signs in the c the city on the sev in operation matically icials carr of out plans abolish part evards now such lem of what t some of the in dispute be- mpanies and the {10 interesections jtween the railw traffic departm Before leavir v for service np, Acting de the le num- done | Traffic Director Moller |nouncement that a e, ber of the stop sign jaway with in the congested jtown part of the ci !mnrkm; of additio: { probably would not {for the time beir | Col. Motler de these “ngineer who has expres too many boule not be time. | i ard highw established at the | Seven in Operation | the traffic dey {ago, only 7 actua { operation by i painted at maining 22 weeks while incorporated in the st _of ‘boulevards, have never been marked, and, therefore, have not been in effect for practical purposes The announcement, there fore, stop signs would not be painted near future on the not been marked eliminagion of any exi stop streets, since the: been in actual operation | plained by traffic o when | original list of 29 streets was public t the rule requiring m ists to stop before crossi be in effect only when the Wwere painted. For practical purposes, therefore, there are only seven boulevards in operation and the plan indicated by Col. Moller vesterday is to consider { abolishing some of the stop signs on these seven boulevards which within the congested part of the city, leaving the boulevard system in effe in the outlying areas. Col. Moller explained vesterday th there was no intention on the par {of the traffic department when the complete list was made public to paint the stop signs on all 2 of them in | the immediate future. He said the {original plan was to establish these | boulevards from time to time as could be marked, but that a h | question was raised in conr | street car stops as | stop signs were legal unless vards on which they were 1y { been formally designated the regulation that ng boulevard have never | It was ex- | Purpose Explained. { In order to avold any dispute « | such a technicality, it was explained, | the complete list of streets that were to be made boulevards were placed on ,the official list. The painting of the |'stop signs, however, was confined to {the seven thoroughfares now being |actually used as boulevards. i The street railway companies at a | public conference at the District | Bullding objected to vehicular traffc being given the right of way over street cars at all points where tracks crossed boulevard highways. Fol lowing this conference the street rail Wi officials met with represent tives of the Utilities Commis the traffic department and set dispute at all but 10 of | where street car lines and bo intersect. | At more than 20 points *he traffic | officials agreed to do away with the | necessity of stopping the street cars { by placing traffic officers on duty. At | eight of the intersections, the street | railways agreed to stop their cars be- { fore crossing with the understanding | that a street by coming to a | stop would not lose the right of way | which would require it to wait for a { long line of boulevard traffic to pass. H May Settle Question. There still remain 10 intersections | at which no agreement could be reach- ed and the Utilities Commission has been planning to call a public hearing to decide whether the street cars | should stop at those points. Most | of these 10 crossings are in the down | town part of the city. however, and | therefore if Director Eldridgze and Col | Moller should decide to abolish some | of the existing stop signs for traffic | the downtown portion of the city may at the same time dispose of the | street-car-stop question Traffic Director Eldridge will return from his vacation Monday or Tuesday ! and_resume active direction of the | trafic situation After his conference with Col. Mol- | 1er yvesterday, Engineer Commissioner Bell declared that he is anxious to support Director Eldridge and Col. Moller in their effort to fmprove the general traffic situation, but he said he believed too many stop signs, par- ticularly in the central part of the city, would prove undesirable. MOUNTAIN FIRE CHECKED. | i ‘Foren Service Controls Blaze in California. PASADENA, Calif., August 22 (@), —The brush fire which since Tues- day has raged in the mountains back of Pasadena was under control last night in one section on the north side of the Big Tujunga region. the ! Federal Forest Reserve headquarters | announced today. | On the remainder of the north front the blaze was confined between the 42-foot firebreak which was com- pleted yesterday. and the Big Tujunga Canyon. ¢ 5