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WEATHER. (U. §. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight and tomorrow winds on the tonight; coast strong east Temperatures: Highest, t 1 a.m. today. yesterday; lowest, 67, Full report on page 7. cooler 90, at 5 p.m. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bon_ds, P:!e 30 ch Y No. 291030 fommeess intere. s secona class matter Washington. D. WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, MINE STRIKE CALL S DUE TONIGHT AS MEDIATION FALS Union Scale Committee Is in Session Arranging Details of Suspension Order. HOPE OFEITIZEN GROUP FOR DEFERMENT DASHED Government Estimates Hard Coal | Supply Is Sufficient to Last | Until December. | Br the Associated Press i PHILAD! A | midnight appeal Wilkes-Barre citizens | made to the miners here that the lat- | ter resume scale negotiations with the | operators will have no influenge upon plans the miners have under way for | A suspension in the anthracite coal | fields September 1 srding to' au- | thoritative comment today. ‘ The actual call for a suspension is expected to be issued by the miners’ | scale committee as soon as all details for keeping “‘maintenance men" in the mines have been arranged at meetings | with the mine owners here. Various technical questions arising at the meeting tod have prolonged discussion of the maintenance prob- lem. The discussion is said to have shown some signs of heat, and the un- | certainty of its exact duration is said | to be ail that makes the time of the £uspension call problematical { Hope proved short-lived that the | miners out of courtesy might defer their plans until John H. Uhl, the spokesman of the Wilkes-Barre “no etrike” group, had had another chance ' ‘0 try to arrange some reopening Of; ‘he negotiations broken off August 4. | Strike Call Due Tonight. The tremendous engineering aspect | of a mine shutdown, it was explained, made it virtually imperative that the ! call to the many union locals scat- | tered throughout the 10 anthracite counties be placed in the mail by to night. The tasks of bringing mine mules to the surface and the rounding up of mine tools are in themselves jobs that take time, it was explained. i John L. Lewis, president of the ! Miners' International Union, was in closed conference with his lieutenants at the Hotel Bellevue-Stratford, and | the only word coming from them was to counsel patience. Mr. Lewis, with Phillip Murray, in- ternational vice president, and Thomas Kennedy, international secretary- ' treasurer, were understood to be hold- ing themselves in readinéss to join Rinaldi Cappellini, Andrew Maitey | and C. J. Golden, district president: The six comprise the miners’ scale | subcommittee which wil decide on the matter of suspension. Delivered Operators’ Terms. Uhl overtook President Lewi: early this morning after a " gurguh by automobile from Hazleton, a. As chairman of the citizens' “no strike” committee of 13, Mr. Uhl de- livered to Mr. Lewis & recapitulation which anthracite operators made in Wil s-Barre vesterday of the terms ! on which they would reopen the scale | negotiations broken off by the miners in_Atlantic City, August 4 Mr. Uhl obtained from the miners’ | leader a_restatement of the miners’ terms. It reiterated the stand Mr. Lewis had taken at Hazleton on Tues. | v, but matched the new tone of the | operators’ commitment and noticeably encouraged Mr. Uhl, who, with Ralph | A. Amerman, a Scranton, Pa., banker, | who had accompanied him, returned at | once to Wilkes-Barre, and aproached the operators, on what possibilities the | Lewis reply might contain. i It now seems that the mediation is | hopeless. Opposing Views Aired. W. W. Inglis, chairman of the op- | erators’ scale conference, at a con- | ference with the Uhl committee in ! Wilkes-Barre yvesterday, said the op- | erators were willing to renew nego- tiations provided Mr. Uhl arranged | a conference, and provided “it is dis- | tinetly understood that we have not | agreed to abandon our opposition to | the check-off and w increases.” | Referring to Mr. Inglis’ statement, | Mr. Lewis today reiterated the fol.| lowing statement he had made at| Hazleton “If they will withdraw their ment on record in the conference that they will yield nothing and re- ject evervthing t. disturbs the factor of mfne cost, then there can | be_negotiations.” Then he added i “If the operators will meet this| condition affirmatively the mine work ers will be glad immediately to ne- gotiate. i “If their reply is in the negative | then it is obvious negotiations wouid ! be utterly futile.” | ata. [ PLANS FOR SUPPLY. U. 8. Expected to Move to Avert Coal | Shortage. | Convinced that suspension of work in the anthracite coal fields on Sep- | tember 1 inevitable, Government | officlals have turned their attention to | the possible effect on the Nation of a ! prolonged shut-down. A tentative | estimate today placed the visible hard coal supply at a figure sufficient to meet normal demands until December Emphasizing their belief that any attempt the Government or any! other outside agency to intervene to prevent a suspension would only ag-| gravate the present situation, officials | intimated that the Government was at work on a plan to meet the possi- | Dility of an actual coal shortage, but declined the least hint as to its nature, They scouted the suggestion of imm diate (Government action, declaring, that the Government had no power to act, and expressed the opinion there would be no special session of Con- gress to deal with the situation be- cause “there doesn't seem to be any- thing Congress can do about it.” | Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, who | veturned to Washington yesterday | after a survey of the situation in his State, shared the opinion of the offi- cials that the anthracite miners there | would quit work and the mines would | be closed. He also declared that there | ‘ould be. no Federal conciliation, or | arbitration, but said it was not defi- nitely known what Gov. Pinchot might (Continued on Page 4, Column §) », | mer v | a boiler at | & Eppes Deals Out Own Justice DR. THOMAS W. YOU On trial for murder of his wife, who killed himself in his cell early today DR, YOUNG KILLS - HIMSELF IN CELL o0s Angeles Dentist Abruptly Ends Trial on Charge of Murdering Wife. L By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, August Dr. Thomas W. Young, dentist, on trial here for the murder of his wife and the burying of her body in a cistern, killed himself in the county jail here early toda County jail employes discovered the dentist’s body in his cell, where he had strangled himself with a piece of wire. He had been dead for some time when | | the body was found. The suicide ends the trial of Dr. | Young on the murder charge. Jurors in the case were ordered the close of the court yesterday to make a visit to the suburbs today to visit the cistern beneath which Young's body was found. Bribes Offered, Say Two. Two acquaintances of the defendant | vesterday testified that he had of fered them $300 each testify they had seen Mrs. Young alive and well, but in flight from her | husband several weeks after February 21. They said the offer was made prior to his arrest and the finding of |the body, and that he told them he { needed the perjured testimony in an alienation of affections suit he plan- ned to file against his father-inlaw,| Frank W. Hunt. The wire used by Dr. Young was probably smuggled in to him the jail- er said. Permission had been asked several days ago to take a coil of wire into Young's cell, ostensibly for use in | rigging a radio set, but this was de- [ nied. The dentist had twisted the wire about his neck and then turned tightly with a stick. Dead Half Hour When Found. Assistant County Jailer George Pal- sited Young's cell at 5 minutes to 6 this morning and roused him with instructions to prepare himself for court. An hour later Jailer Crous- horn was summoned to the tank by the prisoners’ distress signal. When he reached Young's cell the dentist was dead. The jail physician anounced that Dr. Young had been dead for more than a half hour, indicating that he had garroted himself a few minutes after the first call. Harry B. Foster, cellmate of Dr. Young, said that the dentist appeared in high spirits after he was awakened. “I'm going to sleep a little longer." Foster said Young told him. “Call me when breakfast is ready.” Dr. Young then pulled the blanket over his head. Forty-five minutes later, Foster said, he called his fellow priscner and there was no reply. Fos- ter said he threw back the covers to fird the “wire about the dentist’'s throat Dr. Young was on trial charged with suffocating his wife Februa with (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) SEVEN MEN ARE KILLED it IN BOILER EXPLOSION | Accident Occurs at Ginnery at Dayton, Ala.—Three Die Instantly. By the Associated Press. NIONTOWN, ALA., August 2 Seven men were killed today when the ginnery of Archer exploded at Dayton, near here. C. J. Buchanan and six negroes, as yet unidentified, were the victims. Three men met death Instantly. Four others died within an hour. The boiler was part of a portable outfit owned by Buchanan and had been in operation, at the ginnery four days. Before that time it had been used in running a.sawmill. mill town 12 miles from Uniontown. at| Mrs. | if they would | Dayton is a saw- | AUGUST 1925 — KOl |LONDON PACT SURE ¢ Foening Star. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION The Star every city | Yesterday “From Press to Home Within the Hour” 's carrier system covers block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. s Circulation, 92,736 RTY-TWO PAGES. * P) Means Associated Press. T\W(O CENTS. 0 AFFECT FRENCH PAYMENTSTOU.S. Sums to Be Paid British Held Certain'to Reduce Amount to Be Sent Here. TRIPARTITE AGREEMENT IS REJECTED BY AMERICA Officials Declare Washington Will Adhere to Policy of Handling All Debts Individually. Anglo-French debt agreement vesterday in London may | t bearing on Ameri- | n-French debt negotiations here ! | next month, insofar as France's i]\m‘ll\- to pay is concerned. This was the most definite indica official quarters here |mm,\" | where it was emphasized again that the American Government will not | depart from its policy of considering | each debtor apart, and will not \'en—‘ ture into any phase of the question | { which may savor of a tri-partite ar- | The | reached | have an impe | tion in / W \ \ )', ST HOW THINGS HAVE CHANGED AROUND HERE!| rangement. | The intimation put forth in London | | vesterday after the agreement, that st JHREMEN INJURED IN GRASH WITH CAR | in settlement of the French debt to | | America apparently was not received | ! with approval here today. 1 Affects Capacity to Pay. | One Believed Fatally Hurt in| Collision at Fourteenth and Harvard Streets. France's capacity to pay, it is ad- | mitted here, will, of course, be af- | fected by the Anglo-French agree- ment, under which France would pay Great Britain a sum of about £12 | 500,000 yearly. i The French delegation saihng Sep- | | tember 16, according to last advices | to the Treasury, will find the Ameri | can commission prepared, just as be- | fore the Anglo-French asreement, to | open negotiations upon the pr be\'(i | that the principal be paid in full; Three firemen were b | at a rate of interest which will be one of them believed al in a v\"i{glhr;‘::‘;\‘nf"w Tb:‘x: :‘}’ml"e;-m“‘:cr:mh between a street car of the of the official reaction to the an ‘r‘“’"“' T"‘F”‘j;"‘:{ B8 D orwton nouncement of the Anglo-French °f No- sngine Co. shortly fter 1 settlement, observers were comment- | ©¢lo¢k this afternoon at Fourteenth ing today on the shrewdness of the and Harvard street | French in having obtained prior to| Private J. L. Mann, riding on the | the American negotiations a settle- 'rear steps of the fire engine, is be- | ment, b'elle\'ed to be tenative, and jjeved dying of injuries received when of a mature' which exceeds in ita|ine street car struck the rear end | generosity any agreement which the | 0€ SRS CAT SITUCR the i American commission has yet drawn > Im EA0 a8 L wang Scooss. S5 viCth auy. eABK debtote |the tracks at 14th street. The United States occupies a posi- | 2 y pshali tion, however, in the interallied debt h,_t""’“f’ n"',:"b : '“(‘, 3 | situaiton which is_entirely different| , wivd ':m'rm'";:",f“’:“fe“r’;fl i)-‘_fl form, were seriously, but not_fatally, injured. | dly injured. | 1 i (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) ‘ 1 The three were taken in an ambu: | | lance to rfield Hospital. Lieut. | GREECE CANNOT PAY U. 8. | ji. 15, Gurio? Hoe et e DEBT NOW, SAYS REPORT’mmn-. and other firemen on the machine, were badly shaken in the | crash. | ‘The impact of the collision threw | the heavy fire engine about 20 feet | across the street, striking an empty | | automobile parked alon; de the curb- | ing. The car, which was owned by ‘Joktph Stansfield, was badly dam aged. ‘Will Recognize Claim; Also to Sign | English Convention, Corre- spondent Asserts. | By the Associated Press. | LONDON, August 27.—A dispatch to the Daily Telegraph savs the | United States recently presented to | Greece a demand for settlement of that Motorman Is Blamed. Witnesses 14 much of the blame for the accident on the failure of the country’s debts to it. The Greek gov- Street car motorman to hear or to | ernment, although recognizing the heed the siren of the fire engine, which American claim, will declare its ina. | they said was being run full blast a bility to pay the debt at the present |the engine swept into Fourteenth | time, the Greek budget being over.|Street. In fact, they said, according | burdened with urgent obligations in|to Sergt. G. Luten of the tenth pre- | connection with the settlement of the [cinct, a man standing on the corner refugee situation. of the intersection ran toward the The correspondent says it is un- | Street car, attempting to flag it to derstood the Greek government au- |Stop before it crashed into the fire thorized its minister in London to|engine. The motorman, however, did | sign an Anglo-Greek convention pro-, not understand the signal, and the | viding the payment of the war debt, | front end of the car struck the rear | the terms of which were settled long | Platform of the fire engine before he ago by former Finance Minister | could bring It to a HKalt. Tsoudero. { GRAIN CAR CONGESTION | STEEL-CUTTING TORCHES THREATENS RAILROADS\FREE THAIN CRASH VICTIM Accumulation of Carriers at Sam- | Eogineer Is Pinned Under Over- pling Points May G | turned Locomotive of Buffalo R | Flyer—Fireman Hurt. [ i A [B! the Associated Press. B2 e fasoc niag ik rons: | PITTSBURGH, Pa.. August MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., August 27.!The engineer and fireman of the Pitts- | Railroad cars loading with grain | burgh to Buffalo fiyer of the Pennsyl- | | for Minneapolis and Duluth are ac-|vania Railroad were injured, the | cumulating so rapidly at grain sam-|former seriously, when the train was pling points that serious congestion is | derailed at Braeham, 20 miles north of threatened, railroad companies re- | here, today. A number of passengers ported here today at a meeting of the [in two day coaches were shaken up, joint terminal grain committee of the |but were able to continue their Northwest regional advisory board. | journey to Buffalo. “If the cars continue to accumulate| The flyer, known as train No. 907, at thesc points, it may be necessary | was wrecked on a switch near the for railroads to issue embargoes | Braeburn station. The locomotive against further shipment,” P. J. Cole- turned over. Engineer A. G. Miller man, chairman of the committee and | of Oil City, suffering from scalds and district manager of the car service |other injuries, was pinned in the division, American Railway Associa.|wreckage. He was rescued by em- tion, said. {ployes of a nearby mill, who used “The congestion of cars is reported | Steel-cutting torches to release him. at sampling points on the Great|His condition is critical. Fireman J. Northern, Northern Pacific and ‘Spo’ | H. Fiddler of Oll City was scalded. | Line railways, where the cars are| The combination mail and baggage | being held while samples are being|car and a second baggage car were taken for the purpose of grading the |derailed. Four day coaches and two grain.” chair cars remained on the tracks. Rhyming Briton Quotes “Isostasy”; Proves Scientists Are Not So Prosy‘} By the Assoclated Press. SOUTHAMPTON, England, Au- gust 27.—Modern sclentists are not dull, prosy fellows without a spark of poetry or imagination. Prof. W. A. Parkes of Toronto, Canada, one of the delegates attending the An- nual meeting of the British Asso- ciation for Advancement of Science, provided this today by bursting into verse in the course of a lec- ture in which he was explaining that earthquakes were not an un- mixed evil. Here's the principal stanza in his venture into versifica- tion: What is it rules the upper crust? Tsostasy, isOStusy. What actbates the overthrust? Tsostasy. isostasy. What gives the shore lines wanderlust. What humbles highlands into dust. What makes the strongest stratum bust? Teostasy, 1sostasy ! It might be explained that isos- tasy is the theory of general equi- ] The cause of the accident has not | been determined. | AR | WIFE, UNDER TAUNT, KILLS HER HUSBAND librium in the earth’s crust, sup- posed to be maintained by the vielding or flow of rock material beneath the surface under the stress of gravitation. Prof. Parkes remarked that earthquakes showed the surface of the earth was not uniformly rigid, and that if it were it would bring on, geologically speaking, the uni- versal deluge and ‘“‘the end of the present order of things.” Chinese to Free Howard. Information has reached the State Department that the Chinese bandits who captured Dr. Harvey J. Howard, July 20, have agreed to the demands for his release and that he is ex- pected to return to Fu Chin in about 10 days. The bandits insist, however, that the members of their party now in the vicinity of Ya Tang Ho be admitted into the Chinese army, Woman Pulls Trigger When Spouse Says, “You Haven't the | Nerve to Shoot.” By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 27.—Joseph L. Carroll, 25, was shot three times and killed last night by his wife, Ruth, after a quarrel in their home. Mrs. Carroll was arrested and said her hus. | band threw a dish at her, after which she proceured a pistol from a dresser and threatened to shoot in self-de- | tense if he approached her. “You haven't the nerve to shoot,” | she quoted her husband as saying as | he approached. She said she fired | | three times, then fainted. The police | i found her holding her 11-month-old baby and_sitting beside the body of her dead husband, the pistol lying on the floor. & Gifts Are Heaped On British Tomb of Unknown Soldier By the Associated Prese., LONDON, August 27.—The crypt underneath the Tomb of the Un- known Soldier in Westminster Abbey fast ix becominz a verita- ble store of gold and silver tributes laid on the tomb by visitors to the abbey. One of the vergers in Westmin- ster some time ago noticed a gold brooch lying on the Tomb of the nknown Warrior.” It was his belief it had been dropped inad vertently by a visitor. On follow. ing days he found some rin silver ornaments. A close revealed the fact that many wom- en, possibly having lost relatives in the war, had developed the habit of leaving some personal trifles in gold or silver on the tomb. So numerous have these offer: ings become that the tomb daily is cleared of the various articles, which are taken down to the crypt underneath. It has not vet been decided what shali be done with the tributes. CONGRESS IGNORED ADVICE, NEW SAYS Blames Solons for Acute Rate Problem Now Facing Officials. By the Associated Press CLEVELAND, Ohio, August Discussing the achievements problems of the postal service, master General New told the joint gathering of national and State postal organizations in a prepared ad- dress today that the problem of prop- erly apportioning postal rates had be- come an acute one largely because and Post- | Congress had so often failed to fol- | low the advice of postal experts. The Postmaster General's address conveyed the greeting of President Coolidge to what Mr. New described as the largest gathering of the na- tion's postal servants in and an expression of the President’s appreciation of the efficient service of. postal employes. For Public’s Interest. In discussing the posgal rate ques- tion, along with a defense of the postal service generally against com- plaints of its critics, Mr. New said the interests both of the department and the mailusing public dictated that changes should be made in the rates. He would not attempt at this stage, however. to forecast what specific changes may be recommended to Congress by the Joint Postal Com- mission, now considering the question, along with some to be submitted by his department. Postal rates present an acute prob- lem now, he thought, largely because Congress had substituted its own ideas in many essential particulars for the recommendations for increased rates made by the department in the light of its postal cost ascertainment, which he believed could not be suc- cessfully attacked as a correct pre- sentation of the facts. “The sessions of the congressional committee (on postal rates) have been (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) PARIS-NEW YORK FLIGHT SET EARLY NEXT MONTH Frenchmen to Make Attempt Be- | tween 5th and 12th—World Cruise Planned. By the Associated Press. PARIS, August 27.—The Parisien's Pau_ correspondent says that Lieut. Paul Tarasgon. the French fiyer, has informed /Raymond Orteig of New York that he and his companion fiyer, Capt. Coli, intend to attempt their_proposed flight - from Paris to New York some time between September 5 and 12. Mr. Orteig has offered a price of $25,000 for the flight. He is spending the Summer at his birthplace in Louvre-Juzon. Tarascon told Mr. Orteig that If the transatlantic cruise was successful he and Coli would try to circle the globe, crossing the American conti- nent to the Pacific Ocean and return- ing to France by way of India. Lieut. Tarascon went to Pau to ar- range for a round-trip test flight be- tween Paris and Pau in the machine Petit that will be used on the transatlantic voyage. its history | DRIVER GETS THO | -~ YEARS IN KILLING | Walter E. Roderick Pleaded| Guilty to Striking Man on | Loading Platform. | | settling the three points raised in the | | Walter E. Roderick, 37 years old, a newspaper correspondent, who plead- | ed guilty some weeks ao to a charge | of manslaughter in connection with | of the interested powers would be held | | the deat andria, Va of Adgle Bowie of Alex- | { was sentenced today by | Chief Justice McCoy in Criminal Di- | | vision 1 to serve two years in the | | Federal penitentiary. i | While intoxicated February 20, in| | the early morning, Roderick ran his | automobile along the loading plat- | | form at Twelfth street and Pennsyl- | vania avenue, sweeping off the plat- form four persons who were waiting a car. Three of the men | | were injured, and Bowie, the fourth, | died on the way to the hospital | _Policeman MecCutcheon Poland Will Ban Imports in Plan to Cut Trade Balance By the Associated Pres WARSAW, August 27.—The Po- lish government has decided that Poland, for the present at least, must try to live without imports and thus reduce the trade bal- ance, which is depressing the value of the zloty. Several drastic regulations have been formulated with this end in view. Poles who desire to travel will be asked to pay $100 for each three months for a passport. The government also has called a meeting to consider how best to increase Poland’s export trade. The first measure decided upon was to work out a special railroad freight tariff which will favor goods for export. FRONTIER SECURITY OFFERED GERMANY France Urges Immediate Parley to Draw Up Pact for Western Border. By the Associated Press. PARIS, August 27.—France stands ready to send delegates to a confer- ence in London to draw up a pact with Great Britain, Belgium and Germany promising security to the western German frontiers, should the Berlin government accept the sugges- tion in the such negotiations mediatel. M. Fromageot, well known jurist, already has been designated to repre- nt France in the event such a meet- ing is held. The French government favors prompt action and would be be opened im |ready to begin at London next Mon- day. The French delegation would con- sist of experts and jurists. The latter would be intrusted with the task of French note to Germany, namely the | security pact, the status of the arbitra- tion treaties, and Germany's entrance into the League of Nations. A conference of the foreign ministers as soon as the experts completed their | work, or about the middle of Septem- | ber, when the League of Nations as- sembly will still be in session. DELAY IS PREDICTED. British Legal Adviser's Absence Likely to Defer Meeting. LONDON, August 27 P).—It is hardly likely that the conference of German and allled experts to discuss the security pact can be held here next | Monday as originally intended. Sir Cecil Hurst, legal adviser to the witnessed | British foreign office, whose presence ! until (ol. I. latest French note that | ELDRIDGE ASSERTS CITIZEN ADVISORS SANGTIONED CODE Replies to Criticisms by Say- ing Changes Were Result of Observation. iDENlES NEW TRAFFIC | RULES ARE COMPLICATED Trial—Boulevard Stops Limited to Ten. | Holds Turning Plan Is Worthy of Traffic Director M. O. Eldridge in a { public statement today lifted from | his own shoulders to those of “a com of representative citizens” at part of the drumfire of criticism s falling upon his office for “over | regulation and “inconsistency.” Answering these barbed criticisms, Mr. Eldridge declared that the traffic | code now in force was prepared in | conference with “a committee of rep- | resentative citizens” and that no | changes had been made since except a few minor ones that became essen tial after the code was carefully ob- | served in actual operation. | The committee to which Mr ridge referred, and which he regarded as indicadng should be held as accountable as himself for the present situation, was, it was taken to mean, the advisory council of busi- ness and professional men who worked with him fer several weeks during | preparation of the new traffic code. Among the members of this board { were representatives of the city's big | trade bodies. ! Denies Code Is Complex. i Sldridge denied the regulations stand are complicated and took exception to charges that his | office has changed them so frequently it has become difficult for motorists to keep up with the kaleidoscopic traffic program recently. He admitted a con- siderable number of changes had been | made to adjust parking hours at cer- | tain places, but these, he said, were | clearly indicated by signs. The trafic director emphatically voiced opposition to listing the time { limit for parking in each and every | street in the District of Columbia in the traffic code, but he added he had ! later found it essential to meet legal limitation to do this. Otherwise, he said, the parking restrictions could not have been enforced in court. Mr. Eldridge vigorously defended | the proposal to try-out the newly | suggested turning system at Four- | teenth street and Pennsylvania ave- | nue. He said his department would continue preparations for putting this system ih force at the one inter- section, but the test will not begin C. Moller, traffic engi- | mittee |lea | th: = | the tragedy and, commandeering an |iS necessary at such a meeting, will| neer, returns to Washington from | automobile, gave chase to the fleeing | motorist. Roderick was overtaken ; | near the National Museum and taken | | to the station, where he was found to | be in a drunken stupor. to &now nothing of the accident. | Knew Nothing of Killing. ! The next morning. he explained, that he had not been drinking for some time until that night, when he | was in a card game where drinks | were passed around. When he left | the game he supposed he had started | toward his horse, in the northwest | section, but was driving toward the | “apitol when Bowie was killed. Roder- | ick could not believe the story until | | he_read it in the papers. | Probation Officer Steele investigated the killing and, while the law does not permit_probation, he reported to the | court that Roderick had done all in | his power to right the wrong, paying | the hospital bills of the injured men | and reimbursing them for the lost time. He paid the funeral expenses | | of Bowie and has obligated himself to a_considerable amount Yor the benefit of the widow of his victim. Attorney Raymond B. Dickey appeared for the accused. AMERICAN IS KILLED. Mexican Troops Pursue Renegades Who Ambushed Cowboys. EL PASO, Tex., August — | Mexican _soldiers’ have been dis- | patched from the Palomas, Chihuahua, | garrison in pursuit of renegades who Saturday ambushed three cowboys | believed from the Benton ranch, south of Columbus, N. Mex.. and killed one, an American, and wounded another. “We think these assassins are ren- egade Apaches, Mexicans and Amer- icans, who cross the border in the mountains at will, raiding ranches, driving off stock and killing cattle: men,” said Gen. Ramon Lopez, com- mander of the Juarez garrison. VISA FEES ARE WAIVED. United States and Germany Agree i Not to Charge Each Other. BERLIN, August 27 (#).—Through a formal exchange of notes between Ambassador Schurman and the for- !eign office, the United States and Ger- many have agreed to waive visa fees for non-emigrants beginning October 1. Although visas will be required as heretofore, they will be issued by both governments without charge. be in Geneva at that time, and the date of his return is at present unde- cided. An explanation of the apparent dis- He appeared | Crepancy between the statements of | tainly worth: M. Caillaux and Mr. Churchill on the debt question in _which the French finance minister mentioned a mor: | torfum, while the chancellor of the ex- | Atlantic City. chequer made no reference to such an | arrangement, wi cles today. Debt Understanding. It was said there always had been an understanding between the two governments by which Great Britain would at first receive only small pay- ments on the French account. Under the tentative arrangement reached here, however, this would be increased to such an extent that Great Britain given in official cir- would be compensated later and the | average payments would work out at £12,500,000 (about $60,000,000) yearly. Hope prevails in official quarters in London that Germany will accept the conditions of the security pact note of France and at an edrly date will send representatives to London to discuss (Continued on Page 4, Column 4. BODY OF BRIBE FOUND BESIDE WOUNDED MAN Latter, Bureau Nurse, Near Death From Bullet Wound. Gun by Woman. Veterans’ By the Associated Pres PHOENIX, Ariz., August 27.—Wal- ter A. Scott, a Veterans' Bureau nurse, was found by police near death with a bullet hele in his head here last night. his bride of two months. The shoot- ing is believed to have ocurred early yesterday. Scott came here three months ago from Albert There were indications of a struggle in the room. A small revolver was found on the bed beside the woman. Scott was on the floor several feet away. Scott is said to have been a grad- uate of a nursing school in Alberta. MINES LAID IN BALTIC. Hostile Act Latvian Government. Danes Charge Denmark , August (®).—The Danish naval author- ities claim to have information that | the Latvian government has lald a mine fleld between Libau and Stein| Ort, along the coast of Courland on the Baltic Sea. By the Associated Press. H ASHLAND, Ky., August 27.—A vain attempt to save the life of his son yesterday cost William Moore, 38, father of seven children, his own life. Moore, with his son Hubert, 14, had been attempting to reach a natural spring at his home near here. Yesterday afternon, after at- taining a depth of 23 feet, Moore set off a charge of dynamite to loosen bits of rock which they had encountered. After the explosion Moore let his son down into the | Father Descends to Death in Well ‘ In Vain Attempt to Save Life of Son excavation to fan away the smoke and fumes. ‘When Hubert reached the floor of the well- he smelled gas and called to his father to pull him out. Moore started to extricate his son, but half-way up Hubert became unconscious, released his hold on the rope and fell back into the pit. Moore at once started to descend, but was soon overcome by the gas and fainted. When rescuers reached him he was dead. His son died 5 minutes later. Radio Programs—Page 34. L Beside him was the body of | | byl | training camp. | Says System Merits Chance. | “The new turning system is cer- of a fair trial,” said Mr. | Elaridge. It is in operation in { Cleveland, Columbus and other cities !of Ohio, in Philadelphia, Pa., and in It is not an experi- ment, but a plan_that has been suc- |cessful elsewhere.” | The traffic director said if it works smoothly at Fourteenth and Pennsy- lvania avenue he will favor putting {it into effect at all policed intersec {tions. If it does not work satis- factorily it will not be retained, he said. | "Mr. Eldridge said the proposed | method of turning is essential for the | protection of pedestrians at busy cor ners. Briefly, it requires vehicles | planning to turn to draw in near the {curb before reaching the intersection. Trials Suggested Changes. | Referring to other changes in the traffic code, Mr. Eldridge said most of them had been suggested as a result of studying cases on trial in Traffic Court. The number of boulevard highw at which traffic must stop before cross- ing will be limited to 10, instead of 29, the traffic director announced, follow | ing a conference with Inspector E. W. Brown of the Police Traffic Bureau | ~The revised list of boulevard-stop | highways actually includes more than 10 streets, but where one street is a continuation of another Mr. Eldridge | is classing them as one boulevard. | Mr. Eldridge and Inspector Brown I not only agreed today to reduce the number of boulevards, but they de- |cided to eliminate stop signs in the | downtown section by having north ana south boulevards start outside the con | gested area. Because of the unusual width of | Pennsylvania avenue and Thirteenth |street in the downtown section, the | trafic bureau announced today that |~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 5. | el = |ROLLING COIN DIRECTS | DETECTIVES TO CACHE | L i$75,000 Worth of Stolen Crude Rubber Found in Garage. Two Men Held. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, August 27.—A coin, |rolling out of a detective's hand, today |lea three sleuths, in its fickle cour: |directly to a cache in the Willlam iburg section of Brooklyn, where $75,000 worth of stolen crude rubber was hidden, and resuited in the ar- rest of two men on a charge of grand |1arceny The elusive coin rolled underneath |the doorway of a garage. The de- tective opened the door to retrieve it and was ordered brusquely from the premises by the two occupants. Suspicious, the detectives forced their way in, and upon searching the garage found a quantity of rubber, |later identified as having been stolen Monday from a Pennsylvania lighter in Brooklyn. A quantity of women's apparel, valued at several thousand dollars, also was found, John' Gariff and Joseph Lewis were heid without bail for hearing. Steck Gains 77 More Votes. A gain of 77 votes for Daniel F. Steck, the Democratic contestant, was recorded today in the Senate recount of Van Buren and Wapello Counties in the Iowa senatorial contest. This gain, together with the correction of an error in the tabulation yesterday of Union County, left’ Steck’s net gain