Evening Star Newspaper, August 28, 1925, Page 2

g * 2 THE EVENING - STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (., FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1925, —_—————— CRANDALL EFFECTS S0 MERCER $8,000,000 Paid for Inter- ests Here by Stanley Co. of Philadelphia. Harry M. Crandall, Washington mo- tion picture magnate, announced to- v the final closing of the sale of 75 per cent of hjs interests in all his Washington theaters for approximate. 1y $8,000,000 to the Stanley Co. of Phil adelphia. Through the transaction, Mr. Cran: 1all will become the executive of the new Stanley-Crandall Co. that will take its place as a $30,000,000 corpora tion and form one of the four largest rrzanizations in the country, accord Ing to Mr. Crandall While the Earle Theater is already owned by the Stanley Co.. it will come directly un the new Stanley-Cran dall Co. No change in the manage. ment will result, however, Mr. Cran dall said. Eleven Theaters Tranferred. The 11 theaters t ferred are: The Metropolitan, Tivoli, Ambassador, Cen tral, Savoy, Avenue Grand. Apollo, York, Home, Lincoln and the New Colony, r under construction, The Stanley-Crandall o #h"the Baencer) Amusemont the South. the Balaban-Katz Co. of the Middle West and the West Coast Theater (o. The four organizations rll have the First National motion picture franchise and represent ap. proximately $120,000,000. Mr. Cran dall strongly hinted the merger of| these four organizations some time in| the future. The Stanley trol of nearly lantic City vania, with burgh The Stanley interests will next go to Baltimore and acquire or build a theater in that city, Mr. Crandall said, adding that there were no further plans for new theaters in Washington at_this time. Mr. Crandall admitted there had | been much talk of centralization in| the motion picture industry, and indi cated this might come about in the near future. He said that a proper centralization of the industry would mean better pictures and possibly “heaper admission. “At any rate,” he said. “it would mean no increase in the present admission.” He indicated hat with the mounting costs of opera tion higher prices of admission might come about ranks Co. in company now has con. 11l the theaters in At Wilmington and Pennsyl the exception of Pitt. Franchises Transferred. Crandall franchise with the National and the Exhibitors® Film Exchange were also transferred to the new company. Approximately 300 stockholders in the Crandall com pany have transferred their holdings to the new Stanley-Crandall organiza tion, Mr. Crandall sald. ! The officers and directors of the| Stanley Crandall Co. are: Jules Mastbaum, president and director; | Harry M. Crandall, vice president.{ treasurer and director; Fritz D. Hoff mann, controller and director: George | A. Crouch, assistant treasurer and| director; Morris Wolf, secretary: Irv-| ing D. Rossheim, assistant secretarv | and director; Abe Sablosky and John J. McGuirk, directors The local executive staff, as In the past. will consist of Joseph . Morgan, | general manager; John J. Payette, as: sistant general manager; Nelson B Bell. director of advertising, publicity j and broadcasting; Fritz D. Hoffmann, controller: Paul B. Davis, auditor; George A. Crouch, treasurer; George G. Larkin, assistant auditor; Nat B.! Browne, private secretary, and Daniel Breeskin, musical director-in-charge. | Nat Glasser will continue as head of the Crandall technical and mechanical | department. The First TERMSV TO FRANCE ON BRITJSH DEBT NOT OVERLY “SOFT” (Continued from First Page.) London agreement the annual French pavments would be furth: increased. It is somewhat difficult, therefore, to interpret what the Lonflon plan would mean if applied to the French debt to the United States. However, if the British had applied the same terms to the French that the British received from the United States they would be | charging the French about $56,000.000 | per apnum at the start and about £100,000.000 per annum after the fif: teenth year. But taking into consid eration the division of the debt into three parts and the advantages to the British treasury in so doing—higher nte: ates and early payment—it would appear that the British proposal| represents a reduction of only some- where from to 30 per ecent under the terms given by the United States to Great Britain, probably nearer 15} than 30 per cent And this after the principal of the French debt to Britain had been increased nearly 40 per cent by compounl interest arrearage at 6 per cent In the light of this analysis it is dif- ficult to see overwhelming ‘‘generos- 11y in the British terms to France in contrast to what the American Gov- ernment is asking. This is especially true in view of the fact that at the peace conference the United States neither asked nor receivd any share in the “booty’ of victory, liberal slices of which went to both Great: Britain and France, adding immea: urably to their present and potential national incomes. At the peace con- ference also the United States made an outright gift to the other allies of what was indisputably America’s share in German reparations. Beth Great Britain and France benefited by this fo an extent probably a great deal be- vond the “concession” made by Great Britain in the proposed settlement of the debt owned her by France. PRESSURE DISCLAIMED. British Press Denies Effort at Coercion in Pact. LONDON, August 28 (#).—American dispatches reporting amazement and irritation in the United States over the terms of the Anglo-French provisional debt arrangement and quoting state- ments by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Winston and Senator Smoot of the American Debt Commission and other persons are featured in large type in the morning newspapers. No surprise is expressed here at the declaration that the United States Gov- ernment will adhere to its attitude on foreign debts, as already indicated, but anxiety is evinced in some of the com- ment over the reported suspicions in the United States that Chancellor of the Exchequer Churchill and Finance Minister Caillaux schemed to put moral pressure on the United States in the interest of their respect coun- tries. The newspape: print disavowals of any intention by Great Britain to take any action that might bring her into conflict with the United States. The Daily Telegraph, for example, regrets the seeming ‘‘disposition at Washing- ton to see evidence of concerted action by Great Britain and France to put pressure on America to reduce her terms to France."” “‘cor- British rest “That,” says the ne tainly s not in the mind of the { pursuit jwill be {TWO FLYERS KILLED AS PLANES" Liedt. Talcott P. Smith and Passenger Die as Ship Falls. Parachute Fails Pilot Aft- er Army Craft Bursts Into Flames. ;B.T the Associated Press. i CHICAGO, August -Two avi ators in one plane were killed in a collision of two United States Army airplanes 500 feet above the May- wood Air Mall Field late yesterday. The pilot of the second plane escaped uninjured. though his ship was part- Iy wrecked Lieut. Talcott P. Smith and his passenger, Capt. William L. Heptig, viation reserve officer, former Army olonel, a member of the Chicago Board of Trade and president of the Chicago Chapter of the National Aer natulical Astociation, were the vie- tims. They were in a De Haviland plane from Chanute Field, Rantoul. T, and were returning from an air tournament at Camp Grant. Lieut. R. W. Douglass, a member of the first £roup. stationed at Selfridge Fleld, Mount Clemens. Mich., was fiy ing in front and above Smith's ship, in A Curtiss pursuit plane. In attempting a landing Smith made an upward turn to ayold a mail plane piloted by William Page, which was taking off. Te De Haviland over turned when its tail cut sharply against the side of the Curtiss ship and hurtled toward the ground Smith made desperate efforts to right his craft. and jumped as it burst into flames. His parachute failed to open and he was killed by the fall. ieplig leaped when the falling plane was about 25 feet above the ground and was fatally injured. He dled a short time later. The burning plane fell almost in front of the air mail fleld hangars, narrowly missing hundreds of specta- tors. Scores of former soldiers, pa- tients at the Edward Hines Hospital, also were spectators. The propeller of Douglass’ ship was sheared almost off by the impact, it was found aftar he landed. Douglass and Smith, both experts, had taken part earlier in the day in the Camp Grant aerial contests and had been among the winners. A military investigation of the ac cident will attempt to determine whether the pilots of the colliding ma chine were “stunting” for the benefit of the spectators, and why the para chutes failed to open. A report also made to the Postmaster Gen eral, becausa the scene of the accident was the air mail field. LIEUT. SMITH SERVED HERE. Army Flyer Spent Three Years at Bolling Field. The office of chief of Air Service today was without official information n ihe airplane accident at Chicago sterday in which Lieut Talcott mith and his passenger, Willam L. Heptig, prominent Chicago man, were | killed. News of the accident was a distinct [ HIT IN MIDAIR; THIRD ESCAPES LIEUT. TALCOTT P. SMITH. shock to the many friends of Lieut. Smith, who, until last year, had spent three and one-half years on duty at Bolling Fleld. Goes to Chanute Field. On July to Chanute Field, Rantoul last gisit to Washington { when he participated in {day demonstration at the Army field | here. His part in the ex ition was | to carry aloft a parachute jumper when he had flown to Washington | from the Tilinois station | Lieut. Smith, known the service “Taleum Powder Smith, was undoubtedly one of the most popular officers in the flying branch. He forever was engaged in some enterprise of a mechanical nature, his latest interest being in four-wheeled brakes for flivvers which ‘l'rp:ued much interest in automobile industries in the Middle West. Lieut. Smith had planned to market his product in the near future. He was born December 11, 1393 at Hartford, Conn., and enlisted in the Army at the outbreak of the war, He was commissioned an air- plane pilot and second lieutenant in the Air Service in 1918, and was ordered overseas, where he became a night bomber. His experience over- |seas as a bomber was utilized on {his return to America and his ac- |curaey was said to be uncanny Here in December, 1920, . he was transferred 11l.. and his was July 4, the Defense throughout He came to Bolling Field in Decem- {ber, 1920, and while here conducted numerous bombing tests and various experiments in connection with chem- |ical warfare material He had been | selected us one of the pilots for the observation plane race to be held s | Mitchel Field, New York, in October Pric to entering the military ser- vice, he engaged in the automobile industry and won national reputa- {tion at the San Diego exposition in 1915 ax an all-around automobile ex- |pert. He had a lage acquaintance in Washington outside of aeronautical circles Lieut | widow [reside te Smith is survived by and an infant daughter, hanute Field h who and too to become any such too harmonious Great Britain involved in tions are valued for willingly maneuver.” The Westminster Gazette, in con demning the debt arrangement, savs “It may be maintained that it was wise for Great Britain to offer and accept a lower sum from France as a gesture to America, but America apt to resent gestures which place her in such an_invidious position.’ The Daily Express says that M. Caillaux wishes to use the British offer as a means for beating down America and has hinted at new de- velopments which may lead to a revi- sion of Premier Baldwin's settlement with Washington. It adds, however, there is no chance of this. but that there ls the unpleas- ant risk of the Unitdd States and jreat Britain becoming embroiled. Today's editorial comment, 1o a great extent, emphasizes vesterday's strictures on the Anglo-French ar- rangement Belgian Group Silent. CHERBOURG, France, August 28 (#).—The Belgian debt commission, returning today on the liner Majestic, refused to discuss the negotiations at Washington which resulted in an agreement for the funding of Bel- gium'’s debt to the United States. The Belgian delegates said they had prom- ised Secretary of the Treasury Mellon to observe the strictest secrecy in re- gard to the recent negotiations. CHOICES HELD UP. PARIS, August 28 (P).—Finance Minister Caillaux and Foreign Min ister Briand have falled to agree con- cerning the composition of the French debt mission to Washington, and the council of ministers today again post- poned final decision on the matter. MM. Caillaux and Briand will hold private conferences to decide the per- centage of political personages and financiers to be included in the' mis sion and will report to the next cab: inet meeting. ¥ It is virtually certain that M. Cail- Jaux will go to Washington with one expert on September 16, the remainder of the mission following a few dave later. pected, will remain in the American Capital only a few days and that the delegates will take up the work where he leaves it. The disagreement between the finance and foreign ministers is not regarded as fundamental. but s ascribed rather to their lack of op- portunity to get together since M. Caillaux's return from London. No pessimism 1s expressed as to an ulti- mate accord between them regarding the composition of the debt mission. The Echo de Parix says it learns from a person who is in a position to know that while satisfled with the Rritish offers of a moratorium and a reduction in the debt figure, there is question of the cabinet signing any sort of an agreement. The newspaper adds that nothing can be definite until after the Franco- American conference at Washington The finance minister, it is ex-| OIL MEN RENEW INJUNCTION FIGHT Vacuum Company Charges “Drainings” Were Sold by Rival Concern. its fight against the Penn Oil Co. to prevent the latter from selling .its own product to motorists asking for a product of the former company Formal application was made to the District Supreme Court by Attorneys Vernon E. West and Donaldson & Johnson, representing the plaintiff, for leave to amend its bill of complaint by charging that the “crank case draining” which figured in the recent hearing of an application for a pre- liminary injunction was purchased at one of the filling stations of the Penn 0il Co. The purchase is alleged to have been made July 30 at 2824 Sherman avenue, when the person in charge had been asked for one quart of a Vacuum product. One quart of ofl was received, it is allezed: and the oil subjected to certain laboratory tests. These tests, it is alleged, disclosed that the oil was not the oil requested and “was oil used in an internal com- bustion engine, such oils heing com- monly known as crank case drain- ings.” Attached to the motion to amend are adavits of Otto Obermayer, an investigator for the Vacuum Oil Co., as to the purchase and afdavits of two Baltimore chemists, Arthur Lee Brown and H. R. Gundlach, as to the result of the chemical analyses. Attorneys Alvin L. Newmyer, Cran- dall Mackey and Milton W. King for the Penn Company have been noti- fied that the motion will be called to the attention of Justice Hoehling next Monday @At a recent hearing counsel for the Penn Oil Co. claimed there was no al- legation in the bill of complaint that the sporadic fnstance of buving crank case draining was made at one of the stations of the defendant company The company denied all the other alle- gations of the bill and Chief Justice McCoy refused a_preliminary injunc- tion, saying the Vacuum Oil Co. had been “sworn out of court.” New York Coxlw;{n Exjund. Joseph Rossomonda of New York City. & coxswain, was the man injured in the turret drill accident Tuesday aboard the_battleship Oklahoma, en route from New Zealand to Samoa. A dispatch to the Navy Department to- day. giving his name. said he appar. ently was not seriously injured. One man was killed in the accident }'ylen Echo Girl Freed in Liquor Case And Dry Agen Special Dispatth to The Star. . BALTIMORE, August 28.—‘“There 1s no need for agents to use such de- ceitful methods for trapping alleged violators of the prohibition laws. 1 am sure that the directors are not in sympathy with such methods and I do not intend to tolerate them in court.” This was the declaration yes- terday of United States Commissioner J Frank Supplee in dismissing charges of sale and possession of lig- wor against Miss Sally Canada of Glen Echo, Md., after the girl had testified | that Agent John J. Williams of the Washington dry squad had courted her for two months, and when she had obtained a pint of whisky for him with monev he had_given her, swore out a warrant for her arrest. Mrs. Sadie Canada, postmistress of Glen Eche, said the agent posed as Mr. Willlams of Poolesvil one of governmeat Anglo-American rela- bthe Maryland Williams. "He 8rst ap- t Scored as Deceiver peared July 6, she sald, and apparent- 1y became enamored of Sally. They went auto riding, to dinner in Washington and at Upper Marl- boro, Sally testified. In Upper Marl- boro, the girl testified, he apparently was In need of a drink. He begged so hard that one of the waiters brought him a drink from a private bottle, she said. On another occasion he gave her $4 and she bought him a pint of whisky from a man there. {In August, because he asked for it so constantly, she said, she had a pint | delivered fo the Glen Echo store and handed it to him when he came in. As it by prearrangement, she said, dry agents raided the place and found nothing outside of the pint bottle. Williams admitted most of the girl's statements were true and testi- fied he was told by his chief “to go the limit” in making a case against the Canadas. A ~ The Vacuum Ol Co. today resumed | PARK POLICE HEAD SEEKS MORE MEN Higher Pay, Unlimited Sick Leave and New Uni- forms Asked. More men, higher pay, altered uni- forms, unlimited leave in case of sick- ness, one day off in seven and auto transportation are among the recom- mendations for the United States park police by Capt. Watson L. McMorris in his final annual report after four years as superintendent of the force in Washington He advocates a total strength he- ginning next July of one captain. one lieutenant, six sergeants and 66 pri vates, 74 men in all. This would allow three eight-hour shifts, provide two | privates for duty at the new Anacostia JPark and two for the Grant Circle neighborhood, and enable the force to take one day off each week. Rickness Leave. He asks legislation to allow unlim ited leave in case of sickness upon the certificate of two police surgeons or two Army doctors. He advocates discontinuing the khaki uniform in favor of blue for all thé force and urges the adoption of a turndown collar uniform for Summer which can be worn with a Dblack tie He urges raising the rank of lieu tenant (o captain and increase in pay { for this position from $2,700 to $3.000; )that the rank of first sergeant he raised to lieutenant and the pay raised from $2,400 to 700, and that the present rank of first sergeant be elimi nated. He recommends that six Ford cars with truck: bodies be provided for the officers and sergeants. pointing out that the cost would be offset by the present motor cycle allowapce of $10 a month. Report of Work. In the vear ended July 30, he re ports, the park police made 2,093 ar rests and caused 50 to ba turn- ed into the Federal treasury in fines and forfeited collateral. They gave aid to 147 sick or injured persons. re. covered 40 lost children and located 11 stolen automohiles. Capt. McMol has been ordered to duty in the Philippines and now is officially detached from the office of the director of public buildings and grounds. EVILS OF BELT LINE CITED BY OFFICIALS IN FIGHT ON PLAN (Continued from First Page) of Montgomery County adjacent to the District of Columbia already is occupled for residential purposes The proposed beit line would conse quently encircle the developed section land separate it from the communitie: |2 little farther from the District line in which the new growth is now taking place und where the fu ture growth must be. Part of National Capital Chis valuable and thickly settied | residential belt of Montgomery County {should further be regarded, in con | sidering both it requirements and its {future. as a part of the National Cap- ital. Washington City, as vour com- mission knows, exists entirely as the Rome of thé Federal Government and there are no industries or manufac turing plants of any size located in Washington. This condition merely emphasizes the lack of justification in the attempt of the promoters of the belt line to create an industrial area immediately outside of Washington City’s most valuable and fastest grow- ing_suburban section. ’ “This belt line would for four and one-half miles on the northwestern side of the District be immediately |adiacent to the general Chevy Chase | section, which compares with the Rowland Park-Gullford Homeland sec- tions of Baltimore City, and for four miles on the northwestern side of the District the proposed beit line would be immediately adjacent to the Ta koma Park-Silver Spring-Woodside sections, which compare with the Ash, burton-Forest Park sections of greater Baltimore. Certainly no one would propose building a freight belt line through these sections of ‘Baltimore City, and the project is even more indefensible in the similar sections of Maryland adjacent to the National Capital, because Washington is not a manufacturing or commercial city. | | | Seek More Improvements. n administering the affairs of Montgomery County and planning for its futire, we always have to remem- Der that we are adfacent to the Dis- trict of Columbia. which enjoys a vast revenue from city taxation plus a 40 per cent contribution from the Fed- eral Government. We have made every effort to compete with the Dis- trict of Columbia in governmental im- provements and advantages for our people, and we believe that the Mont- gomery County suburbs are regarded as favorably as home locations and investment areas as the adjacent Dis- trict of Columbia suburbs. Our street and park plans are being worked out to co-ordinate with those of the Dis- trict of Columbia: our school and road systems compare favorably with those of the District of Columbia; our coun- ty tax rate is very decidedly lower than that of the District of Columbia and, in fact, is the lowest tax rate of any of the 23 counties of Marvland. | “The Washington Suburban Sani- tary Commission (a State commission) is developing an adequate water and | sewerage system in Montgomery and Prince Georges County suburbs of Washingten at a cost to the users. which that commission advises us, compares favorably with the cost of similar systems in the suburbs of other large citles, Greater Washington Seen. e contemplate advocating ade- quate zoning protection to our resi- dential communities at the next ses. sion of the Maryland General Assem. bly. We believe that the growth of Greater Washington into Montgomery County will ultimately extend well up into the middle or Rockville section of the county. “If Montgomery County is protect- ed from such damaging encroach. ments as the proposed belt line, we feel that its future as well as the main suburban residential area of Washington City s extremely bright. The proposed belt line would provide a most positive barricade against a continuation of the present high- grade development which our county enjoys, and we cannot too strongly urge you to protect the property vai- ues and home interests of our people by refusing this charter for which we are unable to see the slightest justi- fication,” i B GIRL HELD AS RAIL BANDIT 1.OS ANGELES, August 28 (#).— Two men and a woman were in jail today suspected of participation in the robbery of Santa Fe train No. 75 near Oceanside Jast Monday night in which a veteran express messenger, Elmer Campbell, was fatally shot. They were Carl Lewis, 26; Robert Lee, 28, and Miss Pearl Anderson, 26-yearold hairdresser. All were booked as LEGION AUXILIARY | HEAD SEEKS PEACE Mrs. T. V. Walker, Elected Last Night, Approaches Ousted Units. Mrs. Thacker V. Walker, | bart street. of the George Washington unit, American Legion Auxiliary, elected president of the District de- | partment auxiliary | at a meeting at the Raleigh Hotel last night, today | made a peace overture to mem bers of the three units whose char ters were revoked t h e preceding night. The ousted mem bers are invited to| re-enter the aux-| iliary as re-formed units and again to | take up the M‘i tivities of the lo. cal auxiliary. The | three ousted units dis- be read-| they were | auxiliary 1601 Ho Mr. T. V. Walker. however, as orgadizations cannot mitted, it was sald, as dropped by the department assembled in annual session. No one could regret more than I the disturbance within our ranks and the necessity for revoking the charters of the three units. We would all be delighted to have the members of those units re-form and again join us in the great work there ix for us fo do in aiding ex-service men and their tamilies,” said Mrs, Walker. To Expand Child Work. The department auxiliary last night also decided Lo enter into a gi t ex pansion of its child welfare work and appolnted Mrs. Leon Arnold, retiring | president of the department auxilary, | as chairman of the committee in | charge of the program Mrs. Arnold ix to hold the position for two years. For the first time in the history of the auxiliary here, Mrs. Arnold said today, a comprehénsi survey of conditions of children of service men in local child-caring insti tutions and reformatories, together with & program of alleviating the in digent, will be launched in the near future. Sale of poppies #arink the last year | brought more thac $1,000 into’ the | treasury of the auxiliary, it was re- | rorted, and a liberal amount of this i expected to be devoted to the activities of the child welfare department. The poppy report was made by Mrs Mary Killeen, who supplemented her | report with a r lution that a stand- ardized name, ““The Flanders Field Poppy,” be adopted for the auxiliary’s | flower. to avoid confusion with the “Buddy Po y'" of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. It was unanimousiy adopted. Mrs. Mary Shanahan of the Cos- tello unit was elected first vice presi- dent of the auxiliary and other of ficers elected were: Mrs. Edna Mc- Intosh of the Evans unit, second vice president; M Daniel’” B. Miller, Spangier unit, chaplain; Mrs. George Davis, Costelio unit, colorbearer; Mrs Mary Kolhos, Killeen unit, cu | todian The following delegates to the na- i tianal convention of auxiliaries were selected: Mrs. Iker. Mrs, Kolhos, Mrs. L. A. White, Mrs. Mc. Intosh and Mrs. Mary Killeen. The alternates were Mrs. Shanahan, Mrs. Ethel Fowler, Mrs. Emma Belt. Mra. W. E. Harvey and Mrs. Nancy Lee. Mrs. Ieon Arnold was named alter- nate to the executive committee. While election of the officers was orderly, it followed a hectic session, in which Mrs. Walker and Charles Reimer commander of .the Stuart Walcott Post, American Legion, the auxiliary of which was one of the three ousted at Wednesday night's meeting, became engaged in a heated controversy Came Under Protest. Commander Reimer, it was said, entered the session of the auxiliary against protests by many of the women present, but finally was grant ed the privilege of the floor by Mrs. ! Shanahan, who was presiding in the temporary absence of Mrs. Arnold. Comdr. Reimer attacked members of the auxillary for permitting news of the strife within the organization to be published, which, he declared, hurt the endowment drive which the Amer- ican Leglon is now conducting. Mrs. Walker, the nomines for president, immediately took issue with the statement and declared that the ousting of the three units of the auxiliary and the subsequent reports of the affair had not injured the cause of the leglon’s drive. Both Mr. Relmer and Mrs. Walker later offered regrets for their verbal pyrotechnics, and the election proceed- ed on withdrawal of the Walcott com- mander. The department auxiliary later in the meeting voted an appropriation of $200 toward the endowment drive of the legion. tinet | | i { i DRY CHIEFS HURTING BUSINESS, IS CHARGE Near-Beer Saloon Owner Seeks to Halt Surveillance of Federal and D. C. Officers. Justice Hoehling of the District Su- preme Court today cited Lincoln A. Andrews, Assistant Secretary of the | mo |FRANCE WILL CALL U. S. BLUFF ON DEBT TERMS, CA ILLAUX SAYS JURY PROBES DEATH Finanice Minister Says Ainerica Can Accept His Debt []F HREMAN MANN Mission’s Program or He Will Call Body Home at BY JOHN L. BALDERSTON. By Cable to The Star and New ¥ LONDON, August 28.—The Callla Churchill battle of wits over the An. glo-French debt now each protagonist convinced has won a victory. Joseph Caillaux, the ¥rench finance minister, believes he has created an Anglo-French financial blac against the United States which will enable him to compel Washinzton to accept not more than 2 per cent in-| terest on the French debt to the | United States. | M. Caillaux informed high person ages with whom he cafié in contact | here that the delegation which h proposes to send to the United States | will be instructed to inform the Ameri- | ans that since Great Britain is will- | ing to accept 2 per cent on the French | debt, the United States cannot ask | 1, ux- | he H refuse, M. Cafllaux declared categori- | cally that he will order his delegation | to take the next boat home. i He does not_intend himself to go to Washington, he told Foreign Secre tary Chamberlain and Winston Churchill, chancellor of the exchequer. {and bank: has ended with |are |Calllaux talked for hours. Once. The Caillaux program regarding the French debt to the United States was expounded to more than onc minister here, and my statements on information given me a man with whom M based personally by The Anglo-French agreement on 2 per cent. M. Calllaux insisted, will compel the United States to take in effect less than 2 per cent on the French debt 1o the United States, since, although France owes the United States more than she owes Britain, M. Caillaux declared the United States. under penalty of moral ohloquy, would not feel able to ask | more than $62.500,000 vearly. the same | amount Britain agrees (o take. Warned by some of those with whom he conferred that high Amerl can authorities had informally given e and, should the United States|warnings against such assumptions as | these, M. Cafllaux airly replied that these Americans were bluffing. he French finance minister there fore ha turned to Paris convinced %0 he says, that he has scored a great victory in the campaign to get good terms from the United State: VANDERBILT PLANS ATLANTA AIR BASE Land Secured and Plant to Be Opened About Christ- mas, He Says. By the Associated Prest ATLANTA, Ga., August 28— Plans | to establish a large commercial air ba in Atlanta, from which lines will radiate to the West and South and ex tend to Cuba. today were announced by Cornelius Vanderbilt, jr. leven thousand acres of land near the city have been purchased. or are under option, and planes probably will be placed in operation by Christmas. The development program for this sectfon of the country will require about five vears and involve the ex penditure of several million dollars. Yen Planes on Line. Mr. Vanderbiit arrived here vester day from Detroit, where he held a con- | ference with his assoclates, whose names he did not reveal, and will re main until next week. He then will go o California to superintend the open- | ing of an air line between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City. Ten planes will be operating on this line by September 1, he sald. Many local men have bheen working with him for a perlod of six months, but he said their names will not be made public until & conférence within the next 80 days, when construction will begin on the fields. The group of men associated with him, he con- tinued, represent the leading engineer- ing and financial interests of the coun- try. hey plan to make Atlanta the third largest commercial air base in the United States. “It would be impossible to give any- thing like an accurate estimate of the amount which will be expended in this development, but regardless of what it may cost,’ there is sufficieny, capital interested to Insure its success,” Mr. Vanderbilt said. There are now four well financed and managed commercial air com- panies operating in the country and one 18 in process of formation. There probably will be 20 in the next five vears. Open by Christmas. “We have had engineers in Atlanta four monthe making surveys and drawing plans. We hope that we will be in a position to begin flying out of Atlanta to New Orleans and points in Florida by Christmas of this vear. “Our planes will carry freight, ex press and mall, but no passengers. “We are building two airships a month and should be in a position to have 10 planes in Atlanta before the first of 1926. The plans, as outlined by Mr. Van- derbilt, include faoflities for the opera- tion of dirigibles as well as airplanes. “The land we have secured is all within_a 20-mile radius of Atlanta, with the main operating base within four miles of the city limits, but I do not want to announce the exact loca- tion until another conference with the Eastern members of the group,” he continued. Plan “Air City. “We expect to put in shape three separate flelds, each a mile square, |in miners’ circles MINE PROTECTION DURING STRIKE IS AGREED AT PARLEY (Continued from First Page.) ber 1 the call had last night. to be in the mall The September suspension is not re- | garded as a calamity by operators or miners, providing it is a short one. Miners attribute the operators’ ability to bear up undér the prospect to the profits already accruing from the stim- ulated demand for their “steam sizes” of coal at enhanced prices Operators, on the other hand, sav that anglers and nimrods among the miners hearing the call of September forests and stréams provide the bulk of the suspension sentiment in union halls. In ether words, they welcomed a “vacation” once a year as much as the office workers, it was said. Speculation i« alréady developing here as to what outside intermediary will eventually appear to bring the two warring sides together and make the walkout short.”” The name of Gov. Pinchot is mentioned frequently Operators have not expressed themeéives. MINERS REMOVE TOOLS. any Allied Industries to Be Forved | to Lay Off Crews. HAZLETON, Pa., August 28 () In preparation for the suspension starting _September 1, anthracite miners of the Lehigh Valley today began removal of tools that are needed for the few remaining days of the old wage agreement. All tools will be taken out by Monday after noon. The Hazleton Iron Works, depend ing for the most part on the manu- facture of supplies for the mines and mine repaire, suspended today until Labor day. The Lehigh Valley Rail- road is preparing to lay off crews now handling coal shipments. The crews will be kept busy several days after the suspension of actual mining. however, in hauling away the last fuel mined under the existing wage scale. Local retail dealers today said they were able to meet all demands of customers. The Delano shops and _engine houses of the Lehigh Valley Railroad will be closed during the suspension, it was announced today. It was said that if the mine shutdown lasts ang time it may be necessary to curtail the forces at the Ashmore shops of the company. About 245 men are emploved on crews handling coal shipments from the collierfes in this section to market and they will be rendered idle after taking away the tonnage of the last working day of the old working agreement. Estimates today wers that about 100,000 tons of hard coal, mostly of steam sizes, are stored in the Lehigh region. Canada Supply Good. OTTAWA, Canada, August 28 (#).— The suspension of work ordered in the American anthracite flelds finds Canada with hard ceal supplies about 2 per cent greater than last vear There, therefore is no immediate fear of a shortage. Householders have been laying in their Winter supplies eariier than usual in anticipation of the miners’ action. Glover Leaves for Denver. and to encourage real estate develop- ments around them. We will eventu- ally develop what we want to be an ‘air city’ somewhere in the metropol- itan area of Atlanta.” After stating that the advantages which developed Atlanta into one of the railroad centers of the South had influenced the selection of the city as the site of the air base, Mr. Vander- bilt said that another favorable point was the 1,000-foot altitude here which, he remarked, made it an ideal loca- tion for a base for dirigibles. Mr. Vanderbilt expects to return at an early date and will spend the Win- ier here directing the operations of the company. ESCAPING CONVICT LURED 70 CELL BY DINNER BELL Treasury; Harry M. Luckett, chief of the prohibition unit; Danlel Sulli- van, superintendent of Washington police, and Howard Ogle, policeman, to show cause next Wednesday why an injunction should not be issued against them to prevent interference with the business of George Rock, who runs a near-bear saloon at 620 Eleventh street southwest. Rock charges that after he was {acquitted in police court on a charge of selling liquor, Luckett, acting for Gen. Andrews, advised the owner of the property rented by him that Rock was selling liquor and as a result, Rock was notified to vacate the premises. Sullivan is charged with placing_policemen in front of Rock’s place of business to Intimidate cus- tomers; Ogle is sald to have visited the place three times in one day with the intent to drive away customers of Rock. Attorney J. J. Maginnis ap- pears for the plaintiff. SHELLS USED IN RUM WAR Revenue Cutter Chases Smugglers ‘With One-Pound Guns. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., August |28 P).—Firing one-pound shelisms fast | as its single gun could be loaded and discharged, a revenue cutter angaged in combat with two vessels of smug- glers and liquor runners inside the Lake Worth Inlet Jast night and forced the vessels out to sea, where the fight was continued. 5 Capture of the runners was regard- 8 certain, but had net been reported ‘merning. - [ Prisoner, Atop Roof, Defies Polite, Firemen and Guards Until Hunger Saves Day. By the Associaled Pres. PARIS, August 28.—The sound of the dinner bell lured Leon Nuleter back to his cell in the Cherche Midi prison today after he had escaped by an upper window, clambered on to a steep roof and held off scores of pur- suers for five hours. Having made his break for liberty and climbed to his perch, the pri oner, armed with an fron bar and with his_shirt wrapped around his free hand as though te@ defend him- self In a sword battle, faced his pur- suers and mocked their futile efforts to reach him while a crowd of thou- sands gathered and laughed with him. Nuleter calmly smoked cig- arettes which were thrown to him while scores of helpless prison guards, policemdn and firemen tried to dis- lodge him. The pursuers did not want to risk tumbling from the roof in a battle with their quary while they knew hunger was fighting on their side. The dinner bell ended the siege. . Bandits Rob London Jewelers. LONDON, August 28 (#).—A daring robbery was carried out in a main thoroughtare of London's West End today when motor bandits drew up in front of a jewelry store in Queens road, Bayswater, smashed the window, seized a tray of rings, valued at £2.000 roughly, $10,000), and escaped.. The robbery is the culmination of a. seriea oceurring recently in the suburban districts of London. Sy The Second Assistant Pastmaster General, W. Irving Glover, left ves- terday for Denver to attend the rneet- ing of the Railway Mail Association there Tuesday. He will first visit New York, and also Omaha, making inspec- tions of the air mall fields. Coroner Begins Investigétion of Collision Between Hose Truck and Street Car. | | < | Testimony at the coroner's inquest morgue todav in the | death of Private James L. Mann of Engine Company No. 21, Fire Depar ment, who was fatally injured whe A street car struck the hose truck on which b was riding at “ourteenth and Harvard streets vesterday, indi cated that aithough the sirén and bells of the fire apparatus were sound ed regularly Motorman Thon O'Neil evidently failed to hear the warning in time to apply the brakes and avoid | a crash. | The jury was adjournea until Mon- { dav by Deputy Coroner Martyn on motion of Capital Traction attorneyvs who said they wanted to obtain.more | witnesses. ] Dr. Herbert Martyn. deputy coro. ner, and other physicians testified | that death resulted two hours after the accident from a fracture of the skull, suffered when the fire tru« WaS SWUNg across the street from the impact, pitching Mann off so that his head struck on the f a tree Two other firemen were injured in the accident—Pvis. 1. Atwood, 8 Ninth street northeast. and Walte Matheny of 1300 South Caroling nue southeast. who were throwr { the truck when Mann lost his footing | Testimony of Witnesses. | John E. Lyons. a plumber, of H street, testified before the jury he was walking down Fourieentt street at Harvard when he saw the fir éngine approaching from b West. He turned around. he ran out into the street and threw his hands in warning to the approact ing street car, but the motorman paid no attention to him, he added, pre ably believing him to be a passenge attempting to beard the car tha point, which is not a car stop. W. R. F. Hines, undertaker, Fourteenth street, told the j both the street car and the fire paratus_were coming at the rate of about 15 miles per hour. Other wit nesses testified that the noise of the | approachin fire engine was plain { heard by them, but that the street car | motorman showed no indicat having heard it Lyons he saw a flash over the moto head as he was attempting the car 1o a stop. The fl lar 1o those made when too load is thrown on the car aid Chief George Watson the Department attended the inquest torney Frank Madigan of the corpe | ration counsel's office represented Fire Department Assistant District Attorney William Collins represented the United States attornev's office, and Attorney G. Thomas Dunlop appeared for the Capital Traction Co. A number of requests have been made to the Public Utilities Commis sion to have Fourteenth and Harvard streets made a street car stop or fire stop, it was stated today by an official of the commission. As a result, the commission investi gated and considered the situation there, but decided it was not any more necessary 1o create a stop there than at other points. The short block he. tween Harvard street and Columbia road, where street cars stop, had much to do with this decision, it is under stood, as well as the fact that tistics fail to.show any appalling num ber of accidents at that intersection in comparison with other street crossings on Fourteenth street. Citizens Urge Action. The Columbia Helghts Citizens’ A< soctation, however, went on racard for a street car stop at this corner, and it was at the instance of represents tives of the association that consider ation was given by the Utilities Com- mission to placing a car siop there. Mann was 24 vears old and was appointed to the Fire Department iast December 17. He lived at 117 Abbey place northeast He had scarcely been a month with the de partment when the Kann's warehouse fire broke out, at which his conduc and devotion to duty drew him official commendation from the Con missioners. He was a native of Selma, Ala., and came fo this city several years ago. He was an ex service man, serving two years in the Army, and had been a conductor on a street car before being appointed to the fire department. He is survived by his wife, having been married three years. Other Traffic Accidents. Albert Calvert, 32 years, 512 G stree southeast, stepped from the street railway loading platform at Pennsy Ivania’ avenue and Ninth street terday afternoon and was knocked down by an eastbound car. He was shocked and his right hip hurt. 1ie reported the accident to the police and went to Emergency Hospital. Joseph Fletcher, colored, 14 years. 38 Fenton srteet northeast, received a fracture of one rib yesterday after- noon as a result of a collision between his bicycle and en automobile near North Capitol and I streets. He was given surgical ald at Sibley Hospital. at the District | | that | &b w | he: sta- | HOW TO AVOID AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS It is better to have looked and stopped — than looked at all you have parke never to have Bo® * "VWhen d, and are about to pull out into traffic—look around to see Many a fender what’s coming. and feeling can be saved if you remember this. Published by The Star in co-operation twith the Diector of Treffic of dhe District of Columbis and The Advertinng Club of Washington