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WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Forec; Fair and slightly and tomorrow. Temperatures: Highest, 77, at 2:15 p.m. yesterday: lowest, 56, at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 10 29,705 ) warmer tonight Entereq ss secona class matter post_office. Washington. D, C CAILLAUX TO LEAVE FORU.S. SEPT.16T0 OPEN DEBT PARLEY Will Bring One Expert—Rest of Commission Will Cpme Soon Afterward. No. Debt Commissioner BREACH WITH BRIAND OVER MISSION DENIED Debt Body Moves to Settle All Obligations in Time for Next Congress’ Action. - UNDER WOOD & UN OERWOQOD JOSEPH CAILLAUX. By tha Associated Press. PARIS. August nouncement was made today that Finance Minister aux will sail on the liner Paris September 16 to ini- tiate the debt funding negotiations with the United States M. Caillaux will be accompanied by only one ex-| pert. The.remainder of the Frenvhi mission is to follow either on ‘Sep-! tember 19 or It was also announced today that| there is no disagreement between M.! Caillaux and Foreign Minister Briand | concerning the ratio of political men | to financiers on the debt commission The ministers. however, are finding | it extremely difficult to choose from | all the political applicants, times as many ha there are places on the m withheld pending completion of the | MEXICO CITY, August 29.—An-| LA RGN i nouncement of resumption of diplo- | |matic relations between Mexico and | U. S. SPEEDS UP CLAIMS. | Great Britain, which had been suspend- ed since June, 1924, has created con- derable excitement in Mexico City. . | Extra editions of the newspapers, This Winter. ! which are rare in the capital, .u?ppl ed| The American Debt Commission has on the streets last night after Foreign sei a goal of cleaning up all war debt | Minister Saenz made the announce- funding in time for action by the next | ment. it ‘n‘;"‘\jn'rl'm-n«:,'\{‘\? 3 “};:r";l;‘“} One of the head lines proclaimed the the remainder of the maller detiors | Settlement of the difficulties between o dha robit of 1 agotiatioes | Great Britain and Mexico as “consoli- With promise of action already giv-|dating the international harmony A Mexico with all the great countries.’ en on the two larger I t un- Negotiations Long On. funded, those of France of-| ficials here believe the positive stand| now taken o speed up action by the! Pending the appointment of minis smaller war-time borrowers will en-|ters, Alfonso de Rosenzweig Diaz has | able them to wind up the entire busi-|been named as charge d'affaires for ness of deb' funding during the com-| Mexico in London and Norman King, ing Winter | former British consul, will ume a The first fruits of the new pressure | similar post here for Great Britain. brought upon the smaller debtc Mr. King and Senor Saenz for long comes in the information that Czecho- | time have been negotiating for a re- slovakia, after plain notice from the sumption of friendly intercourse be-| United States-that it desires such ac- | tween the two countries. tion without undué detas, wiil shortly | Relations were severed in June, 1924, send over a debt-funding commission. when the British charge was ordered The Greek government also has au-| expelled by the Mexican government thorized its minister here to open ne- | for alleged support given Mrs. Rosalie gotiation: Evans, an American woman, who was Latviag ‘Agreemént’ Near. |the wife of a British subject and who With an agreement mearing with | [AlST Was assassinated on her ranch. | The trouble of Mrs. Evans in which | Latvia and informal exchanges under | 2 et ; et e i it Mt D | L S CRaIRd R e oI G of Bsthonla, the debt commission is |SLemPts by Mexican agrarians to| now concerned in its new drive also =T 2 1 with obtaining acticn by Rumania and | Chamberlain Cables Settlement. Jugoslavia, which, with Liberia, com- | plete the group of small debtors whose | obligations are yet unfounded. The | Russian debt of more than a quarter of a billion dollars has virtually been written off as uncoliectable and the relatively small debt of Armenia also does not figure In the program Crechoslavakia’s debt, which stands on the Treasury's books at §91,644.563, | MEXIGANS ELATED BY BRTISH COMITY Resumption of Relations Viewed as Great Step in International Accord. 29.—Official an. Hopes to Clear Up All Debt Issues Senor Saenz made public a cable- gram sent him by Austen Chamber- lain, the British foreign secretary, result of the recent exchange | regarding existing differences, | have the pleasure of informing i you of the appointment of Norman | King as charge, with instructions lu’ ch WASHINGTON, D. C, MNING SLAGES GENERALLY MY NN ALREADY 00 Leaders of Both Sides De- part for Firing Line on Eve of Strike. FORECAST OF STRIKE’'S DURATION IS SOUGHT May Be Given Shortly—5,000,000 Tons of Soft Coal to Be Ready Monthly. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, August Trusted lieutenants of both anthracite operators and miners began their de parture today to take posts on the firing line in advance of the mine sus- pension ordered by the union for| Monday midnight. { Activities slackened on both sides for the week end, but advices from the anthracite region upstate indi- cated that to some extent the walk- out of the 158,000 mine workers is al ready under wa | Some contract miners “blew down” | their last coal, and at quitting time | removed their tools from the cham-| ber: They will not return, it was said, because it will take their labor ers the remainder of the time to clean | up behind them. | The suspension has interfered with | one of the bright spots in the miners’ vear, according to other reports. Sum mer picnics in other years have | brought both miners and company officlals into pleasant contact and un-| official reunion. Contests between firstaid teams, composed of miners | themselves, have provided a sporting | feature in which excitement ran high. The outings have always been looked | forward to with een anticipation. | This year, because of the coming ! walkout, only one company and its| men carried out the annual outing | idea | The mine mule in the next 48 hours is expected to forecas thracite suspension short If mules are brought to the surface | for the shutdown it will signify belief | that the mines will be closed a con-! siderable time. | If mules remain below, sentiment ! (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) | | POLICEMAN IS HURT | 1 L 29, — | whether the an- | is to be long or| Jolted From Own Car—Shots | Fired in Pursuit Netting | | 114 Gallons. | An automobile chase punctuated by pistol shots at dawn today ended | after 3 miles of Washington streets | and most of the had AR BOOTLEGGERS { Nashville, Tenn., stenographer, sweet | tioning in connection with the finding WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, ¢ Foening Star. The Star’s “From Press to Home Within the Hour” carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 92,322 1925 -THIRTY-TWO PAGES. * UP) Means Associated Pri _TWO_CENTS. SWEETHEART HELD Gems Given Pretty Stenog-| rapher by Schlig Seized—No Clue to Murder Found. By the Aseociated Press CHICAGO, August 20.—Pauline Livingston, pretty 24 year old, former heart of Irving Schlig, “the bootlegger™” was held today fiving | for ques- of the bodies of Schlig and Harry Ber- | man, gangster, near Ashburn flying | field yesterday Valuable jewels in her possession, | some of which she said Schlig had | given her, were seized for checking up with lists of stolen zoods to de-| termine if any were profits of Schlig’s robbery and safe-blowing activities, Search of her apartment revealed no clues to the solution of the slayings or trace of loot which the police think Schlig has catched. Vaults rented by the dead liquor runner will be search- ed. While investigators worked on the| theory that the slayers were rival bootleggers, they also gave credence | to a story that the killings resulted | from a plot to steal a big Army plane | from Ashburn Field. Armed guards, | watching the plane, said no theft at-| tempt had been made. | That the shootings may have been | linked to a half-million-dollar safe blowing at the Parkway Hotel several months ago, in which Schlig was ques- tioned, also was considered. Except for any information obtained | from the Livingston girl, police had as clues only a small black suit case, New French Gun, On Way to Tests, Is Lost En Route By the Associated Press BRIVE-LA-GATLARDE, France, August 29.—Mystery surrounds the disappearance of a newly invented rapid-fire gun, built on the lines of the Lewis gun. The weapon l | | disappeared from the railroad depot here while in transit The gun men of being s for trials commission invented by the work- Tulle arms ped to a provi before a prior to its adoption by the army. It failed to arrive and an inquiry was started. It was traced to this town, where the box in which it had been packed was found to have been opened Parts of the gun were scattered about the depot. It is not known whether the parts were abstracted to be copied or whether the break- ing of the hox was due to careless- ness of railway employes. BALL POOL RAID NETS 2 ARRESTS Liquor Squadron Stumbles | on Alleged Operator. Tickets Seized. ctory, was Through two arrests, in which the arm of coincidence played a part. po- ice today believed they had broken | up one of the few remaining big base | ball pool operations in Washington. | boldly toward the officers’ | of the 121st Enginee: | of the cross, sought MILITIA REVELERS LIGHT FIERY CROSS Officers of District Guard Aroused by Demonstration. | Start Home Today. | BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY, Staff Correspondent of The Star. VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., August 29.—Revelers held sway in the camp of the District National Guard dur ing the early hours today, as the encampment ended. culminating in a parade of white hooded figures hear- ing a flaming cross, who marched quarters. Camp officers, headed by Lieut. Col. | Harry E. Gladman, executive officer | awakened by | the hooded mob and the flaming rays to identify the participants. As Col. Gladman ran | from his quarters toward the hooded | marchers, followed by fellow officers, | his shouted orders “to drop that cross —put out that fire” met no response. The figures moved slowly forward, the cross surrounded by its guardi ans. Within few feet of him they let fall the flaming structure at his feet. Slowly the cchers headed | back to the company streets and were observed to creep within the tent flaps. | | Find Troops Asleep. | The cross-burning on the reserva- tion in disobedience of orders brought | calls for “Turn out the guard, but there was no response, as the camp was unguarded. Officers were turned | out of their tents, and in nightclothes | in the Autumn-like air, inspected each | | tion Hailstones Kill Two, Injure 60, in Storm in Serbia| By the Associated Press. BELGRADE, Serbia, August 29. —Glant hailstones yesterday killed 2 persons and injured 60 others | in the town of Starisivats during a | cyclone. The wind devastated the | plain of Banat, razing buildings, uprooting trees and cutting off com- munications. The damage is esti- mated at many thousands of dol- lars. During the day another storm of extreme violence ravaged a part of MANAGUA REVOLTS NIGARAGUAN RULE | | Governor Seizes Fort and De- | fies President When U. S. Marine Guard Leaves. | By the Associated Press. SAN JUAN DEL SUR, Nicaragua, August 20.—Advices from Managua, the capital, report that Kuis Rivas, governor of Managua, has seized Tiscapa fortress and refuses to obey | the government. Dr. Roman v Reyes, | minister of finance, is said to have | been arrested. i There has been no communication | with the capital since early this| morning. | President Solorzano of Nicaragua vesterday announced the formation of | a new cabinet, which included Dr. Roman y Reyes as finance minister. A detachment of American Marines which had been stationed at Managua | since 1912 left Nicaragua early this | month. Prior to departure it was re- | ported and subsequently denied that | President Solorzano had requested them to remain in order to prevent a movement against his government At the time of the Marines’ evacu ation it was reported t the Presi dent, in view of rumors that after the withdrawal there might be a revolu- was preparing to take active measures to prevent internal dis- turbances, including the formation of | Nicaraguan constabulary —under | n officers. i | CHINA SAYS NO HOSTILITY WAS MEANT TO JAPAN, Slaying of Three Marines Brings Apology Note—Men Killed Pass- | ing Forbidden Spot. By the Associated Press i TOKIO, August 29.—The reply of the Canton Chinese government to the | protest of the Japanese government | against the killing of three Japanese marines expresses profound sympathy for the killed and wounded and sures Japan there was no hostile in | tention behind the action. Receipt of | hospital the reply was announced today The three men killed were in a motorboat making its way from a Jap. anese cruiser off Canton to aid a Jap- anese steamer which was aground. | The Canton reply explains that gun. | | ners who opened fire on the Japanese | motorboat were unable to distinguish the Japanese flag because of darkness. The men in charge of the Chinese fortress, the reply explained, were un- der orders to forbid boats from pass ing in the night, although no notice { week end | cut | street, cut and bruised. | authorities that 1THURT IN CRASH OF 1-MAN CAR AND VAGATIONISTS' BUS |Woman in Serious Condition as Result of Collision at Third and G Streets. EYEWITNESS VERSIONS OF COLLISION DIFFER Street Car Reported Running at High Speed—Motorman and Chauffeur Free. Eleven persons were injured today. one of them possibly seriou, when |a one-man safety car of the Wash- ington Railway and Eleatric Co. crashed into a bus bound for south- ern Maryland with a capacity load of vacationists at Third and streets. Both the street car and the big bus were partially demol- ished. The injured are Mres. Frances Dunnington, 764 Que- bec street, severe cuts about head and body and badly shocked. Detained at Emergency Hospital: condition pos- sibly serious George W. Sullivan, 637 street northeast, motorman of the street car; severe shock, cuts and bruises. Treated at Casualty Hospi- tal and sent home. Charles F. Moran, 58 East Falls Church, contusions of the chest Detained at nergency Hospital Miss Minnie Stackhouse, Kenyon apartments, cut about head and knee. Treated a Hospital and sent home James Watts, colored, 1516 O street, about face. ‘Ireated at Emer- gency Hospital and sent home May Be Injured Internally Arlis Melchor, 4115 Emory place, possible internal injuries, but permit ted to leave Emergency Hospital in private automobile with friends. Miss Sara Bonson, 645 street northwest, severe abrasions. Treat ed at Emergency Hospital and sent hame. Mrs. Mary street, cu Smergency Charles shaken up. home Robert Tolson street, cut and bruised pital treatment Frederick Tolson, colored, 1530 Ninth Refused hos- G H D. Massey, 649 Lamont and bruis Treated at Hospital and sent home. 0. Downey, 208 F street Treated at scene and sent colored, 2318 L Refused hos pital treatment. Neither Sullivan, motorman of the street car, nor Willlam B. Burroughs, 3 Kennedy street, chauffeur of the bus, was arrested. although Burroughs went to the sixth precinct police sta- tion after seeing the most badly in- jured of his passengers sent to the and volunta remained he was informed by the no charges were to be made against him The accident occurred a few min- utes after 8 o'clock this morning. Although versions of eve-wiinesses differ, the general opinion of those who actually saw the acident from the street was that the street cas, squarely between two stop sireets, s running at a high rate of speed Potter of Arlington. Va.. who e crash from his automobile Iy there until S el finet o Speedw: - resume diplomatic relations with the aviator’s apparel, found tent, to find every man asleep, appar- ed the speed of the car at 30 has been acknowledged by that gov- | ernment only to the amount of some eighty million dollars and the divers- ence in calculations has been pressed Ly its officials in delaying funding | steps. The Treasury. however, sees | no reason why the difference should | not be ironed out and a funding agree. | ment reached without further delay. ! BRUSSELS SURPRISED. Reports of Oppo: Here Are Confu 1 to Debt Terms | 5. BR August 29 (P).—Re- ports reaching here from the United States that dissatisfaction has been aroused in Washington over the possi- bility that the debt settlement agree- | ment recently arrived at beiween Bel- | gian representatives and the Ameri can Debt Funding Commission may “(Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) | Chamberlain of the | the United States empba had been in charge of British | tion of relations, Mexican government and amply au- thorized to sign notes in the name of the British government.” Senor Saenz, in telegraphing Mr. appointment of Senor Diaz as charge in London, spoke of “the happy resumption of re- latlons by our governments.” Since the breaking off of relations in Mexico City affairs in Mexico. One immediate result of the resump it Is expected, will be the appointment of claims commis- sions, similar to those arranged with the United States to settle for dam- ages suffered by British subjects dur ing the Mexican revolutionary period The Mexican government also_ will (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) been covered at a high rate of speed, |containing 8 ar the bodies, a pistol with one when a large high-powered automo- | Near Ch€ DOUIER, 4 BISO e auto: bile stopped dead at Fifteenth and L |mgbile, riddled with bullets and blood- | streets, where Policeman Staples of | stained, which was found partly sub- the Third precinct stepped out of his|merged in a West Park lagoon, miles pursuit car and seized 114 gallons of | aw: corn whisky. He was unable to catch| Schlig, who though only 21 years the two fugitives who ran away from ‘old, was regarded by the police as one | the scene. of the most elusive robbers and boot. 5 3 {leggers in Chicago, learned to fly an Police Carry Spectators. | nad purchased & piane to usé in mak- In the police car throughout the|ing deliveries of liquor from Canada.| wild chase and shooting L s | Several weeks ago his plane fell near | Milsy Bl T Rarar ok o e (?;'p‘is_lk lamazoo, Mich., with a load of malt tol street and Emmett Dornin. They |and whisky had asked the pojicemen, acquaint- | S dclisly == ances, to give them a ride, hoping to see some excitement. Thev had heen| FRENCH TO USE CANNON omeet | ON PLANES IN MOROCCO Staples and Policeman Floegel | L s A were at Washington Circle when | Bombardment Escadrille of Latest in the car but a short time before the officers sighted the other machine and | they noticed a large automobile, pack- | | in the campaign against them here. 'HANGED BY WRISTS, MICHIGAN FOREST FIRE ' CHARGE OF PRISONER| LINES DRAWN TIGHTER | s | Probe of Alleged Inhuman Treat- | Determined Stand Made Againsti ment Is Ordered at Lynch- ! | } burg, Va. | | SRR | Blazes Raging Uncontrolled Over Vast Areas. By the Associated Press TRAVERSE CITY, Mich.,, August LYNCHBURG, Va. August 29.—With forest fires in many parts | o : = of this section out of control, fire | CLITEIAE ihat he was nanged by the | wrists for seven hours at the convict lines were drawn today for a de-| " : termined stand against the flames. | Camp near Concord, where he was Fire covering 5,000 acres north of | Serving a sentence for alleged boot- Sharon, which has been burning since | legging, James Jamerson's aching Sunday, thus far has defied control, | body is the subject of an investigation jumping fire lines 30 feet wide. | here. More encouraging are the reports| Because of his physical condition of the Bere Bridge fires a few miles | Jamerson has been returned to the east. This fire, which has burned|jail, and .Dr. P. G. Dillard has ex-| over several large areas, is now be-|amined him. The physician says he | lieved under control |is suffering from impetigo, which has | ear Freder J00-acre fire | no relation to treatment at the camp. | started by berry last Satur-| Sergt. Higginbotham, in charge of | day continues burning, although |the camp, states that Jamerson, after | fought by 100 volunteers. offering a $200 bribe to get out of These fires are burning out the |work, was required to stand hand- Jast cover for deer in lower Mich-|cuffed for four hours, but denies the igan. Hundreds of fresh deer tracks |charge that he was hanged by the in hot ashes ve tragic testimony | wrists % that the animals had been driven| Maj. Yuell of the State penitentiary from their homes. has promised to come here to make In Antrim County a tremendous |full investigation. Special Dispatch to The Star. ed to the top with cases they recog- | nized as the ordinary type of corn | liquor packing, speed past. Staples took out in pursuit in his small coupe | with Floegel on the running board. The car swept around the circle and | as the large machine started down | Twenty-third street its occupants | opened up with revolvers, according | to the police. Floegel reached for his | pistol, lost his hold and went sprawling to the street, where he | bruised himself badly. ! Empties Pistol at Car. i Staples emptied his pistol at the | flying automobile. No further shots | were fired. The chase led down Twenty-third | street to the Speedway, in and out on the various roads there to Four- teenth street and back uptown to L, street, where the liquor car'turned. At Fifteenth street it came to a stop. By the time Staples got out of his| car the two men had gotten away. | He said, however, that he recognized one and would procure a warrant for him. The 114 gallons was packed in half- lon fruit jars in cardboard cartons. Investigation of the liquor car re- vealed that the force feed line had failed to work because of lack of air pressure so that after running for some time with wide open throt- tle the car stopped for want of gaso- line. The car was seized. | Timan coast, Type Arrives in Fez to Enter Service. By the Associated Press. MOROCCAN CASBLANCA, French Morocco, August 29.—A bombardment escadrille of the latest type arrived here today for service against the RifMan tribesmen. Each piane car- ries a crew of five, comprising pilot, observer and three machine gunners. Fach also is equipped with a cannon having a bore of 132 inches. Five planes have arrived and a sixth is expected soon. The escadrille will be commanded by a naval lieu- tenant and will operate from Fez. LOST ARCTIC FLYERS SAFE Russian Planes Missing Since June 15'Are Heard From. MOSCOW, August 29 (#).—A wire- less message from Kanin Nos, on the says the two hydro- airplanes attached to Prof. Matuse- ! vitch's hydrographic expedition, miss-’ ing since their departure from Arch- angel on June 15, are in a bay 200 miles to the north, where they were forced to land by fog. The occu- pants are reported safe. A relief expedition has been hur- riedly dispatched from Archangel. wood slash of the Antrim Iron Co. This fire, which covers 7,000 to 8,000 acres, appears to be gaining mo- mentum. SHOOT;WIFE, KILLS SELF Refusing Reconciliation, Woman Is Perhaps Fatally Wounded. PITTSBURGH, August 29 (#).—Jo- steelworker, today shot and probably fatally wounded his wife and ended his own life a short time Jater with a bullet through his temple. The shooting occurred at Mrs. Kanz's home, in Homestead, near here, where Kanz had gone in an effor to effect a reconciliation with his wife. They had been separated for some time. blaze is raging through the hard- Plane Capable of At By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 29.—Col. Wil- liam Mitchell, former head of the Army Air Service, says an Ameri- can super-airplane capable of a non-stop flight to Paris with a ton of explosives has been perfected, but Government permission to test it has been withheld. “The producers of this plane be- lieve, and I believe, that the huge biplanes they have built are capable of flying to Peking with a single stop at Nome, Alaska, and this with a ton of e?luive& The From U. S. Denied Test, Mitchell Says| tacking Paris planes are ready. They will make 113 miles an hour for 60 hours. But we can’t prove it unless the Army and Navy heads see fit to grant us permission. Old fogey ideas are holding back the inevi- table.” Col. Mitchell stopped here en route from Detroit to Fort Sam Houston, Tex., where he is sta- tioned. He reiterated his stand that the Air Service should be made a com- lete organization in itself, divorced m the Army and Navy. Death Sentence for Banditry. SOFIA, Bulgaria, August 29 (P).— King Boris yesterday signed a death warrant for Stovan Petroff, who had been given the extreme penalty by the civil court for banditry. The King commuted to a long term of impris- onment a death sentence imposed on one of Petroff’s companions in the crime. Woman Dies at 103 Years. Special Dispatch to The Star. SPENCER, W. Va. August 29— Mrs. Lucinda Tanner, 103 years old died at the home of her daughter, Mrs J. M. Smith. She was born at Staun: ton, Va., in 1822. She married Jesse Tanner, a _son of the first settler of Bpencer. Seven (hlldren survive. R | session for the purpose of sale. Leo Murray of Capt. Burlingame's | flying squadron of liquor raiders, ar- | rested Albert Joseph Lowry of 237 Fourteenth street southeast and Otto William Keull of 30 Fourteenth street northeast, in the fifth precinct yester- day in the belief that he had stumbled onto a case directly in his line. ‘When he searched the automobile in which the men were sitting at the time of arrest, however, he found no liquor at all, but discoverd 13 boxes filled with score sheets of one of the base ball pools that Detectives Fow. ler and Flaherty have been watching Lottery Warrant. The case was turned over to the | Detective Bureau and Fowler inter- | viewed Assistant United States At- torney Ralph Given this morning. He then procured a warrant under the lottery section of the District code, which makes it an offense to have lottery or pool tickets in one’s pos- More than 6,500 tickets were seized, packed 500 to each box of the unlucky group of 13. Kach bore the date of the week starting Monday. At police headquarters Keull told police that he was the operator of the pool and that he had conducted it for the greater part of the season, accord- ing to Fowler. Keull added, however, Fowler said, that he had been faced with continual losses because of the fact that his agents failed to make re- turns for the tickets they took, al- (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) DISPiJ;I'E 7I‘S SEELED. Polish Cabinet Approves Border Trouble Agreement. WARSAW, August 20 (#).—The Polish cabinet today approved n | agreement reached between Polish | and Soviet delegates liquidating the recent frontier incidents involving encounters between the border guards of the two countries. | The Soviet is to surrender two | Polish officers now held in Russia, while Poland will pay an indemnity for the Soviet border barracks set on fire by Polist raiders. SYRIA IS QUIET. Condition in War Zone Improving, French Officials Say. PARIS, August 20 (P).—The situa- | tion In Syria continues to improve, although Suedia is still besieged by rebel tribesmen, according to informa- tion from Gen. Sarrail, the high com- | missioner. The normal life of Damascus has not been interrupted, the dispatches say, no raiding party of Druses hav- ing even come within range of the French artillery there Radio Programs—Page 22, ently. Many of them were fully| clothed and booted. Company commanders were told that they would be held directly re- sponsible for any further demonstra- tion, and at 4 a.m. the camp settled quietly_down for a short period of rest. Examination showed the cross upright was a 20-foot tent pole, with a cross arm, the whole wrapped in oil- soaked rags. Farly in the evening the troops clashed with local Klans- men, when n large fiery cross was bruned on the road adjoining the camp. Troops knocked it down soon after lighting, but a hooded knight from a nearby automobile with Kian greeting letters on it, jumped for it, and held it aloft until the last spark died. The trops stood idly by until the Klansmen drove awa Return Starts Today. There is feverish activity this morning in the base camp to make ready for the outbound movement, starting this afternoon and ending tomorrow in the Armory at 4 L street. Hardened muscles and tanned skins are the result of the two weeks of intensive field training of the engi- neers and 29th Military Police Com- pany. The sight of the troop cars run on the camp siding today spurred the youthful members at their first camp to greater activity, while the veterans easily distinguished themselves by their slow and orderly movements, knowing the rapidity would not zet| them on the trains until the time fixed for movement. Band Stirs Sleepers. | Up to an early breakfast as the | regimental band moved up and down the company street, playing a livels air, to stir sleepers to action, the citi- zen soldiers of the Capital City went to their last hot meal until they reach the transport Southland at Berkeley, Va., tonight. As each trooper rose he folded his camp cot and laid it neatly in the company street, rolled | up his mosquito bar, and stowed his | field equipment in his pack. Nearby were stacked the guns and other equipment, prepared for the sounding of the call. | | | | of this rule was served on the powers. | MOSCOW CIRCLES DAZED BY DEATHS OF LEADERS George Sklansky, Trotsky's Friend, and Isaiah Hoorgin, Trade Organ- izer, Drown in New York Lake. By the Associ MOSCOW, August drowning in Long Lake, N. Y., of George Sklansky, president of the Moscow textile trust, and Isaiah Hoor- gin, president of the Amtorg Trading Co. of Russia, caused consternation in Soviet economic circles, where their talents as organizers were great] valued. Sklansky Leon Trotsky, of the a devoted friend of who was stunned by | the news. lansky took an act part in deposing the provisional gov- ernment in 1917. He became a mem- ber of the war council when civil war | broke out in Russia and soon after | this was made assistant war minister | and vice chairman of the revolution-| ary war council, which post he re tained until the downfall of Trotsky in 1924, During the entire period he | acted as Trotsky's right-hand man in | the creation and management of the | red army. With the passing of Trot- | sky, Sklansky was dismissed from the | war office, but was intrusted with the organization of the textile trust. | o, PRI ; 30 HURT IN CRASH. | _— | Trolley and Bus Collide in Cam-| den, Injuring Many. CAMDEN, N. J., August 29 (#).— | Between 30 and 40 persons were in- jured in a head-on collision of a trol- | ley car and motor bus here today when the trolley struck an open switch, crossing to a track directly in the path of the bus. Thirty of the injured to the West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital and the remainder were were taken Before the men had finished their (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) treated at the emergency hospital of the New York Shipbuilding Co.'s yard. an hour. 24 Passengers on Bus. | The big bus carried 24 passengers | all bound for Leonardtown | ceded by another bus of tk water lines, it had left the Wasl ton, Baltimore and Annapolis | way terminal at § oclock | declared he approached | tion of Third and G | speed not exceeding 10 miles : | pointing out that his motor w | practically cold, not having had suf | ficient time to warm up. { The first bus, Burroughs said, cleared the tracks safely, and when he reached the track est him, the street car, bound for brookland, was still considerable d ce down the block, but coming t. The chauffeur said he would have had j ample time to make the crossing had the street car been running at a moderate rate of speed or even if the motorman had slowed down. Before he could clear the tracks, however, the bus was caught squarely in the middle. Before the street car stopped its mad career, according to witnesses, it had jumped the tracks and pushed the big green bus, loaded with its human cargo, 38 feet down the street. An employe of the Semmes Motor Co., two blocks from the scene of the acci- (Continued on Page 2, 822 ASK FEDERAL PAROLE Atlanta Penitentiary Board to Hear 730 New Applications. ATLANTA, Ga., August 29 (®.—A total of 822 applications for parole, s still P Column 2.) | 730 of which are new cases, were to be offered for consideration at the regular monthly meeting of the parole | board of the Atlanta Federal peniten tiary here yesterday Luther C. White, Washington, sup- erintendent of prisons of the United States; John W. Snook, warden of the prison, and Dr. Charles T. Nel lans, recently named as prison phy- | sician, are members of the board. TWO-INCH MOTH IN EAR. |Constantinople Thieves Lose Safety ‘As Watchmen Are By the Associated Press CONSTANTINOPLE, August 29. —Innovation after innovation fol- lows the trend of the time in new Turkey. By order of the prefect, the pictyresque night watchmen of Constantinople must shave off their flowinfg beards and crop their long hair. Also they must replace their vari-colored turbans and scarfs and baggy trousers with a uniform resembling that of the reg- ular police. No longer are the wakeful inhabitants of the city to héar the reassuring beat of their long from-tipped sticks om the cob- Shorn and Caneless | blestones or thieves make their es- | cape, thanks to the warning ‘“‘tap- tap-tap.” The sticks of the watch- | men have been confiscated and the policemen’s billy less attractive, but of more practical value, is to be carried. The watchmen of *bikdjis,” as they are called, have collected gra- tuities from householders on their beats instead of receiving regular wages. Now the municipal gov- ernment will exact from each fam- ily, in proportion to its financial capacity, a sum to be paid them as a regular mn.s Insect Is Taken Alive From New Yorker's Organ. NEW YORK, August 20 (P)—A live moth, 2 inches long, was re- moved today by physicians from the right ear of George E. Moley. The moth is believed to have entered his ear while he was sleeping. Moley entered St. John's Hospital complain- ing of buzzing noises in his ear Will Supply Rail Equipment. BRUSSELS, August 23 (#).--3 Belgian industrial group with thae support of the National Bank and the Societe Nationale de Credit has sizned an agreement to supply the Greek government with locomotives, cars and ralls, to the amount of 450,000,000 francs. 2 A