Evening Star Newspaper, September 1, 1925, Page 2

ISkill in Jiu Jitsu ARRESTEDFORRUM o 3o i P Knowledge of jiu jitsu defend herself saved Miss Mary Howry, daughter of Judge Charles B. Howry of the Court of Claims and well known in society circles of this city and New York. agalnst a would-be purse snateher in Tokio. Japan, where she is touring with the Denishawn danc according to word just received to Faulty Warrant Secures Re- lease—17 Delegates to Meeting Held. here. The attempted theft ocer the Imperial. Hotel. and no: Miss Howry best off her an’, but Jater Succeeded in ing him and eausing his n though weighing -but 43 pounds. with her athletic skill she inflicted several brujses the wiry Japanese. Three years ago Mise Howry At tended the Denishawn School in Call fornia and 1 the country with the Famous Lasky o, She is & member of the Junior League. Her parents reside at 1300 Sixtesnth of &nacial Dispateh to The Sta did TULSA. Okla., Septémher 1. Fran ci¢ C. Hulin. District of Columbia de- partment commander, Veterans of Féreign Wars, was arrested on a hoot leg charge at his hotel in Tulea dur ing the véterans’ national conven- tion here, yesterday afternoon. Fed eral prohibition agents, on complaint of two Tulsa citizens, swarmed down on the veterans' convention head-| quarters, in Hotel Mavo. Hulin, accompanied by John Wisch. | streat husen, commander of Walter Reed Post. and nk Heise. vics com mander of ooties.” was passir alonz a corridor while Federal azents were manhandling a wounded com rade in his room in their search for B SOHOOL AND SEWER EEEEEE CONTRACTS CIVEN ficer refused to show it and imme- | diately placed the District of Colum bia men under arrest 13 Word was dispatched to Capt. Ed- | win S. Bettelheim irman of | e ce “attieneim caied ‘on tne | Brightwood Building to Cost hotel manazement and found that search warrant was served ‘ 3253.100 and Pipes Mo’,e Than $65.000. D. €. Men Released ted the Federal and | tn see the warrant. which faulty. and the Distriet | mmediately released He loc Aemanded found men 1w few minutes later laft in confusion Hulin swore out warants for Federal oficers. charging false ar Capt. Bettleheim reporis that Stephens’ boom for national vice commander-in-chief is increasing daily. Stephens is acceded the lead ing choice. The council of administration of the Veterans is seriously contemplating moving the national headquarters’ of fice 10 Washington. The vets are dis satisfied with their present location in the West, and the District delegation will undoubtedly bring hack & com mission consider the project of moving the national offices 17 DELEGATES ARRE! A the Federal oMcers r rracis for the ereetion of building and for of more than $65.000 in different awarded by today. he firm of Parsons & Hymsn given the contract to erect the | Brizhiwood School. ai Thirteenth and at a cost of $233,100. 1h-room building important for the construction section of the upper Potomac ceptor, in Canal road between road and Brewer place, | 714, The contract went Angle. This is one of interceptors that have construction for a number and | 1o intercept raw sewage now | inio tha Potomac. Other sewer johs follow Heighis. in the vieinity avenue and Perry street wwarded o W. A. Pate. fr.. $2.853 Eastside Park. hear Renninz road Twentieth street northeast, 15 W, A. Pate Wesley Forty-Rfth and Cath $2.731. to Warren F. Wi Potomac avenne outheast, §4.13 Hrenizer public boildine <choo the worth parts of the Com- the et n senior | the city missioners was is Nichols streets It is to be a | The most sewer pr another ot is of inter Foxall to cost $15, to W. Harry several large been nder of years flowing ED. Dry Raid Tulsa Hotel All. Rooms. TULSA. Okla.. September 1 (#), The first day of the annual encamp. ment of the Veterans of Foreisn Wars | wae marred here last night when Fed. oral prohibition azents raided a hotel at which #ral score of convention ddlegates were staving and placed 18 former service men. 17 of them dele. zates. under arrest. The men released after vigorous protests cenvention leader: A blanket the raid and Azents Search s H Saratoza northeast nd | 88,830 T He Wa by | ireet 81 i {U. S. WORKERS' PAY FAIR, PRESIDENT BELIEVES Is Inclined to Disapprove of At- tempt to Obtain $1.300 Mini- o ve nt wag the basis ¢ Coffey, assistant district attorney, issued a statement declaring that the action was not afmed at the service men, hut at hoot leggers, and that the agents had made amistake. A <mall quantity of liquor | wp& seized, all parsonal effects heing returned. Take Over Hotel. Officers were placed In charge of the | hetel telephone hoard. the clerk’s desk apd all elevators, Offcers tHe elevators during the continued for an hour an1 a ha raom of Gen. John H. Dunn of ton, national commander. was searehed in the presence of the generzl and Mre. Dunn. hit no liquor was found A deputy sheriff from New York whose name was not learned. defied the raiders. He sauntered into the hotel during the raid and asked one of the raiders if he had a search war rAnt to enter the various rooms 'Den’'t need any.” the officer TWe served a warrant on the hot The New Yor responded that wiarrant was needed. “I've gol some liguor in my room. Try and it Tl dare any one of you to set vour o0t cross the threshold unless von heing a search warrant for my room ‘That liquor is mine and is goin: b used hy my friends and myself.” Still Has Li The New Yorker is said still to have hiz liquor iBob Woodside Chunty. Pa mum. Spokesman Hints, St Correspondent SWAMPSCOTT. Mass.. September 1 President Coolidze halieves thai the Lverage Government employe is fairly well paid and is inclined to disupprove any attempt to obtain legislation at next Congress for pay hoo: The President was represented 1 dar as being of the opinion that the Fuderal emplove has been generously {irented in the matter of pay Increases {in the past few vears and although he stated that he i« not thoroughly fa miliar with the detalls incldent to this question. he would off-hand disapprove legielation Axing $1.300 ax a minimum 2e. which movement has heen ad vaneed hy an organization of Fed | el employes ald CHINESE BANDITS FREE BISHOP AND MISSIONARIES | Relsased Sunday After Being Held Captives Near Chengtu or. sheriff of Allegheny happened into hix room while raiders were searching 11. He peeled off his coat and ordered the officers out. They retreated. {Five grips containing liquor were séized and 15 men. 17 of whom were Aelegates. were arrested and taken to the marshal's office. Veteran officials immediately pro. tested and the members were released and their personal effects, with the sxception of the liquor, were returned. Capt. Henry G. Lawson of Roston national adjutant general of the zanization. was a leader in protests against the Federal officer tion. Lawson's room was raided. and his erips. dresser and other personal be. Inngings were searched Commander's Room Searched. It's an ontrage.” Lawson declared You say you were after certian hooi- egzers. Why. please tell me. was it necessary to invade the private rooms of all the veterans and arrest tham® We are not hootleggers One of the raiders searched the room of Gen. John H. Dunn of Boston national commander. while the general and Mrs. Dunn were there. No liquer was found During the raid the Indiana delega- tion filled a five-zallon bottla with a soft drink diluted to the color whisky and held “open house” in the | lobby. Everybody was invited to step np and drink. and many accep in the presence of the officers. Wry faces were made by many. who expected a different sort of beverage. Tames Lavery. a delezate from County. Pa.. was particularly incensed over the raids. He declared he was locked: in his room by raiding office with two other men, after they had protested azainst the search. Lavery said there was no liquor in his room Later, Lavery said. one of the off cers threatened to “shoot my ears off" | when he raised his voice agzainst the proceedings in the hotel lohby. Laver <aid the officer was disarmed hy othe znests and held until hrother offcers came. Since Aungust 6. Br the Assaciated Prese |RHANGHAL, September 1.--Bishop (H. W. K. Mowll, his wife and | other members of the church mis. captured by bandits Szchewan prevince, on heen released. This six sionary soefety i nesr Chengty August 6, have or- local office of society. The Sunday by ceived today the the chureh ‘mi nary captives were released last Rishop Mowli and his pa lcaptured when bandits attacked a | Qummer resort 30 milex north of hengin. Besides the bishop and ! his wife. those captured were Rev. V H. Donnithorns and wife, F. W. Tles |and the Misses A. Settle. M. Armfield |and €. Carlton. Rishop Mowll was formerly dean of Wyeliffe College, Toronts, Ontario. LUCKETT; TO STAY AS DRY CHIEF HERE, AT LEAST A WHILE | of | | commanders are picking their staffs jand Mr. Andrews is hopeful of finding {soon suitable men to fill the gaps {among the leaders. As the field force strengthens itself a corresponding shrinkage is being manifest in the office here of Prohibi tion Commissioner Haynes, who was | divested of much of his power when Assistant Secretary Andrews took up the work or enforcing the dry In month or Mr. Haynes' office {staff will he reduced to a minimum fand the field workers will have taken | over. much of the labor i Mr. Andrews is holding the di- | cisional administrators responsible for enforcement In their areas and his edict to them was that bootlegging {he broken up and sources of supply {wiped out. He directed them espe. | cially 1o get at the hig conspiraey rases that are too hig for the local police Erie Four Thonsand Attend. Four thousand deiegates, represent inz half a dozen expeditions of the United States military forces on for- eign solls, are attending the conven tian Included are many Army and Navy officers of high rank. grizzled men who saw service in China, the Philip pines, Venezuela, Cuba and Haiti younger men who chased Villa into his Mexican mountain retrest and doughboys of the World War. The, delegates were iwelcomed to Oklahoma by Gov. M. E. Trapp. Greet ings from the American Legion wers | extended by Horace H. Hagan, past Adepartment commander of that organ- ization. Serzts. Samuel Woodfill and William Sandlin_of Kentucky and Maj. Wiiliam F. Kelley of Ohio, World War heroes, were given ovations by the delsgates, "“()pen Season” for The open season for shooting marsh birds began today a1 sunrise. Police of the harbor precinet. head- ed by Lieut. Lohman. have made spe- !cial plans to xee that the game laws | to prevent accidents. Numerous signk = * it are expected to serve as a warning to i i en, who are prob & ‘rom Trades Congress Hits Narootics erZf,'f?L'iz within 106 _\-r;m.- of hridges OTTAWA, September 1 (P).—The | and dwellinzs. Wrades and Labor Congress. now in . I1 ie the inténtion «of the police to mession here, toda weni on record | prevent #hooting in the vicinity of as favoring complete prohibition of | d-edges anchored about the flats, the sale and manufacture of narcotie | where reclamation werk is in prog- drugs,-except fof medical purposes. ress, and it is up to fiemmn to re. one | news wns contained in a telegram re. | law. |are obeyed and that all staps be taken | THE EVENING PRINGE VANISHES - WITH HIS KEEPERS | W |Ahmed Flees After 24 Years ‘,of Confinement for Attack on King of Egypt. LONDON, Septemher 1. Scotland Yard operativas have heen asked hy ‘nment raprespntatives to find Ahmed Siefeddin. brother-in. taw King Fuad’ of Egvpt. The inee s halieved to have heen Kid- naped from attendants a private &xylum in England, of which he had heen an Inmate for the past 24 yvears, Ahmed disappeared from Hastings. where he was visiting with twe at- tendants. 1t ia believed that relatives were responsible for his disappear- ance. for they had been making efforts recently to obtain his release from the custody of the British govérnment. In 1898 the prince fired upon and wounded the present King Fuad. who, it was alleged, had mistreated his wife, Princess Chivekiar, a sister of Prince IAhmed. After & 'long trial Ahmed | was brought to Kngland and placed in an asylum. His mother, who now Is In France, last week brought suit for £4.500,000 against the British gov [ernment, “of which £2.000,000 was claimed as damages, and the remain- der oneaccount of sequestrated reve. nues alleged 10 hé Aus the prince, The iatte annual incoms is about £200,000 of of Search Continues. HASTINGS, England, S8eptember 1 P —The search for Prince Ahmed | Siefeddin, brother-in-law of King Fuad of Egypt. and (wo attendante who disappeared with him vesterday from # sanitarlum for mental cases | here, has extended throught England and the continent, hut there are few real claws for the police to work The first theory was that the prince had heen kidnaped, and this was still held in most quarters today. How- ever, a report that a man resembling him was =een on a cross-channel bout vesterday gave rise to the opinion that he might have merely heen mak- ing a little tour Both the missing Attendants have seen long service at the sanitarium, and both are regarded as most trust- worthy AGCUSED BANKER AND GIRL ARRESTED Former Spent $40.000 on Trio With “Soul-Mate,” Leader in Society. B the Associated Prass SAN ANTONIO, Tex.. September 1 Search for Will Ed Fraser, Middles horo, Ky.. bank cazhier. who admitted he deserted hix wife and family for ear-old “'soul-mate” and ab- sconded with honds and cash aggre. gatfng more than $100,000, ended here | The beautiful | today with his arrest. | voung woman. seid to be a soclety girl of Lexingion. i held as an accessory. H. E. Ball. chief of police af Mid Alachoro, who has been trafling the man since his disappearance in July, notified in Dallas of the arrest ind arrived this morning. The cashier was récognized at a fashionable hotel. A1 first he main. tained (hat his arrest was A case of mistaken identity, Meanwhile, his companion was ar- rested in- their ~hotel room. - Under Auestioning she broke down. With the arrival of Chief Ball the identification | was completed and the cashier ad mitted his guilt. My love for the girl was my down. | tall." he sald. Since leaving Middlesbore Fraser sald he and the girl had traveled throughout the [nited States. Sum- mer resorte or any place that held pleasure was their objective, Arriving in San Antonio a few daya ago, the cushier said he opened a hank account and rented a safely depoait box. Keeping $7.500 worth of (he honde in_his baggage. he placed be- tween $45.000 and $47,000 in bonds in | the box. The trip, Fraser said, had cost $40.000 in bonds and $20.000 in cash | The smaller | found in a hat $200 in eurrency ser amount of honds were hox. In another hox travelers’ chacks and $70 In was found. signed a waiver of extradi- tion. MACKENZIE BEATS JONES FOR MEDAL (Contipued from First Page.) } | James B. | 83403916 Billy Sixty, Milwaukee, 23 | 181, A William M. Reakie, Montclair, N. J 41 55. Wright MeClure, 41172, Donald Carrick, Toronto, 8038 160. Francis Ouimat, 158, Crookston, Pittsburgh, 3840 Chartieré Heights, 8% 11 | Roston, 79 4237 ! Field for His Fitness. From the Southern Planter. “Yes, father,” said the young man just out of college, “I've graduated: and my education is complete. I s'pose 1 know about everything worth Kfow. ing: mow I must find a large field where [ can use it to the best ad- replied the oid gentieman, ‘there is the 10-acre corn field, and veu kin have it all to yoursalf.” S S | Jake Hamon's Daughter on Stage. CHICAGO, September 1 (#).—Olive Belle Hamon. daughter of the late | Jake Hamon. oil man and Oklahoma politician slain by Clara Smith Hamon at Ardmore, Okla., several vears ago, has started on a stage career in vaude. ville. She appears under the name of “Freddie Worth™ as & violinist and tos f\fi neer. R e Birds Sfiboting On Marshes Began at Sunrise Today | frain from going across the Maryland line, there being no reciprocal ar- rangemeni hetween Maryland and the District in the matter of permitting District residents to gun in that State without first procuring a licenas. Large flocks of reedbirds and quite a few ortolan have appeared about the local marshes the past three days, it ix reported, and there are many orto. lan and plover there. | heen flocking for more than a month, 1 it is stated. and sportsmen say there | are millions of thém on the marshes. The season for duck shooting opeana on. | Rlackbirds have | - STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €, TUESDAY. SE 'COOLIDGE EXPECTS RETRACTION OF HANEY’S REFUSAL TO QUIT Will See Impropriety of Stand Upon Reconsidera- tion, He Believes, Expressing Dissatisfaction With Wrangling on Board. unless there was a change administrative policy. Under in- | these circumstances, in justice to my 1 am compelled to say to von 1 am not conscious of having in (Continued from First Page.) weére made permissihle through creased efficiency and that lavoffs on | self. way caused you o have reached the Orezon-Oriental 'ine were only | that seasonal, | any | the understanding reterred to In your | telegram “Obviously, Mr. President, to have given you any such promise as that implied by yo telegrams would have amounted fo a total disregard of my | oath of office and my obligation to Congress, whose sole agent | am. Buch + promise and disrezard of my off- cial onth and the consummation of such an understanding would have obligated me to support the adminis- uation of the merchant 1iv the president of the Fleet Corpora- tion. however inefficient. notwith- standing the fact that the law im posed upon me, as a commissioner of the Shipping Board. the duty to support and maintain an efclent ad ministration. “I think that I understand the pur- poses which Congress had in mind when the merchant marine law waus enacted and when it by law, in express terms, required the President to recog- nize Di-partisan appointments and geographical sections in the appoint- ment_of the members of the The act specifically declares its pur pose to be to create a merchant ma rine (1) for the national defense, (2) for proper growth of our foreign and domestic commerce and () to ax a naval or military auxillary in time of war or national emergency. I respectfully direct your attention to the fact that while the merchant ma rine act of 1920 provides for the op. eration and disposition of vessels and shipping property, it also directs the {hoard to keap cieariy in mind at all | timés the declared purposes of the act which 1 have mentioned “The board, when once appointed by the President. in conformity with the | statute, is an independent agency of the United States Government, and ix vested by the statute with large and important discretionary powers, which the members thereof are compelled to exercise independently of any other governmental agency so long as the law is In force, and, with the excep tion of the power of removal for causes specified in the act. the mem- bers of tha board are reaponsible only to the legislative body. Board's Powers Judicial. “The powers conferred upon the hoard aré largely judicial in their na ture, invalying the exercise of dis cretion, And these powers cannot be delegated by the board to Mr. Palmer or any other agent. It may be an- swered that if any of these powers have heen delegated to the president of the Emergency Flest it was done by act of the hoard itself. But even if that he conceded, the at tempted deiagation of power does not deprive any individual member of the board of the right to express his opinion as 10 these powers and to vote. nnder the sanction of his oath of office, as his judgment may direct. ‘If, theratore. I am to he asked to resign because | have seen fit ercise the power expressly conferred upon me by Congress in urging the removal of an inefficient agent of the board, then | aubmit that the control of the operation and disposition of the merchant fleet is taken from this bipartisan and sectionally consti tuted body and placed in the hands of one man, for whose actiona the board i ponsible, but whose actions it ! Palmer “Acted Independently.” The comn ioner has {Alse. that many of the duties given by law 1o the hoard have been delegated to Mr. Palmer and that he has acted | “independentiy of the hoar | though he was by his apy | ereated the hoard's agent. | The President only last week made Lt clear at Swampscott that. as far ax | he was concerned. Mr. Palmer. and inot Chairman O'Connor of the Ship. | ping Board., was running the Fleet { Corporation. His position was dis closed after differences over budget mattérs had developed between the two officials, but this was followed to duy with the information that he was not contemplating at this time re questing the resignation of any other Shipping Board commissione In his telegram to Mr. H: Thursday, Mr. Coolidge suid: “It having come to my attention that you are proposing 1o remove Ad- miral Palmer, contrary to the under standing 1 had with vou when I rea pointed you. vour resignation from the Unitad States Shipping B is re quested.” contended, ney last Calls Palmer Unfit, Replying In a latier the next day Mr. Haney said he had told the Presi dent during a long conversation &t the White House. before reappointment was tendered himi that he considered | Mr, Palmer unfitted for his position: thal 16 act othérwise than he had as a commissioner would have heen a viols tion of the trust imposed in him der the merchant marine act, and t when he . accepted reappointment ‘there certainly was ne express un | derstanding concerning the continu | ance in office or removal of President Palmer.” . The telegram of the President was sent after Mr. Haney at several re cent executive meatings of the hoard had moved the removal of Mr. Palmer, only (0 find no support for the motion. ‘The Oregon commissioner | holds that since Mr. Palmer took office | less than two vears ago hy appoint ment of Mr. Coolidge the Govérnment merchant flest has detériorated in numbers and In service, 388 ships ha ing heen in operation under the poration at that time, whereas latest reports place the number 251 In addition. Mr. Haney conteénds that Mr. Palmer reducad the number of ships operating out of Portland on the Oregon-Oriental iine to the Far East and contemplated a still further reduction in that service. while he transferred the major activities of the Portland office of the Fleet Corpora- tlon without consulting him Palmer Defends Efficieney Moves. Although Mr. Palmer declined m[ comment today, he has said recently that while the Government fleet h been reduced in number, thix was due to increased eficlency, or 1o custom ary semsonal lay-ofts, and that the amount of cargo and the revenue re turn from it had been maintained un. diminished. As for the Oregon-Orien tal line, he has insisted that he did not and would not contemplate abol ishing it or removing it. whilé the 1ay-0ffs effacted would be only sea wonal. {eannot direct or control. The. situation involving the Ship.| "My opposition to President Pal. {ping Board and the Corporation is re.| mer's administration. in addition to {&arded in some quarters here as the the reasons above stated, is based outgrowth of a division of authority, YPon the following with duplication of functions in their Hin polley, of necessity, fails to | practical operation. The entire ques.| CArTY out the purposes of the mer- tion is expacted to coma up for exten. | ChANt MArine act. hecause such policy ive considaration hy Congrass this | Not only 18 failing to establish a mer Winter, chant marine sufficiéent to carry a major portion of our commerce, but, ' Al' the repeated suggestion of Mr.|on the contrary. our merchant marine Coolidge, the hoard. which under the | jx carrying less and less aach year. law may not divest itkelf of anv au- | “Again. the purpose of the act to shority. has delegated administrative agiablish a military and naval auxil- POWers fo the Fleet Corporation as ite |iary is baing disregarded in that the | agent untll now it is largely a seml- | numher of vessels in use and Avall. Judietal, poliev organization. All acts | able for Such purposes is haing stead. of Mr. Palmer as president of the |ily reduced. and, last hut not least Fleet Corporation. howsver, are sub. under his administration we are los- ject to the approval of the board. and | ing American commerce to foreign in many instances of sales and ad | ship owners. one of the very things ministrative policies it has rejected the act in question Intended shouid | his récommendations. not occur. Fight Under these circumstances. Mr. President. for me to comply with vour Only recently Mr. Palmer urged a | budget for the corporation for the request that 1 resign would carry an fiscal vear 1927 of $18.000,000 as com implication which I cannot permit.” pared with $24,000,000 for the current vear. but ihe board increasad 1t o, MINE BLAST KILLS TWO. .000,000 in the face of a warning S R of the Budget Bureau that it should | be held to $15,000,000. When Chair man O'Connor sald such a reduction might mean the elimination of the Leviathan from operation in the transatlantic trade. Mr. Palmer re plied that no reduction in ship serv ice would he necessary. The budget was finally fixed at $15.000.000. In his letter to Mr. Coolidge. Mr. Haney racalled that he had been re. luctant to accept reappointment not only for personal businese reasons, but hecause he was not in sympathy with retaining Mr. Palmer. ‘At vour request,” he wrote, “the reasons for my opposition to President Palmer were fullv and frankly stated, and were in substance as follows: Firat, without quastioning hie ability as a naval officer, I considered him in- competént from temperament and lack of experience 1o discharge the duties imposed by the merchant marine act of 1920 upon the Shipping Board. whose agent he was: second, because he seemed determined not to confer with the board upon any of the ques- tions which came within its peculiar province under the statute, which in- volved the board's direction, and could not be delegated to the president of | the Fleet Corporation: and, third, be- | cause he seemed disposed to proceed | along lines independent of board ac- | tion, although he was by his appoint. | ment created the board's agent. This urse, in my view, was. in some in- tances a violation of the statute, or not in accordance with ihe legislative intent a8 expressed in’ the statute. Denies “Understanding. “Upon vour Invitatiom, T-Atated .at | {length my views on..these swhjects, | without equivocation or#sasfon. There | certainly was no express understand-: ing concerning the continvation in of- | fice or removal of President Paimer, I regret exceedingly that. yow -could have any misunderstanding as fo.my purpose and intent. in. the event. of my reappointment, for 1 knew. that | you had been informed .by Sénator McNary (Republican, Oregon) that 1 would mot, and in addition to that T myself had definitely advised you {hat 1 could not, accept a réappointment if conditiont whatsoever were at- ed 1o that reappointment. “I did not intend by word or act to lead you directly or indirectly, Mr. President, to understand that if re- appointed T would be a party to con- tinuing Mr. Palmer as president of the Emergency Fleet Corporation. You know that 1 had voted against his re-slection within two weeks before the time we had our conference on the subject of reappointment. You also knew that I vigorously opposed the adoption of a_ resolution granting any powers to the president of the Fleet Corporation which the statute expressly Imposed upon the hoard itself. “1 aid not intend hy word or aet ta lead vou to think my view of President Palmer and hia activities. which I expressed to you, would Finale, “‘Imperial Guard”. .. .Losey “The Star § Banner.” Wy “Tranefer h e N i © White House AP #- %D r- the at | | | | | | | i | | | Dver Budget, Third Man Seriously Burned in Kentucky Explosion. OWENSBORO, Ky.. September 1 (). —Theodore Coleman. whits, Nash- ville. Tenn.. and Jim Buchran, negro, were killed and J. T. Fitshugh, white, Dunmore. Ky.. was seriougly burned today at mine No. 3 of the Black Dia- | | when a gas explosion followed a slate fall in a tunnel in which seven men were working. Four escapad unin- Jured. | | BAND CONCERTS. At Walter Reed General Hos- pital. 6:30 p.m. today, by the United States Army Band. Capt. R. G. Sherman. commanding: Capt. W. J. Stannard, band leader. Program: March. “Einzugsmarsch der Bojaren’ ... Halvorsen Overture, “The Mill on the Cliff," Reissiger Dance suite—Three dances from “Henry VIII . .German (1) Morris Dance (2) Shepherds’ Dance (3) Torch Dance Selection, **Florodoro Waltz, “‘Eternelle Ivre Fox trots— (@) “Collegiate" (b) “Ah-Ha" . 2 Tone poem, “Les Preludes”. March, “American Spirit” Bugloine “The Star Spangled Banner.” At Twelfth and Shepherd streets northeast, 7:30 p.m.. by the United States Navy Band, Charles Wise, assist- ing director. Program: March, “The Washington Grays,” rafulla Michigan avenue, Overture, “Dean de Paris, Boleldieu aractéristic, “Dance of the k«penu" iiivioe.....Boccalart Grand scenes from the opera “Martha” ................Flotow Waltz di concert. “Moonlight on ‘the Hudson™ .Hermann Excerpte from the musical com- “#dy, “The Grass Widow," Hirsch Fantasia, “Napolitana”...Boccalari “The Star Spangled Banner.” At the Soldiers’ Home bandstand. 5:485 p.m., by the United States Soldiers’ Home Band, John 8. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster: Emil A. Fenstad, assistant bandmaster, con- ducting. ‘Program: March, “Staunch and True,” Telke Overture, “La Flandre”. .. Bouillon Morceau, “Elegie”. ... ... Massenet Grand selection, “Fidelie, Beethoven Fox trot, “Alone at Last”,. Florito Valze, “The Belle of Mexico,” Dello Joie marine act | board. | serve | Covporation | to ex-| mond Coal Mining Co.. at Drakesboro, | PTEMBER 'TONG WAR FEARED, * CHNESEARE LD |Five Orientals Arrested as | Chinatown Is Astir in | Dark Alleys. e | | ! | Reporta [ering earl) that tongmen were gath- today In the dark alleys of Washington's Chinatown lad to an intensive police round-up ue piclons™ characters, necting five | Oriental prisoners, an automobilé land a loaded revolver. | Chinamen. held for “investiga identified themselves as Frank lin 1ei of Philadelphia. Wai Moy. 343 Pennsylvania avenus; Lee Row | Jan. Baitimore, and Lee Sun and Lee | Wing of this city. All were arrested {in_two rooms at the National Hotel. Lel, a well-educated Celestial, said he had come hert in the automobile { trof Philadelphia, although he regis. | tered at the notel as from Pittsburgh. | The revolver was taken from a belt | on the body of Moy, according to Policemen 1. G. Withers and R. J | Barrett of the sixth precinet, who {made the arrests. Feared Being Knocked Off. Moy declared he carried the wespon | tor protective purposes. Lei sald he | registered incorrectly hecause he ‘aidn’t want to get knocked off.” | | The police probe was launched | latter reports were received that ‘strange doings” were on foot in Chinatown early today. It was rumored that several Chinamen had | been seen acting suspiciously in an | out-of-town automoblle, that others {had heen seen lurking in an alley and that two of tha Orientals had | heen noted with masks on their faces [In the year of several Chinese houses | lon the north side of Pennsylvania | | avenue. Visiting numerous Chinese husiness | houses and dwellings. the pollcemen | | became satisfied that something out of the ordinary was brewing. but just what the matter was remained a| | mystery. Later. however, the two policemen learned that several China | men had registered at the Avenue Hotel, and thelr rooms were raided. | | The occupants were talking in their |own language, making It impossible for the policemen to understand what | they were saving Denies Driving Friends. | | Frank Lers automobile. found | parked on the street. Is said to answer | | the description given of the car in { which several Chinamen were reported |10 have been seen ridinz. He denied, however, that he had driven any of | his Washington friends about the city | aftar hie arrival MAL. GORDON SURE TOGET POST AGAIN | Coolidge to Reappoint Prose-i | outor on Return—Holds | Official Highly. of Br a S4aff Corréspondant | SWAMPSCOTT. Saptember | Maj. Pevion Gordon will he reap | pointed as United States district at torney for the District of Columbia, it was learned definitely here today from 4 spokesman for the President. | It i= not likely, however, that the | appointment will be made prior to | Mr. Coolidge’s réturn to Washington | When asked todav regarding this | appointment, the Président was repre. séntéd as being of the opinfon that there was no spécial reason to make i his appointment right away, and that {hé would wait until he got back to the i White House, | Gordon Highly Regarded. The announcement dispels all doubt {that may have existed in Washington | regarding the reappointment of Maj Gordon. 1t is known that President | Cootidge regards the executive ability }and integrity of the Washinzton dis | triet attorney very highly, and feels | gt o that his capable service in the past should be rewarded by his continuance in office. Maj. Gordon was appointed to hix post in 1921 by the late President Harding. His term expired on Au-| gust 12, and since that time he has | been holding office automatically, | under a provision of the law, pending | appointment of a successor or his {own reappointme His new term 1l be of fo vears’ Auration. dating from August 12. Although Maj. Gordon had mani- | tained a policy of not staging any | special “campaigns.” adhering to’ a | plan of steady law enforcement in- { stead, he has figured prominently in the press for a number of spectacu- lar acts aimed at law violators in the National Capital. Chisf amonx these sorties may he named those directed against the sale of obecene | |literature by newsdealers, against prize fighting and against prohibitien law offenders. War on Gambling Looms, When reappointed he intends. it ie understood. to launch a drive against handbook men, operators of base ball pools and other gambling promoters Another appointment that " will awalt the President’s return to Wash- ington I8 that of some one to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mrs. Helen Gardener, civil service commla. sioner. Last week the President let it be nm);unced that he was postponing making this appointment until he cauld run down a rumor that _ome | of the two present members of the | commission . contemplated . résigning shortly. Since then the President has heen advised that there Was no foun- dafion for the rumer. It wae jn. timated that it is still.the President's intention te appoint A woman to the place. Italian “Sub” Still Missing. ROME, September 1 (#).—The Ital- fan submarine Sebastiane Veniero, which disappeared during the naval maneuvers off the Siciliar coast last week, was atill missing today. deéspits an intensive search by airplanes and naval vessels. The craft carried 30 {1onded, police found. | other | $900,000 Fifteen-Year-Old Stamp Collector Attempts Hold-Up ALBERTCOLLINS UP ONSLAYING CHARGE ol Harry Strubine of Broakiyn ot | SOUthwest Washington Resi- e. turned hold-up man in an 't to . ontain wome rare specimens. 1 .| dent in Arrest, Accused of Shooting Clinton Wells. Br the Associated Press NEW YORK, September 1.—Such tended victim, Arthur Murkacsy, pro- | prietor of a stamp store, didn't heed | the boy's threatening revelver, how- | ever, but grasped his wrist and dis- | armed him. The revolver was : of i« under arrest at not Colling, 55 yéars old Albert H street southwes( the fourth pr day. charged Clinton Wells, same address, vesterday. The fight = said 10 have had ite in ception ahont six weeks agn, when Mre, -Wells -complained that Collins had insulted her. Her hushand, Mrs Wells uaid, everely beat Colling at the time and had since refused {o renew their friendship. The two men met again.vesterday. when Wells, who rented part of the H | street home from Collins, stopped him {n_a haliway to pay the rent. Mr=. {Wells said she heard the old argi {ment renewed, followed a minute later B. C. Engineer of Highways vy « shot Stat ent Corroborated. Stresses Need of FUNS | coitin sorroborated this sintement for Resurfacing. Strubing, they say. admitted the at tempted hold-up, asserting he sought only to add some stamps 1o his e lection, He was held for juvenile de linquenc HUNT DISCUSSES WORN-QUT STREETS nolice station to. shooting 1o death « o, of the quarrel late cinet with 39 Auring a |in his cell today. He said he fled 1o {hiz -room from the infuriated Wells [ The latter followed him, declaring he |intended beating him again. In self {defense, Collips deciared. he reached under his pillow, got his revolver and fired a_single shot. Wells, driver of thrae times the Aropped dead in his t let had severed his spi the hase of the brain iins 16f1 the ! house. sought an aftorney and sur rendered himself at the fourth pre cinet an heur or two later Mrs. Wells' Wells said Collins to force hie a her three times. Since weeks ago, however had made no advances thought the trouble nently Besides his wife, The need to the resur of devoting more funds cing of worn-out asphalt streets was essed in the annual report of (. B. Hunt, engineer of highways, transmitted ngineer Commirsioner Bell today The average age of all the old streets ix already greater than in any city. the engineer of highways veported. This avernge age of these 0ld streets hecame still greater last fiscal vear, because of the limited Aamount that available for re =urfacing. ““The amount of asphalt pavements that could be done was about one-third of that neces Sary 1o prevent increase in the aver age age of the total yardage of this type an average now far beyond that of any other municipality and cvidenced by the deteriorated condi tion of the older streets. especially in the early weeks of the working seagon.” Mr. Hunt said Arrearages of Neglect. “In recognition of this' Mr continued, “more liberal funds have been provided for the coming vear. but there is a long arrearage of neg- lect to be made up.” | The engineer of hizhways also told the Commissioners there is a heavy demahd for the paving of new resi Adential streets as the result of huild ing operations. Although 70 resi dentinl streets of this type were paved during the last fiscal yvear. even that extensive program did not meet demand. he said The systematic wagon and of Colling ks. The bul column at Statement. ¥ entions the fight she stated and ended Mrs tempted #ix he =he had perma resurfacing of Wells leavés three Amaghters, Vivian. Theda and Gladys; his father, Thomas Wells, and threa rothers, Lieut. Charles A. Wells of o 7 Engine Company Lieut. | George L. Wells of the Kirehoat and Thomas Walls of Congress Heights Md. “TRUTH SERUM’ HELD CRIME DISCOVERER Texas Doctor Claims He strated Solution Which Renders Lying Impossible. Hunt Demon- Improvement of the main suburban arteriex was con- tinned during the last year. approxi mately $600.000 having been applied 1o that class of paving “The fund used in sidewalk and alley paving sufficient_for the demands ing to Engineer Hunt vears we have limited tlon 1o unpaved spaces abutting property was practically fully built up. No replacements of inferior pavements can now be under taken. The principal cause of thi situation is garage construction in unpaved alleys—largely suburban. Al ley pavements required threefourths of the total fund during the vear.” Work Cited as Ass Mr. Hunt pointed out alley and sidewalk work 1s asseasable and he expressed regret that more such paving cannot be done in re sponse {0 equitable requests The outstanding feature of last vear's work in the highway division was the expenditurée of more than obtained from the gasoline tax on motor vehicles for strest pav ing. It was applied to 1% thorough fares There were not ingg the fiscal treet work, Mr. LAWYER IS FAVORED FOR BANCROFT’S POST R. W. Boyded of Massachu ts | and William C. Boyden of Chi- eago Are Being Consjdered. | By the Aesociated Press WINDSOR, Ont., September 1.—If verity is given what is said o have heen a successful demonstration of his ‘truth serum.” Dr. R. Ernest House, a Texas criminologist, will have opened up a wide field of research { particutarly for the detection of crime and the solution of many problems. The “truth ser Iv known as scoplamin compels a person into whom it jected to zive truthful answers to an) question asked Refore the International Identification last Saturday House is <aid te have proved to a committee, which Included Dr. 1. G { Duncan. director of the ' Oklahoma tate burean of identification: Capt J. G. Golden. director of the hureau of indentification of the New York City _police department: Frederick Samdberg of the Washington police identification hureau. and others. the efficacy of his serum. He i< aid to have used three sibjects etor Malucha, 31, and John Strang hoth of Detroft. and Lercy Moffirt 26, of Tilbury, Oni.. who took the se rum “to prove it would not work Tha three men were pinioned. Wads of wool were placed in their mouths and ears and then they were stretchad on cots and the serium was infected into their left arms. They fell asleen almost immediately and when they awoke three hours later were sur prised ta find that they had answered ectly all questions put them although they admitted collective they had decided before unde the test to make wrong answers NOT IN;:lNE. ARMYAMAN WHO KILLED GIRL, SAYS Lieut. Thompson Changes Plea to Guilty of Manslaught Refuses to “Hide." By the Associsted Prass MANILA. Septembher 1.—Lisnt. 1. S. Thampson, who is on trial here for the kiiling of Miss Audrey Burleigh, whom he shot to death in his automohile afier she had par ticipated in an amateur theatrical against his wishes, today withdraw hia plea of insanity aAnd antered a piea of “gullty of manslaughter, hut not guilty of murder.” He is charged hefore a court-martial with first de. gree murder. In entering his plea Thompson's counsel safd the lisutenant had re. ecently told him that ] am not insane nor am 1 guilty of murder. To hide hehind a plea of insanity is false.’ o ommeon for was not accord In recent h construc when the domestic Association Dr wable. that all thix v 14 | | many changes dur | vear in the cost of | Hunt said. ‘ By the Amsociated Prese President Coolidge generally is ex pacted here to go outside the present | diplomatic corps in filling the vacancy caused by the death of Ambassador Bancroft at Tokio. Mr. Coolidge is impressed by the record made by Mr. Bancroft, who was a Chicago lawver. and believes some one of similar tvpe could best represent the United States at the Japanese capital. A number of names of prominent lawyers have haen suggested, includ- ing those of Roland W. Rovden of Massachusetts, formerly American observer with the Reparation Com mission, and Willlam . Bovden of Chicago, a lawyer and a director. of the Central Trhat Co. of Tiinois, —Slagren SHENANDOAH WILL TAKE FOUR-DAY WESTERN TRIP| =y T His counsel said depositions taken Will Leave Hangar TOomOIToW.|in the [United States regarding Stopping at St. Louis and Thompson's sanity will not be used and declared: Detroit During Flight. “The defense drops the plea of in By the Associated Press. {sanify, as it could present nothing { more than a fair case. The defe LAKEHURST, N. ] — | hopes for nothing mbre than justice. The, Navy dirigible Shenandoah is scheduled to leave her hnnél' at sun Arguments of counsel will begin tomorrow. set tomorrow for an extensive four- | day Western trip. Proceeding to Scott Fleld, 8t. Louis, which she ix expected Art Of Harflenin" to reach on ¥riday, the dirigible will e pass over Philadelphia, Wiheeling. Vv Pure Copper med By Negro in Ohio s September | | Va., Pittsbucgh, Columbus and Lodian- apolis, - On her trip, from St LOWE (o D troit, reaching tha latter place SRatur. day morning, she is to pais dver Kan- sas City, St. Joseph. Mo.: Des Moines Tow: Fond du Lae, W : Milwaukee and Minnesota. - At Detroit she will he anchored to a sha Apepsiatall, Pribes v LORAIN, Ohio,~ September 1. Clatming to have perfacted a process mooring _mast recently _erected hy |0 make pure copper as hard as tool Henry Ford. making a number of | steel. E. i, Harrison. negro-labor fore short_trips and reaching Lakehurst | man. said Victor J. Evans, his Wagh- late Sunday or early Monday. | ington attorney. advised: hita yvester: o Aay a patent has heen granted. In Natal, Seuth Africa, on April 1 vana also has notified nirh. Harri 7 said, that a $3.000.000 offer from 1874, hailstones weighing 134 pounds | jors s Tl and o their wanmK 13 bounds | Eastern capitalists has been retused. By | officers and men. Local business men-have financed PETntne avN e Ve Harrison. They say that the process To Be Given in Special Dispateh o The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., September 1. —Jail sentences for drunken driv- ers, whether men or women. wes the ultimatum delivered here this morning by Judge Samuel Riggs in Police Court, who announced that ‘hereafter those convicted in Mont- mery. County .might expect. no gucg-'lh- amerted that no ex- Jail Sentences for Drunken Drivers is simple. A liquid compound upon which the patent has been issued is used in smelting the copper, which is Aone in a vacuum. Harrison began All ROCkVille Cases | his” experiments four vears ago. . Denial “of -a statement by E. E. Harrison, & Lorain, Ohio. negro Jabor foreman, that® a paténi had been granted him. for & process 1o make pure copper as hard as steel was { made today by Victor J. Evans, who also denied that a $3,000.000 offer for the patent had been refused. - He said the application made sevaral ‘months ago still was pending. o= Of the 42 States having workmen's compensation laws, 12 make It com- pulsory and 88 make it slective. ceptions would ba made. declaring he knows of no greater menace to public safety than a drunken per- son at the wheel of an automobile. The judge has heen imposing sentences of from 30 to 50 days in the majority of drunk-Ariving case: and his pronouncement today was made, he explained. that all might know there would be no alterna- tive to imprisonment after future convictions. '