Evening Star Newspaper, September 7, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Partly cloudy fair and cooler. Temperatures—Highest, lawest, p.m. yesterday: a.m. today. Full report New York Stock Market Closed Today No. B4 s tonight; Entered as second class matter Forecast.) tomorrow 87, at 3 69, ai 2.30 on Page 5. Che ashington, D. WASHINGTON, . PRESIDENT WAITS PROBE OF MITCHELL CHARGES BY ARMY Advisers See Coolidge Com- pelled to Act to Clear Atmosphere. DISCIPLINE OF COLONEL REGARDED AS CERTAIN Officer Spends Forecasted Arrest Fails Day Fishing as to Materialize. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG, Staft Correspondent of The Star. EWAMPSCOTT. Mass., September 7. Col. William A. Mitchell's violent denunciation of the Army and Navy officials charged with the conduct of aviation has brought about a situa- tien which, advisers to the President intiate, may lead to court-martial proceedings, if statements imputed to the Army officer prove to be correct President Coolidge, it is understood here, has done nothing officially, but is awaiting the result of the inquiry started by the War Department to determine the authenticity of the charges, chief of which is that crim inal negligence, approaching treason, existed country’s national defense. These charges are known to have greatly excited the public and it is believed that the President will be compelled to act speedily and in a most ef- fective way to satisfy public opinion | was extravagant that Col. Mitchell in his allegations. One thing is sure, the administration cannot aveid a thorough investigation, in which Col Mitchell will be given every oppor- tunity to prove his assertions President Coolidge is represented as declining to make any public com- ment until he has learned the come of the investigation started in motion by the War Department. ACTION TO BE RUSHED. Return of Davis to See Mitchell Case Probe Started. the return probably tomorrow, Davis, Acting Secretary of War, it is expected that steps will be taken to determine just what action can With to Washington be taken by the War Department in ' disciplining Col. William Mitchell, for his repeated bitter criticism and condemnation of the War and Nav. Departments for their aviation pol- icles. The Navy Department, out of offi- cial courtesy, will maintain an atti- tude of “hands off” until the War Department has had adequate oppor- tunity to determine how it proposes to discipline Col. Mitchell for his long-continued and scathing attack: which both Army and Navy officer: say no longer can be overlooked It became known today that the office of the Judge Advocate General of the War Department is prepared to advise Acting Secretary Davis as to just what the department can do in the Mitchell case—the bounds of its authority to punish him under the law. That he may be dismissed trom the service and even imprisoned are posibilities, a high legal authority ad- mitted today. Lieut. Col. Pistole May Act. Lieut. Col. Willam B. Pistole of Cherrydale, Va., chief administrative of the law division of the War De- partment probably will handle the case for the War Department He refused today to discuss any phase of the case or the extent of punish- ment that might under the law be laid against Col. Mitchell. Prominent local attorneys who have made a speciality of military law and of the rights of Army officers are studying the present situation closely because they believe it will establish a new precedent. They say that more deli- cate questions of law and justice are involved than at first appear. Members of the Senate and House also are taking a keen interest in the Mitchell case, especially members of the military affairs committees who previously have studied Col. Mitchell's charges and questioned him at hear- ings. Whatever the decision of the War Department may be, and what- in the administration of the | out- | of Dwight F.| Famous Premier Dead MLLEROFGRL 6, BOASTSOF CRINE SLEW DRVERALS) Former Harvard Student, 18, Fugitive From Asylum, Leads Way to Body. |SHOT MAN TO GET CAR FOR USE IN KIDNAPING Harrison Neel, Lawyer's Son, Stole Mary Daly for Ransom. Grilled 23 Hours. | By the Associated Prese MONTCLAIR, N. J I Having confessed that he kidnaped | and murdered 6-year-old Mary Daly Harrison Noel, 15, son of a New York lawyer and formerly a college student |and an inmate of an insane asylum {was hled in jail today. | The motive for the kidnaping was | . September 7. | ransom, but why the girl was killed | {is not clear. Part of the confession | | s withheld by the authorities. Noel confessed that he also shot and | | killed Raymond Plerce, a negro taxi driver, to get an automobile different |from his own and then shot and wounded another chauffeur who gave | | chase after the kidnaping. At first it | was thought that a negro had ab- | ducted the girl. e Boasts of Crime. ‘; | | ; | Former Premier Twice Came Here on Missions—Dele- gate to Arms Conference. { | By the Assoc PARIS, eptember 7. | Premier Rene Viviani died |Death occurred at §:58 a.m. ed Press. today. |, Grinning and with a tinge of boast ¥*| tulness, he stood over the girl's bod lin a ciump of bushes on Preakness | | Mountain, Little Falls, N. J., to which | {he had led the police. Noel said: | ‘Well, I put two bullets into her."” The body was lying face upward Mary’s hands were crossed on her Native of Algeria. | Rene Viviani, internationally( fa- { mous lawyer and statesman, was the | most renowned of the public men given to the French nation by her breast. There were bullet holes in her {young colonies in Africa. Born No-|head and neck. Noel said he led the | | vember 8, 1863, in the thriving little | girl out of the car at 2 o'clock Sat. | | village of Sidi Bel Abbes, in the in-|urday morning. Too frightened to ! terior of Algeria — which was itself | utter a sound, she was left standing | born of the brilllant French conquest | while he backed away and fired many | —Viviani came to be known through ; shots, he said, as if at a fence post | the years of his political life as a man | Then he dragged the body into the | who embodied in their truest sense | underbrush. i the principles of liberty, equality and| Noel escaped June 28 from the Es- | fraternity upon which the French Re-|sex County Insane Asylum at Over- public was founded brook, where he had been confined at Destined by his pious mother to the | the request of his parents February | {cloth of the Roman Catholic Church, | 23. He was believed to have suffered | Viviani's taste for .oratory and love|a mental breakdown from overstudy. of debate estranged him from the sec- | For a short time he had been a stu. |ular influence in early manhood and |dent at Harvard, but had left by re- | | decided his choice of the law as a pro- | quest of the University. | fession. Questioned 23 Hours. The confession came after 23 hours of questioning by detectives. Karly | | vesterday his mother, Anne W. Noel, | | was closeted with him in an attempt Fought for Success. | He was graduated from the Uni-| versity of Paris and immediately be- | gan the practice of law In Alglers, but !it was not long before his ambitions | to get him to talk {required a wider fleld. He overcame | Then David §. Daly, hardware mer. | many obstacles to establish himself in | chant and father of the slain girl, got | | Paris, and many more before any one | gown on his knees and begsed tm | knew he was there. yet his rise was | oy 1o rell the traih. e | I meteoric and he took high rank at| Noel said Mary was safe. He of- the bar and an enviable niche In POl | fered to retnra her for $5000 " Tro itics. = o ! A | spurned a check. Officers hunted up | His advanced views on soefal and [ {PUTIS0 & TG ORCHE MEEd U | [religious questions naturally drew | N | {him definitely Into the Socialist move- | UIned, ;tZ'f'h'e’“fnfl’;'.ffidn.’,‘é“fli“’,'h,; | ment, just then beginning to grow 2t it iy police to the spot where Mary’s body |rapidiy in France. He saw the needs|POUCe t th jof the laboring and low-salaried| Ho isalll hp, astisinini: Siat | Bibe. {classes; he fought with them for a|. ¢ SLE 08 ferermned last Tuss C., MONDAY, LAB SEPTEMBER 7, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION g D. R DAY AT SWAMPSCOT Sta “From P The Star’ every city b tion is delive ress to Home Within the Hour” s carrier system covers lock and the regular edi- red to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed Saturd; Sunday’s Circulation, i culation, 86,689 101,065 1925—-THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. * P Means Associated Pr TWO CENTS. MORE CLUES FAI IN PN-3 SEARCH Submarines, Planes and De- stroyers Start Second Week of Futile Hunt. By the Associated Press HONOLULU, September 7.—Com- bined searching operations of sub- marines, larger fighting craft and| de- | airplanes continued with grim termination today after nearly a week of fruitless but effort to find Comdr. John Rodgers a fuel shortage in an attempt to fly from San Francisco to Honolulu They are missing in the seaplane PN-9 No. 1. Hopes raised from time to time through the receipt of encouraging reports, such as the supposed sight- ing of signal flares or the sighting of objects that at a distance resem- bled a drifting seaplane have spur- red the searchers The plane carrier Langley arrived in the searching area yesterday and |assumed charge of the undertaking, excepting operations of the destroy- ers coming from Samoa The 10 destrovers are due to ar- rive some time today to join in the hunt. Weary and worn from their tedious i searching, Navy officials saw another spark of hope blighted late yester- |readjustment of their social condi-| ’ s I noted the residence of Joseph A. tions; he won the confidence of farmer | ROt 0o rosilence of Joseph A land woodman voters in picturesque ce [ ° w {Auvergne; he brought into being the !‘;“g‘;fl:;"‘:; ‘c:r ogn&'l“g:erfldua;e? |old-age pension laws, then he became | OF Bif OWH C5F OF R IORCLY rond, be {the first minister of labor, and it was 2 1 < | him to an address in Little Falls when upon the shoulders of the workers he | Nowl éhiot the chatfteur th the ok | befriended in those early days that he = {was carried to the high positions he | °f 'hf het;‘d and kl!led,hlr:- g; fll‘xfl\ei afterward held in the political affairs| 2 mile, then crammed the v into |a culvert. Leader of Socialists. Wounds Driver in Chase. His first electlon to the Chamber| The next day, using Pierce's car, |of Deputies occurred in 1883, when he | he grabbed the Daly girl from her | was sent from the department of the | Playmates in front of the Bower home | {Seine, including Paris. He was re-|and drove off. Overtaken in an auto | |elected in 1897, but met defeat in 1902 chase by John Sandin, the Bower | when the Nationalists swept Paris.|chauffeur, he shot and wounded | He devoted the next few vears to the | Sandin. ipractice of his profession, although| Later he telephoned Mrs. Bower Istill continuing to lead the Socialist|and asked whether she was interested | |party, ‘which was rapidly losing|in a girl with a pink dress, whom he | | strength because of a conflict between | offered to return for $4,000. He hung | lits two factions. | up when Mrs. Bower ‘asked for his | | The turning point of his career,| name. A {however, came in 1904, when the In-| Suspicion first attached to Noel |ternational Socialist Congress, under | when the license number of his aban- | |the influence of Bedel, the German |doned automobile was reported. He | Socialist leader, adopted a resolution | was taken from his home to the police | demanding the unification of the | station. The police noticed bloodstains | party. Viviani, with Aristide Briand| on his suit. A revolver and car- !and Alexandre Millerand, refused to| tridges were found in his room. Then |of the republic. terilis =l Haent |accept this diclslon, and rather than| — ,‘;;l‘_’"d,fifif‘, Ay iaks"‘,’f"fl A | compromise with the revolutionary | |. ready assured that the charges of |element of the body, organized a. sep- mistaken policy made against the arate wing that ultimately became the | War Department and the Navy De.|Republican Socialist party. Its first partment, and against Secretary Wil.|Success came fo 1906, when 20 depu-| bur, will' be vigorously discussed in |tles, including Viviani, Briand andj both the Senate and House. jMillersnd, werselected. Plerce’s car was found, also blood- | stained. Sandin identified Noel as the | man who shot him. Haunted By H. G Smith of the Overbrook Asylum said_that when brought to | the asylum Noel was suffering from Dr. | Delusions. | ! | Famed as Mediator. | Wise old Georges Clemenceau, upon { becoming premier in October of the same year, chose Viviani to head the |('Matnnlc dementia praetox, with no | | symptoms of homicidal mania. Delu- sions of persecution haunted him. He was found in New York in a coma after his escape from the asylum. Re- day when what an inter-island | steamer had reported to be a drift- {ing seaplane in Kauai Channel was ound to be a derelict Japanese sam- pan. DIRIGIBLE DEBRIS Shenandoah Parts Packed for Shipment to Capital. Probe Continues. By the Associated Press. CALDWELL, Ohio, September 7.— Labor day saw no cessation of ac- tivity planned for the dismantling of the part of the Shenandoah's wreck- age that the United States Navy wants for Its study of aeronautics. Late yesterday, besides cutting up the wreckage to procure the desired parts, men working under the direc- tion of the Board of Investigation also took photographs of the wreckage { trom every angle. The salvaged parts are being crated up for shipment to the naval air sta- ! tion. not déspairing | land four men who failed because of | | | Under Present Plan. iSw'ms Niagara ’ | River Just Below Plunging Falls | By the Associated Press NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario, Sep. tember 7.—William (Red) Hill, a vet- riverman, this afternoon swam the Niagara River just below | the Falls. He made the distance of a Jittle more than half a mile in 11 | minutes. It is claimed this was the first time the feat was ever accomplished. ONE CLASSIFYING AGENCY DEMANDED eran across Steward Says Law Will Not Be Properly Administered By a Staff Correspondent BOSTON, Mass., September fon of the many problems that confront Federal employes in the Dis- trict of Columbia and throughout the field service will not be approached until classification administration is placed in the hands of the one compe- tent agency capable of handling it— the United States Civil Service Com- mission—President Luther C. Steward, president of the National Federation of Federal Employes, declared in his biennial report, in opening the gen- eral convention of the federation here today “Bad administration” in the past of a good reclassification law and the “evil influence” of the Bureau of Effi- must be eliminated, Mr. Stew. ard added, before a solution of the problem is approached. Progress of retirement legislation since the last convention has been immeasurably greater than would appear on the surface, he told the convention. ap- pending a statement of the retirement fund which showed a balance in the fund of more than $57,000,000 as of June 30, 1925. Smoot Is Assailed. Attacking the Bureau of Efficiency's | work in compiling efficiency ratings, and the administration of the Per. sonnel Classification Board, Mr. Stew- ard alluded to Senator Smoot as the “arch enemy of the best interests of Federal employes, who was offered | a sop in administration of the clas- | sification act by the personnel board” in order that his handy men in the Bureau of Efficiency might have some excuse for continuing to absord Fed- eral funds. “With the dominating Influence of the Bureau of Efficlency and the rather pitiful ‘me too’ attitude of the Bureau of the Budget in classification matters, the administration of classi- fication to date has ranged from in. different to vile, in spite of which there have come to light provisions of the utmost | had | racy. BIG BILLEDWARDS MAKES CLEAN RAGE {Hylan Ticket Controller Can-‘ didate Differs From Others in Fight. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Staft Correspondent of The Star NEW YORK, September 7.—In the midst of the mudslinging of the Democratic primary campaign for the mavoralty and other municipal offices of New York City. there is one can- didate who is making a clean fight. It's not surprising. He is “Big Bill" Edwards, candidate for controller on the Hylan ticket “Big Bill” Edwards is known to thousands of Princeton men the coun- try over as the man who captained | the Tiger foot ball team just before the close of the last century—which was only 25 vears ago, and not long as it sounds. He was captain and guard on the Princeton team in that heart-breaking—for the Elis— game in 1899, when Arthur Poe, Princeton end, booted a field goal in the last 38 seconds of play and Yale was defeated 11 to 10 Later he was commissioner of the street cleaning department of New York under Mayor William J. G: and he swept the streets cleaner and cleaned up the snow and quickly than any commissioner thes ever had. President Woodrow Wilson made him collector of internal revenue at New York City, He was a Wilson lars for the Government former pupil of President | while the latter was a member of the Princeton faculty. More recently still he was appointed special deputy com missioner of police by Mayvor Hylan. Is Nationally Known. “Big Bill” has never before sought | the suffrage cZ the New York voters, though he is personally known to thousands of them, and by reputation to millions of them. There is no ques- tion about his personal popularity There is no question about his democ- Even Gov. Al Smith admits that he is “all right,” though the Governor is now lined up against Mayor Hylan and naturally is speak- ing for the entire Walker and anti- | Hylan ticket. Commissioner Edwards’ own particular opponent is Maj Charles White Berry of Brookly commandant of the New York N tional Guard, a physician as well as a_soldier, who is running on the Walker ticket. Commissioner Edwards is not mak- ing a personal attack on Gen. Berry, and publicity has insisted upon a “clean campaign.” If he can clean he will do a bigger job than when | he tackled the New York streets. Mayor Hylan and his backer, Wil- liam Randolph Hearst, are charging the Governor and Senator Walker, candidate for mayor. with all kinds | of corruption in every other breath. And what the Governor is saying g ice more | and he | | handled hundreds of millions of dol- . | ington engine from Alexandria. SHINGTON. MeNeely. of. S. Harrls, 2b. [ Riee, rf. Goslin, 1. 3. Harri | Bluege, .. Peckinpaugh, ss. Ruel, e. Jdohnsen. . Totals PHILADELPHIA. Bishop, 2b. Cochrane, . Lamar. 1f. Simmons. cf. Holt. 1h. Hale, 3b. Miller. rf. ONE STEP NEARER ’ | b, PETY P ~292=2333% sommomaa® POy seszsomu® French* Pool+ P =P -} ss0n sle0s900900922 aloesss0200™ lossssamc3020m & alenondnrenrpallgls Totals 2 35 *Batted for Groves In eighth inning. +Batted for Galloway in ninth inning. 00001001 0—2 © 000000 0 i—1 Two-base hits — Cochrane. Peck. Pool. Home run—J. Harris. Stolen bases—S. Har- ris. Hale. Double plas—Halt (unassisted). Left on bases—Washington. 11 Philadeiphia. 7. Base on balls—Of Groves. Struek out—By Johnson. 1: by Groves. 1. Hits— O Groves. & in 8 innings: off Baumzartner 2 in 1 inning. HIt by pitcher—By Baum. | | Eartner (S. Harris). Losing pitcher — | Groves. Umpires — Messra. Nallin. Geluel. Hildebrand and Evans. Time of game—? | hours. CAPITAL SPENDS - HOLIDAY QUIETLY Resorts Lure Many From City—Police-Firemen’s | Game Is Feature. ! Washington turned today to its an- | nual observance of Labor day. It was with mingled feelings of joy and regret that the National Capital welcomed the day dedicated to those who toil—joy in the prospect of a few more hours from the cares of business, and regret that it marks| the last week of pleasant Summer | working schedules with their shorter ! hours and Saturday half holidays. | No vigorous program in celebration | of Labor day robbed Washington of | {its opportunity to rest. This morning a number of patriotic societies gather- ed at the base of Lafayette Monu- ment, across from the White House, | to recall the gallantry of the Revolu- tionary genéral, and this afternoon there is to be a firemen’s parade, fol lowed by the annual struggle for base ball supremacy between the police | |and fire departments. bt Many Visit Resorts. | _Aside from these three events, Washington was left to follow its own inclinations, and thousands of | workers took andvantage of the op- portunity for one last holiday at | mountain, bay of seashore resorts. Many more went for long motor trips |and quite a few decided to travel to | Philadelphia and see what the league. |leading Natfonals look like in thelr | road togs. Next to the base ball game between | the policemen and firemen in Clark | Griffith Stadium, possibly one of the | most popular places in town this | | morning was the scoreboard in front | of The Star Buflding, where the game between the Nationals and Athletics in Shibe Park was reproduced play | by play. The same board will relate | the second game between the World Champions and the league runners. ! up this afternoon. | This city of pageantry has seen about every varfety of parade extant, but when the firemen turned out at i noon for their tramp from the Peace | | Monument to the Glark Grifith Sta. {dlum via Pennsylvania avenue, Four- | teenth street and U street something really novel was offered to the spec. tators. 600 Firemen in Parade. More than 600 firemen and 100 | pieces of apparatus were in line. | Heading the procession were some of ‘|hc oldest apparatus in existence, tell- ing the story of progress from the days of the man-drawn, hand-worked | pumpers to the modern era of the great red vehicles that speed through | the streets at 40 miles an hour and hurl tons of water high over the roofs of skyscrapers One of the most interesting exhibits |In the parade was the George Wash- | This | quaint little pumper was in service at ithe time George Washington was | President, and was manned by a strictly volunteer crew. Some of this |city's fire-fighting antiquities lent | | Champs Are |a row | American League history when NATS BEAT A'S, 21, /JORNSON TWIRLING INBRILLIANT FORM Defeat Is Eleventh in Row for Philadelphia—Joe Harris Hits for Circuit. PECK'S STELLAR PLAY CUTS OFF MACK RUNS Greeted With Cat Cells and Jeers—Lead Now Is Eight Games. BY JOHN B. KELLER. SHIBE PARK, Philadelphia, Pa.. September 7.—Pltching superbly, Wal ter Johnson held the Athletics in check this morning, while the Na tionals got to the southpaw slants of Robert Moses Groves to earn a 2-to-1 victory in the openinz game of this hectic series, thereby increasing their league lead to eight full games over their competitors Walter, who was booed by the rabid Mack supporters when he first appear- ed on the field. had the same fans cheering him before play was far under way. He allowed the ememy nine hits, but three of them were not until the ninth round, when Connie's tribe averted a shut-out by clustering three clouts. Peck Makes Great Play. The only other time Walter was any real danger was in the round, when Groves s out, and after Max Bishop flied to Sam Rice, Mickey Cochrane whipped a two-bagger to left to put the Mack pitcher at third base. Bill Lamar then cracked a low liner toward left center, but Roger Peckinpaugh threw himself in the path of the ball, speared it with his gloved hand, and, although falling, clung to the sphere. It was one of the greatest fielding plays of the vear and undoubtedly killed off two Athletic tallies. The Champs got to Groves for their first marker in the fifth frame. With Muddy Ruel out of the way, Johnson lifted a single to center, Earl McNeelyv skied to Simmons, but Bucky Harris drew a base on balls and Sam Rice's one-baser to right sent Walter to the plate. The second tally was made by Moon Harris, without the aid of any one else, in the eighth inning. Moon got hold of Groves' second pitch in that frame and shot the ball into the upper left fleld stand for a round- tripper. Macks Escape Shut-Out. But one Mack reached third base before the ninth session, and it seemed that Johnson would score a shut-out win when Connie's crowd escaped that. Al Simmons opened the round by singling to left, only to be forced out by Red Holt, new first sacker of the A's. Sammy Hale fanned to give Johnson his only strike-out of the game. but Bing Mill er poled a one-baser to left to move Holt to the middle station. Jimmy Pool, deposed initial guardian, was sent up to bat for Chick Galloway. Pool promptly wal- loped the ball to Goose Goslin's ter ritory for two) bases, easily scoring Holt. Miller, eager to get in with the tying run, turned third, but Goslin's eturn of the ball to Ossie Bluege was accomplished with such speed that Bing was forced to turn back and he ran into Bluege for the final th gled with one sack | out of the battle. Today's defeat was the eleventh in for the Athletics. Champs Are Jeered. Bucky Harrs and his athletes were accorded a greeting unprecedented in they took the field for batting practice, the thousands of fans in the stands boo- ing them soundly several minutes Then come the other display of poor sportsmanship by the Athletic fans when Johnson stepped out of the Na- tionals’ dugout to warm up for the fray. Both Walter and Bennie Tate, his catcher, were booed by the crowd in the stands back of first base. Evidently the widespread publicity given the advance sale of tickets kep! many people from the park. When play began there were manv vacs chairs in the inclosure | their interest to the procession, too, |and included among the modern ap. | paratus were some of the companies | from towns suburban to Washington up the present campalgn, however, | in Virginia and Maryland. Two trophies were offered in con. | nection with the parade. fans were at hand A heavy rainfall last field somewhat soft, but in dition for play FIRST I WASHINGTON One will go | out McNeely NING. Boos and catcal Galloway night lossed lls greet- to the best decorated local engine and | ed S. Harris when he went to bat. He | the other to the best decorated out. | flied to Miller. Rice grounded to Gal- j of-town engine. The line of march is |loway. No runs. from the Peace Monument up Penn.| PHILADELPHIA—Bishop lofted to {sylvania avenue to Fourteenth street; |McNeely. ‘McNeely made a good run on Fourteenth street to U, thence to |ning catch of Cochrane’s fly to short Gets Scores of Messages Lauding Sen- | Tlawly” created department of 1abor. | turned to the asvium he was found ; Befors nightfall, Comdr. Jacob H value to employes. Hearst and his methods in lan- | the ball park. There the firemen were | center. Lamar got a single to center | : i about He. sational Statement. SAN ANTONIO, Tex ®).—Col. Willlam placently fished for tarpon off Port Arkansas, Tex.. while his latest state- ment in criticism of what he termed gross defects in the management of the Air Service,” fssued Saturday, was resounding in echo throughout the country. Friends and supporters of the Sth Corps Ara Air officer and former assistant chief of the Army Air Serv- (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) NEWSPAPER WRITERS ATTACKED BY CHINESE Two Britons Are Victims of Strik- ers—Placed Under Arrest for Safety. September 7 Mitchell com- By the Associated Press. CANTON, China, September 4 (de- layed).—Two British newspaper corre- spondents from Hongkong, named Oliver and Cox, visiting Canton yes- terday to interview government offi- eials, were molested In the city b strikers and were later put under ar- rest by the police, who fear for their | safety. At latest reports being detained until could be made for Shameen. Efforts are heing made 1o effect re sumption of commercial relations be tween Canton and Hongkong. The general strike situation in Canton is unchanged. they were arrangements their return to {and there the workman's friend ac-!mych improved and was released. complithed wonders by finding com-| " Noel worked for a time recently as | mon ground of understanding between | “taxicab driver in New York and | " (Continued on Page 2, Column | lived at a Mills Hotel. He was a model | boy. his friends saild, and had been 2 EFUURWHEhLD IN WRECK e e e i OF KENTUCKY TRAIN; leader of a troop of Boy Scouts at Montelair. He is a slim blue-eyed }Are Accused of Murder in Connec- tion With Alleged Plot to good-looking youth. His father, Dix W. Noel, is a mem- Rob Mail Car. ber of a New York law firm of stand- ing. His mother, Anne W. Noel, a magazine writer, collapsed when told that her son had confessed. Before Mary's body was found, Mrs. Noel sald: “I know that my sen is demented, and 1 thank God that he has con- fessed. I only pray that the child is safely found. If only the little baby is saved! If only the little baby is saved!” LINER HITS SCHOONER. Laconia Tows Damaged Vessel Atter Collision in Fog. NEW YORK, September 7 (#)— The Cunarder Laconia collided with By the Associated Press. | “STANFORD, Ky., September 7.— Four persons have been arrested on charges of murder growing out of the wreck at Knob Lick, 4 miles from here, Saturday night of a Louis- iville and Nashville passenger train, in which Engineer Fox Dudderar was | killed and 15 others were injured. Herber Hall, Oscar and Elvie Dish- on and Oley Kidd are charged with plotting to wreck the train, while | seven other persons, three of whom - are women, are being held as wit. | the four-masted wooden schooner | nesses. | Lucia P. Dow of Boston, early yes- | “Rallroad detectives investigating the | terday in a fog 250 miles east of | wreck believe that it was a plot to|\aptycket light, according to a radio | wreck the train and then rob the 2 < ! mail car, as Hail attempted to enter | dispatch received from Capt. D. T. { the mail car and he and his compan- | Brittgn of the Laconia. {ione fled when a clerk appeared with | No one was injured. he said. and {a gun | the Lucia P. Dow was being towed | The truin crashed into an open|to New York, where the Laconia is I switch in which ay rail had been |scheduled to arrive at 4 o'clock this loosened. 3 afternoon.. . Klein of Lakehurst expects to greet Raymord Cole, one of the two injured survivors of the craft. Cole, who has been in the Marietta (Ohio) Hospital suffering minor injuries, is coming to Caldwell to confer with Comdr. Klein before leaving for the East. John F. McCarthy, the other and more seriously injured survivor in the Marietta Hospital, is improving slow- ly. His contemplated operation has been deferred for several days. During the day Lieuts. Taylor and Havill of Lakehurst were expected to arrive to aid Comdr. Klein in his work of investigation and salvage. After the Navy men have cut out those parts of the framework they want the residue will be offered for sale, subject of the bids of junk deal- ers. With the departure of Admiral C. W. Dyson yesterday afternoon for ‘Washington, where he will report to Curtis D. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy, one branch of the investigation was completed. Thousands of visitors flocked here yesterday from all parts of Ohlo, as well as West Virginia and Pennsyivania. SHIP BLAST .KILLS FOUR. U. S. Destroyer Reports Disaster to Shanghai. SHANGHAIL, September 7 (#).—The destrover Noa, United States Navy, reported by radin tonight that four men of her erew had been killed in an explosion. Radio Programs—Page 25. Mr. Steward said the classification act of 1923 was the most important law ever placed upon the statute books. not even excepting the orig. inal 11 service act of 1883. Yet, he added, few laws have been the sub- ject of as much unintelligent criti- cism. “Our effords so far have been large- Iy directed to preventing ill-informed or misguided administration of the act, which, under competent administra’ tion, would demonstrate increasing value almost immediately. “‘Already, however, arbitrary, venal lor incompetent administrative officers have been suprised to learn that the classification act of 1923 grants to employes the right of appeal to a cen- tral agency from the action of the de- partmental head in respect of demo- tion and dismissal for alleged. ineffi- clency. An innovation whose value to employes will increase each year, an innovation that surprised administra- tors when for the first time they learned that departmental opinion, un- backed by facts, was not the court of last resort in' the final disposition of the fate of the average employe.” Explains Consternation. “Efficlency ratings, so-called,” he declared, “have created consternation and have brought forth wholesale eondemnation, much of which, how- ever, has missed the mark, in that it did not take into consideration the fact that such efficiency rating sched- ules as have been in operation were the mishegotten efforts of the Bureau {of Efficiency. and that the power vested in the personnel classification board to review and revise systems of efficlency ratings has meant but little when the majority of that body (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) guage more picturesque and no less|t0 disband and occupy seats in their | when his liner fell short of McNeely, violent sizzles for hours after he has | said it Deplores Factionalism. | In a statement to the press Mr. Ed- | wards deplored the talk of faction-| alism. He said that the prevailing opinion in New York seemed to be that | only two men, Gov. Smith and William | Randolph Hearst, were running for | office. ! “I am listed in this fight as a candi- | date for comptroller,” he said. “And | I want it distinctly understood that I | am a candidate as a Democrat, a regu- | lar Democrat, and not a factionalist | or as allied with any faction or any roup. I am associated with Mayor ylan in this contest as his friend. 1 have no quarrel with those who differ from me in my estimate of Mayor Hylan. I have no quarrel with Mr. Berry, who has the same right to seek the nomination as I have.” Gene Tunney, contender for the heay: ht championship, in a letter to Mr. Edwards has declared for him, saying, “As a clean sportsman I know you will be a clean offictal.” On the face of things, “Big Bill" is arrayed against the Tammany Tiger, | which Is supporting Walker and Berry | and the whole ant{-Hylan ticket. The number of Democratic voters in Man- hattan and the Bronx, where the party organizations have backed | Walker and Berry, is some 11.000 | greater than the number in the three | boroughs, Brooklyn, Queens and Rich- mond, where the Democratic organiza- | tions have declared for Hylan. The | edgp seems to he with Walker and g& ven If the influence of Gov. ntinued en Page 8, Column 4.) section of the stands.” Opposite them | { will sit the police department root: The receipts from the base ball game will go to enrich the treasury of the fund for the widows and or- phans of policemen and firemen. It is Dbelieved nearly 30,000 tickets will | have been sold by the time the game | begins. Besides the paying guests, a section has been reserved for boys | Joseph's Orphanage, the latter the | guests of Deputy Chief Andrew A.| Sullivan. { SIX DIE IN CRASH; | FAMILY WIPED OUT | Passenger Train Hits Auto, Killing | Parents, Two Children, Their Grandmother and Friend. By the Associated Press. RIVES, Tenn., September 7.—| Claude Warren, a farmer, living near Beardstown, Tenn.. his wife, two chil- | dren, his mother-in-law, Mrs. J. C. Cude, and Tom Curl were killed near | here vesterday when an Illinois Cen- | tral passenger train struck the auto- | mobile In which they were riding, at a grade crossing. A two-year-old | daughter of Warren escaped unhurt. | The six were klilled ‘instantly, and | their bodies badly torn. The body ot | Curl was loun:geverl.l hundred vards down the tracl The automobile was splintered. running in. Simmons No runs. SECOND INNING. WASHINGTON—Goslin was out, Groves to Bishop to Holt. Bishop went back to short center for J. Har- ris’ high one. Bluege got the first hit off Groves, a single to left. Peck flied to Lamar near the left-field stands. No flied to Rice. |from Walter Reed Hospital and St. | TFuns. PHILADELPHIA—Holt lofted to Rice in deep right. Hale bunted and was thrown out by Bluege. Miller filed to Goslin. No runs. THIRD INNING. Washington—Ruel walked. When Johnson came to bat for the first time the fans were kinder to him than during his early warm-up. They gave him a good hand. Hale took Johnson's bounder off Groves' glove and threw to Bishop, forcing Ruel at second. McNeely flied to Simmons in short center. S. Harris walked. Bishop threw out Rice. No runs. Philadelphia—Bluege threw out Galloway. Groves got a single to left. Bishop filed to Rice. Coch- rane doubled down the left field foul line, sending Groves to third. Peck threw himself at Lamar's liner and fell to_the ground but clung to lhe ball. No runs. FOURTH INNING. Washington—Goslin_ bunted past Groves and got to first ahead of Bishop’s throw. J. Harris forced Goslin, Hale to Bishop. Bluege flied to Milier in deep right. Lamar back- edy against the left flel siands for Phek's fly. No runs. 3 Philadelphia—Bluege _ thr sut (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.