Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. . Weather Bureau Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature. Temperatures—Highes Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 20 Forecast.) it, 84, at 3:30 No. 29,736. post_office, MITCHELL ATTACKS NON-FLYING HEADS - OF AIR SERVICES IN “FIRST TESTIMONY Onslaught More Than Usual Enthu- siasm Largely a Summary of Previous Statements. DECLARES THAT ARMY - NOW HAS BUT AN EFFIGY ~ Twelve Worn-Out Pursuit Planes and 22 Bombers, With Other Ma- chines Out of Date and Danger- ous, Called Only Equipment U. S. Has for Aviators. Brought face to face with the tri- bunal whose inception he was large- Iy responsible for, Col. William Mitchell today fought anew his bat- tle for supremacy of the airplane and reorganization of the defense . system of the Nation. with an inde- | pendent air force, and his attack on non-flying officers in control. be- fore the board appointed by Presi- dent Coolidge to determine what ac tion can be taken to improve the good qualities of the Air Services. It was the day Col. Mitchell has Tonged for since his famous utter- ance in San Antonio September 5, which charged “almost criminai neg- ligence” in the management of the Army and Navy Air Services, for he | had looked to the time when he could present his case before the American people and support his charges. Testimony Not New. The testimony of Col. Mitchell was © not new: it was a mmary of se eral onslaughts against the rn-esentl aircraft management made in the past vear. It was, however, delivered with more punch and enthusiasm than at | any of his previous five appearahces before congressional committees last Winter mosphere that has permeated the In- terstate and Foreign Commerce Com- mMittee room in the House Office Build- ing since the air board began its hear- ings was charged with antlcipation and enthusiasm for one hour before the hearings began. Tells of 17 Years. Entered as second class matter Washington, Repeated With| The formal and tranquil at-| D. C. Ex-Crown Prince’s Aide Succeeds’as Maryland Farmer Special Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., September 29.—It's_a sharp transition from the staff of the former Crown Prince of Germany to. successful poultry farming in southern Mary- land, but such is the story of Baron Von Reckenberg, once of Potsdam, now of Brandywine, Md. Baron Von Reckenberg, who has dropped the title in favor of the more democratic “mister,” is mak- ing a success of his 67-acre farm, purchased on the advice of the | Southern ® Maryland Immigration Commission. Von Reckenberg was wounded during the World War. One of his sons will enter the | | University of ‘Maryland in Febru- ary. MRS, LANSDOWNE - TOBE A WITNESS !Accepts Board’s Invitation | to Make Statement in | Shenandoah Probe. ' il -y | TWO BODIES TAKEN FROM S-51, DIVERS + SEEKING 31 OTHERS {All Hope Abandoned by Offi-| cers—Navy Orders Caskets for Victims. EFFORTS TO LIFT BOAT ABANDONED FOR TIME Planes Comb Sea for Three Be-| lieved Swept Overboard When Craft Went Down. | By the Associated Press. NEW LONDON, Conn., September In the air and under the sea men | worked today in thelr scarch for the bodies of victims of the S-51, awhich | {went down last Friday night when | she- was rammed by the Savannah | line steamer City of Rome 14 miles | off Block Island. The first body re- | covered was that of John L. Gibson, | engineman second class, and was | found In the battery room of the ship | by deep sea divers who resumed | operations this morning after being | forced by strong tides last night to | stop their work. A second body, | By: the Associated Press. | 1 LAKEHURST, N. J., September | —Mrs. Margaret Ross Lansdowne, ‘l\\'ldo\\' of Comdr. Zachary Lansdowne, | 1 captain of the Shenandoah, accepted today the invitation of the naval| | court of inquiry to appear and muke;’ | a statement. 4 {Charles Teschemacher of Bangor, Pa., Mrs. Lansdowne's telegram to the|yas taken from the submarine this | court suggested no date for her ab- | forencon, | pearance other than it be made ati \yvhjle divers prowled through the ! the latest possible time. It may beisibmarine, the hum of seaplane | that she will not be heard here, but | motors could be heard gverhead as In Washington, it it finally s de-|naval aviators flew low over the sur cided to transfer the inquiry to that | rounding waters in an effort to find city. Mrs. Lansdowne now is in|the bodies of three men believed to Washinglon, | have been washed overboard with the i e ree survivors who were picked up | by a City of Rome lifeboat. Mrs. Lansdowne’s telegram follows Hope Virtually Dead. ““Reference your wire, am very de- i sirous of appearing as witness be.| Today it was a search for bodies. fore board of inquiry, but, due to, Last night it was a search for men. | |illness of daughter, cannot leave | Little hope that any of the 33 in the | Washington for next few days. Daily | Crew could be alive was held out by | papers carry statement to effect that | officers at the naval station, although | { hearings will be.held Washington be. ' None would publicly admit that they | | fore adjournment. Please advise me | believed all their shipmates were dead. | ven when word was received that | that of Willlam | | | a radio dispatch stated. | | | i 1 | i i |latest date when I may appear, and, | {it possible, of appearing in \Wagh:| 20 coffins had been ordered from the | ington.” Chelsea Naval Hospital to the New- | After the Shenandoah wreck Mrs.|POrt station, Lieut. Comdr. H. A.! | Lansdowne was quoted as having said | Flanagan, executive officer of the base, | that Comdr. Lansdowne was reluctant | Stressed the point that a part of the | to make the Midwestern trip because | WOrK of the divers was to make sure | | of the danger of thunderstorms, and that all possible air was being let into, |it was for that reason that she waa:;‘;‘l};h"":“l’fl"mem that might hold | invited to appear as ax:lt.r;en?;‘q:.l;:\)eli The divers. said a message received | ship js be- | At the base, were working separately. lr iSow: | One was inside the .51 wobking for- H d K“ard, The other was on the outside | {ipregedent. of the same part of the ship. | No Concern Felt. | The message also sald ihat air-) planes had arrived to assist the tw | Even when the Shenandoah began | Gestrovers that mst night used their | her first rapid ascent before she Was gearchlights to plerce the darkness | ! calling of a woman { into_the loss of a naval | lieved by many officers to WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION @he Foening <\ %?ECu\\_ ARCRAFT =\ Ny Bongy, - Star. WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1925 -THIRTY-SIX PAGES. WAR GUILT MENAC 10 SEGURITY PACT |German Stand Held in Paris | Likely to Hamper Nego- tiations at Locarno. By the Associated Press PARIS, September 20.—Germany's insistence upon discussion of the mat ter of war guilt as a necessary pre- liminary to the security pact confer- nce at Locarno came seriously before the French cabinet this morning. In some political circles here the feeling prevails that unless Foreign | Minister Stresemann of Germany is willing to modify his position the work of the security conference may be considerably hampered or even de | layed. Officials this morning declined to af i firm or deny that the question of war | gullt was taken up in Amba Hoesch's conversation with Minister Br dor von oreign nd last evening, but con- Cooks Need Jazz While They Work | In British Homes | By the Associated Press | LONDON, September 29.—The strains of jazz and other music are considered eszentjal to the cooks in English suburban homes nowa- da. Domestic employment agencies in London say they find it almost | impo: ile to induce cooks to ac- cept jobs in the suburbs or the country unless they are sure that their kitchens will be provided 1 . with an tension from the wire- less installation of the family upstairs RADICALS ROUTED INLABOR PARLEY | British Party Disp‘os‘es of i | | Communist Affiliation i Question. | tor CASHIER IS SHOT IN BANK HOLD-UP One of Negro Trio Later Killed by Baltimore Police in Gun Fight. Special Dispateh to The Star BALTIMORE, Md., September 29.— John Damm, cashier of the Broadway | Savings Bank. was shot and probably tatally wounded shortly before noon today when three negro bandits at tempted to hold up the bank at 206 South Broadway. The negroes drove up to the bank in an automobile, and while one went inside, the second stood at the bank door and the third remained at the wheel of the car, with the engine running. The negro went up to the cashier’s cage and passing In a $5 bill asked change, all in 25.cent pleces. Damm reached down to get the money |and as he started to hand it through | George | the window looked into the barrel of | James “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's 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, 95,039. * UP) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. . 9 . 1 Coolidge’s Desire \ERISIS IS REABHED For Wilson Stamp : Makes Issue Sure| 1 The desire of President Coolidge that a stamp bearing the likeness of Woodrow Wilson be issued as ®oon as possible has been com | municated to the Post Office De- | partment. Announcement to this | ' effect was made today at the White House, with the added state- | ment that the Department would | issue such a stamp. Complaints | | have been received from some | quarters that the proper recogni- 1 tion was not being accorded the | wartime President. e ——— It was pointed out on President | 5 Coolidge's behalf that it was not |Us S. Demandlng $150,- until his administration _that a l stamp in honor of former President | il | S huna" s fase | 000,000 as Yearly Pay | ments, With Visitors | e o | Bitter Controversy in Local Both Parties Are Hopeful That i ivati A ss | Organization Centers Around| Apparent Imvasse Will Pas | and Terms Be Reached in 48 Walcott Post Head. : Hours That Now Remain to Seething with internal polities on | COMPlete the Negotiations. the very eve of the national conven ST |tion of the Legion at Omaha next| Eranco American debt negotia- week, the District of Columbia depart- . = % 2 i | tions today entered a ¢ ment of the American Legion is today A o 2 deb | torn &ith dissension as the two sides| “ JOIMt session of the two debt in a controversy centering around COMMissions is scheduled for 3 | Charles L. Riemer, commander of |©clock this afternoon,'with the two Stuart Walcott Post, align their forces | bodies now holding divergent posi- | in preparation for the expected bitter tions on the annual pa by fight for and against the ousting of | France on her $4.000,000,000 debt, Riemer from the legion. Charges|the Americans demanding about and counter charges are fying back ; fifty million dollars a year payment and forth between the opponents , one of the bitterest fights the local | MOT¢ than the French arc off department has known since its or-| !0 Pay. . Eaitalion ni1ge" | This represented the result after The entire situation may be aired: eoncessions by both sides, it was on the floor of the legion convention | Jearned todzy when the details of next week, as Riemer has demanded || = an i 5 e an investigation of department head-| ’Oth French and A can offer quarters here. and Gen. James A. Were revealed. Drain, national commander of the, France on the opening day | legion and past commander of the Thyrsday offered through Finar District of Columbia department, al ready has made a plea for harmony | Minister Caillaux an average annua ! in legion ranks in the Capital. payment of about $90,000,000 a year ! Dispute Aired in Committee. over a period of 62 year tis wa calculated to repay all the principal according to the French, at a mod erate rate of interest. The fi French offer also named tentatively at first a $25,000,000 figure for first year as a beginning, to be creased in later years Counter Proposal. Discussed under cover for months, threatening to crop up on the floor of | the department convention last June, the whole matter came to a head last | night when the executive committee | of the District department criticized | Riemer for his alleged charges against | the conduct of legion affairs here, inamed charges of misconduct on | Riemer’s part as unbecoming a mem {ber of the legion and appointed A e- The American counter proposal, fol- Vi S British-Ameri [osid e b ohagin lowing _somewhat the British-Ameri- | Daetent Gommander Juliue 1 Peyser, | C&0 agreement, offered France figures | ¥ho presided at the meeting last night, | Of &0 average of $165,000,000 annual L et o eeer s Frank- 1. |1y for the period of amortization. Peckham, Thomas D. Walsh, com.: Caillaux responded in his second mander of Vincent B. Costello Post:|proposal by raising the average an H. Rvcaw, commander of nual payment from $30.000.000 Reese Europe Post (colored | $100,000,000, with provision that the pistol. Raising his hands above ! veterans); J. Thad Baker, commander ' payments for the first few years | his head, he cried, “Don’t shoot.” The | of Sergt. Jasper Post, and C. H. Hille-: would begin with $30,000,000 instead cry attracted the attention of another | geist, commander of Quentin Roose- of $25,000,000. | wrecked those in charge of the craft| o the waters arqund Block Island, | fidence is felt in authoritative political . Foulgis, | felt no concern for her safety and .y they searched for the bodies that | quarters that there was a commuanica. | Lieut. Col. Benjamin Field, New [thought she would weather that con-| commander of Mitchel York, was the first witness, and while | he detailed his experience with the | War Department during 17 vears of | flving, the specttors, who taxed the! committee room to capacity and ovel flowed into the corridor and to ad- Joining rooms, visibly were restless | and impatient. i At 1055 o clock Col. Mitchell, ac-| companied by Mrs. Mitchell and two aldes appointed by the War Depart- ment to assist him in preparing his | case, entered the room almost with- | out notice and as he walked past the | dition as she had similar situations on previous flights, Lieut. Joseph B. Anderson, aerologist on board, de- clared today before the court. Storm clouds were in the offing, with storms some distance behind and to one side of the ship. he said, but so certain were the officers that there was nothing dangerous ahead that the vessel was turned back to her original course after she had been turned to the southward, when the clouds first were noticed. Even later there was discussion of a change of eventually would come to the surface. Mrs. Gibson Notified. | Gibson's wife lives In Groton, Conn., | a suburb of New London. Lieut. Comdr. F. W. Scanlan, in charge of the submarine training | school, with Mrs. Scanlan and Dr. Jones of New London, bore the sad tidings of her husband’s fate to Mrs. | Gibson in Groton. Lifeut. Comdr. | Scanlan and his wife have made the |rounds every afternoon and evening | to visit the wives and relatives of the {men who went down on the S-51 and {tion on the subject and the German | foreign minister requested that it be | kept secret. Today’s cabinet session, therefore. was deemed most important, as it | was felt that the whole fate of the | conference might rest upon the de- cision taken at the meeting. | Serious negotiations between the allles and Germany will begin in the rather inaccessible town of Locarno, southern Switzerland, on October 5. The date and place of the conference were confirmed officially after Herr By the Associated Press | | LIVERPOOL. England, September |20.—The parliamentary Labor party at the opening session of its confer- |ence today decisively disposed of the | vexing question of Communist affilia- | tion. | The radicals were rovted when the | conference by large majorities defeat- |ed motions to refer back to committee | resolutions calling for the exclusion of |individual Communists from local la- employe, who immediately grabbed the telephone and shouted, “‘Give me the police.” As he did so the negro fired twice at Damm, one shot enter- | porters of those favoring the ousting |the French an average of $157 Damm fell to the | of Riemer declare they are ®oing 10 apnually. ing his right side. floor. | velt Post, to constitute the trial board. | The situation is entirely without prece- dent in the District department. Sup- | put him out of the legion. His friends Yesterday afternoon. it was under stood, the American Commission of fered a concession in which it gave 000,000 The French also have gleaned an intimation that the Amer- The negro rushed from the bank |and supporters are just as firm in de-|can Commission would come down and with his two pals jumped into the machine and started away, closely | Stronger position after the trial than|jenjency pursued by Patrolman Thomas Stein } ever before, and that they have amhle1 There in a commandeered automobile. They succeeded in eluding the police, however, after a dash through the downtown streets. About a half | claring that Riemer will be in | “ammunition” to back up Riemer’s ! allegations of loose conduct of legion | affairs. i Trial Board to Meet Tomorrow. to $150,000,000 average annually, with during the first few years. the situation stood today, with the French at $100,000,000 and the Americans at $150,000,000, eac | contending. it was understood prior t !the session. for their position. bu’ . } . ; . 4 , SCIally y bor parties and advising members not | i Z .S E L - . il % v A vi 3 | o | y ved, e pa pass t e plause. “Col. Mitchell, however, had | Anderson could see any immediate K}:}‘:‘;'Qr"?he"}Zfie':;-‘m:fl“glaf’;";“‘ | ister Briand. gates to the conference. e Darteeiiern aotTer M= 9% liboara will be held tomorrow at depart. | oy, Nt e sl . and the course was held. | : arno : = LR « fiway- | ment headquarters for the purpose of ; A :7k|“mhexacu:‘ one hour Defore | danger, | "Gibson enlisted on" September lficdf;’! was chosen. it s under| C. T. Cramrs h;a@ of lhef :;-I“_a | miles from the hold-up surrounded a | MeAt MEATAUTIIEE TOT LS BUIPORE OF1 prom the French viewpoint. how aking the stand. Fifteen minutes Prepared for Trouble. 954, He save Bis aadien stood, because the diplomats consid-|men’s union and chairman of the con-| house in the 2000 block of McCullough | TG e e Dl ever T vy Usarnied defuITER to0i were given over to newspaper pho- | B R ST address at that | ..oy it offered the best possible | ference, in his opening address said | Q1 istol duel Iupide ek Suges o orlyexpronned NN (L e 4 tographers and motion. pletare men| “Shortly after the ascent began,” |time as Amity, Ore., R. F. D. 189. He | gite + °TC/t0 i€ bEsC BoRsble BUAr | (oM or's fundamenta) task was not i‘;§;¥n’&m“h;l‘;d‘;:m:,'u“;’ne“:; personal views, which his friends that though Caillaux is superficially and then the examination began. { Lieut. Anderson continued, “‘we ""’1'""“.r‘.‘h‘“,:;;‘f,';,"fl‘.’e“phe acher was the | [oWN has only one telephone line and |to Wage war against individuals or | the bandits, was shot and killed, The | C/aim any legicnnaire has the right ?}E;inmles‘fl:r ly}}fl; s vhrri-mr today Asks to Be Sworn. | ized that we were in stronger cur-| e 3 schemecher ® ! no telegraph. The desire of all the any class, but to conquer the circum-| gther two men escaped, but thetr | t0 30 aching nal agree. |rents than we had thought, for we|Second to be found on the S351 by stances w While Capt. Peyser holds that the ! ment, unless the American Commis negotiators, it is said in official circles. | ich had given rise to class| capture is belleved imminent, as the | Col. Mitchell requested he be sworn, | \were unable to check the rise by |divers today. i B . action taken last night by the execu.|Sion makes astonishingly larger con s 4} = , is to avold outsid S a |warfare. very H - 5] ) e execu-| V to give authority to his statements, | means of the motors and elevators. | Teschemacher's twin brother, Fred- | %, [0, a¥0ld outside discussion and|WSUIR | 13 he no revolution by | Police had a very sood description of | tive’ committee is the proper way to | cessions. and Chairman Morrow insisted they | Comdr. Lansdowne immediately sent | erick, also was aboard and belleved to | D Ihts oF the r ey e e horny | forcs, hasald, 'and’ the position! of 2 {arrive at a basis for proceeding | Fi Deciied i P would be taken with as much credence | Anderson into the ship from the con- |have been lost. Frederick was | POGS of the probiem L A e Rl et AT LR F it Hleme: iece e e tne gure Deemed Impossible without being given under oath. Morrow then informed Col. Mitcheli | the board had been appointed by the | President to find out what action should be taken to better the condi tions in the Air Service and said, “We want you to give your opinion in your own way." Col. Mitchell replied he had nine | prepared tables, each dealing with a | division of the zeneral subject of air | and defense, “one of which is de- structive, and I'll not zive thal Chairman Morrow insisted, however, that he read all of the tables. { The committee showed the same | attitude toward the colonel as it had toward other witnesses, no mat- | ter of what rank, following the rou- tine procedure of inquiring for the| witness' name, date of flving com- | mission and number of hours in the | air. This dispensed with, Col. Mitchell | requested a globe be brought into: the room and several minutes were | lost while four men struggled with a big world map through and over | the heads of the crowds. His two! aides, Capt. Robert E. Oldys and| Lieut. David Lingle, placed a mass | of manila envelopes maps and charts | | Former Premier and Leader | of His Nation Expires After i Long lliness. on the table and business was re- sumed. Col. Mitchell's first table lev eled a specific attack against non- flving officers of the Army and Nav. who control aviation. He declared they are not competent to represent aviation matters in the departments, before Congress and the people and as witnesses thew are “almost worth less.” Attack on Non-Flyers. From time to time Col. Mitchell went back to his charges of incompe- tence in the two services because ‘non- fiving offic are in control. He declared “the voice of the air’” is smothered before it iz heard, and there are no governing heads in the Army or Navy who are flying officers | and know the business or are capable of giving an accurate opinion on it. Not one general in the line of the Army outside of aviation and not one admiral {2 the line of the Navy are really air officers and even if they were they would think of the Army first and then the aviation, or of the Navy first and then the aviation. Among the regular members of the Army general staff there has been only one flving officer and he is as- signed to the section that looks after housing the Army. Planes Out of Date. “In the Army we have no air force, none whatever, either in material or in operation,” Col. Mitchell said. *“The effigy of this thing that is held up be- fore the American people consists of | (Continued on Page 3, Column 2 stand by the automatic valves. After explaining the ship’s situation to these officers, Anderson returned to the con- trol car to find that the Shenandoah still was rising from one to two meters and then was up between 4,000 and 000 feet. At this time,” continued Anderson, who was telling for the first time his story of the wreck, “Capt. Lansdowne, after hasty conference with several of the officers on watch, ordered the ma- neuvering valves opened. With gas being exhausted through maneuvering and automatic valves, the captain be- FRENCHAN, DES Mr. | trol car with orders for the officers to | thought to have been at the helm i when the submarine was struck and {one of those washed overboard. The | boys were 19 vears old. | Willlam’s body was taken aboard the Camden, and it was reported in |the message from Rear Admiral | Christy that all bodies would be taken {to the naval hospital at Newport in- | stead of brought to New London. The messase did not state what compart- I ment the youth's body was found in, but indicatea that the diver who en- | tered the submarine may have gzone | {in through tne conning tower hatch | instead of the battery room hatch, as !first reported. The latter message | said he was working toward the bat- tery room hatch from the torpedo room. Flanagan Has Hope. ! Lieut. Comdr. H. A. Flanagan, ex- | ecutive officer at the base, last night | steadfastly refused to give up his be- | Tief that some of the men might be | alive. men in an early morning talk. "It is hard to believe that some of them | “Those fellows know how to act in | a case like that,”” he told newspaper | | would not have presence of mind GERMANY SURPRISED. Stresemann’s Note Leaves Press and ! Public Dazed. BERLIN, September 23 (#).—The fact that the German foreign minister, Gustav Stresemann, instructed Ger | many's Ambassadors at | Paris, Rome and Brussels to accom: { pany formal acceptance of the invita- | tion of the allied powers to a securi pact conference by a verbal note, |ing the question of war guilt and res ervations respecting entry into the {league, has left German politicians, | press and public virtually dazed. Not {only was the German press unpre- | pared for this, but it is also asserted | that the federal premiers and foreign | relations committee were left in the ldark. The unexpected action seems to have occurred at the very moment the committee was debating whether to approve the government's accept- | ance. ias to whether the verbal note merely | had reference to Germany's position on the war guilt question, Cologne London, | There is general confusion in Berlin | | By the Associated Press. | PARIS, September 29.—Leon Bour- | &eois, eminent French statesman and | | former premier, is dead. | Bourgeois died at his country home, |at Oger, in the Department of the | Marne. Death was due to a sudden {attack of uremia, following a long pe- | riod of iliness. | Leon Bourgeois, the former presi- dent of the French Senate, was a man {of great political experience. At vari- ous times he filled the offices of under- secretary of the interior, minister of {the interior, minister of public in- {struction, minister of justice, foreign minister and premier. "Next to his in- |terest in everything that relates to su- iperior education, his chief forte was |the promotion of arbitration as a means for the settlement of interna- {tional disputes. He represented France at The Hague peace confer- lence of 1899 and was president of the committee on arbitration at the simi- lar conference held in 1907. He was French representative on the Perma- nent Court of Arbitration at The Hague since its formation and repre- sented France on various organiza- ! enough to slam shut the door of a | watertight compartment when they | felt the thud as they were struck. (Continued on Page 4, Column 4. BODY BURNED IN CAR NOT MISSING MAN'S Grave Months Ago Robbed—Mystery Shrouds Tragedy. By the Associated Press. BINGHAMTON. N. Y., Scptember 29.—Investigators seeking to solve the mystery surrounding the body of a man found burned beside a wrecked automobile near Hancock Friday night | and believed to be that of Fred G. Beale, Binghamton insurance man, an- nounced today that examination by coroners and chemists disclosed the body was that of a person other than Beale. At the same time it was said the grave in a cemetery near the spot where Beale's car left the highway, overturned and was burned, which it was found had been violated, had held the body of James Davis, who dled six months ago of tuberculosis. Dis- covery yesterday that the grave had about 12 old and worn pursuit air-!ijons advocating world pezce He also | been robbed resulted in stopping the lanes and (Continued on Page 1_other Jumn 5. !was the French représentative on the | council of the League of Nations, N funeral services pozed to be Beale of Another Buried Six| evacuation and entry into the league, | or whether the note insisted that Ger- many would not sign a security pact {unless her position on these matters | was accepted. | The forelgn office, aroused by the ! demands for clarification. now states | through officially inspired diplomatic correspondence that the reason for the verbal note was the fact that the allles | had demanded that Germany enter i concluded. DISARMS RIVAL TROOPS.. Chung Xas-Shek Fastening His Hold on Canton. CANTON, China, September 26 (#) (delayed). — Gen. Chung Kas-Shek, commander of the Whampao cadets, who recently gained control of the city, is disarming all Cantonese troops opposed to his regime as well as the strikers, who were armed at the com- mencement of the present trouble. There is a strong movement to end the prolonged strike, but the boycott of foreigners may continue. The sit- uation is quiet, but the population fear that trouble among the military leaders is near. There was a run on the Bank of Canton today following a report, sub- sequently proved false, that the Hong- kong office of the bank had suspended payment. gver the bods” «up- | R o dio Programs—Page 28, & 3 | the league before the pact could be ! |force should be scrapped as antiquat- led, being about 100 years behind the| | times | Much has been heard about its be-| ing the duty of labor to condemn the | Dawes reparation plan. He deprecat- ed such crificism. The plan had been | |indorsed by various labor conferences | land to repudiate jt would be equiva- |lent to an invitation for the German | workers to destroy the precarious bal {ance of European peace and plunge | their country again into the horrors | of a military occupation. The radical section got its first- set- | |back when, by 2,954,000 votes to 321.-! 1000, the conference refused to refer | back to the standing order committee | its report which included a_resolution that no member of the Communist party be eligible to become a member of any Individual section of any affil- iated local labor party, and another advising members that when electing delegates to the conference they should not appoint known Commun- ists. DROUGHT SETS RECORD. Lynchburg Has Only 0.99 Inches Rainfall in Two Months. Special Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va., September 29.— | Drought conditions which have pre- vailed in Lynchburg since August 1 are the worst since the establishment of the record of the Weather Bureau lin 1871. During this period the rain-| fall has amounted to only .99 of an | inch. The nearest approach to this | in any August and September during | these 54 years was in 1895 when the | total precipitation for the 61 days was 219 inches, .56 of which fell during September and 1.63 during August. The next nearest approach to present dry weather conditions for August and ! September was in 1881 when August had a total of .30 of an inch and September 2.07 inches, the total for | the period beinb 2.27 inches or 1.38 inches more than has fallen here this year in the same period. |7 Although the water in the Pedler River is lower than it has ever been before there is sufficient water there | for the city until about November 1, { even if the drought should remain un broken during the coming month. | £ International Court to Meet. | THE HAGUE, September 29 (#).— | The Permanent Court of International ! Justice vesterday called an extraor- | dinary session to meet October 22 to | consider the questions concerning the ! disposition of the Mosul territory re- d to it by the embly of the sue of Nations, J DAUGHERTY’S SON IS SENT TO ASYLUM Drafts on Relatives Cause Commit- ment to Hospital for Crim- inal Insane in Ohio. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, September 29.— Draper W. Daugherty, 38, only son of Harry M. Daucherty. former Attor- ney General of the Urited States, has been committed to the State Hospital for Criminal Insane at Lima, Ohio, by Probate Judge Homer Bostwick of Franklin County. Daugherty was sentenced upon the medical recommendation of two Co- lumbus alfenists. The affidavit against him was filed by C. M. McGannon, a | private detective, and was the result of a number of recent incidents in which he Is alleged to have issued drafts against relatives without au- thority for the purpose of obtaining funds desired during periods of dissi. pation. BLASf KILLS i’WO. Fatal Explosion in Pennsylvania Capitol Boiler Room. HARRISBURG, Pa., September 29 (#).—Two men were reported killed | this noon in an explosion in the State Capitol Buflding. The explosion is believed to have resulted from bursting of a steam pipe in a boiler room. The bodies of the two men, both ; scalded to death, were found in the boiler room. QUAKE ROCKS HIGH PEAK. Mount Algoz, 13,540 Feet High, Hurls Huge Boulders Into Valley. MOSCOW, September 29 (P).—There has been a violent earthquake, which was accompanied by continuous rum- blings, on the summit of Mount Algoz, in the government of Erjvan, lying on the morth side of the great plain of Araxes. Enormous boulders have fallen into the valley. The nomadic people who inhabit the mountain caves are flee- ing in panic. No casualties have been N‘pul‘itfl. The mountain rises to an ‘M‘Sd! of 18,640 feet, = | up against the Stuart Walcott Post | commander claim another committee, | headed by Gen. W. A. Bethel, should { first draw up a bill of complaint and | file specific charges with the trial { board. The claim is made that the | charges Riemer is said to have made against another post commander, Ray mond H. Burke of McGroarty-McCon- | nell Post, should be sifted hy the ex- | ecutive committee, and not by a trial | board. Dispute Impedes Fund Drive. | forces today for a showdown in a sit | uation never before faced by the local :Iepinn, many members deprecated the because the legion is engaged both in a_membership drive and a drive for a $5,000,000 endowment fund. The share { of the District of Columbia in the en- dowment fund is $30,000. Riemer, in statements to the news- | papers more than a month ago, said i that those in charge of legion affairs here were self-seekers, motivated not by the interests of their fellow mem- }hers. but by their own ends The statements constituted an attack on While both sides marshaled their | | advent of internal politics at this time, | The outlook for France was furth | dimmed today by dispatches from r !liable sources in Paris that Premier Painleve considers the American pro | posal of $157,000,000, or even $150.- 000.000 average a yvear as wholly im | possible for France. It was further !sald from the same source that Pain {leve had gziven the flat declaration | that should Caillaux accede to the pro | posal there would not be the slightest |chance in the world of the French | Parlfament ratifying it. | Further indications from France |that the American figures would be | unacceptable came in the nature of |reports that 80 out of $3 of the gen eral councils of the French depart ments, corresponding to State Legis- |latures here, had protested to Paris {mgainst what they understood to be {the American offer. In American | circles, indications were complex. One member of the commission as late as | this morning appeared hopeful that | some ground for discussion may be |reached. Another member of the com- {mission late vesterday admitted nego- i tiations were in a serious stage. | A deadlock an agreement might the conduct of leglon affalrs . Adgi |esult, according to this member. versy today when Howard S. Fisk, | past commander of George Washin ! ton Post, No. 1, wrote Commander | Peyser demanding that John J. Idler, | department adjutant, be relieved of | his post. He asked Commander Peyser | why Idler had been reappointed a few | weeks ago at a salary of $2,000 a year when Idler, according to Fisk, had heen a detriment to the legion rather | than an asset. { Delegates to Leave Friday. | Twenty delegates and alternates from the District department will leave Washington Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock for the national convention at Omaha, accompanied by the Cos- tello Post Drum Corps. Six hundred dollars was voted to pay the expenses of the drum corps. BANDITS MISS $16,000. Hold-Up of Bank Messenger Only Partial Success. NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., Septem- ber 29 (#).—Four automobile bandits today held up and robbed Reginald Ducette, messenger for the Power City Bank, and escaped. They overlooked $16,000 in cur- rency in a satchel in Ducette's coupe, but took the strong box containing { currency of an undetermined amount The robbers then sped away in their machine, which bore a Michigan - cense. * tional fuel was added to the contro-| 48 Hours Remain. The French plan to leave Washing ton Thursday night, leaving less thar 48 hours to the negotiations. N jonly the figures of $50,000,000 annual | separated the two commissions There is the disputed factor of the | so-called security or cafeguard clause The French feel that some such {language should be included in an {agreement to protect their currency |and economic status against the dan | gers of dire straits of the possibility {of such heavy payment sinking the { franc exchange rate to such a level as to amount to a public calamity to them. On the other hand, the Ameri- can commission, it was said by one member, does not consider such a se curity clause necessark. The French owe America, according to this com- missioner, and if some contingency should arise, they would still owe the debt, neverthleless, and should default or postponement be necessary the mat- ter would have to be reopened, just as it is now reopened. To the American contentions the French commission is reported as feel- ing that America has been among those who insisted upon such a se. curity pact to protect Germany in her payments to France, and yet the same American Government is now denying France the same privilege. Comment coming from France on the American offer is not restrained in its feeling. According to French sources today, sentiment there is rapidly_and strongly forming _itself " (Continued on Page 2, Column 8) [