Evening Star Newspaper, October 3, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) tonight; ; not.much change in temper: (0. Partly showe ture. Temp, a.m. toda terday. cloudy lowest, 62, at tures—Highest, Full report on page 2. tomororw 70, at 11 11 p.m. yes- Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 26 ch WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 0. 29,740. post _oflice, Entered as second class matter Washington, D. C. MAY GOME BACK ING MONTHS, SAYS CAILLAUX N ADIEU Makes Final Appeal to “Heart of U. S.”—Ex- presses Disappointment. BANKERS AWAIT WORD FROM KELLOGG ON LOAN | $100,000,000 This; Request for i Winter Had Been Expected From France. By the Associated Press ! NEW YORK, October 3.—After al final appeal to “‘the heart of America,”} Joseph Caillaux., minister of finance, | and members of the French debt com- | mission were buck home today | on the liner “Grieviously ! failure to effect a settlement of | France's §4,200,000.000 debt, M. Cail- laux said his country would do every- thing within the limits of her strength | to pay the debt. He said he might; return to Washington in six months to resume negotiations. Tears welled | in the eves of the statesman he spoke last night in repiy to tributes| to France from Nicholas Murray Bu ler, president of Columbia Univer: end Ambassador Myron T. Her! : a testimonial dinner at the Lotos Club. | “There is something hizher than the | question of interest between men and| between nations.” M. Caillaux said. | “and that something is the common! friendship between our peoples. Tol the heart of America I appeal with no other thought than to ask all the people of America to look at my coun try with the same sentiments expr ed here. ‘In settling obligations, be sured that we will do what we must | to the limit of our strength. My coun-| try is a country of labor. a country | of pride. We will do evervthing we;| can.” ' over| Uncertain on Acti ain whether would aceept the ! the with He was unc French Parlizment five-yvear temporar payments o posed by the He had pow funding n comni sixn a complet, he said wards No two moder econos natio d | more in common than F e and the TUnited States. and despige timorous | politicians and tional journalist settlement of any issue would be made | with sympathy, mutuabunderstanding | and forbearance. Since the fall of Rome, Dr. Butler said, France had | ne the brant of attack and civili- | ation forever would be indebted to | her. . ! He proposed a toast “In strict ob- | servance of the law.” to President | Coolidge and the President of France. Mentioning the roliing ¢ of Bur. gundy, he sighed: “That name of | happy ass of long 2 And o a few lat arked “I am not sure that my eves not wet when you spoke of Ru but T know my lips were not wet “What God ned in the blood of French and - an vouth in twc vears,' ssador Herrick para- phr: _et not money., poison gold, politics or propazanda put asunder.” minutes d. Market Shows Effects. rent, nifest in Washington stock exchange and the the franc and French The Caillaux, and Paris, bourse, whi bonds slumped President Coolidge, nestly desired a fin lieves that the Americ ers made every pos regards the tempors ir breat point though he ear- settlement, be- n commis which nd *y proposal peil during ance will improve financiall economically. It also leaves a w resumption’ of negotiations at time. Members the French mission were divided. Deputy Lucian Lamou- reux said he would oppose the Ame can offer “ferocious Senators Bo- rah, Walsh E held much the same dent Coolidg . Bankers are in a quandary. satd large volumes of French might be held up indefinitely, and are nnxiously awaiting for Secretary Kel- lozg to clear up the Government’s at- rd new French loans. Prior | to the conference France had been expected to ask for a $100,000,000 loan this Winter. Expects Huge Loan Requests. United States Senator J.| Lewis of Chicago, returning League of Nations assem- ev; id France, Italy, Po- eece and Rumania would| ns totaling $500,000,000 in the tates when ‘debt settlements were effected. He was counsel at Gene for several si 1 nations. Press comment in London is to the general effect that the temporary ar- rangement between France and the United States will react unfavorably in the matter of France's debts to Britain. The French papers approve the stand of M. Caillaux in rejecting “un- hard conditions.” s a difference of opinion ench writers, who accom- 1x's party, as to the in Paris of the five-year any of view Former Hamilton from the bly at Ge land, ( seek 10 United = There among Fi panied M. acceptance plan. “Pertin noted writer, said it would be accepted within a week. Another writer said that M. Cail- laux did not know whether he would be met with stones or cheers. RESULT GRATIFIES PARIS. Press and Public Men Regard Debt FaVure as Godsend. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. PARIS, October 3.—If the views expressed in the French press and statements of public men truly repre- sent French public opinion, then the failure of M. Cailiaux to reach an agreement at Washington is consid- ered a Godsend. For the first time since the censor’'s muzzle has been taken off the press, and that is since the signature of the Versailles treaty, all journals from Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) Radio Programs—Page 9. | Navy ! of course to the south { Heinen | the clouds was one of the surest sig- WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, OCTOBER FRANCO-GERMAN AMITY IS GOAL NOW DARED IN SECURITY PARLEY Painleve Sees Hope of Balm for Century-Long Hate. All Diplomats Go to Sit in Game as in Pre-War Days. By the Associated Press. NIMES, France, October 3.—Deal- ing wiith the possibility of Franco- German reconciliation, Premier Pain- leve in an address here today termed such reconciliation “the corner stone of European civilization.” “In spite of a century-old rancor and in spite of wrongs that still ery out, such reconciliation is possible,” he sald, “if the two peoples—I mean the mass of the peoples which pays no heed to imperialist ambitions and ntrigues—can rid themselves of their !‘; clous distrust and believe in each other’s s Such is the spirit ich governmental interpreter, person of our eminent ter (Aristide Briand) in which the in foreign is tempt that has been dared since the armistice to establish a real peace.” DIPLOMATIC POKER. uropean Game Begun Again on 1914 Basis. By Radio to The Star and Chicazo Daily News. BERLIN, October 3.—The perlod of Preparation is over and the gathering of the clans at Locarno has befun This period of preparation has, in the op] i«_m of many, been misunderstood. It is true that the European politi- game, interrupted since 1914, has n, in one sense, rebegun. 0ld E o i ap- | | Proaching at Locarno the boldest at- But this does not mean that the time is ripe for a new crystallization, if in- deed such a crystallization will ever again be possible on the European continent of the old balance of power. Therefore, those who have seen in the. visit of M. Tchitcherin, the Rus- { sfan foreign minister, and the hasty conclusion of a commercial treaty be- tween Germany and Russia proof of another Rapallo, or who wish to view the present pact negotiations as one incident in a world-wide British and British-Amerfcan strusgle against Russia, take a doctrinaire view of the situation That with Russia, by making friends Poland, wishes to clear her for a stronger policy in the st, is clear. That 1t Br . forseeing another return of Ge: many to power, wishes to protect hersell equally against Germany and France and Russia is also clear. A third fact is that M. Tchitcherin, re- E ng that German: under allled financial pressure and French polit- fcal pressure, is bound to enter a wvestern consortium,” ired to ob- in from Germany : sible con- which many s certain conce: privileges. given tions with Russia pd fizht for pact at “(Continued on Page 4, Column 1. CGOURT TO DECIDE LANSDOWNE BLAME Determination to Fix Re- sponsibility Delays Removal of Inquiry Here. October 3.— € naval court of in quiry is to give immediate attention to the question of whether blame at hes to Comdr. Zachary Lansdowne, ptain of the airship, for the di which cost his own life and of 13 other officers and men. This was decided upon at an infor. mal overnight conference between the court and Judge Advocate Foley. The prosecution of this phase of the in- quiry at this time will delay at least until Monday the winding up of the i hearng here and the removal of the court to Washington. An opinion that a primary cause of the wrecking of the Shenandoah w the failure of the officer: to observe obvious danger signals has been given to the court by Capt. An- ton Heinen. a former German Zeppe- lin pilot. Since he is regarded in rship circles as one of the blest dirigible pilots. of the day, weight naturally attaches to his opin- fon. Then, too. his theory finds some in- direct support in the testimony of Lieut. Joseph B. Anderson, aerologist on the Shenandoah, that when he saw storm clouds moving in_the opposite direction to the wind which the air- ship was bucking, he advised a change and Comdr. Lansdowne ignored that advice Sure Sign of Danger. Referring to this testimony, Capt. said that this movement of nals of danger, and had he been in | command he immediately would have changed his course. There was another danger signal. Capt. Heinen said. that of the drift of the ship to the right, indicating that she was being slowly drawn into the disturbance in which she was wrecked. Both Capt. Heinen and Lieut. An- derson were recalled today for ve fication of their previous testimony aund for further questioning on these matters. There is the probability that other witnesses also will be called on this phase of the inquiry. Since the first examination of Capt. Heinen was completed Thurs- day the court has gone more ex- haustively into his theory ‘that the reduction of the safety valves and the helium gas cells from 18 to 8 con- tributed to the breaking up of the ship. Some of the experts called here offered their conclusions that it had not. It is now clearly established in the records that this alteration of the gas valve system was initlated by the officers of the ship who were in fnc- cord as to Its desirability, and that it was authorized by the Navy De- partme, t only by way of experiment and wit\ two warnings that it im- posed-an added reason for the cau- tious handling of the Shenandoah at high altitudes. ~ — Kellogg Guest of Frelinghuysen. Secretary Kellogg left here this afternoon to spend the week end at Somerville, N. J., as the guest of for- mer Senator Frelinghuysen. MITCHELL PRAISES Week End Lull in Aviation Probe After Tempestu- ous Week. With the President’s Air Board in ciplining Col. William Mitchell sched- uled for Monday, the aircraft problem | was on a week end rest after at tempestuous heights throughout the week. he Air Board will resume it exam- {ination of nava {to ascertain their ideas on how to im- prove the condition of the Nation's air arms and apply them to the national defense. Following testimony yester day of Comdr. John Rodgers of the Hawailan flight project the board halted its investigation to enable sev- eral members to leave the city on pri- ate business. Dwight B. Morrow and Maj. Gen. James G. Har- bord, retired, went to New York and Howard E. Coffin to Detroit. Charges Not Divulged. Action in the Mitchell case, which has been hanging fire since, Septem. er 5. when the air crusader launched an attack from his headquarters in San Antonio, Tex., against the pres- ent management of the Natlon's air services and defense system in gen- eral, will be taken Monday, when the colonel appears, under orders issued vesterday, before the inspector general of the Army and is acquainted with charges lodged against him. The na- ture of the charges will not be di- vulged until that time. They, how- ever, will not take into account the truth or falsity of his San Antonio attack. The charges probably will be drawn up under the articles of wa providing penalties for officers on con- | viction of charges of conduct to the prejudice of good order and milhary discipline. Approval of any sentence by the President is necessary to make it effective. or the President may re- duce or set aside any penalty imposed by the court. Study Probe Testimony. Paralleling the resumption of the disciplinary measures against Col. Mitchell, the War Department-is be- ginning work on testimony taken by the Alr Board with a view to segre- gating specific charges made against present air administration policies in the department and determining the extent to which complaints of Army aviators can be corrected without new legislation. Acting Secretary Davis is planning to give his personal atten- tion to this phase of the controversy. Many of the grievances laid before the board by its Army witnesses, such as poor housing at airflelds, the desire for single list promotion and the amount of air equipment now avail- able, are not matters the War De- partment can correct until there hav been changes in law or until add tional funds are provided. Mr. Davis believes, however, that no time should be lost in a departmental study of every question missed in order that it can ‘be classifiel properly and dealt with accordingly. It is pointed out that the housing program presented to Congress a year ago by Secretary Weeks included de- velopment of airfield quarters as well as other Army posts where troops and officers are now living in dilapidated temporary structures built during the war. At some posts, such as the In- (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) _Flyer, Catapulted From Fast Plane, Falls Far Before Parachute Opens Catapulted from his_tiny pursuit plane 2,000 feet above Langley Fleld, Va., yesterday afternoon, Lieut. Ford 0. (Tex) Rogers, U. S. M. C., spun longitudinally through space at 145 miles an hour and then dropped sev- eral hundred feet before his para- chute checked his bullet-like ride. The accident, one of the most un- usual in the history of aviation, was due to the pilot's safety belt becoming accidentally unfastened. “I was fly- ing an MB-3 pursuit plane capable of about 145 miles an hour,” Lieut. Rog- ers related today, “and the belt came unfastened as I reached for my watch. I took the two pieces of the belt im one hand, put my head down in the cockpit and prepared to fasten it to- gether. T know how tricky the MB-3s are longitudinally, but 1 turned loose the control stick for one-half second. “Immediately the ship went into a vertical dive and I was pitched straight out like a bullet. Capt. St. Clair Streett. who was flving near me in an S parachute opened as I was hurled straight out into the air, I don't know when it opened, but I know I made one grab for the ripcord and missed, but got it on the second chance. There was no confusion or rush of air and I was aware of every- thing that was going on.” Lieut. Rogers said the plane turned on its back and crashed on the edge of the field. “You could pick it up in a basket,” he said. Lieut. Rogers landed in the woods about two miles from the fleld, suffering from a slight- ly strained bgck, sustained when the parachute checked his speed. Lieut. Rogers until last week was on duty at the naval air station here. He now 1s attending the Army Tac- tical School at Langley Field and is an entrant in the forthcoming inter- national air races at New York. With Lieut. Horace D. Palmer, U. S. M. C,, he made the longest flight in marine aviation, when in 1923 he flew from Santo Domingo to San Francisco and pursuit plane said thejretwn. AR INQURY BOARD recess and the next move toward dis- | raging | PAGTAGAIST WAR FUTLE OOT TELS WORLD CONERESS International Thought Turns From Hysteria to Court Plan, He Holds. CRITICS OF TRIBUNAL - UNREASONABLE, HE SAYS Expect Acorn to Become Oak Over Night, He Declares, Before In- terparliamentary Body. Mere agreements between nations not to have controversies and quar- rels are futile, for international dis- agreements are certain to come, Eli- hu Root warned the Interparliamen- tary Union conference here today ‘n a paper on codification of international law, which was presented for | Root by Representasive Theodore Bur- ton of Ohio. Holding that wars result from a i state of mind, and “in these modern times that has to be the state of mind of a people,” Mr. Root de ed | that the most effective agencies for | dealing with that condition are the | Permanent Court of International Jus {tice, the League of Nations and The | Hague Court of Arbitration. He scored those who criticize these | kroups because “they have mnot al ready stopped all wars." Praises World Court. | Codification of international law. | Mr. Root asserted, has special impor- tance at this time because of the necessity of enlarging the services | rendered by the Permanent Court of International Justice. This tribunal, he declured, together with the other two mentioned, promises “to facilitate the preservation of peace to a degree never before attained “These three institutions for con- ference, for judicial decision and for arbitration, are still in their infancy, AMr. Root fald, “but they have made extraordinary development in the last 30 ¥ | existence is already changing the {way in which mankind thinks and feels about the disposition of interna- tional controversy without war.” | Mr. Root asserted, “‘we have reach- "ied a point where war cannot be suc-| { cessfully carried on unless it gratifies the feelings of the great body of the people of the country.” “The conclusion,” the paper con- tinued, “is that the most effective method of dealing with the state of affirmative, consisting of a substitute for decision by war in the form of de- cision by proof and reason. “The three institutions enumerated afford this substitute, and they af- adaptable apparently to every con- ceivable situation. * ¢ ¢ Already Proved Value. “Considering the extensive use of lof international controversies under | the troubled and excited conditions of Europe during the past five years and {the beneficent results which have ! been accomplished, it is apparent that | these institutions are an evolution from the practical necessities of in- | ternational life worked out by the continuous effort of many most com- petent and experienced men, ap- proaching the subject from the points of view of all nations and finally com- ing to agreement upon what s at once practicable and useful for the prevention of war. * . 17 “Time out of mind the world has been negotiating for the prevention of war, and each negotiation, successful or unsuccessful, begins just where all the others have begun. Every case in last case began, but where the the last case begun, but where the last case ended. The judgment of the court may be binding only upon the partfes, but the general acceptance of the court’s decision will be continually building up a hody of agreement which tween nations and - prevents future controversies. The court is an Instru- ment of international progress toward the government of the world by law. Not Born Full Grown. “Most serious, in considering this subject, is the mistake of those who expect human institutions to be born full grown, who condemn The Hague Court of Arbitration and the Perma- nent Court of International Justice, and the League of fons within its own 1aembership, and all the interna- tional conferences of the post-war pe- riod, because they have not already stopped all wars. These people would have the clock begin by striking 12. Immediately after planting an acorn they would dig it up and throw it away because it is not already an oak. They fail to understand that all international progress is the result never of compulsion, but always of a process, and that the process has to go on in_the minds and feelings of many widely different nations, and therefore it must be slow. ‘Although you cannot change hu- man nature, you can change stand- ards of conduct, but always gradually, never violently. The first important question is how many steps can all these natlons, differing in interests and circumstances and traditions and modes of thought and feeling, be brought to agree upon now. That is the first thing to ascertain, and when it is ascertained, although it may be possible to get immediate agreement upon only one step, the part of wis- dom is to get that step agreed upon and put it into effect. * ¢ ¢ World Thought Changing. “Already the world is becoming familiar with the idea of judicial de- cision upon international questions, and already the world is beginning to think that way. Already in many countries sensible people are coming to realize that here is a reasonable alternative to the proposals of the demagogue and the follies of hysteria. Plainly, it is important now to en- large the scope of the court's juris- diction by enlarging the law which the court is authorized to apply.” The Root paper contained an ex- haustive review of various attempts to codify international law, and par- ticularly to those initiated by the Pan-American Union, through the American Institute of International Law and by the League of Nations ~(Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) 4 > Mr. | irs, and the simple fact of their | mind which leads to war is not by, any mere negative, but by a counter- | ford it in such varied forms as to be | these three institutions in the disposal | narrows the fleld of controversy be-| ¢ Fpening 3, AFTER @] Sta 1925 —THIRTY-SIX, PAGES. NE “From Press to Home Within the Hour” s carrier system covers lock and the regular edi- red to Washington homes The Star’ every city b tion is delive: as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 94,945 () Means Associated TWO CENTS. Press. NOTICE TO VACATE SERVED ON JUSTICE DEPARTMENT HEADS Wardman Company Starts Ouster Action—Claims Rental Is Too Small. OFFICIALS ARE SILENT ON STEPS TO BE TAKEN Construction Firm Plans to Con- vert Structure Into Stores and Offices. The United States Department of Justice hus been given 30 days to va- cate the building which it now occu- ples, at the sou t corner of Ver- MONTH OF THE COAL STRIKE. DRUGGAN IN JAIL, GUARDS LOSE JOBS iWealthy Beer Runner “In” : Permanently, U. S. Deputies ‘ “Qut’ for Drinking. By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, I, October 3.—Terry | Druggan and Frankle Lake, wealthy {beer runners and “out again," “in |again” servers of jail sentences at so | much an “out,” today were “in"—this | time for good, but two deputy United | States marshals lost their jobs in the process. . Walter G. Zippman and A. C. Pol- lack, Federal deputles, assigned to take Druggan to jail at Sycamore, |1, were discharged by United | States Marshal Palmer G. Anderson after Sheriff Edwin Crawford of | Sycamore reported one of them had been drinking during the trip, which took more than seven hours. The guards and Druggan sald an automobile accident had delayed | them, but Willam Beary, Sycamore | deputy, said he smelled liquor when the party arrived at the jail. Mara shal Anderson said stronger punis ment would follow the discharge, if the law permitted. Eleven Federal and county officials {have lost their jobs since the jail scandal of Druggan and Lake's liber- | tles while serving sentences came to {light. Held on Contempt Charges. Druggan occupled a cell in jail at Sycamore, Ill, today, and Lake was at Wheaton. They wWere there pend- ing outcome of contempt action against them and county jail officials, resulting from their freedom while ng a year's contempt sentence. ewspaper men saw Druggan and the deputies leave the Federal Build- ing at 4 o'clock for Sycamore, 57 miles away. Hours passed and noth- ing was heard of Terry or his guards. Midnight neared before they arrived in a’strange automobile and with a man and woman, who left at once. Terry wanted a physician. “We turned over.” he asserted, and the guards echoed the story. “My lleft ankle's sprained, my arm's hurt | and my head feels funny,” said Terry. A newspaper man made a remark about “a last fling” and possible drinking, to which Zippman retorted angrily. Sheriff Edwin Crawford ejected the deputy, examined Terry (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) PACIFIC LINER SAVES WATERLESS SHIP CREWS Two Vessels in Distress Given Suc- cor by Passenger Vessel in Same Day. By the Associated Press. SAN DIEGO, Calif.,, October 3.— Lives of the crews of two fishing schooners in the Caribbean Sea were | saved by the officers and men of the Panama-Pacific Liner Mongolia, ar- riving here today from New York. i The first schooner, the name of which was not learned, was sighted in dis- tress on the afternoon of September 22, This schooner was without fresh water and a supply was furnished by the Mongolia. On the evening of the same day the schooner Wembley, bound for Cay- man Island, was sighted, also in dis- tress. The crew had been without provisions and water several days, and it is declared that the men would have perished within a few days had not the vessel been sighted by the Mongolia and supplies furnished. It Makes No Difference Whether You Are a Base Ball Fan Or Not You will be interested in the full page of pennant winners in The Gravure Section Of Tomorrow’s Star Splendid group pictures of the Washington and Pitts- burgh teams and individual “shots” of players who have made base ball history during the 1925 season. In Tomorrow’s Star. ESHARKS HOVER OVER SUBMARINE; i ALL HOPE OF RESCUE IS LOST By the Associated Prees. ABOARD U. S. 8. BElock Island. October 3.—Operations of the rescue flect off Block Island seeking to recover the bodies of the crew of the S-51 have been enlivened by the appearance of a school of shovel-nosed sharks, ranging in length from six to eight feet. Sailors ex- pressed the fear that the sharks may have consumed the bodies of some of | the crew believed to have been swept overboard when the S-51 sank. Four of the creatures swam about the Camden late vesterday. Divers early today recovered a fifth body from the sunken submarine S-51. It was brouzht aboard the Camden at 9:15 o'clock this morning. The iden- tity will be established as soon as pos- sible. -body was that of the seaman seen yesterday in the engine room compartment of the S-51 by divers| who recovered two other bodies there. It was found on top of the engine cylinders. ‘With rain falling, but the sea fairly calm, the force of divers working at the scene went to work early this morning in order to take advantage of conditions which still are favora- e. |School of Shovel-Nosed Wolves of Sea Appears. Sailors Fear They Have Eaten Bodies of Vic- tims of S-51 Disaster. By 9 o'clock they had succeeded in ! CAMDEN, off | burning off the hatch of the torpedo | offic room, which was found flooded last night, and in removing the tifth body from the engine room. It is expected that several more bodies will be recovered during the day unless the sea roughens and stops all work. RESCUE HOPE IS LOST. Divers Will Seek Only to Find Bodies of S-51 Crew. NEW LONDON, Conn., October 3 UP).—-With ail life on the S:51 known to be extinct, efforts were bent today toward the removal of bodies from the metal tomb at the bottom of the.sea off Block Island. Already five of the crew have been accounted for, two bodies having been recovered Tuesday and three found vesterday. Of those found yesterday two were brought up and sent to the naval hospital at Newport, where they awalt funeral arrangements of rela- tives. The body left in the submarine ‘was not identified. As several of the 33 men lost on the " (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) SHIP BOARD MOVE IRKS PRESIDENT Opposes Stripping Palmer of Power, But Is Silent on New Steps. President Coolidge has let it be known that he thinks the Shipping Board acted unwisely in relieving Ad- miral Palmer, president of the Emer- gency Fleet Corporation, of his powers in administering the affairs of the merchant marine and the sale of ships, but there is nothing to indicate that he is contemplating a new move as the result of this unexpected action by the board. The President contends that the operation of the fleet should be in the hands of one person and not a board of seven members. While he does not profess to be an expert on shipping matters, he has closely studied the problems of the Shipping Board and the Emergency Fleet Corporation, and he is convinced that the former should not attempt to function in an administrative and executive capac- ity, but only as a semi-judicial and regulatory agency. The President is represented as pointing out that he is not alone in this opinion. Besides Senators and Representatives who have discussed the matter with him, his advisers have been practically unanimous in this belief. It is explained that Senator Jones of Washington, author of the present merchant marine act, is prominent among those who have advised the President. Others are Secretaries Mellon, Weeks,” Wilbur and_Hoover and Chairman O'Connor of the Ship- ping Board and Admiral Palmer of the Emergency Fleet. President Coolidge selected H. G. Dalton of Cleveland to conduct a sur- vey of the merchant marine situa- tion in the belief that, coming as he does from the Great Lakes region, he is neutral and his recommenda- | tions should carry weight. Fhe President is still of the opinion that Commissioner Haney of Oregon, who has led a fight to oust Mr. Pal- mer, should realize the impropriety of remaining on the board after his resignation had been requested by the Executive, but Mr. Coolidge has received no indication that he will retire and there was nothing to in- dicate that the President contem- plates action regarding him. RAIL TRAFFIC HALTED BY DISORDERS IN CHILE By the Associated Press. BUENOS AIRES, October.3.—A dis- patch to La Naclon from La Paz, Bolivia, says that raflway communi- cation between La Paz and Anto- bagasta, Chile, and La Paz and Arica, Chile, is interrupted owing to political events in Chile. The correspondent says he obtain- ed his information from officials of the agusta and Bolivian Railway Co. 3 BUTLER IS WILLING 10 CONTINUE FIGHT Must Be Shown Philadelphia Really Wants Him, Marine General Says. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, October 3.—Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler's continuance as director of public safety of Phila- delphia during the remaining two years of Mayor Kendrick's adminis- tration depends on manifestation to President Coolidge by the people of the city that they want him to stay and the President's willingness to grant their request. The general is willing to remain, provided the people give him their united support, and Mayor Kendrick is anxious to have him do so. But the “Fighting Marine,” foe of liquor, says he must first be assured beyond doubt that the people want him. “It is now wholly up to the people of Philadelphia,” Butler said today. “I am willing to keep on, but I'm not going to keep on tearing the life out of myself if the people don’t want me to stay here. “The first thing that will have to be demonstrated—and it must be a real demonstration—is that they want me to keep on at this job as I am running f{t. “There has been a curious reluc- tance-in this city to stand up straight in the fight we have been making against crime and corruption.” Last Fall when Mayor Kendrick re- quested President Coolidge to extend Gen. Butler’s leave of absence from the ‘Marine Corps for another year, the President intimated that he de. sired to recelve no more such re- quests. The leave expires January 1. Walter Hines Page Former Ambassador to Great Britain. —to— 2 President Wilson —heretofore unpublished and revealing national trends dur- ing the early days of the' World War, will be published in The Sunday Star Tomorrow —and be continued in The Evening Star and Sunday Star until the series has been com- pleted. Graphic and intensely inter- esting, they shed new light on diplomatic and - political in- triguing of the nations in their darkest hour. mont avenue streets, it was | announced tac Harry Ward- | man, owner of the building i While the department has been told by former before tk building w 1 for other pur- | Poses, it has refused to move, and no {real effort toward eviction has been i made previously. This time, however. | the Wardman company offictals de- |clare that they will do all they can et the Department out of the ding It is remodel and rede to provide for st "flo(vx‘ and general c 1 Declares Re 1 Mr. Wardman e {the buildinz is | $1,000,000, and th: | borhood that rapidly developed |into one of the most important busi ness sections of the city. wi { quent rising lues. M { explained that the Gov {ing only 00 a v R the company I Mr. Wardman has been offe [ 000w il for the { Thus, ted out, he w losing $90 a r if the Govern- ! ment were allowed to retain tenancy | I the Government would pay a “fair” | rental commensurate with the value | of the prop officials of the Ward man company declired they would be { glad to let it stav. They would not s e, howev: whether not they | would require a rental of $163,000 from { the Government While the Dep: the building for a for more than a vear owners M Wiardman's Intention orate the buildi s on the grot ices above. tal Small. <plained today that worth more than it is in the neigh to ar ment has_rented nber of years st it has had ot to notice i . According to the Wardman Co., although the de- | partment has been without a lease, and therefore tenants at sufferance, | for more than a vear department off cials have made no attempt to come t an undersianding with the company nor have they even discussed the mat i ter. Mr. Wardman declared vesterday that he felt very keenly at having toask the department of Justice to get out of his | building, but he was also under the necessity of getting the proper re | turns on his investment. Officials Deny Notice. | Officials at the Department of Jus | tice today admit that the owners have tried to get them out, but none was able to ¥ that he had seen | the notice from the Wardman Co. The usual procedure is to serve a 30-day notice; if the tenants are stiil in the premises then a 7-day sum- { mons from the court is procure | if the court decides that { tion of the property is proper |of execution is made out und | marshal evicts the tenant. The evic- tion requires approximately w months, so that should the depart- ment be evicted it would require almost another 60 days to accom- plish it. The writs are served on | the local Police Cou The Department of Justice Building as erected at the beginning of the World War by I Wardman and is an eightstory nestone office structure. = After through the hands of sev and coming under the scrutiny ‘ongress dur- ing one of the early rental investiga- tions, it passed from the hands of the F. H. Smith Co. back to Mr. Wardman_ at auction sale last March. The building was sold under a defaulted deed of trugt and hought in_by Mr. Wardman for $450,000. Senator Smoot, chairman of the Pub- { lic Buildings Commission, which has charge of housing all Government ac- tivities, and allocates all space, refer- ring to the eviction not y said: “It is true that notice was served on the Attorney General to vacate the building which the Department JustiCe is now occupying. Cites History of Lease. “The history of the leasing of this building by the Government is as fol- low: “A lease was made for a period of the original owners at a 1 of $37.000 per annum. At the expiration of that lease I asked Con- gress to make an appropriation of ,000 per annum for the lease of the building, or, in other words, requested ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) | BLADENSBURG ROAD SPEED NOW 30 MILES Signs Being Put Up Today by Eld- ridge’s Order Put Rule Into Effect. Signs authorizing a_speed of 30 miles an_hour on Bladensburg road between Mount Olivet road and the District line are being erected today by direction of Traflic Director Eld- ridge. | Announcement was made at the | trafiic director’s office several da that it had been decided to speed limit to 30 miles on certain por- i tions of Bladensburg road, Penns vania avenue southeast and Alabama avenue southeast. The signs for Pennsylvania avenue, however, are not ready yet and traffic officials reminded motorists again to- day that the new speed limit is not in effect on these highways until the signs are up. There will be a sign at each end of the area in which the increased speed will be permitted and wherever an intersection or other dangerous poing ' lexists. Other signs will he ere ied directing motorists to slow down. [4