Evening Star Newspaper, October 3, 1925, Page 2

2 * NPRESSIVERITES FOR WAL SULLIAN Full Honois to Be Accorded Veteran Police Head Mon- day Morning. will bee s Church by Rev 10 o'clock will will e stor de- ment Depart list of hector W, H. and the In. Iv. Lieut W. Burke nt have adls to take st Engi corte street iperintendent il of Wi in El. Harri or ile the t - detail of a similar pr Il be stationed in the viein under command of Shelby sted remerman 1 details of police to ac m the home to 1ch detail will_consist 'd the mounted detail i company the hearse from urch to Mount Olivet Cemetery. i & the detail have white gloves, carried. proceed from on North Capitol avenue, east on purg road a ce composi ) batons are Lo procession W h_ south ida enue will be ing of vehicles those in the procession on orth Capitol to F street from North Capi- on west side of North T street to Rhode Is- r on First street from tol to ' Capitol, from nd avenue to V stree perous tributes have been paid Eulogized by Grant. spector Grant had the following passing away was a > und shock to me. I have known him since the day he rame on the force. He has always peen a lovable character. He was a eplendid officer, a fine zentleman and zood Christian and was a friend i1l mankind.” 'he fund which members of the e force had started to raise to ent to Maj. Sullivan as a mark ir high regard for him at his ing retirement will be given Mrs. Margaret Sullivan, with action taken by sioners. The city heads ud previously issued an order ap- proving the move to raise the testi- mionial fund for the major, and their Jatest action was an amendment to order. In a letter made public after the rd meeting yesterday Commis- oner Fenning, who supervised police affairs, paid this tribute to Maj. Sulli- A courageous officer and an ent administrator has gone to his WEEKS IS COOLIDGE GUEST AT LUNCHEON Rumor of Resignation Revived Upon Secretary’s Return Is Again Unconfirmed. e Secretary of War Weeks and Mrs. Teeks, who have just returned to Washington after four months’ ab- Kence due to the Secretary’s prolonged illness, are luncheon guests at the White House today. The arrival in Washington of Sec- retary Weeks again gives rise to re- ports that it is his intention to resign his cabinet post, and retire to private life because of his physical condition. The Whit . in announcing that the War ary and his wife would be the guests of President and Mrs. colidge at the midday meal today, ontirmation to rumors of , however. it was because etary did not care to be disturbed or e he has not vet decided where v in Washington, it was jmpossible to obtain information where the Secretary and Mrs. Weeks are es- ROBBED et MILL PAYMASTER Held Up by Armed Bandit at En- trance to Works. By the Ass LAWR d man October 3.—A armed with a revolver ccompanied by another bandit, ed CGieorge lexander, paymaster ©f the Wood mill. of ebout to enter the mill today. exander and his guard, were intimidated by from the bandit’s revolver. The two men threw up their hands and the bandits snatched from Alexander the Dox containing the pay_envelopes for mill workers and ran o NOTICE OF EVICTION " SERVED ON JUSTICE DEPARTMENT HEADS a shot an increase of 100 per cent. It is true that the present owners demanded a Jarger rent, but as I stated on the floor of the Senate, I would not agree to this unless it was so decided by the court. “The owners of the building are not et any expense whatever in the care end heating and lighting of the building. The Government pays every cent of expense in caring for the building and cannot get even neces- sary repairs made. There are 103,000 square feet of able space in the building. The assessed value of the building and grounds is $749,802. I have expected Mr. Wardman to call at my office and see if we could not agree on a rental for the building. I recognize that rents have increased, and would gladly come to some agree- mont with Mr. Wardman and ask Congress for an amount which I be- lieve possible to secure by way of in- crease.” | vicinity of Boy in His ‘Nightie,’ .Missing, Is Found Planning Bird Hunt While polic vere preparing to -our the i t 4 o'clock this morning for Stafford Shaw, 16-year. old resident of 1860 California street reported missing in his night clothes, the boy was plan- ning a pigeon hunt with compan ion in another apartment. Why Stafford should plan a pigeon hunt in his pajamas before davlight was not explained to the polie Iverybody was too happy over his return to hother about a small matter like that, anyway. Stafford’s absence was reported the police early today by wd members of hix family after they had discovered he was missing from his bedroom. Staf- ford is not in the habit of walking in his sleep. they knew, and, as nothing had been suid about a Digeon hunt. anxiety over his dis appearance became rampant. INFLUX OF ALIENS 294,314 Came Into U.S. Last Fiscal Year, While Only 92,728 Left. _The influx of aliens to the Tnited the exodus country to their fiscal already 9L 5 in this the last s Departinent oming into t the coun- try for their former homes. The back i flow was so marked us to several s formerly important in the s that th 5 a numbers in this 51 Ttallans returned to their native land, while but 6,203 were admitted as immigrants. Greece, furnishing 826 immigrants, took back 6,574, and Portugal, with 619 immi- grants, had 3.600 returning. Tmans Lead List. Germany wae the eatest numby ants with Britain y mately 28,000 and the I .440. There was a sharp drop in the totals of other countrles, Sweden, with 8391, and Norway, with 5975, coming next. Canada, whose citizens are exempt- ed from i law restrictions, had 100.895 immigrants to the United States and Mexico 32,964, Other coun- tries to which more aliens returned than were admitted to this country were China, with 3,412 and 1,937, re- spectively, and Australia, with 344 and 273 More Live in New York. New York still had the largest num- ber of residents by immigration, 68,27 aliens having been bound to points within its borders, while 29,635 went to Massachusetts 33 to Michigan, .113 to Texas, 20,960 to California, 0,382 to Illinois and 17.431 to Penn- svivania. New York, with 44,179, like. wise lost the largest number of emi- grants, WEALTHY BEER RUNNER SENT TO JAIL “FOR GOOD;” U. S. DEPUTIES LOSE JOBS - (Continued from First Page.) source of the European immi- ugh and found a bruised leg and thrust him into a cell. “In the morning,” said the sheriff, “the jail physician will look at you— in your cell. We also have a dentist and he will do any work you want— in your cell.” What Terry Faces. Terry faces the beginning of serv- ing in jail as it is popularly con- ceived. “There will be no hundred trips to the dentist, no visits to banks, cafes or country estates, as evidence said, or hinted, he enjoyed in the Cook County jail. “Just like ‘every other prisoner,” said Sheriff Crawford, “he’ll get up at 6 am. and eat just the ordinary jail breakfast. At 6:30 a.m. he'll get out with the other prisoners and mop the floors. He'll eat oatmeal and mush and_ whatever else is on the menu at dinner and-soup and rice and nourishing stuff like that we have for_suppes “If he wants medical attention the jail doctor will care for him and the jail dentist can fix his teeth. He'll get the same as the others. He can have a prayer book and a Bible, that's all.” Judge Wilkerson's order for the transfers of Drugsan and Lake came at the end of the contempt hearing against them, Sheriff Peter Hoffman, former Warden Wesley Westbrook and other jail officials. At its conclusion United States At- torney Edwin Olson, in a_statement, said he was convinced the accused had been proved guilty of contempt and called upon State enforcement authorities to co-ordinate with the Federal prosecutors in cleaning up conditions in the jail. U. S. AND CANADA CLASH OVER RUM BOAT SEIZURE Owner Says Scene Was at Ca- nadian Dock and Americans Were Out of Jurisdiction. By the Associated Press. BUFFALO, N. Y., October 3.— Seizure of the rum runner Nayla, at the eastern end of Lake Erie early vesterday, caused a dispute between Canadian and American officials as to whether the United States customs men had invaded Canadian sover- eignty in making the capture. The owner of the Nayla, Albert Vander- were of Port Colborne, Ontario, charges that the seizure was made at a Canadian dock and that shots were fired by American customs men on Canadian soil. Two Canadian customs men, Nor- man D. Graham, assistant collector of the port of Bridgeburg, and J. A. Wilson, appraiser, corroborate the claim of Vandervere. An inexplicable escape from serious injury or death came to light late yesterday, when police discovered that William Hoyt, 9 years old, had fallen between coaches of a train southbound from Washington just beyond the tunnel exit at New Jer- sey avenue and E street southeast, Thursday afternoon, sustaining only minor cuts and bruises. The boy, with his mother, residents of Oneonta, N. Y., was passing be- tween coaches en route to the dining car when he fell. The mother screamed. The emer- A MUCH OVER EX0DUS Great | THE POLIGE DISPERSE FREE STAT FOES Irish Republicaq Group Pro- posed a Demonstration on Capitol’s South Front. Capitol police broke up a projected anti-Free State demonstration in front | of the south wing of the Capitol by | Irish Republican sympathizers today imple expedient of ordering arriers und marchers off the ring banners with the legends, es America Really Believe in > Freedom of Small Nations? What {of Ireland?” and “American Citizens | Will Not Have the United States Made Britain's Catspaw,” the group of demonstrators shortly before noon started: a single-file parade on the Capitol Plaza. Their aim was to pro test exclusion of Irish Republican del- egates from the Interparlinmentary | Union, which was meeting in the | House’ wing of the Capitol, according o one spokesman. There were not more than a dozen in the group, but police, mindful of the egg-bombing in Boston when Gen. Richard Mulcahy, world congress dele- gate and outsianding Free touched Amer shbres, kept a keen on them. Sergt. Fleischman and detai]l of policemen guarding the conference, immediately notified the warchers they could not stage a parade or demonstration on the Capi- tol groumds without permission of the Vice President and the Speaker of the House. The gathering dispersed | in a quiet and orderly manner. Meanwhile, Gen. Richard Mulcahy, erstwhile et of more than figura- tive displays of antagonism by Irish sat in the House cham bei ring blankly but politely to the speech being delivered by a Span ish delegate. Gen. Mulcahy is scheduled to speak this afternoon and precautions are being taken by Capital police against a demonstration Where the marchers went whe: ordered off the grounds is a mystery. simply dispersed in orderly and law-abiding hion, leaving that same sort of quiet felt at times be. fore the approach of a storm. The protes! party was made up f national figures in the American h Republican moverent. They included Miss Ellen Honaughan of Oklahoma, Mrs. Mary E. Ballhous, Daniel M. Hassett and Aneneas Col. lins of this city, Martin M. Carroll of ~w York City, Robert Emmett O'Con- {nor of Columbus, Ohio; Mrs. Marion . Petitt of Newark, N. J., and M herine King of Illinoi: . BEALE COLLEGTED S50, AUDIT SHOWS Growing List of Insurance Premiums Reported, as Search Continues. By the Associated Press. BINGHAMTON, N. Y.. October 3.— A growing list of insurance premiums collected by Fred G. Beale, president of the Mobinko Brokerage Co. who has been missing a week, was re- vealed vesterday, as an audit of the firm's books proceeded in its offices here. Beale's car was wrecked and burned last Friday night when it went over an embankment near the town of Hancock. Underneath it a charred body was found, which at first was believed to be that of Beale, but which later was identified as that of James H. Davis. The body had been taken from a grave in a ceme- tery nearby. Last night the sum of money lected by Beale just prior to his appearance had reached $600, auditor said. Supt. Divine of the State Troopers said he had learned that Beale and Mrs. Dorothy Bolger, his former ste- nographer, were in Hancock Septem- ber 17. They were seen by many residents and identified by photo- graphs which the troopers had, Di- vine said Capt. Daniel E. Fox of the State Troopers today asked the Miami, Fla., police to obtain further infor- mation from Mrs. Bolger concerning Beale's whereabouts before his dis- appearance. Mrs. Bolger, with her husband, Charles Bolger, arrived in the Southern city last Monday, ac- cording to a telegram received here. MAY COME BACK IN SIX MONTHS, SAYS CAILLAUX, IN ADIEU (Continued from First Page.) the Royalist Action Francaise to the Communist Humanite, are unanimous in congratulating the country for hay- ing escaped ‘“political and economic servitude which would have chained her for almost a century to America. It is unanimously believed that France does not need to fear any reprisals on the part of the United States and if the American Govern- ment should contemplate certain coer- cive measures they cannot affect France s0 much as the payment of her debts in her present circum- stances, would have affected her. Of course, nobody in responsible quarters believes for a moment that Secretary Mellon's proposal that France pay $40,000,000 a year for five years has the slightest chance of being accepted. “Any cabinet minister who accepted such a proposition would not be over- thrown—he would be chased out of office by a French Parliament solidly backed by the entire French nation,” said a leading member of Parliament to the writer. This opinion is naturally not shared by large banking and business con- cerns who have been looking forward to a settlement which would enable them to count on American financ co-operation. All these hopes, how- ever, seem now to have faded away. (Copyright, 1925, by Chicago Daily News Co.) Boy Falls Between Moving Coaches And Escapes With Minor Bruises gency cord was pulled. The train stopped. A passenger ran out to pick the child up. An automobile parked on the street nearby was used to take the boy and mother to Provi- dence Hospltal. At first it was believed that in- ternal injuries might complicate his condition, but he passed a restful night last night, and physicians this morning were of the opinion that there was nothing more serious than cuts and bruises affecting him. It is believed that the lurch which threw the boy off the platform hurled him clear of the rails. EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3. 1925. JAPANESE DELEGATION TO INTERPARLIAMENTARY CONFERENCE Picture made at the Capitol showing Japan's entire representation at the which opened here this week. Front Shigeru Morita, Shunkiti Seki and Mitsuo Hirano. row, left to right: Masutaro nion of the World Parliamentarians, ‘akagi, Junsaku Takatori, Fusanosuke Mayeda, NEVER THOUGHT SAYS SHENANDOAH Didn’t Seem to Care, Ma- ’s Mate De- clares. chin Things Happened Too Fast to Give Him Time to Think. (This is the last of @ series of three articles by survivors of the fatal crash of the Shenandoah.) BY BENJAMIN 0. HERETH, tion Machinist's Mate, First Class. | “Well, I guess we're done for—"" 1 said that to my mates on the Shenan- doah. And I guess that describes as | well as anything about the way I felt | about it. I don’t know—people seem to think that when you feel you're going—dy- | ing—you think of your soul and your mother and others dear to you. They | seem to think vou get scared at the | idea of going. Maybe that's true. But somehow I didn’t think any of those things. And I wasn't scared. Somehow. it just didn't seem to mat- ter. Not that I wanted to die. No, I guess nobody does. But I seemed not to care much. I think, maybe, things happened so fast you didn't get a chance to care or feel anything. Not So Funny. Then, too, when it all started to hap- pen I was fast asleep. I had just been relieved from duty at the engine I was detalled to. And I had been sleep- ing about 30 minutes, when I was awakened by my bed mate, rolling down on top of me. Then we both rolled off on the floor. It was a funny thing to happen— rolling out of bed. But it didn't strike us at all funny when we found that the reason for it all was the crazy way the ship was acting. It was nos- ing down almost at right angles when we were rolled onto the floor. Then it kept zooming—first one way, then the other, making half circles. Maybe it didn’t do it so often as that. But we were still sort of half asleep, and it seemed as though the ship dancing a Jig any way it was minded to. T don't know what I first thought of. But when a few moments later we heard the ship crack—I knew all right. The crackling and snapping could only mean that something had been torn wide open. Then we learn- ed that it wasn't much—just the ship ftself. “Sort of Awful.” There must be something inside us that makes us not mind these things when they come. When you think about far away from it, I guess it does seem sort of awful. But there, right in the ship that was falling— falling faster all the time—I don't know why, but I just didn't seem to think anything much at all. I remember saying, “Well, I guess we're done for——"" And then I recall somebody else saying, ‘‘Let’s get out of this—" “Let's get out of this—" A nice thing to suggest with nothing but storm and wind outside—all around us. And still several thousand feet from terra firma—that would feel al- together too firm, when we hit it. Then we started dropping ballast. We were going so fast we thought that if we dropped a few gasoline tanks we might break the speed. I re- member thinking that wouldnt’ help much. I was sure we hadn’t a chance. Falling all the time—gathering speed all the way— Glimmer of Hope. I didn't even try to think what I could do to save myself when we landed. You see, I didn’'t think we would “land.” I thought we would crash and crash awfully hard unless somrething happened to check our speed. Just about then it did happen. Two gondolas attached to the keel end, in which I was, tore away and sped to- ward the earth. Our speed was cut in half. And for the first time there was a glimmer of hope. Yet that didn't “get a rise out of me, either.” I some- how didn’t seem able to feel anything. I couldn’t feel happy that we had a single chance to be saved. I couldn’t feel sad that we hadn't any. I don't think I believed that fate would de- termine the outcome. I don’t think I thought anything. I guess I was so indifferent that at the time I couldn’t have felt a pin if it was stuck in me. In a moment we spotted the tree tops right under us. And I just sald, “Well—so_long—here we go—"" ‘We brushed the tops of the trees and a lot of the wreckage was torn away and some of the bottom was ripped off. We bumped over them for half a mile or so, rising and falling. Finally we came down. And let me tell you— ‘we hit hard. No Time for Cheers. I scrambled out somehow. And even then I didn't seem to have a single feeling. I suppose I should have felt happy, relleved, grateful to a kind God. But I was still numb. And besides, there was no time for thanksgiving while our comrades, many of them, were still in the wreckage—some never to come out alive. ‘Those who got out first helped the others. And no sooner did we do that than we all had to turn and run. The wrecked ship didn’'t seem to want to stay on land, after it had rushed so rapidly to meet it and carried so many to death. It kept rising a little and drifting. More than once in the rescue work we had to duck from under it. And I guess that's all. It isn't easy HE WOULD DIE, URVIVOR BENJAMIN 0. HERETH. to tell about it. It is still so bazy. And I guess for me it will always be a sort of dream experience. (Copyright, 19 (Current News Fea- nc.) SEARCH FOR DEAD N TUNNEL DEBRS Rescuers Believe C. & 0. En- gineer, as Well as Fireman, Victim—Many Missing. By the Associated Press RICHMOND, Va., October 3.—Ben- jamin F. Mosby, fireman, died ear today of injuries sustained yesterday in the cave-in of a section of the Chesapeake and Ohio tunnel at Churchill here, which trapped upward of 40 workmen engaged in reinforcing its walls. His is the first known death in the great slide of earth, but Tom Mason, engineer, is believed to have been killed when he was caught in the cab of his engine, and several negroes are still unaccounted for. Most of those trapped were able to dlg them- selves out and crawl to safety. Rescue work, halted for a time last night because of dangerous gasses in the tunnel, was resumed early this morning. Rescue parties worked from either end of the tunnel, almost a mile long, while a steam shovel ploughed its way into the side of the great hill in an effort to reach the locomotive in which Mason i3 thought to have been imprisoned. Meantime, officials of the railroad. police and newspaper men were try- ing to make up a complete list of those in the tunnel when the section col- lapsed, and a list of those who got out. More than 100 workmen were in the underground passage at the time, but one gang of 45 men was near the eastern entrance, and none of them is thought to have been caught by the falling earth and bricks. Some of these, however, along with members of the entrapped gangs, got away from the scene during the confusion that followed the collapse, and much difficulty was being experienced in making an accurate check. DECLARES HOME BREW WAS FOR CHILD, IS FREED Mother Wins Case When She Tells Court Frail Offspring Re- fused Milk. By the Associated Press. DENVER, October 3.—Convicted and sentenced to jail for making beer, a Denver mother yesterday won her case when she appealed to the District Court and told Judge G. A. Luxford that the brew was made to nourish one of her chiliren who Wwas frail and who did not like milk. The judge annulled the sentence. SEE S633,000 THEFT | AIDED FROM INSIDE New York Police on Cold Trail in Robbery of Hotel Guests. | "By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 3.—The thiet } who, Wednesday night, stole two pearl | necklaces and other jewelry valued at $683,000, from the Hotel Plaza suite {of Mr. and Mrs. James P. Donohue, trying to pick the cold trail, was aided | by “Instde information.” Acting on the theory that the crim inal was uan international crook, a | minute description of the stolen gems |was broadcast yesterday to Canada, | England and France | “Inside Job” View Explained. | The “inside job” hypothesis w: based on the fact that the theft was ]|nl‘x’lt~( ¥ timed and executed with an pparent prior knowledge of Mrs. | Donohue's habits. | The thief entered Mrs. Donahue’s bedroom on Wednesday afternoon while she was bathing in un adjoining room. She had put the jewels in the drawer of u desk, the pearls in a small rear compartment. Four strings of imitation pearls were left by the marauder, who stole, in_addition to the necklaces, a marquise diamond ring, two dianiond ring guards, a dia- mond-studded vanity case, a diamond brooch and a coral brooch set with diamond. Another Suspicious Feature. ! Another feature of the robbery which led detectives to suspect the connivance of some one in the Don- whue household was the fact that the more valuable necklace had been com- pleted only the day before by the ad- dition of two great rose pearls, each worth $12,000, purchased in Paris this Summer. It took 10 years to complete the necklace, most of the pearls hav- ing come from the treasures of the Shah of Persia. Although the theft was discovered three hours after it occurred, police were not notified until vesterday. Mrs. Donahue, daughter of the late Frank W. Woolworth, 5 and 10 cent store magnate, was, with another sis- ter. co-heiress of the Woolworth estate after the death of her father in 1919 and her mother in 1921. COURT CLOSES CLARK MANSION IN NEW YORK Permits Montana Senator’s Execu- tors to Maintain Home for Heiress at Pasadena. By the Associated Press. BUTTE, Mont., October 3.—The New York home of the late Senator W. A. Clark of Montana will be closed and that in Santa Barbara, Calif,, will be maintained by the es- tate for his family, as a result of an order signed yesterday by District Judge Lynch, after an agreement be- tween Mrs. Clark and the executors. The Senator's will provided that his Fifth avenue mansion be kept up by the estate until 1928, when his daughter, Huguette Clark, becomes of age. The substitution of the Santa Bn&bxra home was requested by the widow. ENTER MARINE RESERVES. Eleven Are Given Commissions. D. C. Veteran on List. Commissions in the Marine Corps Reserve have been issued to John F. Rorke, Brooklyn, N. Y., and Joseph J. Staley, Columbus, Ohio, as captains; to John Ayraultt, jr., Tonawanda, N. Y.; Harry Gray Fortune, Kansas City, | Mo.; Clifton Granberry McMeen, Car- ters Creek, Tenn.; Morris Calvin Rich- ardson, Reading, Pa.; Harold Arthur Strong, Riverside, Calif., and Bayard Vasey, Philadelphia, as first lieuten- and to Henry Christian Bock, Washington; Harold Hill Titus, 2222 Q street, Washington, and Victor W. Worledge, Kansas City, as second lieu- tenants. Capts. Rorke and Staley and Lieuts. ‘Vasey and Bock served with distine- tion in the World War. Capt. Rorke was awarded the Croix de Guerre for extraordinary heroism in the Meuse- Argonne offensive, during which he was wounded. Capt. Staley recently supervised the Boy Scouts’ camp at Quantico. Va. Lieut. Bock, who lives at Sixteenth and Newton streets, served with the 6th Marines in various engagements during the World War and was cited for gallantry in action near St. Georges, France. UNCLE SAM, VACATE YOUR FIRE TRAPS In proclaiming fire-prevention ‘week, which starts tomorrow, Presi- dent Coolidge expressed concern over the great increase in fire losses in this country, while the same logses in comparable countries are de- creasing. Uncle Sam has many thousands of faithful employes working daily, and priceless, irreplaceable records, receipts and other docu- ments, the destruction of which would mean a staggering loss to. the Government and to the taxpayers, , packed into flimsy buildings that have been officially reported to Congress to be fire traps. Read Will P. Kennedy's series of articles, the first of which ap- pears in The Sunday Star tomorrow, describing in detail this menace to life and property, which President Coolidge has told Congress must be removed. Uncle Sam, to show his sincerity about “Fire Prevention,” must clean up the startling peril in his own workshop. lin the opinion of detectives who are | Wife Asks Divorce Third Time; Twice Was Reconciled For the third time in four years Mrs. Hattfe Peake has filed suit in the District Supreme Court for a limited divorce from Edwin A. Peake, a merchant in Eastern Mar- ket. She first complained of al- leged cruelty October 2, 1921, and was granted a limited divorce. The couple patched up their differences and the wife asked the court to set aside her decree, which request was granted. She again came into court October 8 with a similar pe- tition for a limited divorce, but be- came reconciled with her husband again, and withdrew that suit April 21. She now repeats most of the charges contained in the other two petitions. She is represented by At- torney Rudolph H. Yeatman. WAR DEBT PARLEYS CVEN NO SETBACK Italian and Czech Negotia- tions Unaffected by French Situation. The peculiar eituation in Franco- American debt negotiations has not affected adversely the prospects of im- minent funding negotiations with other European debtors over thelr war obligations. This was definitely indicated today developments here from both echoslovakian and Italian quarters. Assurances were received by Tre: ury officials yesterday from the Italian embassy that regardless of the un- expected wind-up of the French- American parley the debt commission from: Rome will sail, as it had_pre- viously planned, about October 15. A debt commission from Czechoslovakia arrived today in Washington to open negotiations. These assurances set at rest numer- ous reports and rumors that perhaps the semi-failure of the French meet- ings might have serious effects on the pending debt negotiations. Czech Parleys Tuesday. The Czechoslovakian Debt Com- mission will make its first call at the Treasury Department Mon , it was indicated at the Treasury. The busi- ness of negotlating may not, how ever, actually get under way with A meeting of the two commissions until Tuesday. The Czechoslovakian government the United States $117,679, 70. The ting commission has taken up quarters at the Hamilton Hotel, from which the French commission just departed. New Minister Due Today. The new Minister from the Euro- pean republic, Zdenek Flerlinger, who sailed on u different boat from the commission, is expected in Washing- ton some time today. The commission is headed by Dr. Vilem Pospisil, director of vings banks of Prague, who was at the peace conference in Paris and has represented Czechoslovakia at Geneva. Other members of the commission are Karel Kucera, assistant general director of the banking office of the Czechoslovak ministry of finance; Dr. Karel Brabenec, from the ministry of finance; Dr. Eugen Lippansky, from the ministry of finance, financial ex- pert; Zikmund Konecny, from the ministry of foreign affairs. Officials Disappointed. Although a gleam of hope for final success in the French negotiations has been discernible through the general atmosphere of disappointment over the outcome, there was evident in offi- clal quarters today no great amount of assurance as to how the matter will end. The economic position of France in the future, about which opinion in the American and French commissions widely differed, seemed to be the one factor upon which both will depend for indications as to prospects for set- tlement. Americans have much more hope in the future of France than the French have themselves. Should the American view of France's future capacity to pay be justified by de- velopments, then, it is believed here. there will be much more chance of France agreeing to a funding plan zc- ceptable to America. What will happen, however, to the American flve-year offer of $40,000,000 annually, with provision for reopen- ing the question at any time during that period. was still a great uncer- tainty today. The French finance minister is taking the offer back to France, without his formal approval, for submission to his government. Believes France Will Improve. President Coolidge, it was revealed at the White House late yesterday, entertains the view that France will improve economically and financially in the five years. He earnestly de- sired a final settlement, but was con- by 7 BASE BALL TICKET SALE GALLED OFF Scores of Hopeful Fans Dis- appointed After Stand- ing in Line. The world serfes ticket situation, already somewhat bewlldering, be- came further involved today with the decision of base ball club offieials to call off the announced general sale of left-over or uncalled-for admis- sfon cards. The declsion caused great conster- nation among the ranks of several hundred fans who had stood in line at the ball park from before daylight, nursing a great hope. Their dreams of getting one of the coveted reserva- tions in the general scramble were rudely blasted as the rays of the morning sun frowned through the clouds out Georgia avenue way, how - ever. Allotted to Applicants. According to Edward B. Eynon, jr., secretary of the club, there were so few tickets uncalled for that it was decided to aliot them to persons hold- ing reservation cards but for whom no ticket could be found w the appeared at the ticket booths duri the three-day sale just ended must have been a women thus disappointed, ju from the activity sund th There was a constat open booth during the day, and the line seemed to increase as the hours advanc Not everybody who presented notification card got tickets, ever. The holders had to themselves to the satisfaction of man behind the window. caution was taken to make life for the professional ticket scalpers, many of whom are said to have pur- chased the notices from original own ers. A number of “doubtful” card holders were turned away, despite their protests. Police Give Information Capt. Robert Dovle and a large tail of his able men from No. § pre cinct performed valiant work in dis pensing ticket information to per- plexed inquirers. One of his facto tums also served as gate manager and assisted in_ keeping a goodly crowd of excited men from taking their vigorous grievances direct to Clark Griffith, in the clubhouse. The announcement that there wouil be no general public sale of leftover tickets fell like a bombshell in scalp- ing_clrcle: The scalping market suffered a quick reaction us a result, and prices jumped in direct relation to the scar- of tickets in prospect. Brokers' ts hovered throughout the day in viein Seventh street and Florida avenu. ket purchas- ers came away from the booth wi gloating smiles at neighbors th ambled up and suggested “a deal.” None was noticed in course of consum- mation, however. Speculators’ prices for grandstand strip tickets, costing $33 at the park. ranged as high as $100 and even more, Hotels were asking prices several times in excess of the original cost. The eventual buyer had to pay “c missions” to runners, brokers. ¢ etc., and licensed brokers fi prices in the knowledge th: cent of their profit had to be turned over to Uncle Sam under the revenue law. Bandits Get $150,000 in Gems. ST. PAUL, Minn., October 3 (#).— Three men held up a New York dia- mond merchant and seven - sons in the J. A. Gerber jewelry store here early toda and escaped with gems valued at more than $150,000. THE WEATHER District of Columbifa—Partly cloudy tonight; tomorrow showers; not much change in temperatur moderate northwest shifting to northeast and east winds. Maryland—Partly cloudy in east and cloudy, probably showers, late tonight in west portion; tomorrow showers; not much change in temperature; mod- erate northwest shifting to northeast and east winds. Virginia—Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, probably showers tomor- row and in northwest portion late tonight; not much change in tempera- ture; moderate north shifting to east and_southeast winds. West Virginia—Showers tonight and tomorrow; not much change in tem- perature. Records for 20 Hours. Thermometer—4 p.m., 65; 8 p.m., 63; 12 midnight, 63; 4 a.m., 64; 8 a.m., 63: 11 a.m., 70. Barometer—4 p.m., 30.17; 8 p.m., vinced that such was impossible. In allowing for a lapse of five years before a permanent pact is necessary, providing the plan submitted is ap- proved by both the French govern- ment and the American Congress, the President feels that France will have had time to put her finances in shape, fund her internal obligations, restore her devastated regions and re-estab- lish her currency. With those ele- ments in her situation remedied, the President’s belief is that France will make a settlement satisfactory here. COLE TAKES STAND IN OWN DEFENSE Faces Cross-Examination on Story of Killing Sweetheart of His Daughter. By the Associated Press. ROCKINGHAM, N. C., October 3.— Facing one of the most brilllant law- yers of the State, W. B. Cole took the witness stand today, to answer the charge of the State that he deliberate- ly killed W. W. Ormond, formerly his daughter's sweetheart. Clyde Hoey of Shelby directed the cross-examination of Cole, who yes- terday testified that he killed Ormond «‘to keep him from killing me and hav- ing my family at his mercy. Cole’s testimony followed the intro- duction of letters that passed between 30.13; 12 _midnight, 30.08; 4 a.m., 30.01; 8 a.m., 30.00; 11 a.m., 29.99. Highest temperature, 70, occurred at 11 am. today Lowest temperature, 62, occurred at 11 _p.m. yesterday. Temperature same date last year— Highest, 76; lowest, 43. Condition of the Water. Temperature and condition of the water at Great Falls today at 8 a.m. —Temperature, 66; condition, clear. Weather In Varlous Cltles. % Temperature. Stations. WU “3q 81 19y Wm0 H H oeoegupanrsos Abilene, Tex. Albany i Rain Atlanta Clo tlantie City ¢ altimore Rirmingham. Bismarck Bokton Buffaio . Cincinnati Cleveland Betrait roi 1 "Paso alveston Helena . Huron, S Indianapoli Jacksonvill XSRS SDOS DN R ERE IS ROR New York. Okla. City Qmaha .- Philadelphia. hoenix the men, in which Ormond had de- clared relations of “man and wife” had existed between him and Cole’s daughter. Cole’s one reply had threatened to shoot Ormond “full of lead”:if ever he heard any derogatory remarks about his daughter from Ormond or through him. A. L. Series Umpires Named. CHICAGO, October 3 (#).—George J. Morfarty and C. B. Owens today were assigned by President B. B. Johnson of the American League to officlate as umpires in the world series, B ittsburgh’ N ERChE RS T D1 FAS Ore. 3 aleigh . .. 30! 8. Lake City 20.84 $an” Antonio 30.00 §an, Diexo. . 20.00 So@axaIDIe SRISSHDOBID: 3 (8 a.m.. Greenwich time, today.) Stations. ‘Temperature. Weather. London, England B0 Faraouds Paris. France 2 Cloudy. Vienria. "Austri Cleur Covennagen. bernaric orta (Fayal), Azore an Juan, Porio Rico Havana, Cuba Colon, Canal