Evening Star Newspaper, October 17, 1925, Page 1

\WEATH (" S. Weather Bureau Fair and colder tonight and tomor- row, light fros i possibly Temperatures—Hi a. tadiay: lowest, 64 il report on page ‘R. hest, Forecast.) t in expo: Elnsing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 14 ch ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION d as secc 29 oftice, Washington, ond class matter D. C. ny Star. The every city bl Star's “From Press to Home Within the Hour” carrier system covers ock and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 95,787 WASHINGTON, D. ., SATURDAY, -y OCTOBER 17, 1925 —THIRTY-SIX PAGES. * (®) Means Associated press. TWO CENTS. ' SE[}URHY TREATIES 0. KD AT LOCARND . IMAKE WAR REMOTE Statesmen, in Frenzy of Joy, Unable to Explain Sue- cess of Parley. DECORUM CAST ASIDE BY ELATED DELEGATES All Issues Swept Aside—Good Will Once More Reigns in Europe. Troublesome Tir the Axe LOCARNO. i3 ol ear x October nference nizht the it ied und pac if five s which the with i m old slo Ltes e veal £ opera achiey 1 which A that urit I their secret ex fmous the arng statesmer the 1tesmen sults attaine e se con pectations. The five . The Rhine pa German: frain from with Great ing to act pact Arbit Germar land to orher op- the which gainst ator and France and Czechoslovak Germany addit that to Ent In n the ing 1eaz We were seerned pus n bed Germa the Nations rried join and s by steric wward to st the S e situation. nu, the German 1 ML n sined el nations, based on mu il zood v e were delex nizht when with the un treaties wonld he 1 the dinz last taken tanding that the Londem on December Nees New Al A new st vise Europe A Loy ve Eurepe m M. Tiri many from Then, 1 nd an 22 G J tions dinz 1 1 he intries i pact these pass th The im for ust of ference Stresemann that only by eishborly lite ind peo ates b ian Dr. Strese the defense a4 whol those v Uluding ratification of th final attitude of depend on whether he German pe the strenzth of th e Evacuated. wis called 1o the fact That ently had quashed sen m Germans for pied territory, and ctation that courts. nd Belgium of coused of war crimes would T lief is ex rea will be urity France 1 medintely coase I that the d befor Cole the = pact is t the B this vict window Palace of um, anne tude that eaties hid b of their num ol hear the dele ce hi n vy on Jus inced the y pe possit th ond and, rejectin 1l iine ormally approv wer held aloft fng the signatures il tinns as proof that the confere Rucceed its mission Instantly the crowd gave v enthusiasm, rockets were sent in air, their balls of fire narrowly ing entering the and on the shoulders « tes P en who mad open the dec the s thee 1 1 ent to o the escan falling The (Continue 1. Column FINDS SON IN DEATH LIST. Mother Files Runaway Dead in S-51. Pension Claim for The who en simed 1 perished - identity sted in th ime of a runaway v under an never again her until he submarine rday through the Pension by his in the was reves sink filed at My York M Syl- itherine MeCarthy, who enlisted some | MeCarthy o as “dohn 1 next of kin She was b the ind carried the news whao filed the claim SEVEN CHILDREN—HURT. ve of an hoys hix minther One May Die as Result of School Bus Accident.. ABBEYVILLE, Ga., October 17.— ven children were injured, one of seriously. when an automobile by F. E. Waites, Oshkosh, collided with a schvol truck S them driven W fitled with pupils from the Abbeyville | dubbed by the medical men, is the son |of the hospital attendants, the Consolidated School, completely wreck- fnz both vehicles, here yvesterday Waites was arvested and is being heid pending the condition of »d children, one of whom, Wini- yerar, may die at | | took the in- | REALTY NIGHTMARE MARKS 7 AIR BOARD STARTS FIRST DAY IN HECTIC MIAMI Boosters, Salesmen, Sweat, Coatless Paradise of ¥ BEN McKELWAY, Staff Correspondent of The Star. MIAMI, Fla., October 15 (By Maill. "l'lm tired traveler. dismounting from the long train which brought nervous jerks down the vast coast of | Florida to Miami, finds himself one of several hundred or so strusgling, ‘ming, perspiring human being: ‘ baggage-laden and casting about wildly for a red-cap, a taxi, a track, a veloci pede anything to help hi et awa ‘ the station and to a place ¢ | quiet and rest. The next minute he is pushing his way into a cab with many others as can ze them- selves in, and the trip through the city Miami begins. Narrow street: them sw from sque at best, but most of now cluttered up with building 1 going into the construction | skyserapers whose unfinished make Miami's jagged ¥ Every tin the ter of < a 1y street 1 every hem packed from eurh 1o curh antomobiles hearing tags from State in the Union. The sig i the corner flashes G the two I policemen at each intersection wave | their nd blow their whistle: ind pedestrians into W leap madly for the curb Aar of mo ieking of MPLANESSTRIKE STORM: 3KILLED Ship Falls, Burns—Only 14 Get Through—Second Craft Wrecked. mater of the skelet ine weon ane-y a ne with arms mblin action a a sl * WHEELING, W. Va 17 than 100 miles from where the it Shenandoab met with on September 3, the victim of 41 planes late yesterday were set upon by the elements—rain and fog—and three men killed when one of plan, the “Honeymoon Ex crashed to earth. surteen of the others were forced down. four re turned to Bolling Field. Washington {where the planes hopped off for their trip West: 14 managed to get through to Dayton. Ohfo, and 11 came down at Langin Field, Moundsville, near ‘here. The group of planes hiad par- ticipated in the air races at Mitchel Field, N. Y. and were on thelr u 1o interior stations, flying by way Washington. The pilot and two attaches w Killed Honeymoon Express” fell near New Salem, Pa.. a little town in the coke regions. Just what happencd has not heen determined, but that their plane must have found it difficult to fly| because of the had weather is attested by the fact that six oth e forced down near the scene of the | October disaster storm, ¥ wher he Newpaper Men Killed. men Killed were 38, of Brooklyn, at Wilbur Wri Verne Timmerm: sher for the T al: Maurice C. Hutton. editor for the same paper. | who witnessed the crash said the plane passed over New its engines seemed to be in A few minutes later, they the pilot appeared to be ma ing for a landing. the plane nose dive and fell to the ground. Fire enveloped the wreckage Simultaneously with the impact and ! persons who rushed to the scene ex tricated the bodie »f the men. Th had been badly burned. The companion plane of Honeymon Express,” piloted b: Clifford Nutt and accompanied by Capt. J. ¢ Jught to the sround soon after the accident. Not way the other machines were forced to land, due to the in clement weather, on the grounds of {the Uniontown Country Club. H. . and eld, 24, staff | ton Herald e stationed Dayton: photo and Jou aviation Thos | that as | Salem trouble. a “the | Lieut. | six of Plane Wrecked, 7 Unhurt. | at Roscoe, | lost their | ame down Va.: five others, who landed safely in pastures near | Martinsville, W. Va. and an- made a landing east of Wheel- | the seven-passenger ws transport C-1, piloted by Lieut. . Bertrandias, that came down near New Martinsville, and, al though the plane was reported badly Wrecked, the seven occupants es- caped uninjured One or more forced down in land it is likely that difficul encountered in getting them back into the afr. The others probably will continue their westward flizht some time today. One plane W way, New other of the planes were inaccessible placy - will be WARNI IMPOSSIBLE. { | Field Knew, Too Late, | Planes Would Meet Storm. | Air That ogleal facilities | here and igned | Service | the whole- | Insufficient meteore n the mountains between Moundsville, West by officials of the t y the cau ale ttering of here vesterday for their (Continued on Page Babv. Like Old Man Column ngns of Normal Life Under Solar Rays him in | 4 ” Pretty “Bird Dogs, Crowds—Then Moonlight. , horns—they've off, and the devil take | the hindmost! Down a street they rush tll the sign the corner stop they do, with sli | sereeching brakes. | packed with a hu | thronz, everybody many without colla hats—all bent on needs speed and lots of it. flashes “Cio!” again and the race | sturts, your taxicab darting into the | curh now and then, discharging a pas nger with his bags, and rushing on. Finally you reach your hotel. It it's like most of the hotels here, it has a wide front porch. Gathered on the porch is a crowd of men, sitting in groups, heads together, figuring on note paper studying blueprints None of them we; cont You'll go for block after bl K without eing a coat. There’s one store which does u rushing business in odd ir conts. | at ing shirt sleeves, many without errand that “The signal in | & nsers - no m the At nter countery ning wit either sittiy slowly rocking bl looking—just sittinge else figuring in (Continued on Page of men in b ind the Tahhy poreh. It in shirt sleeves, ding is a the swit house stvle and forth and louking note hooks or and or debat Column 3.) 1S, FLYERS INRIFF SCORED AS KILLERS Condemned by Senators and Other Aviators After Ex- posure of Real Nature. | | S A to The Star EW YORK, Octoher | statesmen us well {of the American airmen now bombing | the Riffians in Morocco strongly con demned the activities of the unit yes terday, following disclosure of the re sults of an investigation of the squad on by the North Ame an Newspaper | Alliance. The in | following f: 1. That no papers have been signed between the 17 Americans and either the French zovernment or the Sultan | of Morocco, no allegiarce sworn to feither wovernment, and that, there }furv, the Americans have no accepted military status, but actually 15 fellow aviators American tigation s establishes the are That in their hombing activities |as American citizens they have been accorded an irregular and misleading wtus which w ranged by officials |of the French government and e served by the aviators themselves in order thiat the unit might svmbolize American support of the French ¢ nse. - for paganda. That the publicly | terest of the Frenck ihe propaganda value of the | rather than its military value {five of the Amer had b | previous experience iators and several of these had never heen in the air until joining the squadron. That the Americans have ised their nationality by wearing insignia which they devised especial 1y for this v Viz., an American eagle copied from the United States ten-dollar gold piece, with the addi- tion of a bomb inserted in the eagle's talons, and that in at least one in- stance a member of the unit painted a bomb red, white and blue and drop- ped it_on Riffian soldiers. That the Americans, almost ex- clusively, have been igned to act observers and bombers in planes piloted by French aviators, and that, as such, they have bombed repeatedly an enemy who is without aircraft or antiaircraft guns, and who is known to be suffering under a sc ity of modern medical supplies, ficial tenders of the International Red Cross to furnish such having been refused by the Spanish government because it regarded the Riffians as rebels. Have Bombed 6. That the Americ bombed Riffian villages. villages within hours—and, ac- cording to Associated Press dis- patches, have bombed farms. That in so doing the American ators have not violated the United ates statutes referring to military rvice in foreign wars, and that the dec thicials has 1 A in en unit that a Villages. as many as United States Government cannot re- | strain them under these statutes, the aviators having avoided liability to Government. restraint by refraining from formal enlistment in the arm: of the Sultan of Morocco while they were within the borders of Morocco. That the aviators e, however, on the pay roll of the Sultan of Morocco and th used by them ure Sultan of Morocco. Not Yet Disbanded. 8. That the unit has not yet heen disbanded by the Sultan or the French government which arranged the mat ter for the Sultan, despite intimations of the approaching end of activity of the squadron, the latest available in- paid for by the anes which left | formation was that the squadron will | ations in | continue its bombing until November | py (s Acsociated Press. age 2. Column 4) at Birth, Shows (Continued on P: By the Associated Press. LONDON, October 17.—Speci; at the London hospital are using solar | s to work the ‘‘rejuvenation” of a | hopeless, but at a conference of 24| more or less damaged by fire and | specialists several weeks ago it was |boy baby who upon birth two years agoe had every appearance of ad- | vanced age and who until a few weeks ago had never aroused from a deep | slumber. “Baby Rip Van Winkle,” as he was | ,f Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cohen of | | Tighgate. According to his mother, | | he never cried, but lay motionless for A year, life being sustained by arti- | ficial faeding. is hody was stane cold, even in 4 Summer,” she said. “He was just like an old, old man. Doctors at first considered the case determined to make a final effort to save the baby’s life by the use of solar rays. His milk diet also was changed to one of fruit juices. The other day, to the onishment baby began to cry and then to fuss and squirm like an ordinary infant. Now he has progressed further and is grow ing teeth. The specialists belleve that within two years he will he a normal child, no | ad- | an aviators have | t the planes and the bombs | EVIDENCE RECORDS Angles of Situation. |WILL TRY TO END WORK | 1 | | BEFORE CONGRESS SITS} | Session Today Brief as Work Gets | Under Way in Final Report. [ i | | wurni hearings late last nighi, the Piesident’s Air Board today tackled the hizgest problem since its ereation — that of drawing conclusions from the 1 of controve apinfons and proposals presented duy inz its four ks of hearir The hoard met in executive session roday in the words of its secre ry W. K Durand, “tried to dopt @ lne of procedure with the bulky record.” After a brief meeti i adjourne " <ial and D oolidee desives to have Wt of his azency in hand be Jnsress meets in Dec v, and informed Chairman Dwight W. Morrow and other members of the hoard when he appointed them (o muke the exhaustive inquiry, now conciuded. fnto both the military and commer phases of the question Dwight Davis, then Acting Secre. tary of War, suzzested the buard's ereation means of clearing the imosphere after Col. William Mitch eI's sansationai eriticism of the Army ind Navy Air Service administra tions al Every Angle Explored. When Chairman last nizh pped the gavel for adjournment, th rd was satisfied that every ans of the question had been exploded | No one. to its knowledge, who is ar hority r and military matte ad been deprived a hearing and many were recalled t time ate on their proposals. The | and nizht - sessions | were the same conflict of 'Views 1 nd Navy witnesses that 1s characterized the whole inquiry. In adding his name to those who have opposed the proposal supported Ly Col. Mitchell for the creation of a! department of defense with a ser te air e Jerome (" Hunsaker. attache at London, told the United States ranked third in air power amonz the five nations having the| most powerful air services. He con ceded. however. that lick of depend- \ble information from the other na- Je this “almost a zuess.”” In airplane design, he declared. no nation ahead of the United States her opposing views on the de. department idea were heard from Comdr. John H. Towers. leader Navy's transatlantic flight of and Mafl. H. H. Avnold, chief of the information division my Al Service, both pioneer airmen in thei respective services. Maj. Arnold added his indorsement to the separate corps pr 1 of hix chief, Maj. G Mason M. Patrick Comdr. Towers' while he feared Morrow on witnesse sec iinal day jmarked by lamong Army assistant navs the board opinion was that the Navy's present v anization wou! fune ately under war conditic believed the remedy w this | nization within the Navy \rtment itself and not in the pro- Jposed unified air force under a depart- ment of defense Based on Observatio i Comdr. Hunsaker said his estimate America’s relative position in air | power was based not upon the claims | of various nations, but on his own | observations during 16 vears of serv- | jce with the diplomatic corps. An at- | tack on the United v air from a foreign land “seems out of the ques- tion,” he declared, adding that no plane in existence now can cross the Atlantic carl ng 2,000-pound bomb. The witness indorsed the policy of expending a large part of aircraft ap- | propriations for experimental work. This phase of aeronautics had been attacked before the board by Chair man Madden of the House appropria- tions committee, who urged that the experiment angle of military aeronau tics be turned over to private enter- P omdr. Kenneth Whiting of the Bureau of Aeronautics asserted that | | Rear Admiral W. A. Moffett frequent- ly was not consuited by the Bureau | of Navigation on aviation matter: | Arrangements were made without the ! knowledge of the Aeronautics Bureau, ! he said, to provide for training of An- ! napolis cadets in aviation. That finished me.” he exclaimed. We found out about it by accldent two days ahead. He sald he cited this as an exam- | ple of his reasons for submitting a | reorganization plan he presented to | the board several weeks ago. designed to the naval air chief greater | power in aviation matters. | Lring the Navy up to |5—5—3 ratio agreed upon at (Continued on Page 2, Column | MAIL BOUND FOR U. S. © IS BURNED IN FRANCE i Som {$1,000,000 in $500 Bills Is Saved | in Blaze in Car Bound for Vessel. of | the the 5 | | | | ROUEN, France, October 17.—One| hundred sacks of mail bound for the | United States were completely de stroyed yvesterday in a fire which | burned the mail car in which they | were being conveyed from Havre to Cherbourg. | Fifty other sacks were taken from | the debris by postal experts rushed to | the scene from Paris. From these | 1 $1,000,000 in $500 bills were saved. A | quantity of other bills and checks, I water, also were found in the debris. | All the mall that was saved was placed {in new bags and sent to Paris. | It is believed that the contents of i{the 100 sacks destroyed embraced | money and valuables of various kinds | worth several million franes. | 'The mail car had been re-routed { from Havre to Cherbourg following ithe delay of the steamer France in sailing because of a strike among her stewards. {suill suffering from their { proxims I said after SPITAL BULDING WORK STARTS SOON Replacement of Temporary Wards by Permanent Struc- tures to Begin About Jan. 1. | The first definite step in the plans for replacement with permanent, five proot struclures of the present flimsy aden w Walter | Hos Al will hesin ahout January 1, it s learned today Construction wor ing to cost an $1.000,000. providin inzs in place of the rapidly det ing struetures now in use. will under way at that time, it was pr ed <urg. Gen. Ireland of the He explained that plans for buildings have been practically pleted. and bids are expected asked for within a short time. The new structures contemplated in this next zreat addition to the Gov ernment medics er Walter Reed include both hospital buildings nd ed Cross house. For the lat ier the national execntive committee the American ithor- ized the expenditure Final Stages. w of nent thout build orat ict Army these com to be Plans in The ¢ for both huildings and the Red are heing put throuzh the final stagas by the quartern r of the Army. in order that the zeneral architecture all may harmoni Among the Government buildin to be erected will b dining room nd kitehen, and thr four w These wards will constry as wings to the present permanent buildings at Walter iteed Hospital, al though there is likelihood that in some future development wings may be added The flimsy structures at he Government Cr hot war-time Walter Reed. which for been considered by nzerous firetraps for the World War who are wounds, will permanent buildinzs to will the ns of vet be replaced_zradually by structures of* which the be started January 1 first group, Beds In the ings, ace there are it When the new Perm esent e ling to Sur Buildings. manent buil n. Trela or 140 beds. construction hegin- ning next January is completed. Gen. Ireland estimated there would be ap. ely 1,000 Leds in permanent | buildings. Of these beds a cated to benefi States Veterans Under the third Langley bill enacted | at the last Congress there was appro- priated an_item providing for con- ion of the 200 additional zeneral | and 100 tubercutosis beds to e the old fourth district Veterans' Bureau, which at that time covered the District of Columbia and they States Maryland, Virginia and | West Virginia. CUTS OF PERSONNEL | HERE WILL CONTINUE sut 300 will be allo- | of the United| Federal Offices Here Still Far From | Pre-war Basis, Commissioner Wales Says. ! George Wales of the United States | Civil Service Commission, who, with Miss Jessie Dell, recently appointed to the commission to succeed Miss Helen M. Gardener, conferred with President Coolidge at the White House toda the audience that furth reductions in personnel in the Federal | departments at Washington can be looked for within the next vear. Commissioner Wales had no specific information nor was he able to sug-| zest any figures as to the number of | dismissals expected. but said that he | felt pretty certain that cuts must be | continued In the departments to meet the administration’s program. | Commissfoner Wales pointed out that many clerks will be dropped from | the Government rolls because of the ! expiration of their temporary employ- ment, such as those who have been .engaged in the adjusted compensation work at the Veterans’ Bureau and the War Department, and in other temporary services. This is to be expected, he said. As for the old line | departments, it is the aim of the! administration to reduce the clerical forces sufficiently to meet the demand of its economy policy. Mr. Wales said that the majority of the departments are far from their pre-war time basis so far as personnel lis concerned. | est hit. | day-ol dbaby, who lived in one of the | uninjured. | Dr. Soper Describes Discovery by Foot Ball Weather, Clear and Crisp. Promised Capital | After the bt few of hereabon though proy sheddinz a tears over closi the base season, the skies du their N more seuson turn Ather for the hall under way. Fair and cooler crisp northwesterl prospect for tonizht cording to Mitchell. It would t who are 1y col blooded to put & log or two in th fireplace, or even kindle a little Llaze in the furnace. he indicated 'he winds are expected to send the of the rain clouds scur- rying to other jurisdictions by early this afte and start the hermometer downward course ut the oday 10w ons get ting conditic with winds ne tomor Forecaster well for [ noon same time, TERRIFIC STORM SWEEPS KENTUCKY Camner Reported Wiped Ou Eleven Others Damaged: | 25 Persons Hurt. | By the Associated Pr LOUVISVILLE, Ky Traveling at 80 miles windstor ter four 1 part of . severely in 1 perhaps fatally Jlishing houses completely de- mmunication Ot n hour, swept ower cour in the south centr late persons. trees 1 buildi 1eky 12 uprootin and far stroying telephone ¢ Barly today communication with the stricken area had not been st <0 no definite estimate of tue xtent of the casualties or the amount of the prope unage could be made. Estimates early today, however. placed | the toll of injured at more than and the property damage at tens of thousands of dollars. ve Storm Cellars Save Of more than 12 towns the tornade, the territc ut Bowling Green was perhaps the hard Starting in X . the jumped over the £ | hetween Bowl nd Camner and dipped 6 miles from Bowling Green. sweeping over the oil field district of Warren County where thousands of dollars’ worth of property, including oil field equip- ment, wits destroyed. No one was in- jured in the ofl regions because the oil field attendants, seeing the ap proachmg funnel-shaped cloud, scu ried into storm cella | About six miles from Bowling Green. the tornado played. leaving toll of 10 injured. many unroofed houses, demolished buildings, up- rooted trees and devastated telephone lines in its wake. by storm ounties se | | Town Reported Wiped Out. ! While Camner, a town of about 300 population, was reported completely wiped out, these reports could not be | confirmed early tod: At Woods ville, two persons, a woman and a boy were injured. The woman was bruised and lacerated after being | hurled from a buggy in which she was riding. Three houses and one barn on a farm near Thomas Landing were Llown into"the Barren River. Mr. and Mrs. Lacey Smith and their 4.: houses, were blown from it. The baby | wax carried into an adjoining field. a | distance of 100 yards. All escaped | It is hoped that communications may be restored today and a complete check-up of the storm Gamage made. NOT CANCER CURE. | Research in London. HOBOKEN, N. J., October 17 (#).— | Dr. George A. Soper, managing direc- | tor of the American Society for the | Control of Cancer, who arrived yes- terday after a three-month study of the cancer situation in Europe, de- clared a misunderstanding existed re- zarding the work of Drs. Guy and Barnard of London in cancer research. These men, he said, had not found a cancer cure, but had succeeded in iso- lating a germ, hitherto unknown to sclence, which s present in certain forms of cancer. Radio Programs—Page 27. ¥ i3a Mother Leaves Money in Control HOLY YEAR PARTY INFATAL AIR CRAS American Woman Killed England—New York Priest and Brother Injured. 1 By the As | WADHUR [ tober 17.—A Holy r T ed Press T sad e pile to ne England, Oc has come to mage 1 n Amer- Rome in the death aceident of one of the Jus injury of two others. | In the crash of a large Goliath air plane in which they we f from London to Par Burke of New York juries frem which afte d: her Burke, pastor of the Philip Neri. of New Y compourd fracture of Joxeph Burke, another nis feet injured lacerated. Sussex. ding herine iined in died shortly Mgr. Da Church of St suffered a leg, and she brothe 1 the 1 ar both Others Escape Unhurt. of the Bu y engers pilot and mechanic e shaking up. Just what not Gefinitely 1 was fogey and the | lowing the usual rof don ngland France. Appar fiving landing place struck a 1 the \ Briti niece kes and d the F caped with three ench nly wecident The weather ne was not fol between Croy- Le Bourget the pilot, who was seeking a safe when the machine and then fell to rd ntly rushed to the scene injured membe E was un- Burke was suf- trom his broken which protruded pariy Miss and N feving intense pai les. the thronzh and bone of the flesh Taken to Hospital. The prelate. however, attenti first he She was picked up nearby house, but fterward. The injured brother shortly after they had heen given firsi-aid care. were 1aken to the Tun- bridze Wells Hospit insisted that iven his sister. nd borne to expired shortly TUNBRIDGE W October 17 (). —Mgr of New York and his 1 who were injured 3 crash of a London-to-F plane at Wadhurst, were stated to be i serious conditien this morning at t hospital h where they were moved after the accident ~ORMER FLYER JAIED ON BIGAMY CHARGES Briton, Held in Cleveland. Said to Have Three Undivorced Eng iel Burl other, Joseph, 1 the re, re- | Wives Living. By the Associated Press CL] SLAND, Ohio, October 1 —A man booked Ernest Sturgiss, and said to have been an officer in | the British naval air service. is held here on charges of bizamy. Scotland Yard records show he has three wives living and no divorces He married Mabel Irene Fordham, | in Essex, England, early in the war, the records show. He left her and married Ruby Golding, in Lambert, | England, in 19 Discharged from ! the flying corps in 1921, after serving | 1 prison sentence for larceny, he came | to America with Mabel M. Oldham. | marrying her at Ellis Island, His third wife recently sued divoree, chairging non-supp: cruelry Shimtor rt und: RED REFUSED FORTUNE. | Bourgeoise Party. ANTIBES, France, October ~The last will and testimony of mother of the Commun Marcel Cachin, a widow, who died | recently, was opened vesterday and | shows that Mme. Cachin left virtually | her entire fortune to the Antibes Hos- | pital. Therefore, an institution under the | direct control and management of the bourgeois government which her son time and again has denounced from | the rostrum of the Chamber of Dep- uties, the party he commands intends | witl receive 300,000 francs. . leader of the Communist in’ France, recently was sen- tenced to 13_months' imprisonment | for Inciting French soldiers to dis- obedience, . | the Deputy | o {ahly oppe EXEMPT INGOMES OF $3.500 T0 $5.000 ASKED BY GARNER Democratic Leader Proposes Plan to Free 3,000,000 Persons of Tax Payments. TEXAN HAS CONFERENCE WITH TREASURY HEAD Mellon Desires for New Bill Not Revealed—Likely to Ask Sla in Surtax Rates. With mong a definite House ve the 2 nistrati vay tax reduction 1 nd 16 Representative in Congress W n the new tart Monday Democrat of Texas ' has con proj x eut am o about 3,000,000 taxpayers of mod rate means o Mr. Garner, wk rat on the wa e which will the s ranking Demo s und means cor the revenue ght during the ainst the then so-c Mellon plan, and the resulting present compromise between th et was e two positic night, f erence w Mellon reduction w that “Me 1 laid Lefore the committee Mellon to Secretary e position Appear Monday. »n on the tax cut he previous tunity of Chairman ways public at the T he thought could be d duction and tax r as done tuok G and temp! sit unt iuse ated e ke would be ere that nded a 20 per cent s cad of the preser 2 normal tax of 5 per cent, esent 6. It is so Mr. Mellon will fon to tax-exempt After conterence however, Garner said Secr Mellon's plan provided only for reduction of surtaxes and inheritance taxes. Mr. Garner made no statement to how his counter proposal w received at the Treasury there reiterate his ob- securi vesterday, the M Contemplates Biz Tax Cut. plan, which he said had without _consult weratic he n drafted with his De plites a wately colleagues. n t which stimated the imend hole Gar in retire viee he ated debt in posed ner 1 Melion 1 the lo: tions would ause T ven that length of time in which to pay off their obligati to the United States, which represent more than half of the total of this Nation's indebted | ness. Whether to the Secretar Mr. Garner's of the T nouncement afterwa derstood to be much different fr what the Treasury will recommend, will result in sharp Republican Democratic row over tax reduction, or whether the two parties will be able to compose their differences in com mittee without attempting to make political capital out of the tax cut, ap peared a problem of sharp interest here today visit Would Reduce Income Ta Under the ¢ 1 this year the relievin; ,000 taxpayers from all taxes would be brought about by increasing the exemption to $5.000 in the case of married persons and $3500 in the case of single persons The cut would not stop there, however, Mr. Garner advocating « reduction of the maximum surtax rate to 25 per cent instead of 20 per cent as the Treasury is expected to propose. speal of all the nuisance taxes also s favored by Mr. Garner if this is possible. These taxes, including those m sales of automobiles and acce: sorie: came: film and amuse. ments, are declared by the Represent ative to he consnmption or sales taxe: {0 the principle of which he is unalter ed. He deciared himself to be in entire accord with Chairman Green of the ways and means committee on the in- heritance tax proposal—a program which contemplates the payment to " (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) 12 DEAD, 20 HURTVIN"CRASH Freight and Passenger Trains Meet on Italian Railwa-. BRESSANA, Ttaly, October 17. Twelve persons were killed and 20 in jured today when a freight train crashed into a passenger train bound from Milan for Genoa. The victims were mostly peasants. Three cars of the passenzer train were demolished. DE PINEDO QUITS TOKIO. Italian Flyer Is Forced Down on Homeward Flight. KAGOSHIMA (®).—Comdr. ¥ October 17 ancisco de Pinedo, Itallan aviator, who started m fokio today on his return flight to Italy, arrived here at 2:40 o'clock this afternoon, after he had been forced to land at Kushimoto, near Osaka, by bad weather. If weather conditions permit De Pinedo plans to make hIS next flight Japan, | divected to Shanghai without making landing in Korea. \ H