Evening Star Newspaper, October 23, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) s Increasing cloudiness, rain late tonight or tomorrow; some- what warmer. Temperatures: Highest today: lowest, 36, at 7 a. * Full report on Page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 .m. today. followed by . 50, at noon .No. 29760. ToUmés Entered_as second class matter Washington, D. C. LEAGUE ASKS HALT T0 WAR IN BALKANS D CALLS PROBE Meeting Set for Monday. Bulgar Town Reported Taken by Greeks. PLANES AND ARTILLERY ARE ACTIVE IN INVASION Athens and Sofia Requested to Send | Envoys to Parley to Sift the Dispute. ®r the Associated Prese PARIS, October 23.—The machinery of the League of Nations was set in motion today in an effort to prevent another Balkan wa M. Briand, as the presiding officer. | %as summoned the league council to meet here next Monday and investi-| zate the cause of the dispute which kuddenly flared up between Greece and Bulgaria early this week. The fighting started on Monda: the frontier region but the mass of official and semi-offi cial claims and counter claims which have emanated since from Sofia and Athens have failed to establish which side was responsible. The fact remains that hostile forces are facing each other in the valley of the Struma River, which flows southward across the international boundary, and into the Aegean Sea, that villiges and towns have been hombarded, and that blood has been spilled. Bulgar Town Occupied. y in Advices from trustworthy sources indicate that the town of Petrich, in rian territory, has been occu- and that a number of other towns in the Struma Valley have been at least menaced by Greek troops. A Greek official communique admits the entry of Greek troops into Bul garian territory, but says the move was of ‘“strategic necessity” to pre vent further incursions of Bulgarian on Greek soil. From Sofia comes the word that the Greeks are advancing on a 15-kilo- meter front on both banks of tne Struma, and that in addition to the use of artillery, airplanes have bombed the bridges, barracks, roads and stations. Advices reaching Vienna declare Petrich, a Bulgarian village crowded with Macedonian refugees, has finally been abandoned in flames and that other towns, including Mareseostinovo and Marinople, are under ‘bombard- ment. The capitals countries display over the outcome. A cabinet meeting was called in Belgrade, the Juge- slavian capital, and at its conclusion the situation was described as most delicate and calculated to cause a terrible conflagration” if advance continues. gravest concern Greek Advance Stops. An Athens dispatch this morning gald the Greek government had or- dered its forces to halt their advance and to make no further move against the Bulgarians unless there was a fresh attempt to attack them. Bulgarians were said to have evacu ated the positions they held on Greek territory In issuing the call for the League life belt to which he clung until res- | Mississippi, Council meeting M. Briand also com- municated with Athens and Sofia, asking both governments to be repre- sented at the meeting and requesting them to abstain from further hostili ties meanwhile. A semi-official communique from So- fia declared the Bulgarian government was resting upon its appeal to the league. would not reply to the Greek demands and would “await with con fidence the decision of the council.” The Bulgarian legation in Paris also issued a statement denying that the Sofia government intonded to declare war should Greek troops remain on Rulgarian soil. The statement said it was impossible for Bulgaria such action in view of her disarmed state under the peace treaty. INVADERS CAUSE PANIC. Bulgarian Peasants Fleeing in Piti- ful State From Homes. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. PETRICH, Bulgaria, October 23 (Thursday night via London).—Great panic prevalls among the Bulgarians in the territory occupied by the Greeks. All along the frontier the population is fleeing in panic, ing their homes and their cattle. Their condition is pitiful. The Greeks are destroving everything they can find. The invasion of Bulgaria began Thursday morning and along a line of 25 kilometers artillery and rifle fire was opened. The Greeks advanced eight kilometers into Bulgaria and surrounded, the town of shelling and bombing the place. Bulgarian forces, which 200 infantrymen, offered no ance. So far resist- the casualties are 2 officers wounded. 8 soldiers killed and 15 wounded. In Petrich, where two Greek airplanes bezan dropping hombs, four women and three chil- dren were wounded. Outside of the town the authorities are trying to calm the population and are waiting hourly for this unexpect- ed aggression to stop. The situation i« disgraceful and the Bulgarian gov- ernment is appealing to the great powers and for protection. If action is not taken soon war might result. (Copyright. 19 by Chicaxo Daily News Co.) Bulgarian Troops Retire. SVETI-VRATCH. on the Bulgarian frontier, October (Thursday, de- layed) (#).—Greek troops, without a declaration of war, this morning in- vaded Bulgarian soil, bombarding the frontier town of Petrich and advanc- ing up the valley of the Struma River. On the left bank of the river the Greeks advanced along a front of 15 kilometers (9.32 miles) to a depth of 6 kilometers (3.7 miles). On the right bank thelr line was 20 kilometers 112.42 miles), and the penetration was 2 kilometers (1.24 miles). The Bulgarian troops along the line. Simultaneously over _the y Continued retired all airplanes appeared nd hombed the ', Column 4. of Demirhissar, | the Greek | The | to take | leav- | Petrich. | The | numbered | the League of Nations | FLORIDA’S RIDGE SECTION Elevated Land of Groves Shows BY BEN McKELWA! Staff Correspondent of The Star. AVON PARK, Fla., October 21 (By Mail).-—Noah, perched high and dry atop Mount Ararat, probably looked down in more than one sense of the word upon the lowlanders. In the first place, they had all been drowned. In the second, they had shown a woe lack of common sense in not deserting the valleys and seeking the hills. when such search doubtless would have been rewarded by death in at least a rarified atmosphere. And some- | thing of Noah’s scorn for the lov er has come down through the ages | to the present inhabitants of Florida's Ridge Section.” Their people who seek the coast, when they might Ridge, or who choose to | flat country when they sht have the hills, is beyond adequate descrip. tion. Suffice it to say that Flovida's hillman_has said the last word. has voiced his contempt supre when he describes land by saying: “Oh, that® It's flat.” Which is by way of introduction to the fact that Florida has a hill sec- | tion. It is not much as compared to hilis _as hills are generally knewn But Florida’s highest point is on the ither on the consi, live oma m ch Flat Country. opinion of the | n in the | WASHINGTON, D. (., FRIDAY 'MITCHELL ACCUSED Lakes and Orangef Contempt for 3 | Formal Charges Are Served I e S R e Upon Colonel by Agent of Adjutant General. mit 320 feet toward the sky. It tops| | the rest of the Ridge, which runs its! | course of 80 miles from Haines City. in the north, to Lake Childs, in the | | south. The ridge is from two to eight | miles in width, and its hills are a average of 200 feet above sea level. | Dotting the jandscape lfke a string of jewels lying on green velve: 800" clear, fresh water lake | are about eight of them to eve and between them and around their _ 2 | sandy shores are orange, zrape fruit; Reid Argues Service of Papers and tangerine groves whose bright. | glossy leaves sparkle and dince to the whisper of the breeze. The sum total of this whispering runs about like this: Orange Tree: “I'll be five vears old this coming June, and I've already had 30 owners.” Grapefruit Tree: “Well. 1 don't know who my owner is either. but if he doesn’t come by here with the cultivatol nd some fertilizer 1 w 't | come through with the grapefruf Tangerine Tree: “Aw. what are you | hirds kicking about anyhow? I've heen subdivided. and am now the principal attraction of a 50-foot lot.” The boom has struck the Ridge, as it has struck everywhere. and the | gait here is fast. The Ridge is one QUESTION OF ARREST IS STILL UNSETTLED Amounts to Jailing—Army Disputes Issue. i “Conduet to the prejudice of good jorder and military discipline” was charged against Col. Mitcheli today in court-martial specifications served upon him a result of his attacl several weeks ago on the conduct of the Army and Navy Air Services The statement issued by Col Mitchell at San Antonio after the crash of the Shenandoah, said the formal accusation, constituted in- subordination and was “highly con- temptuous and disrespectful” to the (Continued on Page 14, Column 1.) BRITISH ‘MYSTERY PLANE WRECKED IN - CUP RACE TRYOUT Pilot Gets Wetting, When Ship Falls in Bay, But Escapes With Life. | By the Associated Press. | 'BAY SHORE PARK. Baltimore, Oc i tober 23.—Great B: e | plane, the super-ms | crashed this morning during the nav- {igability trials and is a total wreck | Capt. Henry C. Biard, the pilot. is suf- { fering from an immersion and shock, | but escaped injury. | Capt. Biard had just taken off for the | trails and was at an elevation of about of the neighboring | 200 feet when a wing-flutter appar.|source of revenue for State govern- | ently developed in hoth wings of the { monoplane. Capt. Biard attempted at | once to land. As he struck the er. ,the super-marine nosed down and somersaulted on her back. pressing the pilot under the surface. Pilot Clears Ship. | Capt. Biard was wearing a lifebelt and managed to clear himself and reached the surface as the Napier S-4 | sank. Capt. Hubert Broad, who had taken the British Gloster Napier TIT out for | her tests a short time hefore. seei “apt. Blard in trouble, started toward him as he fell. When Capt | Biard_freed_himself from the wreck. | age, Capt. Broad threw him a second cue boats picked him up a few min- utes later. | The crash occurred about half a mile off_shore from the hangars. | The supermarine’s mishap will |throw into the Schneider cup race to- | morrow both of Great Britain's Glos- ter-Napier III's. one of iwhich had been held in reserve. Bert Hinkler of felbourne, Australia, the British re- | serve pilot, will take the second Gloster into the race tomorrow. Capt. Biard {intended to make no attempt to take {part in the cup race after the shatter- ling of his supermarine. Plane’s Motor Saved. The supermarine disintegrated a |she sank in the water. Salvage hoats jon the scene a few minutes after the crash succeeded in bringing to_the surface the supermarine Napier-Lion ‘engine. The rest of the plane ap- |peared to be practically a total lo: {Capt. Biard said that when he crashed the engine appeared to be functioning | perfectly. The foremost racing seaplanes of the | United States, Great Britain and Italy were called upon to prove their sea | worthiness on the bosom of the Chesa |peake as the final condition of their | lentry tomorrow. To guard against \tions M. Jacques Schneider, French porgman and aviator who presented |the bronze trophy 1o the Aero Club “freak” construc- |of France, provided that all contesting | |planes should, the day immediately | preceding each Schneider race, prove |the worth of their sea structure in {grueling surface tests Freaks Are Weeded Out. In the navigability and seaworth- !iness trials, the seagear and the sur- i face behavior of the craft are Jjected to much greater stress and | scrutiny than in the actual race. This ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) |tax before navigability and seaworthiness|that the Federal levy b2 rapealed and ub- | War Department It was in this statement that the colonel declared the loss of the Shenandoah was due to criminal and almost treasonable conduct of the Air Service; The specifications two later statements. Rucker Brings Charges. charges are brought in the name of Lieut. Col. Kyle Rucker. chief of the military affairs section of the judge advocatc general's of- fice, and were served upon Mitchell by Col. Joseph R. McMullen, assist ant judze advocate general. Repre sentative Reid of Illinois, counsel for Mitchell. declared the service of the papers carried with it technical arrest of the colonel, but War Department officials disagreed. They said the ! technical arrest probably would take place immediately before the officer is GOVERNORS URGE ENDING OF FEDERAL - INHERITANGE LEVY also relate to The, Executives Declare Natiori ; Should Give Over Tax En- tirely to States. placed on trial before u general court- martial here next wek | ——— i The specifications against Col Mitchell are eight in number, all | By the Associated Press i | P State sovernors brought their case | Drought under the ninety-sixth article & i o OF WU, for repeal of the Federal inheritance | “ppese specifications are as follows the - House w: and 1. That Col. Mitchell in maRing the | means committee today at its hem--g |ings on tax reduction and reform. | wreck of the Shenandoah) Half a dozen State executiv came | du';'l.hlm;‘fl(”ln lh.e l];|p‘jl‘{1|rl|(’ [to the Capital to present personally to | order and military discipline. [the committee thelr views in sup- | 3 That Col Mitchell on September | port of Secretray Mellon’s SURReStION | the administration j parcment.” Department Seen Discredited. 3. That Col. Mitchell on Septem- !ber 5 “made a statement highly con temptuous and disrespectful of the {administration of the War Depart- ment with intent to discredit | same, to the prejudice of good order |and military discipline.” | 4. Same ‘as specification 3. except that It refers to the Navy Depart- ment instead of the War Department 5 to 8. Same as the first four, but | referring to the statements made by | Col. Mitchell on September 9. Col. Mitchell's charges, _which brought about direct action by the War Department, as contained in his state- _ment from San Antonio September 5. follow: “I have been asked from all parts of the country to give my opinion about the reasons for the frightful aeronautical accidents and loss of life. | equipment and treasure that have oc- |curred during the last few days (re- |terring_to the Shenandoah and the PN-9 No. 1, then believed destroyed). | This statement, therefore, is given out | publicly by me after mature delibera |tion and ‘after a sufficlent time has elapsed since the terrible accidents to {our naval aircraft to find out some- thing about what happened. My opinion is as follows These accldents are the direct re Isult of the incompetency, eriminal |levy of 1 per cent is imposed, the rate negligence and almost treasonable ad- | then graduating up to a maximum of ministration of the national defense by {40 per cent, applying on_the amount | the Navy and War Departments. In {of an estate in excess of $10,000,000.their attempts to keep down the de- | The law also permits a credit up to | velopment of aviation into an Inde. | 25 per cent of tke total amount of any | pendent department. separate from the levy paid on an estate to a State|Army and Navy and handled by aero- Vernment. !nautical experts, and to maintain the el {existing systems, they have gone BVOESHEI (e {the utmost lengths to carry their | Chairman Green has Indicated he ! point. | favors uxmendment of the law to per- | mit full credit to cstate taxpayers if | the Siate government levies a vate | 5 equal to the Federal tax. Such an : amendment also is favored by Repre. \’ flying officers of the Army or Navy, Semtative. Garner of Tesas, - rawing | Who_know practically nothing about Democrat on_the committee. |1 JThelllseiofithe & ome i eibeins Opening the arguments he | ‘ i State representatives, Gov. Walker | The Ereat Congress of the United presented to the committee the reso-' States. that makes laws for the or- lution approved formally by 32 State | §anization and use of our air, land governors asking repeal of the estate | 2nd water forces, is treated by these Bix. He said other Rovernors slse |two departments as if it were an or- had indorsed it, but named the execu. | §anizatlon created for thelr benefit, to tives of lowa, Wisconsin, California | Which evidence of any kind. whether and Oregon as being opposed to repeal | true or not. can be given without re- of the tax. | straint. ~ Officers and agents sent by “We believe this tax could not and | the War and Navy Departments to would not have passed,” he said, “ex- | Congress have almost always given cept for the emergency created by the | Incomplete, misleading or false war. We believe this levy should be | formation about aeronautics, which left for use by the States alone. either_they “We are not experts in taxation ~ (cont and we leave to the wisdom of the | committee decision as to how quick | S i s G 22 CAILLAUX DEFERS “did con- t Zood |estate taxes be left entirely a |ments. In addition, State officials |representing the zovernors of 11 other | States were on hand to present their support of the movement for repeal of the Federal levy, which last year | was increased. Gov. Walker of Georgia, one of the half dozen State executives al- |lotted time for hearing today, and who initiated the canvass of senti- | ment among them on the question, stated that in addition to the 17 gov- ernors here or represented he had re- ceived indication of support in the movement from 15 others. Others Allotted Time. Others allotted time by the commit- | tee today included Govs. Whitfield of | Trinkle of Virginia, Mc- | Lean of North Carolina and McLeod | of South Carolina, with Gov. Peay of Tennessee also ready to appear. The | committee also hud listed for appear- |ance today Lieut. Gov. Nolan of Min- nesota and representatives of the New York State Tax Commission, of New Mexico State. and the national com mittee on inheritance taxation. The present Federal State tax al |lows an exemption of $50,000. vpm—.\ | the amount of net estate in excess of $50,000 and not exceeding $100,000 a Says Chiefs Inefficient. “All aviation policles, schemes and systems are dictated | for on Page 2, Column 1.) Street Cars Limited ‘Followin Declaring that complaints have been received regarding the speed of street. cars, Maj. Edwin B. He se to- day issued an order to the police to enforce an old law providing that street cars shall not exceed a speed of 15 miles per hour within the city limits or 20 miles an hour in the su- { burbs. The police chief also referred in the order to the speed of motor busses and reminded the police that the speed limit for motor vehicles is 22 miles per hour. Officials of the two street railway companies, when they learned of the order, stated that they are as anxious as any one to prevent motormen from going too fast, and that they en- deavor to keep watch on the cars to see that motormen proceed at a rea- sonable speed. John H. Hanna, vice president and general manager of the Capital Tra tion Co., said it was his belief that sireet cars should be subject to the i g Complaints Made of Speedin, to 15 Miles an Hour, DETAILING PLANS D“Cnhinet Breaks Un Without Res- ignation of Minister—To Meet Monday. | same regulations as to speed allowed ; | for other vehicles. He expressed some | fear that the issuance of a general or- | | der to the police would probably re- | | sult in a slowing up of car service| By the Associated Press. | because motormen would have before! PARIS, October 23.—The French them constantly the thought that they | cabinet meeting today broke up with- might exceed the 15-mile limit within | out Finance Minister Caillaux fully the city limits. Both Mr. Hanna and Williain F.|mitting his resignation, which had Ham, president of the Washington | been anticipated in some quarters. Railway and Electric Co., stated that | The cabinet is to meet again on Mon- their schedules were prepared on |day. 3 basis within the speed limit fixed by| While not giving the details of his law, but it was not clear in their|plans, M. Caillaux laid the financial | minds where the line would be drawn | position of the country before his col- between city limits and suburbs. !leagues in general terms. | "Mr. Ham pointed out that the slow-| The impression prevails that the | ing up of street cars also has the ef-icabinet will meet the Chamber of Dep- | fect of slowing up of vehicular traf-|uties next Thursday without any | fic moving on the same street. change in its membership, although | Officials of both companies made it|fyll agreement on the financial ques- | clear, however, that they are not in|tion has not vet been reached among | favor of street cars traveling at an: the minister: excessive rate of speed and that they| would make every effort to have thz| order complied with, Rawo Programs—Page 41, \ OCTOBER | (OF 8 VIOLATIONS OF - DISCIPLINARY GBDE statement of September 5 (after the of the War De.' the | 10! the mnon-! in- | knew to be false_ when | i detailing his fiscal measures or sub-| ¢ Foening Star. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every sity block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 102,151 | | | DEA 1925—FIFTY-FOUR PAGES. TH ¥ ) Means Associated Pre: TWO CENTS. BN TP 'RICH WOMAN GIVES UP GEMS BELIEVED TAKENBY HUSBAND D. C. Police Refuse to Reveal Name of Wife Who Sur- rendered Jewels. |PROPERTY IDENTIFIED BY NEW YORK WOMAN Mate Here Acts | After Reading Accounts of His ‘\ Arrest in St. Louis. | “Weidemeier's wealthy Washington through her attorney, today the police §34,500 stolen jewelry and weari given her by her husband arrested under the name of .John W. Weidemeter in Louis last week and who is now under indictment in New York on swindle charges. He is now under arrest in St. Louis The jewelry and wearing apparel was instantly identified by Mrs. Rose Berken of New York, who came to this city *with Detective Curtin woma turned rth of apparel ho wa over to 3,00 CHURCHM - CALL ON COOLIDGE Visiting Congregationalists Are Received by President at the White House. President Calvin Coolidge, Congre gationalist, today received at White House the 3,500 delegates at- tendding the twenty-first biennial gath- ering of the National Counc gregational Churches and 330 associ ate members, young men and women, who arrived in Washington this motn- ing for a special week end arranged in |their interest. The President posed i for a group picture with members of his faith. i With the much-sought merger of the 11 foreign and home missionary so- | cieties of the Congregational Church into two general the council following lengthy debate at a special meeting held yesterday after- noon. the council to is plunged into its fourth day’s deliberations, with another important question confront- ing it. This is the propnsed con solidation of the three publications of | the Congregationalists into one united magazine, to be issued weekly and known as the Congregationalist. There is a decided division of thought on the question of cqnsolidat- ing the three publications,and a gen- uine parliamentary tussle is contem- plated before the matter is finally dis- posed of. Due to the fact that the 116th an- nual meeting of the American Board | of Commissioners for Foreign Mis is predominating “the council's pro- gram for today and tonight. debate on the publication issue will not start ! until tomorrow or later. Those sponsoring the united publi- cation point out that as the three magazines, the Congregationalist, the Miss Herald and the American Missionary. as now conducted, have rolled up a deficit of $67,000 in one vear. They contend that 2 united pub- ication at subscription price ranging from $3 to $2 a_year would not only earn a dividend but create more inter- est throughout the country in mission- ary work. In an effort to pacify the sroup which is standing pat on the present | “(Continued on Page 2, Column §.) 'DUKE LEAVES DUKE U. BIG MEDICAL SCHOOL $4.000,000 of $10,000,000 Bequest to Endowment Fund for Institution. ions d_merely as pawns in their hands. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October A be- quest of $10,000,000. to be adminis- | tered by the Duke Endowment, was made in the will of the late James B. Duke, tobacco magnate, in his will filed for probate today at Somerville, The will directed that $4,000,000 of | | the $10,000,000 bequest should go for | the construction and equipment of a medical school. hospital and nurses' home at Duke University, at Durham, N. C. The will does not reveal th total value of the Duke estate, which ! has been variously estimated at sums as_high as $150,000,000. The will gave Mrs. Nanaline H. Duke for life the Duke Fifth avenue | property, Rough Point, at Newport, R. 1., and Lynnewood, at Meyersport, NJE; The same property goes to Mr. Duke’s daughter, Doris, at_the death of her mother. The Duke Farms Co.. a New Jersey corporation, was ordered dissolved and the funds realized to be distributed to the shareholders. {TWO MORE S-51 BODIES RECOVERED BY DIVERS By the Associated Press. NEWPORT, R. I, October 23.— Two more bodies wege recovered today from the sunken submarine S-51 by Navy divers. They will be brought to the Naval Hospital here this afternon. The body found yes- terday has not yet been identified. J. H. Taylor, expert from the Bureau of Identification in Washington, has been sent for, and is expected here late today or this evening. He will bring with him fingerprints of the crew of the S-51. Comdr. Paul Dessez of the Naval Hospital has said that he belleved that {dentification by | menns of the fingerprinta would be ! possible. |Judge Kills Wife, the | the fellow | Niece and Self in Dread of Pove By the Associated P JOIGY, France. October den of 70 years and confronted with want and misery, Judge Lr nest le Blane, who was about to be | retired from the bench. hanged himself in his office here, after having killed his wifa, a4 his niece, Maric Louise Kollon. 7-vear old orphan. This is the hypothesis of the police The bodies of his wife and niece were found on a bed upstairs. Phy- siclans expressed the nelief that death was due to strangulation. The judse's pension would have been 4.000 franes a year, less than $200. He was oo feeble to add to this sum by work. LIBRARY EXPANSION BILL BEING DRAWN | Capital’s Need of More | Branches Is Recognized by " Commissioner Fenning. bodies, sanction by | New legislation needed by the Free Public Library to enable it to de- velop properly and establish a suffi- clent number of branches throughout the city will be submitted to the Citi- zens' Advisory Council by Commis- sioner Fenning. The Commission said he also is having the corporation counsel pre pare a bill for a new vagrancy law for the District to be presented at the coming session of Congress. He | conterred on this question today with Judge McMahon of Police Court Commissioner Fenning made known | his intention of pushing the legisla- tion for development of the library system, following a conference with . George Bowerman, librarian When the library system was start ed, he said, it was looked upon as one huilding in a central location. There have already been established, how ever, several branches, and Dr. Bow- erman pointed out that there is still an unmet need for a considerable num- | ber of branches in public school build- |ings to serve neighborhoods that are far removed from any of the existing | ibrary bulldings. Some cities, Dr. Bowerman said | have expanded their library service b; | opening branches in rented quarter: |in various localities until such time |as they could place a branch in a | school building or in" a separate |library structure. | ‘FOIL BLAST IN STATUE. German Police Find Communists Cut Hole for Dynamite. BERLIN, October 23 (#).—Plans to dynamite a statue of Emperor Wil ‘IMm I in the main street of Breslau as discovered last evening. Pedes- ans all day long observed two men n workmen's clothes chiseling a large hole in the marble structure. No suspicion were aroused until after the men had ceased work in the after- noon. Police inquiries revealed that they were communists who had planned to insert dynamite in the hole and blow up the monument. |t GERANS BORROM New York to claim the property The surrender of the property surrounded with deepest secrecy the police here. Pledges that the name of the woman would not be made public were exacted by her at- torney Dbefore entering into the transaction was by Has Many Aliases. Another spectacular angle of case came to light ¥ was discovered that whose aliases are many, had swin dled his bride here of some $40,000 before leaving this city. “Weidemei ai Grant today e premier I sent a man where he was in prison merels have a look at him, and since time his aliases have been Dr Edwards, Karl von Elier and » other names. Probably the he used in Rockville, in margwir this local woman—whose would swear to you I don't was something entirely different “Two persons outside of the womi- an herself were let into the secret of her identity. One was her attor- nev. The other was Detective Iia Keck. Here's how the situation shaped up The woman read accounts of the ar- rest of Von Edwards, Von Elder, Ed- wards or Weidemeier—all the aliases were used in news dispatches—she felt that some of the jewelry her husband had showered upon her before his de- parture with her $40,000 might ha some connection with the fraud ope tions he was charged with. She w not sure that the man arrested was her husband. She was not certain o any of the surrounding circumstances, 50 she went to her attorney. Her at torney, in turn, went to Keck pledging Keck to secrecy as to identity, told him the story of anonymous client. He emphasized £mong other things the $40.000 fraud operation. The wheels of the Police Department began to_turn. Inspector C. L. Grant wired the chief of police in St. Louis stating that he thought it possible that a $40.000 case against this man might be pend. ing in this city and asked for his pho- tograph. Identifies Photograph. The photograph came hack all righ Then the woman was given an oppor tunity to look at it. She identified it as of her husband. On some of the initials “R. M. B." initials of Rose M. Berken of New York City. who had lost $110,000 worth of jewelry and other valuables since her acquaintance with the silver. tongued cavaller who had paid atten- tions to her So the police asked for Mrs. Berken to come here and see if she could identify the proper! She came. Today. Mrs. Berken not only iden- tified the property, but also identified the picture from St. Louis as that of the man who took her money. The jewelry was turned over to Mrs. Ber- ken The case against Weidemeier, or dwards, here will wait for the dis- position of the case in the indictment in_New York, Inspector Grant said today. The jewelry in the lot returned in- cluded “bracelets valued at $2,600, a two-stone diamond ring valued at {$3,000: another ring valued at $3.000, a vanity case and a cigarette case, expensively chased and incrusted with jewels, and two large diamond drop earrings valued at $2,600 Among the other things returned ere a mink coat valued at $5,500, | silken embroidered kimonos and other items of feminine apparel. NEW WOMAN IN CASE. Loans From America Often’ Used for Unnecessary Proj- ects, Observer Finds. me men 1 of all confidence to Auburn in Loans by American investors to foreign countries and corpora- tions during the year will exceed $1.000.000.000. Cabling from Berlin today. Mr. Mowrer indicates that Germans are spending some of this money on new statues and unnec- essary “city beautiful” campaigns BY EDGAR ANSELL MOWRER. By Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily News. BERLIN, October 23.—New slaugh- ter houses, larger electrical plants | stadia, gymnasia, better sewerage and water supply and Greek statues— such are the ends to which most of | the American money now in process | | of being advanced to German munici- palities will be devoted. There is a regular epidemic of American loan hunting among Ger- man cities. The city of Berlin al- ready has a loan. Negotlations have been concluded or are pending be- tween American bankers and cities of Munich, Nurembers, Augs burg, a group of Baden cities. Frank furt-on-the-Main. Breslau. Hamburg, Heidelberg, Stettin, Altona, Essen, Duesseldorf, Kiel, Bouchum, Dort mund, Gelsenkirchen, Stuttgart, Koenigsberg, Dresden. the Province of Palatinate, the State of Bavaria. | the State of Bremen and the Free Cit. of Danzig. & are doubtless catching the disease and new loans are in sight. Loans Must Be Approved. City and State loans must first be | approved by the public loan hoard of the finance ministry and it is possible |that some authorizations will be re- fused. but. although practically all Ger. man financial authorities, commencing with Dr. Schacht, president of the Reichsbank, are opposed to cities taking these loans, it is probable that internal political pressure will prevail |over financial sense and the cities will have their way. Herein lies Very serfous damage to Germany anfl a certain danger to n creditors. These loans to are mostly used for unproduc- tive enterprices, or enterprises pro. | ductive only in the long run. The in. |terest, which is exceptionally high, {must be paid out of the present Ger. | man economic system and taxes taken ! |from the people. Therefore every dol. | lar of interest must be scraped from | the already empty flour barrel. Germans still spend overfreely. Tt |is difficult to convince foreigners that the city of Berlin ought really to put | |up half a million marks, as it now con- templates, for the purchase of even |the most beautiful Greek statue. It| |must be said that American® bankers | and bankers' agents are largely at fault. Under the pressure of capital excess | _. in the United States and the hope of | » commissions, these bankers literally lie awake nights trying to unearth | {new German corporate bodles who could be encouraged to borrow Ameri- | |can dollars. Naturally German com. | |panies in financial difficulties do not | Detroit Resident Accuses Wiedemeier of Swindling Her. refuse the proffered aid. | Hence impersonal American experts ST. LOUIS, October 23 (P).—The | name of Mrs. ‘Ada Frank of 104 Stim- here unanimously urge American {bankers and investors to aid the Ger- man government in discouraging the | son street, Detroit, Mich., was added to the mounting list of complaints | against John V. Wiedemeter, arrested taking of loans by withholding the money until Germany's extremely in- volved economic situation is clarified ' here recently while en route to Eu- and Germany is freed from imerna»‘rope with Mrs. Leonard H. Hoffman, tional burdens and can again engage | wife of a Chicago fur dealer. Lr‘\"s;)iu::"wilfaie improvements with- In a letter to police here Mrs. | i were the These were the jewelry Device Measuring By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 23.—Science now has perfected a-device that van welgh the pull of thé-moon on minute objects on the earth. An instrument made by Ralph C. Hartsough of Columbia University detects how much lighter an object weighing one 29-thousandth of an ounce on the ground becomes when it is lifted a foot. This difference .in weight is due to the attraction the moon has for ob- jects on the earth, as demonstrated in_the tides. ‘The instrument will be used to weigh molecules and test the Einstein theory. The Einstein theory holds that light rays have weight and are curved by gravitation; that gravitationa1 attrac- tion has the same speed as light, Of Ounce to Test Einstein Theory |lice here as that of Wiedemeier. No | details of the alleged swindle were | given. Since his arrest two women have appeared and declared that Wiede- meier married them. THREE KILLED INA;!IOT. Seventeen Policemen Among In- jured in Religious Parade Row. MADRAS, India, October 23 (#).— Three persons have been killed and many injured, including 17 policemen, in a riot after a religlous procession in the village of Uttungi, near Bellary. During the procession two factions of Lingayats, or members of a caste, clashed, and the police intervened. Some 1,000 villagers then attacked the : The photograph W identified by po- 280-Billionth Under the theory one and a third seconds would be required for. the moon’s pull to travel 240,000 miles to the earth. If the theory is correct shadows on the machine are expected to show that the moon exerts its greatest pull one and a third seconds after it passes. its zenith over any given spot on the earth's surface. If the Einstein theory is wrong the ma- chine is expected to show the greatest pull at the exact instant of the moon reaching the zenith. Gold-surfaced mirrors are held to- gether by gossamer-like filiaments of quartz in the Hartsough machine. Changes in weight of an object under scrutiny displace light rays in such | police with stones and other missiles a manner as to cause measureable | and the police replied with buckshot. movements of shadows. It will meas-| The injured police include a deputy ure one 280-billionth of an ounce. superintendent.