Evening Star Newspaper, October 24, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. (1. € Wenther Bureau Forecast.) Rain tonig’ and possibly tomor- Yow morning: warmer tonight, coldér tomorrow night Temperatures: vesterday terday. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 102,019 TWO CENTS. COMMUNIST DRIVE Highest, 55, at 3 p.m. lowest. 39, at 11 p.m. yes- Full report on page 2. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, ¢ Fpening Star. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 24 ),761. 9C Entered as second class matter post_office, Washington, D. G, GREECE CONTINUES' BULGAR FORCE OF ONLY 600 o. D. C, SATURDAY, OCTOBER = PARENTAL SHIRKING 24, 1925—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. TROOP MUVEM[NT,\ OPPOSES GREEK ADVANCE BULGARIA CHARGES Reports Large Contingents‘ Still Advancing on Border, and Threatens Battle. CALLS ATTENTION ANEW TO INQUIRY REQUEST] Announces Small Army Will Stop Retreat Soon and Fight to Defend Territory. B the Associated Pre SOFIA. BULGARIA, Octover, 24 —Bulzaria is sending troops in The “war area, and has decided to make a stand as far as her mited military strenzth permi in case the Greeks continue invade the territory granted her under the Treaty of Neuilly. This is stated in authoritative quarters here. to —Large contin continue to be SOFIA, October gents of Greek troop: sent toward the Bulgarian border, the Bulgarian Telegraph Agen: an nounces. 1t considers this an indica- tion that the Greeks intend to enlarge the scope of their present offensive. The zovernment that Greeks have pierced Bulgarfan territory to depth of more than seven miles on a 20-mile front. The azency declares that the popu- | lation is highly excited, and that feel ing is growing that a limit must soon be set to the retreat of the Bulgarian forces. Resistance Is Threatened. constrained % the Greeks are not - ays the to halt their offen azency, “the Bulgarian army. though not numerous and not possessed of much material, will not look on much Jonzer passively at violation of the natlon’s soil, and will defend itselt The Bulgarian =overnment has sent a note to Athens reiterating its demal that Bulgarian troops have at any time violated Greek frontier out posts, regretting that it cannot enter into direct pourparlers with Greece uand contirming its desire to await the decision of the League of N tions council Contents of Note. The note, which is in reply to the Greek demands, declines all respon- sibility for the frontler incident, and points out that aithough zarlan and Greek views differ as to the origin of the trouble, the Sofia government from the very first sug- rested that a committee of inquiry should be appointed to investixate the matter and recommended that hoth zovernments should direct their armed forces to cease hostilities Unfortunately, the note continues, the Bulgarian proposal elicited no re- ply, while on the other hand Greek troops advanced 7 miles into Bulgaria. Confronted by such a zrave situation the Bulzarian zovernment had no al- ternative but to appeal to the leazue. The note expresses regret that it was not found possible to carry on direct pourparlers with Greece and Bulgaria now intends to await decision of the league. the DENIES BOMBING TOWN. Greek Statement Says Only Few Shells Were Fired. ATHE; October 24 (#).—The Athens agency maintains that the con- tinued advance of Greek troops on the Bulgarian frontier is destined merely 10 relieve a post at Demir-Kapu which the Bulgarians are still attacking in order to prevent the Greeks from re. occupying it The azency insists that mander of the 3rd Greek heen forbidden to billet troops on civilians in Bulgaria, but that the Bulgars are continuinz hostilities. The agency also denies that the town of Petrich was deliberately bombarded 1y the Greeks and maintains that on few shells were fired, th directed against the raflway station to vent the debarkation of two com- anies of Bulgarian reinforcements from Dubnitza the com- Corps has COUNCIL ACTS QUICKLY. League Body Moves on Receipt of Sofia Telegram. By the Associated Press. I'"ARIS, October 24.—The tion of the council of the League of Nations to delve into the Greco- Bulgarian iwbroglio and endeavor to ameliorate the situation was carried out with great promptness. sir Eric Drummond, secretary gen- 11 of the league, received the tele- gram of protest of M. Kalfoff. the Bulzarian foreizn minist against the Greek occupation at oclock Friday morning. At 10 o'clock M Briand, president of the council of the league, decided to call a_meeting of his colieagues for next Monday and at 1 o'clock in the afternoun tele grams, under M. Briand’s signature wer( dispatched from Geneva sum moning the Athens and Sotia govern ments to send representatives to ap- pear before the council $-51 LlEUTENAN’l;‘S BODY IDENTIFIED AT NEWPORT mobiliza- James Dudley Hasleden, Jr., Was From Dillon, S. C.—Two Others Await Proof. Associated Prese By the NEWPORT, K. L. October 24.—One of the two bodies taken from the en- gine room of the sunken Navy sub- marine S-51 yvesterday was identified today as that of James Dudley Hasle- den, jr. Dillon, S. C. Identification was made at the Ney port Naval Hospital by J. H. Taylor, tinger print expert, who came here this morning trom the Bureau of ldentification in Washington. De- termination of the identity of the two sther bodies here, one of which was found yesterday and one the day be- fore, may be delaved, it was said, nwing to the condition of the bodie Taylor has wired to Washington for additional identification records. the Bul- | says ! lieutenant, junior grade, of | BY WALTER COLLINS. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. SOFIA, October 23, via London, October 24 —The writer has just mo- tored back to Sofia from Petritch. During the night the Greeks practi. j cally encircled the town and the main {road into the town, which is only 1 mile from the Greek trenches. Within five minutes 12 near the road and several bursts of machine guns swept it. Alded by luck and the couruge of the chauffeur, | the writer escaped unhurt. After an aeroplane reconnaissunce, the Petritch station is belng heavily bombed and shelled. and no train is able to arrive. | This morning the Bulgurian troops carried out u small advance toward westerly points, but they continue to | be hampered by a lack of artillery. ells fell \Fierce Hand-to-Hand Fighting Reported. Condition of Refugees to Be Pitiable. I | | | | | | Found for lifs under an increasing fire of | shrapnel and high explosive shells. | About 100 Bulgars, including civilians | as well as soldiers, are trying to put up resistance in self-defense, but they are outnumbered, and Petritch will fall easily into Greek hands. i Words can hardly describe the misery {nto which thousands of Mace. donfans and other peasants iere [thrown by the Greek advance into Bul- | garia. On Wednesday night, peasants went to bed expecting to tend their herds and cultivate their lands next | morning. Instead, they awoke to find themselves in the widst of war. Tak-| ing all their belongings they were able | to load into their carts, they trekked | into the interior, and as the corre.| spondent motored here this afternoon groups of old men, women and chil-| dren all hungry and utterly bewildered, { In the range of hills about Petritch | several fierce hand-to-hand combats | have taken place. The Greek forces e partly composed of irregular sol- {diers and militia. The Bulgarian | soldiers number only 600. | i The lack of a standard-zauge rail- | way prevents the Bulgarians from | | bringing reinforcements quickly. and | if the Greeks advance now they will| ! probably break the Bulgariun lines in | {two. Al ablebodied men and bo: i among the civilian population are | | helping the army, though most of | them are unarmed. | The weather continues lovely, which | |is a great advantage for the fleeing | women and children. Reports that Bulgurian troops ad vanced into Greek territroy have ab. solutely no foundation. The situation is getting worse, as this afternoon about 3 o'clock. force of Greek in | fantry, composed of two reziment 13.000 strong, sturted a new advance, | crossing the bridge over the Struma | +nd making their way toward Petritch. i This picturesque Mucedonian town is | their target, and. at the moment of writing, the Petritch authorities are helpless. Their women and children, ! horrified and panic-stricken, are flying |for fier:e fighting during | thereby stood at the sides of the road bheside which flow the Struma, a river famous the World War, The Bulgarian frontier guards num- ber only u few hundred, and there is | no artillery, but today the Greeks started sheiling unprotected towns and villages, while aeroplanes circling over the Struma dropped bombs ! Fleeing peasants repeatedly asked the writer: “Aren't the gieat nations of the world going to do anything to prevent us being driven from our, hearths and homes?" | Naturally, the writer could not say | anvthing to allay their unxiety, but | «t would seem strange that no repre- sentative of the Allied Milita trol Commission” at Sofia h. fit_to visit this troubled The allies disarmed Bulgaria. a incurred a certain responsi- bility in protectinz her froim sudden indapparently unjustified attacks on the part of her neighbors. ivery one's temper here is thor- oughly aroused by the events of the last two davs, and if Greece persists in her bellicose attitude it ix hard to suy what will happen, althouzh (he disparity in forces pr bably will pre- vent a real war. (Conyright. 1 v C caxo Daily News Co.) PICKETS MARCHNG BEFORE LECATION 29 Display Banners at Hun- garian Headquarters Pro- testing Arrest of Red. | { ] Twenty-nine picketers of the Inter- { national Labor Defense Council ap- { peared in front of an apartment at | 1424 Sixteenth street this afternoon, in | which s located the offices of the lega- | tion of Hungary, bearing banners de- | | nouncing Gov. Horthy of Hungar for | the arrest of Mathias Rakosi, who | W recently taken with a number ur; &mher Communists, following the dis- | | covery of a plot which soaght to over- {throw the government and public {order in Hungary, ~ | The picketers paraded from shortly | before 1 o’clock until 1:30 before ar- irival of police of the third precinct { Police were apparently unwilling to break up the gathering as the pickets | were violating no law. | | _The banners contained legends pro- {claiming that the International Labor | Defense Council was fighting _“for | | victims of Horthy dictatorship.” Other banners read <hall not die! Horthy-Partners.” i h Horthy, the Hanzman n Worker: picketers, evincing a distinct partiality for any means of publicity, had a number of typewritten state. ments ready for distribution at the scene. The demonstration was pure- Iy & move for publicity, it is believed, probably because of a mass meeting | to be held tonight at the Playvhouse, at which the Communist cindidates for Mayor of New York, Benjamin Gitlow dnd Rodger N. Baldwin, will be the principal speakers. | ‘ | PRIEST SEES COAL STRIKE END SOON After Seeing Lewis Brings Some Hope of Early Settlement. Statement ; | By the Ascociated Press. PHILADELPHIA, October statement by the Rev. John J. Cur- ran. rector of St. Mar) Roman Catholic Church in Wilkesbarre, in which he predicted an early settle- ment of the anthracite mine trouble, brought varied expressions of opin ion today from those in close touch | with the situation. ather Curran said he had con- | ferred with John L. Lewls, interna- tional president of the United Mine Workers, in Atlantic City last week | had “unswerving faith and confi- | | dence” in him as a “model citizen | and safe leader of men.” and felt that he would “do the right thin; by the miners, the operators and | Bandits Kidnap 55 From U. S. Mission' School at Canton | 1 | | By the Associated Press. HONGKONG, October 24 —Ban- dits kidnaped 51 Chinese students | and 4 Chinese teachers when they invaded the Canton Pui Ching | Academy of the American Presby- | terian Mission October 21. Strong measures are being taken for their recovery Hongkong to Canton steamers are stopped and searched on every trip at Whampoa. There is no sign of abatement of the strike hy | Chinese « protest against for- eizn activities. |of a cut | cent | October 24.—The International Schnei- | weather permitting. The Chesapeake GREEN INDORSES ESTATE TAX CUT. House Committee Head Fa-! vors Sliding Scale to Final | Repeal in Six Years. By the Associated Press Proposals for immediate reduction in the Federal inheritance tax, with re. peal at the end of six vears, were in- dorsed today by Chairman Green of the ‘House Ways and means com-| mittee. Such a scheme was presented to the committee yesterday by the National Committee on Inheritance Taxation, composed of tax experts from every section of the country. In indorsing the six-year plan, Mr. reen said this time would give op- portunity for States to enact uniform inheritance tax laws prior to with- drawal of the Federal Government. Chairman Green opposed immediate repeal, but suggested that full credit ' night be allowed in settlement of the | Federal levies for umounts paid on | State inheritance taxes. Secreta Mellon has proposed immediate repe: and his position was indorsed vester day by a number of State governors. Plea for Smokers. Taxes on automobiles, and tobacco were up for discussion today before the committee. Reductions in all of these levies | were sought by the representatives of affected interests. No place for such cuts, however, was given in the 300,000,000 reduction program sug- | gested to the committee by Secretary ' Mellon, except for repeal of the tax on automobile trucks, tires and acces. sories. Mr. Mellon estimated that repeal of | admissions | that levy would take up $35.000,000 of | the $50,000.000 he allotted in his gram to the reduction of miscellane. ous taxes. The remainder should be devoted, he thought, to wiping out taxes which yielded but small returns | and were a nuisance to collect, such | as those on art works. As to the ad-| missions levy. however, he believed should be retained since it applied | only on tickets selling for more than 0 cents. | Would Lower Prices ! In a statement presenting the posi tion of the Tobacco Merchants' Asso- ciation of the United States in favor in the tobacco tax, Charles | Dushkind of New York declared this | would permit sale of cigars at lower pro- or | are not asking for a tax reduc- | tion in order to increase our profits or | enrich any branch of our industry,” he said, “but we are looking for it as a means—in fact, as the only available means in sight—to enable us to give the consumer better value. A reduction of $2 per 1,000 on five- cent cigars, $3 on the two-for-fifteen- cent cigars, and $4.50 on the new ten &rade was proposed. Collections from tobacco levies next year are esti- mated by the Treasury at $360,000,000, forming the greatest revenue producer amonz the miscellaneous taxes. Concluding the hearings carried over from yesterday on the estate tax, the (Continued on Page 2, Column | i | | | | | | SCHNEIDER CUP RACE TO BE HELD MONDAY By the Associated Press. BAY SHORE PARK, Baltimore, der trophy seaplane race scheduled for this atternoon was formally postponed at 10 a.m. today to be held Monday, | was covered with white caps, and an increasingly strong easterly wind was blowing squalls of rain when the con- test committee decided to postpone today's program. The postponement will give the British team another chance to at- tempt to qualify thelr reserve plane to substitute for Capt. Ilenr Binrd's supermerine Nupi was wrecked in a try-out y | Less Governmental and More | tries of Latin America, i ments will disagree. | to look after our own. | peoples. OF CHILD CONTROL HIT BY PRESIDENT | Home Direction Needed, He Tells Y. M. C. A. INTERNATIONAL SESSION IS OPENED HERE TODAY No Other Lay Organization Asserts So Much Influence Upon Young | People, Delegates Hear. { Declaring there are too many indica tions that the functions of parenthe re breakinz down, President Coolidze told the forty-second international convention of the Young Men's Chris- tian Associations of the United States and Canada at its opening sossion | at the New Willard Hotel today that the vouth of the country needs “not more public control through jovernment action, but more home control through parental action ! “Too many people,” the President | warned, “are neglecting the wellbeing of their children, shifting the responsi- bility for their actions, and turning over supervision of their discipline and conduct to the juvenile couris. It stated on high authority that a very lurze proportion of the outcasts and criminals come from the ranks of, those who lost the advantazes of normal parental control in their youth They the refuzees from broken homes™ Frobab) no other dent Coolidge added an influence upon of the Nation as v force. sserts so lar voung people that represented in this convention. “It stands as a di ct challenze to materialism,” he said. “It ix 4 constant assertion that there is xomethinz more than the things thut are seen seeks to overcome the tendency of an age of rofusion which ix likely to develop into a condition of Juxury and pleas. ure, selfishness and e destructiv to the vitality of society.” Presi the It Condemns Loose Tie. The President’s address was a vigor ous condemnation of the present age of loc joined home ties and frivol- | ity r were his ds directed solely at the fast-living vounger set.i In plain, unguarded lansuage he served notice on the more mature cltizenry that “ft is not enough that there should be action in the pulpits— there must he reaction in the pews Seldom before has the President used stronger terms in denunciation of a condition he locks upon as a menace to society “One of the chief characteristics of Christianity,” he continued. “is that it is a militant and crusading faith Those who have become partakers of its inspirations and its consolations, since it first began * * * have been constantly spreading its truths * * * If that faith is to maintain its vitality that work must xo on. It is not enouzh that there should be action in the pulpits—there must he reaction in the pews. It will not bhe sufficient to have exalted preaching by the clerzy unless there exalted living by the laity Such _organizations the Young Men's Christian Association, the Presi- dent went on. constitute direct efforts in thatdirection. They are reachinz the bovs in the high schools and the industrial centers alike, they have taken strong hold in directing the moral and relizious life in many of the State universities, they are in trenched along the zreat railw: tems and along the decks, and they are reaching out to the of the whole world, he said. is now lands | Churches Objective. “Special emphasis is being placed upon the need of training for citizen- ship.” Mr. Coolidze added. *Not only Ly the zeneral development of char- acter, by encouraging industry and discouraging waste, are they strength- ening the community and raising up leaders, but by informing the vouns| respecting the teachings of the New Testament and of the Hebrew prophets they are providing them with a zrasp on the principles which must underlie all_enduring civilization. * * * “Amid all the diverzent influences that have been manifesting them- selves amonz the different peoples of the earth in recent times, it is ex- ceedingly reassuring to realize that| there s a quiet and constructive effort | on the part of a world-wide brothe: hood of Christian youth for co-ordina tion and harmony The same factor is at work in brazing together the dif- ferent religious denominations. “Because o many of their leaders | have been accustomed to a common | experience in their youth under the | leadership of the associations, a sym- | pathetic cord of increasing strength is | bringing about a spiritual union of | North America with the nearby coun- Europe and | the lands of the eastern churches of | Russia, the Balkans and the neigh- | boring states. When the people of | different countries are finding so much | on which they can agree. it is more | and more unlikely that their zovern.| Before closing the President ex- pressed frank gratification that this country has the resources that make it possible to be of zenuine service to the rest of the world, and he turned the words of those who would criticize this Nation for not doing enough back on their own authors. Awmerica has many reasons for pride and satis- faction in the spirit and character of | its citizenship, he said, addins: s gratifying to know that it has | urces with which to make this | and perform these services. | We ought to be thankfui in remem.: bering that our own people do not | reed o receive this kind of assistance | from any other people. We are able | But that which | rises above all other considerations | is the fact that our people are imbued | with a religious charity which makes | them disposed to extend these benefits | to those who are less fortunately cir- cumstanced at home and abroad. Answers Critics. { ““There are those who constantly re- prove our people and our Government | for an alleged failure to assist other | 1 do not know that any one | could ever say that we were doing | enough, but it is my strong suspicion | that those who are making the loud-! est complaints have never taken lhe[ tiouble to ascertrin what we h'x\‘el (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) {reer. ! tin, ! out with him for that REPRESENTATIVE WINGO YEP, THAT'S JUST THE way YOU'LL LOOK IN N A FEW YEARS ! SUBWAYS FOR TRAFFICISTHE = SAYS SUBWAYS FOR D TRAFBEIC 1S) THE PROPER PREPAREDNESS PLAN FIDEMEIER FALS 0 APPEAR: BAIL OF 5000 S FORFEITED Pseudo Baron Missing as Court at St. Louis Begins Inquiry Into Career. By the Associated Press ST. LOUIS. October 21.—Accused of tricking or swindling six women whom e met under various aliases. John V. Weidemeier failed to appear in Court of Criminal Correction here to- day to answer charges in connection with the Chicago inquiry into his ca- His $5.000 bond wax ordered for feited. Reports from St. Louis that John V. Weidemeier had jumped his bond in St. Louis came as no surprise to- day to Inspector Clifford Grant, chief of the Washington Detective Bureau. “I really did not expect such a clever swindler us Weidemeler, or any other of his aliases you prefer to call him.” said the inspector, “would hesitate to forfeit his bond. ‘It would not surprise me in the least to hear in th( near future of another whirl-wind courtship vy this clever swindler,” ided Inspector Grant. “His manners. his actions ar his pockethook are almost irresistible to women.” His method of operation has been arefully analyzed by Inspector (‘. L. Grant at police headquarters for the benefit of detectives here. Case of Mrs. Burkin. The case of Mrs. Rose M. Burkin of New York City forms one of the high lights in the career of the swindle Mrs. Burkin, a resident of New yor who vesterday recovered $34,500 worth )€ jewelry which had been taken by Beaverbrook Von lder Weid meier—Von Edwards™ after Mrs. M. through her attorney, had ar- ranged for the return of (hem. et this suave adventurer, who is as much at home in French and German and four other lanzuages as he is in E lish, while he was cutting quite a fi ure on Broadway. Mrs. Burkin had several children and some grandchil dren. She also had much jewelry. She consented to marry him in Ja pan. They were preparing for the trip. It was to be a quiet marriage, far from all the nofsy friends and relatives of this country. Arrangements for the sailing had heen completed. Mrs. Burkin's je elry—the amount she was king with her—wae ready to be suddenly the famed German to her and asked whether there was liability insurance taken out on them There was not. He decided that would be better to have them ap- praised and insured. He took them purpo Much Is Still Missing. The next time that Mrs. Burkin saw her jewels—only $34.500 worth out of the total $110,000—was here in Wash- ington. During the interim,this jewelry ex- perienced adventures which could be made into a veritable O. Henry story. Where some of it is now, is unknown. Police suspect that it graces beautiful v Column 4. MERGER PROPOSED (Continued on Page 2 FOR THREE CHURCHES | Universalist, Unitarian and Con- gregationalist Sects Involved in Project. By the Associated P . SYRACUSE, Y., October 24.— Universalist. Congregational and Uni tarfan churches may participate in a triple merger, it was announced last night after an address by the Rev. Harold E. E. Spaight, pastor of King's Chapel (Unitarian), Boston, Mass., at the Universalist general convention Dr. Spaight surprised the conven- tion by conveying an invitation from the Unitarian general convention in session a few days ago, for the Univer- | salist convention to name a committee of from three to five men to confer with a Unitarian committee‘in consid- eration of prospects of closer associa- tion of the two denominations. The - Congregationalists, in session this week, adopted a similar resolution inviting a Universalist committee to consider merger possibilitie: Radio Programs—Page 34. packed, when | turned | it LORIDA STRIVES TO KEEP ~ ETHICS IN REALTY DEALS Warnings Sounded to Buyers to Investi- gate First—General Inflation Is Denied. ¥ | BY BEN McKE Staff Cor ORLANDO. Mail)— Between brokers and real applied, or will which, under State law. they doing business membership in stion of AVAY, poudent of The Star. Fli.. October 30,000 and 40,000 e salesmen have apply. for recently nust posse: n Florida the Nationa Estate Boards—th who have the right to the title “‘real- tor” and who have subscribed to the national code of ethics—is 3,000, An undetermined number of salesmen are employved by these r tors The con. clusion is that a rather small propor tion of real estate men in Florida are members of the accredited real estate organization. And basing an esti- mate on the population of Florida and the tourists now within its borders there is one real estate salesman for about every 40 people in the State Sorting out from this horde of real estate men the good from the bad, keeping a check on their activities and punishinz those who engage in shady transactions by revoking their licenses to operate and driving them out of the State is a task which has been turned over to the Real state Brokers Registration Board his orzaniza tion will administer the license act It will investigate complaints of im proper methods, and if the perpetrator is found guilty his license will be re In effect, the Registration ill have the power of putting f business In the State of i1 any man found guilty of mis sentation or fraud. Its power is nferred by the legislature, its mem- bers are appointed by the governor. ¥ has at least taken a step to- ward, and indicated her willinzness in. affording all the protection possible for those who buy her land Walter W. Rose of this c president of the State Association of Real Estate Boards and is also chair- man, by the governor's appointment, the Registration Roard. He is likewise an officer of the National Association of Real Estate Boarde, ind for sixteen years has been in busi- ness in_Florida Mr. Rose adds licenses enacted hef Florida's Associ- a T his voice to the warning given by all reputable busi ness men down here and advises no one to buy Florida real estate with- out seeing what he is buying. investi- ting the nature of the transaction thoroughly and dealing through a man or firm whose reputation ix establish ed. He admits the danger of fraud in lund transactions here, where there re so many of them every day, but denies, and heartily. the frequent alle- zations. heard evervwhere, that thou- sands of people buying land down here are going to get stung. He denies it first_because s_throuzh (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) GIRUSBODYFOUND PROBE LANSDOWNE BURIED IN WOODS, STORY INMAGAZINE | Long Search in California Naval Court Seeks Data on Hills for Carmen Wag- | Authenticity of Article. ner Ends. i Censoring Rumored. EUREKA, Cali October ~—The body of Miss Carmen Wagner, 18. Ferndale beauty parlor proprietor, for whom posses have been scouring the backwoods and hills near Eureka for several days, was found yesterday in rudely made grave in an isolated | wooded section 75 miles east of here. The young woman had been shot to death. Her dog Pronto. shot through | the head. was found buried a few feet AW Henry Sweet, the companion |of Miss Wagner on a hunting trip, was found murdered beside his parked | | automoblie several miles from where | | Miss Wagner and her dog were found. | P2 5 The finding of Sweet's body, several | YPes of weather. s days ago, led to the search for Miss| Some of the witnesses before the Wotn ik Gdch court, notably the widow of Comdr. Soon after the discovery was made | LANsdowne, have given testimony in. the posses arrested \alter David, 24, | dicating that the commander. who enr ol Raltbraca B dtasr | perished with his ship, was reluctant : {to take the fatal Western trip during e which she was wrecked. MAIL HEAD | The inquiry concerning the com- L i pleteness of the article as published | resulted. it was said at the Navy | Department, from reports current 1| in Washington that at least two paragraphs had been deleted from | the original article and that these | concerned the feasibility of under By the Associated Prey By the Associated Press The Naval court of inquiry into the Shenandoah disaster today asked the Saturday Evening Post whether its recent article on the Shenan- { doah appearing posthumously un- der the name of the late Comdr. Zachary Lansdowne, was authentic, ceurate and complete it come from his pen If these points are established, it is ! the plan of the court to incorporate the article in its record. Great importance is attached to statements in the article as to the capabilities of the Shenandoah in all as NEW AIR OMAHA, Nebr., October 24 (#) | Resignation of Carl F. Egge. gener | superintendent of the air mail service, and appointment of S. A. Cisler, gen: eral superintendent of the Omaha | division of the railway mail service,| taking Aretic exploration by to succeed him, was announced here | zibles, a project which it has been today. indicated Comdr. Lansdowne favored. |“Uncle Ike,” Veteran Notch Postmaster, To Be Retained in- Job He Held 32 Years “Uncle Ike” otherwise Levi Mor- rill, 90 vears of age, and postmaster at Notch, Mo., is to be retained in of- fice, according to an announcement made tod: New. Despite thé fact that Mor: | been postmaster in his village, and the report that he has been requested to resign brought forth a storm of pro- tests to the department. Patrons of the office declared they could not pos- sibly get along without the Notch post office. I, the | It was also pointed out that the “Uncle Tke" of Harold Bell Wright's |emoluments therefrom amount to but novel, “Shepherd of the Hills,” was | $165 a year and in the event of “Uncle recommended for retireraent, and the [Tke’s” retirement, there would be no office at Notch discontinued, neither |one willing to take his place on ac- action will be taken by the Postmas- ;'m'un of the rather meager salary ter General. i) YIS 4 Notwithstanding his advanced age. |, nett: howerer, does not hold the Morrill still retains all his faculties { piGE"GY PICET SMUNE FOTEHASICrs: and is able to attend to the duties of master at Philomont, Va., the first of | his oflice, acc ng to the thousand st Jonnary after he had reached the vho knoy him. For 32 years he has century mark. by Postmaster General | diri- | 10 ROUSE NEGROES -~ WATCHEDBYU. | Chicago Convention Tomor- row Designed to Make Race Revolutionary. (MOSCOW’S AID ALLEGED; LABOR UNIONS WARNED Attack on Southern States’ Laws and “Inequalities” Special Object, Manifesto Declares. By the Associated Communist |ring the American revolutionary fold. | The American Negro Lahor Con ss. which is meeting in Chicago to ow, is shown in the descriptive literature, of which official note has ibeen taken in Washington, to have | been orzanized chiefly by Communists | with backing from Russia, for the | purpose of “awakening to significance” the negroes P ors are seeking to negro into the agita | mor revo | tionary America The quotation | scriptive manifesto the congress {which has been circulated through Communist organizations on both sides lof the Atlantic by the press bureau of | the Third Internationale. It is put out under the signature of Lovett Ford Whitman, who is identified as a negro delegate to the Third Internationa'e. is ta for en from a de Union Men Warned Away. Negro trades unio ticipation in the congre s been solicited have been warned by the American Federation of Labor, throu its president, William Green, to frain from any connection with it In a statement denouncing the whole purpose of the congress, which in the manifesto proclaims the pu: pose also of redressing what it re 4s the social grievances of American negroes, Mr. Green declares “it will not be held to benefit the negro, but to instill into the lives of that race the most pernicious doctrine —race hatred.” A number of trades organizations have been “deceived into sending del- ates,” Mr. Green states, in warnins “all negro memhers of trade unions that they are being led into a trap that will eventually be their undotng.’ Race War Part of Plan. i With an eye even beyond the negre cltizenry of America, the ambitious | Program. as set forth. would have the | congress also take the leadership in an attempt to “rally the negro races of the world for a struggle against world imperialism.” As uppermost among the social de mands of the negro “workers and peasants of the Southern provinces of America.” to which the con- wh par zards North zress would address itself. the mani festo includes the “abolition of j crowism.’ or racial separation.” It sets forth that the “‘national com mittee” calling the congress has “suc- ceeded in organizing a large number of o committees of action in many towns and cities for the purpose of popularizing 1nd drawing an increas- | ing number of militant elements” into the movement. Aimed Specially at South. “Th national committee calling the | American ne; labor congress has a large Communist nucleus,” the mani- festo said. “and this national com. | mittee, sendinz out organizers through | the country, hus succeeded in organ. | izing a large number of local commit- tees of action in many towns and cities for the purpose of popularizing and drawing in an increasing num- ber of militant elements into the American congress movement “The American Communist party has not yvet gained a foothold in the outhern provinces of North America, through the creation of these al committees for the American o labor congress in the Southern provinces we see the beginning of | the extension of the Communist party lin those parts. In many of those | provinces the negroes are in a ma- | Jority over the whites, und it is in { the South that the negro is most op- | pressed. Thus. it will mean in this | part of America that the overwhelm. { ing majority of the Communist party will be members of the black race. * - | “The social demands uppermost in the minds of the negro musses of America_are that of the abolition of | iimerowism.’ that is, al separa | tion. political enfranchisement, equal | opportunities of employment for white ! and black, measures on the part of the | Federal Government agafnst the prac- | tice of lynching, larger appropriations ‘f(lr educational facilities for negro | children in the Southland, the abolition of the lines of residential segregation, ete. The congress will take up these social problems for deliberation and | action.” ENGINEER HERMIT LEAPS TO DEATH AT HOSPITAL Amnesia Victim, Missing Three | Months, Sparsely Clothed, When . Found in Cave Near Pittsburgh. | | By the Associated Press PITTSBURGH, Pa.. October 24.— | Paul Blose, 40-year-old civil engineer, {who was found, an amnesia victim, in |a cave near a suburb a week ago, | ended his life vesterday by leaping | from the window of a hospital, where he was taken following the discovery { of his plight by a mushroom hunter. | When found Blose was very sparsely | clothed and never during his confine- | ment in the hospital was able to tell how he came to be in the cave. He | disappeared July 20 last while on his i way to work at the Pittsburgh Coal Co. “Cat-Eye Annie” Caught. BUFFALO, N. Y., October 24 (#).— Cat-Eye Annie was recaptured yester- day. She was found in the attic of a partially constructed house in Ken- more, just outside the city limits, by {a workman. The woman, known | throughout the country as a notorious | confidence woman, escaped yesterday from the Erie County Jail here.