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(V. S Weather Bu udy tonight lowed by night' rising temperature Temperatures—Hi vesterday: lowest, Full report WEATHER. au Forecast.) and tomorrow, fol- rain tomorrow a on page 7 noon or tomorrow Closing N. Y. Stocks and B onds, Page 30 . ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ce, Wa 9 TTO Entered e DAL, Tose emee: T WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESPAY, NOVEMBER 4, —FORTY-EIGHT ny Star. PAGES. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press service. news Yesterday’s Circulation, 99,318 TWO CENTS. * (#) Means Associated Pr * ELECTIONS FOLLOW OLD LINES, NEITHER PARTY SHOWS GAIN Democrats Win New York Mayoralty and Elect Gov- ernor in New Jersey. ' REPUBLICAN IS NAMED AS MAYOR OF BOSTON, Racial and Religious Fights Fea- ture Local Voting—Smith Cause Seen Helped. | BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. . yemocrats piled up a huze vic n the New York City mavoraliy aace and elected Harry A Moore Goy number and necessitated by Aeaths, the Republicans and Demo crats split even ewart Appleby, Republican, son of the late Repre entative T. Frank Appleby, was chasen to succeed his father in the | third New Jersey district, and in the | 1 Kentucky district John W ve. Democrat, was elected 1o suc the late Representative Robert X. @ho: also a Democrat. This | Kentucky district was carried for Senator Sackett, Republican, last ¥ The Republicans elected & mayor 1 Boston for the first time in 18 years. But this turnover was largely & o the fact that the Democrats were badly split, with seven candi- | dtes halloted for. The Republicans had three candidates in the field, too, Lut they were better able to concen- | i1e on one man, Malcolm E. Nichols, and were successful i Smith May Be Helped. 1’ The widest stretch of imagination | 1 scarcely make political _capital i the results either for the epublicans or the Democrats from | the national point of view. The re- snits in New York. however, will be viewed ax adding something to the prestize. of Gov. Al Smith. and to that extént may he expected to have an influence on the growing senti-| ment in favor of his candidacy for the Democratic pomination for Pres- fdent in 1928 i Of no little interest, however, are results in certain municipal elec- | ons where the racial and religious issues were raised, particularly in De- troit and in Buffalo. In the Michi- s ACTINWAR AvirmRepublican T0 EREE CITY FROM By the Associated Pres CHICA ). November 4.-Only | 00 of Hobart. Ind.. population | of 5000 voted at vesterday's n oralty election, and not one | | Vo i Democratie. The ;:(‘lvll!“li::n\ hallot was the s T e s Hesse Warns Men to Keep on T s e e e Lookout for Violators ingston was elected mayor. of Regulations. | . S fiESTRUYERS QUICK, SNAPPY CAMPAIGN At J rivers Rush to Put Lamps in Hurried Departure Explained | Here as Merely Precau- | tionary Measure. | Focus—Dealers Asked to Place New Cars in Condition. BY WILLIAM V1 Automobile Kdi LMAN, of The Star. Adiustment of headlizhis to form with the District regufations relating to auto lizhis that le would By the AL Assactated Press NANDRIA. slare and avember Tyt <eem 10 be an e 4 Tw American destrovers, which had heen Iving here awaiting arders, | GUtY of all local motorists whare eft hurriedly this morning fe Beirut, SR inniE s psta oy figl SGrle. s. and are, therefore, & hazard ol Rt to the life and property of other Twe American destroyers, the Cogh. | USers of the street and highways. lan and the Lamson, were sent from This conclusion is drawn from as Alexandria. Egypt, to Beirut today as ' Surances that within a very short measure. | space of time the entire strength and power of the Metropolitan Police De. partment will he directed toward ap- prehending violators of the District a precautionary American Consul Paul Knabenshue cabled the State Department that he | had sent a message to the destrovers | to proceed to Beirut, although there | headlight laws. was no immediate danger to Ameri Hesse Takes Action cans in Damascus or Beirut Yesterday, following publication in The destroyers were dispatched 10| The Star of an article pointing out Alexandria several days ago, after the | the growing mena ce of blinding miotor consul had reported the possibility of | lamps, Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, super | danger to American lives and property ! jntendent of police. in the official In Svria. They had been held there in ! gajly bulletin of his department, readiness to proceed to the Syrian port | girected the attention of his men to when necessary. “the very prevalent and persistent While the action of the consul at violations of the regulations prohibit Beirut in calling the destroyers was | | : ng blinding and dazzling headlights merely a precautionary measure, it '\ Facks e il T e o oy | while this morning he declaved lim self to be in full sympathy with The nd other foreign residents of | < S efforts » e s over the spread of disaffection m'_;"mx ,Z’{;“_ ‘l‘"fl‘rmk fer night among the native population since the , T(INE I the District. Damascus episode. tion to seek the co.operation of the A mejority of the Americans in - v In ' entire police force in curbing the evil vl are resident in Beirut, where of'misdivected auto lights, Traffic Di- the American University engages | Lector M. O. Hldridge this morning the services of some 50 American ent before Maj. Hesse and requested professors and instructors, mearly ! yye"Gegied ald. urgme (hat the 1,000 all of whom have their families with ; patrolmen of the Police Department The university itself is « X not_engaged directly in traffic work e establishment representing an 'he sent to the Bureau of Standards investment of some $2,000,000. and for technical training in detecting mo. there is a natural apprehension | tor lamps out of alignment, 2mong the Americans in Beirut over | : the possibility that the revolution- Favors Training Pla ary disturbances aimed at the French| while disinclined to make a snap mandatory authorities might spread | decision, Maj. Hesse expressed him. to that port. self as being favorable to the plan Since the Damascus disorders there | The superintendent’s hesitancy to say has been a general gathering of for-“Yes" at once was due, he said, to A gan city Mayor Johm W, Smith 4| eizn women and children from interior | desire to ascertain first some of the pavently has Leen victorious, dsfeat’| points at Beirut, and some relief work | detafls_of sending the patrolmen to inz Charles Bowles. the K’\"“ "_I;'h:; to prevent suffering has been neces- | the Government experts for the supported by the Ku Klux Klan | sary. There have also been rumors | schooling proposed. Klan candidate was def ated also in lhl‘} b ow Buffalo, where Frank X. Schw: N re-elected mayor over Ross ( Schwab, like Mavor Smith in Detroit. | is a Catholic, and his administration was attacked by the Klan. There was a Klan attack in Virginia on| John M. Purcell. Democratic candi Aate for State treasurer and a Cath-| olic. While the vote betweeny Pur- cell and John B. Bassett, Republican nominee for this office. was unusually close, Purcell was elected. Klan Candidate Wins. In Indianapolis John L. Duvall Republican, accounted a Klan candi wdate, has been elected mayor over Walter Myers, Democrat, who was to have the support of the Duvall's majority. con: i nti-Klen people 1 reported to be wever, is (bly less than that rolled up by Klan candidates in recent years. Du- | vall succeeds a Republican mayor. tate in the | Virginia was the only 1'nion to elect a governor beside: New Jersey. The Democratic nomi- | yee, Harry Flood Byrd of Winches- | ter, was elected over S. Harris Hoge, | his’ Republican opponent, as was ex- | pected, by some 50.000 vote i The victory of the Democrats in | the New Jersey gubernatorial race was, in fact, a victory of the “wets” | o the “dry<’ New Jersey has | een and has voted “wet” with zreat sistency in recent years. While true that President Coolidge irrind the State last vear by about 370,000 votes, and the Demoerats have i veversed ihix vote and something more in order to elect Harry A Moore governor, it is well understood that party lines were smashed to ac- | complish _this result. State Senator ' Arthur N. Whitney, the Republican | nominee, was labeled & “dry” by hi Demoeratic opponents, and although he denied that he was @ member of | « connected with the Anti-Saloon | .eague, the dry label stuck to him | 1 throughout the campaign Coolidge Refused to Act. U was charged also that he was the an candidate, althouzh he denied that he had any connection with At organization k s were made quarters the Coolidze dministration 1o take up the cudgels for Whitney, and to make an issue of the national administration in the elec on The administration, however kept its hands off The result in New Jerseyv as well as that in New York will be used, doubt less, to advance the candidaey of Gov. Smith of New York for the presiden tial nomination three vears hence, and that reason it may he said to have national pelitical significance. Otherwise there is none. Mr. Moore Will sueeeed # Democratic governor in office—Gov. Silzer, who was elected in Whitney by the Republicans several months ago was broushi about over 1he protest of Senator Edze of New | (Continued on Page 3, Column 2) | TWO AIDED IN ESCAPE. Occuquan Inquiry Results in Hold- ing of John S. Murray. Special Dispatch to Th ALEXANDRIA, Va November 4.— John S. Murray of Washington, D.C. was held under $2.000 bond late yes- | terday by United States Comissioner | Phillips, charged with aid- the escape from Occoquan of Dickerson and William several days ago. ¢ The prisoners were recaptured at farm in Fairfax County, and it was | tified at the hearing that Murray engaged the taxicab in which th= Jrisoners were spirited from i . Georze W. Cox. driver of th~| »toxical, was exonerated. ' . John B ing in 1alph Miller | of ~ further attacked the next morning and parti uprisings against Meanwhile the remaining members French authorities in various Syrian|of the traffic force who have not vet towns. including Belrut, and the pres- | taken instruction in detecting and ad- ence of the two destrovers there will | justing out-of-focus lights will be sent help to reassure all Americans and | out to Uncle Sam's experts fof train- also may serve to discourage any vio- | Ing. lent outbreaks that might threaten| In case Maj. Hesse finds himself un American lives or property. able to send all his patrolmen to the Bureau of Standards for schoollng, it | has been suggested that enough of i them be trained to act as instructors | for the others, and that instruction be Gross Overexaggeration In Losses In-| &iven while on night duty. This plan = |is favored because of the twofold ad- dicated by Sarrail Data. vantage of practice on actual violators PARIS. November, 4 (®).—The | and their apprehension. ench losses in the recent Damascus | Quick Drive Urged. troubles, according to official advices eaching Paris tod: v 10 killed, Maj. and DI Bl | Eldridge believe that a quick, sharp, OF] ICIAL REPORT MADE. Both Hesse “tor including three natlve soldjers and | ! 50 wounded. The insurgents lost 200 | intensive drive by the entire Police killed (This compares with previous | Department against violators of the unofficial reports estimating the deaths | headlight regulations would result in the thousands.) in the prompt adjustment of the lamps of every car in the District insurgents killed 30 Armenians and | and that the benefits to all would three Tripolitans. | be so apparent that little trouble The damage to property was esti|would be experienced in the future mated at 50,000,000 paper francs| With 1,300 officers of the law on (@about $2,125,000.) | the lookout for tilted and generally The reports emphasize the fact that | “cockeyed” light. a round-up, it no Buropeans were wounded or hurt | is believed, can be effected quickly, In addition the dispatches say, the | in any way. The losses are much |after which the misdirected beam smaller than had been previously re-would be so conspicuous that it ported. couldn’t last an hour on any trav- | eled highway. Foreigners Menaced. Director Eldridge today sent a The official account declares the | communication to members of the ! Washington Automotive Trade Ass ouble started o ght of Octol trouble started on the night of October | [, jo, asking their further co-oper- 18 when bandit zangs which had been | 2 {ation by making certaln that the operating in the outskirts entered the | 2t > . | hative quarters of the city. Joined |!amps of all the ¢ oy eeel, by lower classes they overpowered the | Whether new or used, be tested for zendarmes and police and menaced , @CCUracy the European quarter. The rebels | New Lights Often Wrong. * withdrew after eight cannon shots| . 3 : oW s Bht c ] fany owners of new cars” Mr. d been fired into the air hut again . WARY QIRRFS, 0L MO Lars” M lights are perfect because their cars |are new. This is a mistake, for new cars are shoved about quite a bit i between purchase and delivery get- mand, desirous of forcing a surrender ; N8 them ready fov thelr new own- of the rebels rather than engage them | £'%: and | S lamps ave | frequently thrown out of alignment. in bloody combat. began a bombard- : : b (e It was also indicated at police mer < . was maln- |y, o, qquarters today that henceforth tained at a slow cadence and with shells of restricted strength, to avold | \FeSts_rather than lectures would unnecessary destruction. | (Continued on Page lly_surrounded the French troops in the Polygon, which is a sort of citadel. It s only then, says the a count, that the French high com- INDIANS DEMAND BURKE’S REMOVAL Calm Quickly Restored. “The desired aim was reached,” the official account continues, and dele- | zations of insurgents poured in with offers of surrender. Calm was re established by noon of October 20, and that afternoon definite conditions R were fixed for the surrender of the ' Commissioner Has Withheld Pay- rebels, , g The property damage was confined ments to Punish Them, Mon- mostly to Chagour. the native quar- 5 ter, which was subjected to the hom tana Tribes Charge. bardment. about 20 houses being struck by shells, while 200 small ST = Iy dwellings were set on fire. By the Associated Press. In the Jewish quarter one house e - was destroyed and in the European | HELENA. Mont. November 4. quarter the market place and one ; Charges that Charles H. Burke, com- wing of the Azel Palace were dam.|missioner of Indian affairs at Wash- aged by fire. ington. “*has knowingly and intention- | ally permitted the property of Indians SYRIANS FILE PROT! to be misappropriated, wasted and ! squandered, and that he has violated BERLIN, November 3 (#).—The e Syrian colony in Germany has filed a ; Affairs in many ways,” were made yes- protest with the League of Nations :terday by representatives of the seven against the barbarism and human | Montana Indian tribes at a pow-wow. laughter in Syria, for which France ' They forwarded to President Coolidge as responsible. The protest says that has conferred upon France necessary and unjust mandate.” protest continues: commissioner. the league ! ‘mhere are 13 charges in the resolu. n un-| tjons asking for Burke's removal, and The | with them is a request for “an oppor- tunity to prove said charges,” and the !his duty as commissioner of Indian | L | [ VIRGINIA SENATOR ASSAILED BY BAR A. C. Smith Accused of Hav- ' ing Criminal Record—His Disbarment Asked. RICHMOND, Va Charging he had 1913 for forgery, and that in was dishonorably discharged from the Army. the Norfolk-Portsmouth Bar Association went to court today to disbar State Senator Alfred (. Smith who represents Portsmouth and South Norfolk and Norfolk Counties. 'he complaint declares the ator was sentenced for forgery in Clarendon County South Carolina under the name of C. M. Reynolds. He was discharged from the Army, it as | serts, under the name of Charles A. | Smith, jr ! Moral Character Attacked. The association’s complaint alleged that “Alfred . Smith, alias Corbitt M | Reynolds, alias Charles M. Smith, jr.," on Junuary 31, 1924, moved the Vir | ginia Supreme Co f Appeals to grant him a certificate to practice law in Virginia and in support of the mo tion falsely claimed to be duly license | 1o practice in the State of South ¢ |Mina and represented that he was a | person of good moral charact As proof that Senator Smith was not a person of good moral char November 4.— been sentenced in as required by law for the Li of such certificates, the association in itx complain filed with the court and signed by Iver A. Page. president: H Galt secretary, and # committes appointed to investigate the case, charged that | under the name of C. M. Reynolds | Senator Smith pleaded guilty in South | Carolina to forging a check and was sentenced to confinement at hard labo | for one year and to pay a fine of one | dollar. This sentence, it was stated, | was suspended until such time as he might be indicted for violation of the criminal laws of South Carolina and | | the complaint charged that Senator | Smith has not since repented for this offense. The complaint further charged that Senator Smith. while serving as a pri vate soldier In the Coast Artillery de- | tachment at Fort Monroe. Va.. under | the name of Charles A. Smith, jr., was charged with conduct to the prejudice and good order of military discipline. in support of which charge two for geries were specified, and that he was | found guilty and sentenced to be ¢ honorably discharged from the to forfeit all pay and allowanc him and to he confined at hard I | for six months. The sentence, the sociation alleged. was duly approved | by the reviewing authorities, but the | | prison sentence was reduced to four | months owing to the time that had | elapsed between his arrest and convic: ! tion. The complaint also charged that Senator Smith fraudulently committed jor_procured to be committed a ma | terial alteration in a letter written to | H. Stewart Jones, clerk of the Vir ginin Supreme Court of Appeals. by | the late Judge Joseph Kelly, president {of the court, in substituting “S. C.” i for “Florida.” SAVED IN SHIPWRECK, SENORITA WEDS HERO| Romance Joins Ireland and Pan- ama, Following Sinking Off Cape Hatteras. By the Associated Press | NORFOLK, Va., aved from a watery when the schooner Isabell” Parmen- ter went down off Hatteras, Senorita Pearl Herera, 18 years old, vesterday lived up to all standards of romance and married her rescurer, James Alexander Shiels, 28, a member of the : crew of the fllfated schooner. It was Shiels who kept close to the voung woman when the collier | ‘Achilles was making such a valiant | fight to transfer those on the sinking vessel to safety. With a terrific storm raging, with boats swamped, | and the life line sinking into the great | waves, Shiels time after time risked his life to protect the girl’s with his own, and succeeded. The couple obtained a marriage li- November 1. grave Saturday well as the League of Nations is|a request for the removal of the | cense at the office of the clerk of the| St & DREVISRS P80t ol B o N if | | Corporation Court and were married | by & Catholic priest. Senorita Here- ra gave her address as Panama. Shiels gave his birthplace as Ire- land, where his parents reside. “Does the League of Nations intend | further request “that the Indian Bu-| Mrs. Shiels is the sister-in-law of to create the feeling among these op- | reau will not be allowed to investigate ! Capt. Valdez of the Isabel Parmen- pressed peoples that it represents a | itself.” | ter, and with her sister, Mrs. Valde: robbers' league of European powers! Among the charges against Burke | Mr. and Mrs. Valdez's two small for dividing up the Orient among | is that he has deliberately and mali- | children, six members of the crew, themselves and according to the cir-! ciously withheld tribal payments as and two stowaways, were rescued by enmstances ready 1o pardon each | punishment to Indians and that he | the Achilles after two other vessels ihers competition and despotic poli- | has deprived Indian children of thelr | had overlooked their siznals of dis cies? cight 10 attend public schools. tress, ¢ 1914 he! National Lottery it Letters NITCHELL WITNESS By the Associated Press PARIS, November 4.—A nation wide lottery to extricate France from her present financial difficul ties is advocated in a resolution .Both Sides Meet to Reduce adopted today by the Republican | Number From Original Union, a group of senators, which comprises ‘mer President Poin cave, former President Millerand 73 Sought. former Premier ‘rancois-Marsal T Henry Cheron, former minister of Soth sides in the Mitchell court-mar agriculture, and other notable men tial proceedings had their heads to The senutors emphasized the fact | gether this afternoon and were en that they fave + lottery this one deavoring to untangle the question of time only, and take the stand that | witnesses to appear in behalf of the it should not have a permanent |accused, which were granted the de. character, allowing the government | fense vesterday by the court. Al to resort t end of 2 faced by such & wieasure il the vear when it finds itself a deficit | though directed to begin at once the summoning of witnesses, securing of documents and other requests of the The Republican Union has 95 |defense. the prosecution was unable to memb in the Senate, and wields |comply with President Howze's order to the letter because opposing counsel had not worked out a list of stipula- an important influence in that the witness muddle. Lieut. Col. Joseph 1. McMullen, as- house. the office of chief civillan counsel, Representative Frank R. Reid of Il Col. H. A. White, military defense counsel, with a list of stipulations de. sired from the prosecution. This step is being taken to eliminate the actual Board Takes Plea for Rezon- ing of Massachusetts Ave. Under Advisement. appearance of as many of the 73 orizi nally asked for in the interest of time and economy. Those witnesses which the two sides are unable to agree on will have to be passed upon by the ourt Monday. The nature of the testimony to he | given for the accused by the wit nesses was not indicated today beyond _ the fact that it probably would tend Afier a lensthy debate in the board. | 10 substantiate charges made by Col. oo ot e District Bulling today. | Mitchell and for which "he is” being D, = o5 g = tried This invoives the *“truth or the Zoning « adviseme horo Development Co. wact of land lying on | Massachusetts avenue | zoned to permit row-house tion. 'mmission took under | f4i6ity"" of the two San Antonio state U the request of the Lough-| ments which the War Department to have a large | prior to the court-martial proceedings both sides of | repeatedly declared would not enter extended re-|into the case. This has not been construc- | Passed upon by the court as vet. piZoth Col. Sherman Moreland's and 5 S tizens: As. | ReDresentative Reid's staff declared Cathedral Heights Citizens” As- | ("SOr N RO S e tagh soclation and residents of American |pefore them between now and Mon- ity Park made vigorous pro-|day. Hope was held out yesterday zainst the change, contending | that the witness question might be tes: | that the development of that section | solved by Thursday and that the has started as a detached area and | court could be called into session for | should not be eneroached upon by row | the two remaining week days. but the possibility was not so bright 1o hous | Walker Urges Change. Albart W Walker of Allan E. Walker (0., representing the Dough- horo Development Co.. again lald be- fore the commission the elaborate drawings and plans it has prepared day, it was indicated. SHIPPING PAHLEiYV LISTED. Experts From All Parts of Country to show what it declared to be an | | attractive scheme for the development | to Meet Here. | of the area, both from an architec- | 2 | tural standpoint and in the layout | Views of shipping experts from | of streets and parks. | every section of the country will be At the original hearing two weeks | presented to a national merchant ma- | ago the American University was op- | posed to the project. but the commis- sion was advised today that the uni- rine conference to be held November 16 and 17 under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce of the United | versity has since approved the plan | States at the home of the chamber, | provided developers adhere to the | H street and Connecticut avenue. Es. pledge they have given the Zoning | tablishment of a permanent national | Commission that they will take all {merchant marine and shipping prob- | steps possible 1o see that the ground (lems generally will be considered at jis developed in accordance with the | the conference. drawings suhmitted. Reports of four committees which Architect Is Heard. iorace Peaslee, an architect, read reports to the comission expressing | the opinfon that row houses would of the subject will form the bases of deliberations. The subjects studied includes the relation of the merchant marine to American foreign trade and not produce so much objection if | national defense; government admin- attractively desisned and erected. | istrative and regulatory relations to Engineer Commissioner Bell later | shipping: government aids to shipping explained that it should be remem- |and the disposal of government-owned bered that the Zoning Commission | Ships. The first committee held that has no authority to zone property | the meschant marines should be on the basis of architectural beauty | Prought entirely under private opera or attiactive development. He safd tion- | that the commission can regulate the j o e e e haaith. ‘saters ana | HOLD-UP NETS $75,000. | welfare of the community. | Citizens Oppose Change. Bank Messenger Robbed by Two | Hugh M. Frampton, of the Cathedral | Heights Citizens' Assoclation, laid | Armed Bandits. stress on the point that drawings of | VANDERGRIFT, Pa., November 4 | how a builder proposes to make at-!| (). —Two armed men about noon to- | tractive developments should not be | day held up Warren Walthour, mes- [ taken into consideration in changing | senger for the Vandergrift Savings & |a large area from A restricted, which | Trust Co., and took a satchel, said to ‘allows only detatched or semi-detatch- | contain $75,000, Walthour reported to ed houses, to B area, which permits | police here. LIST CUT BEGUN tions which play a prominent part in | sistant trial judge advocate, went 10| u ned away | have been at ‘work on various phases | ones 5. by Chicago Daily News Co.) One Group Believed to Be Prepar- ing Reply to Italy's Original Presentation. Vienna Breadless, :H]UR [’:[]MMI'”'EES Peasants’ Loaves | | By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. V1 NA, November 4.—Vienna i it1is demanalie bighatiwages) || IIA[IAN DEBT PI-AN Cracker and sweet-cake companies mong tardy who had not provided themselves with bread ;PEFSOHDEI Is Kept Secret. in bread, but the strikers are seek in to prevent them by means of e e This Evening. | ‘ | however. OF NATURE OF WORK | Barred by Pickets, NAMEI] 'm WE";H is breadless today. The bakers a are doing a thriving business Peasants are preparing to bring First Meeting to Be Held pickets. Many Viennese took | The situation is not yet serious, 3 R [NO HINT IS REVEALED DELAWARE OFFICIAL [Secretary of State Taylor Shrouded be 1 a heavy veil of ecrecy negotiations for funding the 1 n debt of more than $2,000 k Guest of E. R. Pusey on 400,000 to the United as vere resolved into meetings of sul Yacht Found Burned. tommittees representing each govers = This action was taken at a meet Sy e s inz between the Italian and Amer NEWPORT NEWS, Va.. November | i€21 Commissions at the Treasu this morning, when four subconim 4.—T. S. Phillips of this city, who is on a vachting trip to Florida, wrote | '2€S. tWo from each government wer | his wife from Beaufort, N. ., that named. {the vacht Bunny JI had been de. Will Meet Tonight. | stroved at sea by fire and that all| In the brief and formal announce |on board had perished. Mr. Phillips | ment made afterwards by Secretary |and E. R. Pusey, owner of the yacht, | Vinston of the American commis sion, in conjunction with Don were guests aboard the Old Glory, a ! . Grandl, undersecretary of state fo | Newport News vacht, at Southport undersecre { state for { Italy, it was announced the subcom last week. | mittees will meet tonight and tomor | No details of the disaster were| row morning |given by the Newport News man. The American commission also w e meet tomorrow morning, it was an Decks Burned Away. nounced, and the next joint session H. Ga.. November 4 P).— | of the two commissions will be held information that the yacht when the joint subcommittees are 1. carrving prominent men | ready to report from Wilmington, Del., hasbeenburned These announcements represented at sea. was brought to Savannah by the sum and substance of what was Capt F. Davis of Norfolk, com.forthcoming from the joint sessior mander of the schoomer Mary A.|this morning, which lastéd more thar Sharp, which made bort today. an hour and 2 half. Capt. Davis reported to the com Personnel Kept Secret. mander of the United States coast . rd cutter Yamacraw that he vis Efforts to learn the number and ited the burned hulk of the Bunny nNames of the mem hip of subcon 11 at 34 ‘clock on Saturday, Oc- Mittes met with f Mr. Win tober 10 miles from Murrells ton said it had agreed not to Inlet and 3 miles off shore. The Mary ™Mke these public either was there A. Sharp stood by until 4:30 o'clock #NY information forthcomin ] {in the afternon and made a thorough | (N nature of the subject e & tcitin which will be considered by the su mittee No Trace of Passengers. It was explained, however, on br half of both Zovernments, that there The craft was identified by the let- Will be two separate meetings to ter M-1014, and on each bow was a|and tomorrow of the subcom rabbit's head in black and gilt. All, One subcommittee from each natior decks were burned away and there |being represented at each meeting. The Italians, it is known, have laid Italy's capacity to pay before the American commission, and was only a small part of the forward deck remaining. The sides were half No bodies were found | on the cratt. there is this voluminous documentary | No trace was _found of the pas. | Svidence on hand {o be considered sengers. W. G. Tavlor, secretary of | Whether the American commission gave any kind of reply to Italy toda) on her original presentation last i Monday afternoon was not known BURNED WRECK ASHORE. It was conjectured in sqme quarter: that one of the sets of subcommittees | state of Delaware, and | of Wilmington, Del. R. Pusey might have been assizned the sut GEORGETOWN. §. C.. November 4 | ject of the presentation of Italy | P).—Reports were received here to- IS capacity to pay, but there was day that the small vacht burned off - no official indication of a Murrells Inlet several days ago, which ' 0 What may have been the missing Bunny 11 is ashore on Nortn Island. a few miles north of here. So far as is known here ne bodies have been washed ashore with the wreckage. Not that the American Government IN MICHIGAN HOSPITAL @ due to information made publi actuzlly had been Fear Premature Publici The unusual se the meetings today have been brought results of the recent Fr negotiations which ended in failure ecy thrown about understood to ut largely by -anco-American r the French legation, but that the difficulties developing in that directic | during the French negotiations were | John McCormack Halts Song to!of such nature that it is desired to obviate a_recurrence. In unofficial circles there was mu Ask Audience to Pray for i ) i speculation as to when Italy may His Stricken Friend make a formal offer to pay and ! much that offer will be. The f Brths tiesainishn that_has been going the rounds of ANN ARBOR. Mich.. November 4.— unofficial circles is $30,000,000, said to Chauncey_Olcott. seriously ill at St.|be the estimated maximum which Joseph's’ Hospital here, was reported Italy might agree to pay annually | this morning to be resting easily. His, ove a period of 62 years, which is physicians, however, expressed doubt | the amortization time of other settle of his recovery. ments. There has been no official con Olcott was stricken last Triday | firmation from any quarter, however night. but his illness did not become | of this figure, and there were reliable |generally known until last nizht, indications that no kind of a definite when John McCormack announced it | offer had been made up to this after from the conceri platform in Hill | neon. Auditorium plaining why he hac : : audaenly stopped. in the. midot ot tho Hleure ThoushtTow: song, “Mother Machree,” McCormack | The figure of $30,000,000 a vem said have just learned that my, would. according to Some estimates dear friend Chauncey Oleott is lyving ' cover the entire principal of the debt seriously Il at a local hospital. 1| with some $200.000,000 interest. This |know this audience, knowing of his|would be, however, far below the illness, will breathe a praver for his terms agreed upon with any other The economic ass | has suggested could be rendered b America in three separate way: ! through more impor more employ ment of Italian labor and heavier in. vestments in productive Italian enter | prises, was understood to have occu pied considerable attention in official circles. Such economic help, however, | 3 ite StocaieiE eis it was pointed out in some quarter: Actua R o e would be more under the contyol of iy Coal work on i, tax-reduction | 15wy of supply and demand and | ina means committee today after twe | NIEr the regulation of the American Government. In view, however, of tance which Italy WORK STARTS ON BILL. Green Predicts Early Completion of Tax Measure. | weeks of hearings, i “hairma I o earings, and Chalrman | o recent effectiveness of the Ameri @reen predicted that the measure ; > Sl frowm | Would be drafted before the end of the | {ul Government's unofficlally frown e ing on more loans to France from | private sources, it was pointed out that the connection between the American Government and American business is so close as to enable some i policies to be carried out without the necessity and compulsion of law TROOPS RUSHED TO TRIAL. Carolina Prepares for Trouble P Eoublenat Italian Plea Strong. | | | Henrings o Negroes: There seems to be no doubt that the | RALEIGH, N. C.. November 4 (), | Italians have 1 nted a gloomy pic ! x ture of their ability to meet a heavy j—Acting on telephonic instructions | {iTe S5 TROT AIAU O R Rave ex | received from Adjt. Gen. J. Van B. | pressed it in language which speaks of | Metts "at the scene, Maj. Gordon |ihe great dificulty which Italy has in | Smith shortly before midday today ' creating by her own efforts enough ordered additional troops to proceed | surplus wealth to meet her war debts at once to Asheville, where two | Iconomic help from wealthy Americ negroes are being tried for attacks | through business channels would be of on white women. | great assistance, they explain. row house: In answer to questions, Mr. Walker | property according to a regular plan | ‘At a previous hearing it was brought | granted would call for the erection of | ‘1650 houses, and that the owners | BY the Associated Press, | planned to dedicate to the city certain | portions of the area for park, play- Death stalked among the politicians of Pennsylvania vesterday and placed ground and school uses. e | Leouts Justement. architect, gavé 'a|Dis $fm hand on no less thin five. detalled description of how the prop- | 3 erty would be developed and why it | . John M. Patterson, Republican can- Ve i ¢ | didate for district attorney of Philadel- should be developed with row houses. | ija " djed in a hospital last night | after an operation as he was returned elected. William T MeCalg. Pittsburgh. } chairman_of the Pennsylvania House ! Radio Programs—Page 38. a | pxplained et the owrers hove to| Five Pennsylvania Political Leaders By phacing restrictions in the deeds. ' | [)ie Amidst Interest of State Election PHILADELPHIA, November 4.— a heart attack as he was returnlng\ | ©Upon such a i\esentation of Italy's ase, the negotiat\ns have embarked in a direction which up to this after noon was entirely circumseribed b | the meager announcements after this morning’s meeting. Progress in negotiations is under stood to-be considerably slowed up on i account_of the neceseity of transla died from | ions. The offcial interpreter is Sec from Republican headquarters. remnys Boymeclili cE (hes talian. Gham William Brice, former associate | ber of Commerce of New York City judge and prominent Bedford County| Entertained at White House. Dolitician, died at Bedford last night. | > | "“John C. Kolstee, Erie County Re.! President Coolidge entertained fo: | publican committeeman, died in a hos. | the Itallan commission last night at | pital at Corry vesterday after an op- | the White House, inviting also the | eration. | American commission, cabinet officers | Frank Tobey. Democratic city com- | and leaders of the Senate and House { mitteeman, died at his home in Phila- | The guests inclu wetaries of delphia. Tumn 3 | appropriations committee,

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