Evening Star Newspaper, November 13, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. U. S. Weather Bureau Partly cloudy and slig! night: tomorrow fair. Temperatur today: lowest, 49, at § a i"ull report on’ page es—Highest — Forecast.) wly colder 64, at . today noon Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 b ed_as il BT T WASHINGTON, ond s matte ashington, D, . HOPES OF FRENCH REVIVED BY TERMS . GIVENTO ITALIANS United Officials Believe States Now Has Modified Rigid Attitude on Debts. FEEL CAILLAUX FAILURE HELPED BRING CHANGE Further Steps Depend on Outcome of Painleve's Present Finan- cial Crisis. B N PARIS No- Debt Funding M Lie m the willing to give vaised by Amert the col six tha et es assur h d the ptiations e at one terms grant- rission its attit the French and the believe. il coks th be Ttal The Pa reopen United ¢ :nt intended negotiations with Congress have had ause of do the debt States before but the n the matter shlems sears now ver is upon the o nection with inancial measures. stes be nothing next vear. and done then will de. tecome of the crisis the government’s as though Italy Gains New Hope. Cable to The St ils News. ROME. November 13.—'From to- day commences a new era for Italy.” With this sentiment the Italian public this morning received the news onr Washingtor e debt accord hough the size of the payment hen fublished will certainly shock any who had convinced themselves Italy could pay virtuall all will be forgotten by politicians inciers in the sigh of relief ltaly’s international position is Iy stabilized. Italy’s eves are fixed on a $100,000,- 000 loan which, it is confidently ex- pected, will follow the settlement. Witn this new capital available, ltaly s young industries will flourisn and her 40,000,000 population will be put anew to productive labor. With he prosperity that is expected to fol- low Italy will easily be able to pay America the huge sums demanded. This is the expectation aroused by the settlement. From today the World War is liquidated for Italy and the uation can shake off the past and work more for the future. Copyrignt, 195, by Chicago Daily News.) B. 4 Chicago T ARRANGEMENTS ltalian Position Now Economically Sounder. Funding of the Italian debt to the LUnited States is accepted in official los here as paving the way for sound cconomic and financial strengtheming o both her domestic nal relations Reports from Rome and dicate that following the terday tor payment of a total of 000,000 in interest and principal W period of 62 vears, arrange nts will be made fc the flotation this country of substantial loans Italy. and interna- New York fo The settlement, it is held here, will | serve further to stabilize the entire ation in Italy and have a whole- ne and beneficial effect upon her onal life. >r the Italians, the finance min ster, Count Volpi, declared the set tleme “larzer than we thought the beginning we could agree t predictea that it would be “a long “p toward the restoration of eco- uomic peace in Europe Agreement Being Drafted. wi s of the se zreement is being dralt ned tomorrow. tlement were inter- preted as being hy far the most lib al ever orded by the American Government any debtor. The agreement sed on an offer & the Americans h ession embers of the ner! mmission would be the ms pos- £ ratificatic mgres: Althoug! the of Senator Senate who than the 1 European aled today, Congress would agreement. Alon h other funding settiements per- fected since the last session of Con- sress, the [talian agreement will 1 ent to Con; ss at the opening of 1 next t in December It v ought by hat both the Bel- zian and Italian agreements, vhich are beiow ihe British busis berality 1ld probubly receive the sest scrutiny of Congress, and pex haps some criticisn \s the agree ments, however, were reached by unanimous action of the American nmission, congressiona mbers of commission, Senator Smoot and entativ Burtc d Crisp, ure \inderstood to be prepared (o defend agreements to the limit. The eements have been approved by resident Coolidge. be si \ i co; lowes « 1 b ttitude n of the committee. more strongly Congr in stantial payments by had not been rev i predicted that probably ratify the irmg Leniency i Lenlency to It was explained of fssuing the forma citlement. in the scaling down of fu ture interest rates. Accrued interest on the original Italian debt of $1,648.- 100,000 was figured on the basis of crued interest on the British and Belgian post-urmistice debt; cent up to December 15 19. he date of the British agreement, and 3 per cent from that date up to lune 15, 1923, the effective date of the talian agreement. With accrued in- erest the newly iigured principal ac- apted by Italy stands at $2,042,000,- 0. With accrued interest at 5 per ent the debt had stoed at $2,138, 343,852, “he low capacity of Ttaly to' pay 1ving been admitled by the Ameri- can__commission, 3 rtinued on Pa wterest. tended last night in 1 announcement wer concessio the position of Italy | settlement | 'DEALERS AND THE STAR IN DRIVE | TO TEACH PUBLIC SOFT COAL USE| AL | | War on High Prices and Strikes in Anthracite Indus; ‘ ry to Begin in City-Wide Demonstration Campaign Next Week. J. Maury Dove, jr. and 1t 0 meeting with Jesse L. Suter, retary of the Coal Merchants Board | of Trade, and other members of that body in its headquagters on I street. A full meeting of the board is to be held this afternoon to work out per- manent plans Half u dozen prominent real estate firms in_Washington have offered to donate the use of finished houses in varfous sections of the city as demon- stration centers. There the public may see not only how soft coal is burned without annoyance or undue trouble, but the people may feel for themselves how it can heat an ordi-| nary house irom cellar to roof. The| same conditions prevafling in an av-| crage home will thus be present in the demonstration centers. Several leading coal merchants al-| veady have pledged themselves to sup- | ply experts to show the people how to burn the coal and to furnish an un- limited supply of fuel. It is expected | that after the meeting of the Coal| Merchants' Board of Trade this after- | noon its entire membership will be be- | hind the campuign, reads to help with : coal and engineers in the educational | drive. Where the will be esta Washington intends to answer the hard coal industry’s threat of w freeze- out this Winter by falling in line im. mediately with the tast-growing ranks f large Eastern municipalities that have determined to turn the anthra- ite strike into a public lockout, with | permanent end to annual fuel fueds Land lower prices for anth the only terms of surrender In co-operation with The kvening Star, the retail coal dealers of Wash ington will open demonstration sta | tions throughout the city early next| weels, where the public will be shown by experts how to get more heat cut of bituminous coal with no more an noyance. work or dirt thun is caused by anthracite. It will be the opening shot of a determined war against an icite conceit and seli-contid Taking the hard-coal of their own word, an earls present strike would ine an increase in the price of anthraci Retail dealers here figure this boost would amount to from §1 to §2 a ton. If hard-coal-l ng public can et through this Winter on bitu- however, it can almost dic wen terms to both sides in the Peunsylvania feud before cold weather appears again | It has Leen definitely demonstrated that there is more heat in a ton of soft, coal than there is in a ton of an- thracite. The public simply does not | know how to- get that energy out of | the fuel without filling the home with dust and gas. Now, to encourage the onsumers to keep on burning soft coal at least through this Winter, en- | gineers have been employed to show them by actual demonstrations how to | burn bituminous successfully dernon stration centers | he decided to morrow morning. They will e placed | as conveniently possible to the larger residential sections of the city and demonstrations will be held at hours best suited to the public's lei- re time. It is probably that several | tiines a week night demonstrations will be held, so as to permit working men to attend. At present it is planned to have the demonstrations run for two or three weeks, Iivery morning and afternoon of that period there will be an ex- Preliminary arrangemegts for this | perienced enginecr in attendance. The demonstration were inaugurated this demonstrations will not be confined to | morning. first at a conference in the bituminous coal, but will also include office of the managing editor of The ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column : shed is t PAINLEVE MEETS (FARM RELIEF MEN SOCIALIST DESIRES! SEEK COMPROMISE Revises Financial Plan to!lowa Delegation Asks Jardine Comply With Demands of | to Back Modification of Mo- | | Party Leaders. Nary-Haugen Bill. | e By the Associated Press. PARIS, November The revised {financial plan of Premier Painleve, |the opposing camps overtures are | which provides for a moratorium on | being made, in the hope of finding | short-term bonds, a capital levy and | common ground upon which all can for the state to share In the profits T stand. If these efforts are successful of industry and commerce, is consid- | the very decided differences which | lered in some quarters as a first SteD | (hyarted the passage of am agrieul- | toward natfonal socialization. tural aid measure in the last Congress The revision was made by the pre i 2 Oython may be adjusted in conference, and ::if{e:‘;l::imrfi:r:x\:‘e‘: 1:‘:1?;;;:(‘& an administration measure may result | when it was threatened that if the | *p\hirh theve will be ;‘,:“éf,‘,‘,:::;‘:‘:; { main points of the Soclalist Program | ojjaq vesterday to solicit Secretary {were not accepted the government | .y support of a modification of | calitfon would be broken. In ac- |y S\roe FRRR L Ear S teans | |quiescing in the demand of the| .. ‘oneative draft of an agricultural | Socialists the premier requestm‘i m;: bill By Representaiize T 7 icA T the finance _uo_mmme: fwl”’,;il e T | of Towa, a Republican member of the "ls‘lng dmemm\? s‘;ml ;:; l‘hg rh’j"m’m, | House appropriations committee, debated next Monday in He reror the | Which provides for creation of a farm- | oroThe revised plan constitutes the | pamed Federal commission with au- {first step towar MLN":»« s ‘m?n bs | thority to encourage co-operative mar- N e hien 1he | Keting, but not to license or regulate, inevitable, buj But ha ot e h under stipulated conditions can e n operating period for control o anaging sditor of | Of the surplus of specific food com- and an_authority on | OditH economic “If it is to be Cummins to See Jardine. applied an_effort must nad reate an atmosphere of | _Senator Cummins, chairman of the e 2 | interstate commerce committee, who & called the meeting of the Jowa dele- Briand Viewpoint Popular. gatlon, is to confer on the subject with . is. | Secretary Jardine when the latter re- ristide reign minis- w;“‘:f"(‘"( ‘fig'“g;gm;’;f‘{,g‘ fie fnan. | turns next week from a trip on which | Liai measure adopted must be without | he started yesterday. Others who at- | political taint and just. A statement | tended the meeting were Representa- | ade by M. Briand in the lobby of | tives Dickinson, Ramseyer, Thurston, | the Senate last night—"It must not at Cole and Boles. e et appear o have political char-| The legislation backed by the Towa acter; it must m only at being just delegation, embodied in the Dickin-| | e "cho ameng the mod-|on bill, zdmittedly was “formulated ol e framevork around which could | fleetet athered various legislative tied every suggestions for farm legislation.” It SAAES reflects the sentiments created by the 2 hearings and the discussions in farm ! ganizations last Winter, its support wim. It is in line with the pro of the American Farm Bureau tion. Secretary Jardine, while president of | the Kansas State Agricultural College | permanent |and a member of the President’s Farm | deht and the spreading of the paviment | Conference, and since he has become | of the “national contribution.” as the | Secretary of Agriculture, has been | capital levy is known. over a period of | outspokenly opposed to the McNary- SO i, ad fof 14 e Haugen bill. It is well known by all 2 lose who are studying farm relief measures that the Secretary will not support any proposition which puts | the Government into the position of | ictually handling farm products. The | outstanding feature of the original McNary-Haugen bill was that it would Rival advocates of farm rellef legis- | 13 lation are in a mood to dicker. From | tion, make nsequences | ireme gravity Lucien Cha the Journa as into commotion by | Loucheur had submit amendments to the fir Iving conversion of t eries of | Mttee Sticks to Own Texi the of at once This being more along the plan of the Socialists, | rallied to it. Eventually |cided to refer the prop {ments to M. Painleve. unhesitatingly declared t Istand by his own tex laccepted one amendm: have to accept others would be endless. AL neide SOFIA MAYOR SLAIN | BY EX-CITY EMPLOYE | Vietim' Son of Former Bulgarian Minister to Russia and Eng- land—Assassin Kills Self. houid_ o amend the termed M | example. that the financial by the Chamber adopted by an adequale wmajority On real estate the proposed capital levy will amount to one 1 one-haif times one year revenue derived from it, and there will be o tax on stocks 1id bonds at the same ratio, and the sharing of profits with the state by i industrial and commercial stock com- { pantes to the amount of 15 per cent. ! The capital levy may be paid in a lump sum or spread over z period of 14 years. ' MUSHER MADE WEALTHY. Claim Staked Long Ago to Give i, dating circles e 1 mday Leisure Loucheur's felt in the Associated Press. SOFIA, November —M. Mad- Jariow, mayor of Sofia and son of the Bulgarian diplomat, Michael Mad- jariow, was assassinated today by & former municipal employe who had | been discharged recently. The as-| ! sassin committed suiclde. { Mayor Madjariow’s father was one | ot Bulgaria’s lead{ng statesmen before | the war, being at various times Min- | | ister to Russia and Great Britain and , holding several portfolios in the Bul- garian cabinet. He was well known for his proally attitude prior to Bul-| Him Million. VICTORIA. British Columbia, No-!garia's entrance into the war on the | side of the central powers. | vember 13 (#/.—Twenty-sever years, {ago Thomas Kirkland mushed into| The mssaselfation Anocked Sofia the Yukon. Today Kirkland arrived | Yheve Meyoro CCon b s o P ount | | here to sign agreements with a groud| g “ihe post he held. He entered thei |of New York financiers which Wil O matio. service after the World make him a millionaire. One of the | iF <! War and held posts in the Bulgarian claims he staked is the Kirkland Gold, | e Tanion and Wi The Wall Street interesi: to vwhich | Kirkland is now turni: g over his mine 0,000 ‘# Radio Pr ograms ave to put § the property. | was recefved | hulk belleved to be the M-1 1c: {one ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION G, SUNKEN BRITISH -1 FRIDAY, 1S BELIEVED FOUND; 63 THOUGHT DEAD Submarine Said to Be on Sea Bed, But Divers Cannot Reach Craft. SLIGHT HOPE HELD OUT IN NEW SIGNAL DEVICE Great Weight Precludes Any A tempt to Lift Ship to the Surface. By the Associated®Press PLYMOUTH, England, November 13 —The glant British monitor sub marine M-1, with 68 officers and men on board, is belleved to be lying help 81y Start Point, of wate: Word that the submersible. missing since early yvesterday, had been found here from the com mander of the searching squadron. The news significance, for it is believed rescue of the crew by divers or attempts to Devonshire, in 240 feet iraise the great hull will be impossible because of the tremendous pressure at that depth. Iydrophone Used. Messages from Weymouth supple menting the one reporting the discov- ery of the submarine sald that the was lo cated by the use of a hydrophone (sound-catching device) used by anti- submarine craft. Ixperts here.rec- ognized the difficulty of being certain that the submerged body encountered is actually the M-1. coast 18 the graveyard of many boats sent to the bottom by German sub- marines during the war. While it is determined that there was no collision, officials believe the M-1 may have struck submerged wreckage which punctured her side. In this case there is small chance that any of the crew is still alive. | This, however, is but a matter of spec- ulation. The offlcials seem fact, whether the submarine had been located or not, if she lies in such depths, that divers cannot oper- ate and she canngt be raised. Other Ships Diving. Since yesterday morning a great flotilla of ships with nets and sig- naling apparatus has been search- agreed on the ing feverishly for the missing boat. Everything at sclence could fur- nish has been rushed to the spot. Other submarines have been diving and using secret devices for sig- naling to the crew. There has been no response, although the M-1 was ! equipped with the latest instruments for replying to such signals. The tragedy I one of the greatest in the history of the submarine serv- ice. So far as can be recalled, the et of the M-1—88 officers and men —is the largest ever involved in an accident aboard an English submerst ble. Skipper's Service Distinguished Lieut. Comdr. Alex Murray Carrie, who was in charge of the fll-starred | craft, had a distinguished service rec- ord, although only 30 years of age. He was married 11 months ago and has a 6-week-old son. Many of the others of the ‘crew were married. One, Petty Officer George Morgan, has a family of seven children, the oldest 11 years and the youngest 2 months. A set of the navy's latest apparatus | for communicating with the surface in case of accident went down with the M-1, and upon this slender thread hangs the slight hope that some of the complement of 68 men and officers may he saved. This signal apparatus, which was only recently declared by experts to have been brought to a state of perfec- tion, has been one of the most jeal- ously guarded secrets of the ny Naval men believe it possible tha the crew of the M-1 might exis under water for perhaps 48 hour provided the vessel has not become filled with water, as she was aquipped with all the most modern compressed afr machinery The M-1 has been commanded for the last year by Lieut. Comdr. Carrle. The other officers aboard were Lieut. A. R. Thorp, Lieut. Thomas W’ Phillpot, Lieut. Luther R. Casey and Warrant Engineer C. S. Good. At the depth of 180 feet divers found the British submarine L-24, T ed on Page 2, Column 8. (Continued on Page 2, GREGG DEATH ACCIDENT, CORONER’S JURY FINDS (Continued on Page 12, Column 4) | Driver of Car That Killed womml Taxicab Propristor Is Exonerated. A coroner’s jur. Mrs. Edith F. Gregg. proprietor of a taxicab service, of 1414 Fifteenth street, came to her death accidentally as a result of injurles sustained in day found that operated by Dr. J. member of the staff of St. Llizabeth's Hospital, Wednesday night. The coroner's jury exonerated Dr. Cassldy of blame. Funeral services for Mrs. Gregg will be conducted at Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church tomorrow at 2 o'clock. The Fort Lincoln Cemetery. i The Graphic Section > O Next Sunday’s Star Will contain 16 pages, being double the size of the usuai pictorial section, Order your copy of The Sunday Star carried a heart-sinking | This part of the | royal | NOVEMBER 13, ! on the ocean bed southwest of | i 1925—FIFTY-EIGHT PAGES. MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL n Star. SEASON. “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, 99,655 TWO CENT FOLEY IS REFUSED RIGHT T0 ANSWER MRS. LANSDOWNE Effort to Get Shenandoah Court Head on Mitchell Case Stand Fail. * P) Means Associated Press. | TESTIMONY OF WIDOW | IN TRIAL HELD “FALSE” | | Motion to Throw Out Evidence. However, Is Denied—Accused May Quit as Court Chief Failing in today to charges Zachary Shen a belated throw made Lansdow ndoah zommar ence to aa cimged attempt Paul Foley, ¥. S judge advoca of the Shenah#oah board of inquir i to control her test!morn board, th prosecu martial case of Col made an unsuccessful afternoon to have Capt at once to defend himself. out th sterday widow der, with efore the cour Mitche t appea | | By the Associat TOKIO, Japanese patched from to Tsingtao. ¢ protecting Japanese other ships are held situation den The foreigr | that considerable confusion was caused | by great numbers of Chinese flocking ! toward Tsingt and the destroyers were sent merely for protective purposes. will be landed unless disturbances en- danger the lives of Jay | elgn office spokesman s The few dispatches received by the Japanese government from Peking in dicate that a able. Consid here regardin; WU PELFU IS DENOUNCED. Peking Orders “Christian General” to Suppress Him. PEKING, Peking gover today denoun as a Yrebel and and ordering Feng Yu-shia Honan, Yueh him The Chi rations in viol | ciples of the Chi-jui, and Tso-lin, the M defend the Tientsin-Pukow Railway. The manda tempt to reconcile Chang Tso-lin and Yu-Hsiang, Feng Feng's barra withdrawing troop: Chang's troops are king from three directions. FENG MacMurray situation was from Minister MacMur: The attitude of Gen. Feng Yu-Hsiang, the Christian yet entirely ‘hang 'Tso-Li ristonal to hold the | from Jehol east and south in a threat i against Feng. A consular | that formal ! pending peac: tung. | ¥ had been resignation tof the provi i Mukden, and | colliston between her machine and ! his return to Pe H. Cassldy. |a peaceful settlement stil! The State Depar |of the Amba tired before | Chekiang i Kiangsu bord ment possible. interment will be in| Pacting are cutiing the Peking-Han- kow Railway | tions between Feng Yu-Hslang and| up | the south. Honan Troops Moving. “Ifonan Lros dng cast on the Lung Hal Rallway tol support the + churian infantr ed along the as: far north ase at Pel Tsang. occuples the count ng-Tiensin Rallway and south t and i Peking. | vep: Dublin Pol DUBLIN, JAPAN SENDS TWO WARSHIPS TO CHINA Destroyers Ordered to Tsing- tao' to Protect Lives of Nationals. destroyers mandate an-fang is making military prepa- cks in and around Gives Summary nese Strife in Report. A summary of the Chinese military lord and chief supporter of the pre government, along the line, Techow or Machang to | Paotig Fu, while enveloping Peking| given there of an armistice between the Manchurian and Cheklang forces “war-like measures continue in Shan-| gau inance Minister Out. Mir. MacMurray reported ithat he| rellably of the Anfu politiciar comnrlinicatiol “The Manchu troops No mnew developments have b orted from the Mongolian Manila Is Rocked For Half an Hour By Heavy Quake MANILA earthquake tonight. Th half hour. tremors continued for a The weather bureau esti mated the center of the disturbance to be 300 miles from Manila. No damage reported. although buildings were shaken perceptil was Mani The Georgetown wraph today recorded qualke K< beginning at 7:35:35 a.m. and several hour: ‘The n mum was placed by Director Tondc at §:33 10 8:35 a.m. The dis from 8,000 to 8,300 miles fi ington Allowing earthqu at Manila 13 ho sity seismo. heavy earth ed Press November Two | been naval for the purpose natjonals. Two readiness if the rands then N office today dis- base have the ebo “hina m Wa for difference in time, the ained it 8:15 tonight. Manila is ahead of Washington in time. ——e- W.RT.MAYCUTOUT SILVER SPRING LINE exy a0 and outlying districts, No marines nese, the for- news censorship is prob o pessimism exists g th cal Passengers Are Barred. November 13 (#).—The nment issued a mandate cing Marshal Wu Pei-fu 1 creator of disturbanc the “Christian general ng. and the Governor of to suppre: The Washington Rapid Transit Co. will abandon the motor bus line it vecently established between er Spring, Md. and Sixteenth and Buchanan streets unless the Public Utilities Commission ullows the busses to operate all the way dow xteenth street and carry local pa sengers also. This declaration came unexpectedly from Conrad H. Syme, attorney for the transit company, at the opening of a public hearing before the Com- mission at the District Bullding toda on the question of permitting the Silver Spring busses to continue down Sixteenth street to the Lincoln Memorial, but only for the purpose of carrying interstate passengers. Wei-chun, declares Gen. Sun lation of the peace prin- chief executive, Tuan nstructs Marshal Chang fanchurian war lord, to te is apparently an at- but meanwhile evacuating their Peking and Kalgan, while pproaching Pe- s are toward AIM UNCERTAIN. Ask Local Passenge: The transit company has ps before the commission another cation for permission to carry local passengers within the District on the | Silver Spring busses. That question | was not included tn the notice for the hearing today, and Commissioner Rudolph announced at the outset that discussion today would have to be con fined to interstate cperation of the busses to the Lincoln Memorial, After Commissioner Rudolph had made this statement Attorney yme nnounced that the transit company would withdraw its application to run from Buchanan street to the Lincoln Memorial as an interstate line and { would abandon the Silver Spring serv- ice entirely unless its other applica- tion—to pick up local passengers with- in_the Districtds granted. This withdrawal of the interstate application disposed of the only ques- tion which was listed for hearing to- and the meeting came to an {abrupt close a few minutes after it had started. Sixteenth Street Extension. Just before adjournment Commis- fAnance minlsler goner Rudolph explatned that ,the goverament, at|commission still has pending befofe it ister Yeh of the to be considered in executive session Y o on the application to allow the Silver had repeatedly deferred g;ring husses to pick up local passen. Ing, but Insisted that} gerg along sixteenth street and also still was possible. |5 "patition from the Capital Traction imont's Daraphiase|Co. to extend its existing bus ald: |from the northern end of Sixteenth e street all the way down that thorough- Ehante o e P to the Shantung. (are to Potomac Park and futo the ; ses sectlon. der, with further retire-: Questioned after the hearing as to Manchurian troops at|when the Rapld Transit Co. would | discontinue the Silver Spring bus line {if it is not given permission to pick local passengers within the Dis- trict, Mr. Syme saild he had advised the company to stop the hne Immedi- ately and re-establish it if the per- mission sought should be granted later. The statement which Mr. Syme | read to the commission follows: YAt least 300 citizens residing on Bixteenth street between Buchanan and the District line petitioned the of Chi- recefved here yesterday 1y in Peking. general, he said, “Is not clear,” but the plan of/ n, the Manchurfan war| apparently 1Is| attack from the south | Teport from Tsinan said | notification had been| | e negotlations, but that| informed of the! islonal B seador’s dispatch 3 troops h the ’ and thus communica- 0pS are reported as mov. Chekiang attac Man- in force are station Peking-Tiensin Railway as Lang Fang, with an Manchurian | east of| {on Rapld Transit Co. the right to op- {erate its Sflver Spring line as an in. | tra-State line between the District o line and the Lincoln Memorial. ‘"‘ Tn raspo: to this request the | company applied for permission to so i operate these busses. The practical operation of this line up to this time as demonstrated the fact that this () —The | service cannot be given to/the citi- 30 miles distant from ice Raid 100 Houses. November 13 police raided 100 houses early today,|zens of the District and Maryland seized Republican literature, ing maps and 've persons. includ- | unless these busses are operated as and arrested | intra-State carriers between the Dis- - trict lifie and the Lincoln Memorfal."” { | documents, ake was the identical one feit | Would Abandon Service if Lo- | 1| > | went to Collins’ room, where the trag. line | commission to grant to the Washing- | | ;A the same time it was reported reliably that as a result of M Lansdowne's sensational statemen before the Mitchell court Fe will ask that he be wit | judge advocate of the INDEEGAN'S DEATH the ground that he has hecome interested party to the dings Reid Objection Sustained. Charge Against Slain Man’s Brother Also Ignored by Grand Jury. proc The effort to get Capt. Foley o the witness stand this afternoon wa made by Col. Sherman Moreland, 1} trial judge advocate, There was i mediate objection from Represe tive Frank R. Reid, chief counsel Col. Mitchell, and the court sus the objection. Col. Moreland explained that Capi Foley was in the room and desired t | be called at once as a witness in con nection with the testimony given yes |terday by Mrs. Lansdowne. The judge advocate sald that he indorsed Ca Foley’s request “in all fairness, equit and justice.” “That is a rather peculiar for the Government to make at thi time,” protested Representative ““The Government will have a ¢ ¢ | for rebuttal at a later time. I have n. way of knowing the nature of Capt Foley's desired testimony. I must ir sist ‘that this trial proceed in derly manner. Col. Blanton Winship, law of the court, recommended motion to allow Capt. Foley at this time be overruled court concurred in the re tion ine; The grand jury today exonerated Henry Rinke and Robert T. Langdon, members of Capt. Burlingame's dry | squadron. of responsibility for the | death of Charles Deegan October 31. | The two policemen, twith Francis; Deegan, brother of the man slain, were recently held by a coroner's jury for the killing which occurred during a struggle over the possession of a | pistol when th2 officers had stopped | an automobile driven by Charles | Deegan which they suspected to con- | tain whisky. The grand jurors also | ignored the charge against Francis Deegan, who, with th officrs, has been at liberty on bail. A charge of conspiracy to violate he dry law preferred by Capt. | Burlingame's squad against Raymond | Beavers, George King and John P. Casson was al=o ignored. The men were alleged to have conspired to | block the policemen’s car on a road | leading into Washington to permit the safe arrival of another car loaded with into Seven Other Cases Dropped. Seven other cases were dropped by | the grand jury. They include Sey more Anderson, robbery; Joseph Cal- laghan and Harold D. Gottwalds. set ting up a gaming table; James South- all, embezziement; Artie Smith, carnal knowledge; Edna ay. abortion: Segel Peacock, joy-riding. and George Green, assault with a dangerous | weapon. | An indictment charging manslaugh- ter was reported against Albert E.| Collins, an employe of the District Government, for the killing of Clinton Wells, a roomer in his home at 722 | H street southwest, August 31 t. | The men are said 1o have quarreled over the attentions of Collins.to Mrs, Eva S. Wells, wife of the slain man | The wife said she had told her hus- | band of the attentions of Collins and that the husband had beaten him. Later Collins renewed his attentions and she heard her husband say he was going to beat him again. Wells reques membe: that the to testif and the ommends Testimony Stands. . Lansdowne's testimony was de to support Col. Mitchell's prediction that the Navy would re- sort to “muzzling tactics in an effor to white wash itself in the Shenan doah cr: e move to strike it ¥ Col. Moreland. came & at the outset of today’s proceedings, as the prosecution at the close of yester day’s session apparently had given up its persistent efforts to have Mrs Lansdowne's testimony ruled It was apparent t something had happened over night, and those in touch with the trial saw in th eleventh-hour motion of the prose cution some influence designed tu prevent the airing in court of the Shenandoah inquiry. Testimony Held “False.” Col. Moreland based his motion on the grounds that the testimony giver s. Lansdowne, who charged pt. Paul Foley, judge advocate !of the Shenandoah board of inquiry had sought to have her give “fal testimony before that board, was “im material, irrelevant, incompetent, im proper,” and could have no bearing on the alleged offense for which Col Mitchell is being tried He pointed out that the alleged at tempt to include Mrs. Lansdowne oc curred long after the issuance by Col Mitchell of his San Antonio state ments, for which he is being tried un der the 96th rticle wa and he cited legal precedents established b: civil courts in this connection. Representative Frank R. Reld counsel for Col. Mitchell, made a vig orous defense Mrs. 'Lansdowne's testimony, charging that if the Sher {andoah board had completed its find ings and announced a_verdict, th prosecution would have been eager to selze upon this fact in an effort t show that Cel. Mitchell's allegatio: of the Navy whitewashing the matte was without foundation out, initlated thi Moran was indicted on | a_charge of forging the name of a | physictan to prescriptions for mor- : phine and other narcotics. Others Indicted. indicted against them are: allas Ferd T. Lawton, and ! W. Robinson, larceny after trust: | George K. Brown, grand larceny: | Samuel Henson, assault with danger ! ous weapon; Antonio Lucania, alias| Harry Willlams, robbery, and Austin Carter, George U. Haight, James Byrne, Cornellus Young. Thomas M. Harkness, Robert F. Hardesty, Mason | Bentley, ~ Odle Savo: Benjamine | Thorntorr, Randolph W. Reed and Wayman Baker, non-support. Others and Furman charges Lawton, Joseph Motion Overruled. The motion of the prosecution did not impress Col. Blanton Winship, the court law member, and he recom mended to the court that it be no sustalned. An executive session was held to consider the recommendatio) and the court then announced tha Mrs. Lansdowne's testimony would re main of record The testimony given this morning was mostly of a technical nature an was far from having the sensationa chgracteristics of yesterday. Col. J. Edward Cassidy, Army Re serve Corps. testified that Brig. Ger Hugh Drum erred in testifying before a Congressional committee about the amount of gas necessary to evacuate an area the size of the District o Columba. The defens HIGH WATER SUSPENDS FERRY AT CUMBERLAND Potomac Reaches 6 Feet and 8 Inches Above Normal as Heavy Downfall Ceases. Special Dispatch to The Star {BERLAND, Md., November —The temporary ferry between this city and Ridgeley, W. Va, was knocked out by high water toda: The Potomac registered 6 feet § inches above normal at § o'clock this | morning as a result of a 2-inch rain which ceased shortly after midnight. Wills Creek, the main tributary of the Potomac here, is higher thun it has been since last year, when there was a repetition of the 1523 flood. The interstate bridge, as & result of that flood. is still’ in disreair, which caused the need for the temporar | ferry. With the ferry stopped ther is no trafiic between this city and the West Virginia_ shores here. A flood warning was issued by the Govern- | ment-while the rains were in progres: |along_the upper Potomac. Consider able driftwood has been passing here | and some of the low places east of the city were flooded, but the water now is receding. cited this as an in stance of a “high ranking officer” giv ing misinformation to Congress, as charged by Col. Mitchel While the witness was attacking Gen. Drum's statement, Maj. Franci Wilby, assistant to Gen . Drun prompted the prosecution in its cross examination of Col. Cassidy. Air Officer Heard. The only other witness this moru ing was Maj. H. A. Dargue, chief o the w section of the Army Air Service, red the com manding officer of the Second Corps Area had refused to use an anti-air craft target one-half the size of one being shot at. The target which the Air Service sought to have substi tuted, Maj. Dargue said, was the re sult of careful tests at the Aberdes proving grounds, made to determine the exact “danger area” of an ex ploding projectile. The size of the target used as a substitute was fixed arbitrarily. he usserted. Swede Wins Nobel Physics Prize. STOCKHOLM. Sweden. November #rPl : gi |13 U —'The Nobel physics piize for . The motion to strike out Mrs | 1924 has been awarded to Karl Manne | Lansdowne's u‘-s[l;ndfln\. came at'the George Siegsahn, professor of physics | Yery outset of today’s proceedings [at Lund University, Sweden. 1 {Continued on Page 4, Colummn 2)