Evening Star Newspaper, November 14, 1925, Page 2

GREATER LENIENCY | 0 FRANCE 15 SEEN | Italian Settlement May Af- ford Precedent if Willing- ness to Pay '3 Shown. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Although officially it is insisted that | the settlement with ltaly does mot A corresponding lenfency to | e, thers is no guestion but that | developments i1 the last 24 hours in- | dicate that the agreement with Ttaly | 13 the best thing that could have hap- pened from the French viewpoint The ner in L the Italian ngreer has | pived. botl this coutnry pleasar bare | ma h or canced eel redy of war et ¢ Bation for 1t in feared | {taly courd 1 the facts to prs Governme 1h fou And the Ameri- up those | s | Yac flscal ji wanner assinie i capa of Ame alters P 1 over S0 per cent Will Benefit by ment force Tr the United | t, conditior worse instead o tates would | not have a chance to collect for many ears fo come. Also. the American | Debt Funding Commission was influ- | largely Ly the reasoning | Mellon and Hoover, | he American people | repaid in the long run of the improvement in! {ons ween Ttaly and which is bound to | of Italy by that and will be amply as a res commercial rel nlted States, from th Joans. 1 thought is to be! followed with respect re many inside the Goverment circle Lere who think t same logic appl to France. The A rican statisticians that a survey the resd rance show clearly French can pay. How will be depends the F is no question that the a laying le face v and vith the American Gove ticulty about the negotiation ith ¥rance was that the American commission has the distinct linpres. sion that the French did not want pay and that the parleys were merely & graceful gesture Must Show Willingness. France can get at least a 30 per cent cageellation of her debt, and perhap: wore, but in order to accomplish this Jt ls felt here she must show a will 1gness to pay which has not been eable bLefore. Even the small: s which Italy has promised to i v & serfous burden upon her peopi Lut the Italians believe that with American capital Italy’s un developed water power and other in- dustries will come to the front. The: were willing to place their faith in America’s hands and accept the ver- t. If France would do likewise she would obtain an ear erica, her exchange wo v improve and her credit would be correspond: ened The wave of emc ftaly has been no the comparatively amount of | ‘criticy 1 this country of the Ital- Jan settlem The Dxecutive is confident that debt ugreements already made will be ratified by Con- Eress. Certainly if COngress approve: of the Italian agreement t will_be opened for such r to France as will make it for a resl start to be made interallled debt problem which bhe taken up Jjust as soon American arrangements with urs completed. CENTRAL HIGH GIVES ANNUAL FALL SHOW ‘Vaudeville Performance, Embrac- ing Nine Acts, With Mnsic. Staged. in “whi the resur e ta ) recen prompt- abroad here as well as | duct yossible in the must the urope i | A pretentious and Waudeville concoction of Yellished by @ 1 srogram, was wresented by the students of Central | High School last might as their un »iual Fall show. Another perforniance will be given in hool auditorium Jonight at § o'clock The chief features of the entertuin fment were & one-act farcical melo- rirama, “The Man in the Bowler Hat,” | wnd & pantomime, “The Shepherd in the Distance,” written origin 1 the professional stage by | Hudson. The substdiary sttractions| ranged {rom an mcrob 10 the \arious dance steps, which, of fncluded tha eccentric Charlestor The cast of “The Man in the Bowl Mat" was composed of Lawrence ¢ichner, Mariam AMcDanell, Deford Mills, Douglas Wilson, Richard Bour don and Harry Clarton. Those who vook part in pantomime Were wosse Stimson, George Willis, Ruppert Lillfe, Sumner Kittelle, Barbara Strat- von, Leonora (omb: Rosalie Dim: yaette, Juliet Wood, Andrew Allison wnd Nathan Gluubach. Entively dif- ferent casts will present these two featuras tonight The acrobati as staged by ¢'oleman Hones, Mahlon Glascock, Willis Lawrence and Donald Thom: dack Reiss, George Beuchler, Bill Jemison and Megs Bryan gave « little skit, called * “The | diversified ine acts, em tic act | ac | | | “Lonesome Bell.” or Call of the Wild." The dancers were Jtana and Marie Dobrin, Morse Allen, | Louise Littlepage and Charlle Smoot, | the Dobrin Twins, Marie and Reba,| snd Morse Allen. Carl | Barnet Breeskin, Wayne Var { #nd Bill Jemison, all' versatile mu- aicians, appeared as “The Music | Makers The tentral Iigh School | Orchestra opened the show with an | overture and piayed during intermis- mion. The scenic effects and costumes were pleasing assets to the show and n tribute to the handicraft of the upils who created them Miss Sibyl Baker, the dramatic enius at Central, headed the faculty nd studeat committees which ar- #anged the show ( Ban Salacious Magazines. DES MOINES, Towa, Nove ./her 14 @£) —An agreement ending “the con- froversy over the sale of alleged sa- Jecious magazines has Dbeen reached here. wsdealers plan not to seil or display magazines which they know Will not meet officlal approval. Plans to provide dealers with a “white list” of preferable magazines were aban- doned in a conterence with Chief of olles Cavender, a legal representa- ive #f the magazine dealers and a felogate of the ministerial agsoclation. | i | 1 It | that { pal portion {to a call from the diocesan house and Eggs Are Currency In Armenia; Spoiled| Ones ‘Counterfeit’ By the Amcciated Press ERIVAN, Armenia, November 14--Eggs are being used as cur rency in the Kara Kala district of Armenia, where the American I East Rellef 1s operating. Twelve eggs are accepted on their “face value” as equivafent to one ruble, or flity cents in American curvency. If any of the eggs prove bad, they may be returned as “illegal tender.” The new form of “currency” is made necessary owing to the dif- ticulty of getting the regulur Soviet money to Kara Kala, which is buried deep in the mountains of Armenin. A palr of American es in Kara Kala costs 200 eggs. Miss Doroth Stratton of New York City, who I8 in charge of rellef work in that that live chickens coming futo use as curr chicken befng accepted s end a half, or 7o cents fn ican money EXWIFE UNRAVELS TANGLE OF ALIASES Identifies Picture of Weide- meier as West Virginian Who Deserted Her Here. re. are one b also J | 7 A | | I of the maze of aliases used by “Baron' Beaverbrook— Elder, von Edwards, Weldemeier—re- arded by police here as the premier confidence operator of the decade, De- tective C. L. Grant and his assistant, eph Morgan, today believe umbled on his true name A. Mason The information which s inference came in a s. J. A. Mason of Huntiugto | which brought, In addit | story of desertion on a honeymoon in | Washington, with an unpaid board | Ml and tranded Lride. who was ! d to wire home to friends and slatives to obtain funds for a return. | It also showed that, just Lefore the operations here of Beaverbrook, Mason | Leing sought by the pol It| June © that J. A. Mason and cently wedded, registered at| ieorge Washington Inn. The! ¢ of Huntington, | friend of the ecarly 1‘0u\hi egro .ccording to Ars. her that he had vast holdings in Columbia S. ell nd in Orlando. Fla.. and two au tomobilex. A few days after register. ing, Mason attempted to get the an ager of the hatel to cash u certified check for $570. The manager, for- tunately for him, refused. The following day. Mason disap peared after telling his wife he was going out to get the check cashed. It was less than two weeks later ““Baron" Beaverbrook and Mrs. Virginia Martin were married at| Rockvilie, with the resultant loss of £40,000 to Mrs. Martin when her hus- band disappeared very shortly there-{ atters i The police find in. ghe records now against Mason that he is wanted for & $100 board bill owing to the George Washington Inn R But what s regarded as the princi of the information com Mrs. Mason is that she rec- ed in the picturs of Weidemeler, isted in newspapers at the tlme his wrrest in St. Louis (which pic s also resuited in his being con as Raron Beaverbrook), the A. Mason who had deserted Cornelius von led them to letter from X 15 as on v Masor propert 1 nected same .J. ha is still at large, but| 't that he was known so long | the wife from Huntington as| s the police 1o belleve | his real name i YOUTH IS TRAPPED IN ALLEGED SWINDLE Claimed to Be Son of Pastor and Obtained Loans From Church People, Police Say. oner Duvall years, ving at th partment of his sister in Southbrook Courts. axperienced the surprise of his llfe Vesterday afternvon when he came lace to face with the Rev. Karl Wiock, former resid of this city, now serving as pastor of a church in Roanoke, Vi., where he. Duvall, for- rly resided wv. Block, two 40 years old, childrer, had ussed Ly reports of & about 30 years visiting pastors of churches, representing him celf to be Kev. Block's son and 1-'].‘ taining small loans, but it was not! ntil yesterday that he came face tof face with the alleged swindler i By chance, Duvall met Theodore Block, Lrother of the minister, on the | treat several days ago, said he wes of a Harrisonburg, Va., par- : and obtained a loan of §7, and the prisoner is said to have admitted the | transaction vesterday when he con- ted his benefactor. 1 happened that Duvall yesterday { afternoon visited the diocesan house of | stant Lpiscopal City Missions, | stveel, made reyresentations | that he was o son of the Kev. Block | and was quickly confronted by the | minister, ending a long search Detective B. . Kuehling responded not small I ather een man yet i of emba the o took charge of Duvall. The prisoner is raid to have admitted having vis- ited numerous ministers in this city, | Rishop Freeman being one of them, and o have obtained varlous sums of money. He admitted he had no per- sonal acquaintance with .the Rev. Bloct MAY GET NEW YORK POST Col. W. N. Haswell Urged as Head of State’s National Guard. Col. W Haswell, United States Cavalry, has been recommend- ed to Gov. Smith of New York for appointment as commander of the New York National Guard, with the rank of major general. Ie was awarded the distinguished service medal for meritorious services in the Field Artillery during the World War and was commended for efficient serv- ice in organizing the Russian relief. He is a graduate of the Military Aoca- demy of the class of 1901. Most of his service has been in the Cavalry. Fol. Jowing a tour of duty in the Philip- pines a few years ago, he was detailed as inepector-instructor of the New York National Guard, and is still on that detail. During the Mexican troubles he commanded the 68th Infantry, Na. tional Guard. In case of his appointment as com- mander of the New York National Guard, it is sald, he will resign his commission in the Army. i claimed: | creasing the cost o | returned to the mountain regions. THE EVE W.R.T. TORETAIN EXTENDED ROUTE Will Not Abandon Silver Soring Line Until Ruling on Rights Is Made. The Washington Rapild Transit Co. will not make un immediate move to | abandon its interstate bus line hetween Sfiver Spring and Sixteenth and Bu- chanan streets until it fs dctinitely ! determined whether the company will be permitted to carry local pussengers us well as interstate riders, it was in dicated today by Attorney Conrad H Syme, Mr. Syme stated that the company e the Marviand Public | Service Commisston in Baltimore Tues. day to ask permission to pick up and discharge local passengers within | Maryland. A similar request to stop for “local passengers Sixteenth street is still pending before the local utilities commisston At the public hearing vesterday question of allowing the company to carry local passengers in the District did not come up, and the commission has not vet decided on another hearing {0 consider that matter. also is pending before the loc mission an application from the Cupl tal Traction Co. to run a competing motor bus service ou the full length of Sixteenth strect. which has net been set £ ! k. Tt 1s pos sible that = commission decided onanothe: hearing I ¢ these ap. plications may be the same time. STRIFE AT PEKING AVERTED FOR TIME Chang Creates Surprise by Re-| calling Troops to Pre- vent Battle r | | | | { 1 | i PERING. November of figh in the vicinity of Peking between rival military chiefs has been averted for the time being. The chief executive, Tuun Chi-jui, i3 telegraphically {nformed by Marshal | Chang Teolin that, in pre- | serve peace, Le fthdraw his troops from around Tientsin and to the north. The Manchuran war lord’s troops near the capital are, in fact, already in motion, sme & In the course « vithdrawsl w others have al ready boarded tras f Al In The dan- ger ng order to s for aut headq thelr army o the east Tso-lin’s action 'hang has caused | great surprise in forelgn clrcles DAMASCUS STANDS AS CITY OF DEAD IN TERROR OF ATTACK _(Continued from First Page) # 1 of refugees from Damascue. But when the writer inquired the people ex. “What refugees?” They knew nothing of events further than that support had -been given the Druses by the Syrians. In Egypt and Palestine the people knew nuthing of any uprishg beyond | the talk of a sympathetic strike, which | ad not materinlize, and that the Bag- dad automobile caravan route hal been shifted farther to the south, in f the trip to the passengers fromnn $125 to $1230. Later they learned that the British had oc supled a few Druse localities near the Palestine frontier. The real trouble in Damascus was caused by the panic of the nervous populstion in fleeing before a few armed marauders. In French Syria today the tion is ltke the old frontier times n America, when the Indians held the plains and rafded the settlers. Today the Druses rald pillaga than to satisfy any nationalist or anti-forelgn teachings. They seem *h number but a few thousands and their cutting off of a Franch battalion produced a situation like Custer's last stand on the Bigx Horn River. The sitnation toduy is that the Druses are making an effort to the tribes in the Lebanon | tun- approaching Beirut the tter heard sounds of artillery fire and alr hombing. The bombers have orders to spare the settlements and homb only &roups of marauders. There are two main bands, one oper- ating in the Hasbaya reglon, tt other near Nebek. hetween Damascus and Homs, both Lands totalling less than 2000 members altogether. Nevertheless. some of the people, pa stricken, arb fleeing to the hills. (Cow by Chicago Daily News Co. IN CONFLICT. 1025 190 SLAI igh Bandits Suffer Heavy Casualties in Attack on Village. Syria. November 14 ().~ One hundred” and fifty bandits and forty Maronites have been killed dur- ing an attack by bands of brigands on the village of Kawkaba, near Has- baya. The information comes from French sources. When the encounter ended the munitions of the villagers wero exhausted, and they retired toward Mardjeyou, where large French forces are concentrating in order to prevent the retreat of the bandits. The French understand that bandits have treated women children with the utmost cruelty. Damascus is described as no longer menaced, except for 250 brigands who have been levying tribute on outlying villages and for a band roaming to the northward of Damascus. Four Christians have been killed by highway bandits a few miles from Damascus. | Reinforcements Arrive. PARIS, November 14 UP).—French | relnforcements hinve begun arriving In $yrla. The appearance of the fresh | troops, according to the latest reports, produced an immediate effect upon the rebels and the Druse tribesmen, among | the most active of the insurrectionists, | the and The country has calmed down, the dispatches say, and only one small band of rebels is in the field in the Damascus region. C. A. BIRD’S WILL FILED. HORNELL. N. Y., November 14 (). —The will of the late Charles A. Bird, prominent theatrical man, who died here Wednesday, was filed for probate today. The two principal | heirs are Anna Wheaton Collins of | New York and Mrs. Clara D. Master- | Washington {are built for anthrac man of Hornell. The estate is estl mated at a quarter of & million. Mrs. Masterman’s husband was mr' years a close personal friend and busi- ness assoclate of Mr. Bird. Mr. Bird had no relstives. He was manager of the West Coast Studios of the Xox Tilm Corporatien, U. BUILDING DEDICATION TODAY AT STOCKTON HALL G. W. U. Law School Unit to Be Scene of Ceremony This Afternoon. Stockton Memortal Hall $250,000 law school unit University, cated this afternoon : many the of _( will new rge be dedi ock, with promine and edu cators of the country participating the ceremonies. Dean Roscoe Untversity wil h, lawyers Pound of Farvard leliver the dedicatory Speeches also will b ing the ¢ Association the law rge W na Col school John Clephane cepresenting the B Lavn president r of the the Willtam of the university new law Mather institution. . dean of Ve he ixes began out-of-town Stockton the La und afternoon the visitors wi sightseelng trips about the ¢ caremontes will close with a reception tonight at § o'clock U. S. EXPERTS DENY MENACE IN BURNING BITUMINOUS COAL the public, however. It is extremely poisonous, has no vdor whatever and will kill & person within a very few minutes without necessarily reaching great point of concentration. It the same gas that issues from the ex- haust of an automobtle and it has slain scores of persons who worked in their garages while the motors of their cars were running. Warning by Lewis. Mr. Lewis' warning appeared in the rent issue of the American Federa- nist, official organ of the American Federution of Labor. Discussing the use of unthracite substitutes and deny- Ing that the bituminous producers can tide the Nation over the Winter with- out additional anthracite. Mr. Lewis said: “Any one who has any technical or practical knowledge of the relative substs and form of the two fuels bituriinous and anthracte, knows fall weil that the anthracite equipment will not by bituminous coal fn a manner that will protect the health and safety of the householder “There are hundreds and hundreds of miles of tenement houses in our &reat centers of population in the Eastern country where the chimneys ite fuel. Any at- tempt_to burn hituminous coal in those chimney will mean the whole. sale asphyxiation of whole familles reason of the fact that the gases from the bituminous product cannot be carried away b, the vents and orifices In the roofs of the domicties. “The American people are due for 4 rude awakening. The anthracite commodity takes care of the fuel re. quirements of some 60,000 communt- ties In the Atlantlc seaboard country, and it is physically impossible, even were other conditions fuvorable, for the railroads to transport enough bituminous coal into these 60,000 com munities to care for their require- ments, even if they could burn it Plenty of Soft Coal. Even If the anthracite mines were to resume operations immediately, Mr. Lewls added, they would not be able to overtake the hard coal short- age before Spring. He also declared that he had been assured by some of the country’s leading industrial engl- neers that the coke industry would be unable to expand its harvest enough to become an appreciable substitute for hard coal. In a statement issued vesterday, however, the National Coal Associa- tion, composed of bituminous oper- ators, declared that the soft coal mines “are fueling and can continue to fuel the entire nation.” regardless of what the anthracite crop may be “The actual fact,” the statement said, “is that today bituminous pro- ductlon is exceeding by several hun- dred thousand tons the weekly aver- age that it will be necessary to main- tain until March 31, the end of what ts known as the coal year, to meet the average consumption of both anthracite and bituminous. “An averaze weekly production of 11,880,785 net tons will fuel this Na- tion, and. according to the figures of the United States Bureau of Mines. the production in each of the last two weeks of October exceeded 12,000,000 MRS. SUSIE M. HAGAN DIES Former Proofreader Expires After Operation at Hospital. Mrs. Susie Mason Hagan, 36 years o0ld, wife of Clarence 8. Hagan, dled | in Georgetown University Hospital yesterday following an operation. Mrs. Hagan was formerly & proof- reader in the United States Treasury Department and was an active work er in Calvary Baptist Church for sev- | eral years. he last two vears, it is said. Funeral services will be conducted | at the residence, 2701 Woodley place, this afternoon. Interment will be in Rock Creek Cemetery. Her husband is the only near rela- $ive surviving, | government. he had not been well for | NG _STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1925. 7o e owmexeso] [JIOWAN SWOONS ON ESCAPING JAL Overcome With Joy as Her Sentence for Stealing Bills Is Suspended. Grace L. Crawford, an employe of the Bureau of Engraving and Print. ing for 10 years, was overcome with oy and fainted today when Justice Bafley of Criminal Division 1 placed her on probation under a suspended | sentence of two years for stealing o sheet of $10 bills from the bureau last June. There were eight notes on the sheet and inquiry developed that all were put in circulation. The woman had been shaking with emotion as she awalted her turn to be sentenced and when the fear of going to prison had been removed by the sentence of the court she swooned and had to be re- tioved from the courtroom. Terry Coler, slias Louls Koratl, a voung white ‘man, was sent to the penitentiary for seven years by Justice Bafley. Coler broke into the store of the B. C. R. Motors Co. June 7 lust and took & quantity of auto- | mobile- accessorfes. He had a criminal | recora. Roemer Gets Five Years. Carl Roemer, 20 years old, of Cleve land, Ohlo, was given term of five years in the penitentiary for selling an automoblle which ha been in trusted to him. The t ired per ission to e the car for a half ur wnd teok It to Duluth, Minn, where he sold #t® Rimflar charges of tealing machines ure alleged against Lim in Duluth and at Superior, Wis., id he once attempted to set fire to the home of hix parents, the court was told. Five y e ars in the penitentiary was the eentence imposed on Clifton Simms, colored, of Brentwood, Md. He assaulted Robert (. Redding with a pistol, and the court said it was th merest accident that he was not up for murder. Ada Shorter, colored, mother of five children, was sentenced to serve four years in the She was convicted of " pedditng. Willlam k. colored, will serve three years in the penftentiary. He attempted to hold up Thomas Nelson at the point of a pistol O ber A like term was imp {James W. Queen, colored, {forged und passed a number of l\\wnhl&: checks for small amounts. he plead®d guilty to four cuses an the court fixed.the penalty years in each case,‘but allowed them to run concurrently. anitor Jailed. Jokn Hauptman, years old, 0N victed of 4 second offenss of violating the Volstead act, was sentenced to pay a fine of §200 and, in addition, T serve one year at OCOUAD. fs emploved as janltor In an apart ment house on Pennsylvania avenue. Junita Lee, stylishiy gowned, was hefore Justice Bailey for sentence for recelving stolen proberty consisting of wearing apparal and jewelr was given a sentence of two ¥ but was placed an probation as she has three small children John Stewart, colored, will six months at Occoquan for joy-rid tng and Beatrice Coie will ba at the Above: New Stockton Memorial nall, the $250.000 Law hool wnit of George Washington University, to be dedicated this afternoon. Lower: Prof. Willlam €. Van Vieck, dean of the Law School AUTO SIGNAL LIGHT POSITION IS CHANGED Will Be Placed at Truxton Circle Instead of 22d and Q Streets. as Originally Planned. Traffic officlals have decided to place one of the automutic signel lighte at Truxton Circie. North Capitol street and Florida avenue. instead of at Twenty-second and Q streets north west The latter location was eliminated bacause the trafc heads did not be lieve there would be sufficient room for vehicles to make the Jeft-hand turn if the automatic light was placed in the middle of the intersection, as planned. The light to be placed at Truxton Circle is one of three individual sig- nals to Le erectad at busy points in addition to the system of synchron- ized lights that have been ord for Sixteenth street portion of Massachusetts a The three separate lights shipped from S use, N. Y.. last week and should be installed within a few davs. The lights for Sixteenth street and Massachusetts avenue are expected to be in service by Decembey 15. Delivery of these lights has been delayed, awaiting a shipment of cable needed for the installation she wielded a knife during a dispute with Gertrude Conway September 3 Anios R. Stepney, colored, was sent to the penitentfary for five vears to, {day by Justice Stafford in Criminal Division:l. The prisoner has a crimi- nal record and was convicted of steal 16€ “an automnobile belonging to Wil M 1. Gra Joy-Rider Paroled. Richard G. Allen. a Young wh man, was given a term of two ye He stole an automobile Lelonging Eleanor R. Patterson April & last Sentence of three years in the peni tentlary was fmposed on Leon shields, colored, who stole an electric battery belonging to the District of Columbia September 14. William ored, who was with Shields, will spend one year at Occoquan. Ruther Jackson, colored, form ploye of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, who admitted pusting poi- Government money togethe intending to put them into circul tlon, wus §#ven a tarm of one vear at Oceoqua: Rufus Adams, colored, was xent to Occoguan for six months for using a knife during an assault on | Bernurd Lewix August 21 last Henry Trundle, a young white man, who confessed to a charge of joy rid ing, was given another chance by Jus tice Staffol He was placed on pro. bation for two vears. and ron £y were i ITALIAN DEBT PACT FORMALLY SIGNED. CONGRESS 0. K. SEEN ¥ (Continued from st_Page) yesterday at the Treasury debt to the United States ecretary Winston of the Ameri- commlssion was_in_ conference for some time with Titulesco, presi- dent of the Rumanian commisston. Preliminary groundwork was cov- ered, it wus understood, and the Ru mantan delegation will prepare addi tional duta concerning its capacity to | pay for presentation probably Tues. day of next week at further {nformal conferences. The first documents prepared by the Rumanians were understood to have been printed in French, and these, before they are formally lald hefore the American commission, are to be translated into English. he settiement with Italy has re vived much speculation as to what France will now d ‘rance, the only country which so far hes failed to nil “ufter serfous negotiations with the American comniisston, was encouraged:. wocording to advices from Patis.\by the lenient terms granted to Italy France Must Face Test. France, however,.must face the same test of capacity to pay when she returns to the Unfted States, it was learned authoritatively -today. The Italian debt was funded on the basis of Italy’s capacity to.pay, ad itted by both Ttallang and Americuns | Waller to be lower than any debtor nation |driving, leaving the scene of an ac making advances to fund, dent without making his identity The American commission wAs | known, and insuffictent lights. understood today to malntain the| Three chiliren were among the vic- same position toward the French debt | tims, of yesterday's traflic accidents. as it did at the time Finance Minister [ One' was Thelma Sydman, 9, 1024 Caillaux's last offer was refused and { Twelfth street southeast, who was the Tranco-American negotiations { knocked down near Eleventh and I were left suspended. streets southeast by the automobile of Any French hopes that the Amer- | Hillatd Moore, colored, 1411 Morr ican commission has experienced a |road Sautheast. She was treated at “change of heart” toward France, based on the lenlent torms granted to Italy, were believed by observers | here to be absolutely groundless. The | Seventh &treel, was knocked down by capacity to pay will be still the yard. | an automoblile Wpear his home and stick, it is understood. by which the | SHERtIY injured. \i{e received treat- American commission Will measurc | ment at home. "Allston Gray, colored each debtor approaching Washington | - 2131 Virginfa avenue, was knocked Yor aasttiomtat: down at Virginia avenue and Twent 2 | second street by the automobile of W. Ratification Is Seen. !L. Hall, 86 V street, and slightly hurt. Although there have been some indi-| Others injured included cations that objections to the lenfent | Vance, 78, 2352 East Twenty-fifth terms will be ratsed when agreement { Street, Baltimore, Md.: John Harris, comes before Congress, the most re- | colored. 38, 1614 Church street: Har- liable indications today pointed to-|rison Murray, colored, 1352 Twenty- ward ratification by Congress, seventh street, and James Young, col- The only remaining debtors of the |ored, 36, 918% Howard road south- United States now expected to make | 838t attempts at settlement are Rumania, whose debt commission is now at work here; Jugoslavia and Greece. The debts of Russia and Armenia to this Government are considered as out of the picture for the present. The United States has not recognized the Soviet, and Armenia practically has no | over their can DRIVER IS ARRESTED IN HIT-AND-RUN CASE Nelson Waller Held After Car Strikes and Seriously Injures W. H. Childs, 69. Nel Waller, Wyoming avenue, last night after on years old, 2136 was arrested late his omobile H. avenue southwest, streets. Chtl suffering from of the skull, three fractured ribs and shock, was taken to Emergency Hos. pital, where his condition this morn- ing was reported ae slightly improved. was charged with reckless Childs, 69 years old, 306 Maine at Sixth and E her leg. Six-year-ol Willlam Brodsky, 1707 e PREHISTORIC FIND MADE. KRASNOYARSK, Siberla, Novem- ber 14 (P).—Excavations on Afrontov Mountain near here have resulted in the discovery of several skeletons of paleclithic men and the remains of several hundred mammoths, wolves and bears. The skeletons are believed by Russian archaeclogists to be about 30,000 years old. Weapons and tools of hitherto un- Activities of Britain's new food com- | known types also were found. Among mission are expected to lower the cost |these are curiously shaped cudgels of living therey " made of tusks of the mammetd, Another debt, that of Austria, still n the ledger, is not up for considera tion now, as the matter was put for- ward 20 years by an act of Congress. who | t threc | He | serve | same institution for one year because | Liggins, col- | em- | struck and seriously injured Willtam | a fracture | CasualtyHospital for a slight cut on | Samuel | |Christmas Tree ! Harvest Approved By Forest Service The joy that the Christmas tres brings to children far outweighs any damage that the cutting of these small trees does to the forests, the United States Forest Service declared today in indors- ing the tinsel bearer of the Yule- 1d; As & matter of fact, the service pointed out, the annual harvest of Christmas trees is exceeded many times by those used in the manu- facture of toothpicks. Roughly estimated, 6,000,000 evergreens Jonstitute the yearly output of Christmas trees, all of which could e produced on 6,000 acres of and. The seryice compares this area with the 4,000,000 acres that are swept each year by for fires. DR. FAUNCE HEADS UNIVERSITIES BODY John Hays Hammond Criti- | cizes Athletics in Address Before Association. | Brown Univer dent of the Associution of Urban Uni | versities at the final se ing of thelr wieventh annu tion, which has Conrge Washington U Price of Minnesota ewected vice presic cted presi- | | association in refraining fron ing anything not closely related uroan umversities made it impossi to indorse the World Court, but the members passed n motion expressing themselves as individually in favor of it. 1" Next vear's cor }at’ Brown Unversity ing year thicy will meet at Carnes Tecli, it was announced today Tho rest of the session was devoted to an executis of the many problems cc o n v President Frederick C. Hicks. sity of Cincinnati, presided Athletics Under Fire. adulation of college and the lack of any tem of 1 has {about a d cor { of coll John Hays mond . declared & tel Jast night. military training would the student body as | @ whole than utidetics as they now | he added. The college coach d voles all of his time to_the develop- | ment of the mun who atrea s al { strong body, and the underleveloped | udents, those who really need the ! ining, are ignorel, the red. ‘In my profession T come int tact with hundreds of young men out of college seeking posi ready and willing to do any kit but totally unfitted to do o will be held| and the follow- | | | { | | stars Hau t the Ho. noted er speaker e | ng. “I believe this is due to_ too early {specialization, or else the student wkes a‘generalcourse and then fails to take a postgraduate course spe cializing in &ny one thing,” he sald Mr. Hammond blamed the paren ge. and also unge of elective sub tudent. Lewis, i the wide s open to the William Mather e Washing also epoke, s tion of the {of the ca i ! | | of the caie He said he was favor large universities beca {0f the greater facilities they offer Presfdent Lewlis deplored the ex luck of culture, saving: *T age of the street onty e wong - the members cu . he said. ] Colleges are not for the intellectual | giants, he said. but for the less bril- | Hant as well, and to meet et well e | ing also [ of the needs reasonable en advisable Lack of Constructive Re In speakir 5 done, goes ¥ with no eonception « Work and | plors or h President when le. speciz could | and lectures the liberal | be given. He alsa s that sychology the student might | arts | thre 1be t |NAVAL BUDGET IS CUT " BY JAPANESE CABINET| i Action on Plan for Ship Replace- | ments Is Reported to Have Been Deferred for a Year. | | 1l discussion of the s request of an ppropriation 3,000,000 ven for the replucement of auxil ssels and the budg for 1926 11 contain only mall ap- propriation for minor construction A previous compromise between the finance and navy departments called | for the 23,000,000 ven to be spread | {over a number of years, but the eco. nomic condition of the country caused | the cabinet to reconsider the matter | and decide not to name any stated ap- | | propriation, which is believed to mean | that only a small sum for the replace- | ment of destroyers will be granted. Boston Won't See Play. BOSTON, November 14 (#).—Boston | will not see “‘Desire Under the Eims.” | Eugene O'Neill's play, that has been | running in New York for many | months, because Mayor Curley has | {insisted on such a complete revision {of its text. Rather than comply with |the censorship requirements. the producers have decided to cancel the | Boston engagement, It was announced at Cify Hall vesterday. The play | was to have opened here Monday. i | | a 1t is under 1 { | | , Officials of the immnigration service along the border have been warned by Commissioner Hull to take every pre- | caution against promiscuous or dan- gerous' use of firearms. Officers in charge were directed to see that sub- | ordinates were properly trained in| handling weapons. Sporadic _com- plaints of too free use and exhibition | of pistols by fmmigration agents. Mr. | Hull explatned, cause {ssuance of the | order. L ta eI Y ‘Wife Charges Desertion. Suit for a limited divorce hus been filed in the District Supreme Court by Mrs. Elva M. Giibert against Wil- liam H. Gilbert, a printer. They were married June 33, 1925, and the wife sharges desertion, v { which would | the P | ana on { four RAIL WRECK HELD PREVENTABLE HERE Officials Say Automatic Con- trol Device Woul®' Aave Saved Lives. From both ends of Washingior day—even while the wreckage of trains which collided ar Kiainsh N. J., lnst Wednesday was being ed away, from the legislative bra where laws passed requiring ra to install automatic train control from the Intersiate Co mission, whose duty it railroads to install some vice—came expresskon that nized sufety device bad bee on the train whick cra sleeper on the Washing train, the accldent we curred. train-control in operation on the Per road line where wreck occurred, 10 _persons and Senator Albert i chairman of the Sanate interstate commerca Wi and recommended th train cortrol which @re nc ministered by the & merca Commission, sale ev which ati should nstal) ¢ n pre edite (5] Senator dents tement Cited Official’s St t C Tici which credited with the assertic of the Meren stop signal would h mati use. Ser. now the law requ. matic trai that have n_that Expres ted 1 a been control or been prove Ricl " tions of ti origin, have order. Few Install Devices The one full with = tion £o Southern and Quine Pacific. N vic defined, | * carriers placed by the ation at d wtive $1.020 to $1.3 from it from $2,400 inductive GRAND MASTER VISITS TWO MASONIC LODGES Official Calls st. Hope Complete Sixth 1925 Program. ,000. The ec 1 found that in avers vices, John's Week on d of Wi ndge. No the grand District the sixth week of @ visitations of There rem: ¢ \ the first on Monday concluding call, ber © The visitations last no general exception had preceded ther comment by Gr Fulkerson was nce Pyrah, master of John and Hubert Newsom, m Lodge, No. 20, heard compl ments on the records of their respe tive organizations, the grand maste: saying he had to keep his foot on t brake ‘or fear he might go too n_the way of commendation Hope Lodge had the “long cnd” the double visitation. It had pr vided elaborate decorations ¥ lodgeroom, furnished entertainment and « ning with_a supper The seventh week of the visitations will be inaugurated day_evening with calls on Benjan B. French Lodge, No. 15, at § o'c Pentalpha Lodge, No. o'clock. SEEK HEIR T0 $200,000. h calls on St J n E Hone Lodge, No Masons neluded the of Columb e annual grand evening st mbe dnesda oven f t nd M aster R 7 Lo r of He pretention cluded th series o 0 Youth Who Ran Away From Home Four Years Ago Now Wealthy. ELDORADO, Ark., November 14 (4 —Authorities today were searching for a vouth who ran away from home years ago and has inherited an estate valued at $200,000. Rober Whliam Bradley, adopted on of M: and Mrs. J. P. Bradiey. both of whom are now dead, has failed to claim the property bequeathed to him,.which conaists - principally of valuable oll Jands. His present address has net been ascertained by local friends,