Evening Star Newspaper, November 25, 1925, Page 1

“From Press to Home Within the Hour” The ar’s carrier every city block and th tion is delivered to Was| as fast as the papers system covers regular edi- ington homes ted e ¢ Foening Star. WEDNESDAY, WEATHER. (11, 8. Weather Burcau Forocast.) Rain and slightly warmer tonight and probably tomorrow morning, fol- lowed by ¢l nd colder. Temperatures igh 39, a p.m. vesterday: lowest. 8, at 5 ; today. Full report on page 7. | Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 22 Yesterday’s Circulation, 100,982 o Soncnein ek o PROSECUTONCALLS e 25 HOST OF WITNESSES 25, Entere post offic PINCHOT TO MEET LEWIS AND INGLIS No. s matter NOVEMBER 1925—THIRTY PAGES. w ), TS TWO THOVING OF LABCR Means Associated Press. CENTS President Commutes 25-Year Federal Sentence. -~ OVERSTRIKE ISSUE Governor Invites Leaders of Miners and Operators to Conferences Today. EACH PRINCIPAL TO SEE EXECUTIVE SEPARATELY Whether Any Definite Suggestions Are {0 Be Considered Is Not Disclosed. R, 1 neho i1 situation Novem! the e today with president of the and Maj. W f the anthracite The late w sx an Lewis Worker Mtiating committee. be held separately Inglis and Mr the Governor's request 1 today Lewis are Mr. expected here this r. Lewis will come ‘hey will meet the ecutive Mansion. did not disclose any definite s - toward a settle- wracite controversy or of negotiations between ind min STATUS SEEMS UNCHANGED. Some Expect to See Peace Moves Soon, However. "HIA, November ). \ctivity of various in- ibout a resumption of ions between rep- anthracite miners the situation, on the ppeared unchanged LADEI however who a4 way soon the two sides ind that the end of the long was in sight. The more uld see no significance move of leading opera- nor did they a settlement outside inter- There held t would be cether pension recent ind union official in any hope o 1 the efforts of were some, the belief tha found to bri rts from anton last night hat Gov. Pinchot had again sum- Maj. W. W. Inglis, chairman inthracite operators’ scale committes, to Harrisburg to discuss suspension. Maj. Inglis said he expected to meet the governor today. of the Keeps in Close Touch. It is known that Gov. Pinchot has been keeping in close touch with the situation. He had upon two occasions conferred separately with Maj. Inglis and John L. Lewis, but beyond the tatement that the strike was under ation none of the conferees d what took place. What the State executive had in mind when he invited Maj. Inglis to confer with him szain today could not be learned. “I'he governor had retired for the night when the fact became known and his secretary said that he was not aw: that the invitation had Lewis said today that he had ced no word regarding the gov- or's plans. M. delphia yesterday for several but he did not see the miners’ I Puts Blame on Operators. ring that the mine workers 1de overtures to the operat resumption of the wage nego jons, Mr. Lewis placed the blame for . continuance of the strike on the eperators. itement 1 fered to - st week in which he of- ume negotiations “give and take” basis and said that the offer had been ignored by the mine owners. Meanwhile, the supply of anthracite apidly is becoming exhausted. shortage has forced many per- to substitutes, the pr in most s ions has ad- vanced fa bevond the normal cost of d coal. In the hom cannot afford to pay the price 1most coal bins are empty and some suffering already has been reported. CIVIC BODIES MEET. which, Keek Way Negotiations. SCRANTON, Pa., November 25 (). | —TRepresentatives of civic organiza- tons from cities and towns through- out the anthracite region were in con- ference here vesterday in_an effort 10 devise a plan to bring about a re- sumption of the wage conferences be- tween the hard coal operators and The meeting nd was behind closed doors. W. Giering, president of the Wilkes- “irre Chamber of Commerce, presided. Othe Jted included Carbondale, Scranton, »kin, Honesdale, Olyphant, Pitts- ton, Old Forge, Berwick, Hazleton and Williamsport. With the exception of a brief state- ment nothing was given out at the rclusion of the meeting. This state- said A meeting was held this afternoon n Seranton by representatives of various chambers of commerce of the anthracite region to discuss the an- thracite situation, Ralph E. Wee Ammerman nmittee to ac Shan n 3. J. Lynett and iting a special s Scranton’s Cham- R er of Commerce mediators, reported | their efforts to date. After a thorough deliberation the <eranton committee was instructed to mulate some practical method by ich a resumption of conferences be- n miners and operators could be nezotiated. JUAREZ ELECTION ENDED. PAS November 25 (P).— er 10 of uncertainty, one th and numerous minor casualties, municipal election appeared to be I in Juarez yesterday. Alme brother of Gov. Almeida of Chihuahua, was by a plurality of 420. . Te: AR rio iy ed m: Pinchot was in | He called attention to his | on al of those | to Bring New Strike | lasted four | chambers of commerce repre- | Bandit Faces Death Penalty for Slaying New Britain Policeman. B the Associated Press . HARTFORD, Conn., November 2 | The Federal sentence of Gerald Chap- man has been commuted by President | Coolidge. The Iixecutive order termi ing the sentence of posed in the Pederal court at New | York ror the r mail truck | was signed by ident at 6 o'clock ~ Monday evening and was | nade public toaay when the document | was delivered to Warden H. K. W. ott, for service on Chapman. The official document which termi- nated Federal interest in Gerald Chap- |man was brought to Hartford by — | ser’ | | Warden Scott for The warden | 1o this, and delivered to ice on Chapman. immediately prepared to the action marked another step in the efforts of the State of Connecticut to execute Chapman for the murder of oliceman, James of itain, on October | was | | Hickey, | United Attorney | e H. Cohen ahd Attorney Joseph | Freedman, the last named being of | counsel for Chapman, were present | when the commutation paper was | presented to Chapman | Chapman laver informed his counsel | that he will not accept presidential commutation of his robbery sentence. State’s Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn and | BERLIN VON OVER TONEED FOR 0K, *OFLOGARNDPACTS !Reichstag Is Convinced by | Stresemann That Future | Peace Is at Stake. | ER O | _ BY EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER By Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily New: i BERLIN, November 25—Foreign | Minister Gustav Stresemann’s straight- | forward words in the Reichstag Tues- day laid down the facts concerning | the Locarno treaties in almost irre- | futable fashion and convinced all ex- {cept the most resolute adversaries of the necessity of accepting these trea- }ues. | In a long speech crammed with {facts, the foreign minister gave a { masterly expose of the situation. Re. | plying to his critics, Herr Stresemann | declared that article 19 of the cove | nant will give Germany the moral | responsibility of asking for peaceful | revision of intolerable frontiers and i that this interpretation is accepted |by Austen Chamberlain, British for- | eign minister. | Concerning the treaty of Versaille: Herr Stresemann laughed at optim who imagined that the Versailles | treaty, on which all subsequent ar- | rangements, including the German | American peace treaty, were based, ‘could be ignored out of existence b; | Germany. The fact of the signing of | the Locarno agreement does not con | stitute a new German acknowledg- {ment of the justice of these treaties, however. The fact that the German-Russian commercial treaty was signed just | before Locarno proves conclusively | that Germany has no_intention of | joining any “world front” against Rus- { sia. Germany, moreover, will not take | part even in a commercial blackade of | Russia if it should be requested by | the league, becguse such action would | constitute a war danger against which Germany has the right to provide. Germany would gladly take part in |a world commercial conference, but this does not mean an approach to !the United States ot Europe. The |effect of the speech was excellent. |1t was punctuated by humorous | moments, as when, after reading a | quotation in French, Herr Strese- | mann stopped to rest and an im- | patient voice interrupted: | “Eh bien, continuez” g0 on). (Coyright. 1925. by Chicago Daily News Co.) | EXPRESSES CONFIDENCE. (all right, | Stresemann Says New France Is Not ! “Poincare” France. BY SAMUEL SPEWACK. | ! The Star and New York World. ‘EJ«' Cable to BERLIN, November 24.—A German foreign minister tonight told-a German | Reichstag: ! “We have confidence in France.” | And a German Reichstag, which re- echoed for eleven years with denunci- ation of the Reich's Latin- neighbor, roared applause, from the bulk of the deputies, on the floor and from the gallerles, jammed to the choking point with representative Germans. Foreign Minister Stresemann does not often carry his auditors with him as he did tonight at the fag end of the first day of a general debate on tire Locarno pact. He had-one hour to destroy the cobwebs of suspicion spun about the pact by Count von Westart, Nationalist leader, who saw in the pact the destruction of the Reich and in the League of Nations Germany's enslavement. ‘Wins Reichstag Over. Stresemann converted necessity into triumph. Before he had ended his speech his auditors, with the excep- tion of the dle-hards, were convinced that Locarno was a signal victory for German diplomacy. “We have no reason to distrust o roclaimed Stresemann, i‘;:‘zfi;g to {’he full the dramatic value of his lines. We have confidence fn France. The France of today is | not the France of Poincare.” Selzing the Nationalist argument that there was no necessity for Lo- carno, Stresemann declared: "It 'we had refused to sign at Lo- carno, Briand would not have gone back empty-handed to Paris. Ger- many would have been morally iso- lated. France would have asked and (Continued on Page 4, Column 3. President Delays l Walk to Aid Blind Man Cross Street! BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. President Coolidge, out for daily stroll in the business se late er v afternoon, tracted by an elderl dressed white man who appeared to be greatly confused while try ing to work his way through the traffic jam at Tenth and F streets It was during the rush hour. The streets were thick with auto mobiles and hurrying shoppers. The President stopped and looked at the stranger for a moment and then discovered that he was blind. The President quietly directed one of the secret service men ac companying him to go to the afflicted man's assistance, and he | tood near the curb until he was | isfied that the blind man had | been landed safely on the other side of the street. The latter was | very grateful and profuse in his | thanks to the man who had escort- | ed him, but he went about his way | totally ignorant of the fact that it | was the President of the United | | | his | tion was at shabbily States who had personally interest- ed himself in him. PERSHING HOPEFL SOLUTON NEAR | Expects Tacna-Arica Labors | to Continue Despite Possible | i Picturesque Stock Trader Sells Seat i Withdrawal of Delegates. | | By the Associated Pre i ARICA, November 25.—Gen. John | J. Pershing, head of the Tacna-Arica plebiscitary commission, said today | that despite grave differences in the | attitudes and opinions of the Chilean | and Peruvian representatives, hope | was still entertained that discussion |from the Secretary of War were read | would lead to a solution of the con- troversy and enable a continuance of | the plebiscite commission's labors. | Although such official optimism was | considered encouraging, observers as- | serted that they could not foresee the | end of the threatened deadlock which since last Saturday has arrested the| work of the commission. One of the highest of the Chilean plebiscitary officials said he could and he authorized a unless the Americans mands of Augustin Edwards the plebiscite commission would be noti- fied of the withdrawal of the Chilean delegation. | This statement, it is thought, must be interpreted in the light of the probable contents of (ien. Pershing’s reply to Senor Edwards’ note, but it | seems undoubted that the Chileans’ | purpose to stand firm upon their de- | mand for the Immediate promulgation of election laws, the commencement | of registration and the holding of the | plebiscite by February 1. The withdrawal of the Peruvian! delegation is thought to be impending owing to a report by Col. Marchand, commander of the Carabinos, in which the Peruvian boundary delegation is accused of instigating the murder of a Carabino. “I am convinced,” the report of Col. Marchand concludes, “that the horrl ble event was premeditated under the | auspices of members of the Peruvian | Boundary Commission, who were in | camp in the immediate vicinity and within sight of the scene of the mur- der, facts which induced the Indians | to commit it.” | CHILEANS MAY APPEAL. statement that; granted the de- | Procedure followed by the Chileans thus far in their protests against Gen. | Pershing’s handling of the prelim. | inaries for the Tacna-Arica plebiscite was sald by informed officials here today to lay the proper groundwork | for an appeal to President Coolidge | as arbitrator, although the intention | of the Chilean government to present | such an appeal has not been indi- | cated. | Inasmuch as Augustin Edwards, the | Chilean member of the plebiscitary | commission, has not withdrawn from the commission, but merely refrains from attending sessions, no compli- cation has been put in the way of the orderly procedure toward an ap- peal if Chile desires to go over the head of Gen. Pershin i te | Mitchell ot { subpoenaed from the | the After 27 Years on New York Exchange On the floor of the exchange he | worked so fast that fellow members, | operating at the same post, often were | unable to tell whether he was long or short of any particular stock. Some of the operations amazed his associates by their magnitude and daring. One of his most tempestuous battles was with the famous Jesse L. Livermore. When Livermore and his followers sold Baldwin Locomotive Field bought all that was offerea, caught the Livermore followers short and forced them to settle. Mr. Field started as a messenger boy and was a trader in the old open curb market before buying his Stock Exchange seat. His speculations be- gan with a $10 bill given him when a By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 25.—IIl health has driven from the New York Stock Exchange one of its most active and picturesque floor traders. Jacob Field, known generally «“Jakie,” has sold his seat after 58 years in Wall street and 27 years on the ig board. Incidentally he got $152,000 for the seat, the highest price on record. It is the second time that e has set a record for stock exchange seats, for the $19,000 he paid for it in 1898 was a record then. ‘Although he won and lost millions in Wall street, a cubby hole in a broker's branch office at the Waldorf served Mr. Field for an office. He as messenger boy, as a reward for with- hold:ing a deposit from a bank that failed. operated as a free lance, and need only enough space to answer a fe Jetters and telephone calls each day. IN MITCHELL CASE Seeking Vindication of Charges, Army and Navy to Send 100 for Rebuttal. REID SAYS DEFENSE PROOF IS COMPLETE Indications Point to Adjournment Over Thanksgiving Until Monday. age of sen thrown into Mitchell trial in support of Mitchell's charges of governmental maladministration of the national de 5 the War Department marshaled an ar of approximately 100 Army and the timony Aroused tional t ay i } the | Col. | has | vindication of the War and Navy De. | partments Deciding that the efforts of the de fense to prove the truth of susations should not & the prosecution an nounced today that about 50 rebuttal witnesses from each branch of service have been lined up. * These witnesses, running the gamut of official rank, will be called to the stand by the prosecution regardless of the moot point as to the purpose the voluminous testimony intro- duced by the defense, It has been held by Representative Frank R. Reid that Col. Mitchell's witnesses proved the truth of his famous San Antonio charges and have therefore made a complete defense for the a cused against the charges of insub- ordination and contemptuous conduct unchallenged made out against him by his superiors. May Testify Next Week. The long list of prosecution wit- the | Col. | FFICE TO INTERIOR BUILDING ORDERED | Transfer Is Part of Plan to THANKSGIVING EVE. NO ALARM CAUSED BY STRIKE THREAT Most of Soft Coal Fields Not Unionized, Officials Here Declare. nesses probably will begin their tes-| timony before the court r Indications were this after the trial would adjourn over giving until Monday. Anticipating such adjournment, Col. Mitchell asked the War Department for permission to accompany Mrs. Mitchell to Detroit this week end, so that he could see his infant daughter, whom he has not seen for two months. The request was returned marked “disgpproved” by order of Brig. Gen. . D. Rockenbach, manding this military district Before the smallest audience of spectators that has assembled since the trial began, Col. Herbert A. White, military counsel for the ac sed, spent Xt week oon that Thanks | most of the morning disposing of odds and ends of stipulated evidence as- ! sembled from the records of the War and Navy Departments in substantia- tion of various charges made by the defendant in his famous San Antonio statement. Navy Records Given. The last of the records subpoenad into the records when the court con- vened this morning, and the defense then began the presentation of records ‘retary of the Nav. The only high light that had de- veloped this morning was an admis ion obtained by Col. White from the prosecution that calcium chloride used as a non-freezing solution in the b | water ballast of the Shenandoah pos- see N0 SOlution, | gegged chlorine and “strength destroy- | ing properties on duralumin,” a metal used in the construction of the frame- work of rigid dirigibles. In his public statement of Septem- {ber 5 Col. Mitchell had declared it | ap possible that the fatal crash of the | | Shenandoah might have been partially | ovant, no suffering attributable to the disintegration of from the action of the non-freezing compound dropped on them Denies Structure Hurt. Maj. Allen J. Gullion, assigned by General Staff of the Army to a leading part in the prosecution of Col. Mitchell, told the court he would not ‘deny that calcium chloride possessed | the destructive properties mentioned, but declared the prosecution stood ready to show that this solution did | not_affect the strength of the Shenan-| doah’s structure because of her pecu- liar girder fabrication. Among Army records read before the court this morning were various reports on bombing tests conducted in Chesapeake Bay in September, 1921; an estimate that the anti-aircraft tests of last Summer totaled in cost appro imately $256,602, a 10 years prior to 1920, more than $3,- 604,000,000 was expended for ordnance supplies, etc. The anti-aircraft costs were cited by (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) |REBEL DRUSES DISPERSE. Dispatches From Beirut Report Sit- uation in Syria Becoming Normal. PARIS, November 25 (£).—On top of the mews that the relief of the | garrison at Rasheiya came | French dispatches from Beirut today declar- ing that the situation in Syria was fast returning to normal with ' the rebel Druses scattering inland toward the mountains. The situation is so satisfactory, Gens. Gamelin and Duport informed the war ministry, that no further rein- forcements are needed, as they are capable of dealing with the rebels and | pacifying the country with the troops now available. MEXICAN CRISIS NEAR. Government Severs Relations With Two States Critical of Calles. MEXICO CITY, November 25 (#). —The federal government announces suspension of relations with the states of Chiapas and Tabasco, be- cause they supported the Vera Cruz Legislature in its recent controversy with President Calles. This controversy centered around the unseating of Gov. Manrique of the state of San Luis Potosi by La- borites, the Verra Cruz Legislature, controlled by Agrarians, charging the President with aiding in Man- rique’s overthrow. Behind the whole matter is a long-standing conflict, with the Laborites and Agrarians, each seeking control of the various state governments. com- | computation by | |the War Department that during the There is little occasion for alarm to householders in the possibility of sympathetic strike in the bituminou coal fields, according to fuel e here. The unionized districts of soft-coal industry constitute a proportion of the entire field, a open districts could quite comfortably take care of the public demand from now until mild weather approaches, they say On every hand there is a growing appeal to the public now to stz the ficht against high anthr: prices until the finish. High ment officials declared today if the people can get through this Win ter without hard coal, the anthracite monopoly will be dealt a hard blow. Then, result of its being thrown in direct competition with bituminous coal, the p of both grades must 1 drop, it was said. i Supply in Yards. Most of the yards of the local retail dealers have a comfortable quantity of both soft cval and coke. In th latest bulletin of the Coal Merchant | Board of Trade it is ed that 103 044 tons of bitumino delivered in Washington during the month of October. Although official figures are not available, it is safe to say that at least the same amount has been shipped here thus far this month A statement tional C nous ope! org ther substantiation of the statements of Government officers that the Na- tion can carry on in comfort through not only the existing anthracite strike, | but a possible bituminous walkout as Although some curtailment of be necessary in the latter anticipated. ational Coal Assoclation es sued by the Na- the bitumi waste ma | The N | some of the ship's structural members ! timates that during the coal year, | which will end March 31, the country {will have consumed 510,000,000 tons {of bituminous coal. Of this supply | there were 42,000,000 tons in the con- | sumers’ bins last April 1, and there | had been harvested up to August 31 1 290,604,000 tons, making a total ton- | nage actually in sight the day before “(Continued on Page 2, Column 5. SHELL IS PLACED ON POLICE COUNTER Apparently Innocent Action Leads to Wild Rumor at District Building. High tension which prevails at recent regularity of bandit hold-ups was “touched off” today when a man believed to be an employe of the District Buflding laid a shrapnel shell on the counter in the detective room, then hurried back to his post. “As the shrapnel was laid on the counter,” says W. M. Kolb, who was on duty in the detective bureau, “the man, whom 1 know as an employe here in the building, said: “Here's something I found some boys playing with. I was afraid they might hurt themselves. It may inter- est you.” Garbled accounts of the presence of the shrapnel were circulated, but soon ened out by Kolb. S opinion,” said Kolb, who served in tho Artillery during the \orld War and is familiar with ex- plosives, “that the shrapnel is not charged. It didn’t worry me any. Incensed over the _sensational rumors which swept the bureau over the incident, Inspector Clifford L. Grant took charge of the shrapnel and said that he would have it-ex- amined at his lelsure. In the mean- fime a more complete story will be sought of the District Bullding em- ploye who brought it n. Color was lent to the rumors con- cerning the shrapnel by the fact that at the time it was brought in Maj. Hesse and Inspector Grant were ad- monishing the detectives to lend every effort to catch the bandits who have | made life miserable for chain store ! managers during the past few days. d the | FEDERAL EMPLOYES fuel had been | police headquarters as a result of the | | | Disguised Beggar, Revealed to Wife By Dog, Divorced POLICE MOBILIZED - FOR BANDIT HUNT |Entire Force to Concentrate| on Capture of Master ! Criminal Here. By the Associ LOS ANGE John Sheldon's wife, In day Mrs. fied she firmly band was a prosperous busine: until one d she took his out for a walk and the animal went into hysterics of joy at sight of a white-bearded street beggar. The dog's joy aroused her sus- aid, and underneath se beard she found She was granted a cost him his Superior Court yester. May Sheldon t believed her dog Tda Washington's Police Department detectives, footmen, motor cycle | bicyele and mounted forces—was dedi rated today to the specialized search for the bandit who has furnished police with a long list of neatly plan- ned and deftly executed hold-ups and robberies in the last month. This is done despite the prevalent belief that the bandit has forsaken Washington for the time being. Detectives, who already have been doing 14 to 16 hours a day duty since the ever increasing reports of hold-ups, today had their days ‘“off” duty withdrawn—a provision reserved for special emergencies—and Inspec- tor Grant has issued orders that they are to be on daty every possible hour, only necessary time for sleep except. | ed. until some definite trace of the whereabouts of the bandit is un- covered. Brought to Head Yesterday. i Three deft criminal operation: terday—in which $3.500 in cash jewelry and an automobile were| stolen, one man being shot, a woman | hound and gagged, and another wom.- | = land n;)a‘n bound up with neckties | ! £ 5 during robberies—resulted in Maj. Ed- | by the 10 chief clerks to re-| win 1 "Hesse, chief of police, taicin | Al who can be spared” at 1the situation under personal super- | vision today. He issued special instructions to every precinct commandant to keep | men’ specially posted on look-out | posts for possible scenes of banditry operations. He appeared at roll call | when the detective force, grim and | drawn from steady night work since | Saturday, gathered to confer general-| 1y on the case this morning, and urged them on with words of confidence and praise for their activities, which, | he said, had been unproductive thus| far only by adverse strokes of for-| tune. 1 husband. divorce, GET HALF HOLDAY Most Offices Close Thanks- giving Eve—Fine Weather Reported on Way. nd | An unexpected cause for thanks was civen workers in all Government de- partments today when decision was reached, belated decision in several in- The Navy Department after three conferenc decided to grant the holi- day. Early in the day po: ve an- nouncement was made that the Navy Department would not close early The State Department was the first to decide upon the half day, with the majority of the others rapidly falling in line. The War Department and the Interior Department were two of the departments in the “doubtful col umn” up until a few minutes of 1 o'clock. Clear Weather on Way. DEssEsTue VAR e Clear and colder is the probable weather outlook for tomorrow's most important hour, dinnertime, when Washingtonians will sit down to tur- key-laden tables, as did the Pilgrims £ 304 years ago who desired to ap- propriately give thanks for their first harvest. Tonight and tomorrow morning, says the Weather Bureau, will be marked by rain and rising tempera- ture, but this will be promptly fol- lowed by clear and cold weather with moderate to fresh southwest winds, Shifting to northwest. President Coolidge will spend tomor- row in the same fashion he has ob- served the other Thanksgiving days since he has been in the White House, except for the fact that he may spend Some time tomorrow afternoon on his message to Congress. In the morning the President and (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) Throughout the city, indications, coming to police clearly infer, special | cautions are being taken wherever ge sums of money are stored, trans. | ported or held in hand temporarily. | Maj. Hesse, it is understood, is con- sidering issuing a general ‘warning | for care on the part of civilians han- | dling money, and a request for the | general assistance of the public in any | emergency coming to the attention of | any individual will probably be made | in the near future. If there had been quicker action on the part of an employe in the delica. | tessen store of Jack Heros, at 2016 P street yesterday, some advantage might have been gained over the ban- | dit. The bandit entered this store | early in the afternoon and attempted to hold up Heros while Maurice Lane, | 16, of 1408 Hopkins place, the em: | ploye, was in the rear. Heros struck (Continued on Page 2, Column 2. GYPSY KING SAILS TO SEEK QUEEN AS TRIBESMEN WAIL AND MOAN Leaves for Venice to Find Second Wife—Followers Storm Ship in Grief, Then Sing Folk Songs and Do Charleston to Keep Warm. By tho Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 25.— Frank Kaslov, “King of American Gypsies,” is on the way to Europe to find a Gypsy princess to make his_queen. hours before sailing time and went through elaborate ceremonials of grief. The tribesmen said they came from all | parts of the United States and Canada | to bid farewell to their king. When weeping and waliling com- menced in earnest Kaslov waited a | within | solidation of Governmer ! Washington | will still be hou Early today the weeping and wail- ing of his followers at a steamship pler caused consternation to a special detail of special policemen who were escorting the Italian debt commission, headed by Count Gluseppe Volpi, to board the Mauretania. The count and his party were en- tertained at the Biltmore until after midnight, and a special guard ac- companied them to the pler because of .demonstrations by = anti-Fascists on_their arrival. H Wails, screams and cries greeted the party on arrival at the pier. The Italians learned that the followers of Frank Kaslov, whose wife died a year ago, were giving him a farewell party as he set forth to find a new Gypsy queen. Gypsy law, it was explained, requires that he must have a consort of royal blood and he is going to Venice to find one. He is 42 and has six children. Kaslov and his escort of more than 50 Gypsies arrived at the pler two 4 few moments, then strolled among the groups urging them to restrain their grief, which then became more vehe- ment than before. The king's brother John sat on a keg and wept profusely. Two other brothers leaned against a wall while they lamented. 1 ‘When the king mounted the gang- plank his followers attempted to rush the ship, but were driven off by the crew. Kaslov stood at the ship's rail and said “Don’t cry, my brothers ‘and sisters!” But the cries became all the louder until the Gypsies began to feel the effects of the frosty air. Some of them began singing folk songs and dancing the Charleston to keep warm. They remained at the pler until tugs dragged the ship into darkness. Before boarding the ship Kaslov said he was carrying with him jewels and costly raiment for his queen. He is going to look for a bride in Venice because he considers the Italian city romantie. Co-ordinate U. S. Activities in Owned Quarters. $100,000 A YEAR SAViNG TO RESULT FROM CHANGE 650 Employes Will Be Affected. Shift Expected to Begin Within Few Weeks. “Transter of the sonnel of the Depa from rented qu street to the Interior Building on F street b eenth and Ninteenth s recommended to the Public Build Commission and will pr 4 few weeks. The move of the general scheme for con ctivities ir owned b ave the a year in d other expenses accord part in buildin the Government. It Government about $100 rent, heat, light incidental 'to preliminary Department nine-story bu for more tr a year in re Approxim which | affected in immense files and cc dred and Labor De Maltby B New Jerse ed by the partmen the entire Department I largely by the K Labor Depa G street 30. 19 ot be affect Labor De be assigned the now General oc th June Survey Made. ¥ Work of the 1 seve, and co partment + survey the Inte unders: concerned for ed rental now oecupied tion The fina i ing Comm has not met recently its chairman, d to v rati. fication of the ansfer is expe d. The move is the lary ffice trans. fer undertaken by any Government gency in Washington since the war, when a_large part of the War and Navy Departme: ctivities were transferred from the State, War and Navy Buildings on Pennsylvania ave- nue to the buildings on B street west of Seventeenth street. Part of the trans fer, it was learned, involves moving of the offices of the U ploves’ Compensation Comn: Fine Arts Commission an the Federal Power Comm the quarters they now Interior Department Bu Pension Office Building, at G_streets. A rec n of office space in the Pension Office Build. ing made room available for these units. Col. C. O. Sherrill, of the Public Buildin, d G. S. McAllister, retar; conferred t Interior Depart tails of the trans ited States F sion, th Four Bureaus in Building Four bureaus of the I ment and the Se ploying seve: housed in Building on Bureau, the Children’s Bureau the United tes Employment reau, all units of the bor Depa ment, occupy temporary buildings south of D street and east of Seven teenth street, while the Housing Cor poration, a large organization T gaged chiefly in liquidating properties acquired during the war to house Government wartime tivities, occu pies the Maltby Building near the Capitol. Bureaus in the G build- ing are Immigration, uralization and Labc Four large Government act ed in rented quarte together with several of their bureaus. after the Labor Department transfer. They are the Department of Justice, at Vermont avenue and K street, which has been asked to pay 2 sub stantial rental increase; the Com merce Department, at Nineteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue; the Interstate Commerce Comm! on, at Eighteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue, and the Civil Service Commis sion on F street between Seventeenth and Eighteenth. In addition the Railroad Administration occupies the building at Kighteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue on the corner opposite the Interstate Commerce Commission, while several bureaus of the Departments of Agriculture Commerce are in rented quarter scattered throughout the city. A large part of the floor space in the Interior Department Building is now occupied by the Bureau of Mines which has been under the Department of Commerce since last Spring. Labor Depart retary’s office, em persons, are De; en street. The Women's Bu FAST TRAIN HITS AUTO; THREE DEAD, ONE DYING Motor Car With Four Occupants Is Hurled 100 Feet at Grade Crossing. By the Associated Press. POLEDO, Ohio, November Two men and a girl are dead and another zirl is dying as the result of a crash at: Benore road and the Michigan Central Railroad tracks east of here early today. The victims' automobile was hurled 100 feet down the track and demolished when struck by fast-moving freight train. The dead—Harold Arndt, 29; Rich- ard Ward, 24, ead Julla Kalasinski, 26, all of Toledo. Pauline Herwatt, 23, former Bliss field, Mich., High School girl, was perhaps fatally injured. Arndt was first identified as Francis Willis, fo: mer State prohibition agent. He had worked as a prohibition agent with WIlis. A badge which Willis lost was found in his posopslom,