Evening Star Newspaper, November 28, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. (7. & Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and colder tonight, minimum temperature about 25 degrees; tomor row fair and colder. A Temperatures—Highest, 60, at 4 p.m. vesterday; lowest, 39, at day. 0 a.am. Full report on page 30. to- | Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 @ » h ¢ Foen * WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ny Star. service. Associated Press The only evening paper > in Washington with the news Yesterday’s Circulation, 101,336 tered as second class matter t office. Washington, D. C. No. 29,796. e WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1925—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. * '/ Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS . “l AM "'HE P[]I-I[‘;Y,":SLEEP IS INTOXICATION CAUSED G. W. U. Experiments Reveal Close Analogy Between BRIAND SAYS: NEW ~ MINISTRY CHOSEN Foes Profess to See Musso- liniesque Attitude in Re- Reported by Vo i | Steep. one of the unsolved mysteries ! of life, may be nothing more complex than a natural state of intc i | into which most living creatures are { plunged nightly by the poisons their durinz systems the much longer hour absorbed of w . | the theory indicated, . by the mark of New Premier. findings of the ent who con- i ducted experiments with voluntary in- somnia at Georse Washington Univer- sity last Spring In a paper issued today LOUCHEUR TO TAKE POST | students who subjected themselves to | the sleepless test, the directing scien- tists pointed out that changes found | In the blood and other secretions of the students were similar in every single case to the changes found in | various states of intoxication. | “If our findings point to any one | theory of sieep.” the paper continued, i “it is the intoxication theory. When Leader of Cabinet to Devote Most of Time to Office He Held Under Painleve. Br the Pross Associated pan as Gy agasi the drunkard becomes intoxicated, | BURIS, TNOYemNELs o Wed, | What does he do? Sleeps! And, as a seven-dav ministerial crisis is ended. |, 6" wakee up detoxiind. » in the Leaving the Elysee palace after a ¢on- | case of our experiments. when the ference with President Doumergue | subjects retired atter 60 hours’ of in. today. Arictide Briand, the premier-|somnia, the chemical and micro- designate. confirmed the following as i Scopical analyses of both their blood 5 = and urine, pointed to a state of i the cabinet which he would present | T0G Wnes TOniel to & o by a short 10 the I'resident in the course of the | ;dcq” 0 Joop ™ afternoon: | Should this theory be further sub- Premier and minister of forasizn af- | stantiated by additional tests and fairs, Aristide Briand. | iven a fair degree of definiteness, the Such is | oped in the eight | BY POISONS, TESTS INDICATE Sleeper and “Drunk’’—Strange Illusions lunteer Subjects. | sclentists agreed, the length of time ! that people sleep is exposed as largely question of habit and may be resu- ated to an extraordinary (legree. | There ure- streng indications, it was added, that by deliberately encourag- ing better habits, humanity can reduce the number of hours necessary to sleep to & maximum of six. Prolonged insomnia, however, is not without disturbing temporary | effects. One student, for Instance, | reported that after 40 consecutive | hours of wakefulness he was walking |along the street at night when he clearly saw a man watering some plants, although he was sure in his {mind at the time that no creature | would stand on the ledge where the phantom worked. Then the illusion turned to posts, flowers and other familiar “objects as the deluded stu dent approached closer. “Later,” wrote the student. report ing the incidents that occurred on that_walk In the vicinity of George | Washington University, “on | same trip, I saw what seemed . father sitting in his front | ting his little daughter on the head. | Some other vague fizure was standing near. When 1 approached the group | turned into a clump of shrubs. | “In full daylight, Sunday morninz. | after being awake 4% hours, I came |out of the headquarters of the test and wondered what a little colored bo " (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) 1o be a Minister of justice, Rene Renoult. Interior, Camille Chautemps. Finance, Louis Loucheur. CHILEANS PREDICT | ARMY-NAVY GAME that | yard. pat- | OPERATORS REJECT PIGHDT B, BUT PARLEY GOES O Owners Refuse to Confer With Hard Coal Miners at Gathering Today. GOVERNOR WILL LAY PLAN BEFORE UNIONS | Lewis and Other Officials on Way | to Meet Executive and Media- | tion Committee. i | By the Associated Press | HARRISBURG, Pa.. November 28.— | Gov. Pinchot decided today to go for ward with his plans to submit a pro posal for settlement of the anthracite {suspension to representatives of the { miners here this afternoon, despite an- i nouncement from the operators that i they would be unable to attend the | meeting, to which they also had been ¢ | Invited. | The governor's plans admittedly were upset by the action of the opera tors, of which he was informed in a telegram from Maj, W. W. Inglis, | chairman of the operators’ wage neg | | War. Paul Painleve. i tiating committee. Maj. Inglis wired | Navy, Georges Levgues. = | that he was unable to get his com-| Public instruetion, Edouard Dala- | | imittee together for a meeting today, | dier e 1 iand expressed the belief that any plan | tommerce. Danicl Vincent. = | i | the zovernor has should be communi- | y Public works. Anatole de Monzie. icated separately in confidence to each ! Myziene, Antoine Durafour, | Pensions. Paul Jourdain |side to give them a chance to go Agriculture, Jean Durand. e £ & e e s | Launch Bitter Attack on Per- ‘I Am the Pol He Says. | “1 am the policy f the coming i government,” M. Briand said. “Until | shing and Others of my cabinet has met to decide upon | o * it ministerial declaration, 1 am the | U. S. Mission. whole thing. And if _any mroup is| Mecatisfied with the choice made by | e the President of the republic, let} BY CLAUDE 0. PIKE. them 2o to the Elysee palace.’ . ervhody this morning seemed | BY Cable to The Star and Chic.go Daiv News. satisfied, except M. Briand’s physi-| SANTIAGO. Chile. November 28.— cian, for the eminent patient sat up | The Chilean capital would not be sul until long past midnight trying to | prised to learn shortly of the collaps <n.\|;d;(r‘ out the .\’l(u;l}:(l‘n: enl‘n‘?’"t the pleblscite proceedings unless uzual bedtime s eavly in s leclie Doceedings Uy M. Briand qualified the cabinet list ;;:"’:flm'i:”hm? concedes to Chilean only hy saving that M. Jourdain had not yet accented the portfolio of pen- | sions and that he might be switched | to the ministry of Hygiene, M. Dura- | four taking pensions has been given a strong anti-Pershing At any rate, M. Jourdain is certain ; and anti-American feeling by a violent tohe in the cabinet. This will be the | propaganda campaign conducted by Tooh S Sepreneriod i the ministry | AuSustin Edwards’ fmportant string of 2 L= ¥ ‘ dailles. The Edwards attack charges 'Ge’n: Pershing with incompeteriey. | Today's attack. appearing in The local press is leading its readers to believe that Gen. ceeding his authority. The public El | came under the influence of Peruvian Merchant.marine—Charles Danielou. | giplomacy when he reached Arica, Liberated r K""“*)‘I; "‘*“};"",“- . land that he was prejudiced against B ] Benazel: | Chilean administration of the province. Chie Ssear {1t also charges that Gen. Pershing’s Laval to Take Post. | advisers are incompetent. unfamiliar M. Briand intends to devote most |with the language and unable to un- of his time. to foreign affairs. He has | derstand the people. appointed Plerre Laval as undersec- | retary of state for the presidency of | Calls Mission Incompetent. bhe council. and the latter will at-| In short, EI Mercurio now finds the tend 1o internal matters connected |entire American mission incompetent, with the premiership. M. Laval Was | although in the early days of the | full-fledzed minister in. the first{,jopiscite proceedings, when it was Eainisve "u"a\g—;f"';;;'I;g:’r‘lzggfl‘*};im.,ugm _that Chilean succes former Finance Minis l'dllla\lx.lcermm El Mercurio was enthu who is a close personal friend |about the personnel. rew cabinet is composed of | It is not : enators and nine Deputies. It | diplomats are seeking a way to with- t Is meeting for the first time under the | draw from the plebiscite, or bring on chairmanship of President Doumergue | delays, possibly with the design of fate toda | shifting the deliberations to Wash- A few elements of the old Leftijncton or of permitting the creation coalition, still untled over the | ot%. %" Ot a1 situation which could fact that the Left bloc has be solved only by division of the dis Anally | puted province. gone to its death, have learned from M. Briand what is to be his policy | glready certain administration offi- | n providinz a financial substitute cials are asserted to be willing to for that of M. Painleve. His veply ! consider division of the province, but was regarded by some us borderinz | the Peruvians are not interested. be- on_the Mussolinesque ! lieving that success for them fs The new cabinet. although falling ' aheud. short of the = concentration of all parties hoped for in many quarters to Defends Pershing’s Course. face the precarious financial situation, | Pis composed of the safest elements in Parliament and is the most moderate Americans residing here, who are | friendly to Chile, are resenting the de- h pent o : liberate attempts of the Edwards body of ministers assembled since the | paperg to_discredlt Gen. Pashing clectionsjotiMay, They recall thut the United Stat Extremists Eliminated. undertook the arbitration at the invi | tation of Chile’s The complete elimination of extrem- | \logandri Alessandri. tsts. both of the Communists and So- | former [President, & The Americans also are confident clalists of the left and the National that Gen. Pershing has not proceeded of the right, is one of its features. | {n“{he plebiscite thus far without the . Acceptance of the finance portfolio | \iniia1 of President Coolidze and | by M. Loucheur has aroused intense | gecretary of State Kellos nd that interest in financial circles. Louc he will receive the full backins of the ix known to be a man of daring f Amnerican Government and economic conceptions, and his | “'T¢ (file withdrawe, thev say, she tivities as France's cashier watched with great attention. The szroups represented in the cab- fnet by the various ministers com- | mand 296 votes in the Chamber of Deputies out of the total membership of 5 It is expected that the more moderate elements of the right and r will vote with the government on the ministerial declaration of policy next Thursda will be | st accept full responsibility before the world for her action. (Copyright, 1925, by Chicazo Dail; News Co.) Winter Hits England and Belgium MANCHESTER, England, Novem. ber 28 (A).—The race meeting here has been abandoned owing to the cold ! weather. BRUSSELS, Belgium. November 2§ () —Three inches of snow fell during JAPAN ASKS AGREEMENT | | the might. This is the heaviest fall ON RUSSIA OIL ISSUE jexperienced here since 1500. Indications of Compromise Be., Heads British Oil Concern. : 7| LONDON, November 35 UP).—Lord * tween the Two Nations on Divi- | guckmaster, formerly lord chancel- i i lor, has been elected to the cha SlorstindegiConcessions, manship of the British-controlled Oil 7 ‘hich has vast conces- Bs the Assoviated Pres Flelds. Ltd., w v g < Jove: o 4 4 sions In various parts of South Amer- TOKI0, O oeiilter 8 | iSass iFle: hwill hiiccasdn SikBdivatd meeting today between Premier Kato, Minister of Marine Takarabe and For. Mackay Edgar. Pershing is ex- | | Mercurio, alleges that Gen. Pershing | improbable that Chilean | Service Foot Ball Forces Annual Game. | By the Associated Press NEW YORK, November 28.—The | Army and Navy were marshaled to- day for their twenty-eighth foot ball | game and a colorful endinz of the | Sition to both sides in the presence of | . “yco it | Eastern gridiron season. Two days of rain | over it. { i Will Meet at 2:30 P.M. | | The fact that John L. Lewis presi- | i Marshalled in New York for :dent of the United Mine Workers, had Premier Admits {accepted the invitation, which the gov- | | ernor sent to both committees last | {night. and that members of the miners’ | { committee had set out for Harrisburg. {led to the decision to go ahead with { the plans. ! These plans provide for an open meeting at 2:30 p.m.. at which time the | | governor expected to submit his propo- |a “mediation committee” of the Scran- | ! ton Chamber of Commerce. This com- | -LO/“_I a3 o2/ WO PUTTI NG ON THE FINISHING TOUCHE WALL STREETRULE OF BELGIUN S HT Truth of Charge Widely Heard Throughout Country. By the Amsociated Press BRUSSELS, Belgium, November 28 is dictating the | Belgian government's domestic finan- | had made the | mittee wasalready in the city, its three | cial policy is the accusation which the weather a factor, although straw had | members having come here yesterday | cabinet will be called upon to answer | been piled high on the Polo Grounds. Indications this morning were for fair jand cold weather. Speculatfon had favored the Army by a slight margin, | Rafn, snow or cold, the stage was iset for a great gathering of military |ena nava: dignitaries, including Sec- {retary of the Navy Wilbur. The advance guard crowded hotels last night. Hundreas prominent in | the social, political. naval and mili tary life of the Nation were here. Although. on paper the Army rated the better of the two teams, experts considered that . traditional rivalry at about even terms. Both have been saving their star backs for more than two weeks in order to have them fit for this battle, and they looked in per- fect condition yesterday as they ran through signals on the battlefield. To many the game itself was .. minor attraction compared with the parade of Cadets and Midshipmen, | the antics of the Army mule and the 1‘\ goat and cheers and songs which many collegians envy. Army, victor last year by 12 to 0, has won 13 zames to 12 for the Mid- shipmen. There have been two ties. Probable Line-ups. $50,000 IN RUBBER STOLEN FROM TRUCK Bandits Kidnap Driver in Brook- lyn—Pay Roll of $5,900 Loot in Rochester Hold-Up. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, November 28.—Kid- naping the driver of a motor truck, five robbers in Brooklyn today escaped with a truck load of crude rubber valued at between $50,000 and $80,000. After the driver had been bound and zagged he was carried in an automo- bile to the Bronx, approximately 15 Lefore he was released. Although several pedestrians saw the kidnaping, the holdup men made good their escape with the truck. It later was found in another section of Brooklyn. The rubber had been re- moved. The kidnaped driver, William McManus, was employed by a Ho- boken trucking company. ROCHESTER. N. Y., November 28 (®).—Four masked bandits using a stolen taxi., and at the points of re- volvers, today stole $5,900 cash from Conrad P. Ward, head of (" Inc., general contractors. was for a pay roll The money eign Minister Shidehara, it was unde: stood that the Japanese foreign office Childless Divorcees Alimony, Chi telegraphed to T. Tanaka, Japanese Ambassador at Moscow, instructing him to attempt to obtain an agree- ment with reference to the Saghalien oncessions before December 1. Tt was also indicated today that Russia and Japan have effected some | By the Associated Press. -ompromise with reference to the divi-| CHICAGO, November 28.—No Harry sion of ofl deposits in Sazhalien. Other | 1ooe "o the plaintive and pretty unsettled will be'lefc foraiplomatic | PSR SR T ) S o o i N | children figured be given alimony, MRS. TINNEY WINS SUIT. |by Superior Court Judge S o Lew| | “"He has no aid for what he cal i | There's no reason for alimony in such A L | cases in this age of equal rights, he MINEOLA, N. Y., November 28 (®). | thinks. Judge Lewis hears about reank Tinney, wife of the blackface | Cook County (Chicago). O am was hunded down Loday by | -Why a healthy, childless woman " Justice Reigelman. chould receive alimony from a phases of the Saghalien situation still petitioner who tells of a short and as long as she does not remarry, Divorce Decree Handed Down to| .. .ofessional alimony diggers \ decree granting a divorce to Mrs. half the divorce petitions filed in ] Will Be Denied cago Judge Asserts divorced husband is beyond my com- prehension,” he says. “If he wants to marry again he is forced to con- sider the burden of the payments to his frst wife. remarry when she wishes. ““The, alimony automatically stops then, but if she so desires she may remain single and force her former husband to support her until old age. “The idea of the marrlage institu- tion is that man and wife shall live together and propagate the race. When they separate both cease, in that regard, to be any benefit to the community. Most of the women who come before me have positions of their own and earn almost as' much as their husbands.” i I but critics Lelieved that poor footing | Army. Positions. Navy. Baxter (c.).....Left end. Hardwick Sorague. Left tackie. Wickhorst Schmidt. Feft guard..’. Lentz Daly Center .. Osborn | Seeman Right guard. dwards Saunde; Right tuckle - Eddy Bor Right_end.. 1 Bernet eomans. Quarterback 1"’ ‘Hamilton uell Teft ‘halfoack ... . Flppin Tapneil Right halfback Banks | Wilson Fullback .. Shaples miles from the scene of the robbery. | . Ward, | Yet she is fiee to| o confer with the governor. i | Persons in close touch with the sit-| | uation thought the governor planned i to bring about a resumption of mining | operations with the least possible de- lay, whether or not details of a new | | immediately. I i £ Will Make Plan Public. | The governor sent a telegram to | Maj. Inglis, Informing him of the de- cision. “Your telegram received,” the gov- rnor wired. “The public is as much concerned with this settlement as | elther miners or operators. My sug-! gestion for a settlement must there. ! | ore Le made in public. I shall pro-| ceed to make it this afternoon in| terday. I still hope vou will come.” | He received no word that any of the operators would be here. i The plan for the conference was {to continue as originally proposed, | with u_public meeting in the execu-! {tive offices at the capitol. The gov- | ©rddor occupied most of the forenoon | | completing the draft of his address {In which his proposition for ending | the suspension was embodied. | Most members of the scale commit- |tee of the United Mine Workers, whom President Lewis directed to come to Harrisburz in order to be| {on hand in case of any developments : | resulting from the meeting, arrived ! { during the forenoon. i | i |CABARET BUILDING FALL ' CAUSES INJURY TO 10 et i i None Are Seriously Hurt When | | Structure Collapses After Night | Crowd Has Departed. | By the Associated Press | NEW YORK, November 28.—At.| {taches of a cabaret escaped with | minor injuries when a four-story build- ing collapsed early today on West| Thirty-ninth_ street near Eighth ave- inue. One male performer was dug| out of the debris by policemen and | ! firemen. | Ten persons were injured, none seri- ously. Two of them were owners of | the Arena Club, which occupied the | | first two stories ‘of the brick building. | !a converted residence. The others| | hurt were performers or other em-| | ployes. The club, which catered to white: i i was in a residential district largely | occupied by negroes. Nearby houses | i recently have been razed and the i club’'s building was about to be torn | {down. The upper floors were vacant. | | “The place was about to close for the 1‘“:’“ and all patrons had gone. A/ | tarewell song was being sung to plano | | accompaniment when the crash came. | == 'ANOTHER SUSPECT HELD | © AS “MANIACAL CLUBBER”| By the Associated Prese. TOLLDO, Ohio, November 28.—To- | iedo police held another suspect to- day in their efforts to find the| maniacal “‘clubber” whose activities have resulted in the death of two! 1 women and the injury of half a doze Tiobert August, 40, with a bloody | hammer in his hands, whs arrested in ia woods near the city yesterday. He| | was seen by two hunters wham he { defied when they tried to bring him I here. Police say the man has the same | sneering laugh the ‘‘clubber” is sup-| | posed to have. August excited atten- tion hy his clothes. He was wearing | three overcoats and three pairs of | trousers. He declared he had been killing chickens with the hammer | !and that he had lived in the woods | for a week. Bandit Gets $5,000 Pay Roll. PEORIA, Ill, November 28 (#). An armed man today held up A. Talbott, assistant cashier of the Peoria i Evening Star, and Mike Lloyd, driver of an automobile carrying Talbot from a hank getting the newspaper's pay roll of between $5,000 and $6,000. The robhery occurred in the business ; district. | Belgian Parliament no ke when Parliament reassembles. A bitter controversy on this subject now is raging in political circles and | the newspapers. It began with a re- cent meeting of the finance commit- might hamper the Cadets’ fleet backs. | wage contract should be worked out | tee of the Chamber of Deputies whén former Foreign Minister Jaspar in- quired of M. Vandervelde whether the government was acting under pressure from American and London bankers in cutting its budget 180,000,000 trancs. . M. Jaspar emphasized the fact that the government had previously de- clared no further reductions could be made in the budget. He added: “If the government's answer is in the af- would bring the elevens on the field | accordance with my telegram of ves:| firmative these facts are of the utmost gravity and permit the conclusion that Belgium is in the grip of American and British financiers, who are dic- tating their conditions, and that the longer is in control of the situation.” M. Vandervelde was quoted as re- plying: “The statements in the press that effect are exactly true. government had two alternatives, to The either to obtain a loan or give up stabilization of the | Belgian franc. The ministers were unanimous in the opinion that, in spite of the unpopularity of the pro- | posed measures and the crisis which might result from them, the best thing to do was to submit to the require- ments of the foreign capitalists and | obtain stabilization of currency. The newspapers of influence such as the Nation Belge, Independence Belge gnd Etoile Belge, the three con tive organs. allude to the vassalage and tervitude" which the country has been placed by foreign capital. The Libre Belgique and the Der- niere Heure, respectively Conserva- tive-Catholic and Liberal-Radical, re proach the government for its sub- mission to foreign finance and make allusions to the laws of selgium be- ing dictated from abroad. The only paper supporting the gov- ernment Is Le Metropole of Antwerp, but that organ qualifies its support by warning against further foreign in- tervention, which it refers to as “a regrettable and unpleasant fact.” the Belgian ae WOMAN KILLS MATE TO SAVE OWN LIFE| Shoots Jeremiah Byrd at Hagers- town After He Slashes Her With Knife. Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md.. November 28. —Mrs. Lilie Byrd. 30 vears old, shot and instantly killed her husband, Jere- miah Byrd, 31, in their home, at Boonsboro, 10 miles south of here. this morning when he attacked her with a knife. Byrd, a shoemaker, had come home drunk and was slashing his wife, she said, when she seized a pistol and fired once, the bullet penetrating his heart. Mrs. Byrd, bleeding from cuts in her throat and arms, summoned a physi- cian, who, finding Byrd dead, notified tha police. The woman was not taken into cus- tody. however, the authorities allow- ing her to remain home with her two small children. A coroner’s inquest ‘will be held tonight. Byrd, according to the police, had frequently beaten his wife, and the tragedy this morning was the out- growth of a quarrel occasioned by her resentment at Byrd bringing a com- panion to the house last night, whom the woman blamed for her husband’s conduct. Still dazed from the struggle with Byrd, the wife was unable to tell the police where she procured the pistol used In the killing. saying she either had selzed it from her husband or had picked it uo some vlace in the room. v expenses by | its choice between | |ANOTHER COLD SNAP .DUE HERE TONIGHT Ereezing Weather Also in Prospect for Tomorrow. Says Bu- reau Forec: Freezing weather is in prospect for hington tonight and tomorrow. with « minimum temperature of degres announced today at the Weather While the hureau declares it will be “fair and colder” tonight, and still “colder” tomorrow. with moderate | northwesterly winds, it is confided that {1t will be no colder than it has been {on several occasions already this month. GUNMEN SHoor 2 SITTING AT RADID | Strangers Attacked, One Killed, Other Dying—Motive Is Mystery. By the Associated Prese WISCONSIN RAPIDS. Wis., No vember 28.—Two mysterious masked gunmen stalked Into a roadhouse half a mile from this cky last night and shot two men as they sat listening to a radio eoncert R. A. Davis, a farmer., was killed instantly. A bullet plowed through his brain. William Bauer. also a farmer, was shot iIn the abdomen and was not ex pected to live. The killers challenzed their intended victims before firing “Davis, we want you.' nounced the taller of the two. ! he fired from the hip. “Bauer, you're nex as he fired. calmly an- said the other | The gunmen then backed out and | escaped in an automobile. Frank Flatoff, proprietor of the roadhouse, was sitting between Davis and Bauer when the killers began | shooting. | Mystery was added to the case by the fact’ that apparently Bauer and Davis were strangers. Bauer declared he had never seen Davis until last night, when he met him at the roadhouse. Robbery was not attempted. LANGLEY INDICTMENT QUASHED BY GORDON | | Action Taken in View of Sentence | of Representative by Court in Kentucky. United States Attorney Gordon to- day quashed the indictment for alleged conspiracy returned here in March, 11924, against Representative John W. | Langley of Kentucky. in connection with the withdrawal of whisky from a distillery in Pennsylvania in May, 11921, Mr. Langley has been convicted in Kentucky™®n a similar charge and | his sentence of two years has been ap- proved by the appellate court there. Maj. Gordun also entered a nolle | pros in reference to Millard F. West. former deputy commissioner of in- | ternal revenue, who was indicted joint- |1y with Mr. Langley Ben L. Moses and Henry Sattler of Pittsburgh, who were also named as | conspirators in the indictment. pleaded =zuilty some months ago and were fined $10,000 each and placed on probation for two years. JAPAN SENDS WARSHIP TO CHINWANGTAO, CHINA By the Associated Pres TOKIO, November 2§.—The Jap- anese destroyer Tachibana has been ordered from Port Arthur, Japanese | terNtory, to Chinwangtao, China, for {the purpose of protecting Japanese nationals employed there who are threatened by the present factional |fighting In the ranks of the Chinese military leaders. The same official announcement to- day added that the cruiser Hirado probably will be ordered Arthur soon, but it was denied .that this move was made on account of the Chinese situation. The cause, it was explained, was the entire reorganiza- tion of Japanese fleet assignments in !China. A statement concerning this reorzanization will be made soon. Then | to Port | REID WILL IENORE CLASH WITH KING Mitchell Counsel to Ask In- cident Be Stricken From Case Record. Unless he voluntarily withdraws, Prig. Gen. Edward L. King, who ves- terday characterized the tactics of Representative Frank R. Reid of Tlli nois, chief counsel for Col. amn rot,” will continue as a member of the Mitchell court martial. M not challenge the right of Gen. King to sit in judgment of the charges against Col. Mitchell, although he de- clares such an indiscretion in a civil | case would have resulted in immediate dismissal of the jury. t is an unfortunate episode, and 1 gret its occurrence,” My. Reid said in a formal statement to the press. ‘This court i¢ an impartial tribunal The remarks might be interpreted by some, but not by me. as an indication as of the disposition of one member of the court toward the weight of evi dence. Will Take No Advantage. “On Monday morning I shall move to strike it from the records, and I have so stated to Gen. King, and shall take no advantage of the incident. al- | though. as every lawyer knows. were this a civil proceeding the jury would have been immediately dismissed.” Despite. the profuse apologies of Gen. King and the statement of Mr. Reid. it was the general feeling in circles close to the court-martial that the incident, which threw the courtroom into an uproar yvesterday afternoon, is not entirely closed. It is pointed out that even though | the remarks of Gen. King and Mr. Reid are formally stricken from the record of the trial there will remain | written in the proceedingzs a distinct reminder of the clash in the motion for erasure. 1t is also reaiized that the incident cannot possibly be lost sight of in the future conduct of the trial and could undoubtedly be made use of later by friends of the accused in the | event the court finds him guilty. | 'Gen. King himself, who previously has manifested impatience at certain phases of the proceedings. is likely to feel a certain restraint on his ordi- narily free opiniol General Apologizes. The general immediately after court recessed until Monday vesterday rei | erated his apologies to Mitchell's coup- | sel for his outburst, and promised in the future “to keep things to myself.” | "Gen. King heretofore has been re- | ferred to as “the most nervous mem- |ber” of the Mitchell court, becaus {of his announced dislike for new: paper photographers at the trial. On three distinct occasions he has irately ordered their ejection from the cour room and the third time let his ani- mosity toward them be known in strong language. He was plainly impatient at the progress of the trial yesterday, and showed signs of his nervousness par- ticularly when Mr. Reid subjected the War Department’s opening rebuttal entangling questions. number of admissions he considered favorable to the case of the accused. and was leveling a rapid fire of pointed questions at the second of- fering of the prosecution, Maj. J. J. Bain, when the explosion occurred. Reid Overhears Remark. Wheeling suddenly in the midst of his cross-examination, Mr. Reid shout- of Gen. King: “No, object!’ Gen. King hastened to apologize and explained he had been talking to an- other member of the court. | With the courtroom electrified at the astounding turn of affairs, Mr. Reid shouted back: “I don't care to whom you were talking; this is not damn rot in my mind and 1 want that in the record. iThls may be tedious to you, Gen. King, but I have a duty to perform here, and it Is necessary for me tu question this witness thoroughly!” The tension did not end with the adjournment of the court, by prear- rangement, a few moments later, and it is likely it will continue until court convenes again Monday. this is not damn rot, Radio Programs—Page 38. { Mitchell, | Reid announced today he would | witnesses to a withering cross-fire of | The aggressive defense cou hac. | won from Brig. Gen. Leroy Eltinge, the general staff’s first witness, a ed in the abashed and reddening (ace‘ and I IDEAL COMMUNITY PARKIS PROJECTED - ONFORTRENOSITE ‘%Acquisition at Once of 52 j Acres on Highest Point in i City Will Be Urged. |PART OF LAND NOW USED 1 FOR DISTRICT RESERVOIR ‘Favorahle Action by Congress Ex- pected—Tract Commands 60- Mile View. | | | { - | BY WILL P. KENNEDY. development of a the site of the old i Acquisition and | tract of 52 acres, Fort Reno, the highest land in the | District, and now partially occupied {by a reservoir, which lies between Fessenden street on the north, Chesa peake street on the south, Belt road on the west and Nebraska avenue and Reno road on the east, will be rec. ommended to Congress by the District Commissioners and will be one of the new improvements for the National Capital to be most seriously considered by the House District committee. ‘avorable action by Congress is ex pected upon this project, which will Le supported by Chairman Zihlman and other active members of the House committee. It is believed that the part of this tract not now owned by the Government can be purcha for $1.000.000. From this property 4 commanding view for 60 miles « more, with Mount Sugarloaf discern able Just east of this tract along Con necticut avenue is a big residential real estate development, which make! school, playground and park facilities urgent iecond only to the importance of ng this land for its elevation scenic vantage and historic associ: tion is the necessity of changing existing street plan of the Reno sul division to conform with the general highway plan of the District. Features of Project. Among the features of an ideal community layout which are planned within this tract when it has been ac auired for the Disirict : 1. A considerable enlargement the existing reservoir. already au- thorized and for which funds are javailable, in connection with the new conduit from Great Falls . A new junior high school, fac jing Thirty-eighth street between | Davenport ‘and Ellicott streets. ! 3. Within the “school reservation” | between Davenport and Fessenden i streets, and Thirty-ninth street, Reno road and Nebraska avenue it is pro- posed to have an athletic field with bleachers and four tennis courts in the corner facing Reno road: eight ten- nis courts fronting on Thirty-eighth { street. hetween Ellicott and Fessenden streets, and an ornamental approach to the school 4. With the rezoning of @he Ten- levtown police precinct, making it one of the new full precincts, it is thought that a zood location for a | new police precinct house would be | found on this tract, bringing the police protection closer to the center of population. 3 of Six Public Tennis Courts. 5. In the corner formed by | Nebraska avenue and Chesapeake street. there would be located six { public tennis courts along Chesapeake strect and northeast of them a fountain. 6. A large public park would be eated about the enlarged reservoir | with an observation tower on the line of Thirty-ninth street as it now ex- ists. | 7. In the corner formed by Belt road and Chesapeake street there would be a base ball diamond, with the outfield sufficiently large so t in the Fall season it would be used |a public foot ball field. A clubhouse ‘s planned at the corner of Belt road ind Thirty-ninth street. 8. Preservation and restoration of the historic Fort Reno. Purchase Essential Now. Those who are urging this project | emphasize that civic spirit and fore- sightedness in providing for future needs make it imperative that this acreage should be acquired now. The project was favorably reported by the city planning board, which is advisory to the National Capital Parks Commission, and approved by the National Capital Parks Commis- ision as a development that should come within the scope of permanent { improvements to_be paid for out of | \he accumulated District surplus. The National Capital Parks Commission urged the District Commissioners to make this recommendation to Con- gress. | The City Planning Board, which { carefully considered this big develop- ment, is workinz out a compre- hensive program for Capital develop- ment. It is composed of Maj. Cary Brown, chairman; Maj. Raymond A. Wheeler, assistant to the Engineer ommissioner of the District; Melvin C. Hazen, District surveyor: James Langdon, formerly in charge of drafting maps for the old McMillan Park Commission in its famous re- port of 1902 and now employed by the National Capital Parks Commis- sion; Fred G. Coldren, formerly chair- iman of the parks committee of the Washington Board of Trade and now a member of the National Capital Parks | Commission: Frederick Delano, member of the Board of Regents of |the Smithsonian Institution and of the Washington National Monument Columbia Institution for the nd other important Govern- Boards, and Arno B. Cam- ment | merer, assistant director of the Na- i'.lonul Parks Service. | Subdivision Made in 1869. | In support of the bill that has been ! drafted for the purchase or condem- ! nation of property in the Reno Sub- | division it is pointed out that this { subdivision was made in 1869 and | recorded in Book Gov. Shepherd of | the surveyor's office of the District, with streets 25 and 30 feet wide, and with very smill lots. During the | years since this subdivision was start- ed improvements have been made, mostly of a cheap character, the streets being too narrow to permit of standard improvements. This subdivision is out of harmony { with the highway plan, which was | adopted some years later, and will }prevent the development of the high- (Continued on Page 2, Column l!