Evening Star Newspaper, December 2, 1925, Page 1

OFLONG PEACE ERA WEATHER. ('S Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain tonight and probably tomorrow morning, little change in temperature. at 4 p.m 30 p.m. yes- Temperatures—Highest, yesterday; lowest, 38, at terday. Full report on page 7 Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30 . 29,800, Entered as second class matter post office. Washington, D. C. ch WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1925—-FIFTY-FOUR PAGES. ¢ Foening Star. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 101,049 * TWO CENTS. (/) Means Associated Pre: LUCARN TREATES " SN s S pmuac HAILED AS SUNRISE e, o | BY WILLIAM ULLMAN. Automobile Editor of The Star. . | | Designed primarily for the protec- | tion of those persons who are wont either to rush recklessly or to amble | aimlessly into the whirlpool of traffic {as it exists today in every large city | in the United States, a new regula- | tion controlling the movements of pedestrians street intersections | wili be inaugurated in the National i Capital tomorrow morning. “ While such control was |in Washington some years ago. tne z p | regulation to be put into effect to- gners Very Cordial—Briand EX-| mcrrow may be said to be a distinct | inrovation here, and its operation in the congested section of the city will he watched hopefully District off Press of Europe Sounds Note of Hope After Ceremony in London. SOME DOUBTFUL TONES IN ITALY AND GERMANY ttempted presses Wish Russia Were by Back in Family. | cials, merchants, motorists and pedes- s alike. N The big experiment Is at hand. In ONDON. December The spirit sther day the Metropolitan Police o sl that pervaded all of the | Iepartment will enter upon a new raremanies commected with the sign. | Adventure in the midst of the throng e the Tocarna treaties at the| of hurrying humanity that surges cizn office yesterday hailed as | Gally through the streets of Wash A happy augury fer the ire per. | iNEton to the hum of motors, the ring. manent peace of Europe ing of street car bells, the incessant Foreign - Secretary (hamberlain's | hoNKing of automobile horns, all en- | Ainner to the delegates at Lancaster | Veloped in the odor of gasoline. cal Traffic Step in Capital Will Require | o-operation of Motorist and Walker, ‘ Police Heads Assert. | LT COL. SHERRILL | MAY QUIT SERVICE: OR $25.000 POST Director of Capital Parks Of- | mit the safe flow of the foot and ve. hicular traffic that courses hourly and | dafly through the National Capital's thoroughfares in ever - increasing density. | 2. Beginning tomorrow morning at| f€red City Manager Job every policed street intersection, pedes- trians will be required to stop and | b nnati. | g0 in accordance with the signals of | y Cincinnat ! the traffic officer on duty, just as| L o Mmoo " | SALARY WOULD TRIPLE | PAY FROM GOVERNMENT The plan adopted more and more by the larger cities. It has proved success- ful wherever it has been given = trial, and once the “training period” | has been passed, pedestrians them- selves have heen its warmest sup porters. for. experience has demon- strated they have heen the chief bene ficiaries. The success or failure of the plan Projected Change Comes in Midst | of Activities Vital to Growth of Capital. | here will rest more with motorists | and pedestrians and less with the . : ! e position of eity a of ! Police Department. District officials | The positior Lo apsnagecs of a « ' Cincinnaui Ohto, at a salary of e hopeful that hoth these cla 2 will enter into observance of and $5.000 a yvear has heen tendered to compliance with the new regulations Lieut. Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, Eng!- in a spirit of co-operation to improve | neer Corps, 1. S Army. until recently traffic conditions rather than because ' military afde to the President. who of the regulation. is director of the office public It i= also the earnest hope of the . S authorities that even those few who | CUIGINES and parks of the Saiional measter | | may be inclined to view the regula- | Tiouse last might proved a lively in.| The new regulation is declared to | ma: ¢ : 2 f | f windup to a great day for all be perfectly legal, and it was recom. ! tion as an invasion of their “consti- ‘_"K“"‘;" of about a dozen important | o6 Hihere: were T0liguests mended by the director of trafc and | tutional rights” will, instead, recog- ' commissions. { V0" peeches were made. Mr. approved by the District Commis. Nize in_it_a_sincere effort on the Murray Seasongood. a council man | (‘hamberlain merely proposed the Sioners as a seeming necessity to per- ' (Continued on Page 4, Column 5) | from Cincinnati. has heen in Wash- ast “‘Locarno and the signatories of | ington during the past week confer-| e treaty.” | {ring with Col. Sherrill and consulting After dinner the delegates were | | with Federal and District officials afforded the opportunity of seeing | and members of Congress, who have )w they looked during the solemn | been in closest touch with Col. Sher- | " ceremony when the dele- ! rill's work during the nearly five of seven nations affixed their vears that he has been a leading fig- tures t he momentous docu- ure here in carrying out the L'En The film which was made dur he proceedings was exhibited to e RUeSsts. | FORFULL SUPPORT Declares Political Unity Will One of the features of the day was the evident pleasure over the fact t Germany once more was in full fellowship with the powers of Europe. Russia Is Remembered. ; : Russia, although not represented Solve Grave Financial he function, was remembered. M. and expressed the hope that she on would come into the League of ion: Problems. 3 and ald in bringing about a = estoration of normal economic and | By the Associated Press. political conditions In Europe. PARIS, December 2.—The Briand :;""‘a{“{(}zi’l’:fif"é has taken a sr‘f“ cabinet's ministerial declaration, pre- T ;u’;}m:e‘ew ax:‘e’e‘:“?!‘:(‘,“fih{‘:a‘ | sented to the Chamber of Deputies to ions of a member of the league. Al day. admits that the situation is par- though she has not vet made applica. | ticularly grave, but says it cannot tion for membership, she has register- | have irreparable consequences pro- ed in 11 international engagements |vided the government has the confi- with the league at Geneva, which she | dence of the entire country and the has entered into with eight different ! coljaporation of both houses of Parli- powers. In the view of several rep- | o o resentatives o . y i een Ru’s'm!:“‘ecg‘];‘,‘; POWErS wD | The declaration asserts that the | league is a necessary corollary to the | Fovernment is ready to assume fts | entry of Germany, and it is said steps ;‘mm.d!lta responsibilities and to en- hasten Russia's application for force the necessary measures to meet membership already have buen taken. | the treasury bonds which fail due Birth of New Era. | December 8. It promises that inflation will be iant plan for developing the Capital City Leaves for West, MOGDY INANSWER — Lieut. Col. Sherrill left last night for Cincinnati to confer with the mavyor and council, and also to look cver the situation in the Ohio city These here who are familiar with the Declares ‘Legal Gymnastics’ of Attorney General Cost i conditions prevailing in Cincinnati say that the move to obtain Lieut Texas $1,800,000. Col. Sherrill is the first step in a plan to take the management of the town out of politics, which. it is said, have permitted it to fall into a state of dilapidation The negotiations for Col. Sherrill's employment and separatfon from the military service have zone so far, it was learned, as to bring up the mat- ter of consideration of his successor. Col. Sherwood A. Cheney, who re lieved Col. Sherrill as military aide to the President, is being considered as the latter's successor as director of the office of public_buildings and public parks of the National Capital and the many other offices incident to this position which he filled. Maj. Grant Suggested. | However, there is a strong effort ' By the Associated Press AUSTIN, Tex., December 2.—James E. Ferguson defended today the acts of his wife, Gov. Miriam A. Ferguson, in connection with the administration of highway matters in Texas, which precipitated agitation for a special ses- sfon of the Legislature. In a detailed statement he asserted that the settle ment and judgment in court in the American Road Co. case was not the victory for opponents of the adminis- tration that they had claimed. He charged Dan Moody, attorne: general, who has. claghed frequently AS THE GL ADSOME PEACE SEASON A . BANON INSULTING TAGTICS TAKEN AS REBUKE BY REID ‘Court's Warning Is Regarded | as Personal by Counsel | for Col. Mitchell. |ORDER AIMED AT BOTH COUNSEL, HOWZE SAYS Declares Judges Will Protect Those | Called to Testify—Evidence | Is Resumed. Tension at the Mitchell court-martial snapped in today_ when Repre- sentative nk R. Reid, chief counsel for Col. William Mitchell, took of- fense at a formal warning issued by he court ag: st “insulting” of wit- Taking the court's admonition as a versonal rebuke to him in connection vesterday's spirited furore be- tween himself and Maj. Gen. William S. Graves, Mr. Reid interrupted the opening efforts of the prosecution with |2 demand that the warning be made {t0 apply not only to the defense buz PPROACHE BEAUTIFIED WATE FRONT IS SOUGHT Officials Co-operating in Plan to Make Sections Conform to Improved City. Note —This is the fourth cight articies ahowing 1hat (ongr 90 fo carcy aiona aud. perect Wa “ini'e pan (made in 1191 and 2 President Washington) in order Py of Washington may proper Aenviny to be ihe grear iior “he visinte expression of ‘the pover and axte of the peop ot the United S'aien Transtormarion of the new di apidated and unwightly sater front of the National Tapital o’ 4 heautiiul mverside bon'e vard. on smportant /ink in a motor Aigh iray entirely turrounding the (apitar. and Connecting parkirays on hoth sides ot the Potomnc River, 10ith adequate provision ‘o irater-borne commerre and @ yarht and mo lor hoat Aarbor. will be recommended i Cangress with the Fergusons, with entering into a private agreement with the road company, and stated that the road company was permitted to go “scot Advices from various European cap- | limited to the immediate needs of the ltals tend to show that, except in Italy and among the Nationalists in Germany, the signing of the treaty i< generally regarded as the birth of s new era of peace and good will smong European men and nations. The viewpoint of Italy, as expressed in government circles and by the lead- Fascist newspapers, is that that ntry does not intend to he swept Off her feet by idealistic sentimental- ity. While she intends faithfully to live | to the letter and spirit of her signa- ure, she purposes above all to keep a clear head and a realistic attitude in future international relations. Attention in this respect has been alled in Rome to a passage in Pre- | armistice address: | mier Mussolini's We look with one eyve upon the dove of peace if it rises on the distant hori zon but with the other eve we look ugh right.” After the seven delegations to the ! treaty-signing_ ceremonies cceived at Buckingham Palace by ng George yesterday afternoon ancellor Luther and Foreign Min- r Stresemann conferrd informally with Premier Briand. The discussed the change which will arise in the Rhineland control situation. and the ture relations hetween France' and Giermany now that the Locarno pact effact. Disarmament, possible tion of the limitation on German aviation, the admission of Germany to embership in the Rhineland control mmission and the evacuation of Ger- man territory hy the allied troops had been » discussed the concrete necessities of ! |low a retroactive reduction in the in being made to have the appointment | BY WILL P. KEN? Col. Sherrill's principal aide. the latter : for commerce in its three channels, 'Boy Goes Too Far Mimicking Suicide And Dies on Rope Special Diapat to The Star ROCKVILLE. Md.. December 2 —Milford R. Curtis, a 14.vear-old negro boy, attempted to show some other children in his h e, at Scot land. three miles from Rockville vesterday how he could suspend himself by his neck from frer in the house harm He overdid the thing, however, and is dead While standing on a chair, the boy tied one end of a rope around a joist in the room and placed the other end in the shape of a noose around his neck. He then jumped from the chair A certificate of accidental death was given CIVIL WAR FEARED without EDY. P given to Maj. Ulysses S. Grant, 3d.f Washington. with a water frontage assistant director of the office and of nearly 20,000 lineal feet available treasury, but does not mention the | free” with a net profit of $300,000, the bheing recommended on the ground |y f 4 : rashi exact amount of new emission which | State losing a like sum through the that even before his present assign "“;":‘:fl "(;""}:“:"‘.\"‘" m‘,‘y”'h"y‘f‘;‘!" will be embodied in a special bill. agreement and with the approval of ment to the office he had served koo o SEOW DRG0 RS the court. The statement declared that detail with it and is in close touch Sitimate use for water-borne com- The declaration savs that realizing that the restoration of French finances | i the highway department had not merce only some 6,000 feet with the great amount of work which ration . ® | been disturbed, the road company’s comes under it and the great proj. The whole water front. which is O e A O {faag | PIOfit would not have exceeded 25 per | ecrs on which If is now engaged. | practically all owned by the United which are France's creditors, | cent. Col. Cheney. it \,i‘\ pointed out.’ States, and which is t first view Zovernment will continue earnestly Charges $1,800,000 Loss. wiile an eagimser offcwr. 1o Dot In %5 [that wisitors fvom thh Suuth et of and y ptiations with N close touc - - S O = r City. S s api- o e oD Ferguson said that he felt free 1o office as the assistant director, and ‘helf Capial Citv. presents a dilapi - - talk now that the American Road nas been in Wachington as a White dated. unsightly appearance The government expresses the hope | Co. case had been settled in court [iaues alde onlv for o fen monthe. For more than 10 years the Wash that France's allies and friends will |and the grand jury had adjourned B R owils e ington Board of Trade has been per- take into consideration in the forth- |without returning an indictment ¥ hars: sistently emphasizing the desirability coming settlement of France's pre- carious financial situation the neces- sity for them to collaborate in the revaluation of the French franc, thus rendering possible the fulfillment of the undertakings entered into by France. RETROACTIVE ESTATE TAX CUT RESCINDED | House Committee Changes Decision When Revenue Loss Is Shown against any State officers. He charged tiat by adding $900,000 profit made by the road company to the probable cost of $900,000 that he estimated it would cost the State to make a second treatment of the high- way built under contract with the ! company, the State will sustain a | $1,800,000 loss “as a result of the | great legal gymnastics of the youthful attorney general Ferguson alleged that newspapers unfriendly to the Ferguson adminis- tration had misled their readers in attacking the administration. Statement of Ferguson that the State In the end will lose from the $600,000 judgment he gained against the American Road Co. is a deliberate attempt to deceive and misiead the 70,000,000 public, Moody said today. ‘The find- |And plavground areas of the Capital in the rivers and harbors section of as $70,000.000. ings of the court show there is no | City. particularly the retention of the'the War Department appropriation | = Ibasts whatever for Ferguson's | Watersheds. As secretary of the Pub.ibill, for a survey of the water front s | charges,” he said. lic Buildings Commission’ his efforts inito see how it can best be improved By the Associated Pres calling attention to the dilapidated with the experience of other great The House ways and means commit- | U. S. Begins Probe. tee today rescinded its proposal to al- | Investigation of the highway gle has been started by tan- While acceptance of this position would necessitate Lieut. Col. Sherril resignation as an officer in the Army. of having the city ington Channel side of the Wash- improved so as to in which he has served efficiently for gia; ccheme of the Capital's develop- the past vears, nevertheless. the fean salary is an attractive one. particu- : The most earnest co-operation has larly in view of the fact that his con 2 ¥ now been secured of the Engineer tinued service in the Army carries. commissioner, Maj. J. Franklin Bell; only small increases and will neveriihe National Capital Parks Commis: reach that of the civil position. He!gon * with Lieut. Col. Clarence O. now receives in salary and allowances sherrill as executive officer, and the $6.712 a year. Army engineer officer in charge of During the five vears as head of|this district of rivers and harbors | the public buildings and parks of the ' york under the Engineer Corps of Capital City no one has taken a more the Army, Maj. James A. O'Connor. active and progressive part in devel- oping Washington and impressing Recommendations Asked. upon Congress the need for securing| Congress itself has cailed for recom- suitable sites for public buildings and mendations for this great develop- in enlarging and improving the park ' ment, through specific appropriations and non-fireproof buildings in which cities as a guide. and with the best ! the Government carries on its work engineering talent directed upon this are largely responsible for President 'problem. This report will be ready take its long-planned place in the gen. | M. Briand said after- | pheritance taxes. representa d that the Locarno spirit prevailed | “The provision was taken from the uETiont tax reduction bill after the Treasury | 2 58S EXU had estimated it would mean a loss S T | of $70,000,000 in revenue rather than | = B £20.000,000 as originally estimated. The committee’s decision for lower inheritance rates in future years, however, remains unchanged. Other Papers in Germany Less en-| thused by Signing. Ry the Associated Press. BERLIN, December 2.—Exultation | tives of the United States Bureau of Public Roads, with a prospect that Government aid may be withdrawn if irregularities are found in the han- dling of the Federal funds. i Capt. R. St. J. Wilson, chief en- (Continued on Page 5, Column 4) | POLICE HOLD FIGURE | over the formal signing of the Locar- no treaties continues to be confined to the Liberal press of Berlin, al- though all newspapers give much space to describing the London cere- monies. While welcoming the culmination | Uprising in Lower Burma Prisony of the Buropean peace undertaken at Locarno, the German editors aver that complete fulfillment of German hopes depend upon further reforms ind corrections in Germany's post- war relations with her former op ponents. With is conceeded that just az the Dawes plan eliminated poiitics from the rep arations issue, pact negotiated at Locarno taken the sting out of the security problem. Germania, the organ of the Cen trist party, laments: “Europe still is far from being livable, and wil Iremain =n until we are ahle to hold our own with henor in peaceful competition with the United States.” Phat Germany is still being depriv -f of a just measure of equality is erted by the Deutsch Allgemeine «gpitung. which declares that the mere Siznatures of the high contracting parties will not remedy the existing justice. The reactionary organs confine their discontent over the London signing formalities by reporting them under siuch captions as “Renewal of Ver- sailles.” JOY FELT IN FRANCE. Most Consider New Era Started by Treaties. PARIS, December 2 (#).—The sign- ing of the Locarno pact and the arbi- tration treaties at London yesterday ic regarded in Paris political circles generally as ushering in a new era ; of peaca and good will among Eu- |dispute will be one of the main topics | cinct. # npean men and natiois. The Na- tinnalists are inclined dublous and profess to believe that (Continued on Page 4. Column 3) had the Rhineland | these reservations, it | | tween Great Britain and Turkey over|(he clothes and notes on the bridge | | the Mosul boundary failed to cast a |t was learned that Gair was in New | | but the ugly i I | | delegates to be more NINE KILLED, 24 INJURED . in PYAPUN JAIL muTiny N SUICIDE ALARM Julius J. Gair Alleged to mvej Passed Worthless Paper on | Motor Company. | Was Led by Murderer Under Death Sentence. Zunl By the Associated Press | i AR T | “RANGOON, India, December 2. Nine persons have been killed and 24 | vounded in a jail mutiny at Pyapun, e & YAPUM. | quehanna near Havre de Grace, M Led by a murdered under death July 28. leading to a dragging of the sentence, prisoners overpowered the | river for his body in the belief he had guards and seized arms. Police sur-!killed himself, was arrested at the rounded the jail and the prisoners ! District Building today by Detectives | surrendered after a pitched battle in | 0'Brien and Nalley on a charge of | which five prisoners and four guards 3 ] § < | passing a bad check. i were killed and 20 prisoners and four | PARURE T RC S L guards wounded. The leader of the ' Tie 277est was moade bn o warrant | mutiny was among those killed. 9 M street. The warrant, dated | = August 5 last. alleged that Gair—who | i o | TURCO-BRITISH DISPUTE f.zss;d {i"w;@:&":fifil o S | on_the Universal Motor Co. on July 3. | | Finding of the cloth d suicide ! COMING UP AT GENEVA| Finding of the clothes and sulcide | which was intensified .because of the | o: | Julius Joseph Gair. whose clothes were found on a trestle over the Sus ' fact that three of the notes were ad- | By the Asociated Prese . .| dressed to Gair's flancee, Miss Jean LONDON, December 2.—Yesterday's| Snyder of 3066 M street. | rumor of the possibility of war be-! ™ Some time after the discovery of | | shadow on the general rejoicing over ' York City. He is said to have re. the signing of the Locarno treaty Sanevelioe | | turned to Washington recently, and ; problem was not for- \hen he started re-establishing bus- | gotten, and was discussed informally | ness connections, police were in. in the lobbies of Parliament and else- | formed of the warrant outstanding where. | against him, with the result that he Nothing developed, however, to give | was arrested when he walked into more solid form to the rumor. The |(he District Building today on other | of the nations now are! business. starting for Geneva, where the Mosul | Gair is being held at the first pre. | before the council of the League of Nations. Hope is expressed here that he difficul il be straight ut . [he Moy Wil be straihiened out 'R adio Programs—Page 40. i : L 4 | which has been an ey | Parkway { leave the military service. | of the Army may tender his resigna- Coolidge’s insistence upon a $30.000. for Congress shortly after it meets 000 public building program for Wash- ~ The consolidated and co-ordinated ington in the coming session and co-operative support of the Dis- Starting Great Task. Lieut. Col. Sherrill is just starting on one of the greatest tasks for the beautification of the Capital, which is the culmination of vears of efforts to bring its authorization. It is the con- struction of the Arlington Memorial | Bridge across the Potomac from the | Lincoln Memorial to the Lee Mansion d on Page 13, Column 1.) (© FRANCE MAY MOVE |Free State President Faces | Grave Crisis in Negotiations on Ulster Dispute. BY JOHN GUNTHER. | By Cable to The Star and Chicago Dailr News, LONDON. December 2.—London | bad forgotten the novelty and excite | ment of Locarno today and turned in | stead to Dublin, where the oid familiar Irish question reached a new and grave crisis. After hurried conferences in Lon don all day Tuesday, President Cos- grave returned to Dublin overnight, prepared to open the Dail with the hope that the boundary dispute can be delayed a few weeks and thus avert the border strife which is loom- ing. Cosgrave's last conversations with Sir James Craig, premier of Ulster, | were held secretly, but the feeling in London Baldwi; ful generally. was expressed |today that Prime Minister | mediation had been succe some degree | his time conferring at the treasury | with Winston Churchill, chancellor of the exchequer, and there were indi { cations that the matter of the boun dary may be sidetracked for the com- in Cosgrave spent most of paratively unimportant squabbles in finance. Nevertheless, anxiety in the Irish “ree State is rising. because it is ac cepted that President Cosgrave must somehow defer or settle the crisis over the Ulster boundary, or his govern ment is sure to fall. Even the most experienced Irish observers hesitate [to predict what may happen in the | 1atter case. No actual bloodshed (Continued on Page vet reported . Colunin 2.) to the prosecution Maj. Gen. Benjamin A. Poore turned to Maj. Gen. Robert Howze, president of the court, and suggested that it was apparent the defense had misin terpreted the court's announcement, and had regarded it as applving solely to the one side Court Voices Regret. ‘I certainly did understand it that U. . DESTROYERS RUSHEDTOCHNA * <= Three Ordered From Manila the defense haa “taken it that w and pointed out that the admonition s had been directed at both the prose- to Shanghai in Face of | Caionoma fe Garenes - The ban on “insulting” of wit- War Threats. nesses was announced after a long conference in an ante-room, during I W which the opening of the regular court session correspondingly was de- Br the Associated Press : layed. As the generals flled into the MANILA. December 2.—Three more | 20 °% - tdant bid 4 American destroyers left here today | S ovresicent bicked up/a cony |of the official court-martial manual for Shanghai owing to the threatening |and read from it the paragraph con- conditions in China cerning protection of witnesses. The "tilt vesterday between Gen. The destrover McCormick left Ma. Graves and Mr. Reid occurred during \ila on Saturday last for Shanghal.|a controversy between the latter and At that time it was sald three more ! Mal. Allen Guilion assistant prosecu: destroyers were being held in readi. ! !Of, Over the ‘personal” nature of uestions bei ness should it be decided tn send rein- | W{inass BEADYLE o aprneecution forcements. i 5 5 Sl | Gullion Made Protest. CHANG REBELS RETUMN. | 3,y Guliion at the time declared { that the court should not permit the SHANGHAL China, December 2 Uf. | ®itness to be subjected to “unfair Marshal Chang Tso-Lin still is a fac. | Quéstions.” and he referred to the to be reckoned with, even south of | PATASTaph governing restrictions on the Great Wall, where elements Xaminations of witnesses. which deserted him recently in the The oOnly witness who testified at apparent collapse of his hold on China | ¥ MOrning session of the trial to- outside his own provinces with Man.| 2% was Comdr. Kenneth Whiting from the Naval Bureau of Aeronau. churia now are rec siderinz their de Lbxiaizg iteco | tics. an expert on aircraft carriers fection. This ds indicated In JePOT'S| He declared the United States led the g1y “" : s world in naval aviation, but admitted Gen Ching, civil governor of | that she was behind with respect. to Chihil 1 former henchman of the | aircraft carriers. He said that Ame: Manchurian war lord, has reopened fea’s only carrier now in commission, the Langley. ranked fourth among the seven carriers now in existence. Court Reads Order. negotiations with his old chief at Muk den, although he one of the lead in the recent anti-Chang revolt Since Gen. Sun Chuan-Fang, the Chekiang governor. withdrew his The text of the paragraph for the troops from Shantung after they had ‘‘protection of witnesses™ contained in ollowed the Manchurian forces re- | the court-martial manual and which treating from the Yangtze River that|was read by Gen. Howze when court far, there have heen several conflicts opened follows between the Honan troops, who en- It is the duty of the court to pro- tered Shantung from the west, and|tect every witness from irrelevant, Chang’s men. The latter have at, {nsulting or improper questions. from least held their own. and this factor | hareh or insulting treatment and from seems to have decided Gen. Li to seek | unnecessary inquiry into his private a new understanding with Chang. | affatrs. The court must forbid any Japanese reports reaching Shanghai | question which appears to be intended say that Gen. Li is in communication | merely to insult or annoy a witness, with Chang, who is urging Li, Mar-|or which, though pertinent itself, ap. shal Wu Pei-Fu. Sun Chuan'Fang and | pears to be needlessly offensive in Gen. Chang Tsung-Chang, governor of | form.™ Shantung, to co-operate with him in “‘Piease take notice,” the president subduing his enemies. “the radical” | of the court warned when he had Feng Yu-Hsang. the “Christian gen- | completed his reading. eral™: Gen. Kuo Sung-Ling, who re-| Maj. Gullion had scarcely begun to volted against Chang, and Yueh Wei- question Comdr. Whiting regarding - governor of Honan and ally of | his experience in aviation wher' the R L interruption of Mr. Reid took place. Other reports tell of dissension|aaj Gullion had asked the iwitness amenz followers of Kuo Sung-Linz. if he were not the first man to demon- strate the feasibility expected Chang to flee to Japan of chin Instead. the Manchurian leader is of launchingia = bold £ 4 X 1 human being from a submarine showing a bold front and making des- ' tpough a torpedo tube. and defense perate attempts to win over the lead: | counsel, arising to face the. court ers of the centra) provinces alliance. | cajq Y “Under the admonition of the court the rules of the manual regarding in- quiry into the personal and irrelevant affairs of the witness should apply to the prosecution as well as to the de: fense, and T object to that question.’ Thinks Warning Personal. “It seems that Mr. Reid regards Blaze Leveling Town. NORTH BAY. Ont., December 2 (#) _Fire which broke out early today had wiped out half the town of Mat tawa this forenoon and still was rag- | ing. The town's entire population of | 0 is fighting the flamek. | FOR PEACE WITH RIFF a gigantic task, it involves more than | Semi-Official Announcement Says this, for in it is included a 10-year program involving the approaches| Settlement of Moroccan War which on the District side include the | 3 boulevarding of B street northwest to, Will Be Attempted. the Capitol, and the cleaning up of a | jarge section of Pennsylvania avenue, sore for year: One of Lieut. Col. Sherrill's tasks | also is the maintenance and upkeep i t of the Daily Express of the White House and looking atter | Corea ommorday: It is semi-ofially the needs of the President. Only re- | npounced that the new French gov- cently he has been giving much at-|glinent, in complete accord with tention to the renovation of the struc- ! Spain. ‘will endeavor to restore peace ture and considering the question of [P\EL (00 "¢ goon as possible, on changing some of the furniture fit. | ha basis of its international treaties tings to conform to the early colonial | ;1% XVl N ants while leaving to the period in which the mansion Was|pifre their administrative autonomy.” i | This semi-official announcement cor- Holds Other Offices. responds with the predictions made by Lieut. Col. Sherrill also is executive | Vincent Sheean. The Star's spectal and disbursing officer of the Arlington | correspondent. in his exclusive dis- Memorial Amphitheater - Commission, | patches of last month. Abd-el-Krim, the Commission on Memorial to Mr. Sheenan pointed out. is ready to Women of the Civil War, Grant Me- | make peace on terms which are very morial Commission, John Ericsson 'near to the Franco-Spanish terms. Memorial Commission, the Meade Me.| The principal obstacle to an im- morial Commission, Public Buildings | mediate peace, he declared, was the Commission, Rock Creek and Potomac | question of the loss of prestige which Commission anl Natlonal | any of the three belligerents might Capital Park Commission. | suffer from inaugurating negotia- He is director f the office of public | tions. buildings and public parks of the Na-| If the French government has de- tional Capital, which includes super. | cided to take the initlal step, this | Br Cable to The St intending the group of structures|diMiculty has been surmounted, and | known as the State, War and Navy | there is obviously a good chance that Buildings. He is a member of the!Dbeace will come this Winter by Washington National Monument So-, afrangement. ciety, and a member of the Zoning (Copyright. 1825. by North American News- Commission of the District of Colum- CiE ia. In the event that the plans for his| Bolovian Republicans Win. taking the position of city manager| pUENOS ATRES, December 2 U8).— of Cincinnati xo through, it will be | Hernando Siles and Abdon Saavedra, necessary for Lieut. Col.’ Sherrill to | Hernande Siles and Abdon Saavedra, An officer | were elected respectively president and vice president of Bollvia, says a dispatch to La Naclon from La Paz. They had no opposition. The elections assed off quietly. tlon at any time, but it is optional with _the the nited ‘ontinued LONDON. December 2.—The Paris | Be Engra | Famous in Masonic circles through- | vears. Besuests of $100 each annual- {out the United States durin by the title, “Call Me Henry,’ Henry Lansburgh, potentate of Almas | Temple and vice president of the de his life | partment store firm of Lansburgh & | Bro., provides in his will, filed today | for "probate, that a mausoleum be | erected in Rock Creek Cemetery for | his remains, which is to bear on its | | door the inscription “Call Me Henr: | with the dates of his birth and death. | Charitable and philanthropic insti- | tutions of the Jewish, Catholic and Protestant religions are generously remembered in Mr. Lansburgh's will | Bishop Freeman and a number of other clergymen whom he described as his “very dear friends” are each given $100 a year for 10 years to | purchase flowers for the sick of their congregations. The stock held by the deceased in | the firm of Lansburgh & Bro. and the remaining estate after the pay- ment of certain annuities and the spe- cific legacies are to be equally dis- tributed among his surviving brothers and sisters. The Lansburgh stock, he directs. 10 years before being divided. The Masonic and Eastern Star Home is given $500 for the mainte- nance of the Henry Lansburgh room and a bequest of $200 vearly for 10 F A i€ to be held in trust for | “CALL ME HENRY” TO BE SOLE | TITLE ON LANSBURGH GRAV Famous Term, With Dates of Birth and Death, Will *] {5 ved on Mausoleum in Accordance | With Order in Will. this warning of the court as directed | only at him,” remarked Gen. Poor. | “1 certainly did understand it that way,” the Illinois Representative re- plied emphatically. { I don’t see why he should have taken it that way, when I sald ex- pressly that it applied to all parties General Howze vou said that,” Mr. Reid refoined. “but I was talking about how I understood it.”" “I am very sorry. Mr. Reid,” Presi dént Howze said. “I didn't mean it that way.” Maj. Gullion, between the sips from a steaming mug of coffee, which he had poured from a quart jar brought into the room by an orderly, then continued to question the witness. Describes Plane Carrier. Comdr. Whiting was qualified before the court as an expert on aircraft car- viers. He testified that the U. S. S the Associated Charities, St. VIn.| Langley, the only commission- cent’s Orphan Asylum. Little Sisters aqaircraft carrier, ranks fourth among of the Poor, German Orphan Asylum, |the seven existing aircraft carriers Masonic and Eastern Star Home, now.{n commission in the world. He Washington City Orphan Asylum.|said that the Langley was “the slow- Jewish Foster Home, Bruen Home, est of all carriers in the world,” but Episcopal Home for Children, Presby- | pointed out in her behalf that she has terian House, at 1420 H street: St.|the largest storage space for planes of John's Orphanage and the Hebrew any carrier, that her landing and Home for the Aged. |launching efficlency with regard to The clergymen named to receive an-! airplanes is as much as could be de- nually $100 for 10 vears for flowers |sired, and that no injuries to personnel for sick parishioners are Rev. James ; have ever occurred from the small per- Shera Montgomery, Rev. John C.|centage of crashes which have occur- Palmer, Rev. David R. Covell. Rev.! red on her deck. George F. Dudley, Rev. Charles E.! Comdr. Whiting told the court that Iultz, Rev. W. S. Abernathy and|when the new converted battle Bishop Freeman. | cruisers, the Saratoga and Lexing- The general endowment fund of the ! ton, are put into commission as air- Shriners' Hospital for crippled children | craft carriers they will be as large 1s to have $1,000 at once, and at the as any carrier in the world, more end of one vear a further legacy of | powerful than any, and should be 20.000 in the names of W. Freeland |capable of greater speed. He said and Mabel Kendrick. William F.|they will be “quite modern” iwhen Iy for 10 years are made to St. Jo- seph’s Orphan Asylum, St. Ann's In- fant Asvlum, the orphans of St. Pat- rick’s Parish, Camp Good Will for the children’s outing: Home for the Blind, Ruppert Home, Baptist Home, Vational Lutheran Home for the Aged. Murphy, an employe of Lansburgh & |completed. He told of the Navy's in- Bro rears past 25 | terest lers over a lonz period (Continued on Page 5, Column 1) ' (Continued on Page 3, Coluin ] 4 |