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WEATHER. (T, S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy tonight and tomorrow sibly light showers: not much change in temperature. Highest owest, 65, Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 pos- at 5:30 7 am, . 85 ch “ ¢ Foening WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Star. tion is delive as fast as th “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- red to Washington homes e papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 98,540 No. 29,999. Enerehss %, Washingt ond class matter D C WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JUNE 19, GERMAN REPUBLIC FACES ACIDTESTIN VOTING TOMORROM Not Since Revolution Has Na- tion Been So Stirred as by Plebiscite. MOVE FOR CONFISCATION IS LAID TO RADICALS Socialist-Communist Party Blamed for Bitter Centest Sure to Leave Recriminations. PBr the Associated Press BERLIN, June 12 revolution has Germany o deeply and universally as by the campaign over the question as to what shall be the disposition of the property of former rulers in Ger many. A plebiscite tomorrow will attract to the polls throughout the country voters who will say whether they favor confiscation or no confiscation. This first lesson in direct democracy, no matter what its outcome, will, it is believed. itls wake Dbitterness and re tions for weeks to come Accordipg to a leading member of the cabinet, it will make fruitful labor in the Reichstag prior to the Sum- mer recess most difficult, if not im possible. . Stresemann Sees No Test. the foreign secre- ridiculous accept of Sunday a vote for He pre votes Not since the been stirred Dr. Stresemann, tary, describes as ing that. the plebiscite really is tantamount to a republic or a monarchy. dicts that 16 or 17 million will be cast against the former rulers and declares this will hardly be a sign of monarcharist sentiment. Dr. Stresemann said the plebiscite was a move by ocialist-Com munist party, phich desired absolute confiscation of the royal property, and was opposed by the govern ment and the buorgeois party. As the campaign has advanced, the language of the opposing groups has hecome more bitter. For both sides the claim is made that there has been more deliberate suppression of unwel come facts. more concealment of ra- tssues and more distortion of the truth indulged in than m any receat campaign. Campaign Has Been Lively. The past few weeks especially have seen feverish activity for and against the plebiscite, both sides holding demonstrations, dietributing posters. placarding walls, sending out groups of “sandwich” men and organizing what are called “paste and scratch squads,” the function of which, on the one hdnd, have heen to put out post ere and, on the other hand. to scratch off_the posters of their opponents. The German Nationalists eleventh-hour sop to disappointed r loans and other now s securities. introduced in the Reichstag a bill under which persons who lost everything through inflation | would be given an annuity Results Expected Soon. The polls will open at 9 o'clock to- morrow morning and close at o'clock in the evening. gin the task of counting the hallots in the 68,000 precincts throughout Germany. As only the ayes and a few scattering nays must be counted, the opponents of confiscation having in- structed their followers to stay away trom the polls, the preliminary results may be expected at midnight. The largest aye vote likely will come from Berlin, where of the 3,000,000 quali fied voters, 1.500.000 have entered thelr names against the former rulers in_the preliminary plebiscite. The government estimates the cost of the plebiscite at about 3,500,000 marks CATION. Many Others Believe It Impossible to Take Private Property. Br Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily News, BERLIN, June 19.—Before a hill hoard near Herkules Bridge in Berlin six waiting taxicab drivers stood to day and shook their fists at a poster. Tt portrayed a bloody hand and below was the inscription “this plebiscite is v muttered angrily. Then a in the canal below them. A barge loaded with sand was being poled wearily through the stag- nant water. Three men and two girls not over 13 were sweating at their labor. “That's the answer to their lies,” one of the drivers muttered. “Whiie our chiliren must do the work of horses, the princes live like fat swine at our expense. But now the time has come to end it.” This is the opinion of millions of German workers and millions who have been reduced from comfort to beggary through inflation. A Different Viewpoint. Another scene: “It is impossible to separate crown, state and private property of the former dynasties. Moreover, some of the princes actually expended their private money to encourage culture and the arts and alleviate need. No =olutfon is really adaptable to all, but it must he admitted that some prop- erty belonged to the dynasties. Therefore, total confiscation is rob- bery. All but three German states have already reached peaceful and satisfactors rulers. Private property is sacred. Therefore, the only just solution is a government compromise, which can be forced through the Reichstag easily if the plebiscite fails.” This is the view of the German cab- inet, including several Democrats, as axpressed to the foreign press. “The plebiscite contradicts God's commandments, substitutes arbitrary demagogy for justice, ruins German credit at home and abroad and extir- pates the roots of monarchical feel- ing from the German people.” This is the opinion of the ¢on- servative leader, Count Westarp. Thus are illustrated the three pre- vailing views of the pleblscite which will be held Sunday. The campaign is inereasing in bitterness as the end nears. All possible methods are being used and fights have been frequent despits all police efforts. §° sht, 1926, by Chizago Daily News Co.) § Then will he- | compromise with their ex- | Permit | By the Associated Press, Under the shadow of the Capitol, where the Volstead law was written and passed. Representative La { Guardia, Progressive-Socialist, New | York, today combined two beverdges | permitted under the law and got what he described as “a legal drink | with a’ kick of 2.84 per cent.” The beverages used were Pabst | Extract, the malt tonic with 3.75 alco- holic content, for which a permit recently was issued by the Treasury Department, and Budweiser beer of one-half of 1 per cent. | The demonstration was held in his private office in the House Office | Building after the House alcoholic liquor traffic committee, of which La Guardia is the only wet member, had failed to obtain a quorum to Wwit- | ness the experiment | Entering his office. La Guardia | walked to table. his, secretary handed <him two bottles,” one con- | taining the malt tonic. the other the near heer. He fumbled with the | and then borrowed a bottle opener from a photographer. | “Now watch.” he said. “This 1s i within the law.” He filled an ordinary drinking | glass two-thirds full of the 3 LA GUARDIA MIXES ‘LEGAL’ DRINKS ' AT CAPITOL WITH 2.84 PCT. ‘KICK’ New York Representative Holds Demonstration in His Office Which He Declares Treasury 5 per | ] Allows. cent tonic. With a smile he poured |in the near beer. At first nothing happened. Then with a pencil, for lack of a spoon, he | stirred. A thick, dark foam slowly | rose to the brim, and overflowed on | the floor. | While the photographers clicked Ttheir machines, La Guardia called Julian Richards from the crowd that packed his office and gave him a taste. | He introduced Richards as having | been connected with the Christian | Heurich Brewing Co. of Washington | for 15 vears. “It tastes delightful,” Richards said After Richards took a second drink, La Guardia asked “What does it taste like?" The witness was not sure, thought 1t resembled meuncher. “Now I'll make pilsner.” continued La Guardia. “All you do is add a lit tle salt.” He then passed it around among newspaper men and photographers un- til he had used all his ingredients “What does a glass of that cost™ asked one. “About 15 cents s al.” Representative Green, Democrat. Florida, was the only other membe: | of the liquor trafic committe: to at-| tend the demonstration. He looked | jon a few minutes, but declined ;.} nk. but PROBE POSTPONED IN“SLUSH FUND Reed Will Question Wheeler | Again When Hearing Is Resumed Monday. | | Further investigation of the Repub- | lican senatorial primaries in Pennsyl- | vania and of the political activities of [the Anti-Saloon League was post poned today until Monday morning at | 10 o'clock by the Senate investigating ;, committee. | Senator Reed of Missouri, chairman of the committee, announced that the ! postponement was found necessary | because of important legislative work requiring the attention of members of the committee, because some of the witnesses who have been summoned were not on hand and because Wayne | B. Wheeler, general counsel of the | Anti-Saloon = League, had informed him that he did not have all the data | on hand which the committee had re- ‘ quested. | Among the Pennsylvania witnesses |still to be heard are Mrs. Ella M. | George of Beaver, president of the {W. C. T. U., who supported Gov. | Pinchot in the senatorial race, and Mrs. Maud Seymour, vice president of the same organization, who broke |away and supported Senator Pepper. | It is expected that these witnesses will be questioned about a fund of $250,000 raised to help enforce the prohibition ¢ |laws in Pennsylvania and in the rais ing of which the W. C. T. U. took a leadirg part. Asked Enforcement Money. During the session of the State Leg- islature in 1923 Gov. Pinchot asked for an appropriation to aid in the better enforcement of the prohibition laws, but the Legislature failed to make it. It was then that the move- | ment to raise this outside fund was started. It is expected that the com- mittee will inquire about the collec- tion of the fund and how it has been expended. Judge F. X. O'Connor of Philadel- | phia, Senator Reed was informed, will |be here Monday to testify. An inter- view with Judge O'Connor was print- ed in Philadelphia the morning after the primary, in which he was alleged to have said that the Vare organiza- tlon offered him $150.000 to withdraw from the race for Congress in the dis- trict represented by Vare. The com- mittee yesterday heard four news. paper men from Philadelphia corrob- orate this report. Judge O'Connor earlier in the hearing denied that he had ever made such a statement. Another witness still to be heard by the committee Is Representative Morin of Pittsburgh, who was chali man of the Vare organization in th western part of Pennsylvania. Sends for Estimate. The Senate committee has sent to Harrisburg to learn how much it would cost to obtain photostatic coples 5f the reports filed there by the vari- 5us committees reporting their collec- tions and _expenditures, during the primary. If it is not possible to ob- tain the photostatic copies, the com- mittee probably will send a represen- tative to Harrisburg to examine these reports and make copies of them. The total amount of expenditures in the primary already developed by the Senate committee has passed the $2,000,000 mark. The sum total may much_higher. When Wayne B. Wheeler is again put on the stand it is expected there will be another vigorous examination by Senator Reed into the political activities of the Anti-Saloon League. Reed, as chairman of the commit- tee, altered the program yesterday to turn his lance anew toward the finan- cial vitals of the political groups that fought for supremacy in the recent $3,000,000 Pennsylvania Republican primary. Wheeler had been directed to be on hand for vesumption of his testimony begun Thursday, but was not_called. He was informed after the six ~(Continued on Page 9, Column 2.) NEW BATHING POOL -~ POLICY INDORSED \Park Body Decides on Dis- tributed System Located in Populous Centers. A distributed system of bathing| pools for Washington, to be located in proximity to the various centers of population, instead of concentra- tion on two large municipal pools. was formally indorsed today by the National Capital Park and Planning Commission at its second meeting, in the Navy Building. | The commission approved the fol- lowing resolution: “That the National Park and Planning Commission advocates a distributed system of bathing pools, to be located in' proximity to the various centers of population in con- nection with other recreational facil- ities, rather than concentration on two large municipal pools involving long transportation, and that the commission favors a location of the bathing pools authorized by the act of May 4, 1926, in accordance with| this principle as the first units in a distributed system. “Further study is necessary to deter- mine the two locations for the pools now authorized, which study the com- | miésion will undertake at once.” Fort Drive Considered. The commission also considered the general principle of the development of the proposed Fort drive. Maj. U. S. Grant, 3d, executive officer of the com- mission, said that further studies will | have to be made in connection with the location of the Fort drive and as regards its width, in order to avold real estate developments that already have been started. The area under discussion today was that east of Six- teenth street between Forts Stephens and Totten, and also included Fort Slocum, where President Lincoln was under fire from Confederate batteries during the Civil War. { ‘While the commission took no def- | inite action on the location of the | Fort drive, the general principle was understood to be lald down that ex- tensive real estate developments should he avoided as far as possible and the drive be situated in a sub- urban area. The commission also heard an explanation of a proposed building development into Piney Branch, near Seventeenth streef, which is to be undertaken by Joseph A. Shapiro, a Washington real estate | operator. PARK BODY IS READY T0 PICK NEW SITES| | ! | Eight Changes in Highway Plan; Also Before Commission at Meeting in Navy Building. ‘ b — i Prepared to go into the matter of selection of additional park sites in the District of Columbfa, the National Capital Park and Planning Commis- | sion met agdin today in the Navy| Building. The commission was also| to pass upon eight changes in the highway law suggested at the organ jzation meeting yesterday. All th members of the commission, with the | exception of Stephen T. Mather, direc- | tor of the Natlonal Park Service, and | Frederick A. Delano of ‘Washington, attended the second meeting of the commission today. Members of the planning body from | outside of Washington visited the| locations suggessed for changes in| the highway plan vesterday and were prepared today to consider the pro-| posed changes from first-hand knowl- | edge of the situation. Rushing into a house at 3103 Twelfth street northeast, where a fire in the bathrosm had resulted in an alarm being sounded, Policeman Helm of the twelfth precinct today discov- ered a still in full operation in the bathroom. Helm had followed the fire engines to the scene. His original purpose of performing rescue work was changed {o raiding after discovery of the still. After Detective Mansfield and Capt. Clemmond of the-twelfth precinct had been summond, 19 barrels of corn mash holding approximately 950 gal- lons, and 20 gallons of the finished product and a 200-gallon still were Fire in Bathroom Reveals Big Still, Police Rescuer Turns Into Raider destroyed, according to the police. Police were informed by a woman in charge of the premises that her name was Mrs. Mary Sanchez, mother of seven children, of whom four were present at the raid. She told the police that the house was leased by two men who she believed were Italians; and that she and her hus- band and children received free rent, electricity and gas merely for occupy- ing the house and keeping quiet about the still. Police are investigating her statement. The fire was caused by a short circuit of an electric wire in the bath- room. Little damage was done. DEVOUT THOUSANDS FILL CHICAGO FOR EUCHARISTIC RITES Prelates Visit Nearby Cities After Formal Welcome by Civil Officials. CARDINAL DAUGHERTY ARRIVES IN LAY ATTIRE Throngs Visit Cathedral to Get First Glimpse of Pieparations for Formal Opening. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 19.—With the scothing note of tolerance sounded at last night's official reception still ringing in their ears, the thousands upon thousands of clergy and laity of the Roman Catholic Church, here for the opening of the greatest of A1l international Eucharistic con- gresses, for the most part rested to- day. The only formal event was a luncheon to Cardinal Bonzano, papal legate, glven at noon in & downtown hotel hy the permanent committee of the congress. Meanwhile, trails that led from two hemispheres were converging in Chicago. FEvery train, lake steamer and highway leading into the city disgorged a steady flow of delegates, clergy and laity, to swell a total ex- pected to approach the million mark by the time the congress, opening to- morrow, is under way Cardinal Daugherty Arrives. Among the dignitaries arriving to day were Denis Cardinal Daugherty of Philadelphia. last but one of the 12 princes of the church to join the host of visitors, and Archbishop Mannix of Australia. Cardinal O'Connell and 500 pilgrims from New England are ex pected by lake boat from Buffalo. In every Catholic church in Chicago and suburbs confessions were heard today preparatory to a million communions tomorrow. Cardinal Mundelein has planned for the administration of this| sacrament on a greater scale than ever before known in history. To catch a glimpse beforchand of the opening splendors of the congress an unending stream of people filed in and out of Holy Name Cathedral. The dimly-lighted interior disclosed the sanctuary where the eucharist is to be exposed for adoration through- out the congress. Overhead faintly discerned were the waving banners and the garlands symbolic of the eucharist. Sisters of Charity in gray-blue habits and white headdress mingled with hun- dreds of nuns of other orders, and with priests and lay pilgrims just ar rived in the city. Nearby Cities Visited. Many of the clergy made short trips to nearby cities today to visit Catholic educational_institutions. The others spent the day resting. A number of the cardinals planned to receive news. | paper men in the late afternoon. Cardinal Dubols of Paris spent the day at Notre Dame University, South Bend, Ind. Cardinal Crernoch of Hungary went to East Chicago, where large numbers of his countrymen have settled. Cardinal PIff of Vienna spent the day at Techy, TlL, at St. Mary's mission, with Cardinal Reig y Cas. anova of Spain. The first mass of the congress, pre- liminary to the formal opening at 11 a.m. Sunday, will be celebrated at mid: night tonight by Cardinal Charost of Rennes, France. Wears Civilian Attire. Cardinal Dougherty was greeted by crowds lined up 20 deep on either | side throughout the long concourse | of the biggest raflway station in Chicago. Eagerness of the awaiting throngs to get close to him was re- strained by a continuous array of police as he passed from the Penn- slyvania Rallroad train and was whisked away to his hotel. | The cardinal smiled and howed to | the crowds which had been half ex- pecting to see him costumed in scarlet, as were other cardinals on the day of the arrival of the papal legate. Instead he wore civillan attire, showing no trace of his rank except a bit of cardinal red visible beneath his white collar. Delegations from the Ukraine, from Alaska and from Canada and Mexico swelled the arriving throngs. Attitude of U. S. Voiced. The attitude of the United States toward religious freedom and toler- ance has been voiced in the presence of high churchmen and prelates of the Catholic hierarchy. It came from the lips of Secretary of Labor james J. Davis, here as the representative of President Coolidge for Chicago's civic reception last night to congress delegates. The reception, planned purely as a formal affair, developed into a (Continued on Page 4, Column ATLANTIS IS LOCATED. German Professor Says Ideal State Was South of Tunis. MUNICH, Bavaria, June 19 (#).— Atlantis—praised by the Greek philos- ophers and historians as the ideal com- monwealth—was situated south of Tunis, says Prof. Paul Borchardt, geographer and orientalist. In a lecture before the Geographic Institute of the University of Munich Prof. .Borchardt asserted that the legendary island was engulfed by an earthquake which caused its disap- pearance in the sea in the year 1250 B.C. POLAND WITH LEAGUE. Has No Intention of Leaving, For- eign Minister Says. WARSAW, Poland, June 19 (#).— Reports in Geneva that Poland was considering _withdrawing from the League of Nations were denied to- day by Auguste Zaleski, the foreign minister. “The Polish government has no such desire,” he told the Associated Press. “It is satisfied that Poland’s just claims, upon which she will con tinue to insist, will be satisfied. Po- land reserves the right te support these claims with all energy." {duchess of Russia and was married i By the Associated Prese | number be called and Emil notified. | Miss Austl 1926—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGEST P) Means Associated Press. 0LGA, ONGEQUEEN OF GREEE DAD Russian Grand Duchess Had Life of Tragedy—Widow of Assassinated King. | | | By the Associated P I ROME, June 19.—The former Dow-| ager Queen Olga of Greece, grand-| mother of the late King Alexander; and widow of King George I, is dead, aged 75, at her home, the Villa Ana-| stasia. Members of the family were at the bedside. A The Queen's lllness seemed slight | when it began several days ago, but| the age of the patient told against her, and her doctors summoned the family to the modest villa where she had lived for some time. Prince Christopher, Princess Irene and Princess Elena arrived last night from Florence, where they reside, and remained at the bedside until death came early today. Exiled Nobles Flock to Vilia. The news caused great Sorrow aristocratic circles, and scores of ex-| jled Russian and Greek nobles has- tened to the villa to pay their re- spects. The Queen's life here was one of tragic resignation. After having passed through so many vears of bit terness, she made of her new home a veritable symbol of her past glories, installing in it furniture, pictures, statues and other objects saved from the palace in Athens. Tall and aristocratic looking, with silver-white hair, Olga lived in the strictest privacy, spending her time in readiing or occasionally receiving old friends, to whom she bitterly la- mented the dispersal of her family throughout Europe. Sang at Old Servant’s Bedside. In recent months she was consoled by the visits of Prince Andrew, for- mer Queen Sophia and others of the tamily. A touching glimpse of her home life was revealed a short time ago, when It was learned that she was spending many hours daily at the bedside of a servant, stricken with paralysis, who had been 60 years in her service. The queen comforted the invalid by croon- ing old peasant songs she learned dur ing her childhood in Russia She left the villa only to visit the orthodox Russian Church and the homes of a few exiled Russian nobles or occasionally to take a short auto. mobile trip. The Queen of Italy and Princess Mafalda often visited her. in| Olga was widowed when King George 1 was assassinated at Saloniki in March, 1913, She was born a grand to George at St. Petersburg, now Len- ingrad, October 15, 1867. Subsequent to the death of King Alexander, her grandson. in 1920, from the effects of a monkey’s bite, she assumed the re- gency, which she held until the re- turn to Greece of the late King Con- stantine. Constantine abdicated in 1922, and the Republic of Greece was formed in March, 1924. ACTRESS KILLS HERSELF; POLICE SEEKING “EMIL” NEW YORK, June 19.—Ann Austin, young actress, is dead by her own hand, and police today sought some one in Brooklyn named “Emil” to learn why she took poison last night. “Emil is the cause of it all,” said a note Miss Austin left behind. The note asked that a Brooklyn telephone Gertrude Flint, Miss Austin's negro maid, said she did not bhelieve her mistress would have killed herself for love of any man. Miss Austin has been married and divorced twice. The maid said the actress had had finan- al troubles recently. C'Mll! Austin’s first husband, named Collins, lIVesnlen Japan. T:l:y wer: vorced in Reno seven years ago. gilere second husband, Samuel Chillqn, is prominent in Charleston, W. Va. They were divorced last February. in was born in Savannah, Ga. CHARLESTON, W. Va., June 19 (#)—Samuel Chilton, whose former wife, Ann Austin, ended her lite in New York today, is a Charleston law- yer and nephew of former United States Senator W. E. Chilton of West Virginia. They were divorced early this year after a marriage of about three years. — I Radio Programs—?age 31 Bobbed-Hair Style, Was Imported From , Says Chieftain Br the Associated Press. OMAHA, Nebr., June 13.—Bobbed hair and short dresees are customs American women have borrowed from his people. Ratu Meli Hala hogi, native chleftain of the Is- land of Viti Levu of the Fiji group. declared. He is touring America with J. F. Fulton, missionary in the Fiji Islands for 32 years. “In my assoclation with white people 1 have noticed many changes in their dress, the chief =ald. “The girls and men used to dress more modestly. Now girls' dresses are short, the way the dresses of my people are. You have borrowed many customs from us. One of them is bobbed hair. The girls of the Polynesian people have worn their hair bobbed for many vears. “My people. with black faces, use paint to make them blacker. T notice you people, with white faces, powder them to make them whiter.” FENNING RELEASED AS ADLER GUARDIAN Court Conditions Discharge on Delivery of Estate to Ward’s Father. Justice Frederick L. Siddons of the District Supreme Court has signed an order “discharging and re- leasing of further liability” District Commissioner Frederick A. Fenning as committee of Adolf Adler, thé insane World War veteran, whose case figured so prominently before the congressional investigating eom- mittee, it was announced today. The discharge is conditioned only on the delivery of the assets of the ward's estate to his father, Julius Adler, who has been named committee by & New York court, where the veteran now resides. The court approved a petition of Mr. Fenning which asked that not only the 25 per cent commission he had received from the bonding com- pany for the renewal of the bond and entered in his seventh and last ac- count be credited to his ward's es- tate, but that the similar commis- sion from bonds claimed in the pre- ceding six accounts aiso be credited. Mr. Fenning made no abjecflnn to the reduction of his compensation as committee for the past year from 10 per cent asked by him to the 5 per cent allowed by Justice Siddons in his memorandum opinion. $12,814.22 Involved. The Alder account was ordered to be closed on the surrender of $12.- 814.22, found by the auditor of the court to be due after the deductions noted. This sum is represented by securities of §11,010.87, and cash amounting to $503.25. In his petition Mr. Fenning told the court that he desired the finding in the Adier case, as to bond rebates, to apply not only to that case, but to all similar cases in which he is com- mittee or guardian. He said he will bring such cases to the attention of the court as fast as petitions can be prepared. Following out this suggestion, Mr. Fenning alreadv has presented ap- plications for the crediting of such rebates in 14 other cases, 6 of which were approved yesterday by Chief Justice McCoy. Frank J. Hogan of counsel for Com- missioner Fenning issued the follow- ing statement yesterday: * “'Aside from addressing to Repre sentative Graham of Pennsylvania a letter_inviting the judiciary commit- (Continued on* Page 4, Column 2.) A Remarkable Photograph of I Central High School’s | Graduating f! Class of Tomorrow’s Star Order your copy of The Sun- |First 25-Mile Dash to Start | Coolidge, who wrote him a letter of day Star from your newsdealer today. SPEED KNGS READY. FORBIGRACETODAY at 2:30—17 to Compete in 100-Mile Test. By a Staff Correspondent. LAUREL SPEEDWAY, June 12 International honors will be at stake this afternoon when 17 speed kings toe the white line here and at the drop of the checkered flag set forth | on a serfes of three motor racing | journeys of 25, 50 and 100 miles each. To the winners of each event will go not only cash prizes, but numerical advancement toward the National Motor Racing Association champion ship. The first race, a 25-mile event, will be off promptly at 2:30 o'clock. When | it is completed and the contestants have been given a few minutes to make any necessary adjustments or change tires the second speed test will get under way and terminate atter the fying pilots have completed a journey of 50 miles around this pine board saucer. The classic of the day will be the 100-mile event, and in this something more than domestic honors will be in sight. Foreign Cars in Race. Heretofore the racing at the Laurel speedway has been a 100 per cent American proposition, cars and driv- ers alike were American bullt and American piloted. This afternoon, however, will ind the German Mer- | cedes, the Spanish Hispano-Suiza and the French Buggiti matching endur- ance and fleetness with the more fa miliar Little Millers and F. & J. Spe- cials, which wrote automobile racing history over this same course last Fall and last Spring. Seventeen starters had qualified at noon today, the last four having met the necessary requirements in hurried tests early this morning. It is prob- (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) —_— U. S. NOTE ASKS MEXICO ABOUT PETTUS CHARGES California Woman Says Her Land | May Be Confiscated—Reply Like- | 1y That She Is Misinformed. Br the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, June 19.— The United States embassy has delivered a note to the foreign office requesting the government to investigate charges by Mrs. W, J. Pettus of California that preparations were being made by agrarians to seize a portion of the San Pedro Coxtocan Ranch in the state of Puebla, which she inherited from her sister, Mrs. Rosallie Evans, when she was assassinated some time ago. It is understood that the Mexican government's reply to the note will | indicate that Mrs. Pettus is mistaken and that her information is erroneous. Apparently reliable but unofficial in- formation from Puebla says there is no evidence of any intention to seize the Pettus property. MAN'S BODY IN HUDSON IDENTIFIED AS SINGER'S Alexander Nieien, Russian Artist, Vanished From New York Theater Last April. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 19.—Last April Alexander Niefen. Russian artist and singer. vanished from the stage of | the Forty-Fourth Street Theater. Early today his brother-in-law, Jacob Volkoff, also an artist, identified a body which was taken from the Hudson River last night as that of Niejen. Volkoff told police he had been in touch with Niejen twice since his dis- appearance. On May 25 Niejen called at the studio apartment that they had shared together and said he was wor- ried about the welfare of his wife and two children in Russia. “I am sick and tired of it all.” he declared. Shortly before he dropped from the chorus of “The Song of the Flame” in April, Niejen painted a set of Easter eggs and sent the picture to President appreciation. | titude were given by TWO CENTS. PRESIDENT STICKS BY $T.000 ANNUITY, CONFEREES LEARN Represented as Likely to Velo Higher Retirement Pay After Parley. COMMISSION TO STUDY BETTER TERMS URGED Thorough Trial of House Figure Before Raising Amount Is White House Program. Out of the conflicting reports con cerning the possible action of the House and Senate conferees on the liberalized retirement bills there came today from the White House one that President Coolidge not only ing firmly by the House.ad: tion bill which -4 maximum annuity of $1,000 maximum age for retirement vears, but that he will be inclined |10 veto any measure which increase amounts over the House bill 'The reports of the President's Representatives Lehlbach of New Jersey and Smith of Idaho, two of the House conferses following a conference with the President. ‘The present plan now favored by the House conferees. and which was reported to have received the indorse ment of the President, is immediate passage at this session of the bill em bodying the features recommended b the House and the Budget Bureau and the creation, at the same time of a commission to make a compre hensive study of the problems involv ed in governmental retirement legisla tion and to work out a scientific plan that will provide for a new increase Report to Congress. Meantime, at a meeting of the con ferees at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Mr. Lehlbach probably bring before them the attitude of President Cool idge. Because the increased retirement fis to be a perpetual cost to the Govern- ment and because of its indefi ness at this time, the President was represented as having insisted that treating the Government more liberally the bo tirement annuities shou great until the subject has been studied thoroughly from every angle and unti] the most accurate and com plete cost estimates have been made by Government actuaries Mr. Lehlbach and Mr. Smith ex pressed themeselves as being in heart: accord with this attitude on the part of the Executive. Mr. Lehibach. who has at all times been a consistent champion of legislation in the interest of the Government employes. stated that there should be no criticism of the $1,000 annuity maximum for which his hill provides. He pointed out that that amount represents a 40 per cent increase over the present maximum annuity retired employes are recefving, which he said. compar ed with increases being received in private business, is decidedly liberal and should be accepted very n@bpilv by those who are in a position to be benefitted. Agreement Is Possible. These two House conferees. while not caring to make any outright pre. dictions as to the outcome of the con ferences being held by the Senate and House conferees on this legislation, did intimate a likelihood that those who are holding out for raising_ the maxi mum annuity to $1,080 or $1.140 as a compromise between the $1,000 in the House-administration bill and the $1,200 maximum in the Standfield bill which passed the Senate, will agree to the terms in the House-administra tion bill. The inference was drawn that those conferees who are fighting for a higher annuity will shortly come to realize that they are fighting in vain and that their insistency will bring naught but the faflure of this legislation to pass at this session of Congress. It is thought also that the pro posal to have a commission investigate the retirement question with a view to recommending increases in the near future will serve to satisfy those who are now clamoring for greater liberal ity on the part of the Government President Coolidge has let it be known that he considers the §1,000 annuity maximum as a fair and_just increase at this time. He also thinks it will be possible to increase this amount later on—possibly two or three or four years from now. TRUCK OF PRESIDENT'S . PAPERS SENT NORTH Work of Moving to Summer White House in Adirondacks Is Begun. The actual work of moving the White House from Washington to the Adirondack Mountains, which is to be the scene of the Summer Capi tal, began today when a truckload of letters, papers, files and other paraphernalia from the executive of fice of the President was started on the way. These were carefully pack ed in large boxes and will be arranged in the rooms in the hotel at Paul Smith's, which are to serve as the temporary executive office during the President’s vacation. President Coolidge does not intend to leave Washington for the Adiron- dacks until after he has delivered his address at Philadelphia on July & in- cident to the Sesquicentennial cele- bration being held there. He will re- turn to Washington from Philadel- phia and expects to leave for the mountains two or three days later. SIX DROWNED IN GALE. Four of Dredge’s Crew Saved Near St. Peters Island. PICTOU, Nova Scotia, June 19 (®). —8ix men were drowned when the dredge Ferguson was caught in a Extradition Treaty Signed. ROME, June 19 (#).—An extradition treaty between Italy and Turkey was signed today. & L gale last night and capsized, about 12 miles west of St. Peters Island. Four of her crew were saved. The Ferguson left Pictou Thurs- day for Tormentine, N. B, in tow of the tug Coalopolis. .