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v 3 W % (0.8, We Thundershowers this aff tonight, htly cooler ATI wer Bureau morrow fair. Hig vesterday: lowest, 68, at Full report on page 7 R ‘orecast.) ternoon and tonight; to- , at 2:30 pm. L at § a.m. tod | Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 26 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening St “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, 98,160 30,006, ! post o. oftice, Wa itered as second class matter hington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. ., SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1926—FORTY-SIX PAGES. * T TWO CENTS. (#) Means Associated Press. ELECTION PROBERS T0 CALL CHURCHES, WETS AND KU KLUY Other Organizations That In- fluenced Elections to Be Asked to Testify. ' WHEELER TOLD TO SHOW DATA ON DRY ACTIVITIES Money Spent for Political Pur- poses, With Names of All Who Gave $500. to Be Investigated. | SHACKISLOONTED - ROBINEAU FORCED OUT AS GOVERNOR OF BANK OF FRANCE .Assorted éna]ceé | Found in Bottom Of Chinese Still By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. June 26.—Snakes may be more or less common as an aftermath of drinking alcoholic liquor, but it remained for a Chi nese to include them among its in gredients. Police noticed that a number of the patrons of Le You's Mott street store emerged carrying bot- tles. Investigating, they found a | number of hottles containing a dark reau, Director of Algeria brown liquid which, they said, i i ituti when tested showed 41 per cent | Financial Institution. alcohol. Further investigation ki disclosed a still—and in the bot- tom among a mixture of vi herbs a six-foot Black snake, very {CHANGE LONG DESIRED dead, and portions of assorted Ealecines v L BY COALITION GROUPS | Le You advertised the brown | lquid as A medicine good for | S weakness, lassitude and mental | Retiri i i e ¥ ey | Retiring Official Stoutly Resisted | | bail for hearing by a United Inflation or Use of Gold Re- ates commissioner. serve to Bolster Franc. 'k K Klux Klan, the churches. the wets and the drys, and all others | ver it of Georges Robineau as | influence has been | ! | zovernor of the Bank of France were tions, will be | | virtually confirmed today with the it their activities | statement that official announcement campa funds lof his successor would be forthcom- i e o 9 ling after Finance Minister Caillaux e ] % | had interviewed the bank's regents. | AL Ry <! Found 20 Miles southeast of | M. Moreau, director of the & nk of | on ‘had hesn cancelled, so. that | Algeria, it was said, would be the | tail the - o i new head of France's principal finan- | P asne B e ; If M. Robineau leaves the helm of | e e e Searchers Reports. 1, < principal financial institu- | Sl idioame s intor [tion, it will be the outcome of a long | e aye labout Methes c | series of conflicts between the bank : e s o R pe SAeRdNod 1 and the leading parties of the Radi- | nizdtions, but the dry leader re-| DOU vt Lune “The| S Soskalist "cohlition i with a smile: “We have lost it.” [shack in which Aimee Semple Mc:| A Robineau and his entire staff | Wet Head to Be Called. | Fherson. Los Angeles evangelist, said | stoutly resisted all tendency toward | ishe was held captive by three ab-|inflatior objected to the issue of | e oyt yalih | ductors was located south. | © money exceeding the limit an iam Stavton, head of the Assc AR o Prle B ed by Parliament duri the tion inst the Prohibition Amend. | A%t of Agua Prieta, Mexico. | il ior administration, and recently e AEAI he among those ques. | tis morning, according to members of | geciined to allow any part of the $ioncd lan official searching party, who re- hank's gold reserve to be thrown on Wh \zreed at the committee’s | turned here after several hours’ hunt. the market to bolster up the franc. request to send sountant o the 5 ¥ ¢ ; Anti-Saloon 1 wdquarters at | NEW DISCLOSURES HINTED. Pressed for Use of Gold. i Westerville, Ohio, to take from the!} WAL SE The Radieal jalist leaders press hooks a mass information ahou ed the government to use 1,000,000 lea finances, reaching back as far | Los Angeles Detectives Gather Im- | 000 francs in gold to zet back from as 1917 abro; ral billion francs in paper This information will inciude sums s e Which, when thrown on the market spent for political purposes direce or | LOS ANGELES, Calif., June 25 (®). | caused a slump in_exch | fndirect; money sent 10 the State or- | —Additional developments in the in- | The bank has alwavs maintained sanizations for political purposes, and | vestigation of the alleged kidnaping there was too much politics in the | the names of wvho have |of Aimee Semple McPherson, evan. |effort to renovate French finances contributed $ more to either olist, may be expected on her arrival | and all the governments that have the National » leagues here this afternon, it indicated to- | succeeded one another since 1924 have Wheeler object the committee | day at the district attorney’s office considered retiring M. Robineau | making public the names of the con- | and at police headquarters. His successor was even chosen | tributors on the round that it would| Joseph Taylor, police captain, in|when M. Pajnleve formed his second) subjcct the donors to, “annoyances.” | charge of the local investigation, said | cabinet, the place being promised to he understood Chief of Detectives Senator Chaumet. AL ~Robineau' Wants Names on Record. broke in Sena ow,” i “1 wa tor La Foilette, Republican, Wiscon- | sin, “that so far as 1 am concerned 1 shall want these names spread upon the record just as have names of | cther contributors of campaign fund: Chairman Reed said that of course that would be done, and that any per son who participated actively in po-| Itical campaizns could expect 1o have | bis activiti=: inquired into. On Monday lditional witnesses | from Pennsyivania will be heard. Wheeler presented fizures on re ceipts and dishursementsfor the State leanues in Ohio, New York und New v The report for Ohio showed receipts and expenditures, respectively, as fol- | Report for Ohi 1920, §163,316 and §$15 H $139.464 and 38.278; 19 = 192 $1 58 and $14 and $144,286; | nd $118,804 1] New York showed: | 1921, 53,999 | nd | 06 and $71.321 The New Je re: 1920, | $67.880 and $6 and | ind '$66.06 24, $70.138 1 nd o Seeks $25,000 Limit. Senator La Follette of Wisconsin, the insurgent Republican member of the committee, is moving to establish | | She will enter the temple over & path | Brland's ninth cal { who two da friends say he would be glad enouch | Herman Cline had gathered some im- to be relieved of his duties and de-| portant data in his_interviews with the evangelist and officers at Douglas, | vote his time to his collection af Ariz. District Attorney Keyes has in. | books. but he does not feel he wants structed Joe Ryan, deput, assigned | to_resign while the situation is so to the case at Douglas, to withhold all | difficult. statements on his investigation until | o re has reported here. He arrives with | DEDGIALE i Mrs. McPherson today. | A redoubled barrage against ratifi- According to plans of her congrega- | cation of the Mellon-Berenger debt tion, Mrs. McPherson will briefly ad-|agreement is lald down in editorfals dress those assembled at the station.| by both the conservative and radical | . . papars _this mornin | Siteel 4o e Hriped. The Matin and Le J She will then be escorted through | i purnal are prac- | Ay alone in defending ratification. | \g-draped streets to Angelus Temple, | Lo | which has been elaborately decorated. Journal reveals the outline of | bill by M. Peret, financial minister in | et, which he was of roses p prevented from presenting personally | Although religlous services will be | nnd in which he is said to have urged conducted at the temple immediately | the advantages of speedy settlement. | in the return of the pastor, the real| "\r Romier, who was broached for celebration, in the nature of thanks- finance post by former remier | giving services, will be held Sund H )t, sums up the situation in | It is doubtful that the religious| pjgaro, saving that the majority of leader’s return will receive any official | pan . fnin ey favor [ ime: Mayor George v8 ago sald he saw no rea son why he should not extend the| city's welcome to Mrs. McPherson, il not be present, due to a previous | engagement. An expected police es-| sive ratification’” of the Washington agreement, while almost the whole ench opinion is hostile to it. The viewpoints of specialists and public sentiment clash brutally cognizance. cort also will not be forthcoming, it | Clemenceau Declined Task. | was indicated by Chief of Police| 1 uo pBire writin 7 | i ot g o 3 3 % in La Venler, | Davis. Chief Davis said he could see | . i € [ "H T Loced ta e no reason for an escort. He said he| . ..."0, 4 the zovernment tha would be glad to furnish an escort if | el MG JG FVEUGEER L it appeared }hore was any danger ““dnr extraordinary to Washington and | Mrs. McPherson. | London to settle the problem. but | Clemenceau replied: “If they had A LIFT. GAVE WOMA? given me time to finish my job per- | haps is. My hour s past. ance would not be where she | McPherson | Let me die in | Tucson Man Says Mr: @ | peace. Looks Like Same One. M. Caillaux is understood to have | TUCSON, Ariz. June 26 (P).—Ac-| told the new Briand cabinet at a | | on behalf of the people of the United | was known as base section No. 1, and MIDSUMMER DREAM. HERRICK UNVELS WAR MEMORIAL Monument to First American Troops to Land Is Pre- sented to France. | By the - nce. June 2. monument designed by Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney to commem orate the landing of the first Amerl- can troops on French soil nine years ago was unveiled today with impres ve ceremonies. Not since the last troops left in 1919 had the city seen so many Ameri an sailors, marines and high rank ing officer The monument, presented to France IRE, ¥ he States by the American Ambassador, Myron T. Herrick. 18 probably the most striking of the war memorials erected in Europe. Stands Out in Harbor. “Three hundred feet out in the harbor, posed on top of a 70-foot masonry | piltar, it depicts a doughboy in steel helmet standing on the back of an American eagle and carrying in his vight hand a sword with the hilt up- in- ward in the form of a cross. | seribed on the base in goid letters | s the following “Here landed June 26, 1917, con- voyed by the American Navy, the first | troops of the American expeditionary forces, crusaders of right and free-| dom with the soldiers of France and | her allles. Erected by popular con- | tributions from every State of the American Union to commemorate a great cause and to honor imperish- able ideals of liberty that unite the two republics.” Pershing at Unvelling. The ceremony of unveiling was at- tended by Gen. John J. Pershing, com- mander-in-chief of the E. F.; Brig. 'n. Samuel D. Rockenbach, former commander at St. Nazaire, when it r Admiral Albert Gleaves, retired, brought back to the active list for this occasion, with the U. S. S. Memphis his flagship. Admiral Gleaves com- manded the squadron which convoyed dispatch to the Herald today said that Terrific Storms Visit Lake Constance sons have been storms. The fatalities occurred in va- rious villages on the shoresof the lake. Hip Is Fractured As Sleep-Walker FallsFrom Window A somnambulistic feat on the »f Walter Izzord, colored. 44 Myrtle street northeast, about 3 o'clock this morning, ended o dis- astrously 4hat Walter was unable to appear at his place of employ- ment as cook today Walter, still asleep, left his bed in a room on the second floor of his home and walked through a window and dropped to the yard. The fall not only woke him up but | fractured his right hip. He was | taken to ualty Hospital. 1 | i | | | | | | | FLOOD DEATH TOLL NOW PUT AT 1.300 All Bodies of Victims in Mex- ico Recovered—Nine Killed by Lightning. By the Associated Press. NOGALES, Arizona, June —hA the estimate of the number of vie- tims of the floods in the region of Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico, had been placed at 1,300. All the bodies have| been recovered. The waters of the| Santiago River, which caused the damage, were reported receding. LIGHTNING KILLS NINE. Region Villages. BERLIN. June 26 (#).—Nirie per- illed by lightning in the Lake Constance region which was visited today by terriffic lightning Among those killed was the mother of tive children. The Nevakr River overflowed its banks near Rotten- burg and drowned herds of sheep and swine and large numbers of chickens. Efforts to fill in the crevasse in the Flyer Crashes Into Remains of Freight Scattered Across Two Tracks. By the Associated Press KINGSTON, R. I over marshland near wreckage Haven and from New Codder,’ age. The locomotive of the the first car dived to the fact of the season. The dead William Moulton, freight. George Hathaway. fireman. Mulvaney, a spare man, riding in the cab of the freight loco- James J. motive. The engineer of the express train was injured. The boiler of the freight locomotive was hurled many feet into the swamp. Many of the shattered cars of the freight were filled with finished cloth and with bundles of American flags being shipped from the textile cities 4 celebration. great distance the track was strewn with oil-bedraggled flags and bolts of cloth. The cause of the explosion has not been determined. PISTOL SETS FIRE TO BOY SOAKED WITH GASOLINE Death Follows Prank of Playmate for the July here. of the freight train was thrown onto the passenger tracks and | a few minutes later the New York, | Hartford's New York for Cape Cod points, crashed into the wreck- ENGINE BLAST KILLS June 26 —Three | ! railroad employes were killed today | when the boiler of a locomotive haul ing 60 cars exploded while passing |a The | “Cape passenger train was thrown from the rails and into the swamp. Several passengers were slightly hurt The fact that none was seriously in- jured is believed to have been due that none of the upper berths on the fiver was occupied. The train, which runs only on Saturday ! mornings, was making its first trip engineer of the For a in Spraying Victim at Filling NEW SENATE MOVE WATSON RESCINDS HOLDS RAY OF HOPE: MOTION TO BLOCK. FOR RETIREMENT FARM ADNEASURE Resolution Would Raise to -House Figure Annuities of Those NQw Retired. i Acquiesces to President’s Plea for Consideration of Fess Plan. PERMANENT PLAN SEEMS DOOMED TO FAILURE EXECUTIVE’S SUPPORT GOES TO CO-OPERATIVES ! | Democrats Seek to Bring Tariff Fight as One Way of Re- lieving Producers. Conference Ends in Disagreement. Some Way Out of Serious Situation Sought. BY G. GOL Senate of the employes One ruy of hope served ta penetrate | D LINCOLN the gloom surround etirement leg i buck ed islation at this session toda en it 1) DUERpashec Samare S :\],Lnlr::vw:}hvi 1 um“: '1k\m ”\' “‘ BiDY heTreidens om o g | lition, Senator Watson of | | 4 today withdrew his motion to t have a resolution o ot o eabs: ehtaR woutas Tire iside the farm bill now pending the annuities of employves already re re the Senate. tired by the amount they would have | . Senator Watson explained, in with received under the House bill—but [4raWing his motion, that it was con- which would not increase the . con. | Sidered better to permit consideration | tributions of the thousands still in the | o€ the lezislation which the President livive, [ favors, the Fess bill, but that he (Sen- Such a plan would relieve the seri atson) differed with the Chief merits of the Fess ous situation in which | workers find themselves in | to zet along on the prese v afternoon at about 4 | nuity, and would not adopt perma- |9 clock, the of the United | nently the prineiple of the House bill, | State ’jj"]""‘ snt saving that | 1t was also explained that the meas red the d Fess amend { ure would be a temporary expedient, b g s pending a more thorough study of r ad e mation ation favored that_or farm measures. But | he has made the stat {1 do not vor the Fess bi While this new ward. it appeared today that any per- | not support it and d 3 anent plan of liberalized retirement |t will help the f: S i mot | at this session was doomed to failure. | seek to prever Yota ai thel BITE T A report of disagreement s |\which bt s |adopted by the conferees vesterday.|terested. Therefore, oo Chairman Lehlbach of the House civil | piotion. . L service committee had not received a | Alios e " o K | copy of that port tod: signed by Almost immediately Senator \(ha enate conferees Until he does sk ,. nvln.tlhe receive such a signed report, he is pre- 3 nimous consent tem- | ‘ : arily aside the farm bill to cluded from making a report to the| House. GGl b tion to th World War The request for this consent was made by Senator Reed of Pennsylvania. The agreement contemplates the resum tion of the debate on the farm bill as soon as the veterans bill has been dis- posed of. The radio bill will follow 4t | the farm bill under the terms of the aic | a8Teement. Holds Farmers Opposed. The Watson motion was offered |iate vesterday, and_ hie explanation he must await action from the Senate | [0F Moving to sidetrack the farm bill he must await action from the Scni® | was that the Senate had defeated the | McNary-Haugen bill, the only meas- the so-called Iliheralized —retirement | 5 measure is not likely to be concurred| Ur® Which the farmers themselves measure is not likely to be concurred| wanted, and that there was no pros fustification of his own position, Mr. | Pect of the Senate being able to agree Lehlbach, in a statement to re. e e : L G E itcday When the motion viewed the hist lmf‘ n‘u: ffexfiul\ 1914 could have been carri “On April 5, 1926, the committee on "",m";" majority, Senator Watson the civil service reported H. R. 7 to| o today. "It i eadnont e amend the retirement act. On April ur_before the President & : - | veterans as reported today that t It was reported today that the | Cterins Senate conferees are in disazreement | to whether any conference report | should be made to the Senate and that at least one of the Senate con- ferees has stated that he would hold up any report of disagreement | It this position is mainta will mean that the legislation w in conference. Lehlbach Waits on Senate. Chairman Lehlbach said today that offered it d by a con- at the present ses 16 1926, the committee on the civil | 528 1is statement to the press ure. service of the Senate reported S. 786, substantially identical with the Hou bill._The report of the House com- (Continued on Page 4, Column 7.) | . BRITISH OFFICIALs SAIL. | Weymouth, England, Group Bring Gifts to Weymouth, Mass. WEYMOUTH, England, June Cfi! P).—A deputation headed by Mavor | Councilor Percy J. A'Court left here | for Southampton today to board the | Aquitania, bound for Weymouth, The party {s carrying a number of | gifts, including a_silver mustard pot { used by George II, a silk banner and an autographed portrait of Thomas Hardy, who {s sending a message to the American Nation. { to | { |t ing the passage of the Fess bill be- fore the adjournment of the present session of Congress. At a conference of Senators favor- ing the McNary-Haugen bill this morning in the office of Senator Wat- son there was a difference of opinion as to whether Senator Watson should withdraw_his motion or force it to a vote. Many of the Senators, both Republican and Democratic, do not wish the impression to go to the coun- that they ditched farm relfef legislation without taking a_vote on the Fess bill when the President was still urging that something be done about it. Virtually Tincher Bill. The Fess bill, which is virtually the Tincher bill which was reported to the House, but withdrawn befor was ever voted on, will not pass the Senate, in the opir »f a number of Senators. The farm bloc strongly supported Haugen bill. insist tha which provides for lending_§100.000. which has the Mc at the Fess bill definite limits before the Fall elec- | led by police, B. P. Greenwood, | meeting yesterday that the best pol- | Oder River levee near Raduhn th s fions on expenditures which may be | ComPanied by Do C or, met Almee |icy was to get the debt agreement |the first troops to arrive here during - o i i Ll IAde dn behall e for hf:a\nll;mldlilcsl’herslnn Son . Amgelos | cotfied It posaibie. aliitech Soriain | the war. 5 . Il ieen Sana alling. ot Station in Massachusetts. CROWDER ESCAPES KN'FE-lm.m o e a meat i the « | evangelist, as the train on which she | s made | mentary approval| Many prominent American clvilians | standing the hard work of emergency R e a he ek Demoerats, meany uss- | e Shomeward bound stopped here | difficult to obtain. | also made the trip from the United | laborers. By the Associated Prew s PR e lem rather than have the Govern- ing the question whether Representa- | jriefly this morning, and declared she | The str lical group is op. | States especially to be present, while| ~All the parties of the Reichstag | WATERTOWN, Mass. June 36— v ama Not to Be Op-|ment do the job, is not what the tive Vare, the successtul candidate for | yogembled very closely a woman he | posed to o e % te | the Paris post of the American|have agreed that substantial funds |His clothes soaked with gasoline in o erstedion for 10/ Dasys: T e enatorial nomination in the I'enn- | [ given a ride In his automobile on | guard clause based on German rep. | Legion and various French veterans'| for the relfet of sufferers from the {bovish prank, 7.yearold William : T AT “Republican primary, will be | had SIS o eson highway Sunday | arations can be incorporated to pro. | societies were well represented, ok it Ao valen b0 Lindsay shot off a toy pistol near his | HAVANA, June 26 (P).—Because | they have already torrowed more than ected. More than $600.000, | erarnoon. Greenwood did not, how- | gect France. i banquet was held this | TG00 T i tiobts aten | HOme vesterday. A spark ignited his |of his run-down condition, it has|'he¥ can pav. AVhat the Giemiers it has b told, was ex- | oyep jdentify her as the same woman. {noon. During the afternoon child- I J ArICURANIL OO Olte. clothing and he inhaled flames. He |been decided not to operate on tha | want, the bloc insists, is the establish- pended duritig the primary campaign | € aire. McPherson stepped (o the rear . e e be held and the |of Germany's entire regular army, |died in a hospital late last night. American Ambassador, Gen. Enoch |ment of a system which will accom- Ly the conlition which supported Vare | | 868 F€EL0T car here and ad- Kills Wife, Baby, Then Self. rogram wis {0 end with a |were under reifef service orders today | William and a comrade. | Wiltred | 1. Crowder, for 10 days or 2 weeks. ! sh for the Suier WmC 116 et - Deidleman, the Unsuccess: | jrogued a crowd that had gathered to| o > s : A al on the bay and & bril. |to repair the damage done by the |Igoe, were plaving together fn front |lie is in the military hospital at ;i tariff_has accomplished for the ful gube orfal candidate, o en @ glimpse of her. She men-| TIOGA, fowa, June 26 (R).—OUs|)jant illumination of the city. SL|worst floods in Germany in a cen- of a gasoline-fling station. While the | Camp Columbia, undergoing treat- | ATHHCAN "‘“'.‘“f‘l'l““‘;"" o AN Hetlin Charges Auction. | tibned strabinig:hec { tracksl I Maxico | JEmELORE: oSS SOUBIIELFE G | Nazairs JLRIE 1n stafiTE 5 Wl W "u‘"“-‘l'fl';i"w'fi?&“é"i'ém?n‘& e | sl ! the Henate on the Fess bill and other e e Wesolate country in which | er, shot “ind killed his wife @nd | foie, which commenced vesterday L ony was the heaviest sufferer, | elsewhere, I e fclioa e # = e 4 i LT Senator lIrfln]\, Democ: Alabama, | i declared she had escaped from :‘,;'.‘,T‘»p ,m‘ 1‘ :.yhi:;m thhon tommitted with $18,000,000 damage to crops and ¥l:m{;;v:n];2e ‘t‘n?‘rl\“mann e it P . t D. ] T :":“'lf‘:m"':‘m" L et "‘a;";m““éh‘ & ged yesterday t a Senate sea 3] i o o rid @ S me ere vesterday, rty 2 ¥y . ay | { Jour 2 cons! ¥ a rged yesterda 0 She impiied that the find ay property out of $30,000,000 damage | BAnGso¥ 1o VI, S0, o he | o1 1€ l') lllg limitation still exists on the debate. ci vs. ad been “auctioned off” in Pen “;hmn?’?enws» tracks corroborated her and Senator Reed, Democrat, | gyory, and expressed gratitude to God ati, chairman of the'investigat: | £or bor deliverance. ing committee, remarked that it “was | ORI G0 0 Mre, sold_to the next lowest and worst bid- g l0e0q ™ kidnapers continued e Senator Ashurst, Fiftee e | The Democrats are anxious to debate i the Republican protective tariff, which To Save Officer, | they insist is the cause nf‘ the farmer's trouble. Others a desirous Farmer Asserts| i e s conmins trans | portation act, which they say has in- throughout Germany. have been counted. Every able-hodied civilian available along the Elbe and Oder Rivers labored to prevent new breaks in the levees. The city of Madgeburg was fired the toy pistol and his clothing burst into flames. Five other children, ranging in n:flé MRS. STOKES APPO'NTED from 2 to 13 were at a neigh- | e | GUARDIAN OF CHILDREN Ten-F;Ot Shark MePherson's una- IMove Made in Denver Preparatory Democrat. | Arizona. expressed the opinion “that | the Senate will never confirm that | gale,” and Heflin agreed { Announcing that he would seek ac- | tion before adjournment, “so that all candidates may be duly advised of the limitations which théy must place upon their expenditures in order to he seated.” Senator La Follette intro- duced a resolution to fix expenditure limits between $10,000 and both primary and election campaigns. A two-thirds majority is required | for adoption of such a resolution, | which the Senate’s legislative counsel has held to be within its constitutional { privileges, since it is the sole judge | of qualiftcations of its members. | Under the resolution candidates and their supporters would be contined peiween the limits prescribed to ex- | penditures for nomination and elec- | tlon amounting to n more than three cents for exch vote cast in the preceding general election for Senator in their Stutes. Prir expenditures would be confined to costs of adver- tising, meetings, traveling and head- quarters, and sworn statements would be filed with the secretary of the Senate and examined by a special committee of the elections committee before the successful candidate could take his seat. . £ Actor Sued for Divorce. NEW YORK. 26 ().~ Mrs. ter of Urbain who_“auc- in Boston Tune Yvette Robson. u dav M Ledoux, the Zero. tioned unemployed men” Common several yvears ago, was named co-respondent yvesterday in an unde: fended divorce suit filed by Mrs. Gladys Pelly against Sarrell Pelly, an actok {Rudolph Honored With Flowers on His 66th Birthday Amid a profusion of gladioli and fragrant roses, Cuno H. Rudolph, chairman of the Board of District Commissioners, observed his sixty- sixth birthday anniversary today at his desk in the District Build- ng. bated today. 7 Posses, both official and unofficial, struggled through the desert south of here in hope.of finding a trace of | the three persons whom Mrs. McPher con says Kidnaped her at Ocean Park, Calif., on May 18. They were spurred in their efforts by rewards offered by Mrs. Pherson and a Los Angeles newspaper. Saw Cabin Yesterday. One posse early in_the field this morning was headed by O. A. Ash, Douglas constable, who reported late cesterday that he had followed Mrs. e 2 i MePherson’s tracks for several miles, Mr. Rudolph was the only Com- and had sighted & cabin in the dia.| missloner who tolled today. His fance, but had been prevented from | VO (‘follfileaxum‘ Commissioners going further by oncoming darkness. Frederick A. Fenning and . . Franklin Bell, are out of town. The lonely cabin has been the ob- ject of search since Mrs. McPherson was brought to a hospital here Wed- nesday morning, telling of an escape from three kidnapers and a wild flight (Continued on Page 4, Column 8. Fenning went to Portsmouth, with Mrs. Fenning for the week end and Col. Bell is a mem- ber of the “boosters’ party” of the Merchants' and Manufacturers’ As. socjation. Silent “Blowout” Swallows Hilgé Derrick At Oil Well, Leaving Only Gaping Crater by a loud roar of escaping gas and the noise of the casing being cut by sand bowlders. By the Associated Press. ORANGE, Tex.. June tically noiseless “blowout” 3 caused the 112-foot derrick and drill-| 1In this instance, however, there ing machinery of Gulf Production Co.|was only a shower of mud and water well mear here to drop from sight,|and a slizht upheaval of the earth be- leaving a crater 40 feet in diameter. The crater today is nearly filled with water. Oil men say it is the first blowout of its kind on record. Usually blowouts, the, oll fleld term for the occurrence, ard accompanied fore the huge derrick disappeared, leaving only the guy wires pointing down into the crater. Action of shembers of the crew in hurrying away to escape the deluge ' probably saved their-lives.: - to Contesting Will of Millionaire New York Hotel Man. By the Associated Press. DENVER, June 26.—Mrs. Helen Flwood Stokes, widow of W. E. D. Stokes, New York hotel man, vesterday was appointed gugrdian of the estate of her two minor children, James A. and Helen Muriel, by the County Court. The appointment was sought for the purpose of laying the proper legal foundation for a contest of the Stokes will, in which she and the children were cut off, according to her brother, Arthur E. Miller, who act- ed as her attorney. An order for her to petition the County Court for letters of guardian- ship was entered by Ben B. Lindsey, juvenile judge of Denver. Samuel Untermyer, New York attor- ney for Mrs. Stokes, will contest the will immediately, Mr. Miller said. e 'URELY, there are 1 Washingtonians who gladly send one dollar more to honor the living the dead of the 26,000 the District of Columbia served their country in armed forces in_the Great War. - Send to John Poole; bia M o4 emorial -American on guard against a new and more serious rise in the Elbe River, which would imperil railw: communication with Berlin. The Elbe River dropped a little yesterday Inland inhabitants of the Elbe Val- ley, in northern Prussia, kept watch on 'the hillsides for beacon fires warn- ing them of any breaks in the dam. Approximately 100,000 acres of cul- tivated land were under water and some villages near Halle were en- tirely surrounded and depended upon food dropped from airplanes for sub- sistence. Extra guards watched at railway bridges and 6,000 extra track- Walkers patroled the rights of fay of the national rallways to prevent wrecks. . S BROOKHART VOTE 208,336. Count Shows 72,036 Majority Over Senator Cummins. DES MOINES, Towa, June 26 (P).— Col. Smith W. Brookhart was nomi- he - June primary - for the | T s by » yota ot Treasurer, District of Colum: |} s Battles Two Men By the Associated Pres Riding Surfboard REDONDO BEACH, Calif., June 26.—A 10-foot thrasher shark bat- tled two life guards in the surf at North Beach, near here, yesterday and the men came out victorious. The life guards, Paul Nelson and nationally were attacked The Ray Kegeris, both known swimmers, while riding a surfboard. shark had bitten through the board and was gaining an advantage, ‘when other bathers came to the Tescue. A blow with an oar stun- towed .ned the big fish and it wi “to shore. Ambitious Sleuths Spy Overseas Cap | cer and Try to Cause Arrest | creased freight rates greatly, to the By the Associated Press. | farmer's disadvantage. Amendments EW YORK, June 26-—Cadet |are now pending, offered by Demo- William Point,,West Point senior, |Crats, to instruct the Tariff Commis- sonil o Tiedtd Coll William T 1 SlSTitoepaet {0 Cungress 86 1 DES Poini rasbiiig H- | cession regarding the lowering of o i aahington, who WY | tariff rates. and also for the repeal sl e Lo of the rate-making section of the P reck near Mitchel | Fgeh-Cummins act. Field, died attempting to rescue Maj. Willam L. Moose, who wa: in the plane with him. The story of Point's heroism was told yesterday to Maj. Stan- ley James of the signal corps by a farmer who saw the crash. He said tlie cadet was thrown clear of the plane when it fell to earth and that three times he attempted to rescue Maj. Moose from the flaming plane.” The third time he was overcome and his burned body was later found near that of the major. The Fess bill. which has the sup- port of the administration, will be at- acked violently by supporters of the Jaugen plan. Some of these | Senators see an opportunity to make { political capital against the President jand they will not fail to seize the . | opportunit, President Coolidg®, in making public his position on farm-relief legislation late vesterday, after a series of con- | ferences with Secretaries Jardine and Hoover and with party leaders in Con- gress, declared: “Must Attempt Relief.” “One of the perplexing questions be- fore the Congress is to determine what {will be most helptul in relieving agri- | cultural distress. The Congress has al- Iready rejected certain definite pro- posals. But that does not relieve us of it the desirability of attempting to se- Capt. Drayton and the agents, re.|cure constructive leglslation. . y | Since the war the Congress and the e g K D e bette! | aaministration have devoted painstak- reason than that given by the agents, Capt. Drayton flew from Mitchel | ing effort to strengthening the agricul- Field to the Sesquicentennial gruundxll“"" situation. During the post-war and was under orders to continue on to | Slump a great disparity arose between ‘Washington. prices of agricultural commodities and those of industrial commodities which the farmer must buy. This is still true in certain sections and certain com- modities. uch_legislation has been e O = N (Continued on Page 4, Column %4 Capt. Drayton said he intended to make a report of the incident to his superior officer, and the agents said they, also, would make a report to ' their department. b -