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WEATHER. U. 8. Weatlier Bureau Forecast.) "Rain tonight and tomorrow; much change in temperature. Temperatures—Highest, yesterday: a.m. today. Full report on page 9. lowest, i Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30 not 2 81 at 5 72 at 0 @ WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Slar. The Star's every city bl “From Press to Home Within the Hour” carrier system covers ock and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 94,498 No. 30,039, post office, Entered as second class matter ‘Washington, 3 D. C. WASHINGTON, D, C, THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1926—FORTY-SIX PAGES. TWO CENTS. b4 KILLED IN GALE ON ATLANTIC AND ALONG EAST GOAST 54 Bodies Washed Ashore at . Saona—8 Dead at Nas- sau—rFlorida Toll, 2. THREE SCHOONERS SINK; ITALIAN VESSEL RESCUED Full Reports From Hurricane- Swept Area Yet to Come—Prop- erty Loss Is Huge. Br the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla., July —All avail able Coast Guard boats in Miami were ordered to leave immediately for Nassau at 12:30 p.m. today on Government orders from Wash. Ington. By the Associated Prece. SANTO DOMINGO, Deminican Re- public, July Many passengers were Inst when the schooners Frans- cimy, Peaceful and Macoris, bound for the Windward Islands, were sunk off faona Isiand in a storm. Fifty-four bodies have been washed ashore at Saona. By the Astociated Press. MIAMI, Fla., July 29.—Eight per- mons are known to have been killed by the tropical hurricane that struck Nassau Monday, according to the first direct report on storm fatalities re- ceived by the Miami Daily News to- day from Capt. McDonald of the steamship Munamar. The message was received by the Tropical Radio Telegraph Co. from the Munamal, lying at anchor off Nassau. Property damage in Nassau alone will reach $4,000,000 or §5,000,000, Capt. McDonald estimated. No reports have been recelved from the outlying islands, his message adds. STORM FORCE ABATING. fsland and Resort Dwellers Warned to Seek Safety. JACKSONVILLE, July 29 ®).— The West Indian hurricane that has raged along the coast of Florida since Monday, fassed off the coast near| Jacksonville late yesterday and ad®| vanced towhrd the Georgia boundary. | It was ex{ected to strike the coast] near the (Norgia line. The Jackson- ville weather bureau said that the city was out of ti## stoym area as the wind had veered and the storm ceénter had passed to north and east. | The storm took only two lives as it passed up the Florida coast, but it caused property damage estimated in | the millions. Palm Beach’s loss-was estimated at $1,000,000: that of Stuart, Fla., at $250,000, and Miami's at $100.-| 000, in addition to damage to ship- ping, telegraph and telephone wires and crops at scores of places. The storm apparently was lessening in intensity, as it came up-the coast,| but was still of hurricane force. In- habitants and Summer residents at | coast resorts hurried into the cities for safety. Vessels sought shelter in inner harbors. Italian Steamer Rescued. Rescue of the Italian freighter Ansaldo San Giorgio Secondo was re- ported through a radio message to St. Augustine, Fla. This said that the | Ansaldo had been taken in tow by the steamer West Harshaw, which is proceeding to Jacksonville, where it was due at noon. Despite a disabled | rudder the Ansaldo rode out the storm. S§ince early Monday morning ite crew had fought heriocally against the foree of the hurricane, which caught it coming up the Florida coast. There is a crew of 34 aboard the ! Ansaldo, in addition to the captain and three aliens, who were put aboard the steamer for deportation at New ' Or‘{;anl. i Miami's damage was principally to | the avocado pear crop. . Paim. Beach | playground suffered heaviest in the “loss of more than a score of yachts and small craft which went down when a pier gave way. Fashionable resorts and hotels were flooded by wa- ter blown from Lake Worth. At Stuart, Fla, the chief loss was to waterfront and river craft. Daytona Beach 1Is Hit. Daytona Beach experienced damage | to light and power lines, disrupted telephone service, uprooted trees, washed out highways, wrecked heach concessions and damaged small pleas- ure craft. After a night without lights the power service was restored. A rum-running vessels was reported ashore several miles north of Ormond. One man was killed in Sanford when a tree crashed into a bunkhouse and crushed the cot on which he was Iying. Small craft anchored in the vacht basin in Lake Monroe were damaged and shipping officials said the injury to celery beds was heavy and that seed would have to be re- | CANADIANS FORS Decrease in Gross Revenu ARTICLE V. BY BEN McKELWAY. Staff Correspondent of The Star. MONTREAL, Quebec.—All that a candidate for the position of United States Senator, Representative or turnkey in the town lock-up has todo 10 get his name in the papers these days is to come out flatfootedly and declare with no small show of emo tion that he favors the Quebec plan. He immediately attains at one leap the pinnacle of popularity in the eyes of thousands, while on the following day, when the delegation calls on him from the Anti-Saloon League, he may say with sultable dignity that he was misquoted—that what he really said was that some did and some didn't. Whether the Quebec plan will ever come to mean more than a plan in the United States is a question, the answer to which a lot of politicians to know. But the thousands of American tourists who are swarming this town in order to study it at first hand and go back home and tell the neighbors what it's like are sure tc establish it definitely as a subject for conversation, with the result that additional thousands of the neighbors will decide right then and there to see about it for themselves. Quebec today Is conducting a great experi ment,. which may go far toward would give a sizable campaign fund | AKING LIQUORS FOR LIGHT WINES AND BEER es Under Quebec Plan Re- veals in Amazing Fashion How Public Taste for Hard Drinks Is Gradually Being Diminished. establishing a solution of the problem which has vexed the world since Noah planted his grape vine following his exciting experience on the high ceas. While there are many in Montreal who declare with fervid conviction that Quebec has solved the liquor problem, there is that still, small voice of the minority which | keeps velling, “They haven't Using the Quebec Liquor Commis- sion as authority for the statement that the law has been a success may be criticized on the ground that it would be similar to asking Director Eldridge if the traffic law has been a success. One could hardly expect either of them to blushingly deny it. But this particular story concerns the law from the viewpoint of the officials who are responsible for its enforce- ment. They are the ones, after all, who are in the best position to watch the test tube. They are the ones who have noted the changes, and, like scientlsts, are setting down the | facts—not theorles. They are neither | wets nor drys, as the wofds convey those meanings today, and while | there are many who will laugh sneer. | ingly at such a statement, I think it | is true. | Quebec has heen tryving to solve the liquor problem ever since King | Louis XIV of France {ssued an edict commanding his subjects to stop sell | ing_liquor to the Tndians_in _par. | " (Continued on Page 7, Column 1. QUARTET I HED INNELLET CAS Three Men and Woman Ar- rested on §uspicion by Youngstown Police. By the Associated Pre YOUNGSTOWN. Ohio, July 20.— Three men, Greeks, are under ar- rest here, Chief of Police Kedgwin Powell said today, in connection with the murder of Don R. Mellett, Canton publisher. He said they are held only on suspicion for Canton authort- tles. A woman, the wife of one of the men, also was held. s DECISIVE MOVE PLANNED. Canton Civic Body Pledges Drastic Clean-up Step. CANTON, Ohio, July 29 (®).—Inves tigation into the slaying of Don R. Mellett, publisher of the Canton Daily News, and into the crime conditions in Canton upon which attertion has been focused by the murder near- Iy two weeks ago, is to be given added impetus today by decisive action of the inter-civic committee of the Cham- ber of Commerce. ~ Plans for furthering the scope and strength of the investigation were stiil in their incipiency early today, but a decided step toward ‘‘cleaning up the city”” was promised. The committee met for several hours last night, kept its plans secret and prepared to meet and make an announcement at moon today. -, detective representing Gov. and A. P. Owen, Fed- spector, work today in the inquiry, endeavor- ing to uncover clues through the mafls around the conspirators against Mel- lett. Police were unable to account for the supposed gas attack yesterday aft ernoon on the widow of the slain publisher and on members of her fam- fly and the family of Lloyd Mellett, city editor of the News. The Mel- letts' sitting on the front porch of their home, were made ill by the sud- den sweep of a sickly sweet gas. emit- ted, it is thought, from a bomb or bottle hurled from a passing auto- mobile. NEW CLUE REPORTED. PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 29 (®.— Interest in the Pittsburgh inquiry of the Mellett murder mystery today cen- tered in the alleged identification of a photograph of George Psilias, alias “George the Greek,” as a companion of the man who offered two “float- ers” $730 each to go to Canton, Ohlo, and “do a job.” | The identification, it was said, was | made by John Critz, a coal miner of Somerset, Pa., one of the men who were sald to have been offered the Canton job a few weeks before Don Mellett, Canton publisher, was slain. | ‘With' “George the Greek” in the county jail here detectives maid they were searching for several other men, including the one who is alleged to ha've been in company with Psilias the day Critz and his companion were said to have been approached. Psilias surrendered himself on a felonious planted. Sanford had 6 inches of rainfall in 24 hours. At Lake Alfred, near Winter Haven, the engineer and fireman of an Atlantic Coast Line train jumped to safety in a lake as the engine left the track. An Atlantic Coast Line passenger train struck a bus and then collided with a switch engine at Orlando, re- sulting in the death of Engineer Liga and the injury of several passengers. The injured were taken to an Orlando hospital. The Jacksonville Union Ter- minal information bureau reported two to four hours’ delay on trains from the east coast and an houf or two delay on traine from Tampa and the west coast. H. D. Redenbaugh, vice president of the Florida East Coast Railroad, said that southbound trains leaving St. Augustine includ- ed a special carrying passengers from the Clyde Liner Seminole to Miami. The Seminole put into Jacksonville to escape the storm. cutting charge when his bond was withdrawn. His attorney said the sur- render was made, not because of the renewed their | which might help to tighten the nt(’ TRAN BANDTS G 500 AND FLE Baggage Master Forced to Throw Cash Off Car Near Salisbury, Mass. By the Associated Press SALISBURY, Mass., July 20.—Train robbers obtalned $65,000 in cash from the baggage master of a Boston & { Maine traln at the Salisbury Point | station today. The money had heen sent by the Federal Resérve Bank in | Boston to the Powow River National Bank of Amesbury. It was reported that three young | men appeared in the baggage car just before the train stopped at the station, and forced the baggage man to throw off the bag containing the money. Throw Him Off Car. The robbers covered Willlam Jor- {dan, the baggage man, with pistols |and three registered mall pouches were thrown off. Police believe an automoblle was walting in the heavily wooded section that surrounds the {tracks at that point. The baggage it was still moving. He rushed to Salisbury to give an alarm. The robbers pulled the ball cord of the train and before it had stopped leaped from the car and escaped. Few Passengers Aboard. The train carried but three ears—an American Express Co. car on the rear, one passenger coach, in which were 10 or 12 passengers, and a com- | bination baggage and smoking car. | The bandits wera passengers in the smoking compartment and made their | way without difficulty through the door in the partition that separated them from the baggage section. Officers at the Federal Reserv: to send ‘a similar sum of money to Amesbury every week. and since the | train carried no regular pfail car the pouches were sent in the baggage car. The money was believed, to be for payroll purpoges. . . DR. R. H. FORD RESIGNS AS HEALTH OFFICE AIDE Assistant to Dr. Fowler May Give Part Time to School Inspections in District. The resignation of Dr. Rowland H. Ford as assistant District health officer has been submitted to Health Officer William C. Fowler to become effective August 12, it today at the District Building. “A wish to resume practice,” is given as the reason for his resignation. Dr. Ford will not be dropped from the.rolls of the health department. it was sald, but likely will be detailed to a position as school medical inspec- tor. The shift will reduce his salary from $3,800 to $1,680 a vear, and his service will only be part time. Dr. Fowler and his assistant de- clare that no feéling exists between them, and that they will part com- pany on the same pleasant terms that has marked their association in the past. Dr. Ford has been assistant health officer for three years, coming to the District service from the Pub- bond withdrawal, but because Psilias feared he would be kidnaped, spirited to Canton, and “framed” in the Mel- lett case. Developments in the investigation here were clothed in_secrecy today. All efforts to locate Detective Peter Connors, chief investigator, were fruitless. lis Health Service. 186 Homicides, Detroit's Record. DETROIT, July 29 (#).—Approxi- mately one homicide a day was com- mitted in Detroit from January 1 to July 27, police statistics revealed. The total for the period was 186, By the Aum-hl‘cd Press. CHICAGO, July 29.—The La Salle street to which she came as a ste nographer in her teens recorded today Warnings Are Iu|;ed. North of the storm and in its path, warnings were issued to persons and vessels to get to places of safety. Brunswick, Ga., sent a messenger to 8t. Simons Island and the visitors and residents there rushed into.the city by every available means. The Georgia National Guard, en. camped for Summer maneuvers on Ty bee Island, near Savannah, was order- ed into barracks at Fort Screven, when its camp was flooded by the ad- vanee rain The North Carolina National Guard, “ (Continued 50 Page 2, Column 6.) the transfer of $4,000,000 worth of securities, .whose sale virtually writes finis to the business career of Mrs. Jacob Baur. Mrs. Baur, a leader in Chicago so- clety, recently ran for Congress on a wet platform. The $4,000,000 in bonds is a minor- ity re in the Liquid Carbonic Co., n enterprise which began 38 years ago with an investment of $75.000, long before the discovery that Americans liked “Aizzy” drinks made the soda fowntain a national insti- tution. Persons familiar with the company and industry nnen&; credit Mrs. Baur with chief responsibility for the strides the concern made In re- cent years, and which gave her, as vice president, a share in profits of nearly $10,000,000. The announcement of Mrs. Baur's retirement came with advertising for sale of $4,000,000 in first mortgage bonds of the company, organized to take over the business of the original firm, founded by the late Jacob Baur. Mrs. Baur came Here from a small Indiana town and entered the busi- ness world as a stenographer. Re- cently she became an active figure in local politics. Holder of several of- fices, in the April primaries this year she contested Representative Fred Britten's seat at Washington on a dry law modification platferm, and, though she lost, declared: “It was & lively fight, and I had a good timi S man was thrown from the train while | Bank in Boston satd it was customary | was learned | MRS, HALL AGCUSED OF KILLING SPOUSE AND CHOIR SINGER Is Held Without Bail on Basis of New Evidence in Four- Year-0ld Case. ARREST IS “RIDICULOUS,” IS HER ONLY STATEMENT Murder Probe Renewed When For- mer Maid’s Husband Sues for Annulment of Marriage. By the Associated Press. SOMERVILLE, " N. 29 J., July the slain rector of St. John's Episco- {the county jall today, held without hail, accused of the murder four years 180 of her husband and Mrs. Eleanor | Mills, wife of the church sexton and singer in the cholr. Mrs. Hall was arrested late last {night at her home. She spent most of the night in a reception room on he first floor in the rear of the jail- Mrs. Edward Carpenter, her cousin, and Russell E. Watson, were with her. Mrs. Hall sgt quietly, but Mrs. Carpenter paced the jail sorridor nervously mast of the night. | Mrs. Hall branded r arrest as { “ridiculous,” btit would say nothing more. Hep-éousin-an attorney refused to talk. Nothing was forthcoming from- the authorities to explain what new evidence in the mystery had brought about the arrest. Attorney Is Notifled. sthy N. Pfeifer. New York attornev, vestigations, was notified. Shortly be- fore dawn a man not Mr. Pfeifer ar rived at the jail in a New York taxi- |room. Mr. Watson and jail attend- ants refused to give his name. Two warrants charging separately the murder of Mr. Hall and his pretty youns woman companion were sworn out vesterday. Investigation of the | case,” abandoned nearly four vears | ago, was renewed several weeks ago because of an annulment suit by Arthur S. Riehl. Riehl charged that his wife, for- merly Louise Gest, who had been a maid in the Hall household had de- ceived him as to her past relationships with Mr. Hail before he married her in 1924, In an unsworn statement Riehl said his wife had received $5,000 for silence in connection with the murder. The bodies of Mr. Hall and Mrs. | Mills were found September 16, 1 in an abandoned orchard near 1 | Brunswick. They had been shot with a pistol and their clothes were neatly arranged as they lay side by side. Shot While in Embrace. A nearby vacant house was found to be completaly furnished and show- ed signs of recent use. Love letters of the dead pair were found and pub- lished. Acquaintances declared that Mr. Hall and Mrs. Mills contemplated eioping to Japan. they had been in embrace when shot. Authorities investigated one theory they had been killed by a jealous wom- an. : This theory was strengthened upon exhumation of the bodies when it was found that Mrs. Mills’ throat had been cu had been shot three times in contfast with one shot for the clergy- { man, and her face had been scratched. t was recalled that his eves had been closed while those of Mrs. Mills had not. Attention was diverted by the arrest of Clifford Hayes, 19, who was ac- cused by Raymond Schneider of hav- ing shot them in mistake for Pearl | Bahmer, 16, and her stepfather. A i fund was raised for the defense of Hayes, a war veteran. Schneider iater retracted his charge, and In December, 1922, was "(Continued 'on Page 2, Column 2) [TALY DENIES MOVE - FOR DEBT REVISION Nation Considers U. S. Terms Advantageous—Working to Meet Payments. By the Assoriated Prews. % ROME, July 29.—Italy has not the slightest intention of asking revision of her war debt settlement with the United States, even if other European nations do so. This declaration was made to the Associated Press on be- half of the Italian government today by Dino Grandi, undersecretary for foreign affairs. “We are satisfled in every respect | with the settiement,” Signor Grandi isaid, “and are concerned only with | meeting the payments, which we are | sure we are competent to do. | | going to stick to it, particularly since | tremendously beneficial effect on our finances. | “Critics say the settlement has not helped the value of the lira, but the government answers that it is impos- sible to judge what would have hap- pened to the lira if we had not settled our debts.” I The government, he said, was look- ing forward eagerly to the visit of An. drew W. Mellon, the American Secre- tary of the Treasury, who would be glven, every possible honor. Secretary Mellon, he added, would meet Premier Mussolini and Finance Minister Volpi, and, “although his visit is obvidusly not for business purposes, it is natural to assume that finances will be dis- cushed.® “ Recent bitter criticism of the United States, voiced in certain sections of the Fascist press, he declared to be of slight importance, not representing the attitude either of the government or the people. the mass of e Radio Programs—Page 40 Mrs. BEdward Wheeler Hall, widow of | pal Church in New Brunswick, was in | attorney, ! Immediately after the arrest Tim-| who represented Mre. Hall during in-| »ab and was taken into the reception | filed | Indications were | ! “We made a bargain, and we are | e are convinced that it has had a | Mrs. . Jacob: Baur, Once Stenographer,| Sells $4,000,000 in Bonds, Ending Career - AIR DREAMS. ! ILLIONS N DEBTS IREOWEDTOD.C. ' Some Accounts Have Run for i 16 Years and Only a Few | Suits Have Been Filed. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. | _ Millions of dollars are owing to the | District of Columbia in taxes, lighting | bills and other “accounts receivable,” with no pressure through the courts | for payment. Some of these debts to | the ‘municipal_corporation have been | running for 16 years. - Official figures from the District ledgers, the assessor's and tax col- |lector's’ records, court records and | sworn testimony before committees of | Congress show ' this. One of the largest items—$967.- 786.14, for arrears in taxes—covers a | group of six large public service cor- | porations—the Washington Terminal Co., the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the Georgetown Gas Light Co., the Washington Gas Light Co. and the Potomac Electric Power Co., accord- ing to figures supplied by Tax Col- {lector C. M. Towers. Tunnel Cases, $97,936. What are known as ‘“the tunnel |cases” aggregate $97,936.23. They | grew out of the cost of restoring to | grade certain railway tracks and re- | surfacing on First street caused by the | gettling of the tunnel. They have | been running for nearly 10 years and {involve the Capital Traction and the Washington Railway and Electric companies, the Pennsylvania Raflroad Co., the Washington Terminal Co. and the Philadelphia, Baltimore and | Washington Railroad Co. The Benning Road Viaduct Bridge claim tatals $97,498.31. and is half and half against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co. and the Philadelphia, | Baltimore and Washington Railroad | Co. The law authorizing -the construe- | tion of this viaduct provided that the Baltimore and Ohio and the Philadel- | phia, Baltimore and Washington Rail- iroad companies should pay ohehalf | the cost of construction, according to | their respective widths of right of way. When the work was done the District billed each company for one- half of half the cost. Then the legal representative of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad came in and said: “How come?” He contended that based on their relative widths of right of way the Baltimore and Ohio Raflroad should pay only 23 per cent of one- half of the cost, while the Philadel- phia, Baltimore and Washington Co. should pay 77 per cent. District Enters Suit. The District officials could not get the railroad companies to agree on their respective proportons of the half of the cost—and so they have paid nothing. The District then entered suit agalnst them, suing the Balti- more and Ohio Railroad for 50 per cent and the Philadelphia. Baltimore and Washington Co. for 77 per cent, in order to have the District fully pro- tected. | Another item of nearly $80,000 was ordered off the city ledger on March |8, after having been carried for four vears and representing an_account that runs back seven years. This was a claim against the J. J. Whitehead Co., Inc., and the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co., as surety, for the | eollection and disposal of miscellane- { ous refuse in the amount of $79,790.59 dated February 14, 192 It is ex | plained that prior to July 1, 1918, when the refuse division of the Dis- trict administration was organized. the miscellaneous refuse was collected under contract. One John G. Fair- cloth, clerk to a Southern Congress- man, took a flyer on the contract and: | was the lowest bidder. Against the | protest of Superinténdent Paxton of the Street Cleaning Department, who was then in charge of the work, Fair- | cloth got the contract. ,One day the gheriff of Arlington County seized his trucks. Then Whitehead, from New York, who had been in the metals business, undertook to dhrry it out, but in the end the District itself had to take the work over and complete the contract for a year and a half, which was the basis of the claim against the bonding company. Many Repairs Made. Under that contract one concern ran the trash collection end and another concern ran the disposal, or sales, end. Both of these concerns were in { i effect the same parties but distinct corporations. The concern operating the trash plant was the Washington Reduction Co., which still owns it, and the District rents this. When the District first hired _this plant con- siderable repairs had to be made and equipment installed, the cost of which has been charged against the rental. half tha Rail Head Killed; Engine Driven by Him Turns Over By the Associated Press. STATESBORO, Ga., July 29.—J. N. Shearouse, president and owner of the Sherwood Railroad, was killed last night when the locomotive he was driving overturned near Brooklet. Several other persons, including his son, Fred Shearouse, were injured. The accident was attributed to weakening of the roadbed by heavy rains. Mr. Shearouse also was president of the Bank of Brooklet and operator of several saw and planing mills. 11 REPORTED SLAIN INBALKAN FIGHTS Belgrade Excited by News of Clash in Attempt to Ar- rest Bulgarian. By the Aseociated Press. BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, July 20.— Intense excitement has been aroused here by a report that eight villagers ware killed and 40 wounded in a fight with gendarmes seeking to arrést a Bulgarian named Bolicko, alleged to be the leader of an organized band of irregulars. The reports state that three gendarmes ‘also lost their lfves. The villagers were inhabitants of Ljubance and Bulacane and were sus- pected of sheltering Bolicko. The reason for the excitement here is be- cause the gendarmes were of Albani- an nationality and have been accused of great brutality toward Serbian vil- lagers. BALKANS' UNREST GROWS. Rumanian Ministers Confer on Al leged Bulgarian Incursions. By Radio to The Star and Chicago Dally News. VIENNA, July 29.—The Balkan pot again appears to be on the verge of boiling over, according to reports reaching Vienna. From Belgrade comes the news that a strong band of heavily armed Ko- mitadji have invaded Serbja near the village of Krivabalanka, opening fire when gendarmes attempted to sur- round and capture them. Three gen- darmes were killed. The official Rumanian Telegraph Agency reports from Bucharest that the ministers of war and interior have conferred with the Rumanian general in charge of troops on the Bulgar-Ru- manian frontier relative to ways of preventing “further incursions of the Bulgarian 5 (Copsright. 1926, by Chicaro Daily News Co.) DEFENDS D. C. ESTIMATES. Auditor Donovan Goes to Budget Bureau for Hearing. Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, District auditor and budget officer, went to the Bureau of the Budget today to defend the District’s preliminary es- timates for the next fiscal year, which call for appropriations approximating $42,000,000. The Budget Bureau is expected to complete consideration of the Dis- trict’s estimates within the next two weeks, and return them to the Com- missioners for an anticipated reduc- tion. The final budget will be trans- mitted to the bureau in September. 100 Drown in Japan. TOKIO, July 29 (#).—An official from Niigata prefecture states that 100 persons were drowned there in floods due to heavy rains. Tele- graph, telephone and railway com- munication have been interrupted. SURELY. there are 100,000 ‘Washingtonians who will gladly send one dollar or more_to honor the living and d_of the from C0OLIDGE SUCCESS IN 1928 PREDIGTED Richard Washburn Child Says Nation Is Satisfied With President’s Policies. BY. J. RUSSELL YOUNG, Staft Correspondent of The Star. WHITE PINE CAMP, N. Y., July 20.—It is generally assumed by the people throughout the country that President Coolidge will be a candidate for another term as President, accord- ing to the view expressed today by Richard Washburn Child, former Am- bassador to Italy, who is a guest of the President and Mrs. Coolidge at White Pine Camp. In his advocacy of another term for President Coolidge, Mr. Child stated that his observations convincehim that there is a real sentiment in favor of the President and that the people generally are well satisfled with his manner of conducting their affairs and that they are not anxious for a change. He feels positive that the much talked’ of third-term bugaboo of the past will not stand in the way of Calvin Coolidge if he will con- sent to becoming a candidate to suc- ceed himself. The people are so prosperous and happy they will not bother with any of the third-term argument, Mr. Child said in advancing his opinions in this The people, according to him, are satisfled with what they can rightfully look upon as a good thing as he described the public appreciation of the President. Favor Decentralization Policy. ‘President Coolidge apparently suits their purposes,” Mr. Child said. The people not only like his style and his honesty but they credit him person- ally with <contributing greatly toward the peace and proeperity of the Na- tion. Also the public gives him much credit for preventing Washington from becoming a bureaucratic center. In this respect the people favor his efforts to prevent a centralization of government in Washington and his efforts to decentralize government. By his opposition to_the centraliza- tijon of government, President Cool- idge, who has been generally looked | upon as a conservative New England Republican, has out-Jeffersoned Jeffer- son himself in the so-called Jeffer- sonian policy regarding States' rights and decentralization of government. This policy of the President's has struck a happy chord throughout the country and, along with the other aceomplishments of his administra- tion, it is easy to see why he is so popular with the electorate. It is easy also to ses why the electorate, according to Mr. Child, is taking it for granted that the present adminis- tration is to continue in office. The Coolidge administration suitss the pur- poses of the people and they want him as President for another term. Mr. Child said that since he hlll been at the Coolidge camp he and the President have discuseed a wide va- risty of subjects. We said promi- nent among them have been politics, foreign conditions, the anti-American demonstrations in several of the for- eign countries, farm relief and crime prevention. Fears No Foreign Trouble. It is the opinion of Mr.. Child that i bullet BN T0PS T0 BE HELD READY, BEGANIG TONGHT Pope May Issue Interdict Against Nation, Banning Religious Rites. LABOR WILL OPPOSE ECONOMIC BOYCOTT Church Heads Refuse Sanction to Counter Demonstration—Mayor's Lynching Denfed. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, July 29~The news- papers today say they have been reliably informed that the federal troops in the Mexico City area, begin- ning at 6 o’clock this eventmw, will be ordered to remain in barracks, in readiness for any call for their serv- ices which may arise out of the reli- glous situation. The authorities announce, however, that the troops will not be used unless there is rioting or requests are made for them by the civil authorities. The Regional Confederation of La- bor, which is the dominant labor organization in Mexico, in a manifesto issued today asserts that the Mexi- can workers are prepared to “mate- rialize” their support of the program of President Calles in connection with putting into effect the government's new religious regulations at the end of the week. Labor to Fight Boycott. The manifesto says the Laborites are in favor of the government’s pro- gram, because the workers desire the reconstruction of thetr country, which is being retarded “through op- position of the Catholio clergy to & law which apples not only to them, but to all religious creeds.” The Confederation of Labor, the manifesto says, has taken measures to frustrats the economic boycott of the league for defense of religious liberty by organizing its union forces so it can “control production and con- sumption, and thus prevent injuries to_the people.” Deputies of the Labor and Socialist parties also issued a manifesto sup- porting the government’s program. It announces the intention to oppose throughout the country propagenda which it is asserted is being conduct- ed by religlous institutions. The Labor and Socialist deputies de- cided to parade with the Co . tion of Labgr forces on Sunday. Church Bans Demounstrations. The chureh authoritfes refuse to sanction counter-demonstrations on the part of the Catholics, but the plans of the- @ for defense of re- liglous liberty for an economic boy- cott are believed to be continuing. After the arrest of three successive directorates, however, the present management is proceeding most cau- tiously and giving little outward evi. dence of its activities. Meanwhile the Catholics are mak- ing the most of the church ceremo- nials while they may, for the priests are to be withdrawn from the church- es Sunday, by order of the episcopate, against the government regulations. Denial is made by the governor of the state of Zacatecas that Mayer Cervantes of Nochislan was lynched there Tuesday because of an attack upon a Catholic priest. Denies Reports of Trouble. The denial is contained in a tele- received by the department of the interior. The governor asserts that there {s no foundation whatever for the report of the lynching sent by correspondents of Mexican from Aguascalientes. He says tgcn has been no troubls whatsoever in the town of Nochislan. Dispatches from Pubbla say that Gen. Daniel Sanchez was wounded in the hand vesterday by a pistol fired by Garcia Farfan, an aged grocer, in a clash growing out of the religious situation. Gen. Juan Amaya, the military commandant, accompanied by Gen. Sanchez, was passi; by Farfan's store and saw pasted in the window what {s described as religious propa- ganda. Gen. Amaya entered the store to de- mand an explanation and the shooting ensued. Sheffield to Take Vacation. While the American Ambassador James R. Sheffield s intensely inter- ested in the religious situation and {s keeping the State Department at ‘Washington informed, there has been no change in his vacation plans. The date he has fixed for his de- parture is August 13. It is his intention to return after several months, although he prob- ably = will discuss with President Coolidge his well-known desire to be relieved of the post. Twenty-eight nuns and teachers of Santa Theresa College at Morelia, no international developments of a serious nature will grow out of the anti-American outbreaks in Europe. He stated that he thinks this expres- sion of Il feeling' on the part of for- eigners and American tourists is not as serious as it sounds and will soon cease. He i8 of the opinion that the ratification of the terms for the settle: ment of French debt will go a [ way toward bringing about a better feeling in that country. Mr. Child has been making a care-| ful study of the agricultural situation and he was in a position to tell the President that he did not, think the (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) TOTAL OF 151 INDICTED IN CHICAGO VOTE PROBE Forty-Two More Are Added to List, state of Michoacan, have started for San Antonio, Tex., where they hope to open another school, according to dispatches from Morella. School Was Closed. The school was closed rather than give up religlous instruction or be closed by r::;h‘mbu ment under the religious t! . Manue| Tellez, AM” the United States, will leave re for Wash! n tomorrow or Saturday to resume his duties. Senor Tellez has been spending his vacation in Mexico, but while hers he has discussed with President - les and officials of the foreign the ‘general aspects of the situation between M and the United States. A group of educators and religious, business and professional men from the United States, headed by Alva W. Taylor, national executive of the Which Includes Women and Blection Judges. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 29.—True Dbills, naming 42 persons and ralsing the number of persons charged with vote frauds and various irre| :& the April primaries to 161, were vots today by the Jury. _A _number of those named were ‘women. t judges .and clerks and three ward workers were cHarged ‘with Social Service Commission of the Church of the Disciples, has arrived here for-a fortnight's visit. The purpose of the visit as an- nounced is “to gain first-hand knowl- edge of the political, industrial, edu- cational and religious situation in Mexico, with theé object of disseminat- ing such information to American uni- versities and college classrooms, through newspapers and magazines, from pulpits and in the public tormal' and lecture halls.” R