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p.m. yesterday: lowest, WEATHER. (D. 8, Weather Bureau Forecast.) Mostly fair tonight and tomorrow: not quite so warm tonight; gentle to moderate southeast winds. Temperatures—Highest, 94, at 2 75, at a.m. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 22 @h ¢ Foening Sfar. W!'I'H SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 30,044. post office, Entered as second class Washington, D. matte, 5 WAS HINGTON, D. (€, TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1926—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. * P) Means Associated Press. The Star's every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 93,863 “From Press to Home Within the Hour” carrier system covers 4 WO CENTS. - DOUGHERTY NAMED . BYPRESIDENT TOBE " COMMISSIONER AS FENNING GOES OUT New Official’s Appointment Is Announced Simultaneously With Formal Acceptance of Resignation of Old. DUE TO ASSUME OFFICE TODAY OR TOMORROW Executive's Choice Has Long Been a Leader in: Civic Affairs—Won Seat on Advisory Council—Lived Here 27 Years—Expected to De- vote Full Time to Duties. Proctor L. Dougherty, prominent n civic work, an engineer and a resi- dent of Washington for 27 years, to- day was appointed by President Coolidge to succeed Frederick A. Fenning as a member of the Board ©f District Commissioners. Announcement of the appointment was made by the President himself at the Summer White House, in White Pine Camp, New York. The formal acceptance by the President | of the resignation of Mr. Fenning, | which had been requested prior to | Mr. Coolidge's vacation trip, was an- nounced at the same time. Although Mr. Dougherty is in the city, efforts to locate him were with- out avail up to an ea hour this aiternoon. His friends expressed the | ioner opinion that the new Commis: desired to avoid interviews until he | had reccived an official notification from the President of the appoint- ment. This ‘was expected to reach Mr. Dougherty today through the Department of Just: May Begin Work Today. Advices from the Summer White House indicated that President Cool- ldge desires the new Commissioner to take office without delay, and the rupposition there was that he would | wssume his new duties in the District | Building this afterneeaLor tomarrow | morning, prior to Mr. Fenning’s re- turn from a brief vacation. The selection of the Chevy Chase pivic worker for the important post of Police and Fire Commissioner on the | Capital's hoard of municipal adminis- tration was received here with satis- faction by those who know him well. | While not a “native son,” Mr. Dough- | erty has resided here since 1899 andi throughout his period of residence| here has manifested a deep and un- | selfish interest in the public welfare, not only of his own community, but of the city as a whole. Mr. Dougherty's long interest in wivic activities won for him a seat on the Citizens' Advisory Council, which ke was instrumental in founding two year ago. He is the first member of this semi-official group of advisors to the Commissioners to be ‘assigned a post on the board of Commssioners, and this fact was hailed today as a generous recognition of this semi-offi- cial body of citizens. Approval Is Foreseen. Those associated with the President today expressed confidence that Mr. Dougherty’s appointment will be fa-| vorably received by the citizens of the National Capital, as well as by the| Senate, by whom the appointment must be confirmed at the forthcoming sessjon. The commission is of recess | nature, subject to congressional ap- proval. 1t Is understood from official sources that the new Commissioner will sever | his business associations with the Otis Elevator Co., of which he is the ex- ecutive representative in Washington of the vice president of the company. While it was not said officially how Mr. Dougherty was hrought favor- ably to the President’s attention and . upon whose recommendation the lat- ter acted, it is understood that Mr. Dougherty 1s well known to E. T. Clark personal secretary to the Presi- dent, and to James B. Reynolds, former secretary of the national committee and dent of the Commercial .\?aflomlll Bank in Washington, who assisted the | President in negotiating the business | of considering the field of candidates gor Mr. Fenning's place. Believed Well Qualified. The President was advised that Mr. Emugheny, because of his long resi. ence in the Capital and his interest ®nd activity in civic and business affairs of the District, is eminently &vell qualified for the place to which ‘he has been appointed. Besides these wiatural qualifications Mr. Dougherty represented as possessing the rength of character and the scope ©f vision as well as the business ex- rience desired by the President in Fo one he was to appoint to succeed ir. Fenning. Mr. Dougherty's civic activities %ave not been confined to his own t:ighborhood in Chevy Chase. Besides ing a delegate to the Federation of guzens' Associations and the Citizens’ dvisory Council, he is a member of e citizens’ joint committee for na- tional representation, which organi- gation has been so active working in the interest of national representation for the District of Columbia, and is ehairman of the national representa- tion committee of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations. Mr. Dougherty was born.in Cam- bridge, Mass., 53 years ago, his father and mother being Rev. and Mrs. M. A. Dougherty. He was educated in the public schools of Cambridge and later at the Massachusetts Institute of technology. Took Post Here in 1899. In 1899 he accepted a position in the supervising architect’s office of the Treasury with headquarters in Washington. Ten years later he ac- cepted a position with the Otis Eleva- . tor Co, to serve in an engineering capacity with headquarters in the Dis- DISTRICT’S NEW COMMISSIONER PROCTOR L. DOUGHERTY. motor trip tor L. ment: selection. Mr. teres tend.” Commissioner. Commissioner, Aide to Fenning Prepares to Move From D. C. Office Preparations for removing per- sonal correspondence and other pri- of former Commis- sioner Frederick A. Fenning from his office in the District Building was started today by Ralph Nor- ton, his secretary. Although Mr. Fenning returned to Washington last night from a the New England States and the Thousand Islands, he did not come Building today, and has given no indication that he will return for It probably will be vate property to the District his property, taken to him by NEW COLLEAGUES LAUD DOUGHERTY Rudolph and Bell Well Ac- quainted With Abilities of Fenning Successor. News of the appointment Dougherty to the two other Commis H. Rudolph and Lieut. Col. J lin Bell, by newspaper men while th were holding the semi-weekly ing of the Board of Comm Both made an effort to Dougherty to congratulate him, but were unsuccessful. As chairman of the Board of Com- Rudolph made the following comment on the appoint- was first carried | ioners, Cuno missioners, Mr. “I am pleased with the President’s Dougherty’s technical training, together with his wide busi. ness experience, qualifies him for the many duties of commissionership. As a civic leader he will have the in- s of the city at heart. I am hope- ful that he will have an early oppor- tunity to familiarize himself with the departments that he Bell Likes Appointment. Commissioner Bell's_comment was: “I have known Mr. Dougherty inti- mately during my services here. has always been much intere: vic improvements and has much time to public matters. make an able, energetic, progressive Mr. Dougherty will come into office to find all of the routine matters of the Fenning regime cleared away. As “|soon as Mr. Fenning departed from ‘Washington on his vacation trip work was taken over by Commissioner Rudolph, and he assiduously carried on the duties of the police Commissioner as well as his own. The only big task facing the Commis- sioners this summer is the revision of the District's estimates for the next fiscal year. The tentative estimates now are before the Bureau of the Bud- get, but are expected to be returned soon for the usual slashing process. Familiar With Details. Mr. Dougherty, however, is familiar with all of the detalls in the tentative estimates, as he worked with his colleagues on the Citizens' Advisory Council in studying them and framing a budget which the council Submitted to_the Commissioners. With the appointment of the new Rudolph made plans imediately for his belated vaca- tion. Instead of a long trip away from trict. A few years ago he was pro- § moted to the position he held at the (Continued on Page 5, Column 3. (Continued on Page 5, Column BORAH GOES WEST ONLONG CRUSIOE Name of Senator Linked With Rumor of New Party in His Attack on Wets. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Intent upon his crusade against “nuilification” of the Constitution, or rather that part of the Constitution comprised in the eighteenth amend ment, Senator Borah of Idaho left Washington last night to deliver a series of addresses throughout the denouncing the “New York for getting around prohibition. st addre of the Idaho Sen- The ator on the subject will be delivered at Wichita, Kans., long the home of prohibition,7n August 5. Others will follow in various parts of the West, including the Pacific Coast. But when October rolls around Senator Borah will journey East again with his lance leveled particularly against the enemies of prohibition in New York State. Frankly, the Senator s to make the “nullification- in the Empire State rue the day y put forward the referendum resolution, which is to be voted on November. It is proposed in the referendum that the people shall de- clare whether the individual States shall interpret the Constitution to suit themselves. Sees Law Respect Die. To Senator Borah’'s mind this is a monstrous thing. He sees in it, if sue- cessfully attempted, the undermining of the respact of the people for the Constitution, - their fundamental law, and the undermining of the respect of the people for ail law. While Senator Borah will take al| brief rest in Idaho while he is In the West, from now until the Senate as- sembles in November as a court to try Federal Judge English of Illinois, he will be actively engaged in his efforts to meet the onslaughts of the wets and also to arouse the people against American adherence to the World Court. The Idaho Senator is an outstanding and_indepen politics today. ‘The announcement that he will deliver an address would draw thousands to hear him in any city of the Union. It has been rumored and reported more than once recently that he is a candidate for the presidency, even that he would head a third party in 1928. But Senator Borah declines to be drawn into any discussion of the presidency. He simply has nothing to say when the subject is broached. There are those, however, who be- lieve that there is need of a new party in this country—not a_third party—on the theory that the Repub- lican party and the Democratic party |stand now practically for the same things, and that both are bound up with big business interests of the country. A third party in this coun- try would be a misfit, a fifth wheel, in their opinion. But a new party is a different thing, taking the place of one of the old parties, or forcing the old parties into a combifation. Whether Mr. Borah would ever head such a party would be determined by what such a party stood for, upon the organization of such a party, and upon whether the people demanded such a party, and, incidentally, de- manded Mr. Borah lead it. It is be- lieved significant, too, that Senator Borah has remained faithful to the Republican party for many years, notwithstanding his frequent own de- mands for reforms and his opposition te the demands of party leaders. In a measure, whether he intends it’ as such or not, Senator Borah's speaking tour this Summer will bring him very prominently before the American_people in_connection_with (Continued on Page 4, Column 7.) By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 3.—The tears of man over woman's invasion of the barber shop are declared by the na- tion’s beauty specialists, in convention here, to be of the genus crocodile. Because, they say, around after hours, haunting feminine beauty parlors and paying unwilling operators more than do their women customers for every ald devised by the beauty cuiture profession. One proof proffered at the American Cosmeticians Society convention here was the fact that mere man used eight million dollars’ worth of hair dye last year, with other itéms in lon. with he is slipping Men Now Haunting Beauty Parlors For Aid Good Looks Give in Business spending more time and money on their appearance than ever before. They have found beauty aids a vast help in a business world which puts a premium on good appearance and youth, it was claimed. * The barber shop of hair cuts, shaves and shines, the experts said, is a thing of the past. Tomorrow it will be a masculine beauty parlor. The cosmeticians wére interested in a statement by their president, Mrs. Nellie B. Cooper, that a wife's break- fast table toilette should occupy only six and one-half minutes. In that time she can apply foundation cream, powder, rouge, lipstick and eyebrow Cooper pencil and eyelash brush, Mrs. BALKANS SEETHING ASNATIONS BICKER OVER BANDIT RAIDS Rumania Declares Martial Law on Bulgar Frontier, Vienna Is Informed. jit wa ¥ nt figure in American | JUGOSLAVIA TO PURSUE OUTLAWS OVER BORDER London Sees Policy as Tantamount to Declaration of War—Acts to Cool Rising Passions. BY EUGENE CRAWFORD. By Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily News. VIENNA, August 3.—Rumania has declared martial law, effective in all territory within 20 miles of the Bul garian frontier, according to reports from Bucharest. The writer is informed that a Ru- manian general Is in charge of this district, defending it against the in- cursions of Bulgarian guerrillas. Trustworthy travelers arriving here from the Dobrudcha district state that martial law had existed in effect for some months and that the declaration was only a formality. (Covyrighi. 1926, by Chicaxo Daily News Co.) EVENTS ALARM LONDON. Envoy Instructed to Work for Peaceful Solution of Issue. BY CONSTANTINE BROW By Cable to The Star and Chicazo Dail. LO In the last fortnight Macedonian attacking Greek, Jugoslav and Ru- | manian villages in Macedonian Do- |brudcha. These states have made re- | peated complaints to Sofia, but the | government of Bulgaria replied that unable to control the bands |, g imming teacher in New high schools, today was forced to give | as long as the army was kept below the required standards to cope with | organized bands. On the other hand, Bulgaria point- ed out to the Jugoslavs that it did not know whether the bands were | formed on Bulgarian or Greek terri- tory. When the Bulgarian cabinet ignored the last note demanding dissolution of | the Macedonian committee, with head- quarters in the Bulgarian mountains, | the Jugoslav minister of war ordered commanders of the army on. the bor- der to cross into Bulgarian territory whenever it was necessary to pursue #nd punish bandits. ! This, it is feared by responsible officials in London, may lead to new serious Balkan troubles, and the Brit- ish Minister Kenng at Belgrade has been instructed to'use all influence to moderate the bellicose attitude of the | Jugoslay government. (Copyright. 1926, by Chicago Daily News Co.) PROTECTIVE MOVE DUE. Jugoslavia Notifies Bulgaria of Ac- tion If Raids Continue. VIENNA, August 3 (#).—Jugosla- via has indicated to Bulgaria, it is learned from diplomatic sources, that she will take ‘protective measures™ if raids by comitadji (irregulars), con- tinue. Reports indicate that the comitadji have returned to their own side of the line, Neither country has adopted a bellicose attitude, and it is hoped the trouble will be ended by diplomatic ex- will be ended by diplomatic ex- changes. An agency dispatch from Belgrade last night reported that the Jugo- slav war minister had ordered the army commanders to pursue invading | comitadji back to Bulgarian soil. Such action, the dispatch added, would be tantamount to a declaration of war. Bulgaria and Jugoslavia have made charges and counter-charges of bor- der invasion, and there have been re- ports that Jugoslavia would appeal to the League of Nations. PASTOR-AND WOMAN SHOT AT SERVICES Former Falls Dead From Pulpit From Bullet Fired Through Church Window. By the Assoclated Press. MORGANTOWN, Ky., August 3.— Rev. Mr. Moss. an evangelist, and Mrs. Jerome Robinson of Butler Coun- ty, were shot last night in church, near here, while the opening hymn’of revival services was being sung. The preacher-toppled from the pul- pit dead, and Mrs. Robinson, wife of a farmer, who was sitting in the front row of the choir, died an hour later. Several persons narrowly missed be- ing struck by the shots, which were fired through an open window. Clifford Wilson was arrested and held for investigation after a 14-year- old girl told officers she saw him fire the shots. County officers today were following with bloodhounds other trails from the church. Such excitement reigned that coun- ty authorities were unable to deter- mine how many shots were fired. Their first theory was that the evangi list's stand against bootlegging had caused the shooting. Reports had been circulated that in reality he was a detective brought to the county to ahid officials in finding prohibition vio- tors. BALLOON FALL KILLS 3. Basket Drops From Captive Gas Bag When Netting Breaks. BEDFORD, England, August 3 (). —Three passengers were killed when the basket dropped from a captive balloon at Kampston near. here to- day. The accident was caused by the gas bag breaking loose from its netting, releasing the basket. Of the four pas- ;e(m"' only one escaped with e. DON, August 3.—The foreign | | office is nervous over the unexpected {turn of Jugoslav-Bulgarian relations. | |bands have shown renewed activity, | i LJCHANNEL .= SN SWIMMING = 7\ 15 MERE By the Associated Press DOVER, England, August 3. &rim English Channel again hag Suc- ceeded in defeating the efforts of woman to conquer it. Beaten by fog rather than the swift current, Miss Clarabelle Barrett of New Rochelle York's up her attempt to swim the Channel after a gallant struggle that lasted 21 hours and 35 minutes. She got within 2 miles of Cape -Nez, France, when she had to be taken out of the water. She was in an exhausted con dition. Miss Barrett started her swim from here yesterday morning at 8 o'clock. It was 5:35 o'clock this morning when she was forced to give up the swim that o woman has ever yet made. MISS BARRETT FAILS TO SWIM CHANNEL WHEN FOG BLINDS WAY Is Taken Exhausted From Water Within Two Miles of Goal, After Covering 30 to 40 Miles in 21 Hours and 35 Minutes. | trom n;n water into the convoying Barrett said: am very sorry I have failed like -The the swim Miss Barrett cov- | 30 and 40 miles, carried hither and thither by the swift | ¢ > b Fog caused the pilot boat to | instituted immediately by the DistMict |of Columbia Commiss ered between | lose its bearings. The conditions had been ideal from | the start until the banks of fog. so|the establishment of Potomac avenue readed by shipping men, came over | from Nebraska avenue to Reservoir Even the experienced pilot | 554 for a width of 110 feet. At the | same time similar proceedin was unable properly swimmer on a direct course. During the swim Miss Barrett ate a good deal of fruit hananas, apples nd every half hour she ully of hot tea: iner of Miss Barrett, sald annel again this vear, b | she certainly would attempt it in 192 |~ When Miss Barrett and her " (Continued on Pa Shortly after she had been taken ' HUNTED AS SLAYER, of Couple—Jealousy Mo- tive Assigned. By the Associated Press. ties claim was used in the midnight the dual murder. his house. shot through the heart. “through with him.” Ross as the slayer. FIVE ARE CAPTURED IN LORTON WOODS Six Men Escaped From Reforma- tory Last Night—Fugitive of Last Week Found. Capt. W. ordered unless he fails to make his ap- | pearance by tonight. Two of the men were treed by pur- 4uing bloodhounds, while- the " other tories. when he came to the city. ‘Wheeler said that he.and the other three prisoners had stayed in the within a mile and a -half of the institution for two and a half days and later separated. Wheeler is ':ll—:h in s T EVIDENCE MISSING IN HALL-MILLS CASE Despite Loss of Important| Data Prosecutor \Expects Three Indictments. MAN ENDS HIS LIFE Ohioan Was Sought in Killing By the Associated Press. SOMERVILLE, N. I., fmportant evidence in the sensational Hall-Mills murder case was missing today from the official files. Transcripts of statements made by CINCINNATI, August 3.-—A single bullet left in a pistol which authori- August 3.— killing of Otto Itin, 19, and Mamie King Metzger, 30, twice a divorcee, to- day ended the life of Raymond Ross, 25, farmer of near Felicity, Ohio, just as he was about to be arrested for years ago have been removed from the safe of the warden of the Somer- County jail, according to State Ross, a suitor for the affections of Mrs. Metzger, shot himself through the head as Sheriff Fred Crosswell of Clermont County and Marshal B. Ed- ward Colvin of Felicity approached special prosecutor. Despite thie handi- cap Senator Simpson expressed belief he had sufficient evidence at hand to ¢ idict a woman and at least two men for the murder of Rev. W. Hall and Mrs. Eleanor R. Mills. _ Pistol Declared Missing. “While we have enough evidence for indictments,” the Senator said, “I am horrified to learn that much of the im- portant evidence is missing. Among it is the pistol of Willie Stevens. 1 am told, was returned, to him after it had been kept for some time in the safe of the warden of the Somerset County jail. “There are also many statements by witnesses, which were also in the warden’s safe, that are missing. Strange to say, however, the one document which was preserved was an affidavit by one of the witnesses who attacked the State's Itin and Mrs. Metzger visited friends {last night. As they neared Rural, where the pretty divorcee lived, they apparently sensed they were being fol- lowed and drove into the driveway of the country home of Joseph Broad- well. A little later five shots were heard by the Broadwell family and they saw a coupe speeding away. In- vestigating they discovered the bodles in Itin's automobile. Both had been Mrs. Metzger and young Itin first met at a dance Saturday night. Ross was there and Mrs. Metzger was re- ported as telling him that she was Ross, neighbors said, had been ‘in- fatuated with her. Sheriff Croswell said evidence -gathered implicated Statements of five persons under suspicion were said to be missing, while Dr. Hall's spectacles, with finger marks wiped off, were saved. ‘The Senator said one of his first steps would be to learn how this evidence disappeared and who is re- sponsible for its disappearance. when asked ,to ex- plain the alleged disappearance of pa- pers from his safe, referred all ques- tions to Prosecutor Bergen of Somer- Bergen declined to make any statement. TWO KILLED, 3 HURT IN STILL EXPLOSION Mothgr of One_of Dead Boys Held on Suspicion of Manslaughter The warden, Five of six inmates serving terms at tHe Lorton reformalory were prompt- ly recaptured today following their es- cape fram the institution last night, W. Barnard, reports. The sixth man is believed' to be in the Woods and no general lookout will be three were found on the roads. The prisoners told the authorities at the !institution that they “stayed out” be- cause they did not like the prospect of having to sleep in the hot dormi- By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, August 3.—Two boys were burned to death and a woman and two children were inj early today when a still exploded in a private residence in which were sleeping. The house was de- The dead are: Sam Manchillas, ., and Joe Leonza, 18. injured: = Mrs, cggh-, 45, mother n, Louis, 9, ho were painfully from the building. Police -held Mrs. M of manslaughter - pending Charles J. Wheeler, 24 years, one of the four who escaped from the reformatory last week, was rearrest- ed by the police here yesterday after- noon on a tip furnished them by a woman whom Wheeler called on Carmell of Sam, and her Angelia, 4; burned escaping was for fair and warm weather, how- anchillas _on D.C.TOCONDEMN LAND FOR AVENUES Will Act Immediately in Plan to Provide Park Way Be- tween Bridges. Condemnation proceedings will be ioners for the acquisition of the necessary land for gs will be inaugurated for the widening of Res- ervoir road from 50 to 90 feet from Poétomac avenue to Conduit road. These announcements were made by Maj. Carey H. Brown following a meeting today of the co-ordinating committee of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. At the same time the committee de- cided to present to the comm ne with the general plan for providing parkway between the Chain Bridges. Feared Erection of More Buildings. The condemnation proceeding: made neces i when it was di was being erected on the line of Po- | tomac avenue, as laid down on the highway plan. It was decided that the condemnation proceedings were | all the erection of | | any other building in this area, which | ;¢ the Government would have to pay |y necessary to for damages for, when, later, the highwa plan would have to be carried out in this section. The proposed purchase of the land for park purpos time also would result in follow the erection of any buildings in this area. 2 The construction which brought up the question was a dwelling in the course of building by Peter Vander- . jr., near Ashby place. building is on the Potomac avenue.. ) peared before the committee today and said, accordnig to Maj. Bro that he would be willing to suspend janne building operations for a period of 30 days in order to give the Government an opportunity to act on its condemna- tion plan. It developed that when the permit was given to Mr. Vanderloo to | build the dwelling he was not in-| formed at the District Building t his property extended over the pr posed line of Potomac avenue. Plats to Be Prepared. In an effort to obviate any action of this kind in the future at the Di trict Building plans were formulated by the co-ordinating committee today to have the District government pre- pare plats of the highw plan so that when a permit is requested for a building, if it extends over or into any of the proposed highways, the builder will be furnished one of these ! ™ plats in order to notify him of the danger he faces of later having his structure condemned as the highway plan is pushed forward. It was be- lieved by the co-ordinating commit- teemen that this action will save the Government many thousands of dol- lars in damages when they seek to condem land for highway purposes. Taking up the suggestion of Lieut. Col. J. Franklin Bell, District Engineer | Commissioner, that the committee | provide for a special trcatment of the area at Sixteenth street and Columbia road, so that traffic coming east on Columbia road and turning north into Mount Pleasant street would not jam traffic coming south on Sixteenth street, it was decidedl to pass this over because of the fact that the Sixteenth street traffic lights will be ! extended into this area within a short time. It is believed that these lights will take care of this situation but, when they are installed, the commit- tee will then make another study to ascertain their effect in clearing up this serfous traffic situaton. ; A rdietns 'WARM DAYS AHEAD. Thundershowers May Bring Some k Relief Tonight. Another stretch of “moderately warm” weather descended upon Wash- ington_today and indicated its inten- tion of-lingering for several days at least. The mercury rose steadily today until it had passed the 91-degree mark at 1 o'clock. Thundershowers were in prospect for the late afternoon, bringing some measure of relief for tonight. The forecast for tomorrow ever, with no definite Iness In { cott is ‘the clergy’s doing. However | such a boycott is fst unjust { the Catholie to show his | his faith is being persec | fore the clergy gives moral support |to the movement. although it did not | origin | to admit that it | constitutional provision | the reverence due to the sacred name sion at | its meeting on August 20 the recom- | mendation that the commission begin | | the purchase of all the land between | Potomac avenue and the shore lof the Potomae River in accordance % | solutely untr and Key | insinuation | an expression of a » | lence a saving | F0VY s at would to the Government the loss that iy e { municipal authorities. All the priests |give t | thought the archh Jauthority to supply Part of the | <ousht by the authorities roposed line of | Nanderloo ap- | crowds, largely composed of wos 1| would not even permit t CATHOLICS INSIST LIBERTY DOES NOT EXIST IN MEXICO Episcopate’s Declaration De- nies Prelates Caused Present Dispute. WOMEN HALT CLOSING OF CHURCH ANNEXES Government Officials Credit Clergy With Preventing thysical Racounters: By the Acsociaté] Press MEXICO CT¥Y, August 3.—The Episcobate, replying in a statement to tne manifesto issued Sun, by the Regional Confedera- tion of Labor to chambers of com- merce throughout Mexico, gives de- nial to the assertion of the confed eration that complete liberty exists in Mexico. It also denies the confed eration’s statement that the present religious controversy has been brought about by the Catholie clergy of Mexico tematically refusing to obey the laws and the constitution of the republic and by urging the people to disobey them The statement says the ecomomic boyeott called by the National League for Defense of Religious Liberty not the work of the clergy. It ¢ terizes as untrue th confede insinuation that t has acquired_obligatio apitalistic forces.” puerile for the confederation nt to defend liberty of thought while the confederation sup ports laws violatirg such libe | says the statement ¢f the Episcopate. It is untrue that the economic bo: federation decls unlawrul not te one's self. Fu is justified b economic eris . it will at least tem- v settle a definite and deep moral crisis, compensating for it by transitory self denial. Denies Clergy Started Idea. othing is more natural than for grief when ted. there. ate with the clergy is candid for “It of law, even if it is an outrage on natural rights and not an expression of the will of the people, but instead Afty combination of armed gro The episc Church “has aequired obl with capital istie international It declares that the confederation was “contim its slanderous task to brinz about n of ideas with the purie opinion in Mex All eight members of three directorates of the League for Defense have been released pending formal trial. The courts continue to examine and release Catholic priests charged » register with the under bail same explanation. that they op the proper the information Guanajuato dispatches say excited en, prevented the autherities there from closing any of the Catholic church s, which measure the govern ment ordered applied throughout the | country for the purpose of protecting | chure | was sett property until the situ Women ar Off Seals, The women. thinking at first that {the places of worship were being i clos | When they learned that the annexes |and not the churches were d. formed around the officials. o be sealed, they announced that they at—and. ac- made good cording to the dispatches their promise. The officers succeeded in sealing the | door of one building. but the women { promptly tore off the seals. The dis | patch does not indicate that there was v physical. clash. A curious incident is reported to have occurred in the city of Cordoba during Sunday’s parade of workmen as a demonstration in support of the government's policy While the parade was going on, at noon, the church bells began to ring the Angelus. Instinctively obeying an old re- ligious custom, some of the paraders paused, bared their heads and bowed while vivas were stiil Leing shoused for President Calles 2nd his re ligious policy. Boycott Is Spreading. Counseled by their religious lea to keep to the paths of peace and mo eration, Mexico's Catholics today con- tinued praying for a solution of the problem resulting from the govern- ment's religious regulations and the Wwithdrawal of the priests from the churches. e ‘As a further protest, peopl¢ 11 many parts of the country are ceasing to buy anything except essentials, al- though the effects of this economic boycott, fostered by the League for Defense of Religious Liberty, thus far have not been appreciably evident in Mexico City. S Intermediaries -are quietly working in' an effort for an_ understanding. President Calles has t#fused the epis- copate’s proposal for a truce, condi- tional upon the government's suspend- ing its regulations pending a plebi- scite to determine the people’s will, but influential personages are seeking in- formal exchanges between the episco- pate and government officials, believ- ing an accord possible. Nothing in the present status contem- plates formal 'negotiations, and per- haps such a stage will never be reached. The effort is to secure some sort of understanding which would permit a _graceful suspension of the ‘conunuu on Page 3, Column 4.)