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i o THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., AUGUST & 1926—PART 1. QUEEN MARIE WORKING FOR TRIP —— e 24 PLANES FINISH 15™ 05 OF 700 SUPERINTENDENT FIRST LAP N TRIP Make Two Hops in Reaching Chicago in Ford Prize Run—One Delayed. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 7.—Twenty-four airplanes of various makes and models rested safely at the air mail fleld in Maywood, a suburb, tonight after completing in two hops the first leg of the second commercial airplane reliability tour. The Woodson plane, at first report- ed missing, was later located at Gary, Ind., from where its pilot, H. H. Gallop, reported he had been forced down by engine trouble. He planned to join the other 24 here to- morrow in time for the take-off to Milwaukee. The 25 airplanes contesting for a silver trophy donated by Edsel Ford left Detroit this morning, flew 127 miles to Kalamazoo, and this after- noon hopped to Chicago, 128 miles. The aerial tourists have an easy day tomorrow, with a 90-mile flight up the shore of Lake Michigan to Milwaukee. On Monday they will fly to St. Paul. 5,000 See Planes Arrive. Five thousand persons hailed the airmen as they arrived here, all 24 sailing out of the sky to perfect landings. The huge, triple-engined, all-metal Ford plane with an inclosed cabin, capable of carrying 10 passengers, the largest in the contest, was made the object of a rush by thousands of persons, but by the time it had taxied into line the smallest craft in the flight was upon the field and the big ship was, for the moment, de- serted. The “filvver,” a tiny Griggs Dart, was threatened with serfous dam- ake by the spectators, and to save it from being wrecked in the stam- pede to view it it was not wheeled into line but was taxied to the air mail hangar and hidden under the wings of a big air mail ship. Be- tween the top of the Dart and the lower wing of the mail plane there was room to spare. . S. “Casey” Jones, a veteran, was the first flyer to reach Chicago, whirling a Curtiss Orlole out of the eart. le was second in the contest last vear. It was not known whether he had won the $1,000 offered by the Ford dealers of Chicago for the best time from Detroit, however, as the officials had not checked against starting times tonight. Woman Is a Passenger. When the passenger riding with Teut. John Paul Riddle in a Waco plan stripped off cap and she was revealed as Mrs. \hry of Cincinnati, Ohio, the only man in the race. She is not yet a pilot, but the ship in which she is riding will be hers after the tour, and she expected to drive it. Her son, T. Highee Embry, is associated with Lieut. Riddle in distributing planes. Vance Breese, piloting a Ryan monoplane, motored with a 200- horsepower Wright whirlwind en- had not enough flying for the and after checking in went aloft 1 exhibition of loops, slips. and zooming. He sent his powerful mount_stralght into the skies and his run for o take-off measured less than 50 feet One Plane Out of Gas. The Babcock plane, piloted by A. F. Everett, with B. C. Babcock o Akron, Ohio, as a the only one of the : en route. He was nearly to the air ng nicely when his exhausted. He mail field, going oline supply wa came in an hour late. The Ford trophy is the big prize he contestants, but $20,000 in cash | also offer an incentive to the f the larger planes. es of planes are in the the smalles type in- with vited as a matter of general interest, £1,000 being that group. JONES STORE GROUP BUYS SANGER STOCK CONTROL Texas Purchases Will Be Nucleus of Department Chain Over Country. By the Associated P offered the winner in ST. LOUIS, At ~Purchase from Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc., St. Louis, of a controlling interest in the $14,000,000 Sanger Bros. stores of Dallas, Waco and Fort. Worth, Tex., was announced tonight by Chester L. Jones, president and general manager of the department store of Kansas City. Mr. Jones, as president of a recent- 1y formed corporation, the Chester L. Jones Stores Corporation, which will control § . Inc., will go to Dallas shor to take over direction of the Sanger stores, which are to form the nucleus for a chain of department in the larger cities of the cc Jones Mr. Jones ctor and large stockholder in_the Mercantile Stores Co., Inc, of Nev York City, which owns and operate department stores in large cities, but the Sanger purchase has no connection with this organization, the announcement say: tifel, Ni & Co., Inc, chased the S tores Anti-Rust Coat Permanent. Dr. A. V. Blum, a Swiss scientist, has perfected an anti-rust paint th s will endure permanentl c. His discovery is held important because the expendi- ture for paint to coat iron construc- tion and other anti-rust expenditures amount to more than £5.000,000,000 annually at the present time. e = Real Baby. From the Boston H . b s been called She 180, nd she Little Ma d “baby” by her aunts and uncles. got a baby brother not so long Nvhen her uncle 1lled one d greeted her with, “Hello, bab, looked at him and frowned “Don’ call " her haby, ‘cause we got a real baby now Uncle Pete, Workhouse Inmate Rich. Tmtil recently an inmate of the workhouse in Manchester, lingland, Wiiliam Higgins has returned to a of aMuence through the inherit. nce of $35,000 from a recluse, ¢ Jones, who was found dead in a houss in the slums. Higgins was her nephew ete g Some Style to Dolores. From 1 ston Herald Dolores complained of a sore throat and her mother called the doctor. “It's another case of the fashionable measles going around,” was the ver- dict. On_returning to proudly told the teacher siylish measles, not one."” school, Dolores T've had the the common Fast Dash Into African Swamp Enables Dr. Mann to Escape. Six Fine Young Gnus to Be Brought Back to United States. Caught in the path of a stampeding herd of 200 African-buffaloes was the perilous experience of Dr. William M. Mann, superintendent of the Na- tional Zoological Park, who now is heading a big game expedition in the Tanganyika territory of East Africa for the Smithsonian Institution. Dr. Mann and his companion, a na- tive boy, escaped arter a fast dash through a swamp, in which they sank ankle deep in mud at every step. The stampede started when the boy fired into the herd. ‘The two were saved when the herd broke and went thundering away in two directions. Capture Gnu Calves. Dr. Mann's latest letter, In which he describes this experience, is from Lake Manyara, in the Kenya colony. The expedition already has made con- siderable progress in its collections, which include six gnu calves. Dr. Mann believes he has an excellent op- portunity of getting these home alive. Extracts from Dr. Mann’s latest letter received by the Smithsonian Institution follow: “After securing a number of Wam- buru men and having obtained por- ters from the Sultan at Umbugwe, we headed for Lake Manyara. A file of 63 men took our equipment. At first we followed elephant paths through high grass and ampy land, and then into open, dry mimosa scrub, and finally on to the broad flat near the shore of the lake. “Then things commenced to hap- pen. We saw a small herd of giraffe just as we left the forest, and on the flat there was a mixed herd of gnu and zebra some 200 strong. Drove Herds Ahead. “As we walked along the shore of the lake we kept driving the herds along ahead of us until T do not know how many there were in all. “Two days of easy going brought us to the camp here, by the side of a stream that directly behind us tumbles in cascades for about 700 feet down the mountain. “Our natives consist of a head man from Uganda, a cook from Rhodesia, a camera assistant from Zanzibar, and the two tribes Umbugwe and Wam- buru. The latter are a fine lot. “The other day while stalking a gnu, I saw a fine male lion stalking a herd of impalla that paid not the slightest attention to him, evidently knowing that they were more swift than he and therefore not in any danger. They ran from us, however, and attracted the attention of Mr. Lion who walked slowly back into the bush. “On our return from this jaunt the herd of wilebeest or gnu kept in front of us, three bulls staying behind and shaking their heads and tails at us. Finally they rounded a bend of the shore and when we got near camp we saw the lot in the woods half a mile inland. Young One is Captured. “The lake here extends almost to the foot of the hills. Several of us crouched in the bush and one crept through the bush back of the herd and started them up. They galloped along the shore of the lake until they were near us, when we jumped up with the loudest vells possible. The herd scattered; some shot into the bush, some passed us, and others turned about and went back along the lake: but 30 or so took to the water. There was a young one with them and we went after it, running it into a reed bed where we finally got a rope over its neck. It nearly got one of our boys; but we rigged a car- rying case from a gunny sack and two poles and got it into camp. “It is about six months old, fine and husky and feeding well, and there is a splendid chance of getting it home. It is in a little coral 20 feet from where I now sit, calmly eating . It was a beautiful drive, no- v hurt and everybody tired, even the herd of gnu. ur camp Is full of small stock dy. Our boys sprinted after a baboon troop and captured three voung ones. We have some cages of hirds, & moongoose-like animal that I have never seen before, and the young gnu. DR. WILLIAM M. MANN. 1250 ROOM RENT STIRS BIG INTEREST 40,000 Circulars Requested on Apartment Project for U. S. Workers. Evidence of the interest taken by Government employes in the District of Columhia in the plan for construct- ing apartments to be leased at a low rental was given yesterday when the various departments and inde- pendent agencies asked the Commerce Department for nearly 40,000 circu- lars and questionnaires to be dis- tributed among the employes of the Government here. Further details of the proposal an- nounced Friday by the Commerce Department, were not forthcoming. Neither the name of the individual who has offered to construct the apartments nor the location of the proposed buildings “within 10 minutes of the business center of the city” could be ascertained. Commerce De- partment officials explained that these announcements were being held up to await the reaction from: the em- ployes, and to find out how, many Government workers are interested in the proposal which will make avail- able to them apartments at what is consldered cheap rent. Realty Men Interested. the announcement has also aroused great interest among real estate op- erators in Washington, who profess “We broke camp and started back [their inability to see how such a along the lake, and just as we large building operation could be were coming in, the game herds ran | financed on a rental basis of $12.50 a ahead of us. in the middle of the |room. afternoon the herd of wildebeest had | heavily Finance into charges would eat the income from such augmented to over 200, and they were | an operation and would virtually wipe rather tired. We walked steadily along, but they had been in front of | they us all day running backward and for- ward and doing a lot of prancing around. In the middle of the after- noon they tried to cut past us, We they became de- moralized and got into the water, this time in a deeper place than before. A short gallop youngsters. We dashed in close, the out even the smallest margin of profit, y. The announcement by the Commerce Department said the indi- vidual making the offer is actuated by purely altruistic motives and has no wish to enter into a speculative scheme for profit. Not all the 60,000 Government em- plo; in Washington will be inter- there tired out the | ested, it was pointed out, as many of them own their own homes. Others, herd passed us, there was all sorts of | officials declared, might not wish to confusion and splashing in the water, get behind the plan because of a sense and when it had quieted a bit I saw | of pride, which would urge them not six groups of our natives each with | to a calf, unhurt. with the one we had before we now have an even half dozen gnu calves. “We made hammocks of burlap bags and poles, with holes cut in the bur- One got away, but | charity, accept what might be termed Proceed with Questionnaire. In the meantime, however, and in the face of denials from real estate lap to put the calves' feet through, | dealers that the scheme is feasible, and got them here where we have | chief just made camp. Now they are teth- ered to trees, and all but the young- est are contentedly munching grass. To collect a fine herd of good antelope in an hour without hurting an adult or getting any boys wound- ed is for us an event. “Life in camp is interesting. As | Libbey is out of the city clerks of the Government agencies in Washington went ahead distributing the questionnaires. Some ve already been turned in to Chief Clerk Libbey of the Commerce De- partment, although it is expected the bulk of the returns will not come in until the middle of next week. Mr. today. In soon as we stop marching our cook | his absence other Commerce Depart- starts a fire and dinner, using a plece of corrugated iron as a stove. shoot a bit of game each day. So far we have eaten wart hog, bush buck, reed buck, gnu, Egyptian goose, spur winged goose, ducks, guinea fowl and francolin. ment officials declined to comment on ‘We | the proposal, which has been placed in his hands by Secretary Hoover. An_expenditure of $66,000,000 to construct 266 buildings of 75 apart- ments each, in which 60,000 employes. This game, with our other {or 20,000 families would be housed, supplies, has made living comfortable | would be required, James P. Schick, for us. packs (each man carries 50 pounds on his head), our tents go up, and in an hour we are having dinner. Mosquitoes Not Excessive. “Mosquitoes are only moderately abundant. Flies are especially bad about native villages, and belts we have fed hosts of While these do not carry sickness here as they do in the: most pers ent. “Our boys live on posho, which is sround native corn or rice. Each gets 2 pounds a day, and in the evening etse flies. anda Our other natives unload the | executive secretary and tres in_some | plan not feasible, Mr. are nevertheless nasty biters and {er surer of the Washington Real Estate Board de- clared. Such buildings, he added, would be of a comparatively inexpensive type of construction. On the basis of $12.50 a room, the finance charges involved in the construction of such buildings and their operation would make the Schick said. He probably not enough =aid there fis sleeping | ground within 10 minutes of the busi- ness center of the city on which to t such a group of buildings. Wants Employes’ Names. Edmund J. Flynn, an authority on co-operative apartments, last night de- they line up and come one by one tolmanded that he be supplied with the get the allowance, each holding out a part of the rag he wears as a_cup to hold it. When we get game they divide it with much gusto. There is no limit to the amount of meat th: a native can absorb. “At night they scatter in small groups and build fires, around which they sleep. The other night a lion coughed near us, and you should have seen them coming into the camp near the big fires. “We took a short cut back to Um- bugwe. Never take a short cut in Africa. For 5 miles we waded in swamp water up to our knees and in elephant grass so high that we could see only the back of the man in front. Then out on a plain where the ground was very hard and bumpy and ma our feet sore. We are in camp now. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 7.—Corsets, pet- ticoats and fear kept women 30 years ago from achieving athletic vic- tories such as that of Gertrude Ederle, Tom Robinson, swimming instructor at Northwestern University for 1 vears, sald toe Robinson coached Sybil Bauer, Dick Howell, Bob Skellun' and other notables. “A woman could not possibly have accomplished the same feat 30 vears ago,” he said, “for corsets and other ridiculously unnecesar clothing hampered her physical condition and deprived her of the muscular freedom s0 necessary in the development of a good swimmer. The complete con- Modern Garb and Conquest of Fear Held Key of Channel Swim Success quest of fear will do more to bring about the development of the woman athlete than almost anything else. As far as physical strength is concerned, women, since they first got into ath- in 1900 have shown a prowess to men. “Physical education has brought hout an evolution of common sense that has wrought a complete turn- over not only in woman's phy: condition, but in her whole mental at- titude. It has taught her how to dress sensibly and comfortably; it has taught her to think more freely and it has helped her to enjoy life as she never had a chance before. As a result it has brought about a new race of woman athletes.” BRITAIN LAGS IN PHONES. Fourteen Other Nations Large Number Proportionately. By Cable to The Sta oy LONDON, August 7.—Great Britain has fewer telephones in proportion to her population than 14 other coun- tries, including Iceland and Hawaii. These facts were brought out by the Association of British Chambers ot Commerce in urging that the tele- phone and telegraph be separated from the postal services. ¢ The United States has six times as many telephones per 1,000 inhabi- tants as Great Britain has. Other countries in which telephone usage precedes Great Britain are Canada, Denmark, New Zealand, Sweden, Norway, Austria, Switzerland, Ger- many, Holland and Luxemburg. Have Dutch Smuggle Playing Cards. By Cable to The Star THE HAGUE, August 7.—So little money has been yielded to the Dutch government by the tax on playing cards, put into effect in May. 1920, that a bill has been introduced into Parliament to abolish it Wholesale smuggling of unstamped cards has cut down the revenue. Lived Under Six Monarchs. | Miss Jane Lane Raby, who recently | died at Bath, England, at the age of | 106, had lived under six monarchs in England. She was a child under the reign of George III, and successively remembers the reigns of George 1V, William IV, Queen Victoria, Edward VII and George V. Her family is SHERIFF DIES IN DUEL. Dry Officer Near Death as Result of Battle at Courthouse. BLUEFIELD, W. Va, August 7 (). —C. Pridmore Fleming, sheriff of Dickenson County, Va.,, and pro- prietor of the Fleming Hotel at Clintwood, is dead and James S Mullins, State prohibition officer, is at the point of death as a result of a revolver duel between the men on the courthouse steps at Clintwood tonight. idosquitoes Yield Not. Assertions that bats will eradicate mosquitoes or materially reduce their number are without foundation, ac- cording to the Agriculture Depart- ment. An attempt to colonize bats to have them war on mosquitoes has been fabandoned by the department after | scientists discovered that the insect | pests live in vicinities of bat colonies without being molested. Fastnesses of the Soul. Meeterlinck. There are certain fastnesses within our soul that lie buried so deep that love alone dare venture down: and it returns laden with undreamed'of jew- els, whose luster can only be seen as they pass from our open hand to the | hand of one we love. Where Pie Is Necessity. From the Cincinnati Enguirer. “It says here that pie is almost a necessity of life,” said the Old Fogy, as he looked up from his newspaper. Do you agree with that statement? “No,” replied the Grouch. “Pie isn't names of employes who would be in- terested in purchasing apartments in the proposed bulldings.“if the public officials quoted consider that they have at|the right to supply the names of to purchase | employes who desire apartments to outside interests.” He made his demand “not only as a mat- ter of equal rights, but in the in- terest of the employes as well.” Contending that the co-operative apartment is the solution to the rent problem confronting Government em- Mr. Flynn said that if the s “who are aiding the interests which proposed to enter this field” will investigate the co-operative proj- ect he is now sponsoring, they will find that Government employes may purchase apartment homes in one of these projects at a cost of about 40 per cent less than the amount that would be necessary to obtain as rental on the same apartment, “because of the wastes incidental to rental, such as vacancies, uncollectable rents, etc.” Bought Land Before Rise. A local real estate concern years ago purchased large tracts of land at prices far under the present value, he said, “making possible a saving in that respect alone that would more than offset the fair margin of profit they ask in marketing these apart- ments” as compared to the prices that necessarily must be asked by this proposed new concern buying land at the prevailing rates. This concern, he said, is so well estab- lished here, that no new concern could immediately compete with it in the economies in construction o substantiate the foregoing claim, I quote figures on a Co-opera- tive apartment 1 now have for sale as a comparison with the figures quoted in the newspaper articles re- ferred to. This apartment consist- ing of two bedrooms, living room, kitchen, breakfast room, reception hall and bath, finished in hardwood floors, tiled bath with built-in tub and shower, is for sale on terms as follows: “Counting this apartment as five rooms (bath free), the initial pay- ment of $1,360 amounts to $272 a room. The average amount of the monthly payments applying to inter- est plus the assessment for operating cost is $38.57, which as an equivalent | of rent amounts to §6.71 per room.” DECRIES CABINET SLURS. Ramsay DacDonald Declares Per- sonal Attacks Demeahing. By Cable to The Star. LONDON, August 7.—Personal at- tack upon cabinet members is a low and demeaning game, whoever plays it, and if Tory leaders now feel its sting, they may improve their own be- havior in the future, says Ramsay MacDonaid. former Labor .premier of England, in a magazine article just published. “The pose of injured innocence un der personal attack is the least that any member of this government can assume with decency. During our government our private lives were ex- posed in the market places. - Sugar From Sawdust. By Cable to The Star. LONDON, August 7.—Sugar can now be produced from dry sawdust by treating it with a strong solution of hydrochloric acid, and the process is already being taken up in Great Britain, declared Dr. W. R. Ormandy at the Chemical Congress held here. Sixty-five pounds of sugar can be pro- a necessity of life, but it is an abso- |duced from 100 pounds of dry saw- noted for longevity. [ 4 lute necessity of politics.” dust. C >, LEON TROTSKY. BN s GREGORY ZINOVIEFF. It Is Reported That Trotsky Ts Now Supreme Ruler Over the Soviet. REVENGE.SEEKING BANG 1S CAPTURED Chicago Police, Hunting Foley Slayer, Find Rivals in Search. By the Associated Prees. CHICAGO, August 7.—The police out hunting for the slayers of John J. Foley, gangster and beer runner, shot to death by rival gang- < sterday, apparently met with competition today when they encount- ered a band of gangsters also hunting Foley's z s. John Sheldon, head of a gang of which Foley was a member, and Terry McGovern, another gangster, were caught by the police after a long chase. Both were heavily armed and the police said they were cruising in the hope of avenging Foley’s death. Additional evidence which the police claimed further linked Joe Saltis, head of a rival gang, as one of Foley's slayers, was uncovered taday while the hunt for Saltis, already identified as one of his assailants, was con- tinued. Five gangsters with Saltis as their leader have been identified from pho- tographs by witnesses as the men who pursued Foley to his death. The gangiand silence which has shrouded 14 slayings during the past six months in mystery was broken for the first time today when young Thomas Foley, brother of the slain man, risking the fate of others who have “talked,” named Saltis, during an inquest, as having threatened his brother’s life. He said that he feared the same fate as his brother. BY FLYING SQUADRON Charges of Violating Liquor Laws Placed Against Them—Capt. Burlingame Leads Raids. Ten persons were arrested on charges of sale and possession of liquor during the course of a_series of small raids by Capt. Guy Burlin- game and his flying squadron in va- rious sections of the city late yaster- day afternoon and early last night. Witnessing a collision at Sixth and D streets, the liquor squad halted their activities in order to arrest Charles Mason, colored, 1774 U street, on a charge of reckless driv- ing and bad brakes. Mason collided with an automobile driven by Mrs. Myrtle McDonald of Mount Ida, Va., as she was coming out of an alley. Mrs. McDonald was taken to Emerg- ency Hospital suffering from shock and bruises. Harry Junn, 1326 Ingraham street, fell afoul of the police in rear of 1330 Chester street southwest after po- lice say he had just bought two half pints and was charged with pos- session. Robert N. McDonald of Del Ray, Va., and Raymond O'Connor of Hume Station, Va., were arrested in front of 1510 Fourteenth street and charged with possession, and_the squad then raided 1510 Fourteenth street and report they obtained three cases of home brew. The occupants, they as- sert, escaped. Name for Baby. From the Boston Herald. Little Charlie Wood, 5, was present when his parents were wondering what his father’s brother would name their new baby boy. Charlie was in- terested, and looked up, with a twinkle in his eye, exclaiming: “I think a good name would be Kindling.” Man Held on Drink Charge. Allen Moran, 26.years old, 1436 V street, said to be an orchestra leader, was arrested by Precinct Detective A. D. Mansfleld at a cafeteria last night and later released on $500 bond. Mans- field reported that he saw Moran take TO U. S—MAYBE \ . Wants to Bring Prince Iliana on Democratic Visit to Friends. Trying Hard to Overcome Objections of Bratiano and Some Others. By Cable to The Star and New York World. PARIS, August 7.—Queen Marie of Rumania wishes to go to the United States this Winter on what she ex- pects will be the most successful per- sonal mission of her life. She has the consent of King Ferdi- nand and also that of Premier Avar- esco. But it is not yvet at all certain that she will succeed in going. Her trip is opposed by former Premier Bratiano, who, in or out of office, is the most powerful man in Rumania. ‘The Queen {s flooded with invita- tions from the United States. During and since the war she has come to know hundreds of Americans who wish her to visit their country, some because they like her and believe in her and others because they can thus have a Queen and princess as guests. For, if she goes, the young Princess Illana would accompany her. She has been trying to accept their invita- tions for several years, but never until a fortnight ago did she succeed in getting the Rumanian government to let her go ta America in the man- ner she desires, as Kurope's most democratic ruler on a social visit with- out a ponderous program of official engagements. Chafes at Delay. Queen Marie chafes at delay. her frank way she says: “I want to go while the people I know in America will still recognize me. I'm 50. I'm not always going to remain the same, you know.” Just before King Ferdinand came to France for the cure she got his con- sent and he persuaded Avaresco to let her take the trip in her own way. Bratiano i8 opposed simply because he_does not want the Queen to go in a democratic manner. But as soon as Bratiano learned this he became active, Prof. Lupu, leader of the Peasan party, also is opposed to the Queen’s going to America, and that is another obstacle. Lupu says Marie cannot pretend to be democratic when she obliged her son Carol to divorce his wife, Mme. Lambrino, after the birth of a legitimate child, because she was not_royal. He is against all political activities on her part. May Do a Little Match-Making. ‘What Lupu does not realize, how- ever, is that Marie, the renowned match-maker, ‘“mother-in-law of the Balkans,” has half in mind the mak- ing of a democratic gesture, if she ever gets to the United States, by raising no objection if her beloved daughter Tliana makes a rich Ameri- can marriage. Some of her American friends have been busy for months suggesting to Marie the names of eligible young American bachelors In with millions of dollars, but Marie is, keeping the question of choice to her- self until she has a chance to look the country over. Also she has not entirely given up hope of gettinig the Prince of Wales. Her royal cousins are worried over the whispers about the Queen's thoughts of getting an American son- in-law. It is going a long way, they say, for a queen to write for newspapers on how to keep young, and even far- ther for her to lend her name to help advertise an American cosmetic, as she has done. But to bring a plain American son-in-law into the royal family of Europe would be carrying her personal campaign into their own European circles, and this they con- AS MATCHMAKER QUEEN MARIE. sider going too far. To this, the Queen is supposed to have com- mented: “Iliana’s cousin, Princess Xenia of Greece, married young Leeds.” Bratiano Raised Objections. Marie first thought of accepting her many American invitations while Bratiano was still premier. But as a constitutional sovereign she was unable to go unless the prime min- ister and cabinet agreed. She tried to get Bratiano's consent, but he agreed only to an official trip, which was not what she wanted. He also in- sisted that she take with her Prince Stirby, Bratiano's brother-in-law. Although Stirby is a favorite of the Queen’s, she refused under these con- ditions. She said she wanted to go simply with Princess Ilfana and the ladies-in-waiting. It was to be feminine occasion, with no ministers and no official control. When Bratiano fell a few months ago, she began on Gen. Avaresco, who succeeded him. Avaresco saw no objections and was even pleased, knowing that 3ratiano had foiled her. Avaresco considered also it might prove good for Rumania, and would support his program of opening Ru- mania to foreign investment, to which Bratlano is opposed. The King agreed, partly because he is a very sick man. He no sooner arrived to take his usual Summer cure in France this year than he was ordered to Vichy for a protracted stay. 1liness Caused Delay. His consent having been given, Marie could go now perhaps before Bratiano could circumvent her. Iut Ferdinand’s illness is a cause of seri- ous concern and Bucharest is kept in constant communication with the doc- tors in Vichy. A fatal iliness for Perdi- nand, with Prince Carol still unrecon- ciled to his parents and living here in France with Mme. Lupesco, for whom he deserted his royal wife, would be a political event of first importance in Rumania. So she can hardly go now on that account, as well as because of natural concern over her husband’s_health. This has given Bratiano time to act. He has sent his right hand man, Constantinesco, from Bucharest to Vichy to induce the King to withdraw his_consent. The sending of Prince Stirby with Marie is still Bratiano's idea. Before he lost the premiership he even con- sidered appointing him Minister at Washington to have him there for the day he felt approaching when he could no longer oppose the trip. On the contrary, the Queen thinks the present is an admirable moment, be- cause there is no Rumanian Minister {at Washington to tie her up with a long series of engagements. If Ferdi- nand is improved by the Vichy cure she may have her way. TWO D. C. MEN FACE ASSAULT CHARGES Released by Maryland Justice on $1,000 Bond Each Pending Hearing August 17. Special Dispateh to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., August Thomas H. Wolkind, 1922 Sixteenth street, and K. Woolridge, 4606 Fifth street, Washington, were tonight re- leased on $1,000 bond each by Justice of the Peace John J. Fainter here on charges of assault and battery with intent to kill Harry West, colored, 1214 Sixand-One-half street, Wash- ington, on the Chillum road, about four miles northwest of Hyattsville, Friday night. The accused will be given a hearing before Judge Fainter August 17. Ac- cording to Constable Thomas H. Gar- vison of Hyattsville, Wolkind and Woolridge shot at a car occupied by West and another man whose name the officer has not ascertained. Gar- rison states that the cars collided, fol- lowing which he removed a_quantity of alleged liquor from the West ma- chine. A warrant is out for West's arrest and charge of having in his possession more than one quart of in- toxicating liquor in violation of the Prince Georges County law. Kenneth Woolridge of 4606 Fifth street now is out on bond here pend- ing action by the grand jury on a bribery charge which he faces jointly with Carl Ramstad, a tenth precinct policeman, who has been suspended. The two trailed a liquor car here from Maryland and sought to collect $100 from those in charge, according to po- lice records. Woolridge denies im- plication. GIRL FINDS LOST PEARLS. Paris Seamstress Receives $1,000 for Return of $37,500 Strand. By Cable to The Star. PARIS, August 7.—A pretty 18- year-old seamstress, employed in a Rue du Faubourg St. Honore dre making 'shop, recently recelved a $1,000 check as a reward for finding and returning the lost $37,500 pearl necklace of the Baroness James de Rothschild. While the girl was working in the shop and moving a pile of odd silk pieces she discovered the necklace on the floor. She passed it on to the department head and said: “They are most likely imitation pearls,” In the morning the seamstress read in the papers about the loés of the baroness’ pearls. She recalled that the baroness was one of the shop's customers, returned the pearls and received the reward. Chromium Used on Autos. Special Dispatch to The Star. DETROIT, August 7.—More than 300 radiators per day ‘are being plated with chromium in the plating plant of thé-manufacturers of a well known standard automobile. Cor- rosive tests conducted at the United States Bureau of Standards at Wash- ington show that chromium-plated steel will stand up under exposure a drink and put a bottle under his|to weather conditions much longer chafe. than will nickel plated parts. FLUORINE UNDER BAN. Gas Compounds Forbidden Preservatives for Food. By Science Service. GENEVA, August 7.—Fluorine, a gas related to chlorine, jodine and bromine, is poisonous to the system not only when a good whiff is taken of it, but also in long-continued small doses, according to Prof. H. Cristiani, a Swiss physiologist. Though traces of compounds of fluorine have been used as preservatives in food, they are now almost universally forbid- den. However, Prof. Cristiani has found that poisonous amounts of fluorine have been found in the food of animals living near certain fac- tories, where substances are thrown out Such animals wasting disease which affects the spinal column and lower limbs, while the bones become soft and lacking in marrow. He is now studying its ef- fect on man. ARLEN FINISHES BOOK. More Sophisticated Than “Green Hat,” Says Friend. By Cable to The Star. LONDON, August 7. — Michael Arlen, one of the late Summer ar- as these H rivals, has been living quietly un- detected in_the country for over a fortnight. He admitted that he has been putting finishing touches on his latest book, soon to be published, whose tentative title is “Two Young Men in Love,” although this may be altered before American serialization next year. One of Arlen’s friends seen the manuscript declares it is much more ‘“sophisticated” than “The Green Hat,” and that libraries would doubtless ban it if they dared, or if it were written by an unknown author. Copyricht (New York World) Publishing Company, who has Press VATICAN DENIES CALLES' CHARGES Osservator Romano Declares Civilization of Republic Due Entirely to Church. By the Associated Press. ROME. August 7.—The Vatican organ, Osservator Romano, in a lengthy article today denies the charge made by President Culles of Mexico that the Catholic Church for three centuries has absolutely domi nated that country, hindering prog ress and doing nothing for the better ment of the people “On the contra the article says the “triumph of * * * men repre. senting the most al and revolu tionary political cur: is responsi ble for all of Mexico's troubles. The article, entitled “F turfes of Catholicism in Mexico,” is looked on as expressing the views of the Pope, and as the most important statement of the Holy See viewpoim since the beginning of the religious cricis in Mexico. Outlines Religious History. “While the government puts Mexico to iron and steel,” says the articl “to destroy—if it were possible—all traces of religion among the people while the whole civilized world is indignant about a persecution recall ing the first centuries of Christianity it is strange that the government tries to blame the church for eve: which qualify as a religious crisis and attributes the unanimous indigna tion of all civilized peoples to thet ignorance of Mexico's religlous his tory."” Then the article goes into details of Mexico’s religious history, pofnting out that the foundation of the state out 'S 80 antagonistic as the sible through the work of the clerg: If it had not been for the church,” it adds, “Mexico's history would have been like that of certain African and Asiatie colonies, where materfal civi lization, unimproved or little fnfln enced by Christian spirit, is abso lutely incapable of elevating the na tive population to the level of civili zatfon necessary for peaceful fusion of races into & people able to work out their own destiny.” Holds Church Hampered. It is admitted that the church's work has been less efficacious in re- cent years, because the “revolutionary government has favored the Protes- tants, attacking and injuring Cathol- ictsm."” After offering examples to prove that the church, rather than the gov- ernment, worked out the civilization he people, the article continues: -President Obregon, having lost an arm in battle, refused to be treated ept by a Catholic sister, fearins at any one else would betray him. When he offered her money, she re- fused, saying: ‘I act only for love of God, who orders us to love and help even our enemies.’ Now a_governmental communique accuses the Catholics of caring only for material goods, which have been taken away from the church. * * ¢ “In Mexico, as in other American countries, prosperity, internal peace culture, civil progress and the splen dor of art testify to the time when the church exercised its beneficent in- fluence, contributing not only spiritu ally to the young states, which were born Catholic and progressed on the road to Christian civilization, but con- sidering the sovereign civil power in co-operation with the sovereign re ligious power for the supreme ends of human society The article conclude “Events of the last 50 years show the existence of a destructive retro- gressive process, hefore which Cathol- icism has the glory to be able to affirm that it has been most frequent ly the favorite victim, whatever may have been the purposes or successes of the ambitions and forces in conflict.” T00 BLASE FOR BOAT. 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