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3 north and northeast winde. 1 Highest, $3, at 5 p.m. vesterda i lowest, 62, at # a.m. today. Full 'report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 20 WEATHER. (T. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight: tomorrow increasing cloudiness and glightly warmer; gentle WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Fpening service. Saturda; Star. Associated Press The only evening paper in Washington with the news 's Circulation, 88,582 Sunday's Circulation, 103,350 No. 30,050. post office, Entered as second class matter Washington, DC WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1926—THIRTY PAGES. b (P Means Associated TWO CENTS. Press. . EMBASSY DISOWNS CLEMENCEAU'S JAB ATU.S. DEBY PLAN No Official Significance At- tached to ex-Premier’s Letter, Says Charge. COMPARING AMERICA WITH RUSSIA RESENTED Outbreak of “‘the Tiger™ Seen Part- ly as Attack on Poincare to Block Ratification. to the Clemencean letter, although it FRENCH RESISTA By the Associated Press, PARIS, August 9.—Whatever may be the effect of M. Clemenceau’s open letter to President Coolidge in the United States, it is considered that it wil} strengthen that section of M. Poincare’s cabinet favoring a post- ponement of action on the ratification | of the Washington debt pact. | The wartime premier's sudden in- cursion into the arena of pelitics has {made a good impi m both in po- {litical circles and among the general | public. It is almost unanimously ap Iproved. A notable exception, ever, is Le Matin, which is regarded as being close to Premier FPoincare. Stephane Lauzanne. in an article in | LLe Matin under the caption “A Guilty Party Rises in Accusation,” ohserves how- | NCE TO DEBT TERMS STIFFENED BY “TIGER”| Appeal to Coolidge Meets Nearly Unanimous | Approval—No Action by Parliament Until After Recess—Poincare Organ Replies. of which M. Clemenceau was one of the principal authors and that there- fore M. Clemenceau would be better advised to continue to preserve the silence he maintained for six vears, instead of maKing the situation harder “by abusing an ally Discussion of the agreement with the United States and Great Britain will not come up in the Chamber of | Deputies until after the coming par- ‘liumemur,\' recess. ‘This was made certain to when the cabinet | meeting failed’ to touch on the.sub- ject. | 7 M. Franklin-Bouillon this after- noon told the foreizn tee of the Chamber, | president, that the government had informed him it had no_intention of ing to be heard hy the commitee debt ratification immediately. left to follow whatever procedure it wished, | as the government would not ask the | Chamber to discuss the ratification | before the rec He also said he understood, al- | though he was without official in- formation on the subject, that M. Berenger. the French Ambassador to the United States, would not be re- (Continued on Page 5, Coltimn 1.) n | Therefore the committee v 5 that M. Clemenceau, believing that = ; . |“the lamentable debt business” not The' French embassy today offi- | i g b e oAy oM sufficiently troublesome, has decided ernment held "‘r responsiblity for to make matters worse by writing a the open letter written by Goorges [18Her to President Coolidge which i = g £ 1a veritable indictment of America and Clemencesu, war-time premier of {7 FEEE0E France, to I'resident Coolidge on war | * i e BE N WA The_writer goes on to say that the Qi) ~ount (e Saxtiges; icharge § Wnoletaoublemaniits prigtniin aincace daffaives ai the French embassy, came the emphatic assertion that there was no “official” ificance had come citizen of his country. The first intimation he had, that there was such a letter M. de Sar- t was when he opened the from a very distinguished newspapers this morning At the Treasury here officials main- | tained silenc explaining 'h"i l-tter had been addressed to President | Conlid Part of European Politics. Elsewhere in Washington, however, it was believed among those who have been keeping close to the situation in ope that the Clemenceau out- ak, which has been greeted with | much enthusiasm throughout Fran ling to the French press, is an other indication of the political cur nts, which have been active among | iropean debtors, and which may have been responsible also for hi recent by Winston Church: on the Amer n debt situation M. Clemenceau, it was explained. is | & political opponent of long standing | of the present premier, Poincare, and | it would be a strategic thing fo him | to come forth with such an open let- | ter to the I'resident of the United States just as the Poincare adminis- | wation was making plans to straighten its fiscal aftuirs and to ob- tain Yatitication by Parliament of the Franco-American debi ty Shur. | Should Clemengeau, with his frank almo: bitter letter, in which he cast @sporsions on the motives of the | United States, succeed in stirring up | enough sentiment in his_country to | infu rliament and unfavora bly aff vote there on the Amer jean agreement, such action, it was | pointed out in some quarters here, | would not only be disag cantageous | care, but advantageous to the himself, Accordmz to dis- from war- | are previle of { the * BACK TO HIS CAMP Throng of Relatives and Friends Go to Station to See Him Leave Boyhood Home. BY J. RUS LL YOUNG Staff Correspondent of The Star ON BOARD PRESIDENT'S SPE CIAL TRAIN. Rutland, V't ugust 9.—President Coolidge said good-by to on his way back to the Summer White House in the Adirondac Back of the smile there was per- haps a hint of a tear. The President has thoroughly enjoyed his little out- ing on the slopes of Vermont hills, where he wandered and romped as a boy. lie is going back to hard work and Nty of it. he letter of Clemen, at France could not po Berenger-Mellon debt settlement interested the President this morn- ing, but the interest was unofficial. Letter Held Unofficial He made it quite clear that he does not intend to take cognizance of M. Clemenceau's composition. He regards it as entirely unofiicial, As he boarded his special ¢ Ludlow a report arrived that York newspaper carried a stor on Sunday President Coolidge had talked with President Calles of ‘Mexi- co over the lpng-distance telephone. The President’s ad TS were unani- can_ declaring DIy accept t car at New that the French people CONSIDERS ISSUE CLOSED. i President Lets It When confronted suddenly with the | tnternational on, Mr. Coolidge | < in his Plymouth home with Coolidge emoved from qu of Government and with only a vate telepho Be U. S.| president Coolidge in international re.|©f Buffalo, Hilda and Howard Tim- Deals Only with Diplomats. | lations knows, it was indicated. that n of Farnham, brother and f { he would no more think of calling up Anna Lange of Silver Creek. PLYMOUTH, Vi, August 9 (®).—|president Calles, even if it were and Gladys Bronson of Brant Gdent Coolidge has let it be ! phvieally possible, than he would |and Anna Hartmann of Buffalo. known that the negotiations for the | think of taking a train for Mexico | Blaine Nichols, 18 years old, of Buf- funding rance’s debt to the | City, | falo, who was caught in the sweep at United w0 far as uch communications as he wishes nt, said it seemed as though he concerns his ad . to address to Mexico are sent through | had suddenly stepped off a ledge into The open letter tormer Premier | regular diplomatic channels, deep water. Then came the rush of Clemenceanu of to Mr. Cool- _ 3 | water back from the beach like a mill sdge. made publ v U night, No Display of Feeling. vace, he said. Although Nichols is a G e that the present deht | Several score men and women were | 00d swimmer, he could no more than eement is impossible of fulfill- fa Plymouth when the President ieft, | H0ld his own against it, and once re ment, has resulted not only in this{Most' of them were Ve " |leased from the grip, swam 15 minute definition of the position & | rrienan andinelves ot the | before he could” touch bottom again. zion Governn but also of [ family. It was typical of the ch .| reek A i the assertion that the A i Gov- Hter of these »».I| Mountaineers that | bl it i | ernment intends to conduct its rela- fthere was absolutely no demonstra- | _Brant, at the mouth of Catta- ons with the French people through | tion raugus ¢ . hove the brunt of the | their duly constituted diplomatic au-{ About five minutes before resident | Wave's impact .because of the volume N | Coolidge got into his automobile to [ Of water that ‘sushed up into the| position of the President was {start for Ludlow, and the special | creek and swept back into the lake old home in the Vermont | train, a_man and woman hobbled up | a8ain. hill st of the letter was given | the road. Most of those who lost their lives him by the Associated Press, and,! They were "nele John" Wilder | Were members of a party from the without = the text of the let- fand his wife, “Aunt Sarah.” Mrs, | Lafayette Avenue Baptist Church of ter, the f his position was | Wilder was the President’s mother's | this city. made i Detailed com- | sis Roth of them are over 80. The \beach where the tragedy oc- ment was withheld, however. | President Coolidze spied them | curred is about 7 miles west of the K | standing unobtrusively in the cor- | Buffalo municipal bathing beach at Deliberates on Reply. | Y Angola, where more than 10,000 per- | ions pri ner ger con tact with Washi nd the Sum mer executiv e at Paul Smiths, N. ¥ With natives W lingering tongsts kept at e by a cor- | don of secret s men. he was ! resting in the seclusion of his family. Informed of menceau letter, Mr. Coolidge ¢ considerable per- iod gave no indication of his reac- He could be seen acasionally v window walking s house, stopping at t fire in 1 three ye: the of his position o Department in Buropean i circles as to whether he might hold debt funding conv ms abroad. | Mr. Mellon is to conduct no such | negotiations, it was said, if for no other reason than t his authority has largely lapsed under the law inj | was mous in declaring that such a report too ridiculous” to warrant se rious attention. Any one who knows the habits of ner of the vard and he hurried down. hat in hand for He had a_ warm hand cle JBhn" and a kiss Aunt Sarah. is probable that President Cool he e will_revisit Plymouth bef zoes back to Washington. M the people expect it, anyvhow. Will Arrive This Afternoon. They firure that the homing instinct is just as strong in a President as it would be in one of them. The spec on which he came fr acks. It is routed over the Rutland | ailroad and the New York Central. he President is due at \White Pine Camp about 4:30. standard time. President Coolidge spent a quiet Sunday at his old home. Mrs. Elmira Goodhue, Mrs. Coolidge’s mother s from Northhampton to In the afternoon the Pres- Mrs. Coolidge attended services in the Union Church, just s the road o pastor motore luncheon ident and as Nev. 11 A terson, J.. who is vacationing in Vermont. Most of the congrega tion were friends and relatives of President Coolidge. SReveral hundred sightseers who had heard where the President meant to worship tried to get in the church. i They had to content themselves with | listening at a distance to the sermon | and the singing. Thelr reward came (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) Plymouth with a smile today and is| 1 train is the same one | m the Adiron- | Phillips | that field mission has completed its work & pegotiations Al funding s except that | with France have ratified by the respective Parliaments of the countries conc three mino negotiated BRITISH SUBMARINE SINKS | Five Belie Goes Under in Harbor. | ish admiral marine H port Basin It was feared that five lives were lost. the American Debt Com- | concluding eements, | \d further ned. and only two or ements remain to be | | . boxing next ved Lost on H-29. Which | tions foi Augnst 9 UP) —The Brit- | announced that the sub- || 9 sank today in the Deven l t | will be while undergoing repairs. are to meet month, serfes of articles exclusively Their introductory today champion a their battl api r in found Page 18. The Dempsey and Tunney The world's heavyweight nd the challenger for his title, who in New York have been en- gaged to describe prepara- e in a pea Star. stories on ‘|| Vaughn of Southbridge, Mass., [1 BATHERS DROWN INMYSTERY WAVE Comber Pulls Strongest Swimmers Far Beyond Depths at Buffalo. Br the Associated Press. BUFFALO, N. Y. August 9.— Fleven persons are known to have been drowned by the “‘mystery wave' which swept Brant and Farnham beaches vesterday. Five other bathers at first reported missing were located later. No plausible theory of the visitation has been advanced, other than it may have been the aftermath of some re- |cent lake storm. Some of the bathers caught in its grip described it as a “tidal wave,” against which the strongest swimmers were powerless, and many of those who had taken advantage of the warm holiday to seek the beaches, could- not swim-a stroke. Almost unnoticed the great: wall of water surged forward through the ranks of the bathers and then back again in a resistless undertow which rried do vond their’ depths. Rescue Attempt. numerous rescues gnd unsuccessful attempts® to reams for help or to reach the wildly thrashing arm of a_helples: victim. At least one man, Heinie Car- stens, lost his life when he returned to the lake after bringing one girl ashore. He disappeared. far out, and hours later his body was washed in. Other known dead are: Eva_Was- ner of Buffalo, Elmer and Yvette Henry of Kenmore, John Augustine Lost il sons gathered Sunday afternoon and evening. Fewer than 130 were in the water at Brant Beach when the wall of water came in. The bathers, in- stead of being lifted hy re | were dragged under it as if by rope: | about their ankles. Some of the vi | tims never came to the surface again, | Even the strongest swimmers had difficulty in releasing themselves | from the grip of the undercurrent, Other Beaches Not Swept. Five of those rescued were hauled hore by means of a human chain | hing out 50 feet from the shore. | Francis Ulrich, farthest out in the | water at the end of the chain, would grasp the neavest struggling form, give the signal and all would pull away. Pulmotors were used to re- n occurred only at ccording to re. | ports along Lake Erie. Scientificall Uit was sald o be difficult of explani- tion One theory was that a slide of sand at the beach had occurred beneath the surface or that there had been a light earth tremor somewhere be- { neath the lake. Weather conditions vesterday were ideal for the formation | undertow such as caused the death of 11 persons at Brant and Farnham | beaches, Meteorolog! Weather Bureau said today. A steady mile northwest wind \was probably the cause, he believes. TWO CHILDREN DROWNED. {Sudden Comber at Maine Resort Sweeps Beach. | MOHEGAN ISLE., Me, August 8 (®).—Two children were drowned yes. |terdal" by a wave of unusual size. ! somewhat similar to that reported to have swept beaches near Buffalo, " Jacqueline Barstow, of Mr. and Mrs. James I New York, | by 11. daughter Barstow of a play- Imate, went to her rescue, but hoth | were washed to sea by the subse- quent undertow. Neither hody early today. fairs commit- | of which he is| of a strong t Spencer of the | [ 1 | | i had been recovered |cede to a demand th THE CORRECT MAKE-UP WILL CATCH THEIR EYE EVERY TIME. Cold and Lost Tug’ Balk Two Men Who| {Quit Channel Swim| | By the Associated Press | "DOVER, England, August 9— Lieut. Col. Freyberg, British World | War veteran, who ted from Cape ~Gris-Nez, France, at 8350 o'clock last night in an attempt to swim the English Channel, gave up ghe task at 5 o'clock this morn- ing owing to the coldness of the water. He had gone nine miles when he was forced to stop. Omer Perrault of Canada, who started on a similar journey from Gris-Nez at 8:37 p.m., returned to shore, after being two hours in the water, when unable to locate the tug which was to convoy him. 1 R WOULD OPEN POOLS 0 PUBLIC AT NIGHT §Dougherty Seeks to Make| Facilities Available to More Adults of City. i In view of lack of adequate public bathing facilities, Commissioner Proc-| tor L. Dougherty said today that he | | will take steps to open the municipal | bathing pools at night for adults. The new Commissioner pointed out that the pools were now idle at night | and that he believes it would be in the public interest to turn them over ENTIRE HALL STORY 10 BE TOLD AGAIN First Witnesses Called to Repeat 4-Year-Old Testi- mony in Rebuilding Case. By the Associated Press. SOMERVILLE, N. J., August 9.— Questioning in the reopened Hall-Mills murder investigation took a new turn today with the apparent decision of Stite police to build anew the story of what took place on the night in September, 1922, when Rev. Edward Wheelet Hall and Mrs. Bleanor Mills, his _choir singer, were slain. “The first persons at the spot where the bodies were found and other pre- liminary witnesses were brought in for questioning today. TH&y included: Operators of a trolley car which took Mrs. Mills to Bucceleuch Park where it is belleved she met the min- ister. Two women who were standing at the end of the car line when Mrs. Mills alighted. vker and his niece, Mrs. ards, _living near the m, where the bodies were found under a crab apple tree. Mrs. Edwards completed the telephone call when Raymond Schneider, who found the bodies, broke down while attempt- ing to notify police. Mrs. A. C. Fraley. living near the scene and who in the first investiga- tion, told of hearing shots while sit- ting on her front porch. Daniel J. Wray, formerly city editor of the New Brunswick Home News. and Frank M. Deiner, a reporter, who were among the first to grrive at the Phillips farm after findng of the bodies was reported. WIDOW'S ACCOUNTS PROBED. Reports That Wealth Swayed First Inquiry Investigated. SWICK, N. J., August 9 @) ating ~ charges t wealth had impeded justice in the first inquiry into the Hall-Mills murder, ac- countants ave at work on a transeript of the bank account and monthly statements of Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall. When the matter was referred to Mrs. Hall she at once conferred with her attorneys, and at her request they wrote the special prosecutor offering any information he desired on Mrs. Hall's finances, with the provision that there be no publicity. Peter Tumulty, gardener-chauffeur for the Hall family at the time of the murders in 19 was questioned by the Senator and his aides as to Tumulty's real estate transactions since the crime. He testified that he had purchased his present home n that of Mrs. Hall from the proceeds of the sale of two small pieces of property he owned prior to . FRANCE-RUMANIA TREATY LIKE OTHERS REPORTED Similar Amity Pact With Jugo- slavia All for Economic and Po- litical Ties, Also Initialed. ~ By the Associated Press PARIS, August 9.—Signature of a treaty of amity between Rumapia and France, equivalent to the alliances hetween Irance and Poland and France and Czechoslovakia, is report- ed from Bucharest. The report is neither confirmed nor denied by the foreign office, but it is admitted that, if the signature is not yet accom- plished, it is likely at an early date. A similar treaty between France and Jugoslavia is already initialed, and will probably be signed soon, completing the allianca of France with all the countries of the Little Entente. The treaty with Rumania, which is characterized of the same spirit as the others, will call for mutual de- fense co-operation in economic as well as political matters. FASCIST KILLED IN TURIN. Group in Revolver Fight With Band of Unknown Men. TURIN, Italy. August 9 (P).—An- as swept from her feet , gelo Bianchi, political secretary of the a sudden huge comber. Edward local Facist organization, was killed and a Facist militiaman was injured in a revolver fight today between a group of Facists and a band of un- known men who had refused to ac- themselves. b ] | | | | !tain after an expl | on mining operatios Trotsky Fugitive, Zinovieff Has Navy, Say Russia Reports By the Associated Pre: BUCHAREST, Rumania, August 9.—Reports of insurrection in Rus sia continue to reach the mnev papers here. The latest of these are to the effect that the Soviet fleet has gone over to Gregory Zinovieff and is attacking the southern littoral; that M novieff has been wound- ed, and:that Leon Trotsky is a fugitive. It is further rumored that the Soviet has ordered a general mobilization. Although there are neither de- tails nor corroboration from author- itative sources of these reports their persistency has led to the be- lief in some quarters here that there is a serious situation in Rus- sia. WARRANT ISSUED AGAINST FENNING Former Commissioner Faces Arrest on Charge of Park- ing Violation. A warrant was issued in Police Court today for the arrest of former Com- missioner Frederick A. Fenning, who failed to appear to answer to two charges of traflic violations. The warrant was issued by warrant clerk and sworn to by Police- man Aldo Stables, private of the third precinct, who charged that on Satur- d the former Commissioner ob- structed the entrance to an apartment house at 1800 K street and at the ime time parked toe close to another vehicle. Mr. Fenning today stated that he had found a ticket in his automobile Saturday after he emerged from an apartment house on K street west of Eighteenth street. The ticket, he said, charged him with obstructing the driveway. The former Commissioner, however, stated that when he parked he was not obstructing traffic lanes running up to the apartment house, but was some distance from the driveway. He said he gave police an oral explan- ation, and had heard nothing about the warrant being issued. Mr. Fenning added that he pre- sumed some one, in an endeavor to get out of a parking space, had pos- ! sibly pushed his car back a bit after he had left it so that it blocked the driveway to the apartment and that the policeman or some one else had pushed it back to its former position, where Mr. Fenning found it upon exiting from the apartment house. That is the only explanation he could find for the situation, he said. He added that after explaining the cir- cumstances to the police he did not think the case needed any further attention in reference to the ticket. $10,000 IN GEMS STOLEN. Two Robbers Hold Up Home of Evanston Manufacturer. CHICAGO, August 9 (®).—Two ung robbe well dressed and armed | with revolvers, invaded the | home of C. A. Bickett, a manufacturer on fashionable Ridge avenue, Evans- ton, toslay and held up the family. Mr. Bickett informed the police that jewels valued at $10,000 had been taken. Another Evanston home, that of David R. Fogan, vice chairman of the National Bank of the Republic, was ransacked by burglars recently, it was discovered last night, but the amount of the loot was not ascertained as the banker and his family are in Florida. U. S. ENGINEER KILLED. SANTIAGO, Chile, August 9 (P).— News has reached here from Chuqui- casata named Morrison, and four Chilean laborers are dead from a poisonous gas which was emitted from a moun- ion of dynamite Five other persons were made seriously ill by the gas. i ""‘“"lRad}o Progran;——Page 25 the | ) ! to adult bathers who are unable to, | make use of them during the day. | The recent torrid wave, he said, has | | impressed him with the need of public | bathing facilities and that plans for i been opened earlier in the Summer for | the use of adult bathers at night, but | “ ” H he explained that there undoubtedly Escaped “Cat” Terrorizes| ., 5i"e many more warm nights be Red Bank Section—Hunt- | opening the municipal pools at night | fore Autumn, when the pools can be | ers Seek Animal. 3 Sees Little More Expense. ! Commissioner Dougherty believes | that the municipal pools should have would offer a temporary solution. { put to good use. While the Commissioner has not vet | taken his plan up officially with his colleagues, he believes that it can be | carried out without much additional | iexppnse. Before putting the prop-| 1osition before the Board of Commis- | | sioners, however, he plans to disc: it with Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes, su-! pervisor of the Municipal Playground | Department. ‘The Municipal pools which Mr. | Dougherty hopes to make available | BY ROBERT T. SMALL. RED BANK, N. J.,, August 9.—All of oceanside New Jersey, greatest playground of the East, is waiting for the crack of a rifle in the dark, or in the daylight, to end its long suspense. It Is waiting for a’heavy thud on the ground, as a man-eating leopard, a creeping murderer, is| brought to an end. This roaming leopard, or panther, or “painter” as the colored folk of the South. used to call them, is getting on the Jersey nerves. Jersey is ac- customed to a lot of things in the Summer time—sea serpents, whales, for adults at night are on the Monu- ment Grounds, the Georgetown, Rosedale and Howard playground: The latter serves colored children The others are for white bathers, and | | under present schedule are open from |9 am. to 6 pm. Adults use the pools to some extent, but the prin- cipal patronage comes from children. Would Install Lights. mosquitoes, and fouryearold mys. | Installation of electric lights and : e employment of additihnal life, teries, and dizzy bathing suits and | oot EPCONRENE O acdidanal Hfe, everything, but the loosing of a leopard on the populace has been just < - 2 : one too many. It isa leopard that is | “‘\I}lx: L;’i‘;::;’d: ",Sf.‘,".'li Sit Illl(';S(}\ e eIt WUIocd tho) asiuns lare no funds available for ::f:m't:nr: | ‘;';‘_le’:;y“"mfllé‘;l{;‘;' eaving a hospital | the pools at night,and any additional The beast has been at large for | ®XPenditure now would mean a short- | several days. The cry of “tiger, tiger" | A€ in the playground appropriations | has sounded through the countryside | 'eXt Year. Late openings of the | and the Jersey citizenry has become Howard pool last y Lo Clhct embattled. Children are held indoors | (aused a deficit, which was made up for miles in every direction of this | DY newspaper subscriptions. place, for it was just outside Red | Supporters of Mr. Dougherty’s idea | Bank, at a sort of roadside zoo, that | believe that the solution is to go | the animal made his escape, shortly |ahead and carry it out and make up | after his arrival from Singapore. The |any deficit in the estimates for next 200 Is an inviting place; in fact there | year, soon to be approved by the are signs inviting everybody to come | Commissioners. Congress, it was in and have their lunch while lookng |sald, undoubtedly would approve such at the animals. A couple of playful [a deficiency appropriation promptl bear cubs in a small cage are placed | in view of its action in passing the outside as an inducement. The zoo is | bill authorizing two artificial bathing a new enterprise, but it did not coint [ pools. The necessary appropriation {/pon the publicity it is getting today. | was not provided, however. but is «sing a leopard is not a popular |likely to be granted at the next ses. | | gestion has been made that portable pastime—even in the wilds of Jersey. | sion. In the meantime, Often Report s ‘1‘un|ml.«:«l(m_fl' Dougherty wants to ported Sighted. provide relief for a sweltering pop. The leopard has been sighted on | ulace. some of the sportiest golf courses in this part of the state. He has visited many farms and firesides—all accord- ing to the report; but there have been tew real clews which could be followed. Several intensive hunts have been or- ganized in vain. ! So far the leopard has not visited any of the bathing beaches. He may have sighted them from afar and been defeated by the gorgeous hues | and colors of the modern bathing ('Ds-) MEXICO IS SILENT ON U. S. OIL NOTE ‘Cnlles Studies Communication Which May Be Intgnded to Aid | | tume. The leaopard probably has realized it would have to change its rather tawny complexion and its plain black spots if it wanted to make any sort of splash on the Jersey strand. As it could do neither, accord- ing to all the tenets of natural his- tory, the big cat has kept to the Sheffield’s Report. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, August 9. dent Calles and the foreign offic Presi > are Woods and the marshes. studying the latest note from the| Living on Wild Life. United States relating to the Mexi ! can oil and land laws. No comment Supposedly it is livi has been made on u 3 | ha 2 the note, and it has squirrels and other woodland animals. | no¢ Vet heen decided when reply will There is much speculation as to just | 1o’ Yoy » { how long . real denizen of the Jungle | be made. | can live in a country like this. The " last few nights have been cool, if not | AIthough nothing has been give cold, 80 most people are h |out by the United States emba: Ll oPINg the | Jhout the new American oll and land leopard will get a chill and pass away ! : with pneumonia. A report thar tay|note, the belief has been expressed |last leopard known to have escaped {in Well informed circles of Mexico City in this country was shot 150 miles |that it possibly might be the last word jand 30 days away from the point of [Of the United States before Ambassa- {taking the air has not been the most | 4o, Sheffield left for his vacation. | reassuring factor in the situation. It | The object of the note, it was| |is all too evident already that the|thousht, was to enable the Ambassa- | | present leopard has gone far afield, |dor to receive information so as to| All sorts of rules and regulatio be able to discuss the subject with for tracking and capturing jeopards | President Coolidge and Secretary of thave been looked up and none geems | "mte Kellogg when he arrives in the to fit the case. There is an old saying ! Uit S that to catch a wicked leopard you =t fait Sn 805 S for ame 1eoparns | WOMAN, 72, IS FOUND STRANGLED IN BED in this vicinity has gone unanswered. Paralyzed Husband Discovers Mur- on rabbits, Tennyson once sang about the tame leopards. Some lady heroine had her foot on one of them and “kittenlike he rolled and pawed about her i the new | everywhere. that an American engineer, | sandals.” Mothers Panic-stricken. The jungle cat which is alarming New Jersay is not that sort of kitty, however. He has a bad reputation. ‘The leopard, by the way, is exceeded |in size and ferocity only by the lion and the tiger. leopard was more likely to attack children than grown-ups has wrought | panic among the mothers of the ocean | counties. With an inborn love of adventure, | however. small boys have joined the jparties which have followed every {rumor of the leopard being sighted. Most of the kids have carried clubs or stones. Boy Scouts in particular have turned out in large numbers. anxious to do thelr good deed in rid- ding the countryside of its terror. The report that the | jmale folk in the volunteer stalking der on Awakening—Ciga- rettes Sole Clue. NEW YORK, August 9.—Mrs. Lena Tidar, 72 vears of age, was found dead in her bed today, strangled with rel. Her husband, who slept in the same room, discovered the body when he awakened at the usual time this morning. The couple lived {one room in the rear of their small store. tricken ago. No money was taken from the bed- room or the store. The only clue was package of a popular brand of cigarettes. The intruder had gained Mr. Tidar is deaf and with paralysis two was weeks in | i i 1 | | the episcopate 1o entrance through a window from a ' shed. CATHOLIC ANNEXES AND POSSESSIONS SEALED BY MEXICO All But Actual Piaces of Wor- ship to Be Held Pend- ing Agreement. REST OF CHURCH SCHOOLS LIKELY TO BE CLOSED Episcopacy Declares Respect for All Laws But Those Considered Violating Rights. By the Associated Press. ® MEXICO CITY. August 9.--All Catholic Church “annexes” and all church valuables, except actual places of worship, have been placed under government seal throughout Mexico until the present controversy between the Mexican government and the Roman Catholic episcopate is settled, it was announced todav by the de artment of the iuterior The Mexican government | taking oves th places, 3 church possessions are stored, ias st as the governmer new religio regulations went into effect, at inid night July 31, snd the Catholic pr ceased to perforn their offices in te: The nien eral days o il vem ting against the hife Calles because of his ttitude in the religious controversy were dis- charged today. Poliee oflicials an nounced that no evidei justifying their being held 1 W liad been found. Methodist Case to Le Kevived. The Catholic Episcopate issued a statement dec pect for Mexican law constitution, lexcept as they violats positive zhts of the chur tement <o expresses tl at a sug gested congr wient of done in a or another new religious liberal spirit nd not to of obstacle to a settienient It was stated today that the Mexico City District Court wiil vevive a o pending since 1920, sceking fo have declared national property two native Methodist churches in Mexico ¢ It was not thought that the cou action would affect the general situ ation, slnce the govermnent has wed ownership for more than 60 of all churel wroper +hicl it maintains the g ient merel lends to the cong 1= Mexico ¢ second Nund the eity'a life Cood crowds attended the otion picture theaters numbers as quietly tiough n generally. Replies 1o Statement The Catholic a statement to the in reply to one i co by Aaron Sae ter of foreign affa declared there was no persecut ing carried out by the Mexican gov- ernment, but that the tude of a “subversive character” that the dif ferent religious elements had been suming in Mexico compelled the gov ernment to enforce the provisions of Mexican law dealing with reli s affairs. episcoj As ted 1 Senor “Several times we have announced, and at present we d to de clare to the American people,” says the statement, “that as a duty of con science we respect, and teach our peo- Il fundamental laws s which are not opposed to the dictates of reason and the positive rights of the church. But regarding those secondary prin ciples, contrary to_that lberty of thought which the Mexican constitu- tion itself proclaims, it is impossible for us to accept them without amend ment. “To do otherwise would be treason » ourselves, and would place the Mexican constitution in « ridiculous position. Protestant Churches Open. Officfal announcement that the & ernment intended to enforce the glous regulations upon Prote churches ~ just as upon Catholic churches has had little outward effe. exico City's two Protestunt churches arrfiied out the usua vices yester- day and no move was made to inter- fere with them. worshipers en holic churel nquillity prevailed disorders were re ported from any part of the republic The Catholic episcopate gave no sign of abandoning its passive oppo- sition. The government on its part with equal firmness maintained that it must enforce the constitution of the country. The people for the most part seem resigned and willing patiently to t developments in the situation Meanwhile many of them are reduc ing their expenditures in accordance with_the economic boyeott called by the National League for Defense o Religlous Liberty, hoping to bring about depression in business condi tions of sufficient scope to cause the government to modify its religious at titude, Pastors Must Register. With regard to Protestant churches it is explained that the government in announcing that it would enforce the law as it applies to . il churches does not mean that the government will immediately seize or convert Protestant church property to its own uses, but will reserve the right to do so0 in the future der the contention that all church property belongs to the nation. All Protestant pastors will be re quired to register and give to the municipal authoriti an inventory of all church property, but each con- gregation will be allowed to use this property. It is the belief of the Catholic episcopate that several ernment leaders have been automatically ex- communicated fr the church by reason of their ude in the re- ligious controversy expressed in a This opinfon was tement made by question submit Taylor, elitor of ted by Dr. Alva the Christian Century, in the United States, who is at the head of a group of Amerfcan ministers and writers mow _ visiting Mexico. Thy (Continued on Page 4, Column 2) L]