Evening Star Newspaper, August 10, 1926, Page 1

— —————————— EATHER. (U, S. Weather Burgau Forecast.) Fair and warmer tonight; tomorrow W partly cloudy, followed showers in afternoon or Aemperatures Iiighest pm. yesterday: lowest, t today Full report on page 9. by thunder- night. . 8%, at 245 7, at 6 a.m. e - WS0K5]. * Enterad a5 Closing N. Y, Stocks and Bonds, Page 22 Entered as xecond class matte; Washington, @b 5 D.. ¢ WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. & “From Press to Home Within the Hour” 's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 94,373 AUGUST 10, 1926—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. (®) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS PRESIDENT T0 GET MEXICAN REPORT FROM SHEFFIELD Envoy’s Personal Statement to Be General, Rather Than on Church Row. ISSUE OF;-'ERS PROBLEM FOR CHIEF EXECUTIVE Is Expected to Tell K. of C. Leader Question Is One on Which U. S. Cannot Act. RUSSELL YOUNG, o Star BY 4 Sraft Correspon WHITE PINE 10— President firmed reports that James R. Sheffield, Ambassador to Mexico, is expected to ,arrive at the Summer \White House, and the inference s drawn that it will be within the next two or three weeka It s undersiomd when Ambassador Sheffield arrives he will deliver to Mr. Cooliige a confi- dential report on the controversy now raging between state and church in Mexico. 1t is thought also that he will give the President his ideas con cerning the probable effect of this present disturbance in Mexico on fo nd domestic trade. the AMP, N. ¥, hdge todas Angust n although, eign In visit from Tresident’s spokesma i1 plain, however i repor ment. and intima ence with the '+ e purpos diseus ation in a especially the v possibility of a 3 the confe wuld be for » Mexican pner nd not lizious controve Flaherty Case not Touched. the forth Sheftiel o troubled make any nes ion of sador 1 the present nor did he quest_of the Krights of permission at House 1o present a hreak with Mex- dopted Tast week by Vtion in Phitadelphia o impression has heen the P ent would prefer to My, Flaherty present his re o th {» Department rather than to the President in person. Al ' h it was vot said whether Mr. Flaherin's reauest for an audience Swith the President his mountain camp hos becn denied. it is believed by those assocmted with the P a heve that the resolutions Mr Flaherty has to submit first will be . up Secretary of State. Intim: Philadelphin were th number of officers an Whnights of Co Tt call upon the nake the presentation 1ait it is believed the 1d prefer to have come alone, and it I do so. The time t vet heen fixed. During his ¢ cominz visit « the President’s mention of o of Mexico, upen the 1 head jeo. the iven here that have anest h Matter Is Delicate, cate one, be religions na- 1erefore, in which the interfere. Kur feared in circles close it if the Knights become active in may g which is to meet in Wash September 3. an audience with That would sential he ix there effor m in th President feels s=ment involve the admin matter, which the 13 a_domestic problem ‘h Mexico will have to work out hest sha can, does not please him ecially i< thought that the 1,000,000 6 if Knights of mbus may raise Spent “for or propaganda may However and it is q idge will ¢ also etir herty will come prohable that Mr. Cool the position of the Gov fore him. =o th that | ve the Ku | Mr. | 1 fund which the ! ELDRIDGE PROPOSES PINK CARDS | FOR JAY-WALKING PEDESTRIANS ;Urges Adoption of Columbus System of Shaming % Violators of Traffic Signals—Favors More Automatic Crossing Lights. O. | street, E street from Fifth to Thir teenth street, Vermont avenue from Thomas Circle to lowa, Circle and Massachusetts avenue from North Capitol to Sixth street and from Thomas Circle to Twentieth and Twenty-second _streets, inclusive. It is estimated that the installation of these lights would cost $113,807. Mr. Eldridge’s letter follows part: “On Plans of Traffic Director M. Eldridge for controlling pedestrian | trafie, modifying the commercial vehicle regulation on Massachusetts avenue and the installation of addi- tional automatic traffic lights were revealed today in a communication he sent to the District Traffic Council. Mr. Eldridge requested the council's |advice on these plans before submit- tng them to the District Commis. sioner: A card system such as In use in | Columbus and other cities for warn {Ing pedestrians that they have vio- | lated the pedestrian cont ulation is proposed by Mr. Eldridge instead of : | modification in the commercial vehicle | U G EE O edes | regulation is contemplated 1o give a |ans el rebhebiy pYotecen sani | better distribution of truck traffic | controlled at intersections when there originating in the Genrgetown lare traffic officers and traffic devices. |and avolditorelng it through such | " “Notable results have heen achleved Phw st et (el 6 & andlin siocts, lin controlling and regulating pedes Iplan is te sextend the restriction | trian trafic in a large number of | against commercial vehicles an Massa ]M"P“ The SXpeLiEnce ot 1vnllln\|‘ll*. |chusetts zvenue from Fourteenth to | Ohic. may be cited as tvpical. That Twanty firer atreote instend . nf to | €Y oW has 3% trafclight controlled Dwenty-second street msiat present. (| (ntersections, lmiar to the “system in nee on Sixteenth street More Lights Proposcd. “When the system was first put into G i operation it was decided that pedes. J ‘a"l"t' \_n‘r‘r;fi'r_?‘m‘;‘f 'Iljl"'i‘;"m‘:{fh"‘ 1_'["“"'“ rian control shonld be effected by the | provides for the signals on Maryland | | avenue northeast from First to Fif. | |teenth street, Rhode Island avenue | from Towa circle to North Capitol in the theory that the original "t was intended to provide for regulations of motor vehicle », it was decided by the courts time #go that there was no au in the act to regulate, control or protect pedestrians on the streets. “It is proposed that this regulation control. Accordingly at each of the five principal downtown intersections (Continued on Page LATIN BLOC DREAM Column 1.) CALLES' BROADSIDE -~ CAUSESNEW STIR | e Vi | Tensity in Mexico Increased | by President’s Denunciation of Catholic Clergy. Italian-Spanish Pact Regard- ed as Last Lirk in Medi- terranean Alliance. BY JOHN GUNTHER. By Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily News. ROME, August 10.—Long impend- ing as a dream of Premier Mussolini, | a Latin bloc now looms up as a fact This is one of the many interpreta- tions voiced here result of the treaty of mutual guarantee and arbi- tration signed in Madrid yesterday between Spain and Italy. Ostehsibly, the treafs~is no mofe n a friendly handclasp between two powers traditionally friendly—it may be called a sort of Locarno for the Mediterranean. But in reality it is more. | With similar treaties already signed | between Italy and Czechoslovakia and Jugoslavia, between Ttaly By the Associate - | MEXICO CITY. August 10.—The situation sing from the govern- ment’s religious regulations and their rejection by the Catholics today be. | came more tense and more compli- cated. Pre issued his bitter the Catholic to an Ameri- ident Calles {est* broadside against clergy in a statement fean “good will mission:”” He charged the clergy with seeking wealth and political power, causing revolutions and bloodshed. and using their pul pits for seditious speeches, while | keeping the masses of the people | ignorant. | The Catholic episcopate continued unvielding in its refusal to accept | the government's regulations: there was no move to return the priests to | the churches, and the deadlock was | apparently absolute, with no pi pects of reconciliation. and Rumania, the Mediterranean in any direction for many hundred miles and find only | nations which have sworn official as | well as informal friendship. | the end which Mussolini's foreign pol- | icy has been seeking since its incep- tion. Ttalian press comment is with satisfaction at this “triumph for clean, friendly and formidable Fascist diplomacy,” as the semi-official Popolo di Roma puts it. The officially in- spired Messagero declares: “The gen- eral Latin blood which flows in great- er or less measure through Spain and Italy is now linked by a formal mar- | riage, which to awaken the | appointed o committee of experts {o| finest inatincts of each. This tri- study the economic situation and | Umph of our magnificent diplomacy is recommend remedial measures. | the keynote of Italy’s desire for peace, Government employes have organ-|since it insures Mediter nean peace ized a league for defense of the Con | forevermore stitution, with the object of conduct-| (Copsrizht. 1996, by Chicago Daily News Co.) s " | ROAD PROJECT SUITS Business 1Is One of the chief developments is a movement of depression and nerv- ousness in business circl The ec- | onomic situation already was bad be- | fore the religious regulations went | [ intd” effect, and to this now has been | added the effects of the economjc boy- | cott fostered by the League for De- | fense of Religious Liberty. | Silver exchange has slumped, the discourntt ranging from 31, to 4 per cent, the highest in several vear: Prices of some foodstuffs are ad Ling and the people fear further rises. | Secretary of the Tr Pani h Depressed. flushed is sure !in_ support of the Government's re | ligious program. Churches Nearly Empty. Only a few worshipers are seen {in most of the Catholic churches. The | Catholics they are praying in | their homes rather than go to the churches. which are in the hands of pedestri- | | lights in the same maner as vehicular | ISHELD ACHIEVED s well as one projected | Fascist foreign office can gaze on the | This is | WILL BE FILED ANEW, muniei commitiees, Condemnation Proceedings Will Be FRENCH ASSEMBLY SUSTAINS POINGARE INFIRSTTEST VOTE Joint Session of Parliament, 515 to 347, Limits Sink- ing Fund Debate. APPROVAL OF PREMIER’S PROPOSALS IS ASSURED Fourth Meeting to Amend Consti- \ R N | tution Since Third Republic May End Tonight. Ry the Assaciated Press VERSAILLES, Fr | =-Premier Poincare’s scheme to give | constitutional welght to his sinking fund measure for refunding the float- | ing debt moved forward rapidiy at the | first session of the national assembly | today. notwithstanding obstruetive | tactics by the Socialists and Com- | munists. The assembly, comprising both houses of Parliament in foint session. | |is the fourth summoned for action | on the constitution since the founding nee, August 10, { o A of the third republic. It met the tac- ties of the Sochlists and Communists by adopting, 515 to 347, an amend- | ENTOMBED MINERS ‘sn"uv'(inn. {Fate of Five Kentuckians Is Expected to Be Known by Tonight. Adjourn Until Afternoon. After voting urgent procedure for i the sinking fund bill, the assembly | adjourned until afternoon while com- mittees went through the formality of examining the measure. The work of making the sinking { fund law part of the constitution wili be terminated tonight, if Premier | Poincare and the members of his cab | inet have their The premier appeared this after- noon before the special committee ex- amining the government's bill and in- | sisted upon the necessity of its rapid adoption. ed Press. i . August 10, Specula- | tion as to whether the five miners en- Socialist-Communist | tombed in the Hudson zinc and spar still had to be|mine near here last Thursday night {remain alive is expected to come to an end by night as the result of the ontinuous efforts of rescue squads to { force their way into the mine or to reach the men through a shaft. Meanwhile a contingent of State troops remained on duty to keep spec- tators from interfering with the work. Work has been carried on day and night since a fall of earth and water { blocked the men’s exit in three major | operations, with numbers of volun- conspicuously absent. Society people | teers on hand to relieve the tired emed uninterested in the gathering. | rescuers from time to time and an The gallery was only partly filled|ajahorate electric lighting plant set eI N ore e {up to permit work at night. Uproar By Communi | The communists and socialists wers | the first persons to enliven the as biy's work. They set up a roar sted five minutes when Picrre Ren audel, socialist, was refused the flopr on a question of privilege. As had been predicted, members of | the extreme left adopted tactics of (Continued on Page 4, Column 4. JACKIE COOGAN SAVED FROM REVENGE PLOT Filibuster a Factor. | The promised | filibuster, however, reckoned with. The assembly opened in that at | mosphere of indifference which usual Iy obtains in France when the pro. sram is a foregone conclusion. i The senators and deputies, appar- ently unmindful of the solemnity of | the “occasion, filed into the assembly hall slowly, chatting together though they were ahout to go about a_simple formality. They found the | picturesque atmosphere that always accompanies such an occasion as the election of a president of the republic Air Pumped to Men. One squad sought to sink a shaft to communicate with the men if any ) them have survived the ordeal and, if possible, to pipe liquid food and water to them. Efforts to gain a re- sponse to tappinz on air lines, how- ever, have proved fruitless, but air {has continuously been pumped into the mine. Another hody of men continued their work of baling and pumping to keep the mine as free as possible from water, which already is estimated to be at a 4-foot level. An under- ground spring made it necessary to maintain pumps when the mine was in operation and this work was aided by a larger pump brought from Mem- phis. It broke down yesterday and additional parts were ordered by air- plane from Memphis. The third operation. sinking of a new shaft, 10 feet xquare to tap the lateral tunnel behind the cave-in was | temporarily checked by a stratum of solid rock that rendered the drills useless and automobiles were dis- patched today for new drills and more blasting powder. Shaft 150 Feet Deep. The shaft of the mine through which the imprisoned men entered !the lateral drift is 150 feet deep. The drift runs out from this shaft ap- Watchman Shot Three Times After Stumbling Over Hid- den Man. Br the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, August 10.—What | police believe may have been an at- | tempt to seek revenge against Jackie Coogan, boy film actor, and his parents for a fancied wrong was | frustrated here early today, but re- sulted in the serious wounding of Joe Block, 42, a special watchman 10 caused Philip victed of the 20, The 10. Dempsey to fight Col. | the Dempsey J rules of winning | The d | mittee h: | two hou Tunney. Harry Dempsey negro al ance at sure Ricl barred f John peared before the Clerk’s Error Sets Man’s Execution gust 10.—A carels While preparations were made at the State Penitentiary for the hanging, it w: court had set the DENPSEY DENIED * LICENSE FOR BOUT New York Commission Acts After Quizzing Champion, Tunney and Wills. | By the Associated Press. heavyweight Yankee Stadium, September 16. licenses | ferred pending his compliance with the Commission championships within six months after presented Wills, has been clamoring for a match with the committee. Robert H. boxing promoter. made his welcomed Sharkey, FOURSTATESHOLD - PRIMARIES TODA Alabama Picking Under- wood’s Successor—Ohio Has Many Candidates. Days Too Soon W. Va, Au- clerk almost the execution today of Buman, negro youth con- of murder, ten days ahead fixed date. being < discovered the ¢ for August By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Augn four States, Alabama Arkansas and Nebraska, expre their pref- | erence for candidates in today’s pri- mary elections. Alabama Democrats chose between five candidates who seck the nomina- tion to the United States Senate seat to be vacated by W. Under- wood, March 4, . Four candi- dates seek the gubernatorial nomina- ! thon. Two bf the senatorial aspirants, L. B. Musgrove of Jasper, and Hugo L. Back of Birmingham, were indorsed clerk had copied it August Electors of organization backing the Alabama Klan Other candidates are of Jasper: Thomas E ton and James J. M gomery. Each of the fownr gubernatorfal candidates made roadbuilding an i sue, each campaigning for a dii- ferent plan, thus making the primary an indirect referendum on the ques- tion. Charles A. McDowell, lieu. tenant governor; A. H. Carmichael, Bibb Graves and A. G. F the candidates. Congressmen from ten districts will be nominated along with county offices Musgrove, while vored Bac J. H. Bankheac . Kilby of Annis- cfield of Mont YORK, August 10.—Jack v today was refused a license Gene Tunney for the world championship at the ohn J. man_of id that been de- Phelan, cha committee, & tterson are ‘s application had the New York State Athletic relative to defense of Campaign Was Spirited. The most spirited campaizn in twelve years was waged and fully 1 225,000 voters were expected to go to the poll Ohlo voters were faced preponderance of candidates. Fighty- seven Republicans and Democrats seek State office nominations. Inter est was centered in the Republican | race for governor. and the Democratic contest for United States Senator, the leading candidates for the latter post being Supreme Court Justice Florence E. Allen and Atlee Pomerene, for 12 vears a Senator from Ohio until de- feated by Senator S. D. Fe A woman and & negro are the 12 Republican gubernatorial can- < include Thad Brown, present secretary of state, and Myers or defending the title. ecision came after the com- ad been in session for nearly s and had had the situation them by Dempsey, Gene the challenger, and also the giant negro. who with a Dempsey. Tunney and the I individually appeared before Gunnis, a Philadelphia appear- the commission's offices to as- kard that the fight would be in_Philadelphia if it was r~:m New York. Buckley, representing Jack a_Boston heavyweight, ap- commissioners, among by the Ku Klux Klan, the national | = | president APARTMENT PLAN TO FILL REAL NEED, HOOVER DECLARES Answers Real Estate Critics With Spirited Defense of Proposal. WITHHOLb;VIAN'S NAME. DENYING HE IS BUILDER Construction Leaders. Meeting Today to Discuss Affair, Much Alarmed for Own Interests. Taking up the real estate men that not be constructed in Wi rent to Government employes basis of $12.50 a v proposed to the Government a few days ago, Sec retary of Commerce Hoover, in his first public statement since the origi nal announcement last Friday, sail today that In the light of the flurr the proposal has caused among real estate men of the Capital he is ginning to think th is real for it." Mr. Hoover plainly indicated that the mysterious and unnamed sponsor for the philanthropic proposition made | to the Commerce Department is sin- cere and intends to go through with his proposal if the necesary backing |1s given it by the Government em: | ployes. . Answering those who ticized him for so-called “flagrant violations {of the law" in soliciting information concerning_rentals paid by Govern ment employes, Mr. Hoover said “Any one who can find a violation of i the law or intention of wickedness in an endeavor to aid Government em ployes is welcome."” He added that “the courts are still open.” Mr. Hoover's statement today expected to add fuel to the flimes stir up added objection from jestate interests here. The executiv mmittee of the Operative Builders' Association of the District. together {with prominent apartment house builders. planned to hold a meeting this afternoon to discuss the proposed erection. They are alarmed over the proposal not only from a point of view of the building industry, but also, the because “the millions of dollars urities held by people all over the ates on hundreds of apart ment house properties in the District would be _seriou affected.” They say that Washington has long been | considered in financial circles one of | the most stable centers for real estate investments and that any such mendous undertaking would ser affeet. Washington's status in thi zard. | Coolidge to Get Plan. | While the present proposal has not | been specifically brought to the atten tion of President Coolidge, Mr. Hoover said it would unquestionably have ial indorsement, since the | President fully approves any effore {to relieve Government employes of { their financial hurdens. Mr. Hoover | Will leave Washinzton Thursday for | @ short st White Pine Camp, and { will probably lay the proposal before | the President. 1le will be v from | Washington out three week: Hoover | he is the philant proposal, de he couldn't . apartment buile e flatly fused to discuss the identity sponsor of the enterprise. The orig nal announcen of the proposal credited it with avin, been mad ‘l',\' A an of standir the com- | munity.” " Mr. Ho would not claborate on this statement o com- iment on the sugxz i the Metropolitan Lite | Co. of New York, undertaken to apartments in New the backing of the | behind the present | the time of the ori ment. E. W. Libbey | Commerce Departnient, | his understanding that | had not heen ma 3 but by an individual of local ments can ghington to on a doors of the was of stion In which nstriet York ( munic 1id he proposal i corporation, tir ally appointed any illusions as | because they do not desire even tacitly tion is likely | to recognize the authority of these The President | committees. | rds upon the table | Capt. Panfilo Plata and his company in that way, just s done last | of federal soldiers have revolted. dis- | Friday when it was announced on his | armed all the local police of Ayutla, in ehalf that the Government could not | the state of Guerrero, and gone into interfere internal Mesican prob | the country, according to special dis Jems hes from Avutla. .arnment s¢ ha may not bhe to what the o prefer: urging action on a promise which he said Tunney made to box Sharkey in Madison Square Garden last March. Tunney signed no articles, but made a verbal agreement, Buckley said. He wanted Tunney, to engage Sharkey before meeting Dempsey. The commissioners took no action on Buckley's request. STOCKS ON TOBOGGAN IN SUDDEN BEAR RAID General Motors Drops 14, du Pont proximately 300 feet and 200 feet from the shaft passes under an old crater or pit_approximately 90 feet across and 45 feet deep. . This crater is round and its for- mation is similar to that of the sink holes in the cavernous limestone re- gions near Mammoth Cave. The bot- tom of the crater was filled with water to a depth of 10 feet stored there by the company for dry weather. C This water had trickled through to! the drift, it is believed, before the cave-in and opened a drain into the digging. Y. Cooper, Cincinnati real estate man. United States Senator Frank b. Wlilis is opposed by seven Repub- | iicans, one being former Senator Charles Dick, of Akron. Willis' nomi. nation was regarded as certain by Republican _leaders. Gov. A. V. Donahey generally was conceded victory over three aspirants for the Democratic gubernatgrial nomination. Seventeen men, 12 Republicans and 5 Democrats, aspire to be lieutenant governor. Large fields likewise seek nnm!na(lonf to other State offices. Nominees for Congres: the legisla. s voted on. A’ comstitutional amend.| [[20VERS, CEWIL position to obtain ment which would permit benefited | JDTHHOR of Tentals paid by Gov. % property to he assessed for improve- | pUtHEent CRIPOYES 1 T Mo Elona Over 15, Cast Iron Pipe 8 in fl\‘;':l-‘n;'(}“‘l'““‘\“"r*k]j:“* e (hat | A1%0 demanded that he be furnished i > vork s ocay (hall with the same information as tha Unexplained Break. interest in the primary has been slug- | ivo, the ( gnm’"rv e il m:;n:h.‘:ll | glsh and predicted a light vote.| ., egtionnaires which have been sub- e Issues were few and of no great con-{ {iTee "0 1S Covernment employes sequence, they said. I neve. Chief interest in Arkansas’ Demo- iR acite : ? | Block was shot three times when { he stumbled over a man hidden among shrubbery lining the drive- way of the Coogan residence, in the Wilshire residential district. The watchman_emptied his gun at his assailant, but the man, identified by Block_and_police as Don McRea, { alias Don Shepherd, a former chauf- detalls of the Ol ite con | aEmnation Mproteedliigs Ht6 tacanire/| IeUf TOEtie Gockans flts ithe dcens in the dispatches. B inot sl e b in a roadster a 0 % known whether the revolt is conneot- | ProP¢ 'r‘-‘ Jfor the widening and exten-| s "round by police a half hour later ed with the religious situation or an | $ion of Potomac avenue between Ne- | oy the other side of the city Nprising reported to be under way in | braska avenue and Reservoir road:| MeRea, police say, was d b find ask. | (iuerrero under the lendership of the | for the widening of Reservolr road| by the Coogans on several oc settlement | Vidales brothers, noted rebels and between Conduit road and Potomac | but re-emploved. He was discharged upon the ! bandits in that region. avenue; for the widening of Nichols | by his employers in New York late- . v g 5 oot ex. |1V and returned to the Coast a short | it France Plantation Is Looted. avenue and South Capitol street; ex. | IV an¢ < « . 5 | tensto irst street Southeast. o | time after they arrived here from the | e Advices from Tuxtepec. tension of First street southeast, and | pos - I-.M el in the state | ten : t t € plomatic | ¢ axnen, sav that bandits have loot | for the widening of Benning road| ' Arthur Bernstein, Jackie Coo- e from Fiftenth street northeast to) gan's manager, informed police t 'Helmy. Egyptian, and Michel. Frenchman, Forced to Quit After that ed a banana plantation and fled into | is tha Anacostia Park. | shortly before the gun hattle he was | 13-Hour Swim. Ipstituted Under Recent Law in Several Cases. . Hoover's Act Attacked. My Wa At the same time vited realtors meet the propos merce Departn “if there is a who ‘can provide il at $1250 a ro h bLath thrown in, 1 shall be glad to discuss it with him. Sdmund J. Flynn, had experience v apartments, to etary Hoov ) do loover in- to lay his « Corporation Counsel Stephens was ordered by missioners today to institute con rancis H. the Com- 17 tained stance of it | Coolidze let lemenceau let- | Like Clemencean Case. There Sund. who th ther wher ’ <aid he had co-operative ritten two letters in which he be ht \t te debit s no ef and that 11s 1o make the re 3 1e t “oolidge An e Trenan ' the hills. Tt is added that this rald | mbodied in the apparently connected with the | .y jroceedin called to the telephone and informed e < situation. Federal troops ave | - © [V that he was marked for death. He h ported that he recognized the o the bandits. e being. The man's voice as McRea's Good will Mission ANOTHER NAME ADDED ‘ TO TOLL OF SUBMARINE ™ sor i inom, aveust 10— President Calles is engaged in rect from the ! o hrogram of social reforms, es T tn the welfare of Mexico A resolution passed by the mission. ! headed by Dr. Alva Tavlor, editor tv!! 0 | T e elieve & program ¢ | Georges Michel of France and Ishak Helmy of Egypt today abandoned “ontinued on Pa Col 2) | anew ¢ ac their attempt to cross the Englis! (Continued on Page 3. Column | anew under the new act. Bt (rei0 i e e B ey | oo emut (o] S U Bl Rec { They started from Cape Gris Nez, ik et | France, last night. to the effect q 1o President assured him ak is entitled to on only. The| St By the Associated Press. | At 2 o'clock this morning they were ' LONDON, August 10.—Another | nearly half way across the Channel, | name was added today to the list of | both going strong and acting as pace- {missing_in the sinking of the sub. | maker for each other. marine H-29, at Devonport Basin yes.| The weather conditions were ideal. terday, bringing the total to six. The men started off under the lee of Although a full crew of dockyard |the tug Alsace, which convoyed Ger- workmen toiled all night under power- | trude Ederle when she crossed the i Dawes Spurns Trout Under 12 Inches; wi. weousn me| DOes Not Swear When Fish Get Away ful searchlights and flares at the s | Channel last Friday. of the disaster, none of the mi: he does not know | e Department hax ex- | note with President time during the im it if it has. it was in he general land bodies has been recovered. to raise the H-20, which 2 feet of water, continued today. Work- men, however, were able to pump out lonly 10 feet of water in the dock {basin without endangering other ves sels. The 1124 is being held to the | side of the basin by great hawsers The cause of the accident has not Leen definitely determined. The 1 was an American-type Holland model submarine, built during the war. I Radio Progr@ms—Page 28 e instituted | assed Con- | anging the pro cedure of acquiring land by condem- nation to opei up new streets under | the highway plan. As a result. three old suits for the condemnation of | property for the Benning road, Ne-| We believe a profram of educa- | braska avenue and Reservoir road | tlon and soclal reform necessary for | projects will be withdrawn and filed | Although Crew Toils All Night to or on §30 ron new by Br the Associated Press. y NEW YORK. Avcust 10.-A sudden bear raid on the high-priced indus- trial shares brought about a series of sensational declines on the New York Stock Exchange today. General Motors broke 14 points to 208, du Pont 15%; to 295, and United | States Cast Iron Pipe 8 to 235, while dozens of others fell back 2 to 7 points. Except for the announcement of an increase of nearly $87,000,000 in { brokers' loans in the week ended July 28, there was nothing in the day's news to explain the sudden sellin movement. Liquor Whieh Killed Score in Buffalo Made of Deadly Methyl Used in Dyes S i of the| of a| gress, May 28, las el natorial nomination. Gov. Tom J.{ ion hroceedings to acquire the land Terral is opposed by John E. Mar | needed for the suggested apartment Judge of Pulaski Chancery | pyjldings not necessary and that They waged a_ bitter cam- | 1o cntire proposition can be put paign, the governor charging that,(hrough without turning toward Con Judge Martineau drank to excess, {gregs for legislative support. The an- while the judge accused the governor | nouncement said the apavtzents were of abusing his power in issuing secret |ty be constructed “in a aes.able sec paroles to_convicts. {tion of the city within 10 minutes of Minor Wallace, a former Anti-|the business center.” The suggestion Saloon League lecturer, is opposing | has been made that possibly the land Representative Hartsill Ragon for re- [to be used for them lied between nomination in the fifth district. { Eighteenth and Twenty-fourth streets Representative J. N. Tillman of the |and between B street and Pennsyl- ition_in | vania avenue, some of which is now third_district also h: (Continued on Page 4, Column 1 unoccupied or veeupied by smali build- ings. tineau, Court. eatfient z Follows Long Efforts. The Commerce Department, Mr. Hoover said, has interested itself for more than five vears in efforts to secure amelioration of the housing nditions of Government employes. urveys have been made by the hous: ing division of the department during that time, but the present proposal is the first concrete suggestion made to bring about direct relief. Dr. John M. Gries, chief of the housing divi sion, attended the conferences between ! Mr. Hoover and the unnamed philan- | thropist which resulted in the pro- posal now under consideration. The housing division has not undertaken a survey of local housing conditions forgnore than three years, according _(gnunued on Page 5, Column 8.) By the Asso:lated Press |llams and Kenneth L. Roberts, who WAGON WHEEL GAP. Colo., Au-|have written widely in the fields of gust “Vice President Dawes does |fiction and fact. not when he fails to land a | Although competition is keen, Gen. trout Dawes today still was acclaimed the Furthermore, he declines to put into |champion flsherman of the party. his creel any trout that measures less | But his victory has not been without explained. is in |than 12 inches. although State game |its ups and downs. for it was only wereements |laws permit the retention of any [after a strenuous day Monday that reuct Mexico and the United | meusuring seven inches or more In he regained the leadership he drop- States at t o recognition of [length. | ped to Williams last Saturday when Mexico wis negotlated. Since | This much of the Izaak Walton in |he took the “day off” because fishing then the | nited States has acted en- | America’s Vice President has been re- | conditions weren't just tght. tirely 1n accordance with th agree vealed to members of his Summer Within the next few davs the Vice ments he ownershlp of fishing excursion on the Wagon | President plans to send trout to nu- land in N Americans. | Wheel Gap ranch of Col. A. E. Hum- mervus friends in the East--on condi- . Preside: s disinclination to | phreys of Denver. The megnbers in- |tion they do not keep the fish fced 'vtv nek from M. Cle-|elude not only his own nal and and serve them to him on his return, " gonynued on Page 5, Column 4y official family, but Ben Ames Wil [as happened in one instance last year, 10 swear — 'BULGARIA GETS DEMANDS. ey belug followed by the | i [ S it | with The Unt compli By the Associated Press The liquor which killed more than w score of persons at Buffalo recent- changed by the trade to ‘Methanol,” in an attempt to prevent its use as a beverage. Iy was made of methyl, or wood al {'”II’_‘,‘:fl;‘J;"“,?"‘ b cohol, Government chemist today re- | jnvestigation indicated, after it had ported to ¥ M. Doran. chief of the |been shipped into the country prob- chemical division of the prohibition [ably from Germany for commercial A demand for the extradition of the | unit. purposes. Investigation of the deaths leaders of the irregulars to Jugoslavia | Doran described this product as|and prosecution will be left in the and compensation for dependents of [deadly poisonous. It is used in the hands of State authorities and Eugene the gendarmes killed in recent radds! manufact of @yes and disinfect- (. Roberts, prohibition administrator also Is made. ' ants, he , and the name has been |at Buffalo. BELGRADE, August 10 (®).—Jugo- slavia, says the government organ, Wreme, has demanded of Bulgaria the | complete disbandment of the Mace- | donian comitadjis. or irregulars, who | recently have been accused of making raids across the Serbian border. e ) by the " letter