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» NEW YORK TO FETE GERTRUDE EDERLE Biggest City Honor Planned. She Goes to Germany to See Grandmother. Special iepatch to The Star ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS, N. Angust 11.—"We're going to Trudie the biggest reception York ever had.” With tears streaming, Mrs. Ger- rle, mother of the channel conqueror, heard Magistrate Charles Oberwager, head of a committee United German Socleties of ik, tell yesterday of plans for welcoming her daughter home from ¥.urope. The committee called on Mrs. Ederle At her Summer cottage at Highlands, nd presented her with a bou J.. give New st Oberwager said he little disheartened, but she knew she could conquer. When she comes hack we will greet We h: big plans under w want the whole world to know how we appreciate what an American girl of German blood has done. Mrs. Ederle took the roses and could not reply fe minute. Two of her children, Emma, 15, and Henry, &, were looking on. Then she thanked the visitors Mre. Ederle will go out on the wel- coming boat and be the first 10 greet her daughter when she ar.ives home on the Berengaria August (Copyright. 1026, by Chicago ' Magistrate came back ibune News GERTRUDE TELLS OF SWIM. Never Nervous—: g Cheered Her. Sorry Others Failed. BY GERTRUDE EDEKLE. By Cable to Th Sta: CAPE GRIS-NEZ, August 11.—1 re- cablegram yesterday from Walker of New York how proud my own city accomplishment {n swim- ming the English Channel and prom- ising me a “royal re eption” upon my return home late this month That was the best message I had yet received. 1 can hardly wait until 1 get home to New York, for it seems Tve been away a long time Y tond: it was only two months, exactly, since our arrival here to train for the Channel a second time. 'm packing now, preparing to return home by way of grandmother’s home at Bissingt Germany, and Paris, leaving tod Our party has been offered the use airplane to fiy from here to but 1 trust trains more nes. The latest offer comes from a Berlin theatrical manage «ivs the German capital is anxious to have me appear there. But 1 answered Paris and Lon don offers, I'm still determined not to appear anywhe before I get back to New Anyway, grandmother would be shortened our few days' visit with her in order to ap) in Berlin. Sorry Others Failed. I'n mighty sorry Ishak Helmy failed in his new attempt to swim the channel, but he a good sport about hix faflure and means to stick to it until he makes it. He had about the Worst luck in the world in his swim artempt I'm sorry. too, that Omer Perrault, [ Frevherg and Georges also failed to make it, and I'm wish ing them all better luck next time. Col . the World War hero, 1 h me, also Helmy, a paration to prevent the Ins e of es from steaming. the stuff en used in the English army masks, but the pr ration ch me before 1 took off. 1 right, however, for my Int steam enough to be ceived a Mayor Jimmy telling s of me my n, an Germany than airp! revber had sent pr our hay for failed to That wa glasses annoyin ted that my return in time for the Twin 1. which always marks sason for “the Alley” where my family row of bun- » wa und our friends have the Alley ball even if 1 + without swim at Highlands Summers galows whes passed the Channel \! dua dnring my mind. 1 wasn't the slighte ous ar any stage, and at the start 1 was so happy my heart was singing and 1| was the happiest girl in the world that the day had come when 1 was to have another chance at the channel While playing and liven he ton was the music be When my strokes rongs. It had ever Over Never Nervous. nts which oceurred swim are coming back to t bit nerv he pl the r o ends on the tus were pnograph to amuse me passing hours 1 took m my left ear, which t the tug, to hear the they sang 1 to th was th heard md over neve they Witk is kept time with rhythm of their sweetest music 1 they sang all the once letting me for. were with me every such friends along no wonder that 1 suc me it we we ish e nearing the cliffs of shore I remembered Bill ed me not to look ) deceptive to the ser than they eves down into at the tug only 1 seem; 1 was not ward at all. especially ew dark. Rut later when of Kingsdown lighted their flares 1 knew 1 must be movi when the 1 welcon close. When 1 Beach of K walked out on the pebbly nesdown, men, women and children jers and policemen ran into the water knee-high to congratu late and kiss me. 1 shall never forget their marvelous reception or those at Dover. Boulogne and Gris-Nez. (Coprright by Chicago Tribune News SHE WILI PARIS. Sails for Home August 21 From Cher- bourg on the Berengaria. BY JULIA HAKTMAN e 1o GRIS-NEZ, Ederle Br Ca CAF August Gertrude encountering enormous receptions in both England ‘rance, will forth today for the land of her forebears. will go with her father. 1 photographer and this to Calais, boarding a train for tuttgart, near which city lives her paternal grandmother. She will visit there several days before going to Parls for a few days' shopping prior to her sailing for home, August 21, from ¢herbourg on the Berengaria Boulogne and Calais will give the a rousing send-off. A recep United States Consuls Cor- coran and Smith of Boulogne and ¥ and a demonstration by thou wands of her French admirers will preceds her departure. Trudle spent much of nslerd.l.y‘f after et | learned THE VISITORS SEE THE MONUMENT wo Training Airships Travel Over Capital for Two Hours. Practice Flight Takes Them From Base at Langley Field. Two training and observation non- rigld airships of the Army Air Corps paid a two-hour visit to the Capital around noon today while on a prac- tice flight from their base at Lang- ley Field, Hampton, Va. The ships, bearing the designations “TC-3" and “TC9,” arrived at Bolling Fileld about 10:50 o'clock, were hauled down to earth by all available per- sonnel at the field and “held” for sev- eral minutes. Then they took off for a tour of the city. Shaking off their military dignity the non-rigids, also known in the heavier-than-air branch of the service as “rubber cows,” cavorted about the city, dipping and zooming and sending down to earth a penetrating drone from their four engines. One in par- ticular demonstrated its' ability by dropping to within a few hundred feet of the tops of buildings and then shooting up at an acute angle. The ships circled the Capitol and Monument several times and after a farewell tour of the city departed for their bas Two officers and two en- listed men occupled the cabins of each alr vessel. ; BANGMAN 15 SLAIN BY LONE AVENGER Louis “Big” Smith Believed Marked by Chicago Clan for Stein Murder. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, August 11.—Louis “Big” Smith, known as a gunman imported from New York two years ago as the bodyguard of a Chicago bootleg chief- tain, was killed last night when gang- ster shots for the second time in a day threw a business district into uproar. The forty-second death since Jan- uary attributed to gang warfare was the work of a lone gunman who ac- complished his purpose where a hand- ful of his kind had failed in theirs earlier in the day in a running pistol fight before Michigan boulevard's smart shops. Smith was dropped on a southside Michel |street by four bullets, fired by a man | who drove up in an automobile, emptied his weapon and sped away. Police regarded the slaying as re. venge for one of two murders with which the big gangster's name had been linked and for one of which he was under indictment. On his death- bed Isaac Stein, “Alky” chief, named Smith his a in and Smith was one of the first men arrested after the recent killing of Jules Portugese, bootlegger. gem thief and underworld rival of Stein’s Smith, detectives said, was virtually an outcast in gangdom because of his cold-blooded methods. He had en gaged in liquor hijacking, robbery, ex tortion and paid Killing during brief reign over a gang here, officers said, and boasted of the number of men he had “bumped off.” He once served at Sing Sing for robbery Attack on Drucci. In the attack on_ Vincent Drucci, which jammed trafic on the Boul’ Mich® and sent pedestrians scurryving, the authorities saw a revived effort of liquor gangs to wipe out the thin- ning clan of Dion O'Banion, himself slain two years ago Drucci was known as the Irish gang lord’s right-hand man and from the nature of the shooting police took it to be a planned nation rather than a robbery attempt. The gangsrer sald his assailants were after $13,000 he had Startled by bullets from an auto- mobile, Drucei ducked, unlimbered his gun and routed the machine after an exchange which took heavy toll of plate-glass shop fronts and wounded i pedestrian. B he unexciting task of wa clothes She was greatly disappointed over the fallure of Omer Perrault, the n Channel aspirant. Col. Ber- reyberg. the English World and the others to duplicate Perrault’s tug went ahead and disappeared, so he re- at. too fast turned Col. Freyberg wore a peculiar black costume, which he declared was water- proof. 1t reached from his chin to the Soles of his feet, having a collar reach- ing up to the lower tip of the ears, to which was attached a rubber band that crossed the top of the head. The costume had long, tight sleeves, also stocking legs. Under that he wore a shorter costume, and over all this a thick coat of grease. His wife accom? panied him to the shore. Both Freyberg and Perrault warm congratulated Trudie on her feat. You were splendid,” said the Eng- h ariny veteran. 1 hope I can do as well.” Trudie was truly grieved when she that neither had succeeded, but more sorry for Perrault, for Col. Freyberg’s preparation was far more claborate and complete even than her own Monday wat: Helmy, the Egyptian swimmer. who was accompanied by Georges Michel, the recent Paris marathon winner This French swimmer had attempted to swim the Channel seven times be- fore. The two men started swimming together. using the same tug, the Alsace, which had accompanied Trudie, Their lack of success fur ther distressed Trudle. Col. Freyberg, when he was again torced to give up after nine hour: swimming, returned here, where his wife met him and burst out crying. saying: "My poor darling boy, my poor rling boy." All of the near dozen swimmers congregated along this line of coast, Iy and the several at English coast points are due to start again any day now. as the hest dayvs for Channel swim ming will soon he over. (Copsright. 1028 by Chicago Tribune News Service.) hing her | R Two Army training airships, the TC-5 and TC-9, kept office workers busy craning their necks for a good while this morning as they flew over the city. ATTACK ON LEAGUE SEEN IN'TREATIES Italo-Spanish and Russo- German Pacts Run Counter to Geneva Plan. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. PARIS, August 11.—Two important treaties have just been signed in Eu- rope. One is the treaty of arbitration and non-aggression between Spain and Italy. The two dictators, Mussolini and Primo de Rivera, go further, how- ever, and taking as a model the re- cent Russo-German treaty, promise benevolent neutrality in case one or the other becomes involved in ex- ternal complications. Seems Attack on League. This provision, as in the cas the Russo-German treaty, seems to be a direct attack on the League of Na tions system, which provides for a coalition of all members against the designated aggressor. Thus, under the Russo-German treaty, if Russia attacks Rumania, Germany, even after it joins the league, is obligated to refuse to participate in possible league action in Rumania’s defense. In the same way, if Italy attacks anybody, Spain now is obligated not to participate in possible league ac- tion against Italy. In contrast to tendency is the strongly pro- league of the treaty of arbitration and nonaggression just signed be- tween France and Rumanfa. This treaty expressly stipulates that both parties intend to fulfill their oblig: tions under the league in case of any |aggression against the status quo in Europe, but obligates neither to come | to the defense of the other except un- der the league's authority. New Accord Forecast. | A similar treaty, it is expected, soon will be signed between France and Jugoslavia. Two systems thus now stand opposed. The one, adopted by Germany, Russia, Italy and Spain, provides benevolent neutrality toward a_ possible aggressor. The other, adopted by France, Poland, Rumania, Czechoslovakia and Jugoslavia, pre vides for a common cause under the league covenant against a possible aggressor. (Copsright. 1626, by Chicazo Daily News Co.) U. S. HELD NOT VOLVED. this antileague Spokesman Declares Scope Is Limited. | ROME, August 11 (#).—The Italo Spanish treaty recently signed at Madrid has a purely European and North African scove and contaius no articles referring directly or indirectly to North or South America This assurance was given by a gov- ernment spokesman today following editorial comment to the effect that the treaty would permit co-operation between Spain and Italy against militaristic, commercial and political penetration of South America by the United States. either in the in South Americ spokesman said, “does the treaty affect the United States. America's | right, as a signer of the Algeciras pact, to a voice in the Moroccan and Tangler settlement is unimpaired, but we are intensely desirous of seeing it used. “While the treaty does not specifi- cally provide for joint Italo-Spanish action in South America, it is natural Italian Pact lediterranean nor the government two countries will also result in closer co-operation in that fleld. “But the newspaper commenators who speak of such action being directed against the United States do not represent the government view- point. Italy has no imperialistic in- tentions or desires in South America. “Just as there is room politically the Mediterranean, there is room eco- nomically for all of us in South America, especially Latin nations. RUMOR OF REVOLUTION IN CRETE IS SCOUTED Greece Abandons Military Expedi- | tion on Hearing Disorders Are Minor. | By the Associated Press. | ATHENS, Greece, August | Rumors of _disturbances in Crete quiries of the | had occurred, there having been mere- the imposition of certain taxes expedition, but the premier declares | sary steps to check any disorders. Judge Gets Found Dollar. NEW YORK. August 11 (P).—The | male may be stronger and the female {may be more strategic, but a police magistrate is shrewdest when it comes to getting possession of a lost dollar. A man and a woman dived for one in a subway station. The man got the greenback. The woman got a copper. The magistrate got the “h,_ He fined the man the dollar, that the intensified friendship of the | for every one, including England, in | | 11— was waiting. | night she walked to thecaused the Greek cabinet to prepare | bank for the day's business the. three or to wish Godspeed to her friend | for the dispatch of a military force | men entered and covered him with to the island. Meanwhile urgent in-| (heir pistols. Cretan authorities | open the vault door. elicited the reply that nothing serious | the men pointed a pistol at his head |1y some popular disaffection owing 10 in a satchel. | The cabinet therefore canceled the | nan, entered the bank to make a de- the government wMl take all neces:| grabbed him, shouted a warning to l | posed would bring a considerable de- { Cashier Had Just Opened Vault. EVENING STXR, WASHINGTON, D.- BUSINESS LEADERS FIGHT TAX RISE Committee Named by Trade Board to Confer on District Expenditures. Determined to do everything possi- ble to keep the District tax burden from becoming too heavy, the Wash- ington Board of Trade has named a special committee to confer with the Comamnissioners on District finances anf the relation they bear to expendi- tures in future. The committee consists of Joshua Evans, jr., chairman, and John Ihlder, George W. Offutt, jr.: John A. Petty, ‘Willlam S. Torbert, Frank P. Leetch, E. C. Graham, Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan and Asa E. Phillips. The first meeting of the committee with the Commissioners will be held at 4:30 o'clock Friday, at which time an analysis of District finances will be started. Opposing Rising Rate. Appointment of this special group by the trade board is an outgrowth of a conference between Engineer Commissioner Bell. Auditor Daniel J. Donovan and leaders on municipal finance in_the Board of Trade. Those who attended that conference agreed that the tax rate of the Dis trict is soaring too rapidly, and the conference ended with the under- standing the trade board would name the special committee to go thorough- 1y into the entire question of future expenditures and their effect on the tax rate. Will Scan Deficiency Bill. The committee will study especially the proposed item of a $1,000,000 de- fictency appropriation for the current fiscal year. The committee chairman, Mr. ans, is particularly interested in the question of deficlency appro- priations which help to swell the tax rate. The question of keepins the tax rate for 1928 down will also be studied.. The committee expects to devote considerable time to its in- vestigation. Commissioner Bell at the original meeting expressed his desire to co- operate with a body which “will help us to keep down expensés rather than tell us some new project to spend money on."” — (From the 5:30 Edition of Yesterdas's Star.) BUILDERS ATTACK APARTMENT PLAN Declare Proposal for $12.50- a-Room Type Threatens Property Values. Charging that the action of the jovernment In opening its facilities to an unnamed individual concerned in erecting apartment houses for Government employes, “not for phil- anthropy, but for the usual per cent on money invested,” to the exclusion is discriminatory and socialistic in its tendencles, the ex- ecutive committee of the Operative Assoclation of the District of Columbia at a meeting yesterday afternoon declared that any buildes here can meet any person or organi- zation in the erection of any type of apartment house in fair competitive market and would do so. The general opinion of the builders is that the Metropolitan Life In surance Company of New York is the organization concerned primarily in the movement and that the statement in a current article in a national magazine that the com- pany will lend money at 5 per cent to build cheap apartments is an indict- ment of higher rates charged and an admission that those who finance builders find that they cannot erect cheap apartments when high interest is charged. Oppose Any Discrimination. The builders felt that any move to give an organization or an individual the right of eminent domain excluding others is contrary to all democratic principle and that it is only natural if the Government intends to put its full machinery at the disposal of one individual that individual could bufld at_almost any price. The builders, expressing their in- tention of seeing the entire situation through, declared it “a disgrace for the United States Government to pay its employes so little that they have to become beneficlaries of philanthro- phists. “The Government employes are un- derpaid; they should receive a decent living wage that would give them full right to live and afford the de- cencies of life,” stated Rufus S. Lus president of the Operative Builders Association. It also was asserted that sands of the Government cler! their homes, and such an act thou- own s pro- preciation of the value of their homes as well as those of other property holders, The apartment house situation would be brought to a point where it would be severely damaged, and the situa- tion would reflect not only on the builders but on banks, = financial houses and the investors themselves. it was stated. HOLD-UP MEN GET $16,000 FROM LONG ISLAND BANK Customer Entering With De- posit Also Robbed. Br the Assoctated Press WOODMERE, Long Island, N. Y., August 11.—Three robbers today held up Cashier Willlam F. Brower of the Hewlett-Woodmere National Bank. took $16,000 in bills from the vault and escaped In an automobile, in which a fourth member of the gang Shortly after the cashier opened the Brower had just swung ‘While one of the other two scooped up the bills Frank Addison, a local business posit of $100. One of the robbers his confederates and took Addison’s $100 away from him. Alimony for Policeman's Wife. Justice Siddons in Equity Division | 2 today awarded Mrs. Eva W. Floegel | temporary alimony of $70 per month | from Ernest F. Floegel, a policeman | of the third precinct. The wife was also given temporary custody of the child. Attorney Richard L. Merrick represents Mrs. Floege!, who asks separate maintenance, A general view of t is being urged by busi he area bounded by Maryland avenu C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST T, 1926. when it becomes necessary to move it from its present location. B 2 A S ., Water street, Twelfth and Fourteenth street. ss interests of the southwest for site for Center Market and the Farmers’ Produce Market, BELL'S ASSISTANT 10 LEAVE CAPITAL Maj. W. H. Holcombe Order- ed to New Orleans After Three Years Here. Maj. William Henry Holcombe, as- sistant District Engineer Commis- sioner, was tre erred by the War Department today to flll a vacancy in the Fourth Mi: ippi River Dis- trict, in thus cutting short by almost one year his four- vear detail with the District Gov- ernment. He will proceed to his new post later this month. Maj. Gen. Edgar Jadwin, chief of | the Corps of Englneers of the Army, advised Lieut. Col. J. Franklin Bell, Engineer Commissioner, that he re- gretted to deprive the District of Maj. Holecombe at this time, but that the interest of the service de- manded it Merit Is Recognized. In selecting an officer for the detail in New Orleans, Gen. Jadwin said that it was necessary to take into consideration the.fact that this posi- tion calls for the consideration of many important engineering problems and an officer of known ability and good judgment. The successor to Maj expected to be announced in af few days, according to advices Col. Bell has received from the War De- partment. Commissioner Bell announces the loss of Maj. Holcombe's service with regret. “He has been of real assist- ance to me, and 1 am sorry to see him leave.” he said Maj. Holcombe has been a officer hetween the District officials and the Board of Education, in addi- | tion to performing numerous other | duties in the engineering department | of the municipal government. He has | been in charge of the acquisition of | school sites and rendered valuable service in finding property for the erection of bufldings for the gigant! five-vear public school buildin program. He also has worked with Warren Ii. Hadley, electrical engi- neer of the District, in developing the program of modern street light- ing now under way. Had Other Important Work. Among his other duties were to| supervise the municipal construction | projects, act as transportation and | property officer of the District and | represent Col. Bell at budget hear- ings before the Bureau of the Budget and Congre: | Maj. Holcombe is a_ native of | shington, having graduated from | orce Elementary School and the ern High School. He stood at the head of his class at West Point and was detailed to be Assistant Engineer Commissioner in June, 1923, coming from Fort Humphreys, Va Holcombe is W INQUEST BEING HELD | INTO DEATH OF GIRL Driver of Car Said to Struck Lucille Coleman Is Missing. Have An inquest is being held at the morgue this afternoon to determine responsibility for the death of Lucille Coleman, 12 years old, colored, of 40 C street, who was struck by an auto- mobile last Friday morning. Decision to hold the inquest was made by Coroner J. Ramsey Nevitt, despite the fact that L. W. Thomas, 637 F street northeast, alleged driver of the car which hit the Coleman girl, has been missing since the day of the accident. Thomas’ absence caused a postponement from last Saturday FEdgar Raymond Clark of Pitts- burgh, driver of a second car which figured in the accident, is in attend- ance at the inquest. The machines of Clark and Thomas collided with such force at New Jersey avenue and E street that the latter machine ca- reened over onto the sidewalk and knocked down a lamppost before it | hit the Coleman girl. Her legs, hor- ribly mangled, the girl was twice op- erated on, but died several hours later. She was standing on the sidewalk walting to cross the street when the accident happened. NUDITY EXCUSE FIZZLES. Woman Arrested for Disrobing in Circle of Her Six Children. NEW YORK, August 11 (#).—The assumption that motherhood of six children gave her nudity the chaste- ness of Lady Godiva went awry at Coney Island when Mrs. Tillie Good- man changed from mother hubbard to bathing suit in a circle of her offsprings. The disrobing act brought arrest by a policewoman, who refused to listen to pleas of release so that the matronly naiad might go home to care for her babies and cook for her husband. After a night in jail a magistrate luupondnd’ sentence, | legislation la tru MEXICO ASSURED OF CHURCH FEALTY IN EVENT OF STRIFE (Continued from First Pags clauses in the constitution and says these make impossible the life of the Catholic Church in Mexico. It also says the church s seking only to have the constitution amended to se- cure religlous liberty like that in the United States. “President Calles says we rebels, the statement asserts. says Catholic are not persecuted; he says he only wants us to obey the law. It is precisely this effort to force us to comply with laws destroying the life of the church that constitutes per- secution. We Mexi ar naCthlocis,” the state- ment reads, 11 imitate the conduct of French Catholics in the World Wan, who, despite the fact that they had been greatly wronged by their government through anti-religious and exploitation of their rights, were among the first to show their riotism when the conflict began.” PEACE HOPE HELD FUTILE Vatican Organ Declares Church Stands Firm Against Law. ROME, August 11 (®).—In behalf of the Holy Ses Osservators Romano, declares that s long as the Mexican government's “‘persecutive religious law remains in effect no negotiations are possible be- tween the clvil and ecclesiastical au thorities.” “Fron faithful, the Holy Father to the last ill trust to the invisible arm ver as all its force and all its The Vatican newspaper devotes a three-column article to analyzing Mexico's religious law and points out he true cause of the present dis- turbance.” “This cause the government’s anti-religious action, culminating in the law which was put into effect on July 31." Describes Articles of Law. After describing the articles of this the newspaper continues: “If religlous activities are sus- pended, whose fault it is? The gov- ernment with a stroke of the pen de- creed violent and immediate suppre sion, as far as possible, of Mexico's ecclesiastical life. If this was Presi dent Calles' intention he might have ved himself the trouble of compil- ing the articles of the law, by limit- la { ing himself to repeating the ancient the persecutors of the Christians—it s unlawful for you to exist.'" Had he done this he would have been more sincere. order of Answering its own question as to| the possibility of an accord, the Osse vatore Romano declares: “For s vears the ecclesiasti- cal authorities tried vainly to reach le accord with the govern- ment. Notwithstanding that, it would not be difficult even now to succeed if the government had good faith. But it is a question of a persecuting government desiring the suppressien of Catholic churches in Mexico, and how is it possible to agree with some one trying to strangle you? “No Agreement Possible.” “On the basis of the law of Presi- dent Calles, which destroys the prin- ciples of Catholicism, the holy see is| obliged to_say that no agreement is possible. When it was asked by the Mexican faithful whether they would be permitted to submit to the law in order to avoid worse evils, the holy see answered on July 21 that it con- demned the law and all acts which could signify or be interpreted by the faithful as acceptance or recog- nition of the law.’” In other columns, the Osservatore Romano comments on the news from | Mexico. It remarks that although the religious law is applicable to Protes- tants, their property has not been seized. It also prints the names of several alleged murderers, but warns the faithful against believing news yhich “throws sinister light on the Catholics’ firm resistance, with epi- sades of feroclous reprisals.” FLOODS HIT NEB—RASKA. CRAWFORD, Nebr., August 11 (#). —Heavy rains in the Pine Ridge sec- tion of Dawes and Sioux Counties have caused an estimated damage of a half a million dollars. Many streams are out of their banks, rail- road tracks are submerged, and it is reported that every bridge on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad between Crawford and Andrews, 20 miles west, has heen wrecked. “He | it says, “lies entirely | the Vatican organ,|removed from office by |and the Dade County grand jury. | it adds, “the entire Catholic | ;) | | | | on RUM FIGHTS TAKE BIGTOLL IN SOUTH Three Dead, Two Reported Killed and Two Others Wounded in Battles. By the Associated Press. JACKSONVILLE. Fla, August 11.—Three known dead, two reported killed, two men critically and one man reported missing was |the toll from the two encounters be- tween rum runners, hi-jackers, boot- leggers, Coast Guardsmen and Fed- eral agents in Florida in the past five days. Three alleged violators of the liquor law were killed in a pitched battle with seven Federal prohibition agents a lonely Everglades road near Homestead, when they pursued and opened fire on the agents, who were returning to Miami after a series of raids on stills in the Everglades. Two of the men killed were former police officers of Homestead recently fov. Martin Two Wounded on Ship. Capt. Bob Puntz and Leorse Gun way, cook ot the British rum runner Hazel E. Herman, were brought to a t. wounded as a result of a battle at sea. The two men say they were attacked by hi-jackers and in the re- sultant exchange of shots two men in the attacking party were Kkilled The schooner was taken in charge by Coast Guard patrol boat after the two men wounded had been removed by a shrimp fisher Five additional Coast Guard vessels left their bases in Miami and Key West Monday night and today were | patrolling the vicinity of the battle to | prevent a recurrence of clashes. commander 2, who harbor seaplane who was Boatswain T. L. Cokely of Coast Guard esterday left his craft in at Fernandina in a piloted by Capt. George ( missing, returned today Plane and Ships Battle. Residents of Jacksonville Beach r ported having witnessed a three cor- nered battle between three vessels and a seaplane a short distance off shore yesterday At Savannah, where the cap- tured Hazel E. Herman was convoyed by coast guardsmen, customs offic were reported to have found several hundred cases of assorted liquor and several barrels of alcohol aboard the vessel. Members of the Ay, vessel's crew said the schooner was en route to Nova Scotia, her home port, after having been released at Mobile, Ala., by Fed- eral authorities. RITES AT CEDAR HILL FOR HARRY W. TAYLOR| Funeral services for Harry W. Tay- lor, 41 years old, president of Harry W. Taylor, Inc., and of the Becker Paint and Glass Co, who died Sun- day at his residence, 2633 Adams Mill road, were conducted today by Rev. John C. Palmer, rector of Washing- ton Heights Presbyterfan Church, fol- lowed by Interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery, under auspices of mem- bers of the Scottish Rite Temple. The pallbearers were Duncan F. Powers, Samuel Stonebraker, Dr. Samuel Ginsherg, George Plitt, Charles Morgan, S. W. Loetsch and Samuel Zirkin. Mr. Taylor was active in District civic and philanthropic _enterprises and was a member of Lafayette Lodge, Almas Temple, York and Scot- sh Rites, Columbia Commandery, Board of Trade, City Club, Manor Club, Civitan Club and vice presi- dent of the Lions Club. He is survived by his wife, Mary {Edna Taylor; a daughter, Frances; a sister, Miss Edna Taylor; an uncle, Eugene Taylor, and his mother, Mrs. Frances Taylor. DT ARMS CUT PLAN STUDIED. ROME, August 11 (#).—The pro- posals which Italy intends to submit to the disarmament committee of the League of Natlons were scrutinized today by Premier Mussolini and a spe- clal committee which he had appoint- ed for that purpose with himself as chairman. Fenning, as “Responsible Citizen,” Will Not Be Served With Warrant Being a “responsible citizen,” For- mer Commissioner Frederick A. Fen- ning will not be annoyed with per- sonal service of the traffic warrant sworn out for him by Policeman Or- ville Staples of the third precinct, it was announced today by Inspector Charles Evans, assistant superintend- ent of police. o Police of the third precinct will notify him by telephone that the warrant has been issued, it was ex- plained, Policeman Staples reported sick today, so that indications were the case would not come up in Police Court for a day or so. Staples and a Mrs. W. D7 Smith are the chief witnesses of the alleged vio- lations, which involve traffic regu lation: nother vehicle and blocking a vate drivewa pri Mr. Fenning is known to have dis. cussed the matter with Supt. of Po iice Hesse, although the nature of the confergnce could not be learned. wounded | ‘Augustine hospital Monday criti- | against parking too close to! KLAN SEEKS RIGHT T0 MARCH MASKED Informal Overtures Made to Secure Permit From D. C. Officials. Informal overtures with a to permitting a monster parade on Pennsylvania avenue next month of hooded and masked members of the Ku Kilux Klan have been made to the District Commissioners and Chief of Police Hesse by L. A. Mue! ler, head of the local Klan organ izatlon, 1t was disclosed today the District Building. Inttmations of the desire of the marchers to stage the parade wear ing masks were glven municipal offt clals in the brief conferences h with the Washington representa tive here of the national order. According to Ma). Hesse, the Kia: head sounded out the attitude of the Police Department regarding possibility of amending the regula tions against masking on the streets 80 as to permit of an exception i the case of the proposed parade which would be held In conjune with the national convention in this city September 13, 14 and 15 nex No Permit Is Asked. The police superintendent is to have indicated his opposition a masked parade of the Klan . said no permit for any kind of 1. rade has been asked to date. To amend the regulations would ro quire a 30-day interval before its er forcement would become effective Immediate action would be necessary in order to change the police reguls tions in time for the parade, it was pointed out. Kieagle Mueller is known to have discussed the matter with District Commissioner Rudolph just prior to the latter's departure for his vaca tion nearly a week ago. Mr. Rudolph is understood to have told his inter viewer that he would stand by ant recommendation which the police si perintendent might make in this cor nection. Predicts Big Crowd. Questioned regarding the conf ences, Mr. Mueller said today that he had no official knowledge that there will be a parade at all. “We haven't even asked for a per mit, yet. 1 haven't any definite in |formation about a parade,” he ex platned. Maj. Hesse sald that in reply to his query as to the approximate num | ber of Klan visitors expected here fo: the convention, Mr. Mueller would not cominit himself, except to announce his belief that there would be as many, If not more, than were here last August. Kian officials estimated there were 200,000 here at that time DRIVERS’ BLACK LIST IS DUE FOR APPROVAL City Heads Said to Favor Publicity f in Cases of Revoked Permits. The plan of Traffic Director M. O Eldridge to make public biweekly the names and addresses of automobile drivers whose permits @ heen re | voked or suspended is expected to be approved by the Commissioners at | thelr semiweekly board meeting Fri day The Commissioners considered tie proposition yesterday and referred it to Corporation Counsel Francis Il | Stephens for an opinion as to its I gality. Mr. Stephens is understood 1o have given it his approval. Engineer Commissioner Hell alread has given his indorsement to the ide: “The names and addresses of motor ists whose privilege to drive has been | taken away is a matter of public in ! terest, it seems to me,” he said, “and |1 think they should be published.” | | MY MRS. FERGUSON IN TEXAS RUN-OFF t Page.) | ___«ontinuea from Fir | newspapers he bluft,’ and ver said he tatements in the called my proposition “Jim's not to this hour has I accepted my proposition. “I submit to all fair-minded people that the acceptance of e challenge | by ‘Jim’ is not the acceptance of i challenge issued by ‘Miriam.’ Says Moody Not Bound. “If the vote had been in my fav: Mr. Moody had carefully worded h | reply so that he would not have be bound and he would have immediately said that he was only bluffing witl Jim." The challenge to resign, which Mrs Ferguson refers to, was one made b her in her first campaign speech of the recent primary. She offered resign her office 1f Moody led her b one vote, provided he would resign as attorney general if she led him b 25,000 votes. Mrs. Ferguson also bases her re fusal to resign on the charge tha: the primary was illegal because those who bolted the Democratic party in 1924 to vote for the Republican candi date for governor, Dr. George ( Butte, were permitted to return to the party and vote in the recent primars Says “Bolters” Turned Tide. She alleges there were 20000 suct “bolters,” and if they had heen ex cluded she would have led Moody bs over 100,000 votes. “Backing Mr. Moody was the or ganized force of the Ku Klux Klan continues her statement. “In othe words, my proposition was based uporn a Democratic primary and not a bolt ing Ku Klux Klan primary. Even if Mr. Moody had accepted my proposi tion directly to me, I would have beer released by reason of political fraud and fllegal election.” She further contends that she was denied the right to have supervisors at every election box by an opinior rendered by Attorney General Moody She declares this made the electior “‘unfair." The “polith uses the phrases * and “political shy locks” in reference to Moody's fol lowers, and concerning the demar that she resign her office, says: “They are thirsting for blood and a | pound of flesh. I shall not accede to their demands, but shall remain at my post to perform the work which I promised the people I would perform, regardless of consequences.” Mrs. Ferguson's 1924 compaign, which ended with her election, was | made largely upon the Klan as an issue. She stood squarely upon ar anti-Klan plank in her platform. - Ordered to Rock Islafd, Ill. Capt. Joseph H. Nichols, Ordnance Department Reserve of this city, has been ordered to the Army arsenal at Rock Island, 11, for duty in training.