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WEATHER. (. & Weather Bureau Forecast.) possibly tomorrow. much change in temperature. Partly cloudy, showers tonight and Highest, %1, at noon t at 5:30 am. today Full report on page Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 26 thunder. not oday: lowest, ch ¢ Foen & WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ny Star. The o Associal nly evening paper in Washington with the ted Press news ‘s Circulation, 87,906 Circulation, 103,130 No. 30057, office Entered as second class matte: Washington, Do, WASHINGTON, D. C., MOXNDAY, AUGUST 16, 1926—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. ¥ UP) Means Associated Pr TWO CENTS. U. S, SEIZES REBEL - ARMY OF 150 ABOUT T0INVADE MEXICO Gen. Estrada, Former Secre- tary of War, Leader of Re- volt, Lodged in Prison. PLANNED TO DESCEND ON TOWNS OVER BORDER i Trucks, Guns and Ammunition and Plans Taken by Department of Justice Agents. Bs the Aseociatel Procs SAN DI . proximately 150 men, Mexican Mution, mand of Gen Maxican August 16, molilized for a under the com- » Estrada, former of war, were < here last night and v of arms and aninuni- \meri the U Justice, Ap e vigue secretary a large quant tlon seized by nis of ment o county and other I tured what was to wrmed party of invading three miles from the Mex n border. Information gathered by Government agents led them to the appointed ren- dezvous at Duizura, in the Imperiai Valley, where Gen. Estrada and staff were concenirating their forc preparatory 1o a sdescent upon the towns just below the border. Armored Truck Captured. An armored truck, two 10-ton truck Joads of rifies, machine guns and am- munition, other trucks for the trans. portation of men and supplies and avour 150 Mexicans made up the ma- terial and personnel of the captured expedition aiso captured and complete insurrec The 1 made vester Estrada and his s C. Parker. san Di arms dealer. were captured and brought into the city from Dulzura while the munitions (rucks were cap tured near La Me The capture Springficld rin and 155,000 14 a miscellin ted States De ided by ral offi ap. have an insurrecto: documentary evidence mportant afternoon, ff, including F. hardwars capture was when Gen. vie nd rms included 400 two ds of ammunition and ous assortment of small arms er a truck, protected with armor plate half an inch thick and weighing nearly six tons, cap tured near D wa when, the genera roundup of the rebel fc made The San Diego County unprepared for such an emergency, was able to accommodate only about one-third of those arrested and the re- mainder were sent to Fort Rosecrans. The leaders of the expedition were housed in the county jail, while the captured munitions were left on the trucks in the courtyard of the jail. Leader in de la Huerta Revolt. 1 s Enrique Estrada, who zave himself onlv the modest title of civil engineer, was known to the federal agents as Gen. Estrada. one of the leaders of the de l'a Huerta revolutio several vears ago, at one time secretary of war in Mexico and commander of the Vera Cruz distr He carried $436 in cash on his person and other members ot his staff captured at the &ame time had sums tatal to more than §1.500 Gen. Estrada's chiaf Gen. Aurelio Zpulveda, a famoug of ficer of the Mexican army. who said he had been i resident of Los Angeles for two vears. He admitted that he was a4 general in the Mexican and w booked at the coun with that il While no airpla the eapedition’s equipment Gareta, 30, arrested with | was designated as anoaviat ably Estrada’s chief of ae lie called himsel! wiechanic he gave his history at the jail Jauin Roque, salesman: L ador, laborer: Carlos Alean driver; Jose Ma nares, mechanic from Texas A Valenzuela Jaborer, all of Los Angeles, were the others captured with ks fore the main body of insurrectos was rounded up later in the night. of staff was A8 v jail found in stino trada, prob service when ten m- truck es were Instructed to Gather. Papers found on the captured Mex feans indicated that they had been emploved and given instructions gather near Dulzura last night. One man, Ospicio ¥anchez, apparently cergeant, had a letter from J. T. n. Culver City contractor, m and introducing him 1o Wilson of Campo. The let which was only one of several documents carried by lieuten- subcommanders, read bearer, Ospicio Sanchez. will vou with 25 Mexican labor ers to sta 1 will be there in a few days (Signed) ~J. T. DEGMAN." Degman. however, apparentiv did not wait the few davs he mentioned, for he was captured with the others near Dulzura and was brought into town shortly after midnight. He Asked if he might get bail and go to a hotel, saving that friends in San Diego who glad to put up bail. He wi however, that he would have to wail until charges were preferved against him and his bail fixed H» ashed that he be permitied to graph to his altorneys in Los ex. The request Was grante would be tele An Led by Expert Military Men. That the expedition had been care. fully organized and was led by expert military men was further emphasized by the identification of Ascencion San. tana, who had served A captain in the forces of the late President Venus tiano Carranza. Another trada and Zpulveda. is supposed to b one of the prime movers in the insur. rectfon, is still at large. according to the Department of Justice leaders. Char ding and participating in an armed eapedition against a gov- ernment friendly to the United States, a violation of the United States neu trality laws. will be preferred against the prisoners today, according to A. A Hopkins Department of Justice agent Who was in charge of operations here and who had been working on the case for nearly a month. ¢orrespond. ence in the possession of Parker. F trada and others captured by the Gov ernment agents, makes the case againet the ringleaders strong kina said. Tt will be more difficult to prove oharges against the rank and goontinued gn Page 3, Column 4.} city, | {Russians Replace Former| his | s | while Government agents | sets of plans for the| machine guns | that brought the | army | 1 and be- | to! t construction work at once. | told, | then | supposed leader of the expedition, who, with Es. | Hop- | g | { Red Idol Falls , “ON B. KAMENEFF. AS BOLSHEVIK CHIEF i Member of Triumvirate | by Mere Youth. i ssomated Press. | MOSCOW, August 16 i bolshevik idol has fallen. Leon B. | Kameneff, commissar of trade, once ! member of the so-called triumvirate | which rules Russia and one {principals of the Communist world, {has been replaced by a mere vouth i M. Mikoian of Tiflis, a friend of {M. Stalin, head of the Communist | party. 01d-Time Communists Startled. oldtime Communists were to hear that the young | Georgian. relatively unknown. had been ziven such a vital position Soviet national economy. But shrewd Georgian, apparently termined to place his own lieutenants in important pe ithe government | Like Leon Trotsky. i sded by Stalin i ire Communists Ithe penalty he paid | question the supremacy fin power was first the loss of his !post as member of the powerful ! Political Bureau, and the post of com- {missar of labor and defen | the forfeiture of the trade commis Another ! en | startled Kamenefl was and other doc heretic. ing to of those now Leader to Fall. real name is Ros- th Kameneff, whos | enfeld, always has been regarded fone of (he moderate and progressive ! elements of the bolshevik regime. He iis the sixth big Communist to fall | victim to Stalin’s political ax within the last year. The others were | Trotsky, Zinovieff, Radek, Sokolnikov {and Lashevitch {" In the eves of Stalin and other dominant leaders, Kameneff's posi |tion was considerably weakened by i his outright repudiation of Trotsky 18 | months ago and his subsequent join {ing of the opposition led by Trotsky | Always immaculately | jand Zinovieff ‘groomed and suave in | Kameneff had been called | tleman of the Soviet cabinet.” ! 0SSOVSKY OUSTED FOR VIEV manner, he gen- Record Penalty Followed Supporting Opposition. By ¢able to The Star and Chicago Daily News, MOSCOW, August 16.—The expul sfon of Yakov Ossovsky from the Com- munist arty is the sev: | that < been imposed upon any mem { her of the opposition involved in the | controversy which resuited in { ory Zinovieff's retirement from th Iiussian political bu u anmd his severance from several other political, Jobs. OSsovsky wrote | | | ! | n article support- Ling the opposition’s position, which | the Bolshevist parties’ weekly | printed. When ordered to re | Views ~ Ossovsky wrote article which he submitted to Prav- | da, the party orsan. Pravda refused | to publish it and his expulsion came | the next day | Ossovsky another preached “the impc bility of a prolet 0 dictatorship in any country where the peasant is in the majority,” says the decree expell- | ing him ¢ was expelled | from the party ubordination { once before in i (Copyright. 1826. by Chicago Daily News Co.) | { | VESUVIUS AGAIN ACTIVE. | | Flames and Rumbling Mark Erup- | tion, Held Not Dangerous. NAPLES, August 16 (®.—Mount | Vesuviue, which was in eruption dur- | ing the latter part of July, has re- | sumed activity, several fresh of lava flowing down its sides. F| !\vere visible all last night | steady rumbling was heard. i Seismologists have assured the pop. he had many| ylation that there is no danger of | a serious eruption. 19 Hurt in Jersey Wreck. JLERSEY CITY, . | ).~ During the rush ho ling a commuters’ train from Spring | Valley collided with an outgoing train at the Erie terminal, Jersey City. Nineteen persons were injured, three of them serfously. 4 August 16 DEPOSE KAMENEFF of the | in | and now | Articles | penalty | this morn- | YITCHERER COFFN ENPTY POLIEFN " POWER I SOUEHT ]Casket, Opened in Front of Coroner, Said to Contain | Only Some Tar. | e |GREAT SECRECY MARKS , INSPECTION BY OFFICIALS Officers Guarding 'Case Called Away to Pursue Burglars Seen to Scale Wall and Run. By the e Press LONDON. August 16.—The Rritish | home office today announced officially | that a packing case recently delivered at Waterloo Station and alleged to contain the hody of the late Lord Kitchener s found to contain an empty coffir Aft the investigation of the pack- |ing case Chief Constable Wensley and { Detective Supt. Brown went to the conference with officials and legal ad- sel cotland Yard offi ought to get in touch Power, British newspaper brought the packing case from way, where he said the body of Lord Kitchener had been picked up after the sinking of the cruviser Hampshire. | Statement Is Issued. | immediately with Frank man, who The statement issued by the home office this morning said: “The packing case. alleged to con- tain a coffin and human remain | which on Saturday night was re- moved by the police from an under- taker's on Waterloo road to Lambeth oroner’s court, was this morning opened in the presence of Coror | Ingleby Oddie and Sir Bernard Spils bury. The packing case was found to ntain an empty coffin. The coffin < new and obviously had not con tained human remains The Evening Standard quoted an unnamed official, who was present when the coffin was opened as saying: “There was nothing but tar in the coffin. No remains were found.’ -otland Yard officers removed the case from the Waterloo Road station, | where it was delivered last Saturday, 0 a4 mortuary. When the coffin morning under the direction of Cor oner Oddie, high Scotland Yard off clals and oificial photographers also were present. was opened this Seer Is Maintained. surrounded the public The greatest secrecy the proceedings as far as was concerned, only serving to whet the curiosity of the large crowds surrounded the mortuary from hour. | A fresh sensation conngcted the case delivered at Waterloo Station developed early this morning when police who were guarding the casket were summoned to search the neigh- borhood for suspected burglars. Neigh boring residents of the mortuary re- ported they had seen two men scale | the walls about the establishment. A search failed to reveal any intruders. CISTERN WATER KILLS SIX IN ONE FAMILY Five Remain Il After Month's Fight of Doctors on Malady at Lonaconing, Md. Special Dispateh to The Star. LONACONING, Md.. August 16, With the death vesterday of 11-ye 0l Archibald Green the toll from cis tern ater, which for a month has puzzled doctors and specialists, reached six. Five others are ill, all victims being in the Green house- hold. William H vesterday's victim, died during the preceding three weeks Rosaline, 13: Charles, 5: Catherine, 4, and Bessie, 3, have passed away. The mother, father and three other chil- dren are ill. Analysis of the cistern water showed it polluted and serum was brought from New York in the efforts of physicians to check the rav ages of the malady. a further spread of which was prevented by closing | the cistern. WOMAN, 122, MOURNS Green. grandfather of Friday and Older Pioneer Califorian Too Il to Attend Funeral—Younger Ohe Had 20 Children. By the Asswiated Press ! POMONA, €alif., August 16—The | death of Mrs. Inez Alvidrez Reyes, | 108-vear-old pioneer of Pomona, Sat: | urdiy, was to her nbighbor, | Mrs. Pet to be | vears of age is had fre- ) quently declared her belief that she | would “die before her younger friend. | | She is confined to her bed and will | | not be able 1o attend Mrs. Re; lx’um‘ml, Only two of Mrs. Reyes children are living. 'Negro Guard, Pretending He Had Gun, ! Foils Escape of Three at Chicago Jail By the Associated Press i CHICAGO. August 16.—Courage of Harry Brown, a negro guard, who pre- tended he had a pistol in his pocket, ! prevented the possible escape of three | prisoners at the Cook County Jail | early today The trio. one of whom is awaiting execution, had sawed their way out {of their cells and overpowered one guard before the negro forced them iback into their cells. i Daniel McGeohegan. awaiting execu tion. along with “Midget” Fernekes, | and his cell partner, Matthew Stewart, awaiting trial on three charges of rob- bery, were the first to saw out. few minutes later Angglo Caggiane, utilizing the two bars ed by Mc- A ] i Geohegan and Stewart and one he | sawed himself. managed to crawl out | | of his cell. Caggiano is awaiting trial for robbery. His cellmate, Gus Peter- alzo awaiting trial on a robbery ge. did not leave the cell. Sheriff Peter Hoffman immediately | ordered an nvestigation. An inspec- tion of the cell block revealed that a | bar on another cell confining three ! prisoners had been sawed. but the! space was too small and the first pris- oner who attempted to crawl through was held fast. | The seven prisoners involved in the | latest escape plot were thrown into solitary confinement. and several guards armed with shotguns were sta- | itloned on the jail wails, home office, where they held a lengthy | | charged with | N has | DEATH OF FRIEND, 108 GET EYPERTY, SEISHING 74 SURPRISE WITNESS BACKS MRS. GIBSON Man Says He Saw Her Near Scene of Hall Murder. Kept Silent 4 Years. By the Associated Press. SOMERVILLE, N. The testimony of Mr: woman pig raiser, was partlally cor- roborated today at the hearing of Henry Carpenter and Willle Stevens, with the murders of Re Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Mills. J.. August 18 Jane Gibson, Ldward Eleanor Mr ibson testified Friday that she was.in De Russey's Lane near the Phillips farm. saw two men and a woman and heard shots fired. She identified Stevens and Carpenter as the men. he woman, she said, w Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, also charged with the murders. Mrs. Hall is at liberty on $15,000 bail. Henry F. Ehrling, millwright, testi- in De Russey's lane the night of September 14, 1922, and saw . Gibson there on her mule. He saw no one except Mrs. Gibson and heard no shots. Silent to Shield Girl. The witness had kept silent for four vears to shield a girl who was with him. Charles Alpaugh, a taxi driver, tes- tified he saw a sedan parked in Easton was driving by. ear, but he did not know whether they were men or women. An architect who made diagrams of the place where the crabhapple tree stood and physical objects that were mentioned in the testimony of Mrs. Gibson Friday, was the first witness called. Watchman Repeats Story. William Phillips, night watchman at the New Jersey College for Women, told his four-year-old story of seeing woman in gray” enter the Ifall bout 2 w.m.. the night of the murder. He is under $2,500 bail as s-material witness. e permitted to answer a_question detectives employed by Mr threatening him if he told of seeing this woman enter. James Mills, husband of the slain choir singer, took the stand to tell | again the story of his whereabouts on the night of the murder. He told of seeing his wife leaving for her tryst with the rector. As she went out at 7:30 that evening [ he asked “Where are you going.” Alleged Reply Quoted. “Follow me and find out,” he quoted her as replying. A man once accused of the murder of Rev. Mr. Hall and Mrs. Mills was ion today's list of witnesses against | the three persons now charged with that crime. Clifford Hayes, 20 vears old at the time the rector and his choir leader were slain, and accused by his com- Raymond Schneider, of the ving. was summoned to tell | what he saw when he crept upon the trysting rector and Mrs. Mills on the deserted Phillips farm, near New Brunswick, the night of September 14, 1 residence Testimony TIs Retracted. Hayes and Schneider were following pearl Bahmer and her father, Nick Bahmer, the night the murders were committed. Pearl and Schneider were sweethearts. Bahmer, a saloon keeper. later was sentenced for his ations with Pearl cour years ago Schneider told the police that Haves had killed Dr. 1all and Mps. Mills when they were mis taken for Pearl and her father. Schneider retracted his statement and was sentenced for perjury. He also was called upon to testify today. Carpender and Stevens are confined in separate cells in_the county jajl. Yesterday Senator Frelinghuysen vis-, ited Carpender. FARINACCI FACES DUEL. Fascist Politician Slaps Marquis and Is Challenged. CORTINA D'AMPEZZO. Italy, Au- gust 16 (#).—Roberto Farinacci, for- mer secretary general of the Fascist party and for some time a stormy petrel in Fascist politics, today public- 1y slapped the face of the Marquis of Bonaccersi. who immediately chal- | lenged him to a duel. The incident, which occurred in the crowded lobby of a fashionable hotel, grew out of r rks by the marquis which Farinae erpreted as casting reflections upon his political activity. | covered | miners | the larger hones, |leather lane, near De Russey’'s lane, while he | He saw two or three | 5 persons slide down a bank toward the | clent to cause a drain on Ha | jority of the se: MINE GIVES UP DEAD. | Three of 49. Entombed in 1880, | Taken Out—Only Bones Remain. STELLERTON. Nova Scotia, Au- gust 16 OP.—After nearly a half- century the Foord pit. which had re- | mained hermetically sealed since an explosion in 1880 entombed 49 coal miners, has begun to give up its dead A shaft has been driven into the old workings and men, braving the g have entered the foul interior and re- the bones of three of the but the hoots belts of the victims are to be perfectly preserved. ICE FUND CLOSED: TOTAL ABOVE $70 Emergency of Hot Wave Met | by Generous Public—Still Distributing Tickets. Little was left of the dead except | No further contributions to ice fund are needed at this time. The generous response the people of | Washington made to the first few ap- | peals and the end of the severe heat | wave combined to make the reserve | now in hand sufficient to cover exist- ing needs. Should another prolonged spell of hot weather increase suffering suffi- | the fund, however, The Star will again ask the more fortunate people of the city to | come to the assistance of the poor. In the meantime the distribution of ice tickets remaining on hand will he continued by charitable organizations. Where Tickets Are Available. The ice tickets may be obtained at all police stations up to 6 o'clock this eveming. After that hour they will he called in. and distribution will he followed only through the Associated Charitles. the Salvation Army, the Gospel Mission and the lnstructive Visiting Nurse Society. which have “t daily contact with the families the fund is designed to aid. Distribution by the Associated Char ities and Visiting Nurses will be con ducted through their visiting - work- | ers, who will carry tickets with them on ‘their regular rounds to the homes of the needy. Other persons in need of ice may apply to the el Mission at 214 John Marshall place, or to the Salvation Army at any of the follow- ing_places: Headquarters, 607 district station at streets southeast; 1075 Jefferson street, Georgetown, or 1501 Seventh street’ northeast, or from any family worker of the Army. These tickets | may be taken to the nearest station | of the American lIce Co. and s deemed. Total Swelled to $102. The fund total was swelled to £702.62 by contributions received up MEXICAN CHAMBER GUARD REINFORCED the 15 street; the Eighth and 1 Increasing Bitterness in Election Disputes Causes Politicians to Swarm Building. }‘ By the Associated Pre MEXICO CITY, August 16.—The federal troops who are guarding the Chamber of Deputies to prevent fight ing between rival claimants to seats have been reinforced by policemen and additional soldiers. It is said that there had been an increase in the ugly feelings of the opposing political fac- tions over the contests in the various congressional districts for seats voted fof in the elections held July 4. The electoral college began its final sessions today to decide the contest: Large numbers of politicians swarm in and around the chamber building. Most of them customarily carry pis- tols, and therefore the guard of mili- tary and police is on duty to quell any | battles that may be begun | The Labor and Socialist groups | seemingly are certain to control a ma- < in the Chamber, but the opposition groups are seeking to reduce this majority by decisions of | the electoral college on contested re- | turns. - | Radio Programs—Page 23. | |and church fight and with firmnes } Papers dealing | deliver COOLIDGE CONFERS ONMEXICAN ISSUES Kellogg Lays Church-State Controversy and Land Law Data Before President. RUSSELL YOUNG. Staff Correspondent of The Star. WHITE PINE CAMP. N. Y., A gust 16.—President Coolidge and Sec- retary of State Kellogg have entered upon a series of conferences that will cover a wide field concerning the for- eign policy of the United States. Nat urally enough, the Mexican situation, which Is known to have presented some difficult problems for the admin- istration, is well to the front in these conferences. The situation, as it was developed as a result of the heated controversy between the Mexican government and the Catholic Church, and the Diplo- matic correspondence between Amer- ica and Mexico regarding the oil and land laws of the latter, is looked upon in administration circles here as be- ing something of a double-barrelled natur At any rate, the American svernment is satisfied that it mu proceed with great care in the state in the oil and land row. minutely with these two matters were | brought to White Pine Camp by the head of the State Department and today these are being gone over care- v the President and this mem- is cabinet. tary is known to have also brought with him the speech he is to Wednesday at _ Plattsburg, N. Y.. incident to the dedication of the monument to Commodore Thomas MeDonough, commander of American forces at the battle of Plattsburg in 1812, in which address, Secretary Kellogg is expected to set forth phases of President attitude on various extra territori auestions. Recause of the significance of the Secretary’s references to the administration’s attitude, the Presi dent thought it best that he carefully review the speech in adva delivery. Studies K. of C. Plea. Other papers brought by Secretary Kellogg, which the | dent is known to be studying carefully, are those dealing with the plea of the | Knights of Columbus that President Coolidge intervene in the church and state controversy in Mexico. In addi- tion to these, the Secre made an oral report to the President of his conference last week with James A. Flaher upreme gknight of the Knights of Columbug! when the latter presented the plea of intervention which he backed up by charges of mistreatment of Americans in the church disturbance. . The President's desire to study these papers personally is not taken here as any indication that he has any intention of complying with the Knights of Columbus’ plea for inter- vention. On the contrary, the Presi- dent has plainly indicated that this plea for intervention is bound to fail because of his announced de termination not to hecome embroiled in what he considers the domestic troubles of a_sister nation. However, the long-standing fuss hetween the American Government and Mexico regarding the oil and land laws, is looked upon in a dif- ferent light and the President h: (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) HUNGARY ARSENAL BLAST REVEALED AS INCENDIARY | Scores Quizzed, Homes Searched. Counterfeiting Affair Also Subject of Inquiry. By Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily News. VIENNA, August® 16.—Two crimi- nal investigations of general Euro- pean interest are holding the atten- tion of the authoritles of Budapest today. Military and civil investigations have revealed that the munitions plant explosion on Csepel Island w the act of an unknown incendiar Careful search has been made of every house on the island, and scores of pe sons were summoned before the p lice, three of whom were arrested but later released. The other investigation claiming at- tention is the franc counterfeiting af- fair invelving Prince Windisch Graetz. This has been brought into the spotlight by the opening of the appeal hearings before the higher court. A representative of the Bank of France has arrived to participate in the eHals (Copyrigh. 1026, by Chicago Daily News.) the | Coolidge's wce of its | Mayor and Police Chief Suspended On Plea of 700 By the Acsociated Preas X I'EUBENVILLE, Ohio. August 16.—~Mayor John S. Patton and Chief of Police Blaine D. Carter of Steubenville, were suspended from office today by Common Pleas Judge Jay 8. Paisley, following the filing of formal application by 700 petitioners. 1 | | i | ! CITIZENS COUNGIL ' CALLED ON BUDGET [ Commissioners Seek Advice on Reducing Sum to Limits Set by President. the Citizens' Advi ming the Di fiiscal ory Couneil in trim- ct's budget for the to the limitation of : . as set by President Cool- idge, the Commissioners today de- ided to confer with members of that i body Wednesday night at 8 o'clock {in_the District Building. The meeting will be held behind closed doors, because Eengineer Com- missioner Bell believes it would not he legal to open the conference to the public through representatives of the press. It will be the first time since its creation that the council has con- ferred officially with the Commission- lers The Commissioners have planned a series of meetings, beginning Wednes- day morning, to determine which de- partments shall suffer reductions in | the final revision of the budgetary es- { timates. The work is expected to be | completed within three days. The be- | lief was expressed last week that the | council would not have an opportunity 110 pass upon the final estimates be- | fora they are transmitted to the Bud |'zet Bureau, because its chairman. | Jesse C. Suter, was out of the city on vacation. Mr. Suter. however. re- | turned today and immediately made {arrangeme nts for calling the council together for the conference. 'NEW GREEK REVOLT " PLOT IS DISCOVERED %}(afandnris, Former Premier, ‘ Among Number Seized in Polit- i ical and Army Circles. By the Associated Press. ATHENS, August 16.—A new plot | to overthrow the government has been | discovered, according to the afternoon | papers, among politicians and_army {oMictals. Former Premier | Kafand: has again Dbeen {and police are seeking Gen. Kondilis |and Gen. Panayotopoulos. The mayor | of Pireaus has been also arrested, as jwell as a number of army officers. Kafandaris, one fime premier of | | Greece, had been in constant opposi. | i tion to the Venizelos government, and | {only last month was accused of being implicated in a plot on the life of Pan- | | galos, and was banished to the Island |of Naxos. Both Gen. Kondilis and | Gen. Panayotopoulos have been in-| | volved in plots against the Athens gov- ernment. They were included in the | recent amnesty that permitted the re. | turn of those banished to the Island { of Naxos. UNEXPECTED STRIKE TIES UP PERISHABLES Longshoremen on Erie Pier at New York May Cause Loss of $100,000 to Road. By the Associated Prees. NEW_ YORK, August 16.—An un- expected strike of longshoremen early may cause the Erie Rallroad a < estimated at $100,000, due to in- ability 350 carloads of perish- able freight, consigned to fruit and vegetable dealers. Because they were not granted an immediate increase in wages, 400 workers refused to go to work at the Erie piers at the féot of Duane street last night. The New York Marine Co., which has the contract to unload the cars for the railroad, issued a call for 600 men, but only 200 re. sponded today. Spokesmen for the strikers, who do not belong to a union, said they de- ! manded 75 cents an hour for 10 hour: work and $1.10 an hour for over- time. The prevailing scale is 50 to 52 cents an hour and 78 cents for overtime. Mounted policemen patrolled the dis. trict. There was no disorder. | T MAN AND HORSE DROWN. Accident in Maryland Stream Fol- lows Cloudburst. spatch to The Star. RSON, Md., August 16.— Hale, 28 vears old, and his ! horse were drowned late’ Saturday | while attempting to ford Middle | Creek near here. Hale's body was re- covered yvesterday. The stream was high and torrential | following a cloudburst, but at the i.»masmg, where a ford had long ex- listed, llale appeared confident he lcould drive across in his buggy. | About half way of the stream the horse floundered and was swept away with man and buggy. i Canada Fines Two for Failing to Report on Crossing Border. EMERSON, Manitoba. August 16 (P)—Two Americans who landed in Canada with an airplane were arrested by the Roval Canadian Mounted Po- tice. fined and their plane seized when they failed to report to immigration | anthorities James A. Kilbane. St. Paul, was fined $200 and costs. and Fred Wilt- more, Minneapolis, $10 and costs. They were charged with entering Canada Lancaster. Manitoba, after a tip was received from United States custom of. ficers. Preparations were being made! to load a cargo of liquor. Desirous of obtaining the advice of | | an extension of the school instead | pended balance of § by stealth. The plane was selzed near | SCHOOL SITEBUYING SUBIECTTOZ5PCT, RULE, MCARL SAYS Controller Decides Question Propounded on Extension to Park View Building. 1$154,000 FUND AT ISSUE WAS REAPPROPRIATED District Auditor, Senator Phipps and Representative Funk Declare Limit Does Not Apply. Controller General McCarl dealt severe blow to the District today w! he overruled a decision of Districr Auditor Daniel J. Donovan and held that an unexpended balance of $i34 000 reappropriated for the acquisition of a scheol site is subject 10 the prica limitation of per cent above the assessed value of land, placed on the ase of school and park sites in the District appropriation act for the current year. Controller General McCarl also has before him for dec question from the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, which involves the restriction of price placed by Con gress on property, but no decision has been reached in the matter, it was said today The Park and Planning Commission explained that it h total of $600 000 with which to purchase parks and playgrounds, $150.000 of which is available for purchase at any price found by, the commission to he fair. Congress, however, the commission sald, placed a restriction upon the ex penditure of the remainder, §450.000. |as follows: “Provided that the pur i chage price to be paid for any site | shall not exceed the latest full-value ssessment of such property plus | per_centum of such assessed value | The controller general has been asked to decide whether the commis sion may use the $430.000 fund for purchase of sites which have heen priced by courts in condemnation pro ceedings at a figure in excess of the per cent margin mentioned in the v ‘The Park and Planning Commission, it 1s said, has encountered trouble in obtaining desired land on account of this limitation, and the District also has had difficulty in obtaining new school sites for the same reason. The Park and Planning Commission sought a ruling to expedlite its pur chases, but the generul schoolsite buying program has heen allowed to lag for the pregent. the Park View matter arising only incidentally Voted for Third Story. The $154,000 itern on which the ru! ing was handed down today was ori nally appropriated for a third-story addition to the Park View school and was not used because of the demands of the citizens in that community f t a en the third-story addition The ruling of the controller gen- eral was made in connection with twn questions propounded Ly Maj. W. Ii. Holcombe, Assistant Engineer Com missioner. These wer “Is the reappropriation of the unex. 74.000 subject to the limitation that purchases there from may not he made when the cost of the site exceeds the full value as- sessment of the property, plus centum of such assessed value? Is the reappropriation of the unex- pended balance of $154,000 available for the purchase of any school build ing or playground site authorized to be acquired in the five-year school building program act, whether or not such site is specifically mentioned in the legislation quoted above”" Reply of McCarl. Replying to these questions, controller general suid “It appears clear that it was intention of the Congress in the enact ment restricting the use of the ap- propriation for the purchase of school rground sites. that such restric to sites sha!ll apply to all itlons of said sites under ap propriations made in said act, and not - to the lump sum appropriation of $703,500. [t is obvious that the placing of the restrictions upon the use of appropriations made was but a means of prohibiting the purchase of sites at a cost greater than the full value assessed, plus 25 per cent, and repeating the restrictions in that part of the act reappropriating the unexpended balance of the prior ap- propriation was unnecssary to give er- fect to that intent, but on the can trary, express exception therefrom would have been necessary if the re striction was not intended to be ap- plicable. “I am accordingly constrained to determine that the reappropriation of the unexpended halance of $154,00) is subject to the limitation that pur chases therefrom may not be made when the cost of the site exceeds the full value assessment of the property, plus 25 per centum of such assessed value, either for the purchase of sites specifically enumerated in the act of May 10. 1926, or for the purchase of other sites authorized to be acquired by the five-vear school building pro gram authorized in the act of Fel | ary 26, 1925 ! Donovan Views Differe Auditor Donovan, in answering the questions propounded by Maj. Hal combe. held that the unexpended b ance of $154,000 is not subject to the per cent limitation, and that the appropriation is available for the pur- chase of any school site authorized by the five-year school buflding program act, whether such site is one of thoss enumerated in the lump sum appro- priation of $703,500, or not. “The language of the appropriation re-appropriating this money,” said the auditor, “provides that it shall be available for the purchase of school building and playground sites authorized to be acquired in the five. year school building program act.” Auditor Donovan also pointed out that Senator Phipps and Representa- tive Funk, in a joint letrer to the Board of Commissioners, dated May 6, 1926, called attention to the fact that the limitation had been removed trom the re-appropriated fund the the - Secretary of War Davis Back. Secretary Dwight F. Davis of the | War Department, who has beeq spend. ing his vacation at Dark Harbor, Me., turned to this city this afternoon to jume his official dutles. | | 2 |

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