Evening Star Newspaper, August 19, 1926, Page 2

9 » ACCORD IS REACHED ON MARKET POLICY : Report to Park Body Will Not Be Made Public Until Tomerrow. Held for Grand. Jury the k and follow rlocat was de ordinat mare 10 the menthly A ontining i course the Natien ta? P Planning Commi shonld on the import m of iing the F cided upon ing conm public unt planning commi meeting tomorrow Whether 1he t nating tormittee cifie whether lem withon nite site an rme nirket b the presented the coordi spe eport AchmE R whatle nroh. defi make the comm the comr written factors that siderst whether be prepared the report of tha bhut whe Shittee e she e many i vn will 1 the plany tha com ey e b s The Aevoted enssing ing pools. bt to particular Ais- as meeting ~arly tomarras fore the later in A Aelezition of ers heads called n recommended that ma ket e general vicinity of Kekingt out mentioning o specific NORTHEAST OPPOSED. he decided he meets | g Mary 5 i farm- Svmons. who vestarda: farmers ymewhere in the n with- site. R&A- De La B. Carpender (upper) lie Sfevens, who have heen mal charges of murder. Henry and W held on f of 12 vard preciation of perishahle preduc | requive consideralile additional Wholesale mar yefrigeritor ears i8] “Of course the cost of these items aod | would be ultimately passed on to the be | consumer. Moreover, the long haul > | would, in addition, require approxi Their present jour- | mately 660,000 ton miles of transporta- considerably in- | 1ion in the course of a wiih n te estah- | compensating advantage to the public vailroad | or 1o the shippers or to the carriers. ey Brown, | Such a disturbance of our freight Freight | stineture conid be justitied only by the TaArminals Co.. informed Mai Carey | demand of public necessity n engineer of the Na The establishment of the wholesale tional Capital Park and Planning Com- | market district in northeast Washing mission. in A todav. | ton would soon create a highly unsat- The letter veply 1o some fi Vilie condition. and the In questions \Ma had asked the | e Commerce Commission would terminal comp tent. who | have to adjnst the relief to the ocea pointed cut that the hanling distance [ gion. This would eventually bring from the Potomae cavds to the South ! into being the projected belt line Washin hals, which now [around the city on the north. which get the hulk freight. I only | public opinion” has condemned as a about four mile=. If the market were | mepace to the civie and economic wel relocated in the northeast. the same | ..o of Washington.” ehipments would have to he sent througn Washingion. out to Renning BY NICARAGUANS ton. American Envoy Reports Up- risings in Several Towns of-Republic. hours or more from I'ofomac which would entail greater de- < and icing Belt Line Feared if Market Site Is Located in Section. aeated in the nort perishable will have to cuitons route If Was ket district | e section haik stuffs shipped miles longor ney resulting creased pr lishment than in and the ultim, a helt line around the ontire city, Wr president of Potomac Jetter received Brown of th Southwest as Logieal Sife. *“The estatlshment of the whnle sale marker district in northeast Washington,” Mr. Brown concluded “would sonn create a highly unsatis’ | factory traffic condition, and the In tarstate Commerce Commission wonld | have tn adjust the relief to the casion. This wonld eventually bring | into being the projectad belt line ! around the city he which public «opinion condemned a menace ta the civic and economic wel- | fare of Washington ] The southuwest is the logieal ontends Mr. Brown's “The Burean o nomics rep: vegetahles in vear reipts reduced (o car In the total amount classified by tates the shipping i there were 1934 West, | car 2.8%4 and Ints “During the England the Pa on site he. erier \e follows witiral ko unloads o fruits and Washimgion during the tneluding hoat re- | o1 equivalents | of % of wy o car Asw Pross Niearagua government s and dispatehing troops country” 1o suppress outhreaks, Lawrence \ charge at Managua ate Dapariment today. Dennis reported that revelu- apparently had broken out in Chinadega and Corinto and in communities wires have heen eut have come Ry the The mohilizing all over revolutionary Dennis, Ameri advisad the 1925 (car lots the lots. From North the ih, | 30 car arigin the from the Leon neighhoring | ANl telezraph Land railway operations from the New | 1n n step. Middle West and ! Siate there were con. | &t signed 1 ey | guesr for vania delivery and unloadsd tho | ssorkais vards in the sonthwest section of the | neasnres city 3263 cars o fruits and vege | praieciion of Ameriean lives and tahies. During the year there were | e ™ however, adequate action 2821 cars of and vegeiables. | Wit el taren mostly originating the Atlante | " Gpearvers who have kept in seahnard. hauled through Potomac | ch with the Nicaraguan situation Eard ested for WnEhing Of | Jince the Chamarro faction took this freicht movement 2304 cars Were | (i op (he government hy a military consigned for Tenn APLVONY | onp feel there ix A sirong n southwes: Washington. and 3171 piiy that conditions will he cars mere consiened for Ballimors A1 {iynre less turhulent state Ohio de N northeast o Washing: | n s Lo TNE | some time erops in F ear failure of " w0 thet the | 'RAIN ROBBERY FOILED. norma &inn were sib Reliahla recoids of i} loads of frash meat and dairy prod destined tn Washington Aduring vear 19:5 are nat presently available. | From the North and West there were 1470 of consigned to Washington Pennsylvania de livery. and there were cars of fresh meat consigned from the South through Patomac vard for Pennsyl vania delivery In addition there 283 products consigned to Washing: de livery from R1 Cars from imports, 7 origin from unknown 106 i officials have received the reported re- American gnnboat profee- nefields. I precautionary ave found necessary for fic Department Coast nat Vashington for | fruiis on close in a ooy for i | | | Troops Fight Off Revolutionists and Save $200,000, MANAGUA. Nicaragna, August 19 ). Revolutionists have heen foiled | by soldiers inan attempt toroh a train [having on heard more than $200.000 {1t had heen rumored that the revolu | tionisix intended to seize the money at the Lenn hranch of the National v | Bank. and a train was sent to Leon to bring,it to Managua. On the way here the train was derailed by the rev alntionisis, but the soldiers on hoard fought off the attacking party. and the train reached Managua safely After an attack on a®government force at Quezalguaque. seven miles | northwest of Leon. the rehels attacked garrisons at Chichigalpa and Posol tega. hut were repulsed. the govern- ment reports. Efforix to dynamite railroad bridges near | trated The forces to meet insists 15 svor fresh cars meat n for Pennsvivania the North and West of Perishables, was a \olume of 7.384 freight. exc ve shipments. un Railrond dur “Thus cars of of 1 loaded at vards in ing the vear Shipman's fram the North over the Pen Raltime Shbre perishahie than e carint Pennsvivania vast Washington 1955 nevishabie freight and West Ivania svstem and the o Ratlread ave prae. concerned present trunk lines very of per The | from the government is recruiting it the nprising, which it dic and not general. and termina Gory tave geo | af-. hot B. H. McCraney Sought. Inapector Henry G. Pratt, chief of Aetectives, today r ived a telegram from the ehfef of police of Favette ville, N. €., asking him to get in touch with R H. MeCraney. supposediy of this city. and notify him that Wond yow MeCraney was killad in the North “arelina town vesterdav. A therough cearch ov the palice has failed to neate MoCraney de the Sauth made ad yards he a Railr offart an Arganiz is heing movement af perishahle Washington from South e na's 1o the terminals o iroad iy possi- | Leon were frus. | THE EVENING FRANCE IS SILENT ON KELLOGG TALK Berlin Paper Expects Dis- armament Parley to End in Farce at Geneva. | Ry the Associated Press PARIS, Angust known French pap today | prominently Secretary of Stat llozs's speech vesterday at Plat Fxiracts of the Secretary’s speech were printed in the late news columns of most papers without comment ex cept for the remark in one or two |that he did nat | of interallied debits. Regarded as Criticiem. RERLIN, Augusi i% (#). -The ( hetter print Kel- shurg 19.—The pers are printing coplons | of State Kel logx's address veste at Plattsburs veduction in armaments. The Taegllead> Rundschan save “Secretary Kellogg's desire at last |see vesnita from the disarmament | negeiiations is thereughly understand- ahle. bii we dn not helieve that it will {be fuifitied. Just as it has bean pos. | sible 10 reduce the negotiations of the |preparatory disarmamen: conference | extracis |10« farce, care will be taken that the | disarmament confersnce itself, if it |ever takes place, will also become a farce.” | The | ®peach is a: polite hut cism of the work of the preparatory conference on disarmament. Suech iticism, espec hitter but not und The Beriiner Hoersen Zeltung savs, “\We deem it ont of the question 1hat England will participate in such a program as suggested by Secretary Kellogg." » EUROPEAN REACTION WATCHED Parliner Tageblatt savs: Significance of Speech Indicated by Its Being Sent to Europe's reaction to Secretary Kel- logg's Plattshurg speech, dealing with | the” Geneva preliminary arms limita tion conference. will he watched here with econsiderable interest. | Prepared after conferences nvoys, with members of the AMerican delegation | [ who have returned from Geneva and. in its Anal form. presumably hearing the approval of President Coolidge, whom the Secretary visited hefore he spoke yesterday. it significance was clearly“indicated by the fact that the full text was cabled to American diplo matic missions in all major capitals. | | Sets Rumors at Rest. | Setting at rest published the United States ldraw from the Geneva which have heen « forts of the French and other dele- zations to have a limitation formula rdopted which would cover land and <eu forces, aireraft and even national seonomic resources and possibly man- power, Mr. Kellogg declared “\Ve are now working to make the Geneva meeting A succe and expressed |hope that “progress toward naval | limitation as well as toward limitation | of land armament will vesult.” Ie made it clear that “what we de- slre is results.” hut 1eft the door open, |1f the Geneva meeting should adjourn | without constructive action looking toward reduction of miltary burdens, tor the Washington Government to initiate a conference among great | naval powers with a view to extending the scope of the Washington limita- tion agreements. Hopes for Limitation. “I reiterate.” he said, “that Unfted States would be glad to co {operate with other naval powers in ex | tending the principles of the Washing |ton treaty to other classes of naval ;\l‘!‘N‘lS. and [ earnestly hope that |stieh a” measure may soon he practi- cable."” | Necretary Kellogg's demand for sults can hardly be ignored hy foreign statesmen interested in the conference, and his. address may stimulate the efforts of the members of the (ieneva commission who are | working for a simpler, more concrete | formula than the complex and, in the American view, impracticable ohjec jtive favored by the group headed b; the French delegation. % | U1 believe,” the secretary asserted, “that the only practical hasis for the reduction or limitation of armaments in through dealing with military forces and visible tangihle armaments.’” rumors might with- deliberations, mplicated by ef- | that re- the DECISION UPHOLDS T2MILE RUM LIMIT Search and Seizure Defined by U. S. Court in Boston. Ry the Assaciated Press BOSTON, August 19 The “twelve mile limit" is still the margin of the Coast Guard's right to search and seizure, the United States Cirenit Court of Appeals held here today in a majority opinion on the case of James W. Lee of Gloucester. Judges Ceorge H. Bingham of Man- chester, X H.. and Charles F. John- son of Waterville, Me., delivered the opinion, Judge George W. Anderson of Bos- ton, in dissenting, held with the pre- vious finding of the Second (New York) Cireuit Court, that the right of search and selzure of American craft extends to any part of the sea Lee was captured in hix motor hoat laden with liquor said to have been veceived from the French schooner L'Homme on February 15, 1925, about 24 miles off Boston Light. His convic ton in the United States District Court here was followed by exceptions 10 the Court of Appeals. Recause of the difference of Aindings of the twe circuit courts. George R. Farnum. assistant United States dis triet attorney, declared today that he wonld seek elther a final decision from the Supreme Court or definitive legislation from Congress to set forth the actual limits within which the Coast Guard may seek 1o prevent liquor smuggling. n proposed rele the whole Northeast district i 'Welded “If this were acc r mean that ove ‘ able freicht annualls moving through | Potomar Yard an row unionded in ! Southwest Washington, at a hauling Areta les and with tomae Yard reetly pa Seuth Washin Eastern Bran thence to Hyvatsville Foliinston. s i Mished it would carlots of perish The Federal Government is on the it trail of the racket made by the steel etar. and. according to present in dieations. it lnoks as though the nerve shattering rat-rat-rat-rat-rat which now accompanies steel construction soon will be soft-pedaled. The Rugean of Standards has just completad a test in steel construction by welding instead of riveting. A gird er. fastened tngether hv welding in T 114 carey | stead of riveting, was made up for the same freight rate hu it would in | the experiment by the American volve sengestion resulting in very | Bridge Sa., with which the Standarde siow deliveries—probably &s average | Bureau 1s co-operating. The steel et neads be hauled . e Water ferm thraugh s '.')\y!‘ to th Amont street J 1 hack a | miles i e circuitous reut teel Girder Stands U. S. Indicating Quick End of Riveting Noise plate girder—webs, flange and stiffen- ers—was of flat_steel plate instead of rolled shapes. The plates were joined by electric arc welding into a unit in- tended to carry 410 tons load. It ex- ceeded expectations in it load-carr | ing eapacity, as shown by the bureau's test The welding process, said the De partment of Commerce today. prom ises to give the construction industry a new procedure. more rapid fabrica tion, inetallation at lower cost and | welcome relief from the nolse of rivet mention the question | to | “The | relentless criti- | America, is ! the | Coast Guard’s Right to! STAR. WASHINGTON. WHITE HOUSE GOLD TELEGRAPH “ KEY HAS HISTORIC RECORD Instrument, Given 1 Presidfin Taft to Chief Telcg-f rapher, First Used to Open Seattle Ex- 1909. position, in f dent’s touch caught the vear 1914 in | San Diego in its last dying gusp and | ceremony is opened at long range by | caused the biz fair grounds to bursi | the President of the United States he | Into a hlaze of light as the old vear nses a gold electrical key studded with | passed out and the new one arrived. | precions <, the of str e Gl Opened Panama Canal. i Four Presidents—Taft, Wilson. Hard. Another big event in which the gold | ing and Coolidge—and one First Lady, | Key had a_part occurred in 1913 Ar have touched the key's handle to sic- | the key was pressed by President nal the commencement of expositions | TAfL on that eccasion the waters of and other projects of national impor- | the Paeific and the Atldntic met tance. [ the first time in the Panama Canal. When not in use. the instrument is | The electrical impulse sent out from carefully guarded hy its owner, Eq.|the White House caused the explasion ward W. Kmithers. chief telegrapher | in the biz waterway which tlew away at the White House, who has heen on | GAmhoa Dyke, removing the last ob v there sinve the day after the bat. | Strietion lietween the waters of the ) Mai 3 ; twe oceans, hip Maine was blown up, in 1898, | "8G CCiqant conlidge used the key t Used First In 1909, put the machinery of the $57.000,000 < given him by President Taft, | Skagit hydroelectric plant in Seattle the first time in 190 | in motion, and Mrs. Coolidge nsed it Alaskan-Yiukon Pacifiec | on iwe aslons to open women's Sentile. The key was|meetings far from Washington. | a ~‘,:1I‘ ':J‘ \V’w<'\1:;:;; Sought by Sight-Seers. Alasian nuggets, Smithers is extremely proud of his Mr. Taft at that|P¢ n. lle keeps it stored away Carmack, discoy. At his home, but many sight-seers Who have heard of the unusual his- | | torie relic insist upon adding it to | the list of famous things in Wash- | ington they ean tell of having seen ! with their own -eves “Just the other might” Smithers | <aid, “four men from Oklahoma drove | up to the house ahout midnight to | see the kev. They wonldn't leave | ntil 1 got up bed and showed | o them.” | By the Asenciated Pree [ Whenever a famous exposition or | L who nsed it fi tn open the Exposition In specially designed eing mannted an marble, inser with and presented 1o tima by George W, erer of gold in Alask Protohly the most ever foit hy tha Instrument was that given at 3 on a New Year morning, when Woodrow Wilson, clad in pajamas and bath robe, descended the siaits of the White House to six- nal from the east room the opening the Nan Diego wition. The 1915 had reached \Washinzton hours before, hut the Presi unusual touch Library Refuses “Life To Studious Major CAREWFORECASTS SMITH REELECTION New York Democrat. Here, Also Predicts Wadsworth as Senate Loser. The War Department has no use for Joseph Ernest Renan's “Life of This. in effect, is the reply re- ceived today by # prominent major in the Army, who requested the Library of Congress to send him thix hook, together with Matthew Arnold's “Literature and Dogma,™ which alse refused. The officer desired to expand his store of knowledge and made his request through the usual chan- nels. The officer said the Library sent hack notice that “the War Department has no use for these hook: King the rejection in good part, the officer, nevertheless, is more determined than ever to get the hooks now, and hax noted an appeal to a member of Congress, PRESS CENSORSH i | nounced by the prospecti Demo- | ‘u-rnvh‘ senatorial eandidate in due | | i By the Assoclated Press. Dafeat of Senator Wadswe publican, and the re-election of Gov. Smith in New York in November is predicted by Representative Carew, | Democrat. of New York, who has ar- rived in Washington to confer with party leaders. M Carew said the Democratic nomines for the Senate would be Ap pollate fudge Robert F. Wagner, and sserted that he would draw heavily from dry Republicans. 1le also ex | pressed the helief that Franklin W [ Cristman, the dry Republican sena al candidate, would get a heavy vote in the general elections, running as an independent. “Judge Wagner has a and intelligent solution respectable of the pro International Move for Better | News Handling Begins in Geneva. time. Smith Certain to Run. As to the probability of Gov. Smith { again hecoming the Demaoeratic nomi nee for governor, Mr. Carew declared his recent Ruffalo speech made it cle that he would place himself at the call of the party. “And, as Charlle Murphy used to say, the convention will decide.”” Rep- resentative Carew added. Inauguration of an aggressive cam.- | n in Pennsylvania next Saturday | for the election of William R. Wilson. | Democrat, to the Senate over Repre- | sentative William &, Vare, Republican. | | By the Assoviated Press GENEVA, August tional recognition and 7y property rights in news, minimim rates for press messages with the wpesdiest possible transmission, aboli- tion of all censorship in time of peace and less rigorous censorship in time of war, are items on the pro- visional agenda of the conference of representatives of news agencies which opened under the auspices of the League of Nations here today The prime object of thé conference is to devise means by which news agencies may he enabled to render more effective service to the public. he delegates will arfange a pro gram for an international press con ference eventually to he held as pro posed by Chile. Other newspaper groups including owners of papers will later fix a conference agenda on subjects particnlarly interesting to | them. A Meynot of the Havas Ageney has heen elacted president of the confer. ences by the 16 agencies represenied. which include the Associated Press, the United P'ress and the Agencia Ameri cana Brazil from the American ¢on tinent. The Tass Agency. the Russian Soviet organization. refused to par- ticipate hecnuse the conference was held on Swies <oil. Sir Eric Drummond, secretary gen- eral of the League of Nations, wel comed the delegates, emphasizing that 19. — Interna- rotection of | paizi i« announced by Representative Old-| | fleld of chairman_ of the | Democratie ecampaign | committee. | “We are going to put on a real fight against Vare,” Mr. Oldfield said. “\We expect the Kenate campaign funds committee to wateh expendi- | turee in all States and we will do all we can to prevent the corruption of |the electorate in elec tions.” Oldfield to Open Campaign. Oldfleld will personally open | campalgn with addresses —at | Allentown, Bethlehem and Bangor. | Other prominent Democratie leaders are to follow him in the State and | there are reports that Senator Norris. | Republican, Nebraska. who indorsed Mr. Wilson's candidacy after the dis. osures of large expenditures for vare in the Republican primary in| May, also would stump the State for| the former Lahor Secretary. Close co-operation between congressional and senatorial cam- | palgn committees was forecast. Mr. Oldfield said joint headquarters would be maintained here and that active | campaigns wonld he conducted in every State where the Democrats had a chance of winning seats in the | | Senate and House. summoned by official authority, and Senator Swanson Virginia is to [ pointed out that the league is an as- have charge of the Senate Speakers' | sociation of _ governments which Rureau. and Representative McClintic | douhtlexs would prove a considerable of Oklahoma will take charge of the |help in the solution of many problems Tlouse Speakers' Rureau. Senator |confronting the conference, hecaise Gerry of Rhode Island, chairman of jonly through governmental action the Demoeratic senatorial campaign |could many of them he solved. committee, will return to Washington | ot ahont September 1 to assist in the | DS RAISED FOR WAR MEMORIAL general direction of the campalgn. IMURE FUN Sums Donated by Employes of Control of House Sought. ! Board for Vocational Education “1 think we have a good chance to| | regain econtrol of the Honse in he and E. Morrison Paper Co. Arkans congressional the general M. the the | tional meeting of press representa tives for technical purposes had heen next Congress,” Mr. Oldfield said. Fxcept in Pennsylvania we will wait until the last of the primaries are aver hefore heginning the intensive speaking campaigns. They will comey in October.” I After speaking In Pennsylvania | Raturda Mr. Oldfield will go ‘o Albany, Y., to confer avith Edwin | Corning, chairman of the Demoeratic | Despite the vacation season. contri- State central committes, and then | butions continue to filter into the visit Buffalo where he expects to see 00,000 fund heing ralsed for the Dis- Norman E. Mack, Democratic na- frict of Columbla World War Me. | tional committeeman from New Yor morial to be erected in Potomac Park. and other party leaders, he latest donations came from the | The Arkansas representative said employes of the Federal Roard for Vo. he had received very encouraging re- nal Fducation and the E. Mor | ports on the prospects of Demoeratlc rison Paper Co. The Federal emploves | gaing in Ohio, ew York, Pennsyl vluntarily raised the sum of $ vania, Hlinois, New Jersev, West \ir. While the paper company sent in ginla, Kansas, Massachusetts, JTowa, Checks for the memorial should he | Missouri, Oklahoma, Nevada. Cali-|made out to John Poole. treasurer. | fornia and Utah, and predicted that | Federal-American ational Rank | the Democrats would apture the RBuilding, Fourteenth and G streets. single Republican district in Texas. . s~ POTOMAC RIVER RISES REPORTS WIFE MISSING. |~ “coom cONTINUED RAINS the disappearance of his young wife and twe children Fdward David, 2030 North Capitol street, has enlisted the assistance of the police. He says the trio vanished last Monday. David says his wife, Mrs. Sadie David, 22 years old. took with her | their son. liam David. 6 years oid, | and a daughter, Mary David, 3 1 Frantic ov Cumberland Reports Water Over Dam for First Time Since April and Flood Stage Is in Prospect. Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md. The Potomac River is rising as a re sult of rains which are continuing after three dayvs, and for the first time since April water is going over the | dam. Patterson’s Creek and the South hranch of the Potomac are much high er. and the flaod stage is expected hy tonight or temorrow. The Government burean reports 2.63 inches of rainfall at Bavard. on the North hranch of the Potomae, 61 miles southwest of here. BAND CONCERT. Tonight. At Tubercular Hospital, Fgur- teenth and Upshur streets, at 7 e'clock, by the 'nited States Navy Rand. Charles Benter. leader; Charles Wise, second leader. D. (. THURSDAY, AUGUST 19. Christ” in the French. | it was the first time that an Interna- | 1926. BREAK N FILIPING L EADERSHIP HINTED Quezon Challenges Osmena’s Speech on Co-operation With America. 92 By the Associated Press MANILA, August 19 nresident of the Philippine Sen ate, feeed a statement today that interpreted as a challenge to his ¢ leagus and erstwhile political op ponent, Senator Sergin Osmena. The statement was occasioned by what is regarded in some quarters as the veiled insinuation against the e tion party, composed of the Nation ista and Collectivista parties. in Os mena’s speech vesterday at Cehu. Osmena spoke at a hanquet of the Cebu Chamber of Commerce, when he introduced Carmi A. Thompson, P'resi- | dent ¢oolidge’s personal representa- tive making an economic survey of the Philippines. The senator said President Coolidge had told him it was his (the President’s) desive to return the islands to the Filipinos as soon as hossible, but that the Filipines musi co-operate with the Americans in bringing about conditions that would make this possible. | In his statement Quezon said: “I ecreated the coalition with the support of my party, and any one who opposes it, I care not who he is, m fight. 1 am not in A position to say whether Sanator Osmena has' heen corvectly quated. If by co-operation with American people Senator Osmena | means working in friendliness with | them for the hetterment of the Philip- | pines, then [ alsa am coopepating. Rut if operation means subserviene and agreement with everything Ameri ean in the Philippines, I am against i1, as T always shall be. | ‘Quezon is president of the {tivistas and Osmena heads the Na | tionalistas. They fused against the | Demoerats, Quezon taking the presi- [ deney and Osmena the vice presidency of the coalition. | COOLIDGE LETTER CITEI 20m, Collee on | Statement of President’s View | Philippines Now Withheld. PAUL SMITHS, N. Y. August ). Comment w withheld at Summer White Ho execntive of. s vesterday on the statement of enator Osmena of the Philippine Legislature in (‘ehu as to the position President Coolidge on the Philip- pine independence question. nstead inquiries were referred to the P'resi- dent’s letter of February 21, 1924, to Manuel Roxax, chaivman of the | Philippine independence mission in | Washington at that time, in which Mr. Coolidge held the isiands were ot then ready for independence Whereas Senator Osmena quoted Mr. Coolidge as telling him recently in Washing “We re going to withdraw from the Philippines, but don't intend to leave you with limited Tesonr and “we desire first to assist you in promoting economic de- | velopment and resources sufficient for your self-xupport,” President Coolidge said in the letter to Manuel Roxas “Itis felt that in the present state of waorld relationship the Amer ernment is obligated to continue ex- | tending a protecti arm to the peaple | of those (Philippine) islands. 1t ix felt also that quite aside from this con sideration there remain to be achieved hy the Philippine people many greater advances on the road of edu tion. culture, econamic and political ca pacity hefore they should underiake the full sponsibility for their ad ministration. The American Govern | ment will assuredly co-operate in every way fo encourage andsinspire the full measnure of p ess which still seems a necessary prelimina to independence i Urging the co-operation of the Fili- | pino in the development and adminis tration of the Islands, the letter said: | “If the time comes when It iz ap- parent that independence we he hetter for the people of the ) pines, from the point of hoth thei domestic concerns and their siatus in the world, and if, when that time comes, the Fillpino people desire com plete independence, it is not possible to doubt that the American Govern- ment and people will gladly accord i Senator Osmena has heen receiv several times at the \White House, and shortly hefore Carmi A. Thompson left for his economle investigation of the islands bhoth the Filipina and American wera guests at lunche of the President and Mrs. Coolidge fn company with other guests from New York and other cities. CISTERNWATERTOLL | 8 DEAD AND 7 ILL| 19 the 1d Phil Twins of William Green of Lona- coning, Md., Succumb to Mys- . terious Malady. | | { Special Dispatch 1o The Star | | LONACONING, Md., Angust | The deaths vesterdav of (‘harles and | Catherine Green, 1wins, aged 5 vears brings the total to eight succumbing to the cistern water malady here and doctors sent two others to a hospital today. making seven persons under | treatment. The dead were all members of the family of William ¢ except Mrs Charles Whitman, 20, n_relative, who died two weeks ago. (ireen and his wife and three children are ill. Two children of Sampson Gireen. a brather of Willlam Green. aged 19 and 10, were the latest to hecome ill. The cistern at the Willlam Green home | had not heen cleaged in 10 years, ac- | cording to health anthorities. A serum has heen Lrought from New York in the efforts of physiclans to | check the fatalitles of the disease which has proved a mystery to science, Objection. From the London Answers | Magistrate (to convicted burglar) Have yon anything to say before sentence is passed? Rurglar--The only thing I'm kick- ing ahout is heing identified hy a man that kept his head under the hed- clothes the whole time. Father Relents, So Girl Will Notil | study Held in Mellett Case 'D | the LOUIS MAZER. PROSPERITY T0 BE SLOGAN OF G.0.P. “Let Well Enough Alone,” Main Talking Point in Con- gressional Race. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. psperity,” the good old fhat has won many a campaign | the past for hoth the Democratie and Repuhlican parties, is to he the domi- nant izsne of the congressional cam- paign which Is just heginning. Along with it goes “economy.” but the diff culties of explaining the latter on the stump and its lack of dr have made it secondary Basically, the Republican party is going to the country to ask for its continuanee in power on the crovund it is hetter to “let well eno Except for spots here in the agricultinral areas, claim of the Republican leaders that the Nation is uniformly prosper ous. To offset the impression that there ix distress in the farm areas, the strategists of the campuizn have heen working overtime. They think it s most important to the public impression whout what T heen happeaing and is happening in the \West ublicity Is Advocated, While the corn 1o heen arguing fo relie publican campai littee heen urging President Coolidze and athers to give due publicity to the rather favorable conditions which are seen in large sections of the West Kvery high official of the Govern ment who returns from the \West comes out with an interview that conditions are much hetier than had heen described. I'resident Coolidge himself has had letters from impor ant business leaders in the West telling of the favorable economic con ditfons there. Instead of giving ont these leiters for publication. My, Cool idge has invited some of the writ thereof 10 come to Paul Smiths, where group of corvespondents is eage to write whatever they will his gives it added emphasis, hecause any thing that happens at the doors of a President of the United States gets more piblicity than interviews given elsewhele The Democrats are entii this publicity, but they when in power, had some at_work planting interviews at White IHouse doors for the politi effect that could he derived therefrom %o the answer can he given that the whole process is a legifimate part of the political game. Oth Mr. Coo visitare, who is slogan and the is ders have helt farm of all Callers to Come. dge has had a series of heginning with Fdsel Ford. presimed to know from the sale of antos what is happening in the farm areas. He has scheduled for later in the season other callers wha know economic and husiness condi tions. Mr. IHoove report on the husiness outloonk. made after of data available counted upon by the workers 1o their claim prosperons. Gen. Lord direetq has made his usual mer White House t¢ timates here. that the Nation truly of the hudget, trip to the Sum 3 &0 over the es This he is obliged to do in visions. His visit vielded the informa tion that estimates again had heen eut, all of which emphasizes the ecor omy poliey of the administration. 0. P. Responsibility. Mr. Coolidge has not yet let known what part he personally play in aiding individual ongress to e re-elected, bt his gon erul policy for assisting in the elec tion of & Republican Congress already is in operation. It consisis in empha sizing the prosperous condition of 1he country that the voters will not develop a mood for change but will feel inclined 1o let things go on as they are in Congress Generally speaking. the are anxious to make gai Iy they, too, would prefer sponsibility for 1he gress shall rest with the Republican PAFtY for antoehr two vears, so that in 1928, when the whole four-year rec is examined, there n he no ery that the Demaerats had control of one or aven fwo houses of Congress and thus blacked lezislative progress (Convriehi. 1028, Ordered to Ohio Post. Capt. John M. Rhodes. Quartermas. ter Corps, on duty at the general in termediate depot. this city. hax hee ordered to Fort Jlaves. Ohio, for duty 1t headquareesm, 5th Corps area. Capt. Skaggs Transferred. Capt. Leland W on recruiting duty at been assigned to the at Fort Benning. (ia Prefer G it he will members of Demaocrats that the re conduct of Con Skagge, Infantry Richmond, has o 24th Infantry, 08e matic value | i | | | | | | | | | | the w { invitation has | Arm 1216T ENGINEERS PLAN CANP ROAD C. Guardsmen Build Bridges After Rajn Floods Humphreys Grounds. BY WILLIAM Staft Correspondent of The Star HUMPHREYS AL cal engineering training for Fngineers of the National the District Columbt has heen retarded somewhat by the elements, when Arill eall was sonnded the ma af the troops were kept n thelr barracks fo theoretical mstruction i br Vi ing While the steady downpanr ter level around Maj. Julian Olff. command second hattalion. this cided they could h instruction i bridge trench digzine. He turned ont Com pany B, commended by Capt. Turner and Company F. commanded by Capt Tohn ns, and put them o W grading and making dite of the men worked 4ll morning entrenching while uthers strueted temporary | [ the rond over the euliert Plans were perfected today construction of the road Dogue Creek district, where Washington expect lish cont in o mimie hattlegronnd capt. instrie and Lient training of WHEATLEY 1218t Guard of ctures were going on a rain was ratsing the har ke and de tools diges carr inte the with s hatt Anderson signed 10 corge 11 cer of the regimen Weather permiiting. the iroop take the field tomorrow fo SUet this road. A it s swamp most of the roadh he bl s from the nearhy finished product having corduro pearance. Aside from engineering the officers ave striving ! aien for presentation te Washington's ivie and official with @ view to getting more support for the fiomal Guard. \When Washinzton's civie and official leaders ne np. the troops ave exnected o vade flawlessly Lieut 5 neer Commisstoner, has to rev the the day the civie leaders are ex) Several enlisted men alreads recting their eves to Wesi Lient. Homer R Millard . has formed a class to coach aspirants, Sersi D Andrew s pany | onel of the Washingron High Sehool Cadet Regiment: Sergi vle . Wheeler, Compans X wash, Company K. and R < HeadAuariers Company, N imaginars enems next pspected gular Arm he regiment in, plans and weel. The will and ap 1etton n 1l insty leadurs ol Franklin Company hens, ned, apt W, Wise, [Itegular A his leetures here to « Geor Ceontin iy the officers The non-com staff headquarters will be ner tonight at the in Alexandria, at which, it w Te presented 1o of regimental tendered a div George Mason by o Oeh « there the | said non-ee | i | | | | cavernl | Policeman Carl 1 is | precinet Republican | e convincing evidence of | AR0 i | N | | order ta get ready for September re.|of unw | | | | | | | | { | | $100,000 by Marrying Greek Nobleman | | By the A | CHICAGO, August 19.—Bohumir Kryl, wealthy composer, has decided to acquiesce to love's ohstinate way The composer, who 10 vears ago exacted @ promise from his daugh- ter, Marie Kryvl. a piznist of note not te marry until she was 30 agreeing 1o reward her with $100,000, now is willing 1o assume the fa therly duty of giving her in marriage the man of her choice. When Miss Kryl annonunced her hgagement 1o Spirn Hadji-Kyri- askos, wealthy Gireek nobleman. the composer declared there would be ne --d‘lg Miss Kryl said today that when ciated Press. to her finance arrived in New York, Au gust 28 her father and mother will be with her to welcome him and that “‘pApa now insists that the ceremony h'a performed a the Cast the Koyl mansion st Tarpon’ Springs. . She through expects 1o breaking her Kivl said. declaring with smile that her troussean shopping budget was heing g ed hy assurances that =he'd get the $100.000 after all, and me Several vears ago another dangh- ter, dnsephine Kryl, awell known . a violinist, who made a like agree ment with her fathar, married Paul Taylor White, $umpo er. nothing P pmise. Mins | o | Michigan avenue the for building up giment numerically during the POLICEMAN FACES ASSAULT CHARGE Officer Scheduled to Go Before Trial Board This Afternoon. Others Accused. renbacher. motor the eleventh o hef Howard 1.1 eyele policeman cinet, was scheduled po trial hoard frernoon « zes growing ont of allegations assault n Jessie L. Lilly June 19 last The assanlt il this Mrs charge wae ignove 8 a grand jury recently, but he has heen under suspension from the police force sinee the charges were made Attorney Rertrand Emerson, jr. hae entered his appea nee as counsel for the defense in this case Charges accepting i« expecte Will he heard th afternoon trial hoard against metad of the tenth alleged to have ac some hootleg 7 representing o a hrihe it by the who cepted m o after stop, Fmerson Ramstad Pets. W Beck and Wilkiams of the fifth preci also are to he arraigne trial hoard today to answer rranted and rough treatm: of a prisoner. The officers are = to have used their hlackiacks ot justification, cause or on Alfred Lee \Wright, 412 Virgina avenue sonthe on Augnst 10 In the absence of Assistant poration Connsel Wahly, who gener ally presides trial hoard . Alexander 1. Fell, jr., assistant ¢ poration counsel, ix presiding tod Capts. Martin Reillv and Ira Shee sitting én the trial hoard SIDE POLES PROMISED. Brookland a s weelks = 1e a is William Hi 1 station hefore the charg Center Ones on Line IWH] Be Removed in Certain Area hut private ailway and Fleo Publie 11 vesierday that it wonld voluniarily replace the cenier trofley’ on i« Brookland line hetween Twelfth and Otis streets anid Michigan street when the tracks he tween these avenie with poles on the side of the poinis are reconstrueted =o0n . Several weeks agn the Rrookland Citizens’ Assoclation petitionad the commission to order side poles on the wikland line from the HB. & O. Rall- road viaduet alonz Monroe street, to Twelfth street and thence te the terminus. Willlam F. Ham, president of the company objected 10 such an extensive program in view of the cost, which he mated would total $5,218.78. TWO HUSB'ANDS SUE. The Was trie Company ities Commission 3 advised th Absolute Divorces Asked on Alle- gation of Misconduct. John L. Elliott today il an absolite divorce from Elliott, 4619 Quarles strect northeast, charging misconduct and naming a corespondent. They were marrisd a Alexandria, Va. November 7. 1913 and have one child. Attorney Henr M. Fowler appears for the wife Absolute divorce is also asked in a suit filed hy Francis . Simpson. 234 Fifteenth strest southeast, against Nell impeon. 1611 Massachuse!is avenue southeast. They were mar ried in this city July 5. 1920 and have one child 4 vears oid. Miseon is alleged and a ndent named in_the petition through Attorney Henry M. F Maj. Parker Assigned. Maj. Frank E. l'arker. commandant of the finance s honl, this city, has been assigned te additional duty as finance officer of the distriet of Washington. sult for Bessie (i cores fled wler.