Evening Star Newspaper, August 22, 1926, Page 2

] -~ _—— EXPELLED WARDEN ASKS BIG DAMAGES THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. AUGUST 22, 1926—PART 1 DEPORTATION MOVE NEW LITTLE ENTENTE FORMED BY THREE NATIONS FOR "PROTECTION™ AGAINST BULGARS IN BALKANS| IDIOTIC.SAYS REMUS ! | HOLDS D. . NEEDS MODEL AIR FIELD | Greece, Rumania and Jugo- Whitman Sues Weideling for; $100,000—Will Seek Heavy: Sums From Others. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August only a few moments after miseal as warden of the Joliet State prison of assisting prisoners in a plot to escape from the Cook County jail, John L. \Whitman, widely known prison executive, struck hack today both at those who made public the jail break charge and at those re 21— Accused | his dis. | sponeible for his ousting as peniten- | tiary chief He fiied suit Capt. George D). of the Cook County defamation of chaiacter. and his at torney announced that similar suits will be brought at once against Gov. Len Small, Cbairman Chauncey Jenkins of the State welfare depart ment, former Chairman Will Colvin of the State board of pardons and paroles and others Escape Brings Dismissal. Whitman's dismissal prison warden followed the escape of seven prisoners, who kilied a deputy war den. A zrand jury which recommend ed it held him responsible for lax prison discipline, but affiimed its he lief in- his honesty and intesrity Whitman claimed he was handicap for $100.000 Weideling, warden jall. charging Against ped by Colvin and Jenkins in admin- | istration of the prison. Some davz ago county jail executives discovered an apparent plot of six prisoners to escape. They had sawed their cell bars. A few days later Capt. Weidel ing announced that one prisoner in wolved in the escape. escaped from the State prison, had an “astounding confession to make.’ The confession. heard in secret, =uh sequently was announced as that of Thomas Sullivan. He was said to have named Whitman as smuggling saws to him in the county jail and to have repeated a story told some months ago that him to escape from the State prison for $1.200, Whitman already had de. nied the story of the $1.200 and a Will County grand jury at Joliet had refused to give credence to it. Calls “Confession” False. Whitman likewise called the county | jail break ‘“confession” an obvious falsehood. but Weideling said several cellmates of Sullivan had eorroborated it. and he himself recalled Whitman's presence in the jail on the dav which sullivan said he received the saw The suit against Weldeling was filed today by Charles E. Erbstein. who will represent Whitman in the other actions still to he hrmught The attorney promised a 200,000 word declaration. which he sald “will blow the lid off evervthing.” “Mr. Whitman,” said Erbstein, “is one of the best jailers in the country. He has been wronged by grafting poli tidans. He has kept quiet long enough. Now he will talk.” The attorney branded as ridiculous the allegation that Whitman was paid $1.200 for helping prisoners to ascape | and declared hiz client “‘never had $1,200 in the bank at one time." The suit against Small, sald Whit man’s counsel. will he hased “on his approval of actions of men under him who had a part in Whitman's dis missal as warden. which we will prove Was unwarranted Colvin's Dismissal Asked. Jenkin® heads the governing group which cofitrols the State's penal jnsti- tutions. and Colvin, who lately re signed as parole board chairman. after two grand juries had suggested his dismissal, was associated with prison affairs in his official capacity. Weideling has resigned as county Jail warden. following revelations of eseape efforts and of the smuggling of liquor and narcoties to prisoners. He announced. however. to a commit tea which fs to select his successor that he would seek appointment to the post by examination. Erbstein said that in addition to the suit already filed and those to he brought. criminal pmceedings would be instituted charging conspiracy against “all those who have had a ann‘ in Warden Whitman's dafama- on." HUNT FOR VANDERBILT JEWELS IS FRUITLESS Arrest of Two Pagnbrokers in New York Fails to Yield Clue to $100.000 in Gems. W the Associated Prass NEW YORK. August rest of two Harlem failed 10 give police a clue today tn the theft of $£100.000 in jewels from the Newport, R. 1. home of Gen. Cor. neliue Vanderbilt Police at headquarters today said that $18.000 worth of jewels seized at the pawnshop of Joseph Roth on Lex Ington avenue had not been ident!fiad part of the Vanderbilt loot. The t of Roth and his son Herbert, police said. had no connection with the Vanderbilt robbery. A charge of criminally receiving stolen property had been preferred against them. A search of paw: ope for the ‘Vanderbilt jewels was ng continued. CHICAGO BATHING BEACH JUST ACROSS STREET Western Metropolis Is Surpassing Most Other Cities in Use of Such Facilities. By the Assaated Press CHICAGO. August 1. Few ties in the world have such a large thing beach as Chicago. Just across the street” for count less thousands of bathers, its 50 miles along Lake Michigan bring it almost as close as the hathtub Dofing street clothes. donning hath ing garb. most of Chicago’s hathers skip from home to the lake in a very few minutes. There they may taste all the pleasures of a seaside resort except salt. Extremes of styvle and coler in bathing suits and beach um brellas meet. Some dave a quarter of a million bathers crowd them. a continually surging panorama of color. hundreds leaving. crossing Michigan avenue or other adjacent Lakeside streets, and bhundreds of others coming. Stretching such a great along the cit the poor as well as the rich the jovs of bathing. From Chicago's “Little Ttaly.” for instance. it is hut a brief trip to a northside beach, and on the south side the heaches lie very close to the humbler homes. "BAND CONCERT. Tomorrow. At Marine Barracks at 430 pm., by the United States Marine Band, William H. Santelprann, leader; Tay lor Branson, second leader. 21 distance who earlier had | Whitman enabled | 1 1 of him In his twn eampaigns for the | ~The ar | pawnbrokers | other | ‘s lake front, they offer | MRS. WILLIAM GIBBS McADOO. | 1 I on Coast Who Was Loval to Woodrow Wilson. August = President Wilson's daughter, Mrs. | Fleanor Wilson McAdoo. wife of Wil- liam (iihbs McAdoo, broke into the Democratie party war today with a written indorsement of John R. { Elliott, opponent of Isidore B. Dock- weiler for the nomination. Klliott started the con flict recently with the charge Tammany Hall was keeking to con trol the party in California and that Dockweiler represented Tammany. Mrs. MeAdoo's letter, addressed to Elliott and written from the McAdoo mmer home at Santa Rarbara. said: want 1o tell vou how very much sted I am in vour campaign for { Democratic nomination { United sSiates Senator. My father i had such confidence in vour progres- { sive democracy and appreciated so kighly vour strong and loyal support | presidency that I would he immense- elected Senator from (alifornia. “We shall be in Santa Barbara for another month. but 1 shall, of course, August 31 to vote for GALE-LASHED SEAS SWEEP OCEAN CITY; HUNDREDS LEAVE (Continued from First Page.) keep to their shelters, and scores were suffering from severe colds. Police had received no reports of flood dam- | aRe up to an early hour this morning. U Campers up nes Bridge were not so fortunate. how ever. Many of the camps are pitched close to the water's edge, and when the river hegan to climh out of its banks yesterday. the inhabitants of these camps were compelled to flee. The waters were also washing the lower decks of the hoat elubs near the bridge. hut no serious damage was anticipated there. Weather Unseasonably Cold. Unseasonably cold weather contin ned vesterday and. unless the fore- caster has erred on the more popular side of his ledger this®time, there will he little change in the temperature to- day. The mercury touched its peak at’ 83 at noon vesterday. and then hegan @ steady descent which carrvied it down 1o 61 degrees at 10 o'clock iast night. At that hour, the mer- cury column was still diving. Prof. H. €. Frankenfield, director of the river and flood section of the Weather Rureau, reported that official measurements of the Potomac at Har| re Fer: he feet ywe normal late yester. day. Actual flood stage is reached at ahout 16 feet, he said. and in order for figures wonld have to be approached lat Harpers Ferry POTOMAC HIGH IN W { River at Cumberland Well Flood Stage, However. Special Dispateh to The Star CUMBERLAND. Md.. August 21. Rain continues tonight after a week's precipitation, hut there is no reason 1to believe the Potomac River will | everfiaw Up until inches of Saturday 5.10 last local late this morning. rain had fallen since According to the a< usually falls in three months, espe- clally in the period including .July and August. The river had risen at noon today slightly ever the five-foot gauge. an increase of a foot since vesterday. Rivermen do not think it Will reach the eight-foot ar flood stage. The tributaries helow here continie high. The temperature here has dropped so much that fires are being built in homes and heavy wraps are heing brought out. A .andslide accurred on the Western Maryland Railway at Cedar CIiff. due to the rain Inosening the mountain side, hut little damage or delay resulted. HUGE WAVE DROWNS BATHER. Two Others Rescued After North Carolina Beach is Swept. WILMINGTON, N. €. August () .- A huge wave which swept over <ome threescore hathers at Carolina ! Reach today caused the death of one {man and almost claimed the lives of | two others | 1. 0. Fisher. of near Winston. | Salem was drowned and Thomas | Mitchell of Greenshoro was brought lashore in a s condition | F. R. Brady of Baltimore was the { other victim and was apparently ing shore. Spectators said Fisher was washed out to sea while his brothers were making an effort to save him and life guards were making the rescue | of Mrs. Rrady and Mitchell. A large { number of bathers were on the beach Iwh-n the wave swept in. . Turkey Shows Appreciation. Notwithstanding the popular im- pression that Turkey does not wel- come American invasion, records show that the Turkish government has. fre. quently at great pains expressed ap preciation of the work.the American colleges are doing in that land. Turk- ish students are giving a good account of themselves in the several American colleges there. MRS. MADOO GIVES AID IN PARTY CLASH Supports Senate Candidate | Democratic senatorial that | for | Iy gratified to see you nominated and | make a special trip to Los Angeles on | - [1oopholes, Remus - showed the water 10! flnod stage to he attained here. those | Below weather hureau. this is as much rain | Mrs. | rescued after ' giving up hopes of reach- | gDeclares ments About Citizenship Are Untrue. By the Associated Pross. TROY, Ohio, Angust 21.-George Remus, Cincinnati “hootleg King™ was informed in his cell in the Miami County fuil today of the warrant issued by the Department of Labor | in Washington for his deportation as an undesirable alien. Remus declared ve was “idiotic.” tements made by Govern- ment officials are untrue. My father wax naturalized in Cook County, Tli., . vears ago. Probably the records have heen I he said. the deportation Born in Germany. He admitted, however, that he was horn in Germany, as the Washington authorities allege, and was hrought to this country when he was 4 vears old. temus plans to fight the case. He i has declared previously that he en joved citizenship rights through his fether's claimed naturalization. He cited his practice of law In Chicago having voted as evidence of Federal officers have heen investi- { Zating the matier of the citizenship of Remus for several years. He has always maintained that i hona fide citizen of the United States. Called “Bootleg King."” temus has heen known as the “hootleg king ' of Cincinnati, and was the first of the higher-ups in the hoot- le trade to he indicted and convicted. His case dragged through the courts for several years and attracted nation- wide attention. He served a sentence in the Atlanta Penitentiary on a con spltacy charge and is now serving a year's sentence in the Miami County Jail on a charge of maintaining a nuisance The prisoner also attracted attention his connection with the graft and charges in the Atlanta Peni- which resulted in the warden [ and several other officers of the in | stitution being dismissed. | iRKMl'fi' CAREER SPECTACU | ; Rose From Obscure Lawyer to Riches With Advent of Dry Law. | By Consohiaated Press, | CINCINNATI. August 21.-With [ the decision of the Government re i ported from Washington to deport ! George Remus. “king of the hoot- | lergers,” the career of one of Amer Lica's leading violators of the prohil tlon Taws will be ended. His profits | have been variously estimated as high as $30,006,000, H An obscure Chicago atorney when | America adopted prohibition, Remus { rose within a few vears to a position '(v’ national prominence, Aguring in | the Dangherty investigation conducted by the U'mted Statex Senate, the con i vietion of Warden Albert iof the Atlanta Federal prison. | huge liquor consp © cases in a half | dozen States. Acquiring familiavity with legal ame to Cincinnatl as soon As the eighteenth amendmen went into effe He chose the cf for his operations because of Its « tegic position across from Kentuck | whers distilleries snbhounded in | pre-war era. He hought a remote ! farm near the Indiana line and " | rounded himself with a small army { of hodyguards, trnck drivers, bottling {plant workers and others useful in | his deatings, ! Bought Seven Distilleries. The purchase of seven distilleries figured In his tem. Bribery of Federal guards played its part in his work. “Fake" robheries of trucks escorted by CGiovernment agents sim- plifisd his operations. Battles he- tween hijackers and rum - runne {emploved by the “master bootlegger" { became common. It was said that { he could not be apprehended hecause {he never overstepped the law. But one who employs others is re- sponsible for his agents, and it was only a matter of time before Remus would he caught. His operations be. came so immenseé that scores of hoot- leggers peddled whisky from distilleries owned by Remus. A prearranged hold-up, a pistel battle with hijacker and a truck load of choicest Kentucky | honded liquor reached the farm west of Cincinnati and the Remus bravos doubled the quantity by “cutting” or dilnting. 'he downfall of the was due 1o thres factors—hi came too bold, monopolized. Thomas H. bought. Success Went to Head. Syecess went 1o Remus' head. He bhought a downtown hoilding. renamed it after himself and held forth in a luxurious office. He built a palace on {a ‘great eatate on Price Hill that dazzled Cincinnatiane with its apart- ments. - He paid $100.000 for a swim- ming pool that made spectators gasp. It was dedicated at one of the most | elaborate New Year eve parties ever ! staged in Ohin, the favors alone cost- ing_$25.000. Convicted in 1223, Remus fought the case to the United States Supreme Conurt, which rejected his appeal early in 1924. A special car took Remu to Atlanta 1o enter the Federal peni- tentiary. Mra. Remus moved to that city to be near him. Then reports were heard that the multi-millionaire prisoner was living like a king instead of a convict. The Senate Daugherty committee sub- poenaed him. Remus asserted he had paid more than $250.000 to the Jesse \V. Smith, associate of Attor- ney General Daugherty. who shot 5 himself to death in the latter's apart- | ments. Could Not Prove Citlzenship. i I | | leg kinp™ men be. vals found the market and District Attorney Morrow conldn't he Remus’ citizenship was called into { question in July. 1925, He could not prove he was’ naturalized with his father when the latter brought him from Germany a& a child. On his re. lease from Atlanta prison tember, Remus was rearrested and taken to Davton. Ohlo. to face trial on another liquor charge. Freed on court order, he was arrested again and brought to the Cincinnati jall. A few weeks later he was living in regal splendor_at a leading hotel. Mrs. Remus then sued for divorce. he bootleg king replied by filing a cross bill accusing her of conspiracy and misconduct with Franklin L. Dodge of Cleveland, the Federal agent who obtained the evidence againat im. Remus is a thick-set man of middie age. Associates say he is as “hard as nails,” letting nothing stand be. tween him and his ohjectives. Protects Dead Against Jazz. MANILA. August 21 (). —City At- torney Guever has a poor opinion of jazz and jazz orchestras. In refusing to grant a license for a cabaret to be established near a cemetery he de clared “the dead should not be dis ¢ the nightly music of jazz - 6fficials' State- AR. | Surtain | and ! the | last Sep. | | ! | GEORGE REMUS. LISTS 13 HIGHWAYS Col. Moller’s Recommenda- tions to Go Before Commis- sioners Tuesday. ! Recommendations for inereasing the speed limit from 22 miles 1o 30 miles an hour on certain portions of thir- teen arterial highways were submitted to Commissioner Proctc Dough. erty vesterday by Col. Moller, acting director of traffic. The highways slated for the higher speed follow: Bladensburg road northeast from Fifteenth and H streets to the Dis- triet line; Rhode Isiand avenue north- east from Fourth street to the Dis- trict line: Sixteenth street from Florida avenue to the District line: Alaska avenue from Sixteenth street ® Georgia avenue: Connecticnt a nue from Macomh to Morrison street: Wisconsin avenue from Ma- comb to Warren chusetts avenue from to the District line: River re Wisconsin avenue to the District line: Canal road from Foxall road to the Distriet line: PPensylvania avenue | southeast from Minnesota avenue to [ Alabama avenue: Alabama avenue i from the iniersection of {and Pennsylvania avenué to triet line: Good Hope road {from Minnesota avenue to 1road and “ road from Hope road he District line. Limitations in Speed. <1t is understood that thix does not mean a continuous speed of 30 miles an hour in these locations regardless {of Jocal conditions” said « report ac panying tee recommendations, It does mean that within the limis specitied U ns will be erected desizoating s legal speed of 30 miles {per nour. However, at all dangerou i poinis will be erceted signs reaucing | the speed to 15 miles per hour until anzer point is passed to 22 miles it as the case may he. A sufficient number of vitrified enamel speed limit signs is bei ordered to iake care of the | marking and all he marked with ‘stop’ » the Dis. theast Naylor or Good { | | & KN, New Speed Not Yet Effective. Col. Moller nrged that the new «peed limits he put into effect as pidly as the arterial highways sp ‘,liod can be marked. and that {creased <peed be permitted until the Pmarking ix complete. [ The “stop” signs are expected to larrive Tuesday from Raltimore and will he erected as quickly as possible The recommendations of Col. Moller will bhe considered hy the Roard of ‘ommisioners Tuesday morning. along with another set of proposal: { by Traffic Director M. O. Eldridge for {making Fifteenth and Seventeenth | Streets one-way thoronghfares from I H street to Rhode Island avenue. | Col. Moller will he called bhefore the | Commissioners to explain the reasons | [ for the one.way tions. PERFUMES BY CHEMISTRY NEWS FOR CONVENTION American Society Meeting Will Draw Notables From Abroad to Hear of Progress. Ry the Associated Press, NEW YORK. Angust chemist's laboratory has I nature sueccesstully the street recommen 21 The duplicated in realm of ! odors much aily associated with chemistry will he told to the the American Chemistry Society mee ing_here September 6. Research in perfumes heads an im- posing aray of subjects which will in- clude efforts to prolong life by the biological chemist. work in the dye industry, rubber production. petro- leum research and hundreds of other fields. The largest number of foreign chemists ever to visit America will be included in the three or four thousand attendants at the conventions. among them being some of Europe's fore. most_research authorities. Prince P. Ginori Conti Irene du Pont. Gabriel Bertran or of biological chemistry af iversity of Paris; Camille Mat- of Ttaly v of science: Sir James Colquhon Irvine, head of the Scottish Uni versity of St. Andrews, and Leonor | Michaelis of the University of Berlin are among the leading visltors, Fdgar Fahs Smith. formerly vost of the University of Pennsyl- vania. will be awarded the Priestly medal for outstanding service to chemical science, CAMERA EVIDENCE WINS INJURY DAMAGE ACTION Supposedly Lamed Man Shown in pro- Film Bounding Down Steps With Athlete's Air. By the Associated Preas NOCHESTER. N. Y.. August 21, The amateur movie camera has heen called into court as a4 witness, A lahorer sued the local street rail- company. charging he had be- jcome lame as a result of an accident. | After the plaintiff had introduced tention, the defendant brought in the motion picture. | " The fAim showed the laborer leaving | his_home. hounding down the steps with the air of an athlete. Then. as he neared a doctor's office he regis. tered lameness. Defense counsel had emploved a photographer, who had wrapped his cine-kodak in paper get_the evidence. The court denied the indemnity and held the plaintiff for perjury. . of the heavy wheat erop in . the grain gave the Welland and St. Lawrence Canals the heaviest movement of grain during the season of any month since they have been in operation. FOR J0-MILE SPEED i Bowen roae | intersecting streets | no in- | ! scents and the chemical formulae of | different than those usu- | iolden Jubilee meeting of | ignon, member of the French Acad- | | medical testimony to support his con- | slavia Seek to Hold Gains From War Pacts. Alliance, However, Deemed to Be Weakly Bound To- gether for Present. BY R. A. DECKER, Special Correspondent of The Star and Chi- «ago Daily News. _BERLIN. Germany. August Since “the World War the little entente, composed of (‘zechoslovakia, Jugosiavia and Rumania, has domi- nated the Balkans and has forced a political connection hetween the Ba kans and the west European powers. | The little entente was formed hecause | of the existence of a common enemy- Hungary. R Now another, ¥ although a_weake little entente has arisen. This in cludes Rumania. Jugosiavia and Greece and Is directed against Bul- | zaria. The new alllance is none too strong. Probably it would not survive so real A test as war. But it is based upon the resulta of war, which gave Rumania rich territory, made Jugo- slavia powerful and gave Greece a mighty ally in Great Britain. Bul- garia was pared down until not much of it remained. Its population is less than 5000006 and it army ahout L000. Rumania, Jugoslavia_ and Greece together 't 000 men marching tomorrow. Bulgaria Paying Reparati Bulgaria is obliged to henvy reparations. Foolishly it hegan to pay | without obtaining a reduction. A | large and expensive commission sits | in Soffa to see that the army is kept down at the figures set in Paris. In the light of these facts one won- ders how the larger and more power- ful neighbors of Bulgaria find so much in that country to send notes about. Just now a hullabaloo is be- ing raised because the League of Na tions has recognized the fact that Bul garia needs a loan to provide shelter and occupation “for the more than 300,000 refugees elled from the new little entente countries. The loan has been approved and British bankers are ready to advance the funds. The new little entente conn- tries are noisily objeeting. Bulgaria has heen nnjustly a obtained the purely Rulgar | (erritory of the Dobroges on the Rlack a at the mouth of the Dan ubhe. Not satisfied with ol tervitory and jis rieh Rumanians want to disy Rulgars. They have declared land titlex invaiii and have treated. Rulers who play_political chess in gari Balkans. Upper, left to right: Queen Marie of Rumania, Gen. Pangalos, dictator of Greece. Lower, left to right: King Alexander of Jugosiavia, King Boris of Bul- “RUSSIAN CROWN Dwindling Prices nouneed that the Inmanian govern ment_will issue new titles, provided | the Rulgar farmers cede one-thivd of | their land (o the state. | Opposed to Confiseation. i This confiscation did not appesl to the Rulg: who feared that the | <eizire of one-third would he foilowed hy the seizure of the other two-thirds. hey resisied. determined at- tempts the Itumanian government | to colonize the Dobrogea with | Rumanians has caused consiant fric- tion. Gendarmes and police evict the Bulgars but not without diffieuliy. | Often there are armed clashes and blood flows, Greece alsa claims good reason join the alliance against Bulgaria. The peace treaty allowed Bulgaria an ontlet to the sea. The natural ontlet i« at Dedeagateh in Greece, ThP' (ireeks do not intend to earry out | this clause of the treaty: hence they wish to keep the Rulgars down and | in financial and economic dificulties. Jugoslavia has a special reason for joining In the alliance. Conscious of | heing the strongest conntry in the | Ralkans, it is still not stronz enough | 1o cope with Ialy. Ttaly has pressed | Ite way into the Balkans and is trying to constrnet a ring around Jugoslavia Rut the Italian policy I8 too scattered. Italy can keep the Macedonians ed up and make a working agree ment with Rumania. but Italy has a weak hold on Greece, Bulgaria and Hungary Jugoslavia Seeks Outlet. Jugodlavia alse is looking for an outler to the sea—through Saloniki. The treaty provided for a Jugoslav free zone in Greek Saloniki, but thus far the Gireeks have given hut half of the agreed space. and that is almost «ut off from communication with har- hor facilities. Jugoslavia wants to control the rail line and the port and wants a small navy to profect its commerce. Further back in Jugo- | slavia's dreams is & union with Rul- | garia. The present Liaptchev, is not opposed union. Rut the cautious Ser! that Ttaly would consider «nch a nnion a direct challenge. The fime is not et right. Jugoslavia's attitude to rd the Rulgar kemitadjic is larzely hinff. ¢ Bulgars fear that the new little en tente intends to carve Bulgaria still further until nothing Is left. They recall the Delcasse plan, which gave Rumania all the territory as far south as the Ralkan mountain range, gave Serhia the area eastward to the plains land gave Greece more of Thrace. I can be seen that the honds that bind the new little entente are very weak. Until it ohtains Saloniki. Jugo- slavia will never he sincerely friendly to Greece. Also it is not pleased with it front facing Rumania. Ru mania and Greece have decided dif- ferences because of the fll luck fol- lowing the marriages hetween their ruling families. Bulgaria becom and then. and for to resist oppression. Not strong enough to right wrongs. the komi- tadji take vengeance. This iz why homb-throwing is so frequent in the Ralkans. Farms are ralded. meeting places are wrecked, prominent men are assassinated Communiste now {and then ald in the work of confusion. Party differences prevent a peaceful settlement or compromise. probably will not be real peace In the Balkans until Jugoslavia and Bul- garia join in a dnal meonarchy. with King "Borie of Bulgaria eliminated from the scene. (Copyright. ' 978, by (1 desperate now komitadji bands icago Daily News.) Chinese Wonder Which Priest to Credit for Rain. Correspondence of The Star and New York World HARBIN, Manchuria, August 10 When certain parts of Manchuria were recently threatened with famine hecause of drouth. the population turned to the priests of the different | faiths and asked them to pray for rain. Now that rain has finally fallen they are wondering who should get the credit for it. The Chinese first resorted to their Taoist gods. But no rain ecame Then Chinese farmers praved to Buddha. Finally they went to Russian priests of the Greek Ortho dox Church. the gongs banged in the Chinese tem- ples, the Buddhist priests praved in gorgeous raiment, the Russian priests also offered prayers in their churches, dressed in sparkling garments. All services were attended by Chinese started falling and all claim credit for it. the priests Ruigar premier. | the | BONTON, August rice quota tions on Russian crown jewels were | dropped rapidly tonight. after three | lote sold to Greater Roston tailors had heen found to he of the five and ten variety, After the police ap. the botiom fell out of the the “jewels of the late 1a.” although choice specimens within the past few davs had brought | sums ranging from 63 to $ The authorities were searching for the vendors- traveler whose accent | smacked of Moscow and his two eon | r . one of them a woman. salesman of the specialized in t whose shop is in was the first He was at work place on Thursday when red and two rina's jewels” 1,500, Romanoff ilors. Max the Rox to denl in his | ranger | the The treasures Rricker, bury distric with him. a s | enter Volunteer as Witnesses, Another man and a woman came in and velunteered 1o as witnesses, As Bricker went to the savings bank to draw the money for the deal, still | another stranger, posing as a jewel expert. appraised one of the stones | At $600. The jewel smugglers were safely away hefore the tailor sought | another appraiser and learned the | truth. The price went down when the | wn jewels were offered to Benja min Dubinsky, ewner of a tailoring SAYS COAST GUARD ‘SPLIT’ WAS PLANNED Member Tells Court-Martial Agree-‘ ment on Protection Cash Was Circulated. The star YORK, Angust 1A pro- ed agreement for the poaling of ‘protection money” ta he paid by am runners and for splitting this cash among memhers of the crews of four coast guard stations in sonth- eastern New Jersey was offered for | signature to coast guardsmen, | Bdward Falkenhurg, chjef hoat- swain's mate of the Little Ezg Har- hor station, testified todav at the trial being held at Beach Haven. Falkenburg is the principal witness at the court-martial trial of Boat- | swain Nelson Rogers on a charge of | accepting bribes to permit rum run- | ners to operate. Falkenburg testified he refused to | sign the agreement. He did not | | know who signed it. he said. A man | {known to him. only ax Friedman | presented the agreement to him to | | «ign, he said. He evaded questions | concerning details of the agreement. | He said he had “forgotten.” or “can't | remember.” Falkenburg, who was | the ninth man wied bhefore the | court-martial, was acquitted Fri day of a charge of agreeing to let rum runners operate. but findings on ather charges against him regard- There i jng the liguor traffic were not made and Jasho Fulke: public. A hoard of review at Washington | | will consider all testimony. | would each put up $6 | e GEM” PRICES DROP WHEN POLICE HUNT TRIO Three: Bay State Tailors, Dupes of Swindlers, Pay $1,500 to $63, for Cut Glass. establichment in the West End. A man entered Dubingky's shop 1o ask for directions to the office of the Rus sian consul and remained to talk of jewelry. A confederaie happened along conveniently. and it was agreed that the tailor and the new arrival ) in a dlamond investment. Dubinsky was left in possession of a sparkling handful gems, which proved to be cut glaxs when he showed them to a connois seur. Affected by T The scene shified to city of Lynn and lower. B police to cer Rricker papers. “This time Lonis 1t tailor, was left holdir reported to polic intents of his zone to “two d; and a woman. The emuggler of the ¢ el also varied his the Lynn front of clothes, but money. he said arrived and then there was talk two diamonds which the firet stran ger sald he had smuggled in from Cuba. A woman who chanced in of- ihlicity. the neigh the price fell still Acts are tributed by n publicity given the incident by Bos rinas jew v slightly He wanted a had only Russian A second strang S n fered to take the dinmonds ont to he | appraised. She reported nine “Russian erown Rosenthal emptied his to_obtain them Too late, Rosenthal sought another appras The verdict <30 cente” them gen wele," and eash register wins 'TRAMPLED COWGIRL EXPECTED DEATH Told Companion in Rodeo She Had Premonition—Dies Short- 0. Angnst 0l Hartwig. Montana roden equestrienne trampled to death erday by a wild hroneho at Soldiers” Field. con fided to a companion shortly hefore ve | she was injured that she had a p monition of death “1 wouldn't eare it 1 was killed: | hope I get my neck hroken.” she xald to Marie Gibson, a performer. Then she rode into the rodeo arena and conquered her plunging steed. but when she loosed her hold on the reins a minute :he animal threw her. News of her death In a hospital ame during the evening performance | ed heads | and spectators stood with in tribute to her. The hod sent to Springfield. Mo.. where vear-old son lives. The girl had been despondent, Miss G said, since her t fr - husband, Mont 0 other performers were hurt vesterday. Rill Montgomery of Chug- Wyo., br three ribs and punctured his lung when a steer he was wrestling threw him into a fence, n of Fort Worth, Tex.. broke an arm. a leg and three ribe when a horse threw him against a tence in the bareha, Aing contest is to he five By Cable to The Star and New York World. LONDON, August 21.- The first i haby hippopotamus to he horn in Lon- |don Zoo in 44 vears arrived early | | this morning. So far no one has been | near enough to the cage to determine | its sex. but if it i= a female the haby | will be called Doris. | Keepers are afraid the mother, Joan, ! will be alarmed and “savage” to Doris, | or whatever it is, if they approach | {her. It is not unusual for mother | [ hippos to eat their offspring if | strangers appear, according to Yh-Y | keepers. Five hours after hirth the. baby had lits first swim perched on its mother's On the appointed dav | hroad snoot, while a keeper watched questioned, ax Palm ! through a peephole. Gradually the mother submerged until the voung hippo hegan to paddle for itself. | Joan, the mother. is 9 vears old | She was born in Africa, and all her | previous offapring have heen killed at | people impartially. The next day rain |birth. *The baby's father, Bobby, has cursed him of high nervous ted from Joan. been in a state tension for days, separ irst Baby Hippo Born in London Zoo In 44 Years; Its Father Very Excited ! meriy He has been lashing around in his tank. sending up waves that spattered delighted children watching him, andl refusing to eat. GEORGIA BARBER SLAIN. 8Shot by Fellow Craftsman, Who Claims Self-Defense. THOMASTON. Ga., August 21 (#), A. Palmer. barher of Thomaston, today shot and killed O, E. Smith, also a barber. in Palmer's shop. Three evewitnesses were not ¢ admitted the shooting. He claimed self-defen: Palmer sald that Smith. who for- worked for him, had } around his shop all week, and cused him of being a crow and Words hetween them today were followed by the shooting. Palmer is being held in jail here. . —I. en East | IMat;Cracken Says Port Would Provide Recrea- tional Facilities. “Recanse of its consplenous position in the Nation and its important place in the national airway system.” Wash- ington is in immediate need of a mode airport carefully laid out and con veniently located, William P. Mac Cracken, jr.. assistant secretary of Commerce of Aeronautics, deciared last night. A properly equipped fleld will at tract air traffic Washington much the same as good harbors draw steam ! 4hips to certain seaport cities i MacCracken predicted. In his epinion I eomme ial value not the only con ! sideration. The airport, he said. will be as much a recreation cent the parks, golf courses. equesivian trials and the like. and should there fore be a municipal enterprise. In fact, he emphasized. the air commerce et recognizes thix phase of the de velopment of commercial aeronau ties by providing that airports shall not he owned or operated by the Federal authorities and that no ex elu: e rights shall be granted for the use of any eivil airway, airport or other navigational aid Will Provide for Servicing. The airport. continued the air sece ry. should naturally he as larges as possible, easy of appro reached all methods of nsportation. 1t should 1 are for future rapid incre nauties. At first. municipa! hangars will probably he avaflable for i ate plaines and air trans these can he serviced at the airport. Later, when trafie he comes too heavy, the airport will probably hecome simply a place for taking on and discharging passengers mall and bagzage. similar to a central railroad terminal. When eivil traffic has developed to this degree after un loading the planes can he flown to a larger fleld somewhere on the out skirts of the city. where they will he serviced and held until needed for return trips.” According to Mr. MacCracken. the contruction of such airpore€ in Wash ington and other large cities will not only make aeronautics safer, hut will { create publie confidence in atr travel { He says that at the start they will | doubtless he objects of great interest | and osity, after which they will { come to he accepted as another mod ern development Two Sites Considered. Mr. MacCracken took no starfd fo or against either of the twa proposed sitex for a District aivport advanced by the District chapter of the Nation al Aeronantic Assoclation. The recos | nized duty of the organization is to 1 ereate interest in matters of this sort | and take the lead in all aeronantical I i i tion | ports. an iects., No further action towards acquisi of @ site for the District is ex { pected prior to the convening of Con Lrress wo areas, both requiring the xpenditure of a large sum of money and much reconditioning. are now | lonked upon as offering the bhest pos sibilities hecause of their close prox imity to the center of the city. Thex are the Gravellyv-Hunter Points fllin and the old Washington key Club property in Renning. FURTHER TAX CUTS SOUGHT BY FARMER. JARDINE REPORTS First Wontinued from Prage.) lief that corn will sell fram 10 te 0 nie more a bushel than a vear age He looks for the new eorn on the market at a price of ahout 73 cents a bushel, or practically the ame as ola corn is bringing now. He st happy situation nd one that is very reassuring to the dministratiol The Secretary is clugion a tour of conntry. He has been in every except ne. He left here [ with the expectation of heing ha { Washington within three weeks Young Meets President. President’s conference with rdine was one of twa im The ather FngIng to & con inspection of the =t The <ecretary srant 1alke he had toda w& with Owen . Young of New | York. chairm o the board of the | Cieneral Electrie o, and co-anthor of |the Dawes rveparations plan. and whe lis frequentiy me ned as a possible | hominee of ihe Dem ie party for | President My, Youn I White Pine on the business condition of fre. He said afterward that the Iresiaent his advices him the =itati i« generally and that ne expeets things to Itinue hoommg dnring the remainder | of the rear So far as he can - {there is no evidence that husiness fc | going mn inte a slump. If any | thing. conditions will grow hettar, he stated. He did not tails of the to say among other cussed the water power of the country, especially. opment of the St. Lawrence River project. He said he favored the oper !M\nn of the power plant, ultimatels 1o be built en this project, by private cporations. President will confer tomorrow Twith Willlam Green. president of the { Amevican Federation of Labor. and | several other labor leaders, and Louic “faber of Ohio, president of the Na tional Grange. KLAN HOME COMING DOWN Replace invited 1o views e coun he told convinee aod con go into any of the de conference other than things they dis development the devel i Apartment to Imperial Headquarters in Atlatna. ATLANTA, Ga.. August 21 (@) Plans for a $1.000,000 apartment house on the site now occupled by the former headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan on Peachtree road were made known here today with an nouncement of the purchase of the property by H. Wilensky for $110 000, . The white-columned structure that was formerly the imperial headquar ters of the Kian will be torn down. NEGRQ FOLKLORE FAILS. Cold American's Songs Receive Reception in Peking. PEKIN, August 21 @) —Negio |songe and sentimental ballads of grandmother’s day find little apprecia itlon In China, if the reception given | Miss Mary Jordon's oferings is an in dication. The largest audience that has as sembled here for a musical event in many months was cold to the Amer | lean contralte’s negro spirituals and American folk songs. The metropoli tan audience granted that sxhe has « utiful veice but it conldn’t react to “Waterboys,” “Deep River” and other Ausky song: Py . The first all ive motion picture has heen produced in India, & stery of the life of Guatama Buddhe.