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’ ———————— WEATHER (U. & Weather Bureau F\ orecast.) Fair and slightly warmer tonight; tomorrow winds. Temperatures—Highest, today: lowest, 66, at 1 Full report on page 9. showers; moderate south 76. at noon a.m. today. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 22 b s : ‘WITH, SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Fpening Star. service. The only évening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news aturday’s Circulation, 88,408 Sunday’s Circulation, 103,136 tered post offic No. 30,064, Wa < second class matter shington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C., MO DAY, AUGUST 23, 1926 —THIRTY-TWO PAGES. * (®) Means Associated TWO CENTS. Press. PANGALOS DEPOSED BREEK DICTATOR, 10 BE HELD FOR TRIAL Gen. Condylis Takes Over Reins of Government in Bloodless Coup. ADMIRAL COUND(;URIOT|S TO RESUME PRESIDENCY Full Restoration of Civic and Po- litical Liberties Pledged by Leader of Revolt. By the Assor LONDOXN the A dispateh Telegraph from the deposed President reached Athens and interned at military to ange eh from according 1o information, Gen. Pangalos Tantalides and Tavoulari of finance and com- munications, respectively, will he brought hefore a high court and charged with offenses under the penal code. Other agents of Gen. Pangalos also will face tr xchange di that, Anothe Athens reliable and Mm. former minister gays Liberties. < last night, Gen. R ondemned the trranny.” He declared that he would fight against all dicta- torship and promised full restoration of civic and political liberti Gen. Condylis was war claimed ge audience aer nentary elec ze from Saloniki st were held night in celebration of the overthrow of the I wos dictatorship, A teuter s dispatch says that Capt. Colialex, commander of Greek tor- pedo boat flotilla, and a supporter of has resigned and will mmand tomorrow. was in charge of the on which Pangalos at tempted to escape from the coup detat engineered by Gen. Condylis.) COUP IS BLOODLESS. Promises Civ Speakin Ay ace which ons. a ¥ New Dictator Acts Swiftly in Over- throwing Pangalos. 23 (#).—Greece | Theodorus Pan- | ATHE has ano gal less coup d'etat and Gen. Condylis once a corporal in the Greek Arm * has taken over the reins of govern ment. Moving as when last year Coundouriotis fr August dictator. swiftly as did Pangalos, he ousted Admirall m the provisional presidency of Greece and set himself up at the head of the government, ien. Condylis had Pangalos arrested Sunday morning on the Island of Spetsae, where he was on He was put on the destroyer Pergamos 1o be brought to Athens. At the same time all the ministers were taken into custody. It is reported that Pangalos tried to escape on the Pergan but that aft- er a chase the destroyer was over- taken by the battleship Leon and that Tangalos was taken on board and car vied to Keratsini. During the chase the Leon and another warship, the Kilkis, fired blank shots at the Berga- mos, while hydroairplanes bombed her, this report says. President Is Recalled. Announcement is made by Gen. Condylis, who was formerly minister of wa that Adm al Coundouriotis i the lawful President of Greece and that he has been invited to resume the presidency. It is the intentton of n. Condylis to organize a govern- ment of “national contidence.” To this end promises free elections within eight months. All the political leaders and officers who wer arrested under the Pan- galos regime, charged with conspiring dinst the government, have been rele The Gen. Pan wible for his regime will be sion. All the military ‘establishments, the telegraph office and the government departments were taken over peace fully and with a rapidity whic evidence of how weil Gen. Condylis had laid his plans. Condylis personal Iy went to the war ministry and dered the arvest of Gen wlis, the war minister. The other ministers were made prisoners in their resi de announce that all those respon- ded methods of 1 by a commis- or and the ivon-h tri jos Showed “Nerve."” carried out his he showed some rve” which he is With o few ad- he main telezraph hd compelled the nd messages through’ country that he had over- the government. The mes- ages demanded the support of the military and naval units, and these, not real the true state of affai replied with messages of adherence These mess were shown by Pan- galos to members of the government, who abdicat m Ve 1 It seems that Pangalos had no dif- | ficulty in nto a ship of lex. commander of the torpedo boat who w in the was one of the pillars of Pan- policy « only oup < When 1 coup in June of limitless credited as havi herents he seiz in Athen 1zalos Jast, office operators e ap attempt < ce of reported ocew t the post “on_ Mount bettus, near Athens. The opposition was short lived. and the little garrison surrendered without fighting. There is nothing to suggest that the new revolution was actuated by a_desire to restore the monarchy of King George, who for some time has | Been in Enzland. He was forced to shdicate in December, 1923. milit vacation. | ve | | vouths [RUDOLPH VALENTINO IS DEAD Famous Movie Sheik Fails to Recover From Relapse. From Brass Polisher After Bankruptcy. By the Associated Press. N ZW YORK, August 23.—Rudolph Valentino. original “sheik” of the movies, died toda Death occurred at 12:10 o'clock, tern daylight {time, at the Polyclinic Hospital. was 31 vears of age. The screen star bheen in the hospital for eight days, and although { he at first was reported in a c | condition, improvement shown during the | week, and it was thought he was { safely on the road to recovery. Last i night, however, he suffered a re- {lapse due to pleurisy, which set in in | his left chest. due to weakness fol- {lowing a double operation for acute appendicitis and tric uleers and accompanying local peritonitis. Valentino came East several weeks a0 to attend the Broadway premiere | of his latest picture, and to bid fare- i well to his brother, who was return- ing to his home in Ttaly after a visit. He collapsed in his apartment here week ago Sunda ternoon and as rushed to the hospital, where an immediate operation was decided upon. Lo peritonitis set in shortly after the operation, and doctors an- | nounced that only his rugged consti- 1l had been a {Rose to a Screen Star, AFTER 8-DAY BATTLE FOR LIFE e | He | al | latter part of last | RUDOLPH VALENTINO. tution could save him from the in- fection becoming general, a condition ich usually results in death. They aid that the erisis would be passed in from 48 to 72 hours, Valentino rallied and last Wednes- day was reported definitely out of danger, barring further complica- tions. The physicians ceased the reg- ular issuance of bulletins regarding his condition. The statement that he had developed pleurisy followed the terse report of a relapse. Thousands of messnges of sym- pathy from personal friends of the actor and from admirers flooded the hospital throughout his illnes (Continued on Page URGEDBY CRANGE [President Is Told Farmers i Favor G. 0. P. System, But Want More Benefits. BY J. RUSSELL YOU> Staff Correspondent of The Star. WHITE PINE CAMP, N. Y gust 23.—For the third time within i | ‘the past few days President Coolidge has been told, while conferring re garding the agricultural situation in this country, that the American farm- or Friday that there is going to be a de- termined effort on the part of farmers | of the West to revise tariff; Secretary of Agriculture Jardine the following day assured the President that there is considerable sentiment for some change in the tariff, and today Louis thor of Ohio, master of the Naticnal nge, with a membership of more than 800,000, insisted that the farmer is demanding more direct benefits .from the tariff than he is nolv re- celving, Mr. Tabog conferred with the Pres. ident at thH® executive office at Paul Smiths for two hours this morn- ing and afterward was a guest at | luncheon at \White Pine Camp, fol- !lowing which he and the President re- newed their discussion of the farm question from many angles. Holds Four Things Needed. It was made plain by Mr. T | that a revision of the tariff along sought by the farmer is not the only | thing needed to assist him. It will take far more than that one thing needed to assist him. He pointed out the President that after a careful study of the tarm problem of the coun- It the National ¢ nge concludes that there are four major things need- ed to help the farmers, namely » Better organization of far tions and societies to ass farmer in the distribution and disposal of his farm produc Urgent need for the development of the principle of co-operative market- ing. A more intelligent and eflective andling of regional and seasonal sur pluses, so as to guard against over or Punder production of crops nd making the tariff more effective agriculture. President represented been greatly interested in bor had to about the fe: existing for a revision (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) MEXICAN SOLDIER KILLED, 3 STUDENTS HURT IN RIOT Traffic Officer Also Injured When Pupils Start Free-For-All at Athletic Meet. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, August federal soldier was killed and three students and one traffic policeman were injured when several thousand students started a riot at interschola tic athletic contests in the Mexico City Stadium yesterday. Keen rivalry between the opposing groups of high school and college developed into a free-for-all fight, during which stones thrown. Federal troops were called and fired into the air. This led to some of the spectators opening fire with their pistols. The soldier was killed by a bullet. One student re- ceived a bullet wound in one - le while others were bruised by stones as ing ~One vhat | of the tariff. | were | INHALL-MILLS CASE Carpender and Stevens Must Take Their Application to Justice Parker. By the Associated Press. NEWARK, N. J. August 23— Chief Justice Gummere of the Su- preme Court today refused to receive the application for bail of Henry de la Bruyere Carpender and Willle Stevens, charged with the murders of Rev. Bdward Wheeler Hall and Mrs, Eleanor Mills. | In declining to .consider the appli- cation, Justice Gummere, who pre- viously had admitted to $15,000 bail Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, widow of the rectc o charged with the murders, said he had heen requested Justice Parker to refer to him such application. er, who is in Maine on tion. presides in Somerset Coun- ty, where the we; mitted. Carpender erimes nd Stevens, who were held for the grand jury last week at |a hearing in Somerville, are in Som- erville County Jail behalf of Mrs. Hali, the State re- fused to make known what evidence it had against the woman. The case of Carpender and Stevens, however, has been altered by their hearing in open court. g $45,000,000 ASKED Conspiracy of Company With Duke, Contrary to Anti-Trust Law, Alleged. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. | for $45.000,000 |in Federal Court tods Haskell of Springfield, 5 | dent and director of the Bausch Ma- | chine and Tool Co., against the Alum: num Company of America and other: under the Sherman anti-trust law. Haskell alleges he was damaged $15.000,000 through a conspiracy en- tered into by officer: the Aluminum Company of America h the late James B. Duke, to whom |he had confided his own aluminum industry development. He | asked three times the amount of his ctual losses under the provishns of the anti-trust law. | | Davis, president . David L. Gill | Hunt and Alvah K. Laurie, directors {of the Aluminum Co. of America; | Richard B. Mellon, secretary-treasurer of the Aluminum Co. of America; G Allen of Scarsdale and New City. said to have heen an of the late James B. and George spie, Roy A. { thur v [ H. « Duke, and the three cxecutors of the | last will of Mr. Duke. Wil ‘Kms of Montela N | Duke of Hillsboro, N. | Atten. All of the individual defenda® cepting those whose addresses above given. are said to re Pittsburgh, Pa. am R. Per- Nanaline and Mr. Chinese Pirates Loot Native Steamer, Kidnaping More Than 100 Passengers | Br the Associated Prees. FERNALD SLOWLY SINKING | and End Believed Near. | WEST POLAND, Me.. August 23 (f).—United States Scnator Fernald, | who has been ill of intestinal poison- | ing and heart trouble at his home here, lapsed into a coma early today, and it was believed the end was near, Attending physicians said his heart was gradually failing. i . ... |customs station near Macao, Senator in Coma—Heart Is Failing | ning, was boarded by 30 pirates at 10 | { o'clock last night and the passengers HO! nese river from Malowchow, {ONG, August 23.—The Chi eamer Mansing, en route Chinese maritime to Sun- and crew terrorized and kidnaped. It is believed the passengers were wealthy Chinese returning to China from San Francisco. The pirates boarded the ship off aulan Island, otherwise known as “the pirates’ fortress.” They fired a volley of revelver shot | sengers were panic-stri The Chi- nese master and crew were covered with revolvers and compelled o steer the ship to Wongchu., where more than 100 passengers and ehe members of the compradore (native steward) staff were kidnaped, besides the ship's eight armed Chinese guards. One of the guards was stabbed and seriously | injured. g | The pirates completely ransacked | the Mansing and carried off the cargo and the passengers' belongings. The captain and crew were finally released | and took the boat back to Malowchow. were still being held, : com- | During the application for bail on | ~IN ALUMINUM SUIT| ol Cheaper nd directors of | plans for | The other defendants named are Ar- | DAWES REPARATN PLANNON DOOMED, EURDPE BELEVE English and French Finan- ciers See Peril if Scheme : Is Continued. GERMAN RECUPERATION ALARMS INDUSTRIALISTS Pressure of Exports Making Com- petition Especially Severe on British Producers. H © BY EDWARD PRICE BELL. By Cable to The Sf nd Chicago Dail, LONDON, Augus that the Dawes plan is doomed char- acterized financial discussions today, both in 'ngland and France. Discriminating critics do not eall the plan a “fallure.” They call it a “success.” What they mean is that it serves Furope and the world in a it and urgent crisis, but that it lacks the elements of permanence. It is agreed that the plan establish- ed the stability of the German cur- rency and paved the way to European | reconstruction. It is agreed that Ger- Imany up to the present had made regularly and punctually the pay- ments required of her. What econ- omists and financiers do believe is (\h:lt Germany will not continue to pay under the plan in this manner and to {the end of the period it contemplates. Germany Not Criticized. This opinion does not rest upon any doubt of Germany’s industrial vitali {or good faith. It is realized that the |German people are capable of hercu ilean industrial efforts. It is not ques- | tioned that the German republic de- sires supremely to vindicate its good name and its credit in the world, But the conviction grows that the | Dawes plan constitutes an artificial {entity in the world of economics and that its liquidation is only a matter {of time. British industrialists and traders regard the plan with little less than consternation. They see in it their ultimate undoing. Their reason- ing is that Germany can meet her obligations only at the expense of e porting nations, of which Britain is one vitally dependent upon exports, British politicians are not yvet voic- ing their alarm over the Dawes plan. Financial Great Britain also is silent, though far from unconcerned. Lord Bradbury sald to the writer, with em- phasis: I do not think Great Britain ever { will move for the alteration, let alone the abrogation, of the Dawes plan.” Ultimate View Stated. VN!‘\'O!‘[]!PXEA . Lord Bradbury appre- ciates the industrial implications of the plan in the long run, writer does not think his judgment would be misrepresented by the state. ment that he has little or no confi- dence that the plan will run its stipu. lated course. Competent unfold an ex wedin; dustrial and financial reorganization. Etectrical mechanical power, elimina- tion of waste, low wages and hours are build! manufacturing the history Europe. (¢ d taking the form interrelated economie unit. judged ind nsin business id to he ring The manu- ctu advices from German picture of in- stem unexampled in any i of a 1 11 research a at h pitch. predicted that whils the coun- y's revival is prospectiye rather than actual, present methods assure a wealth-producing capacity er than the sum of $600,000,000 re- quired annually for the Dawes scheme. In coal mining and iron and steel, according to British experts, Ge many’s pre-war average of production has been reached. Desp¥e her loss of 49,000,000 tons of coal a year, due ‘1o territorial changes following the { war, she has improved her machinery and methods of production so greatl that she not only can supply her ow needs in this fuel, but promises to be- come a coal exporting country. eel Foreseen. coal iz regarded eaper German sponding im- whole in- reference to Cheaper German as foreshadowing « iron and steel, and co provement in German dustrial position with world markets. “Remove the stimulus of the Dawes | >ffort ana effic | standard of I ple.” has be ency, alled with a lower ing for the German peo- ome the slogan of the ish business communit ance’s position on this question is jexpected to depend upon the inter- iallied war debt If these must he { paid and America, in Chancellor of the xchequer Churchill's words, is to {have the whole of the { tions, France also would wish to see |the Dawes plan scrapped and the | BEuropean economic situation restored to a normal basis. (Copyright. 1 by Chicago Daily GANGSTERS KILL MAN AND WOUND COMPANION By the Associated Press | | CHICAGO, August 23.—Gangster | guns blazed again today, killing one and possibly fatally wounding an- other. Two men walked deliberately up to the automobile of Michae! Blando, 30, I restaurant owner, and killed him. His {wife, in the front seat with him, was { unhurt, but Joseph Varonlona, 19, in the rear seat, was shot in the left | lung. He may die. | The trio had attended a Sicilian celebration and had just gotten into the automobile when the attack oc- curred. The gunmen escaped. Whethera Sicilian feud, the alcohol { war or revenge for other killings lay behind the shooting, police were un- | able to determine. | Belief that Blando, who formerly "lived in Kansas City, possibly was iglain in revenge for a killing at | Moundsville, Mo., three years ago, was expressed by Mrs. Blando. In 1 she said, Blando and his four brothers lived in Arma, Kans. Near Moundsville, she said, the broth- ers had a quarrel with a stranger, who was killed. Two of the brothers were captured and sent to prison, | Fr News Co.) other brother apedy v the pas- | At the latest report the passengers | Blando's I'!dm‘mid. but he and his Great | and the | long | 5 up a competitive | 3 their knowledge | plan to abnormal German industrial | jerman repara- | OLDFIELD- OPTIMISM. CONTROLLER HOLDS i CHARLES W. ELIOT, 90, DIES IN MAINE i President Emeritus of Har- vard Was Called “Amer- | ica’s First Citizen.” i By the Associated Press. NORTHEAST HARBOR, August 23.—Charles William Eliot, | Harvard’s “grand old man” and “America's first citizen,” is dead. The end came yesterday at the age of 92, to the president emeritus of Harvard University, who had been its president for 40 years prior to his retirement at the age of 75, and whose outspoken ideas on spublic affairs commanded international at- tention and respect. He died peacefully at the home where he had spent the Summer for vears. His son, Rev. Samuel A. Eliot of Cambridge, Mass, was with him at the end. He had been feeble all Summer and confined to the house, though up till a few years ago he used to row a hoat. exercise at which he became adept: in college days as a member of the university crew, and of the first Harvard athletic team, for which crimson was adopted as the university color. Praised Volstead Act. recently he Maine, Until comparatively had continued’ a lifelong habit of giving views on public questions. He was in his nineties when he took issue with Dr. Nicholas Murray But- ler, president of Columbia University, on’ the merits of prohibition. Dr. Zliot, revealing that he had become i teetotaller ut the age of 83, praised the Volstead act. There will e funeral services here tomorrow and in Appleton Cpapel. Harvard University, on Wednesda Sorn in Bos tion of Andrew Jackson, he be | president of Harvard at the age of and lived to survive all but two of the presidents of the United | States who were his cotemporaries. | " His administration was featured | py development of the elective sys- tem, which has since been adopted ! extensively by other colleges. 1 Once Condemned Foot Ball. Throughout his life he was an active participant _in discussion of public affairs. His views were sought on many questions. Often his pronouncements made him a tar- get for bitter personal attack. His attitudes were characterized by vigor, but were by no means inelas- tic, as was shown when, after de- { nouncing foot ball in 1906, “‘as a spec- !tacle move brutalizing than prize fighting, cock fighting or bull fight- ing,” he later saw Harvard play Car- lisle and praised improvement under { changed rules. Z When Harvard was considering race istinction. of candidates, he declared: 1 am opposed to every {cial discrimination in the universities Tof our helerogeneous democracy.” " In a discussion on “religion of the future,” he said: “The fear of hell has | not proved effective to deter men from wrongdoing, and heaven has never I hoen deseribed in terms very attrac- tive to the average man or woman.” I Aroused Labor Circles. He aroused a storm in labor circles Wwhen he asserted that the “scab” is a “good type of American hero” and that “demoeracy must profoundly dis- trust the labor union's too frequent effort to restrict the efficiency and output of the individual workman.” | During the war he maintained “the hope of the world lies in complete co- operation between the British empire and the United States.” Puritans found | THREE BOYS MISSING | IN LAKE HURON STORM | By the Associated Press. SAULT STE MARIE, Mich, Au- gust 23.—Missing three days, George Pond, Mackinac Island; George Acker- man, Detroit, and Charles Black, Chi- cago, are thought to have lost their lives in a storm which enveloped up- per Lake Huron last Friday. The three were at a camp on the | Les Cheneaux Island and started to ! of Pond’s grandmother. Their broken motor boat, with the engine missing, was found Saturday, but searching parties have been unabie to Jocate the boys. Pond was 18 and the other buss about the same age. form of ra-; | cross to Mackinac Island to the home | Japanese Announce Reversal of Policy For Colonization! By the Associated Press. TOKIO, August 23.—A foreign office spokesman, announcing the opening of the south Pacific trade conference at Toklo October 9, de- clared that Japan had reversed its entire emigration policy after dis- covering the futility and folly of previous efforts to send out its ex- cess population to places where it is not wanted. He declared that henceforth Japan intends to col- onize Hokkaido, Formosa and other possessions, but does not intend to emigrate to Australia. Canada and other countries, realizing that the previous policy caused much trou- ble and ill feeling. The present policy is to increase trade with other countries. espe- clally those of the south Pacific, with all efforts of manufacturers and industrialists_concentrated on lowering costs and building up ex- ports, he said. ABANDONS SECOND CHANNEL ATTEMPT Miss Barrett Violently 1l When Taken From Water This Afternoon. By the Associated Press. DOVER, August Miss Clare Belle Barrett of New Rochelle, N. Y., today failed in her second attempt to swim the English Channel. Miss Barrett abandoned her effort to conquer the Channel at 5:20 o‘clock this afternoon after being in the water 3 hours and 40 minutes. She was suf- fering from violent sickness when taken from the water. Miss Barrett, who came within two miles of swimming the English Chan- nel on August 2. started on her sec- ond attempt at 1:40 this afternoon. The New Rochelle woman, who is a vimming teacher in a New York high | school, made excellemt progress the outset of her attempt today ing about a mile out at the end of her first 20 minutes in the water. On her last Channel try Miss Bar- | rett left Dover at 8 o'clock on the morning of August 2 and after:be- ing in the water 21 hours and 35 min- utes was forced to give up her strug- gle on the morning of August 3. She had covered between 30 and 40 mile: A heavy fog caused her pilot to lose | his way on several occasions, thus| delaying her and carrying her off her | cou Had it not been for the fog | those on board the pilot boat believed that Miss Barrett would have suc- ceeded. Miss Barrett was greased by her | friend, Miss Grace Leicester, who | accompanied her on her previous at tempt. A large crowd gathered on the beach as she ran down to the water, waded out and began swim- ming a fast crawl stroke. Sea condi- tions were not of the best, as the wind was kicking up small white caps. Sea- {men, however, expressed the opinion 2. as evening approached. Bagrett had reached a point about 5 ‘miles” out in line with South Foreland and on the seaward side of South Goodwin Lightship. MISS CANNON TO START. CAPE GRIS. France, August 123 UP).--Miss Lillian Cannon, Balti- more swimmer, planned to start her that the roughness would die du\\’nI At 4:30 o’clock this afternoon, Miss | records and latest attempt to conquer the English Channel between 7 and § o'clock this evening. Miss Cannon, who hopes to break the record of 14 hours and 31 minutes set by Gertrude Ederle, recently was compelled by a storm to abandon a 1 Channel swim after several hours in the water. 60 DAYS FOR TIRE THEFT. Larceny of a $10 automobile tire brought a sentence of 60 days in jail | for James E. Queen, colored, in Police Court today. He pleaded guilty be- fore Judge Macdonald. Edward Diggs, colored, who, accord- ing to Policeman Wilson of the ninth precinct, is alleged to have admitted “watching out” for Queen during the commission of the theft, demanded a jury 1, pleading not guilty. His bonds, g dnad ab 8300, HUCKSTER IS SHOT INFUTILE HOLD-UP Youth, Captured After Run- ning Pistol Fight, Has Police Record. Having shadowed his intended vic- time for two days, waiting an gppor- tunity to rob him of $400, a New York youth, described as James Pat- rick Thomas, 21, a self-styled “gambler,” early this morning with-| out warning shot down James Male vitis, 42, a Greek huckster he was | loading his wares at the market space at Tenth and B streets, then engaged in a running pistol battle, in which a dozen shots were fired, with a po- liceman and a group of market men who gave chase and eventually cap- tured the youth and lodged him in a cell at the first precinct station, While the pursuit was in progress, the wounded man was removed to Emergency Hospital by Howara Bell of 1334 T street southeast,, where physicians pronounced his condition critical. A bullet had passed com- pletely through his body near the ight shoulder, piercing the iung. Pending the outcome of the wounds of Malevitis, Thomas is being held on three charges of assault with a dan- gerous weapon. Flees After Shooting. Malevitis was busily loading his day’'s produce onto his w on at the Tenth streei stand about when a man leaned over his and mumbled something about money. As the huckster straightened up and faced the man, he was shot. His* assailant fled east along the Center Market, firing at Albert Mec- Kunkey and his son Henry Me- Kunkey, .620 G street. Officer Fisher jajned in the pursuit and called on the youth to halt. In- stead, the fleeing gunman fired a fus- the officer and pture him. 1 , vouth eluded b as he ran through the grounds of the Smithsonian Institu- tion but was sighted on xth street by James Sweeney, a night watch- man employed on Pennsylvania avenue near Seventh street, who then lost sight of him. !"ound in Automobile. After another search, Policeman Fisher discovered Thomas huddled in the rear seat of an automobile parked on Pennsylvania avenue near Sixth street, disarmed him and placed him under arrest. Questioned at the first precinct, the priconer is said to have readily ad- mitted attempting the holdup. “If the poor simp had thrown up his hands as others have done,” he is quoted “I wouldn't have shot him." suspected Malevitis of carrving about $400 and had dogged his footsteps for two days waiting for an oppor- tunity to rob him. The youth gave his occupation as gambling. Thomas said his name was “John Hen but told police he had a police record her and that infor- mation concerning him could be found at detective headquarters. , Identified by Records. Detectives Kane, Kelly and Dubus- <y, investigating the case, report that youth was identified through finge prints being James Patrick Thomas, alias John Henry, who had been Involved in a shooting affair here in 1924 and had subsequently served a term at Oc- coquan. Thomas told police that he was bhut 17 later is s: he was 21. Witnesses in the shooting. dition to the victim, Sweeney, the two McKunkeys and oner, are Jerome Sullivan, B. R. Purdy and B. F. Becraft, commission men. this morning vears old, but d to have admitted that Hundreds Made Homeless by Ex- traordinary Hail Damage. LISBON, Portugal, August 23 (&) - Hundreds of persons have been made | homeiess by an unusually severe hail storm which has razed tWe village of Arganil and the district near Coimbra. | Engitteer {1y conce: | heing {authorized t 23 PCT. PARK PRICE LIMITATION STANDS McCarl Says Restriction on Purchase Figure Must Be Kept to Letter. SUPREME, HE DECLARES Planning Commission's Only Hope of Relief Is by Appeal at Next Session. The move of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission to get a more libe ation of the law limiting land purchases to a price 25 per cent in excess of the assessed value failed today. when Controller General McCarl ruled the act of the last Congress must be followed to the lettor. ~The commission has encountersd trouble in acquiring land for parks and playgrounds under this stipula- tion, and sought from the controlls an opinion as to whether it could legally buy property if. condem nation proceedings. the court fixed a price above the 23 per cent limit In reply AfeCarl said®that gress has sole power w ard to appropriations. and that the only avenue of rellef for the commission would be resubmission of the ques- tion to Congress Follows School Site Rule. The decision followed along the lines of one the controller rendered last week and later refused to review with regard to a $154.000 fund reap- propriated for school sites, and which caused Iie J. Franklin_ Bell Commissioner, tc decide tentatively to appeal to Conzress, as the Commissioners also have been un able to purchase desired land fc school sites by reason the price limitation. sals Lheralization of problem it alues have sessment cent margin seeking e of the has raised say that'land advanced since the on which the st be hased The sum of § the Mctarl decision todav, 3150000 of the $600,000 availahle for park and playground purchases having exempted from the 25 per cent r Alm Held Clear. he general ifitent of the prov the appropriation act.” said ller General, “is clear: ress fntended to limit the to be pald fi nds acauired douht which is suggested is with lation 1o the that land may b acquired through two different basle cne commonly by agree- the other by condemn: are meihods of e. In the pre viso. it does not necessarfly restr the limita o the acquisition « lands I eement as distinguished from ondemnation. The view rather is justified that if an excep- tion were intended to the limitation it would have heen clearly expressed to wit, to the effect that it shall not apply to acquisition by tion. The per affected by in ment tion with Both relati anguage is not obecure, is broad and eomprehensive as to th intent that there shall be a lim upon the purchase price. As to such limit the purchase price must be the amount paid, whether it he pavable through agresment for the acquisi tion of the land or by proceedings, and there is no author ity to narrow the purch; rice 1o the single method of acqui agreement. Opposed High Prices. “The legislative record discloses that throughout the consideration of the matter the (ongress was serlous 1ed respectir the amounts paid and 1 for lands, there a show that approximately 60 per cent ove the assessed valu had been paid for some 20 parcels c land acquired fo concern was rep was finally reduced and e the provisa restricting the the appropriation 1 Any limita- tion of per centum over the as sessed value of the land which would be escaped through court proceedings as provided in section 3 of the act of August 30, 1890, would obviousl make the limitation ukeless as a mat ter of practical procedure. “The intent, as expressed in the statute, is to prevent the use of the remainder of the appropriation to pay more than 25 per centum of the unearned increment of the land as measured by the assessed value, re gardless of the method of acquisition of said land, and such intent as ex pressed in tlie enactment may not be disregarded or liberalized. Congress’ Authority Supreme. “The Congress has the s pow e under article i. sectlon. 9 of the ¢ stitution, to appropriate moneys and it may in its limitations upon the uses of public funds appear from scme viewpoints unneccessarily restrictive, but the responsibility is that of the Congress and its authority therein being supreme the onl source i through a further submission thereto. “Accordingly, | have to advise vou that, with reference to that portion of the appropriation 10 which the Hmi tatfon applies, the commission is not tha terms of the appro- priation act of May 10, 1925, to pav for any site, regardless of the method of acquisitlon, a price exceeding the full assessment value of such prop- ‘ty last made before purchase, plus r centum of such assessed value.” SAY SHEFFIELD MAY GO. ibodied in uses of n Mexican Papers Say Envoy Wants to Give Up Post. MEXICO CITY, August 23 (). —The newspapers today print prominently a report that James Sheffield, the American Ambasador, will return to Mexico after his vacation in the United States, but that he has requested to Bridges, windmills and many houses were destroved and floods swept over a large section of the country, dam- aging crops. Many persons were res- cued with difficulty. Hallstones of extraordinary °size were found gverywhere. be relieved of his post. At the American Embassy today it was sald no one there was in a posi- tion to comment on the statement.