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— e WEATHER. Weather Bureau Forecast.) tomorrow slightly cooler tonight. Temperatures—Highest, . 8 tonight; D.m. yesterda tod : lowest, 73, ull report on page 9 . at 5:40 a.m. partly 94, at 3:15 ‘ WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Sfaf. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. Saturday’s Circulation, 89,506 Sunday’s Circulation, 103,983 Entered as gec post oflh Wi 0. 30071 Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 24 d class matter ashington, D. K2 WASHINGTON, D., C., MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1926—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. * © (P) Means Associated Pre: TWO CENTS. FRANCE DECLARED UNABLE TOPAY 1., - OR BRITISH DEBTS Apparent Prosperity Is lllu- sion, Bank of England Head Is Told. ALL-ROUND CANCELLATION ONE SOLUTION PROPOSED Paris Would Forego German Rep- arations Under Such Plan to Rehabilitate Currency. BY EDWARD PRICE BELL. Br Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News PARIS. Augnst 30 ance cannot pay her debts to England and the United States. She can ratify the pro posed British and American settle- ments. She can make this of loyalty te her foreign obligations, hut it is economically impossible for her to meet them.’ These sentences sum up what Gov. Norman of the Bank of Fngland already has heard from French econo- mists and finaneiers and what Seel tary Mellon will hear from them he seeks their point of view. France’s great apparent prospe 15 tllus It is the most am of all economic illusions of the Wor War. Consider some of its features: Devastated Area Restored. if ity ng d a ricultural and in- A has been restored mag- The farmers are busy buy- ing large quantities of farming imple- ments. » Industries are booming. nee, for the first time in centuries, ix an immigration country, with 3,000,000 foreign workers within her horders. There is virtually no un- employment. conditions are comparatively sati tory and strikes are negligible. Pa is crowded with visitors. The shops are crammed with luxury articles. The grocery stores are bulging with every ima ble variety of food If France were hard up should not the foct appear in statistics of her foreign trade? look at her for- eign trade In 1 k lion fr: Austrial are nificently in But » imported a half bil- 1 of merchandise. In fmported 44,000,000.000 worth. 1If aid paper fr isider mpor weight 14,000,000 metric tons, 45,000,600 metric tons. ports teil o like story in 1913 wifs 22,000,000 tons, and in 5 more than 30,000,000 tons. Buys More Than in 1914, Both in buving and selling France I8 doing decidedly more business than before the war. Domestic trade fig ures refloct sim ctivity. Pre-w production has been surpassed. In iron_and steel France produc tn 1913 .000 metric tons. This year she ducing plg {ron at the rate of move than 9,000,000 tons. In 1913 France had seven and a half million cotton spindles. Today she has neariv 11,000,000, while in the same period her wool spindles have Increased fromi less than V00000 to nearly 3,000.000. French competition in cotton and wool is causing e in the bestestablished British textile quarte As for Jrench the in nd of was agriculture, which directly sustains almost half the pop- ulation, it supports now the highest standard of Jiving in its history In view of these facts, why should the French worry about theé shruken trane and realize more vividly daily that Frenca prosperity is illusory? Capital Is Shrink I use manufactur and husiness men, la that capital s shrinking franc and that consequently the life Mood of industry is drying up. Per sons on a fixed income are becoming fmpoverished aries have lost the vast bulk of their purchasing power. There have been attempts at salary veadjustment, hut these could keep pace with the sinking franc. <ons with incomes dependent upon honds and other investments of inflexi- ble return are facing ruin. How these lled rentiers are suffering is illus- One who had 200,000 hout $20.000, before the war, now has only about $3.006. He could live comfortably on his invest- ments before the franc fell, but now anot live at all upon them. ¢ many persons sympathize with the ren W hold that it will be good for him to work, it still re- mains true that his capital has dis appeared Trom industry and that in- dustry ix Just so much poorer. Al - adversely affected, artisans. workers and the middle class the middle class worst of all. Eve fndustry and every li fs threatened with pa the farmers, the most pro- ducers, ave feeling the pinch of con- tracting capital. They sell their prod uet for h prices. but the money they get velatively little value. ind small, see with the classes has Inflation Is Blamed. Only physical properties are secure and what would be the economic good of these in a nation economically at a standstill? Inflating, say the econ omists, caused all the trouble. In- flation is so v, so tempting, so fatal. But the politicians were not &0 sunk in epportunism as they look Conscious of what France was suf fering by invasion and by loss of life, they said. “We are paving enough We are the bastion of the whole al lted defense. Let others furnish the capital, and one day we shall recoup financially and ly at t expense of the invader.” That was where the irreparable mis- take was made. It was made in supposing that Germany could pay for the war. It is seen now how wild was that dream. It is seen that France must bear a huge part of the Joss caused by the war and also must deal with the question of her indebt- edness to England and America. It has been a cruel disillusionment for the whole French people Frenchmen doubt the future and st the country’s currency and securities. While economists hold that an adequate taxation policy from the start of the war would have economic xaved the national credit and averted | omic disaster, they are pessimistic Their phrase is “too late.” The tic indebtedness and the confis ating action of the inflation have (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) gesture | Shorter hours and wage | that | Thelr welght ' ncern | & DRERWIE. MONTAGU NORMAN vernor_of Bank_of England. FICIALS SILENT i | | 0F ONBAKER'S OPINION Secretary Mellon’s Previous | Statements Concerning Gen- | erosity Are Recalled. By the Associated Press. | “The opinion of Newton D. Baker, | President Wilson's Secretary of War, {that the United States should cancel {the debts owed by its allied and asso- ciated powers, found little reaction ltoday in the officlal circles of Wash- | ington. In the absence of Secretar {who is in Europe, Treasur) | were disinclined to comment except to call attention to the statement is- sued by the Secretary prior to hi departure. This statement, it was pointed out, called forth by a plea for cancellation of the French | obligation, which had been met by the Secretar vemark that ‘“no other creditor of France has accorded {such generous treatment” as { Amer { The arguments propounded by { former Secretary Baker, it was point- {ed out further, had been used re- I peatedly on the Senate floor during e debates on the vavious settle- ments and had failed_to effect modi- | fication of the Italian and other debt | agreements. " Mellon's Statement Recalled. | After reviewims the entire subject | of debts owed by foreign powers and particularly” that owed by France. it cecalled that_Secretary Mellon d said that In effect “America has -ancelled the obligations of France for all advances during the war, and | France, in the Mellon-Berenger agree- | ment. has undertaken only to repay Ithe advances and obligationf subse- 'quent to the armistice.” {" “The settlement of the French obligation,” he continued, “has been made along somewhat different lines {from the settlement of French oblig: tions to Great Britain. With the Brit- anking advances and commercial ons have been treated sepa- from the war . however, we mpare the set- {lement of all of France's inbedted- | hess to England with the settlement her Indebtedness to America, [ Trance has had generous treatment |from us. Particularly is this true | quring the first five years, which will [be the most difficult for France. The { American settlement with France Ambraces all of IKrance's indebted- and represents, in_ the opinion ‘American commission, France’s ity to Holds Matter Up to Congress. departure. it Was re- called retary Mellon, who s “hairman of the Debt Commission, had served notice that the commis- ¢ion had washed Its hands of the French debt when the agreement was cigned with Ambassador Berenger and that the matter now was entire- Iv in the control of Congress, which {had approved previous agreements entered into by the commissicn. Former Necretaty views were expressed in a s {in the current number {Winds, monthly busines | ot the Union Trust Co. of Cleveland. lie criticized the Dawes plan as working teo great a hardship upon Germany and declared that the Brit- ish debt settlement had resulted in magnificent disaster. | | | | | ness, | of the cap: | Refore his of publication Clemenceau Plans New Letter. striking off the war debts owed to this country. he declared, relieve Ingland, France, It | gium and the rest of our allie: {in turn ought to require the release in part of the burdens imposed rmany.” “This ought to be done” he con- tinued, “at a round table where a representative of the United States should be anthorized to s with authority and to demo Ameri in a der.” Meanwhile, Jard-Vendee. M. Clemenceau. | mier. there came a semiofficial an nouncement that the “Tiger likely will write another open Jetter on the of debts to follow up his re- which was ad- Coolidge. | some upon reconstructed international or. rom St. Vincent-sur- France, the retreat France's pre | subject cent communication. |dressed to President has | “ought to! that | s interest is not dollars, but | of | RUMORS OF REVOLT IN SPAIN CAUSE OF ANHETY N GENEVA Army Officers’ Dissatisfac- tion With Promotion Schemes Held to Blame. LINES TO GIBRALTAR ARE REPORTED CUT Heir to Throne Seriously IlI, Younger Brother May Be Named to Place. By the Associated Press LONDON, August | change Telegraph’ spondent today says “Rumors have reached here of revolt in n. Anxiety is felt the ahsence of information. Replying to a question in the House of Commons this afternoon. Sir Austen | Chamberlain, the foreign secreta sald he had mno confirmation of a pre report from braltar that all | ‘lell‘;:r:\nhlf‘ and telephonic communi: {cation with Spain had been cut. He had no statement to make on the situation in Spain, but felt sure that if measures were required 1o protect British nationals, they would be taken by the Spanish authorities. Army Challenge Rumored. Ex- corre- 30.—The Geneva a in VALENTINO RITES | SPEAKING OF GIRAFFE HOUSING 1 "ROBLEMS. It is rumored that a_group of army | officers has challenged the authority of Gen. Miguel Primo de Rivera, the | dictator-premier, who has ruled w a strong arm since September, 1923, | when by a coup d'etat he overthrew | the government of the Marquis of | Alhucemas. ; No details of the situation have| reached London, although it is indi- | cated_in dispatches coming from the | Franco-Span: frontier that the ! Spanish railways have been put under | civil guard and that three Spanish | warships have sailed for Tangier, the | international zone in northwest Mo- | rocco, which Spain recently has de- manded should be given over entirely | to Spanish rule. i Cabinet Change Expected. Information coming out of Spain inf rvecent months has indicated that a | revolt against Primo de Rivera's rule |, s afoot. As recently as Iriday a dispatch from the Spanish frontier in France said that it has been learned that a change in the Spanish govern-| ment was imminent at any moment. | Another dispatch reported unrest among the Spanish artillery and engl- | neer corps, because of the premier’s | method of promoting officers by elec tion instead of by senfority. In June the Spanish government in | a statement announced that it had “utterly crushed” a revolt backed by | advanced Republican and Liberal ele- ments. said to have been headed b: Gen. Weyler, well known to Amer cans for the severity of his rule in Cuba after he was sent there in 1596 by the Spanish government. Dagger Thrown at Premier. Several attempts have been report- ed to have been made against the life of the dictator-premier in Barce- lona and other places. Early in the present month in Barcelona a dagger was thrown at him. b Recently it was reported that King Alfonso was in disagreement with the | premier. It Primo de Rivera is overthrown he will be the second dictator within two weeks to have been removed from power through a coup d'etat. Gen. angalos of Greece was outsted by ~ Kondylis and has been exiled. dispatch to the Daily Express from Hendaye, on the Kranco-Spanish frontier, says thec ordition of the 19- | vear-old heir apparent to the Spanish | throne, the Prince of the Asturias, has taken a sudden turn for the worse and is causing fears to be expressed for his life. The prince has heen in deli- ate health from a spinal disease since his_birth The Spanish Cortes, says the dis- patch, has been convoked to name the king's third son. Don Juan. heir apparent. It was desired by King ! Alfonso that this be done by act of arliament rather than by royal de- cree. Don Juan is 13 years old. Don Jaime. the King's second son. has undergone in recent vears a series of operations for deafness and impedi- ment in speech. Prisoners Saw Way Out of Cells. One Sentenced to Hang. WINCHESTER, Ky. August 30 i(""‘ Sixteen prisoners escaped from the Clark County jail here this morning after sawing their way | through iron bars of the cellhouse. | Among the men who gained freedom [ were George Bowman. under sentence to hang for criminal assault and held here pending a new trial, and John Howell and Roy Martin, accused of complicity in the robbery of the Stanton. Ky.. bank. All of the escaping men are believed to have caught a freight train out of town, 1 | | 3 Die, 25 Hurt, in Collision. | BUENOS ATRES, August 30 (P).— | Three persons are known to have | heen killed and more than 25 injured in a train collision on the Central Ar gentine Line this morning at Paler- mo, a suburb of thi 3 BY CONSTANTINE BROW By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily ) LONDON, August 30.—Leon Trot- | | 1 ! sky has become a contributor to the of the Encyclo- according to a Editor-in-Chief | thirteenth _edition paedia Brittanica, | statement made Garvin. Now cient by that the old empires and an- Aynasties have crumpled and | new nations and new systems have appeared, 11 was essen! to revise the Enevclopaedia, and ask the au thors of drastic political and intellec tual chan to eontribute 1o the | Trotsky Joins Enecyclopaedia Brittanica Staff as Contributor on Life of Lenin | monumental work in order to enlight- len public opinion on the new move- | ment. | Thus. Trotsky agreed to write | Lenin's biography. in which he in- cludes a complete history of the rise {of bolshevism in Russia. Prof. Einstein, author of the theory relativity, is Writing on space and time, Marconi on wireless, Dr. Serge Voronoff on rejuvenation, Col. E. M. House on Woodrow Wilson. and five members of President Coolidge’s cabi- net on various problems with which America now i€ confronted. | Copsright. 1 hicago Daily News Co.) jand Jean Acker, the dead actov’s first | wife, { death, | Abram: HELD IN'NEW YORK Pola Negri. Jean Acker and Celebrities Follow Body. Crowds Are Orderly. By the Associated Pross. NEW YORK, August 30.—Broad-| way, where Rudolph Valentino once worked as a dishwasher, today paid | farewell tribute to the man who died | at the height of his career as matince idol. . The famous thoroughfare was lined with many thousands as the funeral cortege moved from the church at Broadway and Si street to St. Malachy’s Church, on West Forty-ninth street, two,miles an Aembers of the police homb squad and 263 regular policemen, including a mounted squad, patrolled the fu- neral route and stood guard outside the funeral parlors and the church. Women Follow Casket. Tola Negri, the Polish actres: announced before Valentino's death that «he was engaged to marry him, had said that she him just before the body into who reconciled to followed his the church, Miss Negri, dyessed in mourning and sobbing audibly. was | immediately behind the silver-bronze casket. Behind her came Miss Acker and bringing up the rear of the little cortege of women were the representa- tive of Miss Winifred Hudnut, his second wife, and Mary Pickford. The ushers in the church, which was filled with motion picture stars and persons prominent in motion pic- -ture production, were Richard Dix, ¢ Hines, Ben Lyon, Capt. Ali- v McIntosh, husband of Constance Ige; Clifton Webb, Kenneth Me- . Richard A. Gallagher and the Marquis de la Falaise de la Coudray, husband of Gloria Swanson. Long before the body was carried into the little church the pews were filled with celebrities, many of them omen. Many prominent actors, ‘tresses, impressarios and producers | t in the front pews. Crowds Gather Outside. Outside the church the great crowds, kept back by cordons of patrolmen, pushed and craned their necks to see nothing more than closed ‘doo Admission o the services was by in- vitation and only those bearing the black-bordered invitations were al- lowed to approach within a block of the edifice. ® In the windows and on the balconies of nearby buildings hundreds of per- sons watched the casket as it was tenderly raised by the pallbearers. Mal Clair, Richard Rowland, Adolph Zukor, Marcus Loew, Hiram hols Schenck, James R. Quirk, Sidney Kent, Douglas F banks and George Schenck, all promi- nent stars or motlon picture pro ducers, and Michael Romano and Frank Manlllo, friends and country- men of Valentino, were the hearers. Only eight men, however, carried the body into the church. Pouglas Fairbanks was among those who walked behind the casket As the casket, decked with flowers from the automobile load that followed the procession, was carried up the nave on the shoulders of eight pall- hearers, a solemn hush fell upon the audience. The prelude of the processional “Miserere” of Spoth rose from the} pipes of the organ. Those in the! church stood with bowed heads, Sobs Heard Above Sextet. Rev. Edward Leonard. officiating at the mass, marched slowly forward surrounded by his assistants and altar bovs. lace covering their black su plices. The volces of an unseen sex- | tet rose from the apse as Father | Leonard sprinkled the casket with holy water. | The sobs of Miss Negri could bei heard above the voices of the sextet, The body was borne to the central altar, above which a fresco of the n: E tivity was revealed by the mystic fl-| lumination of censers. The coffin was placed on the altar steps and the solemn high requiem mass was begu The Gounod offertory “Ave Marj was sung softly by Dimitri Onofrei, tenor of the San Carlo Opera Co., and | Massenet’s post_communion “Eiegy" | was sung by Guildo Ciccolini with cello_obbligato. Father Leonard casket and the recessional tion: by Schweitzer, w: the sextet. Father Congedo, Valentino in Ita well to the actor. “(Continued on *go severest ' then blessed the “Tribula- sung by boyhood chum of then said his fare- Chopin's “Marche Jlumn 7.) 0. H. Oldroyd Gets Check for $50,000 For Lincoln Relies A check for $50,000 was handed this afternoon to O. H. Oldroyd as the Government payment for the collection of Lincoln relics which for many years have been housed in the building on Tenth street in which the martyred Civil War President died. The check was royd by Capt. Harris Jones, assist- ant director of public buildings and public parks of the National Capi- tzl. and the transfer took place in the Tenth street house. JUDGE HITS HOMER WITH BASES FULL Leng Clout in First Frame at New York Puts Nats in Front. BY JOHN B. KELLER. NEW YORK, August 30.—The Nats were leading the Yankees in the sec- ond inning here this afternoon. The score was 4 to 0. A couple of veterans were slab op- ponents at the outset of the National- Yankee game today. Walter Johnson drew the Washington pitching assign- ment, while Sam Jones went to_ the firing line for New York. About fans turned out to witness the gagement. Joe Judge clouted a ball into the right-field stands for a homer, with the bases loaded. in the opening frame. FIRST INNING. WASHINGTON — MeNeely Meusel. Rice singled to left. ‘fumbled Goslin’s liner and Rice stop- ped at second. Myer singled to left, filling the bases. Judge hit a homer into the right-field stands, scoring the three men ahead of him. Harris looked at a thir Ruel walked. Ruel was out Bengough to Lazzeri. Four runs. NEW YORK-—Myer threw nig. Combs grounded to Har rig singled to center. Ruth No runs. SECOND INNING. WASHINGTON—Reeves scratched a single past Dugan. Johnson, at- tempting to sacr ‘e, popped to Geh- rig. Reeves was caught stealing, Ben- gough to Lazzeri. McNeely flied to Ruth. No runs. NEW YORK—Meusel fanned. zeri sent_a long fly to Ric fanned. No runs. AUTO SALESMAN DIES FOLLOWING ACCIDENT Henry G. Gamble Thrown From Car After Collision With Telephone Post. flied to ui Koe- is. Geh- fanned. Laz- Dugan Henry G. G man for a loc: Georgetown mble, r-old sales- wutomobile firm, died University Hospital afternoon 10 minutes after ar- there, with a crushed chest and internal injuries susjained in"an auto- mobile accident about a mile from his home, Vanderwerken Station. on the Ruth | BOARD ON SCHOOL SITES CONSIDERED Bell Thinks His Assistant and Assessor May Work Together. The creation of a board of two, con. sisting of the assessor and one of the Assistant Engineer Commissioners, to handle the difficult task of purchas- ing land for school sites and other municipal purposes is being consider- ed today by Engineer Commissioner Bell as a substitute for his original plan of turning this work over en- tirely to the assessor. Since making the orlginal sugge tion, Col. Bell has devoted consider able thought to the problem of buying land and has concluded that it might be a better arrangement to have hoth the assessor and one of the assistant engineer commissioners work to- gether. Location of Sites. “I"'nder such arrangement,” Col. Bell explained, “the Assistant Com- missioner could do the field work of locating desirable sites and confer- ring with the board of education, after which he would have the advice and as tance of Assessor Richards in dealing with the owners to acquire the proper & The Engineer Commissioner believes this arrangement could be put into effect by the Board of Commissioners, but he does not plan to lay it before the board for formal action until C“ommissioner Dougherty returns from his vacation. Maj. Holcombe Transferred. The purchase of land during the past two years has heen under the supervision of Maj. W. H.. Holcombe, who was transferred by the War De- partment last week to a new assign- ment at New Orleans. Although_ Col. Bell has not defi- nitely decided what duties he will ign to Maj. L. E. Atkins, his new tant, he indicated today that Maj. will take over the work left by M Holcombe, which included supervision of street light- ing and motor transport activities, as well as the purchase of land. QUAKE RECORDED HERE; 158 Atkins probably Athens and Island of Malta Also Visited—Two-Hour Tremor Was in Northwest Direction. By the Associated Press. A very sharp earthquake was re- orded today on the Georgetown Un versity seismograph, beginning at 6:50 am. and lasting until 8:45. Di- rector Tondorf located it as 5300 miles from Washington in a north- westerly direction. VALETTA gust 30 (), lasting about here at 12 Island of Malta, A slight earthquake, ix seconds, was felt 0 o'clock this afternoon. , August 30 (#).—A slight Au- ATH. earthqua afternoon _— FLETCHER VISITS DUCE. American Envoy Holds Farewell Conference Before Sailing. ROME, August 30 (#).—Premier Mussolini today received the Amer| Ambassador. Henry P. Fletcher, ireat Fallé line, about 5 miles beyond Rosslyn Gamble was take to the hospital by his mother. The automobile struck a telephone post not far from Chain Bridze and Gamble was thrown from the machine. His mother, in the car with him, escaped injury Gamble was treated by Dr. Hugh Welch, but efforts to rally him were without success. Gamble, it was learned. had been employed by the firm of Emerson & Orme for five yvears and was well known in local automobile sales circles. oot 160 DIE IN BOAT CRASH. LENINGRAD, Russia, August 30 (#).—One hundred persons perished when the Ru: n steamer Burevest- nik collided with the German steam- er Graine, in the Morskoi Canal. near here. last night. A majority of the vietims were Jlussians. Radio Programs—Page 28 farewell audience prior to the_latte | departure for New York aboard th |liner Conte Rosso for a vacation. | They had a lengthy and cordial con- | versation. during which several |tine matters were cleared up. WAS 5,300 MILES AWAY ke was felt here early this| rou- | Mystery Ailment /Kills Pope’s Horse, One of Famed Team GERMAN BREAKS CHANNEL RECORD OF MISS EDERLE Otto Vierkoeten Swims Strip in 12 Hours, 40 Minutes, to Set New Mark. By Radio to The Star and the Chicago Daily New: ROME, August 30.—The Pope's horses hdve become afflicted with a mysterious disease. The famous black horses used daily by the Pope in his drive through the Vat- fcan gardens have been unpaired by the death of one of the team. The death was a hig loss. not only because of the value of the glgan- tic horse, but because it will be most_difficult to find a new one to match the team. (Copyright, 1926, Chicago Daily News.) PRESIDENT LURED 20 MILES BY TROUT Last Day of Open Season; Finds Executive Angling in Alder Branch. BY 1. RUSSELL YOUNG, Staff Correspcndent of The Star. WOMAN CHAMPION ASKS HIM TO RACE NEXT YEAR “Trudy” Near Breakdown in New York—Alabama Man Goes 92 Miles in Fresh Water. By the Ascociated Prese. DOVER, England. August 30 Vierkoeten of Germany today the English Channel. He landed at 2:15 o'clock this after neon at Langdon St . half way be tween Dover and St. Margaret's Bas from Cape Gris-Nez, France. where he entered the water at 1:35 a.m The elapsed time of the swim. ac 1 » o A cording to the figur is 12 hours 40 3 ; PINE CAMP, N. Y., August { *0F S Aol | minutes, or nearly two hours better Vo trak@ it ost o (bl (ev Fetmalic | QL1 (Do tecord of 16 Hours' 31 it Ing. hours of the: open: seasom forjUtes estabiished 'by 3liss Gertrude brook trout fishing. According to the | 13derle on August 6. i game laws of this State this specie Vierkoeten's landing was witnessed of fish cannot be caught after tomor- | bY only a few soldiers, who ran down w and the President today signified | from the Langdon battery, above the his intention to have one good final |beach. The soldiers carried the swim- fling, right up to the last hour. { mer to his small boat, which conveyed To satisfy this thirst for brook trout | him to the accompanying tug. angling the President is going to - spend the entire afternoon fishing in Alder Branch, more than 20 miles distant from White Pine Camp. He intends to fish until it’s da It will | be late when he gets back to his camp. It is his hope to be well repaid for going so far for this eleventh hour trout fishing, because the reports he has received are to the effect that Alder Branch ig chuck full of trout. He has been told that the fish in those waters are whopper: and that they will bite at anything from worms to rubber bands. The President, never the less, will use worms. Pleasure to Be Missed. President Coolidge is going to miss the trout fishing which is brought to such an abrupt end. I has given him move pleasure than any thing else since coming to the Adirondacks on his vacation. He prefers it trolling for pike, and the angling for and the other fish in these He of the trout. He has thrills out of his quest for $ admires trout zameness, and appea to enjoy wading out in the waters and ieaping about the rocky banks of | the streams. Any number of times the President has narrowly escaped | serfous tumbles. when he lost h balance or when his foot slipped while he casting from rocks out ! in the water. ~ Probably for the first time in his quiet and orderly life the President harhors a resentment for the law. Of course, ce. it would be |the mildest form of resentment, and it would hardly border on rebellion | He will miss this sport. but he will 'bow to the law, and after tomorrow | will have to be content with the bas |and pike and perch. On Vast Frost Estate. st estate York mil- nd only it this Otta swam | ighth to Swim Channel. eten js the eighth person to n Vier swim the Channel, and the first to perform the feat this trude Ederle and Mrs. Clemington son, both of New York, are the onl others who have negotiated the cro ing thus far this seaso Up to this vear the record channel X stood at 16 hours 23 min- its establishment in , by Sebastian Tiraboschi, n to con- set u sen- hours 31 y mous wate mark with her j minutes. Mrs. Corson also beat the former mi but fell short of Miss Ederle's ng 15 hours 28 minutes Vierkoeten, who has won cl ships in Germany, failed in tempt last week. He wi water 10 hours and was taken out when his tug lost its way in a heavy fog not far from the Goodwin sands, off the English cgast. MISS ED RLE WANTS RAC sational 14 ampion- an at- in the Cables Congratulations to Vierkoeten and Challenges Him. YORK, Augusi 30 her congratulutions est conqueror the y nnel, Gertrude Iiderle challenged the German record to a race across the Channel next Summer. Her cablegram follow: ‘ongratulations on your gr swim. 1 hope I can race you aci the Channel next Summer to bring record back to my sex and my Good luck.” bility of a P).— Otto to of race between Ederle and Mrs. Clemington Corson, second woman to accomplish the Channel swim, Is remote, an announcement by Dudley ld Ma- attorney for Mi: Ederle, in- Alder Bra of Leroy lionaire. nch is on the st, a New well stocked ve fished in not at his al party will cared for during their visit I Frost caretaker. Inasmuch President intends to fish until dark, arrangements have been made to serve a camp supper to the member of the party before they start bacl for White Pine Camp. It is likely the President will not get back to his camp until after 9 o'clock, some- thing almost unbelievable in his case. But the President, since he developed this hobby, has been la | for supper a number of times. Sat | urday night it was nearly 8:30 when he returned to the cabin, and the {evening before it was 8 o'clock, there- {fore it is natural to assume that Mrs. Coolidge and the others about the camp are past being shocked at the President’s break in his long record | of punctuality. It does even bother |the President when he has guests. He has the fever good and hard and he apparently doesn't care who | knows it. It is the first time in his | life that he ha ped a real honest-to-goodnes on for any-| thing, and he is having the time of | his life. Besides the fun of it, he has found a means of forgetting for the time being the cares of his office, and, best of all, he is out of doors and gets lots of exercise and good fresh air into his lung: | ., But for the fact that he had invited ! Matthew C. Brush, president of the American International Corporation, to visit him_this morning and to be { n guest at luncheon at White Pine| Camp, the President would have gone | after his trout early this morning., He would not have even gone to the ” | executive office, which has been his bl e | custom each morning for the past, month. He would have let the office | | take care of itself. There is nothing | | especially pressing in the way of | Government business right now, any- | | way. However, gagement with Mr. ary for Miss Ederle to swim und Manhattan Island with anybody to prove that she is the champion woman swimmer of the world,” Malone said, refer- ring to a challenge by Mrs. Corson's backers. vear. not nec but the tablished record proves that : on, favored by good weather he daytime and the moon at night, made the crossing in slower time by an hour than Miss Ederle's record.” Threatened W Breakdown. Threatened with a nervous br { down, Miss Ederle today was confined o home on orders of her < of sleep and excitement that her arrival home Friday. y gave her a record home- fon, were responsible for ing that no one - her or disturb hes Lo attended when the cit the young swimmer ed about 24 hours of sleep and it, he was convinced, she be herself again. he has not had a gaod night's rest since she swam the Channel,” he ery g hlete has a ¢ nervous s . and Gertrude been on edge and in training for two v with a constant ambition to accomplish her purpo All she needs is a day of complete rest.’ Four policemen were on guard out- side the Kderle home iny Amsterdam avenue to prevent intrusion or the gathering of a crowd. SWIMS 9 ILES pects to Try Chan- nel Next Summer. FLOMATON, Ala., August 30 (P, —A world record of fresh-water swimming Is believed to have been set by W. C. “Bill" Jackson of Flo- maton yesterday. when he swam 92 miles down the Escambia River in 9 i hours 33 minutes. ent went to the office for an hour, | o wle r » | and. without any great amount of en: | “\-’if_'l“‘l'w“-,.;:1"“".‘]”“(25(4;;;]‘,‘;;";2{",'m | thusiasm. hurried through the mail | £0. Ve §25.600 prize offered by Wil fnd F‘En’flj‘ tl'lflf‘k of letters and other llam (. Wrigley. entered vhe’\\':alm (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) |at 6:41 a.m. at the Escambia Bridge in order to keep his en-| Brush, the Presi By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. August 30.—The | Xew York World today says that le- | gitimate business concerns in the United States are defrauded each year of $250,000.000 by a new scheme of crooked bankruptcies The crooked bust in police parlance, ha New York. but { throughout the country, nnot _ald the creditors, says. The authorities s: most popular “racket” commercial sharps. While there are many ramification of the .-chrnv, the-gaper says, the es- 2 as it is known its center in being copied and the law the paper it is the ever known to | { here. and was taken out five miles | below Moline, Fla. While Jackson was aided by a six- Crooked Bankruptcies Take $250,000,000 |, \5nie Jucon vas avted by o six i From U. S. Firms Annually, Paper Finds the cold water, which caused him to abandon his original objective, Pen- | sacola, Fla., which would have taken him more than 100 miles. | During the swim Jackson took sense of the plan is essentially the!warm water, milk and chocolate. He same: ,was accompanied by friends from The “racketeers” with money from | Flomaton and a staff man of the Mo- “angels"—men who put up the small , bile Register, who timed him and capital needed—set up a business. A ' checked the distance. man in charge, known as “a front,” | Jackson attracted notice in this purchases on credit_huge amounts of , section as a distance swimmer when merchandise. sells it to cash buyers, he swam from Mobile to Fort Mor- or “fence m 30 to 50 per cent | gan, Fla., 44 miles, facing choppy of its value, then hides the cash and | seas and head winds. He plans to tr calmly goes into bankruptey. Little | the English Channel next Summer {of the loot is ever recovered. The longest distance covered by During the past year United { fresh-water swimmer previous to | States Attorney Buckner and the Na-|Jackson's 92-mile paddle yesterday | tional Association of Credit Men have | was that of Lilliam Hanison, who heen concentrating on the plan in an | swam 7 miles in the River Platte in effort to beat it. A’zn'lnl- |