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. i : \ ¢ v Y H ‘ ’ 7. WEATHER. : ity ' 2 (6. 5. Weather Buresu Porscast) : ©® 7 The only evening paper Fadr : to- . o . ;:,,r:,tn“f",‘gl,‘:"'::“i'l"h":'}fif‘f',;;‘ iy p b in Washington with the Temperatre - HIghest, 31 At 3 pm. ; , Associated Press news resterday: lowest, 62, at 6:30 a.m. to. service. Full report on page 9. ¢ Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Yesterday’s Circulation, 93,858 g No. 30,082, post office, Entered as second class mattar ‘Washington, Do WASHINGTON, D. 65 ‘RIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1926—FORTY-SIX PAGES. * () Means Associated Pri TWO CENTS. GERMANY PLEDGES SELFTOARBITRATE | ALL FUTURE ISSUES Unexampled Enthusiasm Ex- ! hibited at Formal Admis- sion to League. ON RECORD AGAINST WAR Stresemann Pictures Reich as Be- lieving Divine Plan Is for In- ternational Co-operation. By the Associated Press Germany was received into tie League of ms today amid scenes of n reconciliation which in their fire of enthusiasia have been unexampled since the armistice y and France, through For- ®lzn Ministers Stresemann and Briand, committed themselves to perpetual and solemnly engs d the M their nations henceforth W the &word, but to settie digputes by arbitration or comprom Three things sinod out dramatic v on th oric day. The first v picture of present ipped only by lofty N: “d to dedicate her enceforth to international co-operation hased on a high intel- lectual and moral plane, s spi he said, had entered into the very nee of the German people. Briand’s Remarkable Oration. The s ature was the remark nhle oration M. Briand whose deciaration that Germany and France have had enough glory in the past and need no further demonstration of heroism, and whose proclamation that the roar of guns had now been | siienced, evoked tumultuous applause The third outstanding. incident was cond f Skeleton Regiments Conscription T By the Associated Press PARIS, September 10.—The French government’s economy ax lopped off some more administrative jobs today, and then took a big whack into the army. A ministerial council, meeting at the Elysee Palace with plenary pow ers, decided to reduce the number of Army officers by 2,700, to cut the num ber of cadres (skeleton regiments) from 35,000 to 28,800, the 1914 figure, and immediately to reduce the cavalry ranks by 7,000 horses and ultimately by 10,000, not counting the 2,000 gendarm mounts. Conscription Terms Cut. Other military economies decided upon include a gradual return to the conseription of youths only upon their reaching the age of 21, and reduction of the service period in 1927 to 12 in- stead of 18 months, thus cutting thé number of men under the colors. The minister of the interior sub- FRANCE CUTS ARMY STRENGTH: MOVE AROUSES INTEREST HERE Going on 1914 Basis. erms Shortened. Other Economies Planned. mitted for President Doumergue's sig- nature a decree suppressing 106 sub- | prefectures and 70 secretary generals of prefectures. Thus the government is cutting down the number of admin- |istrative officers in the same manner lin which some of the lower coutts | were suppressed when France en- tered upon her grand penitence” with the coming of the Poincare govern- | ment. Other Economies Planned. The government's ax will eventually chop off expenditures in all depart- ments, he cabinet decided to unite the purchasing offices of the army and navy and to replace hand labor by ma- |chinery as much as possible in all my camps. The minister of commerce, Andre Tardieu, proposed to reduce the num- ber of directing heads in charge of rebuilding the devastated region from seven to two, with portionate (Continued on Pag umn 7. ADMISSION BY PAIR THEY HEARD SHOTS BACKS MRS, GBSON Vestryman and Young Wom- an in Lane Night of Hall- Mills Murders. ated Press. By the Ass A SOMERVILLE. N. J., September 10.—Ralph V. Gorsline and Miss Katherine Rastall, both of New Brunswick, have admitted that they B I e T um: | were within 810/ aras fot Silie bspot Sitien &1 oo dtet 0 W lat which Rev. Edward Wheeler roee, a% Al Thiand was closing his | Hall and Mrs, Eleanor Mills were speech, waving high the Union | killed four years ago. Jnck, alled for three cheers for | Detectives who grilled Gorsline for France’s eminent leader. Tnstantly every man and woman in the hail stood and joined in the uproar of applause, which lasted several min- utes and which seemed a xpontaneous | expression of jov that the two prin cipal protagonists in the ereat war had sworn henceforth to abandon the | solution of all the peaceful ie of Nation nd seck in use of arms their difficulties mosphere of the 1 hours and Miss Rastall for rly as long, today arinounced they 21 had confessed hearing the shots, voices and a_ woman’s screams. Through their confessions the te is expected to secure important corrohoration of the testimony of Mrs. Jane Gibson, woman pig raiser, as 1o what she saw on the night of the murder. World Has Enough of W: “puit Rriand Both he ted that solution, that. by by realizi enouzh o be found Foreizn R will move moun; affirmed during his and Dr. Stresemann admit- | many problems still awaited ! but” voiced the conviction | the e of good will and t the world has had war, solutions could alwa ains addre! nister Stresemann, in his address be the League assembly, declared it was an event of historical | fmportance that his country and those that allied inst her in the World | War should be brought together | within the lLe 1e for permament, pa- eific co-ope This in e ion ated, he believed that the e a new tical developments eat mater 1 ion to the po nkind. One of n 1 ne Different Stories Told. The tyo have told three different stories, debtectives said, and are to be questioned further in an effort to veconcile their varying accounts ‘of what happened on the night of the murder, and to make sure that their test account of their activities will nd up. rsline and Miss Rastall at first dhered to their story of four years go—that he had accompanied N Rastall to her home after a motion picture show. From Miss Rastall was secured the admission that they had been at the entrance of De R s lane, which bor the Phillips’ farm, where the murders too plage. Confronted with this, Gorsline admitted, according to ectives, that they heard shots and reams. Another Version Given. was the restoration of the traditional| After the guestioning had continued exchange of zood W en conti- | for lonz hours, police nents by bridgin s which | was again changed by the gepurated the different national eco- | that they had been within 300 yards nomic svstems more im-|of the spot at which the murderers portant 1han was the | were at work. soul of the Conflicts A He porteaved the Ge as believing that it ceuld not he the purpose of the divine world order that men should direct their supreme Deplored. national energies inst one another, de | thus ever thrusti “k the general | on Wednesday night, Gorsline said |who accompanied him aboard the prog civil that as he w coming out the Y. M. | Boulogne fishing boat Maurice had an | T will serve - hest who | C- A. at about 11 pm., he met Miss |anxious quarter of an hour when develops his m intellectual | Rastall coming out of a theater | they lost sizht of him in midchannel RIfts to the hig nee. thus | He offered to take her home. They | during the hours of darknes overstepping his owr tional boun. | drove around town to Derussey’s lane, | It developed that Michel had sud- daries and Uhe Whole of man. | Where, Gorsline said, he backed his | denly decided to take off the white Tind Strtesman siid | car to turn around. A small car came | helmet which he wore when he st * ldeals of nationality hu. | out of the lane as he wag turning. lnd in_order to make, himselt more anity may rtellec i Sl conspicuous in the water. After muc sl b e Vi \.‘ tua Heard Shots and Scréam. | Shouting, the' convoying party fnaily piration, provided t el Tt was then that they heard the shots | located him. In his fi ement admitting that {he had be the scene of the told of hearirg four which t into a wail, a gasp. The from the Phillij In this statement, w seened 1o farm, he stated. me and the woman's scream NOIE ehtiis pnon Hiopress and to de- | EnriseiRistall mndihe diacussed what ton which. throush. the Lenene ag | they had heard on the following Sun- Nations, will Skt olntiame T Lduy after the bodies had been found, (ieminn Heo e i IS e | ¥ averred. and agreed to say nothing will i v follow the | . In the second statement, made dur- > vt Do) e | ing last night, Gorsline is reported to / ites hy i .plied when questioned as 1o ha Teons s story: hecomi P i T know her statements regard e in ddeeply 1ot ing the mumbling voices, the shots people he Sjerman | fired, the screams and the moaning are o . 1 © | true i ] 2 W that the | Lofhey coincide with what 1 heard e g o pelishorare whisle- {on the mikii of Septeniber (4 BN AEElE sline, a vestryman in the K After insisting that general dis. | copal Church of St John the Evan armament 1ld he advanc zelist, of which Dr. Hall was rector, = wugh the les {x tumored to have told Henry Ste. | < complete disar vens, brother of Mrs. Frances Stevens ny was enforced under the | Hall, widow of the slain clergyman. les treat Stresemann de. | of the alleged intimacy between Dr lared the < the Leir and | Hall and Mrs. Mills, his choir singer sxecutor of the < of 1019 | in another statement ( Many diver ies had srisen he. | placed the time he and Miss Rasta v the league from | reached the lane as about 10:15 p.m. t he hoped th | He parked his car and might have wonld be rendered { put_out the lights, he said German eo-operation in |7 Miss Rastall in her stafement sadd { she had kept silent four vears be of the league|cause she knew Mr. Gorsline was tion i e | married. “We didn't avant to get Which fammed | mixed up in it,” she added Reforma ates w other on The husy ke Ge shaking gates right up to the time that Presi- | dent Ninchitch called the body to Qrds: Germans Enter Solemnly. | | The proceedings were ‘opened by | Benor Aguero of ( reporting the aredentials of the ( an delegates n order. Consequently they were duly | admitted to members The Ge: mans, headed by Dr. Stresemann molemnly walked into their seats amid | the applause of a1l the other delegates. | many of whom were standing. Cam- eras clicked furtously for a minute, and then M. Ninchitch began his ad dress of welcome, which was heartily applauded Ha said the entrance of German marked a new stage in the univer ality of tha league and it happy augury for a pacific future for Contniued-on Pags 4 Column 2 Vestryman in Chureh, COL. BROOKHART ILL. Speaking Engagements Cancelled on Advice of Physician. CLERMONT. lowa (®.Col. Smith W. Brookhart. Re. publican senatorial nominee, became ill here vesterday. On the advice of cian he September 10 The been diagnosed as allme gall trouble. Rich Wife Slayer Gets Life. McCOOK. Nebr.. September Burt M. Davis, former Beaver City grocer and wealthy stockman, was found guilty of first-degree murder in connection with the death of his first v’ Blanche, by a district court jury today. His punishment was fixed aL life imprisenment, r % h was made | "0 .| Farmer Removes Schoolhouse to Home After Row By the Associated Press, PUEBLO, Colo., September 10. The dream of every American schoolboy—that on the first day of school he would journey with lagging feet toward “imprison- ment” enly to find the schoolhous gone—has been fulfilled for a dozen puplls at Siloam School, 30 miles south of here. The schoolhouse hadn’t burned. It had vanished. After an hour of searching a conscientious teacher * found it on the farm of A. J. Price with the following sign attache “Private property—no trespassing. Price moved the building because® of some controversy within the ranks of the school board, of which he is 2 membe MICHEL BREAKS CHANNEL RECORD Frenchman Clips Hour and 38 Minutes From Mark in 11-Hour Dash. By the Associated Press. DEAL, England, September 10.— The English Channel swimming record fell today for the third time this season. Georges Michel, baker, making his landed at St. Margaret's Bay at o'clock this morning from Cape Gri Nez, France, where he entered the water at o'clock last night. His record of 11 hours 5 minutes is 1 hour 38 minutes better than that 36-yvear-old Paris tenth attempt, 7:31 established on August 30 Ernst Vierkoetter of Germany, who, sin- gularly, is also a baker. Gertrude Kderle, American star and the first woman to swim the Channel, was the season’'s first record-breaker, with 14 hours 31 minutes. ch of Cramp. Michel this afternoon felt none the Feels To {cept a few pieces of sugar and some coffee and cogn 11is manager, M. ilot, and friends About_150 English people gave the | plucky Frenchman a warm welcome | when™ he landed. One English girl | swam_out some distance and accom- { panied him ashore. Swimming conditions were certain- Iy good,” Michel said, as he vigorous- |1y attacked an English breakfast | bacon and eggs. “When 1 left G 2 there was hardly any wind, and (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) 'YOUTH SHOT DEAD PROTECTING GIRLS Masked Pair Attack Companions of Slain Autoist and Escape .in Car. By the Associated Press | CHESTER. Pa. September 10.—In- | tensive search was being made {day for two masked men who shot |and killed 19-year-old Walter Harden of Chester when he attempted to to- shield two girl companions on lonely road near Bridgewater last nigk he shooting occurred, the police were told, when two m ked negros drew up in a touring car heside the 'automobile in which the girls, Har- en and William Hamilton, another | Chester vouth, were sitting. nesroes ordered the girls to alight. {When Harden attempted to re: % canceild campaign | the men he was shot twice through | gether with K |the chest and killed instantly. | Hamilton escaped from the negroes and fled to a farm house, from which |hie_telephoned the police. | The girls. Anna Klemsey, 17, and Florence Scott. 14, both of Chester, were dragged from the automobile by the negroes and attacked. they declared. Both were in hands of physicians today. After the attack the negroes fled in_an automobile. Radio Programs—Page 28 The | MILLER DELIVERED §7,000000 CHECKS, MERTON DECLARES Star Witness in Daugherty Case Says Money Was Paid at Champagne Dinner. AGREED ON TERMS OF FEE Latter Was to Get Percentage and Cash—Payment Was German's Own Suggestion, He Asserts. By the Ascociated Press. NEW YORK, September 10.—Rich- ard Merton, German metal magns testified today that it was he who gested paying the late John T. King “something” for his aid in obtaining the return to allegedly German own; of $7,000,000 realized from the sale of American Metals Co. stock during the war. Merton is the Government's star wit- ness in the trial of Harry M. Daugh erty, former Attorney General, and Thomas W. Miller, former alien prop- erty custodian, for conspiracy to de- FOR THE ECHO. frayd the United States in the transfer of the $7,000,000. John T. King, who died soon after the first indictment in the case was returned, is alleged by the Government to have “pulled the strings” in the deal. Agreed on Fee. Merton said that under the terms of an agreement he finally reached with King. in July. 1921, he agreed to pay the latter 5 per cent of the amount | of assets recovered, provided the tran- saction was completed before August If the transaction was not completed before August 15, Merton ! sald, he was to pay King 215 per cent of the amount recovered. 1In addition, testified, he agreed to pay King 1 $50,000 in cash, and shortly thereafter | gave King a check for that amount, drawn on the Chase National Bank. sald he had not seen the TWOONU.S. BOAT IN CHINA WOUNDED Soldiers Shot Whén Destroy- er Is Attacked by Cantonese, Dispatch Says. the Associated Press HANGHAL, September 10.—A tele- gram received here from Hankow savs the American torpedo boat de- stroyers Stewart and Pope, which ar- rived at Hankow last Friday, en- countered rifle and machine gun fire 50 miles down the Yangize River. The dispatch adds that two soldiers on the American boat were wounded. Another report received from Hankow says every foreign stearaer entering or leaving port is made the target for the bullets of the Cantonese soldiers. Several Japanese and Brit- ish ships are declared to have been badly riddled. Foreiguers Reported Safe. TReports from Hankow dated the Sth say that the city of Wuchang is still nceled check, but he knew that it ashed. id he obtained the sei e d been Merton ices of King because he thought it/ would be less expensive than hiring a lawyer. King was once Republi can national committeeman from Con- necticut and one of the most influen- tial men in the Republican party. Money Paid at Dinner. Telling of the actual transfer of the $7.000,000, Merton testified that at a champagne dinner in a private room at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in this city, Miller handed him two chec! total- ling about $7,000,000. He could not! fix the date of the dinner. 'The Gov- ernment alleged it took place on Sep- tember 30, 1921. King, the late Jesse W. Smith and Miller attended the champagne din-|held by the northern troops and that Iner, Merton testified. He gave each foreigners within the walls are safe. [of his three guests a gold cigarette|The Southern commander, however, !cnse as souvenirs, the witness said. |threatens a general bombardment of | Two bottles of champagne were con-|the place unless his northern antag | sumed, he asserted. onists surrender unconditionally. Clearing up, apparently, the ques- tion of what has happened to Marshal Wu Pei-fu, commander in charge of the norther narmies on the Yan all reports concur that he departed for the north on the night of the 6th nd is believed-to he now at Siaokan, miles north of Sankow. American officials still disclaim any kuowledge of the reported participa- tions of American warcraft in the en- gagement on the Yangtze last Mon- day. Merton said Miller had come from Washington personally to deliver the checks, because he (Merton), had made it clear he was in a hurry to re- turn to Germany Asked to explain the disappearance of the $50,000 check which he said he gave to King, the witness said its disappearance may be explained by a custom he had at that time, of return- ing canceled checks to the men in whose favor they were drawn. 5 Recounts Incidents at Dinner. United States District Attorney ’"rlmll Reported Shot. worse for his exertions, except for a! Buckner asked Merton fo tell shat| A report from Wanhsien says that remaining touch of eramp. DUring | happened at the champagne dinner. | Lieut. C. F. Ridge of the British gun- much of the swim he suffered from | ““\yell,” he said, “Mr. King came | boat Cockchafer was shot down while seasickness, and he was unable t0|about 7 o'clock that night and brought | returning to his ship after a futile take any food while in the water, ex- | two hottles of champagne, .| effort to negotiate with Gen. Yang Miller and M Sen, an adherent of Wu Pei-fu, hefore {later Mr. . Smith came ! together, Mr. Miller gave me two | the battle between Chinese land forces checks: together they came to about ish war vessels. $7.000,000 in round numbers. They authoritatively reported that | were made out to the Swiss Bank. I | thanked Mr. Miller. He had been very | Kind to me, and I put the checks and | the receipts in my pocket and we sat Idown to dinner. When shown the checks, which re vealed that they had been made pay able to the Societe Sulsse Pour Va- leurs de Metaux, Merton admitted that his memory had been faulty on that pont; Relating what happened after the dinner, the witness said: “T told Mr. King that T would not | i feel comfortable walking around with | | $7.000.000 worth of checks in my ! pocket and asked him to go to the| bank with me the next morning. Ile | ame the next morning in a taxicab | and we went the National City | Bank together. Checks Were Deposited. | ” - A The ehecks were deposited and The |\ qnr. -eipts turned in, the witness said. | 200 “Was there soniething about bonds all foreigners are evacuating Chung- several hundred miles west of ‘to the Belgian mission here “Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) 'NICARAGUAN REBELS Chamorro Forces Met Debacle in Zapatas Valley, Says Bulletin of Revolutionists. to | :Yi» tha Associated Press. | SALVADOR, Republic of Sal- September 10, A news bulle- sued here in behalf of the N that that transpired that day?” asked Mr, uan revolutionaries asserts Ruckne: i Chamorro government fores have | “Yes'' answered the witness, “I| “met with a debacle” in the Zapatas | had left word with the bank that!valley. | the bonds were to be sent to Goldman, | Gen. Moncada, revolutionary com Sachs & Co. mander in the Atlantic coast region, uckner brought out the fact that pis decided not to attack Kl Bluff, | Merton had arvanged with the Na-\ which has heen made a neutral zone | tional City Bank for this disposition ! by (he ' American marines. The i of ::‘x n]n m\lm;\- llwlr‘:xd\.. I :; of the yehels claim they still hold the heights assets glaimed by Socie lisse | op Mombacho, dominating Bluefields. ‘auv! which had been held by the alien | e A ’."d el |prrv)\n” custodian. Goldman, Sachs | & Co.is a brokerage firm in Pine| BRITISH BUTLER CLAIMS .« | street. | i Talked With Miller. : HEIRSHIP IN $35,000,000 Merton told of his trip to Washing- |ton, where he discussed with Miller' Albert Bertie. Employed in San his ‘proposal for the return of the $7.-| 000,000 to the alien claimants, whom! Francisco, Declares He Shares | Merton represented as agent The s Imove for return of the money was in Argyll Estate. | made on behalf of the Societe € By the Associated Press Pour Valeusa de Metaux, a suh i | SAN FRANCISCO, September 10. of the Merton interests, organized in .\V\)mn : l’zm-up. l.mm!‘ hP‘xt-.‘ told Swit nd in 1910 as a holding com-| . \spapers today he had received | pany for the interests of the German | notification that he was one of the | heirs to a $35,000,000 English estate left by the late Duke of Argyll. | According to the servant's story, ® |his father, the late John Brodie sechde 4YS | Bertie, once a wealthy manufacturer ashington. | of steam turbines, was the first | family. | "On the witness stand Wednesday | Merton had told of meeting Miller, tq and the late Jes | W. Smith, in New York several d {before he saw Miller in W 7 ; ';;'nmv \‘:n‘)':”\! I~' “\"\:}1' "v:"\]""r:fl“m:’ claimant to the estate, but allowed his Soul e Mr. Miller when you{ o 3 [ Aot et him in New Yorko: naned|claim to lapse. The elder Bertle later i s kP lost his fortune, and his sons, Albert | United States District Attorney Buck-iand Norman Bertie, were without | ner, who persona handling the| e Government's case in the trial. jfoiy 0 Diap o e SGENG HN is -~ estate left by the Duke. “I'm afraid that I can’t recollect v remember his telling me he had been| gqt; v : | estate voluntarily, Bertie say: only shortly in office and did not know | piana to leava far s At L much about_those thinzs. but would manths to be necsear et thy. distes BANDITS ROB TRAIN AND ESCAPE WITH $150.000 TO $500.000 IN AUTO Three Bind dlerks,.Leap From Moving Car With Mail Pouches, and Flee Into Heart of Chicago. rolls in Harvey, Iil, a large manu- facturing suburb. Besides knowing where to obtain By the Associated Press CHICAGO, September 10.—Mail Joot estimated at from $150,000 to $500,000 Senihie <rand | the money, the men had a prear- was ed aboard eastbound h<...,‘m:: anued sianitle nut an adihe b Trunk train No. 10 today by three of | R S otrth member of the a band of four robbers who escaped at the southwestern suburb of ISver- green Park without firing a shot The robbers in the first important mail theft since the $2,000,000 train hold-up at Rondout, Ill, in 1924, ap- parently knew that a consignment of band at the wheel, in Evergreen Park. After boarding the train at the Fifty-first street station in_ Chicago the holdup men, at a favorable oppor- tunity near Chicago lawn, entered the apd mail car and held up the Mail sacks were thrown over their heads and tied and the invaders currency from the Federal Reserve|then selected two pouches, working Bank of Chicago and the First Na-|swiftly and quietly. tional Bank of Chicago was aboard. Glancing thei “(Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) 8 MILLIONAIRES RESIDE N CAPITAL Total for U. S. Is 11,000, Ex- pert Figures—One Billion- aire in Estimate. The money was intended for pay LARGE DISTILLERY RAIDED BY POLICE Nine 50-Gallon Stills Destroy- ed and Big Supply of Liquor Seized. A peach brandy distillery in the : heart of Washineton's upper business Y YORK, September 10.—There district was raided today by Capt.|are 11,000 millionaires and probably Burlingame of the second precinct, [ one billionaire in the United States, in who seized nine 50-gallon stills, some | the opinion of Joseph S. McCoy, 300 gallons of brandy testing 138 [ Treasury actuagy. proof,and approximately 2.000 gallons The billionaire probably lives in of mash, on the second floor of 615 [ New York,” Mr. McCoy guesses in New York avenue. lhe proprietor of the plant was ab- sent when the raiders arrived. The plant was elaborately s More than 50 large barrels of mash re awaiting the “cooking® proce: the current American Bankers' Asso- ciation Journal. ine years ago, when war profits held sway, there were 11,800 million- aires, but 2,800 of these toppled in The stills were hooked up in series | 1920 and 2,000 of them have been re- of three, each group using one large | placed, studies of income tax returns condensing tub for cooling the coils. | yeveal. Some of the war millionaires Discovery of the distillery w: made when Policeman Lester Parks, who had been trying for some t even wiped off the income tax sts by the end of the 1920 depression, to locate a reported rum-manufac- | Put one out of every 10,450 t on his beat, became |Amer a millionaire. this morning when an | Now with 2,800 millionaires e truck loaded with jars |leads the list. , Pennsylvania is next 52, with 1,052, then Illinois follow: 300, Massachusetts with 610, 470, and New Jersey, 300, with | lifor- North backed neath the rooms in wh into a blacksmith shop be- h the plant tarted for the was found. As Parks truck, the driver jumped out, ran |Dakota is the only State without a thro h a hole in the rear fence and | Millionaire, :mr{ Idaho, Nevada, South into the next door vard. Parks fol- | Dakota and New Mexico have one each. Other States are: Arizona, Arl 44; Connecticut, lowed. The man'disauppeared through a front doorway, but when Parks stopped to consider, a whiff of the mash came circling downstairs to his nostrils, and he went upstalrs to walk into the distillery. The mash was made 180; District. of Columbia, Georgl Tow . 42; Hawali, 30: Indfana, 85 Kans 17; Kentucky, 3 useless by pouring kerosene into it. The liquor Maine. 30; Maryland, was turned over to the prohibition Minnesota, 110; iri, 174; Mon! d. unit, and the stills were destr and the stills were destroy New Hampshire, Ohio, 361; Okla- Rhode Island rennessea, 29 California Girl Net Victor. orth Carolina, 63 homa, 33; Ore £3; South Carolina, PHILADELPHIA. September 10 | Texas, 96: Utah, 6: Varmont T (P).—Miss Louise MclFarland ai- | ginia, ‘ashington, 24; West Vir. dena, Calif. is the new girl ginia, Wisconsin, and Wyo- tional lawn tennis champion ming, 2. she defeated Miss Clara L. Zinke,| Next d the billionaire are thres men Cincinnati, 6 —6. 8—6, in the |worth $1,000,000,000 between them final_round of the championship at|and in 1924 there were 74 Americans the Philadelphia Cricket Club. with incomes of $1,000,000 a year. Clothing In Flames, Youth Fights Off Rescuers In Mad Dash Through Streets His gasoline-saturated clothing | nesses, was carrying a 5-zallon can ignited from head to foot, 18-year-old | of gas when some one tossed a match Daniel Nixon, colored, 704 Second street, dashed across Pennsylvania avenue this morning fighting off on lookers who sought to extinguish the flames by wrapping him in blankets. Screaming in pain, the vouth sped up the steps of the Asia Restaurant, 1220 Pennsylvania avenue, lunged wildly about the Kitchen and then raced back to the pavement, where he was submerged in the icebox of an orange heverage establishment at of him. The light fell in a pool of gas which had been spilled on the street and ignited his clothing. him and the flames shot up several feet, spreading to an automobile listed as belonging to Oswald Bartram, 1730 Sixteenth street. A hurry call was made to the Fire Depariment and the engines put out the automobile hiaze. The car was virtually destroyed. 1223 Pennsylvania avenue by Henri| J. W. Langford, 722 Rock Creek Papineau and the flames ex-|Church road, an evewitness, said tinguished. Nixon had just filled his car and when Physiclans at Emergency Hospital, | his clothing caught fire he tried to where Nixon was taken hy the fire rescue squad, sa¥ that his body is two-thirds geared by the flames and he_is expected to die. catch the youth and wrap a cogt about him, but on eluded him Mrs. S. Rensch, 621 L street north- east, who was in charge of the kitchen or cigarette on the pavement in front | that the greater part of his life He | States, and, necess immediately threw the gas can from | something of a study INTEGRITY OF MALL IS BELIEVED POLLCY PRESIDENT FAVORS Sites for New Government Buildings Reported Dis- cussed With Hoover. EXECUTIVE NOT MAKING DIRECT MOVE AS YET Return to Capital by September 18 Planned—Honor Paid to Maj. Brooks. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG Staft Correspondent of The Star. WHITE PINE CAMP, N. Y., Sep. tember 10.—Although President Cool- idge is understood to have not given any serious thought to the question of selecting sites for the Federal buildings to e erected in Washing- ton under the terms of the r®w public building program, those about him are inclined to think that he would fdvor preserving the integrity of the Mall from encroachment of public buildings. The President is naturally anxlous that the handsome new buildings to be erected be given s that ¢ prac- tical and advan but up to the present he has left everything related to the location and to construction of buildings these the law. It is thought. howev develops that those charged with this task and those who are charged with planning the ety and its s and the arts commission find themselves in a dilemma as to the site of one or more of these proposed buildings, or if the question of the future treatment of the Mall develops into a-matter of dispute, President Coolidze will b ready to give his advice. Question of Market Site. As for the proposal to move the Center Market with its wholesale and retall branches from their present lo cation to some other practical point, it is doubtful if the matter has ever been considered by the President. Being of a most practical turn of mind himself, and at the same time being an advocate of beauty in con- nection with city development, the President’s intimates, while not wish- ing to appear in the light of speaking for him, think he would favor the re- moval of the market, and if he was more thoroughly advised of every phase incident to matter of a site for the Department of Commerce, they would not be surprised if he approved the plan to erect this building on the market_site. Secretary of Commerce Hoover, who is known to heartily approve this plan for the new $10,000,000 home for his department, was recent! a guest at White Pine Camp. It was said at the time that he and the President con- ferred regarding any number of mat- ters important and otherwise, and it is not unlikely that the question of a location for this handsome new build- ing came up for discussion, if for only a brief period and in only «n indefinite way. President Supports Planning. Aside from a vef earnest desire to see the Capital of the United States developed along lines t its future beauty and p the President has contr siderably to make this possi He always has stood ready (o express frankly his opinfon upon matters bearing directly upon the physical treatment of the city or its parks. Moreover, the President consistently urged upon Congress the apyropria- tion of a sum sufficlent in size to effect a public bufldinz program in Washington, principally as @ means of furnishing adequat tions for the tion's b h of his messages to Cor recommended such a groz, to make this possible he general public buildi 1l such as was enacted into lnw at the last ses. sidn and under which the new depart- mental buildings are to be erecte the Capital The President first these newer and lar house the Government's the Capital were sorely need licve the overcrowded conditions the department buildings pointed out that the buildi be of an archifectural design to make He wants 0 make insisted buildir them serve as monuments. them f a quality and beau ible for them tg rank with the somest of the Government build- ings in the various capitals of the world. It is thought doubtful if the 1 dent has more than a cusual ide: just what the future treatment of the Mall should Le. But, at the same tims Neither has he more than a ague idea of what the Public Buildings Commission is doing in the matter of selecting sites for the buildings to be erected under this building program, but it is thought he shortly will be making some inquiry. Constant Interest in Capital. From the earliest days of his presi- dency Mr. Coolidge has manifested more than an ordimary interest in the development of Washington. 1t is the opinfon of many, who are in a posi- tion to know, that his interest in this connection has been probably more genuine and more onoune than that of any of his predecessors of re cent vears. This is explained by re son of the President having served as mayor and councilman in North- ampton, Mass., and later as a legisla- tor and governor. It is pointed out been prominently identified with gov- erning and developing cities and ily, he has made t this subject and, as might be expected of one of the type of President Coolidge, he has some fairly good ideas in this respect If it develops t lection of a site for the new Department of Commerce Bullding results in a wide difference of opinfon among those who must do the selecting and those who are charged with beautyfy Capital and its parks, it is likely by the President’s associates that he may have something to say, especially so, if a_real issue grows out of the question of the future physical treatment of the Mall. The executive branch of the Gov- Nixon, who is a gasoline attendant fat the Asia Restaurant, said she also at the establishment of the Mount |tried to render first aid, but the youth " (Continued on V'age lumn ) bution of the estate. Vernon Auto Supply Co., renn- simply dashed around the kitchen, sylvania avenue, according to eyewit- ' screaming in pain. ernment, so far as the President's offices at Paul Smiths and in Washe ingt are concerned, will be at & (Continued on Page 2, Column 7J v