Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1926, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Burean Foreeast.) Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow: slightly warmer tomorrow. Temperature—Highest, *81, at. 3:30 pm. yesterday: lowest, 64, at § a.m. to- ay. Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 14 e WITH SUNDAY MORNI i = NG EDITION “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes Sta 4 as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 96,059 Entered post office, ECONOMIC ACCORD REACHED BY BRIAND WITH STRESEMANN German Spokesman Inti- mates Desire to End Occu- pation Is Vital Factor. s xec W No. 30,090. 1 CABINETS MUST RATIFY MINISTERS" PROPOSALS Solution of All Outstanding Issues Possible, Declares French Statesman on Return. By the Associated Pras GENEVA. Switzerland, September 15, -That the Franco-German accord planned hy Foreign Ministers Briand and Stresemann will be fundamentally of an economic nature was confirmed today to the Associated Press by a German spokesman Both France and Germany, he said desire to transform the existing sve tem of pledges growing out of the treaty of Versailles into a friendly partnership whereby they would com bine their interests The spokesman added that con- tinued occupation of German soil by French troops could only prove a con- tinued source of friction. and that the Germans have the same consuming desire tn get the French troops out of Germany as the French had to get the Germans out of their territory after the War of 1570, League Hopes Run High. The accord, which must be placed | before the respective governments for | acceptance, s considered in League of Nations circles as meaning much | for the political and especially the | economic development of Europe. It was reached yesterday by Briand and Stresemann during: a private Juncheon on the slope of the Jura Mountains at Tholry. just across the Ewies border in France. The lunch eon was one of the “getting down to brass tacks” conferences the two statesmen have been holding recently Although little officially is known in detail of the questions discussed, the belief prevails that gradual duction of the French forces of ocen patton in Germany and a pooling of economic and financial in terests, hased on the theory that what Europe most needs is economic pros- | peritt, were among them. I n dehts to the U'nited States are said | tn have been among the matters dis. cussed. Examined All Problems. An official communication 1 the foreign ministers said th i examined all problems 'susceptible of | interest to the two countries and.that | they sought the best common means | of solving such questions in the in-! terest of France and Germany and in the spirfi of the treaties already sign- ed hy them." M. Briand considered as a good omen | nference he- i | | possible | the fact that when the gan the clouds left the summit of | Mont Rlanc “White was its summit.” said the| French siatesman, “‘vet no whiter nor | purer than our inmost souls.” Foresees Friction Removed., He added that if the French and German governments aceept the view. | points of himself and Dr .\'n'o:nnanl\: of all the desired end—the removal possible causes of friction between France and Germany-—would be] achieved One of the questions reported to| have heen discussed was the “com-| mexcialization of the debt.” Tt is pre- | sumed this had to do with the p posed sale on the open market of Ger man railroad honds pledged to secure payment of reparations ance s known to desire to realize as early as | possible on her share of the bonds. Heretofore Germany has appeared lit e disposed to any change in the hond agreement which would alter *he debt | from a political to a commerefal obli gation. GERMAN HOPES RI Delezation Sees Ripening of Fruits | of Locarno Treaties. RERLIN, September 18 (). The Geneva correspondent of the Waolff hureau. the semi-nfficial news agency Interpreting the statements issued by | Foreign Ministers Briand and Strese mann after their conference. ex- presses the opinion that emphasis | must be laid on thelr assertions that a geneial solution of all out nding | problems was arrived at. Dr. Strese mann. the correspondent ohserves, alwavs has maintained that the goal rould not he reached by solving the | problems fndividually, but only by Jolving th in their entirety. The #spondent of Vorwaerts at | Feneva helieves that hoth statesmen pndeavored to bring the sitnation in rv)-rqm into consonance with the LOCArNn agreements. A. Briand, he #latms, Is determined shortly fo’ lib '_ma the Saar region and remove the thineland aceupational troop: He maintains that not only Dr. trese. mann. but the entire German delega tian in Geneva are convinced that the fruits of Lecarno are heginning to ripen. He adds that it is Ger. many's duty in return to help France economically and financially. LY SATISFIED. BRIAND FUL Qomplete Understanding With Ger- many Declared Possible. PARIS ptember 18 (#). - Return. ing from Geneva this morning, For. efen Minister Briand said: “1 am fully satisfied with evervthing that went on in Geneva. 1 see the possibility of finally coming to a ecomriote under standing with Germanv.’ He refused to gn into detalls, saving he must first report to the cabinst which meets next Tuesdav, but he thought that within a few davs there. | after he could specify some of the| points he discussed with Foreign Min. | fster Stresemann of Germany at their | luncheon yesterday M. Briand criticized part of the French press, which he charged with meeking to bring about a division in the cabinet on foreign affairs with a view to gaining a point in dnmesur‘ politics. | “] am now a man of peace.” he said. *I was head of the government at a | time during the war when it was im- possible to think of peace Now. how ever, no one ought to think pf ,any- | thing else. D “] am trying to find a mlg_gin: re- , “(Continued on Page 2, Column 7J | ment | ing |need for hurry. nd class matter shington, D. C. Former Commander Tells Fonck Flight Must Be Attempted BS the Associated Press. PARIS. September 18.—Com- mandant Weis, former commander of the squadron in which Rene Fonck served, sent a message to the French flver in New York to- day declaring that his take-off on the transatlantic flight was “ab- solutely necessar: even if he landed in the ocean. This was not a military order, but the commander’s counsel as a friend who believes, with other French aviators, that the honor of France in sportsmanship is bound up in the Fonck flight, Passengers arriving at Havre to- day on the liner Paris said they spent much time watching the skies in hopes of sighting the MINE STRIE G5 SRTAIN 2 BLLIONS Gnawing at Vitals of Empire as New Peace Plan Seems Doomed to Fail. BY JOHN GUNTHER. Br Cable to The Star and Chicago Dails News. LONDON, September 18 —To date the British coal strike has cost the country exactly 433.000,000 pounds sterling ($2,104,380.000), the mos staggering sum ever debited to an Industrial dispute in modern history. | A new phase of peace negotiations is developing this week end. Prime Minister Baldwin has returned from his vacation at Aix Les Bains to find that Chancellor of the Exchequer Churchill's desperate effort to settle the s personal prestige has failed on ac- count of the ohduracy of the mine owners, who flatly refused to par- ticipate In a three-party conference With serlous riots reported in one district. with eold weather bezinning to hover over G general feeling growing that the strike has begun to gnaw at the fundamental vitality of the British empire—in a word. with a crisis hand as important as, if less dra matic than, the general strike—Ar. Baldwin has begun work. Peace Plan Something New. prime minister’s plan, as sroached at yesterday's cabinet coun- cil. is being considered today by all parties concerned. It s something new. Mr. Baldwin admits that it evidently is not within the power of to bring about a | conference, and states as a veiled threat “that legislation will be intro- duced if the miners still are unwill- ing to face economic facts.” Mr. Baldwin's' communication to | the miners' representatives includes the following proposals: 1. A national arbitration tribunal will be set up by an act of Parlia- for consideration of disputes, provided first there is a general re. sumption of work. Either party to amy provisional settlement for working more than seven hours a day may refer to the tribunal any matter of the kind which, until July, 1825, was consid ered on a national basis. 3. The tribunal shall confirm or modify any such settlement. and the men shall be entitled by law to re ceive excess wages in accordance with its decisions. Plays Into Owners’ Hands. Thus Mr. Baldwin's plan differs from any previous propogal in agree- that a national tribunal should established. On the other hand. by insistence that the miners must first come hack to work on the basis of a_district_settlement. it plavs into the hands of the owners and. there- fore. may he rejected as peremptorily by the miners as any proposal to he (Continued on Page 2, Column 6)) SPAIN RELINQUISHES CLAIM TO TANGIER Notes to Britain and France Drop Demand for Inclusion of Area in Moroccan Zone. By the Associated Precs LONDON, September 18, The Span ish government in a note presented <imultaneously in Londen and Paris relinquishes its demand for the inclu <ion of Tangier in the Spanish zone of Morocea The note proposes with Great Britain and France to dis cuss the admission of Ttaly by revision of the statute (the pact of Algeciras) under which Tangier is internationally governed . The British government is inclined to take A more or less detached atti- tude on Spain’s proposal, being quite satisfied for the present with the status quo and especially anxious to avold openinz the Tangier question with the British imperial conference In_sight The view here is that there-is no and it is preferred that informal conversations first be held between France and Spain. as the powers most closely concerned, rike and thus gain tremendous | at Britain, with the | conversations | WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, TWO STATES FIGHT SURGING RIVERS T0 SAVE GRAIN CROPS lowa and lliinois Patrols on Guard for New Breaks in Embankments. ONE GIRL IS DROWNED IN COLLAPSE OF BRIDGE Hope for Cessation of Torrential Rains to Ease Pressure on Sandbag Walls. Br tha Associated Press. CHICAGO. September 18.—The Mid- dle West mounted guard today over its grain field treasury. further men aced by floods, swollen with new rain. Along the surging course of the Skunk River through southeastern lowa bundles of green corn stalks were pressed Into service at places on the levees, sacrificed to save higher fields of the bumper crop as yet un- touched by the waters Patrols manned the embankments, where the corn was weighted down with sandbags, on the lookout for first signs of such a .gap through which water flowed to submerge 6,000 acres south of Burlington, three to four| feet deep. ‘ Beardstown Still Menaced. | Across the Illinois line, men who | have labored ceaselessly since Wednesday, patrolled a thin wall of | sandbags standinz between Beards- town and the Illinois River, swelled by torrents from the tributary Sangamon. | Much of the cify of 7.000 is under water and workers said a break in the | dike probably would make futile ef- | forts to restrain the siream. ! Residents of both the Skunk and Illinois Vallsys scanned clearing skies. however, and it was thought that the streams, having carried off much of a | record-breaking September rainfali. | | had passed crest stage i Northwestern lTowa bhore the brunt of the latest deluge in the Midwest, | {the length and breadth of which has/ |been swept four times iwithin two | weeks by torrential rains, | Young Girl Drowned. | | ! The most recent flood fatality was | reported from Hull, after a storm over the section late yesterday. An 11- vear-old girl in a zroup of homeward- | bound school children was washed laway with a small bridge. Her com- | panions were rescued by an unidenti fled man. Hawarden was swept by flood wa ters when the rainstorm swelled Dry Creek to overflowing. Occupants of homes along the stream were rescued __The business section was . Column 5. RIVIERA PREPARES FOR POSSILE COUP Tension Between Fascists| and Opponents in France | Near Breaking Point. By the Associated Press | NICE, France, September 18.—Al-| | though investigation shows that there has been no massing of French troops | along the Franco-Italian border fol- lowing the recent anti-French demon- stration in Italian towns, there is ten- | sion hetween Fascist and anti-Fascist forces along the Riviera. Border French towns are not oc- | cupied except by the regular garri sons, but Villefranche and Mentone officials are sald to have received ! orders to prepare for eventualities. The garrisons have been closed to outsiders. i The local tension became apparent vesterday, when a young Italian who recently fought a duel with a Fascist | disappeared. The directors of the| newspaper by which the young man was employed said he had heen taken to a safe place on account of the threats made against him Leading men in the anti-Fascist movement along the Riviera admit| | that preparations have been made for a coup, and feeling is running | high hetween the Fascists and anti-| | Fascists. i Ut | CISLER LEAVING SERVICE.{ Postmaster General Accepts Mail Official's Resignation. Postmaster General New today ac-| cepted the resignation of Stephen A. | Cisler, general superintendant of the | air mall service, who will become | traffic manager for a large Chicago merchandise house. i He will be succeeded here by D. B.| Colyer, now asistant superintendent of the air mail service. Mr. Colyer's place will he taken by Alvin E. Peterson, assistant superi tendent of the contract air mail di viston. All ithese changes are effective Oc toher 1. Air | | fiussia T]Tx-rcatened ‘i’ith Exhaustion Of Machinery, By the Assoicated Press MOSCOW. Russia. September 18. Viadimir Kuvbusheff. who succeeded M. Dzerzhinsky head of the Su- ‘ouncil. warned all trusts, syndicates and other industries today -that the country’s mechanical equipment s nearing exhaustion, bringing a seri- ous threat to the national economy. Insisting that in the absence of new machinery from abroad drastic steps must be taken to conserve the present dilapidated equipment. he snid the ever-increasing cost of pro- duction. which was assuminz menac- ing proportions, must be combated with the utmost energy. “This increase in th’ L) a, preme Economic Ct the Russian cost of pro- | Counc11 Head W arns . 1 | duction,” he continued. ‘s due | largely to irrational management of | | the national economy. a fall in labor | | discipline, lack of proper organization lin the entire realm of industry and | feeble execution of the campaign of ' - \ government demands are for | | “Th far more radical lowering of the cost of production and overhead expenses than has heretofore been achieved [We must conduct an unrelenting ' struggle against laziness, indifference | !and lax management, and must raise | the qualifications of our workers and | technical staffs.'” i IRadio Programs—Page 32 ! 13 MEXICANS SLAIN | stabbed | ! reached Mexico City from the scene ‘erime was committed in an endeavor | sent by the American embassy to the * #) Means Associated Press. TWO GENTS. SEPTEMBER 18/ 1926—FORTY-TWO PAGES. Senator Harrison of Mississippi has referred to Vice President Dawes as the modern Don Quixote. INBANDIT PURSUIT Troops Avenging Rosenthal’s Murder Kill Three as Res- cue Is Attempted. 3y the Associateq Dress \EXICO CITY, September 15, Thirteen men have heen killed hy Mexican troops pursuing bandits who cob Rosenthal of Woondmere. | to death, holding him for ran- | som. Six of those killed were regarded by the troops as the guilty bandits; others were suspects. Three known bandits were killed when soldiers disguised as civilians went to their lair ostensibly to pay | them the $10.000 ransom which had heen demanded. Seven suspects were killed yesterday in fighting with fed- | eral troops near Huitzilac Three Others Are Shot. The three other men, who had been identified by Joseph Ruff. Mr. Rosen- thal's son-in-law, as having heen with | the bandit party which last Sunday | robhed the members of Mr. Rdsen- thal's automobile party and took him away into the mountains, were shot last night when an attempt to rescue them was made, it was announced. These three had confessed. They were being taken under military es cort from Mexico City to Huitzilac to be examined at the scene of the kid naping. A statement issued by the police says: “A party of men, presum ably their bandit friends, attempted to rescue them, and in the ensuing fight they were killed. The body of Mr. has Rosenthal of his murder, and the necessary for- malities to sending it to his home ave in progress. Meantime, Federal troops still are scouring the region where the to round up the rest of the bandits. Promise to Punish Slayers. In reply to another formal note foreign office, the emba has re. ceived assurances that the Mexican authorities have been doing and will continue to do everyvthing possible to round up and punish the murderers. All armed men in the region where Mr. Rosenthal was killed are likely to receive short shrift from the au- thorities, as a recent law forbids the carrving of firearms. While the bandits killed last night cohfessed that they were members of the gang which kidnaped Rosenthal. they said other members of the band had murdered him. A post-mortem examination revealed three knife wounds and a pistol shot through Mr. Rosenthal's forchead. OBREGON DECLARED SAFE. Report Had Been Made of His Deagh at Indians’ Hands. NOGALES, Ariz. September 18 (/). Denial that Gen. Alvaro Obregon, former President of Mexico, had been killed by rebellious Yaqui Indiafis in Sonora was forthcoming yesterday from Gen. Antonio Ancheta, stationed in Nogales, Sonora, across the inter national line here. Gen. Ancheta said he had had a telegram from the South which dispelled all rumors of Obregon death at the hands of the Yaquis. The former President is in the field in a military offensive against the tribes- men. . A digpatch to the Nogades Herald from Guaymas stated that 80 federal soldiers were killed and an unknown number wounded in a night attack #n the military outpost of Vicam by Yaqui Indians Wednesday. A few of the marauders were killed before they re- | treated, the message said. KING GEORGE LOSES' $97.200 ON HIS RACERS Stables Have Earned Less Than $4,800 This Year, London Paper Claims. By the Associated Preset LONDON. September 18.—King George's poor success on the turf is notorious, and according ta the Sketch his racing stable already has cost him 20.000 more thah it has earned. The King's winnings in 1926 are well under £1.000, and consequently, sayvs ketch, he has decided on drastic chang tablishment. # Kiflg George does not propose to abandon racing entirely, but is not disposed to continue losing every year. A | the in his New Market racing es- | FOUR IN AUTO PARTY SHOT BY FARMERS FOR THIEVES Infant Dying, Mother and Two Others Wounded When Mistaken for Melon-Patch Raiders. By the Associated Press. LOUISVILLE, Ky., September 18, T-month-old_baby is said to he dead by hospital authorities today. her mother's arm s torn by a load of buckshot and two men are suffer. ing slighter wounds as. the result of a _gun attack last night by two farm- ers who mistook an automobile party for watermelon thieves. The party stopped on a road beside the farm of Oscar and Morgan Swann when trouble with headlights devel- oped. The farmers opened fire with shotguns. One of, the char struck M B. Carey, a member of the par at the base of the brain. The bahy died later at a hospital. Rex Nich- olson and John Page suffered slight wounds, while Mrs. Page, another oc- cupant of the machine, was unhurt. The Swann brothers were arrested on a charge of malicious shooting. 21 AMERICANS HELD PRISONERS IN CHINA Face Starvation as Canton Troops Besiege Wuchang, Cutting Off Fgod. By the Associated Prass. ¥ SHANGHAI, Septemiber 18.—Twen- ty-one Americans, Weld virtually as prisoners, are threatened with starva- tion as a result of the siege of the city of Wuchang by the red Can- tonese forces. ' Failing to capture the city the Southerners have settled down to a program of starving out the inhabit- ants and the' Northern forces which have been holding it against attack. A complete blockade of the city has been effegted and every communica- tion with ¥he outside closed. Wuchang has a week’s food supply. After that the alternative to famine is surrender. Besides the 21 Ameri- cans within the walls there are five other_ foreigners of whom two are Italiahs. two Germans and one Irish. The, foreigners have been forbidden to leave and must share the fate of the Chinese. Wuchang is one of the largest citles of China. It has a population of 500,000 to 600,000 and is the capital of Hupeh province. It is located sev- eral hundred miles inland on the great Yangtze River. It is opposite another large city, Hankow, which was recently captured by the South- erners. Po: sion of these two cities would be immense value to an of army hecause of their control of the Yangtze and the trade and industrial chang is a walled city. ‘CQ;OPERAT(jRS’ I-'lOLDING VIENNA ESTATE INCREASE By Radio to The Star and Chicago Dalls News . September 18.—The “co- who seized the Oberau estate Thursday night, still are hold- ing their own, while the authorities are puzzled how to cope with the situation without bloodshed, Strong picket nosts of gendarmes have heen established to prevent new arrivals from bringing food. but despite the pickets, 180 men are reported to have joined those on the estate, swelling their number above 300, The ‘‘co-operators” are chiefly job- less “white collar” workers, who have faced the severest hardships since the war and the inflation. (Copyright. 1926, by Chicago Dails News Co.) KIDNAPED MAN RETURNS. Chicago Doctor Says Band of Three Drugged and Robbed Him. CHICAGO, September 18 UP).—Dr. Albert D. Zwick, for whom police had importance as centers. Wu ance Thursday night, was back home { today. and robbed by three men. The physician said he was drugged The newspaper adds that obviously such losses as he has suffered cannot &° on indefinitely, bile as he was driving homeward, and that he regained consciousness hours later in another neighborhood. A otshu 10th Kansas Infantry,” the | State that ml)‘be"hld done wrong.” part of a load entered her baby's head | seagthed: since his sudden disappear- | He said he had been kidnaped | after the trio leaped on his automo- | RACERS COMPETE IN FINALS TODAY Cigarette IV Rules Favorite for $5,000 Cup Donated by President. All s in the speed hoat racing world this afternoon are fixed on the Potomac River for the climaxing events in the President's Cup regatta, which opened Yesterday afternoon and for more than three hours entertained thousands of Washingtonians, who lined the East Potomac Park seawall and the Virginia side of the channel In pleasure boats, for the first major event of its kind ever held here. In the light of what is to be seen tod yesterda contests served merely to introduce some of the par- | ticipants. There was but one final |race.on the program. which was run off as the sun was sinking. The re- mainder paved the way for six hours of keen competition this afternoon. The President’s Cup, for which to he eligible boats must travel through the water at more than 45 miles an hour; the international unlimited hy- droplane race demanding a qualify- Ing speed of more than 65 miles an hour: the Secretary of the Navy Cup calling for 45 miles an hour or more, and the time trials for the world rec- ord in the mile straightaway dash stand forth as the high lights of the program. In addition to these events, the finals for the 15l.class and the Biscayne Bables will be run, topped off with the Chesapeake-Potomac ction Handicap, Junior President's Cup, and a last-minute-arranged con- test between Mrs. Willlam J. Con- nors of Buffalo and Mrs. Delphine Cromwell, daughter of the late Hor- ace E.. Dodge. Demonstrates Local Enthusiasm. Yesterday's opening showed Wash- ington two things: First, outstanding racing boats of the age, and second, the amount of Interest there is in vachting here. This last fact was demonstrated by the number of cruisers which turned out for the day. Yachts and launches of every description cruised about the river and formed a line from the upstream turn of the course just below the rail road bridge, down the 11 mile course to the down.stream turn. a short dis tance away from Hains Point: Anchored side by side. they formed a veritable bridge of boats for the entire distance and showed the thousands in Potomac Park. perhape for the first time, the extent of boat ing_enthusiasm in Washington. When the final event was over, they pulled up anchor and in stately manner paraded up and down the river to thelr berths, the majority going to the Corinthian Yacht Club, which is sponsoring the regatta. Mingled with this procession were several hoats carrying spectators from the U. S. Coast Guard Cutter Apache, the official ship of the race, abhoard which the judges' committee sat and from which (Continue FLYER MISSING | | N CHINA. TOKIO, September 18 (#).—The Polish aviator Orlinsky, flying from Tokio to Warsaw, Is reported missing in Manchuria. He took to the air at Pingyank, Korea, on September 15 and was last seen near the Yalu River, Manchuria. The Polish legation has requested aid from the Japanese military avia- tors, and it is expected searching planes will be sent from Korea. Senator McMaster Un:i;r Knife. YANKTON, 8. Dak., September 1% (®).—Senator Willlam H. McMaster was operated upon for appendicitis here today. Physicians said his con dition was favorable. Wet Leaders Pick Dry Officers From Aliens, Fish Says By the Ascociated P POUGHKEEP! N. Y. Sep tember 18.—Prohibition enforce- ment in New York is a “travesty, Representative Hamilton Fish, jr.. charged vesterday in an address before the Women's Club. Federal agents are chosen by wet district leaders of New York, he said, and 90 per cent of them are alien horn and not in sympathy with the eighteenth amendment. He advocated appointment agents under civil service VON ELM LEADING JONES, UP, AT T6TH California Sets Champion Dizzy Pace in Finals of National Amateur. 1E of By the Associated Press SHORT HILLS, N. J.. September 18 —Bobby Jones was 1 down to George fon EIm of Los Angeles at the end or the 18-hole morning round of their 36-hole final match in the na- tional amateur golf championship at Baltusrol today. Von Elm set the defending cham- plon a dizzy way over the entire route. Squaring the count at the sec- ond hole, after Jones had reeled off the first in a birdie 4, Von Elm won the fifth to become 1 up. He rounded the turn holding his advantage and Jones thereafter was unable to head him off. Brifliant approaching and putting gave Von EIm his slim advantage. His second shots on hole after hole were inside the strokes of the cham- pion, while his play on the green was flawless. New Attendance Mark Seen. Eight thousand spectators stretched out in two long lines from the first tee to the green, and officials antici- pated the gathering would be swelled by late arrivals to at least 10,000, bringing receipts for the day to a new U. 8. G. A. mark of $20,000. In the throng the mother of the defending champion, Mrs. Robert T. Jones of Atlanta, stood near the start- ing point to follow the play of her son for the first time in a national final. Mrs. orge Von Elm, wife of the challenger, also was a spectator. Jones won the first hole with a birdie |4 to Von Elm's They got away long. straight drives, 220 vards down the fairway. Their seconds required | brassies and both lined into trouble. | Von Elm was in a trap in front of the green, while Jones, with-a hook, land- ed in the rough. Von Elm's recovery was short of the pin by 20 feet, while the champion chipped up to within 4 feet and sank his first putt while Von Elm was taking two. Jones, 1 up. Von Elm squared the match by win- ning the second hole in par 4 to the champion's 5. Both were down the center with their powerful tee shots, Bobby's ball dropping 10 vards in front of the far Western player. Bobby's full mashie approach was short, while Von Elm was hole high. Fifty feet to the right of the flag and on the treen. The champlon ran his approach putt to within 4 feet of the cup and then proceeded to miss_his second putt for a 4, while Von Elm was down in the regulation 2. They halved the third hole in par 4s. Perfect drives flew from both tees at the third, but the Atlantan dropped his ball 20 yards beyond the | pellet of Von Elm. The seconds struck the green within 20 yards of the flag. PBoth were down in two putts, Fourth Hole Halved. The fourth hole was halved i Bobby sent his tee shot o\'::' :’fi: vard water hole about 70 feet from the cup. Von Elm's ball was 40 feet nearer the stick. The cham- “(Continued on Page 4, Column 3)) HURRICANE RAGES OFF FLORIDA COAST Nassau, at Center, Cut 0ff—Ships Seeck Haven—Miami Cause- way Menaced. By the Associated Press. MIAMI. Fla., September 15 —Ship- ping scurried 1o cover early today | before the first force of a tropical hurricane which centered yesterday at Nassau, capital the hama Islands. A slowly dropping harometer ana steadily rising wind and sea foreca the approach of the stortn which reported from Havana last nizht having a wind selocity of 100 mil an hour. At Miami Beach heavy surf was pounding 20 feet or more above the usual high water lines, and high waves in Biscayane Bay endangered the causeway connecting Miami Beach with the mainland. Pine trees were uprooted near Miam. High waves were beginninz their attack along the water front at Palm Beach and the ocean boulevard, which :as”\’\'ugeddmx; in a score of pla v the flood of July, was be inforced ’ e e Yachts anchored were moved to s canals. Lack of communication with Nas sau, handicapped by the dismantling of radio stations, made it impossible to obtain news of possible destruction in the Bahamas. city of Ba in Lake Worth fer berths in inland By the Associated Press NEBRASKA CITY, Nebr., Septem- ber 18.—Conscience stricken because he had stolen chickens during the | Civil War, and desiring to “square | accounts before it is too late.” Tim Crook, S§0-year-old war veteran, who lives in the nill country near Miners- ville, Nebr., went before District Judge Begley- here and asked to be allowed to “plead guilty.” Judge Begley, however, just smiled and told him to forget about it. “You see, when I was in Company | Conscious-Stricken Vqtcran Unburdehs Soul of Chicken Thefts in ijil War| grizzled veteran said. “we didn't get to eat but every once in a while, and a stray chicken was our meal. I gues | I shet and stole from the big planta- | tions as many as the next one. They | say that all is fair in love and war, | and we were fighting lots and eating little, and maybe it was all right, but | I ain't felt right about it ever since When this bread-and-water sen- | tence business at Tekamah eame up I | decided that if they was going to he that rough on poor fellows violating the liquor laws in other parts of the PRESIDRNFCEAVES WHITEANE CAMP: DU HERE TONEAT New York Residents Turn Out to Greet Special En Route to Washington. EARLY-MORNING START MADE BY AUTO TO TRAIN Executive Tanned by Vacation of Ten Weeks and Ready for Winter's Work. By the Associated Press ON EOARD PR SSIDENT COOL- IDGE'S SPECIAL TRAIN, TUPPER LAKE. N. Y. September 18.—The President and Mrs. Coolidge sped toward home by epeclal train today after their Summer vacation at White Pine Camp on Lake Osgood, in the northern Adirondaci The train, consisting of six cars was routed on fast express time and after carrying them through the mountains was to take them through the Mohawk and Hudson River Val- leys for a davlight trip across New York State. Tt is due in Washington late tonight i Residents of this region saluted the train as it passed. The first stop of importance was scheduled for Uti around noon Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge had hry fast in the diner with other membe of the party. Party Gets Early Start. GABRIELS, N. Y., September (#).—President and Mrs. Coolldge le| here by special train at 7:40 a.n Eastern standard time, today on thei return to Washington from their v cation in the Adirondacks. Motoring 6 miles from White Pin Camp, which was for over 10 week the Summer White House, Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge found natives and Sum mer residents, who have remaine: late in the season, out in foree to bi them farewell at the train. Acknow! edging the applause, they went direct Iy to their observation car, and in a few minutes the train left. The ride will take them over the New York Central Railroad to the vieinity of New York City, and thenc through Philadelphia to Washington The weathér was clear and cool for the ride through the mountains. Have Writer as Guest. With them as passengers were Bruce Barton of New York, the writer, and Mrs. Barton, who were guests at the camp overnight; the newspaper correspondents who have reported events at the Summer White H;use alndwths secret ice men, who maintained c¢on guard over the President and e Ty the First Lady of The White House collies, Prudence Prim and Rob Roy, which have en- Jjoyed life in the mountains as much as their distinguished master and mistress, occupled special quarters in the presidential car. Edward T. Clark, Mr. Coolldge's per- sonal secretary, is making the trip to ‘Washington by motor. After the de parture of Everett Sanders, secretary to the President, who was forced to leave Paul Smith's several weeks ago, because of {llness, Mr. Clark took over the direction of the Sumer executive offices. The presidential special consisted of a baggage car, two parlor cars, a club car, diner and observation car. From the rear platform, Mr. Coolidge has an opportunity to view some of the most imposing scenery in the State as his train wound southward through the mountains and thence down the Mo- hawk and Hudson River Valleys, which are as rich in historic interest as in natural beauty. COOLIDGE GAINS BY REST. Executive, However, Did Much Hard Work on Vacation. PAUL SMITHS, N. Y.. September |18 (®).—President Coolid vacation | was at an end today. He will be in | Washington ~tonight refreshed and strengthened by his long vacatien in i the Adirondacks for the strenuous Winter program ahead of him. The farewells of President and Mrs. Coolidge to White Pine Camp, whose surroundings are showing flashes of | Autumnal color. were said with re gret. In its deep seclusion the Presi dent lived for more than 10 weeks a life as informal as a Chief Executive permitted to enjoy. There he has worked and rested, walked and visit- | ed, eaten and slept undisturbed by un. | invited visitors who were barred not only by the guards, but by the natu. al barrier which the forest main- tains about the camp buildings. Perhaps Mr. Coolidge's most per- conal good-by was to Oscar Otls and | Ormon Doty, the mountain guides, who were his companions on many fishing and tramping trips during the Summer months. Otis is the care. aker of the camp. which is owned hy Irwin R. Kirkwood, publisher of the Kansas City Star. ! Much Work. Is Done. | Ar. Coolidge's vacation, however, | has contained more work than play, | for the duties of his office never per- | mit him to remain away from his desk for many hours. He has made daily trips to the Summer executive offices, established in a cottage near Paui h's Hotel, and there has received s and transacted a large volume overnment business. Although he spent the first two or three weeks of his vacation resting and adjusting himself to the new en rment, the remainder of Mr. Cool idge’s sojourn in the Adirondacks was ordered much as theugh he had been in Washington. Many guests came to White Pine Camp, and still more visitors called at the executive office | He conferred with several members of his cabinet., Senators, Representa- tives, diplomats, spokesmen for the farmers and business men who repre- sented many lines of industry From them Mr. Coolidge obtained a composite of views on wide range of | public questions, most of the opinions | reflecting conditions of national pros perity which not only are understood to have pleased the President, but to { have led administration leaders to de- ! claré that prosperity was the issue in the Fall election campaigns. The President himself has remained silent on political questions, and_has refrained from taking part in State | potitical situations, including that in New York He has been greatly benefited (Continued on Page 2, Columa }.) i