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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Increasing cloudiness and warmer, probably followed by showers tonight or tomorrow; cooler tomerrow. Temperature—Highest, 80, at P, yesteeday: lowest, 65. at a.m. today. Full report on page 9. 3:15 30, Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30 ¢ Fpening Star. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION service. Yesterday's The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news Circulation, 100,570 Entered as second cl el S8 matter post of Washington, D. C. = First Direct Wire RELIEF WORK "t wire RRICANE AREA, Today, But Fails By the Associated Press ATLANTA. September 22 Leased wire communication with Miami was restored at 7:40 o'clock this morning, when the Miami News office was cut onto the Asso- clated Press Florida circuit. This was the first direct commu- nication with Miami since last turday. The wire later went out i PREVOUSWETALS (LA WAS DENID, COVERNIENT SAYS No. 30,094, ” RUSH INHU SEARCH FOR BODIES PRESSED IN DEBRIS Al Sections in Florida and Alabama Checking Up Cas- ualties—Pensacola Has No Life Loss, Says Report. MOBILE ALSO ESCAPES DEATH TOLL FROM WIND | Five Ships Reach Miami With Sup-| Daugherty’s Aide Refused plies—Rehabilitation Plans Sys-i Neutral’s Plea for $3,894 ten.'mlxcally Orgamzed—Tram‘sj in Identical Case. Bring Water, Food and Medi-| cines—Dead May Exceed 400. i By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 22.—A claim for shares of American Metal stock amounting to $3,894.94 and sed on a pre-war oral {ransfer w: vejected while Harry M. Daugherty and Thomas W. Miller were consider- {ing a simi tim for £7,000,000 of | the ¢ shares, the (overnment | showed today in the Daugherty-Miller conspiracy trial The claim for the $7,000,000 was imade by Richard Merton, German metal magnate, acting as agent for the Societe Suisse Pour Valeurs de Metaux. It passed through the alien property custodi office in three but the Government has shown that it was brought to Miller’s atten- tion five months earlier and that spurred hy a retainer of $50,000, John T. King. late Republican national com mitteeman from Connecticut, labored for its passage. King introduced Mer. ton to Jesse W. Smith, Daugher friend, and to Miller. King later was paid $391,000 “‘commission.” Claim for 20,000 Shares. The claim for $3,894.94. being 000 shares of the American Metal Co., was made by Edward Grutert and Julian B. Beaty. Grutert was a neu- tral & Beaty was an American and vice president and treasurer of the American Metals Co. Without the Grutert-Beaty docu- ments being taken from files in the alien property custodian's office the Government showed by documentary evidence that Adna R. Johnson, jr. | First _Assistant Attorney General | under Daugherty, denied the claim on the grounds that the oral transfer purported made in 1916 was substan- tiated only by a letter bearing post- wag date. Such claims, Johnson's let- ter said, we never allowed by the Attorney General. The claim made by ernment showed, was based upon an oral transfer aileged to have been made before the war, but supported only by an agreement bearing a post- war date. Caroline Gardiner, a clerk in (h_e alien property custodian's office, testi- fled that the two checks for $6,997.- 979.97 which Miller gave Merton at a champangne dinner in the Ritz- Carlton Hotel September 20, 1921, were not issued in a normal manner. Holds Procedure Changed. The regular procedure, Miss Gardl- ner said, was to send the claimant a When the claimant had signed and returned this, she tes- tified, a check would then be sent him. In the case of Merton, she sald, the 9 <hi checks and the release were put in Several Ships Ashore. the same envelope. Other witnesses Several ships went ashore. There | have shown that Miller brought these were three deaths in that section, due | from Washington to New York per- to drowning. but none in Pensacola. | sonally At haven. an agricultural | Under cro olty western bank of Lake | diner was a Oke martial law went into | counsel fc effect early today and an effort was | SWiss claims, being made to check up the death | baid persoi list. already known to be around 100. proximately bodies had been re- 1 up 1o last night and it was sald thar 40 others had been found and would be recovered today. Esti mates still put the deaths here at 150 er more, most of the victims white. In some playes final surveys have brought down the original death lists, same persons previously reported dead | having heen found a This was | the case of “Pete” MeCallister, car- ried for two davs as among the dead, who has wired relatives under the ! date of Sunday that he is alive and | well.” % By the Associated Prese The hurricane that cost the lower Florida Fast Coast upward of 400 Tives, 4000 or more injurcd and prop- damage of $50.000000 or more Il sections hit today cfforts on trying to casualty lists, communica- the property v having passed, centered their ascertain the restoring interrupted tions and repairing damage The Miami area, hardest hit of all, was going about the work of re- habilitation, caring for the injured and secking out the dead in tematic manner. The American Red Cross and other relief agencies were on hand in full force, with troops on guard and martial law in force in many places Hollywood Injured Moved. The injured in Hollywood, Miami euburb, have been ordered removed | to points north of the city, and per- sons unable to aid in the relief and | rehabilitation work lhave been in- structed by military authorities to evacuate the city, according to in- formation brought to West Paim Beach last night by Dr. William R. Redden, national director of the American Red Cross medical service. Dr. Redden yesterday made a per- sonal survey of the stricken area aud telcphoned his findings to Wash= ington. Dr. Redden estimated the serigusly tnjurcd at 1400 He found 1,350 patients in Miami hospitals and | estimated that the total injured there | was 3,300 of whom 1,000 suffered serious hurts. About 500 of these had fractured limhs and skulls. He also stated that the official list of deaths in Miami had placed them at 135. Late reports from Pensacola. hit| ¢ the hurricane with waning force | as it possed Inland, were that there was no loss of life, but property los: Mobile, which also had no loss of life, again was connected with the out world by a telegraph wire, but Pensecola still was cut off early to- day, the only means of communic: tion heing ever a sl telephone | wire to Mobile. Over this wire and through a wireless dispatch to the Associated Press from its Pensacola correspondent it was learned how wola came through a 120-mile exact 'S sys 20, Merton, the Gov- -examination Miss Gar- ed by William Rand, Tiller, if, outside the ny checks had been y outside of the alien stodian's office. rdiner replied. s er examination was phrased in a manner that showed in- | tent to account for Miller taking the | checks to Merton by the fact that the | Soclete Suisse was losing $1.000 a { ¢ interest on the seized shares and at Merton had booked passage on a liner salling in a few days. But Alfred M. Well, jury, interrupted the cf examina- ton to ask sliss Gardiner whether Merton could have come to Washing- release and got the on *h M “he could have he signed the i “Yes" she replied ot the checks the day release.” 'BAHAMAS HIT HARD; 'NONE DEAD IN NASSAU | Most Serious Damage Reported | From Yuma Island, With Some village, | Fatalities. Fort Lauderdale Total. At ¥ Lauderdale the death came down to 11 last night. but Hollvwood it is expected the tots will wround 70, Miami Beach. it was revealed as deaths were checked ne Bay gave up the d out to sea. had a list tead Know roperty as conservatively 500,000 in an of b suffered probu of the Miami suburt Okeelant was wrecked st oftice und store building remainir it was re vealed. The population of 21 persons gleeps in this building since the storm The first hospital train came out of | (delayedi—The hurricane which swer the storm disteict last night carry.|the Bahamas Friday night was of ing 46 patients and 113 refugees xu“l‘;‘““'l "]““""‘-‘,’,:‘“‘ ]l“:id,‘;:;::;'(“ '{:“l'; West Palm Beach and Fort Pierce. | 35" here, but the Andros and Bi- 30,000 ARE HOMELE | mini Islands suffered severely. with oss i es at $1.- t. | By the Associated Press | 'NASSAU. Bahamas, September hundreds of small hou levelled. | The mc serious reports come from Long (Yuma) Island. where there are {said to have been some fatalities. | No loss of life has been reported (#).— | here. but it is feared thay sponging additional dead and | vessels have gone down at sea with injured and homeless | men. wveral buildings were un- along Florida's storm- | yoofed here: the roads and wharves st coast. late re-!were damaged. and one vessel was ports from all sections of the hurri-|wrecked in the harboi cane a toll of nml'o} R than 400. a wissing list of 150, more an 500 njured ana 50000 nome- | ‘SIAMESE PRINCE IN U. S. ates from the 60-mile coastal & the path of the gale laced the property da : between 50,000,000 and $100.000 Rescue and relief w s search M Zone Death List Now mated Above 100, Fla., for mi MIAMI As ez care f went on tod devastated lower September 2 h sh., September 21 of Bangkok, Siam, and Dr. Francis B. sayre, son-nlaw 2| of the late President Wilson and for- ! airs adviser to the Siamese . were guests of Harvard e vesterday. ; ¢ is en route to Cambridge 1o take a course he Brown-Nichols tory to entering Har- rd University. He is 19 years old and is beinz educated in America, said Sayre, to prepare him “to play some constructive part in the devel- opment of his country.” SEATTLE, W (#).—Prince Asan s believe cken towns and « the bodies cast up by th Biscayne Bay. will swell total 1o more than The death list at Miami alone was expected to reach 250 this morning, as additional bodies were given up by the death | 1€ | School. prepa e g > (Continued on Page 4, Column 2) eman of the; WASHINGTON, D. C, RE S TAXDATAREVVE REDUCTION S Administration Problem of Further Delay Complicated by Showing. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The more the returns from the Sep- tember collections of Income tax are studied the more complicated be- comes the problem of the administra- tion in wasding off the movement for further tax reduction to be launched by the Democrats at the December session of Congress. The administration has taken the position that the facts avallable jus- tify no predictions as to when the tax cut can be made. The minority insists that this Is simply a means of postponing the tax reduction until the next presidential campaign year, 1928, But the September collections do verify the statements of the experts that what has been lost through the reduction of iscellaneous and in- direct taxes would be more than offset by the increase in the amounts paid on individual and business returns. This amounts to $69,163,000 which, with $9.433.000 additional from tariff recelpts, makes a total of $78,586,000, which i& for purposes of approxima- tion about the same as the $81,000,000 loss in miscellaneous receipts. Prospect of Increase. Most of the receipts from taxation are on incomes earned dur- Business conditions during admittedly have been better than last year so the Treasury may expect greater productivity from the new tax rates than might otherwise have been the case. But while the experts may prophesy this, the definite data can- not possibly be available before the payments made on March 15, 1927, are studied and this will be about April or May of next year. Congress, on the other hand, unless called into extra session, would adjourn on March 4, 1927, by law, and would not have to meet again until the session of De- cember, 1927, which would run into “he Spring of 1928. . The administration also intends to iterate and reiterate that it is unsafe to reduce taxes on an expectation and that nobody can foresee business con- ditions in 1928 and 1929 and that too low a cut might be dangerous. To this the minority will answer that in the early part of 1928 it will be just as difficult to. see into the future and determine the curve of business as it is today and that no tax bill has been passed on the as- sumption that business conditions would be good or bad, but on the basis of the average productivity of rates. In other words, the Tr ury’s own argument that the lower the tax rates the higher the return, which was first opposed by many Democrats, now will be used by them as a reason for a cut in the December session of Congress this year. Necessity of Waiting. This will cause the administration o emphasize the necessity of waiting till the March returns are examined {and then the pressure for an extra session or the retroactive application of the new cut in taxes will begin. It it were not for the public debt which has been followed in the past by the administration, there would be an argument raised to the | effect that if the recelpts for any one | vear fall below expectations, the pay- { ments on the public debt for that year | affording a cushion agaiust the unex- pected. | Just what the minority wiil be able {to do in the next session it is a little early to forecast, but evidence I8 ac- be demanding a cut in taxes and that insurgent Republicans will be aiding I'them so that it is not at all certaln at this date that the administration | will be able to withstand the pressure | especially since detafled reports on !the December receipts also will have been available and there are some ex- ! perts who belleve December will show ome increase over September in in- direct tax collections. {Conyright. GANG RUINS CLOTHES. CART ET, N. J., September 22 (#). $100,000, were slashed and burned with acld by 5 men who bound a watchman the Carteret Cloak C greater part of work of destruction. Employes of the plant, numbering about 50, have been on strike for sev- eral months. with knives of d spent the THERE S, TH sfl, oF TEADFASTI can be correspondingly reduced, thus| | cumulating that ‘the Democrats will | —Women'’s cloaks und suits, valued at | a group of | A = G %, / 7 AOR ESS! FOR*You IO 1\ }\\\hlm‘/ RN Drowns in River Making Good on Plank-Walking Bet By the Associated Pross NIAGARA FALLS, N. tember 22.—A \ Y., Sep- plank-walking bet today cost the life of David Phillips, 35 vears old, of Port Robinson, Ontaria, who plunged to his death in the rushing water of the Welland Canal lock at Port Dalhou: Phillips attempted to walk a nav- row plank over the lock and upon reaching the center stopped to dance a jig. He lost his balance and was swept away before a rescue could be effected. TRADE COMMISSION REBUKED BY COLRT Enjoined From Subpoening Books of Millers, Authority Being Chalienged. The attempt of the Federal Trade Commission. In compliance with an act of Congress, to investigate private affalrs of organizations and corpora- tions, received a legal set-back today in the District Suprenie Court. when Justice Smith, in an opinion, enjoined the Federal agency from executing subpoenas directed to the Millers' N tional Federation of Chi The subpoenas were issued Spring, shortly before the announce- ment that the commission would hold hearings to find out about the baking and milling industry, particularly with respect to the cost of the bread to the consumer. After holding two hearings on in- Jjunetion petitions filed by the millers, Justice Smith, in his memorandum opinfon, says that the federation is entitled to an injunction to prevent the inspection of its books and records which were ordered produced by the subpoenas, and administers a rebuke to the commussion. The federation is a nonprofit organization it was pointed out, whose membership con- sists of large milling and baking con- cerns in the country. Puts Ban on Publicity. “It appears from the bill fof gjunc- tion," said the opinion of Justice Smith, “that if the letters, papers and documents are produced to the com mission they will be revealed to the public_at the time and place desig- nated by the commission and will be transmitted to the Senate, where they will be publiShed and made available for inspection by every one as a pub- lic record. “Such a publication or revelation constittes an intrusion on the pri- vacy of business and an infringement of constitutional rights for which the {law affords no adequate remedy, and | from that it follows that the interven- | tion of equity is justified. “Courts, it will | injunctions against administrative jofficers of the Government on the mere 1 not issue | apprehensions that they will not do | their duty according to law, but ad- : ministrative officers must keep within ! the statute in the exercise of their threaten or seek ich is wholly be- will be powers and if they to do something w yond their jurisdiction they restrained. “Where an administrative agency ‘seeks, attempts or threatens to do { something beyond its jurisdiction which will constitute an invasion of property or constitutional rights, and | threatens to commence criminal pros- ecutions obedience to_fts (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) Man in ];oisbAn-igeles. Made Buit of Joke, Kills Two Neighbors By the Assocated Press. LOS ANGELES, September The fact that John Spraic “couldn’t stand to be laughed at’’ was blamed by police vesterday for the slay- ing by him Monday night of his two neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Homer E. Ranes. praie, according to officers, con 2ssed to shooting the couple, and vhen faced by another neighbor, J. F.wLuckd told him the crin was caused by the two laughing a him. Lucks said the laughter which had aroused Spraic’'s wrath was not at the sight of their neigh- bor, but over a joke which Lucks . had told them. % 5 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, SONDISSUEUREED FOR SO0 Chamber of Commerce Votes Proposal to Alleviate Tax Burden. The Washington Chamber of Com- merce at a full meeting last night unaminously voted for a $100,000.000 hond Issue for the District of Colum- bia to alleviate a heavy tax burden which was declared to face the citi- zens of Washington, In the presence of Commissioner Dougherty the report of the cham- ber's committee on District finance, taxation and assessments, which was redd and approved, urged that the payment for extraordinary improve- ments should be made over a period of vears instead of by immedlate taxation. The report urged that the District should issue bonds up to $100,000,000 in limited amounts necessary from time to time for projects approved for the betterment of the city. It was also suggested that a sink- ing fund be set aside out of current taxes over a period of 50 years to meet the maturity of the bonds. The honds issued, the report suggested, should be used for such improve- ments as parks, fire engine houses, police stations, schools, playgrounds and all improvements that will be of benefit to future citizens of the city. Opposes High Tax Rate. ‘The chamber, upon recommenda- tion of the committee, also vigorously opposed a high tax rate for Washing- ton and authorized the appointment of a committee of three to appear before the Commissioners to protest any increase in taxes. A copy of the conunittee’s report was ord d for- warded to the Commissioners. The bond issue recommendation was adopted unanimously. One member attempted to have the matter laid on the table, but failed for want of a second. He did not oppose the ques- tion on the vote. Upon motion of lsaac Gans, the chamber voted the sum of $500 to the Red Cross Florida relief fund. Mr. Gans introduced the motion that the chamber participate in the relief ac- tivities to the extent of $200. This was quickly raised to $500, which will be taken out of the funds of the organization. Commissioner Dougherty addressed the chamber following his tribute to the late A. K. Seymour, former secre- tary of the organization. He pre- dicted a great growth of the National Capital in the next 25 vears. "Wash- ington is now a residential city and hief actlvity is Government busi- but industry is to play a more important part here,” said the Com- missioner. ~ lle predicted the estab- lishment of large wholesale and retail concerns and other businesses here as well as a rapid increase and-spread of the population of \Washington to the Maryland and Virginia suburbs. Review of Activities. Mr. Dougherty reviewed the activ- itles of the District in the past year, stating that the new volume of traf- | fic called for increased street lighting | and, traffic lights as well as the widening and improvement of a num- | {ber of streets. i He reviewed the expenditure of $62,000,000 for private construction here in the last year and the activities of the various departments and urged the Chamber of Commerce to study the city's problems to make their recommendations and co-operate with ithe District authorities. 5 ( Maj. U. S. Grant, 3d., director of | public buildings and public parks of | | the National Capital, gave an illus- | trated talk on the plans for Wash- ington. He reviewed the L'Enfant Millan plans for the city and that the National Capital| k and Planning Commission was | as much interested in the economic phase of the city's development as in the beautification of the District. He stated that the widening of Connecticut avenue may some time in the future call for the widening of the street around Dupont Circle. He pointed out that the streets planned {in the downtown area had been ex- I"nded to other sections of the city without regard to grading. This, he said, has resulted in added cost for bullding homes because an enormous amount of grading has been neces- sitated. ‘The Planning Commission, ! he said, would try to study this prob- llem in future developments of high- W | sed 1 | | Grant reviewed the various | pa improvements. the driveways {along the Potomac, the fort driveways | {and ihe proposed Government build- | ings in dealing with the plan of | Washington. The chamber again went on record (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) 1926—FORTY-SIX PAGES. inow, and the story may not be correct. | up_the backbone of the Nation. jday - () Means Associated TWO CENTS. Pres WHAT COOLIDGE THINKS OF THE LIFE HE LEADS President Breaks Away From Precedent to Talk of Many Things Close to His Heart. Editor's Note: On his last day in the woods the Pres with Bruce Barton, a personal friend, and chatted informally, answering some of the questions which are often in the minds of his fellow citizens and which they wonld like to ask him if they could. The notes of this talk proved to be such an interesting revelation of the human side of the Chief Executive that his visitor prevailed upon him to depart from prece- dent in this single instance and allow himself to be quoted to the Amer people directly. BY BRUCE BARTON. opyright, 1026, by the Associated Press.) HE desks and chairs and carpets had all gone; the telegraph instru- ments were being taken away and the little frame house which had been the headquarters office of the United States Government was ready for its return to private life. The President of those green wicker rocking chairs that are on the porches of all Sum- | mer cottages; his secretary sat on a kitchen chair which, after its brief hour of glory, was about to go back to humbler things; I sat on the floor. “You have been heard by more Americans than any other President, thanks to the radio,” I said. “But only a few will ever see you. I some- t in one | 1S, ENVOY SEEKS ARMS SHOWDOWN AT GENEVA PARLEY Gibson Urges Concentration on Military Phase, Avoiding Correlated Issues. POLITICO-ECONOMIC SIDE HELD OVEREMPHASIZED Speech Seen as Washington Move for Genuine Conference of Powers Next Year. BY. A. R. DE( GENEVA, September paratory conference studying the pos sibilities of disarmament met today in the glass room of the League of times think it would be a wonderful thing if every citizen had a chance to sit down for a few minutes with his President, just the way we are sitting here. They would ask a lot of questions.” “What sort of questions?” the President asked. “Not political questions,” I an- swered. “They aren’t half so much interested in politics as Washington thinks they are. But they are enor- mously interested in you and Mrs. Coolidge. They would ask very human questions—friendly, but curi- ous and terribly frank.” “What sort of questions?” he re- peated. WHY HE TRAVELS SO LITTLE. “Well, for one thing, every single citizen would want to know, ‘Why haven't you come out to see us in our town?'" The President pushed his felt hat back a little and settled himself into the old green rocker. From that time on I interrupted only to con- tribute additional questions. He did the rest, and he seemed to be hav- ing a rcal good time. “It has not been possible for me (Copyright by Pirie MacDonald,) to spend much time traveling around the country,” he began. “The de- tails of administration become greater and greater and require more and more time. The supervision of the expenditure of nearly $4.000,000,000 each year is a very large task. It is only a few years ago that our ex- penditures were less than $500.000,000. I have been told that when William C. Whitney was Secretary of the Navy, under Cleveland, he was in Wash- ington only 65 days during one year. Of course, that would be impossible X Mr. Whitney had a fine reputa- tion as Secretary and did much to lay the foundations of our present Navy. But in his day. when the Army and Navy together were supported for about $50.000,000. he would have a good deal of leisure time which is not possible now. If T should leave Washington on extended trips it would not be possible for me to keep up the details of administration.” BACK TO BOYHOOD SCENES. I thought of his annual journey up to the little village in Vermont. "T}:e;c is one trip that you manage to find time for every year,” | sug- gested. _ “You mean Plymouth,” he smiled gives me something that I need in m else. ton. BRUCE BARTON. “That is different. Plymouth e work and cannot get_anywhere It is now 31 years since I left Plymouth to study law in Northamp- The people among whom I was reared were of the kind that make For some years I have lived in much different surroundings and in a very different atmosphere. But I return there whenever 1 can so as to refresh my knowledge of how the ordinary run of people in this country live. I do little work on the farm now, but I did. much en I was a boy. I like to dispense with the kind of service that it is necessary for me to have at the White House and | wait on myself. If T find a strap is broken, I like to get out the tools that are used by shoemakers and harnessmakers, make a waxed end and repair it. I like to do a little blacksmithing around what is left of our old shop, try my hand again with the carpenter's tools, go out and repair the fence when it is breaking down and mend the latch on the kitchen door. “Most pcople in this country do these things themselves and do not (Continued on Page 2, Columns 5 and 6.) ORMISTON ACCUSED OF FALSE STATEMENT Attorney Challenges Denial That He Acted for “Key" Witness in McPherson Case. Andrews Demands Total Abstinence Of All Dry Agents By the Associated Press. Total abstinence was demanded of all prohibition administrators and agents today by Assistant Secretary Andrews, chief of the dry forces, in a talk to the administrators, now in conference here. “I will excuse no man in the pro- Iibition service for drinking." Gen. Andrews sald, “except the poor devil who has to in obtaining evidence and in working up a case. I call him the poor devil advisedly, because I pity the man who has to drink the liquor which is served in this country to- By the Associated Press. 08 ANGELES, Calif., September S. 8. Hahn, attorney, whose over- tures to District Attorney Asa Keves purporting to be on behalf of Kenneth G. Ormiston, alleged “key” witness in the Aimee Semple McPherson case, evoked a denlal from the former Angelus Temple radio operator, through his attorney In Chicago, stated vesterday he had acted for Ormiston through the latter's friends. “If Mr. Ormiston says I was not in touch with him through friends he tells an untruth.” Hahn said. “In pleading with Mr. Keyes to giv Ormiston immunity T did so at the re- quest of Ormiston’s friends. If he is not guilty and does not want im munity why doesn't he surrender to the authorities on the warrant ued by Mr. Keyes accusing him, with Mrs. McPherson, of a felony District attorney's officers were in- creasing the scope of their search for Ormiston, who, with Mrs. McPherson and five others, is charged with crim- inal conspiracy to manufacture false evidence in efforts to substantiate the evangelist's story’ of kidnaping in ac- The general said his warning to the administrators in regard to their per- sonal habits was prdmpted by the re- cent indictment of Ned M. Green, northern California administrator, for the alleged appropriation of selzed liquors. : ROOSEVELT HOTEL SOLD TO WARDMAN $2,500,000 Price Paid for Block and Structure on Sixteenth Street. from Angelus Temple last May and June. Documentary evidence regarded as extremely vital in the State's case was selzed by district attorney’s office workers yesterday. Sixteenth |- The evidence is known to pertain di- rectly to the movements of Ormlston at a time when the evangelist broad- cast an appeal to him through the press to come forward and dissipate rumors that she had occupied a bun- galow with him at Carmel, Calif., just after she disappeared. el i S ROYAL NUPTIALS SOON. Wedding of Leopold to Princess Astrid Fixed for December. BRUSSELS, P, The Roosevelt Hotel, street and Florida avenue, one of the largest in the city, was purchased today by Harry Wardman for approx- tmately $2,500,000. This bullding, which was erected during the war, extends for an entire block on Sixteenth street from V street to Florida avenue and contains more than 600 rooms. The grounds contain 690,700 ‘square feet and it is considered one of the most valuable ! pieces of property on Sixteenth street. This makes the fourth hotel project | owned by Mr. Wardman on Sixteenth | The wedding of Crown Prince Leo- street. They are the Chastleton, the ! pold to Princess Astrid of Sweden Roosevelt, the Carlton and the Carl- | has been provisionally fixed for some ton Chambers, an apartment hotel | time in December. just started. The Rgoseveit is a mod- | ern hotel. The F. H. Smith Co. were sald to be the fermer owners. ) % September Radio Programs—Page 28 counting for her five weeks' absence | Natlons palace and admitted it was tied into knots which perhaps never will be untangled. The American delegation, headed by Hugh Gibson, American Minister to Switzerland, participated in the de- bates. Mr. Gibson spoke, pointing out America’s sincere wisly some day to participate in a genuine conference leading to a reduction in armaments. He called the attention of the other delegates to the work of the subcom- mittee charged with a study of the technical features of the reduction of armaments, which has been occupy ing itself with political and economic questions, thus leading to confusion Wants Actual Agreements. prep: n, “adopted the method of studying steps tow armament. We seek to lay the foun dation for actual agreements. The American delegatlon that th committe has appre the prob lem from the polit nd economic point of view, thus leading to con fusion. “The present meeting offers an opportunity to remedy the situation “We submit that subcommittee ‘A" considered the effect of tical and economic factors, although this was the work or other bodies, and that it adopted majority views or minority views with the majority abstaining. This divergent view was not_recorded. “We propose that the subcommit- tee be requested to #nswer all un- answered points, recording the di- vergent views, reporting all opinions and leaving out all political and eco- nomic considerations.” | Favors Parley Next Year. The ment propa next sembly main conference on disarma- ready has adopted a report ing a conference before the meeting of the League As “if it is not materially im- possible” It seems to be the task of the preparatory commission to supply the’ ammunition for det mining the fate of the phrase not_materially impossible.” neral opinion at Geneva s that there still is great opposition to the reduction of armaments. Mr. Gib son's proposals were designed to bring the conference b: to the purpose for which it was called, and try to produce tangible ilts despite’ th opposition of many states which have not the slightest intention of disarm- ing unless forced into a position be- fore the world where they ave shown to be obstructing disarmament. Thus, Mr. Gibson called for the recording of all viewpoints. even if divergent, to show which states were opposing disarmament, and to shak. the conterence into action and provide a preparatory report which will not give the main committee an excuse to postpone the conference on the ground of material impossibility Assisting Mr. Gibson are Rear Ad miral Hil P. Jones, Gen. Denniw Nolan, Capt. Adolphus Andrews and numerous lesser figures. (Copyright. 1026, by Chicago Daily News Co. ) it BUS LINE EXTENDED. Edgemoor Route Will Link Chevy Chase Circle and Point South. The Washington: Virginia & Mary land Coach Co. today was given per | mission by the Public Utlities Com mission to extend its Edgemoar and Battery Park bus line from Chevy Chase Circle to a point between Northampton and Oliver streets on Connecticut avenue on condition that only interstate passengers be carried and that none be taken on or dis charged within the District except at the terminal. The application of the company sug gested a route along C‘onnecticut ave nue with a loop around Morrison, Liv lingston and Thirtyninth streets Residents on these streets, also the ital Traction Co.. protested, the atter on the ground that the route along Connecticut avenue would paral lel a portion of the territory covered by the Chevy Chase de luxe motor coaches, YOUNG GIRL MISSING. Police Searching for Audrey Louise Kneessi, 14 Years Old. Search for Audrey Louise Kneessi 14 years old. reported missing from her home. 3355 Sixth street, since & o'clock Monday afternoon, was in- stituted by police of the tenth precinet late last night. Request for a police search was delayed because it ,was belleved by members of the family that she would return home afier a short absence. When she h late last night, poli Miss Kneessi s weighing about 1 pounds. When she left home, according to her mother, she wore a light blue dress, Hght colored stockings, velvet hat and patent leather shoes. Operatives of the Woman's Brreau participating in the search. deseribed Killed Erecting Aerial. Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, M., September 22—R. M ! telegraph operator of the Penr + Railrond at Cham bersburg. Pa., was killed while erect- ing a radio aerial on his home late vesterday, the wire which he was handling falling across a high tensien electric line. 3