Evening Star Newspaper, October 16, 1926, Page 12

ARE SOUTH AND NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENTS DRIFTING APART? which will be determined by this group of scientists, who are working at the San Diego, Calif., Naval Observ- atory. The results of their tests are compared with those of scientists in Shanghai, China, Wi That Is the question and Algiers, ide World Photo. OUT FOR AN AUTUMN STROLL. Mrs. Coolidge, accompanied by James Haley of the Secret Service, photographed while taking her dail; walk through one of the Capital's parks. 2 Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. NEW SIAMESE MINISTER PRESENTS CREDENTIALS AT WHITE HOUSE. = Accompanied by J. But- ler Wright, Assistant Secretary of State, Phya Vijitavongs, the new Minister, and his staff made_their first call upon President Coolidge yesterday afternoon. ENTERED IN CHAMPIONSHIP Tangaroa, world professional champion. CONTEST. { speediest typists, who will try for the world championship in the New | York competition. Left to right: Minnie Regelmeyer, world amateur champion; Margaret 0’Brien, New York Stafe champlon, and Albert Three of America’s Copyright by P. & A. Photos. CLASH EXPECTED AT BUS FARE QUIZ Hearing, Deferred for Utili- ties Committee Inventory, to Resume Monday. A clash between offici Washington Rapid Trar William McK. Clayton, the public utilities comn Federation of Citizens’ man of ttee of the ssociations, 1s expected to develop when the Public Utilitles Cc s resumes its hearing Mo on the bus company’s application for a straight 10 cent cash far The hearing was deferrad after the initial session to give the commls- sion’s accountants an opportunity to make an inventory of the company’s property and to check up on its qlaim to & valuation of $335,000. As the rate of fare will be b: | on the valuation the commis allows, considera) tached to this phase of plea for financial relie Mr. Clayton, indep oommission, has made an ex study of the mass of statistical data presented by the company at the opening of the hearing in support of 1ts valuation claim, and indicated to- day that he would make several revelations when the case is reopened Monday. The depreciation set up by the com- y, Mr. Clayton said, is entirely too h. Also, he declared, the company bas included in its valuation an item of $60,000 for its franchise. *“This franchise,” he said, “is noth- 4ng more than a lcense issued the company by the Commissioners to go into the hacking business.” Mr. Clayton said he planned to Wrgue again before the commission that the company's return for a year, &nd not for six menths, should be con- sidered in determining a rate of fare. The company, he explained, is at- tempting to obtain a higher rate of fare on the basis of its losses for the first six months of the current cal- endar year, despite the fact that it §s under new management and its ©operating schedule is unsettled. “One year has always been the trial lod in the past,” he declared, “and shall insist that it be the same in this case. ‘While it is known that the commis- #ion has scaled the company’s valua- tion claim considerably, officials de- :fl.fl to reveal the figure that will be e YOUNG GIRLS MISSING. Police Asked to Locate Wyoma Smith and Ethel Spitzer. The Woman's Bureau of the Police Pepartment today asked all precinets | search for two P One of the girls Wyoma. Smith, 13 ered as | missing E:nothe: is Ethel Spitzer, 15 years , & ward of the Board of Public Welfare. | ma s described as being large She has a boyish bob She has blue eyes. has dark hair and eves. She Wore a nurses uniform when she dis- appeared. from. Gallinges -H S | present the agreement to the Cham- FRENGH DEBT.K. HELD INPOSSBLE Opposition to Ratification of Pact Virtually Unanimous in All Quarters. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Radlo to The Star and Chicago Dally News. PARIS, October 16.—A canvass made by the correspondent in French iegislative circles indicates that ratl- fication of the Washington debt agree- ment when the Chamber of Deputies reconvenes early in November is im- possible. The reservations proposed by the government are not taken seriously by the deputies and the opposition is practically unanimous in all parties. The Communists favor debt repudia- tion. All other partles recognize the debt, but are dissatisfied with the Mellon-Berenger agreement. Safeguard Insisted on. The Socialists accept the scale of payments laid down by the agree- ment, but insist on safeguard and transfer clauses. The radicals think the scale of payments 18 too high and want safeguard clauses. The Center wants safeguard and transfer clauses and thinks the total of payments is too high. The Right thinks the debts should be canceled because the allles fought the war in a common cause and that in any case France should not be obliged to pay America more than she received from Germany. Public opinion also is seething with hostility to the debt settlement. What the French people think almost unanimously may be summed up as tollows: “The allies fought the war together. The financial burden should be pro- portioned equitably, according to the respective wealth and losses of the allies, Account should be taken in the debt settlement of the fact that France has been obliged to bear alone the entire reconstruction costs in the devastated regions. “Great Britaln and the United States are treating France worse than the allles treated Germany. France's war loan was spent largely in the United States at profiteering prices. The United States Government al- ready has recovered a considerable part of this loan, in the form of ex- cess taxes from American furnishers of war material to France. German Payments Cited. “France, whatever happens, can- not pay more than she receives from Germany, or undertake payments, the transfer of which would make cur- rency stabilization impossible. The article of the agreement authorizing | the United States to sell the debt bonds to the public makes future re. vision or transfer control impossible. ! In any case, it would be unworthy of | a nation to ratify an agreement which | probably cannot be carried out.” In view of this widespread hostil- ity, the government probably will not ber for ratification, lest it be over- turned. Apparently the only thing which might change the situation and | make ratification suddenly possible would be a new fall in the franc, ac- companied by a sort of financtal and political panic. This eventuality is not foreseen at the moment. (ConrTighid 836, by ChicagoDally NewaCod g THE NEWEST W LKING Frank C. Henderson, prominent in cap, knickers, coat, scarf and Prince of Wales walking shoes. COSTUME. sport at Virginia Hot Springs, so one must wear the proper togs. Mrs. Hiking is the big outdoor New York society, wears the beret Copyright by P. & A. Photos MACHINE GUN US Capt. Ohrenberger of the Elizabeth, ED BY BANDITS, This rapid-fire gun, held by N. J., police, was dropped by the Bandits who held up a mail truck and escaped with between $200,000 and $300,000. The thiev are thought to be in the Watchung Mountains. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. IRENE SHOWS THE LATEST. steamshi porters, is a “riot of color. Arriving in New York aboard the France, Irene Bordoni produced her “pretz for the ship photographers. And her Navajo vest, a el” cigarette holder cording to the re- Photo by Herbert. D. C. STEPHENSON, ONCE LEADER OF THE INDIANA KU KLUX KLAN, ON WITNESS ST. of Judge Miller, shows the former d dragon, now serving a life sentence in the State penitentiary, seated at right. An Indianapolis grand gran Jury is investigating Klan political activities, and Stephenson is supposed to be the “star witness.” . This photograph, taken in the court Photo by Acme. EDITOR INDICTED IN FORGERY CASE Jury’s Action Follows Admis- sion by Mississippian of Using Friends’ Names. By the Assoclated Press. HATTIESBURG, Miss, October 16.—Dr. D. S. Harmon, editor of the Hattlesburg American, was indicted on seven counts charging forgery by a grand jury here, last night, by which he obtained $35,000 to’ purchase the newspaper. The grand jury's action will be reported to Judge Robert S. Hall of Circuit Court, who is expect- ed to order the arrest of Dr. Harmon. The true bill against Dr. Harmon was returned without his appearance in the grand jury room. The grand jury declined his request that he be permitted to tell his story before that body. Several Hattiesburg bankers were among those who gave evidence in_the case of the former minister. Dr. Harmon is charged in the in- dictment with forging the signatures of L. O. Crosby, wealthy Picayune lumberman and president of the Mississippi Board, and Dr. T. Ross, prominent Hattlesburg physician, to seven notes of $5.000 each. Dr. Harmon Thursday published a statement in the American declaring | that he had obtained $35,000 on the forged signature of friends and had made full restitution. Meanwhile dispatches from Jackson | told of Dr. Harmon's voluntary resig- nation as secretary and member of the board of trustees of the State Teachers’ College, located here. Many skilled workers who left Hong- kong during the strike last June have refused to return to the city and many industrial plants consequently are handicappeds Interior Department Desk Clean-Up Recovers $4.000 in Surplus Supplies Government economy took a new turn today when 5,000 employes of the Interior Department completed a “voluntary” clean-up of their desks and office paraphernalia and turned over to the supply division of the department approximately $4,000 worth of pencils, erasers, blotters and other small desk items. The clean-up, made at the request of the inspection division of the department, was the third of a serfes of renovation processes through which the depart- ment has gone in the last three years and was the most far-reaching. In the future each employe is to have only two pencils, one eraser and certain specified amounts of other desk equipment, to reduce the requi+ sitions on the supply division and to keep what is termed useless equip- ment off desk tops. The surplus kets, trays and racks, stamp pads and equipment salvaged in the two-day clean-up and viewed by Director of the Budget Lord this afternoon filled the entire stage of the Interior De- partment auditorium. Included in the salvaged items were 600 dozen pencils, 350 dozen penhold- ers, 300 paper weights, 120 dozen erasers, 1,000 rubber Stamps, 2,000 boxes of paper clips, dozens of steel pens, rulers, pencil sharpeners, waste baskets, staple machines, desk bas- stamp racks, and all the miscellaneous paraphernalia_required for transmis- slon of office business. About_a vear ago another clean-up was made in the Interior Department, which resulted in salvaging nearly $15,000 worth of desks, chairs and other equipment. The present clean- up is the first ever to extend to the minor articles of office equipment. The President's speech, which was to have been broadcast last night by station WRC, direct from the Wash- ington Auditbrium, where the Inter- national Oratorical Contest was in progress, was omitted from that sta- tlon’s program through a breakdown in the wire circuit from the Audito- rium to the radio studio, which was probably caused by the effect of the aurora borealis, it was announced to- day by F. P. Guthrle, district mana- ger of the Radio Corporation of America. Thorough tests had been made on | the line leased by the radio station from the Postal Telegraph Co., at 7:30 o'clock. When the radio operator took up his position at the broadcast- | ing instrument at five minutes of eight he found the signals coming from the auditorium so faint that it ‘was jmpossible to broadeast them. En- gineers immediately searched for the lcwnun they lfiunfl that no mechan- {opd.frouble had el 9 4 Aurora Borealis Is Blamed for Radio Omission of the President’s Speech After a silence of 20 minutes the auditorium signals Increased in vol- ume and the remainder of the pro- gram could be broadcast. Mr. Guth- rie sald this morning that his engi- neers had expressed the belief that the aurora, which yesterday effected all telegraph and telephone wires throughout the northern part of this continent, was probably responsible for the failure of the auxiliary line. At the same time, Mr. Guthrie ex- pressed regret that his company was obliged to disappoint listeners-in here and throughout the United States. Now Captain in Chaplains’ Corps. Rev. Gerhard E. Lenski, 3215 Nine- teenth street, has been commissioned by the War Department a captain in the Chaplains’ Corps, and William | M. Gwynn of the Department of State, a first lleutenant in the Mili- tary Intelligence Division, bot 2o bromoy h fn| A / WOMAN ELUDES INDIANA PROBERS Search Extended for Mildred Meade, Called Aide ‘of Stephenson. By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., October 16.— Investigators for the grand jury that has undertaken an inquiry into allega- tions of political corruption in Indiana today extended their search for Mil- dred Meade, 23, who was said to have had the confidence of D. C. Stephen- son when he was a power in Indiana politics. Miss Meade has been missing from her home here since last Friday. She is believed to have knowledge of docu- ments which Thomas H. Adams, pub- lisher of the Vincennes Commercial, has charged would show Stephenson’s alleged corrupting influence over high officials. Probe Resumes Monday. The grand jury adjourned yesterday until Monday. Adams and his asso- ciates planned today to assemble in- formatfon which they say is reaching them from many sources, tending to confirm the upblisher's charges. Earl Klenck, who has been active in alding Adams, was apsent from the city again today. le returned yesterday from Michigan City, where Stephenson s confined for life in the Indiana State Prison for the murder of Madge Oberholtzer. Adams has not determined defl- nitely yet whether he will go to Chi- cago Monday to seek aid of Senator James A. Reed’s senatorial campaign expenditure committee in the investi- gation of the Indiana situation. The publisher expressed the belief that the publicity which has been lsé:enh his clhnrgu would bring about ousec] declared Dested in ! auun! that he PRESIDENT GREETS VISITING VETERANS Qut-of-Town Legionnaires, With Drums and Bugles, March to White House. Pennsylvania avenue shortly before noon today resounded with the call of bugles and the rumble of drums as out-of-town bands of Legionnaires, returning from the national conven- tion of the American Legion at Phil- a delphia, paraded from Union Sta- tion to the White House, where they paid their respects to President Cool- idge. - The Legionnaires and members of Legion auxiliaries who participated in the parade made a colorful pageant in their drum and bugle corps cos- tumes of nearly every shade of the rainbow. French Deputy in Group. President Coolidge personally greet- ed Col. Yvos Picot, member of the French Chamber of Deputies, and M. Jacques Truello, first assistant to the American division of the ministry of foreign affairs of the French govern- ment, who came to this country es- peciaily to extend an invitation to the American veterans to hold their con- vention next year in Paris. Also in the group were Bowman Elder, chairman of the national com- mittee of the Legion. which is plan- ning the trip to Paris, and a number of other committeemen. ‘While many more Legionnaires who attended the sessions of the conven- tion in Philadelphia are fn W ing- ton, the parade this moon was made only by organized drum corps. Musicians in Line. In the line were the white-clad drum corps of Miami, the buglers of Red- wing, Minn., and a large delegation of women from Minneapolis, who wore smart dresses, caps and scarfs of or- ange. Other delegations were the North Dakota Corps, in light blue, and the Hibbing, Minn., in deep black and red costumes. The St. Paul Corps brought up the rear. Prestdent Coolidge and the two dis- tinguished Frenchmen and Mr. Elder went to the rear grounds of the White House where they inspected one of the two remaining machines of the fleet of taxicabs which were pressed into service in 1914 to rush emergency recruits to save the falling ranks of the French army at the first battle of the Marne. The cab was brought to this country for the convention. It was driven today by Sudley Peck, an American, who- for several years has been sporting editor of the Paris Times. LOLA FISHER DIES. Actor Husband Survives Actress, ‘Who Had Lengthy Illness. YONKERS, N. Y., October 16 (#).— Lola her, actress, died yesterday at her home here, after an illness of more than a year. Her last stage appear- ance was In 1925 In a revival of “The Rivals.” She leaves her husband, Kenneth Thompson, an actor. Miss Fisher came to New York from k4 CAP. CAPBEL GETS AW ARCLP President Presents Schiff Memorial Trophy for Pro- motion of Safety. The Herbert Schiff Memorial Trophy, awarded 3 to the naval aviator fiving the est number of hours without accident, was presented to Capt. Harold D. Campbell, U. S. M. C., of the Naval Air Station, San Diego, by President Coolidge at the White at noon today. The ceremony was held In the pres ence of Secretary Wilbur, Assistant Secret Warner for aeronautics, Maj. Edwin H. Brainard, chief of Ma- rine Corps Aviation; Admiral E. W. erle, chief of naval operations; Maj Gen. John A. Lejeune, commandant of the Marine Corps; Capt. Emory S. Land, assistant chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics; Dr. George W. Lewls, director of research, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics; Porter president of the National ssociation, and Lieut. J. S. N. R. F., rep- resenting the committee on award. Capt. Campbell, who flew 839 hours and 40 minutes during the past fiscal vear without accident, was congratu ated by the President for his demon. stration of safety in aviation. The trophy was engraved with the name of Capt. Campbell and the number of hours which won it for him and he was presented with a small copy of the original which he will keep per- manently. The larger trophy will be returned to the Navy Department “Hall of Trophies.” Last vear the honor went to Lieut. R. D. Thomas of the tion at Squantum, M Coolidge, then at Swamscott, present- ed it to Lieut. Thomas. A dinner will be given in Campbell's honor at Capt. the Mayflower Hotel tonight by the trophy commit- tee. IN MICHIGAN DELAYED ‘Wife Fails to File Appearance, But Husband Fears Legal Tangle if Case Is Pressed. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, October 16.—The time limit for Mrs. Doris Mercer Kresge to file an appearance in the divorce suit brought here by her husband, Sebas- tian S. Kresge, expired yesterday with- out Mrs. Kresge making such an ap- pearance, but no action was taken by the plaintiff to obtain a decree by default. Paul H. Voorhees, counsel for Kresge, refused to say whether the five and ten cent store magnate would press for such action in the face of the decision of the New York Superfor Court enjoining him from pursuing the suit in Michigan. The restraining order was granted Mrs. Kresge on the charge that Kresge was not a resi- dent of Michigan, but of New York. Artificial leather made n Amerfen s becoming popular in France,