Evening Star Newspaper, November 13, 1926, Page 1

WEATH Bureau Cloudy and warmer tonight and to- obably showers tomorro morrow Temperature—Highest, pm. vesterday: lowest, 33, at 1 a.m. today. Full report on page . Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 orecast.) 44, at class mattel ngton, D. C @h ¢ Foenit WITH SUNDAY MORNI NG EDITION - o Sfar. _WASHINGTON, D. €., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1926—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. The o service. Yesterday” @) Me nly evening J: |:her e in Washington wi Associated Press news s Circulation, 101,962 WO CENT 'S LOVE DIARY IS ADMITTED OVER DEFENSE PROTEST Rectoi’s Letters Containing Terms of Endearment Also Are Presented. FOUND Il\i 7MlLLSV HOME AFTER DUAL MURDER Counsel for Widow and Her Broth- ers Again Attack Finger- print Testimony. COURTHOUSY 1.. Noveniber bees SOMERVILLE, cent store 2100 and today's v of the Hall-Mills 1 v the book. “which e we will call a dizry.” ntified by Charlotte ne exhibit writ conven- 11 been ugh- that of the R Mrs, Mills, ne Elain with year The “diary” p ted 2 numb hed to the cov The State said tl out. while the der speakc of Ioas a ‘ ubjection of » defendants bad a-called di vere in no sense concerned with dmitted to show the feeling ' the minister and choir singer Contents Not Divulged. The contents were not revealed, hut the court stated, in deseribing it for fdentifictaion in the record, that the first date was July 31 and the last August 12 With the diary in, 15 letters said 10 have been written by Mr. Hall to Ars. Mills were admitted in evidence on the same bas The diary and letters were found i Mrs. home several Bfter hie h and as published four containing terms of en than four of the book con- i of 1 i 1 had been preferred autilated book the defense that no knowledge of 1o 1 the 1e small visiting card which the e has made one of the corner stones of its e again was made 1he target of defense fire when court opened today. It is on this tiny card that the prose- | eution is largely depending to prove fts contention that Willie Stevens, one | of the three defendants, was at the scene of the slaying. Reporter Resumes Stand. Herbert Maver, N ik Dail veporter for the Mirror, resumed the witn tand for cross-examination as to the movements of the card just Jrior to the time it was photographed n the office of his newspaper, after having been taken from this State by one of the police investigators of the @ou slaying. Two fingerprint experts, who were uring the photographing in wper office, previously have that the card, found at the ne of the crime, bore the imprint o Stevens' left index finger. er testified that he made two to Middler Y., where the . former fingerprint expert ew York police department that on the second visit he two days i Middletown, while “aurot and 1 finger- print expert of the INE T poiive department, examined the card. ewen earlier had taken the visit- I card from New Jersey to the newspaper office, where it was kept for a time. Empty Seats in Courtroom. The defense contends that what- ever the form of fingerprint, it has been made unreliable by the extensive of the card during the four ince it was found, e first time since the trial there were empty seats in the today. More than one- s in both the court- s were vacant. people e besieged their mpt to gain 1 began, courtroom third of ti room Her the entr: ofore doors in atte of Mr. Hall, which the sserted “detailed the great the minister for his choir rdmitted shortly before noon re obert MeCarter, chief of defense isel. argued that the diary was not levant, since it was found in the home several weeks after the inks, and had not been written by gy of the defendants At i mention of the diary and < flotte Mills, who last week had identified the handwriting as that ©f Mr. Hall, left the room When the diary was offered Justice Parker suggested that defense law yers might want to see it Four defense lawvers started for the stenographer’s desk at once, only to e restrained by McCarter. They wora not allowed to touch the little Jo.cent notebook until the court had made it plain that defense examina tion of the book ruling on fts beinz admitred would not requ @acceptance of the mater as evidence. ter when the dairy had been ad- mitted the attorneys examined it. Milkman On Stand. Harry A. Kolb, who was a milkman 1 1922, Lut is now a meat salesman, came to the stand to tell of closing A door when he delivered milk at the }all home between 4 and 5 o'clock on the morning after the double killin He was not able to describe the door, except “the first one after leaving Redmond street.” On cross examina- tion the defense brought out a sketch of the house in an effort to show that o the door might have heen one leading | to a coal closet. Willam J. Grealis, delivery boy for n New Brunswick tailor, testified there were some kind of spots, pos- itly dark ones, on a vest and around the waistline of trousers of a suit which Willle ordered him have cieaned and scoured Willle Nervous, He Says. Wwillle insisted that pack Ages be de ed eived ut the year of the young man attempted to deliver new suit tor Willle at the front d on the eve he said The oor ning of the day the bodies were found, | nnd was sent to the rear with t formation that there was trouble the house. ince inside the bullding he attempted " (Cemtinued on Page 2, Golumn 4) in- at had never seen it | weeks | evidence the card may bear in | Resignation Refused | | | \ UHDERWOL D, M. BERENGER, Ambassador from France. BERENGER'S PL - TORESIGN DENIED | - French Envoy to Return to | U. S. Shortly at Briands | Special Request. | By the Associated Press. PARIS, November 13--M. Ber enger, French Ambassador to the United States, offered his resignation {to Foreign Minister Briand a few day: ago. it is learned, on the plea that h cork in connection with { funding settlement was finished. M. Briand refused to accept the | resignation, and M. Berenger conse- quently will soon return to Washing- {ton. M. Berenger's appointment runs for six months at a time, in order that he |may retain his seat in the Senate. His { third six-month term will begin next | month. When the Ambassador visited For {eign Minister Briand a few days ago d expressed his wish to resign, M. Briand threw up his hands and ex- med: “Impossible!” The govern- | ment, he said, could not spare M. Ber- enger vet. and he must return to | Washington. M. Berenger finally con- sented. The Ambassador has been exerting his great personal influence in Parlia- ment, especially in the Senate, in f: vor of ratifying the Washington debt agreement, appearing before commit- tees and having long individual con- versations with the ‘members SLAYER BETRAYED BY OWN NEGLECT Wrote Confession, Changed Mind, But Failed to Destroy Sheet Beneath Original. By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, Ohio, November 13. | _Without emotion, and apparentl | without remorse, Edward W. Love- ilace, 35, described to police how he | had 'killed his brother-in-law, Everett | Heath, % { then threw the body into the river. | Heath's body with the legs tied to- | gether, and with a_heavy stone tied ito the neck. was found partly sub- {merged in the Ohio River near here Wednesday. | Lovelace, before his arrest, had | written a confession on a pad of paper. Afterward, realizing apparently that t might aid materially in having the crime fastened upon him he destroyed the document However, he failed to destroy the pad itself. Detectives discovered the Ipad when they searched his home and noticed the imprint of words left Dby a pencil. Using a few words deciphered from the tablet imprint police traced the | crime to Lovelace, who had identified Heath's body and had been held for questioning The imprint of the confession was shown to Lovelace, who, after several denials, admitted the slaying. He told police he killed Heath in October f After sinking the body in the river, he said, he went home and wrote a confesison. Later fearing the shing i conscquences of his act he destroyed | with a one-armed woman. the paper and scught to conceal the slaying. the debt- | | Jealousy was believed by police today | taken into custody on information fur- during a_quarrel while the two were | NAVYFLYERS MEE AR AGES OF LY FORSTANEDERCLP ‘Fighting Ship Takes Place of Racer Smashed in Trial Yesterday. |CONTEST MAY DECIDE FATE OF MONOPLANES | | | | Throngs Expected to Gather at Hampton Roads for Seaplane Classic This Afternoon. BY FREDERICK R. NEELY. Staff Correspondent of The Star. UNITED STATES AIR STATION, lampton Roads, Va.. November 13 Weeks of preparation for the Schneider | international seaplane trophy race, which involved—the loss of tvo lives and the cxpenditure of countless hours | of worry and labor for the United tates team, will come to an end at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon. when the starter's gun sendss six planes, three of them flying the flag of Ttaly, oft on { the first lap of the 1926 aireraft ¢ of the world Five of the planes will be the trim, sleek, flashes built esp ally for thi: while the sixth. an ordinary v single-seat fighting ship. will rve to fill the gap tries yesterday he missed, there still are a sufficient number of ships embodying the ex treme refinement in design and con- | struction to not only provide educa- tion and entertainment for the large crowd expected, but to give to the aircraft industry wider information on | | the art of racing plane make-up. All eyes are being centered on the three Macchi planes entered by Pre mier Mussolini, not only from the standpoint that a victory for any one of them would mean snatching the | trophy out of the permanent posses- sion of this country. but because they themselves represent radical depart- ures in engineering, and their per- formance is eagerly awaited. Monoplane's Fate at Stake. The three are identical. To the lay- man it appears that the Italians took a model of one of America’s Curti racers, lifted off the top wing, threw it away and called the result a Macchi monoplane. But to the experts, the Macchis mean that maybe America will have to give up the fdea that only hiplanes are-suitable for racing work Then, too, each little bright racer | is fitted with a Fiat 800-horsepoweér en- wine, neat and compact, and appear- ing not to be much larger than the American engines, although they each represent an increase of almost 200 horsepower. Lastly, the pilots. Maj. Mario de| Bernardi and Capt. Arturo Ferrarin, | have endeared themselves to the hearts of all flying men by thelr un- | anny skill. The third team member, | Lieut. Adrfano Bacula, lkewise is an excellent airman, but rated not | quite up to the standard of his two | colleagues. Capt. Ferrarin late yesterday quali- | fied in the reliability “tests, and dur-| ing his brief program, commanded the | undlvided attention of the large group | of air enthusiasts who had remained | for the performance. His two land- ings were of the finest ever seen, and his control of the plane faultless. Twice he came down into Little Bay, | leveling off slowly, although traveling at 100 miles an hour and allowing his | twin pontoons to melt into the water | with the resultant spray that attends | (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) JEALOUSY NOW MOTIVE SEEN IN OHIOAN'S DEATH Body Found in River Near Co- lumbus Identified as Ralph Pope. Man and Wife Held. By the Assoclated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, November 13.— to have been the basis of a quarrel that ended in the death of Ralph Pope, | 33, of Springfleld, whose body was found weighted down in the Scioto| River nmear Columbus Sunday. The body was identified late yesterday by Pope’s mother, Mrs. Aggie Rigss, Springfield. Oscar_Addlesberger, 40, and his wife, b, 30, were held by police in con- with the case. They were s: nection nished Mrs. Riggs. Pope’s mother told police her son | ( was engaged to a girl in Springfield and at the same time “’kept company Mrs. Addlesberger’'s right arm is amputated near the wrist, police say. Berlin Paper Assails Ambassador to U. S. For Flying German Flag on Armistice Day | i | By the Associated 6?(!! BERLIN, November 13.—A bitter attack on Baron Ago von Maltzan, German Ambassador to the United States, is printed today by the Lokal Anzeiger, die-hard Nationalist paper, because of his reported action in hoist- ing the German flag on Armistice day. “This action,” the paper says, ““must be branded as the most disgraceful act of self-degredation of which a German diplomatic mission abroad can be found guilty.” The attack is contained in a two- column front page article, which criti- cizes the Versailles treaty and its con- sequences, and closes with a demand | that the forelgn office take immediate | action against the Ambassador. 1 Anzeiger's attack recalls incident in which a Ge wador to the United Stat . Otto Wiedfeldt, Baron von | p ssor, failed to lower | the flag on the German embassy here | n's predece when the late President Wilson died. Three days after Mr. Wilson's death, an irate crowd visited the embassy and nailed an American flag to the flag- pole. The incident was thought to have had much to do with the Ambas- sador's recall early in the following | vear. Dr. Wiedfeldt dled last July 5 at Essen, where he was director-general of the Krupp works. By the Associated Press. Criticism of Ambassador von Malt- | zan because he displayed the German flag on the embassy building on Arm.- | istice day fs viewed by the embassy here as being wholly inspired by na- tlonalistic politics in Germany. “The display of the German flag on this occasion was purely in keeping | with the resolution adopted by the Senate on June 4, last, which called of flags on all | " sald a high | As it is customary ! ons to join in official | en prociaimed by tne President. the hoisting of the Gerinan flag on this occasion was wholly in | keeping with traditional dinlomatic | usage.” | The Austrian legation also dis-| played its national flag last Thursday day and the displa; Government building: eml official. * fe ign mis: along with the other diplomatic mis ons in Washington. g | clean shaved. { him | bid for public office was in 1860, when, {activities among the scenes he knew | words. AS WE BEST REMEMBER HIM. l OLD CHURCH SCENE FOR CANNCN RITES “Uncle Joe” to Be Buried| Next Tuesday Afternoon. Town Mourns Its Loss. By the Associ DANVILLE, 111, November 13.—In an ivy-covered church, where his wife planted the sprigs that in the years have grown into a massive bower of foliage, will be held fmal rites for “Uncle Joe” Cannon, whose eventful lifo of 90 years ended in peaceful sleep yesterday. Juneral services will be held next Tuesday afternoon. The hour of the funeral was set for 3 o'clock. 1 The body of the veteran statesman will lie in state at the Cannon man- sion on Sunda The Rev. T. N. Ewing, pastor of the church, the St. James Methodist Epis- copal, will officiate. Mrs. Cannon was a_member of this congregation, and after his retirement from the congres- lonal chamber “Uncle Joe,” too, be- came a Methodist. Mrs. Cannon took great pride in her church work and | with an eye to the future as well as the beautiful, she set out the tiny sprouts that now entwine the edifice with great reaching vines. Flags at Half Staff. The church stands directly across the street from a new edifice under construction, for which /Uncle Joe turned the first shovel of dirt a few months ago. . Meanwhile Danville made tentative plans to pay its last respects to its utstanding citizen. Throughout the husiness and residential districts, flags fluttered at half staff today under a dismal sky. In many downtown store windows large photographs of Mr. Cannon occupied central positions. All business and industry will cease during the funeral hour. Tributes to the dead Statesman poured in today from friends and for- mer foes, who recalled the vivid days when Cannon ruled the national House of Representatives with an iron hand. Coolidge Sends Sympathy. “The Nation has lost one of its most able, interesting and beloved men of the last generation,” President Cool- idge said in a message of sympathy to Miss Helen Cannon, daughter of the former Speaker. “‘He will always rank | as a great American. His great in- fluence gave his country a better Gov- ernment.” While his political career dated back to the days of the Great Emancipator, “Uncle Joe” had other traits in com- mon with Lincoln. His features often were said to be of the Lincoln type. F¥rom ears to chin he wore a fringe of close-cropped beard, the upper lip Also there had been no man in pub- lic life, Lincoln excepted, around whose life grew up such a lore of tales. (eertainly, there has never been a man so lampooned in caricature and cartooh. But while Cannon’s term of service in Congress stretched over nearly a half century and was the longest on record, there was one man who called “Kid.” He is Gen. J. Warren Keifer, 90, of Springfield, Ohio, a for- mer Speaker of the House, who served with Uncle Joe for years in Congress. Keifer Called Him “Kid called Joe the ‘Kid,’” ex- plained Gen. Keifer. “You see, he was 90 years old last May and I will be 91 years old on January 30. He always enjoyed that little joke and often in his letters he would sign him- self just that way.” While. Mr. Cannon first entered the House of Representatives in 1873, serving until his retirement in 1928, except for four years which covered his two defeats, the statesman’s first at the age of 24, he ran unsuccessfully for State's attorney. The last three vears in Danville had been ones of quiet and ever decreasing and loved. At first he walked daily to the Second National Bank. the insti- tution he helped found, but as the weight of vears wore on, these trips by foot were abandoned for automo- bile rides until a few weeks ago, when he was confined indoors. | Several days ago his physicians saw | for a general observance of Armistice | the end approaching. But before going | with him. —and when he knew he was going— | he tried to cheer those about his bed- side. “Have courage,” were his last| or many hours thereafter he was inarticulate, and the last sum- mons came when he was peacefully | sleeping. As the statesman lay in_death, Inti- (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) Radio i’rogramsé,»l’age 10| « Man, 110, Is Head Of Soviet Building Workers’ Congress 1 By the Assoefated Press KREMENCHUG, Ukraine, No- vember 13.--Ivan Shtcherbin, who is 110 years old and has served under five (‘zars, yesterday was ap- pointed chairman of the permanent congress of building workers. Shtcherbin has been on the job for the past ears and is de- clared never to have missed a single day % He has served in every war en- gaged in by Russla for the last 90 vears. He has been married four times and has 26 living children. PLEA FOR DISTRICT 10 BE SENT AFAR Public Invited to City Club| Meeting Tonight—Two Stations to Broadcast. The doors of the City Club, 1320 G street, will swing wide at 7 o'clock this evening to welcome the public to the meeting arranged by the club in support of the movement to obtain representation for the people of the District in Congress and in the elec- toral college. While the voteless Inhabitants of the Capltal are listening directly to the speakers in the auditorfum, the plea for suffrage also will be going through space to thousands of radio sets, both 1n Washington and beyond. By being able to broadcast the pro- gram the City Club hopes to awaken voting Americans in the States to a realization of the fact that 500,000 of their fellow citizens in Washington have no representatives in the Sgn- ate and House and take no part in the olection of President and Vice President. Residents Urged to Attend. Officers of the club are urging Dis- trict residents who can do so to attend the meeting. The memberships of the trade bodles and civic organizations have been invited, but the meeting also will be open to other individual Washingtonians. Beginning at 7 o'clock the Army Band will give a brief concert, after which Brig. Gen. Anton Stephan, president of the club, will explain the object of the gathering and introduce the speakers. The speakers will be Edwin C. Brandenburg, Charles W. Darr, Mrs. Anna E. Hendley, Edward ", McGrady and John J. Deviny. The program 1is to be broadcast by WRC of this city, which will be linked in with WJZ of New York. These two stations will reach a wide area of the United States, carrying the appeal of the voteless District citizen to a countless number of people. Coming as it will within two weeks of national election day, when all other Americans exercise their right to go to the polls, officials of the City Club believe the appeal of the District resident for the franchise will impress itself forcefully on the minds of those outside the city who listen in tonight. In arranging for the meeting those in charge have emphasized that the proposal for national representation does not contemplate relinquishing of control by Congress over the seat of Government, but would give the in- habitants of the District spokesmen in the Senate and House, where local laws are framed, and the same voice in the election of President and Vice President enjoyed by .the rest of the country. Cobham to Fly Ashore. LONDON, November 13 (#).—When Sir Alan Cobham, the English aviator, is nmearing New York on board the steamer Homeric November 24 he will fly from the deck of the steamer into New York in a small seaplane. wife will be a passanger on the plane | Bandit Slain in Hold-Up. NEW YORK, November 13 (P).—A bandit was killed and two other per- | sons, including @ policeman, were woynded at Broadway near Thirty- ninth street today when three men attempted to hold up Silverfeld’s jewelry store at 1395 Broadway. The tof the various neighborhood His | [f patrolman who shot and kilied the bandit wae wounded during a pistel battle. CIVIC BODIES OPEN MEMBERSHIP DRIVE Canvasse)i's Start on Tour of City to Enroll 40,000 New Active Citizens. A mighty army of Washington's civic leaders and workers, imbued ith a determination to add between 000 and 40,000 members to the rolls zens’ associations, began a city-wide can- today as the organized citizenship campaign opened at the instance of the Federation of Citizens' Associa- tions. The drive will continue through November 20, and at its close the campaign leaders are confiden: that the organized citizenship of the Capital will be the strongest in its his- tory. The opening of the campajgn found the plans perfected. Numerous meet- ings of the canvassers and the mem- bership committees of the neighbor- hood associations in the last month had served to familiarize every work- er with the detalls. Varlous organizations, religlous and fraternal, have pledged their co-opera tion in the campaign, and on' the eve of its beginning, Cuno H. Rudolph, re tiring president of the Board of Dis- trict Commissioners, issued an ap- peal to the residents of Washington to join a citizen's assoclation. Dougherty Opens Stations. Commissioner Proctor L. Dougherty, himself long identified with civic or- ganization activities, has already con- tributed to the movement by opening the police precinct stations and fire houses as receiving stations for mem- bership applications. With the hope of making President Coolidge the first convert to organized citizenship in the present drive, a | committee headed by James G. Yaden. newly elected president of the Federa- | tion of Citizens’' Associations, and his predecessor, Jesse C. Suter, manager | of the membership campaign, went to | the White House today and urged the Chief Executive to enroll. Accom-| panying them was Maj. Gen. Eli A.| Helmick, an ardent civic worker. | The President praised the activities and aims of the local citizens groups | in conversation with his visitors, and was understood to have advised them that he would let them know later if | he will join one of the groups. They left appilcation blank No. 1 for the Executive’s use if he decides to enroll. During the last organized drive in 1919, the late Woodrow Wilson at- tached himself to the West End Citi- zens' Association, whose terriforial boundaries embrace the White House. Headquarters in Old Bank. Campaign headquarters have been established in the old Citizens' Bank at 1336 New York avenue, with Harry N. Stull, president of the Stanton Park Citizens' Association and a member of the Citizens' Advisory Council, n charge. Associated with him are a group of prominent women under the leadership of Mrs. Frank Hiram Snell. Every concelvable method will be "(Continued on Page 2, Column High Lights of His { of Justice Louj Woman Reporter Stowaway Aboard Byrd Polar Plane By the Associated Press. FORT WORTH, Tex., November 1 The Bryd North Pole airplane, Josephine Ford, carried Mrs. Mar- jorie Cope, a reporter, as a Stow- away on the 30-mile hop from Fort Worth to Dallas vesterday. Mrs. Cope entered the cabin as the engines were being tuned at the air mail field here. She re- mained in a small compartment un- Ul the ship hopped off and then joined several Chicago and Detroit business men, who are passengers on the Southern lap of the national tour. E On arrival at Dallas Floyd Ben- nett, who piloted the ship over the Pole, issued instructions ofr a thor- ough search of the plane hereafter. The plane will leave for Shreve- port, La., today. Yesterday's flight completed the tour of the Chicago- Dallas air mail route. SENATE MAY FIND- COURTISSUEENDED Replies by Powers Expected to Settle U. S. Status Be- fore Session Opens. By tha Associated Press Interest in the Capital in the World Court situation revived today as P're: dent Coolidge vesumed his duties at the White House after a three-day trip to Kansas City, during which he declared in his Armistice day speech that the United States would Join the tribunal on its own terms or re- main outside. in the face of considerable con- fusion and varlunce in the answers a few member powers to the in- quiry of the United States as to the acceptability of the Senate reserva- tions to the protocol of adherence, President Coolidge was pictured as confident that his declaration in the West would lead to final and decisive steps soon toward the determination of the question of America’s mem- Dbers hip. speech Clarifies Situation. The President’s statement was re- garded as certain to remove any doubt as to the determination of the United States to take the court on its own terms are leave it alone. The next week, In the expectations of the Presi- dent’s advisers, should see an end to the prolonged delay on the part of signatory powers in replying to Secre- tary Kellogg's inquirles of several months ago regarding the attitude on the reservations. Acceptance of the reservations has been voiced in formal notes received at the State Department from Liberia, Cuba, Greece, Albania and Luxem- bourg. Santo Domingo replied that it would approve the reservations hrough its Geneva representative Uruguay answered that the reser ions are acceptable, but required ap- proval of the Uruguayan Legislature. Some Changes in Views. After having accepted the reserva- tions, however, the representatives of Greece, Albania and Luxembourg at the recent Geneva conference ap- proved the resolution regarding the reservations which the United States has found unacceptable. The Domin- ican representative also signed this resolution but reserved the right of his government to accept the reserva- tions In their entirety if it desired. The Liberian and Uruguayan repre- sentatives did not sign the resolution. Signatory states which have nelther | accepted the reservations nor attended | the Geneva conference are Abyssinia, ! Rolivia, Brazil. Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Haitl, Paraguay, and Salvador. ‘There is no doubt as to President Coolidge’s interest in the European re-action to his Kansas City state- ment. His advisers would be sur- prised 1f definite replies of member nations to Secretary Kellogg's in- quirfes were not received in time to dispose of the Court issue before the Senate reconvenes next month. This view persisted in_spite of the Geneva conference on Court admission and reorganization questions. GARIBALDI’S ACTS PROBED Judicial Investigation Ordered Into Activities in Catalan Plot. PARIS, November 13 (#).—A judic.al investigation into the activities of Ricclotti Garibaldi and Col. Francisco Macia in the recently discovered Cata- lan plot has been ordered by Minister Barthou. The minjster®of justice has directed that the investigation be centered about charges that ammunition was stored and arms and explosives di: tributed by the allied Catalan conspira- tors. Now comes to The Fundiy S, as a Full Page in Colors By J. Carroll Mansfield it ly tory strip world. It will appeal to all Parents and teachers' will has met with wide popu- It tells the story of man and the history of the members of the family. be glad to see the young- sters interested in this “sugar-coated” lesson in his- tory—and the older folks will find it as fascinating. Watch for the first appearance of this valuable feature tomorrow in The Sunday Shar.. SECRECY COVERS SHEFFIELD'S ISIT 10 WHITE HOUSE Envoy to Mexico Guest of Coolidge After Lengthy Parley With Kellogg. GREAT SIGNIFICANCE SEEN {IN LATEST NOTE FROM U.S. Official Word Lacking That Com- munication Was Sent—Previous Exchange Never Made Public. By the Associated Press. With Ambassador Sheflieid a gu at the White House today, the 1 usually deep cloak of silence w which State Department officials s rounded the status of Mexican rela tions served only to accentuate ti great significance they attach to the latest American note o Mexico ¢ Although the communication sent more than a week ago, State Department has not vet mitted officially that it had | forward, to say nothing of reveallng {what it contains. uropean reports that it embraces a virtual ultimatum in connection with the oll-and-land law controversy appear, however, be exaggerated There are indications that the cor munication is looked upon at t State Department as of more signifi- cance than the two previous notes in the series. These—one from Mexico and one from the Inited Stat not been published. It learned, from the utter sile Kellogg and deparmental ficers, whether the latest commur tion differs only in language or em- hodies a new move in the prolonged argument Other Conditions Disturbing. Other conditions in Mexico invol ing Americans, in addition to the dis agreement ovér the land-and-oil laws still are unsettled, and some occur rences recently in Central America are calculated to canse concern as (v Mexican-American relations. Ambassador Sheflield was closetad with Secretary Kellogg for a consid- erable time yesterday, and there are indications that aspects of the situ- ation he will face on his return soon to Mexico City will be considered with President Coolidge. Mexican conditions drew a for- mal and sharply worded official statement from the State Depart- ment a year ago when Ambassador Sheffleld last visited the White House on the eve of his return to Mexico City. MEXICO PREPARES REPLY. was the ad gone Date for Dispatch Unset, But Consti- tution Is Declared Upheld. MEXICO CITY, November 13 (#).- - Announcement made by TFor- elgn Minister Saenz today that & reply was being drawn up to the note of Frank B. Kellogg, the Amer- fcan Secretary of State, respecting the Mexican land_and petroleum laws, to which the United States oh- Jects. Senor Saenz said the date on which the note would be forwarded to Washington had not been fixed. The foreign minister added that the new note of Mr. Kellogg em- bodles several new viewpoints of the American Government, in addition to some already expressed in pre vious notes und that the Mexican Government 1s being forced to repls with its usual argument upholding the Mexican cons which the protests note refer. [RESULT OF NAVAL “FIGHT” AWAITS RETURN OF FLEET ‘Warships, Augmented by 100 Afr- craft, on Way Back After Sham Battle Off West Coast. By the Associated Press. AN PEDRO, Calif., November 13.— Naval officlals awaited the return here today of the United States battle fleet to learn whether it had met victol or defeat in a “battle” with a great hypothetical enemy armada south of here during the last 24 hours. Augmented by 100 aircraft, the | fleet put out for the drill grounds off | San Diego yesterday in an attempt to !locate and screen off the ‘“‘enemy" |fleet, which was assumed to have ap- i proached from the south. ‘The result will not be known until the umpires announce their decision. Specfal tactics, employing afreraft in both attack and defense, provided 'a new phase of tactical maneuvers. The maneuvers, supervised by Admiral Richard H. Jackson, commanding the fleet, were participated in by 11 dread- naughts, a destroyer unit, submarines and other craft. Y v PHILIPPINE JUDGE DIES. MANILA, November 13 (#). Adolph Wislizenus, judge of the |court of first instance at Cebu, died today. He came to the Philippines from St. Louis in 1902, having been appointed by President Roosevelt. ‘The death of Judge Wislizenus leaves Judge George Harvey the only remaining American jurist in the 37 courts of first instance in the islands. When the judiclary was organized after the American occupation the appointments were about equally di- vided between Filipinos and Ameri- cans. Hughes Heads Research Body. NEW YORK, November 13 (#) Charles Evans Hughes has been elect- ed honorary president of the Ameri- can Association for Medical Progress, succeeding the late Dr. Charles W. Eliot of Harvard, it was announced yesterday. The association, composed of laymen, was organized to emcour age experimental research for the a vancement of medical sclence. g $25,000,000 Christmas Saving. CHICAGO, November 13 (#).—Fa- ther Dearborn has a few odd dimes tucked away for Christmas presents. A check of Chicago banks disclosed that more than 900,000 Christmas Savings Club members will be pald, this year, something like §23,000,000,