Evening Star Newspaper, November 24, 1926, Page 2

52 DENIES ‘ACE CLUB EXISTS N CAPITAL Harris, Named by Reputed Auto Thief as Secret Society Head, Scouts Idea. Arrest vesterday of two girls and two vouths, all colored, in Asbury Park. N. J., on the charge of having possession of a stolen automobile, re- | vealed that one of the quartet, Clar- ence Williams, is belleved to be a vouth of the sama name who escaped from the Natlonal Training School for Boys an November 19 and brought to light a code of conduct said to be | prescribed by members of the “Ace of Epades Club.” a secret organization gaid by Asbury Park detectives to exist in Washington reform schools. Detectives based their belief on a get of rules which they eclaimed to have found in the possession of Wil lama. Louis Harris, who is an in- mate of the National Training School | for Boys, was named as captain of | the secret gociety, but when ques tioned today by Supt. George A.| Sterling, denied that sueh an organi- zation axisted in the training school. Harris Explains Information. | Sterling. however, stated that Harris had explained that Willlams had told him of an organization known as the “Ace of Spades Club, which had existed in a preparatory | gchonl Williams had attended before | being committad to the training | chool. Other members of the party arrest- ed vesterday are: Casper Root. Addie| Lyles and Blanche Meredith. Officials of both the National Training School for Boys and the National Training School for Girls had no records of guch inmates, although a girl whose | last name is “Lyles” was at the girls’| institution several years ago. | Institution heads scouted the idea | that an =Ace of Spades Club! cou'd exist without their knowledge. The following code, it is alleged, was found in the possession of Williams: (o one is allowed to drink. here is to be no rough plaving | ith a girl P Boys cannot play with firearms be- | fore the girls. “No one can commit a crime with- out a girl “Every one must have twn masks and two pairs of rubher gloves “No one to g0 without consulting the captain.’ Williams explained, detectives said, that “to go out” meant ““to go out on a 10b." ONE PLANE FORCED DOWN IN COLON HOP (Continued from First Page.) Supt. in 1925. It will have traveled 2,060 miles without a stop. as against 1,841 miles covered by Rodgers, and at the same time it will have demonstrated the potentialities of long-distance sconting for the fleet. The Navy kept a close watch on the progress of the flight through Its re- sourceful system of communications. Naval craft and Coast Guard cutters used signals to point the course, while land stations at intervals sent wire- Jess dispatches to Washington record ing the progress. One of the last messages received ghowed the two planes several hun- dred miles south of (‘uba. and another | recorded a speed of &3 miles an hour | for the PN-10 No. 1. Experts said this | would be increased as the weight of | craft ened, and the ship would whir er *“Panama almost at | & maximum number of miles per hour. It was agreed at the Navy Depart ment that, barring accidents, the one | lane would arrive at Colon by 4 p.m. | oday. | Rear Admiral Moffett. chief of the | Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, said he believed the plane would stay aloft as | Jonz as their fuel held out. | “Tt may arrive over Colon by 4| oclock.” he said? “but don't he sur.| rised if it fails to land immediately. A probably circle around over the Pacific is ex-| hansted | A report to the Navy Department, gent by the commander of the PN-10 No. 1, from a point 230 miles south of the Isle of Pines at 820 am. Fast- ern time and received here just before said the craft was making 76 . The oil temperat or had inc but otherwise =ailing until _their fuel starboard m message _said., was zood ! Hop-off Ts Auspicious. | The planes took off at Hampton | Roads at 4:18 and 4:26 p.m.. vesterday, wih a brilliant array of Navv aviation | talent comprising their crews of four | men each. i Comdr. Bartlett is a_vetaran Na fiver and winner of the Navy cro during the World War for heroic serv- | {ce for piloting a bomber on the Bel-| glan front. Lieut. Byron J. Connell | of Elizabeth. Pa.. one of the pilots of | the PN-9 No. 1 planes of the Rodgers | expedition, is in charge of one of the planes. Other officers of the flight include | Lieut. Lawrence W. Curtin of Beards. | town, Tl navigator of the illfated| Sikorsky plane. in which the French ace. Capt. Fonck, planned to fiv to France, Lieut. Clarence H. Schild- auer of New Holstein, Wie. who Eas made previous flights to the West Indies and Panama. and Lieut. Her-| bert Charles Rodd. who was on the | NC-4 plane when it crossed the Atlan. | tic for the first time by air in 1919 Skiles Ralph Pope, an enlisted pilot ©f Memphis, Tenn.. a member of the Rodgers fiight; J. R. Roe of Akron, Ohio, radio operator. and Charles J.‘ | Sutter, New York. machinist's mate, complete the flight personnel. 1,500 of Gasoline. Each plane started with 1.500 gal- fons of gasoline. estimated to be -uf~! ficlent for 2,154 nautical miles. In | nautical miles the flight measures 882 | l'rm- PN-10-type machines are h:-' lane tractor boat seaplanes. with twa oo morsenower. motors each. In wing | #pan they are 73 feet: length. 49 feet, gnd height, 181 feet. They were equipped with radio sets, having a | daylight range of from 250 to 400 | piles over water. | As the two planes whirred overhead. | five Navy ships and a Coast Guard cutter were stationed at intervals be- | jow, as watchdogs of the flight.| Heavy smoke signals from the an- | chored vessels served to guide the | aviatore during thé day, while at night their searchlights plaved a | steady beam for flve minutes every ! quarter of an hour. The vessels were the destroyer Overton. mine sweeper Bandpiper. the cutter Sauke. the light cruisers Raldgh and Cincinnati, and the mine sweeper Swan. ‘l HEADS FEDERAL PRISONS. @lbert H. Conner of Boise, Idaho, Named Superintendent. Albert Holmes Conner of Bolse, Jdaho, was named today as superin. tendent of Federal prisons. Conner, who is completing a term as attorney general for Idaho, suc- ceeds Luther C. White, who died re- cently. He gerved as a captain over. seas in the World War. SHUT-INS ENABLED 10 RENDER THANKS Liberal Provisions for Din- ners Tomorrow at Local In- “stitutions, Including Jail. Tomorrow will be a big Thanksgiv- ing at fail, as well as nine other local institutions under the guldance of the Board of Puhlic Welfare. Yesterday just a ton and a quarter of fresh pork—which not so long ago had been contented sucklings and | shoats roaming ahout the airy pens at Occoquan and Lorton—arrived in town for distribution to these institu- tions. It was the Thanksgiving gift of Capt. M. M. Barnard. superintend- ent of the penal institutions of Wash- ington, and will augment the regular fare which otherwise would be sub. stantial, but not ever-plentiful. Institutions Benefited. The institutions benefiting from the mammoth hog-killing staged down the river a few days ago include the Na- tional Training Schools for Girls. at Muirkirk, Md., and on Conduit Road: the Gallinger Hospital, Tuberculosis Hospital, the District of Columbia Training School for the Feeble Minded at Annapolis Junction, Md.: the In dustrial Home Schools for white and for colored, the Municipal Lodging House and the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ ;l‘p'mpm'm'_\' Home. And, of course, the ail. At only two of these institutions. however, will turkey be on the menu —Gallinger Hospital and Tubercu losis Hospital. Chicken will he serve.1 at some of the places, hut it is assured that roast pig will be at all of them. Great Year for Pigs. 1t has been a great vear for pigs at the Lorton sties. They have waxed fat and contented. They have in- creased and multiplied. And the re sult ig that this surplus has hecome sufficiently large to allow distribution to the instituions listed. Not only pork by the ton but apples by the barel are being distributed More than 250 bushels of apples also have been turned over to the hoard of | public welfare hy Capt. Barnard. And through his efforts and the efforts of George S. Wilson, director of the pub- lic welfare board. Thanksgiving thix vear will he an nccasion for a bit more thanks than some of the previous ones in this jurisdiction. . ' Feast for 197 Jail Inmates. At the District jail, 497 prisoners will =it down to a feast of ro: pork, grav mashed potatoes, turnips, cranberrk apples, bread and coffee. At the District of Columbia Reform- atory at Lorton, V'a., the kitchen staff was busy today preparing 375 chickens, which will be served with cake, apple ple. coffee and all the traditional trim- mings. There are 280 prisoners and 40 officers 1o be supplied there, according to Capt. A. (. Tawse, superintendent Practically the same bill of fare will obtain at the District of Columbia Workhouse for 600 pisoners, KRASSIN EXPIRES AT LONDON POST, DUE TO ANAEMIA (Continued from First Page.) various capitals of Kurope in an en- deavor to open trade negotiations he- tween the European states and Soviet Russia. In this he was successful in a number of ‘instances. Krassin was one of the few “mod erates” to he given a place of re- sponsibility in the Soviet govern- mental machinery. He was known as a “Bourgeois RBolshevik." After the Bolshevist coup in Octo- ber, 1917, Krassin declined a seat in the Soviet ministry, believing the theorfes of Nikolai Lenin were too swepeing. His relations with Lenin were cordlal. and he accompanied Lenin and Leon Trotsky, the war minister, when they went to Brest- Litovsk te negotiate the peace treaty with Germany. When ft became apparent that the Rolshevist Government would last, Krassin threw in his lot with it and hecame commissary of food in_ the Red Army. although he is said to hava had little or no bellef in the aims of the Government. He was convinced, however, that nothing was to he gained hy offering resistance to con- trol of the workers, Held Moderate Views. During his_early tenure of four ministerial offices ha worked imper- ceptibly for the restoration of the plain bourgeols methods of commerce. To him the nationalization of com- merce was one of Lenine's blunders. As for & world revolution, Krassin was A skeptic. He was all in all for a bourgeois peace. It was his desire to lead Russian Sovietism into the normal ways of democracy. “Who helieves in Socialism in Russia”" Krassin is reported to have asked. and then to have answered the question. “Not I. nor Lenine.” In 1922 Krassin was made am bassador to Berlin. He later was made ambassador to France and still later charge d'Affaires in London Farly in the present vear he was stricken with pernicious anaemia in Paris and_had to undergo an opera- tion and blood transfusion. COMMISSIONERS ASK MORE D. C. OFFICES Room in Avenue Triangle for Ad- ditional Facilities Urged in Letter to Smoot. Daniel E. Garges, soeretary to the board of District ~Commissioners, wrote today to Senator Smoot of Utah, chairman of the Public Buildings Commission, asking that when the triangle between Pennsylvania ave. nue, Fifteenth street and the Mall is purchased by the Government, room he provided for additional facili- tles for the District Government and also asking that the bill to be pre, sented to Congress by the Commission include authorization to purchase a site for the new farmers produce markei Mr. Garges was authorized to com- municate this information to Senator Smoot by the Commissioners vester- day. following a lengthy discussion as to the relocation of the farmers’ market and the need of additional tacilities for the District Government. The Commissioners did not recom. mend any definite location of the market site, explaining that their re. commendations on this question would be glven to Congress when the commission’s bill is under considera- tion. Bl Robber Attacks Newsboy. Spacial Dispatch to The Star. POTOMAC, . November tacked by a negro robber after de- livering newspapers late vesterday, Hilbert Millet, 12 years old, w knocked down, but escaped serfous in- jury or loss of his money when pass- re-by saw the attack and frightened off the assailant. A report was made to the police by R. L. 3 { Py 2 THE EVENL Spiritual Plea Scores Abuse of Thanksgiving A more spiritual observance of Thanksgiving day was urged in a message to church people issued here today by Dr. 8. Parkes Cad- man, president, and Charles 8. Macfarland, general secretary of the Federal Council of Churches. Instead of using the day exclusive- ly for sports and commercial pur- poses, the message suggested that attention be directed toward culti- vating the spirit of personal and national prosperity. “The abuse of Thanksgiving day in the interest of diversified com- mercialized pursuits or of sports which could be held on more ap- propriate days,” the message con- tinued, “moves us to remind our fellow citizens of the perils of un- licensed pleasure and of the preva- lent materialism which withers ‘whatever it touches. RUBBER FIRM FILES REZONING PLEA Firestone Company Would Construct $150,000 Build- ing on Maine Avenue. Plans of the Firestone Tire and Rubher Co. to erect an attractive combination office building and ware- house on a large site at Third street and Malne avenue were revealed to- day when Harold Keats, representing the company, appeared before the Zoning Commission at a public hear- ing and urged that the site be re- zoned to permit the erection of a 75- foot tower on the proposed building. The property involved in the appl.ca- tion for the change in zoning includes reservation C, bounded on the north by Maine avenue, on the east by Third street, on the south by Mary- land avenue and on the west by Four- and-a-half street. Mr. Keats explained that the build- ing would be of an old Spanish mis- sion design and would cost, approxi- mately, $150,000. A portion of it, he sald., would he used as a private office of Harvey S. Firestone, president of the company, and the other portion would serve as a storehouse for the Maryland, Virginia and District ter- ritory. Tee Company Petition. The commission also considered Jointly with the Firestone petition application of the Amerlcan Ice C for a rezoning from residential C to first commercial €, 90-foot-height area, all lots in the northwest quadrel of reservation D, bounded on the:-north by Maine avenue, on the west by Sixth street, on the south hy a public alley running east from Sixth street and on the east by the public alley running south from Maine avenue to intersection of the east and west alley. The company has planned to erect in this territory a building for the atorage and distribution of ice. The change was opposed by the Animal Rescue League and Wiliam H. Giles, who claimed that ice wagons coming | to the warehouse would disturb the residents of the neighborhood. A proposal to change from residen- tial C to first commercial C. 90 fool height. the property abutting the west side of Seventeenth street hetween the public alley south of R street and the alley north of @ was opposed by Rear Admirals William L. Rodgers and W. W. Kimball and other property owners including Mrs. Mary K. Porter. Other Side Is Argued. The rezoning was advocated, how- aver, by a group of residents on Sev- enteenth street who pointed out that one side of the street already is zoned commercial, and that the other side, with a residential zoning. is suffering because it is not possible to get de- sirable tenants. The chief proponents of the change were Willlam E. Land, Mrs. R. W. Henderson and Mrs. E. M. Dickinson. The Mid-City Cltizens’ Association, through its representative, A. J. Dris- coll, urged the commission to rezone from residential to first commercial C property abutting the east side of Vermont avenue hetween Towa Circle and Q street and the south side of Q street hetween Vermont avenue and Twelfth street and the west side of Twelfth street from Q to the north line of ot 36. The change was op- posed by the Federation of Citizens® Assoctations and colored residents of the neighborhood affected. Four other proposed changes in zon- ing are being considered at an after- noon session of the commission. MAYFLOWER UNIT NAMES WHITTELSEY GOVERNOR Society Meets in Washington Club and Chooses Roster of Of- ficers and Board. The Soclety of Mayflower Descend- ants in the District of Columbia, at its annual meeting last night in the Washington Club, elected Thomas Frederick Whittelsey governor. Other officers were elected, as follows: Kenneth D. Wales, deputy governor; William Cullen Dennis, captain. vice John Rlatch Blood, who has left Wash- ington: Mrs. Galus M. Brumbaugh, secretary: Harold N. Marsh, treasurer, vice Edwin Clay Blanchare Rev. John T. Huddle, elde C. Parke, historian, vice Mrs. Bertha Murdock Robbins, resigned, and Dr. Charles H. Stokes, surgeon. Board of assistants members were named, as. follows: Miss Mary W. Durham. Miss Flora L. P. Johnson, John Alpheus Johnson. Miss Carlie E. Marsh, Mrs. Bertha M. Robertson, v H. Semmes and Henry Crocker Wyman. TAXIS LIMITED T0 1,250, The District Commissioners adopted an amendment to the police regula- tions today lHmiting the number of | taxicabs and public hacks in Wash- ington to 1.250. Action was taken in view of the large number of public vehicles now ueing the highways, which the Commissioners dedlared are “more than sufficient in number efficiently and economically to serve the public,” and because of the exist- ing_condition of traffic. There are now 1,148 taxicabs and public hacks licensed to operate in the District. Under the old police reg- ulation the limitation on these vehi- cles was 1 —_— \ Child Burned Eating Lye. Doris Collins, 3 years old, found a can of Iye in the rear vard at her home, 1233 E street northeast, early vesterday afterncon and proceeded to investigate the powdered substance. She dropped tha can when the lye burned her mouth and was found be. fore she had been dangerously af- fected. The child was taken to Cas- ualty Hospital. 3 STAR. WASHINGTON, D. TREASURY MOVES 10 ACQUIRE LAND Government Printing Office Addition Will Be Sought by Condemnation. The Treasury Department today de- cided on condemnation proceedings to acquire through the courts a build- ing site west of the Government Printing Office to be used by that establishment for erection of an office building, authorized by Congress to cost not more than $1,250,000, includ- ing the site. The Department of Justice was asked by the Treasury Department to proceed with condemnation through the courts and will not develop plans for the building itself until some time later. Boundaries of Site. The site to be acquired is adjacent to another site recently purchased from the Yale Laundry Co. for $42,000. The whole site, including the Yale Laundry property, is bounded by the’| Government Printing Office itself on the east, G street on the south, Jack- | son alley on the north and running westward on G- street, up to and in-; cluding lot No. 812, ‘'his makes | a frontage on G street from the pres- ent building of 112 feet. The site is 175 feet and 3 inches deep from G street to Jackson alley. General phases of the public bufld- Ing program were understood to have heen discussed today by Secretary of the Treasury Melion and Senator Smoot, who is chairman of the public buildifig commisston. Plan of Commission. The commission recently adopted a program looking far into the future for acquisition of more land not al- ready owned by the Government in the triangle between ennsylvania avenue, Third street, Fifteenth street and the Mall. On this triangle the commission has also located sites for all public buildings to he needed by the Government. Construction on at least three of these sites will proba- bly start soon. FLORIDA’S ATTACK ON LAW CHALLENGED Government Declares State Has No Right to Put Inheritance Tax Up to Court. Florida’s right te attack in the Su- preme Court the constitutionality of that part of the Federal inheritance tax law under which inheritance taxes paid States up to 80 per cent of the Federal tax are credited in the collection of the Federal tax was chal- lenged in the court yesterday by the Government. The court was urged by Solicitor General Mitchell to refuse to permit Florida to file such a proceeding. He insisted that Florida did not have suf- ficient interest in the controversy ‘o warrant it and that the question was one for Congress and not the courts to decide. He contended that Con- gress had the right to decide what taxes shonld be paid to the Federal Government by Florida citizens and that the State was not the exclusive sovereign in the matter of taxes paid to the Federal Government by resi- dents. Florida's attack was described as nothing more than a.request upon the court for an opinfon on the constitu- tionality of the law, something which the court had repeatedly refused to give. Tts refusal to permit Massa- chusetts to challenge the maternity act was controlling in the Florida case, he argued. Attorney General Johnson of Florida, who described himself as a “‘cornfleld lawyer,” expressed his in- dignation over what he charged was cting the d it was an unveiled at- tempt to ‘‘coerce Florida” into en- acting an Inheritance tax law, pro- hibited under its Constitution. Peter O. Knight of counsel for the State insisted that Florida had an individual grievance which the court was bound to hear. HOLLY AND GROUND PINE CONSERVATION IS URGED Public Aid Sought in Saving Greens on Holiday by’ Using Substitute Decorations. ‘With holly and ground pine fast dis- appearing in this vicinity, the public was called upon today to use other greens or substitutes for them in deco- rations for Thanksgiving tomorrow. In their campaign for preservation of these heautiful holiday greens the National Capital committee of the Garden Club of America and the Wild Flower Preservation Society believe that much good could he accomplished for the cause if neither holly nor ground pine were used anywhere on the Thanksgiving holiday in Washing- ton, either in connection with the tur- key-laden table or elsewhere. The amount of substitutes on the market has been greatly increasing. it was pointed out, and there is an abundance in this vicinity of moun- aint laurel, which may be used with- out danger of extinction of this deco- rative green. RED CROSS ENCOURAGED. Prospect Bright for District Chap- ter Meeting Budget. Encouragement over the prospects of the District Chapter meeting its budget requirements for 1927, in the tenth annual Red Cross roll call. now in progress, was expressed today by officiala of the enrollment. To date the amount raised is $26,113.77, which is [$1,300 more than the sum received at this time last year, it was an- nounced at local headquarters, 1405 F street. In the report of returns from Gov- ernment departments yesterday, the Department of Labor was given credit for $1.200 which should have been given to the Department of Com- | merce, $174 being the amount received from the former department. Miss Bessie J. Kibbey contributed $25. The enroliment headquarters will remain open until Friday morning, when the workers are to return to the District Chapter House, 821 Six. teenth street, where enrollment for 1927 may be sent. Nine Arrested as Aliens. TAMPA, Fla., November 24 (#).— Nine members of the crew of 23 on the Bull Line steamer Ruth were ar- rested here vesterday by immigration officials as aliens who have deserted other vessels in this country. The arrests were made on complaints of the steamship company. The Ruth gloekod here yesterday from Balti ore. SEIIRE OF HP SHED ILEGA German Barkentine Will Be Escorted to Point 140 Miles Out by Coast Guard. By the Associated Press. NEW = YORK, November 24.— The United States Coast Guard was under orders today to escort back to a designated spot 140 miles out the German barkentine Carmen, seized Friday with its cargo of liquor. Food supplies eaten by an Ameri- can prize crew that brought the ves- sel into port had to be replaced. The seizure was declared illegal, after the German consul general in New York examined the ship's pa- pers and found them regular. Attention was called to the ship after its arrival Sunday night by the air of mystery on the part of Federal officials ahoard it. At first it was re- ported the vessel had 100,000 cases of liquor in its cargp, valued at $5,- 000,000. This figure Yas later reduced to $1,000,000. ‘ The officers and crew of the Car- men served on submarines and other veasels of the German navy during the World War. The vessel is equip- ped with auxiliary engines that give her a speed of 14 knots. She cleared from Bremen for Halifax, via Rotter- dam, September 16, but did not stop at Rotterdam. Prohibition officlals said the Carmen loitered off the Ameri- ican coast for two weeks, but did not 1-n:1 any liquor, as the cargo was in- act. Another vessel, the Royal Relge liner Mercler. which arrived Sunday from Antwerp, today faces condemnation or & fine of $6,000, because champagne and cordials, valued at $10,000, were found in its hold, disguised as hams. CASE AGAINST CAROL WEAKENS IN COURT Paris State’s Attorney Holds Ac- tion Involving Son of Lambrino Is Outside French Tribunal By the Assaciated Press. PARIS, November 24.—Zixi TLam- brino’s case against Former Crown Prince Carol of Rumania. seeking to legalize the name of Hohenzollern for her son by their morganatic marriage, was virtually thrown out of the court toda¥. The state's attorney gave the opin- fon that the French courts were with- out jurisdiction in the case, and it 18 taken for granted that the court be- fore which the case was argued last week will adopt this attitude in its Judgment next Wednesday. Carol and Zizi are-both Rumantans, and the case should be tried in the Ru- manian courts, the state's attorney held. He suggested that if Zizi's son, Mircea, were shown to be without dynastic pretension he would be ac- corded favorable hearing and redress in the Rumanian courts. SALVATION ARMY HEAD PLEADS FOR RUMANIANS Evangeline Booth Asks Queen to End Persecutions of Reli- glous Minorities. By the Amociated Press. NEW YORK, Novembher 24.—Tivan- geline Rooth, commander of the Sal- vation Army in the United States, pleaded for religlous tolerance for the “‘persecuted religious minorities” in Rumania, in a farewell message to Queen Marie last night. Speaking in behalf of the Salvation Army and its supporters, Comdr. Booth said: “It {8 my earnest praver that, as the Queen emb: rks for the homeland, she will ‘remember not only the en: thusiasm and affection with which she had been received throughout America, but also the requests and petitions’ of thinking Americans that have been conveved to her in behalf of the persecuted religious minorities in her country.” She added that she felt justified in “reinforcing these requests and pe- titions™ because these “‘minorities” in- clude representatives of many denom- inations, whose members are support- ing the Salvation Army. QUEEN MARIE SAILS; PAYS HIGH TRIBUTE TO U. S. RECEPTION (Continued from First Pa; Charles E. Mitchell, her host on her return trip to New York, and Ira Nelson Morris, former ambassador to Sweden. when she hoarded the boat. She was met at the head of the gang- plank by Capt. Sir Arthur H. Rostron, commander of the Berengaria, and his staff, and went immediately to her suite, which she found banked with flowers. Later she surprised officials and friends by reappearing to shake hands with two of her police escort. All told, 220 pieces of baggage were delivered at the pier for the Queen and her party. More than 20 of the boxer contained souvenirs. ‘The royal suite occupied by the Queen was used by Wales on his visit to America last year. The Queen’'s bedroom was the one used by the Prince; the one directly opposite is occupied by the Princess Ileana. At the foot of the Queen’s bed when she arrived was she arrived was her leopard skin bedrobe and her gold and orchid dressing gown. Ermine-lined slippers formed a part of the Princess’ neglige. KING’S CONDITION BETTER. Bucharest Physicians Cancel Call for French Surgeon. BUCHAREST, Rumania, November 24 (#).—Late accounts of the condi- tion of King Ferdinand say he has taken a turn for the better. Mem- bere of the royal household sald today, with evident satisfaction, that the King was developing something of an appetite and was able to digest his food more easil: The physicians, says the news- paper Dimineata, are so satisfled with his condition that they have tele- graphed the French surgeon, Dr. Le Senne at Paris not to come to Buch- Benne, at Paris, not to come to Bucharest. A French radiologist, however, is due to arrive tomorrow and take an x-ray picture of the King. After see- ing the picture the physiclans will decide whether they will continue their present treatment or make a change. The King is suffering from an intestinal trouble. . S Rites for Dr. Knowlton. Special Dispatch to The Sta: BALLSTON, Va., November 24 Funeral services for Dr. Frank Hall Knowlton, who died Monday, will be held at the home today at 2 pm. Burial will be in the Glenwood Ceme- 4 the Prince of | VEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1926. By Her Majesty the Queen of Rumania Written Exclusively for The Star American Newspaper Alliance . QUEEN MARIE'S FAREWELL. EW YORK, November 24.—Here I am, my face turned eastward, with only ‘a few days left to me upon American sofl, and you want to know what I think of You; you want me to condense my thoughts into words; you want me to share my impreasions with you; you want me to be quite open with you and tell you what I have learned. Well, dear people of America, above all I have learned to love you. That is the big. essential thing; the big, happy truth, around which all I have experienced centers. 1 love you because of your warm- hearted hospitality, because of your glorious desire to,go forward and suc- ceed, because of the frankress I find in you, which is the very hasis of my own character and which 1 had felt in every one of you when I had met you abroad, and which I found again on reaching your shores. It was the great attraction that you had for me, that something simple and open-heart- ed which one could get at without nd which makes one feel ediately, instead of labor- ing toward one another through a thousand unnecessary subtleties of which your younger Nation knows naught. Shall I also tell yo@ of the things which astounded me, and which I would perhaps like to see modified, for we are being perfectly honest with each other, are we not? Finds Overmuch Curiosity. You speak of freedom and democ- v, and yet, to my mind, in many ®, through your overefficiency, you have put on some chains which are u,nknnwn to us in our older civiliza. tion. Your desire to know, see, feel, touch, turna you into a sort of tyrant. There Reems to me no privacy in your Amer- fcan lives. Everything ~everybody does ia pried into, not out of unkindly curfosit:’, but simply because every one of you seems to have, in spite of vour business, the time to readevery word that {s written about everybody. How on earth you do it is more than I can understand. It seems to me that you are so husy living that you would have no time for that extraor- dinary interest in others. You have 8o multiplied, organized, catalogued, labeled and classified everything that you do that no breathing space is left, no time to sit down with your own thoughts, This comes, I think, from a keen and voung desire not to miss anything and not to be the last to hear. . 1, for instance, your guest, was never allowed to do anything but that which was expected of me. My pro- gram was mapped out for me not only by those who were arranging my trip, but also by public desire, by public customs, public institutions, that pub- lic right to have a share in every one of my act; For instance, vour press, your pho- tographers, your radio meet me be- fore I have even put my foot into any of your cities. 1 am Iimmediately asked, before I have seen anything, what my opinfon is of this or that town, if T do not consider this or that State most beautiful. There is a chil- dren’s eagerness about it all, which makes me wish to comply on the spot with those, what seemed to me, vio- lently expressed desires, but which were certainly, according to my ideas, a curtailment of my personal liberty. It was never for a minute taken into consideration if 1 was tired, dazed or perplexed. No Let Up for Her. I was simply a part of evervthing elae — the principal part even-—and, therefore, there could be no let up for me. Simply had to go forward, be- cause of your imperious feeling of possession. 1 was yours for that day, therefors must I strictly adhere to every one of your whims. Any break- ing away would have made me a dis- appointment to tens of thousands. Nature has endowed me with wonder- ful health and phenomenal resistance, 80 You were not able to get me under, even by your hospitality, but there were moments when the word liberty seemed to be a farce. Many of your big men had warned me beforehand: “‘Be careful, we Americans are terrible when we love some one. We smother them with our affection and we wear them to pleces with our desire to see them, hear them and pour over them v. I frankly and cheerfully enjoved it all, even what I hope you will permit me to call your greed. It was children's greed, naughty at times, bug without guile. Although I was eften dragged out of my hed or away from some impor- tant work I had to do, I was always glad to meet the crowds that came down to see me in my train. I liked the cheerful, humorous conversations we had together. I have seen good humor in American crowds. They are easily moved to lJaughter and joke is answered by joke. Those great stic- klers for ceremony would, no doubt, have been shocked to hear a queen thus hailed and answering 8o glibly. Dear old grandmamma, Queen Vic- toria, whose name is so well beloved in America, would, I feel sure, have been horribly shocked had she been able to see her queenly granddaughter thus in joking conversation with school children, workmen and honor- able citizens, gatherad together neath the balcony of her observation car. To me these hours were sweet, and if sadder ones are ta follow when 1 get home, I know that even sitting alone in my room, when I think of it all, a happy #mile will come irresiat- ibly to my lips. Children Also Liked It. My children also loved these infor- 1 meetings, loved rapid contact es- ablished between the American pub- c and us. We were strangers and yet there was no feeling of strange. ness about it all. When both sides are sincere, there is no shyness, and the words one says to each other, even if only hurriedly, have the ring of truth. Yes, I have loved the American ublic, in spite of their greedy desire or always more and more, never re- membering that although they were always & new crowd, yet I aiways was the same. Yet, an old friend of mine, a Canadian, used humorously to say, “My Queen, you must have a smile that nothing can wash off.” And =0, I think that all of you who have shared that smile will know that nothing did wipe it off, and because it was a natural smile which your welcome called forth, I think also that you will not forget it. It was like an electric cosmic current which connected all our hearts. I u to watch how my smile would light a smile on all your faces, and then it was really and truly like turning on many lights." - And now I will soon be gone, and sooner than I desired, before having complished the last part of my pro- gram, but it had to be. Life is a great taskmaster and we are but pawns in its hands. We must move unresist- ingly where it traces our way. Seldom do we live our Gwn life as we meant to. Those who succeed are those who do not waste time in lamenting the unavoidable, but seize every chance given them. You, my friends, have this philosophy in the highest degree. You see in all things a step forward, a possibility to go further, to attain, to succeed. I, perhaps, am more senti- mental, so I cannot but pause a mo- ment to regret. 1 will soon be far away and my great American adventure will be as & dream, a big dream, overtull of pic- and Other Members of the Nortl ' tures which will unwind before me like a ribbon of many colors, some- times narrow, sometimes broad, but |always full of interest, full of chang- ing hues. Let me see—in what do I perceive the greatest difference between you of the New Yorld and us oi the Old? “specially, I think, it is in your fresh- in your untiredness, that the great difference resides. Most of you | are hampered with no traditions, hav: inherited neither houses nor names no ancestry makes you pause to won- der if it is dignified for you to do| this or that, to be with this man or | that. You simply go forw There is a vastness about your country as there is In your institutions and all you build and dream. But you do not realize that you dream, for your dream is action, is carried out. You never spare money or effort. You see big, you build big, you plan bl‘,‘ you succeed bigly. e in old Europe go more slowly. Our dreams are often inherited dreams. There is something in our | blood that prevents our breaking loose from tradition. We often rn-| sist an impulse to go forward because | we do not consider it in keeping with | what our father, or grandfather, or great-grandfathers would have ap- proved of. It must make us seem hesitant and sleepy to your fresher unhampered minds. But then ther is a mellowness about us, a greater gentleness, which will come to you later on. Signs of Rapid Progress. You doubt nothing, no enterprise is too fantastic, no plan too vast. You lay out your towns with splendid forethought of how they will grow; ave seen them grow so stupen- in such a short time. More than once those who were showing me your magnificent cities would turn to me and say: “Can you realize that this 30 vears ago was ? 0, I could not quite incredible, |and, with a humor not unmixed with pathos, I thought of the over-few stunning progresses I have seen since the 30 years I have been in Rumania. Yes, you have gone ahead with a rapldity inconceivable to us in the| Old World. You are also inconceiv-| P — U..S. TOMAINTAIN My Impressions of America STAND ON MEXICO Recession Now Impossible Because of Publication of Strong Notes. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Again the diplomacy of the United States has reached the critical point of threatening Mexico with a sever- ance of diplomatic relations. Tt is all the more critical because the threat has been made public, for usually words of such strong tenor as Secre- tary Kellogg used in his latest note are first emploved in the conversa tion between diplomatic representa- tives. The fact that the United States lets it be known exactly what conrse she intends to pursue means that there is no recession possible now from that position. The Department of State has had | the same vexing experience with Mex- |fco that preceding administrations | have had. Tt is due partly to the in abllity of the Latin mind to under- stand Anglo-Saxon logie, a eircum stance that has to no small extent kept the political pot in Europe holl ing Incessantly. The present crisis, however, i largely die to the growing belief in Mexico that the Unite States since the European war has grown pacifistic and that the use of force to protect American rights abroad is highly unlikely. Mexico has, in a sense, sized up cor- rectly the American psychology ha- cause mo military or naval demon- strations have been employed to parallel American diplomacy sou.3 of the Rio Grande. Thera remains an other powerful factor—the employ ment of moral and economic force This, the Mexican administration does not fully comprehend. May Lead to Action by Others. For a severance of diplematic re lations between the United States and Mexico would probably he accom panied by a distinct effort on tha part of America to persuade all other na- tions, particularly European, to with- draw recoguition. The rigits for which the United States s fighting are equally impor- tant to the other nations. President Calles has the backing of ably wealthy, and vou never doubt that your wealth wiil go on growing, that there will ever be any scareity of | money. So your dreams go before you, knowing that vou will catch | them up in the same vear. After 30| years I have seen many of mine amile | at me from the place I sowed them, | and they were indeed but tiny, wee| plants. But, I for one, in apite of my love for America, do not think that I | would like living all my life at such | high pressure; especially I could not | live so publicly. I would want to go| occasionally where no one would mind at all what I wore, what I ate, whom I saw and what I thought; where it would be quite immaterial it my dog were called “Crag” or “Sambo” where I would not disappoint 10,000,- 000 people if I did not talk into a dumb, round little machine standing before me on a dinner table. Wants Next Trip Quieter. No, no, T could not forever go your place, anyhow, not if I were eternally {0 be the center of attraction—"Marie whom all wanted to see. It was flat- tering, touching, gratifying, but it} left me no time to be anything huli Marie, your guest, whose volee you| wanted to hear and who must never | even for a half hour drop out of any- thing, even into her bed, for fear of disappointing all those millions wait- ing to share my life. Yes, you are very efficient, glori- ously, splendidly, invinecibly efficient, but if ever I come back to you, I want to come less officially. 1 want to choose what I would like to do and see, I want to be allowed to breathe occasionally and decide if it is to the right or to the left that I want to go. I want to get out more into the coun- try to visit old, simple homes, where I can pick flowers, or eat apples and where no radio and no photographer will haunt me from behind the trees. 1 want to be able to climb up into the mountains and search for strange plants which I could bring home to my garden of memory. All has been o0 hasty. 1 have not been able to collect those precious seeds and roots which were to be taken back to mem- | ory's garden. 1 have not seen your great California, your Grand Canyon, nor your prodigious Hollywood, where moat of the films are made. I have not been down South to hear the | negroes sing those old songe in an- | cestral homes full of memories. I have not—but it is not good to say all I have not done and seen. T must not forget that coming 10 times would not he enough. if 1 want- ed to see America. Perhaps there may be a happy hour when I shall really. return amongst you. It cer- | tainly will be my great desire. But | does one know what fate will still de- | mand of me, what sacrifice, what ef- fort, what abnegation? I cannot look into the future and enough unto the | day is the joy or sorrow thereof. I have never weakened myself by bur- dening my mind with problems which I agall find the strength to solve when the moment comes. Takes Back Happy Memory. I know this: I am taking back with me a treasure of remembrance, a great wealth, and that is, all the love you have given me, every one of you, trom the unshaven old man who frayed himself away through the | crowd and past the police to thrust a | couple of faded flowers into my hand | with the words “Thess are for you, Marie,” to the big banker at his | table who had one glass eve at least. | Yea, you have given me something, | some spark, which, added to many | sparks, 1it a flame in my heart. There may be difficult days before me. I do not know to what I am going back. | I, too, am a bullder, a slower builder | than you are, because all has been | Iabor, " many dificulties and much | thinking out. There has been neither | on the roads which I have trodden, | but there has been poetry, there has been love, there has heen an ideal. I have advanced toward it slowly. T do not know how many years I still | have to work for my people. I shall accept them, good or bad, however | they may come. It is my way to see the rosy side of things, but there is also a mood which comes to me occa- slonally. If I look at anvthing hard enough in this world, it brings the | tears into my eyes. But what perhaps ahove all things made an fmpression upon me in vour | | &reat America was all that you are | 1 doing for your voung. Your schools are incomparable and the beauty, luxury and comfort you have thought out for your young ones are marve- lous. You want their lives to be easy, | splendid, yet you teach them to work. | You sow that ideal in their hearts, | Each man must be something for him- | self, must carry on, do, create, see | big and never hesitate. There is only | one little question which still has to| be solved by the future. Are yon not | perhaps making them selfish, are you | not perhaps by that great independ- | ence you are creating for them de- stroying_the dear old inatitution of | home? I do not know. It will only | be the coming time that will nnuw'r' that question and perhaps I will no more ba here among you teo” hear it. | I also admired that beauty of your public bulldings. You seem to me to | have adopted those styles which most | admit giant proportions. In each eity > your wealth nor your young energy \ive at peace. his own congress and probahly will lderive equal popularity from a de flance of the United States, hut ex perience has proved that a withdrawnal of recognition or rather a failura tn clothe recognition with moral sup- port merely encourages seditions elements to _undertake revolution. There are a_dozen different wayvs in which the United States can employ its power and influence without mili- tary or naval force. These atepa naturally follow in sequence and tha only important phase of the situation which the Mexicans may not appre- ciate is that the United States, if forced to do so, will go ahead with each one of the steps. Promise Is at Stake. Something broader and more sig- nificant than a mere defense of prop erty rights is fnvolved in the dispute. It is whether a plighted word given as a promise to American commis sloners prior to the extension of recognition is to be kept. The sacred ness of international obligations Is greater than the property invelved Thus the United States after trying for two years by persuasive notes and dozens of conversations hetween the American Ambassador. James R. Shaf- | fleld, and the Mexican government. | now' finds that patience has reached | the breaking point and some other language—the phrases of full mean- ing threat—is the alternative. In the past such a climax has sfther meant recession by Mexico in sub. stance It not in form or else it has meant another revolutionary dfs | turbanca, in which the United States | has withdrawn its moral support from the conatituted government. Mexie administration can chose eithar course, but the definite end of the | coaxing and cajoling has arrived and the old time bluntness and threat, | regrettable as it may be to many | people who have Mexico's intereat at | heart, has had to be substituted. (Copyright. 1926.) | COMPOSER DIES IN WEST. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, No vember 24 (P).—F. Ayres Johnson, natfonally known composer, Whose works were published under the name of Frederic Ayres, dled last night after an extended iliness. Thought to be dying when he was here 24 years ago, Johnson recov- ered his health sufficiently to lead an active life in_civic and musical | circles. In 19256 he was awarded a | prize for the best plamo trio pro- duced that year. Arthur W. Page Joins A. T & T. oW YORK, November 24 (P).— A::u‘: W. Page announced yesterday he had resigned the vice presidency of the publishing firm of Doubleday Page & Co. and the editorship of the World's Work to bacome a vice presl- dent of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. PER———— where I was, I was amazed by the beauty” of your capitols, your banks, your public libraries, your museums. Perhaps, according to our ideas, thers are few churches. Churches do not seem to play a great part in your national life, but I approve entirely of your religious tolerance, which I actually believe in great America is not only a word but a fact, yes, whols- heartedly I am with you thers. You can show the way to old Furops in that. Let thers be no religious con- flicts and misunderstandings, no ac- ceptances and denfals which one and all cannot share. Let us throw out before us that spirit of mutual under- standing, of love and of tolerance which ajone will make the nations You of America can in that more easily lead the way than those who have warred for o many centuries upon this subject, Go ahead, young America, do mnot lose your freshness, do not lose your energy, your faith, your glorfous wish to succeed. Jhst try though by de grees to learn that money is not everything. It is a colossal strength, but it can also make the heart in' sersible (0 the finer subtleties of life. Everything cannot be bought, even with gold. Your love of heauty is growing, growing with every step you make, and heauty will lead you onward to those small touches which bring postry into every man's life. I admire you, I helieve in you, I trust you, and what is best, I love you. ‘And today, when 1 am leav- ing vour shores, I would like to turn once more and look each man, woman and child in the eye, I would lfke to stretch out my hand for a strong clasp of friendship, and I want to say “Thank you! Thank you! I have been very happy among you, vou have given me a lovely time, you ave received me like 'a friend, I as Mare to you and—Marie let ‘me remain. 3 1. 1920, 1530 P the, Drited Staien, Great American thes American & 4,53}'”1&'.'.:‘ ‘5' ciion in whole Dart rohibi