Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1926, Page 2

PLAN 70 GONNECT (L0 FORTS DOOMED' i.and Purchase Delay to Stop Some Projects, Planning Board Announces. Portions of the original drive pro posed in the McMillan plan of 1901 to connect the many Civil War forts in the District of Columbia will have | to be definitely abandoned, it was dis closed yestorday at the meeting of | the National Capital Park and Plan ning Commission. : The portions of the drive to lr?nndnnad because of the long delay 1rf acquiring land for the connecting rbadways and the forts themselves wgre not made public, as they have nét been definitely determined. Fol | lewing adjournment of the commis- | sipn last night it was stated, however portions in Brookland, ¢ of Bunker Hill, will gve to be given up, as will also Fort ?F‘%mmvr. located in the grounds of the Catholic University. It is still gsible to obtain Fort Bunker Hill, afa preserve some of the original breastworks there, but not as the OIégmnl park planners intended. Although parts of ‘the proposed | fort drive of the McMillan plan are 1G be abandoned, othor portions will | bé included wich wers not provided | far in the origmal plan. Fort Slocum, | ir¢ the vicinity of Rlair road and Madi- adn street, was not included in the McMillan plan, but is provided for iy in the new plans. While little of the | oiginal breastworks remain, there i nevertheless a valuable grove of f¢ trges. i i Announcement Follows Study. This« information was hrought to the commission’s attention during a study mada of the 1901 McMillan plan. brought up to determine just how much of that plan had been carried o8t; what parts not yet developed should be considered in any new plan, and what parts cannot now be ac- quired becaise the celay in purchas- ing has resulted in later-day com- mercial development. 3 In connection with the study of the McMillan plan, the commission had before it a tentative plan for park and playground development —pre- pared after a personal study by Frederick L. Olmsted, a member of the commission, who also assisted in the development. of the 1901 plan. This was placed before the commis- sion to give the members a bird's- |, eve view of the situation now and an idea of the great park project ulti- mately to be developed. The plan- ners will ¢ontinue their study of the park situation here, it was pointed out, and collect sufficient data for the commission to consider at its February meeting. when a definite may be decided upon. m"‘r’;:t Suthority under which the present commission works is wider in scope than was provided in the McMillan plan. That project pro- vided only for a great park svstem. Rock Creek and Potomac . Park The new com- addition to providing the duty of providing he 1 t in parkways, has ayground parks in various sections ‘:f moclty‘ and these must be con- sidered in’ the general project. 1t is also probable that the regional park plan, -which is to provide a pro- gram for park development metropolitan_areas in Maryland and Virginia, will be ready for considera- |t tion: at "iiu F‘::;ulr\ mee','j"“ g‘-'l!‘fl‘ may be conside: in connection w lh.yphn for the District of Columbia Tentative Plan Discussed. The tentative plan for the great: mational memorial boutevard from the Arlington Memotial Btidge to Mount Vernon was discussed with the com- mission by Representative R. Waiton Mpore of Virginia, sponsor of the |t anm J vilson, chief of the bureau of public yoads of the Department of Agricul- ture. The Federal bureau is work- ing on the project at this tima and | morrow afternoon at the public bujld- has not_yet completed its studies, As the plan is incomplete, the commission decided to take no action now; but to consider it in connection ‘with the regional highway plan, ex- pegted to be in definite shape for the commission’s action by June. The commission was told that three routes are under consideration, and are being studied as to their various advantages. One is the direct or air-line route; the other is proposed to follow the bank of the Potomac River, and a third would lie between these two, and is known as the inter- mediate route. The public buildings improvement in-the triangle, which it is proposed the Government shall purchase, lying between Pennsylvania avenue and the Mall and Third and Fifteenth streets, was discussed with the commission by E. H. Bennett, architectural ad- viser on the governmental building program, and Lewis A. Simon of the supervising architect’s office of the Treasury Department. The commission discuszed the build ing: project in general, and particu larly the matter of providing trans. portation into and out of the area for 1He large numbers of Government em ploves who must be moved during the morning and afternoon rush hours. Can You Name The Presidents? Do you know the 29 men who have been President of the United States? . ¥ Would you know their pic- tures if vou saw them? Do vou know their politics, the candidates who opposed them, where they were born. their re- ligion, their education. whom they married, the events of their time, where they are buried? A new booklet, “Presidents of the United States,” with of- . ficlal portraits of them and complete, brief summaries of facts about them., their admin- istrations, and their families, has been prepared by the In- formation Bureau of The Eve. “ ning Star. A neat, accurate work valuable for reference for any man, woman or child, who wishes to be well informed, is # available for six cents return postage and handling. Use the Attached Coupon Tt || The Evening Star Information Burean, | || R irector I i in. DI N, 7 e i wife of Charles Chaplin, dian, will file suit for divorce and cus- ment issued in her behalf by her at- settlement out of court. quate proposal on Mr. Chaplin’s part for support, maintenance and-educa- tion, present inconvenience and necessity. He has even made it a condition of settlement that youngest baby. tively not consent to under any cir- cumstances. fair or adequate proposal on his part Mrs. Chaplin still would never con- sent to part with her babies. mains to be seen whether or not his apparent concern about the custody of one of the babies is merely for effect.” courts were preceded conference between George her attorney; her mother, Mrs. Lillian Spicer, and herself. written statement. heen absent from his home for three days and nights, and his attorney, Lloyd Wright, were .declared out of had announced a definite break in the negotiations. said, “and it was refused. move is up to them.” her attorney. was the answer. was_intimated, was for a settl in the |of $300,000 Chaplin give. up one of the children the Chaplin mansion in Beverly Hills to the home of her grandparents. 1t was pointed out that the Treasury has decided to follow the recommend: tions of the Park and Planning Com- mission at its last meeting that pro- vision be made in the basements of in Congress, and P. St, J.|the automobiles of employes. tation, however, is*to be made the cials of the Planning Commission, the resentatives of the street railway com- panies. Early Christmas Shoppers Act All Over Nation Now Washington is but a single chap- ter in the nmew order of early Christmas shopping. The whole book is the Nation. The revolutionary trial of the merchants in putfing _their full Christmas stock on_the market immediately after Thanksgiving, which has changed Yuletide shop- ping conditions here permanently, has become country-wide, accord- ing to information obtained by the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Ase Rociation. He se statistics show, “Shop early!” will mean just what they say—throughout the country. The days of surging crowds swarming = around _dizzy clerks the last week before Christ- mas, it is declared, are gone for- ever. WIFE T0 FILE SUIT AGAINT CHAPLIN Court Action to Follow Fail- ure to Negotiate Settle- ment Peaceably. orth, By the Associnted Press. 1LOS ANGELES, December 11.— Lita Grey Chaplin, estranged young film come- ody of their two babies immediately, t was announced tonight in a state- orney. Mrs. Chaplin sald this action s the result of failure to negotiate a pending have falled “Negotiations reasonable or ade- to result in any the statement read. “He has refused to relieve their she give up her This she will posi- “If negotiations had resulted in a It re- The announcement of Mrs. Chap- in’s decision to place her case in the by a lengthy Beebe, Edwin T. McMurra: her uncle, a San Francisco attorne; Neither Mrs. Chaplin nor any other n the conference would amplify the Chaplin, who has he city tonight. Earher in the day, however, Wright “We made them a fair offer,” he ‘The next The statement by Mrs. Chaplin and The offer mentioned hy Wright, it on condition that o the comedian. i N Mrs. Chaplin with hé& . children moved nearly two weeks ago from he new buildinks for day storage of This particular.mattersof transpor- subject of a special cenference to- ings and parks office hetween offi: Public Buildings Commission and rep- The matter of having a great railroad loop is- to be discussed, ax well as the determination of what streets the tracks should follow on 1t was said that there is a heliet th tracks should be kept off B street, the southern houndary of the area, be- cause of the plans to' make this a grand boulevard from the Memorial Bridge to the Capitol. C street is be- ing considered as the logical location of the loop. ¢ The reglonal highway plan is to be made the subject of a further study by both the National Capital Park and Planning Commission and th Regional Commissions of Maryland and Vir. ginia. The latter have been informed of the tentative program for the Dis- trict of Columbia worked out by the experts of the local planning body, and this has heen taken up by the Maryland and Virginia planners, who will attempt to werk out a sustem in their respective territories to connect up with the District of Columbia arteries, Beginning early in January the three hodies will start a. series of con- ferences, taking up each proposed route in turn and making an effort tn work out the detalls and to complete the whole scheme for adoption by June 1 for submission at the June meeting of .the parent body. The completed plan will lay down the regional highways, together with spec- ifications for their routes and widths believed to be necessary to carry the traffic in the territories they are to cover. For the most part, the District highways, it is proposed, shall follow the present arteries, such as Massa- chusetts avenue, Rhode Island ave nue, Connecticut avenue, Pennsyl- vania avenue and Kansas avenue. 1n the northeast section it is planned to | make New York avenue a connecting | link with Rladensburg road for bring. | ing Baltimore and eastern traffic into | the city, Instead of having it come hy way of Fifteenth and H strests and Maryland avenue as at present. Big Problems Presented. This route, relieved of this traffic, then wonld be available for bringing Maryland traffic, by way boro read, intn the District by g ning road, Fifteenth and H streets and Maryland avenye. This gives an idea of some.of the problems which the committee of experts is trying to work out. The commission approved certain minor changes in the highway plan. including & provigion for the elimina- tion of portions of Fifteenth,and s streets northeast, in lvy City and to lay out a new street in this area to parallel New York aveaue between Fairview and West Virgio#h avenue. This change was made f§cessary be- cause of the manner in which a sub- division there had been allowed to grow up. Portions of Farragut and First streets northwest, in the vicinity of Rock Creek Church Cemetery, were ordered abandoned, because the loca- tion of the cemetery prevents their being cut through to any advantage, ment building: properly “orient” himself. A preliminary architect’s sketch of the triangle formed by 15th street and Pennsylvania avenue and containing a tentative layout of proposed G The view is sketched looking northeast, and the Treasury Department and the National Museum are points b’y whkh’lhe r:ld(ell"wne:; CAPPER INDORSES TRIANGLE PLANS Declares Building Program Cares for Government Needs for 50 Years. Declaring that the country is in- terested in the beautification and im- provement of the Capital City, Sena- tor Capper of Kansas, chairman of the Senate District committee, came out last night in strong support of the plan of the Public Buildings Com- mission to develop the triangle be- tween Pennsylvania avenue and B street and from Fifteenth street to the Capitol, for public buildings. Senator - Capper said the sum re- quired to carry out the plan is small in comparison to the benefits to be derived and voiced the prediction that every American who hnfl any knowledge of the National Capital will approve of the investment. “As a matter of fact” he said, “the saving in rentals now paid b; the Government for unfit quarters will, in the course of .less than a generation, ~more than counter: balance the expenditure proposed. Long after their other ltuflnmenl? have been forgotten, the members o’ the Public Buildings Commission anc all who participate in the actual ac. complishment _of the plan proposo will be gratefully remembered v future generations who shall know Washington as the most beautiful and inspiring city in the world. Cause For Pride. i wThe members of the Sixth-nin ('nnrg};'qu Who lend their aid to the projected public Traildings nrnzn\:\ W11l have good reason for viewing the present session with pride. They ;;fll'\ be sure of the full approval ef thefr constituents of all that is dene 10 make Washington éh; ‘rofli\; that s originally .intende w’:?onlr?!a already has authorized $50,000,000, to be appropriated at the Tate of $10,000,000 anfually, for the erection of needed Federal buildings, including some necessary land pur- chases. Since that authorization was Tade last Spring, however, the build- ings commission has urged an addi- tional authorization of $25,000,000 to complete the purchase of the privatel owned land in the so-called Pennsy Vania avenue triangle so that the area between the Capitol and the Treasury may be suitably developed and ample space provided for the Government's needs for years.to come. Jt-is on. this latter proposal that ac- tion is being sought in Congress at this session. Zeal For Future. Continuing the expression of his views of the plan, Senator Capper said: “I'do not know an American who has ever visited Washington who has not gone away with a greater pride in his country and with a real zeal for making its Capiol City an even more impressive evidence of the power and intelligence of the Nation. “But, many of them have wondered at the truly disgraceful appearance of a e : part . Pennsylvania avenue, ween the. Capitol and Treasury, and have wondered also at the fact that the wealthiest and most enlightened Nation* in the world houses many of its workers in rented bufldings that are mere hacks dnd firetraps. b “The plans_evolved by the“Public Rulldings Commission are undoi edly not only the most comprehensi and” far-sighted ‘that have ever been propared, but the greatest in point of artistlc conception. ~They. embrace and_envision a broad avenue, inter- spersed with-beautiful park areas, ex- tending from the Capitol to the Wash- ington Mounment and Lincoln Me- morial, flanked by impressive and architecturally harmonious buildings housing practically all. the Govern- ment departments. Vision of Future. “This avenue will be connected with the new one leading to the Union Station and the one giving approach to the great new Memorial Bridge over the Potomac to Arlington. The Government will own all the property along the south side of Pennsylvania avenue between the Treasury and the Capitol, and its development of that area assures the upbuilding and im- provement by private interests of the other side of the Avenue. The prox- imity of the Government departments, with their thousands of employes, will, without a deubt, lead to the erection of substantial and handsome office and mercantile structures along the north side of Penhaylvania avenue, replacing those which now constitute an evesore. ““The great advantage of the plan over all these which. previously, have | been proposed is that it embraces not only the neéds of the'pgesent, but ‘the probable requirements-of the Govern- | ment for_a period ‘of .50 years-in the futurd. We: cafinot “affofd to follow a piecemeal policy, for,not.only would it be more expensive from.the stand- point of the money reéquired.later for purchase of additional areas, but it would undoubtedly result in a destruc- tion of the unity of concept, the un- marred completeness, of a single large area designed and devoted exclusively to the business of the Government. “One hundred and thirty-five years have passed since Pierre L‘Enfant be- gan the work of planning a city that would excel any other in the worll from the standpoint of beauty, and at the same time be most convenient and practical for:the conduct of a Count BRasil Adlerberg, now a clerk at the Carlton Hotel, but in former days a figure in the court of Nicholas, Czar of the Russias, was arrested ves- terday on & charge of violating immi- gration laws by making a misrepre- sentation in his application for ad- mission to the United States, and last night was at liberty under a $2,000 bond. ‘Possibility of deportation faces him, bringing to his life of 29 years an- other crisis in a long list of melodra- matic incidents. Deportation, he says, would be the same as a death warrant, for it was his father who put down the Nihilist Kronstadt uprising in 1905, when Czar Nicholas ordered that the anarchists striving for the fortress that looked down on the cap- ital of Russia be subjugated. The Alderberg name is- on the proscribed list in Russia. It was an Adlerberg—Count Vladimir—who was alde to Gen. Kuropatkin in the siege of Port Arthur in the Russian- panese war; it was an Adlerberg —Count Alexander, father of the central figure in the local drama and brother of Count Vladimir—who was the governor general of the St. Petersburg district from 1908 until 917, and who had formerly sup- pressed the nihilists. The hatred of the name by the ruling forces in Russia today is shown, according to the present count, by the fact that his father and his two brothers were murdered, as well as by the fact that he is alive today only because of a coinei- dence which reads life fiction. ‘Count Basil was an officer during the war with the Russian army. In- cidentally, he had heen decorated for he admitted, with the order dimir, at the hands of Czar Nicholas himself. In hix command was a soldier, who came to him with the story that his mother was sick and dying. The soldier asked Count Basil permission to go to her. He gave the permission, without consult- ing his superior officers, and he also gave this man funds to make the trip. Thereupon the man dropped out of Count Basil's life for a period. e became a deserter. The next that COUNT ADLERBERG, HOTEL MAN, IS ARRESTED UNDER ALIEN LAW Russian Exile, Late; ‘Released on $2.000 Bond, Says Deportation Would Mean Execution by Bolshevists. Count Basil knew, the man was a prisoner being tried before a court- martial in which the Count sat as one of the judges. Iis leniency gained a stay of execution for the man. And shortly thereafter the revolution broke out. Count Basil laughingly avers that it sounds like a motion picture scenario, but he avows that his next meeting with the man came during the Bolshevik uprising with the tables neatly reversed. Count Basil was the prisoner. The soldier was the judge. The soldier recognized Count ~Basil and made it possible for him to escape to Finland, from which point he allied himselt with various white armies, fighting the cause of the lost regime, until he recognized the futility of it all and came to America. Entering this country, after being in Kurope for several years, Count Basil sald, he made the representation that he was coming here to study. So he was, he said. 1In fact he studied at Georgetown University last year. But his resources did not prove un- ending and this Fall he was forced to work during hours which precluded him attending classes. He obtained the position of information clerk at the new Carlton Hotel, his knowledge of English, German, Russian, Polish and French tongues, all of which he speaks flyently being of great assist- anc Then the immigration bureau check- up came along. Orders for his arrest were fssued. Detectives Talley and Weber made the arrest yesterday for W. M. Johnson, agent of the Immi- gration Bureau. After arresting the count, he was immediately turned over ' to immigration authorities. | Commissioner General Hull has re- fused to state why the arrest took place or to give any details concern- ing the case to the public, Harry Wardman, owner of the ho- tel, came immediately to the rescue of the clerk and made his bond. Before the count left, however, he told the arresting officials, that if they intended sending him back to Russia, he could save them much trouble, “Just put a pistol into my hand,” he said. “The end will be the same."” GOULD SLATED TO GET D. C. COMMITTEE POST New Senator From Maine Would Succeed Late William B. McKinley of Illinois. Appointment of Senator Arthur R. Gould, Republican, of Maine to fill the acancy on the Senate District com- mittes created by the death of Sena- tor Willlam B. McKinley of Illinols is understood to be included in the sched- ule of the Republican committee on committees. Although ‘the committee on commit- tees did not take definite action on the District vacancy at its meeting vester- day, it was learned that the Senator from Maine was slated for the assign- ment. The committee probably will take action at its next meeting Tues- MERRY CHRIST] sa; successfully begun. Nutrition nation’'s government. The plan of the it was said. To take care of this mat- ter the commission provided for r——— new street to parallel New Hamp- “shire avenue in section, Public Buildings Commission is essen- tially an adoption of L'Enfant's work, adapted to modern needs ndi- tions.” Telephone Main 992 $175,263,000 ASKED MAINLY FOR REFUNDS Treasury Must Pay Back Illegally - Collected Taxes—Other Needs Listed. By the Associated Press. Congress was asked by President Coolidge yesterday to appropriate $176,263,000 to meet demands an- ticipated by the Government before. the close of the fiscal year, June 30. Of the total, $175,000,000 is for the refund of f{llegally collected Federal taxes. The request did not state whether they had been taken into account by the President in computing the estimated Treasury surplus at $383,- 000,000, hut at the Budget Bureau if was explained that allowance had been made for such items. When You Buy HEALTH SEALS You Buy Health Insurance for Yourself and Family REMEMBER We had here in Washington Only 49 Deaths per 100,000 Last Year From Tuberculosis—Among Our W hites. It was 183 per 100,000 in 1900. 4,000,000 Health Seals must be sold in Washing- ton to maintain the fight against Tuberculosis now Only half this number thus far sold. BUY OUR SEALS —and help us to carry on our Child Health Education in the Schools, Summer Health Camps for Tuberculous Children, Occupational Therapy at the Tuberculosis Hospital, School Lunches and Clinics for Undernourished Children, THealth Bulletins, Pamphlets and Health Rules and Rhymes, as well as information for everybody. Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis 1022 11th Street N.! Who ‘have paid for the above bulletin (legal notice) TAX ON BACHELORS SHAKES ALL ITALY Matchmakers Prepare for Rush Following Decree by Mussolini. By the Associated Press, ROME, December 11.— Premier Mussolini’s recent creation of a tax on bachelors between 25 and 65 1s causing a great stir on the Italian matrimonial market. Within 24 hours of the announce- ment that male celibates would hence- forth be obliged to pay an annual tribute for their single bliss, hundreds of professional matchmakers, who have been suffering hard times be- cause of the high cost of living, be- gan .active angling for business, Simultaneously scores of marriage brokers mushroomed into existence, advertising thelr services by word of mouth and the newspapers. Hope for Old Maids. Marriage brokers believe there will be an excess in the demand for wives over the available supply, thus storing as marital possibilities many elderly maiden ladjes, who long sinc resigned themselves to be considered definitely “on the shelf.” It is esti- mated that at least 100,000 bachelors, a majority of whom are beyond the first blush of youth, are now consuit- ing the lists of spinsters being com- piled in ths matrimonial hourses. The actual numher of men subject to the new tax runs into several hun- dred thousands, Rome and Milan each furnishing approximately 100,000. The male population of Rome and several other large cities, as a matter of fact, far exceeds the feminine. All"classes of women—the most bit- ter anti-feminists as well as the small brave band of feminists—hail the government's step joyfully, especial- Iy since the prodeeds of the tax will he used for the henefit of indigent women and children. The escape of unmarried women from penaliza- tion for their spinsterhood naturally is not frowned upon by them. Photographers Joyous, Too. Joy, however, is not confined to the women. Photographers report a greatly increased business in the past few days. One Roman camera artist pointed out with delight that the de- mand for large “touched-up” photo- graphs is now greater than since the war days. The newspapers also are profiting by matrimonial, personal and furniture-on-the-instaliment-plan advertisements. The few popular dance halls, which have survived the government's re-. cent campaign against all instruments of gayety as being incompatible with, the natlon’s need for hard work and discipline and nothing else, are dis- creetly announcing gala nights at which unescorted ladies will be wel- comed, special chaperons being pro- vided. Bachelors with small incomes say that they are being caught between two fires; their wages will not permit them to support wives, yet they must submit to taxation even on what lit- tle they earn. DIL TANKER BLASTS SHAKE N, Y. HOMES Agwisun Sinks, Crew Saved. Families Ashore Flee. Two Injured. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 11.—A serles of explosions aboard the oil tanker Agwisun, anchored in Butter- milk Channel, off Brooklyn, tonight shook New York Harbor. Two men were seriously injured and taken to a hospital. Fifteen men of the crew of 38 were aboard the vessel at the time, but through the alertness of Thor Brage, oller, they all escaped. A few recelved Injuries. After the first explosion, Brage flung a line to & tug 30 feet away and the men abroad the Agwisun climbed hand over hand, te safety before a second explosion came, which twisted the steel plates of the fore part of the vessel apart. Ten Blocks Away, Is Hurt, Alcot Johnston, machinist on the hoat, received a fracture of a leg. John Walters, a shipvard worker, who was about 10 blocks from the mrene of the explosion, also suffered a broken leg when thrown to the pave- ment by the force of the blast. Both men, residents of Brooklyn, were taken to the Long Island College Hospital. ‘Windows were broken within a half- mile radius of the sace Hundreds of families living In tenements along the water front fled from their homes, fearing that a munitions explosion had occurred. Probably Due to Gas. All the tanks of the ship had heen emptied of oil when the explosion oc- curred and were being cleaned pre- paratory to refueling. It is believed that the explosion was of gas:' ac- cumulated. em from the acid used 1% Fout a§ hene aftar the exploston ut af after the n sank, 'SCHOOL POISONING - LAID TO REVENGE |Boys Accuse Elder Brothers. Removal of Sister as Teacher Blamed. By the Associated Press. WARSAW, Ind, December 11.— Revenge upon school trustees is be- lieved by Kosciuske County authori- ties to have been the motive for the polsoning of the well at a country school near here, and for which two sons of a farmer are under arrest. Three younger brothers of Athol, 23, and Samuel Riley, 18, arrested for the well pollution, told Morrison Rockhill, county prosecutor, they were with the elder Rileys when they purchased the pioson at Nappanee, and with them at Mount Taber School when the poison was poured into the water. In announcing these alleged confes- sions today, the prosecutor said Robert, 13, asserted he poured the poison into the well at the behest of the brothers. Sister Removed as Teacher. To strike at the trustees who had removed a sister of the Riley brothers as teacher of the Mount Taber School, Rockhill said, the lives of 13 children who drank from the well were endangered. So much of the potion was poured into the well, how- ever, that it acted only as an emitic on the victims. A smaller quantity would have meant death, Rockhill sald. Athol and Samuel, yesterday after an which began on November 17, the day the children became ill, deny they had anything to do with the polsoning of the well. The younger Riley brothers—Robert, 18; George, 10, and Edward, 7—con- fessed to participation in other de- predations at the school. One night in October the three, with Samuel, went to the building, and while the latter stood outside as a sentry, the younger ones tore up books of the pupils and teacher, their confession said. On another night, their ad- missions continued, they dropped sticks and stones into the well. Athol Jjoined them on this expedition, the boys added. Describes Their Actions. Detailing the events leading up to the well poisoning, the boys said Athol and Robert purchased the poison at Nappanee on November 16. That afternoon the elder Riieys mixed the poison with water, the younger ones looking on, the confession said. After 7 o'clock that night, the boys declared, the five drove to the school. Robert said he carried the can of polson to the pump, and while Athol and Samuel directed him, poured its contents into the well. The younger Rileys were not de- tained by the authoritles. In his search for the perpetrators of the crime, Rockhill traced the re- moval of Mary Riley from the Mount Taber School to the Hepton School, a greater distance from her home. Ruth and Beatrice Riley previously had taught at the school. All are sisters of the accused men. The re- |moval.of Mary incensed the Rileys, Rockhill found out. Neighborhood gossip aided him and the questioping of the Riley boys gave him the ¢on- fessions. In entering a plea of “not guilty"” for the Riléys, Allen Widaman, the attorney, said county authorities had coerced the younger boys into im- plicating their brothers. SOLDIERS GUARD MEXICAN VOTERS Municipal Elections to Be Held Today—Precautions Are Elaborate. arrested here investigation By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, December 11.— Soldiers are resting upon their arma in barracks throughout the federal district, saloons are closed and the carrying of arms by civilians has been forbidden as part of the elabor- ate precautions taken by the authori- ties to prevent possible trouble at the municipal elections tomorrow. Political feeling has been running high and tomorrow is also Guadalupe day, the hollest of the vear for Mexi- can Catholics, when huge crowds of worshipers, including many thou- sands of Indian pilgrims from all parts of the republic, usually gather at the shrine of Mexico's patron saint near the capital. The authorities believe that both the political and religious observances will pass peacefully, but are prepared to deal promptly with any attempts at disturbances. Chief political interest centers in the election of a Mexico City mayor. The candidates are the present in- cumbent, Mayor Arturo WSarracho, who has the active support of the Regional Confederation of Mexican Labor, and Gen. Gustave Salinas, who IT bitterly opposed by the confedera- tien. November Circulation Daily. ... 99,857 Sunday. 108,861 € T montn of " November, ‘montn of November. 26, was as follows: & 2233323333333 o $epricd Ebr prise ey 382923 Lews adjustments Total daily net cireulation .. tal daily net paid circulatios Daily average number of copies service, ete. ..... ¥ Daily average net circulation ... SUNDAY. Copies. D: 09.084 Das. 11958 3 Less adjustments ...... Total Sunday net ; T thre et pala Wrindas o8 Average Sunday nef circulation .861 G NEWROLD. usiness Manager. 8 ul - and swo; ‘N!m me thi) DIAZWARNS MEXICO ISPLANNING ATTACK { Expedition Organizing to Aid Nicaraguan Revolters, President Charges. By the Associated Press. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, December 11.—President Adolfo Diaz of Nicara- gua today issued a manifesto in which he renewed his accusations that the Mexican government is ac- tively supporting the present Liberal revolutionary movement In this country, He charged that reliable informa- tion indicated that officials of the Mexican government were outfitting a vessel which, with an armed ex- pedition, would proceed shortly to Nicaragua under the escort of Mexi- can gunboats to make war against his government. Asserting that successful Mexican interference in the government of Nicaragua would mean the confisca- tion of private property, the denial of religious freedom, communism and political disorder, President Diaz call- ed upon the Liberal revolutionists to make peace with his government. Peace, general amnesty, compensa- tion for revolutionary losses on the basix of political fair play and a na- tional government in which the Liber- al party would be assured equitable . participation are promised to the revolutionists. Warns Other Countries. Soliciting the co-operation of all Nicaraguans and the moral support of the nations of the world, President Diaz warned Central American gov- ernments that their sovereignty would be menaced if Mexico were to obtain a foothold in Nicaragua by materially aiding in the overthrow of the present Conservative regime which had been recognized by the United States. President Diaz in his manifesto di- rectly accused President Calles of the desire to erect a political order in Nicaragua, with the aid of a Nica- raguan political faction, which would follow the ‘“recent sinister examples™ of Mexico. He said that his government cher- ished the warmest feelings of sym- pathy and racial kinship with the Mexican people, but that it felt a solemn obligation to set its face reso- lutely against the efforts of the Calles r:g to_interfere in Nicaragua. e Conservative government, the President’s manifesto said, did not at- tack the political tendencies and pol- icies of Mexico so long as they were restricted to that country, but It would fight against the introduction of those ideas and practices into Nicaragua through a revolution sup- ported by Mexico. Makes Peace Plea. The Liberal party, which has set up a government, recognized by Mexico, under former Vice President Juan Sacasa at Puerto Cabezas, on the east coast of Nicaragua, is assured of equitable participation in. the Con- servative government if it will give heed to his appeal for peace. “My government,” President Diax says, “has information that the Mex- ican government, following the same policy which impelled it to equip and dispatch last August to the Pacific coast of Nicaragua an armed expedi- tion on the Mexican vessel El Tropi- co. s now organizing and equipping another expedition of even more formidable proportions to Be launched from Puerto Mexico, Mexico, against the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua. “It 1s understood from reliable sources that it is the plan of the Mexican government that the vessel Superior, now being outfitted by offi- cials of the Mexican governmeént with an armed expedition, should proceed shortly to Nicaragua under the escort of Mexican gunboats for the purpose of making war against the constitutional government of Nicaragua over which I preside. In bringing to the attention of the Nicaraguan and foreign public these manifest designs of the Mexican gov- ernment to make war without any provocation on my government through the agency of Mexican mili- tary and naval officlals and certain Nicaraguans calling themselves con- stitutionalists, my government afirms its confidence in fts ability under any normal conditions to maintain order in the republic and te re- establish its control over certain re- mote and sparsely inhabited regions of the Atlantic coast now held by the Liberal revolutionists, * * * Fears Mexican Interference. “The members of the Conserva- tive party supporting my govern- ment cherish the warmest feelings of sympathy, racial kinship and fel- lowship of ideals with the Mexican people, but my government feels a solemn obligation to set its face resolutely against the efforts of the Mexican government, as now di- rected by President Calles, to erect a political order in Nicaragua, with the ald of a Nicaraguan political faction, which, following the recent sinister examrges of its progenitor, would confiscate property, deny re- ligious freedom, close churches, han- ish ministers of religion and estab- lish in general in Nicaragua the manifold evils of communism and political disorder now only too ap- parent in Mexico. My government feels that many worthy Nicaraguans, members of the historic and illustrious Liberal party of this country of noble tradi- tions, have in the biindness of polit- ical passion allled themselves with the forces of communism, radicalism and religious persecution now in control and running rampant in Mexico, but not representative of what is believed to be the true senti- ments of a large majority of the Mexican people. My government be- lieves that these Nicaraguan Liber- als, on due reflection upon the tragic consequences which they might bring upon their native land by aiding in turning it over to the horrors of the regime of President Calles of such unhappy fame throughout the world, will, because of their inherent .pa- triotism and love of country, their love of their religion and their re- spect for the rights of property, d cide to accept the olive branch ef peaca which my government ever holds out to them.” BANK CHECKS MADE GOOD $235,000 Christmas Savings to Be Paid in Memphis Failure. MEMPHIS, Tenn.,, December 11 (®).—Abe Plough, a director of the American Saving Bank and Trust Co., announced today that 6,000 checks, representing a total of $235,000 ‘in Christmas savings funds, will he pald despite the fact that the bank is in re- celvershin. The checks were. mailed just before the bank failed as a, result of de- falcations of three employes. Plough sald he and his associstes wouulmb.