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) -~gre.gn route to Mexico City. WEATHER. (. 8. Weather Fair and colder row; cold wave temperature about Temperature—H today; lowest, 33, at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page 5 Bureau Forecast.) tonight and tomor- tomorrow. Lowest 18 degrees. ighest, 39, at noon *Closing N.Y. Stocks - B Q E d B N > 30,208 ; Tnteneg an nacs and Bonds, Page 10 nd class matter shington, D. C. ch WASHINGTON, £ WITH SUNDAY MORNI Foening D. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY — NG EDITION 14, Star, 1927—FIFTY-EIGHT PAGES. in service, * P) Means Associated Pre: The only evening Washington with the Associated Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 104,891 TWO CENTS. MENCD FEARSL.S. MAYRECALLENVDY ANDLFT ARMSBAN Developments in Situation Declared to Hinge Upon American Action. COMMUNIST CHARGE IS DENIED BY OFFICIALS it 1 Federal Troops Continue Pursuit of Rebels—Captured Priests All to Be Deported. By the Assoclated Press MEXICO CITY, January 14.—De velopments in the situation between the United States and Mexico now are believed to hinge on possible action | by the Washington Government Among the possibilities seen here are | the withdrawal of the American Am- { bassador and the lifting of the | embargo on shipment of arms into Mexico from the United States. Secretary Kellogg's declaration re- garding communistic activities in Mexico aimed at the United States has drawn vetorts from two high sources—Aaron Saenz, Mexican for- eign secretary, and Ricardo Trevino, secretary general of the Regional Confederation of Labor, the dominant labor group in this country. The foreign secretary asserted that Mr. Kellogg's statement before the foreign relations committee of the American Senate did not prove the charge that Mexico was attempting to establish a Bolshevist hegemony in Latin America. Denies Mexico Is Responsible. As for decisions taken-by foreign organizations, nobody could hold Mex: ico responsible, he sald, but it was neécessary ‘“‘energetically to reject those charges agalnst the Mexican government, especially regarding its relations with Russia.” Senor Trevino replied to Secretary Kellogg in the form of a telegram, in which he agserted that the Mexican labor movemeént ‘was antagonistic, not friendly, to Communism. e Mexico's internal disturbances and her relations with the United States have caused no little alarm in certain quarters, those in high posi-) -tlons apparently wish to make no pre dictions at the present time as to what | courge events will take. troops, pursuing rebel their movements to a1 wo, least temporarily, what might have developed into & more or less con- certed revolt. Pursuant to its belief that priests are inciting the Catholics to rebei- lion, the government has decided to deport all priests captured heading rebels. The war department instruct- ing all military commanders to send arrested priests to the capital, whence they will be sent abroad. It is re-| ported that several priests, captured in the states of Jalisco and Coahuila Paper Charges Persecutions. Charges of anti-Catholic persecu- tions are made by the newspaper E: celsior, which says it has reliable au- thority for the statement that five vouths, none more than 20, were shot and killed at Leon last Monday after having their tongues cut out, for par- ticipating in an alleged Catholic up- rising there. Six others, it says, were executed. The paper, in an editorial, condemns the “‘waste of blood” in Mexico, abuse of the death penalty and “informal executions.” "The whereabouts of Bishop Pascual | Diaz, secretary of the Catholic episcopate, who was reported to have been ordered expelled from the coun. try after his arrest/last Monday, is still a subject of uncertainty. Larte advices from Vera Cruz, however, say a person thought to be the bishop arrived at the Cordoba railway station three hours’ journey from Vera Cruz City, early Tuesday morning, accom- panied by two men. apparently police agents. The party took a train en route for the Guatemalan border 1t Bishop Diaz is being sent in that direction, the theory here is that it is to prevent him from quickly reaching the United States, as he might have done if deported to Cuba from Vera Cruz. Sixteen Reported Hanged. Newspaper reports that 16 more rebels have been captured by the federals and hanged to trees along the highways in the federal district lack i official confirmation, but the news papers say at least 22 rebels have been found thus hanged. The government claims to have de- geated rebel Yaqui Indians at Topolobampo. State of Sonora, troops attacking and killing many of the Indians after a bombardment by aviators. MEMBERS OF CONGRESS DEBATE RED AIMS IN LATIN AMERICA Eaton Upholds Adm to “Bully he Assoctated Pres essional discussion of the Mex- | ican-Nicaraguan tan; swung back | | today to the concern of the American | jovernment over Communist aims in | | Latin America, and to the possibility of a break with Mexico over her land | 1 polic { pr voiced vesterday by | n Borah of the Senate foreign committee against the followed by President Coolidge gua also was seconded from | o with Senator Dill, mocrat, of Washington leading the | ack on the administration pilots. | he House Representative Eaton, | can, of New Jersey delivered a defense of the President's | America. and asked | directly whether they | and “for the President {of the United tes or the President | of Mexico, | Seces Danger to Continent. | The great danger in the present situation. said Mr. Eaton. was that| | the Western world would permit itself | Bs | ations | 1 2t proposed to | 10 be overrun by bolshevistic “‘unrest, | h e and strife” engendered in Rus. | sia. In reply, Representative Huddle- | ston, Democrat, of Arkansas, read an | editorial describing _Secretary Kel-| logg's statement as “an indecent in tellectual exposure.’ A resolution thich would declare it | the opinion of the House that no rea- son exists to break relations with Mexico was introduced by Representa- tive Moore of Virginia. a Democratic member of the foreign affairs commit- tee. Senator Dill charged that the United s Dill Charges U inistration in House . 8. With Trying Nicaragua. wa< seeking to “bully” Nie His attack was supported by Sepator Heflin, Democrat, of Ala bama, and others. while Senator Wheeler, Democrat Montana, is preparing to speak within the next few « in protest against the ad ministration policies, and Senator 3dge, Republican, indicated he would Adress the Senate in defense of the President. “No Defense for Intrigue.” McKe" ates aragua Democrat, of .« if there was any Alted States agents A government officials Senator Ten ask justification * “intriguing"* gua There is no defense whatever for ich action.”” Dill responded. He protested “‘against a policy of bullying Nicaragua when we should be playing the big hrother.” Senator Heflin, Democrat, Alabama, then took up the atack upon the ad- | ministration _poliey Heflin said $1,000.000 had been raised in the Knights of Columbus convention in Philadelphia last August “to help car ry_on warwgainst Mexico." The resolution passed by the Knights of Columbus convention, Heflin said, amounted to a demand for war with Mexico. “I am not denving the Knights of Columbus the right of petition,” he said. “But T am opposed to any church seeking to plunge this country into war. No Protestant church can do that with my approval.” Senator Heflin said he had received a_letter warning_him_a_‘chain _of " (Continued on Page 4, Column 4. RUSHU. . WARSHP TOCHNESE TOWN U. S. S. Helena Goes to Sha- meen, Fearing Threatened Attack on Foreign Quarter. By the Associated Pre ' HONGKONG, January 14.—The American gunboat Helena has left for Fhameen. Dispatches say the Chinese workers in the Hospital for the Insane at Can- ton, which is in charge of an Ameri- can doctt are manifesting . strike CANTON, January 14° UP).—British and ° foreign thorities last night started preparing slaberate defenses for Shameen, the foreign settlement, fearing a threatened attack. The Nationalists were closing many un- authorized unions and instituting arbitrary regulations for strike settle- ments. Want Japza Firm. TOKIO, January 14 (P).—A firm hand in China was urged today by leading business men of Tokio and Osaka. They adopted a resolution declaring that, owing to the likelihood of the Yangtse River Valley anti-foreign situation undergoing serious develop- ment, resulting in tremendous eco- nomic loss to Japan, the Japanese government should no longer remain an onlooker, but should adopt a more positive, more resolute, self-defensive policy, insuring more effective protec- tion to Japanese lives and property. SHANGHAI January 14 (P.—A wireless message from Hankow today asserted news dispatches were being |altered there before transmission by local authorities “to convey a totally wrong impression.” It added that the | situation was quiet. REFUGEES ARE BURDENED. | Obstructive Tactics Hinder Evacu- ation of Foreigners. HANKOW, January 14 (P).—The Kuomintang, or Nationalist party | backing the Cantonese in their fight |to put China under unified control, was set forth by J. Borodin, Soviet Russian neY i adviser to the Na- | tionaix & the power which even- tually will “relieve all oppressed peo- ples of the earth.” He made the ment in an address at a mass meeting here last night Borodin warned the throng against | the possibility of a counter revolu- tion against the Nationalists. The meeting was in the form of a reception to Gen. Chang Kai-Shek, commander-in-chief of the southern forces. Gen. Sang and Gen. Galhssn, | his Russian adviser, also spoke, | Big Evacuation Problem. | Alhough evacuation of forelgners from Hankow, Kiukiang and other points down the river from here was { carried out with a minimum of de- |1ay, British authorities yesterday were Dispatches from Guadalajara in dicate that the demonstrations before the American consulate there were suppressed by government troops al most before they started Anti-American feeling has been dis- played in other places, but no clashes . have been reported i Arms Ban Tightened. on instruc- The war department, les, | tions from _President ordered further restrictions in sale | Special permits will be ed o patches from Merida, Yucatan, D e military authorities there e yeceived numerous applications | for “enroliment in the army in case | orrCresults from the present inter * vat situation. ‘raqffi:‘jpr-.sm.nnax offices have re. | peived a message from Gen. Ferreira, Filitary comm Aouneing that 40 rebels wd after summary ecuted by fe Agrarian Ld bels were captured court-martial, berals in Jalisco, he e organizing and co-operat :191‘.1&:»”‘: federals in the fight Neinet “the Catholic rebels. Amnesty Asked for Rebels. d that the ; errelra_announce nfi}fi?,‘“fo, Cocula have appealed for &mnesty for the whoiseoantly revolted that town bu re wiged 1B rrender. President Calles B g 10 g the general to accept thelr eubmission. Gen. Escobar, militar: for Durango and Co8 + (Con i ) y commandant huila, reports 33 has | andant of Jalisco, an. | federal forces at Arenal. | rebels who recently | confrented with a difficult problem |in connection with the general evacu- jation order issued in respect to all | British subjec in the interior of zechwan, Hupeh and Hunan prov- | inces. Many refugees in the three interior states have to journey hundreds of ‘mllas by the slowest forms of trans. | portation in order to reach the river, | where they are being put aboard ships. In addition to the natural difficulties, the British are being hindered by ob- | structive tactics by some of the labor Woodsman Blazes Trail Through City OnTelephone Poles By the Associated Press. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., January 14. —While Little Bock does not claim rivalry with New York and Chicago in size, a stranger here yesterday found it necessary to blaze his trail through the city with a hand ax to avoid becoming lost. The woodsman was found by police hacking a markey, on each telephone pole he passed. He was told that this was illegal. “All right,”’ the police were in- formed, “if you're so particular, I'll'go back to where I came,” And * the stranger did, following his trail of marked poles. KING SEEKS INQUIRY OF D. . NOMINEES Would Refer Utilities Board Names to Subcom- mittee. When the nominations of the two civilian members of the new Public Utilities Commission and of the people’s counsel to the commission are taken up in the Senate District com- mittee, Senator King, Democrat, of Utah, probably will urge that they be referred to a subcommittee for con- sideration before being acted upon. Senator King said he had three tele- phone calls this morning in regard to the appointments, and while he has not recelved any specific complaints Aagainst the three men nominated, he thought the course of referring local appointments to a subcommittee for study should be followed in this in- stance. It was Senator King who had the nominations of District Commission- ers Dougherty and Taliaferro referred to a subcommittee, which will meet in executive sessiorr at 10 o'clock tomor- row morning to pass on them. Many Letters Recelved. The District committee several weeks ago received a number of let- ters relating to the nominees for Dis- trict Commissioners, but Senator Capper has stated that they did not contain any serious objections. Senator Capper has not received any communications or comment since yesterday on the Public Utility Commission appointments. It is known that Chairman_Cap) (Continued on Page 2, Column WOMAN GETS PORT JOB. Mrs. Tillinghast Immigration Commissioner at Boston. Appointment of Mrs. Anna C. M. Til- linghast of Cambridge, Mase., as immi. gration commissioner at the port of Boston was announced today at the White House. Mrs. Tillinghast suc- ceeds Commissioner Johnson, who died a few days ago. She is the first woman ever to hold such an important post under the immigration service. Mrs. Tillinghast has been prominent in Republican political circles in Mas- sachusetts for several years. She con- ferred at the Labor Department today with Secretary Davis, Commissioner General of Immigration Hull and other officials. | “Continued on Page 6, Column 7.) | 1 Gov. Ferguson‘s Clem With Five Days | | By the Associated Press. ! AUSTIN, Tex., January 14. Miriam A Ferguson's clemenc: proclamation total today stood at 3. while the district attorney of | Dallas County sought to join Harris |and Bexar Counties in discontinuing {all criminal court sentences during | the remaining five days of her term. { When informed that Gov. Ferguson | had maintained her daily average in {issuing clemency orders yvesterday by signing 31 full pardons and approving | several paroles, District Attorney Wil- |liam McGraw asked Dallag County District Court judges to postpone sentencing of criminals. The courts took the motion under advisement. McGraw said he was ‘unwilling to any chances”-on ns being ency Total 3,242, Remaining of Term issued to men recently convicted in his_district. Gov. Ferguson's inyitation to Bexar County officials to prove any of the clemency proclamations she had is sued since taking office two years ago were unjustified was unchallenged. Although she pardoned a man from that county vesterday, the presiding Judge admitted he had approved the proposal. The State Legislature, which has before it a bill to repeal the amnesty measure passed in 1924 restoring the political rights of James E. Ferguson, husband of the governor, who was ousted as chief State executive in 1917, yesterday refused to confirm several by Mrs. pointments recently made |in orde: .'g'ergu.on. ing. or GAR LINE CHANGES, TWO-DECK STREETS, ADVISED BY EXPERT Total Parking Ban in Cer- tain Area May Be Found Necessary, He Says. FUTURE TRAFFIC JAM LIKELY TO BE WORSE Report Goes™ to Senator Capper From Capital Planning "Commission. A number of important changes in methods of handling street car and { vehicular traffic, particularly in the | downtown section, are suggested in a report sent to Senator Capper of the | Senate District committee today, based on a study by Harland Bar tholomew, employed by the National | Capital Park and Planning Commis- | sion to study conditions here in con- nection with the broad scheme for the development and beautification of the Capital City. The report says that while traffic congestion here ‘is now adute, there may be expected in future an increase of considerable volume which may necessitate a broad scheme of traffic organization as well as certain Im- proved opportunities for circulation of all types of traffic. The traffic in- vestigator laye down the following three general methods to be consid- ered for handling the traffic volume of Washington of the future: 1. New arrangement of existing | transit lines and differentiation in | street. use. 2. Establishment of an extensive system of one-way streets. Proposes Double Decking. Double decking of certain ets, particularly in the area bounded generally by F street, B street, Fifteenth and Ninth streets, where existing grades are favorable to_such double decking. The report says that upon certain thoroughfares, such as Pennsylvania avenue, ¥, G, Seventh, Ninth, Elev-| jenth and Fourteenth streets, transit| operation might be intensified to an | even greatér degree than at present, ! and to which further encouragement| should be given by complets. elimina- tion of automobile parking, at least during certain hours. Likewise, certain other thorough- !:ru.tsuc:‘u B, Thlwrttemm and Tenth , should open compiete- ?yr:iof lntmm‘bg use by l’lmgnpv:':hfle Ta Mr. Bartholomew lays down five | reagons for the complications of tran. | sit facilities in the present business ' district. They are: 1. Two separate operating com- panies. 2. Complete lack of continuous east and west streets, i 3. Unbalanced traffic resulting in looping and stub end lines. i | 4. Overconcentration of facilities, | particularly in ‘the vieinity of Four.| teenth, Fifteenth and G streets and| New York avenue. { 5. Lack of differentiationt between | {street car trafic and automobile traf- fic on certain well defined streets. Street Rallway Situation. Taking up the street railway situa-| tion downtown, Mr. Bartholomew re. ports an examination of the flow map | showing the density of street car movement during the rush hours re. veals very little overconcentration of | traffic on any one street, but this is| {offset by the large number of tracks and turning movements at numerous | street intersections. t This is due, in part, he says, to the desire of each of the two operating companies to reach the center of the central business district with as many individual lines as is possible. There can be no simple, no satisfactory routing plan for surface transit lines devised which does not start out with the premise that there shall be a single operating company or at least unification of service in the central business district and approaches thepeto, Consolidation of the two operating companies, he continues, would greatly simplify conditions and adds that existing stub end lines, such as that'on New York avenue, should be eliminated completely. The street system, the report goes on, is notably deficlent in provision of { continuous east and west thorough- {fares along which there may be through trafic movement—the street being _the _o; possible _available (Continued on Page 7, Column 1.) CONNECTICUT AVENUE GETS 30-MILE LIMIT Certain Stretches From XKlingle Bridge to Circle to Have High- speed Mark. | i A 30-mile speed limit along certain sections of Connecticut avenue from the north side of Klingle Bridge to Chevy Chase Circle was approved by the District Commissioners today on recommendation of Traffic Director M 0. Eldridge. The 30-mile limit will not be con tinuous. There will 'be a- 22-mile-an- hour limit from Klingle Bridge to van Ness street, and between Har- rison and Livingstone streets, with a 15.-mile limit, between Livingstone street and the District line. Mr. El- dridge explained in his recommenda- tion that on other arterial highways where the increased speed method has been given a trial the results have been most satisfactory, and the tend- "ency has been to reduce the speed rather than to increase it. “At the present time many vehicles are being operated over Connecticut | avenue at a speed in excess of 30, miles an hour,” he said, “and it is believed that the legalizing of the 30-mile limit on that section and the lowering of the limit at other places, together with a proper placement of signs designating these limits, will go far toward reducing the traffic haz ards on this street.” A reflecting type stop sign, visible at night, has béen érected on each street intersection Connecticut avenue r to stop Ac ter- crossing. i {more fixed opinions of mankind. FREEDOM OF PRESS DEFENDED BY REED Must Be Safeguarded in War "as Well as Peace, He Tells Editors. » ‘The freedom of the press should be safeguarded in peace and in war alike, with every editor assured the right to defend or criticize any doctrine he elects, treason, scandal ana violatioms of public decency excepted, Senator James ' Reed, Democrat, of Missouri told the fifth annual meeting of the American Socjety of Newspaper Edi- tors this morning. “The liberty of the press,” Senator Reed declared, “is chiefly valuable when it is used to break down l?‘is is monstrous that a citizen cannot speak for or against the prosecution of a war. The liberty of the press must be maintained in peace and war alike, trusting confidently in the “pa- triotism and common sense of our people.” Traces Free Speech Fight. Speaking on the subject. “The Lib- erty of the Press,” Senator Reed traced the fight for free speech from the days of Socrates and Milton to the times of Jefferson and Lincoln, whom he quoted as defenders of the doctrine that democracy can exist only so long as free speech is as- sured every person. Free press, he added, was only a more modern ex pression of free speech. “Jefferson declared that he would rather live in a country with news- papers and no government than in a country with government and no newspapers,” the speaker said. “Yet how easy it is to control the press in this country was proved during the last war. The House passed almost unanimously a bill which would have provided a censor to tell the news- papers what they should print and 110,000,000 people what they could read. “That bill was defeated in the Senate. But when a censorship of a kind was established anyhow, there were very few of you editors who had the heart to publicly oppose it. What- ever we may say now, theré are very few of us today who can justify the (Continued on Page 2, Column 4. i g FIRST OIL AGTION BEGUN BY MEXICD Company Cited for Failure to Apply for Certification Under New Act. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, January 14.—The department of industry and commerce has delivered to Attorney General Or- tega the first of its citations of oil companies who have not applied for ratification of their rights under the petroleum and land laws. The citations were delivered under an order issued by President Calles on January 4, and were furnished in or der that thé attorney general. “may take action to which the nation is en titled against private individuals or corporations engaged in the oil in- dustry which have not fulfilled the laws” concerning their concessions. g i Under Mexico's new oil laws, which became effective on January 1 of this vear, all rights and titles acquired be- fore 1917, when the new Mexican con- stitution went into effect, are declared invalid and their holders were required to apply for concessions confirming their rights before January 1. ‘American oil companies, owning ex- tensive tracts affected by the laws, | have refused to apply for confirmatory concessions on the contention that no adequate protection of their rights is provided. On January 6 it was announced that Attorney General Ortega had yet to decide the character of the ac- tion he would take, inst the . for- eign ofl companies which had not com- lied with the new laws. After & con- ference with President Calles, he said: “I cannot say at this time in what form I shall take the action to which the nation is entitled, but I can cay that I will.act Box of Ballots In' Pennsylvania Probe Disappears By the Associated Pr PITTSBURGH, January 14—A missing ballot box was the object of a search by Allerheny County detectives today. The box, that of the third “dis- trict of the fourth ward of Pitts burgh, was among a number or- dered seized by District Attorney Samuel H. Gardner, who is con- ducting a grand jury investigation of the November election. When detectives went to *he Soho School for the box it was missing. Alderman John H. Carr, in whose tharge it had been placed, said he put the box in the school because he did not have' room for it in his office. DUMFRIES SWEPT BY S10000 BLAZE Public Hall. Store, Garage and Two Homes Burn—Ma- rines Fight Spread. Special Dispatch to The Star. QUANTICO, Va., January 15.—The town of Dumfries, on the Washington- Richmond highwav, 5 miles west of here, was practically destroved by fire between 1 and 2 o'clock this morning. the loss extending upward of $100,000. Seventy-five United States Marines from this post, with a chemical appa- ratus and buckets battled the flames, and two stores and several residences were saved. Meeting quarters of the lodges of 0Odd Fellows and Junior Order United American Mechanics, the general mer- chandise store of W. Brawner, ad- jacent, and across the street the resi- dences of J. H. McInteer and D. C. Cline and the garage of Mr. Cline were destroyed. The fire started in the Odd Fellows’ | Hail, it is believed, but the cause has {not been ascertained. A meeting of the lodge had just been held. There were no narrow escapes, because most of the population had been aroused by the struggle of the lodge men and others to save the meeting place before spread of the fames, Several women and children were among the scores who gathered Those whose homes were burned were given shelter by neighbors. The marines were summoned by telephone. The blaze burst through the windows of the lodge quarters at 12 As the marines reached Dumfries, shortly after 1 o'clock, the larger bullding was a mass of flames and residents of the town and farmers were making feeble efforts to save nearby struc- tures. In spite of the dashing of water by hundreds of bucketfuls upon the blistering surfaces of the struc- tures across the street, the flames soon had them beyond control. The loss is about half covered by insur- ance. | ButCETIN A IT-ISTCONTENDED By '&PPONENTs OF* THESAD- . MINISTRAT 10N Sy CEpTa, AMERICAN ‘Pou‘cY'R - THE MONROE DocTRyy COLD WAVE COMING TOMORROW NIGHT May Be Lowest Temperature of Season—No Snow Is in Prospect. Cold weather, perhaps the coldest of the season, is due to visit Wash- ington tomorrow and remain over the week end at least, Weather Bureau officials announced this morning. No snow is in sight, it was stated, but indications are that it will be erisp and cold and that tomerrow night will be very chilly, with the temperature well below the 20-degree the Northwest, it was stated, and is expected to envelop the entire East- ern section of the country within 36 hours. Cold weather warnings were Bureau to points in thé Eastern half of the country. FIVE DIE IN STORM IN WEST, Second Cold Wave Sweeps Down From Rockies on Trail of First, By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 14—Snow- storms, that piled thé Central States deep, swirled on toward the Atlantic seaboard today, whilé another of Winter's .barrages crept down the eastern slopes of the Rockies. The most severe cold was in the area between the two storms, but low temperatures spread with the snow from Canada to the gulf and the Weather Bureau would promise no great rise before Sunday, if then. More snow was in prospect today for Midwestern and Southwestern States, where a record fall for the Winter in many places already had seriously interfered with travel and communication. Snow 20 Inches Deep. Central Illinols was buried deep, with close to 20 inches of snow on the ground in some localities, and in Chicago an army of 3,000 labored all night to keep traffic lanes open. Three men were killed while attempt- ing to keep traffic moving and two others died of exposure. At Gary, Ind., a street car careened from snow-hidden rails and- crashed into a bus, severely injuring several persons, and in Chicago the weight of the snow caved a garage roof in and hurt four men. Southwest Section Shivers. The Southwest shivered In the un- seasonable weather and prepared for zero temperatures in the wake of storming that left snow from an inch to six inches deep. Virtually all of Kansas, northern Oklahoma and Missouri were blanketed with con- siderable depths. Lower thermometer readings were promised the Middle West today, and snow-laden skies and low if not ex- treme temperatures were forecast through the Central States. The storm center itself swept down the St. Law- rence Valley to give the corn beit a breathing spell before the arrival of | the new disturbance advancing east- ward from the Pacific Coast. | | 1 | By Consolidated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, January 14, | Publicity attending the granting of loans to veterans of adjusted compen- sation certificates has caused a large number of veterans after two years i of delay to apply for bonuses. It is |a strange fact, though true, that many veterans of the World War did not know that Congress had passed a bonus law. X But all the publicity about men get- ting their hands on actual cash has changed the outlook and now applica. tions for adjusted compensation are coming into the San - Francisco regional office of the Veterans' Bu- Veterans Learn of Bonus for First Time And Stage Rush for Cash in California The mad rush for loans has about ! ended in this community, several banks having promptly advanced them. It is interesting to get the viewpoint on these loans of Maj. F.| A. Royse, chief of the personal serv ice section of the Veterans' Bureau office here. He believes the rush for loans will be best for the vet- erans in the long run. Many veterans are careless with their certificates, he said. They lose them, ‘let them get stolen, depos! AGENTS OF SENATE ANPHILADELPHIATO GETVAREBALLOTS Writ Served on Kendrick Calls on Him to Turn Over Vote Boxes. OFFICIALS OF ELECTION ALSO GET SUBPOENAS Mayor Announces Release From Order to Appear in Washington. By the Associated Press Armed with double-barrelled sub- poenas, agents of the Senate are in Philadelphia today seeking to take possession of the ballot boxes, ballots and other documents used in the sena- torfal election last November. One set of subpoenas directs Mayor Kendrick and the election officials of Philadelphia County to turn over the boxes to the Senate agents, while the other set calls upon the mayor and election officials to bring the boxes to ‘Washington tomorrow. The second batch of subpoenas was issued for use only in the event that the mayor and other officials declined to deliver the ballots to the Senate agents. The city and county officials hold the election documents under the laws of the State and it was regarded as possible that they might decline to deliver them except to the Senate itself. The votes are sought as the first step in the investigation of the Pennsylvania election by the Senate campaign funds committee on the basis of charges of fraud and corrup- tion brought in a’petition of Willlam B. Wilson, Democrat, contesting the filecz:an of Willlam S, Vare, Repub- can. . KENDRICK PLEDGES HELP, Nt Full Co-Operation Assured in Election Investigation, PHILADELPHIA, Pa., January 14 #).—City officials of Philadelphia will co-operate 100 pe# cent in the investigation by the Senate special commission of the last senatorial election in Philadelphia, gaid Mayor The cold wave is on the way from | issued this morning by the Weather |himt er, and’ counsel is’ being consulted.” It is assumed that a court order will have to be obtained. The mayor and the prothonotary have joint cus- tody of the boxes, each baving a key to the vault, WOMAN DEAD AT 122, CHURCH RECORDS SHOW Dona Petra Mora at Pomona, Calif., Is Survived by 110 De- scendants. By the Associsted Press. POMONA, Calif.,, .January Memories of almost a century and a quarter of California history were sealed here today as Dona Petra Mora, 122 years old, lay in death awaiting the chanting of requiem mass. Her advanced age was disclosed when church records were searched in prep- aration for the funeral services. The yellowed archives of San Ga- briel Mission set forth that in 1811 the mission fathers confirmed in the faith Petra Bermudes, who was born October 14, 1804. For Dona Petra the light of Cali- fornia sunshine was dimmed 13 y ago as she wept long and bitte: the death of her second husband, Juan Mora. Today a son, 2 daughters, 23 grand- children, 72 great-grandchildren and 7 great-great-grandchildren mourned her death. A brother, Antonio Ber- mudes, in San Jose, was notifled of her death, 'as was arother brother, Joseph Bermudes, in Los Nietos. | Each is more than a century old. | PAIR FILE NEW Dl,V(iRCE AFTER WEDDING OTHERS Man and Former Wife, Remarried Before, May Have to Pledge Troth Anew to Spouses. { By the Associated Press. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., January 14.— The marital entanglements of E. H. Bostic and his wife, formerly Miss Evvie Botts, were brought to light yesterday when the couple filed suit for divorce. A previous suit for divorce had been filed in 1923, and the two, believing a decree had been granted, married others. Later they discovered that no decree had. been recorded. Consequent- ly a new suit has been flled, and if this is granted the couple plan to re- marry the spouses with whom they have resided for three year-. Mr. Bostic and Miss Botts were mar- ried in 1910 by the mayor of Cabot, a small town. Later they were notified by that officlal that he had exceeded his authority, and they were married a second time, RIS MARY HAY GETS DIVORCE. PARIS, January 14 (#).—Mary them with their landladies in lieu of dispose of them. the certificates are deposited with authorized banks for loans they ulti- mately go into safe-keeping at ‘Washington. There most of them will remain, he believes, until the present bonus law is changed or 18 years expire the veteran gets the remainder S e o r had o the e Caldwell Hay, American film 4 has been granted a divorce from Richard Bathelmess, it was announced today, on the ground of her “hus. band’s injurious attitude” in closing the door of their home upon her. The court ruled that the coypl 4-yéar-old daughter will be in the cus- tody of each of her parents six months of the year. There was no award of alimony. ‘The couple were married in New York on June 13, 1920.