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WEATHER. (0. 8. Weather Fair tonight, toms not much change Temperature—Highest, p.m. yesterday; lowest, 51, at 3 a.m. to- day. Full report Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 No. 30,464 Entered as seco Dost oflice. Washinzton, Bureau Forecast.) orrow mos!1 cloudy, in temperaiur 76, at 4:30 on page 9. nd class matter D, . HUGESEAOF HUD POURS OVER HOST = OF LIECHTENSTEIN Only Latger Housetops and‘ Church Spires Visible. | 9,000 Are Mired. 2 SCORES BELIEVED KILLED; RESCUE PARTY DROWNED | e 1 All Activities Suspend in Strick-| en Area as People Labor for Relief. | principal through Seprember ~Nearly whole of the frv of Licchtenstein, flooded the breaking of the Rhine reported as presenting the appe: nee of & huge bog. with oniy the bolder bousetops and church spires protrud from the mud . 'he entire adult population of about | liboring feverishly to passageways through the mud sloughs to their homes, wherever the reces xion of flood waters permits. The | children are being kent on high | kround, as are the remaining cattle, | which would otherwise sink in zhe' Koft ooze. | 1t is believed at least three weeks | | is dam, a0 cu will be required to dig most of the ¥illages from their blankets of mud. RESCUE PARTY BURIED. ed in Flood as Victims Seek Relief. A Area Austria, September 27| al activities in the whole of | Tyrol aad Vorarlberg | province are reported to have been ed by the floods. ywhere the roads are impa railway embankments have col- |apsed and the rails, jutting from the mud, are suspended in the air. While fhe flood waters are receding, only | litanic labor can restore conditions to normal. Train service between Germany and Ttaly by way of Austria over the Bren #°r Pass is suspended, as is that be- frveen morthern and southern Tyrol. Just across the Italian border, i the former Austgian Tyrol. a_work- men’s relief train, bearing 30 laborer: jroke through an underwashed em- Sankment yesterday and fell into the Fisack River. All except the fireman M.the train were drowned. Similar_casualties, in some of which thildren have been the victims, are teported from many 'points. SCORES BELIEVER LOS T. uation Stightly Improved As Heavy Downpours Subside. LONDON, September @) Feores of lives are believed to have icen lost in Alpine floods Sater the principality of Liechtenstein. ihe eastern section of Switzerland and ihe upper Trentino, Italy, after tre- nendous rains over the week end. Ispecially affected are those valleys rhose waters join the Rhine above lake Constance, while the upper fthine itself is amazingly swollen and :he lake is 15 feet above normal. The actual total fatalities are un- gnown and cannot be reliably com- {uted until the communications broken tv the flood are restored. Latest reports say the situation is mproving somewhat, the downpour: p’ginning to subside. A ‘sudden drop n temperature in the mountain re- fions has checked the melting of ths mow, which largely contributed to the Liechtenstein, which with an area \f 68 square miles is one of the small- st jimost_overwhelmed by fon. [, hat region was the collapse of a ,000-foot concrete dam on the Liech- enstein-Swiss _border, allowing the the inunda- vaters of the Rhine to sweep over the | fny principality. Villages Under Water. v villages are under several feet ter and some of the inhabitants, - the rushing torrent before hey pe to the mountain- fdes, are helieved to have perished. *he Liechtenstein government has ap- jealed to its neighbors for quick aid. The property damage there will run hto the millions and tens of thou- pnds of cattle were drowned. Many places known the world over s tourist resorts have shared in the wiffering, notably in the Upper En- tadine region of Switzerland. There |as been much damage at St. Moritz, Sontresina and Innsbruck, where the 78 and electric lighting jiralyzed and bridges i vain service on some gopped, and on others is being di terted around the flood region M " w NIFE OF MUSSOLINI GIVES BIRTH TO SON *remier Congratulated on Arrival of Youngster to Be Named Romano. ROME, September Donna Rachele Mussolini, wife of the Italian emier, gave birth to a son today at ger home, the Villa Carpena, near forli. The boy will be baptised Romano pmorrow at a ceremony in the church jt Carpena. Mother and child arc yoth doing well Premier Mussolini arrived at jena yesterday in anticipation of the went Althou ) desire gh the premicr had expressed that no special manifestation thould oceur on the birth of his child. tejuicing was shown at the event hroughout Italy and muny dispatches from friends and admirers have been {of which inun- | principalities in the world, was| The worst feature of the flood | Car- | Judge Grants 110 Divorces in Minute; nes One Case By the Associated Press, LONDON, September Ish justice has the reputation of moving fast, but Judge Mackinnon in Divorce Court stepped on the iccelerator so hard that the band- age over the eves of the Goddess of Justice almost blew off In one minute—Just 60 onds—he granted 110 absolute di- vorces, He still had a few seconds left to take out one case at the re- quest of a young man, who had come all the way from South Af- vica, and order a retrial. ARMS PLEA MARKS CLOSING OF LEAGUE Desire for Reduction to Bring Cut Soon, Retiring Pres- ident Says. GENEVA, Switzerland, September o desire to reduce armaments, from weakening in the face of ulties, “has asserted its strength and continues to inspire the League Assembly declared President Alberto auni, Uruguayan Minister to France, in the closing address hefore the eighth assembly of Nations today. After he finished speaking the Assembly took final ad- journment. The retiving president of the Assem- bly said that the work done at this sion toward disarmament was such that “in the near future we shall ob- !{ain the first reduction in armaments hop to and a better definition of the guaran- tees of security.’ The people of the New World repre- sented in the League, who so long have been faithful to arbitration as the basis of their friendly relations and pacific development, he hailed with delight the discovery that the Locarno movement was bearin fruit and promised to be imitated by other powers than the Locarno signa- tor] Desire for Co-operation Shown. “Throughout your discussions has run the thread of a single idea,” the | vetiring president told the delegats “The development of international co operation in every field was that idea. In the sphere of international law (he peoples hevond the seas are making a most valuable contribution, and it is at their insistence that you have de- cided to continue work in this direc- tion.” The League this vear, President Guani said, had really undertaken a new program in the economic field and real success had been registered. “You may wait with confidence,” he concluded, “for you hava entered in resolute spirit upon the endless road progress. You may hope without ear ‘or apprehension and carry home smiling vision, no longer so remote, of the fair harvest you will reap after your sowing. You have acted.” The eighth session of the league assembly then took final adjournment at 12:20 p.m. Codification Continued. Insistence by the Latin American and Scandinavian delegates that codi- fication of international law must not be allowed to drop caused a contro- versy in the League comumission last- ing until the early morning hours today. It ended in a victor: Americans, who demanded suflicient credits to make codification efforts permanent. thus reversing the dec of the assembly vesterday that the funds which had been requested were not_available. The asgsembly today approved the appointment of jurists to prepare for the codification confercuce at the League, especially stipulating that the jurists should take into account the “extensive and remarkable effort at codification made by the Pan- American Union.” War Guilt Reopening Opposed. The foreign ministers of hoth France and Germany who attended the League sessions are pictured as ing any reopening of the W question and as determined not to let recriminations over that issue inter- fere with the growing Franco-German rapprochement indicated by the re- cent negotiation of a commercial treaty. M. Briand and Dr. Stresemann have discussed at length the controversies carried on in the French and German press after President von Hinden- burg’s Tannenberg speech, in which he denied the charge : for the Latin of Germany’s war guilt_contained in the Ver treaty and declared she stood ready to | prove her innocence. Their conclusions are epitomi way: “Let us glority our s we like and magnify [ exploits, but let us not reopen | question of who started the war in which they fell.” | this Eight Die in Mexican Riot. | MEXICO CITY, September 27 () | Eight persons were killed, Tampico dispatches say, and 10 wounded in a | “lash of political groups during the ‘:mm.('uml election Sunday in _the | town of Zacamixtle, State of Vera |Cruz. Oune of those Kkilled wa: |Cantu, a candidate for mayor. sthers were policemen. Two h of the League | suld.! WASHINGTON, D DEMOCRATIC HOPE | -FOR FAVORITE SON IN KANSAS SLIGHT |Ayres Expected to Be } Dropped Aiter Early Ballots in Favor of “Jim” Reed. SMITH CHANCES SLIM IN SUNFLOWER STATE | | | | Governorship Will Be Big Issue in 1928—Progressive G 0. P. Backs Hoover. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Stalf Correspondent of The Star. TOPEKA, Kans., September i Like the Republicans, the Democrats of Kansas have a “favorite son” to of- fer for the presidential race nest year. | He is Representative Ayres, who has served for 10 yvears continuously as a Democratic member of the House from the eighth congressional district and | who has been re-elected to the Sev-| |entieth Congress, the outstanding | | Democratic figure in the Sunflower | state. where, it is true, not so many | | Democrats grow. & i It is frankly admitted here by | Democrats that they have little or no | | expectation of being able to nominate | | Mr. Ayres for President. The object | of sending an Ayres delegation to the | | national convention is to prevent ru | | tions in the party. to present a sulidi array, and, when the time comes, to the right candidate for the nomination. In a measure, it may be | considered part of the strategy of | | those Democratic leaders who are seeking to prevent the nomination of | Gov. Al Smith of New York. Al Smith | | makes about as much appeal to Kan- | sas as he does to Alabama or Missis- sippi and for the same reasons. This State is dry and anti-Catholic. May Back Reed. | Paradoxically, however, the Kansas delegation to the national convention 1s expected to favor another wet, after Mr. Ayres has been accorded a suffi- | cient number of votes and it has been demonstrated he cannot win. It is expected lo throw its support to Sen- | tor “Jim” Reed of Missouri. Reed is a near neighbor at Kaunsas City, He almost attains the status of | “favorite son” in Kansas. He has | spoken through the State often, and in the last few weeks he has made a stressing the rmer on an | | number of addresses, need of putting the fa | equality with the industrialists, and attacking the Republican protective tariff as_unfair to the agriculturists. The Democratic national commit- | teeman for the State, Dudley Doo- little, reputed to be the first man ever to wear white pants in Cottonwood Falls, has declared his support of Sen- ator Reed for the presidential nomi- nation. So have other prominent Democrats of Kansas. They would much prefer to see the Missourian nominated than Gov. Smith, even though they have slim hope—very slim—of carrying Kansas for either Reed or Smith. But they want a Westerner like Reed if they can have him. Ayres is reported to be in ill health and if he should not be avail- able next year the Kansas delegation might go uninstructed or for Reed. Kansas at the last Democratic na- tional convention worked for McAdoo. who had many supporters here among the old Wilson Democrats. But many ,0( the former McA oo supporters had | determined not to favor him for the | nomination next vear even before Mr. | McAdoo waived the nomination aside. | With McAdoo out of the picture they are asking themselves where they can find another dry Democrat who would | run well in Kansas. To date they have not found him. But if he be found between this time and the meet- ing of the convention next year the Kansas delegation may vet swing to some man other than Reed. Gov. Donahey of Ohio, three times elected governor by the Democrats in that Republican State, is little more than 4 name to the people of Kansas. Meredith, Towa's dry Democrat, and nator Walsh of Montana, dry but Catholic, have little following in the State. _It_is suggested in_some Democratic (Continued on Page 4, Column 6.) GAMES POSTPONED, DUAL BILL TOMORROW Nat-Red Sox Contests Deferred on Account of Cold Weather in the Hub City. Cold wexther caused postponement | of both games of the double-header scheduled today in Boston between the Nationals and the Red Sox, according to Associated Press dispatches received here. As tomorrow is an open date for both clubs, the games, weather per- | mitting, will be played then After completing the final the xeason with Boston, the 0 to New York chedule with the league cham- eries of riffmen ! pions | By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 27.—Smash- ing world records in speed, sport and endurance has mnot been a thriving business for Great Britain of late but Englishmen reading their morning found three | new world marks achieved for their | country. | The foremost. of course, Schneider Cup seaplane victor: Venice, but while Lieut. Webster was w at the | ent to the premier nd his wife, con- | aining good wishes for little Romana King Victor Emmanuel, upon veing | potified by the premier of the birth, | jent his warmest congratulations y.,| Jis “cousin,” which is the relationship | »equired by Mussolini through his §ecoration with the Order of Annun- sata, the highest deco jon in Ttaly Pope Pius upon being informed ny dinal Gasparri of 1t event, e d his pleasure. [ tanlishing w streaking through the air over the Lido to defeat the Italians, another speed record was made which has al- most as much appeal to the average Briton. his mark was made by the railway train “Royal Scot’ which steamed from Carlisle to London, a distance of 300 miles, in 5 hours 45 minutes, es- at 15 cluimed as a world record. \Speed, S;ort and Endurance Records Added to Laurels Won by British As soon as the train arrived in the Euston station, the engine crew, driver, pilot and fireman, without changing their grimy clothing or even bothering to wash up, rushed to take their seats beside the titled officials of the London-Scottish-Midland Railway for banquet Fireman Chambers, who handled five tons of coal during the run, had never been in London before. Re- sponding to a toast he said he felt like the hymn: “Now the Laborer’s Task Is O'er.” The third world record, a very odd one, was made at the London Coliseum Theater yesterday by Mme. Vera Nemchinova, a ballet dancer. Unas- sisted, she spun around 40 times on one tos without touching the otner foot to the floor, thus beating her pre- vious mark of 38. No other ballerina, she avers, evir | accommlished more than 32 such spins. singing ! connection with it. to fini<h out the rest | WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER You | KEEP i/ AWAY ¢ Foening Star, 927—FORTY-FOUR PAGES. * MALTZAN PEARLS CHANGE COLOR AFTER DEATH OF DIPLOMAT Legend Borne Out as Head of Family Loses Life Funeral mn By the Associated Press. i MILITSCH, Silesia, September 27.— | The casket holding the famous Malt- | zan pearls, which legend says came to | the family by supernatural means, and are said to change color whenever {a death in the family occurs, was opened today by the general desire of | | relatives in consequence of the death | the goblin nine days bef of Baron Ago von Maltzan. It was found that all the pearls had turned a yellowish tinge instead of only one pearl becoming discolored, as hitherto has been reported to have happened whenever a member of the family died. The last occasion that this definitely was established, according to familv | records, was in 1892, when the baron's | grandfather died. Legend Is Recalled. The family now has decided to keep the famous heirlooms locked up per- manently in Militsch Castle for the | weal or woe of the future fate of the, family and not to inspect them here- | Plane Is Held. after for any change of color in case of death. The legend of the Maltzan pearls, which are in the possession of the Si- lesian branch of the family, says that the pearls were presented by a goblin in 1588 to Baroness Eva Regna Malt- zan in the ancestral castle at Militsch hecause of a kindness shown by her to e, The grateful goblin said the pearls would bring luck to the von Maltzans as long as their color was unchanged, Crash. | and they remained in the possession of the family, the legend sa “Should the pearls change color, how ever,” the goblin warned, that the head of some branch of the family will die.” FUNERAL IS HELD. Coolidge and Kellogg Wreaths Placed on Maltzan Casket. VOLLRATHSRUHE, Mecklenburg, Germany, September 2 neral of B ( REYNOLDS IS SAFE, DETECTIVE INSISTS ;»21 -Year-0ld Millionaire, Missing 11 Days, Believed | Back in New York. | Aeenciated Press. Y YORK. Septen.ber 27.—Rich- ard J. Reynolds, 21-year-oid millionaire | who has been missing for 11 days, is | back in New York, it is believed by | Val O'Farrell, detective, called into| the case by friends of Reynolds. | The young heir to tobacco millio left this city September 16, O'Fa said his investigation had disclosed. | It is believed he went to Chicago for the Tunney-Dempsey fight and that he has returned since then and re- mained in seclusion. O'Farrell said it was possible Rey- nolds might have stayed in Chicago, but he is certain the missing man is unharmed. Reynold’s _automobile, found sub- merged in Long Island Sound, was driven into the water by two young friends of his, O'Farrell said. He de- scribed that phase of the case as a vollego pranic” and absolved John de olds chauffeur, rlos, Rey of any Auto Found in Water. His limousine retrieved from waters of Long Island Sound, mysterious telephone call to police and the story of a Broadway night club hostess guided detectives in their search for Reynolds. First indications were that Rey- nolds, whose interests ranged from the presidency of the Reynolds Air- ways, Inc., to sponsorship of an un- successful play on Broodway, had been missing 10 days. But George Orr, his business manager at Winsto além, N. C., said he talked with him | Thursday. | Friends, relatives and pri | tives today were without trace of him, | though he was not listed the | city's Missing Persons Bureau no | police summoned in the c: ear of | accident or foul play was inspired by | the belief that he carried almost $6,000 in cash when he disappeared. Drew $6,000 From Bank. Reynolds accompanied Miss Marie Houston, hostess in the Charm Club, to the Grand Central Station about 6 a.m. September 17. Miss Houston left Reynolds, she said upon her re- turn here, and traveled to St. Louis, where she visited relatives for a few day: Detectives learned that on Septem- ber 16 Reynolds drew about $6,000 from the banlk, sent his servants bac to his home in Winston-Salem, N. C and moved to a hotel in Ihe‘ la: vate detec- Manhattan. He instructed his chauffeur to leave his automobile at Mineola, Long Is- land, and, entering another car with John Graham of Winston-Salem, he went to dinner at a Long Island road: house. About midnight Reynolds and Gra- ham appeared at the night club in Manhattan, using C ’s car on the (Continued on Page 5, Column Radio Programs —Page 30 » AUTO YIELDS GLUE IN MURDER PROBE Authorities Say Machine Near Scene of Lilliendahl -Death Like Beach Car. Br the Associated Press HAMMONDTON, N. I, September have sped out into the road near where Dr. A. William Lilliendahl, retired physician, was slain on September 15 | today claimed the attention of investi- gators of the killing. The car was said by the authorities to answer the description of one owned by Willis Beach, Vineland poultry raiser, and a friend of the Lilliendahls, who is free on $5,000 bail as a ma- terial witness. It was reported to have been seen shortly before noon the day of the killing by three men from Morrisville, Pa. The three, who were described by au- thorities as a business man, his chauf- feur and a -friend, were driving toward Hammondton, they told the police. Frank Harrold, chief of Atlantic City detective said the three men would be shown Beach's automobile and would also face Beach. They were questioned by illiam Hudson, chief of police of Vineland, where Beach and Mrs. Lilliendahl reside. Hudson learned of their story Sunday when they talked to a detective at the scene of the slaying. Mrs. Margaret Lilliendahl, 41-year- old widow of the physician, has ad- vanced the theory that drug addicts who had been treated by her husband might have been the slayers. Her story as related to the authori- ties has been that her husband was shot down by two negroes, who robbed her. She is free on $25,000 bail as a material witness. Twenty-five clear the dense underbr the spot where the killing occurred. in search of the slayer's pistol, which in- vestizators may have been tossed into the thicket. JURISTS CONF_ER HERE ON COURT CONGESTION| FR |Married Couple, Jailed for “Spooning, Awarded $3.675 Verdict Against Police Taft Presides at Session of Senior Circuit Judges on Means to Clear Dockets. By the Associated Press. Ways and means of relieving con- gested Federal court dockets and of expediting disposition of cases were discussed today at opening sessions here of the annual conference of senior circuit judges, preside . over by Chief Justice Taft. The conference will continue four days, with Attorney General Sargent on today’'s program to present the Department of Justice’s views on the condition of business in Federal courts The judges brought with them re om the distriet judges in their o howing the condition of their dockefs and also memoranda Dbusiness b fore their own courts it means | —A blue sedan which is alleged to | laborers continued to | sh from about | of thel DISTRIGT IS VIGTOR - INLIGHTING CASE Terminal Company to Pay $61,372 for Subway Cur- | rent, Fought 18 Years. After 18 years of litigation the Dis- | | trict government and the Washing-| | ton Terminal Co. today settled thei | differences over accumulated, unpaid | lighting bills through a compromise | agreement whereby the District will | collect $61,372.77 and the Terminal Co. | will have the privilege of furnishing |its own lights on the street subways | under the terminal area beginning | October 1. The settlement was rati-| fied immediately by the Commis-| sioners. The amount of $61,372.77 covers not only the bills involved in the suits| which have been pending in court, but also the bills for lighting from | August 1, 1926, through May 3i, 1927, | Thers be one additional bill to | be paid by the terminal company to | cover lighting from June 1 to October | 1, of the current vear when the com- | pany is authorized to furnish the | lighting. Seen as District Victory. The Commissioners and Corporation | Counsel William W. Bride, view the | settlement as a victory for the Dis: | trict as the terminal company prom-| !ised to pay the full amount of the accrued bills that have been tied up | in litigation for many years, some of them dating back to 1909. Mr. Bride pointed out that the Distriet “got everything it asked for” and that the company is paying two suits involved in the litigation which had been outlawed by the Court of Appeals because of the statute of limitations. The authority given the terminal company to furnish the lighting on the street subways is contained in a special order drafted by Mr. Bride and approved by the Commissioners. The act of Congress, May 26, 1908, | required the company to furnish the, |lighting, but since that time it has been supplied by the District. Throughout the litigation Ringgold | Hart, principal assistant corporation counsel, who has been in special ‘harge of the case, declared that the District never contested the right of the terminal company to light the | subways, but merely fought to col- |lect the bils owed for the lighting service. Tax Case May Be Settled. The lights involved in the various suits are located around Florida ave- nue, H, K, L and M streets northeast on 'the company’s subways. Other lamps are on the east side of First street southwest and the west side of Delaware avenue north of E street. Under the order approved by the Commissioners transferring the light- ing arrangement the District reserves the right to make changes and asse: charges against the company if its maintenance is regarded as unsatis- factory. The settlement of the lighting bills disposes of one-third of the litigation which has heen pending for a number of vears between the District and the terminal company, and adjustment of the dispute over the collection of taxes on real estate purchased for the | terminal yards is expected soon, while another compromise already has been tentatively entered against the com- pany for damages caused through the building of a subway under Fi street. The Commissioners, how- er, are not certain that they have authority to act in this case, and will | seek congressional assurance. | . Record Enrollment at Harvard. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., September 27 ).—First day enrollment at Harvar | has set a new record with 7,414 stu- dents registered in all departments of the university. The figure exceeds last year's by 107. The college has 13,201 men. Associ service. (P) Means Associated Pre 'Employe Arrested |For Calling Firemen | From Out of Town By the Associated Press. BUFFALO, N. Y. September 27.—The village of Blasdell, a suburb of Buffalo, is jealous of its fire department. A dairy office caught fire last night, and the doorkeeper, Henry Datler, tried to summon the Blasdell department, but found it had na telephone. In desperation he caled the Lacka- wanna department, which re- sponded. After the fire had been extin- guished the Blasdell police a rested Datler on a_charge of turn- ing in a false alarm, but this charge later was changed to mali- cious mischief. It is the conten- tion of police that the bookkeeper had no authority to summon the out of-town company. U.0.C. AIRS FUNDS DISPUTE IN COURT The only evening paper in Washington with the ated Press news Yesterday's Circulation, 99,496 TWO CEN COOLIDGE OPPOSES MAGRUDER VIEWS - ONNAVY OFFICERS Holds Total Is Not Too Large for Efficiency—Cites Emergency Needs. DOES NOT FAVOR INQUIRY AS RESULT OF ARTICLE Admiral Wins Point When Wilbur Asks Critic to Submit Suggestions. President Coolidge was represented today as taking issue with Rear Ad- miral Thomas P. Magruder of the Navy, who, in a recent magazine ar- ticle, charged the Navy with being | Officers Ask District Tribunal |overofficered and not getting the best to Order Accounting of $300 Fee. The District Supreme Court was asked today to settle a dispute as to the persons entitled to act as officers | of the United Daughters of the Con- | federacy, to require an accounting by Gen. Samuel T. Ansell of a fund of $300 alieged to have been illegally withdrawn by ecertain of the defend- ants from the funds of the society to pay him an attorney’s fee, and to pre- vent interference by the defendants with the exercise of their official du- ties by the plaintiffs. Attorney Charles T. Clayton represents the plaintiffs. The suit is filed by Lillian Cheno- | weth, as treasurer of the District of | 3 ; Frances | as registrar of the divi-|expenses necessary for adequate na- Columbia Division, U. D. W. Weel results out of the money vended for Navy purposes. The President believes the Navy |should have a large number of officers and that he cannot see that it makes much difference where they ara lo- cated so long as they are in readiness |for any emergency call. He looks | upon such a supply of highly trained naval men as assurance against dan- | ger in the event of an emergency. As for the criticisms made by Ad- miral Magruder, that money is being wasted in_the administration of the | Nation's Navy, the President doubts {if there is any man in the country who could direct the expenditure of $700,000,000 annually for the Army |and Navy and obtain as good results | as are being obtained at the present | time. The President made it very | plain, while discussing this phase of dmiral Magruder's criticism, that chief anxiety is for the promotion of efficiency in the Army and Navy nd at the same time to keep ex- enditures within reason. He indi- ated that his aim is not to reduce being ex- sion; Lucy S. Clay, individually andas | tional defense, but to see that the president of Stonewall Jackson Chap-|money for this purpose is wisely or: Rachel B, Clark, individually and | SPent and that the best possible good an president of Hilary A. Herbert|! obtained. Chapter; Olive Pratt, individually and | President Wants Suggestions. as president of Jefferson Davis Chap- | The President indicated that he ter; Mabel 8. Cole, individually and ' feels that the country is well able as president of Dixie Chapter; H. dent of Southern Cross Chapter; Blanche V. Meegan, individually and as president of Beauregard Chapter, and Fannie Weeks, individually and as chairman of the relief committee | of the U. D. C. Named as defendants are the United Daughters of the Confederacy, a Di trict corporation; Julia Streater, trustee; Caroiyn §. Fahnestock, trustee; Harriet 8. Turner, trustee, and 24 other officers of various chap- ters, in addition to Gen. Ansell and the Washington Loan & Trust Co., in which institution the funds of the Daughters were deposited. The dispute dates back to the con- vention of 1923, and the court is told that subsequent conventions repudi- ated the action of that convention in seating _certain delegates from the Robert E. Lee Chapter, and at the con- vention of 1925 the Bistrict of Colum- bia Division was suspended and the several chgpters directed to report di- rect to the general officers as inde- pendent chapters. Certain of the de- fendants employed Gen. Ansell, and he treatened suit If the division was not reinstated, and an agreement was reached with the president general for the reinstatement. The plaintiffs claim they were not represented in these negotiations and did not participate in the employment | of the lawyer and now want an ac- counting of the fee of $300 which was withdrawn from the funds of the so- ciety. DOTY, U. S. SOLDIER OF FORTUNE, FREED French Pardon Former Member of Foreign Legion Under 8-Year Sentence. By the Associated Press. PARIS, September 27.—Bennett J. Doty, who enlisted in the French For- eign Legion under the name of Gil- bert Clare and was court-martialed in Syria in August, 1926, being sen- tenced to eight years in prison, has | been pardoned by the French govern- ment. Bennett J. Doty, whose home was in vivid episode in the French Foreign Legion which took place last year dur- ing the French fighting with the Druses in Syria, Doty, who is 26, is veteran of the World War, served with Battery E, 115th Artillery, 30th Division. Doty, while serving with the French Foreign Legion, left the French lines in southern Syria, where a campaign was under way, and was arrested with several companions on the charge of “abandoning his post before armed He was imprisoned in Da- and for a time fears were en tertained that he might be sentence to death. On June Paris was having Field 7 Ambassador Herrick at instructed by Secretary | Kellogg to intercede with the French | government in behalf of Doty, who was stated to have made an excellent record in France as a soldier in the American Army. His trial took place at Damascus before a court-martial on July 16, and he was sentenced to 8 years' imprisonment. By the Associated Prese. CLEVELAND, Ohio —Judgment for $3,67 ed today by a common pleas court Jury to Mr. and Mr Joseph Ma | who had brought suit against Police | Sergt, Frank L. Rolfe, alleging that he arrested them and had them jailed when he found them kissing intheir parked automobile. The verdict was returned after the ury had deliberated more than two hours yesterday and most of this morn- ng. | One night in July last vear Mr. and | Mrs. Mack, a young couple, were re- turning from a picnic with several other persons. Seigt. Rolfs and a was awar b police squad.were out looking for a g of rowdies. Lights suddenly ere thrown upon the Mack auto: bile and disclosed Mrs. Mack upon her hushand's lap in the act of kissing him. Sergt. Rolfs dragged them from the car and took them to jail, where th were held six hours, the Macks tes! fed. Sergt. Rolfs testified that some one in the car was singing and making a noise and this was the reason he stopped the machine. He said he thought the Macks were fibbing about | being married because he never heard |of a2 man and wife being so loving. Tha couple sued for 210,019 damages, ] Carter, individually and us presi-| | Memphis, Tenn., was the center of a | Mattie | to meet what is being expended for national defense without it being too burdensome, and if there is to be criti- cism of the spending of this money he would like to have some sugges- tions as to how matters could be im- proved. - In this connection the President was represented as saying that criti- cism generally helps to some extent, but would be more helpful if it went so far as to show what could be done in the way of future improvement. The impreesion was gained that his reading of Admiral Magruder’s article caused him to feel that the crificisms | made by the latter are worthy ef con- sideration, but that they fail to offer | any substitutes in the way of admin | istration. The President, however, i hopes that some good will come as & | result of the Admiral’s frank discus- | sion of the maval establishment he would be very much gratified . this article were the means of result- ing in any improved manner of ad- ministration. The President indicated tuat he will | always favor keeping -an adequate supply of officers for both the Army and Navy. He was represented as pointing out that it Is easy enou to, build up an army of enlisted men, but that experience has shown fhat trained officers cannot be had for the king or acquired within a day’s no- tice. Sees No Need for Inquiry. Where these officers are located or assigned in times of peace makes very little difference, according to the President’s viewpoint, so long as they are ready to respond. Neither does he consider it of any particular im- portance the fact that Washington is said to have an oversupply of Army and Navy officers. This is not unnat- | ural, inasmuch as Washington is the headquarters for the Army and Navy, | and, according to the President’s be- | lief, it is expected to be the spot for | their congregation. While discussing Admiral Magru- der’s article in a rather candid fash- ion, the President at the outset was | represented as wishing to make it plain that he did not consider him- self sufficiently expert in such matters as to pass judgment or to criticize in commenting upon Admiral Magru- der’s criticisms. The President read the article, thinking perhaps it might contain some helpful suggestions or something worthy of investigation. Without saying so in that many | words, he evidently did not consider what he read as producing sufficient information or suggestions to warrant any investigation. The President was represented as saying that the Magruder masazine icle was not among the various discussed at today's cabinet It is understood, howeve: that the President has discused the | matter with Secretary of the Navy | Wilbur. Magruder Scores First. Admiral Magruder scored decisively in the first round of his tilt with the Navy Department. At the risk of courting an official | reprimand, the belligerent admiral has accomplished at one stroke what his supporters here declare was the real object of his public attack on the ad- ministration of the Navy. He has suc- ceeded in drawing from Secretary Wil- bur a challenge to submit his recom- mendations fer naval administration improvement to the department, and, on the other hand, he has made it cer- tain that his charges are to form the basis of a rigid inquiry by Congress. It was comparatively certain today that Admiral Magruder is not to be called on the carpet before Secretary Wilbur for his ‘“unauthorized™ criti- cism of the department, however dis- tasteful the entire episode has been to high officials of the Navy. In letting it be known that he had ordered the admiral to file a “full and detailed statement of his plan of reorganiza- tion,” Mr. Wilbur indicated that dis- ciplinary action would be dropped. Thoerough Airing Expected. That the admiral's suggestions for improvement in the service would be given a thorough airing when the naval appropriations bill is taken up this Winter appeared as a foregone conclusion and is directly in line with Admiral Magruder’s intention in writ- ing his article, his friends claim. Sen- ator Swanson of Virginia, ranking Democrat of the naval affairs commit- tec._announced yesterday that_the (“ontinued on Page 5, Column 1.) A