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. WEATHER. (U 8 Weather Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; not much ch Temperatur p.m. yesterda toda Bureau Foracast.) Closing N. Y. Mark ets, Pages 14 and 15 ah Entered post as seco No. 30,496. office, Wa nd class matter shington, D. C. WASHINGTON, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, SATURDAY, " FUROPE'S POLITICA ALIGNMENTS RAISE Leaders in England, France' and Italy Warn of Pos- . sible Conflict. LACK OF DISARMAMENT MOVE ALSO BLAMED Dispute With Great Britain on Naval Program Held Likely to Draw U. S. In. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWR Cable to The Star and ( News. Copyright, 19 PARIS, October 20.—Europe for the last few 1 been resounding with waenings that unless somethin; nd done quickly, there is nother world war. Minister Lloyd Geor: suspic R. By o Daily is done, a danger of Former Prim of Great Br jons and war pre vwhere, cven in Great Britain and the United States. He fears the new wa even more terrible than the I Lord Robert Cecil warns hi trymen that their present policie: blocking the road to peace a isolation in war time no longer is possible to any country. The French statesman, De Jouve- el, foresees the crucial moment in g‘u' So does Dictator Mussolini_of ‘aly. This date coincides roughly by the allies, with n of the Rhineiand completion of Italy’s present military program an with the enforced reduction of ‘h‘T French first-line army, due to the low French birth rate from 1914 to 1818. Small Nations Voice Alarm. Moreover, all the small countries of Furope recently voiced their alarm at Geneva because the great powers were doing nothing scrious toward disarm- ament and real organization of world 5 What is the situation underlying inous sentiments? {while war between two litlle nations micht be stopped, if the big powers stood together, any war involving one big power would sooner or later in- volve all the others and become a world war. Hence all nations are in- terested in the danger spots wherever ese appear. tho?e such danger spots at present there is no lack. Latent conilicts sub- sist between Russia and Rumania over Bessarabia, between Poland and Lithuania over Vilna; between Ger- many and Poland ovet Danzig and the so-called Polish corridor; between Germany and France over the evacua- tion of the Rhineland; between IHun- gary and Rumania®over Transylvania; between Austria and its neighbors over the proposed union of Austria ani Sermany; between Italy and Jugos Lh over Albania; between Jugoslavia, Pulgaria and Greece over Macedonia; between Italy and France over the question of the Mediterranean empire; between Great Britain and Russia, over China, and now Europe thinks, even between the United States and Great Britain over naval programs. Alliances Are Reviewed. 1t war broke out between two little cn:mtrin, the big powers, if united, might check it. But how dearly united are the big powers? France is allied o Belgium, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and practically also to Rumania and Jugoslavia. The Germans are allied to Russia, which in turn is allied to Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan and Mon- goha. Lithuania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Austria as chro _mnl('onlnnls I=o tend to sympathize with the Rus- %o-German combination. Ttaly is‘algiedlln n and B tain, Japan a 3 l{fl(r:la:l aBrl:! keeping somewhat det_a("hi‘d. Ttaly is friendly to Great Britain, but is trying diplomatically to disrupt the French system of alliances and in amall ways exhibits sympathy with the smaller nations of the Russo-Ger- man combination, Great Britain is friendly to Italy, Germany and France, but is engaged in a diplomatic duel with Russia. France Rllf)\\:fl signs of losing interest in eastern Europe and . the Balkans question and wants a rapprochement with Germany. Ger many is friendly with Great I and more cordial toward Fr is unwilling to abandon Rus; ally. as an Anglo-American Rivalry. Fvidences are not lacking of a grow- ing Anglo-American rivalry in various fields. In short, the political confusion is almost complete. All that can be said is that in case of another world War the Russo.German group prob- ably will be on one side and the Jorench group on the other, with Great Britain and the United States as de- iding factors. O ohese war dangers must be reckoned the various safeguards of the Jwague of Nations, the International Court, the Locarno pact and various : tration treaties. But the gue is not universal, and the powers-have been tending No big _powers hi Qclause making settler disputes by the court t F T.ocarno is concerned mainly with the frontier, and leaves s s open. Finally, nobod knows to what extent, in a real cri the League or Locarno or other treaties will prove genuine guarantees Tt is obvious that before it can be <atd peace ha anized through- out the worl emains 10 be done, partichiarly by the big powers, a all others will follow, sitate all others will bé big [ Y 1. still pi 2. International trusts being formed on an ev le, symbolizing the sts of big business, . International ans, those of the United American control of credit situation. 4. on 1 3 nt which which are inereasing international rticularly es and the world’s g part of potential trouble makers that if they try rt a war they will p: '"¥ the present confusion of a victorious coalition of peace- loving nations against them. Venizelos Ordered to Bed. ATHENS, October 29 (P) Premier Fieutherios Venizel has been suffering from ir of the inner membrane of been ordered to hed for ol W bl vhsicse Former W at has st a n | ‘SELF—SACRIFICE IN SHIPWRECK | PRAISED BY MAFALDA PURSER ‘Highest Raniing Officer Saved at Sea De-| scribes Tragedy Off Brazilian Coast as an Inferno. { purser of the cupmer Mafaldd, s the highest urvive the tragedy. e ix the tirst official the mcatest sen tragedy since ing of the Lusitania. This story ved throuak the co-operation 0f the Brazilian member of the American Newspaper Ailiance. Farto Longbardi Norih ! BY CAPT. LONGBARDI. | By Cable to The Star and North American RIO DE JAN . October 29.—T been at ears and am | accustomed to sea tragedies, but the | experience T have just heen throuzh surpasses anything that T have experi- 1h seen through hell. Tate Tues afternoon we were ng through a quiet sea. The sk was clear. A gentle breeze foretold we would soon come to the pleas- {ant end of a pleasant trip. I was con- | versing with the ship's doctor when | we struck something. A shock went | through the vesscl as though we had | | hit a rock o el “What Is that? | “An earthquake | I ran amidships to see what had | | happened. At the gangway I encoun- | tered the chief engineer. “What has happened?” I asked. He told me that we had smashed the | left propeller and that at the rate of have have en cried the doctor. | | strove v revolutions a minute under the ssure of the water, this accident a large hole abaf; 93 1 the engines were ks were opened and ctinguished. The crew ¢ to close the breach, but | the inru invincible, In | spite of their efforts, the hole became | larzer and larger minute by minute. When the wall of water had swept all -opposition aside. we abandoned hope. The captain had ent out an SOS 20 minutes before the broke through the emergency bar- In_answer to it the Dutch Alhena appeared on the larboard. = Soon other steamers were dtanding The captain ordered me to take one of the hoats. I got 28 passengers into it—mostly men and women. I made for the Alhena, which was ahout 700 feet away, but my over-crowded boat took water. In the wash of the other s, 1 took so much water that my boat sank under me and I was unable to return to the Mafalda for more survivors. Thus Kept from participating fur- ther in the rescue work, I remained woard the Alhena a spectator of the gedy. r five tragic hours I saw the oflicers and the men of the Alhena strive_heroically to _save the pas- (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) the fires rier steamer. tr 3L0ST AS LINER RANIS SCHOONER Fishing Vessel Sunk in Heavy Fog Off Tip of Cape Cod. By the Associated Press. PROVINCETOWN 29.—The Glouchester fishing schooner Avalon, which ordina carried a crew of 16 to 19 men, sank five miles o fithe tip of Cape Cod early today after she had been rammed by the Consulich Line steamer President Wil- son. Three men were picked up. After searching the vicinity for several hours, the Presidente Wilson proceed- ed to Boston, Those rescued were Nicholas Walsh, Eldin Fleet and Frank Henneon, all of Gloucester. The schooner was in command of Capt. Edmund Bogler and left Boston last night for the mackerel seining grounds off the cape. The President Wilson is bound from New York for Palermo by way of Boston. : A heavy fog prevailed when the collision occurted at 4:15 am. Ap- Mass., October 1 { parently the schooner sank so quickly that there was little opportunity for rescues, SENATOR DECRIES TALK OF DRY ISSUE Walsh Says Democrats Wil Have Chance if They Set- tle Differences. H BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Mon- tana, who has been mentioned as a presidential possibility by many Dem- ocrats, returned to Washington today from the West. While Senator Walsh was unwilling at this time to discuss candidates for the Democratic nomination for Presi. !dent, he did say that if the Demo- crats could settle amicably their dif- {ferences over the wet and dry issue |the party would be in good shape. Senator Walsh said that it was in- conceivable to him that the wet and dry question should be made the issue of the coming campaign. In his opin- fon the country is overwhelmingly dry. Montana will send a delegation to the Democratic national convention for Senator Walsh for President, it is predicted. This prediction was not ade by Senator Walsh himself, who |said that he was not ready at this | for the nomination, nor | was he ready to indicate whether he | would permit the use of his name in any of the presidential primary States. | Drys Favor Walsh, There is activity for Gov. Al Smith New York and Montana and in quar it is said that Smith | will be the choice of the Montana del- sgation if Senator Walsh is not nom- | inated. Such a prediction comes even from former McAdoo men. Montana Democrac strongly in favor of | the nomination of Mr. McAdoo in 24, The suggestion that Senator Walsh | be nominated has come particularly #:om the dry Democrats, who wish to show the Democrats of the East and orth that they are not opposed to ov. Smith merely because he is a Catholic. ~ Senator’ Walsh, like Gov. tholie ardent Column 7.) in | some By the Assoclated Press. BUCHAREST, Rumania, October 29.—Even a king must face the tryan- ny of school. King Michael, who has just cele- brated his sixth birthday anniversary, is going to be taught just like any other hoy of his age, the Bucharest | newspapers say. | His mother, Princess Helen, has al- | lowed “Mickey" to play to his heart's | delight with his toys and his Ameri- lean pls a small cl i D ‘5{*;}“);3;""!}_55 Boy Ruler Gives Up Play for School, But Balks at Sitting Close to Teacher MAFALDA SURVIVOR CHARGES LOOTING Members of Crew Became Drunk After Disaster, He Declares. By the Associated Pre RIO JANEIRO, October 29.— Survivors of the Princess Mafalda disaster today were bound for new homelands in Brazil and the Argen- tine, sorrowing over the loss of some 300 companions on the trip from Italy. Horrors of the foundering of the boat, which was once one of the fastest in the South American trade, were recounted and charges of negli- gence, inadequate life-saving equip- ment and a ship in bad condition were aired. Georges Grenade, a wealthy Belgian resident of Buenos Aires, made public, through the correspondent here of La Nacion of Buenos Aires a letter which he said he had sent to the I Royal Maritime Commissioner at latter’s request. Negligence Is Charged. Grenade, a first-class passenger, wrote: “The commander and officers were negligent in complying with their ele- mentary duties, for had they acted with energy they could have subdued the ‘frantic emigrants and the work of saving the passengers could have been carried out normally in five hours. “The Mafalda did not have a suffi- cient number of lifeboats aboard to save all the passengers, for when the boats were filled only 500 passengers were accommodated. (The Italian em- bassy has stated that there was room in the lifeboats for 1,323 persons, the Mafalda carried 1,256. “The engines of the Mafalda were not in good condition on leaving Genoa, as it has been established that the ship was detailed several times at sea. Says Captain Knew It. “The captain had full- knowledge of the bad condition of the ship, for it has been established through the in- descretions of some employes that attempts were made to cancel the sailing. “The commander and the first en- gineer confirmed that this was to be the Mafalda's last South American trip. She was to be sold for Mediter- ranean cruises, for her condition did not longer permit long voyages.” Grenade charged that members of the crew became drunk after the dis- aster occurred. That the ship was looted by steerage passengers and stewards, and that there was a wild scramble for boats which could not be halted. A check up of survivors in various Brazilian ports accounted for 963 of the 1256 persons aboard. Leaving 293 dead or missing. THREE KILLED, ONE HURT IN AUTOMOBILE CRASH Roadster Conveying Halloween Party Homeward Hits Tele- phone Pole. By the Associated Pr JOHNSTOWN, Pa., October 29— Three young persons were killed and a fourth was injured here today when their automobile crashed into a tele- phone pole on a down grade as they were returning from a Halloween party. The dead: James —, Miss Grace Lakin, 22, and Miss Mary Iosko, 18, all of Johnstown. Miss Edith Orrin, Johnstown, suffered leg injuries, but will recover. Brown Lever, driver of the machine, was arrested. Another man, also a member of the party, is being sought by police, The six members of the party were crowded into a roadster, and, accord- ing to police, Lever told them he lost control on a curve while making fast time down the hill. OCTOBER 29, ¢ Foening Star. Yesterday’s Circulation, 100,750 e s i i e 1927—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. COST PLUS SYSTEM CALLED BASIS OF GAR LINE MERGER Plan Said to Be Designed to Assure Fair Return on Company’s Earnings. TRUSTEES APPOINTED BY BOARD SUGGESTED Proposed Consolidation Declared Drawn With View to Squeezing Out Economic Losses. The plan by which Harley P. Wil- son, owner of the Washington Rapid Transit Co., hopes to bring about a merger of Washington’s transporta- tion systems will be based on a cost tem, according to persons miliar with the scheme, who re- vealed today certain features. The merged company under plan, it was said, would be privately owned and its policies directed by an inter-company which would be cre- ated at the time of consolidation. The operation of the consolidated com- pany, however, would .be under the supervision of a board of trustees ap- pointed probably by the Public Utili- ties Commission. The service-plus basis, the founda- tion of the merger scheme, is design- ed, it was said, to guarantee the stock- holders of the consolidated company a stipulated rate of return based on the gearning power of the companies, and ot on the court valuation. The merger plan. it was pointed out, (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) TRACE FOILED COUP 10 CAROL'S VALET Reports Say Servant Was Lured Away to Permit Theft of Papers. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, October 29.—A dis- patch to Reuter's news agency from Belgrade, Jugoslavia, today s _unidentified persons made rtive attempts last night to de- stroy munitions stored at Zayetchar, Pojarevas and Kraguyevac. The dispatch adds that unsuccessful at- tacks on munitions depots near Istip, in southern Serbia, were made later. Civil and military au- thorities have begun a search for those responsible. By the Associated Press. PARIS, October 29.—The foiling of Carolist plans in Rumania and the arrest of M. Manoilescu, former un- dersecretary of finance of Rumania, today appeared to be directly con- nected with the burglarizing of the villa of former Crown Prince Carol at Neuilly. Carol’s valet, on being ques- tioned by the police, admitted that the theft papers belonging to Carol took place more than a week ago, but since he had been left to guard the villa he was afraid to say anything about it at the time. Love of gossip, however, proved stronger than discretion and he told the whole story of how he had been lured from his post of duty by a wo- man to a friend of Carol who had call- ed to ask when the latter would re- turn. The friend informed the police, who started an investigation and tele- graphed Carol, who was at Saint *falo to return. Valet’s Story Doubted. Police at present, although regard- ing the valet's story with suspicion that he is concealing something, fa- vored the theory that the burglary was Inspired by politics, not pelf. It was suggested that the information found in the stolen papers had been abstracted and telegraphed to the Ru- manian government. This, it was pointed out, would have led to the capture of Manoilescue with the com- promising documents last Monday in Rumania, How a woman had lured him from his post of duty was told by the valet. She engaged him in conversation, he said, and then bought his supper. After that he remembered nothing ex- cept that he awoke the next morning with a bad headache. “She must have put a drug in my wine,” he surmised, ‘When he returned to Carol's villa, the valet said, he found the letter box rifled. One of the letters was from the valet’s wife and mentioned names of Rumanians who were familiar with Carol and also contained a list of those who had called on Carol. The valet said he found some of his mas- ter's letters and papers had been stolen, Carol Reaches Paris. Prince Carol came to Paris today in connection with the robbery, but re- turned immediately to his new hid- den home in Normandy. “I will wait for my hour to come, if, indeed, my hour is to come,” said Carol repeating his former declarations that he has not the slightest intention of stirring up trouble in his country. “Yet,” he added, “if public opinion in my country should call me, it would be cowardice for me t6 shirk my duty.” For three months, the prince said, Rumania party leaders, notably the National Peasants party, have asked him to deciare his candidacy for the throne. “I refused for three months,” he said. “l considered such a course premature. I hesitated long and until Helen's home. There 18 small boys of all classes, including King Michael, are instructed daily in the three “R's.” ‘When “Mickey” was offered a seat in the front row, facing the teacher, he refused, saying that he preferred to be No. 18, in the last row. There the teacher would not see so easily what he was up to and he would be out of reach of her ruler. The boy ruler was dismayed when he was told that the big brown span- iel which is his inseparable compan- ion would not be allowed in the Lvlasa recently, Finally I consented. My declaration is only an answer to the question put to me. I am credited with disturbing intentions, but there Is nothing in that.” Commenting on Manolilescu’s arrest on a charge of treason, Carol de- clared: “Either the situation is calm and peaceful in Rumania and such measures are astonishing, or else the public is really aroused and is ready to receive its prince, and all these measures of coercion and of terrorism are destined to stifle expression of of its cardinal | the “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers ry city block and the regular edi- 1 is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. * (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. WOULD N'T" \\IT BE FUNNY — — — = IF | WoN BY /=—— DEFAULT S Solicits Memberships in “America First Foundation™ and Draws Satire From Other Mayors. By the Associated Pres CHICAGO, October 29.—A dash of George M. Cohan's “Grand Old Flag,” a touch of Stephen Decatur's “My country, right or wrong,” and a taste of opera bouffe seasoned Mayor Thompson's “America first” efforts to- day. His appeal for support of the “Amer- ica First Foundation,” with a $10 membership fee, brought many re- turns. Some were complimentary, not a few were condemnatory, several were ironic, The plea for members in the foun- dation, a national patriotic organiza- tion “for better citizenship, based on loyalty, with a Nation-wide educa- tional program to teach the Constitu- tion of the United States and respect for our form . of government and a PRESIDENT CALLES RECEIVES MORROW New Ambassador to Mexico Offers Credentials and Plea for Closer Relations. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, October 29.—First official words of the new United States Ambassador, Dwight W. Morrow, to President Calles when received in for- mal audience at noon today were to express the hope that through co- operation a mutually satisfactory so- lution would be found to the prob- lems with which the two countries are faced and to adjust the outstanding questions with that dignity and mu- tual respect which should mark the international relations of two sover- eign and independent states. In the presence of his cabinet and many high officials and other promi- nent persons, President Calles greeted Mr. Morrow in the ambassadorial_re- ception salom. . R Offers Credentials. Mr. Morrow’s formal remarks upon presenting his credentials were: “Mr, President, I have the honor to formally make known to you that the President of the United States of America has appointed me Ambas- sador Extraordinary and Plenipoten- tiary to your government. I hereby present your excellency with the let- ters of recall of my distinguished predecessor, Mr. Sheffield, and at the same time my letters of credence. “I enter upon my duties with a full consciousness of the honor which my Government has conferred on me in intrusting to my hands the repre- sentation of its interests in this great neighboring state. “I welcome the opportunity of co- operating with your excellency in finding a mutually satisfactory solu- tion of the problems with which our own countries are now faced. It is my earnest hope that, animated by a common desire to promote the wel- fare of the united Mexican states and the United States of America, we shall not fail to adjust outstand- ing questions with that dignity and mutual respect which should mark the international relationship of two sovereign and independent states.” Several high officials of the Mexican (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) s lmoy MRS. FORBUSH SEARCH EXTENDED TO OCCOQUAN Woman Answering Description of Pastor’s Missing Wife Seen in Vicinity. Search for Mrs. Ann Ramsay For- bush, wife of the Rev. Dascomb For- bush, pastor of the First Congrega- tional Church at Canandaigua, N. Y., who disappeared mysteriously from Keith's Theater October 19, was ex- tended to the vicinity of Occoquan, Va., today, where it was reported a woman answering her description had been seen by a motorist on the Wash- hway. +vm Rock Creek 1in sent out a searching party to com’ through the woods near the point where a woman’s footprint was located in the soft earth by the bloodhounds earlier in the thorough knowledge of its fundamen- tal law,” was telegraphed to mayors, Congressmen, Senators and governors. Alfred M. Phillips, jr., mayor of Stamford, Conn., wired back, charges collect: “Did you say fee or free?” No reply was received. Again he wired, also tolls collect, cautioning Mayor Thompson that the tricky Brit- ish” “might have some pretty mean propaganda against him in ‘Alice in Wonderland.’ The Stamford mayor quoted from that book the story of the old man, criticized by his son for standing on his head, whose answer was: “In my youth I feared it might injure the brain, but now I am perfectly sure I have none.” Another reply from Representative Emmanuel Celler, Brooklyn, N. Y., read: “Were you not so enthusiastic- ally misguided in _your campaign (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) TREASURY MARKS TAX SLASH LIMIT Will Insist on $300,000,000 as Top in Conference With House Committee. By the Associated Press. A total tax reduction of $250,000,- 000, or at the greatest $300,000,000, is the most the Treasury will concede in its discussion of the administration's program next week with the House waysand means committee, Hearings will begin on Monday preparatory to drafting the new revenue bill. Although details of the program have yet to be decided upon, it is known that the administration will seek to effect this slash by cutting corporation rates and repealing cer- tain nuisance and excise taxes re- maining from war days. Repeal of the Federal inheritance tax will be among the objectives of the administration again this year. Undersecretary Mills, who Is to rep- resent the Treasury at the commit- tee hearings, is prepared to argue for the quarter-billion limitation on the ground that recent huge surpluses were the result largely of revenue items which will not recur during the 1l year under consideration. With Western independent Repub- lican Senators, who favor a minimum of reduction, holding the balance of power in the upper branch of Con- gress, it seems likely that proponents of a smaller downward revision will have a decided advantage. The west- erners are of the opinion that reduc- tion of the national debt is preferable to_cutting the tax rates. Not all administration suporters in he Senate, however, are favorable to the $250,000,000 or $300,000,000 limit. Some, including Chairman Smoot. of | the Senate finance committee, are of | the opinion that the reduction should reach a total of $350,000,000, while the Democrats are of the opinion that a cut of $400,000,000 is possible. PR e, Col. Harvey at White House. Col. George Harvey, former Ambas- dor to Great Britain, and Mrs. Har- y are guests of President and Mrs. Coolidge at the White House, join- ing Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns, who came to Washington yesterd: large city have been made. e — e — ITCHELL, BANKER, KILLED WITH WIFE Chicago Financier Dies Shortly After Auto Acci- dent in lllinois. By the Associated Py CHICAGO, October ~—John J. Mitchell, sr., T4 years old, chairman of the board of Chicago's second great- est finaneial institution, the Illinois Merchants' Trust Co., died in a doe- tor's office in Libertyville, 111, 35 miles from here, shortly after he had been injured today in an automobile acci- dent, which also claimed the life of Mrs. Mitchell. The accident occurred north of Libertyville. Bert Finstead, Libertyville, in p: ing a hayrack, had crashed into an- other automobile coming from the other direction, according to witnesses. The collision and the crpwd which gathered blocked the highway. Car Skidded on Paving. As the Mitchell car approached the scene it was almost upon the block- ade before the chauffeur was aware his path was blocked. He jammed on his brakes and the heavy <losad car skidded completely around on the wet paving and then toppled into the road- side ditch with its wheels in the air. Mrs. Mitchell was pinned under the automobile and killed instantly. Mr. Mitchell suffered head and internal injuries. He was thought to be dead, but when he was taken, along with the body of Mrs. Mitchell, to the Libertyville office of Dr. John L. Taylor, it was found that the banker still lived, John J. Mitchell, jr., and his wife, the former Lolita Armour, who: father, J. Ogden Armour, died recen Iy, hurried to Dr. Taylor's office, First information concerning the accident was given to the bank in a telephone call from the chauffer, who was said merely to have reported that Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell had been injured when their car overturned. Followed Father's Footsteps Emulating his father in choosing banking as his life work, John J. Mitchell became president of a Chi- cago bank at 26, was acclaimed one of that city's greatest financiers at 40, and was recalled from retirement after four yvears to head the second r?n”k‘ing bank in Illinois at the age of 70, He was born November 3, 1853, at Alton, 11l., where he received a public school education, and went with his parents to Chicago when he was 20 (Continued on Page 2, Column 1, MEXICAN REBELS REPORTED DISPERSED Defeated in Week of Fighting in Orizaba Mountains Claimed. 212 miles By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, October 29.—Rebel forces operating near Orizaba on the slopes of Orizaba Mountain were de- feated and dispersed in fighting which has been going on for the past week there, says a bulletin issued by the Presidential Bureau quoting a report from Gen. Jesus Aguirre, who declares that the whole region will be com- pletely pacified within a few days. Gen. Aguirre took the field in an effort to hunt down Gen. Arnulfo Gomez, former presidential ecandidate and one of the leaders of the recent revolt, Gen, Gonzalo Escobar, at Mozomba, reported the defeat of a rebel group commanded by Luis Gonzales. “Maryland City” The Fourth Largest Municipality in- the State. . Will It Be Realized? Proposals to incorporate 28 communities in Prince Georges County, near the District of Columbia, into one Many issues enter the proposition, and The Star in a series of articles, starting tomorrow, will reveal the pros and cons of the consolidation problem. BOTH SES FEL CONFDENT AS 0L *TRALSREGESSED | Government Counsel Appa- rently Satisfied With Devel- opments of Week. DEFENSE IS ENCOURAGED BY DECISIONS OF COURT Barring of Testimony Is Consid- ered Advantage in Case for Defendants. Despite two decisions from the bencly distinetly disadvantageous to the prosecution in the conspiracy case against Albert B. Fall and Harry F. Sinciair, Government counsel looked with satisfaction upon developments of the last five s when the trial came today to its second week end pause, For the defense it would seem that the honors of the week were gained through the two decisions of Justice Frederick L. Siddons, who is giving |to the trial the same careful impar- tiality in his rulings that marked proceedings in the former conspiracy case involving Edward L. Doheny. But the advantage the defense derived from these rulings was short-lived for Government counsel “came back” yes- terday with a relentlessness that con- nected Sinclair with the Continental | Trading Co. of Canada, that mysteri- ous concern, through which the $230,- 1500 in Liberty bonds. which ultimately | found their way into Fall's safe de- posit box are being traced. Rulings Were Significant. The decisions from the bench, which proved the outstanding features of the week's development, involved the laying of important evidence before the jury bearing directly on the con- spiracy indictment. In the first de- cision the court barred testimony given by Sinclair before the Senate investigating committee that his re- nowned “Christmas visit” to Fall at the latter’s New Mexico ranch in 1921 was for the purpose of opening nego- tiations for a lease on the Wyoming naval oil reserve. The second, and most important, upheld the refusal of Fall's son-in-law and business part- ner, M. T. Everhart, to reveal to th{ jury the source of the $230,500 in Lib- erty bonds he had received a short time after the lease had been signed. ‘Upon Everhart’s testimony the Gov- ernment had hoped to bring out direct evidence to back up its maze of cir- cumstantial evidence that the bonds were received direct from the Conti- nental Trading Co. through Sinclair. Such admission possibly would have proved the stromgest link in the Gov- ernment’s chain of evidence. Owen J. Roberts, who has been bear- ing, almost singlghanded, the brunt of presenting the Government's evi- dence. while handicapped by the bar- ring of this testimony, demonstrated an ability to “come back” in masterly fashion. After the refusal of Everhart to answer leading questions on the ground that his answers would tend to incriminate him, the Government counsel took another course and pro- ceeded doggedly in his attempt to link Sinclair directly with the operations of the mysterious Continental com- pany, which at one time had posses- sion of the $230,500 in Liberty bonds which the Government charges were used to bribe the former Secretary of the Interior. 0il Purchase Deal Recalled. Through former Senator Charles S. Thomas of Colorado the Government showed that Sinclair took part in a conference called for the urpdse of negotiating the purchase of a huge quantity of oil from A. E. Humphreys of Denver. Sinclair, Thomas testified, acted as co-guarantor of the contract which subsequently was executed The proceedings were of special in- terest to the jury which was taken rapidly from New York to Pueblo, Colo.; to El Paso, to Carrizozo, N. Mex., to Denver and finally to Washington, wnere the canceled coupons were safely tucked away in the Federal Treasury and from which the oil coun- sel obtained them. He held them aloft, $230,500 worth, for the benefit of the 2 'women and 10 men who are sitting in judgment of the two noted defendants. Like the torn parts of the $100,000 notes previously given Edward L. Doheny by Fall, the coupons appeared as a damaging plece of_evidence. ‘When court recessed yesterday until Monday morning, Thomas was in the midst of his examination by Govern- ment counsel. At this point counsel on both sides had engaged in a heated controversy as to whether the former Senator could tell the jury contents of the f of the guarantee contr had dictated. _Thomz attorney for Humphre Harry M. Blackmer, chairman of the board of the Midwest Refining Co., was the man with whom Humph- reys, in November, 1921, had first arranged for the sale of 30,000,000 barrels of oil. Blackmer scooted off to Europe at the time of the Senatq investigation, and when last heard from was in Paris. He is a witnesi the Government is extremely anxioud to have appear but he refuses td emerge from his European refuge ‘The names of Stewart, Blackmer, Sin: clair, H. S. Osler, president of the Continental Co.; James O'Neill, presi dent of Prairie Oil & Gas Co., and Beman Dawes, president of the Pure Oil Co. and brother of Vice President Dawes, were btewisht into the confer- ence by Thomas. Guaranteed Contract. The evidence showed finally that Humphreys was told by Blackm that the Continental Trading Co. would become the vendee of the oil, which subsequently went to the Prairie Oil & Gas Co. and the Sin- clair Crude Oil Purchasing Co. The Continental company was then un- known and when Humpireys inter- posed some objection, O'Neill and Sinclair agreed to guarantee the per- formance of the contract. Besides the guarantee contract,. Thomas explained, there was a sec- ond contract by which the Prairie and Sinclair companies were to get 50 per cent of all of the production of the Humphreys wells after the first contract had been executed. o Radio Programs—Page 3. draft 't which he was acting as -