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WEA (U. 8. Weather Increasing cloudiness tonight; tomor- row showers; not much change in tem- perature. Temperature—H yesterday; Full report on page 11. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 THER. Yureau Forecast.) est. 85, at 3 pm t 6 am. today. ch WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. in Washingto service. Yesterday's Circu Associated Press The only evening paper n with the news lation, 98,654 e OART. N COSTARCAASKS NONRDE DOCTRNE RULINEBY LEAUE Desires Interpretation Before Deciding on Bid to Re- sume Membership. DISCUSSION OF POLICY IS BELIEVED UNLIKELY Central Anterican Country Re- Entered as second Washington, IRASKOB AND EIGHT OTHERS class matter e Gerry, YORK, August 15.—John J , Democratic national chairman, and a half dozen others of Gov. Smith's campaign advisory cabinet, had a nar: ight when an elevator | in which they were riding fell nearly ficors and imprisoned its occu- | stories above the ground for b included he a h e chairman, Sena- tor Gerry of Rhode Island and N SHAKEN AS ELEVATOR FALLS WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1928—FORTY-SIX PAGES. ¥ (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. | Wheeler, Harrison and Lehman! Among Those Imprisoned in Car Stalled in Shaft—All Escape Injury. dinner that the elevator failed to stop | at_Senator Gerry's floor. i When it finally stopped the entrance | was near the twenty-first floor, with a ! mall part protruding over the level of | the twenty-second. The doors of the | hotel eclevators are so arranged that | they will not open unless the cars ar» | level with the floor. Members of the | party sought to attract attention to their plight by pounding on the eleva- tor door. It w half an hour before hotel employes were able to open the shaft d on the twenty-second floor, afford- ing about a two-foot opening into the ar. Through this opening Raskob and signed Two Years Ago With Brazil and Spain. vl = | Gerry, Scnator Wheeler of Montana. | Senator Gerry were able to clamber, | Col. Herbert H. Lehman, campaign but the other members of the party | | finance director; Senator Pat Harrison | Were imprisoned an additional half | | hour until hotel engineers could bring By the A ted Press GENE August 15.—The Central | American Republie of Costa Rica wants the League of Nations to interpret the Monroe Doctrine before deciding whether to accept or reject an invita- | tion from the League Council to re- sume League membership. Costa Rica has incorporated this re- quest in an official communication to the Council, an action which has| cansed a sensation among those cog- nizant of the letter. May Avoid Debate. It is understood that the Council probably will avoid making any inter- pretation of the Monroe Doctrine on the belief that it has no authority to g0 into this question and will simply Teply to Costa Rica that its communica- | tion has been circulated ail members | ©f the League. An Assembly discussion | of the Monroe Doctrine, however, is now deemed a possibility. Article 21 of the covenant says that in the covenant shall be re- validity of in- such as treaties Raised by Argentina. The question of the Monroe Doctrine was raised at the recent session of the | Officials See No Hostility Toward U. S, in Costa Rican Request. By the Associated Press. by | ward probably will depend upon condi- “such as the Monroe Doctrine.” ever any other power or group of powers may think the Monroe Doctrine means or implies, only the power promulgating that doctrine would appear qualified to define it in the first instance. At any rate the Costa Rican commu- nication to Geneva reflects no hostility in that country toward the United States or the Monroe Doctrine, 50 far | s Washington is aware RELEASE OF WHITE | of Mississippi, Representative Corning ! twenty-third floor of the hotel. | half mon! time, it is fairly certain that he will in- |every cross-roads | ters he now has under advisement. of New York and Dr. and Mrs. Henry Moskowitz. The party was descending in an | { elevator in the Savoy Plaza Hotel. The | made light of the occurrence. car failed to stop at the twenty-third | floor and fell until it was halted by mechanical safeguards between twenty-first and twent; cond floors. Raskob and Senator Gerry were im- prisoned in the car for half an hour, and the other occupants were not re- | leased for almost an hour. Senator Gerry had invited the Smith advisers to his apartment on the After | a_preliminary conference they took the | elevator to the twenty-fifth floor for|them had appeared at campaign head- | dinner. It was on their return from | the car to the twenty-second floor. ‘When word of the happening leaked out through Democratic headquarters this morning the hotel management “The incident was caused by a fuse blowing out,” one of the managers said, “and this was quickly repal as soon as it came to the attention of the engineering department.” The management said the time the car was stalled was not nearly an hour, as was said at Democratic headquarters, but only 12 minutes, just the time it took to replace the fuse. The occupants of the elevator could not be reached this morning. None of | quarters up to noon. HOOVER STUDIES CAMPAIGN IN SOUTH May Speak in Memphis, Ala- bama and Elsewhere This Fall. notion that Herbert Hoover is devoting most of his thought and attention "at vade the South, speaking at least at Memphis, Tenn., which was his head- quarters during the first phase of his Mississippi flood relief work last year. May Go to Alabama. Whether he will extend his itinerary to take in other cities further south- tions six weeks or two months from now. It may be that he will go into Alabama and one or two other States from which have come reports of a ywing sentiment in favor of his can- idacy. There will also be speaking engage- ments in the “ast, where leaders urging that he not only deliver a series of addresses, but also make special trips for conferences with State and dis- trict managers of the decentralized or- ganization, which he has insisted from the first would be set up for the pur- pose of carrying the campaign into hamlet. These mat- Setting cut to strike a new note in his acceptance addres- that of a call to the people to give their patriotic im- pulses play in the relationship with their overnment, Hoover has succeeded, DENIAL HELD ERROR Hoover Publicity Bureau Said to| Have Made Mistake With i Editor’s Cabl | in the judgment of his advisers, who base their conclusions upon the tenor both of personal messages and editorial expressions. Works on Second Speech. These advisers predict that the c dates's future speeches will be di SHITH S ANNIOLS 10 OPEN CAMPACN Little Activity Expected Be- tween Notification and Labor Day. BY D. HAROLD OLIVER. Associated Press Staff Writer. ALBANY, N. Y.—August 15.—A week | trom tonight, on the steps he so often | anxious to get them over with, so tha: he can begin his campaign, the acceptance speech as his chief back- ground. No speaking itinerary has been map- | ped out for the governor bsyond the notification ceremony and it is doubt- ful whether the campaign will actually get under way before Labor day. In the meantime he has several engagements in New York .and New Jersey, but na- tional politics are expected to be avold- ed in whatever remarks he makes. Address Is Completed. The governor has completed his ac- ceptance address and has promised to deliver printed coples to press associa- tions for advance malling to their newspapers by noon today. Arrangements are being made to handle the largest crowd ever to as- semble on the grounds of the State capital. The stands are in place, but because of the small amount of space on the east steps, where the ceremony will be held, only about 2,800 persons will have seats. These will include members of the notification and na- tional committees and other party dig- nitaries. Seats also have been arranged for several hundred newspaper men, while the bulk of the crowd will spread out over the wide lawns leading to the bordering streets and along the side- walks. After firing the third advance in his it with the Rev. John Roach Straton yesterday, Smith held the first of & serfes of political conferences with | gotten into the records at all in some | 60,000 CRIME CASES REPORTED HIDDEN BY CHICAGO POLICE Complaints Suppressed by; Officers to Show Clean Rec- | ords, Commission Says. BOMBINGS ARE CLASSED AS MALICIOUS MISCHIEF Only One in 525 Astault Complnints‘ Reported by Precinct Captains | in 1926, Group States. By the Assoclated Press CHICAGO, August 15.—The Chicago | Crime Commission poured another broadside against the police today. A report prepared by special investi- gators for the commission charged that more than 60,000 criminal complaints made to the Chicago police in the past two years have been suppressed. Bombings have been written on the police records as “malicious mischief,” said the report, and attacks on women have been classified as “accidents.” Complaints of pocket picking have not instances, the investigators said. Says Hughes Aided. Although the report criticized prac- tices alleged to have been prevalent during the police commissionership of Michael Hughes, it was pointed out that Huehes himself had been of great assistance to the investigators in un- covering the facts. It was made clear that neither Hughes nor his predecessor at the head of the police department. Morgan Collins, were responsible for the conditions charged. Mostly. said the report, the suppression of complaints was traceable to precinct captains, who sought in tiis way to make their rec- ords look better than they really were During 1926, the investigators charged. only one out of every 525 complaints of assault was reported from the sta tion that received them to the office of the secretary of the department. Since | statistics on Chicago crime have in tle | past been based on figures of the secre- | tary, previous reports have been “far m:- trustworthy,” the investigators Records Held Absurd. Col. Henry Barrett Chamberlin, oper- | ating director of the crime commissios found the records in the secretary's office "ahlurdmonm their face.” | ‘According e secretary's records | :hll’! were |n! lfl'lk no nf? rds. 0 plckings of pockets, no lar by | bailee and no purse snatehing,” Col. Chamberlin said. “If these res are | to be taken as correct, it will be found that in 1926 there were no bogus checks passed, no forgeries, no extortion ov threats. no arson and no gmderm; I the published reports of the police de- partment are studied and analyzed. they will furnish great amusement fur any one with a sense of humor.” Col. Chamberlin recommended careful, accurate, impartial and com- | prehensive survey of the entire depart- | ment, looking to its rehabilitation.” BILL TILDEN BARRED IN FRIDAY MATCH Eastern Lawn Tennis Body Refuses to Let Star Enter East vs. West Games. a By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, August 15.—Bill Tilden definitely will not be allowed to play on the Eastern team in the Fast vs, West tennis matches Friday and Sat- urday at Forest Hills, it was announced today by P. Schuyler van Bloem, vice president of the Eastern Lawn Tennis Association and a member of the com- mittee in charge of organizing the East- ern team. Mr. Van Bloem sald his committee | reached this decision because “it felt it would not be sportsmaniike to use a 1 party leaders, receiving Senator Carter | apon much the same plane; that they | law enforcement plank in the Demo- By the Associated Pre NEW YORK. August 15—Henry J Allen, nationzl publicity director of the Joover campaign, said loday that the éablegram from William Allen White in shich the Emporia editor denied he #ad retracted any of his charges against | {Gov. Smith had been given to the press :rém(n. ra i Jast night through a mistake of the pub- Mcity bureau. “I showed the cablegram to one news- will express the abiding belief he holds | that the American people want to build in this Nation a human society, not an | economic system Hoover today was bending every effort | to put the finishing touches upon his | second political utterance of the cam- | 1o be delivered at his West | h, Iowa, birthplace next Tuesday The speech is now in type and is re- ceiving the final revision. The nomi- nee he man,” said the former 00\'ernor& opes to have it ready for distri- :'up'e‘?.m “And in some unexplained |bution before h: leaves here ‘Thursday way it went to our publicity depart- | night on the return trip to Washington. ment and was issued to the press as a While all the details of the home- regular release. Buch a step was never |ward journey ha > not yet been worked intended Mr. White and I are per- o it 1s likely that the itinerary for sonal friends, but I had no intention of ern California will include Long allowing his cableg o be made pub- | Beach and Pasadena, after visits to lic from our headqua he Hoover | Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. If it organization ha 3 with |does the nominee will have a busy day Mr. n the governor,” | Friday from the time he reaches Santa cHlNESE RéPEAT out from Pasadena for Arizona early NOTE TO JAPAN tha* night Becond Demand for Abrogation of 1896 Pact Seen in Move—Tokio Remains Firm White's attacks Dogs Seek Officier’s Slayer. BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss, August 15 ) —Prepared to shoot to kill, if neces- sary, an armed posse of several hundred men today searched the countryside near here with bloodhounds for a colored man who seriously wounded the | Bay 8t. Louts chief of police and killed | annther man cratic platform. Senator Is Silent. Neither Glass nor any other spokes- man at the executive mansion had any- | thing to say for publication concern:ng | the meeting. The Senator was an | overnight, giest at the executive man- sion and planned to leave Albany sometime today. Josephus Daniels, Becretary of the Navy under Wilson and another dry leader at the Houston con- vention, was on Smith's list of callers ay. The governor informed Dr. Straton in a letter of three paragraphs yes- terday that unless he consented to re- peat his charges against Smith's public record in the Calvary Baptst Church | of which he is pastor and allow Smith | to reply where they were made the pro- ‘{’10"6 debate would be out of the ques- on | Dr. Straton was reported at Green- wood Lake, N. Y., as saying if the gov- | | ernor refused to meet him outside of his church he would hire the largest hall he could find, probably on September 7 or 8, and “repeat in that hall the | exact sermon to which he objected.” | Smith's stand from the start has been one vigorously opposed to such a propo- sition, and his friends today were cer- tain that he would enter into no further discussion with the minister unless the meeting is held in the New York clergy- man’s chureh, 7 the Associsted Press SHANGHAIL August tionalist government has sent note to Japan regarding the dispu treaty of 1896. The contents were no gevesled officially, but it wes indicaled Ehet the note reiterates China’s deter- gination 1 abrogate the pact The Japanese consul at Nanking 'c day was transmitting the note to the | NEW YORK, August 15 -A pair of N at Peiin, | red dice with & seven up, & few poem e S . | and a sheet of paper on which had been TOKIO, August 15 (#). —Although the | typed the ten commandments of mal government has not received Nanking'’s | ried life told the police today that Anna gecond note on the 1896 treaty. Jap- | Green, 18, had gambled with a career mnese authorities today reiterated thelr | and lost Jefusal to listen o any Chinese pro-| The youn for revision unti) the Nationalists | in a gas-filled room in Brooklyn last ::n acknowledged validity of the ex- | night. Dice and papers lay on a table. fating pact l'rnm wa penciled note, too, that - | read . i - e nothing against anyone. |Radio programs—Page 37 woman's body was found Anna " | Love to you all The commandments, apparently writ- M Bociy c;f Girl. 18. With Dice and Notes Tell Tragic Story of Lost Career| ten by Miss Green, set forth rules for 1 successful marriage Remember you are both human, you are not perfect, and you are liable to | ereor” satd one “Live within your means; do not ‘Atnve to imitate your neighbors, rela- tives or friends,” ead another. layer against whom charges are pend- ing." Tilden, accused of violating the “tried” by the United States Lawn Ten- nis Association August 24, SHIP TO RENEW HUNT FOR ITALIA’S CREW Braganza to Sail Today From Kings Bay With Two Planes Aboard. By the Associated Press. KINGS BAY, Spitzbergen, August 15. ~The sealing ship Braganza today was ready to sail for the North to search further for the six men missing in.the balloon part of the Italia and for Roald Amundsen and his five companions. The ship is taking two light alrplanes to ala in the work, Russian Search Fruitiess. MOSCOW, Al it 15 (#), — Capt. Voronin, commander of the Russian ice breaker Sedov, reported by wireless to- day that he had made a search of Vic- toria Island, midway between North- east Land and Franz Josef Land, with- out finding any trace of the missing Amundsen group or the six men of the dirigible Italla still unaccounted for, e Sedov has been advancing to- ‘}‘urd Franz Josef Land in order to ex- plore that archipelago, on the possibility | that the 12 men still lost in the North | may have taken refuge there | HASSELL DELAYS FLIGHT.| | Weather Causes Postponement of | | Take-Off for Stockholm 24 Hours, | ROCKFORD, Ill, August 15 () - Weather conditions being unsatisfac- | | “Belong to the Home of God—both of you—be active in it, and God will bless | you for it,” was the last. Miss Green's body was identified b her father, who sald the girl had left homs ar and a half to seek . & caree l'n literature or on stage. tory, Bert Hassell announced a 24-hour mrnmm today of his contemplated U ford to flight. n 0} Btock der t plans he to take off early mo' morning :‘w first hop, to Cochrane, Outario, ) 2. 3 PRESIDENT LAUDS ANTHAR TREATY ASPEACENENS Avoids Politics in Speech Be- | fore Wisconsin Legion Con- vention at Wausau. | RECEIVES OVATION ON LEAVING TRAIN ' EExc:utlve Declares America Cher- | ishes No Sentiment of Ag- gression in Defense. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Staff Correspondent of The Star. WAUSAU, Wis, August 15.—In an address here today before the Wisconsin State convention of the American Legion, President Coolidge declared that the Kellogg treaty for the outlawry of war, which is on the eve of being signed PARACHUTE JUMPER DROPS 15.000 FEET, LANDING ON RO Police Reserves Called to Scene Rescue Airman From Lofty Perch. Stepped From Wing of Plane and Descended Calmly. 9,000 Feet From Record. Aviation Chief Machinist Mate Wil- liam F. Scott, U. 8. N, aspirant for the world’s long-distance parachute OF | jumping record, dropped 15000 feet | through space today and landed safely though in undignified fashlon, on the roof of the McKinley apartment house, Third and E streets northwest. Scott was rescued from the roof with the aid of police reserves from the sixth precinct, called to the scene by be- wildered residents. He was nonc the worse for his experience, and was taken back to the Naval Alr Station in a motor c:{cle sidecar of the Police De- en The 1nirepld parachute jumper came within 9,000 feet of equaling the world | WILLIAM F. SCOTT. £ 24, ¢ d | when it dashed mark of 26000 fect for a drop. now | when das e | hung up a world record for fire trucks recently landed in a tree in | W! C.._while making | held by Capt. A. W. Stevens of the Army, Scott Congress Heights, D. (Continued on Pa DRYS WIN IN OHIO “.0.P-PRIMARY But Wets Are Victorious in Democratic Ranks—Bur- ton Has Lead. | By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, August 15.—Stir- | red by wet and dry issues, Ohio voters cast a record number of 850,000 ballots | in yesterday's primary election. Candi- dates supported by the Ohio Anti- Saloon League for State offices ap- parently were victorious in most in- stances on the Republican ticket, while the Democratic fight saw league- indorsed candidates defeated for the mafjority of the posts. Myers Y. Cooper of Cincinnati wrested the lead from Representative Begg of Sandusky in the Republican guberna- torial contest as additional precincts reported. Begg had been in the lead for about two hours at one time, shov- ing his plurality up to more than 5,000. | Glass of Virginia, who helped frame the | yrateyr player-writer rule, is to mlc"o”"’ who had the support of the Anti-Saloon League, went into the lead with 950 votes. The vote in 8,108 pre- cincts of 8,735 was: Cooper Begg. 235,778, Davey in Lead. 236,737 Attorney General Edward C. Turner, | who based his campaign for the Re- publican gubernatorial nomination on a scathing attack on the dry organization and certain utility interests which he alleged had combined in efforts to- control State legislation, was a poor third in the six-cornered race. His vote was 81,370, Representative Davey, Kent, apparent- ly was the lone Anti-Saloon League candidate to emerge victorious on the Democratic State ticket. He held an early plurality of 37,000 over Peter Witt, Cleveland, who campaigned as & wet. Former Lieut. Gov. Earl D. Bloom, Bowling Green, who also had the dry orYlnlutlon'u support, was a close third. The dry league's selections for the remainder of the Democratic State ticket were running far behind candi- dates who were not on its preferred L Burton Ahead. Representative Burton, Cleveland, had B runaway race for the Republican short-term nomination _for United States Senator. Graham P. Hunt, Cin- cinnati, campaigning as A Liberal, and Senator Locher, Cleveland, were run- ning a close race for the same nomina- tion on the De: Continued on Page 2, Column st il 6,000 ILL IN ATHENS WITH DENGUE FEVER By the Assoclated Press ATHENS, August has lately appeared the number of cases Is unkno said probably to exceed 6,000, The nature of the fever Is nat dan- gerous and is very rarely fatal. The fever is spread by mosquitoes breeding in stagnant water and under poor sew- age conditions. Many banks and public departments are suffering from & short- age of help because of fever among their employes. Measures 15, —Dengue fever in Athens and while it is have been taken to draln | 000, off stagnant waters or otherwise W troleum. cover them with pel mocratic slate. Hunt led | QFFIGER ACCUSED OF INGITING RIOT Deputy Marshal Who *‘Could | Not Be Jailed™ in Cell After Five Persons Are Hurt. | By the Associated Press CHICAGO, August 15—"You can't put me in jail” said Deputy United States Marshal Richard J, Murphy at |the Warren Avenue Police Station last | night. “I'm a Government officer.” But they put him in jall anyway, while the desk sergeant wrote the fol- lowing items opposite Murphy's name: Creating a riot, slugging a woman and ing & policeman Murphy, in his automobile, was on |ing dry-law violations. His car was i’hrld up by a stalled machine driven by | Miss Marjorie Meeks, 17. Indignant at | the delay, the marshal. according to Miss Meeks and others in her car, got sut of his machine and struck her across the arm with a blackjack. A crowd that had gathered began | muttering protests and Charles Hebert, 1 spectacled youth, who was in the front “rlhks of the assemblage, was punched in the face by the marshal, as the story was later related to police. This in- censed (he crowd and they began press- ing in on Murphy, who, witnesses said, drew a revolver and opened fire. Ar- thur Bandi was shot in the hip and Ed- ward Tracy (who had just driven up and didn’t know what the shooting was all about) stopped a bullet with his left leg. - The crowd fled: all save Bandi, who couldn't make much progress because lof his wound. Murphy arrested Bandi }and started with him to the Warren | Avenue Police Station. Miss Meeks and | others followed, to place 7 against the deputy marshal At the station Murphy was told he would have to remain while the affair was investigated. He thereupon drew his revolver again. informing the blue- ‘oats they couldn't arrest him. Gentle oersuasion was employed to induce Murphy to lower the weapon, following which a half dozen stalwarts fell uvon him. It was during this imbroglio that one of Policeman Klick's fingers got caught between a pair of teeth, allegedly | Murphy's. | Then they locked him up. | 9 & man, shooting two bystanders and bit- | ENGINE C0. 23 WINS DB SPEEDTESTS Truck 14 Rates First in Its Class, Scoring 7 1-5 Seconds. Engine Co. No. 23 and Truck Co. | No. 14 are the 1928 speed champions of the District Fire Department. By racing out of its building on G street between Twenty-first and Twen- | | ty-second streets in 62-5 seconds, the former company vanquished all other contenders for The Evening Star Cup and increased its hold on the trophy to | two legs. The company now is with Engine Co. No. 21 in the quest | for permanent possession of the cup. Three legs are needed to gain the prize for all time. Truck Co. No. ond successive leg on the Me: | and Manufacturers’ Associal out hen it roared out in 64-5 seconds. | were ! cial committee which conducted the tests. Other members of the commit- (ee were W. W. Dean, fire prevention engineer of the War Department, and a representative of The Star. Took Lead Monday. Engine Co. No. 23 and Truck Co. No | 14 stepped in.. the lead on the first | day of the tests, Monday, and they were never headed. Engine Co. No. | r éngine companies, 1926 record of 6 seconds flat, tied wit) Engine Co. No. 5, M street near Wis- |engine companies. They left their | houses in the excellent time of 64-5 | seconds, each. Engine Co. No. 1. K | street near Seventeenth street, was | third, with 7 seconds flat Truck Co. No. 13, Florida avenue and Orren street northeast, was second in the truck class, with a mark of 8 sec- onds flat, while Truck Co. No. 8. Nichols avenu: and Fourth street south- east, was third, with 8 4-5 seconds. Engine Co. No. 23 has been a real contender for the speed record every year since inauguration of the contest. In 1925, the first year, the company won its first leg on The Star Cup, and in 1926 the company tied with Engine Co. No. 21 for first place. A run-off | of the tie was ordered and in a specta- cular race staged at a neutral engine his way to serve two warrants involv- | house the latter company nosed out its | sibility, {rival by a fraction of a second and { broke the world's speed record as well. | | Equal 1927 Record. The G street company this vear equaled the 1927 record of company 14, on Connecticut avenue near Porter street, won its sec- rchants | tion Cup | of quarters in Final results in the annual contest announced today by Fire Chief | George S. Watson, following receipt of | an official report from Battalion Chief | Thomas F. O'Connor, head of a spe- 21, | Lanier place near Adams Mill road, ?resem holder of the world speed title | o by reason of its ¥ n of its | whick consin avenue, for second place among | arT | in Paris by 14 nations, with the United tS(aleL holds a greater hope for inter- { national peace than was ever before | given to the world. In th> opinion of Mr. Coolidge, this pact proposes a revolutionary policy | among nations, and if those who are in- | volved, having started it, will finish it | its provisions will prove one of the | sreatest blessings ever bestowed upon | humanity. So impressed is the Presi- {dent with the possibilities offered by | this treaty against war that he referred to it today as a fitting consummation of the first decade of peace. President Coolidge’s implicit confi- | dence in these possibilities was made | very clear when he expressed the belief {that had an agreement of this kind been in existence in 1914 it would have saved the situation and would have de- | livered the world from all the misery vhich was inflicted by the great World War. Occasion Is Fitting. | To give this message of peace to the | world and to speak so frankly of his | hopes for the Kellogg multilateral treaty, | Mr. Coolidge selected an especially fit- | ting occasion. Being sponsored by ihe American Legion. the exercises were | highly patriotic and inspiring in their | nature. Besides the many uniformed | veterans of the World War seated in | the vast audience, there were several | thousand men and women. many of whom had traveled great distances to have this opportunity to hear and sce the Chief Executive. There were bands and drum corps that played lively airs as well as pa- triotic music that served to stir the assembled. On the plai- ttractively decorated ing. were ses:te; h‘gg officers of the Legion. of the State an, the city of Wausau. Mrs. Coolidge. with John Coolidge beside her, occupied & ! seat close to the rostrum from which {her husband spoke. | "As the President stepped from his |train at the Wausau Station he was greeted in an enthusiastic fashion. He {and the members of the party were | formally received by a’special commit- tee, the members of which acted as an ‘esrorl to Marathon Park where the | exercises were held. The trip was made to Wausau in a special train of th Chicago & North Western Railroad. | which _left Haw! thorn. & small station 20 miles from Cedar Island Lodge. 10:20 o'clock last night and which ived here this morning at 10 o'clock. Second Vacation Speech. This was the second public address made by the President since coming to | Wisconsin for his vacation and. as on the former occasion at Cannon Falls three weeks ago, the event was a pa- | triotic one. the President again speaking in terms of peace and avoiding any | utterance that might be construed as ) bearing upon politics. He appea 0 be intent only upon espousing the cause of international peace and advocacy of the Kellogg treaty as a reasonable and honorable barrier to set up as a preventative of war. As a further revelation of his | hope that enough nations may sign the 1 to outlaw war to make & repetition of the World War an impas- he explained that this Gov- ernment has obtained the consent of 14 important nations to the negotiation Qf a treaty condemning recourse to war, renouncing it as an instrument of na- tional policy., and pledging each other ! to seek no solution of their disagree- and No. 21 and came within two-fifths of & - - ‘:e::gn dr;l equalling the world mark of | E?{E:e‘r%::g[ n?e’hlmm&a;mcn |~ While mechanical performance of the DORRie ot sl foc eace imuch Credit cannot be given the Crews | s e rot vertion of war (ho Proel prived of this stellar display of skill. | \as his contention in this Tespect that efficiency and nerve the Dbig engines | ine el treaty detracts nothing would have been helpless in the ofntest. | ¢on “ha Tient and obligation of the The companies were required t dash | yynted States or the other high con- na- complaints | over a 39-foot course under rigid re- strictions. A fixed point on the rear of the apparatus, exactly 39 feet from the front door sill, was timed by two stop-watches as it aipped over this dis- tance to the doorway. The watches were held by Chief O'Connor and The Star representative. Private P. 23, was stationed at a chalk to the rear of his seat. Pri Troup, cranker, stood 14 feet in front of the crank. Capt. W. A Bryarly, commanding, was 14 feet away from his seat beside the driver. Chief O'Connor and The Star repre- sentative stood, stop-watches in hand, at the doorway. Private Winters, aid to Chief O'Connor, stood ready to help the cranker get out of the path of the apparatus. Traffic in front of the en- gine house was halted. Chief O'Connor ““(Continued on Page 2, Column 7. Jewel Bandits Kidna | | By the Associated Press | CHICAGO, August 15.—-Morrls Keen, |a New York jewelry salesman and Wil- ! mer Kivett, an Omaha taxi driver, were | found handcuffed walking along a sub- | urban highway today. They told police they had been kidnaped in the Omaha business district by three robbers in Omaha yesterday and driven 500 miles as prisoners in an automobile until they were freed today near Ohicago. The I‘nbblll‘-l took Keen's jewels, worth $100,- The. fe welry salesman said he was a nlub-h) train for Denver, when | Drive to Chicago for $100.000 Loot p Pair in Omaha, two of the robbers leaped upon the run- | | ning board of the cab and with drawn | pistols ordered the drivers into the rear | seat with him, At the outskirts of town they were transferred to a large | | black touring car. They drove all afternoon | night until they were let | Wheaton, a suburb today. A Wheaton farmer found the men handcuffed, trudging down the road and thinking they. were escaped prisoners took them {to the Wheaton Jail, where they told and all out near Talbott, driver of Engine | | wacting partles to maintain an ade- { quate national defense against any at- | tack, although it does pledge the signa- | tories not to attack each other and to seck a settlement of their controversies with another through peaceful means. United States Not Aggressive. In his expressed belief in an ade- quate national defense, the President | wanted it understood that the United | States cherishes no sentiment of ag- gression toward any other ple. but ! that he looks upon the obligation to resist evil and to be prepared to main- | tain the orderly authority of the rule | of law in both our domestic and foreign | relations, as one which cannot be avolded. In his opinfon, the President [1s satisfied that for the Government | to disregard the science of national de | fense would expose it to the contempt of its citizens at home and of the world abroad. It would be an attempt to evade bear! our share of the bur- dens of civilization, he added. For these reasons, as he expressed it. “we mamtain according to our resources. our population, our responsibilities and our position, 8 moderate army and navy, based on what we believe to be the requirements for national security After recounting the terrific cost of the World War in human lives, property and resources, the President contended Ilhlt n;e mu;:m of the world learned a lesson from that stupendous catast: which should be of great ld\'l!:?lvln: He amplified this by saying that that war has given this country an oppor- tunity to better know the world. and has afforded it a place in the world af- fairs that it did not have before. But mwmm. and ificant, the t wanted it understood that | | their story. | Keen sald he wis employed by P. Puchs & Co, of New York. the lesson from the war has demon-