Evening Star Newspaper, August 18, 1928, Page 1

WEATHER. (U S Weather Bureau Forecast.) Showers this afternoon and early to- night. followed by partly cloudy and slightly cooler; tomorrow cloudy. ‘emperature—Highest, 83, at 11 a.m, today: lowest, 68, at 6:15 a.m. today. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. - Full report on page 9 Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 20 and 21 ¢ Fhening WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Yesterday’s Circulation, 98,507 D. WASHINGTON, HASSELL HOPS OFF FOR GREENLAND ON' FLIGHT T0 SWEDEN — No. 30,790. S * (®) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. Relics of Culture C00LIDGE HOLDS Of 20,000 Years Ago| oy niee Y LTES e STATEROBLENS Once Lived in Then Fertile Gobi Area. Declared to Believe They T SATURDAY. AUGUST 18, 1928—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. Entered as second class matter 18 post office, Washington. C 4 TOPEKA COLORFUL |55 Siratom Holds AS CROWDS ARRIVE FOR CURTIS SPEECK = In Smith Debate astor Insists He Be Given'| ight as Challenged Party of Naming Place. | By the Assoctated Press By the Associated Press. PEKING, August 18.—Men armed Senator Jovially Greets OIdi‘ Friends Who Come | for Ceremony. KANSANS A&D INDIANS ARE PROUD OF NOMINEE Acceptance Address Will Be Made on Lawn of Statehouse Grounds. Sy the Associsted Press. TOPEKA, Kans., August 18.—The im- posing State House, standing in a spa- | clous park of this city in the richly | Iaden farm lends. was the mecca Of| tinued, “is that vou have challenged me | Here late in the to & joint discussion of your record and | today Curtis, son of Topeka, ¢ a public | 1 be formally n by the Re- e President . the Senator was greeting some of | oming b On all trains and roads they came, party leaders, of the notification com- each State—but most- 1y old friends of the Senator. Kansas Is Proud. For 38 years Senator Curtis has| gepresented Kansas in Congress. 14| years in the House and the remainder ©f the time 1n the Senate, where he has yuled for the past three years as the Jeader of his party, the majority group. Now he has brought Kansas its first | wice presidential candidate, and the| tate jealously is vying today with na- tional party leaders in the celebration $o_him. From every lamp post and across every ;nnclpal thoroughfare hung flags, anting. party insignia and the picture of Curtis. For several days Topeka has | i GREENWOOD LAKE, N. Y., August | 18.—Dr. John Roach Straton, pastor of | Calvary Baptist Church, will insist upon the rules of the dueling code in | his controversy with Gov. Smith. As the challenged he insists on naming | the place of meeting. The pastor in a letter to the governor | | which he made public last night said. | As the challenged party I stand on | the time-honored privilege of naming | the place for the discussion, and shall | name a place that will not arouse sec- | | tarian bitterness nor drag the religious | | issue into the contest.” | The governor had insisted that he be permitted to answer Dr. Straton’s charges in Calvary Baptist Church, where the sermon against him was de-, livered. “The vital point.” the letter not to & personal appearance in & church. * You have asked whether I would meet vou, and yvour last letter demanded a reply of ‘ves' or ‘no.’ My answer is emphatically and unchange- ably ‘ves. Unless you now stand up to your own challenge your action in running to cover will leave me free to take whatever steps in the matter I may | deem wise and right., and will auto- matically brand you before the world as a bluffer, a Tammany trickster and a coward.” In his last letter to the pastor Gov. | Smith wrote ! “The answer to my request to appear | in your church before your parishioners and under the conditions I mentioned is ‘ves’ or ‘no.’ Unless and until I hear from you in the afirmative the matter is closed.” HOOVER SURPRISES IN STUMP TOUR been in gala attire and intermittent | rains of the last few days have done Jittle damage. Overnight a huge picture of Herbert Hoover, the party’s presl—[ dential nominee, had taken its place | alongside one of similar proportions of | Senator Curtis in front of the speakers’ | stand on the south side of the State | National party leaders, headed by | Chairman Work of the Republican na- | tional committee, who called en route | Pome from the notification exercises week ago in California fqr Herbert Hoover, eagerly compared notes on the | pational political _sif during smorning hours. But { “wheo' from | harvest fields, the stores and | ‘houses, were mostly interested | 3n the celebration for “Charlie” Curtis, @8 they call him. Indians Claim Him. Then, too, there were some Indians. “They claim Curtis. His grandmother on his maternal side was Julie Pymn daughter of White Plume, chief of the Kaws. In full regalia some braves of the Pottawatomies came in from a pearby reservation to dance their eagle dance. And there were some of the who _had under Capt. O. A. ! before beginning in earnest the task | the Republican party has set for him. His last day in California gave him {his first real taste of political cam- paigning and it appeared not only that irtis, father of the Senator. Capt. Curiis was a native of Indiana, the forbears. city, up here and fought the early struggles of a lawyer before entering political life at the age of 24, as prosecuting at- torney for Shawnee County. It is his boast that in that office he was the man who first enforced Kansas’ dry Jaw back in the '90's, and he expected to touch on that controversial subject later today in his address of acceptance. The widespreading lawn of the State- house grounds took life early today as the neighbors took up their stations under the shady elms to await the ning of exercises at 4 pm. Then m eight bands which have been as- sembled will begin a musical program. Mot until 5 p.m. will the speaking start. 30-Minute Speech. Because of the extensive radio broad- easting hook-up arranged for the cere- mony, the word has been given that the exercises will go ahead on the Btatehouse ds, rain or shine. From a platform erected from the long stairs leading down the south side of the Capitol, the exercises. Invocation will be pro- mounced by Rev. J. R. McFadden, pastor of the Pirst Methodist Episcopal Church. Then Gov. Paulen will intro- @uce Senator Fess of Ohio, who was temporary chairman of the Republican convention and was designated by the eonvention to notify Senator Curtis of is nomination It 18 planned to have Senator Fess begin his brief address about 5 pm when the radio broadcasting starts. He will be followed by Senator Curtis. who thas prepared an address of about 30 minutes delivery, in which he will dis- cuss for the first time the campaign With the Senator today will be most @f the members of his family. He was ned here yesterday by a sister, Mrs, R. Colvin: by another sk and ber hus- band, Mr. and Mrs. Edward E. Gann of Washinglon his daughter, Mrs. Leona Curtis K: Providence, R 4. Hary Curtd 2O, & 50N, WES expected in Lod other daughter, #rs. C. P. Georz achuset unable 1o attend slor's wife, diec 1 There were far and wide Case of Hawall tis In a5 & law pf Bacramento, founders of Topeka. came in K. Wells of Ports was here ‘Accompanying Chairman Work was due early in the day, was Gov Pisher of Pennsylvanta Mrs Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney Genersl, called by on her return from fhe Hoover notification exercises. James rs ago. re today whose father took Cur- C. K. Holliday a son of one of the Presion, superintendent of the Benate | ess gallery, and Maj. Domo of most Rstionsl politicel functions, also was on band SEAPLANE MISSING. 2svy Hunts Craft Which Disap peared in Chinese Waters. BHANGHAI China, August 18 ). An American seaplane from the U. 8. 8 Jeson, flagship and tender of the air eratt squadron of the Asiatic fleet a hefoo, has been missing since 9 o'cloc iday morning, W actice fiight. Nine Yeaged 1oGay in 8 searc acaih planes were en h for the missing Judge Ira who Mabel hen it started on a Falls Easily Into Impromptuf Speeches on Way Back to East. By the Associated Press. HOOVER TRAIN EN ROUTE TO GRAND CANYON, Ariz, August 18.— the | Reluctantly leaving the State of his answer to the recent note of Premier Waldemaras refusing a Polish proposal |- wdoption, Herbert Hoover today was heading for his birthplace at West Branch, Iowa, where he will spend a .| day and night amid his boyhood scenes { prise even his closest friends as to his ability as a stump speaker before elec~ tion day. Speeches Impromptu. Booked for only a single speech, that iat Los Angeles, the presidential candi- | date was called upon on four other oc- casions and he responded with well | chosen phrases, which went to make up | what some of those accompanying him | regarded as even better efforts than {some of his pre] His fellow Iowans now residents of Long Beach disregarded Hoover's ex- pressed wishes and called upon him for a talk, and his fellow Californians at Pasadena did likewise. To the vast crowd at the last named | city he expressed his dislike at leaving | California, but said he had been called {to a task in the performance of which {he knew every Californian’s heart went {out with him. Keeps High Plane. “The moral and intellectual stature | of the people of California is such,” | he said, “that if it be lived up to by the | contenders the contest ahead will be carried on upon the highest plane of American thought and feeling.” Thus the nominee voiced publicly what he has said privately several times, Gov. Ben Paulen will ODED | yhav o) far as he is concerned the cam- | spected Eastern centers and today are paign wili be free from personalities {and will be conducted upon a level in | keeping with the dignity of the office of | President. | Swinging into Arizona early today, { Hoover had an engagement to mee | Republican county chatrmen at Wil- {liams and to confer with them at Grand | Canyon, where his party will spend the | afternoon and evening, leaving at mid- night tonight for Albuquerque, N. M. To Discuss Arizona. Those accompanying Hoover will have six hours for an inspection of the great orge through which the Colorado River plunges, but the nominee himself will remain at the hotel discussing the po- | litical outlook in Arizona, as he has | inspected the canyon several times, | Since the administration of this State is Democratic, Arizona officials did not | join the candidate to accompany him across its borders in New Mexico, Hoo- | | ver will be joined by Senator Bronson | Cutting and other Republican leaders | for a general discussion of the political | outlook _there. with Willlams and the Grand Canyon his only stops, the Republican standard bearer was to make no public address in Arizona and he has apnounced he 1l make none in New Mexico as he es through that State on Monday. He has avoided political talks on Bunday \ONE KILLED, 2 INJURED CHASING MAIL ROBBERS | One Fugitive Caught When Cana- Residents Take Up Hunt for Trio | By the Assoriated Press PARRY S8OUND, Ontario, August 18, ~One man was killed and two othcrs injured today when residents of Wauba- mik, near here, attempted to capture three robbers who had just escaped | from a Canadian Pacific train en route | from Budbury to Parry Sound after they | had looted a matl car. t| A farmer named Jackson was killed dian k | when he was shot through the neck by the bandite, Two others were wounded One of the bandits was tured and & '51500 was found on him wscaped. |PARKER CRAMER HIS con- | he liked it, but also that he would sur-| Plane Sets Out From Cochrane, Ontario. COMPANION ON TRIP Noon Departure Is Decided to Al- low Arrival at Mount Evans in Daylight. By the Associated Press. COCHRANE, Ontario, August 18— Bert Hassell and Parker Cramer took |off here at 12:12 p.m., Eastern stand- ard time, for Mount Evans, Greenland, on the second leg of their flight from Rockford, Ill, to Stockholm, Sweden A big crowd watched the airmen | | porary runway and point their mono- plane, the Greater Rockford, toward | Mount Evans. 1,600 miles away. The two airmen reached here in a rainstorm Thursday from Rockford, Il Rain has fallen almost every hour since they landed, but today's dawn brought clear and cool weather. Reports from Toronto indicated fair to partly cloudy weather with light to moderate winds over the first stretch of today's route to Mount Evans. As the plane approaches the seaboard and Davis Strait, tail winds, north to north- west, were e noon departure was planned to bring the plane to Greenland In day-| light. | POLES SPEED REPLY | ON LITHUANIAN ISSUE| Urgent Conference of Officials in ‘Warsaw Declared to Show Se- | riousness of Negotiations. | { By the Associated Press. WARSAW, August 18-—-Marshal Pil- sudski, Foreign Minister Zaleski and officials of the Polish foreign office held an urgent meeting at the Belvedere palace last night regarding the con- troversy with Lithuania. A note was drawn up and dispatched to Kovno in that a conference between représenta- tives of the two countries be held at Geneva on_August 30. Premier Wi have taken the position that affairs of the League of Nations will be upper- most at that time and would prevent & serious of the Polish- Lithuanian difficulties. The speed with which the Polish government sent an answer to this com- munication is interpreted here as clearly showing Poland’s seriousness in| the Lithuanian negotiations. PILOTS BREAK RECORD FOR D. C.-NEW YORK HOP Lieuts. Lauer and Saville Cover 240 Miles From Here in Hour and 10 Minutes. Cove: the 240 miles between Boll- ing Fleld here and Mitchell Field, New York, in 1 hour and 10 minutes, Lieuts, Ford J. Lauer and Gordon P. Saville, Army Air Corps pilots, have broken the unofficial record for transit between the two points. The two pilots were not endeavoring to make a record, but were favored by a strong wind from the west at about 2,000 feet altitude which carried them along at unusual speed in their two Curtis O-1 observation planes. The pilots had brought two British air offi- cers here, Squadron Leader A. 8. J. Lee and Flight Lieut. E. J. Kingson McCloughry, both members of the House of Commons, who are visiting {air activity centers of the United | States. The British visitors have in- | at Dayton, Ohio. They will go to Mich- |igan air fields tomorrow. | HOLDS COURT OUTDOORS. Justice Hitz Resumes Hot-Weather Practice of Moving to Park, | Justice Willlam Hitz of the District Supreme Court today resumed the “sylvan” court sessions which marked his occupation on the bench during the heated days of last August, Finding his chambers in the courthouse near the roof of the building too warm for | comfort, the justice, in his short sleeves, |and accompanied by his crier, Willlam Davidge, occupled a shaded bench in | Judiclary Square this morning until the |arrival of the noon hour, set for the | adjournment of court. Attorneys and others having business with the court approached him on the park bench and there discussed legal | propositions or presented orders for the | signature of the court | AMERICAN YACHT LEADS. [ Nina First at Turning Buoy in Race for Fastnet Cup. | | LONDON, August 18 (#).~The Amer- fcan yacht Nina rounded Fastnet Light at 8 o'clock this momlng. the first vessel Lo pass the turning buoy in the | fourth annual race from Cowes to | Plymouth for the Fastnet Cup. No other yachts were in sight at the time, | sald a message from Newport, Isle of | Wight. Beside the Nina there are eight | English and one American craft in the | contest. The course is from Cowes, on the islo of Wight, to Fastnet, on the south- west coast of County Cork, Ireland, and back to Plymouth, | | | Hungary-Turkey Pact Drawn. BUDAPEST, Hungary, August 18 (#),~The !nurnmen ress says that an arbitrafion and friendship treaty ‘aldemaras 1s understood to | ..o - | breaking government would be deprived make a perfect ascent from the tem- | |Good Weather Reported as, ¢ | N \ | i 10 SIGN COMPACT Has No Comment as Ship Sails—Will Visit Dublin. By the Associated Press. Secretary Kellogg was on the high | seas today, bound for Paris, where the | multilateral treaty for the renunciation of war, i the formulation of which he took a leading part, is to be signed on August 27, Accompanied by Mrs. Kellogg and | three State Department aides, the cab- | inet officer sailed from New York late | last night on the French steamship Ile de France. Among his fellow passen- | gers was W. L. Mackenzie King, pre- mier of Canada, who will sign the of his government., his party were greetings, the hwrunn ) cretary to his ouarters and then ler Klieg lights on the prom- I have to say,” he told reporters, “has been stated. I am de- lighted to be on my way on the ocean to consummate this most important service of the Nation to peace.” The new peace treaty arose originally stion by Foreign Minister nce that the Washington and Paris Governments enter into a pact outlawing recourse to warin their duhn:s with each other. Mr. Kelloge replied with a propesal that the treaty be thrown open to other nations and conducted negotiations to that end, with the result that the pact, after revisions in text to meet the objections of France and Great Britain, has met the accept- ance of 14 nations—all the states that were invited to become original signa- tories. After ratification it will be open to adherence by any nation in the world. Under the pact the signatory states would renounce warfare as an nstru- ment of national policy and bind them- selves to use only pacific means in the settlement of whatever disputes or dif- ferences should arise among them, re- gardless of their nature or origin. The preamble sets forth specifically that {should the treaty be broken, all signa- | tories would be released automatically | from their obligations under the pact to the offending state, and the treaty- r trafic for Capt. Joseph Blan- France. Afl of the benefits otherwise derived from the compact. Before returning to America, Mr. Kel- | logg will visit Dublin and London. In the former capital he will regqy the visit of President Cosgrave of the Irish Free State to Washington last Winter. The State Department aides who | satled with the Secretary were Willlam H. Beck, his private secretary: Spencer Phenixon, technical adviser, and Mi- chael J. McDermott, who will attend to press relations. STAGE DEMONSTRATION. NEW YORK, August 18 (#).—Just before the Prench liner Ile de France, with Secretary of State Kellogg aboard, sailed, a delegation of members of the Anti-Imperialistic League staged a demonstration at the pler protesting the treaty he is to sign in Paris One speaker leaped upon an impro- vised platform and began a violent harangue against the Mumn?‘ of the treaty. This was a signal for the others to unfurl banners with these legends: “Hands off China,” “Hands off Nica- ragua,” “Withdraw United States { Troops From Latin America” and “In- dependence for Porto Rico and the Philippines.” The banners were selzed by French line policemen, who efected the disturbers. There were no arrests P |BODIES FROM SUBMARINE T0 BE SENT TO ENGLAND | Russian Naval Experts Find Cap- tain of L-55 Died at Steer- ing Wheel. By the Assoclated Press. | LENINGRAD, Russia, August 18.- | The remains of 43 sallors discovered abqard the British submarine L-55, re- cently raised by Soviet Russia from Kaporsk Bay, have been placed in cof- fins awaiting British instructions to be shipped to England. The L-55 was sunk in a naval engagement with bolshevik war vessels nine years ago, ‘The captain’s skeleton was discov- ered at steering wheel, Thirty- seven sallors' caps were found bearing the names of 16 different ships, indicat- ing that the crew had been made up of volunteers for submarine service. between Hungary and Turkey has been drawn up as an _outcome of a Visit to Budapest of Tewfik Rushdi Bey, n m‘ga‘um ‘The treaty ‘The Russian naval authorities are KELLOGG EMBARKS | (== v POLIGEMAN SLAIN ¥ SERGT. E. B. HUMMER, _ JAMES RIVER STILL WSES AT RICHMOND Most Other Southern Rivers Falling After Doing Heavy Damage. By the Associated Pre RICHMOND, Va. August 18.—With two notable exceptions, a general re- cession of flood waters was reported to- day throughout Virginia and the Caro- linas. At Columbia, S. C., where the Broad and Saluda Rivers converge to form the Congaree, a record high-water mark was looked for, while the James River was rising steadily above Rich- mond, with the crest expected to reach the city by nightfall, No casualties were reported, but dis- patches telling of falling waters also told of damaged crops, highways and bridges. erar Record Stage. The Congaree early today stood with- in a few inches of the record high- water mark of 358 feet, established in 1908} and it was expected that the rec- ord would be surpassed as the crest of the Broad River, which yesterday swept away a part of a power dam at Lockhart, passed into the main stream. Several bridges have been carried away on the Broad River, live stock in inundated river-bottom farms was reported to have been killed in large numbers and a passenger train was marooned at, Strother, with water cov- ering the tracks both before and be- hind it. Two hundred passengers were taken to Winnsboro by automobile. Engineers at Lockhart reported late last night that a recession had been noted in_the stream there. Pledmont sections generally reported falling water marks. Dam Reported in Danger. After the Lake Lure Dam, in western North Carolina, had been described as practically out of danger, through the opening of flood gates, A report reached Charlotte that the structure had sprung a new and severe leak and that it now was serfously endangered. Richmond was preparing for the sec- ond flooding of the James River within a week. The stream was reported last night to be rising at the rate of two city. Dispatches reaching Roanoke from the New River Valley said that the stream was falling with no major damage inflicted aside from loss of crops in the lowlands. Streams in southwestern Virginia were on the de- cline, NTERNS GUIDE RESCUERS. Philadelphians Taken From Upper Floors in Boats. PHILADELPHIA, August 18 (#).— Lanterns, swung from the upper floors of homes in southwest Philadelphia, guided rivermen early today toward persons stranded by yesterday’s heavy downpour. Firemen in boats assisted in removing invalids and women from houses around which 10 feet of water swirled, Property owners in Upper Darby Township were attempting to determine the amount of damage done by last night's storm. It is estimated in that ion to approach a quarter of a mil- South ar{y found on watches and rings, turned to relatives e registering and ug'llu personal prop= AL oukdle!s. such a8 h will be ve- | regi lion dollars, | Rain, which began to fall yesterduy | morning_in_Philadeiphia_and_viclnity (Continued on Page 2, Column 5 feet an hour some 50 miles above the | | WTH ARMYPTO Alexandria Authorities Hold 11 Persons for Probe of Hummer Killing. Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va, August 18.—| Army pistol shells found on the scene of the murder last night of Police Sergt. E. B. Hummer may lead to a solution of the mysterious attack. The officer was shot down within a block of his home while making his rounds. Chief of Police W. W. Campbell, City Manager Paul Morton, Commonwealth's | Attorney Albert Bryan and Detective | Sergt. Edgar Sims, went to Fort Hum- | phreys this morning for an investiga- | tion, and if the weapon with which Hummer was slain is not found there they will go to Fort Myer, Quantico and all other Army locations. At 5 minutes past 1 a.m. Hummer was shot twice from a 45-caliber Army automatic. A man wearing a cap was seen to run across the street from the spot where the shots were fired. Eleven Held for Probe. Eleven men and one woman are be- | ing held at police headquarters for in- | vestigation and will be questionad to- | day. They were arrested in all sectors | of "the city. Police are searching the city for three more men whom Chief Campbell wants for investigation. Hummer left his home, at 806 Duke street, shortly before midngm. calling to his mother, Mrs. Clara C. Hummer, 64 years old, “Night, night, mother,” as he did so. An hour and a half later his body was found lying in front of the home of Andrew J. Nicholson, 224 South Alfred street, with a bullet wound through his heart and another through the left thigh. Three shots were fired, according to Mrs. Nicholson, who awoke her husband to have him turn in a call to police headquarters that a “man had been shot” in front of the Nicholson home. | One bullet was found exploded in Sergt. Hummer's gun, which lay in the gutter as Desk Officer Julian Rawlett and Pvts, Henry Boley and Edgar May- hugh arrived on the scene. Rushed to Hospital. | Hummer was found lying sprawled on his back in a pool of blood. He was rushed to the Alexandria Hospital in the patrol wagon, where he was pro- nounced dead by Dr. Samuel B. Moore. The body has since been removed to Demaine’s undertaking establishment. Funeral services will be held Monday at 2 o'clock and interment will be in the Bethel Cemetery. Sergt. Hummer had reported at po- lice headquarters to go on duty at midnight. He immediately called the roll for his squad and then dispatched his men to their ‘“beats.” Shortly afterward, he departed to “check up” on his squad. Several patrolmen today told of talking to him as he made his way about the city. Then came the telephone call that told of his death. Every available policeman in the city was immediately called to duty by Police Chief Campbell and City Mana- ger Morton and every road leading out of the city was patrolled and every passerby stopped and questioned. An- proximately 30 homes in the immedi- ate vicinity of the tragedy were searched. Weeds were cut and sewers and alleys cleaned in hopes that the | erous pl { which tl | hands free with weapons of stone and women | adorned with the spoils of the hunt lived 20,000 years ago in what is now the Gobi Desert, relics discovered by the Central Asiatic expedition led by Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews indicate. Thousands of relics showed the num- hases of the stone age culture to hese dune dwellers had attained. Traces of human beings dating back 150,000 years have been found previ-| ously in the same district. { “These people were wonderfully clever,” Dr. Andrews said. “They lived apparently in a transition period be- tween the old and new stone ages. The | countryside was saturated with people | and they hunted in the woods, fished | in the lakes and streams and built | shelters on the dunes of skins, bark and timbers. Area Then Fertile. At the time they lived in the area it was a fertile land with trees and lakes and plentiful annual rainfall. | Now the climate has changed and the | country is not so thickly populated | and the discovery of the new fossil area | in ancient wke beds indicated the effect | a change in climate had. | | Crude implements showed that man | was beginning to reach with stone re- ' | sults formerly accomplished solely with hands. Bones indicated the race sub- | | sisted chiefly on birds and frogs. ‘There | | were traces of a breed of horses and | asses, indicating that they used beasts of burden. Women adorned themselves with necklaces of fox teeth and wore bone rings on their fingers or in their ears. Brigands Beset Expedition. Brigands and sandstorms were the chief obstdcles to the expedition. Brigands beset the explorers early in their drive westward from Kalgan. The marauders aj in the guise of friendly soldiers and invited the expedi- tion to tea, but the ruse did not work, for when the motorized caravan rolled | up to the spot selected by the brigands, | the chauffeurs were speeding the auto- mobiles up and every nm-n‘_'.‘l it had his a rifle. Sand came more nearly to halting: the expedition than the brigands. Dr. Andrews said the weather was the worst he had ever encountered. Dr. Andrews’ discomfort was increased :hk;e? he accidentally shot himself in | eg. i ENTENTE 1S SEEN Naval Agcord Is Viewed as Being Far-Reaching Alliance. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. PARIS, August 18.—The Anglo-French naval accord, together with many sig- nificant accompanying circumstances, is creating an international sensation. The public of both countries is some- what perplexed and the press is re- served, but diplomatic, naval and mili- tary circles are humming with excite- ment. Few, indeed, are the observers who be- lieve the agreement concerns merely a common thesis in eventual disarmament negotiations, although this in itself would be 'nportant enough Every- where there is a strong suspicion that what has been arrived at is nothing less than a new entente cordiale, a new Franco-British alliance, which, if true, changes the political balance of the world and affects all countries. U. S. Will Be Concerned. The entente, if it has been or is about to be realized, will be the first great alliance, excepting the Russo- German alliance, since the World War, and will affect the United States, pre- sumably, at least as much as did the old Anglo-Japanese alliance, for it will naturally tend to operate in economic and political as well as naval affairs. The official thesis of both France and Great Britain is that the accord is a mere tentative disarmament program, without other commitments. The next is still secret, but is believed to provide French support for the British view- point that navies should be limited by categories of ships instead of global tonnage, and British support for the French viewpoint that trained army re- | serves should be unlimited. | Viewed As One Navy. | This may be the whole truth, yet| rumors are current that a secret de-| fensive understanding has been reached, which makes pract one navy of the French and British fleets, the latter consisting largely of capital ships and cruisers and the former largely of submarines and dest It is said that the problem of com- mon naval defense in Near Eastern and Far Eastern waters is being studied. It is said that the British in turn will | (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) " (Continued on Page 2, Column 8. | Gen. Stephan Seized | By & Staft Correspondent of The Star. CAMP ALBERT RITCHIE, Cascade, Md., August 18.--Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan of Washington, command! the 20th National Guard Division an the District of Columbia Militia, is confined to quarters with serjous fllness. di- a by the medical officers as ptomaine - ing. Gen. Stephan was complaining vesterday after - noon of disposi- tion, but his con- dition did not be- come critical until last night while he was at a dinner, which he was giv- n""!! ioth'll dlvw Gen. Stophan. staft at Buena Vis- ta Springs, Gen, Stephan was forced to withdraw from_the and return to camp and M J. Allen, comman the t of the i‘:‘fi Attack at Dinner Tendered to StaE! With Ptomaine Regiment of Engineers, and Capt. Sid- | ney Morgan, his aide, were compe! wml;:mun by night. 3 len reported that the general's condition was slightly im- proved this morning. Dr. Work's Sister-in-Law Dies. Colo., August 18 (#) GREELEY, Mrs. James na~ was the widow of the late James W. McCreery, prominent attorney Bumu;: 0. K.'s Treaty. BUCHAREST, Rumania, August 18 (#).—The council of ministers yesterday voted wval of the on pro by the Un! tl 2 NEW ANGLO-FRENCH & w! if any special action on his part " - ident Coolidge today manifested M. McCreery, sister-in-law | great interest in a boung o of Dr. Hubert Work, Republican Hol s~ s tional'chairman, died at her home here yesterday after a long lllness. She wes a resident of Greeley for 45 years and | Church at Cottenham, England, among ume of the Should Solve Issues Rather Than Government. WILL STU_[;-INQUIRY OF FEDERAL TRADE BODY President Also Will Go Over Boul- der Dam Facts Before Making Recommendations. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG, Staft Correspondent of The Star. CEDAR ISLAND LODGE, Brule River, Wis., August 18.—The impres- sion has been conveyed by President Coolidge here that he looks to the States rather than the Federal Govern- ment to solve the problems arising in connection with the public utflity in- terests, which now are being investi- gated by the Federal Trade Commis- sion. During a discussion of this subject with callers today Mr. Coolidge was represented as being of the opinion that public utility corporations are chiefly under State control because they do mostly an intrastate business. Their interstate business is very slight, he said. As he understands the question, the Federal Government's principal concern in public utility matters is in connection with the granting of per- mits to dam navigable rivers. Will Study Recommendations. Regardless of his viewpoint upon the much-discussed subject of public utility curbing, the President has let it be known that he will study the recom- mendations to be made by the Federal Trade Commission as a result of its investigation of the matter preparatory to making any recommendations him- self to Congress. The President, however, has indicated that he has given little thought con- recommendations _concerni Reuben Clark of Salt Lake City, Utah, has been selected President intimately conversant with Mexican affairs. He attracted attention to himself in administration circles by his activities as general counsel to the American agent on the Mexican-American Claims Commissions. When the treaty under commissions functioned lapsed, and a new pact was concluded for their continuation, Mr. Clark was called to Mexico City by Ambassador Morrow to help the latter in negotia- tions with the Mexican government looking to an early resumption of the commission’s activities. In this latter capacity also' Mr. Clark attracted wide attention to himself. Mr. Clark's commisison for his new office is now on the way from Wash- ington, and the President will sign it when it arrives here. It is understod that Mr. Clark was offered the Undersecretary of State immediately following Mr. Old's 1~ sion to retire. At that particular time friends of Mr. Clark back in Utah had led upon him to enter the race for the Republican nomination for the Senate, and for that reason he declined. It is thought, however, that the offer was held to Mr. Clark, because the announcement of his selection was y“llllde ‘mmedt l:fi'hazw%&fln( his defeat or an se ial X lndxo 3 pul natorial The President was represented today as being without any additional i formation about the reported Angk French 'ment to limit naval arma- ments, although Admiral Charles F. Hughes, chief of naval operations, was understood to have come here to re- port upon that subject, as well as others. The arrangement, the President under- stands, is more in the nature of a pro- | posal than an actual agreement. In connection with this lc‘\:'h?; tsl(lled '-h:t 8 dge is not, me, contemy 1 further step toward lulfim‘l.lfi'l"m“;‘! armaments. He is satisfled to let the matter rest with the preliminary con- ference for limitation, which has been ing for some time at Geneva. The attention of Mr. Coolidge has been brought to the anxiety of Costa Rica to have the Monroe Dootrine de- fined by the League of Nations befor that country consents to lssion to the League. But the President main- tains that whether or not the League is able to make such a definition under Its covenant, the definition would not be binding upon the United States, hich is not a League member. Strike Intervention Asked. uumml;nn been ) ly Bible, cont tatic copies of Dtismal records. of the . Episcopel he records being that of the former State Senator and |of his ancestor, John ¥ the first of the own, Mass., In 1630. It was Waahingeon it the pact will be signed in | that shordly. Chureh. will hald September 16 the Cottenham a spacial service, N “&"“m of h‘