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(U 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair, continued cool tonight: tomor- row fair: slowly rising temperature; gentle north winds. Temperature—Highest, 84, at 3:30 pam. yesterday; lowest, 64, at 4 am. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 d_as second cla office. Washington, Entes mat post D. 30,794 ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION The only ev: Washingto service. Associated Press ening paper n with the news Yesterday's Circnlltiog, 98,350 ng Star WASHINGTO? C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST ¥ (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. 7 (Brigadier General, AWATING SHITH 2= i ACCEPTANGE WORD " o™ T0 NATION TONHT Quebec. Capitai Gay With ) ord in the Eritish and Australian armfes Brown Derbies Everywhere‘ is working as a dishwasher in a local hotel. as Forces Throng Streets| unavle to find suitable employment A | in Quebec, although, the paper says, he efore € o had held responsible positions 1!{ New Br the Associated Pres QUEBEC. August 22.—The Chronicle- Telegraph says that Brig. Gen. Charles | Henry Gough. D. 8. O, D. C. M, 59 York with department stores, he was re- | duced to almost destitute circumstances | and forced to accept the job at the NOMINEE IS JOVIAL S AFTER WHITE CLASH: Gen. Gough. a native of Faversham Kent, England. enlisted in the Briush Army in 1883 as a drummer boy of 14 vears, the paper says. He saw service in many ot the far-flung poss of the British Empire and during the Northwest Expedition of 1908-12 was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. Resigning from the British Army in 1913, he enlisted in the Australian forces and served in Egypt, Gallipoli and France, rising to the rank of brigadier general and gaining the Distinguished Service Order. Invalided back to Australia in 1919, he was retired from the service and went to the United States, working in | New York for a time in department | stores. He came to Quebec, the paper says, some time ago for purely private reasons. Uncertain, With Rain Would Drive Event With 144,000 Forced to Miss Program—Lead- ers Sure of Victory. Weather Falling—Storm ssions Indoors, Smith Acceptance Speech on Radio at 6:35 Tonight The official program for the notification tonight of Gov. Smith follows in Eastern standard time: HOOVER CONFERS WITH FARM CHIEFS IN GEDAR RAPIDS Wife of Candidate Goes to Her Birthplace in Waterloo for Homecoming. WEST BRANCH SPEECH { APPROVED BY THRONG | Will Meet Editors and Politicians of Agricultural Communities Today. CEDAR RAPIDS Towa, August 22 «P.—Through a continuous ovation from persons lining Cedar Rapids streets. Herbert Hoover today passed to the estate of Mrs. George B. Douglas at Bruce- more, where he will live during his stay here BRUCEMORE, By the Associated Press | Bidding good-by to his old home town, Herbert Hoover renewed today the 1gr1nd of the campaign as Republican presidential candidate after a day and {a night amid the environments of his | boyhood. | Cedar Rapids, 30 miles to the north- westward, was his next objective. 1 SHALL, IF E LECTED, AVAIL MYSELF OF THE SERVICES OF WEST BRANCH, Iowa, August 22.— | | | o | | | BAD BOY" MAYO $1.140 AND SENTENCED TO 330 DAYS GIL FRANGE PREPARES Alligators Trail | | Canal Swimmer; May Meet Sharks! | Author on Way to Balboa, Saved From Beasts by | Army Sharpshooter. By the Associated Pre PANAMA, August 22. | ters with alligators, in neither case seri- | ous, have marked the progress of Rich- ard Halliburton, American author, at- tempting a 50-mile swim through the | Panama Canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific. No more alligators are expected dur- ing the rest of the journey as Halli- burton has passed the infested waters, but it is possible that after being locked through into the Pacific from the Mira- flores locks he will meet sharks during the swim on the way to Balboa. | Halliburton s accompanied by an | Army sharpshooter as a guard. | first time the sl into action was on Monday when an alligator was driven off by shots fired by him. The second was yesterday when an alligator accompanied Halli- burton into the Gatllard cut, the saurian trailing about 25 feet in the rear. After a few shots the alligator disappeared and it was not known whether he had been killed or simply scared off. Despite the advice of physicians who examined his sunburned shoulders. Hal- liburton is continuing the swim, but is wearing a shirt for the first time since the swim began. He does not expect to complete the trip before Priday, swimming during the day and resting at night. He started on August 14. MELLON RESUMES | | | The | harpshooter was called | 12HELD N PROBE OF FLOT ACAINS BN EADERS Confessions Reported From Members of “Martyrs’” Band in Mexico City. GIRL ACCUSED OF PLAF T0 POISON PRESIDENT Alleged Conspirator Assumes En- Blame, Exonerating Catholic Clergy. tire By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, August 22.—Seven | women and five men were under arrest today accused of having conspired to kill President Plutarco Elias Calles as well as the late President-elect Gen. Alvaro Obregon. Mother Superior Concepcion Acebeda de la Llata, under custody since the slaying of Gen. Obregon in July, is charged with having been the chief plotter. The police declare the con- spirators planned to kill the two of- ficials last April by pricking them with a poisoned pin at a dance in Celaya. This plan, as well as a later plot to bomb a bridge near Celaya, over which Obregon and Calles were to pass, was abandoned as impracticable, it is al- leged, but the conspirators continued i { : | 3 , Found Guilty of lllegally | Awaiting him there were party and | | farm leaders as well as mnewspaper | 6:00—Buglers sound “Assembly” as governor starts march to T KELLOGS their efforts and succeeded in slaying stand. §:19—Chairman Raskob calls to order. 6:12 — Invocation, Canon John N. Rooney. All Saints’ Episco- pal Cathedral, Albany. 6:15—Address of welcome, Mayor John Boyd Thatcher of Al- bany. % :20 — Notification s h. n- : ':wr Key Hnmnp:elc.\'eva 6:35 — Acceptance speech, Gov. Smith. 8:00 — Benediction, Right Rev. Joseph A. De Laney, Cathe- dral of the Immaculate Con- ception, Albany. = The Smith h_ will be broadeast by Stat WRC. By the Associated Press ALBANY, N. Y. August 22.—A VIREINA RELIFVES NEWVOTERSF TAY {Poll Levy Not Required of! Those Not Yet Assessed, Attorney General Rules. | editors with whom he had engagements | for a general discussion of agricultural relief. Two intensive days had been arranged for the nominee at that city | and as a result the hour of his depar- | ture Thursday has been set forward, delaying his arrival at Washington until late Friday night Mrs. Hoover to Be Feted. will stay at the estate of George B. will have his headquarters at the Roose- velt Hotel, where his conferences will be held. Mrs. Hoover will remain with While at Cedar Rapids, the nominee | | Douglas, on the edge of the town, but | An opinion of far-reaching impor- | tance in the forthcoming presidential election. letting down the bars to a | host of new voters in Virginia, has been jhanded down by Attorney General him until early afternoon, when she will go to her own birthplace at Waterioo, coming celebration. En route to Cedar Rapids Hoover was nearby, for her own home- | | to stop over at Iowa City to view the Saunders of Virginia. | old State Capitol and to talk farm re- light but steady rain. which began early today and was continuing long after noon, sent thousands of visitors tndoors to speculate gloomily over weather prospects sround’ dusk for the notification of Gov. Bmith. The forecaster had predicted eloudy weather for the early evening, but an absence of wind in the early efterncon made it appear that the strady drizzie would keep up at least for several hours more. BY G. GOEITD LANCOLN, €12% Correspondent of The Star v The new ruling was prompted by the ALBANY, August 22.—This is Bru:: revant ¥ m'uu S‘l"tg Pt (lt::mo; sy dey in Albany. Al Smith, Gov- {mducmclmm i e aton ernior of New York. is to be “notified” ll‘rorerequj.slm o"rhv;un:a "cgm :,:,% years 5 o'cl tandard one year. reduction leemed 635 o'clock tonight, Eastern ’ud o | to s - o e that he has been nominal m“mmmuu‘ "W‘mm gy the Democratic party. He m"fd mm‘ Lmh"‘m“"e; January 1 will accept. That much is certain. Just ¢ , cannof assessed for poll taxes what e will say and how he will sly;p"“ 1o the coming election. 4 is still a matter of doubt to millions | e N ars. But mittions of them are| CARTER WELL IN LEAD guessing it will have a “punch” in it. That. oo, is fairly certain. L The governor is ready for the big 3 event. He looks fit as a fiddie, far bet- State Auditor Ahead in G. 0. P. ter thap he did a year ago. High| Race for Congress — Kimball color. clear eves and a general air of | Probable Democratic Choice. good health impress every visitor o} A i the “Happy Warrior” e Assoctated Press hus office. He s the “Happy CHEYENNE, Wyo., August 22.—Early = himself, having just taken a jab at Wil- | : liam Allen White. Kansas editor, and ; TEturns from outstate in yesterday's | primary election had placed Vincent '"l}‘:;’?f‘y N‘.’;e v:' '53:,‘:3‘: :;‘,:lfxx;camr, State auditor, well in the lead ermmittrs 1 3 5 former Gov. Henry J. Alien of Kansas, .’]“n'“:'r‘f lx:‘fh“can congressional nomi- because of charges made against him | Y. with his record as a leg- of years ago. The is ready to launch the presidential The opinion, made public here to. day by Hugh Reid, Arlington County's | delegate in the State Legislature, makes it possible for persons who will have lived in the State only a year prior | to November 7 to cast their votes with- |out payment of any poll taxes. Delegate Reld estimated that at least 11,000 persons in Arlington County will | be affected by the ruling, to say nothing ;o! a scattering population throughout | the entire State, principally in cities :like Richmond, Norfolk, Portsmouth, ete. President by ecth reported Carter had 3838 votes; Perry W. Jenkins, president of the State Sen- ate, 2717, and R. G. Diefenderfer, Sheridan_attorney, 2,307 W. 8. Kimball of Casper had a com- fortable margin over Jack Scott of Casper and Bert Waddell of Moorcroft for the Democratic congressional nomi- nation. The 246 precincts gave Kim- ball, 1.462; Scott, 972; Waddell, 355. ‘The congressional races were the only major contests of the election, which brought out only a light vote. Push of farm work kept many farmers from ils. a Democratic no his campaign ection score Crowds Pour in. own derby 15 not a horse race It is the orifiame of Al Smith. “Our A" is what they call him here. On | ‘he streets. everywhere, they are selling | brown derbies. little derbies, big derhies, | nirs of the day. By night there will be thousands wearing them. One angs in the governor's office When Albany awoke today it was to leaden skies and the fall of rain. But Weather Bureau and faith in Al gave encouragement for clearer weather tonig Plans have been made for hoiding the ceremonies i he Capitol if the weather i o bad Under such circumstances thou- sands would be disappointed. Only the committee of cation, members of the national tee, distinguished men would have tn see the governor in action and-a-half addrese T tion of United States senatorial was a mere formality, there being no contest in efther party. Sena- tor John B. Kendrick, Democrat, will be opposed in November by Representa- tive Charles E. Winter, Republican, who aspires 1o the upper house. U. S. SCHOOL TO OPEN. Turkey Grants Permit to Mission Institution at Tallas. ANGORA, Turkey, August 22 (#).— ‘The Turkish government has given per- mission for reopening the American Forelgn Mission Board 8chool at Tallas The school was closed during the World War. Reopening was approved the Bmith nee Leaders Cocksure years ago and Va, and the comment of one prominent Democrat as he looked Tournfully out of the window. recalling The dowmpour when John W Davis was “pott that he had been picked as the presidential candidate of his party “The Democratic leaders crowding snto Albany today sre cocksure They believe they are going o elect | Al Smith President, and they have no | hesitation in saying so. Norman E Mack, Democratic national committee- man for New York the veteran who Paused a rumpus in Houston just be- fore the national convention opened Jast June by wouncing that Gov Yt was against prohibition snd mild say 50, Was among the first ar- Mr Mack was “Shush, shush- even by some of the re. who fearrd that would rouse the fighting drys But Gov. Smith c up Mr. Mack in & statement backed 0 bany. and he finally came through with & telegram to the on- vention. after he had been nominated that ieft no doubt as to where he stood iings look fine for fhe governor * (Continucd on Page 2, Column 4) Clarksburg, W ish republic’s appreciative attitude to- ward American educators. as well as 1o the ability of Ambassador Grew o The full text of Gov the Democratic nominati be published today in the king of teix spirit of toe A IN WYOMING PRIMARY | lief with Walter A. Jessup, president ot the State University of Iowa. Upon his arrival at Cedar Rapids he was to go to the Douglas estate, Brucemore, and there review a parade of the boys and girls of the town. The remainder of the day's schedule called for luncheon and conference with the editors of agri- cultural journals, meetings with the editors of daily and weekly newspapers and with Jowa farmers' representatives and a conference with a delegation of the Service League, headed by Hanford 'STEPHENS IS LEADING MISSISSIPPI PRIMARY !Senator Is Running 10,000 Votes Ahead of Representative Wilson. | By the Associated Press. JACKSON, Miss., August 22.—Senator Stephens was running approximately 10.020 votes ahead of his opponent, Rep- resentative Wilson, it was indicated to- day by returns from 924 out of the | for United States Senator. Most of today's early returns came In from upstate, where Senator Stephens is regarded as strong. ‘The returns repre- sent 12 counties complete and precincts from each of the 82 counties of the State Wilson's managers believe the down- I state vote will cut into Stephens' lead while Stephens’ followers are jubilant, With 246 of the State’s 690 precincts | predicting he will carry the State by be- | tween 30,000 and 40,000. MRS. BOOTH FACES FINE AS SMUGGLER Penalty May Be $18,000—Joseph Widener Pays $2,147 for Cus- toms Violation. | By the Associated Press | NEW YORK. Augpst | H. Booth, wife of the | paper publisher, with whom she was | questioned by customs agents concern- | ing allegedly undeclared articles brought | back on the Leviathan, issued a state- ment_today saying that her husband should be entirely exonerated and that | “the fault is entirely mine.” When the Booths landed yesterday customs agents sald that goods vi at §9,000 were not listed on their de | ration. Should this appraisal be upheld | the Booths might have to pay $18.000 {in duty and fine to obtain possession of the articles. It was learned that Joseph EWide- | ner, Philadelphia_society man, recently | paid duties and fines totaling $2,147.50 22 —Mrs. Ralph Michigan news- after months of negotiating, the decision | for failure to declare a watch purchased edule, was recommended to the being viewed as testifying 1o the Turk- |in Burope when he returned on the | me schedie. WS tecon (g Majestic, July 31. The domestic value of the watch was fixed by customs au- thorities at half that amount. KNI Smith cAcceptance § peech in 5:30 Star . Smith’s speech accepting on for the Presidency will “final 5:30” edition of The Star, which will leave the presses about 6:30 P.M. A N KN N N Opening Gas Station in Residence Area. Says He Had Right to Issue Permit to Self—Appeals . Sentence. By the Associated Press NEWBURYPORT, Mass., August 22. Andrew J. ‘Bossy) Gillis, the “bad boy” mayor of this city, who defled the au- | thorities by opening a gasoline station in an exclusive section of the city, was | found guilty on four charges at pro- ceedings before Judge Nathaniel | MAYOR “BOSSY" GILLIS. l{ he was fined $40 on twe counts of changing the grade of a street. The mayor's. defense was that he thought he had been right in I&iuini a permit to himself and establishing the station. ‘The case will be taken to the Superior Court. In the meantime the City Couneil will meet next Monday evening to pass on the mayor's application for a permit to sell gasoline. Jones today. He was sentenced to pay fines totaling $1,140 and to serve 330 days in He appealed and was re- leased withoyt bail. | The was found guilty on every | count of the four charges. On a charge | ot iMegally keeping gasoline he was | sentenced on four counts, receiving 30 | on each count and a fine of . counts on another charge of il- lly keeping gasoline resulted in a fine and 90 days in jail. He was found sull!f on four counts of illegally selling ine and fined $400 and sen- tenced to serve 120 days in jail. Final- | | Democratic Choice to Run for i il | I Willis’ Seat Faces In- quiry by Locher. | By the Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohlo, August 22— | | the Democratic nominee for the short- term United States senatorial seat made vacant by the death of Senator Frank | B. Willis last Spring. His nnmmmnn} was declared today by Secretary of | State Clarence J. Brown, with an offi- clal majority of 757 votes over Senator | Cyrus Locher, Cleveland The official count by the sccretary of State gave Hunt a total of 94198 votes to 93,441 votes for Senator Locher Locher had the indorsement of the nti-Saloon League and drew his sup- | port_mainly from the small rural dry | | counties. 1 Hunt not only denounced the dry or- | ganization, which he has fought for | many years, but advocated modification of the Volstead act. indorsement to Gov. Smith as the presi- dential candidate and the Houston plat- form. Hunt drew heavy support from | the large cities Senator Locher has indicated that he | will ask for an investigation of the ! | primary voting in Cuyahoga County | | UCleveland) and sevenother counties, | in which he intimated there had been | irregularities i . FULL OPENING OF CHAIN BRIDGE URGED MONDAY \ | vanced Enough Then to Permit All-Day Traffic. Removal of all restrictions Monday | on the use of Chain Bridge, which was opened to traffic recently on a part- i H C | | Whitehurst, - assistant engineer com- | missioner in charge of the bridge tm- | provement work. The commissioners | are expected to approve the recom- | mendation, | Capt. Whitehurst said the work on | the bridge and the new abutment on the Virginia side of the Potomac will have advanced to such a stage by Mon- day that it will not be necessary to close the span to traffic at any time Although the bridge roadway 15 to be redecked in October, Capt. Whitehurst advised the Commissioners that ar- rangements will be made to have this done while trafc is erossing. Capt. Whitehurst also reported that considerable progress had been made in the work of improving the floor of Highway Bridge and that by Monday the down-stream side would be ready for a new asphalt surface He also gave full | QUEST OF HASSELL BALKED BY STORM Gales, Sweeping Davis Straits, Retard Search for Lost Airmen. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, August 22.—Storms were 1,590 precincts in the primary contest!Graham P. Hunt, Cincinnati liberal, is | sweeping Davis Straits early today. balking efforts to trace the missing Rockford-to-Stockhold fiyers, Bert Has- sell and Parker Cramer. The reports that came from the north were uniformly discouraging. The United States Coast Guard cutter Marion failed to find any trace of the plane ! The Rawson-Field Museum expedi- | tion, under the direction of Comdr. | Donald MacMillan, also had been un- | successful in efforts to learn the fate of the plane. The Hudson Bay Co. will broadcast an appeal to trappers, to aid the search. Wireless operators at Madison, Wis., abandoned their vigil last_night Dr. Charles Sceleth, a Chicago radio amateur, provided the only ray of hope He sald that on Monday night he had recelved over and over again the letter “R." which was the code letter of Has~ 1l and Cramer. Mrs, Hassell refused to abandon hope for her husband’s safety. FAILS TO LOCATE HASS Const Guard Cutter Finds No Trace—ctd Missing Plane. The Coast Guard cutter Marion re- she had been unable to find any trace of the missing plane, the Greater Rock- ford, after a day's search In the region | checked over. in which it was last reported. The cutter's commander said he had . tion was of a highly jealous dug:s cruised the area from which the last signal was received from Bert Hassell ed | Whitchurst Says Work Will Be Ad-|and Parker Cramer and had gone 50 miles farther along the plane’s pro- jected course. He treported also that the cutter had listened for signals from the plane all day tn addition to calling the CGreater Rockford at two-hour in- tervals, The southern coast of Bafin Land will be searched today, the message added JAPAN DELAYS PACT. TOKIO, August 22 (#).—Premler aka told the cabinet today that the Japanese government, In accordance with the wishes of the United States had decided to leave the question of renewing the Japanese-American ar- bitration treaty which expires August 23, untouched until the opening of Congress. The reason given was that the con. clysion of revislon treaties requires the approval of the American Senate Consulate Bombed BRUSSELS, August 22 (# — A bomb exploded last night in the Italian consulate at Lief slightly wounding the conclerge. The consul was absen Radio l’rojrn'ms-—}’nge 32 At the time, The damage to the consu- late was small. TOCR | Motion Picture Cameras Will Click as Treaty Is | Secretary Says Reference toi Signed. DUTIES AFTER TRIP Butler Statement Was ““Not Made Consciously.” By the Associated Press. PARIS, August 22.—Elaborate prepa- Secretary Mellon was back at his | | rations for the signing of the Kellogg ; | | renunciation of war treaty in Paris on | desk in the Treasury Department today | | after a vacation in Europe. | Monday are being made by the French | government. The Secretary declared he had not met any foreign officials abroad, but he |arrest made confessions. En: | | ‘The government is sending a special train to Havre to bring the parties of Secrefary Kellogg and Premier Mac- kenzie King of Canada to the French capital, where they will be received said that the only thing he has found time to read was the address of Her- bert Hoover at West Branch, Iowa. Mr. Mellon termed this address very appropriate speech.” ceremoniously at the railway station ‘The Treasury Secretary informed the Gen. Obregon. Salvation Promise Reported. The police attribute to Rafael En- riquez Vidal, a 22-year-old law student, who is one of those arrested, the state- ment that he was invited to join the group, being promised entrance to | Heaven if he should become one of the "n}lrtyrs." n a signed statement, Chief of Polict Antonio Rios Zertuche said thxtPo . riquez and others among those under riquez, he declared, told of Mother Concepcion showing him pictures of y men executed for religious activities and ex- pressing her determination to organize another group of “martyrs.” The police statement says she told him the Pope would canonize all those who died in behalf of the church. Not believing himself timber for a saint, Enriquez, the statement says, declined | | I | ported to headquarters last night that | * 1 | | by Foreign Minister Briand and other prominent officials. Ceremonious Welcome. George A. Gordon, first secretary of the embassy, Vice Admiral Guy H. Bur- rage. commander of the European squadron, and Lester Maynard, Ameri- can consul at Havre, will receive Sec- retary Kellogg at the port, while Am- bassador Herrick and other members of the embassy staff will welcome him at the Paris station. Under the present plan, the Secretary of State will sail for home from South- ampton aboard the Berengaria on Sep- tember 8 instead of earlier, as had first been announced. Pre%uer Poincare’s part in the cere- monies connected with the signing will be quite subordinated to that of For- eign Minister Briand. The premier, how- ever, will be present at the signing, sit- ting with the other members of the cab- inet and members of the diplomatic corps simply as an invited spectator. He will also be a guest at the Kellogg dinner in the American - embassy on Sunday evening, where he naturally will have precedence over all other guests Will Take Movies. Becq de Fouquieres, master of cere- monies of the foreign office, has de- creed that the signers of the treaty must wear civilian clothes, no uniforms being permitted. Those plenipotentiaries who are entitled to wear high-collared gold-trimmed uniforms will have to dress to correspond to the plain civilian attire of Briand and Kellogg. Motion picture machines and regular press cameras will be in operation dur- | ing_the signature of the treaty so that rountry may have a record of the each of the historic document signin LOVE RIVAL POSSIBLE SLAYER OF HUMMER Father of Murdered Alexandria Policeman Tells” of Highly Jealous-Natured Man. Special Dispatch to Tie Star ALEXANDRIA, Va, August Alpheis P. Hummer, father of Police Sergt. B. Hummer, wiho was murdered Jast Saturday. told the police today of man who might harbor jealousy against his son, and the man’s activi- ties on the night of the slaying will be Mr. Hummer told De- ues- tion and that Sergt. Hummer had been in company with the man's sweetheart several nights prior to the slaying. He said his son and the young woman had been fast friends until nearly a vear aro. Carl Crockett, 20-year-old Alexandria foot ball star, was questioned by Mor- tective Sergt. Sims the man in ton ahd Campbell for 30 minutes yes- | terday and is still being held. Graham White, colored. also is detained. City Manager Morton yesterday an- nounced that the City Council had ap- proved his offer of a $500 reward for | any information that will lead to the | strike in protest against police closing arrest and conviction of the murderer. tributed to him in New York concern- ing the pronouncement of Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, on prohibition was not con- sciously given by him. Informed that there is an amount of sentiment in Pennsylvania for Gov. Smith, and asked if he believed Penn- sylvania would go Republican this year, Mr. Mellon replied: “That is very much like the question of whether it's going to rain. It al- ways has.” Mr. Mellon said he did not see how the illness of William S. Vare, Phila- delphia political leader, will affect po- litical conditions in Pennsylvania, ex- plaining that an organization does not fail to function that quickly. Mr. Mellon said he hoped to be able to go to Pittsburgh, his home, in a GIRL FALLS TO DEATH ' FROM BURNING HOUSE Mother Injured, Father Burned, Brother and Sister Are Overcome. By the Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, August 22 story window ledge of a burning apart- ment house here, early today, Majorie | Hyde, 18, released her grip, when flames | licked over her hands, and fell to her | death. A quilt held by spectators standing on the pavement below failed to break the girl's fall. | Mrs. R. R. Hyde, the mother, leaped ously injured. R. T. Sallis jumped from a second-story window. He suffered a fractured hip. R. R. Hyde, father of the dead girl, was serfously burned, and Dick, 10, and Ada Hyde, 16, were overcome by smoke and are fn a serious condition About 65 cccupants of the building. which had no fire escapes, were forced l? the street in scanty attire Commissioner -Sidney F. Taliaferro {will leave Washington tonight on a month's vacation trip that will take him to London and Glasgow. The Commissioner will sail from | New York tomorrow morning aboard ! the Shipping Board liner American | | Merchant, and will return the latter | | part of September. In Glasgow he will | | join Mrs. Tallaferro, who will return | to the United States with him 400 Held in Latvian Strike RIGA, Latvia. August 24 (#).—Four | hundred persons were arrested today on the opening of a so-called general | | | | | 1 of Communist union headquarters. ;August Nears Record for Rainfall With 9 Days Yet ys yet to go. this month s approaching a rainfall record for all time ip this city, according to records at the Weather Bureau Last night's rainfall, totaling 1.12 inches, brought the total for the month to date to 12.70 inches The greatest rainfall for any month in history in this clty occurred August. 1908, with a totel of 1438 inches. The second larg- With nine da est single month's rainfall was in Au-|in gust, 1878, when the total was 1203 inches, to Break 1906-Mark Should Washington have even a moderately heavy shower during the next nine days it is almost certain that the record of 1875 will be relegated to third place. Should there be but 167 inches of rain before the close of this menth the records of all time will have Dbeen broken. The flles of The Star for August, 1906, show that the month was similay many respects to this month Sceor hot weather alternated with heavy rains throughout the month. newspaper men that the statement at- | —Hanging by her finger tips to a third- | from the third floor and was danger-| ! vear-old bookkeeper to join the group. 1 Met at Nun's Home. The police statement s the - ters met at the home u!“lyloflm %_ ception. Senorita Maria Elena Man- zano, now under arrest, is accused of having accepted a mission to to Celaya, induce Obregon and Oflfi o dance with her and, while dancing, prick them with a poisoned . Mother Conception is charged with g‘lnvln( fur- nished a bottle of poison for the pur- pose. When the poison plan was abandoned, the conspirators manufactured bombs in : house near that occupied by Mother l(“fi?:tptu;n. Chl‘eflfllu Zertuche de- s, the explosives bel used bombings in the Cmmbermo'l Dopuuesm and Obregon headquarters, in recent m?’nths.uo lose n Toral, Obregon's Manuel Trejo, who is alleged to e furnished Toral with the pistol that he used in slaying the President- | elect, are declared to have been mem- | brs of the “martyrs” group. Senorita Manzano is quoted in an interview as admitting she planned to prick Calles and Obregon with a poisoned pin. The plan failed, she said, because Trejo and Carlos Diez Sollano, who accompanied her to Celaya, be- came frightened and returned to Mexico City before she could ac- complish her purpose. Betrothed to Castro. She said she was betrothed to los Castro Balda. one of the allzxedc:‘;ln- | spirators, and it was her love for him which prompted her to participate in | the plot, at his invitation. She said she became acquainted with Mother Conception five years ago and met Castro at her house. The inter- view proceeds: “Sollano hatched the plot and gave me the poison, a most deadly one. I Was to conceal the poisoned pin in the folds of my ‘dress. A single scratch would have been sufficient to kill a person and 1 intended to approach Calles and Obregon in one way or another.” If Castro is executed she will be- come a nun, resolved to do her utmost in behalf of mankind, she added. Those under arrest are: Senorita | Mazano, Margarita Rubio, Leonora | Rublo, Pledad Rangel, Senora Esper- |anza de Cisneros, Ana Maria Cisneros, | Margarita Pacheco, Enriquez Vidal, [ Castro Balda, Eduardo Zozalla v Col- lada. Eulogio Gonzales Arzola and Fer- nando Amory Villal Pando. Student Supplied Formula. Zozalla y Collada, a 24-year-old en- | gineering student, is accused of having furnished the formula for the manu- facture of the bombs. Castro Balda. aged 27, has been a government clerk and participated in the Huerta revolution against the Calles government. Atded by Trejo, he is alleged to have placed bombs in the Chamber of Deputies after lunching with the nun, Josefina, sister of Mother Conception. Rios Zertuche's statement says that after the bombing in_the Chamber ot Deputies Trejo and Castro fled, keep- ing Mother Concepelon advised of thelr movements. Gonzales Arzola, a 27- who studied for the priesthood, testified to the police, the statement says. that he attended meetings in Mother Concepeion’s house. where plans to kill Calles and Obregon were discussed. The statement adds that Armor y Villalpando, a 23-year-old engineering student, was assoclated with the group and participated in the formation of a secret organization for the “promotion of soclal and political affairs.” Castro Takes Blame. Ana Marla Cisneros, 23, the lice declare, testified that she heard the Catholic priest Jose Jimenesz twice say in the presence of Toral that the Cath- olies should fight because they already had suffered two years of persecution and it was necessary to “remove” those persons who obstructed the settlement of the religious question. The police have heen unable to find Jimenes. Interviewed in his cell, Castro as- sumed full esponsibility for the plot. He sald he. alone was to blame and l | |