Evening Star Newspaper, August 31, 1928, Page 2

ASKS 550,000 FUND FOR SMALL PARKS Hazen Urges Necessity of| Acquiring Areas at Street Intersections. Transfer of at least $50.000 of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission’s $850,000 park site appro- priation ta the control of the District Commissioners for the purchase of smail park areas at street intersections surveyor, in his annual report fog. fiscal year. The report was today by Maj. Donald A. Acting Engineer Commissioner. en pointed out th s $5,000 for the purchaseof small but that a la the desh fo | s appropriation is entirely in-|{ ate for the purpose for which it! intended,” Mr. Hazen declared. “It| impossible to make more than one < advocated by Melvin C. Hazen, Dis- l | at his of-{ IEUT RICHARD WETHERILL. JR. Young Army officer. who, with William Francis Griffith, who found un- ger sum is needed | conscious and perhaps suffering from remaining avatishle | a gunshot wound, in a wrecked auto- morning. mobile in Fairfav County ¢t SMITH IS SILENT two small park acquisitians with at amount, and the propert: acquired n necessarily be the cheapest that | can be bought and situated in the re- | motest sections, where the need willl not be felt for park space for years to come. In the sections of the District where these small parks are sorely need- ed it is impossible to consider their purchase on account of the lack of | funds to acquire them Should Acquare Sites. “There are a great number of small triangles at street intersections which should be acquired before small and un- | sightly structures are placed on them which sre a menace and eyesore to sur- rounding property. There is no method of enforcing owners when subdividing | their property to dedicate land for parks. | The creation of parks and recreation | centers are certainly great mssets to a | well planned and up-to-date subdivision and greatly enhance the lots in the sub- division. However, the:property owners ; cannot always be made to see these ad- vantages and too frequently sell all the 1and comprised in the subdivision, in- property which is splendidly adapted for park purposes. The Park and Planning Commission, according to the report, has abandoned its policy of acquiring small park areas, leaving their purchase to the Commis- sioners, who, Mr. Hazen said, are charg- ed with the responsibility of developing | the highway plan and therefore are be- | lieved better informed as to where these | parks should be located. ! Funds Greatly Reduced. Formerly the appropriation for pur- | chase of small parks was $25,000 & year, | but Congress, Mr. Hazen said, has seem- ed to have reduced it fgom time to; time, “until it has reachcd the present insignificant point. A summary of the activities of the surveyor's office during the year shows that 3.35¢ surveys were made and 7.404 plats were drawn. A large amount of this work was dope for the District in connection with tract additions to school sites. Mr. ommended that the law suthorizsing Commissioners to close old roads, streets affected. EX-FASCIST’S ARREST IN ITALY SEEN AS SWISS-ROME ISSUE (Continued from Pirst Page.) i ed with complicity in the crime. He| countered with the assertion that Mus- | solini himselt was responsible for the | murder. After remaining in prison for 18| months Rossi was freed. He fled from | Genoa to Nice in a speed boat, early in 1926, vowing vengeance against Mus- solini, and telling a newspaper man that | he “would have Mussolini strung up ! 2 her than any yardarm pirates ever ' new.” Until recently he made his head- quarters in Paris and is known to have been actively opposing the Mussolini re- gime. Not long ago he took up his| &bode tn Switzerland | It is believed here that the real name of the woman arrested with Gen. Rossl s Margherita Durante. She was closely associated with him during and after his trial in connection with the Matteotti! assassination i I is thought that she adopted the | Prench version of her name after she | scaped from Italy and took up her resi- | nee in France about the time that assi followed a similar course. BERN AWAITING DATA. Swiss Believe Foreign Agents in Their Country Aided Plans. LUGANO, Switzerland, August 31 (®) —The arrest at Camploni of Gen. Cesare Rossi and his woman companion 15 almost certain to have diplomatic | consequ it is stated here. The Swiss authorit sent a report of the circumstances w0 the government at Bern. | It is pointed out that foreign agents undoubtedly operated on Swiss sofl in r 1o get Rossi across the border. jont is Italian territory, but it is ed on three sides by Switzerland. 8 government at Bern fis | ng further information before | loral g Alleged detalls of the general’s move- | me he was arrested immediately on his ar- are published in the Gazetta se, & local newspaper. The that Rossi arrived in this Tuesday, registering at a hotel ! both delivered at S; ts before the Itallan town, where | ON STUMP PLANS Three Tentative Itineraries Placed Before Nominee for Choice. By the Associnted Press ALBANY, N. Y. August 31.—What Gov. Smith will do next to further his cause for the presidency still was a de- batable question today as the Demo- cratic nominee returned to his desk at the capital. The first week of his travels since tak- ing over the party leadership August 22 was a matter of record. and yet no inkling has come from him, although there have been several unofficial re- ports, concerning the territory he in- tends to invade and just when he will start on his campaign jaunt. Printed_accounts, varying as to sec- tions of the country he will strike first, have drawn no comment from the gov- ernor. He has three tentative itin- eraries before him, and until he has ; determined which one he believes best dovetails with his ideas on campaign strategy he will keep mum on the sub- Ject. Turns to State Affairs. From now until Labor day, and pos- sibly for a few days thereafter, he plans to give his attention principally to mat- ters of State concern and to rest up for the trving days ahead. The State's budget for next year is one of the chief tasks confronting him and he has call- ed meetings of his cabinet and several committees to counsel with him on pros- pective appropriations. Looking back over the ground covered in New Jersey and New York since leaving Albany August 23, the Demo. cratic nominee today had chalked up five speeches, three of which were in the open air, although he is known to be averse to outdoor oratory because of the danger of overtaxing the voice and of finding it practically useless in the vital fag end of the campalgn. ‘The three open air talks, however, were very brief—none lasting more than 10 minutes—and, as the nominee insists. were delivered only in his | New York. One of them was given from the City Hall steps in Newark, N. the governor choosing to say a few words of thanks to a mass of people who had been waiting several | hours late at night to give him a noisy send off on his return to New York. Speaks at Syracuse. Two others of the outdoor variety were delivered yesterday at Syracuse, when the governor, on his eighth an- nual visit to the New York State fair, the growth of the exhibition traced | since 1911 in a brief talk from a band- stand, and _mphasized the indispen- sability of modern farm implements in dedicating the new Auditorium Museum of the fair. Of the nominee's two indoor speeches, yracuse, only one was of the straight-cut political type. This came yesterday before the meeting of the Democratic State committee, ::ens 't‘h:e governor declared it vital that campaign be conducted in- dividually from the movement to place him in the White House. RUSSIA ACCEPTS KELLOGG TREATY, “DESPITE VAGUENESS” (Continued from First Page.) ment was made todav that the Austrian cabinet has approved Austria’s adhesion to the Kellogg-Briand renunciation of war treaty. The cabinet's decision will soon be submitted to Parllament for ratification. BERY. Switzerland, August 31 (&) The federal countil notified the Amer-~ ican legation yesterday that the Kellogg anti-war pact was in harmony with traditional Swiss policy and that the careful study w which it is being sub- Jected will lead without doubt to the council’s recommending to the federal | chambers that Switzerland adhere to| the treaty. HAVANA, August 31 UP).—The Cuban government _officially notified Noble Brandon Judah, Unfled States Ambas- sador, that the Kellogg anti-war pact has been formally accepted and that its | | rattfication will follow a( the earliest | meeting of Congrss SHANGHAI, August 31 (/) —Reports from Nanking say the Nationalist gov- i the name “Puolo Bazzali” and b nationality as Itallan and his e &t Paris. He was accompanied Marguerite Durand, wh d s & resident of Parls &lso aper says that the couple | ly dressed end that even | gistered at the hotel, Gen . everal persons who gave him amount of money n & paper 1 und Mme the they Durand spent den of the received Then they asked where the porter's night gate was. Later they Geparted in an automobile for Camploni Their machine ok the road which crosses Lake Lugano on an embank- ment PARTNER FILES SUIT. M cDevitt Asks Diesolution of Au- tomobile Business. mue! T McDevitt, 1309 Pern street, filed suit in the District Suprem= against Irving C. Barber, 200 for the dissolution of the pertnership in the automobile busines ¥l 3101 Fourteenth street. McDevitl tells the court that the business is de- Court Bryant street w give attention to it Justice Hitz issued a rule on Barber show cause September 5 why a re- should not be appointed to wind the affaire of the partnership Al ineys Michwel M. Dovle and Prederick Thuee appeared for the plaintiff [ o Uy 0 | several | g, because of the fatlure of Barber | ernment i considering adherence to the | Rellogg-Briand treaty . Turkey to See Soviet. LONDON, England, August 31 (% An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Constantinople states that it has been | learned there from “a reliable authority” | that Turkey will consult SBoviet Russia | | before deciding whether to adhere to| | the Kellogg pact | The State Department has reccived | official noUfications from four othe: countries of thelr intention to ad- | here to the pact. They are Luxemburg, | The Netherlands, Panama and Uruguay {MRS. M. B. LOUGHEAD DIES| Contractor’s Widow, 86, Will Be| Buried in Richmond | | mMrs. Mary Brierley Loughead, 86 years old, died at her residence, 1908 (K sireet, yesterdsy after a long {llness The widow of Clifford L. Loughead, | tormerly in business as a painting con- (tractor in_Richmond, Va Bhe had ! been a resident of this city for the past | three years She is survived by two sons, H M | Loughead of Chester, Pa, and R B | Loughead of this city, and & daughter, Miss Day Loughead Funeral services will be conducted in the Chapel of Hollywood Cemetery, capacity as Governor of the State of | _ | their midst THE EVENING , FRIDAY, AU FUST 3f, T928. CAPPER CONFERS ON MERGER PLAN dation With Expert—Com- mittee to Meet Early. Legislation to br;n( about n railway | | merger in Washington will be taken | up promptly and considered thoroughly Discusses Traction Consoli- | by the Senate District committee at the | | coming session of Congress, Senator { Capper, Republican, of K: cha | man of the committee, declared on his | return here today for the first time ! since Congress adjourned. | Senator Capper spent nearly two, hours this morning in going over the merger problems with Dr. Milo R. Malt- I ble, the New York utility expert. who | | was engaged by the Senate committec | {several months ago to make a study of the pm{oficd plan of merger whlch‘ was worked out early this year by the transportation interests in COH’CN“C(‘] with ~ the utilities commission, and { which was favorably reported by the House District committee “Dr. Maltbie seems to be going_ very thoroughly into the subject and I am | sure that before Congress reconvenes, he | will have prepared all of the informa- tion the Senate committee desires,” | Senator Capper sald, after he had | talked briefly with the expert | Senator Capper said he had not yet | | received a recommendation from Dr | Maltbie regarding the valuation that | should be placed on the consolidated | company. The plan of merger as agreed | 1(« by the transportation interests and | presented to Congress for ratification | would place the value of the merged | comnany at $50.000.000. A study of | the valuation is to be an important part | | of the work of the expert for the com- i mittee Capper indicated that the | | Senat. ls\lb(‘o ttee n “direct charge of the| | merger plan probably would be called ! | together shortly before Congress meets in December in order to expedite con- | sideration of the question at the short | sessfon. It is hardly likely, however. | any subcommittee meeting will be | held before the middle of November. Discussing the presidential campaign, | | Senator Capper said he was confident | | the West will go for Hoover and Cur- | tis. -Pointing out that dry sentiment Iprev ls in the West, the Senator ex- pressed the belief that prohibition would be an important issue in that section of the country, and indicated the effect | of that issue would be an advantage | to the Republican ticket | 4 {Mass Meeting Called in, . | Southwest Section—Court | Action Threatened. } | ‘The District Commissioners are faced | with another fight from citizens in their | efforts to locate the House of Detgntion. i This time the protest will take the form of a mass meeting tonight by; residents in the vicinity of 908 B strect | southwest, the wmm’v leased vesterday | by the District Commissioners after a | tedious search in a score of localities. The mass meeting will be held in the Marvin Method! pal Church, | at Tenth and B streets. According to | William K. Wimsatt, 910 B street, next- | door neighbor to the new House of Detention site, vigorous objection will ' be lodged immediately with the Com- | missioners. Would Go to Court. { “If our protest does not have imme- | diate effect, we expect to go right to court and get an injunction,” Wimsatt | added this morning. i Meanwhile, in the face of a threat- | ened injunction suit, District offictals | have decided to stand pat. Commis- | sioner Daugherty and Maj. L. E. Atkins, | Assistant Engineer Commissioner, on | whose shoulders has fallen the burden | of locating a place for the House of | Detention, held a conference early to- | day. Present were M Edwin B. | Hesse, superintendent of *police, and a representative of the Wardman Con- struction Co., which owns the building over which the dispute has arisen. If necessary, it was decided to send | representatives to attend tonight's mass meeting to give the District Govern- ment's side of the problem and per- ! haps, also, a representative of the con- | struction company. At any rate Lieut. Mina Van Winkle, chief of the Women's Bureau; Miss Pearl McCall, assistant United States | attorney, and several policewomen are going to attend the mass meeting to tell the citizens all about the House | of Detention. 1 “We are going ‘to put our best foot | forward,” Mrs. Van Winkle sald, “and | in the hope that the residents of this section will see for themselves and ap- prove of it." Expect Protests. So far as the Commissioners are con- | cerned, they appear to have made up their mindes that no matter where the House of Detention is located ulti- mately, the decision is bound to bring a protest, The present House of Detention must vacate its quarters al Ohlo avenue and Pifteenth street by October 15 at the latest. Owing to the situation that has arisen the Treasury Department re- cently gave the Commissioners 15 days of grace. The site 1 to be occupled by the new Commerce Department Build- ing, the foundations for which are be- | ing dug Whether the Southwest Citizens' As- soclation would join in the protest is a question not yet® determined. George Yeatman, acting president of the asso- | clation, said 1t would take no official ac- tion in the controversy unless 20 mem- bers signed a petition objecting to the | location of the House of Detention n Should 20 members sign, he would call a special course o | Yeatman sald, meeting o determine what follow. Meanwlle, the “knocks” which the | House of Detention has been receiving | are beginning to produce an unfortunate paychological effect on the attaches of the Women's Bureau | “Nobody seems to want us,” sald one | of them today. “They didn't want our | children’s home at Stanton Park and now they don’t seem to want our wom- en's bullding anywhere. Why, we never trouble anybody. Every lpcation sug- gested brings complaints from people who seem to thiyk 1t would hurt their neighborhood to (have us there. We're really very nice sjid quiet and wouldn't be an annoyance anywhere.” Obtained Injunction The protest of the citizens in the new southwest location, Mr. Winwsatt ex- plained, s based not only on the claim that the establishment of the House of Detention there would “spoil” a neigh- borhood in which 96 per sent of the residents are home-owners of long ten- ure, but because the bullding itself 1s unsuitable. In announcing the leasing of the building at 908 B street, it was stated at the Distict Bullding that altera- tions would be necessary. These, it was [SOCIETY MA Dr. Milo R. Maltbie (left), utility expert, and Senator Capper, chairman of | the Senate District committee, who met here today on the return of the Senator | and went over locai traction problems, into which Dr. Maltble has been going at SOCIETY MATRON BLOCKS PLANS FOR WESTERN ATHLETIC FIELD | Mrs. Anne Archiold Refuses to Sanction C'osing of Street. Officials, However, Hove to Reach Agreement in Matter. By her refusal to sanction the closing of a portion of Thirty-ninth strect, on which sh: is an abutting property own- er, Mrs. Anne Archiold. wealthy society leader, has blocked plans for grading end improving the Western High School field, tem at least, al- though officials are ul of a satls- factory solution. ‘The $45,000 appropriated for the work in the second deficiency bill cannot be sed and Western High will not have an lmp)ru'l(‘d athletic field for practice this Fall as a result of the ruling in the! ... . " ¥ case made publi- today by Controller | The street in question never has beer General McCarl unless an agreement |pReitdl gibh v B oinilicg e g WESHEICK; KT Dol 1 | pasied |quoted in the McCarl ruling as testify- McCarl holds that since consent to|ing that all of the streets involved In the closing of ons of R and Thirty- [the improvement of the athletic fleld ninth streets is withheld and that plans | have been designated, but have never for grading and improving the field been physically improved or graded were drawn and the appropriation | At present there is a difference of allotted on the basis of closing the |between 43 and 44 feet in the north and streets, o part of the appropriation |south e! +ations of the plot upon which may be used the work was to be done, and there w. The ground formerly used by West- a cut on the northern part and ern High athletes for practice, north of Gordon Junior High School, has been | taken over for the latter s hope E_ARCHBOLD. —Underwood Photo a |part. In its present shape, the ground heol, which | is totally unfit for the purpose for which leaves Western without a suitable play- |it is intendec, it is declared. and until ing or practice field arrangements are made for closing Mrs. Archbold resides on an estate | the two streets no part of the appro- on Reservoir road and Thirty-ninth |priation can be used for getting the street. place in shape for play, McCarl rules. HEAT WAVE ENDS; |PRESIDENT THEATER JONES TOPS BRITON, T1UP, IN CUP PLAY Smothers Perkins With Per-i fect Golf—Evans Is { Trailing. \ | | By the Associated Press | CHICAGO GOLF CLUB, Chicago, | August 31.--Bobby Jones set fast | pace today in the ‘singles matches for | the Walker Cup with the British team {and, scoring 36--34—70, despite a| er penalty, took a lead of 11 up Grove of Huge Trees, Reaching to 4,000 Year: In Age, covered DENVER, August 31.—Discov- ery of a grove of Pinon trees in the foothills 20 miles north of Fort Collins, Colo., which are var- iously estimated to be between 700 and 4,000 years old, was dis- closed yesterday by forestry ex- perts. ' Ordinarily the Pinon is a small tree not over a foot in diameter, but some of the trees in the Fort Collins area are so large that it takes four men to reach around them, it was said. S E———————— [ANDREWS FOSSLS APORTED SELZE Chinese Claim Explorer Is Taking Ancient Treasures Among Gobi Bones. By the Associated Press PEKING, August 31.—Roy Chapman Andrews today consulted the American charge d'affaires here in regard to 85 | crates of fosstls and other objects which IN L|BER'A DENIED diti b ht t of the Gobi BY PRESIDENT KING | Desert and which e fears wil be | confiscated by Chinese authorities at COERCION BY U. S. over T. P. Perkins, British champion. | None of the other matches were so | | one-sided, and in some of the €ight | which mperialists usually advance for contests the Britons took a lead. but | this purpose. The country generally is snough but what it could be | Satisfied with the policy which has been not big enough but what it could e | rsd by the administration. Besides overcome in the afternoon, while some | BAEURC DY Lo0 Al 8 S be historical |'were wiped out before the mOMINg | ftnees in a financial project which |round ended. : 2 |links up Liberia with the United States. { Jones, after missing a 5-foot putt for | Thare have been crises in our rela- | |a par on the first hole, got five pars and | yjons with the French government, grow- {two_birdies before he flubbed & shot | g out of undetermined frontiers. But from the rough on the ninth hole to the | thice' have never been represented to pond and took 6, while his opponent, be- | ,<“be the United States De oht of |ing wholly off the game that won him | &tate as a “menace,” nor wastthe Fire- |the British title, got only three’perfect | ctone project represented to the gov- holes and teok 42 strokes to the turn. | ernment of Liberia by that department ’ Gets Birdie on Sixteenth. | as the means by which the menace could | 5 ot ware | D removed. On the contrary, when in | Coming home, Bobby scored every | coain® quarters opposed to the Pire- hole_perfectly except, for a birdie 4 On | oo scheme it was suggested that the I the 527-yard sixteenth, while the Briton | o d States Department of State was {couid not get poise and took 47 [OF | p.hing the Firestone proposals the Sec- |an 84 retary of State of the United States took | The ninth hole was the only one the | gecasion formally to motify the govern- | British champion could win and he| ment of Liberia that the administra- { halved only five. The American cham- | tion was neither directly nor indirectly | plon needed no spectacular shots. As 3 ! aside from the first and the ninth he behind Firestone. ‘ played well with all his clubs. He got | Denies United States Control. | down a couple of fairly long putts, but | The statement of Prof. Buell that the, he was seldom in serious trouble call- | scheme involves the comtrol of Liberia ing for startling recoveries. American officials is untrue and mis- | he large gallery that followed this | | vous. There is under the loan agree- | {match at the van of the others was (Continued from First Page) | i orresponding fill on the southern | 1S GONE T0 STAY Weather Bureau Gives Prom- 15 BOUGHT BY U. 5. Old Playhouse Site Will Be | | | ise of Cooler Weather for Several Days. Part of Triangle De- velopment. The heat wave which caused six pros- | | The President Theater, 1020 Penn- trations yesterday and compelled (he early closing of a number of Govern- sylvania avenue, one of the many fast- | disappearing landmarks of the District, | Weather | Freedmen’s Hospital | oldest citizen, Simon Steiner of Wilelitsh ment bureaus had abated today. With the Weather Bureau ther- mometer registering only 76 degrees at | of President inaugnral balls, has been noon, 14 degrees cooler than the cor- | responding period yesterday, the offi- ‘Pln-thased by the Unlu:d States Gov- | clal (forecaster gave assurances that ernment as a part of the triangle de-! August would make a cool and com- | velopment, it wes learned today. forting exit tonight. The highest u-n»»l Final papers of acceptance of the| perature during the past 24 hours wWas | yormg of the purchase were filed with | 94 degrees at 4 p.m. yesterday. A high- pressire area bearing slowly down upon | the office of the supervising architect, the heat-stricken city sent the official | James A. Wetmore, at the Treasury | | thermometer to 74 degrees at sunrise | Building. The property, which lies immediately | this morning, There was a trace of rain during the night Owing o the perceptible change in|to the north of the site of the new | the wu'.;u':-é, (;‘;)vcn\r)x(llenl‘lll noytf!:‘c’:; :::m! Internal Revenue Bullding, was ac- no need today in mal ements & nend Yo Closing early. "It confinued cloudy| 90ired through he cffics of Bom & ot Gfternoon. but no rain was predict- | Phelus, local real estate firm, from | ed. Tomorrow's :;mpommrv \}‘fll be | the Columbia Amusement Co. of New about the same and a measure of com- | v e o fort is assured, at least, for several days z“:ks The consideration In the deal | a Only twice since 1871, when the Bureau began keeping rec- | than the ssessed value of the prop ords, has August been hotter in |erty, it was officially announced. Washington than this year. In 1900 the | The property acquired comprises ap- average was 80. August of 1918 estib- | proximately 18,000 square feet. It con sists of lots 802 and 804 in square 349 lished an average of 78. It was in this| month that the official high tempera- | and has a frontage of 25 feet on Penn- ania avenue, next to Harvey ture record, 106 degrees, was #.corded 5| The average mean temperature in Wash- | restaurant on the corner of Eleventh street, and a frontage of 135 feet on ington for August 15 75. This month’s average has been 77 | Eleventh street and runs 123 feet on C The six persons prostrated are ex- | street east of Eleventh street pected to recover | “The theater is built on the site of | Francis Hastings, 35 years old, of | the first playhouse in Washington, ac- | Cherrydale, Va, was overcome in his|cording to old records. The original blace of employment on Fourteenth | structure was completed in 1804 and was street and taken to Emergency Hospital. | destroyed by fire in 1820. It was rebuiit Claude Bennett, 15 years old, of |in 1822 by Lewis Carusl as the Wash- Bennings, D. C., fell from his bicycie at | ington City Assembly Rooms, and from Fourteenth and H streets when he| 1841 to 1843 was the city post office. succumbed to the heat. He was treated | The inaugural balls of John Quincy at_Emergency Hospital | Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Overcome at Fifteenth and D streets | Buren, Willlam Henry Harrison and southeast, George Stuart, colored, 31 |Jjames K. Polk were held there years old, 1113 Holbrook Terrace north- esidhine Climbs 20,000-Foot Peak. east fell from a wagon. He was taken to Casualty Hospital George Scott colored, 49 years old, 330 Missouri ave- | BUENOS AIRES, August 31 (#) nue, was also tfeated at Casualty Hos- | La Naclon's correspondent in La Paz, pital after he was overcome while de- | Bollvia, announces that the German livering coal | alpinist, T win, ascended to the top of Benjamin Simms, colored. 43 years| Mount Illimani and planted the Bolivian old, 326 Sheridan road southeast, and | flag there Thomas Taylor, colored, 24 years old, | proximately 20,000 feet above sea level 1125 Third street, were both treated at | which has been the scene of a number Navy Electrician Drowned. The Navy Department was advised today of the drowning of Richard C. Lenn, electriclar’s mate of the mine |sweeper Grebe, off the Virgin Islands Styria, died today, aged 105, He at- | yesterday while endeavoring to retrieve tributed his longevity to a strict dis- |a boat that had gone drift ciplinary diet of American Indian corn survived by his father, Edward Lenn of and his own homemade wine Roseville street, Westport, Conn Austrian Dies at VIENNA, August 31 () 105. Austrin's District Consumed 15,133.429.400 Gallons| in the District ¢ ended June 30| normal number of broken mains and 20,400 gallons, an | service pipes. More than 3,000 service llons over the | pipes were broken during the year, the receding 12-month period, according to | report sald, and approximately 1,400 had he annual report of J 8. Garland, su- [ to be cut off to enforee repairs. A sub- perintendent of the Water Department, | stantial Increase also was noted 1n leak- made public today by the District Com- | ing joints. missoners New water mains The mean dally water consumption | year, Mr. Garland reported, totaled 20,64 for the year, the report showed, was| miles which increased the total length 70,170,424 galions, v ith w mean daily per | of all water mpins, old and new, to capita consumption of approximately | 772,16 miles, The most important proj- 127 gallons ect completed with the installation of & Water consumption during the fiscal ye Inst, totaled 16,133 increase of 310,060,616 ga Richmond, @unday. Inteyment will be in Hollywood, explained, would be made by the own- ors, the Wardman Constriéion Co, Al the expense of the District, Mr. Qarland trupk main, whieh extended the second creased pressure water mains since the opening of the pointed out that in- nue southeast to the District line. Mount Illimani rises ap- | Lenn is | laid during the | | ment, as has already been pointed out, | pleased with the fine golf of the Ameri- | but one official, the financial adviser. | | can titlesholder, but got no thrill from designated by the President of [hg“ | | United States upon the request of the | government of Liberia, and even this designation is not final unless accept- | | able to the President of Liberia. Liberia, like every other country, has | suffered from an unemployment prob- |lem The Firestone operation was an | | opportunity seized with alacrity by the Liberian laboring classes. The Ve | ernment has had no occasion what- | ever to coerce labor and reports seem | to indicate that, far from suffering | |from a dearth of laborers, the Fire-| stone plantations are suffering from |an embarrassment of riches in this | respect. Nothing in the Firestone agreemen | obligates * the government of Liberia | to impress labor for the company even | | should an occasion to do so present | | itself. On this point the government of | Liberia would welcome an investigation | {on the spot by an impartial commis- | sion. the one-sided contest Dr. Willlam Tweddell. captain of the | British team, had better success than | Perkins, scoring a good 73 and gaining la lead of 3 up over George von Elm who took 41 for the second nine to total Francis Ouimet did not do =o well as Jones, but he came within a stroke of par 70 and got a lead of 6 up on Maj. C. O. Hezlet, who took 10 more strokes than the Boston star. Sweetser Takes Lead. Sweetser brought in another lead for the Americans Jess | half-way Hope, although neither played well. Sweetser used up 41 strokes to the turn, but braced somewhat on the casier second nine and got 38. Jess was 4 up at the end of the seventeenth but he found a trap on the home hole and lost with a 6. Jimmie Johnston, by winning the eighteenth hole with a birdie, quit for | the intermission 1 up on Eustice Store: who had the lead nearly all the w Johnston used 41 strokes to the turn | and was 2 down. He went 3 down with a 4 on the baby tenth, but then scored g2ven straight pars and topped them o with a 3 on the 424-yard eighteenth. This | gave him a total of 76 to Storey's 77 Chick Evans met a tartar in T. A. Torrance, who got a lead of 4 up at the fifteenth. But Chick finally won {down for the 18 holes. The Briton was only 1 above par for the last nine, |in spite of his slips on the final two holes, totaling 73. while Chick, going out in 38, took 37 for the in trip get 75. Evans Is Erratic. This made only the second match to finish with a Briton in the lead. Tor- | rance shot par on six holes of each | nine and got a birdie at the fourteenth, while Evans, somewhat erratic, got not a birdie, but scored 13 holes perfectly. As usual, Chick missed several holeable tts. Morning golf cards Hezlet 5 Ouimet Hope Sweetser Storcy Johnston DENIES SECREET CLAUSE IN FRANCO-BRITISH PACT Tentative N(\v‘nl VAcciorx'd Does Not Infringe on Washington Agree- ment, Leygues Says. 8 § 4 H 5 4 4 4 5 4 55 4 3 b 4 5 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 3 5 1 i By the Assoctated Press. PARIS, August 31.—Interviewed by Le Matin, Minister of Marine Georges Leygues categorically denied that the Franco-British tentative naval accord contains any secret clause or any agree- ment for foint naval or military action. He furthermore denied that it em- bodies even the slightest infringement of the Washington naval convention, 50,000, which was $50.575 1esS |y ‘said he could not explain the exact | terms of the agreement until the other naval powers hai commented upon it All governments eventually opportunity to study the text, he said dding: 1 defy any one to find in it anything that it is not clear, frank and loyal.” GIVEN “ANOT'HER CHANCE™ 76-Year-01d Man in Liquor Case Wins Clemency A 76-year-old man n't been in court for 18 ye: other chance,” Judge Is cided today in accepting the personal bond of James Shannon, alias John Enright, charged with intoxication Shannon and Mitchell F. Dorsay, 210 F street, were arrested by Police- man P. M. Cox_of the sixth precinet who claimed he found them sitting on a anc R. Hitt de- ing drinks from a bottle Dorsey confessed to being arrested on the same charge and was fined §20 or 20 days. At the sixth precinct Shan- non's address is given as “no place CLARK TAKES POST. to Head State De | Undersecretary j partment Until Kellogg Returns. J. Reuben Clark, jr. of Utah assumed the post of Undersecretary of State this morning and will serve as Acting Secre- tary of State until Secretary Kellogg re- turns from abroad, about September 12. The oath of office was administered by William McNeir, chief of the Bureau of Accounts. M. Clark has taken the office vacated by former Undersecretary Olds and has | force of his predecessor | STARTS WO.RLD CRUISE. Miles Leaves on One-Man Trip in 37-Foot Boat. NEW YORK, August 21 (# —-Edward Miles, butlder, skipper and crew of the 37-foot schoaner rigged sailing boat Sturdy, started today on a one-man cruise around the world He 18 taking the West to East route by way of Gibraltar and the Mediterra= nean, the Sturdy, carrying » small en- gine, whieh Miles will use in getting in dng sent through old | high Anacostia dgrvice in Alabama ave- ' and out of harbors, was built at Chavles- " cation ay ton, 8. C. by | getting a 3-up advantage over W. L.| the last two holes with pars to be 2| | | | Regrets Attack on Officials. This apparent attempt to bring Li- berian affairs in an unfavorable light | | before the American people, as a factor , | in the present political controversy, is | much to be regretted. Most interest- | ing to me is the fact that Prof. Buell | is able to predict Liberia’s future and | impugn the soundness and integrity of | | its statesmen after a visit of only 15/ days, during which he could have seen | ¢ | but few of our high officials and lead- | | ing citizens. | The preceding statement by President | King was sent to the Associated Press | |in response to a request for comment | on Prof. Buell's speech at the Wil-| liamstown Institute of Politics on Au: | gust 29, charging that the United States Department of State had caused | Liberia to accept the terms of the Fire- stone rubber concession. s BUELL CHARGES DENIED. State Department Refutes “Policy of Domination.” By the Associated Press. wl i Vi mother was answering the door of their Kalgan. A claim made by the Chinese His- torical Preservation Commission that the collection includes rare ancient relics is without foundation, Andrews declared. Peking newspapers reported the selzures already have taken place at Kalgan. Granted by Chang. “The cases contain nothing but fos- sils without commercial value,” Andrews said today. “They would not bring a dollar on the open market. However, I am not worried, as it is a United States Government proposition and is in the hands of legation authorities.” Andrews said arrangements for the expedition were made with late Marshal Chang Tso-Lin. dnd contended tha Nationalist authorities have no to repudiate the concession. “The expedition was sanctioned Washington and Minister MacMu accompanied us to the Great Wall. s nessing the start into the desert,’ explained. The Historical Preservation Commis- sion, in a telegram to Gen. Yen F Shan, acting chairman of the Pel political council, said: Charge Oil Hunt. “This is the fourth time that An- drews has gone into Mongolia to exca- vate. He thus has disregarded the sovereign rights of China and has stolen r ancient treasures. This is not tolerated by international usage. “Moreover, it is reported that durinz the recent expedition Andrews secretly investigated oil and mineral wealth in Mongolia. This is a really grave matter.” The scientist characterizes the charg> that he made oil and mineral investi- gations as absurd. Among the objects at Kalgan are bones of a prehistoric monster, whi Andrews claims was the largest beast known to science. SECOND INFANT DIES IN TAYLOR FAMILY ight he Boy Victim of Lactic Acid Pre- scribed for Girl Suffering From Acidosis at Ballston Home. Special Dispatch to The Star ALEXANDRIA. Va., August 31— Vernon Taylor, 18-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Eldridge Taylor of Route 1, Ballston, Va., died yesterday afternoon in the Alexandria Hospital a few hours after the death of his sister, Faith V. Taylor, 4 months old, at the same in- stitution. Vernon's death resulted from lactic acld, prescribed for the smaller baby, hich was suffering from acidosis. ‘ernon obtained the acid while his home in Arlington County Wednesday. According to Dr. Ryder, the acid is not poisonous and ordinarily would cause little pain. However, the Taylor child sucked the acid into his windpipe and stricture prevented breathing. Both in- fants were taken to the hospital, where a tube was inserted in Vernon's throat | to enable him to breathe. Acute pneu- monia developed, however, causing William R. Castle, jr.. Acting Secre- | death. tary of State, in a statement made pub- L. Buell, research -director of the For- | | eign Poliny Association, who on Wednes- | day charged before the Institute of Pol- | The death of the baby girl occurred 4281 lic today, sharplp denounced Raymond | early yesterday, the disease being too far advanced for phy Funeral services will be held at maines’ mortuaty clapel tomorro “ians to help her De- 71 | itics that this Government was follow: | afternoon at 12:30 oclock and int- ing a “policy of attempted domination” | ment will be in Fairfax County. n will have bench in Pension Park alternately ll\k~’ fixed | !in foreign markets. Bueli, | tween the Firestone Rubber Co. and the | | government of Liberia for a lease to & | million acres of land, which he said | was not signed until Liberia had agreed | to float a loan with American bankers. cherged that the State Department had caused Liberia to accept the terms. Castle declared that Buell's discussion | before the institute at Williamstown, | | Mass., was inaccurate. . | The research director in his talk as-| serted that this Government encouraged | among Liberians the belief that France | was trying to get part of the Liberian | hinterland, and to secure American sup- | port to prevent this, it was necessary | for Liberia to grant the Firestone lease and float the loan with American | bankers | Calls Inferences Incorrect. | Mr. Castle said he did not mean to say that Buell intended to be untruth- ful, but said he had drawn inferences which certainly were incorrect. Herbert r, whom Buell also criticized in his er had anything to do with the one concession or the loan, Mr. Castle said Buell's assertion thai the Firestone concession was monopolistic in charac- ter, brought a retort from Castle that | the 1,000,000 acres in the grant was only |4 per cent of Liberla’s land area and there was no reason why nationals of other countries could not obtain con- cesslons for themselves, as the United | States would not attempt to interfere. Buell's statements regarding what he termed “slave labor” were exceedingly unfair to Firestone, the Secretary said. The contract between the Firestone | company and the Liberian government | was reviewed by the State Department before it was consummated, Mr. Castle declared, and, although the Department { really had no jurisdiction in the matter, it had felt a certaln responsibility for | the welfare of Liberia, and suggested | changes it believed would be for Li- | beria’s advantage. The department's {action was considered by Mr. Castle to ! be as clear as it possibly could be. { Explains Loan Stand. Concerning the loan to Liberia, the | <taie Department took no more part in who cited an agreement be- | Springfield. RECEIVERS APPOINTED FOR BARRY LAUNDF: Application Made by President Ground Ill Health Caused Decrease in Business. Justice William Hitz in equity di- vision 1 today appointed George B Barry and Samuel J. L'Hommedieu as receivers of the Barry Laundry Co. Sixteenth and R streets southeast. Application for the receivership was made by George W. Barry, preside: of the corporation, in which he in- forms the court that he has been in ill health for the past two years and has been unable to give the necessary attention to the business, as the re: of which the business has fallen off The best interest of the creditors and of the stockholders will be conserved he says, by the court taking over the management. He is represented by Attorneys Jame B. Flynn and Samuel J. L'Hommedie POLICE OPEN DRIVE ON SLOT MACHINES Maj. Hesse Orders Campaign on Gambling Devices in District. The recent campaign of the district attorneys’ office to rid Washington of gambling slot machines was taken up | today by the Police Department | In a special order to precinct com- | manders, Ma). Edwin B. Hesse, superin tendent of police, directed that an im | mediate survey be made of their re- | spective precincts for the purpose of | that than it does in v foreign loans, | finding slot machines. In all cases retained the entire clerical | | the Secretary sald. From the point of | | view of national policy, the department | had no objection to it. It was true the [rate on the loan was higher than that {of the old loan it was replacing. but | the money could have been obtained no- | where at that time at a les The | appointment of an American financial \dviser was merely a continuation of | the plan under which the old loan was | administered ! "There was no conneetion betwoen the making of the loan to Liberia, according to My. Castle, and the boundary dispute between France and that country In consideration of the defendant's wife and two young children, whom he husband and father were sent to jail Judge R-ort E. Mattingly today su: pended a long jail sentence on Willlam Knott for intoxication, disorderly con- duet and threats Roland Hall, on whose houseboat, near Buzzards Point, Knott used to live, told the court that the latter came home drunk last Wednesday and threat- ened to “burn him up” The court imposed sentences of $300, or 180 days, for threats; 60 days straight for infoxi- 825, or 60 days, for dis- orderly conduot. COURT SHOWS LENIENCY. { feared would be left destitute if their | | where such machines are found, Maj Hesse instructed the commanders to ar | rest the proprietors of the places and | seize the machines. Nothing less thar | $100 or a real estate bond will be ac cepted as collateral under Maj. Hesse's | order ‘ Officers of the fifth precinet ree made four arrests and seized some machines, and Maj. Hesse has rece information that other machines aie o { operation throughout the District. C. D. STANLEY DIES. Charlie D. Stanley, 28 years old, em | ploye of the Schneider Baking Co., died today in Emergency Hospital, where he had been under treatment about & week. Mr. Stanley, who resided at 487 M | street, X rs. Marle G Stanley: two children, Charles, 5 years old, and Erian, 3 yoars old. and his jparents, Mr. and Mrs. James H Stan- | ley, Saltillo, M Funeral services, will be conducted st the chapel of A J. Schippert tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. Rev. James H @& Miers will officiate. Interment will be in Arlington Cemetery,