Evening Star Newspaper, May 8, 1929, Page 2

el d BRITISH MAY BAL * ATWARDEBTPLAN Paris Delegation Calm, While Opinion at Home Flares. Statement Today. $y the Associated Pr PARIS, May 8.—Private talks between | the reparation experts concerning the proposal for settling the German repara- tious problem, made by Owen D. Young, | ‘went on today in s calm that con- trasted strikingly with the exasperation | shown In London dispatches over the suggestions of the chief American dele- gate. The British delegation was asked if there was any prospect of an ulti- matum to Mr. Young or of a sudden break in the negotiations, as had been intimated In press dispatches from London. “All that is ridiculous. We are study- ing the question without excitement. There may be something 1o be said be- fore the end of the day,” was the reply. Get Young's Explanation. Mr. Young's explanatory memorandum, setting forth how he arrived at his 0g. ures and suggesting to the credit», na- tions that they change the perce1'ages | in the partition of reparations \» suit themselves, is now in the hands of all | the delegations. The text of the German conditions on acceptance, which was promised for today, is still being withheld. * Accord- 1ing to the best information, that text may never see the light of day. There |seems to be a feeling on the part of the ‘German delegation that there is no Teason for producing it. | It was declared this morning at Gevr- man headquarters that the delegation | had never been asked for it. This ddes not agree, however, with previous ia- | formation from an equally reliable | 'wource. Rumors About Germans. ! It was reported in the lobbies of the {Hnul George V, headquarters of the second Dawes committee, all yesterday |afternoon that the Germans were pre- | paring a text of their reservations. It ‘was even reported at one time that the |text had been delivered. In the evening some of the experts |declared that Dr. Hjaldmar Schacht, chief German delegate, would bring for- |'ward his reservations today, but the jexperts waited all this morning in vain. ! Dr. Schacht did not appear at the hotel jand at the headquarters of the German ! delegation it was said that the Germans |had ex themselves on Mr. Young’s proposals just as the other |experts had. They supposed that when ,all the delegations had taken their posi- ‘tions some subcommittee would take up |the matter, which would then be d out in common. ! The barometer of the conference after many violent fluctuations indi- cated stormy weather early this after- |noon and the attitude of some of the delegations showed that trouble was | apprehended. The calm of the British and the American was, however, some- | what reassuring. 5 ! ' LONDON PRESS AROUSED. | e ' Opposed to Young Plan If It Alters | Debt Percentages. repa en D. Young involved altera- tiohs in the rations percentages the plan. | e'gt‘ll ‘Times said editorially that if the plan_were adopted it would involve | sacrifice by Great Britain, not only of ‘whole arrears of payments to the United | States, but all sums claimed by the , dominions with respect to ‘the war . _Other comment was equally em- THE EVENING ST*R, “’.\S'HL\’GTO.\'. D. ¢, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1929. COMMUNITY CHEST EXPENSES LOW| FOR FIRST FOUR MONTHS OF 1929 tions Also Und Expense for the Community Chest for the first four months of the vear in- cluding campaign and administration, totaled only 3.7 per cent of the amount subscribed, according to a Teport yes- terday of the treasurer, the Federal- American National Bank. Subscriptions for the year 1929 to- taled $1,496,0651.03. Expenses for the first four months totaled 56,512.72. It is expected that the total expense for the year will be about $90,000, or 6 per cent of the amount subscribed, as compared with an average of at least 15 per cent for the cost of financing the member organizations through their separate appeals before the Community Chest vas organized. Payments to member organizations of the Community Chest in these four months totaled $390,999.60, or 31.3 per cent of the amount budgeted for their current expenses. The pro rata pay- ment would have been 333 per cent in four months of the year. Several| agencies have not yet cailed upon the Chest for any funds because of cash Agency. Associated Charities.................... ! Association for Prevention of Tuberculosis Boy Scouts ys' Club. Catholic Charitie: Children's_Hospital Child Welfare Soclety Children’s Country Home. Christ Child Soclety. Citizens’ Relief Society. Columbia Hospital for Women Asylum Columbia Polytechnic Institul Community Chest.... Council of Social Agencies District of Columbia Congress of Paren| Teachers District of Columbia Department, Lej gion Disabled Episcopal City Missions Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat Friendship House. 5 Florence Crittenton Home. Georgetown University Hospital George Washington University Girl Scouts.......... Hebrew Home for the Aged. Holy Family Day Nursery Instructive Visiting Nurse Soclety Jewish Foster Home Jewish Community Center Jewish Welfare Federation Juanita K. Nye Council Hous: Juvenile Protective Assoclation. National Homeopathic Hospital. Neighborhood House.. Noel Community House Phyllis Wheatley Y. W. C. A. Providence Hospital. St. Ann’s Infant Asylum. St. Joseph's Home and School......... St. Rose's Technical School. St. Vincent's Home and School S.lvl:,lnn Al’my.l Social Hygiene B Soctal Exchange Southernt’ Relief Society... Summer Outing Committee Somtore Al Socieiy velers' = T‘r:)‘tlflh Street Branch Y. M. C. United Hebrew Relief Soclety.... Washington Animal Rescue League. Washington Co-Operative Society Washington Home for Foundlings Washington Humane Soclety Grand total........oor Perccntag’c of Amo ported as 3.7—Payments to Organiza- Contingent and reserve funds and shrinkage unt Subscrfl:ed Re- er Expectation. | which they had on hand at the begin- | ning of the year, which they are using | up before asking the Chest for aid | The requests of several agencies are less than normal for the same reason. Other agencies have needed practically | | no funds of the Community Chest be- cause their activities are primarily in the Summertime. Funds are advanced to member agen- | cles on the basis of monthly financial reports, which are checked against bud- gets approved by the budget committee. | Payments in excess of the allowance for any item originally approved by the | budget committee are made only after approval by committee. The agency generally is expected to make savings in other items of expense to compensate for increased expenditures unless an emergency has arisen. The list of Community Chest agen- cles, with percentages paid on their budgets, the total paid to April 30, from | January 1. and the total amount of ¢ their yvearly budgets in contributions follow: 1929. Budget. | $75,655.44 29.999.55 13:509.20 40,109.25 60,267.03 2,494.25 3,887.80 14,927.05 40,145.00 45,914.07 1,461.14 90,340.69 10,428.33 800.00 3,000.00 3,500.00 60,397.83 14,000.00 2,005.98 21,865.96 12,983.00 16,808.57 13,221.35 35,545.00 8,068.92 31,035.80 8,970.31 70,682.95 17.240.91 54,248.55 5,375.00 4,575.90 7,232.00 15.350.97 18,022.40 5,161.61 7.634.25 15,642.05 23,531.00 14,795.18 13,928.16 22,290.03 70.429.24 6,402.65 4.455.00 2,815.00 22,881.79 18,478.69 10,625.00 30,780.00 9,819. 2,491.74 none. 1,011.21 38,990.00 68,911.00 $1,245,153.40 $251,497.62 $1,496,651.02 o Total Pald April 30. $21,781.44 Per Cent Pald 25,074.87 414.26 56.512.72 2,755.66 s and Americal 1,000.00 15,000.00 5,268.03 541.07 16,500.00 3.664.74 4,928.85 8,374.46 1,025.00 6,884.56 2,221.31 11,131.83 1,490.33 19,574.73 650.00 3,887.80 1,240.35 400.00 605.78 5,716.17 3,514.83 9,444.00 600.00 500.00 6,593.39 18,200.96 $390,999.60 JUROR CONFESSES phatic against Young's scheme which | 'was described as a “bolt from the blue,” s “bombshell,” and a “sf blow to British hopes of settlement.” 'WOMEN’S CLUBS TO MEET. 'Pederatioh of District Will Be Re- ceived at White House. ! The annual meeting of the District (of Columbia Federation of Women's |Clubs will open tomorrow morning at the Roosevelt Hotel, at 10 o'clock. At |12 o'clock members of the federation will be received at the White House by | Mrs. Hoover. . Mrs. Mary Dudley Expires. LYNCHBURG, Va., May 8 (Special). {—Mrs. Mary Dudley, 72, wife of John | T. Dudiey, died Monday afternoon at her home. i FOR TOMOREOW. PIRST RACE—The Homeland: maiden filly {3-year-olds: 4% furiongs: purse. 31 Truthfulness he | ad Hatee ..o M8 ESers” Laurel.. i ady Lady ' 3 Flasning 'Alss eligibie - ady’ Buyer | Pracaution Mary Lue | SECOND RACE—The Glenmore Steeple- ehase Claiming Handicap; purse, $2,000; 4- | Year-olds and up; 3 miles. 1Dragon Cheramy . Gunboat Seven pounds THIRD RACE-—3-year-olds : purse, $1,300; 6 furlongs. owie nd Siave 2Baoy Burting v aW. H. Snyder-William Hayward entry. FOURTH RACE-—3-vear-olds and up; elaiming: purse, $1.3 '\ miles. (*Marfon May .... 100 *Harry Carroll .. High M atlettsburg *8am Slick ... Forehead .. *Estelle Marie Spring Juvenle; 4% furlonks. | Do *Empleite FIFTH RACE—The | year-olds; $5,000 added; Colossal (no boy) . b Snowflake (L. Scha Bt Jim hery . % Chieiter Anne (H. Erickson) | Notus (J. Byrney ... Uptown Lad (A Pascima) a Pariisen (F. Moon) ... Wild Avple (J. Besshak) . Mint ‘Gles (no_bo) a George D. Widener entry, b Walter J. Salmon entry. SIXTH RACE_3-vear-olds and up; claim- ing: purse, $1,300; 6 furlonss. 113 Woodcock ... .. 105 *Golden Tinted . 115 *Henry Horton 1109 Also eligible— 1104 Dileas Gubreth.. 121 *Rockdrle ....... 102 *Ed Pendleton - 112 clock Qolf ... 123 E3EE §55 ear-olds and '+ miles. Traverence Redouble . SEVENTH RACE_? | elsiming: purse, $1,300: 2North Breese... 112 T0 TAKING BRIBE Grocer Is Held With Him as Liggett Trial Ends in Hung Jury. By the Assoclated Press. NASHVILLE, Tenn, May. 8—B. P. Osburn, carpenter, whose vote for ac- quittal hung the jury in the trial of Walter Liggett for the alleged murder of Turney Cunningham, and Rainey “Coon” Creswell, a grocer, have con- fessed to charges of accepting a bribe and bribery, respectively, according to ‘Attorney General Richard M. Atkinson. ‘Osburn and Creswell were arrested shortly after midnight and were ques- tioned by the sattorney general after entering a plea of not guilty before a magistrate. g '{t‘u‘é alleged confession told of nego- tiations which began the day before Osburn was summoned for jury service, when, it was said, he told Creswell that he couldn't afford to serve on ';!'le Jury because it didn't pay enough’ Daughter Is Involved. Creswell was quoted as replying that he could get the Liggetts to pay well if Osburn would “do the right thing.’ Creswell was alleged to have met Lig- gett at night under a railroad trestle and to have received $200 from him, though the amount Osburn was sup- posed to have recelved was not told. Mrs, Hattle McBride, Osburn’s daugh- ter, who was employed by Creswell. was named as an intermediary, the latter having told her, according to the alleged confession, that she could “tell the old man not to worry about the grocery bill he owes me. It will be all right.” Creswell's manifest interest in the trial and a visit of Mrs. ‘McBride to take clothes to her father resulted in questioning of the daughter by, the attorney general and the subsequent ifhe jury, like the first one. four e jury, like the 5 months ago, reported yesterday that it was unable to agree. Eleven members of the panel were reported to have favored a first degree verdict, carrying a prison term of 99 years. Atkinson said last night he would bring the cese before each term of Criminal Court until a verdict is reached. Jack inn, itinerant boilermaker, Liggett's “surprise” eyewitness to the shooting, was indicted for perjury in connection with his testimony at tne first trial. He forfeited bond posted by C. L. Liggelt, the defendant's father, but later appeared in time for the scc- | ond trial. He was not called. | "Liggert shot and killed Cunningham in an alley behind the Cunningham home on October 29 last, after keeping a tryst with Mrs. Cunningham. She and the defendant admitted an affair ex- tending over several years. RADIO LICENSE SOUGHT. Virginia Wants Permit for New Broadcasting Station. DANVILLE, Va., May 8 (Special).— llen Clarke is in Washington to make application before the Federal Radio Commission for a license to operate a 100-watt broadcasting station in Dan- 1105 12 u1 : i3 *Apprentice allowance claimed. Weather clear; track fast. ville. If successful in securing a license he plans to perfect his equipment for operation by early Fall. GIRL FREED IN KILLING. Baltimore Jury Acquits 13-Year- 0ld, Who Shot Brother-in-Law. BALTIMORE, May 8 (#)—Laura Landino, 13, was acquitted today of a manslaughter arge for the killing of her brother-in-law, the jury Criminal Court taking less than minutes to reach its verdict. ‘The girl fired the shot that killed Tony Bevelaqua on the night of March 30 when he sought entry to the Lan- dino home where his wife had gone with their two children when she left Bevelaqua. The girl fired through the mn 20 BAND CONCERT. ‘TONIGHT. By the United States Marine Band | orczutn. symphonic concert, at 8 o'clock; auditorium, Marine Barracks: Taylor Branson, leader; Arthur 8. ‘Witcomb, second leader. verture, “Midsummernight's Dream,” o i Mendelssohn Violin solo, “Concerto Opus 64,” for violin solo with orchestra accompani- ment ..................Mendelssohn l‘)‘:lllk:rl‘ln ll)elbel’t M. Allen. S; ny No. 1....... . ’Im‘;nd-nu Maestoso-Allegro. II Andante Affettuoso. 111 Scherzo. IV Finale, Andante Maestoso-Allegro. m“llge mH"Du Meistersinger”. . Wagner Marines’ "yfil: Halls bf Montezuma.” “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Navy Band, this evening, at the Navy Yard bandstand, at 7:30 o'clock. March, “Light Cruiser: . Respectfully dedicated to Rear Ad- miral A. L. Willard. Overture, “Willow Echoes”.....Simons Musiclan Ralph Ostrom. Excerpts from the musical comedy “The Vagabond King,” Friml Valse, “New Vienn: Op. 342..Strauss Grand scenes from the opera “Andrea Chenier,” Glordano A musical travesty, “Warbler's Serenade,” Perry Incidental music from “Peer Gynt, Suite No. 2,” Grieg a Abduction of the Bride, b Arabian Dance, ¢ Peer Gynt's Home Coming, Stormy Evening, d Solvejg's Song. American sketch, “Down South,” “Anchors Aweigh." “Star Spangled Banner.” FALSE ADVERTISING T0 BE INVESTIGATED Probe Group Named by Trade Com- mission—Survey Is Already Started. By the Associated Press. A special board to investigate alleged false and misleading advertising pub- lished in newspapers and periodicals has been appointed by the Federal Trade Commission. Announcing formation of the board today, the commission said an inforiual examination of newspaper and periodical advertising had been underway sevcral months and & number of cases were ready for review under the section of the Federal Trade Commission act, which prohibits unfair methods of com- petition. The new board is made up of three of the commission's attorneys, Martin A. Morrison, as chalrman: James A. Horton and Eugene L. Culver. ¢ | deliberations of the executive commi Myddleton | CONVENTION IN CITY ASKED OF BAPTISTS | | | | Southern Conference Next Year Sought by Capital as Texas Session Opens. | May 8—The in-| By the Associated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn., | ter-city battle for nex: year's meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention | has started. Convention officials have received invitations, backed in most in- stances by strong delegations from Richmond, Va.; Washington, D. C.: New Orleans, San Antonio, Tulsa, Okla.; Tampa, Fla, and St. Louis. A committee on time and place, to be appointed Friday, will recommend the | next city to be selected. | The convention approached the close | today while church committees a tacked the mass of business awaiting consideration when the convention be- | gins its sessions tomorrow. The executive committee, made up of many of the outstanding church leaders, had before it proposals to re- arrange the church finances, extend the denomination’s effective influence to thinly populated districts, reorganize the Home Missions Board and carry out other reforms advocated by varlous elements in the convention. Nearing the end of its convention tonight, the Woman's Missionary Union accepted reports indicating rapid de- velopment of the union’s auxiliaries for younger church members. One report said there were 18787 such organiza- tions functioning during the present church year. Most of the messengers to the con- vention centered their interest in the tee, the governing board of the organ- ization. The executive committee had before it suggestions for providing more di- | rect contact between the convention and its member churches in outlying rural sections. THREE GANGSTERS FOUND MASSACRED AS TRUCE IS ENDED (Continued From First Page.) for the Moran gang massacre. Their trials were deferred several times at the behest of State’s attorneys and po- lice, who wanted further time to build up cases against the men, and only last week attorneys obtained their re- lease from the county jail under heavy bond on the promise of their appear- ance when the trial was called. Mc- Gurn had been trapped in a downtown hotel, where he had been hiding since the day of the seven-fold murder. Scalisi, however, sauntered into police headquarters and surrendered, observ- ing he had been one of the dozen listed as “wanted” by the police for investiga- tion. Dr. Herman N. Bundesen, Cook County coroner, who has been active in the investigation of the St. Valen- tine's day massacre in Chicago, was gmud to take part in the investigation ere. ‘The invitation was issued by C. A. Owen, chief deputy coroner, who said an autopsy would be performed imme- diately so some of the bullets might be given Coroner Bundesen. Maj. Calvin Goddard, brought from New York City to assist in tracing bullets in the Chi- Blfio affair, will be asked to lend his skill in solving the killings here. Men Shot at Close Range. Dr. E. 8. Jones, coroner’s physician, made a minute examination of the three bodies, but postponed the autopsy until Coroper Bundensen arrived from Chi- cago with Deputy Police Commissioner John Stege. Powder burns indicated the men had been shot at close range, Dr. Jones said. Ansefmi's right shoulder and arm were broken and Scalisi’s right leg was frac- tured above and below the knee. Many shots were evidently fired into the bodies after the men fell. Efforts were made to find the spot in Chicago where the shooting was be- lieved to have been done. MAN SHOT IN ARGUMENT OVER FIFE CORPS TO LIVE ‘Woman Objector to Band Because of Noise Awaits Hearing iu Jersey Jail. By the Associated Press. SALEM, N. May 8.—Louils Collier, postmaster of Alloway, N. J, who was shot in the chest when he attempted to secure the arrest of a woman who objected to the formation of & fife and bugle corps he was sponsoring, is re- covering, in the Salem Hospital. The woman who shot him, Mrs. Lil- liam Flemmings, 29. Carneys Point, ds awaiting a hearing at the Salem County Jall. Colller was wounded Tuesday night when he seized a pistol with which the woman is alleged to have attempted to shoot Sheriff J. Emmor Robinson as he told her she was under arrest for creat- ing a disturbance. As citizens began to arrive at the Al- loway fire hall, near Mrs. Robinson’s home, to lay _F“l.:m for the organization of the band Tuesday night, Mrs. Flem- mings is sald to have entered into arguments with most of them, declar- ing her sister, who lived in Alloway, would object to the noise. | Hugh Gibson, who % e X wme v i L ¥ Police were compelled to open fire on Communist rioting in Berlin auring may aay celebration. Upper photo shows police defending an entrance to a subway station at Berlin. were killed during the disturbances. More than a score —Associated Press Photo. FRANCETOASKU.S,. FOR ARMS DETALS Other Nations Expected to| Follow Lead—Reckoning Tonnage Is Question. By the Assoclated Pr GENEVA, May 8—France will ask| the Washington Government for details | of its suggestions for reducing naval| armaments, French spokesmen at Ge- neva said last night. It is assumed here that the British, Italian and Japanese governments sim-| ilarly will instruct their ambassadors to get in touch with the Washington au- thorities, in order that the various na- tions may inaugurate studies of the disarmament proposals and have some- thing definite on which to work. Lord Cushendun Refers to U. S. In his final speech to the preliminary disarmament conference, Lord Cush- endun of England made particular ref- erence to the expected American pro- posals. What the governments have in mind particularly is believed to be a techni- cal explanation as to how the United States regards the question of reckon- ing equivalent tonnage. Before leaving Geneva, Count von Bernstorft, the German delegate to the conference, issued a statement dis- counting the optimism of the closing address by Chairman Politis of Greece. | German Is Not Optimistic. Von Bernstorfl declared that this op- timism was not shared by the German delegation nor did he think it would be shared by public opinion in the ma- Jority of countries. “Our only hope is that at the inter- national disarmament conference, the delegates will have new instructions | permitting genuine reduction in arma- ments,” he concluded. RESULTS PLEASE HOOVER. President Hopes Something Will Be Accomplished, President Hoover made it evident at a conference with newspaper corre- spondents at the White House yester- day afternoon that he was gratified at the results of the recent preparatory disarmament conference at Geneva and that he is hopeful that something will be accomplished in the near future along the lines proposed by Ambassador eaded the American group at the Geneva conference In this connection, the President per- mitted himself to be quoted in the fol- lowing manner: “I am greatly gratified at the promis- ing character of the result for naval reduction arising out of the recent Geneva conference. “All of the principal naval powers have expressed adhgrence to the princi- ples suggested by the American delega- tion, which include the conception of reduction instcad of limitation of naval strength. They have expressed their desire for full and frank discussion and the development of the American form- ula into a practical step. The manner by which these discussions are to be initiated has not yet been determined, but the question will be followed up promptly.” ‘The President, in answer to further questions regarding his interpretation of the distinction between naval limi- tation and reduction of naval strength. said that he did not care to debate the subject, but that his ideas of reduc- | tion meant in naval strength as well | as in construction. Cotton mills in China are reducing their working hours without decreasing Jumped Behind Tree Just in Time to Escape Herd of Elephants. Lion Is Killed Only 20 Feet From Her—Nearly Hit by Rhinoceros. By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, May 8.—After a series of exciting experiences in Africa during which she narrowly escaped from = herd of elephants, a lion and =2 rhinoceros, Mrs. Oscar S. Straus, 08 years old, was home today apparently none the worse for her adventure. Mrs. Straus, widow of the former United States Ambassador to Turkey, headed an expedition to collect bird specimens for the American Museum of Natural History. She was accompanied by her grandson, Edward Schafer, jr., ornithologist of the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh, and Mr. and Mrs. Rudyerd Boulton. Specimens of 300 birds were obtained and more than 5,000 feet of moving picture film. After traveling days from Khartum down the White Nile, the party drove to Uganda in automobiles, making their own roads through the jungle and buliding bridges for 1,000 miles. Mrs. Straus said that on one occ: sion she was in the direct path of a charging herd of elephants and was saved from being trampled, to death by being pulled behind & hig banyan tree. MRS. OSCAR STRAUS, 68, SAVED FROM DEATH IN AFRICAN HUNT| the output. M s. Hoover Given e Membership In P.-T. Congress Attends Luncheon and Session at Hotel; Dele- gates Enthusiastic. Mrs. Herbert Hoover was made a life member of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers today, an honor which the First Lady of the Land grate- fully accepted, because, as she explained to the enthusiastic delegates, she has nurtured a secret fear that being a grandmother might bar her from re- newing her existing membership in the organization for another year, ‘The bestowal of the life membership by Mrs. S. M. N. Marrs, national presi- dent, came as a pleasant surprise for Mrs. Hoover at the conclusion of the morning'’s session in the Washington Hotel. Mrs. Hoover came early and evinced her interest in the work the parents and teachers are doing to pre: serve American home and school rela. tionships by remaining throughout the session. She returned at 1 o'clock to attend the Rural Life luncheon, at which Sec- retary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde presented, as a reward for the most meritorious service rendered by a State to the work of the natlonal organiza- tion during the year, an historic gavel to Mrs. A. F. Fanger, president of the Florida State Federation of Parent- Teacher Association. Mrs. Hoover, who sat upon the plat- form with the mational officers at the business session, told the delegates that while she was happy to attend the ses- slon, she had done so in her own right :is a regular member of the orguuiza- ion. As che was about to resume her seat Mrs. Marr presented her with a cer- tificate. “Now we want Mrs. Hoover to be a life member and wear our emblem,” the national president said in present- ing it. Suggests New Order. Mrs. Hoover, in graciously acceptin, the compliment, implied that she really hofild belong to a grandparent-teacher association, “You know,” she added, “in the nat- ural course of human events I have felt that I would have graduated out %‘g‘y assoclation during the coming Mrs. Hoover's reference to beiny grandparent caused a Tipple of ‘mevric pass over the crow which she joined S “Now you can feel safe in being a gi:nv. grandmother,” Mrs. Marrs {old Mrs. Hoover expressed regret tl she could not attend the ‘P‘r:llnd:‘:l': dinner Monday evening, but added that she was “very pleased you let me come to this discussion and have given me anAlth}i‘ what {L]la all about.” e rural life luncheon, presi over by Miss Florence E. W’:l’d.dEd charge of extenslon work of the East- ern States, Department of Agriculture, many leaders in rural work were among the guests. These included, besides Secretary Hyde, Senator Capper of Kansas, William John Cooper, Commis-. sioner of Education; Mrs. Marrs, the national president; Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter, District of Columbia president; Mrs. A. H. Reeve, president of the In- ternational Federation of Home and School, and Miss Julia D. Connor, as- sociate director of the bureau of rural life, Speeches Are Made. Three-minute speeches on the high points in the open country from many States were given, under the leadership of Miss Connor. ‘The gavel which Secretary Hyde pre- sent to Mrs. Fanger of Florida will g0 to the parent-teacher groups.of Pi- nellas County as having carried out most completely the program laid down for the year by the national congress. Thet handle of the gavel is made from A tree grown at Mount Vernon and the head from timber taken from the White House. Mrs. Fanger in her report on work in Florida said that from an estimated number of rural families with children in school about 2,538, 50 per cent, were members of some parent-teacher asso- ciation. This afternoon Mrs. Marrs will pre- side at a tree-planting program at Mount Vernon and tonight the “Gold Star” dinner of the Child Welfare Mag- azine and editors will be held. Home Engineering Topics. Mrs. Lillian Gilbreath, engimeer, of Montclair, N. J., the prtnclpn'l speaksr at last night's sesslon, spoke on “Engi- neering the Home,” in which she ex- plained the application of scientific methods in home relations. Among the things she said must be done is to “conserve and develop the beauty and furnish leisure and rn(er- est with which to enjoy it” in the B s engineer 13 1 (he engineer is interested not only in the skill which makes it possible wyrun a home effectively, and to handle the human relations within the home smoothly, she said, but also in the . satisfactions which accrue from all | MRS. OSCAR S. STRAUS. | On another occasion, she said, a white guide shot a lion that had come within 20 feet of the party, while another time she narrowly escaped being knock- ed down by a rhinoceros that was at- tempting to' escape from one of the hunters with the party. The expedition passed through the Lake Tanganyika district to the border of the Belgian Kongo, then to Nombassa up the ceast of Aden and through the Red Ses to Egypt. Tiue party covered abous 15,000 miles by land and sea in four months, uigse activites. he ‘meeting was _follow recreation hour, 1n which the delegates were taught new games and methods of recrcation by Miss Loula C. Wood: feld_leader of Recreation and Play. grounds Athletic League, Baltimore, Heads Cumberland Rotarians. Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., May 8.—Rev. Dr. Hixon T. Bowersox, puywr olngt, Paul's Lutheran Church, was elected president of the Cumberland Rotary Club by the board of directors yester- day, following the election of five new directors, who are Franklin H. keney, Leo T. Downey, Thomas E. Gil- christ, Thomas W. Peters, and Leander Schaidt. They serve with the five holdover di- rectors who are Arthur J. PFitch, Rev. Dr. Bowersox, Dr. Arthur H. Hawkins, “Thomas B. Finan and J. George Smith. Mr. Smith was chos:n vice presid mt. VAN SWERINGENS PLAN HIT BY LOREE Rail President Revealed as Initiator of Move Against Cleveland Terminal. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, May 8.—L. F. Loree, president of the Delaware & Hudson Railroad and formal rival of the Van Sweringen brothers in the establish- ment of a new Eastern trunk line, was revealed in petitions on file in Federal Court today, as the Wheeling & Lake Erle railroad director initiating new ef- forts to block the $200,000,000 Van Sweringen union terminal project here. ‘The Wheeling & Lake Erie depot site is considered necessary for trackage space in the new station, now nearly complete. Saturday demands for the property were made, which the Union Terminal Co., & Van Sweringen interest, rejected as “unacceptable.” An answer to a complaint by the Taplan interests in Wheeling & Lake Erie seeking a Federal injunction restraining the road from selling its station site to the Van Sweringens revealed Loree's part Idrlwing up the new demands for the and. Minutes of the Wheeling directors’ meeting, included in the Van Swerin- gen answer, named Loree as the direc- tor making three motions, which were passed, outlining the proposals which the Van Sweringen interests found un- acceptable. One was for an interest rate of 6 per cent, on the $1,600,000 the terminal promoters offered to pay for the station land—an increase of 60 rer cent in the interest rate. Another increased from $400,000 to $1,000;000 the bond to be posted by the Terminal Co. to insure restoration of the prop- erty in case the Interstate Commerce Commission rules against the road’s en- tering the station. BRITISH PRO SETS RECORD IN OPEN TILT, CHALKING UP 69 CARD (Continued From First Page.)_ contingent played steadily, Sarazen and MacDonald Smith bagging 73s. Johnny Farrell, open champion of the United States, who found the going rough in the qualifying rounds, struck his stride today and returned a good 72. Charles Whitcombe, highly favored British pro, took 77 for his round. Johnny Golden, husky professional from Paterson, N. J., put together two consistent nine-hole cards of 3)7 for a 74 to rank behind Sarazen. Joe Turnesa finished with a score of 78 after bad putting had cost him many strokes. Bill Mehlhorn checked in with a score of 74 for his first round. Bobby Cruickshank joined the low scorers with a snappy 73. Al Espinosa, Chicago, returned a card of 77. Jimmie Thompson, Knoxville, Tenn., was around in 78. Aubrey Boomer, well known British pro, scored 74, requiring 39 strokes for the second nine after going out in 35. In a driving rain Al Watrous holed a long putt at the eighteenth hole for ia score of 73. Cyril Tolley, the big Briton, finished with & score of 74, and assumed the lead among the amateurs. George Duncan, captain of the Brit- ish cup team, turned in a score of 78. Tommy Armour, who had a wabbly start, played a steady game on the sec- n;\d nine and finished with a score of 75. Dudley Joins Low Scorers. Ed Dudley, Wilmington, Del., a late starter, went into the select class of low scorers when he returned a card of 72 for his first round. Philip Perkins, British Amateur champion, finished With a score of 78, the figure needed by George Von Elm, American amateur, in the first round. Walter Hagen, the British open cham- plon, started on a defense of his title with a round of 75. The American pro went out in 39, but rallied on the sec- ond nine, although the later play was in a hard rain. Henry Cotton, young British pro, play- ing with Hagen, required 79. Horton Smith, young Joplin “ghost,” scored a 76. Von Elm Is Wild for 79. George von Elm, former United States amateur champlon, was not hitting his shots with accustomed accuracy and took a 79, one stroke more than the veteran Englishman, J. H. Taylor, who won his first British open in 1894. Jimmie Ockenden, another Briton, also had a 78, and still another, Willie Robertson, scored 79. Back of these ranked Arthur Havers, a British star, who did no better than 80. The same score was the best that Willis Macken- zle, British amateur, had to offer. Other early finishers had relatively high cards. Michael Daraghon took 82; Arthur Day, 81, while T. G. Renouf turned in a card of 82. Sarazen shot four birdies in a row to score a sensational 35 on his outgoing journey, but faltered a bit coming home at the tenth, seventeenth and eighteenth. Fred Robson, British pro, scored a 78, taking 40 going out and 38 coming home. Play Over Three Days. Play in the championship is spread over three days, The 109 who qualified cover 18 holes today and 18 more to- morrow. Then the fleld is cut again. All ghyeu 14 strokes or more behind the leader are automatically eliminated, unless the fleld, so cut, numbers less than 60. Whatever the scores, a mini- mum field of 6° s to be left to com- pete in the Znal 36 holes on Friday. The feld stavted loday just as though the qualilying four3 %ad not een pl.yq:.L Bcores = ¥ galifying Mexican President Willing.»go Meet Archbishop Ruiz on Issues. i 3 J By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, May 8—President) {Emilo Portes Gil has opened a door | through which diplomatie. negotiations ! for settlement of his country's church- state strife may be approached. In a signed statement published to- day he said: “If Archbishop Ruiz (Mgr. Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, Archbishop. of | Michoacan and a leader of the Mex- | ican Roman Catholic hiearchy) should desire to discuss with me the way to 1 bring about co-operation in the moral effort to better the Mexican peop which he desires, T shall have no ob- jection to talking with him on_the subject.” . Archbishop. Ruiz recently gave out a statement published in the United States which said “the church and its ministers are ready to co-operate to the fullest exteni for the betterment of the Mexican people.” 1t was in en- | swer to this President Portes Gil spoke “I was pleased with the statement made by Archbishop Ruiz to the effect that ‘the religious conflict in Mex- {ico was not motivated by any cause which may not be corrected by men of sincere good will' and his categori- cal declaration that ‘the Catholic Church and its ministers are prepared to co-operate with the Mexican govern- ment in every proper and moral effort for the benefit of the Mexican people Desire of Government. “‘Co-operation for that purpose is ex- actly what the Mexican ;%\'rmmsnt jhas always desired. I stated publicly a few days ago that in my opinion the Catholic Church as an institution was not associated with the military up- rising_which has just ended in Mex- ico. I added that many members of the Catholic clergy in Mexico had rec- ommended and counseled respect for law and order. Unfortunately an im- portant minority who represent neither the Mexican nation nor the Catholic Church apparently favor violence.’ The President then said that, al- ‘lhfllkh there were no officially accred- ited representatives of the Vatican at Mexizo City, and that although such were prohibited by Mexican law, the government was not barred from ex- changing ideas with ministers of the Catholic church or from holding infor- | mal conversations with dignitaries of the church as to fulfillment and inter- pretation of laws applicable to the clergy. There was some speculation here as to how broad a spirit of conciliation the President’s statement might point. Set- tlement of the controversy between the church and the Mexican government ap- parently has hinged, since the rupture Lecame open in 1926, on some modifica- tion or arrangement of the national re- liglous laws which would permit the clergy to exercise its offices without conflict with its own ecclesiastical con- ceptions. Question of Registering. The specific point has been registra- tion of th= priests, which the govern- ment has required and the episcopate refused to allow. The episcopate author- ized all priests in Mexico to abandon their posts rather than comply, the re- sult being that since 1926 no services have been conducted by priests in Cath- olic churches throughout Mexico. The significant thing, observers thought, was that an emissary of the church 'had approached the Mexican government from some distance and g‘x:r:d“‘ nu;fllloo ;old reception. The ", it was eved, certainly was open to further negotiation. " P Once before, within the last year, these negotiations advanced even be- yond this point, when, through the good offices of Ambassador Dwight W. Mor- row, the then President Calles met Archbishop Ruiz in the old fortress ‘of i San Juan de Ulua, on an island in Vera Cruz Harbor, and talked secretly re- | garding a settlement. The subsequent | assassination of the President-eiect, Al- varo Obregon, however, nullified any progress toward settlement which may have been made at the conference. Th= government charged the assassination was of Roman Catholic inspiration. CHURCH BATTLE SCENE. 1,600 “Cristeros” Defeated By Federals With Heavy Loss. MEXICO CITY, May 8 (#).—Dis- patches today from Guadalajara told how a band of 1,600 “Cristeros” fought their way through the ‘>wn of Colot- lan, Jalisco, to the Church of San Nicolas, which they tried in vain to hold against federal troops of Gen. Satur- nino Cedillo. The insurgents were driven from the church, having 68 dead and 48 wound- ed. They retreated tv - nearby ceme- tery where federal reinforcements at- tacked them from the rear and they fled into the mountains. It was the second attack in three days on Colot- lan, which the federals recently recap- tured from the so-called religious rebels. Reports received at Chapultepec Cas- tle from Gen. Calles detailed new as- signments of troops throughout the na- tion, with the previous large army of the north to be scattered over Mexico, many returning to Mexico City. Eleven thousand men will be sent to Jalisco for action against the “Cristeros.” The federal air force will accompany them. An agent of the department of jus- tice in Sonora announced that all prop~ erty of the Topete brothers, Fausto and Ricardo, and of Gen. Francisco Manzo; rebel leaders, had been seized for the government. No amount was given, but it was understood to have a large total valuation. Calles Leaves Nogales. NOGALES, Sonora, Mexico, May 8 (#).—Gen. P. Elias Calles, commander- in-chief of the Mexican Federal Army, and two troop trains left here last night for Hermosillo, capital of Sonora. From there Gen. Calles expects to proceed southward. - Gen. Abelardo Rodriguez, governor of Baja California, who had been in con- here with Gen. Calles, also df 1 rounds do not count in the champion- ship itself. Of the 109 who survived qualifying round play on Monday and Tuesday 17 are Americans. They are Hagen, defending champion; Diegel, - Cruicks shank, Van Elm, Watrous., Horton Smith, Macdonald Smith, Tommy Ar- mour, Mehlhorn, Sarazen. Golden, Turnesa, Farrell, Espinosa, Ed Dudley, Barnes and Thompson. Von Elm is the only amateur in this group, his four American companions, F. W. Stites, Silas Newton, Joshua Crane and Max Behr, having passed out of the picture in the qualifying round. The cards follow: Allis, 34—34—68. Jolly, 36—36—72. Compston, 36—40—76. Farrell, 37—35—72. i Whitcombe, 38—39—177. Barnes, 35—36—71. | Sarazen, 35—38—73. Mitchell, 35—37—72. Robson, 40—38—178. Mehlhorn, 36—38—74. ‘Turnesa, 40-—38—78. Cruickshank, 37—36—73. Espinosa, 38—39—177. ‘Thompson, 40—38—78. Boomer. 35—39—74. Armour, 39—36—175. Watrous, 35—38—73. Hagen, 39—36-—75. Cotton, 42—37—179. Perkins, 39—39—78. Dudley, 35—37—72.