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AMERICAN REPORTS BOLIVIAN OUTRAGES Says He Was Deported as Result of Protest on Brutal Treatment of Another. Special Cable Chicago Daily News. ASUNCION, Paraguay, July 26—A lurid story of murders, savage assaults and deportations of Americans in lone- some villages in Eastern Bolivia was told here by Malcolm Owen, the latest victim of the official vendetta. Owen's report is backed by the state- ments and affidavits of witnesses, in- cluding a former British consul, and is s0 astounding that George L. Kreeck, the American Minister to Paraguay, for- warded the State Department an ac- | count. Because of the remoteness of | the country the American victims of | outrages are unable to communicate ! with the American Minister at La Paz. | According to Owen, two soldiers ap- | proached him and conveyed the order of the chief of police to leave town within 20 minutes: they accompanied him home, forced him o leave all his | property behind except a change of | clothes, took him to Brazil, where they left him at an abandoned lumber camp. The chief later confiscated mineral sam- ‘pl‘ets, maps and data which Owen had eft. Owen exp'-':5 his deportation was the result of protesting the chlef’s brutal treatment of another American named Harris and his announced in- tention of notifying the American representative at La Paz. The pr ous evening the chief, apparently in- toxicated, proclaimed that the United States was determined to settle the present mediation against Bollivia. Har- ris protested. The chief ordered him to leave. Later the chief struck Harris with a revolver, and knocked him un- conscious. Then the chief called six soldiers, who tossed Harris into the road, where the chief rubbed his face with stones until all the skin came off. Then Harris was locked in the open-air stocks. When Owen saw him the next Harris was unrecognizable and was In s critical condition with three ribs broken. A few years ago an aged Texan, Hart Mix, was brutally killed, and his mur- der went unnoticed by Washington. A Bollvian army lleutenant and four sol- diers broke into his house in Santa Cruz, but Mix repelled them. Other soldiers, however, surrounded his house, and when he came out at daylight he was shot from behind a bush. SLIGHTLY WARMER TOMORROW OUTLOOK Capital Fights Renewed Period of Heat After Yesterday's Prostrations, Slightly higher temperatures were in prospect~ for tomorrow es the city sought relief today from a renewal of the heat, which yesterday prostrated two persons and sent the mercury to B2 degrees at the Weather Bureau and 96 on the street level. ‘The low extreme of 71 early today equalled the minimum yesterday, and indications were that the maximum this afternoon would approximate yesterday's, although slightly cloudy weather Is forecast for tonight and tomorrow. The highest temperature recorded here yesterday, 96 degrees, was estab- lished at the Pennsylvania avenue kiosk, which showed a 4-point rise between noon and 4 o'clock. The victims of yesterday’s heat, both of whom were treated at Emergency Hospital during the afternoon and di missed, were John Foley, 57 years 8620 Twelfth street, and Frank Wash- | ington, colored, 37 years old, who was | overcome at Twelfth and D streets. Foley was removed to the hospital from a midtown hotel, where, at first, 1&:‘;& thought, he was seriously af- ed. ARLINGTON ROTARY CHARTER RECEIVED Document to Be Presented to Club at Special Meeting August 12. B a Staff Correspondent of The Star. CLARENDON, Va., July 26.— The arter of the Arlington Rotary Club been received and is to be formally Presented at a special meeting to be I'held at 7 o'clock on the evening of August 12 at the Washington Golf and | Country Club, it was announced at yesterday’s weekly meeting by the presi- . dent, Dr. R. N. Sutton. Dr. Sutton said that the presentation of the charfer would be made by the district governor of Rotary Interna- national and that a number of other high Rotary officlals will be present for the ceremony. J. Hammond Brewer, jr., secretary of the local club, described in detail the work done at the recent conference of presidents and secretaries of the Rotary Clubs of the fifty-sixth district, held at Staunton. ALEXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 26 (Spe- | clal) —Two resolutions;, one providing for a temporary loan of $40,000 for the purpose of meeting the city's operating expenses for August and September, and the other appropriating $1,500 as & fee for C. C. Carlin and G. L. Boothe, attorneys, for their work in connection with the Mount Vernon Boulevard, were introduced at a special meeting of the gity council yesterday and held over under the rules. yesterday at his residence, 322 North Columbus street. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Kate B. Sullivan; a daughter, Mrs. Kathleen §. Wells: two sons, Charles ind Courtney Sullivai and three sisters, Mrs. M. P. Walsh an Mrs. F. M. Bock of Washington and Mrs. H. A. Smoot of Richmond. Funeral services for Mr. Sullivan wiil be held at 9:30 o'clock tomorrow morn- ing in St. Mary's Catholic Church, and interment is to be in the St. Mary's Cemetery. Louls Hoy has been named chair- man of a committee to arrange for a garden party at St. Xaverian Brothers’ School to raise funds to pay the ex- penses of the drum and bugle corps of Alexandria Post, No. 24, American L: glon, to the State convention of th American Legion at Petersburg the first week in September. The date has not been set. Fidelis Bible class was host to the Valiant Knights Bible class, both of the First Baptist Church, at an outing on the Alexandria-Fort Humphreys Fdad Wednesday night. Approximately 40 _members of both classes attended. Rev. John Coburn of Ri¢hmond will 4 speak at the union services to be held at the First Baptist Church Sunday night. The services will open a re- ligious campaign which will be followed by a religious census to determine the number of Alexandrians that are mem- bers of churches. A check on the number of motor vehicles visiting Mount Vernon was kept the first week in July by E. C. ‘Gibbs, former president of the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce, dis- closing that 4,431 motor vehicles visited the home of George Washington dur- ing that week. Of that number 516 au- tomobiles from Pennsylvania and were 431 from Qhig. y v Dispatch to The Star and the | 12,000 residents of Chautauqua, N. Y., i been copied throughout the country. S. Ochs. SIGNERS TOBETOLD PACT IS IN EFFECT Stimson Instructs-U. S. Dip-; lomats to Notify Nations Kellogg Treaty in Force. Secretary Stimson last night in- structed American diplomatic repre- sentatives in 29 capitals of the world to inform the governments to which they are accredited of the formal deposit of Japan’s ratification of the Kellogg anti- war treaty and that the treaty is now effective. ment would inform other adhering na- tions formally when the treaty became binding on them. ‘The French government, tiated adherence of the So lich nego- tion to Moscow. The bassy at Paris was instructed to de. liver the information to the Afghan | Minister there, since the new govern- ment in Afghanistan is not recognized by the United States and has no dip- lomatic representative in Washington. The British government will be re- quested to inform the governments of Australia, New Zealand, the Union of South Africa and India, which are also not represented by missions in Washing- ton, Forelgn Minister Briand of France yesterday replied to the message of congratulations sent him Wednesday by Secretary Stimson in_connection with the co-operation which he contributed in the formation of the treaty. PARIS, July 26 (#)—The Kellogg- Briand pact to outlaw war was pro- claimed as effective by publication in today’s issues of the Official Journal of the decree putting it in force. GOOD SOON TO NAME MILITIA BUREAU HEAD Governors’ Recommendations for | Successor to Gen. Hammond Are Withheld. Becretary Good says he expects to announce in a short time the appoint- ment of a chief of the Bureau of Militia Affairs of the War Department, caused by expiration of the term of Maj. Gen. Creed C. Hammond, June 29. ‘The governors of all the States have been asked to nominated qualified of- cers of their respective militia organiza- tions and responses have been received from most of them. ‘When the others governors have been heard from the Secretary of War will study records of nominees and make a recommendation to the President as to the appointment. Though the Secretary of War declines to announce the names of the officers recommended by the governors for the Militia Bureau ap- pointment, it is understood that the list includes Brig. Gen. George E. Leech of Minnesota, Brig. Gen. Frank D. Hen- derson of Ohio, Brig Gen. Everson of Indiana and Col. D. J. Markey of Mary- land. The only National Guardsmen who have held the office are Maj. Gens. George C. Richards of Pennsylvania and Creed C. Hammond of Oregon. Until the vacancy is filled, Col. Ernest R. Redmond, Field Artillery Reserve, to serve as chief of the Militia Bureau. —_— After 700-Pound Tuna. PORTLAND, Me, July 26 (P.— Harry W. Adams, Los Angeles mer- chant, is striving in Casco Bay to catch a bigger tuna than Zane Grey's 700- pounder, landed at Catalina Island. Thomas A. Edison, Henry Ford and Adolph S. Ochs, the senior officer present, will continue | Min! With rod and line Adams has caught a 545-pounder here. SEVENTH EISEMAN'S celebrating the- Left to right, seated: Mr. and Mrs., Henry Ford and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Edison. Standi ree of the Nation's most distinguished citizens, joined with th anniversary of the birth of Lewis Miller, father-in-law of Edison and co-founder of the Chautauqua institution, whose program of Summer recreation with adult education has at right: Adolph —Wide Worid Photo. | | REV. JOHN L. GIPPRICH, 8. J. SEVEN G. U. FACULTY MEMBERS SHIFTED Rev. John L. Gipprich Succeeds Father Summers as Medical School Regent. Orders transferring seven members of the faculty of Georgetown Univer- sity, including Rev. Walter G. Summers, 8. J., regent during the past year of the medical and dental schools as well as | the Georgetown University Hospital, were received yesterday from the head- quarters of the New York province of the Jesuit order. Rev. John L. Gipprich, 8. J., sclentist and since 1914 director of physics at Georgetown, has succeeded Father Sum- mers in the regency, the only executive position affected by the changes. Il health, because of overwork in arrang- ing for the new medical-dental build- ing, it was said, compelled Father Sum- mers to seek relief. He has been as- signed as professor of physics in St. Joseph's College, at Philadelphia, and| will leave in a few days to take over his | new duties. ‘The annual faculty chang nounced by Rev. Johri A. Dixon, acting president in the absence of Dr. W. Cole- man Nevils, include six new professors. ‘The post in the physics department va- cated by Father Gipprich will be filled by Rev. E. J. Kolkmeyer, who comes | from St. Francis Xavier College at New | York City. | Aside from the change in the med- | ical and dental departments, the mfst important was the appointment of Rev. Joseph T. O'Brien as faculty director of athletics. He succeeds Rev. John J. Murphy. who will devote his full time to teaching. Father O’Brien is a graduate of Georgetown, has taught at the Hill- top and has been pursuing studies re- cently at St. Andrews-on-the-Hudson. The new regent of the medical-dental | departments is one of the best known educators in the Jesuit order. SUES FOR $9,000,000. Woman Charges Mining Company Illegally Removed Copper. SAN FRANCISCO, July 26 (#)—Suit for $9,000,000 damages was filed in Fed- eral Court yesterday against the Penn ing Co., Inc., of Wyoming by Mary G. Philson, acting as administrator of the estate of Peter Emmet Gallagher. The complaint charged the company mined land in Calaveras County and il- legally removed 100,000 tons of copper, gold and silver ore valued at $3,000,000. She asked to recover a sum treble that amount. —_— ‘The American type of station is being introduced service gas into Brazil. & F ST5 OPEN UNTIL 6 P.M. SATURDAY In All Summer Fabrics—Such as PALM BEACH, LINENS Match Your Odd Coat HOT-WEATHER TROUSERS $4.65ww JERSEY UTILITIES REJECTS PAY PLEA Public Service Co. Head Says Union’s Demands Are Unreasonable. NEWARK, N. J, July 26 (#).—The Public Service Corporation today flatly refused to consider the demands of its 7,400 employes for an 8-hour day and wage increases of approximately 25 per | cent. The demands were contained in a new three-year wage agreement sub- mitted by the workers’ union to replace the present scale expiring October 1. The Public Service Corporation con- trols extensive trolley and bus lines throughout the State and a 52-day strike that virtually paralyzed trans- portation resulted from failure to agree |on & new working agreement six years ago. Matthew Boyle, vice president of the | corporation, characterized the demands s “unreasonable and prohibitive. “The wage tendency today is not upward,” he said, adding that in for- mulating the demands, it seemed the men gave “no consideration whatever to certain fundamental facts which no more can be ignored by them than by the management. Chlef of these is the | company’s ability to pay. No_statemtent was forthcoming_this morning from William Wepener, chair- man of the workers' union. FLAMING METEOR FALLS INTO LAKE MICHIGAN Brilliant Blaze Mistaken by Many for Burning Air- piane, By the Assoclated Press. MILWAUKEE, Wis., July 26.—A me- teor of unusual brilllance streaked across the sky last night and buried (t‘ltlll in Lake Michigan, south of this city. It left a stream of flaming phosphor- esence in the sky that caused several reports that an airplane had fallen in flames. Twenty miles west of here the flashing fragment illuminated many miles of countryside. Prof. Edwin B. Frost, in charge of the Yerkes Observatory at Willlams Bay, Wis., said the meteor was & mass of | iron, set afire by its terrific speed as it entered the earth’s atmosphere. |DAWES TO GO TO DUBLIN. Ambassador Will Attend August Horse Show in Ireland. DUBLIN, Irish Free State, July 26 (#)—Ambassador Dawes has acceptdd an invitation to attend the Dublin Horse Show during the first week in August. American officers will be here for the jumping competition. Their horses already are being schooled for the event on the Army training ground. The District grand jury, impaneled for the July term, 1929, under leader- ship of Merritt O. Chance, foreman, yesterday adopted reselutions express- ing regret at ghe death of Assistant United States Attorney Joseph V. Con- nelly, who died Tuesday night of ap- pendicitis. v GOWNS o 7~9~1 = Brestan FINALS IN RIFLE MATCHES BEGUN W. W. Brown Strong Con- tender on Pistol Range for C. M. T. C. Cup. After two days of intensive practice on the rifie range at Camp Simms, D. C., the troopers of the Citizens Military Training Camp Cavalry Squadron, now undergoing one month'’s training at Fort Myer, Va., were engaged in their final rifie matches today. ‘W. W. Brown, a fourth year candi- date, was a strong contender for the loving cup to be presented to the C. M. T. C. candidate making the highest score on the pistol range. Candidate Brown lives at 1348 Euclid street. His score of 177 out of a possible 200 points in the qualification course yesterday was the highest turned in of which a record was made public. An unusually large number of can- didates had qualified for the finals which are being fired today on both the rifle and pistol ranges. Those who qualify on the range will be presented with badges representing their degrees of proficiency in pistol and rifle marks- manship. These badges are something to work for and each candidate is de- wrn;medwdohhbeulnmennn work. ‘The first troop reached the rifie range at Camp Simms at 8 o'clock Wednes- day morning, quickly followed by the remainder of the cavalry squadron. The horses were packed with full field equip- ment and the columns presented a very military appearance as they moved through the streets of Washington. The men are getting a real taste of fleld duty while on the range. Walter Essex of 3775 Oliver street, Chevy Chase, Md., & candidate at the Fort Myer Cavalry camp, has been ap- pointed a student non-commissioned officer of the 3d Cavalry in recognition of his attention to duty and grasp of the fundamentals of military science. From his first day in camp, Essex work- ed hard and was particularly proficient in horsemanship. ARMY CHANGES LISTED. Lieut. Col. Elmer/ E. Fuller, In- fantry Instructor, Made Colonel, Lieut. Col. Elmer E. Fuller, United States Infantry, instructor of the Vir- ginia National Guard at Richmond, Va., been promoted to the grade of colonel. Maj. William E. Irwin, Cavalry, under treatment at Walter Reed General Hospital; Capt. Patrick J. Gorman, Quartermaster Corps, at Fort Sam Houston, Tex.; Maj. Alfred E. Larabee, Signal Corps, at West Point, N. Y, and First Lieut. James T. Dis- muks, Infantry, in this city, have been ordered to their homes to await re- tirement; Lieut. Col. Francis W. Griffin, Field Artillery, has been transferred from Chicago to the Philippines; Maj. William A. Squires, Dental Corps, from Fort Benning. Ga. to the Pitzsimons General Hospital, Denver, lo.; Capt. James E. Smith, Quartermaster Corps, from the Panama Canal Zone to Fort Sam Houston, Tex.; Capt. Ralph Pol- lock, jr., Quartermaster Corps, from Fort Strong, Mass, to the Panama Canal Zone; Capt. Charles Stalsburg, | Quartermaster Corps, from Fort George G. Meade, Md., to the Panama Canal | Zone; First Lieut. Philip M. Shockley, | Quartermaster Corps, from the Panama | Canal Zone to Fort Sill, Okla.; Capt. William A. Boyle, Medical Corps, from Fort Des Moines, Iowa, to San Fran- D. Russell, Clough P. from Haw: Wyo., and Pirst Lieut. Gee, Quartermaster Corps, to Fort Benning, Ga. RETIRED MAJOR EXPIRES. Richard W. Johnson Served in Spanish War as Brigade Surgeon. Maj. Richard W. Johnson, U. S. A., retired, died at the Letterman General | Hospital, San Francisco, last Wedn day, according to War Department a vices. He was from Texas and entered the Medical Department of the Army in October, 1881. During the Spanish War he served as a brigade surgeon. He | was rellglzrd in the grade of major in 9. Highest Quality /Quick Service At This Reliable Lumber House Hl--:'nlm Millwork T Building Supplies Coal Small Orders Given Careful Attention No Delivery Charge, J. Frank Kelly, Inc. 2101 Georgia Ave. N. 1343 3 9 HATS o 1-13 G St.N! Open Saturday °til 3 p. m. Our Entire Stock In This Sensational Hundreds of Gorgeous Dresses and Coats that must be disposed of quick! DRESSES § Were $10 and $15 DRESSES § Were $15 to $25 Were $19.95 to $35 DRESSES § MOHAIRS, TROPICAL WORSTEDS Were $39.50-$69.50 BRESLAU’S 11.85 ¢ All of our finest COATS ‘10 15 Coats that were $29.50 l 70 to $59.50 ’ 1307-11-13 G St. cisco; First Lieut. George H. Molony, | | Infantry, from the Philippines to Fort || A. LAST BIG LOG DRIVE IN LAKES STATES IS STARTED IN MICHIGAN 2,500,000 Feet of Pine, He wood Sweep Down Manistique River to Sawmills. By the Assoclated Press. MANISTIQUE, Mich., July 26.—Down swift waters of the Manistique River there swept yesterday the last big drive of logs in the Great Lakes States, mark- ing the end of bonanza lumbering which first brought wealth to Minne- sota, Wisconsin and Michigan. Cramming the stream from bank to bank, some 2,500,000 feet of pine, hem- lock and hardwood was on its way to sawmills of this upper Michigan city from the Driggs River, tributary to the circuitous Manistique. With it there passed in the Midwest the epic days of big-scale logging, with their heroic fig- ures and traditions woven into the back- ground of modern cities now thriving on new indus Pacific Northwest on Throne. ‘Those who recalled the days when more than 100,000,000 feet of pine year- ly was floated te sawmills of this city alone, saw in the present “drive” the final shifting of major lumber opera- tions from the Midwest to the Pacific ik iand Flaid- Northwest. As in Minnesota and Wis- consin, but a few of the cities which | once existed on the great pineries alone | have turned to the making of paper, | wood byproducts .or other industries alien to one which gave them their | first taste of prosperity. The pineries have gone, and only on Government or State reserves and & few scattered sections are there reminders of the “big timber” which first drew set- tlers to this territory. It was from one of these isolated sections that the logs en route to this city came. “Old School” Driver at Head. Frank N. Cookson, typical “old school” lumberman who received his first train- ing on the Penobscot River in Maine as & boy of 14, is the man making the last drive on the Manistique. Crews cut the pine and hemlock last Fall in an area previously shunned by timber operators because of its isolation. It was a thorough cutting, and it took the iargest remaining stand of virgin pine in the State of Michigan. COLORED KNIFER IS SENT TO PRISON| Pleads Guilty to Slashing Wife and Is Sentenced to Serve Five Years. John H. Carter, colored, 22 years old, who pleaded guilty to cutting his wife, Luella Carter, with a knife on the street May 30, last, was sent to the peni- tentiary for five years today by Justice Jennings Balley in Criminal Division 1. Carter admitted the assault and the case was referred to Probation Officer Amos A. Steele, who declined to rec- ommend probation. Andrew Green, colored, 21 years old, was given a term of three years the penitentiary for housebreaking and larceny. He been employed by | Simpson's Dairy and May 14 was dis- covered in the dairy on Seventh street | southeast, about 10 o'clock at night. RICH MAN WEDS NURSE. Australian, Divorced Last Week n| Hot Battle, Remarries. RENO, Nev., July 26 (#).—Charles Lloyd Jones, wealthy Australian, who secured a divorce in Reno last weck after a hotly contested suit, telegraphed his attorney from Chicagp t he was married there yesterday to Hannah Jones. 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