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2 % }IUBLES HAD SIGNED - U 5. AGENT AVERS /Says Sculptor and Wife Had " IAttached Signatures Agree- ing Not to Attack Alliance. (Continued Prom First Page.) thrown back his coat to expose several papers in his pocket which he patted | and said they were the letters which contained the information which would be released unless Capt. Calhoun made settlement. Disagree on Payee. At that time yesterday's interview in Bird's office in the Munsey Building | was arranged. Besides the five defend- ants, Mrs. Calhoun and Mr, Hardy were present. Hardy carried with him the check for $30,000. Hardy asked the @ssembled group whose name should be written upon it as payee. The query promptly elicited _heated discussion emong the five defendants. After a few moments, Hardy said: “Quick, get me my glasses.” That was the cue awaited by the three marshals outside Bird's office -door and they promptly cntered the room to present each of the five defendants with & warrant. Reviews Activities, A review of her public activities since | the became a resident of the District of Columb, with a detailed account of the creation of the Women's Universal Alliance fllowing the dissolution of the ‘Women's National Foundation, was con- tained in a statement issued by Mrs. Calhoun. Mrs. Calhoun launched her statement | with a brief review of the events lead- ing up to the swearing out of the war- rants, which, she said, “allows me to place before the public a true statement | of the facts of my activities in public work since I became a resident of the Distriet.” Continuing, Mrs. Calhoun says: “This is an opportunity I welcome, in view of the constant conspiracies and attacks to which my organizations have been subjected. 1 therefore now give this report, supplemented by the neces- sary proofs of my statement on file in the office of the district attorney.” Mrs, Calhoun comments first upon the _dissolution of the Woman's National Foundation, which, she says, ceased to | exist following her resignation as pres- ident. Because of the advance in the value of the property acquired by the Foundation, the statement sets forth, “every class of membership, in accord- ance with my original promise to the members, was pald back. dollar for dol- lar, except the $£2 annual members, who had received the value of their mem- berships. The larger members, founders and life members were not only paid back their membership subscriptions, but interest on their money at 6 per cent.” Financial Secretary Bonded. Tt is further contended in the state- ment that the funds of the foundation | were handled by a bonded financial sec- retary and found to be absolutely cor- e« and that “we have the affidavits | not as a monument, but as a build- ing of service for mothers, who would combine for the general under- standing of the world, for the mothers of the great and for all classes of mothers, and to preserve from oblivion the names of the great pioneer women, not as will be seen in any way the idea of Mr, Noble, which was only a monu- ment to American womanhood of which we wished to use only the groups of statuary.” . Discussing the part played by Mr. Noble in the project of the alliance, Mrs. Calhoun said that “from the style of Mr. Noble's studio, his many luxuries and_his assertions of the number of wealthy backers he had, we believed him when he said he could and would help finance the movement The sculptor, Mrs. Calhoun claims, was keen to have any part of the design he had created 25 years earlier used in the alli- ance’s proposed building, and that he offered to finance the second booklet “if it carried his design.” *Judge Charles Kerr, who was on our executive committee,” Mrs. Calhoun says of this phase of the review, “wrote a resolution to be seen in our minutes that we accept this design in general outline only for purposes of illustration. Later, Mr. Noble declared, he was un- able {o advance any money at all.” The preliminary work for the distri- bution of the booklet was completed and Mrs. Calhoun left for Europe, where she planned to promote the alliance’s work. Beforé sailing, she explains, she advanced $1,300 from her private funds for the clerical work and distribution of the booklet during her absence, and later, she says, she was obliged to pay the entire cost of the volume, more than $3,000. “This book fell flat on the public as people did not like the design,” the statement continues at this point, “We recelved numerous letters of protest about it, not only criticising but ridicul- ing it. and Mr. Noble reaped from the book nationwide publicity, but no orders for his work, and we did not reap enough memberships even to pay for the postage, as shown in the letters on file.” Mrs, Calhoun says that during the course of Noble's association with her and the alliance, only one founder mem- | ber joined the organization, paying a total of $2,000 in fees which the execu- | tive committee “allowed to be paid over to Mr. Noble on account of his work on his model.” Paid for Studio Dinner. Upon Mrs. Calhoun’s return from Eu- rope, she. zays, a dinner was given at the Noble studio at her expense for the purpose of showing Noble's model. Among the guests was Mrs, Stilson Hutchins, who, Mrs, Calhoun declares, was prepared to make a subscription of $10.000, but which she withheld when she saw Noble's model. Continuing in the recitation of her association with the sculptor, Mrs. Cal- houn says: “We labored for months with Mr. Noble to try to get him to make his model practical. We _invited noted architecis from New York and else- where to come to see his work and col- laborate with him. After they had seen it, they declined to do so. We have on file a letter from the vifice of McKim, Meade & White to this effect. In order to get some idea of the proper cost of the construction of his model, we had the Fuller Construction Co. | send an agent to see it, in its incom- it so im- declined to com- cost or to 'rake a plete state. They found practical that the pute what it woul bid on it. “Mr. Noble then tried to have us draw up a contract by which we were to pay him $500.000 for his incomplete design and $50,000 for his unfinished r thu real estate agent who managed | he transactions of the sale and resale of the Dean estate, showing that he alone reaped the commissions or any | benefits therefrom.” | The story of the founding of the | ‘Women's Universal Alliance is told as follow | fter the dissolution of the first or- | ganization, a party of friends who | ‘wished to save its ideals induced me to start a new organization, incorporating all of the original purposes of the ‘Woman's National Foundation, but as a | universal instead of a national move- | ment. This incorporation was accom- f plithed in February, 1923, as the Wom- an's Universal Alliance. Previously to this, Mr. Calhoun had suggested the idea of calling the temple of service we designed for the benefit of women, children and the home, the Mothers’ Memorial. For this he contributed the ! first $1,000 in his mother's name and .a second §1,000 in the name of my mother. Took Option on Clifton, “We had then no other money in| hand. and in order to give the alliance a concrete background after the loss of the Dean estate, which was the prop- erty of the Woman's National Founda- tion, I procured a vear's option on Clif- ton, a magnificent estate of some 40 acres on Massachusetts avenue. For | this I personally paid, as my canceled checks will show, some $29,000 and Mr. | Calhoun advanced the money to make the house on the estate habitable as a center and clubhouse. As soon as I pro- cured the option I turned it over to the organization as their property. The idea was to sell enough of the surround- * ing acreage to insure the site for our buildings free of cost and to refund, if possible, the money for the option and the outlays on the clubhouse. “After we acquired Clifton, I ar- ranged for our first world welfare con- ference at the Willard, where head- quarters were given us free of charge. I personally paid for all the printing and clerical services, and we issued in- vitations to delegates in Ty State in the Union, Hawaii and the Philippines, from each of which we received en- thusiastic acceptances. The delegates paid $2 for registration fees. The con- ference lasted a week, with an elaborate rogram. The objects were to spread owledge and interest in our work and to commence to build a_chain of uni- versal understanding. The conference did not begin to pay for itself, and I met the deficit, Alliance’s Purposes Outlined. “At the conference in April, 1923, 1 mads an address, outlining all the pur- poses of the Woman’s Universal Alli- ance, and Mr. Calhoun outlined the purposes of the Mothers' Memorial. “During the Summer of 1923, at Clif- ton, we instituted clubhouse activities in order to help to pay our overhead, but the income was not sufficient to do this, and again my canceled checks show the deficit T met. At this time, Messrs. Burrell and Murray Hoffman, who had designed the architectural plan of the Woman's National Founda- tion, again made us tentative sketches for our Temple of Service, as did also * Mr. Philip Julian, “Mr., James William Bryan, who had gotten up the beautiful booklet for the Woman’s National Foundation, ar- ranged an inspirational piece of litera- ture to carry the purposes of the Mothers’ Memorial throughout the country, offering charter membership for organization purposes and granting each charter member in return the to have his or her .mother’s name pre- served in her State's book of memory, to be plackd on imperishable vellum in the Mothers’ Memorial when completed. model. This we of course refused to do. In the meantime, orry for Mr. Noble's struggles and failures and his and his wife's very apparent financial distress, I lent him various sums as personal loans for which I still hold a note for $600 and an I. O. U. for $500. The other money is all unaccounted for by him. Blames Committee, “Mr. Noble blamed eur committee and not himself for the failure of his design. In the Fall of 1925 he wrath- fully ‘withdrew” in writdny from our organization, as he declared in a newspaper article of January, 1926, that he had nothing further to do with' our organization »’fiu‘bnde us to use his plans, even for ifustration, though we had long since abandoned them. “Mr. Joseph Geddes, who had also tried to collaborate with Mr. Noble and failed, made us a ten- tative sketch, not in the least resem- bling Mr. Noble's, which we used after his so-called severance from our or- ganization.” Referring to the entertainment given in New York for the alliance and at. tended by Queen Marie of Rumani Mrs. Calhoun says: “In 1925 we incorporated the Mothers' Memorial Foundation as a separatae entity under the Universal Aliance, and when Queen Marie came to this country, an entertainment was given for it in New York for which the Queen lent her patronage and pres: ence. An attack was opened on thl entertainment, on Loie Fuller and on our organization. We learned after- ward that anonymous letters had been sent from Washingtonfo the Queen herself and a New York paper, and our profits were materially cut through the articles of said journal. These letters were shown to me by a lady in the entourage of her majesty, saying that the Queen understood too well the vicious attacks of malice and intrigue All these records the alllance has on file. Mr. Bryan only received the actual cost of the book and its distribu- tion. The residue of the memberships came to the alliance.” According to Mrs. Calhoun's state- . ment, it was following the publicity campaign engineered by Mr. Bryan that she first met Mr. Noble, the sculptor. It had been decided at that time to issue a less costly booklet with the firm of Thomson-Ellis, a Baltimore concern, as printers. Explains Meeting Noble. “A member of this firm,” Mrs. Cal- houn explains, “had met a Mr. W. Clark Noble, a sculptor, who had re- cently come to Washington, and who had in his studio a design of a ‘monu- ment to American womanhood,’ as it ‘was designated in the New York Herald of that date early in 1900. In the newspaper account, Mr. Noble said he also meant it as & monument to moth- ers who had sent their sons to war. ‘This ;uu his only point of contact with ideals. . w!'gur ‘mothers’ memoriel was designed Al on char Woman's tographed leaving the court, fo and &I‘l Anna M. Hillenbrand, of conspiracy ur James because I felt | his plans | an architect, | miverszl Alliance, five persons were of them are, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C. THURSDAY, STORY. 6F SLAYING MAKES SNOOK CRY Doctor - Defendant’s Nervé Fails as He Gives Account of Miss Hix’s Death. (Continued From First Page.) got in the car and you ate the sand- wich?” defense Attorney Max Seyfert asked. “About five minutes.” “Did she have her purse?” Beyfert demanded. “Yes.” “Was the top of the bag open or closed?” Seyfert asked. “It was open.” ‘Then at Seyfert's direction, the wit- | ness described the events that followed, leading the story to the moment of the killing. Seyfert had to prompt him several times to keep the story moving. | Dr. Snook said he wanted to leave, but she refused. ‘Then he said a quarrel arose over his intended visit to his mother’s home at Lebanon. “I told her I had some work to do for Mrs. Snook.” She replied: ‘Damn Mrs. Snook. I am going to kill her and get her out of the way.'” As he referred to his wife, Dr. Snook's voice broke and the tears flowed from | his_eyes. As the story moved nearer to. the nar- ration of the killing, Dr. Snook gave no Chester, jr.: suggested & recess, which the court allowed. ‘The story was the climax to Dr. Snook's account of his three-year love affair with the medic co-ed. It had carried them to the New York Central rifie range, where they sat in} his nfirg’ car arguing because he in-, tended 0 leave town to visit his mother at_Lebanon, Ohio. ‘The girl attacked him, he said, as the quarrel grew in intensity. “I tried to shove her off and reached back to get something to hit her. I got & hammer lying on the shelf back of the car seat. The first blow was & light one. She started to get out of the car, yelling ‘damn you, I'll kill you. I came to my senses and realized she was grabbing for her purse. I snatched at her shoulder, but she pulled away.” “Then I grabbed her by the face and drew her back into the car. She was still struggling. I hit her a second blow and she slid out of the car onto the B:Duni I hit her again, but that blow d no more effect than the others. Hit Four Times. “I am sure I didn’t hit her more than three times in the car and once after I got out. The last I remembered was | when I was sitting on the running| board holding my head in my hands. | “I have no recollection of how long l" time passed after the first blow until | I found myself sitting on the running | | { | board. I don't remember a thing after the fourth blow.” There was not one word in the testi- mony about his cutting the girl's throat, which he included in his confession, explaining that “she had his sympathy | and he did it to end her suffering.” | “Did you think she would kill you?” his attorney asked. “I was sure of it. She had threat- ened me before and the way she sald it I knew she meant it.” “Did you really think she was going to take your life?” “I certainly did.” Dr. Snook said he sat on the running board, crying, for several minutes. “I looked at her lying there, I spoke { indication that it was causing him any | more confusion than any previous part | of his story. He continued the tale in | the same even voice that had marked | his testimony thus far. | Interpolated in the story at this point | was Dr. Snook's xplanation of how he | received an injury to his right hand, which was bandaged when he was ar- rested for the killing. He said a wrench slipped while he was working on his car | on June 12 and cut the hand. He said | the injury was not serious. Goes to Range, Resuming his testimony, Dr. Snook said he drove on to the rifle range around “5 to 10 minutes after 9" and parked. “Doctor, what did you have in your car in the way of paraphernalia or tools?” . “Well, there is a shelf behind the seat and it is usually loaded.” Dr. Snook enumerated several things | on the shelf, finishing “with a bag of | tools,” which included a hammer. | Dr. Snook said he was not in the | habit of carrying the tools in his car. to her, but, she was quiet. Then I realized I miust get away. I got back in the car and hurried away.” Dr. Snook said nothing about tear- ing the gitl's key to their room from her keyring as the State maintains he did.” Instead, he testificd she gave him the key as they drove to the rifle range. Contradicts State. He also contradicted the contention of the State that he had given the girl a sandwich containing an emotional stimulant. Miss Hix, he said, had the sandwich when she got in his car and gave it to him as they drove to the range. Dr. Snook sald he went home from the scene of the killing and that he slept that night. He identified a blood-stained dress Miss Hix wore the night of her death and claimed ownership of & knife. He sald he found it on the floor of his car_the morning after the killing. “Dr. Snook, under oath, if Theora Hix's jugular vein was cut, did you cut it with this knife?"” “1 do not know,” the witness replied. Dr. Snook festified that he struck the first blow to protect himself from an | attack by the girl as they sat in his car parked on & lonely rifle ran blow stopped her, he said, an: | jumped from the car shouting: you, I'll kill you, too.” | Her purse was in her hand and the | defendant, fighting for his life, from the | | witness chair, declared he thought she | | had & pistol in the purse and was leay- | | ing the car to shoot him. Struck Her Again. “I was sure she was going to shoot | me. My only thought was to stop her. |T sprang after her and struck her again. \ “Dr. Snook, at any time that night | when you struck the first, second or third blow, did you intend to kIl The- | ora Hix?" Max Seyfert, defense attor-| | ney, asked. “Heavens, no. She was a good friend 31 ;’r‘n'ne‘ I never thought she would | As’ he answered the question Dr. | Snook’s voice broke again, he pulled off his nose glasses and rested his head in his hand, while he wiped the tears from Iis eyes. His volce was so low that attorneys on both sides asked for the reply to be {1ead by the court reporter, end no one |knew what it was until the reporter's volce carried it to the tensed courtroom. | As the ex-professor sat shaken and trying to go on, Prosecutor Jobn J. | by them and she stood by | us to end.” Commenting on the parts she says were played by Mrs. Hillenbrand, Mr. Bird and Mr. Armstrong, Mrs. Calhoun declares that the woman described her- sell as the head of an organization | called the Alma Mater. Mrs. Hillenbrand. | according to the alliance founder, “had written authority from Mr. Noble to | collect his claim.” | “She made threats, which were taken | down by an unseen witness, that Mr. Calhéun must either pay anadjustment, the amount of which she was to be the | | judge and the recipient for Mr. Noble | after an examination of their (the Cal- houn) accounts, or that damning pub- | leity in all the newspapers of the coun- | try would come out,” Mrs, Calhoun says | in her statement. Continuing, she declares: “Mr. James F. Bird and Mr. 8. S.| Armstrong also represented themselves | as agents and made various threats that | the money must be paid without even | going into the merits of the case, or | they would pursue the same policies that Mrs. Hillenbrand had outlined.” to blackmall brought by arraigned hefore United States F. Bird, an attorney, was ‘apt. and Mrs. C. C. Calhoun, moving spirits In the ! Clark Noble, sculptor; also arrested. The a He identified a pair of blood-stained gloves as his own and said the stains were from his own hand. ‘Then Seyfert took the story back to the following day, when Dr. Snook said he washed off the hammer and knife | that were later found by police at ms“ home. | Dr. Snook denied emphatically lha!i | i he gave the girl the stimulants found in_her stomach after the killing. The story. then detailed how Dr. Snook took two keys to the room he shared with Theora and left them there the day after the killing. One was the girl's and the other was his. He had previously testified that they had agreed to_give up the room for a time. The defendant was deep into the ac- | count of the investigation which led | to his confession when the noon recess was taken. BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Army Band, | Curiis D. Always. captain, Infantry, commanding; William J. Stannard, leader, and Thomas F. Darcy, second | leader, at the Army War College, this | evening at 6:50 o'clock: ¢ March, “In Tempest and Calm,” | Andrews | Respectfully dedicated to Dr. Hugo Eckener and the crew of the Graf Zeppelin by Albert Andrews, & member of the Army Band. Overture, “Crown Diamonds”. , “Wedding of the .Auber | nted .Brown | .Codina | .. Brown | s Wagner | Selection trom “Wonderland"...Herbert | “Gitaneria Andaluz” Cambronero | “Three Dances From the Bartered Bride” ...Smetana March, “Pepe Conde”. Vive “The Star Spangled Banner. By the United States Marine Band, | Taylor Branson leader and Arthur S.|than we are giving them. If we could Witcomb second leader, conducting, at | the Sylvan Theater, Monument Grounds, this evening at 7:30 o'clock: March, “Emblem of Honor’ Overture, “William Tell”.. Suite de concert, "Americana” March, “The Tiger’s Tail.” Serenade. “When Malindy Sings.” Sketch, “The Watermelon Fete.” Reverie, “Traumere}” Selectiol Waltz, “Southern Roses’ Nocturne, “Dreams of Love” o Prelude to the third act of “Lohen- giie “The Star Spangled .Hummer | ossini | Churban Wa, Banner.” Commissiorier Turnage ytlufdulry. Fho- Stephen A. — . 8. —Star Staft Photo. Two views of the “mercury race which Lieut. Alford J. Williams is test- ing at Annapolis, preparatory to enter- ing the Schneider Cup races. The plane is equipped with the same 24- cylinder motor which Williams tested on a former entry, which was not com- pleted in time for the last races. WILLIAMS TO TRY OUT SPEED PLANE ON WATER TODAY (Continued From First Page) for the ship and I don't know what it will do,” he said. “The airplane speed record today is 318 miles per hour, and | I would be the last man in the world) to claim that my untried plane will ex- | ceed this figure by more than 80 miles an hour.” Lieut. Willlams held his first con- ference with newspaper men and photographers in the wardroom of the Teceiving ship Reina Mercedes at the Naval Academy today. He explained that the veil of secrecy that has been thrown about his plane was to prevent the circulation of facts which might handicap him in next month's races. “If we should permit facts to get out, for example,” he said, “which will per- mit disposition of landing areas and so0 forth, aimed especially at my plane, the outcome of the race might be af- fected materially.” Lieut. Willlams explained that the restriction placed upon newspaper | photographers, which led to a series of | skirmishes between photographers and Naval Academy officials yesterda; would be lifted after today. The re- | strictions were placed so that the first | photograph of the plane would be aVail- able to all newspapers at the same time, he sald. Photographers will be assisted | as far as possible by the Navy in mak- ing pictures of the trial flight, he stated. CITIZENS DEMAND MORE, HANNA SAYS Passengers Should Pay for: Service Wanted, Declares Traction President. (Continued From First Page) off if we got more revenue from in- creased fares.” At this point Mr. Fleharty called at- tention to the increase in the passenger | traffic on the Chevy Chase Coach line, on which the fare is 25 cents. “Yes, and that points to a possible | remedy for some of our troubles,” said Mr. Hanna. “There are many persons | who will use our bus lines and street cars if they are given better service— something like the Pullman service on | the steam railroads. I believe our pas- | sengers would increase if we could furnish different grades of service with | higher rates for those who are willing to pay them for better busses. | “The people want something better afford to furnish different grades of service I think our business would go up. I know, if we could assure a seat to every passenger on our cars, much of our trouble would be over. “We are not fooling ourselves. Wg know why people don't like to ride on our street cars. They don't like to stand up, but we can't help it. “It manifestly is impossible at the present rate of fare to furnish a seat for every passenger. I doubt if we could | do it at any rate of fare, but we could | furnish special service for those willing to pay for it, as in the case of the Chevy Chase coach line.” Speed Fans Favor Busses. Mr. Hanna said that one reason why passengers liked to use the Chevy Chase coaches, aside from their comfort, was their speed. “I do not know any way to increase the speed of our street cars,” he said. “The speed of our cars has been de- creasing, due to the traffic lights and other causes. I am not arguing against traffic lights, but I am calling atten- tion to the fact that they have reduced the speed of public transportation.” Mr. Hanna said in answer to ques- tions by Mr. Clayton, that he had paid $25,000 to the Washington Motor Coach Co. for four busses and for the coach company’s business. He said that the Capital Traction Co. did not operate sight-seeing busses, although they did | send lecturers with some parties who | chartered their busses for sight-seeing purposes. He said the business of chartering the busses had been very profitable, and that the company ex- pected to buy more busses for charter purposes in the near future. In answer to questions, by Mr. Riegel, Mr. Hanna said that the average daily revenue on week days, except Saturday, during 1928 was $12,268; on Saturdays, it was $12,804, and on Sundays, $7,926. For 1924, the corresponding figures for week days except Saturday were $12, 926; for Saturdays, $14.086, and for Sundays, $8,777. W. R. T. Is Made a Party. ‘The Washington Rapid Transit Co. was made a party to the rate case with the Capital Traction and Washington ' Railway & Electric Cos. by an order of the commission issued yesterday after- noon after an executive session. The action was taken as the result of a motion made last week by William MCcK. Clayton, on behalf of the Feder- ation of Citizens' Assoclations. When his motion was argued Tue: day of this week, Mr. Clayton gave notice that he would ask for & valu- ation of the Washington Rapid Transit | Co. it it should be made a party to the pending case. On that occasion, George | P. Hoover, counsel for the Washing- ! ton Rapid Transit Co., opposed the Clayton motion. It also was opposed by attorneys for the Capital Traction z;.d ‘Washington Railway & Electric The commission in its formal order yton 1Q-day notice, stating that the commission will “give consideration to the presentation of evidence as to the Washington Rapid Transit Co., on Fri- day, August 16" * ALt y orders for new ships are giving shipbuilders of Norway. Man; work to | five years. Counting on the expressed | | belief that the Saar inhabitants would | self . AUGUST 8. 41929 STRESEMANN GIVES ‘BRIAND RHINELAND EVACUATION VIEWS (Continued From First Page.) there is no reason for introducing it in any arrangement to be made. German Objection. Dr. Stresemann objected even to tem- porary existence of such a committee to cover the period intervening between adoption of the Young plan and the legal date for evacuation. He contended that Germany expected as a conse- quence of the adoption of the Young| plan and commereialization of the un- conditional annuities that the Rhine- land would be evacuated within three months from the payment of the first installment under the new arrangement M. Briand referred to French public opinion which, he said, was not yet en- tirely ready to abandon the Rhineland, but would go as far as possible to facili- tate settlement that would remove irri- tating questions from European di- plomacy. He recalled that the control commission was provided for in talks | at Geneva, out of which grew the re- | viston of reparations and the present conference here. ‘The German minister recalled that the question of security for France, as | well as for Poland, is covered by the Locarno pact. The German foreign minister and the | French premier agreed that _there | ought to be no revision of the Young plan. This question was the subject of a conference at the same time between | Chancellor Snowden of Great Britain and Minister of Finance Hilferding of Germany. The German attitude on this | matter was that the question of shar- | ing Teparations concerned the creditors | alone and that Germany has gone to | the limit in what she can pay and will concege nothing more. Glves Detailed Plan. Forelgn Minister Stresemann pre- | sented Premier Briand with a detailed scheme for settlement of the Saar Val- | ley problem. He proposed a financial | arrangement by which the coal mines, which are the property of French capi- talists, be ceded to Germans, and ter- ritory of the Saar now governed under | the auspices of the League of Nations | be turned over at once to German ad- ministration. The matter of the Saar Valley would, under the treaty of Versailles, be settled by a plebiscite in | | decide for Germany, rather than France, Dr. Stresemann offered an in- ducement to the French to settle the | matter forthwith. | During the day Premier Venizelos of Greece, representing the smaller credi- tors, had a talk with Louis Loucheur | and Henri Cheron, French delegates. It was understood_that the French were endeavoring to find a means of satisty- | ing Greece and other countries whose out payments are not covered by the Young plan in some sort of readjust- ments of debts. The Greek debt to Prance, it 1s recalled, is more than half of what Greece owes, and has never been funded. Conflicting viewpoints on the Young reparations plan were submitted today to two committees in secret session with the hope that reconciliation might be achieved. | says, A. P. BOY REFUSES TOFALSIFY FIGURES Youth Causes Arrest of Pair Attempting to Fake Clear- ing House Statement. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 8.—The honesty | of Harold Harris, 16-year-old Assoclated Press office boy, uncovered and defeated yesterday an attempt to falsify clearing house figures posted in the New York clearing house. Because Harold would not “sell his boss out” two men were in jail last night, charged with attempted bribery. The policy game in which yesterday's coup was attempted is based on combi- nations of numerals taken from two fig- ures posted every day at the clearing house—the exchanges and the balances. It is played the world over—all over the United States, in South America and in Europe. It is said to be bigger in this country than the base ball pool. Huge sums of money sometimes change hands. Copies Figures From Board. Harold's job every day is to go down to the clearing house just before noon, copy the figures off a sheet posted there and telephone them to the Associated Press Wall Street bureau. All the New York newspapers and the other news agencies have office boys or reporters who do the same thing. Yesterday as he was leaving the clearing house with the figures, Harold iwo men stepped up to him, showed him $75, and said it would be his if he would telephone the numbers they gave him instead of those he had copied off the sheet. Harold refused. “Well, alright, but youll get into trouble anyway,” one of them said after | they had argued with him for sometime. | 1 the other boys are fixed. Their numbers will agree, and yours won't. You just wait.” That got Harold worried. So when he got back to the office he told what had happened. Detectives Make Arrests. The result was that when Harold went after those figures today he was accompanied by two_police detectives and a man from the Wall Street bureau of the Associated Press. They waited in the offing while Harold went in and copied the figures. As he came out, & man stepped up to him and said: “The guy with the money is right across the street.” ‘The detectives thereupon arrested Nathan Felington and Lawrence Sack- man. Police said Felington and Sack- man told them they were employed by a negro named Williams, who operates a policy game in Harlem, and that they had in their possession & roll of bills thdt totaled exactly $75. Yesterday's correct figures, sent out by the Associated Press, were: Ex- changes, $1,482,000,000; balances, $182, 000,001 ‘The “fake figures,” sent out by nearl. evervbody else, were: Exchanges, $1.- 478,000,000; balances, $183,000,000. GRIEVE OVER MISSING DRY AGENT Mrs. Richard J. Sandlands, with children, Doris, 10 months, years, shown above, f Customs Guard husband, believed drowned uthorities classified John M. Heath, wi board, as & “plain bootlegger.” = Heath-cl when he boarded the yacht ' ho admitted throwing Sandlands over- laims Sandiands fallcd to identify him- —P. & A. Photo. B4 CRAF IS AVERAGING 100 MILES AN HOUR Passes Nantucket Shoals and Proceeds East Over Sea on World Flight. __(Continued From First Page.) i port had been frightened away, affairs | moved with complete precision. Four hundred blue clad sailors tug- ged at ropes dropped from the enor- mous frame of the misiress of the ocean skies. The Zeppelin stirred with a sound like a great sigh and moved | slowly stern-first from the hangar, and then the band burst into melody: “It’s & Long. Long Trail a-winding { “To the Land of My Dreams ‘and the old song in this playing con- | tained as much truth as poetry, for | this flight around the world was a idream that had been burning in the { heart of Dr. Eckener, the ship’s com- { mander, for many years. It was a | great day for Dr. Eckener, and before the bustie of last preparations for the take-off he was in high spirits, laughing and joking with reporters, poking fel low officers in the ribs and acting lik old next Sunday, when in all probabili he will be fiying over Berlin. Before the ship was walked out of the hangar, the 22 passengers were pit aboard, 21 men and one woman. As the ship was drawn into the open tie upper structure of the hangar was revealed like a great spider web, the web where the little plumber’s apprentice had been caught like a fly as he prepared to let himself down by a rope to the narrow runway aiong the top of the Zeppelin's silvered frame. It seemed as the ship left that a score of lightning bugs had been trapped in the web, for sailors with™ flashlights were still crawling about the lofty rafters looking for other possible stowaways. Over New York Hour Later. An hour later to the minute it passed over Times Square and so headed up the coast for Newfoundland and the i great_circle Toute to Germany and its first stop on the world flight. At Cape Race, N. F., Dr. Eckener ex- pected to head his craft once more over the ocean that it had alreads crossed three times, and will cross again after completion of the world flight less than a month after its take-off. From Friedrichshafen the course lie: over the Siberian wastes to Tokio, where refueling will be followed by a flig] Les Angeles across the Pacific, and then, the fuel tanks once more replen- ished, the craft will cross the United States to the end of its long. long trail here and the Tealization of Dr. Ecke- ner's years-old dream. The Graf’s passengers were a mixed crowd. There were two titled Britishers, Lady Grace Drummond Hay and Sir George Hubert Wilikins, both acting as reporters; William B. Leeds. American millionaire husband of the former Princess Xenia of Russia, who was Just “going along for the ride”; Lieut John Richardson, _official observer for the American Navy; his_superior, Lieut. Comdr. Charles E. Rosenedahl. who took the trip as a reporter, and various business men, reporters and photwg- | raphers. ! Morris Climbs Aboard. | several of the passengers seemed overcome with diffidence about their | adventure, and the complete passenger | list was not available until just before |the Graf sailed. At the last moment |Nelson Morris of Chicago climbed {aboard and -so gave first intimation | that he was going to make the east- ward flight as well as the westward crossing of the Atiantic completed by the dirigible last Sunday. Others who_showed ~such modesty that it was almost impossible to get verification of their inclusion on the passenger list were H. A. Godfrey, a Brooklyn banker, and M. Cooper, de- | scendant of J. Fenimore Cooper, nov- | elist. Joachim Rickard of Boston, who |made the last westward passage and | who was booked for the world tour. {also was on the doubtful list all day but finally decided to go as far Friedrichshafen. In late afternoon, before the passen- gers had arrived, the commander of | of the dirigible received reporters in the {Navy il office. Questions we huried at him from 50 mouths at o: and he had a joking answer for almost every one. - “Suppose,” one reporter said” “that there is some mishap while you are fiying between Germany and Tokio, | have” any " provisions been made for emergency Tepairs? “Provisions,” Dr. Eckener repeated | “What provisions could be made? That lis wild country. is not like New | York.” Von Meister Explains. “What would happen,” William Von { Meister, American representative of th- | Zeppelin works, interrupted, “is that the ship would have to be brought down to | earth and aid would be sought from whatever inhabitants the coutnry might have—Russian, Mongolas, savages.” “But you do not have to feel anxious { for us about those savages,” Dr. Eckencr cut in with a sly raising of his eye- brows. S “We have great big guns in this ship | and if those savages try anything with us, ch, ko, ho!” For,a moment the reporters thought they Had stumbled on a story, but they remembered that the Graf Zeppelin was a commercial ship, which could not by any possibility have a hidden arsenal, and Dr. Eckener joined in their laugh- ter. The Graf commander said that if the winds now predicted developed he would follow the Great Circle course over the Atlantic. At any rate, he planned to proceed to Cape Race, Newfoundland, and decide on the basis of weather re- rts received there the course of his uture flight. “If we can follow the Great Circle.” he said, “we should cross from eoast | 10 coast in not more than 50 hours. We should probably sight land first off the southern shore of England.” He said that every four hours after leaving he would report his position to Friedrichshafen, Lakehurst and the Government radio station at Arlington. BOOKED ON DRUNKEN CHARGE, WOMAN DIES From the 5:30 Edition of Yesterday's Star Mrs. Catherine Savage Simmons, 30, died early today of lobar pneumonia at Gallinger Hospital, where she wa brought yesterday afternoon from the fourth precinct police station, when officers there grew alarmed at her con- dition after she had been booked on a charge of being drunk when left at the station by an ambulance from Emergency Hospital. Mrs. Simmons, whose address was given in_an apartment in the 1400 block of W street, was a sister of Po- liceman Frank Savage of the four- teenth precinct. At the fourth predinct. it was said that the woman's condition was such when she was brought in that she was not placed in a cell, but was allowed to_rest on a cot. ‘The Emergency ambulance was in charge of Dr. D. N. Monserrate, Dr. Monserrate this afternoon said he found the woman standing on the corner in a dazed condition. He said questioning her was futile,"and being unable to learn anything, he left her at the police station for interrogation. He said the woman appeared to him to be a mental case, of a patient suf- fering from some chronic disorder, and consequently a case for the police, Dr. Edgar A. Bocock, superintendent of Gallinger, said an autopsy, which disc! that pneumonia had’ caused the woman's death, showed she had been drinking.