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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Porecast.) Increasing cloudiness today, probably followed by rain tonight and tomorrow; continued cool. ‘Temperatures—Highest, p.m. yesterday: lowest, yesterday. Ful 46 at 1l report on page 7. 64 at 4:45 6 am. No. 1,279—No. " 31,190 WAKEMAN CALLED [ TOEXPLAINMOTIVE INHIRING SHEARER Bethlehem Shipbuilding Cor- poration Official’s Action Seemed ‘Unwise’ by Schwab. HEARING IS EXPECTED TO RUN INTO NEXT WEEK Heads of Other Companies, Navy Officers and Newspaper Men | May Give Testimony. ! BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. 8. W. Wakeman, vice president of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, will be called upon tomorrow morning to tell the Senate investigating commit- tee why he agreed to employment of William B. Shearer to represent his company at the Geneva naval-limita- tion conference. Charles M. Schwab, president of the board of the Bethelhem Steel Corpo- ration, an $800,000,000 concern, and . G. Grace, president of the. Bethelhem &hipbuilding Corporation, owned by the steel, corporation, figuratively washed their hands of Mr. Shearer and his employment at the Geneva conference | at yesterday's hearing before the Senate | committee. Wakeéman, they said, the man who authorized the participa- | tion of their interests in the emplo; ment of Shearer. Such employment, | they testified, was in opposition to long- | standing policies of the Bethelhem cor- porations. Shearer Received $25,000. More in sorrow than in anger, parently, they referred in their testi- mony to the error which Mr. Wakemar made in going into a pool with two | other shipbuilding companies, the New | York Shipbuilding Co. and the Newport | News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Cor- | poration, to pay Shearer $25000 for ||l representing them at the Geneva limi- Entered as second class ma tter pest office. Washington, D. C. Key Witness S. W. WAKEMAN, PHONE CALL TRACED INNPHERSON CASE Nurse Friend Says Shé Spoke to Woman on Night of Death. New evidence in the investigation iato the mysterious death of Mrs. Rcb- ert A. McPherson, found strangled with a pajama cord in’ her apartment in the Park Lane September 14, was reported last night by police, who said they had found the woman believed to have been the last person to talk tQ Mrs. McPher- son before she died. She is Miss Eleanor Sheppard, 22, of | the Chelsea Apartments, 800 Eighteenth street. Miss Sheppard, a hurse, who| was in training with Mrs. McPherson, | told Lieut. Edward J. Kelly, chief of | the homicide squad, that it was she who talked to Mrs. McPherson over the tele- phone on Thursday night preceding the discovery of the body: that Mrs. Mc- Pherson was sobbing when she answered the phone and declared, “Shep, I am usy, call me again.” he WASHINGTON, FARM BLOC DRAFTS PLANS FOR WAR ON INDUSTRIAL TARIFF Western Hephblicans to Seek to Confine All Revisions to Agriculture. HOLDS BALANCE OF POWER WITH 14-VOTE STRENGTH Gr.oup Also Is Opposed to,Granting . President Power to Raise or Lower Customs Duties. By the Associated Press. Coincident with a decision by the Senate yesterday tomeet an hour earlier tomorrow to speed gction on the tariff bill, a group of 12 Western Re- publicans perfected an organization aimed to eliminate the proposed in- dustrial rate increases and’to confine the revision to agricultural products. Headed by Senatpr Borah of Idaho, the independent D a: its strength at 14, 2 number which it feels, will give the organization the balance of power as between the Democrats and Republican regulars in the tariff controversy. Opposes Flexible Issue. The group also is expected to stand as a unit against the flexible provisions granting the President power to raise or lower customs dutles. These pro- visions are liberalized in the pending bill. While the finance committee Re- publicans have decided to eliminate the proposed amendment and virtually to Testore existing law, many Senators favor complete repeal of the clause with Congress given exclusive power to change rates, | Those attending yesterday's _inde- pendent gathering were Senators Borah, Norris, Howell, McMaster, La Follette, Blaine, Nye, Frazier, Brookhart, Cut- ing, Schall and Pine. It was the first time Senators Cutting of New Mexico and Pine of Oklahoma had entered the group'’s meetings. The votes of Senators Shipstead, N E S O GANG SEEN BUSY INWALL STREET Whalen Says Boy Who Sold $512,000 Securities Was Directed. LBy the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 21.—A big- time crime coach of Wall Street was “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes by The Star's excl NAtional 5000 SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1920136 PAGES. * S} = S - ¥ < N SN ., N = PEAKE RINGS WAY TO TITLE IN BITTER HORSESHOE BATTLE Former Moutgomery County Sheriff De- feats Washingtonian for The Star’s Metropolitan District Championship. For want of a shoe the horse was lost and the man done out of a king- | dom, as the adage had it, but it remained for Millard E. Peake, a former | mounted sheriff of Montgomery County, to dispense with the horse and win a kingdom of his own with the discarded footgear. All of which is just another way of saying that Peake was hailed as king | of horseshoe pitchers of the metropolitan district yesterday on the Plaza play- | IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS LONDON EXPECTED BYSTIHSONT0BE ARV PARLEYSTE Secretary Has Nothing Offi- cial Regarding Choice of Another City. AMBASSADORS ARE TOLD OF NAVY NEGOTIATIONS Official Ivitations Believed De- layed Until After Visit of Premier to U. S. By the Associated Press. London very likely will be the pl: of the projected five-power naval Jimi. tation conference in January, Secretary Stimson said yesterday, expiaining that | no suggestion of any official character | had reached him concerning the selec- | tion of some other place. | The Secretary of State's statement | was in reply to inquiries based upon | publications both here and abroad that some of the participants in the parley would prefer that the gathering be in | some “neutral” city, one in some Eu- | ropean country not a party to the con- ference, , Mr. Stimson said he had conferred | with the Ambassadors of the interested | powers from time to time during the | Anglo-American negotiations for the | limitation of cruisers, keeping them in- | formed of what was taking place in the | conversations between the American | and British Governments, | Advise Ambassadors. Beyond that the Secretary declined to | g0, but there was a suggestion that the Ambassadors of Japan, France and | Italy had been advised particularly | concerning the American proposals as | to - cruiser. limitation lng especially | as to the maximum of cruiser strength which the United States regarded as essential. | lusive carrier service. Phone to start immediate delivery. el 1&1? . WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION % 4 ; e ——— —— ) CENTS ELSEWHERE SENATOR SUGGESTS HOOVER TAKE HAND INRY WORK HERE [ Howell of Nebraska Declares President Could Stop Lecal Liquor Traffic. SAYS WILL IS LACKING TO HAVE ENFORCEMENT | Also Contends Transportation of Diplomatic Drinks Is Viola- tion of Law. wl s:;lggzdstlgn pthat e a hand in the enforcement of pro- | hibition in Washington !hrou[l'rt p{:! power his office gives him over Distriet officials was advanced on the floor of the Senate yesterday afterncon by Sen- ator Howell, Republican, of Nebraska. “We are not willing to go as far ss necessary to enforce 'the eighteenth amendment,” Senator Howell said, | “There is no question about it. En’ | forcement can be brought sbout, en- forcement in the City of ‘Washington can be effected. The President can dismiss any official in the City of Washington, because such officials are his appcintees or are appointees of the President. Could Get Action. “In my opinion. if the President called the Commissioners of the District of Columbia before him and said, s have secret service officials at my com- mand. If they discover something here in connection with the violation of the prohibition law before you dis- cover it, you are out,’ there is no ques- Eli;ln nboutm‘kh-t the result would be. ere coul one city in the Counts that could be cleaned {lp." i Senator Howell also discussed the the President :futstlon of diplomatic immunity for liquor intended for foreign embassies, ‘While without any official informa- tion that the Japanese government de- | sired three mcnths’ notice before the ! convening of the conference, Mr. Stim- | son said he had no doubt that any goy- | ernment that issued invitatiods to the make these conform to the advancing thes argument that any com- | mon carrier transporting such liquor would be subject to confiscation. Re- ferring to the transportation of diplo- matic liquor, Senator Howell said: “I think it was in 1923 that the At- torney General handed down an opin- The telephone operator at the Park parley would e had told police of a connection | between Mrs. McPherson and her moth- -in-law, and reported that she became alarmed when ihe young wife answered | a later call, sobbing, and asked the! plovment of Shearer. They insisted | 3, Iater’ call, sobbing, ‘ar | 4| party . "It was this call Wakeman had agreed to the employ- | wpicn ™ Miss Sheppard debcribed to . t - fment of Epuet lggeffifitfl‘m"’;‘g | Lieut. Kelly yesterday. Her story is re- technical information from the con-,‘gl‘;d'!‘}lfls an important link in the sui- ference, which the newspapers would | ©?¢ theory. miss, and that Shearer was to go to Thought Woman Fainted. Geéneva merely as an observer and re-| This conversation between Miss Farmer-Labor, Minnesota, and Noi beck, Republican, South Dakota, are counted on by the farm bloc. Developments in the Senate touching upon the silence of President Hoover | in the tariff controversy brought the official assertion yesterday that the Executive adhered to the tariff ideas expressed in his message to the special | session, which proposed a limited re- vision, confined primarily to agricul- ture but extending also to suffering| manufacturing industries, hunted tonight on clues furnished by Milton Iter, 18-year-old brokers' mes- senger, who traded more than a half million in stolen securities for a dollar. ‘The R. V. Hiscoe Brokerage Co., the youth's employers, was out $512,000 in negotiable stocks and bonds, but police held the boy on a charge of grand lar- ceny and had his detailed confession, In it he described the man who-engi- neered the theft, and through it Police Commissioner Grover A. Whalen hopes e ion that whereas liquor in thy convenence of the countries to_ be ’“"dll.‘plamltlc offictals could not be selses W i | that if liquor were consf - Tokio gdispatches ‘yesterday indicated | jomatic officlal ¢ did m{":'l?fl\? it. xgjo':n the Japanese desired this notice because | the right of seizure angd. it of the long time that would be required | et e S e g ‘eq! | mon carrier that transported that lig- for the Japancse delegates to reach uor would be subject fo confiscati London by way of the Suéz Canal, as|under the law i well as the length of time that would > be necessary to make the necessary | Position of Carriers. “In most of those cases the liquor preparations. i - that came to the Siamese legation or After MacDenald Visit. | that has been delivered to other lega- tation conference, “Unwise” was the word Mr. Schwab and Mr, Grace both agreed best chara terized the decision of Mr. Wakeman to go into this agreement for the em- ground court by 1,500 wildly rooting fans who witnessed the thrilling finale of | The Washington Star tournament. | Peake represented Southern Mary- | Ian, & Government chemist, took the | L5 | land as its champion. His rivals were | (¢ 83 .Tm';:{“h;':f x:?{:rog"l:lu:: \ Charles A. Fort, Washington title holder, | second skirmish, when Peake’s mastery | and Alexander A. Kirchner of Barcroft, | began to assert itself. The score was | m Virg tossets. They | 46 to-44 against Peake when he rung | 5‘:?9 n:um?;: o‘Vi. ‘:".:fllng fsl'e\d :gj the peg in two straight innings to even | | the match with a 50-to-46 decision. | more than 3000 who entered from | nearly 200 towns and communities. | He went on to take the final, 52 to 43, Although there has been no, official porter. Tomorrow morning at 9:30 o'clock. however, Mr. Wakeman will be called upon to tell his own story of the em- pfloymmt of Shearer. He also will be| asked why he did not inform his| superiors, Mr. Schwab and Mr. Grace, “how come” he agreed to pay one-thisd of $25,000 to Mr. Shearer. Will Call Other Officials. After the committee hears Wakeman it plans to put on the stand two offi- c of the Newport News Shipbuild- ing & Dry Dock Corporation, Homer L. Ferguson, president and general manager, and Frederick P. Palen, vice presidenf. According to testimony given by Clinton I, Bardo, president of the New York Shipbuilding Co., at Pri- day's hedring, Palen suggested that Shearer be paid $25,000 at the meeting in New York when Shearer's employ- ment was agreed upon. Investigation of charges that Shearer ‘was emploved by the three shipbuilding concerns to lobby against the success of the three-power naval limitation conference in Geneva promises to run for the entire coming week and beyond that. The committee, after hearing offi- cials of the shipbuilding companies in- volved, is expected to place on the stand the naval officers who attended the conference as advisers of the dele- gate of the United States to the con- ference, Hugh Gibson, Ambassador to Belgium. Among these will be Rear Admiral Hilary P. Jones, U. 8. N. retired. Mr. Gibson, if he were in this country, would be called. After hearing the naval officers, it is expected that some of the American newspaper men who attended the conference, will be asked to testify as to Shearer's activities at Geneva. The committee plans to give Shearer a full hearing before the inquiry is closed. He may not take the stand until the beginning of next week. One purpose of the committee M its pro- cedure, it is rumored, has been to pre- clude the possibility of Mr. Shearer’s taking the stand and making’ himself out a martyr to the cause of naval pre- paredness. The committee has insisted that it intends to get at all the facts in the case; that there shall be no “whitewash” applied to any one, and that it will show up a conspiracy, if there was one, to defeat the United States Government in its efforts for an international agreement on naval Iimitation. Hunter Faces Questioning. A witness whom the csmmittee plans to call is Henry C. Hunter, attorney for Eastern shipbuilding concerns. It was Mr. Hunter, according to the testimony 80 far given, who brought the repre- sentative of the three companies to- gether in New York to meet Shearer and to employ him. It was Mr. Hunter, too, who wrote to Shearer under date of December 17, 1927, discontinuing the employment of Shearer by the com- panies. In that letter, Mr. Hunter said: “We have not fully completed our commitments to you ard you in turn have carried out the obligation you as~ sumed toward us.” The committee apparently is anxlous (Continued on Page 2, Column 2:) Sheppard and Mrs. McPherson ended 50 abruptly that the telephone operator, | believing Mrs. McPherson had fainted, | opened the outer door of the rtment and turned on the light in lving room. When she @id not see Mrs. }I&Phemn before the telephone she e Miss Sheppard described herself as a close friend of Mrs. McPherson. “So far as her being able to kill herself by tying a pajama cord about her neck,’ she stated, “T do not know. I do know that I could not kill myself in that manner.” Two weeks ago, Miss Sheppard de- clared, Mrs. McPherson visited her apartment, apparently in good spirits. | She said the next time she com- municated with her was the night. of Mrs. McPherson's death. Assistant United States Attorney Willlam H. Collins made preparations yesterday to subpoena more than a score of witnesses to appear before the grand jury Tuesday, when it be- gins an investigation into the death of Mrs. McPherson, which a coroner's jury last Tuesday held to be a suicide. | Allen Will Be Called. Policeman Robert J. Allen of the third precinct, who claims he can rove Mrs. McPherson was murdered, to be one of the first witnesses called. Names of other witnesses were not disclosed. Decision of Collins to have the grand jury investigate the dea the young | (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) TWO MEET DEATH | IN PLANE PLUNGE| Stunt Flyer and Student Pilot Killed in Gilman, Ill, Crash. _—— By the Associated Press. ! GILMAN, II, September 21.—Twoc| Indiana fliers were burned to death to- day in their -plane, which crashed from a height of 500 feet onto the Illinois Central Railroad tracks, almost in the heatt of this city. The dead are: Ted Center, 29, Terre | Haute, Ind,, a licensed pilot, and Lebter | ker, 24, Paragon, Ind., a pas- senger. The two took off from the Terre Haute field this morning and were fly- ing to Gilman to participate in dedi- catory exercises at the local airport tomorrow. Center, who was at the ccntrols, had circled the town twice and was coming | around into the wind, preparatory to landing. Witnesses said the motor ap- flrently stopped, throwing the‘ plane ; nto a spin, from which Center was unable to maneuver it. An b%?loshn followed .the crash and both lles were burned almost beyond recognition.. Center was a licensed pilot. is f-renr.s. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Center, ive at Sheldon, Ill. | Earlier Meeting Proposed. The request that the Senate convene at 11 otlock instead of noon was pre- sented by Senator Watson of Indiana, the Republican leader, who said it applied only to that day. A similar motion would have to be approved, he' said, if the longer day was to be made permanent. Democrats and Republican independ- ents, while not objecting to the re- quest, served notice they would not approve of holding the Senate later (Continued on 2, Column 4.) 'SHIP MAKES PORT AFTER PIRATE RAID Japanese Vessel, Attacked by Chi- nese. Led by Woman, Shows Battle Stains. By the Associated Pres HONGKONG, September 21.—With blood-stained decks and looted holds, the Japanese steamer Deli Maru ar- rived today from Bias Bay, notorious haunt of Chinese pirates, . where she had been taken by a band of outlaws led by a woman pirate. After turing the vessel on her voyage from Swatow with 193 Chinese passengers the ship was looted. Despite against pirates boarding the ship as passengers. 13 of them leaped from the steerage early yesterday morning on a given signal and, headed by their wom- an leader, who brandished two revolvers, they rushed the bridge and seriously wounded ghree Indian guards. All the officers were overpowered and forced to navigate the ship to Bias Bay, where she was looted in broad daylight and then released. Four wealthy Chinese business men, residents of Shanghai, were taken off and held for ransom. TODAY’S, STAR PART ONE—32 PAGES. General News—Local, National Foreign. Schools and Collegas—Pages 20, 21 and 22. and PART TWO—8 PAGES. Editorial Section—Editorials and Edi- torial Features. Review of New Books—Page 4. Serial stry. “The Door of Death"— Page 6. W. C. T. U. Activities—Page 6. PART 16 PAGES, Society. News of the Page 9. Clubwomen of t tion—Page 10. ¥. W. C. A. Activities—Page 10. Organized Reserves—Page 14., PART FOUR—18 PAGES. Amusement Section—Theater, and Music. Screen J;uuuuem taken | to reveal a crime schogl for financial district messenger boys and clerks. ‘The confession was obtained after the and dumped to a Brooklyn sidew: after men in a limousine driven by a livered chauffeur had taken the securities from him. Many discrepancies occurred in his story, however, and he later confessed he had taken the bonds, at the urgings of a Jack Rosen, identity unknown, and had left them in his for cost of a motion picture show, a subway ride and the nickels and dimes remaining out of a dollar. After obtaining the confession from the boy, who had been employed by a furrier before he joined the Hiscoe Co. a month Ago at a salary of $15 a week, Commissioner Whalen Said: “I believe that the boy was induced to leave his furrier job and to take a Jjob in the fiancial district so that this principal crook and his accomplices could get the boy to steal securities. ‘The whole thing was a plant from the start. It was arranged for Alter to go to work for a brokerage house. The crooks merely bided their time and waited their opportunity.” Alfred Tyrill, chief adjuster -of the | National Surety Co., said: ““This is but one of the many cases re- ported. There is an organized gang at work uptown, cerrupting young boys— teaching them to be crooks, and giving them thorough training in thievery be- fore sending them to the financial dis- trict to get jobs. The boys get little for their work.” Indemnity Check Forwarded. William P. Joyce, chairman of the National Surety Co., sent the Hiscoe firm a check for $300,000 as indemnity for the lost securities. Alter got a dollar and apparently can expect no more, He parted with the securities and Rosen before he entered a PFourteenth street movie house yester- day afternoon. In his confession the boy said Rosen had met him on the street after he left the Hiscoe offices en _route to & bank with a certified check which redeemed the securities, posted as collateral on a loan. “He said to me he needed money and that I should-walk off with the loan,” the boy asserted, “and he then told me that my father was to receive $50,000 !as my share. Then I finally con- sented.” * Shoots 22 Ringers in Game. Fort_defeated Kirchner, 51 to 43 and 52 to 25, and then fell victim to Peake after obtaining an enwunfln{‘hm’ the deciding match. The Wi shooting 22 ringers in a 50-point game. In a play-off for the runner-up trophy, Fert took Kirchner's measure, (Continued on first sports page. CO0LDGE VEDDING REAEARSAL I HEL Flood of Gifts Arrive for Cou- ple on Eve of Ceremony Set for Tomorrow. I By the Associated Press. PLAINVILLE, Conn., September 21. | —A rehearsal of the ceremony which wil, make John Coolidge and Florence | Teumbull .husband and wife Monday i today occupied the vanguard of the iwrmnl party. ‘The stage was complete except for rings and ministers and costumes, but the routine of processional and reces- sional was prescribed for practice so that there might be no hitch in the formalities of the wedding of the son of the former President and the daugh- ter of Connecticut’s Governor. The white frame village Congrega- tional Church was opened for the re- hearsal, and Prof. Willlam C. Ham- mond of Mount Holyoke College, who will play the wedding march, was on hand to play the music for the prac- tice steps. Photographers “Shoot” Scene. Camera men and news reel photog- raphers were on hand to “shoot” the rehegrsal and & large delegation of re- porters also was present, engaging early the services of spokesmen for Mr. and Mrs. Trumbull ,lna the young couple, all four of whom Have found it neces- sary to speak through proxies because of the pressure of the nuptial prepara- tions. Members of the wedding party al- ready are assembling and will remain FORT WORTH PLANE MISSING IN STORM Four ?trominent Cih;m of Texas on Craft Which May Be in Trouble. By the Associated Press, o s BROWNSVILLE, Tex., September 21. —Fear that a Lockheed plane, i pant in the Fort Worth good will aero- cade, flying to the south, carrying four In the Motor World—Pages 5, 6 and 7. prominent Fort Worth men besides the Aviation Activities—Pages 8 and 9. pilot, was down and in trouble some- (Continued on Page 2, Column_6.) GERMAN EXPLAINS REPORTED ALLIANCE Classes Proposal for a Franco- Prussian _Pact Against Russia as Fiction. By the Associated Press, BERLIN, September 21.— Maoritz partici-{ Kloenne, Reichstag member, tonight said that the People's Party Press Serv- ice story today of secret conversations in Paris for a Franco-Pussian military alllance against Soviet R.ussl:d was AUTOMOBILE RACE CRASIES INURE T Car Runs Into Crowd and Second Turns Over at Mineola Fai Grounds. By the Associated Press. MINEOLA, N. Y. September 21— Eleven persons were injured, three of them critically, in two accidents which occurred within a few minutes of each other during the speedway races at the Mineola fair grounds this afternoon. Ten were hurt when a speeding car plunged over the fence into a group of spectators. The "other victim was James Gleason, 30, race driver of Phila- delphia, whose car overturned on “death curv;" & short time before the second crash. All of the injured were taken to the Nassau County Hospital. Most of the spectators who were in the path of the detracked car suffered mainly from shock, cuts ard bruises. Two of them, Jack Mason, 13, of East Rockaway, N. Y., and Mrs. Josephine Ring, 39, of Mineola, were the most seriously hurt. Gleason received a fractured skull, a broken jaw and all of his teeth were knocked out. His condition was re- ported critical. George Condoh, driver of the car which hurtled off the track into the crowd of spectators, was uninjured. His machine had collided with one in front of him in the fourth race, and the steering mechanism broke, allowing the car to run wild. Gleason's car was forced off the track in the third speed event of the afternoon by a racer driven by Billy Arnold of Indianapolis. The accident occurred on a curve where several driv- ers have been killed in past races. Gleason’s automobile, owned by Mrs. Maude Yagel of Philadelphia, was the one in which Ray Keech was fatally injured at the Altoona, Pa. speedway recently. The car had Ween entered in the name of Bob Robinson of Daytona Beach, Fla,, but Gleason took the wheel just before the event started. Mrs. Yagel, whemr she learned of the accident, collapsed and was taken to the hospital suffering from shock. Most of the spectators in the grand- stand were unaware of the accidents, which occurred at opposite ends of the track. The heavy dust kicked up by the cars clouded vision over the entire fair ‘grounds. indication as to the time the’ British send out the invita- | jons, It was lieved they probably would be withheld until after the clusicn of the conferences which -Pre- mier Ramsey MacDonald is to hold here early next month with President Hoover. With the conference now tentatively set for the latter part of January. this would permit the invitations to go forward fully three months before th: delegates would gather in the British | capital. | Premier MacDonald probably will | spend: a shorter time away from Eng- land than was first suggested. He will remain here six days, then go to Phila- delphia and New York, and then pro- ceed to Canada for conferences with Premier Mackenzie King. He would re- main in that country only a few days under present plans. E The program for the British states- man’s stay in the United States is now nearing completion and probably will be made public early this week. ABMS TRUCE AT GENEVA. Britain and France Compromise on Limitations. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, September 21 —After three days of ot debate which stirred the As- sembly of the League of Nations, Great Britain and Prance today adopted a conciliatory manner in their dispute over the scope of the movement for general isarmament. The two powers accepted a compro- mise which will leave the merits of | their conflicting positions on the limi- tation of military forces to be deter- mined later. The settlement léaves England free to reopen the question of restricting the material and personnel for land war- fare. Lord Cecil, spokesman for the empire, had said this restriction was essential to the ultimate success of the disarmament crusade. France, by the terms of the compro- mise offered by M. Politis of Greece, gained her points that the Assembly should not at this stage of the naval discussions agitate the question of gen- eral disarmament nor give ‘fresh in- structions u,»“the preparatory disarma- ee. mi::r;oéneg;l withdrew the British pro- for which in any case a majority I the disarmament committee” was doubtful. He announced, however, that his government at every -opportunity would urge the limitation of land forces by _general confere: nces. Norway's proposal at the opening of the ru’exeynt Assembly session for estab- lishing an intimate connection between the proposed internaticnal reparations bank and the League of Nations met formidible oppos ition in the committee 1 organizations. mnmu;‘"m N:rwly in this movement were Denmark, Poland and Austria, who argued. that the purpose of the League in the economic fleld is identical with the purpose of the bank, and that all countries have a deep interest in the bank’s program. as well as those who receive reparations. But France, Great Brifain and Belgium, the coun- MARSHAL PILSUDSKI (Continued on Page 5, Column 1) tions here was_transported by a come mon carrier. In the case of the im- portation of liquor to the Siamese le- gation I find the name of the steam- ship that brought it in the United States, and that it had to cross the three-mile limit, that portion of the sea which is a part of the United States, and therefore that -steamship was subject to confiscation for trans- porting the liquor through that zone. Has the Department of Justice done ything about it? “Again, I have the name of the truck- ing firm that hauled .that liquor to ‘Washington. It does not make any | difference that a diplomatic official or |an employe of one of our embassies lh“e in the city was sitting beside the driver of that truck. it was subject to confiscation under the decision of the Attorney General. “The reason why this sort of thing is not stopped is because there is not | the will to stop it.” President All Powerful. Earlier in his speech. referring to law enforcement in the District, Senator Howell declared “the President of the United States is all powerful in the City of Washington. He appoints the officials of the city and under the law he can ‘remove those officials when he sees fit, no matter if they must be ap- proved by the Senate upon appoint- ment. If he insisted upon their en- forcing the law or leaving their offices, they and the police force under them would enforce the law.” The question before the Senate while Senator Howell was speaking was an amendment in the tariff bill having to do with the responsibility that should | be placed on the owners and masters of vessels to prevent the use of their ships for the bringing of narcotics into the United States. Senator Howell's speech dealt mainly with that subject, but dur- ing the discussion he turned his at- tention to prohibition enforcement in Washington. FILLING STATION BLAST KILLS 3 IN I0WA TOWN Explosion Occurs While Attendant Is Loading Auto Tank ‘With Gasoline. | B the Associated Press. ST. ANSGAR, Iowa, September 21— An explosion at the Champlain oil sta. tion here today killed three persons and injured a fourth. The buiiding was demolished. Miss Doris Conklin of Mitchell, Henry Simmering and C. O. Parker, the man- ager, lost their lives, and Mrs. Simmer- ing received deep burns from flaming gasoline. The cause of the blast was not de- termined. First reports said it origi-+ nated in an_air pressure tank under the building, but investigation made this uncertain. Parker was filling the gas tank of Simmering’s automobile at the time of the explosion. ~Mrs. Simmering was alone in the car, which is believed to have afforded her some protection. Veterans of Great War—Page 11. where between herehl'nd Corpus Christi, rsations SOLIDS ORDERED IN WINE TONICS ALVIN YORK AND THREE BUDDIES - IN ARGONNE FIGHT COMING HERE Famed Hero and Comrades Will See Exploit Reproduced ; at Army War Games. { Fraternities—Pages 12 and 13. ine/ Notes—Page 13. trict National Guard—Page 14. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 14. Radio News—Pages 15, 16 and 17. PART FIVE—10 PAGES. Sports and Financial. PART SIX—12 PAGES. XhmmeddAgvmu&m. 1 and Navy News—Page 11. n‘fl"ufiulg: c:l,umbh Naval Rescrve— **PART SEVEN—24'PAGES. Magazine Section. - Cross-word Puzzle—Page 20. GRAVURE SECTION—8 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. | COLOR SECTION—8 PAO!!-U Moon- Mullins; Mutt and_Jeff; gfi Trien 1‘09‘.’1‘% History. 3 . : L . | | “truth and fiction m:fiely mix was expressed tonight. He said that he convel ‘The ship was one of four which de- | with British and . French political clined ito turn back to Corpus Christi | leaders in 1927 and-1828 as a private eS8 50" because of Fains, The tarce | the ermal BoverRmEnt. He Sxpressed S0 . e ree e other planes which braved the elements | to them “the ‘demands. of nationalistic lan here safely. Germany” and urged that ugzo-che- officigls believed that | ment between the three coun could the plane must have ‘been forced down, | only, be, based since no word had been heard from it. ts would be mindful of the alarm failure to appear would occasion nndh ‘:dwld have advised had lu(')ne of the first suppositions wals that calls to all the loge it. o Bert Tidcoke and the AGAIN RAPS DIETl “Strong Man” of Poland Charge: Fdilure of Opposition Forces “to- Co-operate. cs | By the Associated Press, 5 WARSAW, tember 21.—Marshal Pilsudski, minister of war and “strong man” of Boland, has launched another attack on the Polish diet in an article i oo " various sovermment appear va nevfl:ufl tomoryow. The flery war- rior in this m:;\mmuin" l;c ‘modi i WM in deal those who oppose f %u article reveals nothing of the futurg plans of the marshal, although pro- | it stresses that the present system of to | concetns itself largely with the failure government cannot be changed. ¥ TO END THEIR USE AS BEVERAGE Widespread Increase in Sales Brings Edict to Add More Sugar or Glycerine. , oah - . expects, will make the tonics unpala- table as a beverage and will be accom- plished by adding sugar or glycerin. The action by Commissioner Dorans was taken after his attention had been called to the greatly in manu- facture of wine tonics and their wide distributicn. Ope brand of such a tonic, it was said, wa¥® manufactured in Vir- large quantities throughout the entire country. This tonic, while containi beef and iron extracts, could be as & beverage, the commissions Orders inlended to prevent the use of wine tonic for beverage purposes through adding solids to their conten's were issued yesterday by Prohibition Commissioner Doran. In_a circular letter sent to all pro- hibitlbn administrators the commis- sioner told them to notify manufac- turers of wine tonics that after October 15/their products must contain not less than 30 per cent solids, irrespective of the medication already contained in the tonies. The addition, the commissioner offénsive in a sham batlle early in Oc- tober, and the capfure of the Germans by York and his ‘comrades. The missing men were Pvts. ‘Seador Sox and Michael Saccina of New,York \‘-lnd ‘Thomas C. Johnson of LynoHburg, a. - | Plans of Army personnel to bring to- ther, for the first time in 11 years, | gm. Alvin C. York and his six sur- viving comiz2les who fought beside him in the Argoune offensive when he killed 29 and captured 132 Germans became known today at the Army War College. Three of the World War heroes, how- ever, are missing. Invitations sent them have been returned. Army folk extended invitajions to the seven men to attend the ual mili- ‘War Col- tai ition st tha Arm % Teks Whien o 2 2. ouston, but &ere failed to The pilot Local airport. considered that the craft's =" Ir ! ey the ship might have come down . York is to come from his Lynn, chairman of serv- me!nt:in home near Pall Mall, mueoma‘nyvm oy _train. 1nv11m1 by Maj. R. B. - come in an Army ai replied “T'm & mother's boy. Mamma cb-! “(Gontinued on Page u.;fihlmn 2. Yc‘e for the .owns lane; Jack Hodt, of the %pwm Amummnuu: ; of the Clover Lawrence to er said. ~ Tha Aveanne