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WEATHER. <U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy tonight; tomorrow un settled; i*ot much change in tempera ture. Temperatures: Highest, 83. at 2:15 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 50, at 6 a.ni. today. Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 24 \*)Q Entered as second class matter O. —• post office, Washington, D, C. FRANCE REPORTED RUSHING DEBT PLAN TO U.S.AND BRITAIN Will Be Ready in 15 Days. Had Advance Notice of Request. PRESS COMMENT SCARCE; MINOR ORGANS AROUSED Italy Declares Through Tittoni i and Mussolini U. S. Must | Be Lenient. Bv the Associated t*ress. PARIS. May IS. -The Temps said today it understands a definite pro- j posal will be made within 15 days by the French government to the United states and Great Britain for the settle ment of war debts. The action of the United States in requesting funding proposals was fore seen In France and answered in ad vance, it is said, in official circles, by the ministerial declaration made after! the cabinet meeting last Saturday. This was to the effect that Finance Minister Caillaux and Foreign Minis- j ter Briand bad been charged with the j task of studying the inter allied debt | question with a view to its settlement, j Daeschner Sends Details. The Quai d'Orsay received a cable- . gram from M. Daeschner, the French Ambassador in Washington, on Sat urday, giving full particulars of the American decision, but this is said to have contained no information that might cause the French government j to precipitate negotiations other than j those decided upon Friday. These preliminary negotiations will j take the form of conversations or a ] joint meeting of two groups of ex- f perts, both financial and political, ! from the ministries of finance and for-1 eign affairs. These experts will go i over the ground and establish some i acceptable basis for discussion before I the matter is taken up with the United I States. The foreign office say*? it lias no j knowledge of any note coming from Washington. It is felt that no official j communication could add anything to j the information given by M. Daeschner, j, who made known that America want-j ( ed action on the debt and explained the methods the United States would I welcome. Press Comment Scarce. \ | America’s request is ignored with j i striking unanimity by the principal morning newspapers, but Excelsior I, leads a few* of the SflWKt political , ] gans in criticizing the Washington j Government for presenting its bill j 1 “w'hen France is floundering in aj < grave financial crisis.” “One doesn't tie up a country's - financial future when every element of that future is an unknown quan tity." Excelsior says. Reminding the; United States that the Dawes repara- j tion payments still.are open to doubt, | it adds: "To know what one can pay, one must know what one can collect. ’ ii Be Gauiois sees German influence j with the American Congress as partly j to blame for the pressure now brought • to heal-, but also criticizes French j politicians for giving this country a j reputation of being imperialistic, with j revolutionary tendencies. Clemenceau Organ Bitter. L'Homrae Fibre, once the organ of j Clemenceau, exclaims bitterly: “It is i from us that the country of billion- j a ires is going to ask more billions,” j and this it terms "the very essence of J human egoism." (.’Action Francaisc says: "France is j being pushed into Germany's arms," j which “will give England a disagree- j able surprise.” L'Eclair, like tin* others, casts doubt i on the continuance of the Dawes rejta- 1 rations payments, and asserts that the j refusal of the United Staten to accept Germany's pajx-r in discharge of the i French debt shows that America is j likewise suspicious. Quotidien. official organ of the Deft • bloc, merely prints extracts from , Washington dispatches under the cap- ; lion: “Will We Be Theated by Anier- j jea More Favorably Than England?" j l . S. AWAITS REACTION. \\ ould Welcome French Proposal for ; Payment First. The Washington Government is i awaiting with interest some word of ; ihe reception accorded in »he nine European debtor nations to the news j i hat this country desires to arrange j funding settlements without undue de- j lay. Meanwhile, there is speculation as to which of the nine will be the first to submit a proposal, even though it provides a basis merely of J . preliminary negotiations. France, whose debt to the United I * Slates is the largest of the lot. is re- j garded as the hub of ihe situation and J it is known that officials would wel- j come an opening move from that j ■ quarter. Recent authorization by the I French cabinet of its finance minister I to take up the debt problem strength- j ens the belief that contact soon will be j made with the American Debt Coni- I, mission. See Italy Following. Ruly, second largest debtor, would j quickly follow the action of France in I putting her debF’on a regular payment I basis, officials believe, with the other j seven powers, Belgium, Rumania, i Czechoslovakia, Latvia, Greece, Es t honia and Jugoslavia, making their funding proposals as soon as possible. Official explanation still is lacking ns to the exact means by which the nations were advised of this Govern ment’s desire for converting the notes it holds into bonds. Direct word was sent to some capitals, it is understood, while the information was relayed to others through official and unofficial visitors from America. Many con gressional leaders have toured Europe recently and, while they talked in formally with statesmen there, it is, known that the debt question and the benefits of settlement were discussed. Lark Nothing in Force. If the means of conveying this Gov- I rrnment’s desires to the foreign rap- j iials have been varied, however, they have larked nothing in force and definiteness. In every case tlie debtor nation has been given to understand in an unmistakable way that Wash I jngton believes funding arrangements I should not be further delayed. In I v iew of that sari. the statement of J ihe French foreign office that no j (Continued ou Page 2, Column 1.) Princess Orders Gas Cut Off In War to Oust Carry-On Club Veterans Counter by Ordering Con tinued in Their Name—Court Case Is Postponed. Following a new line of attack in her fight to oust the Carry-On Club from her home at 1600 Rhode Island avenue, Princess Elaine Lippe-Lipski aimed a blow today straight at the stomachs of the club members by ordering the gas supply to the kitchen cut off, according to club officials. The club immediately countered | with a strong offensive sally by order ! ing the gas company to continue the I supply in the name of the club, in | stead of that of the Princess. Meanwhile, the effect of the Prin- I cess initial blow, which fell on one of j the members in the form of a warrant | for alleged trespass, was being tem porarily dissipated by a postponement of the court proceedings for several I days. j John W alsh was the member at | whom the legal attack was launched, lie was served with the warrant Sat urday night and deposited SSO col- NEW GOVERNMENT' IN BERLIN BACKS DAWESPLANTERMS Stresemann Assures Pro gram Will Be Carried Out Without Change. Bv the Associated Press. BERLIN, May 18. —Foreign Minis ter Stresemann announced today to the Reichstag that the German govern ment will continue to carry out the Dawes plan. Minister Stresemann said rio country welcomes ri’lore than Germany the ef forts of the Dawes plan to accomplish the economic pacification of Europe. He said even those who opposed the acceptance of the Dawes plan are convinced that without it Germany would not have been able to establish its currency on a secure basis, and would have been obliged to wage a bitter struggle for her economic exist ence. Herr Stresemann said: “We shall continue to carry out the Dawes' plan in the same manner as we have here tofore. Parliamentary majorities and governments may change, but I can not conceive any administration which would deviate from the program and policies we have adopted.” He said Germany's relations with the United States are most satisfac tory and all signs indicate that in the United States a genuine understanding of Germany’s needs is increasing. Takes I p Cologne Bridgehead. Discussing the non-evacuation of the Cologne bridgehead, Herr Strese mann *said: “This injustice reminds us how far we are still removed from normal con ditions of peace and how constantly we are obliged to take some defensive attitude against the Intellectual orien tation and methods of wartime. “In the final analysis it is not a question of whether the Cologne zone is evacuated in accordance with- the provisions of the peace treaty, but it is a question of whether a nation of 60.000.000 persons shall continu ously be denied the respect and equal ity of their rights." SENTENCES 15-YEAR-OLD BOY TO DEATH IN CHAIR Lad Who Killed Grandmother Is Calm as Court Pro nounces Doom. By the Associated Press. POTTSVILLE, Pa.. May 18.—Wil liam Cavalier, 15-year-old slayer of his grandmother for the purpose of robbery, today was sentenced to die in the electric chair. He stood awkwardly before the court twisting his hat and looking at the floor while sentence was being pronounced by Judge Koch. Other wise he showed no emotion. His face was calm as he looked at the judge after sentence had been pronounced. Cavalier's mother was not in the courtroom at the time. The judge, visibly affected, told the boy that he had been found guilty of first degree murder with a recommen dation of mercy, but there was no al ternative provided by law to permit the Imposition of any Other sentence than death. Counsel for the boy announced an appeal will be taken for a new trial. ___ , Darroiv Likens Bryan to Nero as Futile Opponent of Great Doctrine’s Spread By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. May 18.—Clarence Harrow, Chicago lawyer who is to oppose William Jennings Bryan in the Tennesse evolution trial, came out today with a few opinions about the Commoner. Nero and Bryan were linked by Harrow as men whose irrational opposition en hanced the spread of great doc trines. Offers of Harrow and Uudley Field Malone of New York to as sist in the defense of J. T. Scopes, Dayton, Tenn., public school teacher, charged with violation of the law forbidding the teaching of evolution, have been accepted. Mr. Bryan is to assist in the prosecu tion. "Nero,” Darrow said, “tried to kill Christianity with persecution and law, Bryan would block en lightment with law. Nero failed, as will Bryan. More persons are studying evolution in Tennessee now than before the law was pass ed. insl as Nero's acts made Christians.* \ 1 Wt Wmim Sfatf. J V. X WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION lateral at the third preclnc* police sta tion for his appearance in Police Court this morning. At the request of coun sel the case was continued indefinite ly, the same collateral iei.ig required by District Attorney Given. House Manager Westphal, grand marshal of the club forces, learned from the gas company of the princess' instructions to cut off the gas. There was a hurried consultation in the library of the club as to what to do about it. One member suggested that the princess be served with cold soup, cold tea and other cold fare for din ner. "If she doesn't want the gas on she shouldn’t get a hot dinner,” he an nounced. Manager Westphal tabooed this suggestion, however. The princess, in her dally associa tions with the club members, gives no intimation of her determination to eject the club. She eats her meals with them in the main dining room (Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) CRISIS AT GENEVA I AVERTED; BURTON’S! POINT IS CONCEDED! i Committee Decides Against; Arms Control Bureau, Fought by U. S. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, May 18.—The crisis in] the international conference for the j control of traffic in arms and muni- i tions, which had been created by America's refusal to have the League I of Nations council appoint the central 1 office for arms control, was averted j today by a decision to abandon the ' plan to establish the proposed central bureau. Representative Theodore E. Burton of Ohio, head of the American dele gation addressing a special commit tee in charge of the question, insist- i ed that the central bureau should not j be connected with the league. \ irtually all of the other 10 coun-j tries represented on the committee j adhered to the idea that no central international bureau should be estab lished unless it is placed under the league's jurisdiction. Bureau Held Fnneeded. Confronting this impenertabie wall, the committee decided the conciliatory thing to do was to make progress by marching around it. Therefore, on j motion of M. Lange of Norway the j committee unanimously resolved that | in Its judgment the central office or j bureau in the form previously pro- j posed is not essential and that the j same end can be attained by allowing i each government to publish arms I statistics. The practical effect of today’s action : is that the League of Nations never- I theless will collect, all data regarding; arms and the result will be the same i as if a central office had been created j under the league. American susceptibilities, however, i are satisfied and league members re- . main loyal to the league by declining to agree to the organization of any bureau outside of the league and by adhering to the stipulation of the league covenant that all its interna tional bureaus be operated under the league. Representative Burton withdrew i his amendment providing that signa- ' tories of the arms convention them- ; selves organize the control office, ex- I plaining that he had offered it merely because of the American diffiulty in ! approving any convention which creates an office to be appointed by the League of Nations council. Welcomes Changes. He said he rather welcomed the ! alternative suggestion that there lie no central bureau at all. because such bodies are often unnecessary. The resolution adopted by the com mittee was to the effect that inas- j much as the control of international ; commerce in arms rests on a license ' system or the issuance of similar j documents listing importations and j also upon publicity, it seems super- I fiuous to create a central organiza- | tion. The resolution remarks that j license and publicity can be assured | by periodical and uniform publication I by all countries of their exports and imports of arms. The resolution must now be sub mitted to the plenary session of the conference for approval. League officials emphasized that all j member states are obligated to send I arms information to the league and I that arms statistics for the United j States, which is not a member, can j be purchased at Washington, where 1 such statistics are issued in pamphlet i form. j "Man may be sure of his ideas, but if he is intelligent he knows there is room for doubt and debate * and he welcomes both. Mr. Bryan would block both because of his views. He was brought up on cer tain beliefs which he has never ' questioned or about which he sought to be enlightened to the end that he might be wrong. That is lack of intelligence. “Had Mr. Bryan’s ideas of what a man may do toward free think ing existed throughout history we woitld still be hanging and burn ing witches and punishing persons who thought the earth round.” Mr. Harrow said he and Mr. I Malone were willfng to pay all the I expenses of the Tennessee trial j "in order that day may triumph | over night.” “Any man of ordinary intelli gence could topple Bryan in such a fight.” the lawyer continued. “The Tennessee lawyers are good. They will not need help.” Radio Programs—Pags 21. i WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, MAY 18, 1025-THIRTY-TWO PAGES. * iTRIAL OF SHEPHERD GETS UNDER WAY; CALL 165 FOR JURY J Delay Is Expected in Filling Box to Hear Evidence in McClintock Case. PROSECUTOR WILL ASK FOR EXTREME PENALTY Faiman, Star Witness for State, to Have Separate Hearing—Pris oner Is Pale. J By the Associated Press, i CHICAGO, May 18.—William D. I Shepherd went on trial today, charged j with the murder of his millionaire fos j ter son, William N. McClintock, with fthe prosecution indicating that it | would ask the death penalty. ] Charles C. Faiinan. head of a school !of sciences, indicted with Shepherd. and who confessed that he instructed I the latter in the administration of typhoid germs, and supplied him with | cultures, was granted a separate trial | on motion of State's Attorney Robert j 12. Crowe, Faiman is slated to be the State's star witness. I The first two veniremen examined ! for possible jury service were excused | by the State after they said they had j conscientious scruples against imposi- J tion of capita! punishment. I Both States Attorney Crowe and j IV. H. Stewart, chief counsel for J Shepherd, announced themselves ready | for trial when the case was called be ; fore Criminal Judge Thomas J. Lynch. I Judge Lynch, in harmony with the discussion by the judges of Cook County of publicity in connection with trials and the passage of a rule pro hibiting the taking of photographs in courtrooms, refused to allow type j writers, telegraph or telephone instru i ments, ns well as cameras, in the courtroom. Shepherd Is Pale. i Shepherd, himself a lawyer, was jpole when brought into the prison er's dock. He was clean shaven, but j his suit-showed lack of pressing, i Mrs. Shepherd hurried forward and J kissed her husband. She had intended to sit behind him, but was given a seat across the aisle. Shepherd's firsts comments were those of the lawyer rather than one charged with crime. He inquired whether the trial would be conducted i speedily and whether Judge Lynch j would be punctual. Lstimates of court attaches as to j tlie time to be required to secure the jl2 jurors ranged from 3 days to 3 which provides seats for on4y 140 spectators, was tilled, with a crowd outside. There also was a crowd at the street doors of the crimi nal court building, but it was soon dissipated by guards. A special panel of 100 veniremen had been summoned in addition to a j regular panel of 65 men. i Caught in.the trail of disaster that j has followed the McClintock fortune ! for generations. Shepherd is the last j titular owner of the $1,500,000 legacy. ’ McClintock, a youth, who was the I ward of Mrs. Shepherd, had lived with ! them 16 years. Shepherd Charges Plot. Shepherd countercharged that it j was a plot fostered by a dozen ! cousins of McClintock to break the i will in order to come in for a division lof the fortune and thereby deprive j him of his inherited rights. He en ! tered an absolute denial of the 21 counts of the murder indictment. State's Attorney Crowe will direct the prosecution. It was indicated that the office of the attorney general of (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) U.S. BANK DEPOSITS SHOW BIG INCREASE Gain of $1,784,251,000 Is Re vealed by Compilation of April 6 Returns. Combined resources of the national banks of the United States amounted on April 6, the date of the last bank ' call, to $23,832,473,000, or an increase j in the last 12 months of $1,769,575,000. Every phase of national banking i operations showed important in | creases. Loans and discounts of all j the banks aggregated $12,468,836,000, j an increase of'more than half a bil ! lion in the year since the correspond \ ing bank call of 1924. Total deposit liabilities amounted to | $19,382,947,000, an increase of $1,784,- I 251,000 over deposits of a year ago. j Included in the deposit liabilities were | items, of $3,418,841,000 as balances due ; to other banks and bankers, and de ; mand deposits, including Government j deposits, aggregating $10,178,895,000. Postal savings deposits, included ! among the Government accounts, i were reported at $5,785,211,000, an in- I crease of $676,241,000. The statistics revealed a slight de | crease in the ratio of loans and dis counts to total deposits by comparison of the last call with the call of March 31, 1924. On the call this year the percentage of loans and discounts to total deposits was 64.33, compared with 67.92 on the date of the corre sponding call last year. I Yesterday's Circulation 106,259 The circulation of The Sunday Star yesterday was 106.259 copies. Os these 98,975 were in Wash ington and the immediate suburbs. The Sunday Star circu lation in the city and suburbs is 37,994 greater than that of its nearest competitor, according to the latest Audit Bureau of Circulation statements. r fsdfdfd U. S. RUM WAR HURT : BY INTERNAL STRIFE I ; Nine of Blockade Ships’ Men Court-Martialed —Crew Shortage Is Seen. | By the Associated Press, j NEW YORK. May 18.—Internal I I troubles are proving handicaps to j ! roast guardsmen blockading New ! York's rum row. Six members of the J Coast Guard have been court-martialed | for smuggling liquor and three for in i toxication, it was revealed today. Officers have refused to discuss the I affair, but it is known that 19 men 1 have been confined for varying periods 1' in the county jail on Staten Island awaiting court-martial for various offenses. Six convicted of smuggling I have been sentenced to six months’ | inprisonment and three got three I months each for intoxication. Shortage of Men. A far greater handicap is the pros pect of a shortage of men in the fleet. Fully 30 per cent, it is said, will not re-enlist when their service terminates July 1. Conditions on the Coast Guard i ships call for unusually hard work j a few and brief shore leaves. These ; are sufficient to induce the guardsmen j to seek other occupations. I The Coast Guard has found in the ] speedy rum-running boat Cigarette a I foe which is all but invincible. Be I cause of its vastly superior speed the ! Cigarette outdistances the fastest of ! the dry navy's fleet. It is reported to j have slipped through the lines several ! nights ago and to have headed for | the sea. The present blockade is con ; tinulng effective, however, and re- J ports indicate that within a short i time fewer than half a dozen ships I will remain of the 50-odd 10 days ago. i I,ong War Seen. A four-day cruise of the rum-run- I ning area by newspaper men showed j that a billion-dollar group of rum j smugglers was being combated by a f 30,000.000 Coast Guard organization. | To block off 385 foreign whisky ships 'of all descriptions, which have been ! noted as having been on the row at I various times the prohibition navy has 16 cutters'. 20 dispatch boats. 203 ’ patrol boats and 103 picket boats. I Officials believe the war will last i long. And they are equally sure that I no liquor is being smuggled into New | York proper, or through New Eng j land and New Jersey. | Coast Guard boats are believed to be gathering for a blockade of the I Gulf coast. Boats are being trans ferred from the Florida stations to j waters adjacent to Mobile. Officials. I however, refused to discuss the ship j movements. FRANCE SOON TO OUTLINE i DEMANDS ON GERMANY r • j Note Ready for Transmission to Berlin in Response to Proposals for Security Pact. By the Associated Press. PARIS, May 18. —The French note replying to Germany's proposals for a security pact, after being revamped by the French and British foreign of fices, was ready today for perusal by the ambassador’s council tomor row. The note probably will be sent to Berlin Wednesday or Thursday un less difficulties arise regarding its final phraseology. At present it is couched in such terms that although courteous it gives Germany no way out except to state plainly and without equivocation pre cisely what her security proposals are. AFRICAN GOLD RUSH ON. Huge Field on Lupa River Draws Many to Scene. LONDON, May 18 OP).—A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Daressalam. Tenganvika territory. East Africa, states that 100 whites and 14,000 na tives are engaged in working what is described as the largest alluvial gold field in Africa, on the Lupa River, be ; tween Lakes Tanganyika and Nyassa,. | and that many others are rushing to the scene. Gold was first discovered in the neighborhood in June. 1923, but the area now is being rapidly extended. All unclaimed rights have been re- I served by the government. South Africa Beverts to Gold. -. CAPE TOWN, Union of South | Africa, May 18 (^).—lt was officially | announced that South Africa today returned to the gold standard. ; Soviet Repudiation Os Internationale Reported Proposed j By the Associated Press. LONDON. May 18. —'The Daily i Herald’s Berlin correspondent j claims reliable authority for the : statement that Great Britain has proposed that the allies send a joint note to the Soviet govern ! ment demanding absolute repudi ! ation of the Communist Interna | tionale and expulsion of the head quarters of the Internationale from Moscow. Commenting on the dispatch, the Herald says that such a proposal, if successful, must lead to disaster for the whole world, as it may easily rekindle the fires of war. The paper, which is the labor organ, characterizes the alleged proposal as gross interference with another nation's autonomy and an act of calculated hostility. EXPLOSIVES SEIZED IN BULGARIAN PLOT Secret Organization Operat ing in Kostenetz—Cache Found at Plevna. By Ihe Associated Press. BERLIN, May 18.—A dispatch from Sofia says the police have discovered a secret organization operating in Kos tenetz and other nearby communities and confiscated a large amount of dy namite, 200 revolvers, quantities of ammunition and funds amounting to 150,000 leva. The dynamite, it is al leged, was intended for use in destroy ing railway bridges between Vakarel and Bjelovo. At Plevna a store of munitions was uncovered containing hand-grenades, two machine guns and a quantity of dynamite. TOWNS ARE PILLAGED. London Dispatches Tell of Continued Bulgarian Troubles. LONDON, May 18 —Bulgaria's troubles are continuing, dispatches reaching London reporting further un rest, with bands of raiders pillaging vil lages in the central part of the coun try. Their activities are said to be for political motives, and the govern ment's action in sending a large num ber of troops to cope with them is taken here to indicate that they have further aims than robbery. Stories of plots, some menacing the safety of the government ministers, seem further to show that the govern ment's reprisals against the recent disturbers of the peace failed to quell the country’s internal trouble, which may require still stronger measures for repression. One of the incidents reported is the arrest at Varna of eight persons hold j ing foreign passports and the seizure of a motorboat outside the harbor. As it is understood Bulgaria will not be allowed to maintain beyond May 31 the extra troops she was per mitted to raise to cope with her troubles, the prospect of overcoming the disorder is not regarded here as very encouraging. The Bulgarian foreign minister, M. , Kalfoff, held a conference with For eign Secretary Austen Chamberlain this morning and tomorrow will con fer with other officials of the foreign office. Before meeting Mr. Chamber lain, Kafoff declared he was anxious to contradict the impression that he (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) Nurse 9 Swept to Sea on Arctic Ice , Is Saved When Reef Stops Floe By the Associated Press. NOME, Alaska, May 18. —After narrowly escaping being carried to sea on a cake of ice while mush ing around Cape Thompson, far within the Arctic Circle on the north coast of Alaska, and ex periencing other harrowing adven tures on an expedition of mercy, Mrs. G. O. Brady, Government | nurse, has returned safely to Kotzebue Sound, a dispatch relates. Mrs. Brady started north March : 27 from Kotzebue with Supt. | Chance to give medical attention i in native villages and schools. Three hours after the departure Chance and Mrs. Brady were over i taken by a blizzard and were forced to take refuge In a native cabin at 4 UP) Means Associated Press. C. OF C. DELEGATES i OF .SHOTS HERE I International and Domestic ! Problems n Varied Pro gram of 13th Session. Delegates from half a hundred cities j all over the country were gathering: j in Washington today in preparation I for the opening of the thirteenth an- J nual meeting of the Chamber of Com merce of the United States, to be held j Wednesday at the new home of the j chamber, Connecticut avenue and H j street. A varied program, embracing j international and domestic business and financial problems, and dealing i at length with agriculture, an Ameri- ! can merchant marine and the rela- j tions of Congress and the American i public, will be presented to the dele- 1 gates when the meeting opens. During the course of the meetings, I which will end Friday, half of the directorate of 34 men who guide the destinies of the chamber will l*e elect ed. Nominations will be made at a meeting of the National Council to morrow for 17 of the directorships. Edwin C. Graham, president of the National Electrical Supply Co. of ] Washington, has been formally sug- 1 gested as one of the candidates for nomination to the board of directors j representing the second election dis j trict, which comprises the District of Columbia, New York, New Jersey. ] Delaware. Pennsylvania and Mary- i land. If his nomination Is made at the j meeting of national councilors tomor row, it will be formally ratified by the I i entire chamber later in the week. Mr. i Graham's name was suggested at a i midyear meeting of the chamber in I January by a delegation of Washing ' ton business men from the business organizations here. He is opposed by ' six prominent business men of the : [ East, including Philip H. Gadsden, former chairman of the Federal Elec- i , trie Railway Commission. First Meeting in Five Years. The meeting of the chamber, which opens Wednesday, is the first to be I held In Washington in five years, and 1 will be the first held in the new mil lion-dollar home of the national or- j I ganization. Dedicatory exercises for the new building will be held Wed nesday night, at 8:30 o'clock, with j Chief Justice Taft delivering the dedi i catory address. Richard F. Grant. . president of the chamber; Harry A. Wheeler, first president of the cham ber and chairman of the committee . on financing the building, and Charles . Nagel, former Secretary of Commerce . and Labor, will also speak. Organi i zatlon of the national chamber was . first suggested in 1909 by President i Taft, and the steps leading up to ( formation of the body were taken under the direction of Mr. Nagel. ! More than 3,000 delegates from all : business and industries and all geo- I graphic sections of the Nation are ex i pected to attend the meetings of the i chamber. Officials of the organization said today Washington always draws • a more complete representation than do other cities when the national meet > ings are held here. A meeting of the board of directors I was held today at the chamber to 1 formally pass upon the many reports . made prior to the opening of the an • nual meeting and upon the program r arranged for the sessions. The new board of directors will meet on Friday to elect a president of the chamber . for the coming year, beginning July 1. - It was not known today whether Mr. t Grant would run for re-election to the - presidency. t Coincident with the meetings of the - chamber, conferences of the National s Association of Commercial Organiza >, tion Secretaries and of American (Continued on Page 3, Column 3J the mouth of the Noatak River after 14 hours of blind driving in a temperature of 30 below zero. When the storm subsided they continued to Point Hope. 800 miles north of Kotzebue Sound. On the return trip Mrs. Brady was accompanied only by a native musher, as Supt. Chance had pre ceded her. Exceptionally high winds wrenched free ice cakes upon which Mrs. Brady and her guide were rounding Cape Thomp son. and carried them seaward for more than a mile before a reef stopped them and they could make Jheir way ashore. Old-timers describe the trail from Point Trope the most dangerous in the northland. “From Press to Howe Within the Hour ” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Saturday’s Circulation, 96,785 Sunday’s Circulation, 106,259 SCRAPPING POLICY MAY ALLOW FORD | LO BUY 400 SHIPS j Subcommittee Understood Favorable to Junking of U. S. Vessels. O’CONNOR, BACK, SILENT ON AUTO MAKER’S PLANS Report Magnate Might Operate Steamer Lines Is Without Confirmation. Adoption of a policy looking to the scrapping of upward of 400 Govern | ment ships probably will bo recom mended to the Shipping Board shortly | by its subcommittee on scrapping. •Such a step would pave the way for (the sale for junking of a large block ;of vessels to Henry Ford or other bidders under open competitive term - The subcommittee, consisting of 1 hair man O < oniior and Commissioners j Plummer and Benson, is understood to favor such a policy, and while it : "b! encounter opposition in the board. 1 there are indications that it may com I rnand a majority. i Board Hans Withheld. Mr. O'Connor was again at his desk i today after an absence of over a week ‘ during which lie discussed ship sale • u 'ith Mr. Kord. but he issued no call | for a session of the board prior to the j regular meeting tomorrow. Mean- I while he declined to amplify his state | inent of yesterday expressing the be i bes that Mr. Ford would make an I offer to buy ships for operation and ! for scrapping. To what extent the automobile j manufacturer might propose to buy ; ships for operation was not revealed. I and reports that he might eventually i bid for the purchase of one or more | unimportant lines were unconfirmed, j Both the Lnited States Lines, now j operated by the Fleet Corporation to [Europe. and the Pan-American Line. | now operated by the Munson Lines i to South America, were irfentioned in j reports that Mr. Ford might enter the j steamship business on a considerable I scale. Lines Considered. The United States Lines operate. I among other vessels, the President | Harding. President Roosevelt. GAorge j Washington and Leviathan. The | Government line to Pan America, now ! operated by the Munson interests, in j eludes the Western World, Southern | Cross. American Legion and Pan | America. j If a scrapping program is adopted I it is expected the matter will then be i submitted to the ships sales commit ! tee of the board, headed by Commls | sioner Lissner, to invite bids. Th“ j Fleet Corporation has given the board i a list of 200.ships which are at pres ; ent tied up and which It can dis , pense with for scrapping. About 200 j more may be added to this list by , the board. | There are over 1,200 ships owned hv i the Government, 900 of which at e j idle. Chairman O’Connor believes 400 | could be kept for operation, 400 kept 1 in reserve and 400 scrapped. | | BLAST GREETS ATTEMPT TO REOPEN, W.VA., MINE. Ten Men in Bunkhouse Thrown Off Feet by Explosion—Dogs Seek Perpetrators. j By the Associated Press. | MOUNDS VI I,LE, W. Va„ May IS. I —A terrific explosion early today at ! the Panama mine of the lien Frank : lin Coal Co., on the outskirts of I Moundsville, was believed by police j to have disclosed an effort to prevent : resumption of operations at the mine, | which was closed after a strike was | called by the United Mine Workers I April 16. The company had. planned {to resume operations today, j The blast tore a great hole in a [hillside near the fanhouse and dam j aged a miners' bunkhouse. Ten min ers in the bunkhouse preparing to go jto work were thrown off their fe< *, j but escaped injury. | Officers declared their belief that \ | bomb had been thrown at the fan I house and had missed its mark. Blood i hounds were taken to the scene, but 1 j were unable to pick up a trail. - ' - —* j FRIENDLY BAND, THOUGHT ENEMY, SHOT IN DARK »: j Two Bodies, Pursuing Outlaws, Mistake Each Other—l 4 Farmers Killed. I I 1 j By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, May 18.—A mistake •; in identity, with fatal consequence^, I is reported from the state of Jalisc-o, where a band of armed i?*«.rians and a detachment of the 3Sth Regi ment, both pursuing a band of out laws fought in the dark. Three of the soldiers and 14 of the agrarians were killed and many wounded. The fight occurred at the hacienda Concepcion, near the town of Clii huatlan. The firing lasted more than two hours and ceased only when morn ing came and the opponents were able to distinguish each other. The outlaw gang which both parties were seeking is commanded by Tran- I quilino Corona. Caillaux Senate Candidate. LE MANS, France, May 18 OP). - ! Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux to day accepted the candidacy for the Senate from .this district, offered by the Radical party. lie will replace Senator Gigon, who offered his resig nation in order to permit the return of the finance minister to Parliament. MacMillan Tests Planes. PHILADELPHIA. May IS (/P>. Two of the Loening amphibian planes to be used on the MacMillan Polar expedition, which arrived at the Phil adelphia navy yard Saturday, took the, air today for a four-hour test. The landing gears also will be given try outs. The planes will be flown neariv every day for the next two v gffc was said at the yard. TWO CENTS