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WEATHER. Fair and somewhat warmer tonight; tomorrow fair; gentle south and southwest winds. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 83. at 3 p.m. yester day: lowest, 61. at 5:45 a.m. today. Full report on page 15. j _ --- , doling N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 24 • "V" _ 042 QXO Entered as second-class mallei ■4-' post office Washington. D C. - ■ - 1 - POINCARE WILL REJECT BRITISH NOTE FLATLY; RUHR FIGHT TO CONTINUE France’s Reply to Reaffirm Ruhr Course. ENTENTE HELD NEAR DEFUNCT Curzou Suggestions Regarded as Shift . of Responsibility. J' the Associated Press. PARIS, August 14. —Premier Poin care, who will return to Paris to night. has informed his collaborators at the foreign oftiho that he intends ‘ in the most courteous manner possi ble" to reply, point by point, to the note of Lord Curzon, British secre . tury for foreign affairs, on the repa ration question. Although the reply nil! be courteous, it is asserted in foreign office circles that it will be a-stout reaffirmation of the French viewpoint and a flat rejection of the British suggestions. Reply to lie Sent Soon. Tlie reply will Vie sent as soon as possible, probably before the end of the week. Although it is no longer assumed In official quarters here that the en tente may survive the present dif ference, the situation is taken with perfect calm in governmental circles, as well as by the press and public, j The French have, in fact, long con sidered the entente as virtually defunct, so far as concerns co-operation between England and Franco on the applica tion of the terms of the treaty of Versailles. Lord Curzon’s note is taken merely as a public recognition of that fact by the British government, with the aim of throwing the responsibility for the rupture upon France. Will Avoid Rupture. Premier Poincare, it is understood, j will carefully omit anything that | might l>e taken as a denunciation of ; the entente, leaving the initiative in j the final rupture to the British gov ernment. If I’rime Minister Baldwin decides to call an International conference to fix Germany's capacity to pay. that action will be taken by the French, j 'it is forecast, as an unfriendly act I which will end the cordial relations that have existed for nearly twenty years. France will then simply recall the fact that after all she is the prin cipal creditor of the Germans and that care must be taken that "her rights as such are not Infringed upon. FIND EiGHfIDIES! , AFTER UTAH FLOOD Property Damage of $1,000,- 000 Estimated —Wire and Rail« Lines Crippled. t , i pr the Associated Press. SALT LAKE CITY. Utah, August 14. j »—Eight bodies of persons killed or j drowned as a result of a series of cloud- j bursts in the vicinity of Salt Lake City [ .end Ogden, early last evening had been j recovered up to 11 o'clock this morn- j ing. Three persons are missing and j property damage is expected to total upward of $1,000,000. Four persons are known to be dead Bt Farmington, Utah, Just north of Salt Lake City; two men and a woman are reported dead at Willard, Utah, and five Boy Scouts arc reported drowned Jn a canyon east of Farmington. The cloudburst, preceded by a severe electrical storm, tore down the tele graph poles, and communication is crip- I pled. 1 Flood ('nine Suddenly. Flood waters from the Wasatch mountains rampaging through farm settlements In northeastern Utah last night in the wake of a scries of clouci , bursts, caused property' damage to farm lands, amounting to several hun dred thousand dollars. Coming with startling suddenness and intensity, the cloudbursts, coup led with severe electric storms, sent great walls of water down low ditches and streams, sweeping through com munities in Box Elder and Weber counties and leaving behind inun dated farm lands. 1 500 Persons Marooned. Today the flood had receded at most points almost as suddenly as it arose. Water-covered farm sections, upon which last night were swept tfebrls and wreckage, today were nearly dry with rivers and streams in almost normal flow. Five hundred persons were stranded for several hours at Lagoon, a A sort ion the outskirts of Farmington, when ■Transportation means were paralyzed, but a train of the Oregon Short Line arrived in Salt Lake after midnight carrying more than 200, and another train took the others to Ogden. WOMAN’S tfODY RECOVERED. Several Autos and Passengers Said to Have Been Lost. OGDEN, Utah. August 14. —The body of Mrs. John Ward of Willard was found by searchers in the cloudburst debris there this morning, according to information received here. There are three or four automobiles stalled on the highway near Willard.” and farm ers claim to have seen occupants of •some cars carried away by flood •water*. * 51 SLAIN IN RIOTS GERMAN CITIES: BERLIN TIE-UP ENDS ! First Attempt of Communists to Get Control of Capi il tal Fails. By Hie Associated Pres-". BERLIN. August 14. —The general strike in Berlin was called off by the committee this morning, all the trans portation lines reopening. The industrial situation in Berlin showed improvement and there were reports of betterment in conditions from other parts of Germany, al though disorders were still in progress in many districts. The street cars and underground railways were running and traffic on the state railways was almost normal. Improvement was also noticed among the private industrial estab lishments. several works resuming operations. The police prevented attempts to hold demonstrations in various parts of Berlin. During the night came rumors that twenty persons had been killed in Hanover and fifteen in Zeitz, Saxony. Rioting was also said to be in prog ress in Neisse. Silesia. Hamburg \enr Martial Law. The city of Hamburg, by proclama- I tion of the senate, is virtually under martial law as a result of the serious clash there yesterday between strik ers and the police. So far the disturbances in Berlin { have been of a minor nature and the police have been called into service only to stop plundering or prevent communist agitators from persuad ing loyal workers to leave their places of employment. However, j there is noticeable a growing dissat isfaction with food prices and the' ■ shortage of staples. ) The situation at Stettin has become ; worse. The dock employes went on I strike and numbers of shops were plundered, especially butchers and ] bakers. i .Strikes on Farms, i The communists have become very I active among the farm laborers. | Strikes have broken out on more than fifty estates in the Soldin district, Brandenburg province, and partial strikes are reported from Genthin. Geethen and Quedlinburg. Prussian Saxony. Wanzleben and Bernburg and I Ballenstdt. Duchy of Anhalt, j The communists’ appeal for a gen ! eral .strike at Leipzig failed, j The Hamburg situation is quieter. , The street cars and elevated railways are running, j Order has been restored at Luebeck. ! where there was a communist erup ; tion yesterday, and work has been re- I sumed in all the establishments there, j The strike of the Hamburg and 'Bremen pilots, which has been tying up North sea traffic at these ports, has ended. SIXTEEN KILLED IN RIOTS. Mob at Aix La Chapelle Tries to Storm Police Station. j By the Associated Press. t AIX LA CHAPELLE. August 14. ! Twelve persons were killed and more j than eighty were wounded here last j night, when crowds attempted to j storm the police headquarters and j rescue prisoners taken during the j day, when the police broke up a, ; food-shortage demonstration, j All the victims were German ! civilians, in yesterday's demonstra tion four Germans were killed and forty wounded. The crowd was composed for the most part of idle workmen. It laid regular siege to the headquarters and refused to heed the police warnings to disperse. After throwing hand grenades into the crowd and firing several volleys the security police emerged and charged the mob with sabers and re volvers. j Mounted police now are patrolling the city. The Belgian troops did not interfere in the affair. MEXICAN PACT NEAR STAGE FOR SIGNING i T~i U. S. Representatives Say Approval Only Awaits Translation Into English and Spanish. By tlio Associated Press. * MEXICO CITY, August 14.—Only the exacting task of rendering into English and Spanish the findings ot the recognition conference is delay- | ing the final meeting of the commis sioners, when the forma! minutes will be signed and approval given to the two claims conventions. Charles B. Warren and John Barton I Payne, United States representatives, j made this announcement last night after holding a final conference with Secretary de la Huerta of the treas ury. They also conferred with Augustin Le Oorreta, director of the Banco Naclonal de Mexico, who Is conduct ing negotiations with American and European bankers relative to the es tablishment of a Mexican central bank of istsue. BUY 100,000 AUTOTAGS. D. C. Commissioners Place Order for 1924. The District Commissioners today purchased 100,000 automobile tags for 1924. The contract was given the Na tional Colortype Company. An order also was placed for 2,500 motor cycle I tags. The 1924 tags will consist of white I numerals on a black field. & J W]t Aliening Sfef. J V y WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION \~S WASHINGTON, D. 0., TUESDAY AUGUST 14, 1923-THIRTY-SIX PAGES. Dr. Stresemaun Gives Views on i Resistance. EVACUATION NOT IN HIS DEMANDS I j |Asks for Control and Release of Every Prisoner. By the Associated Press. BERLIN. August 14.—Dr. Gustav Stresemann, the new German chancel lor, outlined in a statement today the conditions under which Germany is ready to abandon the passive re , sistancc In the Ruhr. The conditions are the complete restoration to Ger many of her right to control over the Ruhr, re-eslabliahmont of the condi tions in the Rhineland vouchsafed her under the Versailles treaty and J the liberation of every German clti- I j zen who lias been outraged, evicted I |or imprisoned. j The statement was made ; i the ] I course of his inaugural speech the j reichstag this afternoon. Dr. Sires, - I j maim made no mention of evacuat’on j of the occupied areas, merely stress- I Ing the conditions under which Ger | many is prepared to enter upon nego j Rations for the complete restoration j of her jurisdiction and the freedom I of her citizens there. The new chancellor was cordially greeted by the majority of the house, the only Jarring note in his reception being in the form of boisterous heck ling by the communists. Diplomat!. See Solution. Diplomatic circles here believe the advent of Chancellor Stresemann's bourgeois-socialistic cabinet presages ' an early effort to find a solution to the Ruhr crisis, j The’ political make-up of the new ! cabinet is thought to reflect a desire | on the part of both the industrialists and socialists to discover a formula Which would enable Germany to as sume the initiative without prejudic ing her attitude .on passive resist ance. Among all the parties represented | in the new ministry there appears J to be a conviction that Germany must seek some sort of truce with Poincare and that the hope of mediation or in tervention from other quarters is fu tile In view of the present Anglo- French impasse. “Os what avail is a friend across the channel or the sea when we are up against a cantankerous neighbor?" j exclaimed one socialist leader. Cabinet Looked on as Weaker. The new German cabinet has been constructed wholly along party lines and with respect to individual strength It is looked upon as weaker than the so-called non-partisan or business ministry which it succeeds. The appointment of Dr. Rudolf Hll ferding to the ministry of finance is a subject of much comment. Dr. Hll ferding is Austrian-born, a natural ized German. He is a doctor of medi- i cine by profession, but of late years j has occupied himself with theoretic j socialism. He was a member of the ' Independent socialist party before the i two wings of the party amalgamated i and was editor of his faction’s organ, j Die Freiheit. Cromer's Retirement Loss. The retirement of Gen. Groener I from the ministry of transportation ] 1 is viewed as a distinct loss, as he \ Is considered the ablest transporta tion authority in Germany and is leaving now a post which demands j a strong administrative incumbent in view of the technical and financial problems Involved in reviving the nation’s railway system. His suc cessor is Herr Oeser of the German democratic party. A semi-official note explaining the cessation of deliveries in kind to the allies, declares the country needs (all its resources to ward off starva tion. Contracts for execution of the work of reconstruction in the de- j vastated areas will not be affected ; by the suspension, it adds, and in | view of the difficulties Italy is ex- j perlenclng in optaining coal, Germany j will endeavor to continue coal de- | liveries to the country. REPARATIONS TO STOP. Germany Formally Notifies Com-! mission at Paris. By the Associated Press. PARIS. August 13.—Germany for mally notified the reparation commis sion in a letter dated last Saturday, and just published, that all repara tion deliveries in kind would cease after that date because of the great expense Involved, which It was believ ed might jeopardize the pending Ger man gold loan and tax reforms. Germany announces she had no in tention of permanently discontinuing these deliveries, but said her burden must be lightened to “avoid a complete breakdown of the German economic ana financial system.” The cessa tion affects principally those coun tries that did not participate in the occupation of the Ruhr, as such de | liveries to France and Belgium ceas ed soon after the trobps entered Es sen. The letter says that the “financing of these deliveries is largely respon sible for the budget deficit and In flation/’ adding; “Deliveries under taken up to the present and not yet I paid for alone necessitates, at the i present rate of mark, an expendi ture of 300,0000,000,000 marks.” The promise is made that the deliv eries wll be resumed “as soon as the finances and currency of the relch are on a firm basis. ” THIRD STREET “SING” TONIGHT IN GEORGETOWN The third Georgetown street sing will be given tonight on Potomac street bfetween N and O streets, at 8:15 o’clock. The police department has arranged to rope off Potomac street at 7 p.m., to accommodate those bringing camp stools and chairs. Mrs. Maurice Beckham, contralto. Will be the soloist of the evening. Mrs. H. Clyde Grimes will assist Mrs. I i Beckham at the piano, and will ac company the community singing, which will be under the direction of Robert Lawrence, ./ i GASOLINE PRICES | SET LOW RECORD Range From 11 to 22 Cents in West—Sharp Cuts Made in 10 States. By the At.suc.Bted Press. CHICAGO. August 14.—Reductions I in gasoline prices, begun when Gov. W. H. McMaster of South Dakota ordered state highway supjdy de r pots tu sell gasoline at 16 cents a gallon, assumed a national aspect today when price cuts announced by the Standard D'.l companies of j Indiana and Kentucky and independ* j ent producers became effective in I midweslern and southern states. A j threat of federal investigation of 1 gasoline prices and general oil condi- I tlons and announcement of further j I curtailment of production also are j j features in the gas price war. j Gasoline today is selling at 13.4 j ! cents in Chicago. 16'* cents ini ! Omaha, 13.9 cents in Kansas City, i I 22 cents in Louisville. Ky.; 11 cents j in Dallas, Tex., and from IS to 16 j cents in other parts of Texas, with | prices In other sections affected by the reductions varying according to freight rates. In Illinois. lowa, Michigan. Wis- j cousin, Minnesota. North Dakota, j South Dakota. Kansas, Missouri and i parts of Oklahoma, the cut made by j the Standard Oil Company of In- I 1 dlana. is 6.6 cents and that of in- j dependents In th<‘ S;une_ territory » I | (Continued on I'age 3. Column 3.) MUMMIES FOUND: MAN HELD j Husband Said to Have Ad- I mitted Slaying and Dismem bering Wife and Her Mother. j By die Associated Press, j MEDFORD, Mass., August 14. — | Nunie G. Tsekos of Franklin. X. H., j was arrested early today charged I with murder, after two boxes con } taining the dismembered bodies of two women were found in a field here, j The police said Tsekos had confessed that he killed his wife, Natalie, and her mother. Mrs. Katherine Adams, last Saturday night. According to the alleged confession. Tsekos quarreled with his wife and her mother at their home In Franklin over money matters and he declared they attacked him with a bat and a knife. He said he overpowered them and then stabbed his wife and cut Mrs. Adams' throat. He dragged their bodies to the cellar. Took Children to Boaton. Sunday morning, the confession con tinues. he took his three small chil dren and was driven to Boston in an automobile by Charles A. Clarke of Franklin. He left the children at his mother’s home and returned home. Sunday night, he said, he went to the cellar, dismembered the two bodies with a knife and put them In wooden boxes, nailing the covers down. Tsekos told the police that on Mon day morning he arranged with Clarke to drive him to Boston again. They started late in the day with the two boxes in the car. Last night. Clarke told the police, he became suspicious as to the contents of the boxes. On a j pretext he stopped the car and noti fied a policeman, who said he would report the matter, but did not appear to think it necessary to take any Im mediate action. Clarke said he then decided to drive on. Pat Boxes in Field. i Late at night the two men reached West Medford; Finding a 'bridge closed they stopped. Clarke said that Tsekos carried the boxes Into a field. I While he was doing this Clarke put his finger into a hole in one of the boxes and thought he felt flesh. He ran down the street and told his story to the first policeman he met. Early today a policeman saw a man running down a street, evidently in tending to board a trolley car. Ho ran after him, placed him under ar- 1 rest and took him to the police sta tion. There the man admitted that he was Tsekos. His alleged confession was made in the presence of the chief of police. A Washington Elm, Famed in History, Dead; Faces A x By the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE. Mass.. August 14. j I The Washington Elm is dead. The I official demise of the famed tree be- I heath which Washington took com- i mand of the Continental Army was i i announced yesterday by Dr. C. S. j Sargent, director of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard. University, in a letter to Mayor Edward W. Quinn j of Cambridge. "All signs of life have now gone from the Washington Elm.” Dr. Sargent wrote, "and there is no longer any chance of keeping it alive until the autumn. So far as I am concerned, it can be cut down at any time.” Mayor Quinn, it is learned, is eager to raise a fund from the school children of the country for a shaft to mark the historic spot when the tree has disappeared. The trunk will probably lie cut into smalt bits to be distributed as souvenirs among the museums of the country and the ] Cambridge schools. An offshoot of the Washington Elm i was planted on the Cambridge com mon forty years ago and now is ' flourishing. iSEESIRMENACE j | IN SOUTH AMERICA! i i Uruguayan Delegate to San | tiago Blames Argentine and Brazilian Armament. By the ARSoci«ted Press. MONTEVIDEO, August 14.'—Senator ! Glmenez de Arechaga, one of the Uru guayan delegates to the recent Pan- American conference at Santiago, yes terday asked the minister of war as to "the real state of efficiency of the Uruguayan army in tj»e event of an international conflict.”' Col. Riveros, the minister, replied that the government had appointed j special committees to study problems ! involved in better organization of the j army and navy. He added that the government would soon send to con- • gress a bill proposing a new plan for I the organization of the army. Senator Arechaga maintained that if i all nations of the South American continent were not near war. they } were confronted with the prospect of i living in an armed peace or under the J constant menace of war. "The Santiago conference," he said, "as well as a majority of the South American press, the' existence of deep currents of opinion which agl tate the multitudes on this continent.. Misgivings exist between all the American nations.” The senator asserted that “the A. B. C. Is existent only as a memory of an artificial and ephemeral union.” and expressed the opinion that the most disquieting factor In the situa- j tlon was in Argentina and Brazil. He analyzed the military and naval | developments of these countries, glv- I Ing figures which he said showed the exaggerated armaments of Brazil. This, he added, was undeniably the cause of the prevailing disquietude. The senator expressed the opinion that It was necessary for Uruguay to acquire strength in proportion to her dignity. The senate took no action. '| I # || Premier Baldwin Give* an ExeluiW# Interview—Fint Since He Became Prime X in titer—to Edward Price Bell 1 Which Will Be Publiihed Tomorrow in The Evening Star Mr. Bell, dean of American newspaper correspondents In * Europe, has been twenty years In London. He was the first man to break down the British objection to newspaper Inter views. He was the first man to get an Interview with a British secretary of state for foreign affairs (Sir Edward Grey). He • was the first to Interview a British lord chancellor. He per i suaded two British field mar shala and the admiral of the : ■ fleet to submit to Interviews. ! | And now he caps the climax of an unparalleled career In Ihls sphere of Journalism by inter viewing the prime minister of Great Britain, whom Ambassa- I dor Harvey has described "as ; coming nearer to speaking the American language than any other British statesman of his tory.” SHOOTS WIFE DEAD. THEN KILLS SELF i ' Daughter of Constable Garri-. son Victim of Double Hyattsville Tragedy. i ■ —■— Special Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE. Md.. August 14.—A two-month-old infant is today at the home of Constable and Mrs. Thomas H. Garrison, fatherless and mother less. as the result of a double tragedy | enacted on the streets here last night. The mother, Mrs. Ivy Estelle Garrison Cartmel, daughter of the constable, ! was shot dead by her husband, Beaver 1 J. Cartmel, who a moment later j turned the revolver to his head and | ended his life. The act is believed to have been the | culmination of an unsuccessful at- * tempt on the part of Cartmel to effect j a third reconciliation since the mar riage .September 29, 1921. A memo- I random found in Cartpiel’s pocket | j showed the couple were separated j . February 24. 1922; there was a recon- i i cijiation August 19, 1922. and another ! I separation May 10 of this year. On i June 11 a ha’iy was born. The shooting occurred about 9:30 { . o'clock last night in front of the Ar- I cade moving picture house. Spencer i I street near the Washington-Ilalti j more boulevard. Afraid of Husband. i According to Carroll L. Garrison, an overseas man. brother of the dead girl, when his sister was about to ! leave the theater she approached J him and asked that he accompany 1 I her home to the residence of her * parents. "I am afraid of Jack. I believe I felt a gun In his pocket and I want you to go home with me." she said. Fearing for the safety of his sis ter. "Toots,” as he is familiarlv known, went with his sister out of the front door of the theater. They had gone down the stex>s of the pic ture house and were well onto the sidewalk when Cartmel. who had gone out of the back door of the theater, came upon them. Cartmel displayed a gun and Garrison asked him what he was going to do with it. i Without warning, according to Gar- j j risOn, Cartmel opened tire on him, { j two shots missing him. although he i was but six feet from him. Realizing I j that trouble was brewing. Garrison rushed to his home for a gun. Em -1 mett D. Dowden of Hyattsville. fear j ing trouble, came out with "Toots” Garrison and his sister and. accord ( ing to his statement. Cartmel tired a I shot at him. Although there were no eyewit nesses to the murder and suicide, it | is believed that Cartmel, seeing that his wife's brother and Dowden had gone, deliberately fired- a bullet into his wife’s head and when she fell fired another shot into her body. Feeling certain he had killed her, ,Cartmel then placed the gun against his right temple and killed himself. When Dr. Hllliary T. Willis arrived he declared Mrs. Cartmel without pulse, but owing to the confusion (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) SITE MEET PICKED FOR SCHOOL! New Junior High Will Adjoin Rock Creek Parkway Be tween 24th and 25th. j The new junior high school pro vided for in the 1924 appropriation act will be located on N street between 24th and 23th streets, adjoining a sec tion of the Rock Creek parkway. This was made certain by the Com missioners today when, in board ses sion, they authorized the purchase of part of the site from Miss Margaret Loughran for $32,300. There is one more lot needed, but Assistant En gineer Commissioner Wheeler told the Commissioners he had not yet been able to negotiate for it. The appropriation act made $30,000 | available for a site and specified that it should be selected from the area j bounded by 20th street. Rock Creek, K I and O streets. Funds with which to begin erection | of the building probably will be I sought in the next appropriation The city heads also purchased sev eral additional lots adjoining the col ored Dunbar High School, which is on lat street northwest between N and O streets. t ♦ TWO CENTS. 200MEN TRAPPED AS BLAST BLOCKS MINE IN WYOMING Slight Hope Held Out for Many Entombed Near Kemmerer. FIRST BODY BROUGHT OUT BY RELIEF CREW | Pumpman Found Dead in Shaft. Explosion, Mile Below. Not Heard Above. By the Associated Press. KEMMERER, Wyo.. August 14 Two hundred miners in No. 1 mine of the Kemmerer Coal Company were entombed this morning following an explosion. The explosion occurred in the low er levels. A cave-in at entry No. 15, cut off all communication with the men who were working around the twenty-sixth and twenty-eighth en tries. Up to noon one body had been recovered. Relief workers immediately went to work. As they progressed to the seventeenth entry the body of a pump man was found. \»t Heard Above. Black clouds of smoke from the mine fan were the only indications of an explosion at first. No Intonation was heard above ground, as it was estimated to have taken place nearly a mile under ground. Nothing definite concerning the j condition of the entombed men lias | come from the depths of the mine, ; } but experts in mine-rescue work de- I | dared they saw little hope of rescu- | j mg the men alive. A United States mine-rescue car I which left Kemmerer this morning for 1 Utah fields nearby was hastily ordered to return. As the volunteer workers dug fran tically toward the entombed men, hun dreds of women and children, rela tives of the miners, waited patiently at the mouth of the mine for word from within. grueMlibit I ! AT KEENER TRIAL! ' I Courtroom Turned Into Morgue With Skull and Death Evidence. j 1 ! By m Staff Correspondent. FREDERICK. Mil.. August 14. i j Gruesome relics of death —the grin- j j iiing, hollow-eyed skull of a man long I dead, a gleaming surgeon’s scalpel and ‘ I bitjp of bone saved from the heads of j I unfortunate persons who had suffered ' ! violent ends converted (ho county 1 1 circuit court here into an all-too- I realistic nightmare this morning when j the trial of B. Evard Kepner for the murder of his wife was resumed. It was a day of harrowing te.sti- I mpny. of eerie details and sickening descriptions offered by surgeons and j autopsists, who sent cold chills down j the spines of spectators with the awful : njinuteness of their statements. And j a* the end of it all there remained tin* , lirospect of an even more revolting scene | —tlu* possibility of the murdered worn- j an's body once more being torn from | its grave to settle points on which med- i ical experts have failed to agree. Minty Leave Courtroom. Long before the hour for luncheon I I recess arrived men. women and j young girls who had filled every seat in the little chamber, where Kepner| is fighting for life and vindication I departed hurriedly, weak and sick I from the things they had heard and 1 Seen. They had gone there expecting j a sensation, the scene of a human | being on the wrack: They found 1 themselves in what looked more like j ihp autopsy room of a chill morgue. | In a desperate effort to break down 1 Sthe slate’s testimony from nationally prominent medical experts, that the j wound which destroyed Grace Sim- j hions Kepner's life could not have | been inflicted by herself, the defense j today began to jiut on the stand i equally prominent doctors who at- j tempted to prove that suicide was , J not only possible but quite likely, j And to lend weight to their argu- | ments they brought with them the i relics of their profession. Dr, J. Ramsay Nevitt. city coroner ! jof Washington, and Dr. Joseph D. ' Rogers, a former assistant coroner j (for the National Capital, were the i first two surprise witnesses sprung i by the defense. While Dr. Ramsay j ! would not. unqualifiedly swear that i he believed Mrs. Kepner had com- j niitted suicide. Dr. Rogers was posi- J Uve In that belief, and offered as[ proof of his theory the heads of three j sheep he had shot. Dr. Rogers asserted that he had I made at least thirty tests to deter mine whether a pistol held close to a» living head would make a large hole at the point of ingress and a ! stnall one at the point of egress, or [ \>ice versa. The test showed the I former to be the case, he said, and attempted to prove his statement by showing the effect pistol bullets had cbi the heads of the sheep. ■ Dr. Ira J. McCurdy, one of the best • known surgeons In this section of ! Maryland, who attended the autopsy I over the body of Mrs. Kepner. was j the fir.vt witness called by Leo Weln- 1 berg, counsel for the defense. Under j hjs arm he carried a small package ■ carelessly wrapped in newspaper. | Taking his seat, the surgeon slowly I unwrapped the package and a mo- j ment later produced a shining, brown- j Ish-black object that sent a gasp of herror around the crojvded court- 1 room. I « ; Autopsy Declared ••llungled.*’ ft was a human skull. A single I tooth remained in the upper jaw. and ! as' the surgeon placed the gruesome j object on the narrow rail of the wit- j neos box it began to slide pff toward \ thy floor. Two women in the crowd i of-spectators left precipitately, their] -(Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) ' “From Press to Home Within the Hour 9 * 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. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 90,036. U.S. READY TO FIGHT ANTHRACITE STRIKE WITH SUBSTITUTES First Coolidge Cabinet Meet ing Reveals Plans to Pre vent Suffering. PRESIDENT NOT TO CALL CONGRESS INTO SESSION All Members of Cabinet, Except Mellon, Reassure Executive They Will Keep Office. _ Plans have been perfected by the administration in the event of a coal strike in the anthracite field Septem ber l, it was revealed by a spokes man for the President today, to pre vent suffering on the part of the pub lic. Ever}' necessary substitute for anthracite coal to relieve the situa tion and prevent suffering will be furnished, it was announced. The spokesman for the President made known the executive's views following the President’s first meet ing with Iris cabinet. At this meet ing it is understood the coal situa tion was the most important topic under discussion. Warning to Doth Sides. The revelation that the administra tion had perfected plans to rush in substitutes for anthracite coal in th> event of a shutdown at the anthra • cite mines was interpreted as a I warning to both th.- operators and 1 miners the market in New England I and other places for hard coal might j he taken away, at least temporarily. : Apparently every effort will !».• made by the administration to bring . the operators and the miners to n | realization that it is to iheir intere.-' i to settle their differences. Situation \ow Different. It was pointed out that the situa tion this year in the case of an an thracite coal strike would be vastly different from the situatoin faced by j the people during the strike last year | and thereafter. A year ago there was a strike also in the bituminous coal j fields and a general shortage of coal | This year the bituminous mines have | been operating, and are operating ! still, as well as the anthracite. A year i ago there had been the shopmen's j strike on the railroads, making dis tribution of coal more difficult. This . year there has been no such strike, t No present situation demands ;t i special session of Congress, it was j stated at the White House. It is ; clear that the administration hopes • to be able to handle the coal slt j nation, even should there be a strike. ! without calling a special session of ■ Congress. However, it was made s clear that the President has not j foreclosed the matter of calling a special session if events in the future i should make a special session vitally ■ necessary. I l> to ConinilHMion. The handling of the coal situa- I won has been placed by law in the j hands of the United States Coal Com ‘ mission, it was pointed out, and for t that reason the administration is | dealing through tlie commission now. It is hoped that through mediation, it was explained, the Coal Com sion can bring about a settlement lof the controversy between the j anthracite operators ami the miners. I Technically, it was explained, the meeting which has been called by j the Coal Commission for tomorrow I in New York is not a conference in j the sensi- that the two contesting ; parties will he brought together. The i Coal Commission will find out from ■ each of the parties their real differ -1 enoes and then will be in a position ' to mediate. Coolidge to Stay Here. ! The President will remain in Wash i ington. it was explained, where he ; can be in close touch with all de | velopments. It is expected that at least four I members of the United States Coal j Commission will ho In New York for I the meeting tomorrow In the Penn- I sylvania Hotel with the mine op- I orators and the miners. They are I Chairman John Hfiys Hammond, for j mer Vice President Marshall. Dr. I George Otis Smith and Dr. Nelli, j Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania, j who was largely instrumental in 1 bringing about a settlement of the ! coal strike last year, has gone to | New York today. It is expected that j he. too, will do all in his power to j aid in bringing about an adjustment !of the differences between the op ! cratora and the miners. Cabinet Members to Keep Placet. Senatpr Keyes of New' Hampshire jis to have a conference with the ■ President tomorrow, and at that time. ■ it is expected, will discuss with the (President the coal situation in New j England. I One of the big problems which the j administration must face, should j there be a shutdown in the anthracite j mines, is distribution, and it Is un j derstood that the plans which have i been made give this matter much at tention. I President Coolidge made it known today for the' second time since be coming President that he Is desirous of retaining the services of every member of President Harding’s cabi net. It was stated that he has received the assurances from every individual member, with the exception of Secre tary of the Treasury Mellon, who is abroad, that he will continue to serve in his present official capacity. Follows Harding Policies. Indications were given at the While ; House today that President Coolidge j would follow policies enunciated by ! President Harding with respect to j collection of the foreign debts. It was said by an administration | spokesman that this government had | every Intention of going ahead with 1 its efforts to fund the present ob i ligations and collect them on the basis of such terms as may be agreed j upon by the American Debt Funding i Commission. Determined to Economize. j Emphasis was placed by a White i House spokesman today on Presi ! dent Coolldge’s determination to en force an economy program In gov -1 (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) ft “