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WEATHER.
(U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.)
Fair tonight and tomorrow; not
much change in temperature.
Temperatures—Highest. 95. occurred
at 5 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 70, oc
curred at 5 a.m. today.
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SCIENTISTS BARRED
AS WITNESSES FOR
DEFENSE OF SCOPES
UNLEASHING STORNI
Darrow and Judge Clash.
Former Gives Latter
“Right to Hope” Court’s
Integrity Is Not Attacked. *
DEFENSE IS PERMITTED
TO PUT CASE IN RECORD
Will Prepare Substance of What
Experts Would Have Testified.
Trial May Be Brought to Close
Monday—Haulston Says Law Is
Clear to Any Mind.
®y the Associated Press.
COURTROOM, DAYTON, Tenn.,
July 17.—After Judge John T. Raul
eton had excluded scientific testimony
In the Scopes case court was adjourned
until Monday morning at 9 o’clock.
The intervening time will be spent by
counsel for the defense in preparing
statements for the record of what
their witnesses would have testified
had they been permitted to take the
witness stand.
Judge Raulston’s decision to exclude
the experts from the witness stand
developed sharp clashes between
Arthur G. Hays and Judge Raulston
find Clarence Darrow in the court.
Mr. Darrow had asked for the rest
v of the day to draw up proof which the
defense wished to present. The Judge
asked if it would take the rest of the
day.
Mr. Darrow said he did not under
stand why every request of the de
fense was overruled.
Word Clash Is Torrid.
“I hope you do not mean to reflect
on the court,” said Judge Raulston.
"You have a right to hope,” replied
Darrow.
"I have a right to do something
else,” said Judge Raulston.
"All right, all right, then,” said Dar
row, apparently ending the clash.
Mr. Bryan insisted on the right of
cross-examination of the defense wit
nesses in the absence of the jury. He
* submitted that no one-sided case
should go before the higher courts.
"Mr. Darrow insisted on having the re
mainder of the day in which to pre
pare the statements of what his side
desired to put into the record.
“Well,” said Judge Raulston, “if
you think it will take the day. justice
is more important than time.”
Although court was in session only
30 minutes, the judge giving his de
cision at 9:51, it was stormy. After
defense attorneys had raised their
voices in vehement protest to the
court’s ruling, another argument de
. veloped on the .question of the week
end recess. The defense insisted on
this step, and while the State pro
tested, the court finally ruled for the
halt in the proceedings. Judge Raul
ston indicated, however, that on his
return to the bench Monday he would
Insist on the case moving more rap
idly. This was taken to mean that
the case might- end Monday.
Stewart Hits Defense.
Attorney General Stewart said that
the defense wished to conduct a cam
• paign of education for their theories
of education and evolution through
the medium of this trial.
The State offered no objection, he
said, to permitting the defense to j
offer the substance of the testimony i
in affidavit form.
Dudley Field Malone denied that a ]
campaign of education was being con-!
ducted although he said he thought I
the way in which the defense had j
conducted the case was educational, i
He said that the defense was meeting j
propaganda started by ‘‘a distinguish- j
ed member of prosecution counsel.”
Judge Raulston said he was not in-j
dined, after having given an opinion, j
to hear testimony to show that the
opinion was wrong.
Mr. Darrow heatedly said that if |
such witnesses are put on the stand I
it would not be proper to cross-ex
amine them. It would be the purpose
of such testimony, he said, to show ;
what the defense expected to prove, j
It the defense wishes to put its proof j
into the record in the form of affi
davits it has that privilege of so do- '
ing. If it puts witnesses on the stand j
to show what it expects to prove,
then the State has the right to cross
examine.
Text of Opinion.
Judge Raulston in his opinion ex- ;
eluding scientific testimony said: I
"This case is now before the court I
upon a motion by the attorney gen- |
• eral to exclude from the consideration
of the jury certain expert testimony
offered by the defendant, the import j
of such testimony being an effort to |
explain the origin of man and life.
The State insists that such evidence I
is wholly irrelevant, incompetent and j
unimportant to the issues impending .
and that it should be excluded.
"Upon the other hand, the defend- i
ant insists that this evidence is high- I
. ly competent and relevant to the j
issues involved and should be ad- j
mitted.”
He read the first section of the j
statute involved in this case and '
added:
“The State says that it is both I
proven and admitted that this de- ;
fendant did teach in Rhea County, J
within the limits of the statute, that j
man descended from a lower order •
of animals, and that with these facts j
ascertained and proven, it has met j
the requirements of the statute and j
lias absolutely established the defend- I
ant's guilt, and with his guilt thus I
admitted and established his ultimate |
conviction is unavoidable and in- '
evitable and no amount of expert tes
timony can aid and enlighten the
court and jury upon the real issues
or affect the final results.
“In other words, tne State insists!
that by a fair and reasonable construe- I
tion of the statute the real offense
provided against in the act is to teach
that man descended from a lower order
of animals, and that when this is ac
complished by a fair interpretation
and by legal implication the whole of
fense is proven. That is. the State
says, that the latter clause interprets
end explains what (lie legislature j
meant and intended by the use of the ;
clause 'any theory that denies the
xfctory of divine creation as taught in I
Danes Knew Little
Os Senate’s Needs,
Borah Declares
By the Associated Press.
FILEft, Idaho, July 17. —Com-
ment regarding the stand taken
by Vice President Dawes on Sen
ate rules was contained in an ad- .
dress by William E. BorafT Idaho’s
senior Senator, before about 3,000
farmers last night.
“Don’t be worried about Vice
President Dawes,” he declared.
“When he launched his attack
upon Senate rules he did not know
very much about them, as he has
several times since admitted.”
The Senator then eulogized the
present rules and the filibuster,
saying that no good measure was
ever permanently killed by the fili
buster, while many bad ones, once
talked to death, have not been
able to come back.
BELGIUM AGREES
10 EVACUATE ROHR
Will Leave Cities She Holds
in General With
drawal.
By ths Associated Press.
BRUSSELS, July 17.—The Belgian
government has agreed with the
French and British for the early
evacuation of Duesseldorf, Duisburg
and Ruhrort, simultaneous with the
evacuation of other places in the
Ruhr.
Recent dispatches have said prepa
rations were being completed for the
allied evacuation of the Ruhr not
later than August 16. the date fixed
by the London agreement of 1924,
which put the Dawes plan into effect.
Already a number of small towns in
the Ruhr have been evacuated. Essen
and Bochum are to be freed soon.
Duesseldorf, Duisburg and Ruhrort
are 80-call'ed “sanctions cities” and
their evacuation was made conditional
by the London agreement upon Ger
many’s fulfillment of her Dawes plan
obligations.
Although some allied troops already
have been withdrawn from the Ruhr
and other withdrawals are continuing
every day, political police will remain
until August 16 as an indication that
the occupation technically continues
to the date specified by the London
agreement.
Reply to Briand O.K.'d.
BERLIN, July 17 OP).—The Reich
stag foreign affairs committee by a
large majority has approved the prin
ciples of the German government’s re
ply to Foreign Minister Briand’s note
of June 18, which answered the pro
posal made by Germany in February
for a western European security pact.
(Dispatches from Berlin on Tuesday
said the tentative draft of the French
note was completed. Germany was
expected to express readiness to join
the League of Nations upon certain
conditions, one of them being the com
pletion of the allied evacuation of the
occupied areas.)
COUNSEL DROPS PLEA
FOR ARMY COMMUNIST
Attorney for Arthur Trumbull,
Sentenced as Red, Gives No
Reason for Action.
By the Associated Press.
HONOLULU, July 17. —Attorney
Fred Patton, counsel for Paul Crouch
and Arthur Trumbull, soldiers sen
tenced by general court-martial io 40
and 26 years’ imprisonment, respec
tively, for attempting to organize
a revolutionary Communist league
among soldiers here, has withdrawn
Trumbull’s petition for a writ of
habeas corpus to set aside the de
cision of the court-martial. He did not
state his reasons, but began his argu
ment for the petition on behalf oft
Crouch.
It was announced here after the de
cision of the court-martial that the
sentence on Crouch and Trumbull
probably tvould be materially reduced.
RUSSIAN IN SHANGHAI _
RIOTS TO BE DEPORTED
Court Refuses to Convict Dosser,
But Recommends Expelling
From China.
By the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, Julit 17.—The British
assessor. C. E. Vhitamore, and Magis
trate Zua, sitting in the mixed court
today, dismissed the charges of being
identified with the recent riots against
Zinovis Dosser, Russian, but ruled he
was “an extremely undesirable resi
dent of the setltement, and he will
therefore be handed over to the Chi
nese authorities with the request that
he be deported.”
The court decided that the docu
ment found in Dosser’s possession
identifying him with the riots was
genuine, but his activities did not
warrant his conviction.
The arrest of Dosser was followed
by a protest from the Soviet govern
ment to the British and Chinese gov
ernments. in which a demand was
made for the punishment of those re
sponsible for the arrest.
Sargent Visits Sick Grandchild.
Attorney General Sargent left here
today for his hbme in Ludlow. Vt., to
be near his little granddaughter Mary
Gordon Pearsons, who is ill.
“Alternate Eating and Long Fasts 99
Best for Health 9 Is Scientist’s Vieiv
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 17.—For better
health, alternately eat and take long
j fasts, advises Frederick Hoelzel, lay
scientist of the University of Chicago
physiology department. He has fin
ished a 33-day fast.
Prolonged hunger is not the ordeal
that hunger strikers would lead the
public to think, he says, for he never
felt better in his life. He lost 30
| pounds during the period of abstention.
I but regained 20 of it in less than eight
days afterward”
i Easters should go on a meat diet
j immediately preceding their enforced
Jmngeiy .Hoelzel did and felt perfectly
%hc Mtuetiiitig Sfctf.
V y J \ X WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION
PRESIDENT STUDIES
PLAN TO HALT COAL
STRIKE WITH DAVIS
Determines to Take Hand if
Miners Quit Work on
September 1.
SECRETARY TO RETURN
BEFORE CONTRACT ENDS
Labor Department to Keep in
Touch With Parley While Head
Is in Europe.
By the Associated Press.
SAY AM PSCOTT, Mass.. July IT.—
The Government will take a hand In
the anthracite coal field wage negotia
tions should an agreement not be
reached and a strike called on Sep
tember 1.
The program which the Government
will pursue in the event of a strike
was discussed at a three-hour confer
ance here today by President Coolidge
and Secretary Davis.
The specific plan of the Government
was not disclosed. Secretary Davis
ventured no opinion as to the outcome
of the wage negotiations now under
way. He pointed out. however, that
the Department of Labor, through
two mediators, was keeping in close
touch with the discussion of the op
erators and the miners and was hop
ing that*an agreement would be
reached before the present wage con
tracts expire on August 31.-
Will Return August 25.
Secretary Davis came to the
White Court to discuss several de
partmental matters before sailing to
morrow for England, but the coal
situation received particular empha
sis during his conference with the
Executive. There was no hint by
the President of the plan of pro
cedure by the Government in case
a strike is called. Mr. Davis will,
however, return to this country on
August 25, a week before the expira
tion of the present wage agreement
in the anthracite field.
While in England the Secretary ex
pects to study industrial conditions,
a study which was interrupted two
years ago when he was called back
by the death of President Harding.
DEMAND SALARIES BE TOLD.
Miners Declare ‘’High-Priced Law
yers” Increase Costs.
ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.. July 17
UP). —Anthracite miners today de
manded that operators reveal salaries
they paid to presidents, directors and
“high-priced lawyers” for considera
tion in determining labor costs in
anthracite production. The mine own
ers refused on the ground that such
information was irrelevant.
The scale conference adjourned until
Tuesday afternoon.
Tn describing the demand a miners'
spokesman said: “So far we have been
unable to get a statement from the
operators on the labor cost of mining
anthracite coal. In order to ascertain
all the facts that enter into this
charge, we requested the operators to
day to submit to the the
salaries of presidents of coal com
panies, of members of boards of di
rectors and the huge sum paid to
high-priced attorneys. We believe
that the total represents a substantial
item in the cost of labor in the hard
coal business.
Information Refused.
“The operators did not indicate their
willingness to furnish this informa
tion, which they regarded as irrelevant
and not deserving of consideration.”
The conference touched briefly again
on the method of paying contract
miners' laborers, with the miners con
tending that operators were violating
some sections of the present agree
ment.
After adjournment Phillip Murray,
miners’ international vice president,
said that the miners’ representation
on the scale subcommittee had full
authority to negotiate a renewal of
the agreement expiring August 31. Ha
added that the absence of President
John L. Lewis lessened in no way
he authority the members could exer
cise, and pointed out that the 1920
agreement in the hard coal fields was
reached without Mr. Lewis being pres
ent.
It had been planned to adjourn for
one week during the district conven
tion at Wilkes-Barre, commencing
Monday, but a desire to convince the
public that no time was being wasted
here is believed to have actuated
miners and mine owners in decid
ing to keep to their work regard
less of the Wilkes-Barre sessions.
Nevertheless, it was considered
doubtful by close observers whether
either side would show v its trump
cards here until after the Wilkes-
Barre convention.
Will Attend Convention.
Thomas Kennedy, miners' interna
tional secretary-treasurer and for
mer president of District 7. will
head a delegation of committeemen
attending the opening of the conven
tion. They will return in time for
the Tuesday session.
Miners yesterday challenged mine
owners to submit hard coal prices to
public investigation to determine
whether enough could not be saved
to give the public cheaper fuel and
(Continued on Page 3. Column _ 2.f""
normal the first two days of the fast.
He had a hard time walking from the
third to the seventh day, then he ex
perienced a slight weakness. No dis
tinct hunger was felt until after the
third week. Y
The for food after the third
week overtopped everything else in
the life of the faster. All interest ex
cept in things to eat waned. Pains
caused by contraction of the stomach
prevented sleep. No headaches werf
experienced and hot weather was
found favorable.
Hoelzel broke the fast with orange
juice. Ten days later he ate a pound
of steak, a pound of shrimp, a pound,
of halibut and a pound-olLsalmon*
WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1925—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES.
T c
FRENCH CASUALTIES
IN MOROCCO 4,148
Press Dispatch Places
Losses Above Estimate
of Painleve.
By the Associated Press.
PARIS, July 17. —Total French cas
ualties so far in the Moroccan War
with Abd-el-Krim’s Riffians are given
by the Petit Journal in a Fez dis
patch as 4,148. Os these 707 were
killed. 2,775 wounded and 666 missing.
French authorities estimate Abd-el-
Krlm has not more than 30 French
prisoners. Therefore those technical
ly listed missing are regarded as dead.
These are the first detailed figures
published of French casualties. Pre
mier Painleve, after his recent return
from Morocco, assured the Chamber
of Deputies French losses were not
so g’reat as rumored, but he avoided
giving- figures.
Troops in Line Continually.
The Petit Journal’s Fez correspond
ent says Abd-el-Krim has so reduced
the French effectives In Morocco that
they are dally becoming less efficient.
French troops, because their num
j bers are insufficient, are compelled to
)be in the fighting line constantly,
j with no rest periods whatever. They
j are carrying on under terriffic heat,
j and the correspondent insists it is im
| perative that they be relieved soon.
He demands additional aviation units
and says the present French bombing
planes in Morocco have a radius of
only 18 miles over the enemy lines,
and that pursuit planes are badly
needed.
The correspondent declares German
aviators are fighting with Abd-el-Krim.
One, he said, is named Von Dietrich,
a former member of Gen. von Hinden
burg’s staff.
He advocates the bombardment of
Adjir. Abd-el-Krim’s headquarters, by
the Spanish fleet or by French air
planes, and declares it is necessary for
the French to use native methods of
warfare against the Riffians —meaning
the destruction of property and con
fiscation of harvests, the penalizing of
i tribes who do not assist the French
| and the taking of hostages from tribes
I whose fidelity wavers.
Tribe’s Tactics Cited.
j He says Abd-el-Krim took 200 host
! ages from the Beni Zeroual clan, shot
I half of them and intlicted a fine of
j 2,000,000 francs on the tribe, in addi
tion to confiscating quantities oS its
goods. The writer says Marshal
Lyautey, French active commander in
Morocco, has “seen the necessity of
this procedure,” and that he is or
ganizing a force to put it into prac
tice.
The French government is throw
ing one of its strongest pieces into
! the game in the person of Marshal
■ Petain, who commanded the French
! armies during the latter part of the
: World War.
I The marshal left last night for
j Toulouse, planning to go thence by
[airplane to Rabat, the seat of the
j French governor general of Morocco.
“We must try to give confidence to
! the troops who have been fighting
; without respite for many weeks and
who have accomplished a superhuman
feat,” he said.
Reinforcements Coming.
“Reinforcements are arriving by
land and sea—an army corps by the
Oranese frontier toward Taza and an
uninterrupted stream of effectives by
way of Casablanca.
“This reassuring stream is flowing
without pause from the east and west,
and it is indispensible that «its flow
be uninterrupted.”
Petain’s task will be to employ the
reinforcements to the best advantage,
with the object of definitely defeating
his swarthy opponent and hurling him
back into the Riff country, in the
Spanhjh protectorate.
The marshal is vice president under
Foch of the Superior War Council,
and It is remarked that if he is going
in this high capacity more importance
is being given to the Moroccan opera
tions than has hitherto been shown by
the French government.
It is expected that he will remain
in Morocco for a fortnight. He was
accompanied on his departure by Gen.
Georges, an experienced Moroccan
campaigner, and Col. Paquin.
Xauliu Due in Paris.
Gen. Naulin, recently named com
mander-in-chief of the forces in Mo
rocco, is expected to arrive at Mar
seille from the Ruhr early tomorrow
morning, there to take ship for Casa
blanca. This would land him in Mo
rocco next Tuesday.
While the French mobilize their
strategists and troops, the American
Volunteer Flying Squadron is prepar
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Ear tics Age May Be
1,200,000,000 Years ,
Scientist Declares
By the Asoociated Press
KOENIGSBURG, Germany, July
17. —The approximate age of the
earth, in the opinion of Prof. Wil
heilm Eitel, is from 1,100,000.000 to
1.200.000,000 years. An account of
his investigations, just published
here, shows .he arrived at these
figures through calculation of the
radioactivity of various strata of
earth, using pre-cambian stone for
mations as representing ths-. oldest
known minerological deposits.
WORK WON’T HUH,
HE AVERS FLATLY
Has No Intention of Resign
ing—Is in Line as Succes
sor to Weeks.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 17.—Hubert Work.
Secretary of the Interior, has no in
tention whatever of resigning.
His flat denial of rumors of his
imminent retirement from the cabi
net came as he passed through Chi
cago en route to Washington after a
five-week tour of Government recla
mation projects in the Northwest.
“Everytime you hear a report like ;
that,” he told newspaper men. “just |
write a denial and publish it the
next day. *1 have no intention what
ever of resigning."
Secretary- Work, who has set at
rest definitely' widely published rumors i
that he was about to resign, has had i
some alluring offers for his services I
from private concerns, but it has j
been well understood here for some
time that he had decided to accept
none of them.
When those who were seeking to
induce him to retire from the Gov
ernment service became insistent
some months ago. President Coolidge
so unreservedly expressed his confi
dence in the Secretary and so
strongly urged him to remain in the”;
cabinet that Mr. Work agreed to
do so.
Having demonstrated his admin
istrative ability as the head, success
ively, of the Post Office and Interior
Departments, he is regarded by Mr.
Coolidge as a man of unusual fitness
for high public office. For that rea
son it is believed that should a
vacancy occur in the secretaryship
of War, Mr. Work would be well in
the forefront of those considered as
a successor to Secretary Weeks. The
latter now is recovering from a seri
ous illness and is expected to return
to Washington this Fall, but it would
cause no surprise among his friends
here if he should decide later to give I
up the strenuous duties of War Sec
retary.
Not only because of his executive
experience, but through service as a
reserve officer during the World
War Mr. Work has acquired a men
tal equipment which the President
is known to believe would eminently
fit him for the War secretaryship.
RESERVE FLYER KILLED
IN LANGLEY FIELD FALL
Lieut. De Podesta’s First Flight
as Pilot Proves Fatal—Plane
Crashes in Flames.
Lieut. Anthony De Podesta. an
Armv reserve flyer of Swissvale, Pa.,
was killed at Langley Field. Hampton,
Va.. today when his plane went into
a spin from which be was unable to
recover.
Lieut. De Podesta was making his
first flight In a Thomas-Morse pursu/
plane. , The flight was part of the an
nual two weeks' active training taken
by reserve officers at Langley Field
during the Summer.
The plane crashed on the edge of
the field in some woods and burst Into
flames, igniting the growth about it.
Lieut. De Podesta is survived by
his widow and two children, who are
staying at the field, but who did not
witness the accident.
Col. Mapes Killed in Crash.
DENVER, Colo., July 17 UP).—
Lieut. Col. VV. A. Mapes, former com
manding officer of Fort Logan, near
here was killed today when his auto
mobile crashed into a trolley car.
Lieut. Col. Mapes was a patient at
Fitzsimmons Hospital and had recent
ly been relieved of the Fort Logan
command and attached to the 7th
Jnfantry at Spokane.
CONFESSION STAYS
BROTHER’S HANGING
Scott, Few Hours From Scaf
ford, Reprieved, as Kin
Admits; Crime.
By the Associated Press. •
CHICAGO. July 17. —There were
aces in the hand of Russell Scott as
he played what he thought his last
game of cards early this morning in
death row in the county jail while
awaiting his hanging at dawn for
murder.
Before he could play them he got
a new deal in the form of a seven
day reprieve from the governor after
he had abandoned all hope.
The reprieve was really a message
from Scott's missing brother Robert,
the man whom Scott always has said
did the killing for which he was sen
tenced to death and whom he pre
dicted would step out of obscurity to
save him from the gallows.-
Confession Telegram.
Gov. Small, resting in a sanatorium,
actually wrote the reprieve, but based
it on the telegram. Ten hourw pre
viously he had refused the supplica
tions of Scott’s young wife and aged
father for executive clemency. Scott
was to hang at 6:30 o'clock this morn
ing. Instead, the hour found him
sleeping soundly in his prison bunk
in death row. his guards and erstwhile
card partners reduced to double soli
taire in the visitors’ quarters.
The telegram, which reached the
governor shortly before midnight, was
ftom Detroit. It read:
“Qelay hanging of my brother. I
will "be in to surrender myself. I am
the one who shot Joseph Mauer.
(Signed) “ROBERT SCOTT.”
Scott was sentenced for the murder
of Mauer. a drug clerk, in a robbery
here April, 1924.
The trial court and the SupreYne
Court of Illinois held that the brother
had no part in the killing, and. acting
on those findings. Gov. Small first de
clined to consider the application for
a reprieve or commutation of sentence
to life imprisonment.
Resigned to End.
Russell Scott, five years ago head
of a $30,000,000 Ontario engineering
corporation, later a vaudeville actor,
author, bootlegger, robber and nar
cotic peddler, was resigned to his end
on the gallows when the reprieve
came. But he still protested his inno
cence.
“Some day they’ll discover the
truth: some day they’ll know the mis
take they made,” he soliloquized be
tween deals at cards before the arrival
of the reprieve.
Authorities today began an inquiry
to determine if the telegram was a
fraud. One report which came to
them was that the message had been
given to a messenger boy in the street.
Scott's penchant for writing found
expression in works on business ethics
and books on how to succeed. Among
his titles are “Mind Your Mind,” and
“Humanity and Business,” both large
ly written in jail.
Chief of Detectives Schoemaker was
explosive in his comment on the re
prieve.
Prosecutor Skeptical.
"The whole thing is rotten. When
Scott was captured he admitted to
me that he shot the drug clerk, who
was struggling with his brother. He
was Identified in more than 20 other
drug store robberies. He should have
been hung and his brother with him.
“People have the idea they can re
form murderers by putting them on
a nice farm and feeding them oysters
and buttermilk.”
Assistant State's Attorney Gorman,
who opposed a reprieve for Scott be
fore the State Board of Pardons this
week said the telegram was “a fake,
pure and simple.”
“If Robert Scott was sincere, he
would have walked into the police
station and given himself up instead
of sending a telegram.
“We will hang Russell Scott next
(Continued on Page 3, Column 2.)
Moscow Girds for War as Mobs Burn
Foreign Flags , Swedish Dispatch Says
BY F. A. MoKENZIE.
By Cable to The Star and Chlcaro Daily
News.
STOCKHOLM, July 17.—Stock
holm Tidningen publishes sensa
tional dispatches from Moscow'
describing war preparations and
anti-foreign agitation there directed
particularly against England.
At a demonstration by young
Communists at Minsk, the Ameri
can, British, Polish and Rumanian
flags are reported to have been
publiqly burned«_ihe British ha vine
“From Press to Home
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.
UP) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS
Planes Collide
In Midair , Three
Aviators Killed
By the Associated Press
CHALON-SUR SAONE, France,
July 17. —Three aviators were kill
ed today In a midair collision of
two training planes at an aviation
school here.
The accident occurred when a
student flyer cut across the route of
an instructor's machine, ramming
it amidships.
GLASS-CASED FOOD
PLAN IS PROTESTED
Is Impractical and Unneces
sary, District Commission
ers Are Told.
Market dealers, storekeepers, whole
sale merchants and baking companies
United today in appealing to the Com
missioners not to adopt the revised
regulations recommended by Health
Officer Fowler, which would require
that many commodities be kept in
glass cases.
All of the speakers expressed the
belief that conditions in Washington
do not justify the proposed require
ments, and contended the Health De
partment inspectors have ample au
thority to take action in individual
cases where they find any unwhole
some commodity.
Edwin C. Brandenburg, speaking
for baking companies, declared there
was no necessity for the glass-case re
quirement, and added it as his belief
that the question would not have been
raised had it not been for the recent
report of the Department of Agricul
ture concerning methods of handling
foodstuffs here and in other cities.
Mr. Brandenburg characterized the
report of the Agriculture Department
as "unjustified and uncalled for,” and
said it was a mistake for the Health
Department to get “stage fright” as
a result of the Agriculture Depart
ment incident.
Engineer Commissioner Bell inter
rupted to point out that Dr. Fowler
had recommended the revised regu
lation because of a recent court de
cision in a Health Department case.
Dr. Fowler explained that the regu
lation for the protection of foodstuffs
from flies, dust and other contamina
tion begins by referring to “unin
closed” places.
Several of the attorneys present sug
gested to the Commissioners that the
object sought by Dr. Fowler, namely,
to make the existing regulation apply
with equal force to all places, could
be covered by eliminating or adding
to the word “uninclosed.”
Will Confer with Fowler.
After hearing lengthy arguments
Commissioner Fenning announced the
board would confer further on the
subject with Dr. Fowler and Cor
poration Counsel Stephens before tak
ing any action.
Percival Marshall, attorney for the
Louisiana Avenue Merchants’ Asso
ciation, told the Commissioners the
glass case requirement would lie tin
necessary and unreasonable for the
dealers along Louisiana avenue. He
declared it would be impossible, even
with glass cases, to comply with the
proposal of the Health Department
that meats be kept at a temperature
of 55 dgrees in Summer. He ex
plained that the bulk of the market
business is transacted between 6 and
11 o’clock in the morning and that
during that time the meats are dis
posed of so rapidly that there is no
danger in keeping meats on the block
while they are being cut and sold.
He pointed out that during this busy
period of the morning, if the dealers
were required to have glass cases,
they would be constantly putting the
meats in and taking them out. mak
ing it impossible to maintain the re
quired temperature.
Joseph Falk, a wholesaler, stated
that the wholesale business along
Louisiana avenue could not possibly
be carried on if the large quantities
of goods which must be displayed to
buyers were required to be in cases.
Columbus Joins Protest.
Charles J. Columbus, representing
the Merchants and Manufacturers’
Association, entered general opposition
to the showcase requirement for food
stuffs as being unnecessary and un
reasonably burdensome, and then pre
sented a dozen dealers, who gave de
tailed reasons why the new regulation
is not needed.
Attorney Marshall sought to im
press on the Commissioners that the
dealers themtlPlves are vitally inter
ested in keeping their commodities
wholesome, pointing out that thev
must protect their commodities if they
wish to retain their patronage.
John Brayshaw, jr., representing the
retail grocers, expressed the belief
that the Health Department has am
ple regulatory authority to protect the
food supply. The department mav
need more inspectors, but they do not
need additional regulations, he de
clared.
Among others who spoke were W.
\V. Millan of the O Street Market Co.,
Harry Sherbey of the Louisiana ave
nue group, Karl Corby of the Corby
Baking Co.. John Blick of the Conven
tion Hall Market and representatives
of the Arcade and Riggs Markets.
POLAR QUEST STARTED.
Canadian Explorer at Spitzbergen.
Ice Conditions Favorable.
LONDON, July 17 (^).—The corre
spondent of the Morning Post at Oslo,
Norway, reports that the Arctic expe
dition under Cirettir AlgaTsson. young
British Columbia explorer, has ar
rived at Green Harbor, Spitzbbergen,
from Belfast, intending to go as far
north as possible.
Ice conditions are very favorable.
been first trailed In the dust and
torn to pieces.
All officers of the general staff on
leave have been recalled by tele
graph and war material is being
rushed to the Polish and Ruma
nian frontiers, while groups are
being prepared in foreign coun
tries, mainly consisting of unem
ployed, to create trouble i>ehind
the lines. Investia repeats reports
about the British intention to re
vive the blockade.
(Copyright. 1925. by Chicago Daily News.)
Yesterday’s Circulation, 95,051
NEW RAIL BRIDGE
PLANNED IN MILE
ALEXANDRIA LINK
Short Line Will Run to Lough
borough Tract West
of Capital.
WILL OPEN AREA HERE
TO COMMERCIAL FIELD
Backers of Project See Inducement
Offered to Industry to Locate
Near Washington.
Eleven miles of railroad, costing
$3,000,000 and linking the big Cameron
yards at Alexandria with that section
of Washington around the Dalecarlia
Reservoir, are soon to be constructed
by the Washington Loughborough
Belt Line and Terminal Co. and a Vir
ginia corporation now in the process
of formation.
In addition to giving Washington a
new connecting link to the busy
freight yards at Alexandria, the project
contemplates the construction of an
other bridge across the Potomac
River, to be located just above the
District line, thus relieving the span
now used by all roads entering Wash
ington from the South of such over
whelming traffic.
Plans ror the new railroad line,
which is expected to open a new sec
tion of Washington to commercial
progress, were outlined today by Al
bert W. Walker, president of the Al
lan E. Walker Co., parent corporation
of the Loughborough Development Co.
They are the outgrowth of projects
previously started by the late Allan
E. Walker in visualizing the continual
growth of Washington as a com
mercial center.
Route Is Announced.
The route of the proposed new line
will skirt Ballston, Clarendon and
Cherrydale, also opening up to those
places new commercial advantages.
At Loughborough, on the Conduit
road, extensive freight yards and
refrigeration plants are to be in
stalled. It is said the new line will
cut the haul of freight from the
South something like 19 miles. The
run over the new road will be ap
proximately 9 miles, whereas the pres
ent route of freight from the South
is 30 miles.
Those interested in the developfnent
are: Admiral Austin M. Knight, Le
roy Gaddis, jr.: Albert W. Walker,
W. Edgar Leedv, George S. New
comer, Harry A. Blessing and Douglas
R. Rose.
The War Department has approved
plans for the bridge. It is pointed
out that at present freight front the
South consigned to Washington via
the Southern Railway, the Seaboard
Air Line, the Atlantic Coast Line and
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad is
routed through the Cameron yard,
near Alexandria, to the “much-con
gested Potomac yards” outside Alex
andria and then across one railroad
bridge and through many congested
terminals and troublesome tunnels
through and around the city via
Hyattsville. The Washington and
Loughborough Belt Line and Ter
minal Co.’s plans will mean an almost
direct communication, avoiding tun
nels and congested freight yards to
the Loughborough development, where
wholesale marketing houses and re
frigerating plants will be erected.
Point Out Advantages.
Those interested in the development
feel that it will mean much for Wash
ington. and they point out that while
Washington is fourteenth in popula
tion. it ranks 119th industrially in the
list of American cities.
According to Mr. Walker. the
Loughborough Belt and Terminal Co.
proposes to supply the inducements
necessary to invite manufacturers,
jobbing and wholesale activities on a
scale that will aid Washington’s mer
chants to reduce the per capita cost
of living in the District of Columbia.
“Activities of a wholesale and job
bing nature and warehousing facilities
which are to be developed at Lough
borough by the companies can render
store-door delivery to retailers. Mr.
Walker said, through a fleet of trucks
which will be operated by the Wash
ington Loughborough and Belt Line
Terminal Co.
TIDAL WAVES REPORTED
ALONG LAKE ONTARIO
Waters Recede, Then Rush Back,
Carrying Driftwood Dp
on Shore.
Bj* the Associated Press.
ROCHESTER. N. Y.. July 17.
Tidal waves have been reported along
the shore of Lake Ontario from Char
lotte to Forest Lawn during a heavy
thundershower.
A summer resident near Forest
j Lawn reported that the waters of the
! lake yesterday receded about 8 feet
and then rushed back, carrying drift
j wood up the shore for several feet
i The water again receded slowly and
1 the phenomenon was repeated.
I At Ontario Beach Park a severe
squall, accompanied by thunder and
lightning, attended the tidal waves.
The water rose slowly and then re
ceded about 40 feet. This was re
peated several times, each time on a
lesser scale. No damage was re
ported.
FACE WOUNDS IN DUEL.
i Deputy Conti and Journalist of
Rome in Sword Combat.
ROME. July 17 04>).—Oeputy Gio
vanni Conti of Rome and Curseio
Suckert, a journalist, fbught a duel
yesterday, in which each received sev
eral minor face wounds. Conti chal
lenged Suckert because he took of
fense at a newspaper article by the
latter. Physicians stopped the com
bat after Conti had received a par
ticularly bad cut near the eye.
(Opponents of dueling recently
launched a campaign in Rome to end
what they described as "a silly sur
vival of romanticism." The number
ofjduels in Rome, usually not result
ing in serious injuries, has greatly in
creased lately.)
Gives $1,000,000 to School.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 17 UP). -
Washington University here has an-
I nounced a gift of $1,000,000 from
I Charles Rehstock, retired business
man and bank director.