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WEATHER.
(U. 9. Weather Bureau Forecast.)
Showers and probably thunder
storms ton’.ght and tomorrow; little
change In temperature.
Temperatures—Highest, 86. at noon
today: lowest. 66. at 6 a.m. today.
Full report on page 5.
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50,000 WHITE-ROBED
KLANSMEN ASSEMBLE
FOR COLORFUL MARCH
Hooded Host, Without Masks, in
Line for Parade, to Start
at 3 P.M.
KEEP EYES AHEAD, NEVER FALTER,
MARCHERS WARNED IN ADVANCE
W omen and Children Part of Gigantic
Throng Pouring Into Capital for
Vivid Demonstration.
A great throng ot hooded but unmasked men, women and chil
dren, in the regalia of the knights of the Ku Klux Klan, assembled
today within the shadow of the United States Capitol, ready for
the signal that will send them marching down Pennsylvania avenue
in the strangest procession the Nation’s Capital has ever witnessed.
Thousands of these white-robed figures, old and young, had
congregated east of the Capitol, flaunting American flags and ban
ners emblazoned with the mystic symbols of the Klan in a mild
Summer’s breeze, long before the hour set for the start of the
unique parade. There were men in white satin robes; they were
the kleagles, dragons, kligrapps and other high officers in the va
rious State units. Others wore garments of a cheaper material;
they were the rank and file of the “invisible empire.’’ Mingling
with them, in countless numbers, were the families of the Klans
men —women and children who will swell the ranks of the hooded
knights in their march from the Capitol to the Sylvan Theater, at
the foot of the Washington Monument.
■ Sandwiched between almost every delegation was a Ku Klux
band, its members garbed in natty white and blue fringed uniforms.
These bands have a difficult mission. It is their duty to endeavor
to keep in step the vast untrained multitude of marchers. Fezz
topped Klansmen, who compose the crack drill units of the order,
also were sprinkled among the throngs at the numerous points of
formation.
Begin Forming Early.
The head of the procession began
forming at First and B streets north
east shortly after 1 o'clock. By that
time many delegations had been mar
shaled on virtually every corner as
far east as Fifteenth street northeast,
waiting impatiently to fall into line.
Other contingents moved slowly up
Capitol Hill toward the end of the for
mation as late as 1:30 'tfclock.
A District Klangman with a chart
stood on the base of the Peace Monu
ment, giving instructions to the dele
gations as they arrived to learn their
point of formation. These details had
been guarded secretly until the last
moment, and even after the contigents
had taken their designated positions
behind the parade route, Klan officials
ret used to make public the formation
points of the different Klan bodies.
Visible signs of fatigue manifested
themselves in the Klansmen several
hours before the start of the parade.
Small groups lounged about on curb
stones and grassy lawns. Many spent
the hours preceding the parade in
the ice cream and soft drink stores
around their concentration points.
Pennsylvania and New Jersey del
egations seemed to predominate in
the formations behind the head of
the procession. Ohio, also, had a
number of delegations.
Parade to Start at 3.
Promptly at 3 o'clock this afternoon
the vanguard of the Klansmen, head
ed by Acting Supt. of Police Charles
Evans, will swing around Peace Mon
ument into the Avenue. From that
time until about 9:30 tonight the
white-robed Klansmen are expected to
form a continuous procession to the
Sylvan Theater.
After a final conference with Klan
officials, Acting Superintendent of Po
lice Evans stated today that the last of
the marchers should be in the Monu
ment Grounds by 9:30 o'clock. This
means that close to 50,000 are expect
ed to march.
A spectacular feature of the parade,
Klan leaders announced at the last
moment, would be a great display of
American flags. Four hundred stands
of large flags on metal staffs, topped
by American eagle ornaments, they
said, will be carried by members o#
the District unit of the Klan. They
will be arranged in mass.
The flags were provided through ar
rangements made by Earl Silvern,
kligrapp of the Dallas, Tex., Klan, as
a contribution to the success of the
arrangements made by the Washing
ton Klan for today’s unique demon
stration.
50,000 Expected to March.
Klan leaders clung today to their
estimate of 50,000 marchers, as thou
sands of strangers poured into the
city by special trains and motor cara
vans. The vast majority of them
were Klansmen.
The 50,000 estimate, however, is
conservative, according to the Klan
officials. They confidently expect
many of those who had not originally
planned to participate in the parade
to don their robes and fall in line as
the procession gets under way.
Sixteen abreast the Klansmen will
march down the Avenue. Six hours
and a half will be required, it was es
timated, for the procession to pass a
given point. If more than 50,000
should fall in line, the Klan leaders
predict that the parade may continue
into the early hours of Sunday morn
ing.
1,. A. Mueller, grand kleagle of the
District, who arranged the unusual
demonstration for the Capital, would
not estimate today the number of
Klan visitors who have come here
either to march or view the parade.
Heads of the various .State units have
been requested to report the strength
of their delegations to him this after
noon, and until then he declines to
venture a guess. The crowds on the
streets, the continuous stream of
motor caravans coming into the city
over all the principal highways,
indicate a throng comparable to
the Shrine visitors in June, 1923.
Streets Are Thronged.
Streets bordering the Willard Hotel,
the general Klan parade headquarters,
were virtually impassable for the
throngs of Klansmen. Pennsylvania
avenus was almost as crowded with
the visitors, some in regalia and others
carrying K. K. K. banners and other
insignia.
The men who donned their white
outfits this morning and sauntered
through the streets gave the more
or less mystified public an idea of the
spectacle they will witness this after
noon when thousands of these figures
pass along the Avenue in mass for
mation. It was probably the first
time that a Klansman in regalia had
ever been seen on the streets of the
Capital.
The women, too, were equally as
bold in revealing their affiliation with
the hooded order. Some wore red,
white and blue costumes; others
merely tied blue bands bearing the
three K’s around their heads. Many
of the men who wore their robes be
fore the parade, had paper skull caps
in lieu of the visors which have been
banned. Those who did not remove
the visors from their uniforms nud
them raised.
Headquarters Seething.
Klan headquarters at the Willard
were seething with activity from an
early hour this morning until noon.
Belated Klansmen and wives jammed
the two rooms assigned to the major
kleagle of the District, seeking in
formation. King Kleagle Mueller
mixed freely among them, passing
words of greeting and giving final in
structions to the marchers.
"Regardless of what happens, what
is said to you from the sidewalk, keep
your eyes directly on the man in front
of you," was the parting message to
the marchers. “Never falter.”
Hundreds of the travel-worn visi
tors arrived to find the hotels and
rooming houses in the downtown sec
tion filled to capacity, forcing them
into the public parks to rest. Men
and women were observed sleeping on
benches In many of the parks as late
as 9 o’clock this morning/
Room Is Scarce.
Itinerant men and women, some
with heavy suit cases and others with
brief cases, containing presumabiy-the
fiery crossed uniform of the Klan,
wandered aimlessly through the
streets, looking vainly for houses dis
playing "Furnished Rooms" signs.
There seemed to be none, even In the
rooming house sections. These stran
gers were in evidence, especially in
the vicinity of the Union Station.
As the motor caravans drew into the
numerous Klan camps about the city,
the 44 special trains from every sec
tion east of the Mississippi pulled into
the Union Station intermittently, and
noured forth thousands of additional
Klansmen. All night long and up until
noon today these Klansmen came by
train iroin every point of the com
pass. Many changed from civilian
clothes to their regalia in the station
concourse.
Washington Terminal officials esti
mate that 15,000 came by train, the
majority on the specials, but a large
number on the regular fare trains as
well. Those who came in late this
morning lingered about the station
exchanging greetings and resting be
fore the long march.
From Every Walk.
A cross section of American citi
zenry was represented by these Klans
men—they reflected every walk of our
national life. As bent on a holiday
they whooped and yelled and clapped
their hands as the Klans gathered In
the station. Miners and farmers
steel workers from the mills of Penn
sylvania, rubbed elbows with Phila
delphia bankers, and tall rangers
from Texas wearing five-gallon som
brero hats fraternized with moun
taineers from Virginia.
Special details of police from the
fourth, sixth and many other pre
cincts augmented the regular Union
Station police force. Their presence,
however, took on the role of traffic di
rector and station master, for their
services as guardians of the peace
were not needed in the face of the
holiday atmosphere which permeated
the station. The Klansmen were law
unco thmselves, overrunning the con
course with their assembled thousands,
thronging the waiting rooms and gath
ering by the hundreds on the Plaza in
ironi oi tiie suiuon. From early morn
ing until past noon 'he great crowd,
some in Klan regalia and others car
rying their robes in leather cases,
swung up North Capitol street toward
the points assigned for the formation
of the parade.
Two dozen special trains from a* far
West as Bt. Louis and western Ohio.
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AGAIN HIS MASTERS’ VOICES.
AUTO CRASH KILLS
TMHURTSTHREE
Cumberland Party on Way to
Klan Parade Meets Dis
aster Near Rockville.
Two dead and three injured Is the
toll of an automobile wreck at Hal
plne, two miles east of Rockville,
about 5:30 o’clock this morning.
The touring car of Howard France,
bound from Cumberland for the Klan
ceremony In Washington, witli seven
occupants, while rurning, police say,
at a high rate of speed, somersaulted
and pinioned France and three of his
companions.
Clarence Lyons was instantly killed.
France suffered a fractured skull
and other Injuries and was taken to
the Georgetown University Hospital,
where he died at 10:10 o'clock.
Grant Gordon was slightly Injured.
Rackney Robenett suffered cuts and
bruises and was taken to the Sandy
Spring Hospital. •
George Hlckle suffered bruises and
probable Internal Injuries and was
taken to the Sandy Spring Hospital.
D. N. Brant and George Ebly, the
other occupants, escaped Injury.
Lyons lived at Cumberland, as do the
others of the party. Brant is a mid
dle-aged man, while Lyons was and
the others are in their twenties.
The highway was crowded, and first
aid was offered by a number of motor
ists. the crowd that gathered practi
cally tying up traffic for a time. From
a store nearby the Rockville police
were telephoned. Deputy Sheriff
Clifford Howard and Policeman
George Windham hurried to the
scene. The bodies of Lyons and
France were removed to Rockville
and their relatives notified, while the
relatives of other victims were reached
by Brant, Ebly and Gordon.
FRENCH FLYERS IN AIR
MORE THAN 24 HOURS
Still Flying Today in Effort to
Break Duration and Long-
Distance Records.
By the As»ociat«*d Pres*.
ETAMPES. France, August B.—The
French aviators Drouhln and Landry
had been aloft for 24 hours at 6 a.m.
today in an attempt to break the
world’s flight records for duration and
distance flown. They took off yester
day morning over a 100-kilometer
course from Chartres to Etampes and
by 6 o’clock this morning had cov
ered 3,000 kilometers (1,863 miles).
Flying a Farman Goliath 500-horse
power 12-cylinder motor plane, they
carried about 1,050 gallons of gasoline
and 50 gallons of oil. It was believed
this was sufficient to keep them in
the air for 50 hours.
They aimed at the distance record
of 4,000 kilometers (2,485 miles,) made
by Liguts. Kelly and Macready in a
United States Army plane at Dayton,
Ohio, in 1923, and at Drouhln’s own
duration record of 37 hours 59 min
utes and 10 seconds, made last year.
VICTIM OF QUAKE.
Body Taken From Ruins of Build
ing—Others Are Sought.
MEXICO CITY, August 8 OP).—
The body of a man was removed
from the debris of a building which
collapsed yesterday In the Aventda
Madero, the main avenue of the capi
tal. Search was being made for sev
eral other persons believed burled in
the ruins.
The building was under repair and
several workmen were Inside when
the walls crumbled. A sharp earth
quake shook the city at 1:15 p.m., and
is believed to have displaced the props
holding up the building.
Kellogg’s Aid Sought.
EL PASO, Tex., August 8 OP).—The
city council and county commissioners
of El Paso yesterday telegraphed Sec
retary of State Kellogg asking early
approval of plans, recommended by the
International Boundary Commission,
for the dredging and straightening of
the Rio Grande to afford flood protec
tion.
San Diego Feels Quake.
SAN DIEGO, Calif., August 8 oP>.
A slight earth shock was felt here
shortly before 3 o'clock this morning.
Earthquakes were reported at San
Jacinto and Hemet, according to word
received here. No damage was done.
Shepherd’s Wrist
Broken in Mouth j
Os Enraged Bear
i
By the Aeeociated Press.
DEL NORTE, Colo.. August B.
Manuel Gallegos, a sheep herder,
met a grizzly bear in a hand-to
hand encounter last Sunday and
lives to tell the tale. Gallegos
limped into town yesterday with a
broken wrist, severe body bruises
and a fractured cheekbone.
While searching for a stray
sheep Gallegos stumbled on a sleep
ing female grizzly.
He was severely cuffed by the
enraged animal before his dog dis
tracted the bear's attention long
enough to allow his master to es
cape.
Gallegos’ wrist was broken when
he plunged his hand into the bear's
mouth in attempting to ward off
the attack.
“CINDERELLA” GIRL
SWALLOWS POISON
Is Miffed at “Nasty Things”
Said of Browning—Condi
tion Not Serious.
By the Associated Prep*.
NEW YORK, August B.—Mar?'
Louise Browning, newly' adopted
daughter of Edward W. Browning,
wealthy real estate operator, ad
mitted today that she drank poison
this morning because of the "nasty
things” which had been said about
Mr. Browning’s adopting her.
NEW YORK, August 8. —Visions of
the Cinderella wealth and happiness
of Mary Louise Spas as the adopted
daughter of Edward W. Browning,
wealthy real estate operator, began
to dim today as District Attorney
Newcombe of Queens County, investi
gating to learn the girl’s age, was
told by the mother that her daughter
was 21 years old. This would make
her adoption null and void under the
law.
"Mary was 21 on July 31,” Mrs.
Mary Spas, the mother, told District
Attorney Newcombe. “I am sick in
the head about the whole thing.”
"I want my daughter back." the
girl’s father said today. "Mary’s
place is right here ip this house and
I am going to see that she comes
back. I never wanted her to go.”
Adoption Believed Void.
Francis C. Dale, attorney for Mr.
Browning, said the first thing would
be to determine Mary’s age.
"If she was 21 on July 31. she was
21 on August 3. when the adoption
papers were signed.” he said. "In
the event she was 21. legal proceed
ings are rendered null and void.”
“If the girl refuses to sign a dis
claimer to the Browning fortune, the
case will probably have to be taken
to court."
The Ellis Island authorities were
asked to look up the records of the
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LEWIS WILL HOLD •
SOFT COAL PARLEYS
Will Go Into Local and District
Matters With Union Leaders
and Mine Owners.
By the Associated Press.
ATLANTIC CITY. N. J„ August B.—-
Appointments with operators and
union representatives from the soft
coal fields will likely keep John L.
Lewis, president of the United Mine
Workers of America, here until the
middle of next week.
The discussions are having to do
only with local and district matters.
It was officially announced last night,
and the status of the Jacksonville
agreement has not been touched upon.
Van A. Bittner, chief union organ
izer in West Virginia, has received no
reply to the telegram he had sent to
Herbert Hoover. Secretary or Com
merce. Mr. Bittner appealed to both
Mr. Hoover and Secretary of Labor
Davis to take some official stand
against large bituminous coal oper
ators. who, he said, were repudiating
existing wage contracts.
COL. GRAVES DIES;
END WAS EXPECTED
Noted Editor, Writer and
Orator. Had Been an In
valid for Two Years.
John Temple Graves, widely known
newspaper man, author and lecturer
and of later years an ardent worker
for the cause of world peace, died at
his home here, 1730 P street, early this
morning. For several days Col. Graves
had been sinking rapidly, and the
end was not unexpected.
Col. Graves, who was 69 years old,
had been a virtual Invalid for the past
two years. His indisposition did not
assume its fatal phase, however, until
about three weeks ago. since when he
had been falling rapidly. His three
sons and two daughters were at the
bedside when the end came.
The death of Col. Graves removes
from the fast-fading journalistic hori
zon of the previous century another
figure of outstanding prominence. In
some ways he was compared to Col.
Henry Watterson. whose death about
a year ago took away one of the most
dominant personalities of the news
paper world. •
Famous as Orator.
As an orator. Col. Graves was gen
erally classed with Henry' W. Gradv,
famous leader of progressive and'
patriotic sentiment in the South. Per
haps his best known speech was made
at Chattanooga. Tenn., in 1907, dur
a dinner in honor of the late
William Jennings Bryan, who then
was the accepted leader of the Demo
cratic party.
In his address Col. Graves urged
upon the great commoner, present
as the official representative of his
party, that he nominate Theodore
Roosevelt as the candidate of both
big parties to carry to a successful
conclusion the fight in behalf of the
people against predatory wealth. That
was the beginning, too. of Col. Graves’
‘‘Eera of Good Keeling’’ movement.
Col. Graves was best known as an
author for his historical and patrio
tic works. Among his better known
books were “A History of Florida of
Today," "History of Colleton, S. C.’’;
"Twelve Standard Lectures,” “The
Platform of Today,” "Speeches and
Selections for Schools." and "The
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FIVE OF FAMILY DIE
WHEN HOUSE BURNS
Father and 20-Year-Old Son, Only
Survivors, Unable to Save
Others.
By the Associated Press.
CENTRAL VALLEY, N. Y.. Au
gust B.—Five members of a. family
were burned to death early today in
a fire which destroyed their home on
a farm one mile from here.
Harry Hall, a farmer and head of
the family, and his son, Russell, 20,
escaped.
The dead; Mrs. Clara Hall, 39;
Harold Hall, 17; Gladys Hall, 19; Viola
Hall, 2; Evelyn Hall, 6 months.
The fire broke out from an unde
termined cause in the Hall farm
house shortly after 6 o’clock this
morning. The farmer was awakened
at that time by smoke and Jumped to
the ground from the first floor of the
home. Once outside the house he was
unable to gain entrance. The flames
spread rapidly.
WIDOW OF PLAYRIQHT
PENNILESS IN DEATH
Rose Potter in Poverty Despite
$500,000 Made by One of
Husband's Plays.
By the Associated Pres*.
NEW YORK, August B.—Rose Pot
ter. wife of the late Paul Potter, jour
nalist and playwright, who dramatized
Du Maurler’s “Trilby,” died penniless
at St. Luke’s Hospital Thursday night.
Although the play was said to have
brought $600,000 in author's royalties,
means now are lacking for burial next
to her husband in Woodlawn Ceme
tery.
Mrs. Potter, who was 65 years old,
has faced poverty since the death of
her husband, three years ago. De
prived of the luxuries that were once
hers, she has been nurse, writer, a
school teacher and secretary in the
face of failing health.
An appeal has been made to the
Actors’ Fund and the Playwrights’
Club, of which she was once a mem
ber.
BRYAN LED PARTY FROM GOD,
CHAMP CLARK S WIDOW ASSERTS
Scores Commoner’s
Switch to Wilson in
Baltimore.
Resents State Plan to
Erect Shrine in Bowl
ing Green.
By the Asßociate/1 Prpan.
BOWLING GREEN, Mo., August 8.
—Mrs. Champ Clark, widow of the
late Speaker of the House of Repre
sentatives, In an article prepared for
publication today, refers to the Demo
cratic convention at Baltimore In 1912,
in which her husband was defeated
for the presidential nomination by
Woodrow Wilson, when William Jen
nings Bryan threw his strength to
the latter.
Mrs. Clark asserted that the great
Commoner caused “many faithful
Democrats to lose communion with
God" as a result of his efforts to de
feat Clark, “instead of keeping true
to his promise to use all honorable
means to nominate Champ Clark for
President.”
Mrs. Clark closed the reference to
this episode with a quotation from
the Public Ledger saying Clark dis
liked Bryan to the day of his death
and that the feud had colored Mis
souri politics since 1912, and would
for a generation. Asserting that at
the present time the Republicans
“own Missouri,” Mrs. Clark said:
"Listen, friends of Champ Clark. Mis
souri. by legislative enactment has ap
propriated 125,000 to put a statue of
Champ Clark in the courthouse square
at Bowling Green.
Nurse Fined S4O
For Hurling Ink
At Wales Movie
By the Associated Press.
DUBLIN, August B.—When films
of the Prince of Wales on his tour
of South Africa were being shown
in a motion picture theater Thurs
day, a nurse, Dora Maguire, threw
a bottle of ink at the screen, ruin
ing It. She was fined £8 in police
court yesterday and ordered to
compensate a girl musician, whose
clothes were ruined. The nurse
told the police when she was ar
rested that she had no personal
objection to the prince, but could
not stand people cheering those
who had helped the "Black and
Tans.”
The "Black and Tans” served as
an auxiliary police force in Ireland
during the disturbed period preced
ing the establishment of the Irish
Free State.
1 FRENCH KILLED
IN SYRIA, IS REPORT
Troops Declared to Have
Been Surprised by Rebels.
Equipment Is Captured.
By the Associated Press.
| BEIRUT, Syria, August 8. —Au-
' thoritative information reaching here
! concerning the incidents in the Jebel
: Druz region, where French forces are
| reported to have been compelled by
i an attack by Syrian rebels to aban
j don the city of Suediah, sustaining
! many casualties, is that the French
company was taken by surprise. Fur
ther trouble developed, it is added,
when a French punitive column was
obliged to turn back because of the
! non-arrival of a supply train. This
I train was held up by an attack on
j Syrian troops accompanying it.
Perfect calm prevailed everywhere
yesterday, according to this informa
tion, and reinforcements are arriving.
Suediah, the principal city in the
! Jebel Druz district, was reported cap
j tured by Syrian rebels in a dispatch
from Amman, Transjordania, Thurs
day, it being said that the rebels suc
ceeded with the use of guns and am
munition which they had captured in
a previous engagements with a French
detachment.
When questioned on Friday about
; the fighting in Syria, the French for
j eign minister, M. Briand, declared his
information was not yet complete, but
| that it appeared one French column
| had been surprised by the Syrian
I rebels. He believed, however, that the
French high commissioner to Syria,
Gen. .Sarrail, had sufficient troops to
deal with the rebels.
Reports of the Suediah fighting re
ceived byway of Jerusalem said the
French casualties aggregated 200
killed and 600 wounded and that much
French equipment was captured by
the tribesmen.
Dry Agent Seizes Bootlegger’s Auto;
Nervy Bootlegger Seizes It Back
About two hours after Prohibi
tion Enforcement Agrent Ogle had
neatlv carved two more notches in
the handle of his pistol byway of
recording the elimination of as
many rum-running automobiles
from Washington’s busy fleet, the
bootleggers came right back and _
rubbed one oft by reclaiming their
car and cargo from in front of the
third precinct police station.
The whole tragedy really started
in Brown court, when Ogle, Sergt.
Hellmuth and Policeman Burke
spied two cars, both in the act of
unloading contraband beverage.
Before he could escape, a man who
described himself as Adolph Ole
wack, 1014 Tenth street, was ar
rested, and a little later George
King of the same address was
taken into custody. The car, said
to have contained 48 gallons of
whisky, was also seized.
In the meantime the other car
had darted out of the court, rip
ping off a side door in its hurry
to leave the scene of activity. A
little later it was found, bottom
side-up, just off Washington Circle.
Speeding at 50 miles an hour, the
“From Press to Home
Within the Hour ”
The f.tar'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 Circulation, 93,796
C 4») Meant Associated Press.
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MRS. CHAMP CLARK.
“Why should $25,000 of the State’s j
money be expended upon Bowling !
Green?
“This is the substance of thousands j
of queries from all parts of the world, !
which have been received here. If .
you ask me. Champ Clark’s widow, I
have no answer ready, only this: I j
can say to the State of Missouri, in \
which I was born, ‘Take back the 1
$25,000 which you gave to Bowling
Green on Champ Clark’s security. It j
has no need of it.’
“Bowling Green hitched its wagon
to the star of either Wilson or Bryan, j
both of them moneyed men. and let i
Champ Clark and his posterity hustle
for a place in the sun or go down
unwept, unhonored and unknown.”
PICKPOCKET ‘MOBS 7
FLEECE WIN
One Arrest Follows Many
Reports of Operations
by Crooks.
Some of the cleverest pickpocket
“mobs” from the metropolitan district
of New York City are believed by the
police to have descended upon Wash
ington with plans for widespread
fleecing of visitors and participants in
the crowded Klan celebration today.
Early this morning isolated reports
of pickpocket operations began drift
ing into police headquarters, but the
climax was not reached until near
noon, when, after eight reports of
losses in the vicinity of the Washing
ton Hotel had reached headquarters
detectives. Detective Thompson ar
rested Sol Bauman, alias Belinsky, al
leged "wire’’ man of a pickpocket
squad.
Bauman's arrest was dramatic. Wil
liam Fairlee of Gilberton, Pa., grabbed
Bauman's hand while it was inserted
in his pocket. He made an outcry,
and as the crowd closed in on the al
leged pickpocket, House Detective
Jewell Simpson of the Washington
and Detective Thompson simulta
neously placed him under arrest.
Police are holding him on a techni
cal charge of Investigation while a
search is made for two or three other
members of Bauman's alleged gang.
Police explained that the pick
pocket "mob” operates generally with
three to four members—"wire man.”
who actually picks the pocket; "a
pass," who takes the loot from him
as soon as feasible and passes it
on to a third member of the mob,
who makes a get-away with it.
Some mobs also have a fourth man
called a “stall,” who attempts to
throw a monkey wrench into the in
vestigation by giving police false
statements or allowing himself to be
arrested, secure in the knowledge he
can prove an alibi.
Detectives skilled in anti-pickpocket
work have been switched to Fifteenth
street and Pennsylvania avenue in an
effort to round up other members of
the groups believed to be operating
there.
Bauman's record in the identifica
tion bureau at police headquarters
shows previous arrests on this
charge.
His arrest today resulted in the
dragnet already thrown out for pick
pockets being reinforced at several
points along Pennsylvania avenue
and F street.
G. M. Adams of Beaconsburg. Pa.,
reported that his pocket was picked
while he was at the Union Station
and that $95 in cash, his return rail
road ticket and identification papers
taken.
Hayes A. Fedler of Newport. Pa.,
was another victim of light-fingered
operators, sustaining the loss of S3O
in cash, his Klan receipt card and his
railroad ticket home on a street car
between the Union Station and the
Annapolis Hotel, at Eleventh and H
streets.
George Drake, 24, of Middletown,
N. Y., reported the first pickpocket
loes today, when he told Detective
Tally his pocketbook, with $125 in it,
was lifted while he was on a Penn
sylvania avenue street car.
bootlegger driver had endeavored
to save time by cutting straight
through the circle, only to come to
complete grief.
Before the officers reached the
scene, however, the bootlegger and
his cronies had escaped and what
was left of the machine was right
ed and towed down to the third
precinct station. There it was
parked in front of the station, the
police never dreaming it would
ever again be able to move of its
own motivlty. The unbroken rem
nants of its former cargo of 150
gallons of whisky were stowed in
Us tonneau.
It was Just about 6 o'clock this
morning, however, when some
body in the third precinct saw a
strange sight. There, at the wheel
of that demolished car, sat a
sleepy-eyed white man and the
wreck itself was actually moving.
And before any one could stop it
it had moved so rapidly that it
was never again seen by a police
man, at least, after it had turned
east out Rhode Island avenue,
carrying its cargo along.
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TWO CENTS
U. S. NOW INSISTS
LOANS TO NATIONS
IGNORING DEBT END
Dilatory Tactics Bring Re
quest to Bankers to With
hold Advances.
DRASTIC ACTION TAKEN
WHEN DIPLOMACY FAILS
Administration Forced to Use
Pressure as Obligations Remain
Unacknowledged.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
SWAMP3COTT, Mass., August 8. —
America’s effort to obtain a settlement
of war debts has reached such an Im
portant stage that what has hitherto
been a vague appeal to New York
bankers to cease extending credits to
European governments now has be
come a definite and unmistakable re
quest.
The American Government has not
enjoyed its role of creditor during the
last eight years since the armistice,
but the tendency In some countries to
postpone even a formal recognition of
the existence of the war debt, together
with other signs of indifference, has
made it necessary to take a decided
stand and exercise a leverage which
would be felt abroad more than the
polite interchanges of official diplo
macy.
It was under the Harding-Hughes
administration that a circular note was
sent to all international bankers in
America to refrain from extending
credits which in any way were to be
used for armament or other unproduc
tive purposes. Bankers were asked to
keep the Department of State aavised.
In almost every instance since, now
ever, the department has not inter
posed objection. In most cases the
department’s advice and opinion was
not asked until the negotiations were
well under way, and frequently, it is
said, the Government did not feel that
it should interfere in business trans
actions that were almost consum
mated.
Frowned on Loan.
But lately bankers who have con
sulted the Department of State have
been told plainly about the wishes of
the American Government, and in one
case a banking firm was asked not to
make any further loans to a small
country with which the United States
was having difficulties In securing a
settlement.
The insistence of the Washington
authorities left no doubt in the minds
of bankers concerned that the policy
of the United States Government
henceforth is to exercise energetical
ly the influence it can command in
stopping loans to certain countries
which may not make a debt settle
ment.
President Coolidge and Secretary
Kellogg have been loath to use this
weapon, but have been forced into it
by the dilatory tactics by some of the
debtors, and even now there is no
disposition to make any public state
ment about it or to say anything more
than can be read between the lines
of the circular letter addressed to
bankers three years ago by Secretary
Hughes. The repeated reference in
recent weeks, however, to that letter,
coupled with informal comment as to
the importance of close co-operation
between bankers and the Department
of State is significant enough, and it
is expected will have the desired ef
fect.
Hope for Settlement.
With the Belgian commission now
in Washington and a French commis
sion coming in the Autumn, definite
steps will be taken to obtain from
both governments proposals which
can be submitted to Congress in De
cember. W’illiam Phillips, the Ameri
can Ambasssador to Belgium, as well
as Myron T. Herrick, the American
Ambassador to France, are both in
this country as advisers to the Ameri
can Debt Funding Commission. The
plan is to persuade Belgium and then
France to make an offer that can be
used as a basis for a settlement, and
if France and Belgium reach that
stage in their negotiations with the
i United States the hope is held that
! Italy and other countries will fall in
j line.
It will he noted that the French
government is discussing at present
a settlement with Great Britain, as
the latter has insisted that the
| French should begin payment to Lon
j don simultaneously with any pay
! ment to Washington. There is other
: reason to believe that the French gov
j ernment is in earnest in its present
j negotiations and out of them will
j come a proposal of value and not
I another indefinite postponement. The
j uusual arguments are expected to be
I heard about the necessity for reduc-
I ing the debt, but thus far there is
I not the slightest Indication the Amer
; ican Debt Funding Commission will
I recede at all on the principal,
j Leniency In terms will be confined to
a cancellation of interest charges for
the eight yea/rs that have elapsed
since the armistice and possibly for
another two years. Also a lower rate
of interest than was granted Great
Britain is expected to be given. But
the amount actually borrowed will
have to be paid by the allies. That
is the outlook at the moment.
(Copyrirht. 1925.)
VETERANS GET FILM JOBS.
1.800 Disabled Ex-Service Men on
Movie Studio Pay Rolls.
LOS ANGELES. Calif.. August 8
UP). —Eighteen hundred jobs as mo
tion picture extras have been obtain
ed In studios here by disabled former
service men Incapacitated for ordi
nary work, and last week $3,000 of
fllmdom s pay roll went to this type
of screen talent.
How the "odd jobs" of acting were
held open for disabled men through
the co-operation of Will Hays, direc
tor general of the producers and dis
tributors, was described by Maj.
John A J. Darrali at a meeting of
the veterans.
The former service men usually are
cast as soldiers, Maj. Darrah ex
plained. and squads of them are
mobilized for screen duty at short
notice under a semi-military system.