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Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow;
not much change in temperature.
Temperature—Highest, 74, at 2:30
p.m. yesterday; lowest, 51, at 6 a.m.
today. Full report on page 7.
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EUROPE’S POLITICAL
ALIGNMENTS RAISE
WORLD WAR FEARS
• ♦
Leaders in England, France
and Italy Warn of Pos
t sible Conflict.
LACK OF DISARMAMENT
MOVE ALSO BLAMED
Dispute With Great Britain on
Naval Program Held Likely
* to .Draw U. S. In.
BY PAUL SCOTT MOWBEB.
Bv Cable to The Star and Ohieaeo Daily
News. Copyright, 1027.
I PARIS, October 29.—Europe for the
last few days has been resounding
with warnings that unless something
is done, and done quickly, there is
danger of another world war.
Former Prime Minister Lloyd George
of Groat Britain secs hatreds, suspic
ions and war preparations everywhere,
even in Great Britain and the United
States. He fears the new way may be
even more terrible than the last.
Lord Robert Cecil warns his coun
trymen that their present policies are
blocking the road to peace and that
isolation in war time no longer is
possible to any country.
Th© French statesman, De Jouve
§nel, foresees the crucial moment in
t 1935. So does Dictator Mussolini ot
Italy. This date coincides roughly
•with the evacuation of the Rhineiand
by the allies, with the completion ot
Italy’s present military program ana
with the enforced reduction of the
French first-line army, due to the low
French birth rate from 1914 to 191 S.
Small Nations Voice Alarm.
Moreover, all the small countries of
Europe recently voiced their alarm at
Geneva because the great powers were
> doing nothing serious toward disarm
ament and real organization of world
peace. * , , .
What is the situation underlying
these ominous sentiments?
Every one over here agrees that,
(while war between two little nations
might be stopped, if the big powers
stood together, any war involving one
big power would sooner or later in
volve ail the others and become a
world war. Hence all nations are in
terested in the danger spots wherever
these appear.
Os such danger spots at present
there is no lack. Latent conflicts sub
sist between Russia and Rumania ovei
Bessarabia, between Poland ®ttd
Lithuania over Vilna; between Ger
many and Poland ovef Danzig and
the so-called Polish corridor; between
Germanv and France over the evacua
tion of the Rhineland; between Hun
gary and Rumania' over Transylvania;
between Austria and its neighbors over
the proposed union of Austria and
Germany; between Italy and Jugosla
via over Albania; between Jugoslavia,
Bulgaria and Greece over Macedonia;
between Italy and France over the
question of the Mediterranean empire;
between Great Britain and Russia,
over China, and now Europe thinks,
even between the United States and
Great Britain over naval programs.
Alliances Are Reviewed.
If war broke out between two little
countries, the big powers, if united,
might check it. But how dearly united
are the big powers? France is allied
to Belgium, Poland, Czechoslovakia,
and practically also to Rumania and
Jugoslavia. The Germans are allied
to Russia, which in turn is allied to
Turkey. Persia, Afghanistan and Mon
golia Lithuania, Hungary. Bulgaria
and Austria as chronic malcontents
toDo tend to sympathize with the Rus
so-German combination.
Italy is allied to Spain and Albania.
Great Britain, Japan and the United
States are keeping somewhat detached.
Italv is friendly to Great Britain, but
is trying diplomatically to disrupt the
French system of alliances and in
small ways exhibits sympathy with
the smaller nations of the Russo-Ger
man combination. Great Britain is
friendly to Italy, Germany and * ranee
hut is engaged in a diplomatic duel
with Russia. France shows signs of
losing interest in eastern Europe and
. the Balkans question and wants a
rapprochement with Germany. Ger
many is friendly with Great Britain
and 'more cordial toward France, hut
is unwilling to abandon Russia as an
ally.
Anglo-American Rivalry.
Evidences are not lacking of a grow
ing Anglo-American rivalry in various
fields. In short, the political confusion
is almost complete. All that can be
said is that in case of another world
war the Russo-German group prob
ably will he on one side and the
French group on the other, with Great
Britain and the United States as de
ciding factors.
Against these war dangers must be
reckoned the various safeguards of the
League of Nations, the International
Court, th© Locarno pact and various
special arbitration treaties. But the
league is not universal, and the big
powers ‘have been tending to ignore it.
No big powers have signed the
making settlement of judicial
disputes by the court compulsory.
Locarno is concerned mainly with the
Franco-German frontier, and leaves
other questions open. Finally, nobody
knows to what extent, in a real crisis
the League or Locarno or other
treaties will prove genuine guarantees.
It is obvious that before it can be
said peace has been organized through
out the world, much remains to be
done, particularly by the big powers,
for if these lead all others will follow,
. and if these hesitate all others will be
blocked.
Guarantees Pointed Out.
Probably the best guarantees of
% peace at the present time are:
1. General peace sentiment which
still prevails almost everywhere.
2. International trusts which are
being formed on an ever increasing
scale, symbolizing the international
interests of big business.
3. International loans, particularly
those of the United States and
American control of the world’s
credit situation.
4. Fear on the part of potential
trouble makers that if they try to
stort a war they will provoke out
the present confusion formation
f of a victorious coalition of peace
. loving nations against them.
T
Venizelos Ordered to Bed.
ATHENS, October 29 UP).— Former
Premier Fleutlierios Venizelos, who
has been suffering from inttamation
of the inner membrane of a vein, has
been ordered to bed for at hast a
*^l*;
SELF-SACRIFICE IN SHIPWRECK
PRAISED BY MAFALDA PURSER
• Highest Ranking Officer Saved at Sea De
-1 scribes Tragedy Off Brazilian Coast
as an Inferno.
I
I Capt. r "r’o T.onghardi. purser of the
ill-fated strainer .1 fafalefa. is the highest
eank'ing officer to sarvire the tragedy.
The following article is the first official
account ot the greatest sea tragedy since
the sinking of the T.usitania. This story
eras secured through, the co-operation of
.1. Soite. the Brasilian memlier of the
Sort It American Me us pa per Alliance.
BY CAPT, LONGBARDI.
By Cable to The Star and North American
Newspaper Alliance.
| RIO DE JANEIRO, October 29.—1
have been at sea 4<» years and am
accustomed to sea tragedies, hut the
experience I have just been through
surpasses anything that I have experi
enced. I have been through hell.
Late Tuesday afternoon we were
sailing through a quiet sea. The sky
was clear. A gentle breeze foretold
that we would soon come to the pleas
ant end of a pleasant trip. I was con
versing with the ship’s doctor when
■ we struck something. A shock went
: | through the vessel as though we had
: hit a rock or a derelict.
“What is that?” cried the doctor.
“An earthquake?”
I ran amidships to see what had
happened. At the gangway I encoun
tered the chief engineer.
“What has happened?" I asked.
He told me that we had smashed the
left propeller and that at the rate of
13 LOST AS LINER
RAMS SCHOONER
Fishing Vessel Sunk in Heavy
Fog Off Tip of
Cape Cod.
By the Associated Press.
PROVINCETOWN, Mass., October
29. —The Glouchester fishing schooner
Avalon, which ordinarily carried a
crew of 16 to 19 men, sank five miles
o ffthe tip of Cape Cod early today
after she had been rammed by the
Consulieh Line steamer President Wil
son. Three men were picked up. After
searching the vicinity for several
hours, the Presidente Wilson proceed
ed to Bostdh.
Those rescued were Nicholas Walsh,
Eldin Fleet and Frank Henneon, all
of Gloucester. The schooner was in
command of Capt. Edmund Bogler
and left Boston last night for the
mackerel seining grounds off the cape.
The President Wilson is bound from
New York for Palermo byway of
Boston.
A heavy fog prevailed when the
collision occurred at 4:15 a.m. Ap
parently the schooner sank so quickly
that there was little opportunity for
rescues.
mldlcries
TALK or DRY ISSUE
Walsh Says Democrats Will
Have Chance if They SeK
tie Differences.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
‘ Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Mon
j tana, who has been mentioned as a
. presidential possibility by many Dem
i ocrats, returned to Washington today
, from the West.
! While Senator Walsh was unwilling
I a t this time to discuss candidates for
the Democratic nomination for Presi
' dent, he did say that if the Demo
i crats could settle amicably their dif
ferences over the wet and dry issue
1 the party would be in good shape.
Senator Walsh said that it was in
conceivable to him that the wet and
dry question should be made the issue
i of the coming campaign. In his opin
-1 ion the country is overwhelmingly
| dry.
Montana will send a delegation to
, the Democratic national convention
for Senator Walsh for President, it
; is predicted. This prediction was not
made by Senator Walsh himself, who
, said that he was not ready at this
, time to discuss his possible candidacy
I for the presidential nomination, nor
. was he ready to indicate whether he
, would permit the use of his name in
! any of the presidential primary States.
Drys Favor Walsh.
] There is activity for Gov. A1 Smith
in New York and Montana and in
; some quarters it is said that Smith
, will be the choice of the Montana del
. egation if Senator Walsh is not nom
. inated. Such a prediction comes even
, from former McAdoo men. Montana
Democracy was strongly in favor of
; i the nomination of Mr. McAdoo in
j 1924.
; ! The suggestion that Senator Walsh
jbe nominated has come particularly
• from the dry Democrats, who wish to
* show the Democrats of the East and
North that they are not opposed to
Gov. Smith merely because he is a
Catholic. Senator Walsh, like Gov.
Smith, is a member of the Catholic
Ghurch. He is, however, an ardent
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\ Boy Ruler Gives Up Play for School,
But Balks at Sitting Close to Teacher
-5 j —■■■■ -
1 By the As*o<’lat<’d Pre«s.
> BUCHAREST, Rumania, October
L 29.—Even a king must face the tryan
-1 ny of school.
King Michael, who has just cele
brated his sixth birthday anniversary,
is going to be taught just like any
other boy of his age, the Bucharest
- newspapers say.
, His mother, Princess Helen, has al
i lowed “Mickey” to play to his heart’s
:j delight with his toys and his Ameri-
L I can playmates. Now a small class
*• 4 0.0tu has been established in l’rincesij
Uht %unm Jte.
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93 revolutions a minute under the
pressure of the water, this accident
had torn a large hole abaft.
The captain immediately issued the
customary orders; the engines were
stopped, sea-cocks were opened and
the fires extinguished. The crew
strove vainly to close the breach, but
the inrushing sea was invincible. In
spite of their efforts, the hole became
larger and larger minute by minute.
When the wall of water had
swept all • opposition aside, we
abandoned hope. The captain had
sent out an SOS 20 minutes before the
sea broke through the emergency bar
riers. In answer to it the Dutch
steamer Alhena appeared on the
larboard. Soon other steamers were
Standing by.
The captain ordered me to take one
of the boats. I got 28 passengers into
it—mostly men and women. I made
for the Alhena, which was about 700
feet away, but my over-crowded boat
took water. In the wash of the other
boats, I took so much water that my
boat sank under me and I was unable
to return to the Mafalda for more
survivors.
Thus kept from participating fur
ther in the rescue work, I remained
aboard the Alhena a spectator of the
tragedy.
For five tragic hours I saw the
officers and the men of the Alhena
strive heroically to save the pas
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MAFALDA SURVIVOR
CHARGES LOOTING
Members of Crew Became
Drunk After Disaster,
He Declares.
By the Associated Press.
RIO JANEIRO, October 29.
Survivors of the Princess Mafalda
disaster today were bound for new
homelands in Brazil and the Argen
tine, sorrowing over the loss of some
300 companions on the trip from Italy.
Horrors of the foundering of the
boat, which was once one of the
fastest in the South American trade,
were recounted and charges of negli
gence, inadequate life-saving equip
ment and a ship in bad condition were
aired.
Georges Grenade, a wealthy Belgian
resident of Buenos Aires, made public,
through the correspondent of La
Nacion of Buenos Aires a letter which
he said he had sent to the Italian
Royal Maritime Commissioner at the
latter’s request.
Negligence Is Charged.
Grenade, a first-class passenger,
wrote:
“The commander and officers were
negligent in complying with their ele
mentary duties, for had they acted
with energy they could have subdued
the frantic emigrants and the work
of saving the passengers could have
been carried out normally in five
hours.
“The Mafalda did not 'have a suffi
cient number of lifeboats aboard to
save all the passengers, for when the
boats were filled only 500 passengers
were accommodated. (The Italian em
bassy has stated that there was room
in the lifeboats for 1,323 persons, the
Mafalda carried 1,256.
“The engines of th© JHafalda were
not in good condition on leaving
Genoa, as it has been established that
the ship was detailed several times at
sea.
Says Captain Knew It.
"The captain had full- knowledge of
the bad condition of the ship, for it
has been established through the in
descretions of some employes that
attempts were made to cancel the
sailing.
"The commander and the first en
gineer confirmed that this was to be
the Mafalda’s last South American
trip. She was to be sold for Mediter
ranean cruises, for her condition did
not longer permit long voyages.”
Grenade charged that members of
the crew became drunk after the dis
aster occurred. That the ship was
looted by steerage passengers and
stewards, and that there was a wild
scramble for boats which could not be
halted.
A check up of survivors in various
Brazilian ports accounted for 963 of
the 1256 persons aboard. Leaving
293 dead or missing.
THREE KILLED, ONE HURT
IN AUTOMOBILE CRASH
Roadster Conveying Halloween
Party Homeward Hits Tele
phone Pole.
By tlie Associated Press.
JOHNSTOWN, Pa., October 29.
Three young persons were killed and
a fourth was injured here today when
their automobile crashed into a tele
phone pole on a down grade as they
were returning from a Halloween
party.
The dead: James , Miss Grace
Lakin, 22, and Miss Mary losko, 18,
all of Johnstown. Miss Edith Orrin,
Johnstown, suffered leg injuries, hut
will recover. Brown Lever, driver of
the machine, was arrested. Another
man, also a member of the party, la
being sought by police.
The six members of the party were
crowded into a roadster, and, accord
ing to police, Lever told them he lost
control on a curve while making fast
time down the hill.
Helen's home. There 18 small boys of
all classes, including King Michael,
are instructed daily in the three “R’s.”
When “Mickey" was offered a seat
in the front row, facing the teacher,
he refused, saying that he preferred
to be No. 18, in the last row'. There
the teacher would not see so easily
what he was up to and he would be
out of reach of her ruler.
The boy ruler was dismayed when
he was told that the big brown span
iel which is his inseparable compan
ion would not be allowed in the class-
COST PLUS SYSTEM
CALLED BASIS OF
CAR LINE MERGER
Plan Said to Be Designed to
Assure Fair Return on
i Company’s Earnings.
! TRUSTEES APPOINTED
1 BY BOARD SUGGESTED
Proposed Consolidation Declared
Drawn With View to Squeezing
Out Economic Losses.
The plan by which Harley P. Wil
son, owner of the Washington Rapid
Transit Co., hopes to bring about a
merger of Washington’s transporta
tion systems will be based on a cost
plus system, according to persons
familiar with the scheme, who re
vealed today certain of its cardinal !
features.
The merged company under the
plan, it was said, would be privately
owned and its policies directed by an
intercompany which would be cre
. ated at the time of consolidation. The
operation of the consolidated com
| pany, however, would .be under the
supervision of a board of trustees ap
i pointed probably by the Public Utili
ties Commission.
The service-plus basis, the founda
tion of the merger scheme, is design
[ ed, it was said, to guarantee the stoek-
I holders of the consolidated company a
stipulated rate of return based on the
earning power of the companies, and
not on the court valuation.
| The merger plan, it was pointed out,
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TRACEFOILfCOUP
TO CAROL’S VALET
Reports Say Servant Was
Lured Away to Permit
Theft of Papers.
By the Acsoclated Pres*.
LONDON, October 29.—A dis
patch to Reuter’s news agency
from Belgrade, Jugoslavia, today
says unidentified persons made
abortive attempts last night to de
stroy munitions stored at Zayetchar,
Pojarevas and Kraguyevac. The
dispatch adds that unsuccessful at
tacks on munitions depots near
Istip, in southern Serbia, were
made later. Civil and military au
thorities have begun a search for
those responsible.
By the Associated Press.
PARIS, October 29.—The foiling of
Carolist plans in Rumania and the
arrest of M. Manoilescu, former un
| derseeretary of finance of Rumania,
| today appeared to be directly con
nected with the burglarizing of the
villa of former Crown Prince Carol at
Neuilly. Carol’s valet, on being ques
tioned by the police, admitted that
' the theft papers belonging to Carol
took place more than a week ago, but
since he had been left to guard the
villa he was afraid to say anything
about it at the time.
’ Love of gossip, however, proved
stronger than discretion and he told
■ the whole story of how he had been
lured from his post of duty by a wo
-1 man to a friend of Carol who had call
ed to ask when the latter would re
, turn. The friend informed the police,
i who started an investigation and tele
graphed Carol, who was at Saint ’*alo
I to return.
Valet's Story Doubted.
Police at present, although regard-
I ing the valet’s story with suspicion
, that he is concealing something, fa
vored the theory that the burglary
was inspired by politics, not pelf. It
was suggested that the information
, found in the stolen papers had been
; abstracted and telegraphed to the Ru
manian government. This, it was
pointed out, would have led to the
capture of Manoilescue with the com
promising documents last Monday in
Rumania.
I How a woman had lured him from
I his post of duty was told by the valet.
She engaged him in conversation, he
said, and then bought his supper.
1 After that he remembered nothing ex
cept that he awoke the next morning
with a bad headache. "She must have
put a drug in my wine,” he surmised.
When he returned to Carol’s villa,
the valet said, he found the letter box
■ rifled. One of the letters was from
1 the valet’s wife and mentioned names
1 of Rumanians who were familiar with
’ Carol and also contained a list of
those who had called on Carol. The
1 valet said he found some of his mas
ter’s letters and papers had been
' stolen.
Carol Reaches Paris.
: Prince Carol came to Paris today in
f connection with the robbery, but re
turned immediately to his new hid
* den home in Normandy.
“I will wait for my hour to come, if,
■ Indeed, my hour is to come,” said Carol
’ repeating his former declarations that
he has not the slightest intention of
c stirring up trouble in his country.
“Yet,” he added, “if public opinion
in my country should call me, It would
L*e cowardice for me td shirk my duty.”
For three months, the prince said,
Rumania party leaders, notably the
National Peasants party, have asked
* him to declare his candidacy for the
throne. "I refused for three months,”
he said. ”1 considered such a course
. premature. I hesitated long and until
" recently. Finally I consented. My
; declaration is only an answer to the
question put to me. I am credited
t with disturbing intentions, but there
* Is nothing in that.”
Commenting on Manoilescu’s arrest
* on a charge of treason, Carol de
r dared: “Either the situation is calm
* and peaceful in Rumania and such
measures are astonishing, or else the
> public is really aroused and is ready
* to receive its prince, and all these
- measures of coercion and of terrorism
* are destined to stifle expression of
■ 1
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BRICKBATS AND BOUQUETS FLY
AS THOMPSON FORMS LEAGUE
Solicits Memberships in "America First
Foundation" and Draws Satire
From Other Mayors.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, October 29.—A dash of
George M. Cohan’s “Grand Old Flag,”
a touch of Stephen Decatur's "My
country, right or wrong,” and a taste
of opera bouffe seasoned Mayor
Thompson’s “America first” efforts to
day.
His appeal for support of the “Amer
ica First Foundation,” with a $lO
membership fee, brought many re
turns. Some were complimentary, not
a few were condemnatory, several
were ironic.
The plea for members in the foun
dation, a national patriotic organiza
tion “for better citizenship, based on
loyalty, with a Nation-wide educa
tional program to teach the Constitu
tion of the United States and respect
for our form of government and a
PRESIDENT CALLES
RECEIVES MORROW
New Ambassador to Mexico
Offers Credentials and Plea
for Closer Relations.
By the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, October 29.—First
official words of the new United States
Ambassador, Dwight W. Morrow, to
President Calles when received in for
mal audience at noon today were to
express the hope that through co
operation a mutually satisfactory so
lution would be found to the prob
lems with which the two countries are
faced and to adjust the outstanding
questions with that dignity and mu*
tual respect which should mark the
International relations of two sover
eign and independent states.
In the presence of his cabinet and
many high officials and other promi
nent persons, President Calles greeted
Mr. Morrow in the ambassadorial re
ception salon.
Offers Credentials.
Mr. Morrow’s formal remarks upon
presenting his credentials were:
“Mr. President, I have the honor
to formally make known to you that
the President of the United States
of America has appointed me Ambas
sador Extraordinary and Plenipoten
tiary to your government. I hereby
present your excellency with the let
ters of recall of my distinguished
predecessor, Mr. Sheffield, and at the
same time my letters of credence.
“I enter upon my duties with a full
consciousness of the honor which my
Government has conferred on me in
intrusting to my hands the repre
sentation of its interests in this great
neighboring state.
“I welcome the opportunity of co
operating with your excellency in
finding a mutually satisfactory solu
tion of the problems with which our
own countries are now faced. Ii is
my earnest hope that, animated by
a common desire to promote the wel
fare of the united Mexican states
and the United States of America,
we shall not fail to adjust outstand
ing questions with that dignity and
mutual respect which should mark
the international relationship of two
sovereign and independent states.”
Several high officials of the Mexican
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MRS. FORBUSH SEARCH
EXTENDED TO OCCOQUAN
Woman Answering Description of
Pastor’s Missing Wife Seen
„ in Vicinity.
Search for Mrs. Ann Ramsay For
hush,'wife of the Rev. Dascomb For
bush, pastor of the First Congrega
tional Church at Canandaigua, N. Y.,
who disappeared mysteriously from
Keith’s Theater October 19, was ex
tended to the vicinity of Occoquan,
Va., today, where it was reported a
woman answering her description had
been seen by a motorist on the Wash
ington-Richmond 11 igh wa y.
Another clue came from Rock Creek
Park, and the police a iin sent out a
searching party to comb through the
woods near the point where a woman’s
footprint was located in the soft earth
by the bloodhounds earlier in the
thorough knowledge of Its fundamen
tal law,” was telegraphed to mayors,
Congressmen, Senators and governors.
Alfred M. Phillips, jr., mayor of
Stamford, Conn., wired back, charges
collect: “Did you say fee or free?”
No reply was received. Again he
wired, also tolls collect, cautioning
Mayor Thompson that the tricky Brit
ish "might have some pretty mean
propaganda against him in ‘Alice in
Wonderland.’ ”
Th© Stamford mayor quoted from
that book the story of the old man,
criticized by his son for standing on
his head, whose answer was: “In my
youth I feared it might injure the
brain, but now I am perfectly sure I
have none.”
Another reply from Representative
Emmanuel Celler, Brooklyn, N. Y.,
read: “Were you not so enthusiastic
ally misguided in your campaign
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TREASURY MARKS
TAX SLASH LIT
Will Insist on $300,000,000
as Top in Conference With
House Committee.
By the Aneociated Pres*.
A total tax reduction of $250,000,-
000, or at the greatest $300,000,000, is
the most the Treasury will concede in
its discussion of the administration's
program next week with the House
ways and means committee. Hearings
will begin on Monday preparatory to
drafting the new revenue bill.
Although details of the program
have yet to be decided upon, it is
known that the administration will
seek to effect this slash by cutting
corporation rates and repealing cer
tain nuisance and excise taxes re
maining from war days. Repeal of the
Federal inheritance tax will be among
the objectives of the administration
again this year.
Undersecretary Mills, who is to rep
resent the Treasury at the commit
tee hearings, is prepared to argue for
the quarter-billion limitation on the
ground that recent huge surpluses
were the result largely of revenue
items which will not recur during the
fiscal year under consideration.
With Western independent Repub
lican Senators, who favor a minimum
of reduction, holding the balance of
power in the upper branch of Con
gress, it seems likely that proponents
of a smaller downward revision will
have a decided advantage. The west
erners are of the opinion that reduc
tion of the national debt is preferable
to cutting the tax rates.
Not all administration suporters In
he Senate, however, are favorable to
the $250,000,000 or $300,000,000 limit.
Some, including Chairman Smoot of
the Senate finance committee, are of
the opinion that the reduction should
reach a total of $350,000,000, while
the Democrats are of the opinion that
a cut of $400,000,000 is possible.
Col. Harvey at White House.
Col. George Harvey, former Ambas
sador to Great Britain, and Mrs. Har
vey are guests of President and Mrs.
Coolidge at the White House, join
ing Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns,
who came to Washington yesterday.
"Maryland City”
The Fourth Largest Municipality in the State .
Will It Be Realized?
Proposals to incorporate 28 communities in Prince
Georges County, near the District of Columbia, into one
large city have been made.
Many issues enter the proposition, and The Star in a
series of articles, starting tomorrow, will reveal the pros
and cons of the consolidation problem.
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tion is delivered to Washington homes
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A 3 ) Means Associated Press.
| MITCHELL, HANKER,
: KILLED WITH WIFE
Chicago Financier Dies
Shortly After Auto Acci
dent in Illinois.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, October 29.—John J.
Mitchell, sr., 74 years old, chairman
of the board of Chicago’s second great
est financial institution, the Illinois
Merchants’ Trust Co., died in a doc
tor’s office in Libertyville, 111., 35 miles
from here, shortly after he had been
injured today in an automobile acci
dent, which also claimed the life of
Mrs. Mitchell.
The accident occurred 2% miles
north of Libertyville.
Bert Finstead, Libertyville, in pass
ing a hayrack, had crashed into an
other automobile coming from the
other direction, according to witnesses.
The collision and the crpwd which
gathered blocked the highway.
Car Skidded on Paving.
As the Mitchell car approached the
scene it was almost upon the block
ade before the chauffeur was aware
his path was blocked. He jammed on
his brakes and the heavy closed car
skidded completely around on the wet
paving and then toppled into the road
side ditch with its wheels in the air.
Mrs. Mitchell was pinned under the
automobile and killed instantly. Mr.
Mitchell suffered head and internal
injuries. He was thought to be dead,
but when he was taken, along with
the body of Mrs. Mitchell, to the
Libertyville office of Dr. John L.
Taylor, it was found that the banker
still lived.
John J. Mitchell, jr., and his wife,
the forrper Lolita Armour, whose
father, J. Ogden Armour, died recent
ly, hurried to Dr. Taylor’s office.
First information concerning the
accident was given to the bank in a
telephone call from the chauffer, who
was said merely to have reported that
Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell had been injured
when their car overturned.
Followed Father’s Footsteps
Emulating his father in choosing
banking as his life work, John J.
Mitchell became president of a Chi
cago bank at 26, was acclaimed one
of that city’s greatest financiers at
40, and was recalled from retirement
after four years to head the second
ranking bank in Illinois at the age
of 70.
He was born November 3, 1853, at
Alton, 111., where he received a public
school education, and went with his
parents to Chicago w r hen he was 20
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MEXICANREBELS
REPORTED DISPERSED
Defeated in Week of Fighting in
Orizaba Mountains
Claimed.
By the Associated Pres*.
MEXICO CITY, October 29.—Hebei
forces operating near Orizaba on the
slopes of Orizaba Mountain were de
feated and dispersed in fighting which
has been going on for the past week
there, says a bulletin issued by the
Presidential Bureau quoting a report
from Gen. Jesus Aguirre, who declares
that the whole region will be com
pletely pacified within a few days.
Gen. Aguirre took the field in an
effort to hunt down Gen. Arnulfo
Gomez, former presidential candidate
and one of the leaders of the recent
revolt.
Gen. Gonzalo Escobar, at Mozomba,
reported the defeat of a rebel group
commanded by Luis Gonzales.
TWO CENTS.
BOTH SIDES FEEL
CONFIDENT AS OIL
TRIAL IS RECESSED
Government Counsel Appa
rently Satisfied With Devel
opments of Week.
DEFENSE IS ENCOURAGED
I BY DECISIONS OF COURT
Barring of Testimony Is Consid
ered Advantage in Case
for Defendants.
Despite two decisions from the bench
distinctly disadvantageous to the
prosecution in the conspiracy case
against Albert B. Fall and Harry F.
Sinclair, Government counsel looked
with satisfaction upon developments
of the last five days when the trial
came today to its second week end
pause.
For the defense it would seem that
the honors of the week were gained
through the two decisions of Justice
Frederick L. Siddons, who is giving
to the trial the same careful impar
tiality in his rulings that marked
proceedings in the former conspiracy
-ase involving Edward L. Doheny. But
the advantage the defense derived
from these rulings was short-lived for
Government counsel “came back” yes
terday with a relentlessness that con
nected Sinclair with the Continental
Trading Co. of Canada, that mysteri
j ous concern, through which the $230,-
I 500 in Liberty bonds which ultimately
i found their way into Fall’s safe de
posit box are being traced.
Rulings Were Significant.
The decisions from the bench, which
proved the outstanding features of
the week’s development, involved the
laying of important evidence before
the jury bearing directly on the con
spiracy indictment. In the first de
cision the court barred testimony
given by Sinclair before the Senate
investigating committee that his re
nowned “Christmas visit” to Fall at
the latter’s New Mexico ranch in
was for the purpose of opening nego
tiations for a lease on the Wyoming
naval oil reserve. The second, and
most important, upheld the refusal
of Fall's son-in-law and business part
ner, M. T. Everhart, to reveal to tht
jury the source of the $230,500 in Lib
erty bonds he had received a short
time after the lease had been signed.
Upon Everhart’s testimony the Gov
ernment had hoped to bring out direct
evidence to back up its maze of cir
cumstantial evidence that the bonds
were received direct from the Conti
nental Trading Co. through Sinclair.
Such admission possibly w'ould have
proved the strongest link In the Gov
ernment’s chain of evidence.
Owen J. Roberts, who has been bear
ing, almost sin&jg-handed, the brunt
of presenting the Government’s evi
dence. while handicapped by the bar
ring of this testimony, demonstrated
an ability to “come back” in masterly
fashion.
After the refusal of Everhart to
answer leading questions on the
ground that his answers would tend
to incriminate him, the Government
counsel took another course and pro
ceeded doggedly in his attempt to link
Sinclair directly with the operations
of the mysterious Continental com
pany, which at one time had posses
sion of the $230,500 in Liberty bonds
which the Government charges were
used to bribe the former Secretary of
the Interior.
Oil Purchase Deal Recalled.
Through former Senator Charles S.
Thomas of Colorado the Government
showed that Sinclair took part in a
conference called for the urpdse of
negotiating the purchase of a huge
quantity of oil from A. E. Humphreys
of Denver. Sinclair, Thomas testified,
acted as co-guarantor of the contract
which subsequently was executed.
The proceedings were of special in
terest to the jury which was taken
rapidly from New York to Pueblo,
Colo.; to El Paso, to Carrizozo, N. Mex.,
to Denver and finally to Washington,
wnere the canceled coupons were
safely tucked away in the Federal
Treasury and from which the oil coun
sel obtained them. He held them
aloft, $230,500 worth, for the benefit
of the 2 women and 10 men who
are sitting in judgment of the two
noted defendants. Like the torn parts
of the SIOO,OOO notes previously given
Edward L. Doheny by Fall, the
coupons appeared as a damaging piece
of evidence.
When court recessed yesterday until
Monday morning, Thomas was in the
midst of his examination by Govern
ment counsel. At this point counsel
on both sides had engaged in a heated
controversy as to whether the former
Senator could tell the jury about the
contents of the first “skeleton” draft
of tiie guarantee contract which he
had dictated. Thomas was acting as
attorney for Humphreys.
Harry M. Blackmer, chairman of
the board of the Midwest Refining
Co., was the man with whom Humph
reys, in November, 1921, had first
arranged for the sale of 30,000,000
barrels of oil. Blackmer scooted off
to Europe at the time of the Senate
investigation, and when last heari
from was in Paris, lie is a witnesi
the Government is extremely anxioul
to have appear but he refuses t<
emerge from his European refuget
The names of Stewart, Blackmer. Sin*
clair, 11. S. Osier, president of th<
Continental Co.; James O’Neill, presi
dent of Prairie Oil & Gas Co., and
Beman Dawes, president of the Pure
Oil Co. and brother of Vice President
Dawes, were into the confer
ence by Thomas.
Guaranteed Contract.
The evidence showed finally that
Humphreys was told by Blackmer
that the Continental Trading Co.
would become the vendee of the oil.
which subsequently went to the
Prairie Oil & Gas Co. and the Sin
clair Crude Oil Purchasing Co. The
Continental company was then un
known and when Humphreys inter
posed some objection, O'Neill and
Sinclair agreed to guarantee the per
formance of the contract.
Besides the guarantee contract,.
Thomas explained, there a sec
ond contract by which the Prairie
and Sinclair companies were to get
50 per cent of all of the production
of the Humphreys wells after the
first contract had been executed.
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