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Evening star., 1924-08-14
RUM SH|PSlFLEE|NG
BEFORE DRY NAVY
Reduction From 72 to rs
Vessels Off New York
Already Reported.

Apparently frightened by Uncle
Sans mobilization of his new dry
armada under the flag of the doughty
United States Coast Guard, the noto-
rious rum feet off New York City
has been reduced within the past
month from 72 ships to about 25.
This information, through unoficial,
but thoroughly reliable channels.
| reached Washington today, while the
lid was being clamped down on too
much publicity of details of the Gov
ernments campaign of action against
the smugglers.
Where the missing ships of the rum
fleet have gone remains a mystery to-
day. even to the sources of informa-
ton which know positively that the
| fleet for the first time in months has
decreased instead of increasing.
Scattered Along Coast.
Some of them may have scudded of
up the coast to the waters off Boston
or some of them may have dropped
south to Florida. Some Of them, feel
ing the growing imminence OF Uncle
Sans big guns, from destroyers
mine sweepers, patrol boats, picket
boats and other units of the new and
coming coast guard fleet, have tossed
up the wet, wet sponge, and gone into
the business Of making an honest
living
Sees Smuggling Cufbed.
Il am willing to say" declared Gar
rard B. Winston, acting secretary Of
the Treasury" that this new dry heet
is going to make it very difficuIt for
the smugglers to get any liquor into
the United States by sea We shall be
able to put a very effective check to
the present activity of the rum run
ners'
Asked as to the time set for the
zero hour" or declaration of war on
the rum runners, especially rum row,
of New York, the acting secretary
was non-commital. 1t would be the
policy, he said to go ahead when
boats are ready-but when this would
be- he declined to reveal.
Many Men Volunteer.
While only 149 commissioned am
400 warrant officers were needed I
the new war. more than 1000 md
took the examinations. many mcf
passed than were needed, and aireaA
IS have been given temporary COM
missions. The Coast Guard wanted
300 enlisted men. and already has
recruited more than 1000.
The first brand-new boats of the
Meet, in fact, it was learned today
for the first time, have already put to
sea with fresh equipment
One of these new picket boats,
which is now operating Somewhere
off the coast of Florida" on it's first
day out captured two rum running
vessels of large size.
Evening star., 1924-08-14
SHENANDOAH TRIP
WEST CALLED OFF
Extensive Tests on Coast
Prevents Cruise to Des
M0ines.

On recommendations from the
Bureau of Aeronautics. the Navy De-
partment today ordered the airship
Shenandoah at Lakehurst to continue
her tests at sea within the next few
weeks, preventing the carrying out of
her proposed fight to Des Moines, Iowa.
The trip to Des Moines had been
tentatively decided upon before the
Shenandoah went north for her test
at the floating mooring mast aboard
the tender Patoka.
That test was a complete success
and in consequence it was decided to
use the Shenandoah extensively in a
series OF scouting tests at sea off the
Atlantic coast, which are now being
planned.
The ship will base on her Lakehurst
station for some of the operations and
probably also will use the Patoka as a
floating mooring base before the sched-
uled exercises are completed.
In tho course of the exercises, she
will range far at sea in search of
imaginary enemy scouting fleets.
While the plan for a western trip
has not been abandoned completely,
the exercises will occupy the Shenan-
doah for a considerable time. She is
expected, however. to make her trans
continental flight in October.
Evening star., 1924-08-14
President Raises
Voice Obigingly;
Ellipse Hears Hin,

Persons on the Ellipse, just back
of the White House, heard Presi-
dent Coolidge speak this morning
as he facetiously told photogra-
pliers he was not ready to deliver
his speech of acceptance.
At the time the President was
inspecting arrangements in Me-
mortal Continental Hall and some
photographers who will be unable
to be present at the ceremonies
tonight. asked that he pose for
few pictures.
please raise your voice and
speak," one of the cameramen re-
quested.
The President obligingly did so,
and his remarks to the photogra-
pher that he was not prepared to
deliver to them his speech of ac-
ceptance were shot out over
wide expanse since Mr.. Coolidge
was standing in front of the am
plifying apparatus, which had
been turned on.
Evening star., 1924-08-14
FIGHT FOREST FIRE !
T0SAVE YOSEMITE.
Hundred Men Battle Flames
Near National Park-Ne-
vada Asks u. S. Aid.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Calf, August IA
A forest fire thought to have been
started several days ago by. blast
set of by convict road workers was
sweeping through a heavily timbered
area bordering on the north fork of
the Merced River. early today, two
miles from Ell Portal, the entrance to
Yosemite National Park.
This development came with the
arrival of Col. w. B. Greeley, chief of
the United States forest service,
that a reserve force of experienced
forest fire fighters would be concen-
trated in California within two weeks
to be available for emergencies.
The Yosemite fire has burned over
l2,0OO,OO0 acres in Mariposa County
and 100 men were attempting today
to fight 1t away from the national
park. In the same area, but detached
from the main blaze, a fire last night
destroyed the Bowers Cave resort,
near Merced. The fire continued
burning early today.
Nevada Asks for Help.
Nevada, through Senator T. l.. Cd
die, became concerned over the Cali
fornia forest fire situation yesterday
when he telegraphed President Cool
idge requesting Immediate Federal
aid in stamping out forest fires in
California" close to the Nevada line.
Verdi. lumber settlement II miles
west of Reno, which was surrounded
on three sides by forest fire yester-
day, was declared out Of danger last
night, although the fires continued to
burn north and south of the town in
Hunter Creek Canyon and Dog Valley.
The Dog Valley fire is destroying
some of the finest timber on the east
ern boundary of California. One of
the main highways from Nevada to
the coast was closed today.
Evening star., 1924-08-14
j. S. FLYERS FACE
HAZARDS CALMLY
Know Next Hop Will Be Fly.
ing in Face of Death.
Trip to Be $50 Miles.
BY FREDERICK II. NEEzY.
Staf Correepondent of The Star.

ON BOARD u. S. S. RICHMOND.
REYkJAVIk HARBOR. Iceland, Au-
gust IL fvia wireless) while the
snarling Northland was lashing the
coast of Greenland today with a near
gale the American round the world
flyers remained in Reykjavik complet-
ing preparations for their hazardous
crossing to Angmagsalik tomorrow.
1t probably will be the supreme
test of their eventful journey and
every man is making his plans with
the quiet determination of those who
fully understand that when the pro
peflerS roar and their planes rise
from the safety Of this snug little
harbor at the next sunrise. they will
literally be flying in the face of death.
Admittedly. Lieut.. Lowell Smith and
his companions view the flight across
the treacherous Dutch straits. 4 jump
of something like $50 miles as the
crow flies. with the utmost concern
and they are preparing in advance for
every .eventuality they can possibly
foresee. But only the most adverse
weather conditions will deter them
longer
Notifies ship OF Plans
Lieut.. Smith sent wireless mes
sage today to the cruiser Raleigh,
on patrol duty near the edge Of the
pack ice. that has locked the harbor
of Angmagsalik to all traffic from the
sea. He advised the commsfhrr that
he and Lieu.. -sclson would h,p OF
tomorrow and asked that ;:ie Raleigh
he held in readiness in case sudden
bad weather makes a landing in the
harbor there impossible.
The Raleigh will fly weather flags
as the aviators pass and when they
raise the trim cruiser. riding at
anchor near the ice foes, they will
anxiosuly watch for the message that
the bits of bunting wave to them
from the yardarms of the patrol
ship. II the message is hopeful. all
right: if it is otherwise-wen, that
will be another story
At the last minute Lieut.. Smith has
decided to attempt to take on fuel
At sea after leaving Angmagsalik. II
"a IS successful it will be the first
time in history that such a feat has
been accomplished and will write an
other glorious chapter in the story of
Americas air achievements. Instruc-
tlons to this effect have already gone
TO the Raleigh
Fuel Lines Sought.
If the aViators reach Anemarsalilx
In safety, they plan to renew their
journey as soon as possible and upon
leaving that place will fly 20 miles to
the point where the Raleigh Is an
chored. There they will take on their
largest supply of fuel and continue
on to Ivigtut. Requests for lines with
which to transfer the fuel have al
ready been sent out by the flight COM
mander.
Every possible safeguard for the
myers en- route from Reykjavik to
Angmagsalik will be provided by the
naval patrol vessels. There will be
a ship about every hundred miles
along the charted course of the
planes, ready to lend assistance on
a minutes notice. The Raleigh is
already at her station, the Richmond
will pas~s the course $50 miles from
Reykjavik and the destroyers Bill
Kingsley and Reid will assume posi-
tions between the two cruisers
Evening star., 1924-08-14
u. S. Viii Ignore
Protest of G.. n. X.
o., Memorial COiy,

Protests filed with the Treasury
Department by members Of the
Grand Army Of the Republic and
similar organizations against the
minting of q special S0-cent piece
to commemorate the beginning Of
effect, 1t was announced today at
the Treasury, in view Of the spe.
cific instructions carried In the act
of Congress.
Designs of the coin already have
been forwarded to the Federal Art
Commission for study. It has not
been determined how many coins
will be minted.
Evening star., 1924-08-14
FIRES OUT OF CONTROL.

Word was received today hy the
Forest Service here that it has been
necessary for the district office at San
Francisco to issue a call for 20 addi-
tional forest rangers from Arizona and
New Mexico to help fight forest fires
in southern California 1t was re-
ported in the message that there are
number Of large fires in the Sierra
Nevada Mountains that are out of con-
troll.
There is a big fire in the vicinity Of
Reno. New. but it is burning north
and east of the National forests in
this section and it is hoped to get it
under control before much damage is
done, 1t is stated
Evening star., 1924-08-14
CONVICTION is UPHELD.

COLUMBUS. Ohio. August 1.-THE
Franklin County court of appeals to-
day sustained the conviction Of
Dwight Harrison, Columbus, vice
president and general counsel Of the
R. l. Dollings Company, on the
charge Of having made false state
ments concerning sale of stock in the
Phoenix Portland Cement Company
of Ohio.
Harrison now is under sentence of
three years in the Ohio penitentiary.
He also was fined $1,000. He was in
dicted and tried after the concern had
been thrown into the hands of a re-
ceiver a year ago.
Evening star., 1924-08-14
TAX REFUNDS RAPID,

About half OF the s16,ooo,o 600 in tax
refunds due 100000 persons who
paid the whole of their income tax
this year. and are thus entitled to
one-fourth Of it back under special
act of Congress, has been paid out by
check. 1t was said at the Treasury
today.
Rapid progress is being made now,
by the collectors, all papers neces-
sary having been sent to the collec-
tors by the Treasury
Evening star., 1924-08-14
DESTROY $4,000 PAPERS.
Children's Visit to Inventors
Home Reported to Police.

Clyde A. Lott. inventor, of 1921 G
street. told police last night that chill
dren have destroyed plans Of patents
and blue prints representing years
Of work and about $4,000 in cash
value. Detectives Mansfield, Keck
and Livingston started an investiga-
tion of the case today.
The inventor said also that models
of inventions were kept in a house
at 7l5h Eighth street and that chill
dren had evidently broken into the
place: which they believed abandoned
and carried Off or destroyed specifica-
tions, books. models, patents and blue
prints.
Evening star., 1924-08-14
U. S. ARMY OFFICERS FLY
TO DINNER IN DlRIGIBLE
Send Landing Crew Ahead to
Country Club to Handle
Airship.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, August 14.-Dirigi-
Bile balloons have uses other than
those of war, Lieut.. Col. John A.
Paegelow, commandant of Scott Field,
Belleville. ILL.,, the Army's chief
lighter than air station, demon
strated last night, when he flew to
a dinner dance at the Sunset Hill
Country Club here in the giant air
ship TC-3. He was accompanied by
three lieutenants.
A landing crew of 25 soldiers, sent
by motor truck, waited on the lawn
west Of the club building and caught
the ship when it landed.
The ship left the field at 1885 pm.
and arrived over the club at Sis.
The officers remained at the dinner
dance until 11:45. An hour later they
were at home, IS miles away.
Evening star., 1924-08-14
JAILED AS VAGRANTS.
Middle-Aged Couple Gets 45-Day
Sentence.

James and Mabel Hill, q middle
aged couple, before Judge Mcmahon
in the District of Columbia branch of
Police Court, today, on charges Of be-
ing va&rants, were convicted whom
unable to prove they possessed means
of support, and were sent to Jail for
IS days.
The couple had been found making
their home in an impfpvised shelter
in the woods in the rear of an apart
ment at Connecticut avenue and Til
den street Complaints from tenants
in the apartment that strange noises
were heard In the woods At night
caused police to investigate.
Evening star., 1924-08-14
Insurance Man Drops Dead.

MONTREAL, August 14.-Samuel H.
Maynard, "a, for % years a member
of the Bankers Life Association,
which is now in session here, and
agency manager of the association at
Lincoln, Mob, died in the lobby of a
hotel here of acute indigestion.
Evening star., 1924-08-14

Marine Band. Chairman Butler, who
will preside, will introduce Frank ".
Mondell, chairman Of the notification
COMMITTEES: Mr.. Mondell will deliver
the address of notification. Then
President coolidEe's sddrsSs q 90
eeptance will follow.
Evening star., 1924-08-14

York City, travels all over the world
selling paper mill and textile ma
chinery.
Evening star., 1924-08-14
COOLIDGE TO OPEN
FIGHT WITH SPEECH
DEFINING POSITION

CONTINUED from First PAGE
Evening star., 1924-08-14
DEADLOCK ON RUHR
FAILS TO YIELD TO
LEADERS, SOLVENTS

Continued from Firs. Page.)
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-07-18
LIVE TOPICS
FROM COUNTRY
A n ID TO w n
CONTINUED from Page i


We need to apply the law of SEN
tenee to service instead of inearcera-
ton, and to the culture of refined in
stincts instead of brutality.
We need a large fund to be appro-
priated to the cure of moral diseases
that have a foundation in physical
and mental arrangement. We need
to send our drunkards to sanitariums
instead of to jails. We need to- open
our church doors, establish missions
in America on a large scale upon the
premise that sin is a disease which
can be cured by the application Of
proper remedies. We need physicians
for the soul other than the preacher
who fails more often than he succeeds
in impressing the victim of moral
disease with the power of faith. The
advance step will incorporate all
these suggestions and many more
that may be worked out once the fact
is accepted.
But so long as we are content 10
place lawlessness in a category by
itself, and determine without argu-
ment that there is no cure for moral
disease outside the subject himself,
or supernatural power working
within him, we shall make no adynace
beyond the Romans and Hebrews who
attributed all manner of disease to
demon possession.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-07-18
FALL Is INDICTED;
CONSPIRACY CHARG L

Washington, July 12.--Albert b.
Fall, who was forced out of the cab
met by public opinion, has been in
dicted by special grand jury. He
is scored in the report, which declares
he accepted large sums of money as
gifts and loans" from Edward l..
Doheny.
Indictments were also handed down
against Doheny and his son, and
Harry +. Sinclair. and are based on
evidence brought out by Senator
Walsh of Montana and the senate oil
committee.
The accuesd have resisted every
attempt of the senate committee to
probe the oil transactions. Fall in
voked his constitutional prerogative;
Sinclair challenged the authority of
the senate to exercise inquisitorial
powers, and that issue has yet to
reach the United States supreme
court. Young Doheny, who took
100000 in cash from New York to
Fall, declined to submit to question
ing by the grand jury on the ground
that it would tend to incriminate him
The indictments alleged that Fall
and Doheny eonspired to defraud the
government in the leasing of the Elk
Hills oil reesrve in California, fol-
lowing Falls secret arranging to
give Doheny the contract for tank
age construction at Pearl Harbor.
The charge of conspiracy is made
against Fall and Sinclair in connec-
ton with the Teapot Dome reserve.
1t is also chraged that Flal ac-
cepted and the Dohenys offered a
100000 bride.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-07-18
DAWES TONES
DOWN; TO PLAY
SMOOTH PART

Washington. July IL General
Dawes informs the world he must
/ talk tense now He has dropped
his "Helen Maria" np-roaring play
acting part.
The defender Of the anti-union
shop and originator of the "Minute
Men Of the Constitution" announced
his change In an interview with a
representative of a local newspaper.
The general let it be known that
his grandstanding days are over and
he will assume an Owlish pose, as
BELTS his environment. Hereafter,
when asked a question, he will say
81 wonder" instead Of biurbing
Helen Maria" to the delight Of
newspaper men looking for the sen
sational.
The general said he learned the Il
wonder trick from the French. who
use it to evade direct answers.
The Helen Maria" term pictured
the general a. a blunt, open, two
listed fighter, an enemy Of red tape.
This pose was necessary when a COM
mittee of congress was asking him
about war expenditures. The trick
won. The public applauded Dawes
and drove the congressman into con-
fusion.
The term has served its purpose
and Is now Objectionable The gen
eral wants to be pictured as he Is.
Helen Maria" talk may fool the
populace, but it is out of place among
cold, calculating men.
81 must talk sense now" the gen
eral said.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-07-18
SURPLUS OF Il. S. FOR
FISCAL YEAR TO
BE HALF BILLION

Washington, d. c., July 1.-The
surplus for the fiscal year, 1874
passed the half billion mark today
with the issuance of the treasury
statement for the close of business
AIRY receipts over expenditures for
the fiscal year up to that day amount
ed to $505, 662, l01.
The statement for yesterday, which
was the last day of the fiscal year,
will be issued tomorrow. Expendi-
lures ON the fiscal day may reduce the
surplus somewhat, the official esti-
mate, which was made two weeks
ago, indicating that the surplus for
the year would be $49S,000, 000.-
Chicago Tribune.
The above, taken from a Chicago
paper, is an interesting bit of news.
A few days ago the president vetoed
a bill passed by the senate and
house providing for an increase in
wages fer the postal employees ON the
plea that a stop must be made in
expenditures somewhere, and that the
people would not stand for any more
taxes. Then, it was announced that
the tax was to be removed from Ger
tain Injuries. And while all this was
going on we find the government had
taken in over half a billion dollars
more than it knew what to do with.
So postal employees receive 500 a
year less than the government itself
says is necessary for a man with
family to live on; taxes have been
decreased, and Coolidge is running
for PRESIDENT
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-07-18

Job Printing at This Office.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-07-18
MACHINERY DIS
PLACES LABOR;
MORE PRODUCTION

Washington, July 12.-In the last
IL years automatic machinery pro-
duction has increased to ian almost
inconceivable extent" according to
the United States patent office, in
announcing the one and one-half mil
lionth patent issued since the present
patent office came into existence.
The statement is thumb-nail
sketch of the social and economic
upheavals machinery has wrought
since 1886.
The period from 1886 to 1923, the
statement says, saw more changes
that profoundly affected civilization,
our mode of living, our health and
progress, than any 1000 years pre-
viously. For during this period the
face of the advanced nations of the
earth altered materially, changing
primarily from cultural to industrial
countries.
During these 81 years an evolu-
ton of profound depth, of farreaching
effect, was produced. The steam en-
CINE was perfected and its applica-
ton to machinery and transportation
made effective and universal; the
whole are of electrical generation of
power, its transmission and utiliza-
ton was invented and applied; cleo
tfical lighting, heating and communi-
cation establishes; industrial chemls-
| try became a force and standard of
industrial progress. Labor saving
machinery impressed itself for the
first time generally as universal
factor in our industrial life, and the
internal combustion machine, with all
its tremendously important implica-
tons, was developed and applied.
''The second period, from 1893 to
1911, although being considerably
shorter, still produced such far-reach-
| ing inventions as the automobile, the
aeroplane and wireless communica-
ton. During this period the inven-
tons of the first period were con-
solidated, refined and more extern
sively applied, especially in quantity
production by labor-saving devices
the use of electricity for power for
machinery and transportation, and
the perfection of the automobile.
"The era covering the last ID years
is notable mostly for generally in
tensive pursuit of improvements, par
ticularly in the multiplying of the
effectiveness of the labor-saving de-
vice, leading to automatic machinery,
whereby direct application of manual
labor is almost eliminated and pro-
duction increased to an almost in
conceivable extent"
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-07-18

Virginia Theatre

FINEST IN TIE MIDDLE WEST
The H.alihiesi aud Safest Spot Ia the
Twin cities. 10000 Cubic Feet of Fresh
Air Circulated Every Minute.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-07-18

Stafford, Okla, July 5.-The edi-
tor of the Star, published at this
place, records an emphatic mo" to
the Oklahoma City chamber of COM
merce request that the Star reprint
its anti-union propaganda.
ut is ust such fellows as you who
cause all the labor disturbances we
have in the United States" said the
Star editor "You hsip in lot of
foreign born laborers and work them
for nothing. You make me tired
when you ask country newspaper
to help you by publishing your pro-
paganda free" The Star man said
he favors the union shop.
White Plains, N. Y, BARRIERS strike
for hi0bar INV
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-07-18

Springfield is planning for a nam.
moth Labor Day celebration. Sixty.
four members have been placed on the
committee for arrangements.