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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-18

Mary Aston has returned to
Universal to play opposite Regi-
maid Denny in ooh Doctor" be-
ing directed by Harry Pollard.
The cast includes Otis Harlan.
Tom Ricketts,. Mike Donlin and
Blanche Payaon.
Evening star., 1924-08-08
BY FREDERICK n. NEELY.
stan Correspondent Of The Star.

ON BOARD U. S. S. RICHMOND,
REYKJAVIK HARBOR, Iceland, Au-
gust z (by Wireless).-Blocke by
the worst ice barriers Greenland has
seen in Is years. the American round
the-world flyers found themselves
marooned here today, face to face
with the possibility of having to
abandon their adventure within but
5000 miles of their goal.
1t is the first time since they
hoped of on the first leg of their
historic journey that the Americans
have been so helplessly stumped
Old Boreas, grim sovereign Of the
Northland, seems to have them at
his mercy, temporarily at least
Fought to a finish in the epochal
battle across. the North Pacific, he
has trapped the flyers in a prison OF
shimmering ice in the home stretch.
Decide ON Delay.
Rear Admiral Thomas P. Magruder
commander of the light cruiser
squadron, held a conference with
Lieut.. Lowell Smith, the flight COM
mander. on board the flagship Rich
mond today to discuss future plans.
1t was decided to hold the American
Evening star., 1924-08-08
HURLS STEPS0N IN RIVER,
ASKING TO BE HANGED
Woman Tired of Child and His
Father She Says, as Searchers
Seek Victims, Body.

By the Associated Press.
WATERLOO, Iowa, August s.-The
body of 6-year-old Mick Maharies had
not been recovered today from Cedar
River, into which his stepmother. Mrs.
Marie Maharfes, says she pushed him
about 10 am. yesterday.
Police and volunteer searchers
dragxed the river and used bloodhounds
in an effort to prove the truth of the
woman's story, but except for testimony
of a fisherman who saw. her 90 to the
river with the lad and return without
him nothing has been developed. Mrs.
Maharies maintains an attitude Of in
difference, and stolidly tells of the
hatred for the lad which urged her to
kill him. She says she has no affection
for her husband. and that the boys
presence in her home added to her dis
satisfaction with life, causing her twice
to attempt suicide by poison. When
these failed she says she planned to kill
the little boy. thus satisfying at once
her dislike for him and, convinced she
would hang for his murder, achieve her
desire for her own death.
Tho woman's relatives say she has
been Ill several months, and that her
mind has become affected.
Evening star., 1924-08-08
COMMUNISTS URGE
FILIPINOS TO FIGHT
Circular Warns "Proletariat" of
Capitalists and Landlords Con-
trolling Industry.
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
MANILA, August S.-What purports
to be the attitude Of the central ex-
ecutive committee of the Communist
Workers party toward Philippine in
dependence is disclosed in a circular
received here from the party's Chi
cago headquarters.
The committee urged Filipino Ia
borers and tenant farmers to partici-
pate in the independence movement
as members of the working class,
carefully avoiding making common
cause with landlords and capitalists,
whether native or foreign. The cir
cuIar asserts that Filipino capital
lists and landlord classes" are even
more dangerous to the Filipino pro-
letariat" than American imperialists
and exploiters." 1t urges that re-
lentless war be waged by the work
ers against landlords and capitalists
The circular urges that Filipino
workers and tenant farmers organize
q farmer-labor party and that the
Filipino members Of the workers
party be reorganized into a Filipino
communist league. 1t also advises
the Filipino workers to take measures
to prevent capitalists from gaining
control OF sugar. coal and other in
dustries or resources.
Evening star., 1924-08-08
Germans Still Insist Ruhr Evacua.
tion Date Be Set.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, August s.-Despite the
rapid progress being made toward an
agreement with Germany. the inter-
national conference to arrange for
putting the Dawes reparation plan
into effect is not likely to end before
the middle of next week, it was stated
by a British spokesman today.
Prime Minister Macdonald has
given up hope of getting further
away from Downing street than his
nearby official country residence at
Chequers Court during the week end
The conference experts. including
the Germans, got to work early to-
day. One group met at $3.50 o'clock
and another group an hour later to
continue the task of explaining the
results of the allies labors during
their preliminary conference here to
the German representatives and of
harmonizing the German views with
the allied program for launching the
Dawes plan.
1t was decided to call a session Of
the big fourteen" the leaders of the
Evening star., 1924-08-08
Worst Ice Barrier II, Is Years
Threatens to End Army Flight
Flyers at Reykjauik Eagerly A'cait Word
From Steamer Seeking to Reach Port in
Greenlund-WOrk in Cold Drizzle.

planes here a few more days in the
hope that the Gertrude Rask, their
base ship, may succeed in smashing
through the ice packs that have
locker her out Of Angmagsalik, the
next stop on the journey home.
Desperate efforts are being made to
get in touch with the Quest. the
stanch little ship used by Shackleton
on his last polar expedition. II any
ship can break through the noes that
have swept around the coast of Green
land, it is the Quest But thus far
the tireless wireless. calling without
CESSATION has failed to get a response
from the veteran little explorer, and
her present location is unknown.
Ship Seeks Opening.
The last heard from the Gertrude
Rask she was still nosing around, Is
miles from shore. for an opening into
the harbor of Angmagsalik. Her skip
per has been making voyages into that
port once a year for the past two dec
ades. This time he arrived two weeks
earlier than usual, to be there as a
supply and base ship for the American
flyers when they landed
He sent word by wireless that the
ice conditions are the worst he has
N(Continued on Page 3, Column ~
Evening star., 1924-08-08
Date of Meeting of Allied
Finance Ministers to AIIo>
cate Funds Not Set.
INVOLVES COMPENSATION
FOR ARMY OF OCCUPATION
London Farley Will Run Into Next
Week-Herriot Goes to Paris
for Advice.

The United States expects to par
ticipate in any meeting of allied
finance ministers which may be called
arations payments as a result of the
decisions reached at the interallied
conference now in progress in Lon
don.
Following instructions from Wash
| ington, Ambassador Kellogg has 50
indicated to the London conference.
which has under consideration a reso-
luton for a meeting of finance minis
ters in Paris in the near future.
u. s. Has Large Claims.
Under the Dawes plan provision is
made for the ALLEGATION of all moneys
paid in reparations by German
through an agreement among the
allied and associated powers" The
United States because this would
form the only means of obtaining
payments from Germany on such
claims as may be adjudicated by the
German rican Claims Commiss
or even of receiving reimbursement
for the cost of the army of occupa-
tion.
The provision in the Dawes plan
has to do with ALLEGATION of money
paid on reparations accounts by Ger
many since 1923. during which period
the agreement between the United
States and the allies covering Ameri-
can Army cost reimbursements was
operating.
The State Department has not been
fully advised as to the status in Lon
don of the proposal for the Paris
financial meeting. The notification of
a desire to participate transmitted by
Ambassador Kellogg is regarded by
the Department as in a measure a
routine step to protect the right OF
the Washington Government should
the conference actually be called.r~r--~-
PARLEY TO END NEXT WEEK.
Evening star., 1924-08-08
u. S. to GiUe A,Uuy
8OO-POu,,d Babies:
Buffalo Children

Would you have little buffalo
in your home?
If you haven't and wish a play
full little pet for the youngsters.
weighing 500 pounds or more,
bearded like a patriarch and with
an ingrowing disposition, write the
Interior Department. You may get
one
Out in Yellowstone National Park
officials found the buffalo herd get
ting too large, hence the possi-
bility of free buffalo for the Amer
lean taxpayer. All you have to do
is ask for 1t. pay the cost of catch
ing and transporting the animal,
and you may have a buffalo-lord
of the plains in the days when men
were men and the wind blew free
over the Western "pra-r-e-e."
Not so many years ago. when the
buffalo was facing extinction.
small herd was taken to Yellow
stone National Park and placed on
the high plateau-.of the Lamar, in
the northeastern section of the
park Under the careful protec-
tion afforded the herd. it thrived
and multiplied until today it num-
bers about $50.
This Spring the stork came to
ia buffalo mothers in the Yellow
stone, and the feeding problem,
already serious, became disastrous.
So it was decided to thin out the
herd-one of the largest in the
United States. But il you get a
buffalo, says the Interior Depart
ment. you must care for it and
not kill it except in self-defense.
Evening star., 1924-08-08

Browne predicts, will retreat South.
ward, probably as much as ESQ to SOC
miles and all crops will suffer.
Long range weather forecasting-
telling what kind of seasons we are
going to have, one, two and three
years ahead, is as easy as falling of
a log, if you know how, says Mr.
Browne.
1.-The heat of the sun controls all
weather" he explains. Its heat
varies from year to year and can be
measured by instruments perfected
by scientists of the Smithsonian In
stitution.
The suns heat was above normal
from 1917 until March, 1922. Since
then it has gradually fallen, with
slight occasional variations, until, in
September, 1922, it>reached the low
CONTINUED on Page :. Column 81
Evening star., 1924-08-08
S,oelterers, Cheer Up! One Year
Without Summer Is on the Wnv

Cheer up, swelterers. A year with
out Summer" is on the way.
At least that is the prediction of
Herbert j. Browne, master of ocean
meteorology, whose forecasts for the
first six months of this year have
proved more than 95 per cent cor
rect And he is willing to stake his
scientific reputation that his latest
prediction will come true.
Unsettled and colder" is the
prophesy for the coming year. A cold
er winter, a colder summer, with
violent and sudden changes from ex-
treme heat to extreme cold, from ex-
treme drought to extreme rainfall.
And then-in 1e26-27-will come the
year without q summer" like the
memorable 1915. with frosts and ice
in every month in the year. The safe
ty line. of grain production, Mr..
Evening star., 1924-08-08
Dry Sleuths Are Forbidden to Use
Lodge distress Sign to Buy Liquor


By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. August s.-A code of
ethics" for Illinois prohibition
agents. which. among other
things prohibits them from giving
the sign of distress to lodge
brother as q preliminary to pur-,
chasing liquor from him, have
been issued by Maj. Percy Owen.
prohibition director
In the list of .'dont's" agents
are asked to refrain from beeom.
ing intoxicated in obtaining evi-
dence; from feigning sickness to
buy from druggists; from max:
ing bootieggers.. saloon keepers and
rum runners their associates, and
cabarets and barrooms their
lounging places on duty. and from
using evidence obtained because
tho sale was made on the. ground
Evening star., 1924-08-08
DISTRICT WILL GET
REPORT ON PARKING
Traffic Board to Decide if
Added Facilities Should Be
- Furnished.

The District Commissioners are ex-
pecting report from the Traffic
Board as to whether the municipality
should buy ground for parking areas
and automobile storage facilities and
also as to what steps might be nee
essary to enforce strictly the down
town parking regulations.
This was made known today by En-
gineer Commissioner Bell following a
board session attended by himself
and Commissioner Oyster. The park
ing situation was discussed inform
ally, but the major said no action
would be taken ,towsrd a solution
until the aforementioned report is
received.
Maj. Bell said that the Commission
ers should decide promptly whether
1t is advisable for the city to under
take to provide parking garages or
areas. He made it clear that he has
not made up his mind on the ques-
ton. He said that If the District de-
cides not to buy ground for parking
purposes the decision should be
reached soon. SO that private capital
that might be considering such, a
move would know the status of the
question.
Weald Detail Men.
The parking problem in downtown
Washington can be solved without
new legislation by detailing sufficient
men to enforce strictly the hour
rule. in the opinion of Assistant Cor
poration Counsel Ringgold Hart. q
member of the Commissioners traffic
board.
Mr.. Hart takes the position that
the real evil in the parking situation
is the practice of leaving cars on the
busy streets all day, and he believe,
the breaking up of this practice is
a practical police problem" He said
he realizes it will take men, time and
earnest effort.
The motorist who leaves his car
Continued on Page 2, Column Il
Evening star., 1924-08-08
Var Debt Parley
InPnris BrOuched
At Allied Meetir,g e
By the Assnciated Press

By the Associated Press
LONDON, August S.-The allied
delegates to the International con-
ference this afternoon, in the
presence of the American repre-
sentatives to the conference, dis
cussed the feasibility OF holding
a conference in Paris in the future
to discuss the question of inter-
allied war debts.
The proposed conference would
be entirely separate from the
other Paris pourparlers. which will
concern themselves with the al
location of the reparation pay
ments. Observers at the interna-
tional conference believe it will
be definitely decided to hold the
debt discussions in Paris at an
early date.
Evening star., 1924-08-08


that the offender is an old friend
Of the agent.
After taking two or three drinks
OF hiEh-proof liquor, an agent is
advised to allow five to seven
hours elapse before taking another.
Agents may use any disguises con-
sidered necessary. They should
keep diaries in which drawings
are to be made OF locations where
violations are found
Gun play IL especially cautioned
. against. There are times when a
display Of arms Is necessary. Maj.
Owen said. but nothing Is to be
gained. in his opinion, by turning
n machine gun on suspected
Lemonade stand.
Evening star., 1924-08-08
VALUABLES ARE TAKEN.

o. G. Forrer, administrative assist
ant in the narcotic field service, has
appealed to the police to assist in in
vestigating taking of his wife's trav-
cling bag from Capital Traction
tanned wearing apparel, two $1,000
Treasury Department certificates and
jewelry.
Mrs. Forrer boarded the car al
Union station, and when she left the
car she forgot about her bag. Two
hours after reaching home, at 1906
Park road, she missed the bag and
started an inquiry.
Evening star., 1924-08-08
TORNADOES KILL 5,
DEvASTATE FARMS
Scores Injured by Twisters in
Wisconsin - Relief
Work Started.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
EAU CLAIRE, Wis, August s.-Re-
lief measures were under way today
in three central western Wisconsin
counties, struck last night by two
least FIVE dead, with a score or more
injured, and caused property damage
which may reach a million dollars.
Many farmers were left destitute as
a result of the storms.
While no definite plans had been
formulated today, it was expected an
appeal would be made to the State
and the people of wisconsin for as
sistance in rehabilitating the. deyas-
tated area.
Restoration of wire communication
in the three counties hit-Chippewa.
Trempeleau and Jackson-was ex-
peeted to bring news OF added
casualties.
Black River Falls was one OF the
towns hardest hit. Two persons are
known to be dead there and two
seriously injured.
Baby Among Victims.
George Nash, SO, and Alice Garwin
2. were killed at Black River Fails
julius Baglien, 16, perished near
Osseo, and Richard Secora, 19. met
death at his fathers farm near New
Auburn.
Percy Walter of Bloomer, a sailor
who was visiting relatives while on
furloueb. was fatally injured. and he
died at a Chippewa Falls hospital late
last night.
The first of the two tornadoes ap-
peared early in the evening In the
vicinity of Osseo, in the upper north
east corner of Trempeleau, crossed
over into Jackson County and swept
down to Black River Falls. 1t appar-
entity spent it's force just outside tnat
place. The entire northeast section
of Black River Falls bore the brunt
of the storm there, while the rest of
the. city escaped with shattered WIN
dows and other minor damage.
Farms Laid Waste.
Scores of farms lying in the path
of the twister between Osseo and
Black River Falls were laid waste.
Homes, barns and outbuildings were
reduced to splinters.
The other tornado made it's appear
ance near New Auburn, in Chippewa
County, and swung down the coun-
tryside to Bloomer, continuing for
a hout Ave miles beyond that place, 1t
cut a swath nearly half mile wide.
Bloomer suffered great damage, a
number of buildings being destroyed
and many automobiles wrecked when
picked up by the wind and hurled
against buildings and trees.
Evening star., 1924-08-08
AIR SERVICE FIRM.
Refuses to Abandon Flight-Con.
template Long Hop.

The Army Air Service has no inten-
tion of abandoning the world flight,
and unless the ice barrier around
Angamagsalik is penetrated soon the
American airmen will make a 750-
mile nom stop hop direct to the south
scoast of Greenland. where there is
plenty of open water, it was an
nounced from the Office of Maj. Gen.
Patrick, chief of the Air Service, to-
day.
In anticipation of such an emer-
gency officers Of the Air Service staff
are rushing plans for the immediate
preparation of a base near Cape Fare
we'll, the southernmost tip of Green
land After careful figuring it was
announced that such trip is ''easily
within the cruising radius of the
@planes of Lieut.. Lowell Smith and
Lieut.. Erick Nelson.
May Have Floating Base.
To further safeguard the passage
to Cape Farewell, 1t is thought that
it will be possible to establish an in
termediate floating base midway be-
tween that point and Reykjavik
through the use of Navy vessels which
are now in the Danish Straits to
guard the aviators on the hop across
that body of water. Should the planes
give out of gas it will be possible for
them to land on the water and re-
fuel from the war craft.
THE world flight will not be much
further delayed" the statement said,
"and within a short time the planes
will be on their way to, Greenland" !"
The statement in full follows:
"On account of unusual ice condi-
tions in the Danish Straits between
Iceland and Greenland, Air. Service
officers making the necessary ar
rangements for bases on the east
coast of Greenland are experiencing
considerable difficulty. Throughout the
entire year the east coast of Green.
land is bordered by belt of foe ice,
varying in width from Is to 100 miles.
Ice Unussally Heavy.
This year, on account of the un-
usually late Spring. this ice is par~
Fticufarly heavy and the Danish
steamer Gertrude Rask, which is
carving supplies and fuel for the
CONTINUED on Page 3. Column 3
Evening star., 1924-08-08
DRY ARRESTS DUE
IN ALLEGED PLOT
Warrants Received Here for
Local Men Named in Tampa
Indictments.

Ten or fifteen persons, including
Deputy United States marshals, po-
lice, alleged bootleggers and others
probably will be arrested here with
in the next few hours for alleged
participation in a big liquor con-
spiracy, in which indictments were
returned recently in Tampa, Fla.
Bench warrants from Florida were
received today by Acting United
States Attorney West, who turned
them over to United States Marshal
Snyder for execution.
The names of those for whom the
warrants arrived today are being
withheld by authorities until after
the arrests.
Local Warrants Sought.
1t was expected local warrants
would be asked of a United States
commissioner for service on those in
dicted, and the arrests would follow
within a few hours.
What procedure will be followed
then has not been definitely determined
upon, but it was understood that those
arrested would be arraigned before a
commissioner for a hearing, and the
Government would ask they be held
for removal to Florida. Removal pro-
ceedings will take place before the
court.
The conspiracy is alleged by the
Government to be far-reaching, and to
involve a number of persons in Wash
ington, New York City and several
cities in Florida. Indictments were re-
turned by a Federal grand jury late
last month for So persons. Already
authorities in Florida have taken into
custody number of southerners.
The case was made by the special
intelligence unit of the Treasury De-
partment from clue which de-
veloped in another case here. The
ramifications of the conspiracy are
charged to lead from the islands off
the Florida coast through a string of
alleged smugglers, confidence men.
paid agents of railroads, Pullman
porterS, Pullman conductors, police
and retail dealers into Washington
and New York. Much of the liquor
is said by the Government to have
found a market here.
The exact number Of Washing
tonians involved has not been re-
vealed.
Evening star., 1924-08-08
Auto Kills Railroad Man.

CHICAGO, August s.-William E.
Mitten of Goodland. ILL.,. railroad man
and brother of Thomas e. Mitten,
Philadelphia traction magnate. was
killed in an automobile accident in
the Canadian Rockies. Thomas es-
cared without serious injury, accord
ing to information received here to-
day. >.
Evening star., 1924-08-08
ARREST IL EMIGRANTS.
Paris Police Hold Italians With
False Passports for America.

PARIS, August Sat the request
of the American consul general the
Paris police have arrested 12 Italians
carrying. false passports. When ques-
toned the prisoners said they OBJ
tanned the papers from an assocfa-
ton at Naples for 1850 lire each.
They were assured, they said, that
the documents would get them across
to the United States without any
trouble
Evening star., 1924-08-08
Herrick Coming Home.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, August S.-Myron T. Her
rick, American Ambassador to France,
accompanied by his son, Parmely
Herrick, and the 1atter's family, will
sail tomorrow on the Paris for a
two-month vacation trip in the United
States
Evening star., 1924-08-08

Ecuador Opens Swiss Legation.
BERN. August s.-Ecuador has es-
tablished legation in Switzerland
appointing as minister Robalino
Davila, who has been granted IN
exequater by the Swiss government
Evening star., 1924-08-08
supply Ship Fast in Ice.

A wireless message from the sup
ply ship Gertrud Rask on August j
reported her stuck fast in the heavy
polar ice Is miles from shore near
AngmagsaIik. Fears were expressed
that unless a westerly wind scattered
the ice the steamer would not be able
to free herself for several weeks. The
ice conditions were disclosed as worse
! than in many years.
On August 6 report reached
Reykjavik that the Gertrud Rask had
succeeded in freeing herself and
reaching Angmagsalik, but this was
not confirmed, and later reports have
been that the ice conditions in that
vicinity had not improved appreciably.
AIR SERVICE FIRM.