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Evening star., 1924-08-18
D. c. HEADS TAKE UP
BUDGET SLASH|NC
Reduction of Estimates by
$5,0 GOO, 900, Under Bureau
Direction, to Begin Soon.

Reluctantly, the District Commits
sioners will tackle Wednesday morn
ing the unpleasant annual task Of
siasnlng the estimates to the bounds
drawn by the budget bureau.
approximately 5000, 900 must be
cut from the Districts original bud
get Tor the next fiscal year to bring
IL TO the maximum total Of 1851 sos
set by Gen. Lords bureau. AS a re-
suit virtually all of the imnortant
projects designed to improve munf-
cipal conditions in the Nations Capt.
tai will suffer somewhat.
New Conduit Suffers Cut.
The drastic reduction will affect
the extension of the new water con-
duit, the water and sewer systems
ana pubic parks. 1t also is con-
sloered likely that the item included
In the budget for the erection Of q
contagious ward as an integral par1
of the Gallinger Hospital will be
eliminated completely,
Ihe original estimates carried an
item for 100000 for further exten-
sion of the conduit from Great Falls
More than $1.o00,000 may be slashed
from this total.
The public school system will suffer
least from the pruning process which
the budget will undergo. Commits
sioner Rudolph indicated today that
the Commissioners are tborouehIy
cognizant of the needs of the schools
and VIII not sacrifice any projects
which are essential to the welfare OF
the public educational system.
interests Most Affected,
The cuts likely to be made in the
school budget. it was intimated. will
e.
ground extensions and building sites
for future use. The entire school
estimates, after the proposed reduc-
ton, Will be the largest in history, as
1T is the intention of the Commits
stoners to keep them above $4,000
600. This will be an increase of 81
100000 over the school appropriation
TOT the current fiscal year, which
totaled $4,000. 900. including deficiency
items amounting to S1.5OO.o0o, which
failed to receive the necessary ap-
prova1 Of Congress-
Provision for New High Schools.
The largest portion of the increase
in the school budget will be used to
begin the construction Of the new
Mckinney and Business High Schools
salary increases for officials and
teachers as provided in the Keller
bill and the higher wage scale grant
ed Janitors and engineers under the
reclassification law likewise will
take sizeable sum out of the total
school budget.
When the revised budget is sent
back to the budget bureau supple
mental estimates totaling about So
100000 will accompany IL. All of the
items stricken from the original
budget will be included in the sup
Elemental estimates.
Evening star., 1924-08-18

Of compound mental completes that
bound the youths in a strange pact
glib descriptions Of various gland all
ments Of the killers were outlined
by highly paid psychiatrists. psy-
biologists and gland experts. 1'nese
in turn were dubbed the purest OF
humbugs and sheer buncombe by
eminent psychiatrists, psychologists
and gland experts for the State.
With life imprisonment the best
they can expect, these boys by their
plea Of mental irrespons1bility have
tied up one court for q solid month.
They are as clipper as any pair OF
lively college boys when contemplate
ing the spectacle they have made.
But their play is about over now
and rude actualities are about to en-
ter. Probably the youth Of the boys
may cause Judge Caverly to extend
sympathy and give them their lives
otherwise, mental theorfes or no
mental theories, their days are mum.
bered.
Justice, though, will have come only
after 30 days of court procedure with
every technioality eliminated. with
the crime record settled down to .
murder . day - chicago aloae, the
public can n0W. understand how
70 the machinery Of the law.
Evening star., 1924-08-18
4 KILLED AND 10 HURT
IN MANDALAY RIOTlNG
Street Battle Results When Po-
lice Try to Clear Tram Lines
in Parade.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON. August 1S.-Casualties in
rioting Saturday at Mandalay, Upper
Burma, were two policemen and two
Poonghies buddhist priests) killed.
and 10 persons. including II police
men, injured with knife cuts. says
an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Mandalay today. Fifty-five other per-
sons were treated at the hospital for
minor hurts. The city now is quiet.
The rioting occurred when the police
attempted to clear the tram lines
during the progress of procession
through the main streets, in connec-
ton with a political demonstration
led by Buddhist priest named
Okama. known as stanch advocate
of home rule.
The rioters considerably outnum-
bered the military and police and the
latter suffered the most casualties.
They were required to use their car
bines, says the correspondent. be
cause the Burmese were freely WELD
ing their heavy knives, called "dahs."
Evening star., 1924-08-18
DEFENSE TEST PROGRAM
FOR D. c. EXPLAINED
Further Plans for Carrying Out
Purposes Announced for Infor-'
nation of Army Units.

Further plans for carrying out the
aims and purposes for the defense
test. September IL, in this city, were
revealed today by Brig. Gen. 8. D..
Rockenbach, commanding the Dis
trict of Washington, who will be
grand marshal of the parade. in q
memorandum issued for the informa-
tion Of all Army units and activities
in the District, except the War De-
partment and the War College.
Personnel is asked to enroll for the
defense test and those in charge Of
personnel are asked to allow alb
sences from duty in the afternoon for
the necessary time to participate in
the exercises. ALI units of the re-
serve are urged to turn out over full
strength in uniform, If they have it.
Inquiries as to detail of the pa
rade. it is said. should be sent to
room 1882 Munitions Building. Maj.
F. J. Bell, room $50 District Building.
Is chairman Of the general committee
for the District. Several subcommit-
tees, with names and addresses. as
previously announced, are listed in
the generals memorandum to those
concerned.
Evening star., 1924-08-18
PAR[EY SUCCESS
CHEERS PRESIDENT
Sends Message Of Praise to
Kellogg for Services Rem
dered at London.
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
PLYMOUTH, VT, August 1S-Pres-
ident Coolidge was plainly cheered
today over the successful conclusion
OF the international conference in
London. called to put into operation
the Dawes reparations plan.
He has shown considerable interest
in the negotiations. In which this
country was represented by Ambas-
sador Kellogg and Col. James A. Lo-
gan, and he has said he believed the
accomplishment of the conference the
greatest made since the signing of
the armistice. with the possible ex-
ception of the Washington arms con-
ference. He sent q message Of con-
graduation to Mr.. Kellogg express
ing satisfaction over the results.
Gets Up Early.
Rested from his trip from Wash
ington by two days spent largely in
relaxation. the President was up
early today and about the farm yard
with his father at the family home
here. Planning only a complete rest
for his vacation. he had no program
for the day or the week.
John Coolidge, the Presidents s
father. told visitors at the home he
had gotten in most of the crops, but
remarked, II probably will find some
thing for Calvin to do"
Mr.. Coolidge was presented with
two rakes this morning by Repre-
sentative Treadway of Massachusetts,
on behalf OF Marshall Steadman. rake
maker, of. Tyringham, Mass Thank
ing Mr.. Treadway for the rakes, the
President said it reminded him of
days gone by" Turning to news
paper men standing nearby, he added,
Il guess father has enough help from
you now in keeping the front yard
cleaned up"
While the President failed to take
oart in the morning chores, he lent
hand in driving posts for d tent,
which secret service men were erect
ing for quarters near the home. See
ing the men struggling with an axe
in driving the posts, he brought a
sledge hammer from the barn. took
off his coat and helped finish the job
After visit over the hay field with
mis- father, Mr.. Coolidge went for the
first time to the offices set UP over
the general store and with c. Bas-
com Slemp. his secretary, went over
the morning mail. Here also he re-
ceived some visitors.
Evening star., 1924-08-18
HIGH SOVIET OFFICIALS
SENTENCED TO DEATH
By the Associated Press.
~ QuK EMIT. r,

By the Associated Press.
TASHKENT. Russian Turkestan.
August 1S.-M. Naroulaeff. commissar
for foreign affairs of the autonomous
Soviet Republic of Khiva, and NJ
Kanieff. commissar of trade and COM
merce, have been condemned to death
on charges of maladministration for
their own interests and defrauding
the state. number of other govern
ment officials were sentenced to inn
prisonment.
Naroulaer and Kanieff. it is alleg-
ed, issued DEGREES against the cotton
trade which they applied chiefly
against small holders. at the same
time exempting themselves and all
their relatives and friends. These
acts, according to the charges, COM
PEELED some cotton growers to seek
other means of livelihood. resulting
in substantial limitation of the
acreage sown. The commissars were
also indicted for carrying on private
trade with Moscow under the cover
of government Institutions
Evening star., 1924-08-18

this country through possible dislo-
cation of industrial conditions.
The Republicans have had to face
the Endorsement of Democratic nomi-
nees for the presidency in the past by
leaders of the American Federation
of Labor. They say that the Repub-
lican party has had it's fair share of
support from the workers, notwith-
standing. In the present campaign
this Endorsement has been given to
the La Follette-W Wheeler ticket, and
the Republicans insist that millions of
workers who have been loyal to the
party in the past will continue to be
30. The campaign managers, how
ever, will pay particular attention to
the workers henceforth. and will seek
to lay before them clearly and per-
sistently the reasons why the Re
publican ticket should be supported
by labor.
A compila ton of the record of
which labor was interested while leg
islator and governor in Massachusetts,
has been prepared and circula ted
through the national committee. 1t
was prepared by men serving in Mas
sachusetts on the State legislative
boards of the Order of Railway Con-
ductors and the Brotherhood of Rail-
road Trainmen.
1--WE know from personal expert
ence and contact that he president
Coolidge) has been a friend to labor"
they said in their Introductory para
graphs.
The record SO compiled showed that
President Coolidge while Governor
OF Massachusetts signed an act 10
require specifications of the charac-
ter of each kind of work for the
benefit of the employees in the vari-
Gus rooms of a textile plant. For
more than so years the textile work e.
ers had fought for this measure and
Gov. Coolidge signed it, notwith-
standing the opposition of the tex
tended that they had been swlndIed
out of more than s1.000.000 a year by
their inability to know just what
they had earned.
Other acts signed by Mr.. Coolidge
as governor which were especially
pleasing to labor were; an act al
lowing manufacturing corporations to
provide for the representation of their
employees on the board of directors:
an act increasing the weekly payment
under the workmen's compensation
act from $14 to $16 a week; an act
to include children under 16 as bene-
dciaries under the workmen's COM
pensation act upon the death of
parent; an act requiring posting of
DEGREES Of the minimum wage COM
mission by employers affected: an act
making 40 cents an hour the mini
mum wage for scrubwomen in the
state house.
AS senator. Mr.. Coolidge voted Tor
the socalled full crew bilI'' proposed
by Representatives of the Brotherhood
of Railway Trainmen, and when the
bill was vetoed by Gov. Foss. Mr..
Coolidge voted to pass 1t over the
veto. AS senator. Mr.. Coolidge also
voted to pass over the governors
veto a bill to increase the wages us
the employees of the metropolitan
park commission and the water and
sewerage board. He voted for bill
to allow peaceful persuasion in
strikes Another bill which he sup
ported provided for the establishment
of the minimum wage commission and
to fix the minimum wages of women
and minors. He signed an act as gov
srnor providing for the so-called two
platoon syste4" for nremen.
Evening star., 1924-08-18
THRILL OF DEATH OR LIFE TERN
NOW AWAITS LEOPOLD AND LOEB

the youths put into play the plot to
obtain ransom from the father by a
clever letter ruse. Two crimes carry
ing with them the death penalty were
thus committed-kidnap ping for ransom
and murder
At that time this consideration did
not bother the killers. They took the
body to the unfreauented fats south
OF Chicago and hid it in q culvert,
satisfied that the perfect crime" had
been committed and covered in
every detail. A chance passer, how
ever, discovered the murdered boy.
and set under way one of the clever
est known pieces of detective work.
Wrongly Accused Men.
Once the body was identified. all
the forces of Chicago's police depart
ment were set in motion to find the
killers. Three instructors at the
Harvard School which young Franks
had attended were subjected to the
most severe of third degree exam
nations. They were practically ac-
cused of the crime, when a pair OF
glasses dropped by Leopold after
showing the murder victim into the
culvert were traced and their owner.
ship established.
Leopold and Loeb had been taking
slayers. Now they were subjected
to examination and. after a thorough
grilling by States Attorney Robert
E.. Grove, finally admitted their
crime on the night of May 80. The
boys, parading their intellectual ac-
complishments. were thrown into
Jail. where they remained until July
Il. when their trial got under way.
In all this time not a hitch was
thrown in tho way of speedy JUS
tice. Pleas of guilty were entered on
July 81, further cutting through the
maze Of usual court procedure. But
then q new element in murder trials
was injected by Clarence barrow, de-
Tense attorney plea OF mental ir-
responsibility as cause for mitigation
of punishment. The solid month OF
court battle has centered around this
hitherto unused claim for Isnienoy.
{ Pretty theories OF phantasy lives
lived by the slayerD-clever pictures
Evening star., 1924-08-18
CUTTER CAN'T
FLOATING CABARET
Patrol Of Waters in Vicinity
of Fire Island Without Sue
cess, Seneca Report.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. August 1s-Although
the Coast Guard cutter Seneca pa
trolled the waters in the vicinity Of
Fire Island yesterday. no trace of a
reported floating cafe" was found
according to Capt. Camden of the
Coast Guard, New York district. He
added that had the Seneca located
the vessel he would have proceeded
Immediately to the alleged floating
bar to see if she was violating the
liquor treaty between Great Britain
and the United States.
Capt. James Blaikie master of the
Anchor liner California. which ar
rived from Glasgow yesterday. asserted
that he had not only failed to note
any vessel equal to the 17,000-ton
anchored OFF Fire Island. but had also
had the unique experience Of sailing
through rum row without noting a
single rum schooner. He was unable
to advance any theories as to the
absence of the vessels and recalled
that last Fall his attention was
called to a large freighter, as his
vessel was passing about 80 miles off
Boston.
Unloading of Freight.
He said the freighter was openly
unloading case after case of what ap-
peared to be whisky onto two ocean
going lighters, and that the lighters
were later towed to some seaport by
tugs He added that the freighter was
the largest vessel he had ever seen on
rum row.
Our vessel passed Fire Island just
before dawn this morning." the captain
said. THE weather was very fine and
visibility was high. which enabled US
to observe the surrounding water for a
great distance. We could have quite
easily observed any steamer which was
anchored or drifting about. However.
we did not sight single rum-runner,
which was certainly most unusual.
The water was exceedingly calm.'
The captain ventured the opinion
that the cost or upkeep Of a 17,00o-ton
vessel. including the salaries of the
crew Of about 200 men, together with
fuel and supplies. would average at
least $4,000 daily. He said this did not
take into consideration the initial CAPT.
tai expended for such a ship. and that.
therefore, he believed the floating cafe
to be a myth from a practical point Of
view.
Evening star., 1924-08-18
SEES CHURCH HIT
BY EXCLUSION ACT
Japanese Asking if U. S. At
titude Is Challenge to Race,
Says Missionary.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associat ted Press.
CHATAUQUA, N. Y, August 1s.-
The japanese exclusion act has
struck a staggering blow to the
Christian movement In Japan, DR..
William Axling, for 20 years a mis-
sionary of the Northern Baptis.
Church to Japan, told today's session
of the institute on international re-
lations from the Christian viewpoint.
being held under direction of the
commission on international Justice
and good will of the Federal Council
of Churches.
Japan is wondering whether
Christ or color is going to rule in
regulating international relations"
he said. Men and women, not only
in Japan, but all up and down the
Orient. are wondering If the hour has
struck when the yellow race must
organize itself under a yellow flag
and fight for it's place in the sun.
They are asking If the way in whicn
the recent exclusion act was passed
by Congress is the white mans chaI-
lenge to the yellow race
DR.. Axling was in Japan at the
time the exclusion resolution was
acted on by Congress.
Not Asking for Open Door.
From the prime minister down to
men of low estate he said, 81 was
asked to sound it from the housetops
here in America that they are not
asking for the open door nor the half
open door for their immigrants. They
recognize that it is unwise to send
any large number of japanese immi-
grants to this land They say: Iimi,
| Japanese immigration to the vanish
ing point, but treat us as men: deal
with US as brothers. Cut out the
| sting and shame of discriminating
against US on the basis of our race
The exclusion law, DR.. Axling said
| was a Climatic crucifixion of Japan's
| national pride and susceptibility
There is still hope in Japan, he added
| that America will yet sense the seri.
| Gus situation created by this legisla.
! ton.
! Japan is not thinking of hersel1
alone" DR.. Axling declared. she i.
thinking of America Japan relation!
| through the years yet unborn. She i.
looking out and considering the flu
| ture of the Pacific. Her vision is
| scanning the future relationship OF
Oocident and Orient and the white and
| yellow races. She is thinking OF
| peace among nations. brotherhood
among the races and the building OF
! a better world"
DR.. Axling suggested that pressure
be brought to bear on Congress TO
| rescind it's action on Japanese exclu-
sion. Granting equal treatment to
Japan with other nations, he said
| would make the number of Japanese
| annually admissible only 146. Such
action, he believes. would heal the
| gaping wound which America has in.
| fiicted in Japans heart"
Evening star., 1924-08-18
Rv Consolidated Press,

By Consoifdate0 ffeSs.
CHICAGO, August 1s.-Dickie Loeb
and babe" Leopold this week will
get a new thrill, the experience OF
waiting while one man-Judge John
r. Caverly-makes up his mind
whether they shall live or die at the
end of q rope. for the murder of
young Robert Franks.
When these two millionaire thrill
killers retire from the glamour CT
the aM-million- dollar trial they
have provoked, to the dreary mo-
notony of cell life while awaiting
Judgment. they will have witnessed
the full spectacle of American JUS
tice working at top speed. There
has been almost unexampled prog
ress from the time of the murder,
with the machinery of justice work.
ing evenly at every turn. Yet the
killers are unsentenced after three
months.
This shining example of the ways
Of justice in the modern age of new
tangled mental theories had its i'm
ception on May 21. Nearly 90 days
ego, the two dapper prodigies. Ma
than Leopold, jr., and Richard Loeb,
with 10 years Of life and university
educations back of them. equipped
themselves with 4 pair of field
Kl8SSGS anu h COlU CHAScl hHu otAht te'e
forth to find q victim for the thrill
murder they had plotted carefully
for six months.
Wanted Supreme Thrill.
They were sons of millionaires, fed
up on all the various kicks IN lie
that money could buy. But they telt
that one more thrill was needed to
round out their lives. This, they de-
cided, they could obtain by, kidnap-
ing and killing one Of the uetEhbor-
hood boys. Through their field
glasses they spotted Robert Franks.
1l-year-old son Of Jacob Franks. a
millionaire pawn broker.
Loeb, who hAd played tennis with
young Franks the day before, enticed
him into the automobile they had
hiroA fer the occasion. Leopold
drove on ana Loeb smashed the 6oyAD
head with the cold chiSsl This do1A.
Evening star., 1924-08-18
TWO KILLED IN AUTO.
Woman Near Death Following
Crash With Tree.

COHOES, N. Y. August 1s.-Two
men. were killed. woman is believed
to be near death and fourth person
escaped serious injury when an auto
mobile skidded on a wet concrete
highway, struck tree and over
turned near here yesterday.
The dead: William Gerson. New
York City; Semour Gerson. his
brother.
The injured-Mrs. William Gerson
and Irving Witty. New York City.
Witnesses said the Gerson car
skidded into the tree when the driver
applied the breaks too quickly. Three
other cars. stopping to see the ac-
cident, skidded and struck the same
tree.
Evening star., 1924-08-18
VETERAN EDITOR DIES.
Theodore Wright Prominent In
Philadelphia Journalism,

PHILADELPHIA August 18.-Theo-
dore Wright, president of the Phila-
delphia Record Publishing Company
and for many editor in chief of the
Record. died Saturday night in Holly
wood, Calf, according to word re-
ceived here. He would have been
"a years old August 80.
In the sos and '90's Mr.. Wright
became known as leading Dem.
ocratic writer. His editorials on the
tariff, then a live issue between the
political parties, were used as DEM
ocratic campaign documents and
widely reprinted. He retired from
active work in 1919 and moved to
California.
Evening star., 1924-08-18
Cleared by Bedside Court.

INGERSOLL, Ontario. August 49,
After a court session held At his bed
son OF a minister Of Louisville, KY,
was dismissed on q charge Of neg
ligence in causing the death Of =
12-year-old boy who was killed by
an automobile driven by Thompson.
A coroner's jury last week held
Thompson negligible in the boys
death. Thompson tainted when he
heard the verdict and was taken
to q hospital. After his dismissal,
Thompson left for Philadelphia VttA
his father,
Evening star., 1924-08-18
THlERY TRIES SUICIDE,
OPENS VEIN WITH PIN
By the Associated Press.


SOMERvILLE, Mass, August 1S.-
DR.. Raymond d. Thiery, under arrest
at the Massa chusetts General Hospital
in Boston, charged with the murder
Of his brother -in-law, David M. Noble.
in this city, on August 8, attempted
suicide during the night by opening a
vein in his forearm with q safety pin.
Early today a nurse heard him
groaning. and on investigation found
the bed covered with blood. She
called a doctor, who made an imme-
diate blood TRANSMISSION from q special
policeman at the hospital. The belief
was expressed at the hospital that
Thiery. although in much weakened
condition. would survive.
Assistant District Attorney Bushnell
OF Middlesex County said that Thiefy
had asserted that the vein was opened
with safety razor blade, which he
concealed yesterday. No blade was
found in the room, however. and the
authorities are satisfied that Z pin dis
covered In tho bed. vas used. .