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The Washington times., 1925-02-11
Atheneum to Meet

The Spanish-American Atheneun1
meets tonight in the Thomson
School, Twelfth and L streets north
west Doctor N. II. barton, Of the
Geological Survey, will speak on
the ruins and excavations OF 1.-THE
Temple Of Cuiculico" near tine City
Of Mexico
The Washington times., 1925-02-11

FOURTH FLOOR, LANsBURGH BRO.
The Washington times., 1925-02-11

Long and short Dresses and
GertFudea. Bishop styles or ein-
brofdered yoIxes. Deep hens. In
fants, months to Enn
years .......s.s.s.... 1900. elOO
Crocheted BoOtees, knee or
short style. Pink and blue Ellr
trim 1885,. "a. J. ..s.... 0W&t
w. II. Cribs with woven wire
ivory spring. rubber tires, high
head piece. z2x3S CE az
inches $50. ~. eDeIeeleJ
windsor High Chairs With de-
tachAbIe aluminium tray. Ivory
finish. strongly GO OK
made ...s. ssssss. 3kA1eUN&
Oak Play Yards with canvae
floor and Gun ting O. OK
beads. Large and roorny eD3ea1eJ
$3.50 WardrObes. Q1n M
four compartments. D1VeNyU
FOlding Nursery Chairs, CQ Ok
white finish =. $500. eHe1e@0
Kiddie ToyIettes, nursery seat
with back and So 5
strap ..... eUAtee1O
.Ir. Riddle Ko0p, screen cover
ana drop side II S24 100
AscnrrufaK1 q Q11fl
The Washington times., 1925-02-11
For Baby!
There Are Savings IN Store If Mother
Shops TOMORROW
Yet EconornicaIIy

Infants Coats, 81 softest cashrnere crepea en-
Sizes Spe1setO
Evening star., 1925-07-25
WASHINGTON CHARMING
NINE. DAESCHNER FINDS
Envoy's Wife Thinks Intellectual
Life Is Not Fully De-
veloped, However.
By the Associated Press.

HAVRE, France. July 25.-Mme.
Daeschner, wife of the French Ambas-
sador to the United States, and their
daughters arrived here on the liner
Paris today to spend three months in
France.
Nine. Daeschner. speaking of her
experiences in the United States. said
that any one going there for the first
time was struck by so much to see
and study. She was impressed by the
great elegance of American women,
notably in New York, and by the
women's quest for culture, especially
in art.
Life in Washington seemed charm
ing and quiet after Paris, London and
New York, but politics dominated
everything. and the intellectual and
artistic centers were not as well de
veloped as in other cities, perhaps be-
cause of the absence of great wealth,
which is necessary for much develop
ment.
Nine. Daeschner expressed great
pleasure at the kindness of her recep-
ton when she accompanied Ambas-
sador Daeschner on visits to American
cities and towns. Both greatly en-
joyed these trips and welcomed the
opportunity of getting acquainted with
the people among whom they were
living in the United States.
Evening star., 1925-07-25
Income Tax Nets
Experts More THAI,
y. S., Hooper Says
By the Associated Press


SAN FRANCISCO, July %
Lawyers and income tax experts
collect five times what the Govern
ment collects from the income tax
because of the necessity of explain
ing the tax laws to the public and
because of the complicated struc-
ture of the governing Federal bu-
reaus, Secretary of Commerce
Herbert Hoover said yesterday in
an address to the Commonwealth
Club.
Congress should be made to re-
organize the Government sys-
TENS and combine the various
overlapping and conflicting groups"
he said.
There are too many govern
mental agencies overlapping each
other and conflicting with each
other, with a consequent loss of
time by the Government and the
public. Had the Veterans Bureau
been in one department with a
single cabinet officer at it's head, /
doubt if we would have had the
scandals that have marked the
progress of that bureau.
Mary of the functions which
the Federal Government now per-
forms should be performed by the
States
Evening star., 1925-07-25
ATHEISM MAY COST
W|TTNER i. S. POST
DeIetion of $50 Help Me God"
From Oath Laid Be-
fore Officials.

The case of Loren H. Wittner
Treasury clerk, who three times en-
tered the Treasury employ by taking
an oath from which the prescribed
words so help me God" were strick-
en- with pen was unofficially before
the office of the controller general of
the Treasury today.
1t has not been brought before the
controller officially for an opinion. An
unofficial opinion was given, it was
stated, but the nature of this advice
was not divulged. 1t was admitted,
however, that the Federal statute
prescribing the oath To be taken by
all Government employees seemed to
admit no change. Hence, Wittner
probably will be obliged to take the
prescribed oath or leave the service.
The pay he already has received
will not be affected. it was stated,
since he has actually rendered the
services for which he has received
compensation.
ANOTHER issue which was under dis
cussion at the controllers office this
morning was the legal right of an en-
ploye of the United States to institute
such proceedings against the United
States Government as Wittner has
started in his anti-evolution suit.
Corporation Counsel Francis H. Ste
phens today stated that when the
case comes to the District Supreme
Court for a preliminary hearing. he
will file a brief answer in addition to
making a motion to dismiss. The
answer probablyswil be filed Tuesday.
The case also will be before United
States Attorney Peyton Gordon this
afternoon for consideration. Mr.. Cor
don is to represent the interests of the
Federal Government
Evening star., 1925-07-25
PACKERS ORDERED
TO OPEN BOOKS TO
j. S. INSPECTION
Government Wins Suit Start
ed by Late Secretary
Wallace.
By the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, July 25.-The Govern
ment today won it's suit begun by the
late Henry c. Wallace, as Secretary of
Agriculture, when District Judge
Cliffe granted a writ of mandamus di-
recting some of the principal packing
companies, Swift & Co.. Wilson & Co
and Cudahy & Co.. open their books
to the Department of Agriculture.
The defendants, however. obtained a
supersedeas pending an appeal
The late Secretary Wallace main
tained that in order to administer
the packers and stock yards act it
was necessary to go through the
packers books. The objecting com
panies held that the Government was
entitled only to supervise it's inter
state business, and that their inter
state and intraState business were SO
mingled on the books that 1t would
not be possible to separate them for
Government inspection. The Depart
ment of Agriculture held it was neces-
sary to inspect all of the business as
shown by the books to determine
whether or not the packers and stock
yards administration was being
evaded.
Judge Cliffe held it just and reason
able for the Department of Agricul-
ture to inspect all of the books of
the packers and that it was not in
violation of the constitutional rights
of the defendants.
Evening star., 1925-07-25
Banks Face Strike
In France; Paris
Men Already Out
By the Associated Press.

by tne AS6OclateQ Press.
PARIS, July 25.-France is faced
with the possibility of a general
bank strike by the end of next
week.
Taking advantage of the in
creased business caused by the new
4 per cent guaranteed loan, the en-
ployes Of one of the largest Paris
banks have gone on strike because
the management refused to grant in
creases in pay, and the employees OF
other banks have called meetings
TO decide whether to join the move
ment.
Bank employees in Marseille are
already on strike and the move
ment shows signs of gaining in
Avignon, Toulor and other cities.
The strike committee in Paris
has offered Minister of Fiance Gail
lauX the services of clerks in con-
nection with the new loan, so that
the registering of subscriptions will
not suffer. The condition is made,
however, that the men be provided
with suitable premises.
Evening star., 1925-07-25
MEXICO COMPELS OWNERS
TO TAKE BONDS FOR LAND
Decree Is Resisted SOC, 900
Acres Are Appropriated By
the Government.
BY Gable TO The star and Chieago paily Sow

By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News
MEXICO CITY, July 25.-A govern
ment decree hasa been issued to COM
pei land owners to accept the $25, 5,000,-
600 agrarian debt bonds issued a
month ago. These the owners have
refused steadfastly to accept in pay
ment for lands seized under the pres
ent Mexican agrarian laws. The di-
rector OF the national Federation of
Land Owners has issued q statement
in which he attacks the governments
policy.
THE government" he says, "by
adopting a policy of compulsion is de-
preciating the value of the bonds and
also its system of indemnification. We
are unable to understand it's anxiety
to force the bonds on us, as they do
not constitute a payment. but only an
acknowledgment. We have compiled
figures showing that the land expro-
priated ostensibly for the public good
from January l to July % was 600,-
500 hectares Zone hectare is equal to
about two and a half acres). From
July Is to July % the amount taken
was upwards of So. 900 hectares. AL
lowing for Sundays and other non
working days this years expropria-
tions average seven and one-half hec-
tares per minute"
Copyright 1925, by Chicago Daily News,Co.i
Evening star., 1925-07-25
BR|GAND CAPTORS
OF AMERICAN FOIL
SEARCH IN CHINA
Chang Expected to Avenge
Palmer Murder and Kid
naping of Three:
CONSUL GOES TO SCENE
TO AID HUNT FOR HOWARD
Rockefeller Hospital Head Also to
Join Group Seeking DR..
H. J. Howard.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PEKING, July 25.-Nothing has
been heard concerning the where
abouts of DR.. Harvey ]. Howard of
the Rockefeller Hospital at Peking,
who was taken prisoner by brigands
on July 20, while visiting at the ranch
of Morgan Palmer, a native of New
York State, on the Surgari River, in
Manchuria Mr.. Palmer was killed by
the bandits, but his mother, son of
DR.. Howard and Harold Baldwin,
formerly of Derby. Conn.,, and his wife
and child escaped.
Because of the isolated location of
the ranch, details of the affair are
slow in arriving. There is reason to
believe, however, that Gen. Chang
Tso-Lin, the Manchurian war lord, will
be stirred to action against the slay-
ers, since Palmer was personally
known to and highly regarded by him.
The American consul at Mukden,
Samuel Sokobin, is expected to reach
the scene of the attack at any mo-
ment Roger Green. business director
for the Rockefeller Hospital, has gone
to the north to assist in the search.
Went to China In 1910.
Mr.. Palmer came to China in 1910
and served with the Chihli Provincial
Normal School, at Paotingfu. He was
then % years of age. The following
year, during the revolution, he went
to Shensi to bring out foreigners
whose lives were endangered. Two
years lated he joined the salt tax serv-
ice. In 191S-19 he served with the
legation in Manchuria, where his IA
miliarity with the Chinese language
proved very valuable. He was active
in famine relief work in 1920-21, and
was appointed by the Red Cross to ad-
minister its fund for aiding Russian
refugees in Manchuria.
Mr.. Palmer acquired his ranch on
the Sungari River. some thousands of
acres in extent. in 1923. 1t was orig
inally part of the development project
in which Charles r. Crane, former
minister to China, and Willard
Straight were interested, but which
was interrupted by the war.
Evening star., 1925-07-25
R|FF|ANS HURLED
BACK BY FRENCH
Flee After Heavy Losses as
Ouergha River Valley
Is Cleared.
By the Associated Press.

FEIZ, French Morocco. July 25.-An
official communique says the French
have cleared the western part of the
Ouergha River valley of Abd-el-Krim' s
Riffian invaders. The enemy tribes
men are fleeing, after heavy losses.
The French also captured a numl r
of prisoners. A French relief force
reached Bad Maroudj with provisions
and munitions after a brilliant ad-
vance.
MESA ge of cheer has been given
the French forces in Morocco in the
first general order issued by Gen.
Stanislas Naulin, new commander in
chief.
Have courage and confidence" his
order says. The hour is approaching
when we will be able to utilize our
forces to the utmost. | bow before
your flags and standards and salute
most respectfully the memory of your
brave ones who have fallen gloriously
on the field of honor. We will avenge
them soon"
Evening star., 1925-07-25
SHENANDOAH RETURNS;
NEW FLIGHT PLANNED
Lansdowne Says Dirigible Will
Leave Lakehurst Again
Tuesday or Wednesday.
BY the Associated Press.


LAKEHURST, N. j., July 25.-Re-
turning from Virginia, the dirigible
Shenandoah landed on the field at
the Naval Air Station at 1855 o'clock
last night and was walked into her
hangar.
Comdr. Zachary Lansdowne, com.
manding. the airship, said that good
weather prevailed through the flight
He refused to discuss the results of
the anti7aireraft maneuvers of the
Shenandoah and the battleship Texas
off the Virginia capes.
On Tuesday or Wednesday, he said,
the dirigible will make another flight
Because of an aircraft war over
Trenton, n. j., in which 10 planes
participated, the Shenandoah was or
dered by wireless to delay her return
a little last night when she approach
ed the territUrs u th- IL. D,,> lie.
Evening star., 1925-07-25
amazing Total of S73O,OOO Realized
At AUCTION of Sargent's Paintings
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 5.-Amazement
is too feeble a word to describe
the attitude of art critics and the
newspapers toward the prices re-
allied at yesterdays Thousand
Pounds a Minute" sale of the
works of the late John Singer Sar-
gent.
Nobody seems to have thought
the prices would prove so over
whelmingly sensational in view of
the fact that many of the works
were more or less sketchy. FARTHER
more, some of them were SO slight
and unimportant, that the great
painter himself never contemplat-
ed their passing into other hands.
Once the high bidding started,
there seemed to be no controlling
the enthusiasm, ard values rose
as the sale advanced.
The eagerness of professional
and amateur buyers from the
United States seems to have had
Evening star., 1925-07-25
HEIR TO MILLIONS KILLED.
Inheritor of Fortune Dies From
Motor-Crash Injuries.

WHEELING. W. Va, July 25 CR.-
Clark Fulton, who in a few years
would have come into an inheritance
of several million dollars left him by
his grandmother, Mrs. A. J. Clark,
Bloch, son of Jesse Bloch, wealthy
Wheeling tobacco manufacturer, was
slightly injured when their automobile
left the road and overturned in a fog
at Brownsville. Pa. early today.
Evening star., 1925-07-25
ASSERTS WEST BEATEN
ON RIVER IMPROVEMENT
Senator Cooling Declares He Will
Vote Against Future Discrim-
inatory Bills.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MCCALL, Idaho, July 25.-Speaking
before the Idaho State Editorial Asso-
citation last night, Senator Frank R.
Gooding, Republican, Idaho, declared
that he would never vote for another
rivers and harbors appropriation un-
less the movement indicated the de-
velopment Of water transportation in
the West and the prevention of viola
ton of the fourth section Of the inter-
state commerce act.
He said the Government was not Civ
ing the West a fair deal, but was per-
mitting Determinations that make it
impossible to build up manufacturing
establishments in this part of the
country.
Evening star., 1925-07-25
SOVIET PROPAGANDIZING
BIG CENTERS OF WORLD D
Main Efforts Confined Now to
Morocco, India and China,
Swedish Paper Says.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, July 25.-
The Russian Communist executive is
establishing propaganda cenIers at
Constantinople, Alexandria, Buenos
Aires, Teheran, Chita and Tangier,
says the Stockholm Tidningen. The
main efforts for the present, the paper
asserts, will be centered in Morocco,
India and China
The Constantinople office. which is
already functioning, has received 4O,-
100000 gold rubles for propa ganda
purposes. Two agents are said to
have gone to Berlin, Vienna and Con-
stantinople with instructions to sup
port the belligerent tribes of Northern
Africa against the European powers.
Evening star., 1925-07-25
MILLION TO CHARITY.

DENVER. Colo. July % L4)zMrs.
Werner q. Reed of Denver has given
S1,000,00 to charity in the name of
her daughter, Margeryy Reed Mayo,
who died here recently. The income
from the fund will be applied to chari-
ties to be named later.
Mrs. Mayo's death resulted from
illness contracted at Lima, Peru
where Mr.. Mayo is an attache to the
American embassy.
Evening star., 1925-07-25
RUBBER EMBARGO
PROTEST FILED BY
i. S. AMBASSADOR
CurtaiIing of Exports Might
Close American Plants,
Houghton Says.
BRAZILIAN PRODUCERS,
LONG IDLE, NOW BUSY
Soaring Price of Crude Revives
Activity in South American
Trade.
By the Associated Press.


LONDON, July 25.-Alanson b
Houghton, United States Ambassador
TO Great Britain, acting under in
structions from the State Department.
has presented to Foreign Secretary
Chamberlain the protests of American
rubber manufact at the scheme
for restriction of raw rubber produc-
ton in the British colonies. Since
the scheme is one Of colonial. not
imperial, legislation, Mr.. Chamberlain
has referred the protest to the
colonial office, where it is being given
consideration.
1t IS doubtful whether the colonial
Office can reach a decision by August
/, as the American buyers desire.
This is the date of the commencing
OF a new quarter for the fixing of re-
striction of rubber exports.
Fear Unemployment Here.
Prior TO the presentation of this
protest by Ambassador Houghton.
representatives of American rubber
interests and explained their attitude
to Secretary of State Kellogg at
Washington and to the British com
mercial attache there.
1t is understood that Ambassador
Houghton outlined to Secretary Cham
berlain the extent of the rubber in
dustry in the United States and EN-
phasized the unemployment that
might result in the industry if
further restrictions of raw rubber
output necessitated additional cur
tailment of tire manufacturing in
America.
Evening star., 1925-07-25

deal to do with the spread of en-
thusiasm. One American buyer, un-
der the assumed name of Mr..
Marshall, got red in the face
from making repeated bids.
Some critics, however, are doubt
full whether the prices paid repre-
sent the real value of the pictures,
and suggest that if resold q decade
hence it is not likely they would
bring anything like yesterdays
prices.
The total realized by the sale
was f145,948, or about $730, 900,
representing one of the largest
ever recorded in the famous auc
ton rooms of Christie's in a single
day for one artists work. "San
Vigilo, Boat with Golden Sail"
brought the highest price, 1000
guineas.
Evening star., 1925-07-25
CHAMPS GAME OFF:
PLAY TWO TOMORROW
Rain Prevents Second of Series
With Yankees in New
York.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
YANKEE STADIUM, N. Y, July 5,
1925.-Rain today prevented the play
ing of the second game of the series
between the Nationals and Yankees.
A double header will be played to-
morrow. the first game starting at 2
o'clock
Evening star., 1925-07-25
SUICIDE In DINING ROOM.
Unidentified Young Man Kills Self
in Fashionable Hotel

NEW YORK, July 25 C4).--A young
man in evening clothes which had for
eign trademarks shot and killed him.
self in the dining room of the fash
ionable Hotel Plaza, on Fifth avenue
near Central Park, early today, after
ordering a dinner for two.
He entered the hotel hatless and had
the waiter change his order for food
several times. When the waiter went
out to fill the order the man drew a
revolver and shot himself through
the heart. Several guests were seated
nearby on the promenade.
His coat bore the trademark of
dealer in Hamburg. Germany, and his
collar that of an English haberdasher
An investigation was started as to
his identity.
His pocket contained a dime and
package of cigarettes. Two German
societies had meetings in the hotel
last night.
Evening star., 1925-07-25
LARGER QUOTA Is ASKED.
United States Factories Want Fifth of
Crop Exported.

Secretary Kellogg has cabled Am
bassador Houghton at London. for
his information" an account of the
difficulties faced by American rubber
manufacturers. as related to him re-
Gently by delegation headed by Fred
erick c. Hood. president of the Hood
Rubber Co. of New York At the
same time the London government
has been advised by British embassy
attaches here of the desires of the
American rubber manufacturers.
The delegation which called upon
Secretary Kellogg last week objected
TO legislation enforced in the FEEDER
ated Malay States, and in the Straits
Settlements. and in Ceylon, India,
which regulate crude rubber exports.
Modification of the laws so as to per-
NIT an expectation of 20 per cent of
the rubber production rather than 10
per cent, the prevailing quota, was
asked by the American rubber men
to be made effective August l.
Propose Sliding Scale.
1t was suggested. also. that the
quota statutes might be modified to
permit exports from those producing
states to be regulated by the demand
and market conditions, and in that
way afford the American users a more
liberal supply.
formed in order that he might under
can viewpoint. The British embassy
report to its foreign office also was
Continued on Page 2, Column II
Evening star., 1925-07-25
% Drown on Ferries.

SHANGHAI, July 25 P).-Twenty :
eight persons were drowned here to-
day when a sudden rain squall cap
sized two ferry launches crossing
the Whangpoo River for Pootung
Thirty-one persons We're rescued
Evening star., 1925-07-25
FRENCH STRIKE SNAG.
Move to ReOrganize Forces Develops
Differences.

PARIS, July % CP).-The French
high command in Morocco has not yet
found a suitable plan of organiza-
ton, the Matin says today
In the view of Marshal Petain the
paper asserts, military action against
the dissident tribes of Abd-el-Krim and
the political propaganda among those
that have not yet thrown in their
lot either with the Sultan of Morocco
CONTINUED on Page 8, Column So
Evening star., 1925-07-25
1t Is Being Enforced.

Prohibition is not only considered
a fixture in the West. but, by every
external sign, is being enforced. That
is not to say that a drink is not to
be had west of Chicago. Any num-
Der of so-called best people are serv-
ing drinks in their homes and at their
country clubs. The silver flask is
carried by plenty of men who would
resent the imputation that they are
not law-abiding citizens. On a good
many occasions that have come under
my personal notice since invading the
West in June liquor has flowed pretty
freely. The dispensers of it are-0coyn-
pletely and strangely nonchalant
about the illegality of their convivial
procedure, to which they are habitual-
ly addicted. Their supplies appear to
be unlimited, thanks to reliable booe
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